A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Zhang Cheng poured the rice onto a bamboo mat and spread it out with a bamboo rake.

"Uncle, do you guys still want to continue cutting now? The food at home is already prepared, just waiting for you to come back and eat."

"No, your grandfather and his friends are collecting some of the tails in the back. There's still a little more to carry back. They should be on their way."

"Okay, Uncle, you can go wash up now. I'll put the food on the table."

After saying that, Zhang Yunyue took a basin and went to the straw shed. At this time, Grandma Zhang also came back from the workshop.

Zhang Yunyue brought out the stewed loofah and pork ribs soup in a basin and placed it on the dining table in the yard.

Then he went to the kitchen and brought the prepared meals to the table one by one.

I took another pot of water and put it on the table so that they could drink it as soon as they came back.

It didn't take long before Grandpa Zhang and his friends came back. Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Xingfeng each carried a bag of rice.

After the rice was hung out to dry, everyone cleaned up and started to eat lunch.

Grandma Zhang: "Old man, how much did you collect this morning?"

"It was cool in the morning, not hot, so we worked faster in the morning. We have already harvested nearly three acres of rice. We will have a rest after lunch in the afternoon and we will finish the harvest today."

After Grandpa Zhang finished speaking, he looked at Grandma Zhang and asked, "Has Old Sun installed the stone mill in the workshop? How is the mung bean grinding going?"

"It's installed, it's installed. The workshop just started operating for a while, and Old Sun brought his two sons to install it. There are two stone mills, and the workshop is full of young people, so the mung beans are ground very quickly. Don't worry."

"That's good. Otherwise, even if we still have some dried mung bean starch at home, it wouldn't be enough to make jelly tonight. Fortunately, Yueyue reminded us last night."

After dinner, everyone rested at home for half an hour, then took their sickles, brought water, and pushed wheelbarrows to the fields.

By the time of You, all the rice in Lao Zhang's family had been harvested. The wheelbarrow made two trips back and forth, and brought all the rice back home, where it was spread out in the yard. After all, the rice still had moisture in it, and it couldn't be kept in bags overnight, otherwise it would go bad the next day.

After the evening of the evening in the workshop, Grandma Zhang taught the people in the kitchen how to make mung bean jelly. Fortunately, after Grandma Zhang tried it twice, the others roughly understood it. Grandma Zhang stood aside and watched them do it. Fortunately, no one made any mistakes.

At night, because the Zhang family had been harvesting rice all day, after dinner, they chatted in the yard for an hour and then went to rest and sleep.

the next day.

Zhang Yunyue and Grandpa Zhang got up early, packed up the vegetables and mung bean jelly bought from the villagers, and loaded them on the ox cart. Today, the grandfather and grandson planned to go to the town to buy a donkey.

Zhang Yunyue mainly wanted to go to Jinxiu, so she followed Grandpa Zhang to the town. This should be done as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yunyue seemed to remember that she had not yet looked for Xiaohua and the others' embroidered handkerchief. However, it was only the morning of the following day, and the two sisters and Xiaoxiao must not have woken up yet. So she thought it best to forget it and just sell it next time.

When the helpers from the food store arrived at Old Zhang's house and got on the ox cart, Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Yunyue also got on the ox cart. Jiang Ren drove the cart, and the group headed for the town.

When they arrived in the town, Jiang Ren took Zhang Yunyue and Grandpa Zhang to the back door of the food store.

When Zhang's father opened the back door, he saw Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Yunyue coming in: "Dad, Yueyue, why are you in town today?"

After asking the questions, he opened the back door and let Jiang Ren drive the ox cart to the cowshed in the backyard.

After the helpers came in through the back door of the store, Zhang Yunyue and Grandpa Zhang followed them into the store.

Grandpa Zhang: "My family has discussed taking the mung bean jelly to the workshop, so we decided to buy two donkeys in town and use them to pull the millstones, which would save manpower and time.

The family members don't have to spend several people every day preparing mung bean jelly. For more than a month, no one in the family has had a rest. Now the mung bean jelly will be moved to the workshop.

When the family is free, you and the eldest son's wife will take over. You two have been busy for more than a month without any rest."

Father Zhang nodded and thought that this made sense. The workshop had hired dozens of helpers, but the family was already very busy every day and had no rest at all. This was really not acceptable.

"Dad, that's right. In fact, we should have done this a long time ago, but no one remembered it. Alas! But it's not too late now, hahaha!"

After Father Zhang finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Yunyue again and said, "Then Yueyue, why don't you rest at home and come to town?"

"I have to go to Jinxiufang soon, so I followed Grandpa to the town."

Seeing that it was still early and the livestock market and Jinxiufang had not yet opened for business, Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Yunyue helped with the work in the store.

Zhang Xingfeng got up at this moment, after all, he had to go to private school for class soon.

When Zhang Xingfeng opened the door and saw Zhang Yunyue helping with the chores in the backyard, he woke up from his nap, smiled immediately, ran to Zhang Yunyue, and hugged her:

"Sister, why are you here? I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you so much. Why don't you come to town to see me? Are you here alone? I miss Grandpa and Grandma, my second uncle and his family, and my eldest brother and his family."

Zhang Yunyue looked at his brother who was holding her, listened to his series of questions, and hugged Zhang Xingfeng with heartache:

"I came here with Grandpa. Grandpa is cleaning the food store in front. I missed you, so I came to see you early in the morning. Go wash up and have breakfast. I'll take you to school later, okay?"

Zhang Xingfeng listened to his elder sister's words with a look of disbelief and asked ecstatically:

"Really? Sister, really? Then I'll go see Grandpa first, and then I'll go wash up and have breakfast right away."

After saying that, he ran to the front yard, spent some time with Grandpa Zhang, then ran to fetch some water to wash up, and then ran to the kitchen to bring out the breakfast prepared by Zhang's mother and started eating.

"By the way, sister, have you had breakfast? I have a lot here, would you like to share?"

Zhang Yunyue shook her head. "Sister came to town after eating at home. You can eat by yourself!"

"Okay." After saying that, Zhang Xingfeng continued to eat his breakfast.

After Zhang Xingfeng finished his breakfast, there was still a quarter of an hour left before the private school class, so he went back to his room and put on his schoolbag.

Zhang Yunyue said something to Zhang's mother, and then sent Zhang Xingfeng to the private school.

Only about quarter of an hour had passed since I sent Zhang Xingfeng back.

The dishes in the restaurant's kitchen were all prepared. When Zhang's father saw that everything was ready, he opened the door of the restaurant and started business.

Zhang Yunyue helped Zhang's mother add seasonings in the kitchen. She was busy until noon when the number of customers in the store gradually decreased.