A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

While talking, Old Sun pulled Grandpa Zhang into the yard and sat down.

"Old Sun, I came to your house today to buy a stone mill. Do you have any ready-made ones?"

Old Sun said: "Yes, whatever kind you want, come over here and have a look. We have big and small ones. Here, take a look."

Grandpa Zhang pointed at one of them and said, "I want this one. How much is it?"

Old Sun said: "They are all from the same village, so I won't sell them too expensively. One or two taels of silver. You know, my stone mill has a good reputation."

Grandpa Zhang nodded, "I know about this. Okay, give me one or two taels of silver. You have a wheelbarrow, right? Please help me pull it to my house."

Old Sun took the money and said, "Of course, I will definitely deliver it to your home and install it. I happen to be free right now, so I'll deliver it to you."

Old Sun shouted to his son who was working on a millstone in the yard:

"Dalin, pull out the wheelbarrow, help me move the millstone up, and then we'll take it to your uncle Zhang's house."

"Here I come, Daddy"

Dalin put down the work in his hands and pushed the wheelbarrow out of the utility room.

The three men moved the millstone onto a wheelbarrow and pushed the wheelbarrow home.

When they arrived at the doorstep of Grandpa Zhang’s two brothers, the eldest grandfather and the second grandfather saw Grandpa Zhang pushing a wheelbarrow.

Great grandfather: "Old Three, did you buy a millstone?"

"Yes, big brother, I will push the millstone back home first. If you and second brother have anything to grind, you can bring it to my house for grinding."

"Okay, I get it. You can push it back first."

"Well, I'll be leaving first."

home.

Grandpa Zhang asked Old Sun to install the stone mill in the yard.

When Zhang Xingfeng and Zhang Yunxue saw the millstone, they excitedly walked around it.

After the stone mill was installed, Grandpa Zhang sent Old Sun and his son out and came to the backyard.

"How about it, where is a good place to build a thatched hut?"

"My brother and I think this is a better match."

Zhang Cheng pointed to a corner of the backyard next to the fence wall. It was close to the front yard and also affected the vegetable garden in the backyard, which was pretty good.

Grandpa Zhang also thought it was okay after seeing it.

"Okay, let's get started. The stone mill has been bought, and it should be finished today and tomorrow. Let Yueyue go to the town tomorrow to buy the remaining things. The earlier we start, the more money we can earn."

Grandpa Zhang called on the free people in the family to level the ground first, and then dig holes at the four corners.

"Okay, the pit is dug, we can move the wood in."

The Zhang family was busy in the backyard all afternoon, and they were busy until dinner time. The frame of the thatched shed had been built, and the stove in particular had been built.

Grandpa Zhang said that if you build the stove tomorrow, it will not have time to dry. If you build it today and dry it in the sun for a day tomorrow, the stove will be almost dry. If it is not dry, you can just burn some firewood to heat it up.

Now all that was left was to put up the thatch for the roof and the frame, and have Zhang's father carve two spatulas as well as a table and stools.

After dinner in the evening, taking advantage of the moonlight, Zhang's father was sharpening a spatula while Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xingyun were planing wood. Fortunately, the family had a few wooden boards left over from replacing the wooden door, so they were only responsible for planing a few wooden sticks and polishing the boards until they were flat and smooth.

Zhang Yunyue was discussing with other family members about going to town tomorrow. Considering that there were a lot of things to buy tomorrow, it would be difficult to carry them if there were not enough people.

Grandpa Zhang asked Zhang Xingyun and Zhang's mother to accompany Zhang Yunyue to the town to purchase tomorrow. He also asked Grandma Zhang to give silver to Zhang Yunyue and let her be responsible for tomorrow's purchase. The rest of the people would be responsible for doing the housework.

After assigning tomorrow's tasks, Grandma Zhang waved her hand and told everyone to go to bed early.

Zhang Yunyue was about to go into the house to sleep when she suddenly remembered that everything for tomorrow had been prepared, so should she soak the mung beans tonight so that she could make mung bean jelly tomorrow night and sell it the day after tomorrow.

I hurried to talk to Grandpa Zhang and Father Zhang about soaking mung beans and discussed how much to soak.

Last night, Zhang Yunyue soaked about two pounds of mung beans. Today, she made it and each person in the family got half a bowl of noodles. That means two pounds of mung beans can make six bowls of mung bean jelly.

It was my first time going to town to buy it, and there were cold noodles available, so I decided to soak 20 pounds of mung beans to try it out first.

Zhang Yunyue soaked the mung beans, thought about it and saw nothing else to do, so she went to bed and rest.

The next day.

Zhang Yunyue pushed open the bedroom door and breathed in the fresh air from the countryside. Then she thought about the first step on the road to wealth - setting up a stall business. She felt extremely happy and had an urge to get started.

Zhang Yunyue was still standing in front of her bedroom door, happy with herself. Her mother came out of the kitchen and saw Zhang Yunyue and interrupted her.

"What are you thinking about? You're standing there alone so early in the morning."

"Mother, no, I'm breathing air."

"Okay, are you full? If not, the meal is ready, you can eat some more."

Zhang's mother joked.

"Not full yet, almost."

Zhang Yunyue replied to Zhang's mother seriously.

After hearing this, Zhang's mother pretended to hit Zhang Yunyue.

"The meal is ready, go wash up quickly, after dinner we still have to go to town."

After listening to this, Zhang Yunyue laughed and went to wash up.

After dinner, Grandma Zhang and Mrs. Zhu were responsible for cleaning up the dishes and the table, while Father Zhang and Zhang Xinghao were responsible for grinding the mung beans and filtering the sediment.

Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Cheng went to the backyard to put up thatch on the roof and build the scaffolding.

Zhang Yunyue, Zhang's mother and Zhang Xingyun set out for the town carrying backpacks.

Arrived in town.

Zhang Yunyue first went to the town government office to rent a stall. Considering that he was going to sell cold noodles and mung bean jelly, these two things were more suitable for West Street, which also had a large flow of people. Even if there was no market, there were usually a lot of people in the town.

Zhang Yunyue saw a constable standing guard at the gate of the yamen and walked forward.

"Hello, I'm here to rent a stall on West Street."

"Wait a moment, I'll go find the street manager for you. He's in charge of the stalls on West Street."

After a while, a middle-aged man came out following the constable.

"You want to rent a stall, right? The stalls on West Street are 200 Wen a month, and we patrol the rental stalls every day. If you have any questions, you can come to us. Come on, I'll take you to West Street to choose a stall."

The mother and her two sons followed the street chief of the yamen to West Street. Zhang Yunyue chose a stall with more traffic based on the flow of people at that time.

"Street Chief, we want this stall. Can we use this table directly?"

"Yes, this is the uniform table provided by the government. The area around the table, including the area behind it, is yours. You can use it as you like during the lease period."

Zhang Yunyue nodded and gave 200 coins to the street chief. The street chief took the 200 coins, recorded the date, and gave Zhang Yunyue a wooden sign.

"This wooden sign is your proof of renting a stall. If you have any problems, you can use the sign to find the constable, and he will solve them for you as soon as possible. The hooligans will not dare to cause trouble after seeing this sign. The date you rented the stall is written down here. If you need to rent it again next month, remember to come to the government office to pay me the rent, otherwise you must return the wooden sign."