A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

"Grandpa, grandma, and sister said the food is ready, we can eat now."

Everyone in the yard stood up and walked to the well to scoop water to wash their hands.

Then the table and chairs were placed, and Zhang Yunyue and Zhang Yunxue brought the food to the table.

Zhang Yunyue pointed at the roasted green pepper eggplant and green pepper sauce.

"This is the roasted green pepper and eggplant and green pepper sauce I made. You can eat it in steamed buns, or you can drink it with corn porridge, like I did."

After Zhang Yunyue finished speaking to everyone, she took a steamed bun, split it in half, scooped a spoonful of green pepper sauce on one half of the bun, and then covered it with the other half.

After taking a bite, Zhang Yunyue smelled the fragrance and spiciness. After finishing one bite, she subconsciously scooped another one.

"Eat it like this. If you can't eat spicy food, put less in it."

After watching Zhang Yunyue's demonstration, everyone in the Zhang family started to learn from her.

Father Zhang: "Yueyue's cooking skills are getting better and better, and her appetite is almost spoiled."

Mother Zhang: "Yes, I used to think my cooking skills and those of my second brother and his wife were pretty good, but now when we compare ourselves to Yueyue, we are embarrassed to say anything."

Zhu also said: "Yes, my sister-in-law and I have to learn how to make these dishes from Yueyue, otherwise they will not eat what we cook anymore."

Zhang Cheng tasted the roasted green pepper and it was delicious. If he put it in porridge, he could drink two more bowls of porridge. I think if the roasted green pepper is served with rice, he can probably finish several bowls of it.

Grandpa Zhang also nodded in agreement with Zhang Cheng's statement. He had never cooked roasted green peppers before and did not expect that the taste would be so fragrant and sticky.

Everyone took turns to eat and finished all the food on the table with the corn porridge. Zhang Xingyun even wiped the bottom of the chili bowl with his steamed bun and ate it.

After dinner, everyone cleaned up the dishes and moved the table and stools back to the main room.

The chili oil and fried peanuts that were made yesterday are still there.

The Zhang family started making mung bean jelly again. They soaked about 30 kilograms of jelly last night. Zhang's father and Zhang Cheng began to mix the precipitated mung bean starch with water in a ratio of one to four.

I made exactly three buckets, and then carried them to the thatched shed in the backyard.

Today, there are two people, Zhang Xingfeng and Zhang Xinghao, who are in charge of the fire. They have to make three pots with one bucket of mung bean starch water, so they use two stoves in the straw shed today.

Clean both pots first.

This time, it was Zhang's mother and Zhu who took charge, while Zhang Yunyue watched from the side.

After Zhang Xingfeng and Zhang Xinghao started the fire, Zhang's father and Zhang Cheng poured the mung bean starch water into the pot. Zhang's mother and Zhu each took a spatula and began to stir. The two of them stirred according to the fire level that Zhang Yunyue had mentioned yesterday.

Fortunately, this was not difficult, so both Zhang's mother and Zhu succeeded in doing it.

Judging from its color and viscosity, it is almost the same as what Zhang Yunyue made yesterday.

After the two of them finished making the first pot, they worked together to make the second pot.

When the mung bean jelly was ready, there were 6 pots of it on the shelf. Zhang's father took a dustpan and covered the mung bean jelly with it.

Zhang Cheng fetched water from the well, carried it to the straw shed, cleaned the used pots and spatulas, and wiped the stove and shelves in the straw shed clean.

Everyone returned to the front yard and thought that the day after tomorrow would be market day, so the Zhang family decided to soak 60 kilograms of mung beans today. They soaked 30 kilograms yesterday, so they could just double the amount today.

After all, we also have to see how much purchasing power will be increased on the market day. If we can’t sell enough at the market this time, we can just increase it next time.

Father Zhang weighed 60 kilograms of mung beans, washed them twice, and soaked them in water again.

Thinking that second uncle Zhang Cheng and his family would go to town tomorrow, Zhang's father and mother soaked the mung beans and went to wash up and rest.

Tomorrow the two of them have to get up early to knead the dough and make cold noodles. It is best to wake the dough up three times and knead it three times for cold noodles. It takes a long time. After kneading the dough, they have to stretch it, so the two of them have to get up early.

While the others were still enjoying the cool in the yard, Zhang Cheng and Grandpa Zhang loaded the table, stools, and boxes of seasonings onto the wheelbarrow. After everything was loaded, they continued to weave bamboo baskets and bowls.

Zhu: "Yueyue, we are out of cooking oil at home. We need to buy some tomorrow. Mother, you can dry more chili peppers at home in the next few days and pound them into dried chili powder."

"We still have about three or four pounds of chili powder left at home, which is probably enough for two days. So we need to dry more chili powder in the next few days while the weather is nice."

Grandma Zhang: "Okay, I'll stay home and dry the peppers with Xiaoxue."

Zhang Yunyue: "Okay, Second Aunt, we are all going to town tomorrow. If I forget by then, please remind me."

"By the way, grandma, you should peel more peanuts at home and prepare more. Some people like to put peanuts in cold noodles and mung bean jelly. They say they are crunchy when chewed. Some even say to put more."

"Okay, if you need anything from the stall, just tell me and I'll prepare it for you at home. These tasks are simple and Xiaoxue and I can do them."

Zhang Yunxue raised her little head, raised her right hand, and said proudly:

"Yeah, I'll help grandma do it."

"Well, if there are no peanuts at home, let Grandpa buy some in the village."

"I know this. I will remind you, Grandpa."

Zhang Yunyue thought that there was nothing else to add. She was tired after a day's work. Now she would save some money and then make up for it. She would try to grow taller in the next two years. The only thing she could do now was to sleep.

I spent the whole day outside today and was covered in sweat.

So after Zhang Yunyue finished talking to Grandma Zhang, she went to the kitchen to get some water and went back to the house. After taking a bath, she felt relaxed all over.

Zhang Yunyue returned to the room, closed the door, lay down on the bed, closed her eyes and fell asleep in less than a minute.

Everyone in the yard knew that Zhang's mother, Zhang's mother and Zhang Yunyue, who were sleeping in the house, were both tired from working in the town today, and their voices became much softer.

Wait until the beginning of the hour of Hai (around 21:).

The people in Old Zhang's family also started to pack up, wash up and go to bed.

The next day at the beginning of the Mao time (around 5 o'clock).

Father and Mother Zhang got up and washed up.

The two came to the kitchen and prepared to start kneading the dough. They weighed 10 pounds of flour, poured some salt into it to increase the gluten content, and then poured water and started kneading the dough.

It takes about half an hour to knead the noodles three times, and then cook them. Then take them out, drizzle them with hot oil and spread them on a winnowing basket.

The two began to prepare breakfast again. Zhang's father and mother made corn porridge with egg pancakes, and they also took out some pickled cowpeas from the kimchi jar in the kitchen to eat with the porridge.

By the time everything was done, it was almost the end of the Mao hour.

The other people in the family got up and washed up while the two were preparing to make breakfast. Everyone was packing up and moving the mung bean jelly and cold noodles onto the wheelbarrow and securing it with ropes.

Zhang's mother also went to the fields to pick cucumbers, onions and coriander, washed them and put them in the backpack.

Ginger, garlic water and other things were also prepared and put into bamboo tubes and placed in the backpack.