A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

However, Zhang Yunyue also heard the man talking about things that didn't happen in their town, and suddenly thought of a possibility. But she had to first ask the man which town they were from. In case the town was too far away, this idea would be unnecessary.

Zhang Cheng seemed to have thought of something and took the opportunity to clean the table.

"Hey little brother, which town are you from? Is it far from our town?"

Man: "Not far, my home is in Xinghua Town next to yours. It takes about three hours to get to your town."

Zhang Cheng thought to himself: Xinghua Town, if we start from Zhangjia Village and go directly to Xinghua Town without passing through the town, it seems that it will only take an hour and a half to take the official road.

When Zhang Yunyue saw that his second uncle asked, he stopped thinking about asking and decided to talk about it when he got home. He put his mind at ease and continued with what he was doing.

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Although I brought 10 kilograms more mung bean jelly and made more cold noodles than yesterday, I finished earlier today than yesterday.

It was already the end of the hour, but the people who had set up the stall had already started packing up. Zhang Cheng was in charge of fetching water from the public well and wiping the bottles, jars, and tables.

After wiping, Zhu was responsible for cleaning up the bottles and jars, while Zhang Xinghao and Zhang Cheng folded up the table and chairs and placed them on the table.

Seeing that all that was left was to pack up and load the things onto the wheelbarrow, Zhang Yunyue discussed with Zhang Cheng and asked Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xinghao to continue packing. She and Zhu planned to go to the oil mill to buy vegetable oil first, and then go to the grocery store to buy basins.

After we finish cleaning up, we can ask them to come to the grocery store to find them and pick up the things they bought.

By the way, I need to buy a few more basins. All the basins at home that can hold jelly have been used up today. I soaked 60 kilograms of mung beans last night.

Then you will need at least 6 pots. In order to ensure that there are enough, it is definitely best to buy one or two more as backup.

Zhang Yunyue and Zhu came to the grocery store carrying backpacks containing the oil tanks that held vegetable oil from their homes.

The two first went to the oil mill to buy vegetable oil.

"Hello, boss, we want to buy vegetable oil. How much is one pound of vegetable oil?"

The oil shop owner said: "My dear guests, vegetable oil is 15 copper coins per pound now. How much do you need?"

Zhang Yunyue put down the backpack, took out the oil can from the backpack, and handed it to the oil shop owner: "Boss, I want 10 kilograms of vegetable oil. Please help me put it in this oil can."

"Okay, wait a moment, sir."

The oil mill owner took the oil can, weighed out 10 kilograms of vegetable oil, covered the can, and put it back in Zhang Yunyue's backpack.

Zhang Yunyue counted out 150 copper coins and gave them to the boss, then walked out of the oil mill and went to the grocery store with Zhu.

Uncle Xie in the grocery store was greeting customers while they were shopping.

"Uncle Xie, my second aunt and I came to your store to buy some pots."

"Hey, Yueyue, you're here. Come in quickly, come in quickly. You want to buy a pot, right? Then choose a pot first. I'll come after I settle this customer's bill."

"Okay, Uncle Xie, you go ahead and do your work. My second aunt and I will watch over it first."

Zhang Yunyue and Zhu chose 8 basins that were similar in size to the ones they used to store mung bean jelly at home, and planned to keep one or two extra just in case.

Uncle Xie saw off the previous wave of guests.

"Uncle Xie, how much is this basin? I want 8."

"That basin costs 12 copper coins each."

"Okay, thank you uncle, I want 8 of these basins."

Uncle Xie took out 8 basins and placed them in front of the grocery store. Zhang Yunyue handed over 90 copper coins to Uncle Xie. Uncle Xie had just said that he would charge 6 copper coins less.

After giving the copper coins, Zhang Yunyue and Zhu waited for Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xinghao in front of the grocery store.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Cheng came over pushing a wheelbarrow. Zhang Yunyue and Zhu moved the basin onto the cart. Then Zhang Cheng secured the things on the cart with a rope. The four of them prepared to go home.

When they got home, Zhang Yunyue went forward and knocked on the door. Zhang Yunxue heard her sister's voice coming from outside the door in the yard.

He hurried to open the door, and after opening the gate to the yard, Zhang Cheng pushed the wheelbarrow into the house, and the remaining three entered the yard one by one.

Zhang Yunyue carefully put down the backpack, then took out the oil can from the backpack and carried it to the kitchen and put it away.

Zhang's father helped Zhang Cheng unload the things on the wheelbarrow one by one.

Mother Zhang and Grandma Zhang went into the kitchen and brought out lunch for several people, and placed it on the table in the yard for the people who had just returned to eat.

After a busy morning, everyone was hungry. The four of them sat at the table and began to eat voraciously.

After finishing the meal, the four of them felt alive again. This was mainly because they had returned when the weather was at its hottest, and they were really tired, sunburned, and hungry.

After dinner, Grandpa Zhang asked Zhang Yunxue to lock the gate, and then the family counted the money they earned that day in the main room.

Zhang Xinghao poured all the copper coins in the box onto the table. They were still 100 copper coins in a string, because there were more mung bean jelly and cold noodles today than yesterday.

A total of 1034 wen were counted on the table, plus 150 wen spent on vegetable oil and 90 wen spent on potted flowers, a total of 1274 wen was earned today.

When everyone heard Zhang Yunyue say that he earned 1274 copper coins today, which was several hundred more than yesterday, they thought that it would take only a few days to earn back the money he used to buy things for his family.

Everyone else was thinking, if they earned more than one or two taels of silver today, they would earn at least thirty or forty taels of silver in a month, which would be equivalent to the harvest of many years in previous years.

After counting the money, Grandma Zhang took the strung copper coins back into the house and put them away.

After coming out of the main room, Zhang Yunyue and Zhang Cheng's family of three went to the kitchen to get hot water to wash up, because they had to get up early in the morning, then go to the town to set up a stall, and then walk back, so they were busy all morning.

Although the four of them were full, they were still tired. After washing up, they went back to the house, changed their clothes and took a nap.

Other people in the family are also taking naps, but their naps are shorter.

When the others woke up from their nap, these four were still sleeping.

Grandma Zhang was peeling peanuts with Zhang Yunxue and Zhang Xingfeng, Grandpa Zhang was weaving bamboo baskets with Zhang Xingyun, and Father Zhang was making a folding table because they thought that there would be more people eating at the market tomorrow than yesterday and today.

But there are only two folding tables at home, so Zhang's father plans to make two more today so that everyone can sit down and eat.

Zhang's mother still goes to the river to wash clothes. After all, the family either works at home or goes to town every day, and they sweat a lot, which means they have to change clothes frequently.

When Zhang Yunyue woke up, everyone else in the family was working. They had finished setting up the stall for the day, and the fried peanuts and chili oil were almost gone.

So at this time, Zhang's mother and Zhu were preparing fried peanuts and boiling chili oil in the kitchen. Both Zhang's mother and Zhu had seen Zhang Yunyue boil it twice.

Especially before the second brewing, Zhang Yunyue also explained clearly to Zhang's mother and Zhu about the use of spices.