A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Zhang Yunyue: "Mother, Second Aunt, you can eat it in half a month, but you can't touch oil during this period, otherwise all your efforts will be wasted."

Zhang's mother: "Don't worry, just put it in this corner, no one will touch it."

Wait for the pottery jar to be placed.

Zhang Yunyue thought about the few bones she bought from the town yesterday, which were still hanging in the well. Thinking about the time, it was just the right time to make some bone soup.

So, Zhang Yunyue took all the bones out of the well, chopped them into two halves, cleaned them, stewed them in a pot, and put ginger, a few dried chilies and Sichuan peppercorns in the pot.

There were no radishes at home, so Zhang Yunyue peeled a few potatoes and cut them into dice. After the bones had been stewed for a while, she put the potatoes in and continued stewing.

The bone soup was stewing in the pot over low heat, and there was no need to watch the fire, so Zhang Yunyue returned to the yard and sat under the locust tree. Now she had to wait for the villagers to come home. She had thought that she would have time to prepare the peanuts and chili oil.

As a result, there were no more peanuts at home, but fortunately, Grandma Zhang dried all the chili powder at home two days ago and pounded it all into chili powder.

"Yueyue, I'm your uncle Zhang Yi. Come open the door. I'm here to sell mung beans."

Zhang Lei's father Zhang Yi shouted while carrying a basket in front of the courtyard gate.

Zhang Yunyue hurried to open the door and let Zhang Yi into the yard: "Uncle Zhang Yi, come, put the backpack down slowly."

Zhang's father went forward and took out all the mung beans from the basket, while Zhang Cheng went to the utility room to get the family scale.

Zhang's father and Zhang Cheng weighed the mung beans that Zhang Yi brought back, a total of 64 kilograms.

"Zhang Yi, it's 64 jin in total, 256 coins in total. Please sit down and I'll ask Yueyue to bring the money."

Grandma Zhang took out copper coins from the inner room and gave them to Zhang Yi, who took the money.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, I'm leaving first. I see the others are on their way, so I won't delay you."

Father Zhang: "Okay, take your time. Come and sit next time. I won't keep you here today."

Not long after Zhang Yi left, Lao Qi also came from the village entrance carrying mung beans. Lao Qi sold 190 kilograms of mung beans and earned 760 coins.

After Lao Qi left, the villagers came one after another carrying mung beans, peanuts and dried chilies. In just half an hour, Lao Zhang's family harvested about 1000 kilograms of mung beans, 100 kilograms of peanuts and about 230 dried chilies, spending a total of about 7 taels of silver.

After all the villagers left, Zhang Yunyue no longer had to help with the accounting, and the bone soup in the kitchen began to smell delicious.

Zhang Yunyue returned to the kitchen, sprinkled salt into the pot, then took the pot out of the pot and put it in a basin. The potato and bone soup simmered over low heat had a fragrant aroma.

After the bone soup was ready, and seeing that the fire in the stove was still going out, Zhang Yunyue ran to the backyard and picked a few eggplants, tomatoes, and green peppers, and put them in the stove to roast, preparing to make a roasted eggplant with green peppers in a while.

At this time, Zhang's mother and Zhu also came into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

"Mother, Second Aunt, the potato and bone soup is ready, and I also made a roasted eggplant with green peppers."

Zhang's mother: "Okay, got it. Your second aunt and I will start steaming the buns."

Zhang's mother and Zhu took over the remaining work from dinner in the kitchen, and Zhang Yunyue went to the yard, took out all the basins bought at noon and the basins that had been used to hold jelly, and cleaned them.

After cleaning, Zhang's mother and Zhu's dinner were ready, so everyone tidied up and prepared to eat.

Finish your meal.

The people in Lao Zhang's family were divided into two groups, one group was responsible for making mung bean jelly, and the other group was responsible for frying peanuts and boiling chili oil.

Zhang Yunyue and Grandma Zhang were responsible for frying peanuts and boiling chili oil in the kitchen, while the rest of the people were in the thatched shed in the backyard, making mung bean jelly.

Zhang Yunyue bought 40 kilograms of chili oil today, so she decided to make 20 kilograms of chili oil tonight.

Zhang Yunyue first prepared all the ingredients for making chili oil, then poured 20 kilograms of chili oil into the pot, fried the peanuts first and then took them out, and then made the chili oil.

This time, the chili oil was made with 20 kilograms of vegetable oil, and peanuts were added to the chili oil compared to the previous few days. The taste had another flavor compared to before. After the chili oil was taken out of the pot, it filled a large ceramic jar.

Zhang Yunyue thought that she wanted to pack some chili oil separately and sell it tomorrow, so she took out some remaining bamboo tubes in the utility room, washed them, placed them in the yard to drain the water, and would take them to the town tomorrow to pack chili oil and sell them separately.

At that time, you can also ask Manager Dong of Tianxianglou if he needs chili oil. If you can negotiate a deal, this will be the first step to open up the chili oil market.

After Zhang Yunyue and Grandma Zhang finished making the chili oil, they went to the thatched shed in the backyard to help.

This afternoon, Zhang's father and Zhang Cheng built a stove in the thatched shed in the backyard, because they considered that the amount of mung bean jelly needed every day would be quite large. Grandpa and second grandfather went to the next town to sell it, and Tianxianglou in the town also needed it.

So they decided to build another stove today and buy another pot when they come back tomorrow, so that they can make three pots and six basins at a time.

The stove built in the afternoon will be air-dried for a day tomorrow and will be ready for use tomorrow night. We will have to lengthen and raise the shelves in the straw shed tomorrow, otherwise it will not be enough to hold the prepared mung bean jelly.

In the evening, when the mung bean jelly was ready, except for the mung bean jelly placed on the shelf in the thatched shed in the backyard, the rest were placed on the table in the main room and covered with a dustpan.

By the time all the mung bean jelly was made tonight, it was already the beginning of the hour of Hai.

So everyone returned to the yard and lined up to wash and pack up. When they finished, the lit oil lamp in Old Zhang's house was extinguished, and everyone returned to their own rooms to sleep.

The next day at the beginning of the Mao hour.

The four people, including Zhang Gui and his wife, their son Zhang Xingzhong and his wife, and Zhang Chong and his wife, their son Zhang Xinglin and his wife, from my great grandfather's family, all came to Zhang Yunyue's house pushing wheelbarrows.

At this time, in the old Zhang family, only Grandpa Zhang, Grandma Zhang, Zhang Cheng and Mrs. Zhu had gotten up. Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang woke up early because they were old, while Zhang Cheng and Mrs. Zhu woke up because they were going to make cold noodles.

So when my great grandfather and second grandfather's families came, the moonlight and the oil lamps illuminated the yard very clearly.

Grandpa Zhang and his friends helped move the packed mung bean jelly onto the wheelbarrow. Each family had four pots of mung bean jelly. Great Grandpa and Second Grandpa had already made the cold noodles at home, and after they were all loaded onto the cart, they secured them with ropes.

Zhu filled the clay pots brought by her great-grandfather and his men with fried peanuts and chili oil, and filled them with the quantities she usually sold.

After they put the chili oil in the backpack, Zhang Gui and Zhang Chong paid for the mung bean jelly. The great grandfather and the second grandfather had discussed it in advance. They would just pay in cash when they came to pick up the goods every morning, and the work would be done on the same day.