A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Several people pushed the wheelbarrow directly out from the small road not far from Lao Zhang's house, then separated on the official road and went directly to their respective towns.

After Zhang Gui and the others left, Zhang Cheng and Zhu continued to knead the dough to make cold noodles. However, as they had been making cold noodles every day in the past few days, everyone's speed had increased a lot, except for the time it took for the dough to rest.

Zhang Cheng and Zhu's cold noodles were ready and they started to make breakfast. Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father also got up.

After Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father finished washing up, they moved all the things onto the wheelbarrow, because they had also pushed the wheelbarrow from the grocery store back yesterday.

So today, in addition to the things on my own wheelbarrow, there was also some mung bean jelly on the grocery store's wheelbarrow.

Zhang Yunyue also packed some more of the chili oil she had made last night so that she could distribute it and resell it in town later. It would be even better if someone bought it.

Once everything is ready, move it onto a wheelbarrow or put it in a backpack.

Grandma Zhang and Mrs. Zhu’s breakfast is ready. This morning, Zhang Yunyue specifically told Grandma Zhang and Mrs. Zhu to make some more egg pancakes.

It can be used to fill your stomach when you’re hungry in town, otherwise when you come back a little late, everyone will be tired and hungry.

After eating.

Zhang Yunyue put the egg pancakes and water in a backpack. Zhang Xingyun carried the backpack, and Zhang's father and mother pushed a wheelbarrow to the town.

Usually when I go to town, I take the small path in front of my house, so I never meet people from the village. I didn’t expect to meet them today.

Widow Li saw the four people from Old Zhang's family and walked over to them. She couldn't help looking at the things on the wheelbarrow:

"Hey, what are you pushing? There are so many, are you going to town?"

Zhang's mother had seen Widow Li a long time ago, but she had just ignored her. When Widow Li came forward to ask, she replied calmly, "Yes, let's go to the town."

Widow Li ignored Zhang's mother's casual reply and continued enthusiastically, "I'm going to town too. I'll go with you. You guys are going to set up a stall on West Street, right?"

Zhang's mother: "Yes!"

Widow Li continued, "I saw you guys selling things on West Street last time, and the people there said it was mung bean jelly, right? Oh, I haven't even heard of it. I heard you guys buy mung beans in the village, so how do you make mung bean jelly?"

Widow Li looked at the mung bean jelly and cold noodles on the two wheelbarrows. There were so many of them, so the business must be very good in the town. Many people passed by and saw them that day, so she took the opportunity to test Zhang's mother.

If I figure out the method of making mung bean jelly, then I can make it myself and sell it in town and make money.

Zhang's mother glanced at Widow Li and knew what she was up to. She only responded with one sentence: "Yes, it's made of mung beans."

When Widow Li heard Zhang's mother say that it was made of mung beans, she stopped talking. She also knew that she couldn't get the recipe out of her, so she rolled her eyes and walked away awkwardly.

Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father and mother ignored her and just pushed the cart forward. In a short while, Widow Li was left far behind.

Not long after missing Widow Li, the others also arrived in the town.

Father Zhang quickly pushed the wheelbarrow to the stall. There was already someone guarding the stall. It was a servant from Mr. Huang's family on East Street who had reserved seven pots of goods the day before. A horse-drawn carriage followed him.

Zhang Yunyue: "Brother, you guys are here pretty fast. Wait a minute, let's put our things down first."

"Miss Yueyue, you go ahead and do your work. I've brought all the basins. I'll take them down first. Put all the mung bean jelly in the basin I brought. And this is the jar of chili oil, which I also brought."

The servant and the coachman unloaded all the basins from the carriage and took out a clay pot from it.

After the servant and the driver put down all the basins, Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father also poured mung bean jelly from the wheelbarrow into each other's basins one by one.

Then Zhang Yunyue took out chili oil from the backpack and scooped out about 7 basins of chili oil and put them into the other party's can.

Zhang's father and Zhang Xingyun helped the servant and the coachman to load all the mung bean jelly onto the carriage, and waited until everything was moved.

7 basins, at the rate of 840 bowls per basin, totaled 440 coins. After the servant gave the remaining to Zhang Yunyue, he drove away with the driver.

After the servant left, Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father continued to unload the things on the wheelbarrow. Then Zhang Xingyun went to the public well to fetch water and came back to wash the table, leaving Zhang Xingyun and Zhang's mother to clean up in front of the stall.

Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father were pushing a wheelbarrow from the grocery store, which was loaded with two pots of mung bean jelly that had been pre-ordered from Tianxianglou, as well as a separate bag of chili oil.

Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father walked from West Street to Tianxiang Tower on East Street. Tianxiang Tower had just opened and was filled with waiters cleaning the place.

Seeing that there was no waiter standing guard at the door, Zhang Yunyue asked Zhang's father to wait in front of Tianxiang Tower while she went into the building.

Zhang Yunyue found a waiter who was cleaning a table and said, "Hello, waiter brother, I'm looking for your shopkeeper Dong."

Waiter: "Excuse me, young lady, who are you? What can I do for our shopkeeper?"

Zhang Yunyue: "I'm from Zhang's Liangfen on West Street. Your shopkeeper has ordered mung bean jelly from my stall. I'm here to deliver the goods. Can you please call your shopkeeper?"

Waiter: "Oh, you are the girl from Zhang's Liangfen on West Street. Please wait a moment. I will go to the backyard to find the shopkeeper."

After a while, Manager Dong came out from the backyard with the waiter.

Shopkeeper Dong raised his hand and bowed: "Miss Zhang, you are here. Welcome, welcome. Please come in."

Zhang Yunyue bowed to Shopkeeper Dong and said, "Wait a moment, my father is still waiting outside."

Shopkeeper Dong said to the waiter who had just come, "Then quickly let your father in, and Xiao Zhao, go and help bring in the mung bean jelly."

Xiao Zhao went out and welcomed Zhang's father in. They each brought a bowl of mung bean jelly to the back kitchen, and then poured the mung bean jelly into the bowl prepared by the other party.

Zhang Yunyue brought in a separate bag of chili oil from the wheelbarrow.

After Zhang's father came out from the kitchen, Manager Dong took Zhang's father and Zhang Yunyue to sit aside.

Shopkeeper Dong poured a cup of tea for Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father respectively: "You two, please have some tea."

Zhang Yunyue: "Manager Dong, my father and I are here today mainly to sign a contract. Just follow what we said yesterday and write it in the contract."

"Of course, the contract was prepared yesterday. Please take a look, young lady."

Shopkeeper Dong took out two identical contracts from his sleeve.

Zhang Yunyue took the two contracts and looked at the contents. After confirming that there were no problems, he asked Zhang's father to look at them again. He nodded and signed his name. Zhang Yunyue and Manager Dong each took a contract and put it in their sleeves.

Fortunately, everyone in the Zhang family can recognize some words, thanks to the fact that Grandpa Zhang attended a private school for a year.

Zhang Yunyue: "By the way, Manager Dong, I wonder if your restaurant is interested in our homemade chili oil. This can of chili oil is paired with the two pots of mung bean jelly that were delivered today."