A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Shopkeeper Li of the cloth shop is a fan of Lao Zhang's mung bean jelly. He doesn't eat it every day, but he eats it at least once every other day. So since he set up the stall recently, everyone has become quite familiar with it.

Shopkeeper Li was introducing cloth to someone in the store. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Zhang Yunyue and Zhu come in:

"Hey, Miss Yueyue, you're here to buy some cloth, right? What kind do you want? I'll give you a discount."

"Madam, I came here to look at the linen."

"Okay, I'll bring it to you for you to take a look." After saying this, Shopkeeper Li turned around, took down a piece of linen from the shelf at the back, and placed it on the counter.

Zhang Yunyue and Zhu took the linen in their hands and looked at it. "Madam, how much do you charge for this linen?"

"This linen cloth costs 120 wen per piece. If you want to buy it, I'll charge you 115 wen per piece," said Shopkeeper Li.

"Okay, Madam Shopkeeper, please pack it for me. I want one piece." Zhang Yunyue handed the money to Shopkeeper Li, and Zhu took the cloth from Shopkeeper Li.

After leaving the Jixiang Cloth Shop, Zhu asked: "Yueyue, is there anything else you want to buy?"

"No more. If you need anything else, just buy it tomorrow. Second Aunt, do you want to buy anything?"

Zhang Yunyue looked at Zhu and said.

Zhu shook her head: "I don't need to buy anything, let's go back."

When they returned to the stall, Zhang Cheng and his son had already packed up all the things and loaded them onto the ox cart. As soon as Zhang Yunyue and Zhu arrived, the four of them rode on the ox cart and headed home.

The four of them returned home and waited for dinner.

Zhang Yunyue, Grandma Zhang, Mother Zhang and Mrs. Zhu started cutting cloth again. Today they were going to cut and sew all the needed cloth.

"Grandma, have you guys gone to check on the progress in the wasteland these past two days?"

While Zhang Yunyue was cutting the cloth, she suddenly remembered that the construction on the wasteland had already started for a few days, but she only went there on the first day and had not been there since then.

"I heard from your grandfather that they have started laying bricks, but I don't know exactly how far they have started." Grandma Zhang thought about what Grandpa Zhang said and shook her head.

Zhang Yunyue put down the scissors in her hand and said, "Grandma, I'm going to check on the progress of the wasteland and see how far it has been built in the past few days."

"Okay, go ahead. Your mother, your second aunt and I are the only ones who can take care of it here." Grandma Zhang looked at Zhang Yunyue and said.

Zhang Yunyue got up and went out to the wasteland in the west.

It has been five days since the construction started. According to previous estimates, it will be completed in half a month, so if nothing unexpected happens, one third of the construction should be completed.

When we arrived at the wasteland, we found that the surrounding walls had already been built. The Zhang family had previously discussed building the outer wall to be five meters high to ensure safety.

The wall of the workshop only needs to be four meters high, and with the beams it will be about five or six meters high.

Zhang Yunyue first walked around the outer wall. The wall was built very long and high, and she walked around it in one circle.

Zhang Yunyue walked into the wall from the gate. The workers had already started building the wall of the house, and the wall was about one meter high.

It seems that the progress has reached about one-third of the construction. Fortunately, we invited many villagers at that time, otherwise the house would not be completed as expected.

"Yueyue, why are you here?" Zhang's father was also laying bricks in the wasteland. When he saw Zhang Yunyue coming, he said.

"Father, I came to check on the progress of the workshop construction. I want to see how far we have come. In just five days, we have already built so much. The progress is quite fast."

"Of course not. After all, we have recruited so many people who are hardworking and efficient, so the effect is better."

Father Zhang looked at the wall that had been built from the ground in just five days with a proud look on his face.

"Father, the wall of the workshop has been built to a height of one meter. It will probably take two or three days to build it to a height of four meters. Then we will have to put up the beams. Have you prepared the wood for the beams?"

"Don't worry about that. Your grandfather has already bought some wood for the beams in the village. He went to ask for it on the day of the groundbreaking."

"That's good. The main thing is that we are in a hurry to start construction, so it is easy to leak this and that. Sometimes we don't even think about it."

"It's okay. There are a lot of people at home. This person may not have thought of this, but that person will always think of it. Relax your mind, otherwise what will you do if you don't grow taller?"

Father Zhang rubbed Zhang Yunyue's head. He knew that Zhang Yunyue had been much more nervous since he signed the contract with Tianxianglou, and was afraid that he would not be able to deliver the goods to Tianxianglou in time, so he comforted him.

"Well, thank you, Dad. I'm fine, just a little anxious." After hearing what his father said, Zhang Yunyue realized that he had been a little flustered these two days.

"Okay, we've seen enough. Let's go back. This wasteland is dusty and full of men. If you get bored, go play with the sisters Xiaohua and Xiaohe."

Seeing that his daughter was feeling much better now, Zhang's father urged her to go home quickly.

"Oh, Dad, I understand. I'm leaving now!" said Zhang Yunyue.

After leaving the wasteland, Zhang Yunyue felt much more relaxed. Thinking that she hadn't visited the sisters Xiaohua and Xiaohe for several days, she decided to go to Zhang Xiaohua's house to talk to them.

"Xiaohua, Xiaohe, are you home?" Zhang Yunyue shouted while standing on tiptoe at the door of Zhang Xiaohua's house.

Mu heard Zhang Yunyue's voice coming from outside and opened the door: "Yueyue, Xiaohua and Xiaohe are at home, go inside and play with them!"

Zhang Yunyue saw that it was Zhang Xiaohua's mother who opened the door, so she smiled and called out, "Aunt Mu, I'll go in to find Xiaohua and Xiaohe."

Because her predecessor often came to play with Zhang Xiaohua and her sister, she knew which room the sisters lived in. So Zhang Yunyue relied on her memory to find their room, and the door was open.

Zhang Yunyue stood by the door and asked, "Xiaohua, Xiaohe, what are you doing! Wow, Xiaoxiao, you're here too."

"Yueyue, come in quickly. The three of us are embroidering handkerchiefs. Look, this is what we embroidered these days."

Zhang Xiaohua pulled Zhang Yunyue into the room and asked them to sit down. Then she handed the embroidery frame to Zhang Yunyue. The frame was embroidered with orchids, which looked very lifelike.

"You guys embroider it so beautifully! I don't even know where to insert the needle when I hold it." Zhang Yunyue joked to herself with a helpless look on her face.

"Yueyue, we know you don't like embroidered handkerchiefs, so we embroidered one for you these days. Here, look, it's the moon with some stars on it."

Zhang Xiaohe knew Zhang Yunyue's personality, so when the three of them were embroidering these days, they also embroidered one for Zhang Yunyue. Sisters had to embroider together. They originally thought that after everyone finished embroidering, they would go to Zhang Yunyue's house to give it to her, but they didn't expect Zhang Yunyue to come today.

Zhang Yun also took the handkerchief handed over by Zhang Xiaohe. The moon on the handkerchief combined with the starlight made him feel like the stars were in his hands.

"Xiaohua, Xiaohe, Xiaoxiao, I like it very much. This handkerchief is so beautiful." Zhang Yunyue said happily.