A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

The next day.

After Zhang's father drove the ox cart into town, he drove the cart to the stall on West Street. After helping several people unload the things on the cart, he asked Zhang's mother, Zhang Xinghao and Zhang Xingfeng to clean the stall temporarily.

Zhang's father took the chili oil to Tianxianglou alone. Although Tianxianglou in the town can make mung bean jelly by itself during this period, the chili oil in the town and the county is still provided by the Zhang family.

As for Tianxianglou in other places, although they only have mung bean jelly, they cook it without chili oil, and the taste still attracts many customers.

Arrived at Tianxianglou on East Street.

Father Zhang walked to the entrance of Tianxiang Tower and found Xiao Zhao who was cleaning the door.

"Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao."

Xiao Zhao turned around and saw Zhang's father at the door: "Uncle Zhang, you're here, come in quickly."

Father Zhang handed the chili oil in his hand to Xiao Zhao and said, "Xiao Zhao, please find your shopkeeper."

Xiao Zhao took the can of chili oil and said, "Okay, Uncle Zhang, wait a minute. I'll go to the backyard and call our shopkeeper for you."

Shopkeeper Dong followed Xiao Zhao out from the backyard.

"Boss Zhang, you're here, but I have good news." Shopkeeper Dong knew a few days ago that the Zhang family had started making chili oil, and today he saw Zhang's father coming to see him, so he had some guesses.

Father Zhang replied with a smile:

"Yes, Shopkeeper Dong, the chili oil at home has been prepared. Now there are 17 pottery jars in the workshop that can hold 1500 kilograms of chili oil, and they are all full. We agreed before that at least kilograms of chili oil would be produced.

We compared the clay pots at home with the ox carts. One cart can carry four large clay pots, so you can see if you want all the chili oil or just 4 kilograms, so that you can arrange a vehicle to load the goods. "

Shopkeeper Dong clapped his hands in delight. After waiting for more than 20 days, he finally got the chili oil.

"Okay, okay, then I'll arrange a car to go to your house."

Zhang's father: "Manager Dong, I'm sorry, I can't leave the town, so I can't take you to the village. When you get to Zhangjia Village, you can ask the villagers where the Zhangjia Chili Oil Workshop or Zhang Qian's home is, and the villagers will show you the way."

"It doesn't matter. I know the general route to Zhangjia Village. When we get to the entrance of the village, we can just ask the villagers to show us the way."

"Okay, I won't bother you anymore. I'll leave first so you can arrange the next things."

"Okay, Boss Zhang, take care."

Shopkeeper Dong sent Zhang's father away, turned around, patted Xiao Zhao on the shoulder, and said to Xiao Zhao:

"Xiao Zhao, the carriage from Tianxianglou in the county will come to pick up the goods soon. Remember to ask them to take a message to Manager Cao.

The chili oil has started to be delivered today. I will go to pick up the goods in a while, and the chili oil will be delivered to the county town before the evening. "

"Okay, boss, don't worry. I'll talk to Li Mu when he gets here." Xiao Zhao replied.

Shopkeeper Dong then thought that he needed a vehicle to transport the goods, and that the goods had to be transported back to the county town, so he had to find a carriage company to send them to the county town, and then Cao Shiyang would be responsible for transporting them to Tianxiang Tower in the provincial capitals.

Just now Boss Zhang said that there were 17 clay jars that could hold 1700 kilograms each and they were all full, which means kilograms. Anyway, I knew the taste of Zhang’s chili oil, so I might as well take them all.

"Oh, Xiao Zhao, go to the carriage shop and rent four carriages. After renting them, add the one in our backyard and call a few waiters to follow me to Zhangjia Village to transport the goods."

"Okay, boss, I'll go to the carriage shop and rent a car right away."

After Xiao Zhao responded to Manager Dong's words, he called three waiters to go with him to rent a car so that they could bring the carriage back later.

Fortunately, Tianxianglou usually asks each waiter to take turns driving the carriage, so that they can find someone to use when they are needed.

A quarter of an hour later, the waiter of Tianxiang Tower arrived at the door of Tianxiang Tower in four horse-drawn carriages.

Xiao Zhao jumped off the carriage, entered Tianxianglou, found Manager Dong, and pointed outside the restaurant.

"Boss, the carriage has been rented and is parked at the door."

"Okay, pull out the carriage in the backyard, call two waiters, and go to Zhangjia Village with me. You stay in Tianxianglou and look after the store. Then, we have to ask Li Mu to deliver a message."

"Oh, okay, I got it, shopkeeper."

Xiao Zhao called two waiters to harness the horses in the backyard to the carriage, lead it to the entrance of the restaurant, and asked them to follow Manager Dong.

Shopkeeper Dong walked to the door of the restaurant and saw that the restaurant's carriage had also been pulled out. He got on the carriage and set off for Zhangjia Village.

Arrived at the entrance of Zhangjia Village.

The waiter Sun Li saw a stone tablet with the words "Zhangjia Village" written on it at the intersection and knew that they had arrived at the entrance of Zhangjia Village, so he continued to drive the carriage into the path from the Zhangjia Village stone tablet.

"Boss, we have arrived at the stone tablet of Zhangjia Village. We are about to enter Zhangjia Village." Sun Li shouted to Boss Dong who was sitting in the car.

"Okay, got it."

Arriving at the entrance of Zhangjia Village, Sun Li got off the carriage and found the nearest house. The gate was open and there was an old man in the yard, so he walked up and asked:

"Hello, old man. I'm from Tianxianglou in town. I'd like to ask where Zhang Qian lives, or where the Zhang family's chili oil workshop is."

The old man Sun Li was questioning happened to be Lao Qi. When Lao Qi heard what Sun Li said, he knew that he was here to buy chili oil, after all, his son was still working in the workshop.

"Oh, I know. Just keep walking along this road, through the center of the village, and continue forward. You will reach the end of the village. The best and largest blue brick and tile house you see is the Zhang family's chili oil workshop."

As Lao Qi spoke, he walked to the door and pointed the way to Lao Zhang's house at the end of the village.

Sun Li: "Okay, thank you, old man."

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

Watching Sun Li walk to the entrance of the village, Lao Qi realized that there were so many horse-drawn carriages following him. He was surprised at how many chili peppers Tianxianglou was going to bring to Lao Zhang's house.

Sun Li ran back to the village entrance, got on the front of the carriage, and said to Shopkeeper Dong: "Shopkeeper, I found the way to Zhang's chili pepper workshop. I will lead the way now."

"Ah."

Sun Li drove the carriage forward and passed through the center of the village. At this time, many people were sitting under the big banyan tree in the center of the village. The villagers of Zhangjia Village who were sitting under the tree saw so many carriages passing through the center of the village and going to the end of the village, and all kinds of discussions emerged.

"Why are there so many carriages coming to the car? It seems that they are heading to the end of the village. Where are they going? I haven't heard that any of their relatives are that rich."

"These carriages are heading to the end of the village. Are they going to Old Zhang's house?"

"Oh, it's possible. These people probably went to Old Zhang's house to buy chili oil!"

"Yeah, I think so too."

"..."

After walking for a while, Sun Li saw a row of walls about 5 meters high in front of him. It seemed that this should be the best and largest blue brick and tile house that the old man at the entrance of the village had mentioned. So he whipped the horse whip, and in a blink of an eye the carriage arrived at the door.