A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

"Okay, Yueyue, how about we split the money we earn equally among the four of us?"

"No need, I'm just responsible for selling it for you, I don't embroider it."

"No, Yueyue, although you didn't embroider it, you provided the pattern. If we didn't have your pattern, how would we embroider it? And we would have to ask you to go to town to sell it."

"Yueyue, Xiaohua is right. If it weren't for your suggestion, where would we find opportunities to make money? The money we earn must be deducted from the money you spend on the fabric and thread, and then divided equally among the four of us. You are responsible for the patterns and sales, and we are responsible for the embroidery."

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhang Xiaohe also echoed.

Zhang Xiaohua and the other two knew that this was an opportunity Zhang Yunyue had found for them to make money. One should not be greedy. Having such good sisters is something that cannot be exchanged for anything.

"Okay then. By the way, if you have nothing to do now, you can embroider a few pieces with the fabrics at home. Tomorrow I will go to the town's clothing store or cloth workshop to find the shopkeeper and see if they are interested. If they are interested, I will buy the fabrics and silk threads and you can start embroidering. How do you think?"

"Yeah, okay." The three agreed.

So Zhang Xiaohua took out a few pieces of cloth that she had in her room, and Zhang Yunyue talked to them about the color matching of the silk threads in the patterns and asked the three of them to follow suit and embroider.

An hour later.

"Yueyue, look, I've finished the embroidery. I never thought it would be so cute when embroidered on a handkerchief. And with the addition of color, the animals on the handkerchief are even more vivid and lifelike."

Zhang Xiaohua handed the embroidered handkerchief to the three people. Zhang Yunyue knew what it looked like roughly. Zhang Xiaohua and Zhao Xiaoxiao were both amazed. After seeing Zhang Xiaohua's embroidered handkerchief, they also quickened their movements. After a while, their embroidered handkerchiefs were also completed.

Zhang Yunyue looked at the handkerchiefs embroidered by the three people. Although the embroidery skills were still immature, the animals on them were funny and novel. She believed that if she took them to a clothing store or a cloth workshop tomorrow, they would definitely catch the owner's eye.

"Okay, let's go to the town with these three handkerchiefs to test the waters first. Wait for my good news tomorrow."

"Then I'll go back first. The sun is about to set." When Zhao Xiaoxiao saw that everything was said, she stood up and prepared to say goodbye to the three people.

"Well, I'll be leaving first. Wait for my news tomorrow." Zhang Yunyue also stood up, took the handkerchief that the three people had just embroidered, and said goodbye to them.

Zhao Xiaoxiao and Zhang Yunyue walked out of Zhang Xiaohua's house and went back to their own homes.

When they got home, the adults were chatting while Zhang Xingfeng was playing and fighting with Zhang Yunxue in the yard. Although they were two years apart in age, they were the youngest in the family, so they usually liked to play together.

Zhang Yunyue suddenly thought of modern children who start going to kindergarten at the age of three, and then go to elementary school, junior high school, high school, and college. All children have to go through the education process. At that time, everyone thought that even if they couldn’t make money or become a civil servant, at least studying could help them understand things.

And now the family is running a business here. Unlike before, although they have no worries about food and drink, the family cannot afford to support a scholar. After all, it costs more than 10 taels of silver to study a year. Now it is different. The family can fully afford Zhang Xingfeng's tuition.

After making up his mind, Zhang Yunyue called Zhang Xingfeng to her side.

"Xiao Feng, come here."

Zhang Xingfeng ran up to Zhang Yunyue and asked, "Sister, what's the matter?"

"Xiaofeng, tell me, do you want to study?"

Zhang Xingfeng said anxiously and loudly: "Sister, do you mean going to a private school? Sister, I want to, I want to go." After saying that, he looked at Zhang Yunyue with wide eyes, as if he was afraid that Zhang Yunyue was joking.

The others heard Zhang Xingfeng's shout and looked at the two of them.

Grandpa Zhang: "Yueyue, you just said you want to send Xiaofeng to a private school, right?"

"Yes, Grandpa, Xiaofeng is 8 years old now, it's time for him to go to a private school. If he is two years later, it will be bad. Besides, now that our family has a workshop, we don't have to worry about not having money for Xiaofeng's education. I don't ask Xiaofeng to become successful and bring honor to the family, but at least I can make Xiaofeng sensible and reasonable."

"Yueyue, you are right. Now that the family situation has improved, the family should support Xiaofeng's studies."

"Grandpa, isn't there a private school in the village near us? Otherwise, let Xiaofeng go to the town to study. The private school in the town must be good."

Grandpa Zhang thought for a while and said, "There really is no private school nearby. The nearest private school is in Xiayang Village. It takes more than half an hour to go there. It's better to go to the town. My family also has to set up a stall in the town every day. But if we set up a stall, we won't be able to come back at noon, and the private school in the town has classes in the afternoon!"

"It's okay, Grandpa. Let's look for a better private school in town first. Once we find one, we'll discuss Xiaofeng's return."

"Row."

"Grandpa, I want to go to town with my second uncle tomorrow. I also need to help Xiaohua and her friends sell handkerchiefs. I also need to buy some other things. I want to improve the flavor of our chili oil. Then I want to check out Xiaofeng's private school. Xiaofeng, you have to help tomorrow."

"Okay, Yueyue, there are so many things to do that you can't finish in one day. Just two days. Don't tire yourself out."

"Got it, Dad."

The next morning.

The Zhang family first sent away the great grandfather and the second grandfather who came to get mung bean jelly and chili oil. After selling mung bean jelly for three days, the great grandfather and the second grandfather also followed Zhang Yunyue and others to sell individually packaged chili oil. Now the two families can earn three to four hundred coins a day.

Then Zhang Yunyue followed Zhang Cheng and his wife, Zhang Xinghao and Zhang Xingfeng to the town to set up a stall, and took away the handkerchiefs embroidered by Zhang Xiaohua and the other two yesterday.

Arriving in the town, Zhang Yunyue first followed his second uncle Zhang Cheng and others to help set up the mung bean jelly stall, and then carried a backpack and prepared to go check out the better private schools in the town.

Some time ago, when Zhang Yunyue was still at the stall, she heard from a customer that there was a private school in the town, located in an alley at the junction of West Street and East Street. The alley seemed to be called Osmanthus Alley.

At that time, I heard that person say that his child was studying in that private school. There were two teachers in the school. They had good character, personality and knowledge, and they were both scholars.

The main reason was that when that person said this, someone next to him also said that his child was also there, so Zhang Yunyue decided to go to this private school first to take a look.

Zhang Yunyue found Guihua Lane according to what the previous person said. Just after walking about 20 meters into the alley, she heard the sound of reading coming from the alley.

"When people are born, their nature is good. Natures are similar, but habits make them different..."

Zhang Yunyue walked in the direction where the sound of reading came from, and saw a plaque with the words "Gongchong Private School" on the front left gate.

Zhang Yunyue walked to the door and knocked, "Hello, is anyone there?"