A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Not long after Zhang's father left, Grandpa Zhang led the cow out of the cowshed, hitched it to the ox cart, and went to Carpenter Li's house. He also had to go to his house to get tools and wood.

"Carpenter Li. Carpenter Li, are you up yet?" Grandpa Zhang's voice rang out at the door of Carpenter Li's house.

Carpenter Li hurried out of the yard to open the door. When he opened it, he saw Grandpa Zhang waiting at the door with a ox cart.

"I'm here, I'm here, Brother Zhang. You're here quite early. We've packed everything. The wood is in the yard. Wait a minute. I'll ask my two sons to carry it."

"Okay, I'll lead the cart, and you put the tools and wood on it."

"Okay." Carpenter Li turned around and walked into the yard and called his two sons, "Li Xian, Li Hui, your uncle Zhang is here, come out and carry the wood, don't waste time."

"Coming, Dad, right away!"

The two brothers hurried out of the house and began to move the wood that had been prepared in the yard yesterday. Carpenter Li took out all the tools and placed them on the ox cart.

Carpenter Li looked at the things on the oxcart and found that nothing was missing. "Brother Zhang, everything has been loaded onto the oxcart. Let's go."

"Okay, the ox cart is loaded with wood, so we'll have to trouble you three, father and son, to walk." After saying that, Grandpa Zhang walked in front, holding the ox rope.

"Hey, what's the big deal? We are all dealers. We don't have anything else but strength. This little distance is nothing."

"Yes, Uncle Zhang, we can still walk this distance."

Carpenter Li thought of the Zhang family who had just built a workshop and bought a shop in the town, and said in admiration:

"Brother Zhang, your family is very successful now. It has a workshop in the village and a store in the town. You will open another store soon."

"Oh, we just make a living. These are all ideas from our kids. We don't understand them either. So we just support them, don't you think?"

Grandpa Zhang subconsciously concealed the secret from his granddaughter Yueyue. After all, everyone believed in ghosts and gods. How could a 13-year-old girl have such great abilities? He was afraid that someone with bad intentions would find out and it would be bad for his granddaughter.

Although some villagers could guess it, as long as their family members did not admit it, they could do nothing but think about it. It seemed that they would have to tell their family about it when they returned in the evening.

Carpenter Li thought Grandpa Zhang was talking about his two sons, so he praised them: "Your eldest and second sons are really good, they are smart and hardworking."

Seeing this, Grandpa Zhang did not expose it: "Your family is not bad, and your grandchildren are also good."

"Hahahaha"

"Hahahaha"

Li Xian and Li Hui looked at each other. They didn't expect that their father and Uncle Zhang would suddenly praise each other's children. This made the two men in their twenties and thirties blush. They walked behind them and didn't dare to interrupt.

The old Zhang family.

Not long after Zhang Yunyue finished breakfast, when it was almost noon, she went to the workshop to open the door and wait for the workers to come to work.

Before leaving, Zhang Yunyue specifically talked to Grandma Zhang and asked her to go to the village after breakfast and tell every household to buy fresh and healthy red peppers from the workshop.

Uncle Zhang Cheng also went to Old Jiang's house to ask their sons to help with weeding and loosening the soil. When they arrived at Jiang's house, all the sons were at home. After hearing Zhang Cheng's intention, the five of them stood up to thank Zhang Cheng and were eager to help.

Then he immediately took the sickle and hoe from home and followed Zhang Cheng to the fields. Zhang Cheng brought a few people to the fields and pointed out which fields the Zhang family owned. After the five Jiang brothers took note of them, they all said that they would weed and loosen the soil.

Then they all went to work in the fields. When Zhang Cheng saw them starting, he went home to prepare to grind soy milk. Now he had to grind about 100 kilograms of mung beans every day, and it took him almost a whole morning to finish it.

On market days, we have to prepare about 200 kilograms of mung beans to sell, and it takes most of the day to grind them all.

When Grandma Zhang saw Zhang Cheng coming back, she thought that she was not needed at home to grind soy milk, so she prepared to go to the village to talk about the red peppers.

Because there are more people living in the center of the village, and everyone likes to chat under the big banyan tree in the center of the village, Grandma Zhang decided to go directly to the big banyan tree, where the news of the notification can spread quickly throughout the village.

When we arrived at the center of the village, there were indeed many old men and women sitting under the big banyan tree.

The people under the big banyan tree saw Grandma Zhang coming from afar and waved to her to come over.

"Xiao Yun's grandma, I haven't seen you out for a few days. Your family must be too busy right now."

"That's right. We old sisters haven't seen you for several days, and you didn't even ask to come out and hang out and chat with us."

Grandma Zhang smiled and said, "Oh, I came out today, but I have something to talk to you about."

"What's the matter? Tell me quickly."

"You all know that I am collecting dried chilies now, right? The chilies have turned red these days. If the chilies in your chili fields are also red and you can't eat them all, you can pick them and send them to the workshop. It's two cents per pound. And you have to pick the stems of the chilies before you send them to me. They must be fresh and not rotten."

"Are you serious, Xiaoyun's grandma? We have grown a lot of peppers. Can you take them all?"

"Yes, there are a lot of red flowers in my field these days. I am planning to pick them today or tomorrow and dry them in the sun. Then I will sell them to your family."

"Oh, my peppers are getting a lot redder. They're priced at two cents a pound, which is not a low price. I can pick a hundred pounds from my field right now. Grandma Xiaoyun, are you sure you want them?"

"Oh, why don't you believe me? Don't worry, as long as they are good, we will take them. Go and tell your family now, and they will pick them and send them to the workshop this afternoon."

"Okay, I'll go back and tell my son and his wife to go pick the red peppers from the fields and send them to your workshop this afternoon."

"Oh, my family just picked some yesterday and dried them all day. Luckily there are still some left. I have to go and tell my grandchildren and granddaughter-in-law to pick the rest and send them to your house."

"I'm going home to talk too. I don't want to talk anymore. Let's talk again after I finish picking the fruits this afternoon."

"When you go home, tell the neighbors that my workshop needs red peppers. They'll take as many as you can get."

"Oh, okay, I'll tell my neighbor later."

"I have to go home too. I have to ask my son to talk to my daughter's in-laws and ask them to send it over as well."

"Yes, yes, yes, I also have to tell my in-laws to come back first, come back first."

"..."

In just a short while, all the old men and women who were originally sitting under the banyan tree left. Some of them were even leaning on their crutches and quickly rushing home. Grandma Zhang saw that everyone had left.

Thinking that the workshop would need copper coins to collect red peppers, Grandma Zhang went home first to fill a basket with a few taels of copper coins before going to the workshop.