A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

"Oh, these embroidered pak are so funny, not bad, not bad, who came up with these, so creative."

"Ms. Chen, these are all what my sisters and I came up with together. I didn't participate in the embroidery process. After all, my embroidery skills are terrible, haha."

"Miss Zhang is too modest. Those who can draw patterns are just as talented as those who can embroider. There is no need to belittle yourself."

"Thank you for the compliment, Madam Chen."

"These handkerchiefs are 40 wen each, as we said last time. Let me count how many there are here. Yes, there are 42 in total, which means 1680 wen. I'll go out and settle the payment with Miss Zhang later."

"Okay, it's just in time. I need to buy some more silk and silk thread. The last time I bought it, I've used it up. This time I can buy some more."

"Okay, when Miss Zhang's handkerchiefs are all finished, Jinxiufang will still charge this price. Now that the handkerchief matter has been settled, let's talk about the cooperation that Miss Zhang mentioned last time."

"Okay, I wonder what your boss will decide?"

Although Zhang Xingfeng did not understand what the two people were talking about cooperation after listening for a long time, he was smart enough not to say anything. He just stood there as a qualified background board to create momentum.

"Our boss agrees to the profit sharing you mentioned, 70% to 30%. We will provide Jinxiufang with two patterns every month, with five series for each pattern. We will reconcile accounts once a month and the profit sharing will also be paid monthly. Once the contract is interrupted, the contract will be terminated immediately. What do you think, Miss Zhang?"

"Okay, Madam Chen, please draw up two contracts."

"Okay, wait a moment." After saying that, Madam Chen went to get paper and pen, and wrote down everything they had just discussed on the contract. Then they both signed and each kept a copy of the contract.

"Miss Zhang, it's a pleasure to work with you."

"Ms. Chen, it's a pleasure working with you. It's almost the beginning of the month. I will send the patterns over on the first day of next month."

"Okay, let's do as Miss Zhang said, starting from next month."

"Ms. Chen, since the cooperation has been agreed upon, my brother and I will not stay any longer. We have other things to do later."

"Okay, please. I'll take you to the shop in front to choose silk and silk thread." After saying that, Madam Chen took the two of them back to the shop in front.

When we got to the shop, "Mrs. Chen, I still want the plain silk, twenty feet this time, and brightly colored threads."

"Okay." After Mrs. Chen said this, she called a clerk to take the silk from the shelf, cut twenty feet, and brought the silk thread.

"Miss Zhang, the silk and thread are 400 in total, and the thread is 20 wen. The embroidered handkerchief was 1680 wen just now. I can change it to 1260 wen."

After saying that, he handed the silver and the packaged silk thread to Zhang Yunyue.

"Okay, thank you, Madam Chen. I'll come back on the first day of the new year to give you some flowers. I'm leaving now."

"Okay, walk slowly."

After leaving Jinxiu Tower, the brother and sister went to their own shop.

Seeing that both of them had left Jinxiufang, Zhang Xingfeng expressed his doubts. "Yueyue, you are cooperating with Jinxiulou to buy patterns. When did you go to discuss it? How come I didn't know that you could draw patterns? I haven't seen you draw before."

"Brother, a while ago, I was at Xiaohua's house and saw them embroidering handkerchiefs. But the handkerchiefs they embroidered were all of the usual types of flowers, nothing new.

I thought about drawing some novel and funny patterns in the house and asked Xiaohua and her friends to embroider them. Unexpectedly, they turned out to be quite beautiful, so we took them to Jinxiufang to sell, and then they liked our patterns, that’s how it was.”

"I see, Yueyue, you are really amazing. I didn't expect that we can cooperate with Jinxiufang again."

"That's not a big deal. I'll have to let Xiaohua and the others learn how to embroider patterns. This is for four people, not just me."

"You guys are all amazing." Zhang Xingyun said seriously.

Zhang Yunyue looked at his elder brother who was walking in front of him on the left, and suddenly said, "Brother, if you have anything you want to do, you can also tell me. Although it may not be realized at present, we can work hard to realize it in the future."

Zhang Xingyun thought about it carefully and shook his head: "Well, I don't know now."

"Then let's start thinking about it from now on. When you come up with an idea, tell me and we can realize it together, okay?"

Zhang Xingyun turned his head to look at his sister who was two years younger than him, and rubbed Zhang Yunyue's bud hair: "Okay, when I think of it, I will tell you. I will definitely not be polite to Yueyue."

No one expected that several years later, his thirteen-year-old sister would suddenly ask him about his dream and wanted to realize it with him. After that, he just wanted to set up an escort agency to help his sister deliver goods to various state capitals.

Unexpectedly, it gradually became the largest escort agency in the entire Yuanqi Kingdom, and it also established its own trading company, ranking among the top three trading companies in Yuanqi Kingdom. Everyone who saw it called him Boss Yun.

The brother and sister returned to the restaurant while talking.

Grandpa Zhang and Father Zhang started cleaning again. Mother Zhang was scrubbing all the tables and chairs on the first floor in the backyard, while Grandpa Zhang and Father Zhang were cleaning the second floor.

As soon as Zhang Yunyue and Zhang Xingyun came back, they rolled up their sleeves and started to clean the backyard. They also cleaned the three rooms in the backyard.

We were busy until Zhang Xingfeng got home from school in the afternoon, and the entire restaurant was finally renovated.

While everyone was still cleaning, Zhang Yunyue and Zhang Xingyun pulled a ox cart on the street to buy things needed for the store.

Because the store is located at the junction of East Street and West Street, the people here include both wealthy families and ordinary people, so it is best to use novelty in the food to attract the wealthy and use price to attract ordinary people, so that the store business will surely be good.

So Zhang Yunyue had thought about it before. In addition to the mung bean jelly and chili oil, which are still sold as usual, what the workshop makes are all suitable for eating noodles and rice noodles.

In that case, why not define the store as rice noodles? If it is made into a modern noodle chain store, that is also fine. Moreover, these products produced in the own workshop can become a complete specialty.

After thinking about the store plan, Zhang Yunyue knew what to buy. Fortunately, the store he bought used to be a restaurant, so the kitchen was relatively large and there were many stoves, which was completely sufficient.

Zhang Yunyue first took Zhang Xingyun to the blacksmith shop to buy four pots. On their way back from the blacksmith shop, they passed by the pork stall. Zhang Yunyue bought all the pig's feet and pig's head, and also bought about 10 pounds of pork belly.

After leaving the pork stall, he went to the grocery store and bought a lot of bowls, chopsticks, spoons, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, etc. Then he turned around and went into the rice shop near the grocery store and bought one or two hundred kilograms of flour and dozens of kilograms of rice.