A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

After yesterday's promotion, there are more customers in the store today than yesterday, and there are discounts today, so as soon as Zhang's father opened the door, the store was full of people in a short time.

After yesterday's day, Zhang's father, Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's mother had already gotten used to the situation. The helpers who came today were a little overwhelmed at first, but they got much better after they got familiar with the situation.

However, what was surprising was that Zhang Chao would chat with every person who came to ask questions or buy things, and he could often make the customers laugh.

Zhang Yunyue discovered that Zhang Chao was really suitable for the position assigned to him by his father and he could fully utilize his strengths.

In just half a day, Zhang Yunyue discovered that the shop no longer needed him. The six helpers he hired were all quick, hardworking and honest people. Every time a customer left, they would immediately clear the dishes on the table and clean the place.

More than a month later.

During this month, Zhang's Four Seasons Food Store has not only been recognized by the townspeople, but occasionally wealthy people also come to Zhang's Four Seasons Food Store to eat noodles.

After all, in the whole town, there are no more types of noodles than Zhang’s Four Seasons Food Store, and the amount of meat in the noodles is also larger. There is also braised pork. Braised pork feet is already a must-order delicacy when entering the store. It already has a group of stable customers, and you can see them in the food store every now and then.

During this period, the daily turnover of the monthly food shop has stabilized at around six or seven taels of silver. After deducting the daily costs, it can still make a net profit of three or four taels of silver. Half of the money used to buy the shop has been earned back.

After one month of production and operation, the workshop only supplied one kind of chili oil to Tianxianglou. When Cao Shiyang came for the third time, he signed a new contract.

They are pork chili oil, chicken chili oil and crispy shreds, 1000 kilograms of each provided every five days. So from the fourth time Cao Shiyang came to the workshop to transport goods, it became at least 4500 kilograms every five days, and he came twice more to transport goods.

So after signing the new contract, Zhang Yunyue recruited 20 men and 10 women from the village. Fortunately, the big kitchen had 10 stoves before, and as the orders increased, the other 5 stoves were put into use. In addition, only 10 mortars were built before, and as the orders increased, Zhang Yunyue hurriedly ordered 10 more, and then installed them in the noodle pounding room to ensure an adequate supply of chili noodles.

Due to the increase in orders for chili oil, the Qiao and Zhu families each bought a cow and went to villages farther away to harvest the chilies.

Some time ago, due to the good harvest of red peppers from the villagers, Zhang's workshop harvested a lot of red peppers and made one or two hundred jars of pickled peppers. However, Zhang Yunyue was not in a hurry to sell them to Tianxianglou.

But I am planning to open my own shop later, because there are so many delicious foods that can be made with pickled peppers, such as hot pot and stir-fried dishes.

Zhang Yunyue also ordered four pigs every day from the owner of a pork stall in town. The pigs' feet and heads were left in the food store in town, and the rest were transported to Zhang's chili oil workshop by the pork stall owner. The pork stall owner was so happy that he would smile every time he saw Zhang Yunyue.

The amount of rapeseed oil delivered by the oil mill increased from 500 kilograms every two days to 700 kilograms a day, so the owner of the oil mill had to hire a few more employees just to meet the demand for rapeseed oil.

The same situation also occurred at the earthenware workshop, which now required fifty 100-kg pottery jars to be delivered to the workshop every five days. In order to supply the Zhang family's order, several people were recruited from the village to make pottery jars.

Otherwise, Tianxianglou’s orders will not be met at all.

Today is the day when Cao Shiyang from Tianxianglou in the county town comes to deliver goods. Zhang Yunyue and Grandpa Zhang have been busy in the workshop since early morning.

Because it was necessary to provide Tianxianglou with at least 4500 kilograms of goods, Zhang Yunyue first asked the men in the workshop to stop their work in the flour pounding room and go to the warehouse to move all the goods prepared for Tianxianglou out of the workshop and put them outside the workshop.

After all, there are forty or fifty large pottery jars weighing hundreds of pounds. Two people have to carry one jar two or three times. Otherwise, it will take time to move them after Tianxianglou arrives. If they move them outside now, they can be weighed and loaded onto the truck as soon as Tianxianglou arrives.

It's time.

Cao Shiyang, the shopkeeper of Tianxianglou in the county town, arrived at Zhang's workshop, followed by more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages. They were walking on the road in a mighty procession. This many horse-drawn carriages had been to Zhangjia Village two or three times before.

But it still attracted the attention of the villagers of Zhangjia Village every time. When more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages arrived, the old people and children in the village gathered at the door of the workshop and looked at these people from the county town.

Zhang Yunyue was originally arranging employees to move pottery jars outside the workshop, so when the carriage from Tianxianglou arrived, Zhang Yunyue stepped forward to greet Cao Shiyang.

"Manager Cao, I came here from town early this morning. Have you had anything to eat?"

"Miss Zhang, you're welcome. I came here after having breakfast at Tianxianglou in town. Not only am I here today, our boss is here too."

Just as Cao Shiyang finished speaking, a man came out from the last carriage. It was Xiao Qi, the owner of Tianxiang Tower, whom he had met before, and following behind him was the guard seen last time.

When Xiao Qi stepped forward, Zhang Yunyue greeted him and said, "Mr. Xiao, I am very honored to be here. I hope you will forgive me for not welcoming you in person."

Xiao Qi clasped his fists and said, "Miss Zhang, you are welcome. Today, I am just curious about your workshop. I happened to have nothing to do recently, so I stayed in the county town. So when I heard that Manager Cao was coming yesterday, I followed him. I hope you can forgive me for disturbing you."

"Boss Xiao, Shopkeeper Cao, please come in. Boss Xiao, let me show you around the workshop. This is your first time here."

Zhang Yunyue raised her hand and motioned for the two to move forward.

"Okay, thank you very much, young lady." After saying that, Xiao Qi nodded.

Zhang Yunyue took the two of them to the warehouse where dried chilies were stored, the warehouse where finished products such as oil chilies were stored, and the noodle pounding room. As for the big kitchen, they did not take them there, as oil chilies were being boiled.

The big kitchen had a pungent smell, and there were also some secret recipes in it, so it was not suitable for showing people around. After the tour, they were taken back to the reception room.

Grandpa Zhang saw Zhang Yunyue leading two people on a tour in the warehouse of the chili pepper. He only recognized the shopkeeper Cao, and had never seen the other one. After instructing the employees who were moving the things to be careful, he went to the reception room.

After all, Zhang Yunyue was still a girl who had not yet reached marriageable age, and it was not easy for her to stay in the same room with two men.

Walking into the reception room, Zhang Yunyue saw Grandpa Zhang coming in and introduced the two parties to each other.

"Grandpa, this is the owner of Tianxiang Tower, Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao, this is my grandpa."

Xiao Qi clasped his fists and said, "Greetings, Mr. Zhang. I hope you can forgive me for disturbing you."

Grandpa Zhang also clasped his fists and said, "Hello, Mr. Xiao. Your coming here makes my humble home more glorious. How can I say that you are bothering me?"