It's hard for my elder sister. I rely on the mountains to farm and pay off my debts.

The two talked in the inner room for a long time before Wang Wanzhi sent Song Zhi out of the inner room.

When Song Zhi saw her eldest brother, she said to Wang Wanzhi, "Sister Wang, please stay. We will go back today."

Wang Wanzhi still insisted on seeing her off to the door. "Sister Song, take care. When I'm done with my work, I'll find you at my farm for a visit."

Song Zhi agreed with a smile and led her brother away.

Song Zhi did not go back directly, but first took her brother to places with heavy traffic such as restaurants and inns.

"Azhi, where are we going?"

Song Zhi then told her eldest brother about the agreement she had made with the little beggar. "Now that the wool has been washed, we can ask them for help with the subsequent steps."

"Just tell us what you want to do. Why invite outsiders?" Song Ping said with some confusion.

Song Zhi could understand her elder brother's thoughts. Since they already had the manpower at home, why should they spend money to hire outsiders to do the work?

She patiently explained, "Brother, if this wool can really be woven into something warm as those merchants claim, the few of us alone will definitely not be enough."

"Besides, we're going to build a new house soon, so we can't spare so many people to work on this for the time being."

"Why not spend a little money to ask them to spin the wool into yarn first, and then we can take care of the rest later."

Song Ping didn't originally mean to oppose his sister hiring someone, but he subconsciously didn't want to spend money indiscriminately.

After hearing his younger sister's plan, he said nothing more and followed her to look for the children.

As expected by Song Zhi, she found Monkey and others on a street near the guesthouse.

"Good man, are you looking for us?" The monkey was the first to discover Song Zhi, and jumped in front of Song Zhi.

Song Zhi smiled and nodded, "I was thinking that if I couldn't find you here, I would go to Yujia Village to look for you."

"Look, I'll give you some small tasks to do tomorrow. Will you wait at the city gate at noon?"

The monkey's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he patted his chest, "Okay, okay, don't worry, my good man. We will be at the city gate on time tomorrow."

After Song Zhi agreed on the time and place with them, they did not stay too long and the brother and sister went to the money shop again.

When the bank clerk saw the brother and sister, he didn't take it seriously at first.

Wait until Song Zhi took out a silver note of one hundred taels from her pocket.

After the clerk checked the banknote over and over again to confirm that it was correct, he looked at Song Zhi, who was wearing linen clothes, in surprise.

Song Zhi said calmly, "I just got this from the Wang family shop. If you have any questions, you can send someone to ask."

The young man knew that his behavior was a bit offensive.

He smiled apologetically and said, "No need to ask, no need to ask. I wonder how this lady would like to exchange it? Part of it for small-denomination banknotes, part for silver? Or all for silver?"

"Change it all into silver for me, ten-liang notes, five-liang notes, and finally give me some small coins of one or two liang."

The clerk responded with a smile, "Let this lady know that our bank charges a fee for exchanging money. For your 100 taels of silver, we will charge you one tael of silver."

Song Zhi was a little curious, "If I exchange silver for silver notes, is there any fee?"

The clerk explained, "That's not acceptable."

"The main thing is that silver is difficult to carry, and it's very easy to encounter bandits on the road. Instead of carrying large amounts of silver on the road, merchants should exchange it for silver notes here and then exchange it for silver when they return to the south."

Song Zhi nodded thoughtfully. A question suddenly occurred to her, so she asked, "Does your bank have a branch in Jiangnan?"

The young man puffed out his chest with pride and said smugly, "Of course. Not to mention Jiangnan, our bank has a head office in the capital."

"If you have any money, please don't hesitate to deposit it in our bank. It's very safe!"

Song Zhi smiled without saying anything, watching the other party swiftly take the scale and weigh out the silver in front of her.

"All the money you exchanged is here, please keep it, madam!"

Song Zhi wrapped all the silver and money in the cloth used to cover cakes and stuffed them into the basket at hand. Then the brother and sister left the money house.

Before leaving the bank, Song Zhi looked up at the bank's signboard - 'Qian Ji'

How long has the world been peaceful?

The Qian family was able to expand their business to the little-known Qishui County, which clearly showed that they were very capable and far-sighted.

I don’t know if their boss does other business, but it would be great if they could sell their goods across the country through their hands.

Of course, Song Zhi didn't know at this time that the Qian family really looked down upon opening a bank in this remote and poor county.

The reason they came to Qishui County was thanks to their county magistrate Zhou Yu.

In order to provide the best possible service to the merchants, Zhou Yu sent a letter to the Qian family after arriving in Qishui County, inviting them to open a money shop in Qishui County.

This is how the first money shop in Qishui County came into being.

At this moment, Qian Zixu, who was far away in the capital, couldn't help but sneeze.