Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

Shen Miaozhu frowned. Her uncle would definitely not let her aunt sell the land to settle the account. Good land is easy to sell but hard to buy. "It will definitely not be enough."

"What about the money from selling grain?" Shen Lingzhu felt that there was something wrong as soon as he finished speaking. He looked up and saw Xia Wang flipping through books with his elder brother, and immediately thought:

"No, no, my second sister calculated the entire grain sales price, but my eldest aunt can only receive 50% of the rent."

"Thirty-eight percent. I don't have to worry about farming tools or seeds." The land rent and house rent collected by Hu in a year were only a few dozen taels.

Most of the family expenses are earned by my second brother from managing household affairs, and the master's meager salary is really not enough to support the family.

She said, "Nowadays, eight ounces of top-quality land are worth a fortune, which would be enough to cover the debt if we sold it, but your uncle won't allow it.

He would rather pawn the two hundred taels to the Qixing Temple than sell it, and borrowed another one hundred and fifty taels from the temple.

The money will be delivered tomorrow after the land has been inspected."

The total amount was three hundred and thirty taels, and after settling the bill, there was still twenty taels left.

Shen Lingzhu asked his aunt whether the interest rate on the 150 taels borrowed was high, and the answer he got was 3 taels per hundred taels per month. However, the Taoist priest calculated it cheaply for his family, only paying 2 taels per hundred taels per month, and the interest was not included in the principal.

My goodness, three taels of interest per month is considered cheap? If you don't pay it back in a year, it will be thirty-six taels.

No, we must get the money to pay it back as soon as possible. She winked at her senior sister and asked, "How about we make a bellows?"

The senior sister nodded slightly, then said: "Aunt, not everyone was given silver money at the beginning. Now the price of grain is low..."

Mrs. Hu shook her head and interrupted her: "Only a few people were given grain directly, and most people borrowed money from relatives to pay.

Besides, the account books were confiscated by the officials a long time ago, and it is 99% likely that they will be difficult to find. We only need to pay the money with the receipt written by your father.

I won’t say any more. This ordeal is over. Miaozhu said she’d make leavened bread at noon. I want to see the dough you made.”

"Okay." Shen Miaozhu followed her thoughts and no longer mentioned the money. She kneaded and rolled out the dough made from sour rice juice to make pancakes on the spot.

Spread the prepared chives in the middle and sprinkle in the fresh eggs sent by Master Shen's family today.

After tasting it, Mrs. Hu said that Xuan was soft, salty and delicious. Her appetite suddenly increased, and she didn't even feel the bitterness of the medicine.

When Xia Wang was invited to eat, he didn't hesitate. After taking a taste, he praised it, saying, "It's better than the meat pie at the market, and more fragrant than the vegetable pie in the city."

"Have you been to the provincial capital?" Shen Lingzhu ate the pancake with his left hand. The pure natural vegetables and eggs were so delicious.

Xia Wang said embarrassedly, "Hey, no, it was my eldest brother who went with Master Chi Er, and he brought us a lot of delicious food that we had never seen before.

But I went to the county town and wanted to stay there as an apprentice in a restaurant, but they thought I wasn't good at cutting vegetables and refused to hire me."

“In fact, you can also start a small business, such as selling straw sandals, selling fruits, or being a peddler or something.

When I was in the capital, I heard that an oil seller could earn 20 taels a year. "After deducting the cost, the net profit was 16 taels, which was quite a lot," Shen Lingzhu wrote, adding the storybook he had read in his previous life to the book "What You Have Seen in the Capital."

Xia Wang opened his eyes wide: "Twenty taels is so much?"

Then his eyes dimmed again, "But I don't have the capital, and I don't know where to buy the goods."

“You don’t have to sell oil, you can make something else to sell.

For example, items that are used in every kitchen." Shen Lingzhu finally brought the topic back on track. She asked her senior sister to use some firewood to draw the size of a bellows on the ground, and kept telling Xia Wang about the various benefits of this thing.

On this side, Shen Xianzhu came out after serving his mother the medicine and found that his two sisters were not in front of the pancake stove, but were leading Xia Wang around the new stove in the kitchen, gesturing at something.

Especially the little bamboo, which exaggeratedly drew a big circle in the air, and Xia Wang opened his mouth in disbelief.

When he approached the door, Shen Lingzhu had already said that he could sell the bellows to every household in the city and earn several thousand or several hundred taels of silver.

He added, "We'll split the profits 50-50. Being an apprentice in a restaurant is nothing. You can open a snack shop and be the boss yourself."

"Boss, do you mean the owner?" Xia Wang suddenly asked.

Shen Lingzhu hesitated for a moment, and Shen Miaozhu said, "Yes, in the merchant jargon of the capital, money is called 'ban'er'. The merchant with the most cash is also called 'boss'."

"What are you planning?" Shen Xianzhu looked at their hands, all covered in dust, and waved, "If you have anything to say, let's talk outside in the shade. It's very hot in the kitchen right now."

Seeing him talking, Xia Wang scooped water for washing. He hurriedly grabbed the basin and said, "Master, just give me the order. I'll do it."

"Erwang, I'm used to doing these on a daily basis. If you don't believe me, just ask them." Shen Xianzhu laughed and asked his two sisters to talk about what big business could make thousands of dollars without being discovered by others.

Shen Lingzhu did not fight a battle without confidence this time. She pulled her elder brother to squat down and look at the hole left on the side of the stove, and explained to him the benefits of the bellows.

After listening to this, he said, "So you asked the driver to leave this hole."

"It's my second sister. She reads a lot of books and has studied Qi Min Yao Shu and other things. She said that since it can be used when forging iron knives, it can also be used at home after it becomes smaller.

The paintings that were almost finished before I went to the capital are now hard to find.

When building the stove this time, my second sister discussed with the coachman to leave a gap so that it would be convenient to use after it was built, and if it really didn't work, they could just block it with bricks and stones.

It won't affect the use of the new stove at all." Shen Lingzhu always blamed her senior sister for everything.

The latter rolled his eyes at Shen Xianzhu behind her back and had to help her smooth things over.

"You make it sound so simple, can it be sold for money?" The family owed several hundred taels of silver, and Shen Xianzhu had experienced the time when he would go hungry because he had no money, so he was not opposed to making money at all.

Xia Wang said from the side: "Master, it's not simple at all.

Ordinary people would never think of making a hole in the stove to ventilate and supply air.

"And the third girl said that a bellows can be used for many years. One hundred copper coins can last for ten years, so it's only ten copper coins a year, which is really not expensive."

Shen Xianzhu was dumbfounded: "Don't we have to sell 10,000 of these to earn 1,000 taels?

If others learn this and sell it cheaper than us, we won’t even make a few hundred taels.”

"But we are the first one. We will install it and make it useful. We can hire thousands of people to sell it at the same time." Shen Lingzhu thought that the trees on the mountain behind the house were growing too densely, which was not conducive to their growth. She had to help them expand their living space.

Seeing her brother's disbelief, she waved her tightly bandaged hands and said, "Talking without practice is just empty talk. Let's go up the mountain and chop down a tree today and show you how it works, brother."

But before he could finish his words, his senior sister, who had just washed her hands, rubbed his head fiercely and said, "The wood must be aired before it can be used."

"I have some leftover materials for making benches at home, as well as an axe and a hammer. Please wait a moment, young master. I'll get them now." Xia Wang had already been dazzled by Shen Lingzhu's promise and was eager to give it a try.

He ran so fast that he didn't hear Shen Lingzhu say behind him that he needed another planer.

Shen Xianzhu rubbed his brows and asked, "Really?"

"Yeah." Shen Lingzhu thought it had a promising future. She had seen that the stoves in the clinic and her youngest sister's house had no bellows. She also asked Xia Wang, but he hadn't seen one either.