A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Chapter 155 Familiar with the Heart

"What's the big deal? You just embroidered a purse for me! I'm not being polite at all."

The three of them took the blueprint drawn by Zhang Yunyue and discussed which room they wanted to live in. Zhang Xiaohua and her sister were discussing how to convince their parents to build a house. But the good thing was that they didn't have to worry about money now.

Zhao Xiaoxiao was a little excited and wanted her family to see the blueprints as soon as possible: "Yueyue, I'll take the blueprints home first. My parents are still at home, and I want them to see them as soon as possible."

Zhang Xiaohua: "Then Yueyue, we'll leave first. Let's go back and talk to my father first."

"it is good."

After Zhao Xiaoxiao and the other two left, Zhang Yunyue started thinking at her desk about how to make a simple squat toilet.

The toilet at home has been a little cooler these past two days, and the smell is not as strong as it was in the summer, but it still smells bad.

And every time I stood on the wooden board, I was always afraid that the board would suddenly break and I would fall into the pit.

Zhang Yunyue first drew the blueprint of the squat toilet.

Then I thought about what I should use to make this squat toilet.

In the whole afternoon, Zhang Yunyue thought of many ways: ceramics, colored glaze, or simply chiseling one out of stone.

However, I have never seen colored glass in the town, and it is rare in the county. Moreover, colored glass is fragile, so it is not worth referring to.

Ceramics are also fragile and too thin. If this person stands on it, it will probably break after just a few uses.

The best way is to chisel one out of stone, as stone is durable.

After deciding to try using stones, Zhang Yunyue took the drawn blueprint in his hand and went to Old Sun's house at the village entrance.

They have a stone mill, so they should be able to carve squat toilets as well.

"Uncle Sun." Zhang Yunyue stood at the gate of Old Sun's house and shouted to Sun Dalin who was chiseling a millstone in the yard.

"Yueyue, come in and sit down. What's the matter with you today?"

Sun Dalin knew that the granddaughter of the Zhang family did not often go around the village. She usually went to Zhao Jin's house, Zhang Dashan's house, and the homes of her two cousins.

"Uncle Sun, I came here today to ask if I can provide you with the blueprints and you can chisel out the things according to the blueprints."

"Oh, then I'll have to look at the blueprint first to know, but as long as it's not difficult it should be fine."

Zhang Yunyue handed the drawings in his hand to Sun Dalin.

"Uncle Zhang, look, this is the one on the drawing. I've marked the shape, size and width on it."

"Okay, let me take a look first."

Sun Dalin looked at Zhang Yunyue's drawings, thought for a moment, and said, "Yueyue, this shouldn't be difficult. There shouldn't be any problem."

"That's good, Uncle Zhang. Please help me carve two." Zhang Yunyue thought about carving two squat toilets, one for each men's and women's toilets. It would be more convenient as there were many people in his family.

"Sure, Yueyue, when do you want it?"

"Uncle Zhang, don't worry. I'm going to put this in my new house. It will be ready within a month. Then I'll put it in the toilet."

When Sun Dalin heard Zhang Yunyue say that it was placed in the toilet, he asked in confusion, "Oh, what is the use of placing it in the toilet?"

"Well, it's hard to say now. When the time comes, Uncle Sun can take a look, hehe."

Zhang Yunyue didn't know how to tell him that this was used for the toilet. After all, the other party was an adult man, and it was a bit difficult to say its use. So she simply didn't say its use for now. Anyway, everyone would understand it when it was installed.

"Okay, it won't take more than a month to carve two. I'll send them over right after I'm done."

"Okay, thank you Uncle Sun. Please check how much these two will cost. I will pay you first."

"Well, these two are not difficult. Although it takes a long time to carve, it is not as delicate as the stone mill. The stone mill is one tael of silver each, so you can give me one tael of silver for two."

"Okay, thank you Uncle Zhang." Zhang Yunyue gave the money to Sun Dalin and went home.

Grandpa Zhang came out of the door and was about to go to the workshop, when he saw his granddaughter coming back from the village: "Yueyue, where have you been just now? I thought you were still in the room."

"Grandpa, I just went to Grandpa Sun's house at the village head. I drew a blueprint and I would like to ask them to help me chisel two things."

"Oh, okay, then you go back to the main room and stay there. I'll go to the workshop."

Zhang Yunyue thought that she hadn't been to the workshop for a long time and said, "Grandpa, I'll go to the workshop with you."

"Okay, let's go together."

As you approach the workshop, the familiar smell of chili oil hits you.

"Grandpa, I haven't been to the workshop for a while. Now that the weather is getting a little colder, how are the sales of mung bean jelly now?"

"We can't sell many now. The workshop only makes a few pots a day. I discussed with your great grandfather and second grandfather and decided to stop selling for two or three days. The weather is getting colder and people don't like to eat cold food. They will just sell chili oil next."

Zhang Yunyue nodded: "Okay, wait until the weather gets warmer next year and then sell it."

The weather has turned cooler in the past half month, and Tianxianglou's orders have increased again. The workshop had no choice but to hire ten more people, and now there are seventy people in total. Almost every household in the village has family members working in the workshop, except for Widow Li's family.

Fortunately, when the workshop was built, it was built relatively large, so even though the number of employees has increased to 70, the workshop does not seem crowded.

The workshop produces a lot of chili oil and crispy peppers every day.

The earthenware workshop in Qiaojia Village has now expanded in scale. Zhang Yunyue heard from her grandfather that now, except for a small portion of the pottery jars made by the workshop every day that are supplied to the shops in the town, the rest are all supplied to their own workshop.

Lu Tong is always happy every time he comes to deliver goods.

Zhang Yunyue followed Grandpa Zhang around the workshop. After a few months, everyone had become familiar with the work at hand.

Two days later.

The carriage from Tianxianglou stopped at the door of the workshop on time.

Cao Shiyang got off the carriage and saw Grandpa Zhang standing at the door of the workshop. He clasped his fists and greeted him, "Grandpa, we are here again today, hahahaha."

After saying that, he saw Zhang Yunyue standing beside him: "Hey, Miss Zhang, we haven't seen each other for a long time. I heard from the old man that you opened a shop in the county town. Why didn't you come to Tianxianglou and let me show my hospitality as a host?"

Zhang Yunyue: "Boss Cao, long time no see. I was busy looking for a store in the county town before, and then I was busy with the decoration and various matters of the store. I have been busy all the time. So next time I go to the county town, I will invite Boss Cao to the hot pot restaurant so that I can show my hospitality first."

Cao Shiyang was surprised for a moment. He only knew that the Zhang family opened a store in the county town, but he didn't know what kind of store it was.

"It turns out that the famous hot pot restaurant in the county is actually opened by a girl. It seems that I still don't know enough about it. In fact, I have eaten hot pot in your hot pot restaurant several times. To be honest, it is really delicious, hahahaha."