From the end of the world to ancient times with the writer system

Last year's harvest was not good, and the grain harvest was poor, and business was also difficult.That is to say, during the New Year's Eve, regardless of whether you are poor or rich, Haolai will buy some New Year's goods. After the first lunar month, it is estimated that business will drop.

Kangping County only grows one season of crops a year. Before the autumn harvest, it is estimated that the people will hold on to their money and food. This year, no matter what level of business it is, it will be difficult to do business.

Fortunately, Ji's grocery store, in Ji Xuanhe's opinion, can no longer be called a grocery store. All small items, from sewing and snacks to pots and pans, have everything that one expects to find. all available.

There are still several grocery stores like this in Kangping County, scattered in various streets, each with some fixed source of customers, and the competition among them is not so strong.

Yunji Cloth Shop is different from grocery stores. There are several cloth shops on the same street.Fortunately, the level of customers we face is different, and the competition has not become fierce.

Before the first month, it can already be seen that the consumption power of the people has declined.Families who used to be able to afford medium-grade fabrics are now counting their money, buying some medium-grade fabrics and matching them with slightly inferior fabrics, so as to save some money for the family.

In the same way, the poor family who used to buy cheap materials in the past, now can not buy without buying. It is bound to carry forward the virtues of diligence and thrift in housekeeping for three years, three years old, and three years of sewing and mending.

Anyway, for stores like Ji's Grocery Store and Yunji Cloth Store that have their own storefronts, unless their purchases are cheated, they won't lose money, it's just a matter of earning more and earning less.

Ji Xuanhe decided to live in Kangping County for a while, because Mrs. Zhen was still in Yangjiabu, the crepe family took their daughter Lianyou back to Yangjiabu Ji's house to cook, and Ji Xuan and their meals were taken care of by Duan's mother first. .

Ji Xuanhe also came up on the spur of the moment, yesterday to see the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, a group of people only brought a set of spare clothes, this time Zhuyi and Duan's mother also followed back to Yangjiabu, and will leave behind the waiting clothes and utensils in Kangping County Get them all.Qi Shan drove them back, just hurry back before the city gate closed.

Ji Xuanhe was going to open a dried seafood store. Fresh goods were not easy to preserve, and the damage rate was high. If it was not handled properly, it would easily lose money.Dry goods are stored for a long time, and thanks to the favorable location, they can be purchased at a very low price, and it is difficult to lose money.But also because of this, the profit is not thick.

When Yunji Cloth opened, the shopkeeper searched for a tent for a long time before finding a suitable one.From then on, Ji Xuanhe paid attention to this, and the grocery store and Yunji Buzhuang began to train apprentices.Now that a few years have passed, the second shopkeeper and the second accountant have almost learned the skills, and it is still a bit difficult to be on their own. Let the big shopkeeper and the others take care of it, and it should be able to support a shop.

Don't worry about finding a shop. The workshop hasn't opened yet, so the shop is ready now. If there is no supply, it can only be like the other two shops, and you need to buy from other places.Now I am slowly looking for it. If there is a suitable one, it’s okay to buy it earlier. It doesn’t matter if it’s temporarily empty or buy a batch of goods. exist alone.

The Lantern Festival has just passed, and there are not many shops selling at this time, and it will be really hard to find for a while.Ji Xuanhe watched it for a few days and then gave up. It is better to ask Qiu Bo to pay more attention to it. It is really not suitable to find a shop at this time.

There was no sign of the shop for a while, but Shen Qing and Qi Shan were preparing the wedding supplies in full swing.The objects are very ordinary, after all, it is only a nursing home, Shao Yunchen must start this well, so that he can follow the rules in the future.Give more money to those who value it highly, and give more money to those who are ordinary, just let the master do what he wants, and let them worry about it.

After he stopped running around with Qiu Bodong to look around the shop, Ji Xuanhe was free.Old Master Zhen was away, so he and Shao Yunchen didn't have to study the Four Books and Five Classics in the morning, so they had a lot of free time.Ji Xuanhe took Shao Yunchen to watch a few plays, but they didn't watch them in the lobby, where there were many people and their classes were very complicated, Ji Xuanhe took a leisurely and easy way, and went to the private room every time.

Listening to plays is only available in the afternoon and evening.At night, a lot of candles are needed for lighting. The expense is high, and the ticket price is high.Also because of this, only well-known theater troupes can be on stage at night, and the troupes that are not well-known dare not open at night, for fear that they will not be able to earn back the money for tea.

The quality of singing at night is high, and the beginning of the day is both good and bad.No matter how it is arranged, the night is still not as bright as the day.Most of the time, Ji Xuanhe took Shao Yunchen to watch plays performed during the day, and occasionally the two would go to experience the atmosphere of watching plays at night.

Just after lunch that day, Ji Xuanhe brought Shao Yunchen into the Lin Family Theater.He had asked people to inquire about him a long time ago, and today was the first time that the Luo family team, who had just arrived in Kangping County, took the stage.It is said that this theater troupe has become famous in nearby counties and towns, and the reputation has spread to Kangping County.

Ji Xuanhe thought that he had come early enough, but as soon as he stepped into the theater building, he saw that the hall was already half full.Tickets are all pre-sold, and only people who are late before the show is sold out can enter the venue by buying tickets.

This time is the opening show of the Luo family team, and the tickets have already been sold out, so if you want to watch the show, you have to wait for the next show.

These days, Ji Xuan and his husband and wife are also frequent visitors to the Lin Family Theater, and they will come to see a performance every one or two days.The waiter in the theater enthusiastically led them into the private room, and when the two sat down, the tea and snacks were immediately served.Theater tickets include consumption at the corresponding price, and if you want to eat other things, you need to spend extra money to order.

The theater stage is set up very high, and the seats in the lobby are stepped. The seats in the front row and the rear row are not good, and the corresponding prices are also lower. The best seats are those seats that can look up and see the stage clearly.You get what you pay for, and if you want to enjoy it, you have to spend more money.

The private rooms are all located on the second floor, with large windows facing the stage. They are not floor-to-ceiling windows, but the windows are much larger than the windows of ordinary houses, so several people sitting in front of the window will not look crowded.

The location of Ji Xuanhe Ding's private room is not the best, it can only be regarded as the best among all the private rooms.Kangping County is not far from the capital, and it is also along the coast. It is more prosperous than ordinary county towns, and there are many powerful and powerful families.For the best private rooms in the middle, the Lin family theater will send people to inquire about these big households first, and then sell them outside after confirming that they don't want them.

When it was Ji Xuanhe's turn, there were only mid-level private rooms left.In terms of location, the private room they are in is not as good as the seats in the middle downstairs.It's just that the lobby is too loud, very noisy, it's better to enjoy upstairs.

After listening to a few scenes, Ji Xuanhe didn't understand anything like he did at the beginning.Fortunately, the operas popular near Kangping County are closer to the official dialect, so you can get a general idea after listening to it for a long time. Otherwise, if it is in a local dialect, he must be caught blind.

It was only recently that Shao Yunchen discovered that he actually likes to listen to operas. When he was very young, he had listened to operas in the Shao Mansion.At that time, I was too young to sit still, so I slipped away as soon as the play started.When he was a little older and could calm down, he hadn't been in contact with it again. If he hadn't happened to watch a play during the Lantern Festival, he wouldn't have known that he liked to listen to this kind of play that was not on the table in the eyes of literati.

Shao Yunchen knew that Ji Xuanhe didn't like to go to the theater very much, and he accompanied him more often to drink tea and eat snacks, but Shao Yunchen didn't know how much he went into the play.Ji Xuanhe did this to make him happy, Shao Yunchen knew it well.He had no intention of rejecting Ji Xuanhe, and they won't stay in the county for a long time in these few days. Before the first lunar month, there are many troupes on stage, so watch a few performances well, and when they return to Yangjiabu, everything will be over again back to normal.

The Luo family team really lived up to their name. As far as Ji Xuan and this half-hearted spectator, they felt that both singing skills and plot were excellent.The fans downstairs cheered loudly, leading the play to a peak.

At the curtain call, many spectators gave rewards to the performers, including Shao Yunchen.These rewards belong to each troupe, and the theater will not participate in dividends.

After the show ended, Ji Xuan and the others walked out of the private room when the fans in the lobby were almost gone.

Those who can go to the theater to listen to operas in a serious manner, let alone have a little money at home, ordinary people can only listen to some operas sung by wild opera troupes.This was still in the prosperous Jin Dynasty. If it were changed to the late Ming Dynasty in history, and suffered successive years of disasters, the people might be in dire straits by now.

After that, Shao Yunchen fell in love with listening to Luo's troupe's plays, as long as they were not in the same scene, he would go to every scene.Fortunately, Shao Yunchen had a sense of propriety, and didn't think about spending money to support the pillars. It didn't cost much just to listen to the show.Otherwise, Ji Xuanhe raised a prodigal gentleman with his own hands, and he would have to regret it to death.

A few days after the first lunar month, Ji Xuan and his husband planned to return to Yangjiabu.Not far from the spring, Zhuangzi needs Shao Yunchen to take care of it, and Ji Xuanhe also needs to find the address of the dried seafood workshop, and the two will soon become busy.

Before Ji Xuan and his wife were busy with other things, the first thing they faced was Old Master Zhen's lecture.After nearly a month of relaxation, Ji Xuanhe felt a little uncomfortable facing the morning class every day.After being lazy for a while, it is really not easy to work hard again.

There are many empty houses in Yangjiabu, most of them are old houses that have been in disrepair for a long time. Naturally, such houses cannot be seen by Ji Xuanhe.He followed Uncle Qiu to look at several places, but he felt that it was not suitable, thinking whether to buy a piece of land to build a new house, or to set up the workshop in Ningzhuang?

After going home and discussing with Shao Yunchen, the two finally decided to build the workshop on the edge of Ningzhuang.Ji's family is not a local, and they can't let go of their hands and feet in the village, so they are easily bullied.

The workshop is next to Ningzhuang. Before spring plowing, there are many idle laborers. Ji Xuanhe asked Qiu Bo to invite many people to work through Village Chief Yang.The same is looking for a temporary worker, and I went all the way to the town to look for it. How can it be more cost-effective than helping Ji's family who is a few steps away from home?

The wages given by Ji's family are as generous as before, not so little that people think they are stingy, and not so much that people think this family is easy to bully.

Ji Xuanhe still doesn't know the sales status of dried seafood. The workshop is not very big. When the business grows in the future, it will not be too late to expand the workshop.

The workshop is under construction in an orderly manner, time flies by, and it will soon be late February.

The auspicious day for the two of Shen Qing and Qi Shan to get married had been chosen long ago, and it was set on February 22, just before spring plowing.Because the two guarded Ji Xuan and his wife for a long time and did not have many friends, Shao Yunchen decided to let the two hold a banquet in the front yard of Ji's house, and invited the farmers, tenants and village chief to come over to support the two. He and Ji Xuanhe acted as guests of honor to support the two of them.

That's why Ji's family has fewer masters now. After changing Ji's mansion to Shao's mansion, the servants get married, and the master rewards them with some money and cloth. What's more, I went to watch the ceremony in person?

The tenants and the village chief only brought ordinary gifts, which Uncle Qiu told them when they went to invite people, so that they would not give them too much in order to save face.

Taking advantage of Shen Qing Qishan's wedding banquet this time, Ji's family and the villagers began to move around frequently.Reciprocity, this time they came to the door for a wedding banquet, next time when they have something to do, shouldn't they invite Shen Qing and the others back?

If there is one, there are two, so that it is convenient for Ji's family to integrate into Yangjiabu.

The banquet was not too outrageous, and in Shao Yunchen's view, it was simply impossible to afford it. For the village chief and the others, only wealthy households in the village could afford it.Everyone was full, and the leftovers were packed and taken away by the feasters, and the happy daughters-in-law were beaming.

There were not many people invited, and there were less than ten tables in the banquet, and the table bowls and chopsticks were all brought by the guests.This is the custom of Yangjiabu, which can save a few money.

Both Shen Qing and Qi Shan have monthly money, and they paid for the banquet themselves, Shao Yunchen added a few dishes, and then they arranged the banquet, which made Shen Qing and the others more honorable.

The first happy event after the Ji family came to Yangjiabu ended in a happy ending, and the rest of the time belonged to Shen Qingqishan.After the banquet, Qiu Cheng and Jimo went to the bridal chamber, even Zhen Shu booed.Qiu Shuang and the others were already big girls, and it was inconvenient for them to watch on this occasion, so they could only sigh and regret.

The next day, Ji Xuanhe paid special attention to the walking postures of Shen Qing and Qi Shan. Sure enough, Shen Qing walked a little awkwardly, which was not obvious, and he couldn't tell unless he stared at it.Ji Xuanhe gave Qi Shan a knowing look, and Shi Shi ran away.

Immediately after that, spring plowing will be prepared, and the workshop must be built before spring sowing.Ji Xuanhe asked the master mason to make sure there was enough time, so he didn't invite anyone else.

There is only one entrance to the workshop, but the yard is left very large.Many seafood products need to be dried, and the yard must be large enough.Considering that the workshop processed imported food, the hygienic conditions were very important, so Ji Xuanhe ordered stone slabs to be laid on the yard to prevent dust from flying around.

The house is a red brick and tile house, and it is better than many houses in the village.Red bricks are cheaper than blue bricks, and the firing process is simpler.The green brick and tile house, the walls can be exposed without any treatment, and it looks very beautiful, just like the Ji Zhai, but the exposed red bricks don't look so good.

There is no cement in Jinchao, and more lime is used.There are a lot of people living in the mud-tiled houses, and none of the villagers would dislike the red-brick houses, and they have never had the chance to live in them.

The villagers are sweating, and the workshop is gradually taking shape.Going to the beam is an important day, and the auspicious time must be determined first. As the head of the family, Ji Xuanhe needs him to come forward at this time.

Ji Xuanhe will not challenge the local customs indiscriminately just because he is from a more technologically advanced earth.Everything follows the established rules, and he does what he is supposed to do.After a set of procedures has been completed, the lifting of the beam is announced.

The only villagers who entered the workshop to watch the ceremony were the laborers who built the house and the village chief. The steamed buns, cakes, and copper plates thrown during the beam-raising ceremony were all cheap for these people and their families.

After installing the beams, there was less work to do next, and within a few days, the roof was completely covered with tiles.

Ancient houses are so good, as long as they are vacant for a few days, they can be moved in.The lacquer here is almost all natural, unlike the modern ones, which are all compounds. The varnish on the door will lose its smell after a few days of drying.

After the completion of the workshop, spring plowing followed.

In the past, the two farms of Ji's family grew ordinary grain, which can be found everywhere in Kangping County, and the selling price is naturally very cheap.This time, Shao Yunchen wanted to try to grow some more valuable crops, rice and wheat would do.

After Ji Xuanhe knew what he was thinking, he asked his second uncle to help him find grain seeds. If there were any suitable for the climate in Yangjiabu, he could try it.

The higher the price, the harder it is to plant.Taking this into consideration, Wen Zhuocheng brought some small fragrant rice seeds to Ji Xuanhe.Small fragrant rice is at the back of the fragrant rice, and the price is only a little higher than the price of polished rice sold in shops. It is not too difficult to grow, and it is well taken care of, and it is more profitable than rice.

Fragrant rice is also grown in Kangping County, but how should I put it, it is more risky to grow such a precious thing.In recent years, the grain harvest has been poor every year, so it is naturally impossible for Shao Yunchen to plant a large amount of fragrant rice.

It is estimated that the second uncle also meant the same thing. The small fragrant rice he sent was not much, and it was enough to plant ten acres of land at most.

Shao Yunchen handed the small fragrant rice seeds to Zhang Zhuangtou and told him how to plant them.Fragrant rice is grown in a similar way to ordinary rice, but requires more careful care.Yangjiabu is used to growing wheat, and Ningzhuang is the same, there are not many paddy fields.Shao Yunchen set aside the best five-acre paddy field for planting fragrant rice, and kept the remaining half of the fragrant rice seeds for later use.

During the spring plowing period, every household is busy in the field.Planting rice is cumbersome, and the seedling fields have to be sorted out first, and the seedlings can only be transplanted when they grow long enough. No wonder most villagers prefer to grow wheat.

Except for the new planting of fragrant rice, Shao Yunchen did not make any changes to the planting structure of Zhuangzi, which remained the same as in previous years.

The workshop has been built, and Ji Xuanhe plans to buy only a few servants, and hire more villagers from Yangjiabu.Anyway, the workshop does not have any special formula, so there is no need to keep it secret.

The first requirement of Ji Xuan and the servants he bought this time is to love cleanliness, and secondly, he must know at least one or two methods of drying seafood. There is no need for a unique secret recipe, and the public method will do.After such a screening, except for the gatekeeper who requires men, only one of the others is a man.

The workshop just opened, Ji Xuanhe didn't want to make the scene too big, these few people are enough.It is still in the spring plowing period, and there are not many villagers going to sea in Yangjiabu, and there are fishmongers coming to the village to collect goods, so there are not many fresh seafood that Ji's family can buy.One thing more is worse than one thing less. Ji Xuanhe doesn't want to expand production for the time being, and just send people to other fishing villages to harvest the insufficient quantity.Even so, Ji's family has already squeezed a part of the market of fishmongers, and the competition between them is inevitable.

The seafood dry goods store has not been found yet, the first batch of seafood produced by the workshop needs to rent a stall in the market to sell, retail and wholesale are all available.Su Yuan, the second shopkeeper of the grocery store, is in charge of this matter, and Dong An, the second accountant, assists from the side.

After setting up the workshop, Ji Xuanhe began to consider hiring escorts to find Shao Yunchen's family.It's not that Shao Yunchen doesn't care, it's just that it's inconvenient to travel in winter, and after the Chinese New Year is followed by spring plowing, only when all these are arranged can he spare his energy to pay attention to this matter.

Originally, the two of them only wanted to hire bodyguards, they didn't plan to go there themselves.Later, Ji Xuan and his husband thought that the bodyguard was not the person involved after all, and it was difficult for them to make a decision when something happened, and it would be too late to pass the news back and forth, so it would be better for the two of them to go there in person.Ji Xuanhe is 12 years old this year, and Shao Yunchen is 15 years old, so it is no problem to go out and walk.

After making a decision, Ji Xuanhe sent a message to his second uncle.A few days later, Wen Zhuocheng sent a few nursing homes over, saying that he was worried about Ji Xuanhe, and these people were at his disposal.

After everything was ready, Ji Xuan and his wife took Shen Qing Qishan, Duan Mama, Jimo Qiu Cheng, and the nursing home given by their second uncle, and a group of more than a dozen bodyguards hired by the group set off for Yunzhou Mansion.Shao Yunchen's family moved out from Yunzhou Mansion, and they wanted to start looking for it from there.

After walking for nearly two days, Ji Xuan and his group entered Yunzhou Prefecture smoothly.After a night's rest, start back on the road.

Uncle Shao Yunchen's hometown is in Baili Village, which belongs to Chang'an, Shaanxi.It was a long journey from Yunzhou Mansion to Baili Village, so Shao Yunchen packed his bags.Ji's family only has two carriages, and now they are all brought out, even the red dates and longan are beside them.

Ji Xuan and his wife were looking for someone, and they didn't rush the schedule, lest they themselves fell ill before the person was found.

The route had been set long ago. Ji Xuan and his husband took most of their hands along Uncle Shao Yunchen's most probable route, and the others walked separately.The official road is the shortest and the best way to go. Ji Xuan and his team have to stop and wait for others every time they reach a big city.

According to Ji Xuanhe's estimation, the worst case scenario is that there is no news of his uncle Pan Mingjie all the way to Baili Village, which is also the most expensive situation.There were a total of nearly 30 people on this trip, and he was responsible for eating and drinking. After the trip, including the money for the bodyguard, it would cost a few hundred taels at least.

Ji Xuanhe only left Uncle Qiu his daily expenses and the money to buy a shop, and the rest, whether it was a public house or a private house, he exchanged it into bank notes and brought it out.Ji Xuanhe is also looking forward to finding Pan Mingjie and the others as soon as possible. If this time fails, the next time the hope will be even slimmer.

The farther you go to the southwest, the fewer people there are.From the original black land, it slowly turned into yellow land.

Because of the need to find someone, the journey was very slow.Every place they stayed, Ji Xuan and his husband had to send people to inquire about it.The journey is almost halfway through, and there is still no news at all.

Shao Yunchen has a very good relationship with his family, otherwise he would not have insisted on taking this trip.

Ji's family members have never suffered, even if they stop and go, everyone still loses weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, until they get used to long-distance travel.Watching Ji Xuan and his husband's bodies gradually thinning out, Mother Duan tried to nourish them, but they never recovered.

Ji Xuanhe doesn't really care about this, as long as there is no problem with his health.Ji's family practiced basic body exercises for a long time with great results. Apart from minor illnesses such as typhoid fever, there were no serious illnesses on the way.

As the days passed, Shao Yunchen was about to enter Shaanxi territory, and Shao Yunchen began to see smiles from time to time.He didn't have a mother, so having a father means not having a father. The uncle and the others are the only relatives on his natal side. If they are gone, Shao Yunchen will lose his natal family.Fortunately, Ji Xuanhe didn't care about these things, otherwise, in any family, a married man without a natal family would still be bullied by his husband's family?

Going back and forth, after sitting in the carriage for a long time, Ji Xuanhe changed his habit of falling asleep in the carriage.If you don't change it, it won't work. If you sleep during the day, you won't be able to sleep at night?

In the Yuelai Inn in Guang'an Town, Shaanxi Province, Ji Xuan and his wife have just stepped into the resting place in Shaanxi Province.

Already in Shaanxi, there is no rush to find someone, so Ji Xuanhe decided to take a good rest here.Escorts traveled from north to south, such a slow journey did not affect them at all.After a night's rest, more than a dozen bodyguards were in high spirits.Now that they have taken money from Ji's family, they have to do things for them. Everyone dispersed to inquire about Pan Mingjie and others near Guang'an Town.

In the evening, the bodyguards returned to the inn where they stayed, but found nothing as before, so they could only continue to search tomorrow.

Two days later, Ji Xuan and both decided to leave, when they heard noises outside the inn, and they were about to send someone to find out what happened, when Wang Escort came in with two strangers.

One of them looked at Ji Xuan and his husband for a long time, and finally fixed his gaze on Shao Yunchen, with an excited expression on his face: "You are the young master of the Shao family? I think you don't remember the slave, but the slave is Qinglan. I have seen you once in the uncle's study. Hui, your appearance is not very different from when you were a child, so the slave can recognize it."

"Uncle, are they okay? Where are they?" Shao Yunchen looked happy when he realized it. He didn't recognize Qinglan, but he had heard the name before, and it was indeed the servant serving in Uncle's study.

"Yunchen, come into the room to chat. Qiu Cheng, go tell the shopkeeper that the guest room will not be returned." After speaking, Ji Xuanhe pulled Shao Yunchen into the room, and Qinglan followed.

"The old lady and the elder are safe, but the situation is not very good, and now they are settling down in Rongjin Town, Shanxi." When Qing Lan talked about this, he hesitated to speak.

Over the years, Shao Yunchen is no longer the child he was back then, when he saw Qinglan like this, he knew there was something inside.Rongjin Town in Shanxi is not on the edge of the official road leading directly to Chang'an, no wonder they have searched all the way and there is no news of Uncle and them.

It has been confirmed that the uncle and the others are safe, and other things are secondary. Shao Yunchen saw that Qinglan looked tired and covered in dust, so he asked him to go down to rest first, and other news can be told slowly on the road.

In the past, even Ji Xuanhe didn't notice anything strange about Shao Yunchen, until he had a good night's sleep that Ji Xuanhe realized that Shao Yunchen had been thinking about something.Now that his worries are gone, Shao Yunchen looks more alive.Xu Shi Ji Xuanhe stayed by Shao Yunchen's side all the time, a little change was not enough to attract his attention.From the fact that the rest of Ji's family didn't feel anything strange, they could know how subtle Shao Yunchen's daily changes were.If it was Qiu Bo, who was far away in Yangjiabu, and he hadn't seen him for a few months, he would probably be aware of it immediately.