Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 128 Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year was ten days away. Yun Chu came up with an idea and asked his grandfather and others to go to different villages, towns and counties to write couplets.

They are all scholars and their handwriting is very good.

I can make money and practice calligraphy at the same time.

More importantly, you can inquire about the situation in each village.

Yun Chu thought that when the time comes, he would become a peddler and sell things in various villages to see if he could make money.

My grandfather was old, so he wrote couplets in Shuiquan Village. My uncles and others discussed with each other and went to different places to write couplets.

It used to cost three cents to write a pair of couplets in the town, and people in the village had to run to the town. Now they can write couplets in the village, which saves time, and the calligraphy and couplets are better than before.

The villagers were very willing to spend three cents to buy the couplets.

The Li family did not finish writing couplets until the 28th day of the lunar year.

In total, he earned 633 coins and wrote letters to 211 families.

As for the information that Yun Chu asked them to find out, they all found out.

In the several villages they visited, there was only one peddler named Ge Lei selling things, and the variety of items he sold was not very wide.

However, what they sell are needles and thread, brown sugar, fire sticks, tung oil, etc. that the villagers need.

There was no salt to sell. The purchase price of salt was high and not cost-effective. Moreover, to sell salt, one had to register with the county government.

After registration and obtaining permission from the county government, you can buy half a pound of salt for sale.

If it exceeds half a pound, it is illegal.

According to what my grandfather and his friends had inquired, being a peddler was still profitable.

The Yunchu Space has stored a lot of things, including 400,000 kilograms of salt.

All of this salt was stored up bit by bit by Yun Chu in his previous life.

For almost forty years, I have been stockpiling a bag of salt weighing one pound every day.

In addition to salt, there are various other items.

Mineral water, feminine products, etc.

Maybe because she had experienced the end of the world, she had the habit of hoarding goods, and felt that she felt safe only when she had supplies.

As for whether or not to start a peddler business, it may require further discussion.

It’s New Year’s Eve in a blink of an eye.

This is the first New Year that the Li family has celebrated in Shuiquan Village, so they attach great importance to it.

The Li family is busy preparing for tonight's reunion dinner.

After the dishes are prepared, steam them.

After steaming for half an hour, the steamed dish is ready.

Start preparing to cook.

After the dishes were ready, two tables were set up in the living room.

The elders sat at one table and the children sat at another.

Li Pinghui said: "This is our first Spring Festival in Shuiquan Village. This year, the Li family has relied on everyone's joint efforts and life has gradually improved."

"I can no longer serve as an official, but you can take the imperial examination again and allow the Li family to return to the capital."

"Dad, we will try our best."

"Grandfather, we will also study hard."

After Li Pinghui was demoted, all the men in the Li family were stripped of their official positions, scholar and juren titles.

Yun Chu thought to himself: Fortunately, this dynasty did not have a clear regulation that the descendants of exiles could not take part in the imperial examinations.

During this dynasty, the political review before the imperial examination mainly focused on whether the candidate had a bad record, rather than his family background or whether his ancestors had been exiled.

The Li family was exiled because of their grandfather, so the other family members were implicated and exiled together. The main culprit was the grandfather, so the grandfather's sons and grandsons could take the imperial examination again.

You may not necessarily pass the exam if you retake it, because your mindset will be different and the examiner who sets the questions will also be different.

Yun Chu felt sorry that among the books collected by three generations of the Li family, there were quite a few rare copies.

If she had been able to come here before being exiled, she could have taken away all of the Li family's collections.

Since the beginning of winter, there is more free time, so the men of the Li family are reciting the Four Books and Five Classics from memory.

After Li Pinghui gave a speech, the reunion dinner began.

The reunion dinner lasted for half an hour.

Then we cleaned the table together.

Everyone sat together in the living room, some playing chess, some chatting, and some playing games.

Let’s prepare for New Year’s Eve together.

In the early morning, my uncle lit firecrackers to welcome the New Year.

"Go to bed." Li Pinghui said, and everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

Yun Chu returned to the room, entered the space, and began to harvest rice.

Only after the harvest did Yun Chu go to bed.

When it was dawn, Yun Chu was awakened by the task issued by the system.

[Task 10: Learn bamboo weaving and weave five different kinds of bamboo weaving, with 10 pieces of each. You will get 500 points for completing the task.]

Previously, Task 8 required learning how to fish, and completing the activity earned 200 points. Task 9 required learning how to identify directions, and earned 50 points.

She still had 575 points left, and the machines in her space were all purchased using the points from her initial mission system.

There are no high-tech machines in the task system bound to this world, and most of them are daily necessities commonly used in ancient times.

Yun Chu got up yawning and went to wash up. The other brothers and sisters in the family also got up because they wanted to pay New Year's greetings to their elders at home.

After washing up, Yun Chu and the others took turns to wish their elders a happy new year.

Yun Chu received thirty cents as a New Year's gift from his elders.

After paying New Year’s greetings, the family ate dumplings.

Not long after the meal, the children from the village came to pay New Year’s greetings.

Grandmother Pan Qing took the melon seeds and candies she had prepared earlier and distributed them to the children.

Yun Chu and his family have many children, so they sent the two youngest to visit other villagers’ homes to wish them a happy New Year.

After walking around, I received two cents, some dried fruits and candies.

One penny was given by the village chief's family, and one penny was given by the village scholar.

There was a scholar and teacher in Shuiquan Village, Wan Xingzhou, with the courtesy name Qiping.

He opened a school and enrolled twenty-eight students from nearby villages.

After seeing the calligraphy of my grandfather, the scholar paid a visit to him and wanted to become his disciple.

My grandfather refused, but he could give Wan Xingzhou some guidance on his writing.

Therefore, when Yun Chu and his friends came to visit, the Wan family gave them one penny as a New Year's gift.

After finishing the tour, Yun Chu and the others went back.

After returning home, Li Yunmeng went to the living room and said angrily: "There are two families in the village who seem to dislike our family very much. They think we are exiled prisoners and are unwilling to associate with them."

"One is Fang Ge's family, and the other is Song Guang's family. When Chu Chu and I visited them, we closed the door directly."

"When other kids went, they opened the door and gave things away."

Li Zhongpei comforted her, "My dear daughter, don't be angry. If they don't come to visit us, we won't have any dealings with them either."

"We are not gold, and everyone likes us."

Li Yunmeng pouted, still feeling angry.

Yun Chu didn't react at all. If he didn't like it, then he didn't like it and would just stop interacting with her.

Li Pinghui asked, "Chu Chu, what do you think of the attitudes of these two families?"

"They probably think that exiles are not good people, so they don't like us."

"Just like my second uncle said, we are not made of gold, and we can't be liked by everyone."

"Just be ourselves and don't worry too much about other people's opinions and ideas. After all, we live our own lives, not others do it for us."

"By the way, this morning the system released Task 10, learning to weave bamboo."

"Dad, please help me cut some bamboo tomorrow."

Li Zhonglun nodded, "Okay."

Li Zhonghuan said, “Before you cut the bamboo, go ask the village chief if the bamboo nearby has an owner.”

"Okay big brother."

After that, everyone went about their own business.

Li Zhonglun went to the village chief's house and asked the village chief, because tomorrow is the day to go back to her parents' home, Li Zhonglun was afraid that the village chief would not be at home.

So I went to ask today.

The village chief informed him that bamboos were ownerless.

If you want to use it, just cut it yourself.

When Li Zhonglun asked about it and got home, he told his family that they could cut the bamboo as they pleased.

The next day, Yun Chu followed Li Zhonglun to cut bamboo.

Yun Chu also dug up some bamboo and planted it in the space.