A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Chapter 122: Give yourself a new life

Zhang Yunyue still remembered that when he saw him in the dental clinic, he still had an untidy beard. Now he finally looked like a decent human being.

Li Wenyu opened the back door wide and made way for him: "Sir, Miss, please come in. I will lead the carriage."

Zhang Yunyue walked in first, and Zhang Xingyun followed behind and led the horse into the yard.

"No, I'll hold it, you just close the door later."

As soon as the two men walked into the yard, they saw a fire burning in the yard.

Zhang Yunyue asked in confusion: "Why is there a fire burning here?"

When Li Wenyu heard Zhang Yunyue's question, he hurried forward and said, "Miss, these are the clothes we just changed. We thought that these clothes were not clean, so we just burned them. Now we have changed into new clothes, which can be regarded as giving ourselves a new life."

Zhang Yunyue nodded in agreement: "That's good. From now on, as long as you work hard, I won't treat you unfairly."

When Li Wenyu heard what Zhang Yunyue said, he knew that she was very satisfied with what he had just said.

"Yes, thank you young lady. I will be at your disposal from now on."

The others who had just finished taking a shower and washing their hair and were standing in the yard to dry their hair were also delighted when they heard Zhang Yunyue's words.

"Thank you, young lady. I will be at your service anytime from now on."

"By the way, don't call yourselves slaves and little ones anymore. We are ordinary farmers and we still live in the village. You can just call yourself me from now on, as long as you are loyal."

"Yes, girl."

"By the way, those of you who have changed your clothes, come over and take your things down. There are also bedding and pillows inside, one set for each person. Move them to your respective rooms. Also, there are silk threads and scraps of cloth here. When the time comes, you can pick out the good ones and make them into shoes to wear."

The people who were already standing in the yard walked to the carriage one by one and took out the things in the carriage, some moving things from the kitchen to the kitchen, and some moving things from the rooms to the rooms.

After all the things in the carriage were moved, Li Wenyu followed Zhang Xingyun to unload the carriage and led the horses back to the stable.

Zhang Yunyue saw four chickens tied on the ground and called Hu Donggui: "I bought four chickens here. You boil some water, kill the chickens, and chop them into small pieces. We will have spicy chicken hotpot tonight. Just consider it as a welcome to my home."

"Ah, welcome... welcome us?" Hu Donggui looked surprised. It was the first time he heard that the master prepared food for the servants and welcomed them.

"Yes what's the matter?"

"No, girl, I'll kill the chicken right now, and then chop it into pieces." Hu Donggui picked up four chickens from the ground and walked towards the kitchen with an anxious look on his face but extremely excited in his heart.

Zhang Yunyue actually felt joy from his back.

Deng Hai, who was still boiling water in the kitchen, saw Hu Donggui coming in with four chickens:

"Brother Gui, are we going to kill the chicken and cook now?"

"It's not that I'm cooking. The girl asked me to kill the chicken and said she would make us spicy chicken hotpot as a welcome for us." Hu Donggui said happily.

"Really? The girl is so kind. She doesn't treat us as servants at all. I will work hard in the future to repay the girl." Deng Hai said excitedly.

"The water will be ready soon. You can use it to kill the chicken first. I will continue to boil water after you use it. There are still two people who have not taken a bath yet."

"Okay." Hu Donggui was outside the kitchen, and with a sharp knife, four chickens were already dead.

Deng Hai brought hot water from the kitchen, poured it into a basin, put the chicken in to scald its feathers, and then began to pluck the feathers. Seeing this, the people in the yard also came over to pluck the chicken's feathers.

With the help of others, the feathers of all four chickens were plucked in a short time.

Seeing that the chicken had been plucked, Zhang Yunyue followed it into the kitchen, took out the dried chilies she had bought in the afternoon, scooped some hot water from the pot to soak them, and then took out the ginger and garlic to prepare to wash them.

Seeing this, Zhao Guixiang, who was standing by, hurried forward and took the ginger and garlic from Zhang Yunyue.

"Girl, if you want to wash something, just tell us. You don't have to do it yourself."

Zhang Yunyue did not insist and let Zhao Guixiang go and wash.

"Aunt Zhao, Aunt Fang, wash the ginger and garlic together, and wash all the vegetables we bought just now. We are going to have spicy chicken hotpot tonight."

"Spicy chicken hotpot? What is that?" Aunt Zhao asked puzzledly, and the others also looked over with puzzled expressions.

"Well, you'll know when you eat it later. We'll also sell this in our store. You'll learn all about it later. By the way, can you handle spicy food?"

Everyone nodded, "Girl, I can eat spicy food, but not much."

"Then stir-fry two more dishes. If there are people who can't eat spicy food, they can eat the vegetables. Wash the ginger and garlic, and add some of them to the soaked dried chilies and pound them into chili sauce."

"Okay, girl."

Zhang Yunyue: "Well, by the way, we are having rice tonight. You can steam the rice first. We will eat early tonight. When the chicken is chopped, call me and I will show you how to make this spicy chicken hot pot."

After saying that, Zhang Yunyue left the kitchen, returned to her room and continued painting. She had been busy visiting people and purchasing things this afternoon and had no time to paint.

When Zhang Yunyue finished a painting, she heard Aunt Zhao knocking on the door. Zhang Yunyue walked to the door and opened it.

"Girl, the rice has been steamed, the chicken has been chopped into pieces, and we have fried two or three side dishes. Now all that's left is the hot pot you mentioned."

"Okay, I got it, I'll be right there."

Zhang Yunyue closed the door of the room and followed Aunt Zhao to the kitchen.

Walking into the kitchen, everyone had already prepared everything that needed to be prepared, and they were just waiting for Zhang Yunyue to come and cook.

Zhang Yunyue poured oil into the pot, and when the oil was hot, she put in the chicken pieces, ginger, garlic and peppercorns, and then stir-fried them.

At this moment, except for Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xingyun who were doing carpentry work in the front yard, everyone else was here watching Zhang Yunyue's operations.

When the surface of the fried chicken starts to turn brown, put the pounded glutinous rice peppers in and stir-fry together. After frying for a while, Zhang Yunyue added boiling water, then added seasonings and simmered it on low heat.

"Uncle Hu, Uncle Deng, take two of the small stoves in the kitchen to the yard and light the firewood. The rest of you can take all the dishes out. This chicken won't take long to cook and we'll be ready to eat soon."

Fortunately, this shop used to be a restaurant. Although there is nothing left in the front yard, many stoves for stewing soup in the kitchen are still there.

When everyone heard this, they brought the washed and fried vegetables from the kitchen to the table in the yard, and also took out the rice, bowls and chopsticks.

"Girl, the stove in the yard is already lit."

"Okay." After Zhang Yunyue finished speaking, he took two clay pots and scooped the soup and chicken in the pot into the two clay pots respectively. He then asked someone to bring the clay pots to the stove in the yard and continue cooking.