All Yang Haiyan could think of was to take the things in this world to the platform to sell, and then buy silver from the platform. Only silver is something that people in this world will not doubt.
Among the items between the two worlds, only the price difference of meat can make money, and perhaps also game, eggs, etc.
After the pork rib porridge was ready, Yang Haiyan ate it and went to sleep. After waking up, she went out again. She went to buy ready-made clothes, cloth, needles and thread, etc. She had no change of clothes. After the original owner and the others were betrothed to the soldiers, they had no private property, even the private property they had hidden before was not brought out. It was rare for the original owner to bring out the fake medicine.
In addition to the cloth, Yang Haiyan also bought twenty eggs, each costing one penny. She spent two hundred pennies in total today, and only had two hundred pennies left.
Yang Haiyan first made herself a small pair of panties and suspenders with fine cotton cloth. The suspenders were in the style of a bra. Otherwise, it would be very uncomfortable to wear the underwear in this world without a bra, as it would shake in front.
The original owner knew needlework, and she herself graduated from a fashion college, so it only took her an hour to make two pairs of panties and two bra straps, and the threads and edges were perfect. After she was done, she immediately washed them before the sun went down.
However, because of this, the half bucket of water that I had carried was used up.
So next, she carried the water four times in succession, and only after carrying one-third of the big wooden barrel, she could no longer move.
After dinner, Yang Haiyan boiled some hot water, wiped her body, used a torch to dry her panties and bra straps, and then put them on.
But when she was about to get on the bed, she felt that the bed was not clean. This was the bed that the original owner had slept on for two or three days, and the original owner had not taken a bath at that time. But there was no second quilt in the room for her to change.
Yang Haiyan looked at the three-digit platform currency on the platform and endured it. Before going to bed, she put 19 eggs on the platform, and each egg on the platform cost one platform currency.
The next morning, Yang Haiyan got up at dawn. She was going shopping in the morning and didn't want to attract attention. She rinsed her mouth and washed her face, then checked the platform. The eggs on the platform had been sold. Seeing the platform currency deposits increase, she could see a glimmer of hope.
So, she went out with her little bucket and basket.
She went to the meat stall first. People in the vegetable market had come out to set up their stalls very early, even though there were few customers at this time.
Yang Haiyan: "Boss, do you have pig intestines?"
The butcher recognized Yang Haiyan, the person who bought his pork ribs and pig's trotters yesterday: "Yes, that stuff is cheap. If you want all of it, I'll give you four cents a pound." Generally no one eats it, or only very poor people eat it as meat.
Yang Haiyan: "How much do you weigh?"
The meat stall owner said: "About twenty pounds, seventy-five cents for you." A pig's large intestine weighs about twenty pounds, and he would kill a pig at a time.
Yang Haiyan: "Okay, I want them all, but I can't carry them. Can you send someone to deliver them to my house?"
The butcher said: "I'll ask my daughter to deliver it to you. Where do you live?"
Yang Haiyan reported the address: "Okay, thank you for your help, boss."
The meat stall owner said: "You're welcome. If you like, I can keep it for you the day after tomorrow. I kill a pig every two days." But no one bought the pig intestines.
Yang Haiyan calculated that 20 kilograms of pig intestines a day is not something that an average person can eat. "That's too much. Please send me 10 kilograms on the first day of every ten days, which is the first, eleventh, and twenty-first day of the lunar month. If you are not open on that day, you can leave it for the next day."
The butcher: "Okay."
Next, Yang Haiyan went to buy a basket of eggs, 100 eggs, for 100 coins, plus pig intestines, a total of 175 coins, she only had 25 coins left, so she couldn't buy any more. Although she wanted to buy pig's trotters and pig intestines from another stall, people would think it was strange if she bought too many pig intestines.
When she got home, she put 80 eggs on the platform, boiled them, and cooked porridge. Before breakfast was ready, the deliveryman of pig intestines came and made an appointment to come next time at the hour of the tiger. The hour of the tiger is between 3 and 5 in the morning.
Out of 20 kilograms of pig intestines, Yang Haiyan kept 2 kilograms and put the remaining 18 kilograms on the platform.
After she finished her breakfast and washed the two kilograms of pig intestines that she had left over, she looked at the platform again and found that all the eggs and pig intestines on the platform had been sold out. The transactions on the platform were amazing, and things were traded very quickly.
Eighty eggs and eighteen kilograms of pig intestines brought in seven hundred and twenty platform coins, plus the previous balance, the total was almost a thousand. Yang Haiyan was stunned. Wasn't the pig intestine business too good? She could make a fortune from pig intestines in the future.
So, she spent thirty platform coins to buy seasoning packets including star anise, peppercorns, chili peppers, cinnamon, etc.
Looking at the platform coins, Yang Haiyan felt the interest in making money. At the same time, she also had the idea of buying a servant. According to modern ideas, she wanted to hire a nanny for herself, or hire a part-time worker who could fetch water every day. Buying a servant is not an option. Once she has a servant, her "business" will be difficult. If a bunch of things in the house suddenly disappear, the servant will definitely be suspicious. But she really can't carry buckets of water, so hiring a part-time worker is the most appropriate.
After having this thought, Yang Haiyan happily went to find Mrs. Lu: "Mrs. Lu, are you there?"
Mrs. Lu was also free at the moment. Her kids were in private school, so she was free, wasn't she? She was just about to come and see Yang Haiyan, when she saw Yang Haiyan coming over: "Here." Today, Yang Haiyan was wearing a light blue dress that she had just bought yesterday. Her hair was tied up, and because of her bangs, she looked a bit quiet and virtuous. She had no accessories on her body, but she looked very beautiful and moving. The material of the dress was very ordinary, a little better than that of farmers and a little less than that of officials, which was very consistent with the status of these centurion wives.
Mrs. Lu thought that good-looking people look good in anything they wear.
Yang Haiyan: "Sister-in-law, is there anyone here who specializes in doing laundry and quilt washing?"
Mrs. Lu: "Yes, yes, I'll take you there. It's right next to our family compound. They're from the town, locals, and their family has lived here for generations. It's very reassuring. Many family members go to them to wash their hair, and they wash it very clean."
Yang Haiyan: "Do we have to take it to them? Can we come to their house?"
Mrs. Lu: "We can come to your home. Some families also have their clothes washed at home." If you take your clothes to someone else's home to be washed, you're afraid that your clothes will be mixed with other people's clothes. Many families are worried that this will make their clothes unclean, so many people have their clothes washed at home.
From the military camp family compound to the laundry house, according to modern time, it is only ten minutes away, which is indeed very close. There is more than one family that specializes in laundry work here, and the one that Mrs. Lu brought was the one she had washed clothes for before.
That family's house was quite lively. The women in the family were hanging clothes out to dry. There were several baskets next to them, all filled with unwashed clothes. There was a sign on the baskets, one basket for each family, and they were all clearly distinguished and neatly arranged.
Seeing Mrs. Lu coming, the middle-aged woman greeted her warmly: "Mrs. Lu is here." The woman had a good memory and remembered all the customers with whom she had business dealings.
Mrs. Lu: "This is the wife of Captain Qin."
Middle-aged woman: "Hello, Mrs. Qin."
Yang Haiyan: "Hello, auntie, I have some sheets and quilt covers that I want to wash, but I want you to come to my house to wash them, is that okay?"
Middle-aged woman: "No problem, no problem, but if you come to my house, it will cost one penny more than usual."
Yang Haiyan: "That's no problem. What I want is for you to come to my house every five days and wash my sheets and quilt covers. You can come to my house every other day and fetch two buckets of water for me. Do you want to take my business?"
It was the first time for the middle-aged woman to answer the call of fetching water, but of course she would not refuse: "We charge you by the kilogram for clothes and bed sheets, one cent per kilogram. If you fetch water, it will be once every other day, fifteen times a month. Originally, it would cost one cent to come to your door, but since you need to fetch water, we will not charge you for the door-to-door fee. You will be charged ten cents a month for fetching water, and one cent per kilogram for washing. Is that okay with you?"
Yang Haiyan: "No problem, when will you come?"
Middle-aged woman: "I'll come at 4:45 (2:00 p.m.), is that okay with you?"
Yang Haiyan: “No problem.”
After leaving here, Yang Haiyan felt relieved. Now that someone was washing the large sheets and quilt covers and the problem of fetching water was also solved, she felt relieved.
However, Mrs. Lu also saw that Qin Fang's family knew how to spend money. After all, he came from a wealthy family and was accompanying the young lady, so it was understandable that he was a little loose-handed.
After returning home, Yang Haiyan started cooking. After all, she had to go to the military camp to see Qin Fang at noon, which was an hour's walk, so she had to eat early.
It was the first time she went there today, so Yang Haiyan wanted to make a good meal for Qin Fang, so that he could see his inner beauty. So she stewed pig's trotter soup, fried pig's large intestine, and fried some cabbage, and the staple food was steamed buns. The amount of each dish was very large. She sent food to Qin Fang, not only considering Qin Fang, but also the brothers around Qin Fang. Qin Fang had a stain because of the "newly married poisoning" incident of the original owner. Although she was not the original owner, she also had the obligation to clarify it, and for now, she had to get along well with Qin Fang for a while.
After finishing the meal at 6:30 pm, Yang Haiyan went to call Lu's wife. Yang Haiyan went to deliver food to Qin Fang. Lu's wife thought that her husband was in the military camp, so she naturally made some delicious food to deliver. Their men had the same boss, so both of them were on night shift this month.
Half an hour later, Mrs. Lu and Yang Haiyan arrived at the military camp.
Soldiers stood guard at the entrance of the barracks, and women were not allowed to enter. However, the barracks had two entrances, and the front entrance represented the image of the barracks, so women were not allowed to enter or even approach. Therefore, when family members came to visit someone, they would go through the back door, and when people in the barracks went out to purchase goods or when soldiers went back to their families' quarters, they would also go through the back door.