Hearing Butler Xu's words, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but have a headache. When people live in this world, they always eat and drink. Now the Zhou family has no income, and they really can't bring out anything valuable. But there are still three big things in the family.

There are two children to support, Aunt Wang is a female, Housekeeper Zhou is old, not to mention Zhuo'er and Duo'er, so now the heavy responsibility of supporting the family falls on Zhou Chong.

"How much food does the family still have now, can it survive this year?" Zhou Zhong suddenly asked. As a descendant, Zhou Zhong thought it was very easy for him to come up with something to make money, but now it has entered winter.

It was so cold that it was difficult to find a way to make money, so he wanted to wait until the next spring.

"Master, you don't know something. Originally, there was some food in the house, but when the servants were dismissed, some people had dirty hands and stole almost all the food in the house. Fortunately, the old slave still had some savings, so

I have been able to support myself until now, but now I don’t have much rice to buy. Even if I drink porridge every now and then, I’m afraid I won’t be able to survive this month!” Butler Xu said with a grimace at this time, if the situation was not so urgent,

He wouldn't rush to Zhou Zhong to find a solution.

"Can't you survive this month?" Zhou Zhong said in shock, and at the same time he was a little moved. He didn't expect that the food he ate these days had been bought by Butler Xu with his own money. Besides, it was already mid-October.

, there are only ten days of food left at home, and they can only drink porridge. This is undoubtedly a huge bad news for Zhou Zhong, who eats meat every day. In addition, there are still two months until the Chinese New Year, and the food that the family can eat

Where to come from?

"Okay, I know about this. Don't tell Auntie and the others for now, I will find a way!" Zhou Zhong sighed. Although he still had more than 400 taels of silver in his hand, Auntie Wang still had 90 of them.

However, this money is used to pay off debts, and Zhou Zhong has promised to send it over tomorrow, so it must not be touched. It seems that his plan to make money must be advanced.

Hearing Zhou Zhong's words, Butler Xu glanced at him with some worry. After all, he had watched Zhou Zhong grow up and knew that he had no other abilities except studying.

, his young master seemed to be a different person, everything was handled in an orderly manner, but Butler Xu did not think that Zhou Zhong really had any means of making a living.

Although Butler Xu still doubted Zhou Zhong's ability, now that Zhou Zhong was the head of the family, the responsibility of supporting the family naturally fell on him, so Butler Xu sighed one last time, turned around and left the back garden.

After Butler Xu left, Zhou Chong did not stay in the garden. Instead, he returned to his room, and then lay on the simple bed and thought about his thoughts. Originally, Zhou Chong slept on a carved wooden bed, but later for

He also sold the debt to pay off the debt. In addition, some books and antiques in the house were also left behind. The bed he is sleeping on now was moved from the servant's room. In addition to this bed, there are other things in the house.

There is no other furniture, and it looks like a house with bare walls.

The money for repaying the debt has been prepared, which makes Zhou Zhong feel relaxed as never before. This feeling is as if he has also paid back the house payment in his previous life. As the old saying goes, "Without debt, one is light."

, this sentence is the most suitable to describe Zhou Zhong's current feeling.

However, after relaxing, Zhou Zhong thought about the headache of making money to support his family. He thought about all the resources around him, and found that he now owned a big house, as well as Aunt Wang and Butler Xu, who were old and weak.

In addition, as a descendant, he has countless advanced knowledge in his mind. Although Zhou Zhong is not sure, he feels that this knowledge should be his greatest reliance. Whether he can live a good life in the future depends entirely on whether he can use it.

The knowledge in the mind is applied appropriately.

Speaking of the knowledge in his mind, Zhou Zhong also made a very unexpected discovery, that is, since traveling to the Ming Dynasty, he found that the memory of his previous life was like a detailed and huge movie, including everyone he knew in his previous life;

Every thing I have experienced, and even every book I have read, can be found in this movie with very detailed records.

Sometimes Zhou Zhong also wonders whether the original Zhou Zhong absorbed the memories of his previous life, or the memories of the previous life invaded Zhou Zhong's thinking? This is a very serious philosophical question. Zhou Zhong feels that with his IQ, I am afraid that

I couldn't figure it out for the rest of my life, so I simply stopped thinking about it. I am Zhou Zhong, and Zhou Zhong is me. Why do I care so much?

The knowledge of the past life is undoubtedly a huge treasure for Zhou Zhong now. If nothing else, just making a few new inventions from later generations should be enough for their family of five to eat and drink. This makes Zhou Chong

He was also refreshed and started to go through the previous memories in his mind to see if there was anything that could bring him profits. In the end, he really thought of a few things, such as soap, toothbrushes, MSG, etc.

But Zhou Zhong soon became discouraged and discovered that although the commonly used household items he thought of were very good, they could not be realized due to various restrictions, such as MSG, a condiment. In his previous life, he only knew that these things were fermented by microorganisms.

Yes, but as for what kind of fungus it is and what conditions it requires? I don’t know anything about it at all, let alone how to make it.

In comparison, the technical content of toothbrushes is much lower, and the manufacturing cost is not high. For example, the toothbrush handle can be replaced by bone or bamboo, and the bristles can be made of pig hair. The production is not very complicated, but if you want to achieve scale,

But it requires a lot of manpower and raw materials. With his current situation where he can hardly even eat, it is simply impossible to achieve it.

In addition, even if a toothbrush is manufactured, sales will be a big problem. After all, people in the Ming Dynasty are accustomed to brushing their teeth with fingers or willow branches. If the conditions are good, they can only dip it in tooth powder or green salt. For a new product like a toothbrush, God knows what will happen.

How many people are willing to spend money to buy

As for soap, compared with the previous two, it is a more practical method, and Zhou Zhong also knows the method of making soap in the laboratory. Although this method will be difficult to achieve large-scale production, the appearance of soap and

Function, even a small amount of production can earn a lot of income. Unfortunately, soap, like toothbrushes, also requires an investment of funds, at least various raw materials have to be purchased, and money is what he lacks most now.

In addition to the above, Zhou Zhong also thought of some other things, but unfortunately they were all subject to one or other conditions, at least it was impossible to bring a fortune to support the family in a short period of time. Thinking of having an empty house in his mind

However, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but feel a little frustrated due to various practical conditions. However, in order for his family not to starve, Zhou Zhong could only work hard and think about all the things around him that could be used.

, and finally he came up with a feasible solution.

This method has nothing to do with the knowledge he brought in his previous life. The most important thing is the Zhou family's big house. Although this house has already been mortgaged to Zhou Zhong's prospective father-in-law, Mr. Wang, the other party does not know that it is out of face.

For some reason, he has always claimed that he will not take back this house, so nominally, this house still belongs to Zhou Zhong.

Since this big house belongs to him, Zhou Zhong has found a way to make money, which is to divide the house into several courtyards and rent them out separately. Anyway, Zhou Zhong and Aunt Wang have such a big place.

It's impossible to live in it, and there are no servants or maids to take care of it. If no one lives in it, I'm afraid the whole house will be ruined. What's more important is that there is almost no cost to rent out the house, and the rent can be collected in advance.

This is what Zhou Zhong values ​​most.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong jumped up from the bed, threw on his clothes and ran to a yard in front. This is the residence of Butler Xu. Butler Xu knows the situation of Zhou's mansion best. Zhou Zhong wants to move the house

If you want to rent it out, you should naturally ask his opinion first.

Butler Xu was highly respected in the Zhou Mansion, and he used to enjoy very high treatment. For example, he did not have to live with the servants, but lived alone in a courtyard. When Zhou Zhong came in, he did not knock on the door and walked directly to Butler Xu's house.

In the house where you live.

However, when he entered, Zhou Zhong discovered that the whole room was in a mess. Several large boxes had fallen to the ground, and the clothes inside were scattered all over the floor. There was also a big red pair of pants hanging on the open lid of the box, and the breeze blew through it.

It caused ripples of coquettishness. As for Butler Xu, he was only wearing a single shirt, with fat bulges all over his body. He was rummaging through the cabinets to find something. Because his body was fat and his movements were not very flexible, his body was already covered in sweat.

, looks like taking a sauna.

"Butler Xu, what are you doing? You don't want to leave the Zhou Mansion, do you?" Zhou Zhong said with joy when he saw the situation in the room. This fat old man may not look old, but he has a good appetite.

It's amazing. Zhou Zhong and Aunt Wang's appetite is at most the same as that of the fat old man. If the other party is willing to leave Zhou's house, Zhou Zhong's burden will suddenly be lighter.

While rummaging around for things, Butler Xu heard someone behind him and turned around quickly. He was relieved when he saw it was Zhou Zhong, then wiped the sweat from his face and breathed heavily: "Young Master, I have already told you

, I am a member of the Zhou family in life, and a ghost of the Zhou family in death, how can I leave you at this time?"

"Then what are you doing?" Zhou Zhong pointed to the boxes and cabinets on the ground. The clothes, quilts, etc. inside were all in a mess. It looked like they were preparing to pack up and leave.

Seeing Zhou Chong's misunderstanding, Butler Xu hurriedly explained: "Master, you are too worried. When I saw this situation at home, I wanted to find something valuable and take it to the pawn shop. At least we can get enough money to spend this winter."

Get over it, look at this cotton-padded jacket, which was given to me by my master back then. It has a slippery silk surface on the outside and thick cotton on the inside. I’m not even willing to wear it. I also have some silk clothes, which I think I can take to a pawn shop.

Change some money."

In order to leave an iron-clad empire to his children and grandchildren, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, made detailed regulations on all aspects of the Ming Dynasty. He even stipulated what clothes should be worn in each industry. For example, merchants were not allowed to wear silk, and servants and advocates were not allowed to wear silk.

Wearing mink fur, etc., these regulations were inherently unreasonable and difficult to enforce, so these regulations were only implemented for a while in the early Ming Dynasty, and later even the court itself did not care.

It is precisely because of this that among some wealthy merchants, not only the merchants wear silk, but even the servants can wear silk clothes. With Butler Xu's status in the Zhou family, it is normal for him to take out a silk-covered cotton-padded jacket.

, even the big red pants next to it are made of silk.

Zhou Zhong took the cotton-padded jacket handed over by Butler Xu and looked at it. The surface of this cotton-padded jacket was indeed made of silk, and the workmanship was also very good. Although it was a few years old, the key was that it was well preserved and thick. However, he got the black heart

I'm afraid they can't exchange it for a lot of money in a pawn shop. As for those clothes made of silk fabrics, including the red pants next to them, they are probably not as valuable as this cotton-padded jacket.

"Speaking of clothes, I remembered that there are several large boxes in the wing room in my yard. There are a lot of my clothes in them. Butler Xu, you will go pick out some valuable ones to pawn later, and then buy some food.

, at least we can’t let the family run out of food!” Zhou Chong also said at this time.

Since Butler Xu can pawn his underpants for the sake of this family, he can't dampen his enthusiasm. However, except for this cotton-padded jacket, which is worth some money, Butler Xu's other items are not worth much at all, so Zhou Zhong decided to sell his

He also pawned his clothes. After all, as the eldest young master of the Zhou family, his clothes must be better than those of Butler Xu.

Next, Zhou Zhong finally thought of the reason why he came to see Butler Xu, so he pulled the other party to sit down and hurriedly expressed his thoughts. However, when Butler Xu heard Zhou Zhong's idea of ​​renting out the yard, his face showed a smile.
Chapter completed!