Chapter 196 Broken
They made a lot of money today, and all in whole dollars. Pan Yun and Miao Zhen and Miao He unfolded every banknote and put those of the same value together.

There were six large-denomination silver notes of one hundred taels alone, and the rest were mostly of fifty, twenty, and ten taels.

Especially twenty taels and ten taels, don’t use too much.

Miao Zhen counted the money in his hand and said, "I have 1,880 taels here."

Miao He said, "I have one thousand six hundred and twenty taels here."

Pan Yunle narrowed his eyes and said, "I have 2,360 taels here, plus these 600 taels, the total is 6,460 taels."

Pan Yun was even surprised, "The Taoist priest doesn't look that poor."

Miao Zhen said: "Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. If you have a good talisman, you can always earn it back."

Now that Pan Yun had money, he became generous. He took out two silver notes of 100 taels each and stuffed them into the two men's pockets. "One hundred taels for each of you. This is for your wages!"

The two of them widened their eyes instantly, unable to believe that Junior Master-Uncle would be so generous, "Really? One hundred taels a day's wages?"

Pan Jun was originally very generous, so she felt a little distressed when they asked, "If you don't want it, then I..."

Miaozhen: "I want it, I want it."

Miaozhen and Miaohe put them away immediately.

Pan Yun no longer felt distressed and lowered his head to count the remaining money.

She knew that she couldn't keep all the money, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep well tonight. After thinking about it, she put away the remaining 260 taels as her own pocket money, and divided the rest into two parts, giving 3,000 taels to Miao Zhen. "This is for the Taoist temple. You keep it. If you don't have enough money later, you can use this to get money. Take the rest back to the temple. My eldest nephew is busy with his exams this year, so life is a bit difficult."

Miaozhen agreed and accepted the three thousand taels.

Pan Yun looked at the remaining three thousand taels and said, "I will need these three thousand taels later, but I can't get them, so I'll lend them to you. Will each of you lend me fifteen thousand taels?"

Miaozhen and Miaohe were used to it. They said they were borrowing it, but in fact they were using it as a warehouse for Pan Yun and holding it for her.

Both of them had no objection, so one of them kept it for her. Oh, no, he lent her fifteen hundred taels.

Pan Jun was relieved and happy because he had no money. He took Pan Xiaohei, who was dozing off beside him, into his arms and rubbed him, then said, "Now that we have money, it will be more convenient to do experiments."

With the money, she can do the washing machine experiment however she wants and no longer be restricted by various materials.

Miaozhen: "As long as you are happy."

Miaozhen and Miaohe's punishment period was over, and Pan Yun began to happily work on her washing machine project again.

After a period of research and study, she realized that relying solely on water power to wash away stains was not good, and that friction and the impact of water had to be increased.

Just like when they wash clothes by hand, don’t they also like to find a stone with slight friction and rub it on it, so wouldn’t the stains be removed quickly?
With reference to the washboard and the clothes beater, Pan Yun followed suit and made a small wooden barrel inside the huge wooden barrel, connecting the two together. This is a bit like a modern washing machine, with another layer outside the washing barrel, but other people's is invisible, but hers is visible.

She chiseled four holes in the small wooden barrel and installed a short stick like a laundry beater to stir the clothes.

Because the wooden barrel was big enough, she poured all the clothes from the two barrels she had brought into it at once, and after adding some water, she confidently said to the two people, "It will definitely work this time."

Miaozhenmiaohe and Pan Xiaohei didn't care whether it would work or not, they just nodded.

Anyway, Pan Yun always said this before doing an experiment, and it always ended in failure.

Pan Yun activated the talisman directly, listened to the sound of the washing machine starting up, sat down next to Miaohe, and took out a few fruits from the spiritual space. He gave one to each of the two people and the cat, and took a bite of one himself. He said, "This is how experiments are. Although there are always more failures than successes, we must have confidence in this experiment and the next one. Only in this way can we continue. Otherwise, life will be so hard."

Miao Zhen asked thoughtfully, "Is this how we have to live our lives?"

Pan Jun asked with a smile, "Do you think your life is more bitter or happy?"

Miaozhen: "Naturally there is more happiness."

Pan Yun smiled and said, "I hope it will always be like this. One day, if the suffering is greater than the happiness, you can think like this again."

Miao Zhen lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then nodded.

The three of them sat on a big rock, their feet not being able to touch the ground, so they swayed as they listened to the washing machine turning.

Because the noise made by the washing machine this time was different from before, Miao Zhen Miao He felt more confident after hearing it. "It sounds like it will really work."

When the washing machine stopped and the dirty water was drained, Pan Jun rushed over excitedly and looked inside by grabbing the edge of the tub.

Miaozhen and Miaohe followed closely behind, both of them staring with wide eyes to help her find the dirty places.

The clothes were tangled together, some of them were directly tangled on the four clothes-beating sticks. Miao Zhen lifted up a sleeve and took a look, then said happily, "Uncle Master, it seems to have really worked. The sleeve is not dirty."

Pan Yun's eyes sparkled, and she immediately untied the two tangled pieces of clothing, picked up one and unfolded it to take a closer look.

As soon as they shook it off, the smiles on the three people's faces froze.

Through the big hole in the clothes, Pan Jun saw Miao Zhenmiao and shocked face on the other side of the clothes.

Pan Yun: …

Pan Xiaohei laughed loudly, meowed, meowed, and lost his balance, falling over the edge of the barrel into the barrel with a plop.

Pan Jun's face turned black. He dropped the clothes in his hand and reached over to grab another one. When he unfolded it, the sleeve broke.

Pan Jun opened his mouth wide.

Pan Xiaohei, who had just climbed out of the barrel, saw this and burst into laughter again. His body tilted and he fell back into the barrel.

Pan Jun hung the clothes on the edge of the barrel with trembling hands and looked at the clothes in the barrel in shock, "The rest can't be..."

Upon hearing this, Miaozhen and Miaohe immediately rushed over and helped pull out all the clothes in the barrel and spread them out.

Pan Yun and the others worked hard, and as the clothes were unfolded one by one, they were either missing parts or had tears in their eyes.

There was one piece of clothing that I didn't know how it got washed, but when I unfolded it, it tore into five pieces. Two of the pieces were wrapped with a finger-thick strip of cloth, and the rest were pieced together from other clothes.

Pan Jun sat down on a rock and muttered, "How much money do I have to pay for this? Is it because I have too much money and bad luck, or is it that the washing machine itself is faulty?"

Miao Zhen: "It should be the problem with the washing machine, Junior Master, you don't even have three hundred taels of money on you right now, and if you were going to have bad luck, it would have started the night before, why would it wait until today?"

Miao He was thankful, "Fortunately, Junior Master made a lot of money the day before yesterday, so we have the money to compensate them."

Pan Xiaohei laughed so hard that tears were about to come out, and asked Pan Jun, "Do you want to do this thankless task again?" Pan Jun gritted his teeth and said, "Do it! It's just a matter of failing a few times. I don't believe I can't do it!"

Pan Xiaohei couldn't understand it, but he didn't intervene and decided to just watch the fun.

The three of them took out all their clothes and finally found that only six pieces were good.

After a careful inspection, Pan Yun sighed, "It was cleaned quite well this time, but it's not perfect. It looks like it needs to be fixed."

Miao Zhen and Miao He nodded, not thinking that they should give up. After knowing that Pan Xiao Hei had just mocked Junior Master, Miao He still hugged Pan Xiao Hei and said, "Don't discourage Junior Master. This thing Junior Master made is very good and powerful. I never thought that there would be something that can help people wash clothes."

"If we can really make it, then in the future we can make something that can help people light fires, cut vegetables, and cook. If we have such a beautiful thing, won't we no longer have to do housework in the future?"

Miao Zhen: "It's a nice thought, but it's not that we don't have it, it's just that you and I can't afford it."

Not only Miao He, but Pan Yun also looked over and asked, "Is there such a thing?"

"Yes," Miao Zhen said, "Isn't it a puppet?"

Pan Yun came back to his senses, and nodded after saying "Oh", "Puppets are indeed, they are like robots, but puppetry must be equipped with spirits, isn't it an evil art? Even if we can afford it, we dare not raise it. If we bring it back to Sanqing Mountain, aren't we afraid that it will be struck by the mountain god?"

Miao Zhen: "What if there is a soul that voluntarily enters the puppet body?"

"Doesn't the book say that the souls placed in puppets need to be refined, and the three souls and seven spirits are not complete, so they don't remember the past and don't have much wisdom? Who would be willing to go like this?"

"I am willing," Miao Zhen said, "I really want to be a puppet and give it a try, Junior Master, when I die in the future, you can turn me into a puppet. I always feel that when I become a puppet, I can remember my past."

Pan Yun: "Are you so confident that I can outlive you? What if I die first?"

Miaozhen and Pan Yun turned their heads at the same time and looked at Miaohe.

Miao He was stunned for a moment and then said, "Well, then I'll do it? But I don't know how to be a puppet."

Pan Yun: "It's okay, I can teach you."

Miao Zhen: "I will find relevant books and information for you. Miao He, you are a doctor, you must live longer. Whether I can become a puppet in the future depends on you."

Pan Jun on the side nodded.

Miaohe also nodded, "No problem, Junior Master, do you want to be a puppet?"

"I won't be a puppet. If I die, I will just become a ghost and become a ghost cultivator."

Miao Zhen Miao He: "Are there any ghost cultivators?"

"Of course there are, otherwise where do the evil spirits in this world come from?"

Miao Zhen was in a dilemma. "Uncle Master, why don't you stop being a ghost cultivator and be a puppet like me? Ghosts can only become ghosts after harming people and ghosts. Ghost cultivators don't sound like good things. If you die before me, and I see you doing evil things, will you let me take you in or not?"

"If I don't accept it, my conscience will be uneasy and my heart will be unstable. If I accept it, after all, we are from the same sect and I can't bear it."

Miao He on the side nodded repeatedly and agreed, "That's right, Junior Uncle, you should be a puppet like Miao Zhen. You can carve your own puppet body and make it as beautiful as you want. As a ghost cultivator, what if there is something strange inside?"

Pan Yun: "...Thank you for thinking so far ahead."

Pan Xiaohei reminded slowly, "If you don't leave now, you will be late for class."

When Pan Yun heard this, his shoulders slumped, and he said, carrying two buckets of tattered clothes, "Come on, accompany me to face the storm of Manager Zhang."

But when I arrived at the laundry bureau and asked, I found out that Manager Zhang had gone down the mountain after arranging today's tasks. It was said that it was very busy down the mountain and he would not come up again today.

Everyone asked Pan Yun, "Sister, do you want to see the steward for something?"

These people are helpers in the academy, so for those who wear Taoist robes, no matter young or old, men are called "senior brothers" and women are called "senior sisters".

It is said that when the academy was first established, the helpers who came to the academy were all called "young master, young lady", "husband" and "madam". Later, Master Zhang ordered that the names be unified.

This name is also to warn the students in the academy and tell them that in Taoism, everyone is equal. Although they are helpers, they are just working in the academy and their status is not lower than theirs.

Warn everyone in the academy not to look down on living beings.

This is also the reason why Yin Song’s Taoist boy called them senior sister and uncle. He did not worship Yin Song as his master.

Pan Yun knew that the clothes in the laundry department had always been washed by them. Now that she had damaged the clothes, she didn't know whether it would affect them.

She paused, then reached out and took a piece of clothing and shook it open, "Look."

The helpers stared at the big hole in the clothes in amazement, "How did this happen?"

A helper came over to take a closer look and said, "It looks like it was torn. Oh, how much strength must have been put into it? The clothes of the Taoist priests are usually sturdy. They are made of very durable Songjiang cloth. How could it be torn like this?"

When Pan Yun heard that she seemed to know a lot, he immediately asked, "How much does a dress like this cost?"

"If it's cloth, it doesn't cost much. Twenty cents is enough to buy a set of cloth."

Pan Yun: "How about the tailor's wages?"

"About thirty cents."

Pan Yun immediately said, "Good people, please help me. I have damaged the clothes, so I must pay for them. I was going to ask Manager Zhang to pay directly, but Manager Zhang is not here. When she comes tomorrow, the brothers and sisters whose clothes I damaged will come to my house. How can I explain it?"

"Please help me make a set of clothes according to the size of these clothes so that I can return them to the owner."

The helpers could not help but look at each other, they were of course happy to do it, the helper's calculation was not wrong, twenty cents could indeed buy cloth to make a piece of clothing, and ten cents for wages was considered a good profit. If the tailor was good and quick, one could finish a piece in one night and half a morning.

only……

Can Manager Zhang recognize the clothes they make?
Seeing that they were interested, Pan Yun immediately took out a hundred cents from his sleeve and said, "I can pay a deposit first, how about fifteen cents? Just give it to me after it's done. After checking that there are no problems, I will settle the remaining fifteen cents immediately."

"Sister, it's not that we don't want to do it, but we're afraid that if we do it, Manager Zhang won't recognize it. What will we do then?"

Pan Yun: "That's my business. Whether she admits it or not, I will pay the money."

When the helpers heard this, they immediately agreed.

Everyone came up to collect their money and pick out the clothes and pants they wanted to make from the wooden barrel. They planned to take them home, measure them, and make them according to the instructions, so as to ensure that there would be no mistakes.

(End of this chapter)