I farmed and raised cubs in ancient times

Chapter 52 Zongzi, Making Sachets
At a very young age, Jiang Zhi showed a unique talent for dismantling houses. Jiang Zhi didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

In the evening, Qiu came over with a basket of zongzi and salted duck eggs.

"Come on, this is for your family. I don't seem to have seen you chopping zongzi leaves. I think your family must not make zongzi."

Jiang Zhi smiled awkwardly, she asked before, the younger sister in the family doesn't like rice dumplings, Erlang likes to eat this, as for Ye Heng's child, he only said one is good, any more would be too tiresome.

Thinking that I was handicapped, so I didn't have a bag, but went to the town to buy five or six, and now they are steaming in the pot, waiting for Erlang to come back to eat.

"Take it quickly, do you still want to be polite to my sister-in-law?" Seeing Jiang Zhi in a daze, Qiu hung the basket on her wrist.

Jiang Zhi held the handle of the basket and said, "That's not it. Just now I thought that the pot was just steaming. I really didn't make zongzi this year. I bought them outside."

When Qiu heard this, she immediately hated iron for being weak: "Oh, now that you've been dragging your feet for three years, why do you still spend that unjust money? It doesn't cost money to spend money at home, so you have to be more careful in your life. If something goes wrong, it will be troublesome.”

"Okay, thank you sister-in-law for your suggestion." Jiang Zhi asked Qiu Shi to wait, and immediately went into the house to take out the things in the basket, put another bag of steamed cakes made by An Shi and a small handful of flowers in, and then gave it to Qiu Shi .

Qiu thought that Jiang Zhi only put flowers in it, so she took the basket home without looking at it.

The behavior of giving flowers to each other during the Dragon Boat Festival is not uncommon.

"Sister-in-law, I want to go out and pick some fragrant flowers to make sachets. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, we can go to the county town to sell these sachets." Ye Xiaomei came out of the house with an apron around her waist.

Jiang Zhi said: "Okay, Erlang will come back later, let's go again."

"Listen to sister-in-law." Ye Xiaomei lifted the lid of the pot and poked the rice dumplings, wondering if they were cooked.She couldn't smell the smell of zongzi, so she chose to refuse when her sister-in-law asked her if she wanted to make zongzi.

But the second brother likes this thing, so she endured it.

Ye Erlang was walking on the path with a messenger bag on his back, holding a handful of flowers in his hand, and wormwood tied around his waist, which gave him the bitter aroma of wormwood.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, he successfully recited "Hundred Surnames", and is now an official student of the village school.

Those village children in the village school didn't think he was too old, so they circled around him instead.

Just because he can carve ponies and tigers, they feel very fresh.

The days of going to school are really happy.

No wonder my elder brother liked reading so much before, and he will have to work harder in the future.

Ye Erlang devoured the zongzi, Jiang Zhi hung the wormwood on the door, and asked him to watch Ye Heng. He and Ye Xiaomei went up the mountain to collect wormwood, cattail grass, etc. Ye Xiaomei actually came across the impatiens, and put this in the sachet It couldn't be more appropriate.

Jiang Zhi remembered that there were woody flowers in her own space, this kind of flower was full of fragrance, woody is an extremely tenacious vine plant, it should be everywhere on this mountain.

Sure enough, she really found it.

The two plucked all the feathers they could get.

In the evening, Ye Xiaomei processed the two baskets of plants picked during the day. Some of them had to be dried, and some of them didn't need to be.

Ye Xiaomei obviously has unique insights into women's things, and Jiang Zhi has to listen to her in this regard.

Jiang Zhi also learned a lot from the experience of the ancients in making sachets.

Different from the muffled fragrance accumulated by spices, Ye Xiaomei's sachets made of simple materials have a unique freshness.It happened that there was a field of mint transplanted by Jiang Zhi in the vegetable garden. Ye Xiaomei added mint to the sachet, which made the aroma of the whole sachet refreshing.

Ye Xiaomei is like a sewing machine, her movements are extremely fast, and although the embroidered patterns are all simple, they are vivid.

Seeing that she could embroider a sachet in half an hour, Jiang Zhi felt ashamed, so she helped cut it out and filled it with herbs.

In the evening, the two of them lighted the oil lamps and worked until Haishi, Ye Erlang was not idle, he was studying the carpentry drawings that Wang Shiba gave him by the same lamp, Ye Heng's baby was the only one in the family who slept like a pig.

After three days of hard work, Ye Xiaomei made 25 sachets and accumulated 120 zizi.The price of the sachets is not high, each five Wen, if you can buy all of them, you will only get 460 Wu Wen, and she can get [-] Wu Wen for [-] bags.

In other words, ideally, she can get 590 essays when she goes to the county seat for the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow.Adding in the 350 wen she got from selling nets before, she made nearly a regular amount of money in just over a month.

In Daning, ordinary people can earn more than [-] yuan a year, and they can save six to seven yuan if they live frugally. If there is a catastrophe in the family, they basically cannot save money, and even have debts.

She worked so hard to weave the net, and she could only make less than ten pennies of money in more than a month, and ten pennies in a year.

And the family will support two scholars in the future, and she knows exactly the expenses of the scholars. An ordinary farming and studying family needs to support one scholar, and it will cost at least thirty or forty pennies a year.

Books and pens and ink accounted for a large part, and there were also the expenses of giving gifts and respecting teachers. Apart from this, the face of scholars was also very important, so their clothes were better than ordinary people, which was also a big expense.

When A Niang was still there, she was weaving desperately, basically breaking a thread every five days, otherwise she would not be able to support a single scholar.

Now neither she nor her sister-in-law has the ability of A Niang.

At most, she weaves nets to support her second brother who is still studying in Shangcun. If the second brother enters the county school or a private school in the future, will the expenses be the same as that of the eldest brother?
Brother Heng has grown up, and he will also go to school.Brother Heng is supported by his maternal grandfather, but his grandfather is always his grandfather. Doesn't his sister-in-law need to pay for raising the child?Raising a child is the most expensive thing, and Brother Heng's grandfather can still support it for a short time, but after a long time, won't Brother Heng's uncle's family gossip?

Now my sister-in-law can produce five catties of white sugar every month, which can be sold for four pennies, but there is still two pennies in the four pennies.My sister-in-law earns only two guans a month.

Ye Xiaomei has already thought of such a long-term situation, which Jiang Zhi has never thought about.

Jiang Zhi carried five catties of candy in her back basket, and was going to send it to Zhou's grocery store today to get back the money.

Rock sugar and white granulated sugar are her trump cards. When sugar cane is not mass-produced, her rock sugar and white granulated sugar will not appear on the market.

This business must be firmly in her own hands. From now on, her Jiang Group's first pot of gold will be white rock sugar and white granulated sugar.

The day before going to the county seat, An's asked someone to tell Jiang Zhi that there was something wrong with her natal family and she had gone back to her natal family, so only Jiang Zhi's family went to the county seat.

"Little sister, Erlang will accompany you to the cloth village later, and my sister-in-law will take Brother Heng to Zhou Ji's grocery store, and then we will meet at the pier to watch the dragon boat race and help sell sachets at the same time." Before entering the gate of the county seat, Jiang Zhi divided the work.

(End of this chapter)