The skilled widow is busy farming

Chapter 81 Preparation
Li Qing is back. He has been doing business outside Ai since he was young. He has been doing business outside Ai for many years and has assets. He is considered to be the first group of people in Lijia Village to become rich.

He was also the first person to donate ancestral land to clan schools, even earlier than Xiu Niang and the others. At that time, it was his grandfather who donated [-] acres of land. At that time, this kind of thing was really valuable, and it was much more difficult than now. Thirty acres of land It was only because of good land that the clan culture persisted until now.

Now that there is a winery industry in the village, he called Li Qing back from outside. He handed over the property without saying a word and returned to the village immediately. Now his main focus is on the winery.

One is to help with management, he has experience, and the other is to find another way out of the winery and sell the wine to further places.

He also managed the clan industry together with other brothers of the same generation, striving to consolidate the clan industry.

Li Qing asked the Jiangnan steward to buy some looms and fine fabrics and threads to give to Xiu Niang.

"Brother and sister, are you at home?"

"Brother Erqing, I'm at home. I'll sit in the yard and I'll pour you tea."

"No more drinking. I'm still busy with something else. I bought you a loom and silk fabrics. I put them in a side room of the ancestral hall. Grandpa said that you can clean them up later and you can just do it there."

"Okay, has Brother Jing paid you? I don't have enough."

"Don't worry about it, it's just a small amount of money, brother and sister, I have something to discuss with you, please think about it."

"You say."

"I want to join you in the weaving workshop."

"Okay, but I have no capital now. Can you afford to wait?"

"I'm rich. Do you know how many people in our village want to cooperate with you? You just need to take the shares."

"No, I can't take advantage of it in vain. I'm also afraid that there will be disagreements between our relatives in the future. I also want to make some money as a bit of inheritance for my children."

"That's okay, you contribute the small head and the skills, and Brother Yan and I pay to handle the external chores. I have a shop in Jiangnan and Guangdong, which is a bit of a way. You just concentrate on your business, and the job of selling things is yours. I."

The men of Li Qing's generation are considered to be in the forefront, and they are all very capable. In fact, they all want to cooperate with Xiu Niang, but it is because grandpa protects her so tightly that she would have come a long time ago.

Xiu Niang is a leader in the village in all aspects of her character and craftsmanship. Everyone knows that she has a share of the credit for the success of the winery, and everyone in the village is grateful and respects her.

"Okay, I'll discuss it with my grandfather and elders when I get back. When I think of the specific regulations, will I write to you?"

"Yes, I'm leaving then. The wine shop has to deliver wine to the Guangdong store to sell, so I'm still busy."

"Brother Erqing, please walk slowly. Come to our house for a drink when you have time."

"okay."

Li Qing left in a hurry.

Xiu Niang smiled and went back to the house to continue making palace flowers. When she was tired from weaving tapestry, she made palace flowers and velvet flowers to relax her eyes. This could be sold for a few bucks. The exquisite and beautiful ones were worth a lot of money.

It seems that the construction of the weaving workshop will start soon.

In the afternoon, I finished my work and went to the ancestral hall to look at the loom.

Xiu Niang walked around the machine a few times, checking every place, smiling and nodding. The machine she bought was very good, and the silk threads she bought were also good. In this way, she could teach everyone how to weave tapestry silk. , tapestry is made.

In addition to tapestry, you can also weave cloud brocade, Sichuan brocade and other brocades and sell them, and you can still make money. Each has its own market and price. If done well, women can earn a good income and live a straight life.

Aunt Xu brought several village women over to clean the house and prepare for work in a few days.

"Xiu'er, you're here too."

"Let me see the machine and the thread."

"Let's clean up and set up tables, chairs and benches. Uncle said that we will gather together in a few days to listen to your instructions and learn skills."

"Okay, some places here need to be renovated. We need to add more windows to increase the light, otherwise we can't see clearly. We also need to put another layer of walls to keep warm. If there is no life in the house, it will be cold." "You can't live in the house." Make a fire?"

Second Aunt Xu forgot about this.

In fact, the women in the village can weave cloth, but what they weave is coarse cloth and plain cloth, which are the short clothes worn by farmers. The plain cloth shoes on their feet are the cheapest cloth, and they don't care about the quality.

"These fabrics are very expensive, and one spark will ruin everything. No matter how cold or hot the weaving process is, we are not allowed to light a fire or get wet."

"So that's it. It seems like it's not easy to make money."

The village women immediately understood that things are valuable.

"Yes, but if you do it well, you can earn several times more than embroidering purses."

"Okay, I'll find a man to do this job well. I'll move this thing first. It's already worth a lot of money."

When Aunt Xu heard this, she immediately understood and knew what to do.

"It will take a few days to finish this. Let's do other things first tomorrow. How are you doing with the palace flowers I taught you?"

"It's almost done. It looks much better than before."

"Okay, let's make the palace flowers first. When this end is finished, we will teach you how to weave brocade. Step by step, make money first. You can't rush to learn this craft. Palace flowers pay attention to exquisiteness. The more careful you are, the better. "

"I understand, don't worry, we will take everything you said to heart."

"Weaving is also a hard job, including embroidery. Everyone should be mentally prepared, it is not easy to make money."

"We know, don't worry, if you can't bear the hardship, just go home. Why do you complain if you are taught skills for free? There will be no pie in the sky, let alone gold."

A woman has a very decent attitude.

The palace flowers made by the women and girls in the village can be sold for a lot of money. Xiu Niang taught them one by one. This is why everyone respects her. She teaches everyone her skills for free, allowing everyone to make money.

"When you start a workshop later on, there will be rules. Without rules, there will be no rules. Everyone must abide by the rules. From now on, this workshop will belong to the clan, not to me personally. I will only get a share of the dividends. I can't be lazy and take advantage. I guess it won’t work if I tell you about my craftsmanship, so I don’t want outsiders for the time being.”

"Grandpa has spoken to us. We have been waiting for this day. Since you taught us how to make palace flower embroidery, I can earn a thousand copper coins every month. It is very different from before. The difficulties at home have been alleviated. It’s not easy for us farmers to make a living. My family also plans to build a yard next year, thanks to Xiu Niang.”

Xiu Niang talked to several sisters-in-law and aunts, and asked the children to help her move her things home. The place still needs to be renovated.

Brother Jing came back from the tavern with a bunch of books. This time they were all cheap conversation books, something to relieve his boredom.

"Auntie, what do you want it for?"

“Teach children how to behave in the world and not to be deceived.”

"This thing is not good for girls."

"They are all romance books."

Brother Jing looked confused.

"This is the only way to show the sophistication of human nature and allow children to break their unrealistic fantasies."

"Oh."

Brother Jing nodded.

She and Grandma Wang were asked to read these words in the book first, pick out the ones they could read, mark those wrong behaviors, and keep them later to test the children.

(End of this chapter)