The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 275 Sheep Workshop Starts Operation

As for sheep wool, Shi Liu set the price at twenty cents per pound.

A sheep that is sheared every year can only produce less than ten kilograms of wool at a time, and it is sheared twice a year.

In this way, one sheep can earn about 400 coins a year. It doesn't sound like much, but if the sheep is sold, it's only a little over one hundred coins. If you have several sheep, you can make several hundred coins a year.

Moreover, this was something that they had never thought could be sold for money in previous years, but they could sell so much at once, which made the villagers very happy.

It was just the time for shearing sheep in spring and summer, and every household was ready for shearing.

They had to boil goat milk, prepare to shear wool, and work in workshops. The two villages were bustling with activity, making people from several nearby villages who were well-informed envy.

Why don’t they have the same good luck as Tianbao Village?

I don’t know whether the Li family will build a workshop. If they do, I’ll try to hire people from their village next time.

However, these are all uncertainties. What is certain now is that the Li family’s new workshop collects goat milk and wool!
No wonder every household in Xiahe Village suddenly started raising sheep last year. Some daughters and daughters-in-law from Xiahe Village asked about it at the time and found out that it was the Li family that asked them to raise sheep, and that the sheep must be useful. However, they had not seen the real deal, and did not have the spare money or courage. Some of them followed suit and raised sheep, but they did not dare to raise more.

This is not like raising pigs. When raising pigs, they are sure that the Li family will take them.

Now that they know, what are they waiting for? Hurry up and buy lambs and raise sheep!
If they can’t eat at the first table, how could they miss out on the second table?
Not to mention the sheep-raising boom that has followed the pig-raising boom in the surrounding villages, let’s just say that the Li Family Sheep Workshop in Xianggupo officially started operations today!

The layout of the Sheep Workshop is different from the food workshop by the Qing River. The whole workshop is surrounded by a wall, and there are only two gates for entry. If you want to climb over the wall, the top is full of thorns and sharp stones. If you are not good at climbing over the wall, you will definitely get injured. You can't tell where the sharp stones will pierce you.

The front gate is more than ten feet wide, and there is a small gatehouse outside the wall, just like the security booths in later generations. The person guarding the gate is Old Man Zhai, an old hunter who used to hunt in Xiahe Village in his early years.

After entering the door, there is a row of back houses. The one near the door is where Old Man Zhai lives at night. The one in the back is where two of the four guards who are responsible for patrolling and guarding the sheep workshop live.

The remaining few rooms in the back building are places for discussions and rest.

Then we went further in, and what we saw was a large courtyard. On the left was a huge dining hall filled with long tables and benches, which could accommodate three hundred people for dining at a time.

On the right is a large house of the same size but divided into two rooms. This is the warehouse area.

Further back, there are two large and clean toilets, separate for men and women.

Responsible for the sanitation of the toilet and the entire workshop are four elderly men and women from Xiahe Village.

On the left is the milk tablet production area, and on the right is the wool products area.

The milk tablet production area does not cover a large area like the wool products area, but it also has a row of small houses and several larger houses. There are two kangs in one of the small houses, which are specially used for baking milk tablets. The large house in the front is the milk tablet production area, another is the milk powder storage area, and the remaining one is the milk tablet packaging area.

The wool products area on the right is also a series of rooms, divided into two rows, front and back, running parallel to each other.

The front row is like an assembly line with a clear division of labor, from washing, processing and drying the wool to combing and twisting, to winding, and then dyeing with plants such as madder, hematoxylin, sansevieria, indigo, and pomegranate peel. Finally, it is dried and rolled up and sent to the first room in the back row for storage.

Then the processing and production are carried out in the production room in the back row.

What to produce?

Of course, from head to toe, there were wool hats, wool scarves, neck wraps, wool shawls, wool sweaters, wool vests, wool gloves, wool pants, wool socks, and wool blankets, etc. Further back, there were two toilets, and then a group of houses on the back wall with a back door. The two guards who guarded the back door lived in one of the houses.

In the early stage of work, the main focus is naturally on processing wool dyeing yarn. Liu Dongjia has sent four batches of wool. Even if it is properly preserved with mothballs and is not afraid of insects, it is not easy to store for a long time. It is easier to store it if it is processed into wool yarn as soon as possible.

A total of 355 people were recruited this time. Shiliu put 55 of them into the milk tablet workshop, 20 of them were responsible for mixing the milk powder into the mold, two people in each of the ten drying areas were responsible for baking the milk tablets, and 15 people were responsible for packaging the milk tablets.

The remaining three hundred people are all from the wool products workshop.

They were first put on the assembly line in the front and divided into groups. Some processed the wool, some combed the wool and some twisted the cotton strips. This was not difficult. After all, most of the women and girls in the village knew how to weave. Even if they couldn't, they could at least twist some cotton strips.

The most difficult part is dyeing. I have never done this before, so I dare not be careless. Dyeing is not easy to begin with, and it will be ruined if you are not careful.

Shi Liu has been stationed here for a long time, and he has been teaching the workers step by step, no matter how big or small the matter is, which is quite thoughtful.

As for dyes such as madder, they were all obtained by Ding Fuguang. The Hong family ran a dyeing factory and had channels to get these things. Ding Fuguang stepped forward and knew that they were not in the cloth dyeing business, so the Hong family was naturally happy to help.

Mrs. Hong used to look down on Shi Liu, fearing that Shi Liu would defraud the Ding family of their wealth. But now, she no longer has this idea. After seeing Tong Wan Zhai becoming more and more popular, herbal medicine restaurants opening up, and businesses in the provincial capital, she has completely given up on this idea and no longer has it at all.

They are so good at making money, what does the Ding family’s money compare to?
The sheep products area cannot be rushed, each step must be done carefully and well. As for the milk slice workshop, a lot of milk slices were produced in just a few days.

Ding Fuguang picked up a shop in the city and hung up the sign of Li Ji Candy Shop.

The milk slices here were delivered to the city, and the business started to boom the next day.

There was a Liuji Fructose Shop in Luoshui City before. From the name Liji Sugar Shop, we knew it was a shop selling sugar. And it was the well-known Liji, so it was bound to attract everyone's attention.

As soon as the shop opened, onlookers rushed in to see what kind of candy this Li Ji Candy Shop sells.
Perhaps it was because Li Ji Er’s products always amazed people and never disappointed them, so everyone squeezed into the shop and took a look at the things sold there. Although they were amazed, they were not surprised at all.

After all, this is Li Ji.

Isn't it surprising that Li Ji came up with these rare things?

If it were any other family, they would really be surprised for a long time.

But at this moment, they were also extremely curious. One by one, they pulled the waiter aside and started asking questions.

"What kind of candy is this? Why is it this color? It looks milky, and I feel like the whole shop smells like milk!"

"Hey! This candy is somewhat similar to Liu Ji's fructose, both have small animal and flower shapes..."

"I heard that Liu Ji's fructose is made with the same recipe as the Li family! It's normal! When I look at this candy and smell its milky aroma, I can't help but swallow my saliva. This candy looks delicious!"

"Yes, just looking at how exquisite it is, it must be great! I have never seen candy like this before!"

"..."

With everyone talking at once, the waiter quickly started to greet and introduce the guests.