Chapter 461: A craze for building brick and tile houses has started in Shanshui Village
The people of Zhulin Village came here to see where their daughter would live in the future, and they could go back with peace of mind after the wedding banquet.
But they didn't expect that the trip would really start after the wedding banquet!
First they visited and envied, then they made up their minds to imitate, and then tried to remember it in their minds. Later, the host announced that they could take manual work! And they could also return the daily necessities in advance.
A full five taels of silver.
At that moment, no one was willing to take a nap - even if they forced themselves to sleep, they couldn't sleep, so they simply followed the lady to choose what to bring back to Zhulin Village.
Piglets and lambs must be selected. Cutting grass for pigs and cutting grass for sheep only takes time, but the benefits are quite generous: meat can be sold for money and some can be left to supplement oil and water; the lady said that wool is very important, and it will be sent together with rabbit hair; feces is the best fertilizer!
The more you raise, the more feces you have, and the more fertilizer you can vomit. The more fertility in the land, the better the crops will grow.
Madam said that the bamboo pole-like thing can be used to make sugar in the future. Sugar is so precious, so of course it needs to be carefully taken care of to get a higher yield!
Making sugar will be done in the autumn of next year. Before that, they have to select some brown sugar, salt, rice and flour. Madam said that they need to keep healthy so that they can have the strength to work.
No need for cloth. The host gave a lot of it the first time they came. Everyone can have two sets of clothes. If they are worn carefully for several years, they will not be damaged. If they are damaged, they can be patched and worn for several years... The rest will all be exchanged for ducks, geese and rabbits. Ducks and geese can lay eggs, and rabbits can earn more money and provide more wool materials for the host.
After carefully selecting the things to take back, the group went to the toothbrush workshop again. The person selected by Shuiqing patiently demonstrated how to make a toothbrush handle.
They were busy until the evening and had dinner while there was still afterglow in the sky.
The dinner was not as sumptuous as the lunch, but it was also very good with fish and meat. Even though the people in Zhulin Village had long been thinking about going home to earn money, they were still satisfied at this moment.
After breakfast and dinner, the group took the time to take a nap, and then set off back to Zhulin Village. They were all full of fighting spirit and wanted to start working immediately.
The mother was originally going to give her daughter a few words of advice, but now she couldn't take care of it and hurried back to Zhulin Village overnight.
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Before, Shuiqing was still thinking about how to use the people in Zhulin Village.
Unexpectedly, they came here for a wedding and transported the livestock and other things back to raise them. In the future, there will be an additional place to provide raw materials, and more than a hundred workers to make toothbrush handles!
Wenhua's house construction occupied some of the men in the village. The next family who separated from the family also needed to build houses and repair walls, which would inevitably affect the progress of toothbrush handles. Originally, they were worried about how to fill this part, but now they don't have to worry about it.
There were many people making toothbrush handles, and the forty or so women who were sorting and tying the wool seemed to be a bit overwhelmed. Now the eleven new brides just filled the gap!
Shuiqing looked at the girls standing in three rows in the middle of the hall, and said softly: "Sit down."
The eleven new brides timidly looked up at Shuiqing who was sitting in the main seat, and saw that there was no displeasure. They sat down on the seats on both sides stiffly, not daring to sit down, but sitting in a vacant position, so that they could get up and answer at any time.
Shuiqing also saw that everyone was uncomfortable, and made a long story short: "You are newly married, you have five days of rest, and after five days you will work in the toothbrush workshop. The monthly salary is the same as theirs, thirty cents a day;
Those who do well will stay, and those who really don't do well will be changed to other jobs. Do you understand?"
Hearing that there will be seven days of rest, and then working in the toothbrush workshop will get thirty cents a day, the girls were stunned.
They finally understood why their mother came to them last night and said they were going back to Zhulin Village to do manual work and then left. When had their parents ever encountered such a lucrative business?
Now, they can earn thirty coins a day, which means that before the flood, they could buy eight catties of black flour with one day's wages, and after the flood, they could buy five catties of black flour!
If they could earn this much in the past, they would not have to sell themselves as slaves... If they had not sold themselves as slaves, they would not have met the master's family at all! If they were not servants of the master's family, they would not have received this wage.
It was a blessing in disguise. Compared with those families who suffered, they were much luckier.
"I understand!"
Shuiqing said a few more words about the feeding of livestock, washing, cooking, and cleaning in the main house, and let the group of new wives go back after making sure they heard it clearly.
Originally, it was scheduled to leave on the 18th, but because Mancang was waiting for eleven men to get married, it was postponed for more than half a month.
Although the date was postponed, people did not have time to rest.
Hu Wenhua was more and more enthusiastic about building a house, wishing that it could be completed in one day and he could get married the next day. Naturally, many men like Mancang took this as their priority.
Then, the families in the village who were of marriageable age suddenly became anxious to show their children around.
For men, it was okay, as long as they had a house to marry into the family. For those like Aunt Li who were planning to find a son-in-law for their daughters, they had to prepare a separate house in advance. The land had been selected and purchased long ago, but the wall on the other side of the house had to be built together, so they were extremely busy.
Then there were those whose families were too many people and who were inconvenient to live together with their grandchildren. They also took advantage of the slack season to prepare to build a house and live separately, and of course they would build it on the new land.
For a while, the new land was bustling with people and donkey carts coming and going!
There was a big difference between this collective house building and the last collective house building in Shanshui Village. The last time they used adobe, and this time they all used blue bricks!
Yes, the land on the right side of Shanshui Village is all built with brick and tile houses. The villagers had never dared to dream of building brick and tile houses in the past, but they decided to build them without persuasion this time.
The reason is very simple: making adobe bricks does not cost money, but it is labor-intensive and time-consuming. If you use the time to make adobe bricks, you can make more toothbrush handles and buy a lot of bricks in a day;
And the other people in the village are also very busy and have no time to help. The blue bricks are baked and can be directly built by spending money to bring them back. If you hire a man in the village, it will be built in a few days.
Brick and tile houses are clean, bright and magnificent. If the family is rich, brick and tile are of course the first choice.
Shanshui Village suddenly has several more brick and tile houses. The people living in the middle of the village originally thought it was a waste of money. Aren’t adobe houses also liveable? Anyway, they are all tiled and comfortable. Why spend extra money?
After visiting a few of them, I was also tempted. Although the house cannot be built in a short time, the land can be bought first, for fear that it will be gone later!
Shuiqing looked at the villagers who were full of enthusiasm in buying land and building houses and yards, and understood them very well.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, housing have always been a major issue for families since ancient times.