Chapter 212 Beating
If one piece of cloth costs 400 taels of silver, and if you prepare ten looms at home, you can weave at least 400 pieces of cloth in a month, which is 160 taels of silver.
Excluding cotton costs and labor costs, you can still earn eighty or ninety taels.
I earn eighty or ninety taels a month, and my daughter said it is more than what a county magistrate or a high official earns.
The key is, you can handle this by yourself.
The more Chun Niang thinks about it, the more beautiful she becomes, and she longs for it in her heart.
When the time comes, we can hire people to plant the fields at home, and we will be able to live a little easier.
After heating the hot water, Chun Niang brought a bathtub and helped her husband wash his hair in the kitchen.
After washing his head and face, Jiang Sanlang changed into the clothes brought by his wife.
"This dress is so loose on me. Why do I see that you have lost a lot of weight compared to last month?"
Chun Niang asked: "Is it hard to be a slave laborer?"
Jiang Sanlang shook his head: "It's just the main point of the work. It's the same for everyone there, so there's no need to suffer."
Chun Niang pinched her husband's arm distressedly, sighed, took a few eggs from the straw basket, and cracked them into the basin.
I scooped a few spoonfuls of flour into it and prepared to roll out egg noodles for my husband.
At this moment, Ying Bao and her younger brother Jiang Wu ran in from outside and rushed towards their father when they saw him.
"Dad! I knew you were back." Ying Bao handed over a bag of snacks in her hand: "This is the chestnut cake I just made with Grandma and Sister Dani. You can try it."
These days, Yingbao and several children from the village knocked down all the chestnuts from their own chestnut trees. They also shelled the chestnuts and made chestnut cakes in batches. They waited for Jiang Quan to come back and take them to the county for sale. .
Jiang Sanlang held his son Jiang Wu in one hand and took a bite of a piece of chestnut cake with the other.
Crispy on the outside, sweet and glutinous in the core, very delicious.
"Not bad, the chestnuts are really delicious this way." Jiang Sanlang praised.
Ying Bao said proudly: "I learned this from my master at a snack shop in the county town. It is very popular in our shop."
In fact, the water she used to soak the chestnuts was from Tongmuquan, and she also used that water to make the noodles later, so the taste was particularly sweet.
After finishing a few bites, Jiang Sanlang picked up another piece and asked, "How's the shop doing lately?"
"Very good. Golden fungus and snow fungus are also selling very well."
Only part of the high-quality golden ears sold to Zhou Mao last time was taken to the county by Jiang Quan and sold in his shop at a price of twenty taels per box, half a catty per box.
Snow fungus comes in a box of fifteen taels, which is also half a catty.
Because there are only a few golden fungus and snow fungus in existence, Yingbao told Jiang Quan not to worry about not being able to sell them. New Year's Day was coming soon, and there would always be people willing to buy them if they were not too expensive.
Jiang Sanlang: "I see that the persimmons are dried at home. When Erquan comes back in two days, I will go to the county town with him."
By the way, I took back the loom parts customized by my wife at the blacksmith shop.
"I'll go too." Ying Bao said, "There's nothing to do now. Sister Dani and Sister Erni are going to the county town for a stroll."
The New Year is coming soon, and they all want to go to the county town to buy some beautiful hairpins and hair flowers, and then see how the young ladies in the county town dress up.
Last time when Erni came back from the county town and talked about the scene in Wa City, Dani was filled with envy and wanted to go there for a long time. Unfortunately, her family was very busy these days and she never had time.
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take them with me when the time comes."
"And me! And me!" Jiang Wu hadn't seen his brother Jiang Jie for a long time.
"Okay! And you." Jiang Sanlang touched his son's head and looked at his wife.
Chun Niang knew what her husband meant and said, "I won't go. I still have a lot of cotton at home. Let's spin it out quickly in these few days. When everyone goes back to work on the New Year in a few days, there will be no free time."
"That's fine." Jiang Sanlang also wanted to sell all the looms before the end of the year. Only when the money is earned can he make money.
The family had a good discussion, and on the third day Jiang Quan drove back and saw Ying Bao laughing. "Yingbao, let's send it!"
Yingbao asked: "Have all the golden ears and snow ears been sold?"
"Yeah!" Jiang Quan smiled from ear to ear and whispered:
"You don't know, that Dongmei is really capable. She promoted it for us for more than a month, and as a result, many people came to look for it. The supply of gift boxes in our shop simply exceeded the demand.
Now the best pastry shops in the county are cooperating with us, providing new pastries to our shop every day, and asking us to sell them for them. "
Ying Bao was surprised and asked quickly: "Did the eldest brother sign a contract with them?"
"Signed. The eldest brother has clearly written down the ingredients for various pastries. If the ingredients used in their shop are not fresh, or are shoddy, his family must compensate our shop for double the loss."
"That's good." The cousin is indeed a shopkeeper.
but……
Yingbao felt a little worried.
The store's most profitable product, the golden fungus and snow fungus, are all sold out. It's not a good sign to be out of stock before the Chinese New Year.
How about taking out all the things you have in your cave?
No, no!
That was reserved for the Wen family and cannot be touched for the time being.
But no one from the Wen family has come to pick up the goods. Are they not ready to take it anymore?
It doesn't matter if you don't want it. I will only keep it for the Wen family until a few days before the New Year. If no one comes to his house, I will sell all the golden fungus and snow fungus in the shop.
Yingbao only received one letter from Sister Wen a few days ago.
Wen Shu said in the letter that something had happened to their family and they were going to Luzhou in a while. She told her not to send letters to Yuzhou because she might not receive them.
Hey, I don’t know what’s going on with the Wen family. Things happen again and again, seemingly endlessly.
In the evening, Yingbao entered the cave.
There are several baskets of sun-dried golden fungus and snow fungus in the cave, totaling about forty kilograms.
In addition, she placed more than a thousand mushroom jars on the ground around the pool.
She has accumulated these jars little by little over the past few years. They are already planted with golden fungus and snow fungus. It is estimated that the golden fungus and snow fungus will be harvested in more than ten days.
After harvesting, the mushrooms can be dried in four or five days by using bamboo plaques to dry in the cave. This is something Yingbao has discovered a long time ago.
After harvesting, the mushroom root base can continue to grow in the jar, which is more trouble-free.
If you want to expand the seeds, you just need to bring in some more pots, fill them with nutrient medium and divide them.
But Yingbao didn't want to divide any more strains, because there were already enough strains in her cave, and she couldn't handle them all.
Currently, apart from breeding and growing mushrooms, Yingbao does not plan to grow anything else on this land. The things originally planted on it will be left to fend for themselves, such as the melons, courgettes and various flowers.
As for the plants on the top of the luminous body, Yingbao didn't go up to check them, so they were probably growing well.
The next day, Jiang Sanlang took a pair of children, two nieces and Jiang Quan into the county town. After sending them to the shop, he drove a carriage to pick up the customized items.
Jiang Quan took the persimmons and chestnut cakes he brought back to the backyard and asked Yingbao Dani and Erni to help weigh and pack them into boxes. He took his little cousin outside to buy delicious food.
The two brothers were eating and shopping. They bought a large bag of snacks and were walking back when they suddenly saw a group of people fighting at the entrance of an alley.
There were many people standing near the alley watching the excitement.
Jiang Quan took a few more curious glances, and this sight shocked him.
It turned out that the two unlucky guys who were beaten were aunt Jiang Yunniang and uncle Zhang Jia.
There was also a young woman wearing heavy makeup standing nearby crying.
I saw my aunt Jiang Yunniang struggling to protect my uncle and crying: "Stop fighting! You are going to kill someone..."
A big man with a sinister face sneered: "He deserves to be beaten to death! He dares to seduce my daughter, he will die without mercy!"
"No! He didn't. It was that woman who seduced him first." Jiang Yunniang defended, opening her arms to tightly protect her husband.
When the arrogant man heard this, he became furious and punched and kicked Jiang Yunniang and Zhang Jia.
While beating him, he yelled: "Fuck you! You're such an ugly old man. How can my daughter seduce him like a young lady? Since you protect him like this, you either die with him! Or you pay me money! You choose." !”