Chapter 20: The whole village is mobilized
"Uncle, don't be so polite, how can you learn from them, you can just call me Peach Blossom or Flower Girl,"
"Alas, okay, Shunzi quickly take the carved template and come over for the flower master to see." Brother Shunzi took out a few sets of templates from a large box on the side of the stool,
"Look at it, this is a template that has been carved five pieces, and another one can be carved today,"
Peach blossom to see the carving is really good, find some sand and pour it on the ground to spread evenly, with a template to press out the pattern is exactly the same as the peach blossom painting, carved five is centipede, dragonfly, butterfly, little bee, Monkey King, the appearance of the template, are vivid, plus color pigments, it is perfect.
"My uncle's craftsmanship is really good, and there is no flaw in comparison." "It's a good painting by the flower master, our family has eaten this bowl of rice for generations, and I have never seen such a beautiful painting." The door god and the stove god are all serious, and these are all cute cartoon images, of course, they don't have the same feeling.
"With these few, we can start making kites, I'll take these five first, this is five taels of silver, you take it first," "Don't worry, a knot is fine." "Uncle take it first, you can invest in the little brother-in-law first, and you can also collect some shares." Liu Tiandi happily took it, it was really good to be able to invest in his sister-in-law, and he needed funds.
I have to talk about the little brother-in-law, the little brother-in-law is called Zhang Chao, is a shrewd and capable, flexible person, when he came to look at the mountain, and then to the market, found that the profit is very large, so he immediately began to dry, he dug up very slowly, the bamboo shoots grew too fast, he began to hire some half-grown children in the village to do it, buy some snacks, sugar cubes, and hire a large group of children without much money, this work is not tired, the children have a high interest in eating, the boy planing, the girl washing, chopping, cooking, dry quickly, also learn to peach blossom family cooking, Each child was given another six yuan, and as soon as the bill was settled every day, the money brought was quickly spent. The sister-in-law doesn't want to sell the bamboo shoots yet, so a large number of them can negotiate the price and buy more money. After all, the dried bamboo shoots in the grocery store are all shipped from the south, and the modern freight without logistics is very high, and there may not be a supply.
So the little brother-in-law has been worrying about money for the past two days, and the Li family has also advanced a part, which makes the little sister-in-law very embarrassed, and has been bothering them.
"Peach Blossom, your family has built so many houses, do you need carpentry, can we do it." It was the honest Brother Shunzi who said this, "Yes, it's so needed, Brother Shunzi can also carpenter." "Well, do our line of work is to learn carpentry first, and then learn carving, our carpentry work requires more detail, usually do carpentry work practice, only years ago can receive some carving work, sometimes will also carve some flowers and dragons and phoenixes on the furniture of large households." "Okay, just keep you going, and then we will discuss the salary." "It's really good, you don't know that Shunzi Niang and Grandma Shunzi are sick all the year round, and there are many children in the family, now there is a big job in your family, and we can build a house and say goodbye when Shunzi goes back." When Brother Shunzi heard his father's words, he lowered his head, and his face was red to the base of his neck, as if he wanted to work to marry his daughter-in-law.
When Peach Blossom left the uncle's house, she saw Li Zheng, the patriarch and several old people in the village coming up from below, and at first glance, they were coming towards Peach Blossom's house.
"Master Xiaohua, we are just looking for you," Li Zheng said with a little smile in his tone, it seemed that she was very satisfied with the silver she had sent these times, "Li Zheng Grandpa, what's the matter." "That's the case, they have an opinion about your uncle's going up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, everyone says that it is the back mountain of our Xujia Village, and it is not in accordance with the rules for outsiders to dig things and make a fortune. If it weren't for the fact that all of them were working in your house, they would have driven your uncle-in-law away a long time ago, and you told him to stop doing it. "I used to throw it away and no one wanted it, but in the past few days, I learned to make bamboo shoots and dried them, so I won't let people do them."
"Flower girl, you can't say that, no matter how you say it, it's also something from our Xujia Village, you can't rob and occupy it indiscriminately just because it's your relative." An old man in the village blushed and had a thick neck when he said this, as if his brother-in-law had come into his house to grab something, this kind of person just couldn't look down on others, and a few people on the side still agreed with his words.
"Well, I happen to have a long-term business here, and I originally wanted to take the whole village to do it together, but now it seems that I can do it for my sister-in-law, and I won't be able to dig bamboo shoots for a few days anyway." After listening to Peach Blossom's words, several people immediately stopped talking about what happened just now, and the expressions on their faces turned into flattery, especially Li Zheng.
"Don't, don't, you see, isn't this talking to you, it's only a few days to dig, don't let your uncle-in-law change places, it's not easy to support a cauldron, tell us what you have to do." Now Rimasa's face is like that of a pug that wants food. "That's it, that is, whoever has the opinion to let him dig bamboo shoots by himself, spend the ideas of the master to make more money, and if he has an opinion, he will not be allowed to do it." The patriarch also stood up and hurried to curry favor with Peach Blossom.
"Really let my sister-in-law do it," "Let's, let's, promise to let." A few people who had opinions just now nodded collectively in agreement.
"Okay, there's really no one in the courtyard, a few grandfathers are waiting here, I'll go get a sample for everyone to see," "Okay, you go and get it, we're standing there differently." ”
Peach Blossom took out the kite samples made in the past two days, everyone was very surprised, everyone couldn't put it down, with the help of a few children quickly put up a few kites, the kites flew around in the sky, and a few children screamed, laughing, holding the kite string in their hands to see who flew high.
"This is a kite, with bamboo blanks to make bones, glued to the printed rice paper, tied to the line, do a good spool, each family only needs to cut the bamboo to make a skeleton, stained with paper, we provide printed rice paper, tube unified printing, do spools, each sold to 12 to 15 Wen, the cost is rice paper, thread and pigment. Add up to about five wen each, so each manual will be given four to five wen according to the degree of difficulty, a person can do more than a dozen a day, there are children who can help, do more than 20 no problem, one person can earn more than 80 to 100 wen a day. Now the merchant has set 10,000 first, and there will definitely be more later,"
Everyone was shocked by Peach Blossom's words, this was a big surprise, everyone began to calculate in their hearts, how many people can work in their own homes, how much money they can earn a day, and they were shocked by the number they calculated.
"Lizheng Grandpa, you look at the organization of the villagers to study in the afternoon, you see if there are too many people can find a place," "The big place is the ancestral hall, and after a while, let people clean up the yard, when to start working," "Wait for two days to start drying, I have to prepare rice paper, rope in the past two days, you also have to prepare bamboo billets, bamboo split into billets and dried for two days, wet and easy to get out of shape." I have to watch them cut bamboo, and we must not cut it in pieces, otherwise we will have no bamboo in two years. "This is really, if it is less than two years, it is not allowed to be cut, and the bamboo grows quickly, and it will become mature in two years."
The reason why Peach Blossom arranged to start work in two days was because there were two days to dig the pit on the wasteland, and the house also needed two days to find someone to work, and the sister-in-law also needed two days to work, and the puppets at home also needed to find a few more people to work, and the store also needed to recruit one or two guys, and she had to arrange a lot of things every day, which was not easy to be in charge.
After lunch, I haven't sat down for a while, several girls of the same age in the village came to call Peach Blossom to go to the ancestral hall, it is estimated that the adults are in a hurry, and they are embarrassed to come, Peach Blossom and Brother Youcai took a group of boys from the family to the aunt's family, two, two aunts, and four small ones in the family, a mighty group of people, holding things to the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall is in the east of the village, the peach blossom is still the first time to come in, the courtyard wall of the blue brick, the glazed tile covers the gatehouse, the heavy gate is the red paint, the lintel is written on the Xu family ancestral hall four solemn big characters, there are two old elms in the courtyard, there are two glazed tile blue brick halls in the north, needless to say that the weeds in the courtyard are eradicated, the ground is also spread a few broken grass mats, the people in the yard are sitting or standing, three or five groups are chatting, the peach blossoms come in, hula all come up, help the peach blossoms get things, looking for a seat, the men are all around the rich brother.
Peach Blossom and Brother Youcai began to make friends with a group of people, there are too many men, women and children, there are 47 households in a village, 376 people, there are 300 people, Peach Blossom had to let them sit in a big circle, in order to let everyone see, their current little man really has no choice, and finally had to sit on the square table, step by step, slowly teach them, how thick the bamboo billet is, the length of each bamboo billet, how to tie it together. How to boil the paste used in the paper, how to paste the paper to ensure that the paper is not broken, can hold the wind, everything is carefully taught.
Peach Blossom personally explained to everyone about the relationship between the quality and reputation of kites, which involves everyone's annual orders in the future, and everyone can still listen to it and do things very seriously.
When it comes to making money, everyone's enthusiasm is very high, and if you don't understand it, you can quickly ask, after all, there are not many people in a village who like to find trouble, and no one will be noisy casually, and no one will get along with money. Peach Blossom has long appreciated the excitement of working at home, but I didn't expect it to be more powerful here, while learning and at the same time, the parents are short, and there are suitable marriages in the family, and the eyes are constantly looking, there are a large group of girls around Brother Cai, and even the cousin of the aunt's family has become a popular person.
A few boys in the family are on the side of the lively drawing template, printing, peach blossom decided to control one by himself, afraid of many people, the technology will soon be leaked, and the template is valuable, slightly damaged, and then the production is labor-intensive and costly.
You can basically learn it in the afternoon, and you can make several of them if you work neatly. Children can also cut the length of the rope and bamboo billet they need on the side, and everyone is lively until the cooking point. Each child was rewarded with a kite they wanted, and they were all happy.