Spring goes to autumn, Xu is family life is better, and the days are like flowing water, unlike the days when Chen Xuejiao first came, because the family couldn't eat enough in the difficult days, and felt that the days were always far away.

Chen Xiucai ran outside for half a year, and came back with a little money in three or five days, and under Xuejiao's calculations, Li discussed with his sister-in-law Wenying to expand the embroidery shop.

It is said that it is an embroidery shop, but in fact, there was no shop originally, but I found some girls and women in the surrounding countryside who embroidered well, issued silver needles and silk threads, and gave money according to each piece, and the embroidered objects were taken to the Wenying grocery store to sell. The country women have nothing to do, in addition to doing farm work and housework, the rest of the time is to spin shoes, those girls' homes are even more idle, in addition to being bored in the house to be a female red is to be a female red, now there is such a way to make money, which does not fight to do, the money earned in addition to buying rouge gouache headdress, the rest can also be used to supplement the family.

A pair of skillful hands can not only embroider, but also draw pictures. In the past, when she was tired from doing work, she would rub her sore neck, lie in front of the window and depict flowers, birds, fish and insects little by little, a big book full of paintings. Now her mind came in handy, and the appearance drawn by her hands was lifelike, and the color scheme was novel, and she could always think of something else that she could not think of. Those embroiderers embroidered according to the way they were still painting, and the embroidered handkerchiefs, foreheads, flowers, birds, fish, and insects on the belt seemed to be real, and they were snatched up by the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law as soon as they were placed in Wenying's grocery store.

At the beginning, the embroiderers recruited by Li and Wenying were all lonely families with no children or lonely women who were divorced by their husbands. It is said that those lonely women make embroidery work the most vivid and pretty. How can it not be fresh, no husband and no children, even the mother's family does not support him, three meals a day and four seasons of clothes have to be earned by a pair of hands, the needle and thread are pierced by time, and the inch by inch is the mind.

Those lonely women have this entry, and they have a pair of hands to rely on. Lee's fame gradually spread. It's not just some childless women who ask for the door. Some big girls and little daughters-in-law with good needlework also begged to come to the door, Li is not such a thin lover, and has tasted the sweetness of making money. discussed with Xuejiao to expand the embroidery shop.

Xuejiao analyzed for Li's family, and the embroidery girl embroidered the work and sent it to the grocery store in a scattered manner, which was too piecemeal. Second, there is no guarantee of unification time, so it is better to gather them in one place. The daily embroidery work is sent to a person to collect, and it is sent to the grocery store, and when the money is made in the future, a prosperous shop is rented on the street to sell embroidery.

Lee tasted the sweetness. knows that this business is done, and Xue Jiao's brain is active, she is a small family. Selling a salted duck egg can sell a famous name, not to mention embroidery. I said yes right away. Invite more people, rent a courtyard in the town, don't decorate it beautifully, and don't face the street, as long as the house is strong, clean and spacious, and does not leak wind and rain, it can live in people. Wen Ying's side took care of the matter of renting the yard, because Zheng Huozi often walked around the town and knew a lot of people, so he was in charge. It happened that there was an old family, because the only son had made his business bigger in Xuzhou Mansion, and he went to his son in a few days, and the family house was also put away, so he found a tooth to rent out.

This tooth nephew Chen family also knows, or the tooth nephew Fei Lao Liu who will help Zhang Luo by selling land. The family wants to rent out ten taels of silver a year, and the Li family hesitated when they heard that ten taels of silver, and now the embroidery shop will earn a twelve taels of silver regardless of the cost of a year, and the rent will not be profitable.

Xue Jiao thinks about the long term, she gives Li eye medicine, and now she earns one or two silver a month because the cost is small, and renting a yard to gather people saves costs, and embroidery work also earns more naturally, if you only care about rent, you can only do a small business of one or two silver a month.

Li thought about it and took out ten taels of silver, it was a three-entry yard, it was just renovated last year, there were wells and sheds, there were pot houses and sit-up rooms, it was clean and complete, but even if the embroidery girl could sleep at night, Li went to see it and knew it in his heart, if it wasn't for the old man who was in a hurry to get rid of it, not to mention that ten taels of silver was fifteen taels of silver and couldn't rent such a big yard.

At the moment, I signed a white deed, rented this yard, cleaned it inside and out, and took those embroidery girls in. Embroidery girls are willing to come here to embroider work, there are many lively people, and they can talk and discuss the colors, and the days are no longer lonely and desolate, even those big girls and little daughters-in-law are also willing to come here, and they can make money, needless to say, they can manage two meals a day, and they can also save a lot of chewing for the family.

Sure enough, people gathered in one place, embroidery work than usual scattered to work, there are daily inputs, so that within a few years, this embroidery work alone will also make a fortune. However, in the spring and autumn of the first season, even the Li family didn't think that there would be such a good time in life.

The silk cloth used in the embroidery work was bought from the cloth shop, Xue Jiao gave Li an idea, the vacant new house was not as good as a textile machine, and hired an old woman to spin the yarn, so as to save an expense, it happened that Chen Xiucai was doing the silk weaving business, wouldn't it be easier to get raw materials from him, the embroidery work in Baitu Town was more linen, only a small amount of silk cloth, the first one was silk cloth from the south, the cost was too high, if you use your own silk cloth, not only save the cost, but also have an additional input at home.

When Li and Wen Ying heard this, they stroked their palms and praised Xuejiao for her thoughtfulness, and soon Li ordered Qi An to write a letter to Chen Xiucai, listing the plans of the embroidery shop in detail, and asked a boat boss who often delivered letters to his home to bring them over.

The life of the Chen family's big house is getting better and better, Chen Qiping is yellow and thin in front of him, and he can't eat enough when he orders food, let alone snacks. Today's Chen Qiping not only studied, but also wore new clothes every day, and hung a purse around his waist, which was full of rose pine nut candy and steamed sugar cake with fruit filling, he was the youngest child of the Li family, and he couldn't help but be pampered.

While eating rose pine nut candy, he stood in the yard and beckoned to the big egg, who looked at his new clothes and rubbed his hands, just caring about silly music, rubbing his hands and baring his teeth: "I heard that Uncle has brought you a lot of good things." ”

The sky was gloomy and it looked like an autumn rain, Qi Ping saw that the big egg was wearing a patched dress, and the trousers were already shrunk to the knees, and a cold came, and he quickly pulled the big egg into the house.

Don't look at his young age, but he is extremely sensible, not at all like his father's temperament. Xue Jiao saw him and Qi Ping enter the house, put the fruit saucer, grabbed a handful of silk candy and handed it to him. Because Li fell into the problem of leg pain, as soon as it rained on a cloudy day, this just entered the autumn with coldness, so he lit the charcoal basin, the family had money, and the charcoal was not the black charcoal that used to burn and the black smoke was billowing out, but the silver charcoal without smoke.

Xue Jiao simmered corn and sweet potatoes in the charcoal basin, baked fragrant, she took out a piece of corn with an iron tong, broke it and cooled it in half, and handed it to Qi Ping and the big egg, fresh corn, full of grains, roasted and eaten in the fragrance. She herself picks up the roasted sweet potato, peels it and puts it in her mouth, because it is too hot, and eats it while blowing.

The room was hot, Xue Ru and Jing were around the stove to draw patterns, Xue Jiao was too hot, and took a fan to fan the wind.

The big egg's trouser legs were too short, and Xue Ru beckoned him, made him stand up straight, picked up a similar piece of cloth from the sewing basket, and gave it to him densely on the street. Last time, Li gave Zhang a piece of cloth and asked her to make a new dress for her three children, but the cloth went directly to her, and she didn't care if she was dressed properly or not.

Chen Qiping took off the new beige robe he was wearing, untied his purse, poured all the candy inside into front of the big egg, picked up the good-looking ones and filled them into his mouth, and said happily: "My father is coming back." ”

The whole family looked forward to it every day, counting on him to come back after selling silk cloth, and met his friend who was an official when he was a child, and Chen Xiucai also sold Jiangnan porcelain, all of which were credited in the name of Xu Guozhi.

A few days ago, I wrote back and said that I was going to come home in a few days, but no, no matter how good the business is, it can't compare to the hot kang head of my wife and children, and the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, Qi An is going to Xuzhou Mansion for the autumn festival, and he can't help but come back as a father.

Since Li received the news that Chen Xiucai was coming back, he looked forward to it day and night, the house was more grand than the New Year, and it was sprinkled and cleaned inside and out, and Li Yuntian and Chen Zifu had re-powdered the wall that had fallen off the powder, and the stove was pushed to build a new one, and even the vegetables grown in the vegetable garden were Chen Xiucai's favorite food.

Li Yuntian saw that his sister was happy, he was naturally happy, since his sister married into the Chen family, there is no such a good life now, he found a carpenter to build a set of tables and chairs, and wiped the old furniture with tea oil. The Li family changed all the furniture in the house, the foot stools, and the tent curtains, and made a complete set of new clothes for Chen Xiu to wear when he went home. Chen Xuejiao also picked a large bouquet of osmanthus flowers from the private school and inserted them on the table, the room was filled with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and the room was changed inside and out, and the copper basin and copper kettle were shining and dazzling.

The Chen family's big house has been busy these days, and it didn't stop until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Mrs. Chen glanced at the door and said, "Who is doing business outside is not pleased, and those who haven't come back for half a year may be hooked away by which fan." ”

Li Shi was in the pot house facing the oil pot fried lotus root clip, after eating this sentence, touched his heart, his hand shook the lotus root clip fell into the oil pot, his hand burned red, and immediately two big bubbles, and he still couldn't control the pain after applying vinegar.

Although the people in the township are not interested in begging for small, but there are also people who will find death to buy a concubine even if they have an extra bag of food, and the men are the same everywhere, and their own men are literate and hyphenated, the most particular thing is a red sleeve fragrance, they are illiterate, but there are many people who are literate and willing to be small, I really don't know if Chen Xiucai will have someone around him for most of the year.

Just thinking about it, Wen Ying's son Dongping came in and hurriedly said, "Big girl, the embroidery shop has beaten people!" (To be continued)