The family laughed a few words, drank the white silver needles soaked in the water of the Seven Stars Spring, and the fatigue of the day was gone, and the father got up and took Huayun and Qiuyun to the field to raise seedlings.

Xia Qingyun took out the pen, ink and paper, and pondered and drew the patterns of Yingluo and tea tubes with her mother.

Yingluo is uniformly tied into a nine-vehicle vajra knot, but there is a difference in color.

The best white peony is made of pure red silk thread, and the top white peony is intertwined with red and pink;

The best white silver needle is made of pure blue-green silk thread, and the top grade white silver needle is interwoven with ochre and cyan silk thread.

The mother came up with the idea to put three grass beads on each end of Yingluo, which is not only beautiful, but also prevents Yingluo from slipping.

The muslin cloth bag containing tea leaves is embroidered with the name of the tea with the same color silk thread in the center, and the four small characters of Qingyun Tea Garden are embroidered in the lower right corner

The design of the tea tube is still made of bamboo, which is divided into three specifications: thick, medium and thin. The thick tube holds four taels of tea leaves, the middle tube holds two taels, and the thin tube holds half taels.

A clump of bluegrass was simply drawn on the small tube, and a big tea word was in it.

In the middle and thick tubes, some landscapes, trees and stones are painted, and two lines of poetry. In addition to "the bamboo rain on the poetry bed is cool, and the tea is pine and the wind is fine", Xia Qingyun added "Why do you need wine if tea can be intoxicating, and I don't need flowers if books can be fragrant", "Draw river water to cook new tea, and buy all the green mountains as a picture screen".

At the bottom of all the tea tubes, all of them are branded with the word Qingyun in the seal. The body of the seal is crooked and not easy to portray, and she plans to find a blacksmith to poke some pokes, and it will be branded after it is red.

Not only the tea tube, but also the rest of the bamboo boxes and tea utensils, either on the back or in an inconspicuous place, are branded with this mark.

My mother looked at the few tea utensils she had drawn and felt fresh, so she asked what they were for. Xia Qingyun explained to her mother one by one.

The tea ware she designed was a nine-piece set. They are tea rules, tea lotus, tea drains, tea needles, tea clips, tea nets, tea saucers, tea sweeps, and tea towels.

The wide-mouthed bamboo spoon is called the tea rule, which is used to take tea from the tea tube, which can not only avoid the sweat stains on the hands of the tea leaves, but also accurately grasp the amount of tea leaves.

The curved bamboo board is called tea lotus, which is used to hold the tea leaves taken out, and the tea is judged by the tea drinker.

The thick bamboo board with a round hollow is called a tea drain, which is placed on the spout of the pot and the tea leaves are placed into the pot from the round hole in the middle to prevent the tea leaves from being spilled outside.

The thin bamboo stick is called a tea needle, the thick end is used to pluck the tea into the pot, and the thin end can be used to dredge the spout.

A small funnel with a fine mesh at the bottom, called a tea net, is used to filter the tea soup, filter out the tea leaves, and make the tea soup look brighter.

The long bamboo clamp is called a tea clamp, which is used to scald the tea cup and pinch the tea residue out of the teapot.

The saucer is used to serve tea under the tea cup.

A tea brush, also known as a tea brush, is used to clean tea sets.

Tea towels are used to wipe off spilled water and tea soup.

After listening to her, the mother stroked her heart and said: "If it weren't for the fairy sister under the Queen Mother's seat to teach you this, who would have come up with so many tricks!" Quench your thirst and drink tea, and spend so much money. ”

Xia Qingyun smiled when she heard this: "The lady of the big family of Houmen, she usually has nothing to do, drinking tea and chatting about idle days, but she doesn't feel troublesome." There are also those eunuchs, rich sons and brothers, who are idle, tasting tea, making poems, and being vassally elegant, which is also a pleasure. ”

"That's right." The mother smiled and said, "They are idle, but they are busy with us." How can I take out a little more money from their pockets? ”

After painting these, Xia Qingyun put the pen on the inkstone, sighed and said: "I just don't know where to make clay pots and porcelain, otherwise we can also order some chic teapots and teapots to earn more." ”

The mother stretched out her index finger and poked her forehead, and said with a smile: "You girl is about to get into the eyes of money." Don't be too greedy to do things, take it one step at a time. I heard that there are people in Xinping Town in the northwest who can make porcelain, so when the matter at hand is stopped, let your father accompany you to see it. ”

It was busy until midnight that they came out of the Wishful Treasure Pavilion to rest.

The next day, everyone washed up and went their separate ways. Hua Yun and Qiu Yun went directly to the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion to raise seedlings, Dad carried a hoe up the mountain, Mother took a carriage and went straight to the Yahang in Dongchuan Town, and Xia Qingyun went to the house to decorate.

In the morning, she was so busy that she couldn't even bother to drink.

First, he and the stonemasons and carpenters determined the carving patterns and materials for the gatehouse and the courtyards of the houses, and instructed them to make sure that they were more detailed.

Next, the village tailor and the carpenter were found. Fifty curtains of dark blue batik coarse cloth were ordered, thirty bed skirts, and three hundred sets of azure pigmented aprons, sleeves and turbans. He also ordered 50 bamboo curtains to hang with the craftsman, and 500 sets of bamboo baskets, bamboo screens, bamboo baskets and other objects.

Draw the pattern one by one, indicate the size, and write a simple document, say that it is accepted according to the requirements, and those that do not meet the specifications will be returned, and each of them will be painted and pressed with cinnabar fingerprints, and each person is paid five taels of silver as a deposit.

They had just been sent away, and the man who delivered the stone and timber came to settle the bill. Xia Qingyun took out the account books and IOUs, checked the details, and paid the rest of the silver.

He ordered 1,200 pieces of blue-striped stone and 500 three-finger-thick black gold slabs with the stone workshop. With the delivery of timber ordered fifty square fine small leaf red sandalwood.

Most of the people in Beixi Village use bamboo from the mountains to make furniture, which is easy to obtain and easy to make. But after Xia Qingyun asked the price of Xiaoye red sandalwood, he decisively decided to use it to make zuò.

It's not like the previous life, where rosewood furniture was sold at sky-high prices. Although the rosewood here is also more expensive than other woods, because there are very few people who use it, it is only sold for thirty taels of silver. In Xia Qingyun's opinion, it is simply the price of cabbage.

Rosewood can not only be used to make furniture, but also to make high-end tea trays, and the scraps can also be used to make zuò matching tea utensils, which will not be wasted at all.

The man who delivered the timber not only received the last silver, but also received an order of 1,500 taels of silver, and his mouth was almost to the root of his ears with joy. When Xia Qingyun asked him if there were any roots of an old tree, he replied briskly: "I threw a yard there, big and small." If the girl wants it, I don't want money, just bring it to you. ”

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "I don't want you for nothing, even if it is fifty taels of silver, as long as the roots of hardwood with a diameter of more than two meters are used, what do you think?" ”

"It's up to the girl to decide! More than two meters, I have at least more than 300 there, and I will assign you to pick up the best ones and send them over! The man agreed.

It was near noon before the mother came back from the town.

She was very neat in her work, and she brought back four rough mothers-in-law that day to help cook and clean the yard and do some chores. By the way, I bought more than a dozen bedding and some rice, flour, grain and oil in the town, and stuffed the car to the brim.

The rough mother-in-law temporarily arranged to live in the backyard of the large cross-yard, and the two handlebars lived in the front yard, and by the way, they could also help guard the barn.

After lunch, no one in the family rested, and they went their separate ways.

Xia Qingyun wrote a notice and posted it, stating that he would hire 30 female workers and 30 male workers. Do six days and rest one day, according to the amount of work worked, the salary ranges from five to ten copper. As long as it is from Beixi Village, you can come to sign up, and those from other villages must have Beixi Village people as a guarantee. Regardless of whether they are close or close, they must be recruited through assessment and merit.

The people of the entire village of Nord Stream are boiling!

They all knew that Xia Jianping's family had made it, but they didn't expect to be able to spread such a big mess all at once.

If two people from each family could go to work in Xia Qingyun's workshop, they would be able to earn back at least ten copper plates a day, and three taels or more silver in a year. This is much better than them farming and selling mountain goods.

As soon as the notice was posted, there was an endless stream of people who came to ask, blocking the entrance of the courtyard tightly. Xia Qingyun rubbed his temples helplessly, and had to post another notice, explaining that the recruitment assessment would only start the next morning, and these talents would slowly disperse.

With the rough mother-in-law, Xia Qingyun and his mother made time to sew samples of four muslin bags, and knitted a set four-color Yingluo.

Xia Qingyun patted his head, "Oh, I forgot about collecting grass beads." ”

The mother smiled and said with relief: "It's rare that you think about so many things, anyway, you don't have a hurry now, wait for Ming'er to let Huayun go and talk to the children in the village, and let the babies go up the mountain to play when they pick it, so that they can earn money to buy sugar." ”

"It's still thoughtful, no wonder my father looks at my mother's eyes full of pity, and listens to my mother for everything." Xia Qingyun smiled and put on a pink top hat for her mother, causing her mother to laugh and make a gesture to twist her mouth.

The family here is happy and busy, but Xia Jian'an and Xia Jianxi on the other side of the old house are not happy.

Both of them are fearful masters at home, and their ears are about to be calloused by the Wang and Fang clans' nagging.

The Wang family counted Xia Jian'an and said: "Your Xia family has no conscience, I think that the old family's Qingyun had leprosy, and they didn't do any work in the house all day long, eating and drinking for nothing, and we didn't ask her for food money when we were uncles and sisters-in-law." Now I don't know where to get the silver in exchange, I have built such a big house, opened a garden and a workshop, and hired so many outsiders, but I have left my family aside. ”

Xia Jian'an leaned on the bed and smoked a cigarette pouch, squinted his eyes and said hatefully: "Qingyun's girl is now in the market, and the boss is a coward, so she is in charge." If I want to change it in the past, how can I take out ten taels or eight taels from the eldest couple. ”

Wang pouted, "Ten two or eight is a fart!" Haven't you heard that their family spent more than a thousand taels of silver just to buy wood! ”

"What?!" Xia Jian'an sat up in shock, "Who did you listen to?" ”

Wang said: "Huang Si'er's family in the village and the wood seller are distant cousins, and the wood seller ate at her house at noon, which is true, and he also took out a silver ingot of white flowers to show off, which is full of ten taels!" ”

Xia Jian'an took a few sharp breaths, jumped out of bed and said, "I have to find the third child to sum up, I can't let the boss take advantage of all the benefits, we can't touch it at all." ”

He walked out of the house with his shoes on his feet and knocked on the door of Xia Jianxi's house opposite.

"It's the second brother, what's the matter with Jianxi? He went out. Fang blocked the door, not letting him in.

Xia Jian'an said, "It's okay, talk to him, forget it if you're not there." With that, he turned around and went back to the house.

Wang asked, "Why are you really coming back soon?" ”

"The third child is not here." Xia Jian'an threw off his shoes and leaned back on the bed.

"Phew!" Wang scolded: "After lunch, I saw him go to the back room, why isn't he there?" I think it's deliberately avoiding you. That Fang's hair is better than that of a monkey, and the two of them have not held back their farts! ”