Chapter 19: Getting on the right track

This little daughter-in-law recognized her as the little daughter-in-law of the Wu family in the village, Zhou, who usually does things in a hurry, and has a lot of vigor.

So he nodded and said, "Of course." But you have to think about it, the team leader earns a lot of money and has a lot of responsibility. It is necessary to be able to open the opening to control people, and to be careful when inspecting the appearance. And you must not show favoritism, otherwise you will have to deduct your wages. ”

Zhou nodded in agreement and stood at the table.

Someone starts, and the later ones are easy. Not long after, two more daughters-in-law in their thirties stood up and said that they wanted to be team leaders.

When the mother saw that one was the second daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, Wen, and the other was the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yang family, Zhang, both of whom were diligent and sharp-tongued, they should both be down.

Seeing that the female workers elected three team leaders, the male workers were still twisting and pinching, and no one volunteered.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Yang family, Zhang, is also a pungent person, and said with a smile: "It turns out that you men are not as bold as our mothers, why don't we send a few people to help you take care of it?" It's just that I listen to my mother-in-law at home, and I have to listen to other people's mother-in-law when I come out to work, which is a little cold. ”

Her words caused the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law to laugh, and the mother couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard it.

After another half a moment, the three descendants came forward and said, "Aunt Xia, the three of us are willing to do it." ”

One of the three descendants is named Jiang Dezhu, who is the eldest of the village chief's family. One is named Qian Xingxue, who is the second son of the Qian family in the north of the village. There is also a man named Wu Chen from Cangjiao Village thirty miles away, his second aunt married the Qian family in Beixi Village, so he and Qian Xingxue are cousins.

Six team leaders were set, and Aunt Xia sent each of them two sets of samples and raw materials to do, and asked them to select the team members by themselves, and then try to make zuò with the team members.

According to the five processes of cutting, edging, embroidery, sewing, polishing, and nailing, the team leader divides labor according to each person's craftsmanship and work speed. For example, there are a total of 12 people in Zhou's group, and one person is responsible for simple tasks such as cutting and nailing ropes, two people are responsible for hemming, six people are responsible for embroidery, and two people are responsible for sewing and one person is responsible for Yingluo.

The same goes for the male workers in the front yard. One group makes tea tubes, one group makes bamboo boxes, and one group makes tea utensils, each of which is divided into processes.

It was inevitably a bit chaotic at first. After noon, the team leaders came to the mother again, wanting to rearrange the process and head.

The mother smiled: "You are in charge, you don't need to tell me, I only look at the final product." If there is a defective product and the quantity is short, I will talk to you again. ”

When the team leader saw that his mother had let go of power, he was overjoyed and became more and more energetic.

Xia Qingyun went to the camellia garden early this morning for a turn. Seeing that my father had opened a garden of more than five acres with more than 30 strong laborers. She instructed the rough envoy to cook a large pot of mung bean soup and send it to the mountain once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

The people who opened up the wasteland sweated like rain, and they drank mung bean soup just to quench their thirst, and they praised Miss Xia for their thoughtfulness to their father.

Two days later, the tailor sent the first batch of 100 sets of headscarves and apron sleeves, and the people in the workshop wore uniform outfits and looked more neat.

The mother pulled a few pieces of batik cloth from home and sewed a few headscarves for the six team leaders, which could be distinguished at a glance.

In the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, Huayun and Qiuyun have raised more than 50,000 tea seedlings. It is very easy to raise tea seedlings in the treasure pavilion, as long as you cut a tea tree branch of appropriate thickness from the big tea tree and insert it in the ground, you don't have to worry about it.

With the moisture of the Seven Star Spring, the planted tea branches will take root and draw branches on the same day, and they can grow into medium small tea trees in three days and can be picked in five days. Therefore, in the past few days, a lot of buds and fresh leaves have been accumulated, waiting for Xia Qingyun to make tea.

Nine bamboo leaf green snakes are more than three zhang long, the thickness of the bowl mouth, and Huayun Qiuyun and the two are familiar with each other, often wandering around the two of them, sometimes two people are tired, so they simply let the snake coil up, lean on it to rest, cold and comfortable.

In the middle of the month, the area of the tea garden on the mountain opened to ten acres, and Xia Qingyun discussed with his father about moving seedlings.

In order to hide people's eyes, before dawn in the morning, my father put on a carriage and pulled Xia Qiuyun out of the village and walked around outside.

Xia Qingyun flashed into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, and as soon as his mind moved, the tea seedlings automatically floated from the ground.

A cart can only hold more than 300 tea seedlings, and the father and daughter ran more than a dozen times in a row, and gathered five acres of tea seedlings to unload the tea garden.

When the people came to work, they were surprised to see the low trees piled up on the edge of the field, and asked where the handlebar style came from, and the handlebar type said: "The owner personally drove the car back in the middle of the night, and I don't know." Just plant it. ”

In two days, the ten acres of land were all planted with rows of tea saplings, which looked lush and green, which made people feel refreshed.

Xia Qingyun was afraid that the freshly transplanted tea saplings would not survive, so he quietly took Hua Yun and Qiu Yun up the mountain at night and poured some Seven Star Spring water on each tea tree. All the tea saplings survived and grew well. She decided to start picking the first fresh leaves in a few days.

The people in the village did not recognize the tea tree, and there was a lot of discussion, thinking that they were waiting for the tree to blossom and bear fruit, and then picking the fruit and selling it.

Xia Qingyun didn't explain either. Three days later, the craftsman sent the first batch of bamboo baskets and bamboo sieves to him. She posted a notice stating that any girl over the age of ten who had not yet left the pavilion could come to the garden to try out tea picking.

The girls who came to try the work didn't know what tea picking was at first, and when they figured it out, they were asked to pick buds and fresh leaves from the trees, and they were eager to try it happily.

Xia Qingyun said: "It's not just any leaf that can be picked. It is necessary to pick up the fat buds and pick the two complete leaves together, not to separate them, and not to tear the leaves. And the bamboo basket should not be too full, too full will crush the leaves of the lower layer. ”

And so on, I told the precautions one by one, and let Qiuyun teach them hand in hand for a while, before they set aside an acre of land for trial mining.

The fresh leaves picked on the mountain cannot be kept as fresh as in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, and after being picked, they must be green and withered in time.

Xia Qingyun ordered people to clean the open space between the house and the courtyard, put on a bamboo frame, put the tea leaves on it, and found two descendants to watch, and no one was allowed to enter casually.

There is also a small courtyard in the workshop, which is specially used to make tea. Without Xia Qingyun's permission, no one could enter the small courtyard.

The weather was beautiful, and the next two days were neither too sunny nor rainy. Xia Qingyun made the first batch of white peonies.

After the brewing, I asked my father and sister to taste it, and they all said that it was on par with the output in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, but it was a little more green. Xia Qingyun nodded, she had already estimated this. Therefore, the tea made in the tea garden on the mountain is ordered to be of the highest quality, and the tea produced in the Rooibos Pavilion is the best.

The prepared tea leaves are packed in sewn cotton bags according to their grades and stored in the warehouse.

Since then, the various processes of Qingyun Tea Garden have gradually been on the right track.

Only then did the people in the village understand that the girl of the Xia family was selling the dried leaves to others! There was everything to say for a while.

Some envy Xia Qingyun's dexterity and ability to come up with such a good idea. Some are jealous and say that good things have made her catch up, and if she changes herself, she can also start. There are also a few people with ill intentions, spreading everywhere that Xia Qingyun has cheated big families out of money, and if they know that they are buying leaves, they will have to come to her to settle accounts!

The workshop was also affected by these gossip, and some people were worried that they would not be able to pay their wages at the end of the month, so they found Xia Qingyun's mother to investigate.

The mother smiled and took out ten ingots of silver and put them on the table, and the workers saw the white flowers and sparkling silver, and they didn't say anything, and they worked again steadfastly.

When there are still five days before the end of the month, Qingyun Tea Garden has produced 300 catties of high-grade white peonies and 200 catties of high-grade white silver needles. The number of tea sets and tea utensils in the workshop is more than twice as large as the number of orders.

There are also two kinds of excellent tea leaves in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, each of which is one hundred and fifty catties. Xia Qingyun's family was relieved.

The stone carvings and carpentry work in the house are nearing completion. The people who delivered the stone sent several batches of blue-striped stones one after another.

Xia Qingyun asked someone to pave the floor in the workshop first, and instructed the workers to clean it every day when they finished work. He also asked the team leader to count the shoe size, buy soft-soled cloth shoes from the shoe store in the town, and stipulate that they should be changed before going to work, and they were not allowed to wear outside shoes and bring them into the soil.

Team leader Wen and Xia Qingyun's mother quipped: "Your workshop is cleaner than my kang, and you can lie down and sleep directly when you are tired." ”

The courtyard of the house is also covered with blue stones, and only the corners of the wall and the four corners of the main courtyard are left for planting flowers and plants.

Dad and Huayun went up the mountain to dig back plantains and begonias. Plantains are planted on the west side of the main courtyard, and begonias are planted on the east side, and the lawn is spread in all directions. I also moved some fine bamboos and plum orchid grass, and planted them all over the courtyard.

There are trees and flowers in the yard, and it suddenly looks vibrant.

Just wait for the small leaf red sandalwood to arrive, so that the carpenter can start making furniture. Xia Qingyun had already drawn the pattern of the furniture, so he showed it to his father.

Dad was born as a carpenter, and after reading Xia Qingyun's drawings, he also praised her for her ingenuity. In fact, she is just blending the convenience of modern furniture from the past life with the style of furniture here.

Xia Qingyun had sent a letter to Huangfu Zheng earlier, asking Huangfu's firm to purchase the best mussel shell tiles and inlay them outside the flower window. Compared with the window with oiled paper, the lighting effect is brighter and more transparent.

Finely carved spacious and bright ice plum blossom windows, gold lacquer painted hand verandah, openwork hanging flower gatehouse, grinding bricks to the joints of the shadow wall, those big families in Dongchuan Town are not more than Erer.

In two days, the day of delivery will come, and the Xia family will prepare the goods early and put them in the warehouse.

Xia Qingyun newly figured out the appearance of a set of tea tubes and tea utensils, and planned to use small-leaved red sandalwood to make zuò. On this day, he took the pattern and consulted with the craftsmen in the workshop.

The mother was called out of the inner courtyard, saying that the tailor came to deliver the curtain, and she planned to call Xia Qingyun to go to the house to count together.

At this moment, Hua Yun hurriedly ran in from outside, didn't bother to change his shoes, and waved at his mother at the door.

"What are you doing in a panic?" Niang Shu walked to the door, was grabbed by Hua Yun's arm, and whispered a few words in her ear.

"What?" The mother's face suddenly changed, and she exclaimed: "You said that Master Jin brought someone to our house to propose?" ”