"Bicao, are you at home?" Shunda's sister-in-law felt that she had taken the lotus pod for nothing, so she dug up two or three jujube saplings early in the morning and sent them over.

"Who, I'm going to open the door this morning." Shen Mei had just finished washing the family's dishes and chopsticks, wiped the water on her hands with a handkerchief, and went to open the door.

At first glance, it was Shunda's sister-in-law, holding two saplings in her left hand, and putting the hoe on her shoulder with her right hand, she was a little stunned for a while and didn't react: "Shunda sister-in-law, who are you?" ”

"Meizi, is your sister-in-law at home? Yesterday I said that your family wants to plant jujube trees, no, I will send it to her and take it quickly, I will go to the field. ”

When Shen Mei heard her say this, she remembered that Liu Bicao had mentioned it at dinner last night, but she didn't expect it to be sent so early.

Shen Mei took the sapling, and before she had time to thank her, Shunda's sister-in-law walked away with the hoe in a hurry.

Liu Bicao took the sapling from Shen Mei's hand, went to the utility room to find a small hoe, and prepared to plant the jujube tree in the yard. I found a seat near the fence, dug two pits, planted the jujube saplings, and poured some water to cover the soil.

"Is anyone home?" As soon as I put the little hoe into the utility room, I heard someone shouting outside the door.

When she opened the door, it was Aunt Zhou, and Liu Bicao hurriedly led her into the yard and heard the sound of reading from the east room.

"What is this?"

"Oh, it's Meizi who writes about her younger siblings reading." Liu Bicao asked Aunt Zhou to sit.

Aunt Zhou was afraid of disturbing the three sisters and brothers studying, so her voice was very low, and she asked in surprise: "Jinyan has all studied?" Why are Meizi and Xiaohe also reading? ”

"After the autumn harvest, it's time to go to the school, this Brother Qian coaches him while he is free on weekdays, and Meizi and Xiaohe also follow to learn some simple things, mainly to be able to understand things, and they are not afraid of being bullied in the future."

There are some children in the village who study, but not everyone insists on reading to the end.

However, the children of the Shen family have all studied, and now this girl is also studying, which is really the only one in the village.

Aunt Zhou suppressed the sigh in her heart, but she still wanted to have food in her stomach, and she didn't panic. Reading burns silver, where there is so much information for children to read, even food and clothing are difficult to solve.

Who doesn't want to study and test for fame, get promoted and make a fortune, and glorify their ancestors? But at the end of the day, there's no money.

"By the way, Aunt Zhou, did you come here today to have an eyebrow about the thing that dragged you last time?" Liu Bicao asked.

Seeing Aunt Zhou nodded, she got up and went to the house to see Shen Mei coming.

Seeing that Liu Bicao did not shy away from Shen Mei at all, she had to sigh again: Marrying a wife should be a virtuous man, this sentence is really true.

Looking at Shen Mei, who was becoming more and more marked, thinking of her own son, she couldn't help but think of the Shen family's current family situation, and had to dispel the thoughts in her heart.

"Bicao, what you said a few days ago, I did look for a few people here. He is not very old, he is honest and diligent, and his family relationship is simple. However, there are two or three people from the next village. Aunt Zhou suppressed the thoughts in her heart and said the business seriously.

Liu Bicao didn't speak immediately, and Shen Mei didn't say anything when she saw it, waiting for her to speak.

"Those people said that they could come over earlier, and they would definitely not delay their work." Aunt Zhou saw that she didn't speak, so she hurriedly said.

"I'm afraid it won't work, it's not safe in winter, and if something happens, none of us can afford it." Liu Bicao was a little embarrassed.

"Sister-in-law, doesn't Bo'an have a vacant house? Anyway, he's not here, so we'll take it for him. Shen Mei's mind turned.

Liu Bicao thought about it, and simply used that house as a small processing workshop, all the embroidery girls who did the work arrived on time every day, and those from other villages lived there, and went home once every five days, so that they had to hire a cook. In addition, you have to do more embroidery work in the town, or find some embroidery studios again.

Tell Aunt Zhou her thoughts, let her simply find a few more embroidered women, and Liu Bicao, the candidate for cooking, plans to let Shunda's sister-in-law come.

Aunt Zhou was also very happy to hear this, and hurriedly left, according to what Liu Bicao said, she went to find the embroidery girl.

The next day, Liu Bicao took Shen Mei to the town, went to find the shopkeeper of the original embroidery room, said the number and price of embroidery pieces each month, and went to the shopkeeper of the other two embroidery houses, and also said yes and signed the contract.

"Let's go, go to the pharmacy to pick up Boan." The two came out of the embroidery room. Today is also the day Boan returns home.

After picking up Boan at the pharmacy, the three took an ox cart home.

"Sister, why didn't you tell me about the second sister before?"

"Your second sister's affairs are urgent, and besides, you can study medicine in the town with peace of mind, and your sister is here for these things."

Since Liu Qingzhu and the Zhou family reconciled, they went to the house of the third uncle and third aunt in the next town. The third uncle and third aunt moved to the next town more than two months ago to live with Liu Bicao's cousin.

Within two days, Aunt Zhou came to Shen's house again, and everything was done properly.

Shen Jinqian and Shen Jinxin had already renovated the house and built a kitchen in the yard.

Liu Bicao took Shen Mei to clean up, there were three rooms in total, and just cleaned up one room for a few embroidery girls from other villages to live in.

Finding a suitable day, Liu Bicao gathered all the embroidery girls together. Liu Bicao calculated, a total of four people are needed to embroider large objects, two people are needed for shoes, and only two people are needed for ordinary handkerchiefs.

There were eight people in total, looking at the dozen or so people in front of him, Liu Bicao pondered for a while, and whispered something in Shen Mei's ear, Shen Mei nodded, turned around and entered the room.

didn't come out for a while, Liu Bicao glanced at them unhurriedly, and some of them had no color resistance on their faces.

"Sister-in-law, here." Shen Mei took the cleaned rags and needles and threads in her hands and put them on the table.

"Everyone, I only need eight people here, everyone is from the same village or the next village, who wants me to decide, but your craftsmanship has the final say."

After a pause, he said: "I will first say good, the time of the two pillars of incense, the cloth and the needle and thread, whatever you want to embroider, I will go into the house and wait for you, and after the embroidery is finished, put it on the table, on the basis of the embroidery work that I don't know who, I will select eight embroidery jobs, and the selected ones will stay." ”

Listening to Liu Bicao say this, the big guys all said yes, and actively stepped forward to receive the cloth and needlework, and Liu Bicao also entered the house and waited as before.

When the time for the two pillars of incense came, Aunt Zhou entered the house and called Liu Bicao.

Seeing that Liu Bicao seriously picked up the embroidery work on the table, everyone didn't dare to come out of the nervous atmosphere, for fear of affecting Liu Bicao, and for fear that they would not be able to choose.

Liu Bicao looked at them for a long time, compared them one by one, and then put them on both sides.

"Now come up and claim your embroidery, and those who are on the left will stand on the left, and those who are on the right will stand on the right." Liu Bicao pointed to the two piles of embroidery.

Everyone looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you. I don't know what Liu Bicao means by not directly saying this. But he still stepped forward in turn to claim his embroidery work.

Soon, the people on the left and right were standing. Liu Bicao smiled slightly: "The four people on the right won't be used tomorrow." ”

"Hmph, if you don't come, you won't come, you think I'm rare, there are so many embroidery houses in the town, I don't believe that my embroidery can't be sold." It was one of the four people on the right who spoke, and it was also the one who had shown impatience before.

Liu Bicao didn't know this person, not from this village.

"Please."

"Bicao, I don't know the people in the embroidery room in the town, and they won't accept my embroidery work, look at ......" This is Zhao's sister-in-law from the same village.

"Yes, there is a special embroidery girl in the embroidery room, where will we be accepted, Bicao, you can do it."

"Sister-in-law, we can accept their embroidery work, but the price is lower than our own." Shen Mei saw that Liu Bicao did not speak, and thought for a while and said.

Liu Bicao nodded, "Just do what Meizi said, and you can record who they are." ”

After saying yes, the three of them left first, leaving only a few people on the left: "You will come to work tomorrow, we will divide each embroidery according to three seven, you three, we seven, come on time every day, provide lunch at noon, and rest here in the evening of the outer village." ”

After everything was clarified, Liu Bicao and Shen Mei went home to cook. Just waiting for the official start of construction tomorrow.

The few embroidery girls who were selected also went home with a smile, and told their families that they were usually suppressed by their mother-in-law for the first time and straightened their waists in front of their mother-in-law. After all, they will be able to earn money in the future.