In later generations, small workshops such as vermicelli production were not uncommon in northern rural areas, so Zhou Zhi was no stranger to the facilities and technology for making vermicelli.

The facility is actually very simple, the key is to make an open sieve. Zhou Zhi drew the figures, went to the craftsmen in Gaochang Town, spent a few silver coins to make a few dew sieves. As for the other facilities for making vermicelli, Zhou Zhi drew simple graphics at home according to the memories of later generations, and Lao Tie Zhou Tie personally went to build and make them.

Daddy Zhou Tie is obedient to Zhou Zhi now, but as long as Zhou Zhi can come up with it, Zhou Tie naturally thinks that it is absolutely wrong, and he even thinks that after Zhou Zhi said that something like vermicelli fans is made, it will inevitably become popular in the market again, and the Zhou family will make a lot of money.

Although Zhou Tie supports the idea of listening to Zhou Zhi and does it seriously and meticulously, he tries his best to prevent Zhou Zhi from participating in person, and he wants Zhou Zhi to spend more time studying.

Especially when he learned that Zhou Zhi was going to take next year's exam, Zhou Tie was even more anxious than Zhou Zhi in his heart, once he saw Zhou Zhi resting, his father would preach to Zhou Zhi with a cold face for a while. What happened to the Zhou family's glorious lintel in the future will all fall on Zhou Zhi alone, Zhou Zhi is the hope of the Zhou family and the like, so that Zhou Zhi often can't cry or laugh.

This dad is really, he didn't support his own reading before, but once he did, he was extremely supportive, and the support was almost unacceptable.

Not only that, the Zhou family now has money, especially after Zhou Luyun got married, the Zhou family's money and goods are several times more. Zhou Tie did not hesitate to rush Zhou Shaocheng to study in social studies.

Although Zhou Shaocheng was reluctant, he couldn't resist Zhou Tie in the end and had to go.

Paying the shackles of sociology, it is not worth mentioning at all for the current Zhou family.

The workshop for making vermicelli was built more than ten days later, and such a workshop could not be done by Zhou Tie alone. Fortunately, not long after his brother-in-law Hu Zhe got married, he arranged for the Zhou family to help at the assignment of his sister Zhou Luyun.

It's ridiculous to say, there is no doubt that men are inferior to women in the Ming Dynasty. But Zhou Luyun married into the Hu family, and within a few days, he obeyed a very shrewd and clever Hu Zhen, and obeyed Zhou Luyun's words.

Hehe! Zhou Luyun seems to have set a model for women to be the masters of the house, and Hu Zhe has become a typical wife!

Hochul is smart and capable, and as long as he talks about making vermicelli fans carefully, he can understand it. With his help, after the workshop produced the first batch of vermicelli, Zhou Zhi completely gave up the workshop and handed it over to Zhou Tie and Hu Zhe.

As for future sales, Zhou Zhi didn't want to interfere too much, just leave it to Hochul. As long as there is money to earn, the Zhou family does not sit and eat empty, and Zhou Zhi feels very good.

Anyway, Zhou Zhi knows very well that now is the time to accumulate capital, and a small workshop such as making vermicelli will definitely not last long.

You know, the people of the Ming Dynasty are smart enough, as long as they see something like vermicelli, even if they can't see the production process, I believe that it won't be long before someone will experiment with their wisdom and cleverness.

For example, Zhou Zhi planted vegetable greenhouses last winter, and this year, as Zhou Zhi expected, vegetable greenhouses are almost everywhere in Baiyue Village and surrounding villages.

Everything was similar to expected, the noodles were made and put on the market for the first time, and under the careful distribution of Ho Chul, they were quickly recognized by the nearby villagers, and the Zhou family's vermicelli workshop quickly entered the stage of profitability. Although the amount of silver earned is not very much, there will be thirty or forty taels of money every month.

These days, Zhou Zhi has been reading and composing, and every ten days and a half months, Che Lang will hand over the articles made by their literary club to Qu Renbin, and let Qu Renbin review and comment.

In fact, composition depends to a large extent on the accumulation of reading and personal comprehension. According to Qu Renbin, Zhou Zhi's composition these days has made great progress.

Not only is it thoughtful, but in fact, all the members of the Literary Society, including Yue Shuzhen, who often does not come to participate in the activities of the Literary Society, have made very good articles.

Zhou Zhi occasionally saw a few of his articles in Lu Xingchuan's house, not to mention the rigorous structure, and very innovative, which shows that Yue Shuzhen has gained a lot from studying hard behind closed doors under the guidance of the so-called famous teacher.

Lu Xingchuan, Fan Jin, Che Lang and others sometimes joked that if Zhou Zhiruo wanted to get a good ranking in next year's small examination, Yue Shuzhen seemed to be a big competitor for him.

The days passed very plainly, and in a blink of an eye it was the ninth day of October.

This year's winter seems to have come earlier than usual, and the weather is very cold. It was already freezing in October, and on this day the north howled, and the biting cold wind blew for a whole day, and it was only a little lighter in the evening.

Zhou Zhi still maintains his original habit, he does not read books at night, but refreshes the subsets of the texts he reads during the day like a movie in his mind, and then carefully ponders what are the merits of those articles and how to better apply them to his own articles.

When all this was done, it was already the middle of the night. Although there is a charcoal pot in the house, after all, the Zhou family still lives in a low and dilapidated adobe house, and the house is not warm. Zhou Zhi covered the quilt and slowly closed his eyes.

At this time, he was in a coma, and suddenly heard the sound of the latch of the outhouse door. Although the cold wind outside the house was still blowing, Zhou Zhi clearly judged that it was definitely not the sound of the wind blowing the door of the house. This should be someone flipping the latch.

Damn! There are thieves!

Zhou Zhi got up, hurriedly put on his clothes and pants, and quietly got off the kang.

"Brother! There are thieves! The little brother Zhou Shaocheng didn't know when he woke up, obviously he also heard the sound of the door latch, and at this time he was staring at a pair of small eyes in horror, and said softly to Zhou Zhi.

Zhou Zhi immediately made a silent gesture, and Zhou Shaocheng shrank his little head in the quilt, still looking at Zhou Zhi in horror.

In less than a year, the Zhou family has undergone earth-shaking changes, from the original poor and white, to the third richest family in Baiyue Village, just worse than the Yue family and the Chen family.

Such an upstart should have been a thief for a long time, after all, the Zhou family still lived in the original dilapidated house, and there was no courtyard wall. Unlike the Chen family and the Yue family, there are many domestic slaves and servants, even the wolf dogs that watch the house will have several.

It's a miracle that a poor family like the Zhou family hasn't recruited thieves these days.

Of course, this may also have something to do with Zhou Zhi's reputation, the nickname "Cold-faced Man Tu" is not a small deterrent, which makes people sound a little creepy!

The sound of the latch was intermittent, and Zhou Zhi deliberately snored a few times in the back room, and then smacked his lips and stopped snoring, giving the thief the illusion that he was asleep.

Then Zhou Zhi tiptoed out of the back room, picked up the kitchen knife on the board in the outhouse, and stood behind the door with a cold face.

Zhou Zhi's idea is very simple, as long as the thief outside opens the door latch, without waiting for the thief to come in, Zhou Zhi will wave a kitchen knife and slash at him, first catch the thief off guard.