Chapter 27: Sugar Workshop
Chi Yue gritted her teeth, and said to Wen Xing: "I still hope that my lord will respect filial piety for the sake of my mother, and I just ordered to prohibit my grandmother and aunt from not beating our new house, and don't send them to the county government for disposal." ”
Seeing Chi Yue speak, Gu Han's fan slapped in the palm of his hand, and Wen Xing spoke solemnly, "It's okay, since the plaintiff is willing to let you live, the official will also let you go." It's just that if you dare to have a next time, and come to the door to oppress you unreasonably, don't blame the official for being unkind to you! You guys do it for yourselves! ”
"Yes, the women must remember the teachings of the adults!" Qiao's kowtow like pounding garlic until Wen Xing said goodbye to Gu Han and disappeared outside the door.
She flicked her head and fainted.
Over there, the Zhou family was busy trying to rescue the two of them, and here Chi Yue looked at Gu Han thoughtfully.
Gu Han's scalp was numb from her staring, and he smiled at her, "Do you want to know, how do I know the county master?" ”
Chi Yue nodded.
"Because my dad used to be best friends with him, that's all." Gu Han said, and then lifted the wine in the wine cup, frowning slightly, "Although this wine is mellow, it lacks the precipitation of the years, and it is very impetuous and rough, far from the point of being evocative." ”
"The wine in our small courtyard can't serve a respectful uncle like you." Chi Yue snatched the rest of the wine and drank it alone.
Somehow, she was faintly angry with Gu Han, and she felt that he didn't tell her the truth.
Shicai Wenxing saw him, and he was clearly willing to live under the name of "lower official", and the relationship between the two of them was by no means as simple as Gu Han said!
But she is a person who doesn't like to worry, and she doesn't want to find out the identity of the other party, so she doesn't ask.
Gu Han moved his thin lips, wanting to say something, but in the end he swallowed back the words that had reached his throat.
The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, and the night is spent peacefully.
Carpenter Ge soon sent the new furniture, and the whole home became more and more magnificent and comfortable, and Chi Hao and Chi Xiaoxue were very happy to go up and down, and they loved this new home.
Chi Xin also has her own west wing, and the east wing belongs to Chi Yue, and the hall house is where the Zhou family lives with their twin siblings.
Chi Yue walked into Chi Xin's room and saw that she was dressing up in front of a copper mirror, tying her hair in a simple bun, and inserting a small flower, looking at her in a daze.
"Sister, what do you see I bought you?"
Chi Yue handed a plum blossom silver hairpin to Chi Xin.
Seeing this, Chi Xin hurriedly shook her head and waved her hand, "No, no, I'm a peasant girl, I don't deserve to wear this!" Sister, don't make fun of me! ”
Chi Yue didn't comply, walked straight behind Chi Xin, re-combed Chi Xin's hair, combed it into a dignified lily bun, and then inserted the silver hairpin diagonally on it.
When Chi Xin went to look in the mirror again, she saw a beautiful woman looking at her. That beauty, like a blooming peony, is ripe and noble.
Chi Xin was stunned.
This, is this still her?
When she realized that this beauty was herself, Chi Xin suddenly blushed, covered her face and said, "Sister, what are you doing?" Did you make me like this, and tell me to go out and be embarrassed! ”
"It's so beautiful, why is it embarrassing, why do you go out for a walk and show me?" Chi Yue said disapprerovingly, then sighed again, and said gently, "Sister, you were originally very beautiful, but you were too restrained and didn't dare to publicize it, so you hid this delicate beauty." If you go out for a walk now, I am sure that the girls in the village will be envious and jealous! The lads in the village are even more ......"
Knowing Chi Xin is introverted and can't make jokes, it is because Chi Yue only said half of what he said. But the next words, even fools can guess.
Chi Xin smacked her, "You girl, you don't learn well at a young age, and you learn some vain and impractical things!" ”
"Who's to say it's not practical?" Chi Yue was not convinced, "I thought that men were born to defend their families and the country, and women were born to dress themselves up beautifully, which is pleasing to the eye. If they are as rustic as you, then there will be no beauty, no vitality, and the power of the country will be exhausted. ”
Listening to Chi Yue's strange remarks, Chi Xin only felt funny, "According to what you say, we women can eat enough and live a good life just by dressing up?" ”
"Not really." Unexpectedly, Chi Yue was still insisting on her "heresy and crooked reasoning", "A beautiful woman, maybe she can marry into a high family, isn't this a full meal and a good life?" ”
When it comes to marriage, Chi Xin is shy and dodgy, "I don't believe you!" ”
"Sister, I know you don't want to be beautiful, you just don't dare." Chi Yue said bluntly, "Are you afraid that people will say that you are vain, and the peasant girl also wants to follow suit, and she wants to seduce a man, right?" ”
Poking her own mind, Chi Xin was surprised by Chi Yue's maturity and transparency, frowned slightly, and sighed, "My mother always taught us to be people according to our duty, not to put our minds on crooked ways, and not to think that we can marry into a wealthy family by relying on beauty like a woman in the county." ”
Zhou's mindset has a profound impact on the next generation. Chi Yue is glad that she is not the real daughter of the Zhou family.
"Regardless of marriage, dressing yourself up beautifully is also a sign of respect for yourself." Chi Yue began to make her own shocking remarks again, "If I grow up to your flowering age, no matter what others think of me, just go out with flowers and branches, then I will be magnificent, and I will be able to hold my head up!" ”
Chi Xin looked at Chi Yue appreciatively, "Sister, it would be nice if I were as confident as you, but I don't have your confidence." ”
Chi Yue tidied up Chi Xin's hair again, "Dress yourself up beautifully and go out, after a long time, your confidence will come out." ”
Chi Xin looked at herself in the mirror in a daze, thoughtful.
After sorting out the spacious two large chase rooms in the south, Chi Xin immediately released a recruitment revelation.
Hearing that Chi Xin was going to open a sugar workshop, the village exploded.
Chi Yue invented brown sugar, and then planted mushrooms successfully, which has already made people look at her with admiration and marvel at her genius, and at this time she has intensified her efforts to be the boss, it seems that they still underestimate this little girl!
The wage of the sugar workshop is 300 wen a month, which is comparable to the county seat, and it is 50 or 60 wen more than other small workshops in Sili and Eight Townships, which is enough to make the villagers rush to apply.
Because of the notice posted by Chi Yue, it is clearly stipulated that as long as they have the strength and endure hardships, the women who are idle at home are pushed out one after another, and they form a long winding line in front of the door of Chi Yue.
In the end, Chi Yue and Zhou carefully selected twenty women, including ten of them.
If it weren't for the fact that Chi Yue had already sold the secret recipe to Gu Han, he could have made all the steps of sugar making public in a generous manner. At this time, she had to find a way to isolate everyone, divide it into her own steps, and hand over the key step of boiling sugar to the people she was closest to and trusted.
Yes, most people only saw three stone mills and more than a dozen buckets in the chase room. As for the cauldron, it is placed in another large room, where there are not only three giant pot stoves, but also mountains of firewood.
Chi Yue stood in front of the recruited workers.
Although she is short, her eyes are like deep pools of water, revealing the city and firmness, and her whole body exudes a sense of majesty, which is not to be underestimated.
"One month from today is the internship period. If you do a good job and spend this internship period, you will officially become a member of our sugar workshop, and when the time comes, the salary will be more than now, and there will be a lot of benefits every New Year's holiday. As long as everyone is willing to work together and strive to make the workshop grow stronger, I, as the boss, will never treat everyone badly. ”
I heard that the salary will rise in the future, and a lot of benefits will be given, and everyone can't help but be overjoyed and high-spirited.
"Boss Chi, don't worry, we are all experts in doing work, and we will never disappoint your expectations!" Aunt Liu patted her chest first.
"Boss Chi, you can distribute tasks to us, we promise to complete it!" The eldest lady Deng said in a voice as thick as labor.
Seeing that everyone's fighting spirit was stimulated by herself, Chi Yue nodded with satisfaction and began to distribute tasks.
"Nowadays, our source of sugarcane is only to buy and harvest it ourselves, and the farmers only have sugarcane scattered in the mountains, which is always too small, and it is not safe to go deep into the mountains to find it." Chi Yue said solemnly, "So I decided, let's grow our own sugar cane!" ”
Everyone sighed.
Iketsuki pioneered not only the cultivation of wild mushrooms, but also the cultivation of wild sugar cane...... Now, she's a real pioneer!
Just these two feats for the benefit of people are enough to make her leave a mark in the history of planting in the Central Plains.
The mushrooms that Iketsuki had grown quickly reaped were bumper for everyone, and at this moment, no one doubted her almost shocking thoughts.
"Boss Chi, we support you!"
"We're planting sugar cane with you!"
In the loud voice of everyone, Chi Yue nodded, "Well, it's spring now, and it's the season for planting sugarcane, so we have to hurry up." ”
Then he was assigned: "Twenty of you, ten of you will go with me to pick seedlings, dig ditches and plant, and the remaining ten will go to the mountains to harvest, bring back the work of cleaning and pressing the juice, and first run the workshop preliminarily." ”
"Then who will be given the task of boiling sugar at the end?" Someone asked curiously.
"My mother and my eldest sister can do it." Chi Yue replied lightly, not intending to explain the reason.
Immediately after that, she began the meticulous personnel assignment.
I saw that Chi Yue assigned the tasks in an orderly manner, without any ambiguity and procrastination, which made people convincing, and couldn't help but admire her in my heart.
The ten women who went to the fields with her to "fight" were all good at doing farm work on weekdays.
He was about to lead everyone to the newly rented five acres of land, when he suddenly heard a shrill voice outside.
"Brother and sister, you are really, you opened a workshop at home, invited the whole village to come, and didn't say hello to us, can't we all die?"
With the voice coming in, it was Qiao Shi with an angry face on his face.
Chi Yue frowned slightly, it seemed that the lesson she had taught them a few days ago was not ruthless enough, and now she was very bored and came to make trouble again.
Zhou smiled awkwardly and stepped forward, "What did sister-in-law say, I didn't think you would come to work in the workshop, so I didn't bother......"
"What's more, that day, you fainted in my yard, and later let the uncle carry it back, we thought that your body had not yet recovered, so we didn't dare to bother you to participate in our opening ceremony." Chi Yue said loudly, deliberately piercing Qiao's down-and-out appearance that day.