Chapter 19: The Workshop
"Yue'er, do you mean, open a jewelry workshop?" Yu was excited, and could imagine that the situation in the workshop was just like the Yu family when he was a child, and the feeling was familiar and expected.
Aunt Zhuang nodded excitedly and expressed her willingness. If you can learn to make hairpins, you will have the skills of your body, which is a great thing!
After Yu returned to the room, he took out thirty taels of silver from it, and put it together with the ten taels advanced by Gui Hongyuan from the yamen, which were to be saved up to build a new house. The other thirty-six taels plus the previous scattered ones, a total of forty taels, all took out to buy gold, silver, copper and bright moon to make patterns of white linen paper.
In the past, when the Yu family and Gui Mingyue made hairpins, they were all in the house of the Yu family and Gui Hongyuan, but now it is not suitable to add Aunt Zhuang. Zhuang jumped and volunteered to share a house with Gui Mingyue and vacate a room as a temporary "workshop".
After thinking about it, Gui Mingyue asked Aunt Zhuang to find another ingenious young woman from the village and let the Yu family teach together.
Aunt Zhuang found her cousin's daughter-in-law, Zhuang Dali, who doesn't talk much, is diligent and hardworking, and is well-known for her honest duties on weekdays...... In fact, the main reason is that Zhuang Dali's family is a well-known poor family in the village, and there is an old lady who is a tough one, and she either beats or scolds this honest daughter-in-law. Aunt Zhuang is righteous, and Su Rili is very sympathetic to her experience.
Gui Mingyue asked Gui Hongyuan for help and made an apprenticeship deed. It indicates that all those who come home to work as apprentices will work at home for ten years after completing their studies, and will be paid wages and piece-rate dividends. After 10 years, if you want to, you can renew your visa, and you will be given more generous treatment. Of course, the provisions of the breach of contract are also listed in detail.
Such a contract deed is the most common for Gui Mingyue, who has the soul of a modern person. But the Yu family had objections, they were all from the neighbors, and doing these rules and regulations would inevitably hurt the harmony.
"I think Yue'er is right to do this, because her husband is used to seeing such lawsuits in the yamen, and after completing her studies, she is treacherous, privately trades, and betrays the news to the other party...... It abounds, and Yue'er does this as a precautionary measure. Gui Hongyuan, who usually turns a blind eye to his wife and daughter's business, suddenly said.
Seeing that the father and daughter both insisted, Yu stopped making a sound.
On the contrary, it was Aunt Zhuang and Zhuang Dali's family, and after Gui Mingyue finished reading the deed, they all agreed, Aunt Zhuang was a happy person, and joked that with this deed, she was even more settled in her heart, and the two of them happily pressed their handprints.
The small workshop that returned home was initially established. Aunt Zhuang made two braziers in it, and the charcoal in the brazier was thriving. There is a long log table by the south window in the middle, with a long black flannel cloth on the table, and several cork chairs on each side, according to Gui Mingyue's requirements, each chair is also equipped with thick cotton cushions. In addition, in the center of the long table are three sets of small but complete tools, and next to the tools are a few black cloth jewelry boxes.
The chair with the most light is left to Gui Mingyue, and there is a neat white linen paper on the table in front, and a small square box next to the paperweight, because Gui Mingyue is still not used to using the brush, there is a neat charcoal pen cut by Gui Chengzhi inside, and a circle of cloth is sewn on the charcoal, and a small moon is embroidered on each cloth cover......
Looking at this exquisite "pen cover" from Gui Jingxue's hand, Gui Mingyue couldn't cry or laugh a little, and then she was a little moved, but it was true.