Chapter 10: Weaving
Because it was autumn, there was no place to buy newly hatched chicks, so Ruan Yunsi asked Yun Niang to buy three hens and a rooster from someone else's house, as well as a male and a female, two ducks and two geese, all of which were hatched this year, and now they are only half old, and they have not yet begun to lay eggs, and the seller said that they can lay eggs until the end of autumn. It's just that she thought about it, but she still didn't raise pigs, thinking that it would be too earth-shattering to kill pigs at that time, anyway, there will be a big market every few days outside the village, and there are usually people who kill pigs from time to time, and if you want to eat meat, go to the market or buy it from the people who kill pigs in the village.
Now this detached courtyard finally looks like something. So after everything was in order, Ruan Yunsi and Yun Niang came to Li Baochang's house in the east of the village.
That Li Baochang and his wife were counting this year's harvest on the kang, and heard a woman shouting outside, knowing that she was coming to ask her wife for a deal, so she quickly got up and avoided going inside, and soon Yun Niang and Ruan Yunsi came in, Yun Niang said to Li Baochang's wife: "Sister-in-law Li, this is Sister Yun, although you don't know her, you have heard of it." She doesn't farm now, but she has to take care of her livelihood, so she wants to come to you to ask for some weaving work, do you think you can help her arrange it? ”
Sister-in-law Li glanced at Ruan Yunsi up and down a few times, and then smiled: "Yo, look at the appearance of this week, it doesn't look like one of us who does rough work." Weaving this job naturally exists, and now people only recognize farming and doing business, how many people make money by spinning cloth at home? Not because of anything else, not because the money is hard to make? But I have to pay a few percent more hard work than usual. Is it possible for my sister to endure this hardship? Let me say, it is more important to farm land, and now that the imperial court treats farmers preferentially, why should you get two acres of land to plant one. ”
Ruan Yunsi is not afraid of hard work, but she knows that she is not the leader of farming. Because he smiled and said: "Sister-in-law Li, I naturally love the work of weaving, I am not afraid of hard work, if you have a job here, give me a try, I thank you now." ”
Hearing her say this, then Li Shi responded happily: "It's no problem, since you want to do it, I have also persuaded you, don't go back and say that I am deceiving you to make black money." If you want to weave, don't worry that no one will receive it. I have been in business for twenty years, and I know many of the big cloth merchants and silk and satin cloth dealers in the city, but now they are worried that there are no people willing to weave, and they are not willing to raise the price. You see, there are still hundreds of pounds of raw silk and hemp silk in my house, but few people are willing to take this work. ”
Ruan Yunsi followed Li's hand and looked inside, and sure enough, she saw that there was a mountain of raw silk and hemp silk piled up in the west room, and she couldn't help but be very happy in her heart, and nodded and said, "If my sister-in-law believes me, I can do this for you." I just don't know how to calculate this money? ”
Hearing Ruan Yunsi ask about money straight to the point, Li Shi didn't laugh angrily, slapped his hand and said: "Okay, refreshing, I just like my sister's temperament, my brother has to settle accounts, everyone is here to live, why bother to be cautious?" I don't hide it from my sister, as I just said, this profit is extremely low. Weaving a horse of linen or kudzu cloth is 100 yuan, of which I have to draw 20 yuan as a middleman, the remaining 80 yuan is yours, weaving a piece of satin is 150 yuan, I draw 30 yuan, weaving a horse of silk yarn or Luo is 130 yuan, and I draw 25 yuan. Would you like to take a look? Sister-in-law has to remind you again, planting an acre of land, to the autumn at least 600 catties of grain, now the government clearly marked the price, in this and strict checks, those officials do not dare to be too greedy, these 600 catties of grain is six or seven dollars, although you earn a little less than weaving, but it is much lighter than you, this weaving looks simple, but it is not an easy job. ”
Ruan Yunsi said with a smile: "I know that my sister-in-law is for my good, don't worry, I won't farm, just point to weaving to make money, sister-in-law here in addition to hemp silk, do you have any other materials?" I'm stupid, but I can weave a few kinds of materials. ”
Li Shi looked at Ruan Yunsi in surprise, laughed again for a while, nodded and said, "I said that my sister is so resolute, I dare to love you to eat this line of food." Well, these materials have been piled up with me for some days, so you can take half of each and weave them, and the other materials are not available for the time being, so next time I will go to the city and ask, and if there are any, I will bring back more. ”
Ruan Yunsi agreed, and the Li family here was also very happy, so she personally helped pack a few big bags of those materials and brought them back to Ruan Yunsi, she watched Yun Niang and Ruan Yunsi go here, and then said to the inside: "The head of the house, everyone is gone, come out." Oh, people used to say that this little lady moved from other places and looked quite rich, but who knew that now she wants to use this to make a living, I really don't know if she is really rich or false. ”
Li Baochang smiled: "She is a woman's family, how much money can she have?" I'm afraid that if I buy this home, there will be little left, otherwise I won't do this job, it's just that, let's don't other people's hearts, where is the account just now? ”
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The large straw pot covered with the lid was steaming, and bursts of fragrance came to the face. Ruan Yunsi added a few more sticks of firewood to the stove, then touched the head of the black and white little flower dog who was following her, and said with a smile: "Wait a while, wait a while, there will be meat and bones to gnaw after a while." Our little black can also grow up quickly, and when the time comes, we can help me take care of the home. ”
There was a voice outside the door, Ruan Yunsi stood up and opened the door, only to see Rhubarb jumping in with snow on his body.
"Rhubarb, where are you going crazy again? It's not as good as Xiao Hei. Hey? Did you drag these branches back? Before Ruan Yunsi could finish her reprimand, she saw a few branches on the snow outside the door, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and hurriedly hugged them in.
In a blink of an eye, she has lived in Xiaowang Village for nearly half a year, because she has moved her hands and feet on the loom, so the speed of spinning is extraordinarily fast, coupled with her craftsmanship, the spun cloth is delicate and soft, very popular with those cloth villages in the city, and it is unprecedented for her to increase some money, so in the past half a year, she only relied on the pitiful profit of spinning, but she also saved twenty or thirty yuan. Although it is much less than the hundreds of yuan that those villagers who farm in the autumn, Ruan Yunsi is already very satisfied.
All kinds of cloth have been woven, and it can be said that this handle has been completely picked up. The rest, wait until the beginning of the spring after the New Year, you can start to study printing and dyeing, as long as you can weave those finished fabrics with exquisite patterns, the profit is not comparable to the current little money. It's just that what makes Ruan Yunsi depressed is that cotton cloth still hasn't come out, although there are also places to grow cotton, but most of them are made into quilts and cotton jackets to keep out the cold, and I haven't heard of who uses it to spin cloth.
Ruan Yunsi was annoyed that she couldn't go out, otherwise, as long as she spun cotton cloth by herself, wouldn't this money be rolling in? It's just that when she thought of the fame that followed, she dispelled this idea again: no matter what, let's mix it up first, it's good now anyway, and life is getting more and more prosperous.
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