Chapter 226: Everything is ready
After a simple day of rest, the whole family entered a busy state again, building a workshop and a yard, picking tea and roasting tea, the family rotated continuously, and the whole hillside continued to be lively.
After another half a month, the two rows of main houses in the courtyard where the workshop is located have been built.
Cui'er followed Lian Qingshan to walk in the courtyard, looking at a row of five-room main houses, built on a brick and stone platform more than a foot high, which looked much more elegant than other people's houses.
The tall beams and bright glass windows can vaguely see the tables and chairs inside, and can also project bright sunlight into it. Everyone who entered the yard felt good when they looked at the house, and it must be very comfortable to stay inside.
The outer wall of the yard has been fenced, the wall of one person is high with two layers of bricks inside and outside, with yellow mud plus glutinous rice water and up the adhesive mud, the hardness is not much better than the modern cement, the tall fence will firmly enclose the whole yard, that is, to protect the safety away from the beasts on the mountain, but also to prevent prying eyes, to guard the secret recipe of roasted tea.
This yard is used for roasting tea, so the spacious yard is paved with green bricks, and when drying tea, you only need to put the basket rack on the green brick ground, and you are not afraid of the dust raised by the wind to stain the tea. In addition to being clean, this blue brick floor also has a drainage outlet, so that there will be no stagnant water in the yard on rainy or snowy days, and the design is very comprehensive.
Watching the bricklayer Yang and his apprentices doing the final tidying, Uncle Zhong taking a few small workers to move the furniture made from the carpenter to the yard, and watching everyone busy in an orderly manner, Cui'er suddenly found that her tea roasting workshop was about to be completed so soon.
The dormitories in the backyard and the cow and horse sheds have also been almost built. Cui'er thought about the official start of these two courtyards, which would be a few days of effort, and her heart was a lot more relaxed.
"Brother and Mrs. Qingshan, we are here!" At this time, Cui'er heard a noise outside and looked back. Seeing Qian Shanming with his two sons and a large cart of Chaqing, Qian Shanming saw Lian Qingshan and Cui'er, and greeted him affectionately, but the words he said made Cui'er laugh.
Why is Lian Qingshan a Qingshan brother, but he has become a wife? Cui'er had some doubts in her heart. But he didn't ask directly, Qian Shanming, an honest man, sometimes has a very good brain, even if he asked, Xu Shi couldn't ask anything.
And the reason why it's called Mrs. Cui'er. In Qian Shanming's heart, it is because her roasted tea skills are very good, and Qian Shanming respects her in his heart, so he can't just regard Cui'er as Lian Qingshan's wife, but respect her as the master of the tea shop.
"Seonmyung is here!" Since signing a contract with the Qian family, Lian Qingshan has consciously changed his name for Qian Shanming, from the previous Brother Shanming to Shanming, although the name has changed. But the cordiality and sincerity in the tone did not diminish in the slightest.
"Well, here we go, I see that this workshop is about to open. I'm a roasted tea master, I have to come quickly, don't I? Qian Shanming smiled honestly, and as he spoke, he moved the tea green on the ox cart to the yard.
Two of the five main houses in the courtyard are roasted tea rooms, and the houses in the west chamber are the warehouses for tea and tea. Didn't move into the house directly.
Lian Qingshan smiled at Qian Shanming, and continued to go around the courtyard with Cui'er. Although Qian Shanming said that he was a little more honest. is too honest to speak, but he is more persistent than ordinary people. And because of the foundation, the stir-fried tea is much better than others.
Because Cui'er and Lian Qingshan couldn't be tied to this roasted tea workshop all the time, as soon as the two of them combined, they chose this Qian Shanming to be the roasted tea master. Of course, there are ready-made roasted tea masters and Lian Qingshan and Cui'er, and the two are also preparing to find a few more teenage children, regardless of men and women, to be apprentices in the roasted tea workshop, and if they do a good job, they can be promoted to masters.
Even if you are selected to be a roasted tea master or an apprentice of roasted tea, you will not be fully trusted immediately, Cui'er will let them contact the peripheral work first, and with the extension of the years, the trust will increase, and some people who can sign a deed of sale and have good skills will become the master of roasted tea.
Of course, these are the ideas of Cui'er and Lian Qingshan, and the most important thing now is to build the tea-making workshop and run the whole process well.
"Qingshan, Cui'er, you are here!" When Lian Qingshan and Cui'er were discussing the candidates for the roasted tea master and the roasted tea apprentice, they only heard another car sound outside the courtyard, and the two turned their heads to look, only to see the money shopkeeper getting down from the carriage, obviously the greeting just now was made by the money shopkeeper.
"Brother Qian, you're here!" Even Qingshan and Cui'er greeted each other with smiling faces, and hurriedly walked to the money shopkeeper.
"Well, here, many prominent merchants in the town heard that your teahouse was going to open, and they all asked me when to have a treat, I, I'll come over and ask you, are you going to have a good time?"
"This, in fact, it's okay to be lively, but I don't know how many people will come then?" Lian Qingshan pondered for a while, thinking that if this teahouse opened, everyone would come over to have a lively time, and the atmosphere would be good.
Cui'er thinks more, those merchants who come to cheer must want to stay here for a while to eat something, just take the opportunity to introduce their new tea to the merchants, and then send some tea as gifts, even if there is no direct order, but it can be regarded as a name for themselves, for their own potential customers.
"If you want to do it, you don't have to worry about the people's affairs, I've got it all, you just need to determine when it will open, and I'll take care of the people here!" The money shopkeeper is a cheerful person, and he is used to doing things on the scene, so he said with a big bag at the moment.
"Then thank you Brother Qian, let's set a date when we go back, and you helped invite someone to come over in advance." Cui'er responded with a smile, thinking that when her dim sum workshop opened, she was busy giving birth and had no time to care, but now that this tea shop is open, she must have a good liveliness.
At the moment, it was agreed to hold an opening ceremony, and the money shopkeeper did not stay long, so he asked the guy to pull the tea leaves that had been fried in the past few days, and counted the number of tea leaves in the account room of the tea shop. After entering the account, and then leaving the money for the tea sale last month, he hurried back to the town.
Cui'er sat in the account room, the newly made wooden tables and chairs exuded a faint fragrance, and the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and account book abacus reflected the soft luster in the sun. It makes people feel very comfortable when they look at it.
Cui'er leaned comfortably on the chair, and the wall not far behind her was thicker than the wall next to her, this was not an ordinary solid brick wall, but another wall of fire was added next to the brick wall, and it was cold in the winter. If there is no kang in this account room, I am afraid that it will be cold in winter, which is the result of the research of Cui'er and Yang bricklayers.
Lian Qingshan couldn't help but smile when he saw Cui'er sitting on the chair, her eyes narrowing slightly and comfortably like a kitten basking in the sun. Then he also sat next to Cui'er, the days passed too quickly, and it seemed that he hadn't basked in the sun with Cui'er for a long, long time.
I don't know how long it took, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and Uncle Zhong knocked respectfully on the door of the account room, "Miss, uncle, the alternate roasted tea apprentices have arrived." ”
"Good. Let's come out now. Lian Qingshan answered, and glanced at Cui'er, who had just opened her eyes, and both of them laughed silently. And he went out of the bookkeeper and came into the middle of the courtyard.
In the courtyard at this time, Qian Shanming and Qian Heimu and Qian Tantou were drying tea greens, and a big basket was placed on the shelf and placed in a corner that was not in the way, and the three of them were quick with their hands and feet. Fingers flew up and down, in a patch of emerald green. Looks vibrant.
And a dozen or so boys and girls were standing in the open space in front of the main house. Waiting for the selection of the roasted tea apprentice. Some of them stood nervously, some looked expectant, and some were absent-minded, or talking to people they knew well, or looking at the magnificent house and chattering.
When Lian Qingshan and Cui'er walked out, the boys and girls in the courtyard were all silent, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at the two of them in unison, and the only thing that was the same in a pair of black and white eyes was expectation. I look forward to being able to stand out from these dozen people, and I am looking forward to getting a job from this tea workshop.
For children in the mountains who may not even have enough to eat all year round, being an apprentice in a tea workshop not only means two meals a day, not only a penny a day, but also means that they may become a roasted tea master who earns ten taels of silver a year in the next few years, which means that every day as an apprentice, the rations saved by their own families can make the younger brothers and sisters who are waiting to be fed a full meal.
This is also the reason why the conditions for the roasted tea apprenticeship offered by Cui'er are not very good, but in just two days, all the children from poor families in the nearby villages who meet the requirements have gathered here today.
Cui'er looked at the yellow-skinned children in front of her, and only felt that her heart was slightly sour, she could help more people by herself, even if it was to make a person and a family survive better, it was good.
"Let everyone come today, our tea shop is going to recruit apprentices for roasting tea, there will be a few checkpoints later, all the people who have passed the level will be recruited as apprentices by the tea shop, with a penny of wages every day, and the tea shop will pack two meals and be full." Cui'er's straightforward opening did not have any exaggerated words.
"If you have been an apprentice in the tea workshop for three years, you can be recognized by the tea master, and you can make a complete tea by yourself, you can be promoted to the tea master of the tea workshop, the tea master can be ten taels of silver per year, if you are a tea master, you can create a new tea, after my approval, you can be promoted to the tea master, the tea master, you can get thirty taels of silver per year, and the income of the original new tea can get one-tenth of the commission."
Cui'er slowly and firmly said the promotion path of the entire tea workshop, some of the children at the bottom could understand, some couldn't, but Qian Shanming, who was busy drying tea, completely listened to it, he was still dazed while drying tea, he must be a master of tea making!
"Roasting tea is a tiring job, from picking tea to roasting tea, every step can not be sloppy and can not make mistakes, if you are afraid of hardship, you can leave now." Cui'er stood on the steps of the main room, looking at the children below with burning eyes, and seeing that they were bright and not intimidated, she smiled slightly, "The selection of roasted tea apprentices has officially begun!" (To be continued)
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