"Grandma, Liu Gui is here. ◢ With *Dream ◢ Xiao *.lā" Bai Feng led a young man in a wheelchair over, Lin Qingwan put down the scissors in her hand, handed the cut flowers to the little girl, waved her hand to Liu Gui who bent down and saluted: "No need to be polite, have you seen the wood on the mountain?" ”

"Yes," Liu Gui said: "They cut one and came back to show me, and there is no problem at all in making tables, chairs and benches." ”

Lin Qingwan showed him Mr. Shan's design drawing, clicked on the four parts along the wall, and said: "I plan to vacate this part of the first and second floors, and place tables and stools along the wall for people to read or copy books, but I am not sure whether to set up long tables and benches, or round tables and square stools." ”

Liu Gui thought for a while and said: "If you want to sit with a lot of people, you should still have a long table and bench, which is more space-saving." ”

Lin Qingwan bowed slightly, thought for a while, and said: "You go to the reading building tomorrow to have a look, in addition to this part of the tables and stools, the counter also needs to prepare a set, I decided to separate a piece in the reading building to make a bookstore, open the door on both sides, anyone who wants to buy books can place an order from the bookstore, and the income will be used to use the expenses of the reading building." ”

Lin An, who was standing aside with his hands respectful, frowned slightly and said, "Grandma, will that rob Hanmozhai's business?" ”

Lin Qingwan smiled, "That bookstore is Hanmo Zhai." ”

Lin An choked, is this going to open a branch?

Lin Qingwan said to Liu Gui: "In addition to the reading building, you can also go around the neighborhood, let Lin An accompany you, and set up the things in a few shops nearby, see if you can do it, if you can do it, we don't have to go to the timber shop outside to do it, and then I will ask Lin An to invite some people for you, and you can do it together." ”

Liu Gui's eyes lit up, and he bent down heavily and said, "Auntie, don't worry, the little one will do his best to live up to your trust." ”

Lin Qingwan smiled slightly, and handed the design to Lin An, "You can take it." ”

Lin An took it, stuffed it into his arms, saluted, and pushed Liu Gui down.

"Brother Liu, how long will it take for you to do it?"

Liu Gui thought for a while and said, "I don't know how to count yet, and I don't have anyone in my hands, so I can't count it for the time being." ”

Lin An smiled and said: "Don't worry, this Brother Liu, when the number is set, you have to hire people, we will make an announcement, and there will be more people to apply." ”

Liu Gui also nodded, his face full of joy.

Of all the households, he was the most difficult, because the others, although they were also disabled, had their legs amputated like him, and there was very little they could do if they couldn't stand up.

When he was in Zhuangzi in Yangzhou, he relied on his mother and the owner to support him, and he had to roll out of bed and crawl down by himself to drink saliva.

But when he arrived in Suzhou, it was different, his aunt asked him to make this wheelchair, and let him prepare a complete set of carpentry tools, he occasionally helped the people in the Zhuangzi to do some carpentry can also have some income, plus his mother's monthly income is not low, and the Zhuangzi is often subsidized, and life is getting better and better.

It can be seen that Yu Zhu, who has a broken arm and is weak, can go to the teahouse, but he has nothing to do most of the time, and he is not without loss in his heart.

Now it's okay, he has a job.

As soon as he got home, Liu Gui began to touch the wood they carried back today, and he had already begun to calculate where to start.

His movements were very fast, and the next day he and Lin An went to see the reading building, and after measuring the data, they calculated the quantity.

Because the nearby shops had not yet been built, he couldn't measure them, so he could only discuss the style of the tables and chairs with Lin An, and conservatively estimated a number.

After he wrote the list, he handed it to Lin An, who handed it to Lin Qingwan, Lin Qingwan only glanced at it and handed it to Lin An, "Ask someone, I will ask Steward Zhong to allocate a sum of money to you." ”

Lin An bowed and retreated.

The Lin family's courtyard posted a notice at the gate of the West City again, and asked someone to announce that they wanted to recruit carpenters, and it didn't matter if they only had carpentry, they would do it.

In addition, some masons should be recruited.

After marking the required number of people and salaries one by one, the people in the Lin family's courtyard left, but the people in the nearby courtyard surrounded them.

In the past, only the yamen would post some announcements on the bulletin wall on this side of the West City Gate, most of which were some policies of the imperial court or wanted criminals.

But since three years ago, this wall has had another purpose - the Lin family's announcement wall.

Most of them are recruitment announcements, and occasionally there are other things to be announced, but no matter which one it is, it is basically a good thing for everyone to post.

Therefore, whenever the people on the side of the West City Gate see someone who is not the yamen sticking something, they know that most of them are people from the Lin family, and they will gather around to see it.

If you meet the Lin family recruiting workers, it will be lucky.

No, the Lin family is recruiting.

Most of them were illiterate, but the people who posted the announcements didn't go far, and they shouted loudly when they were surrounded by people: "Our aunt and grandmother want to make some tables, chairs and benches, and we need carpenters. Also, if you can build a house, you can also go to ......."

This was a little unclear, and some literate people squeezed in and said: "Come on, come, I will read it to all of you, and now recruit ten carpenters, a number of apprentices, and the wages are ......."

"Apprentices are also paid?"

"Yes, it was written above, and the apprentice worked twenty-five times a day."

"Ah, there are more people who go to the ground than us, and we only got 20 wen for the last autumn harvest to Zhuangzi. This apprentice is also making money like this? ”

Many people are excited, there are always people in their families or relatives' families who are apprentices in the city, but they have never heard of apprentices and wages, "This money is not allowed to be given to Master?" ”

The person who read the announcement touched his beard and smiled: "As mentioned above, the master's salary ranges from 50 to 100 yuan, and this price is the market, so the two should be separated." ”

He bowed his head slightly and said, "It is worthy of the Lin family, and he is kind and generous." ”

Generally, carpenters who take on private work will bring their apprentices or their own children to help, as long as they eat it, and the master's family will not pay them at all.

And the carpenter's daily salary ranges from 30 to 80 yuan, or is paid by the piece, and Lin Qingwan's salary is now good.

The old man continued to look forward, and the smile on his face deepened, "It is written above that apprenticeship also includes some carpenters, as long as they can help the masters, regardless of whether they want to follow the masters." ”

This means that apprentices who are not brought by the master are also successful, and many people quietly leave the crowd and run home.

Oh, isn't their third cousin a carpenter?

I learned it from my uncle and grandfather, although I am not proficient in my skills, I can only make some tables and chairs by myself, but it should be no problem to give a hand to the masters.

knew that the Lin family's work was difficult to grab, so no one dared to slack off, and ran back to inform in a hurry, and the person who was notified did not hesitate, and left the work in his hand and ran to the Lin family's courtyard.

The autumn harvest is over, and winter is coming, if you can find a job in the Lin family at this time, you will definitely have a large income this year.

Lin Qingwan just got up from her lunch break and vaguely heard the lively sound outside, and she couldn't help but look outside.

Bai Feng smiled and said, "It's the carpenter who came to apply, do you want to go and see it?" ”

"No need, let them toss on their own." Lin Qingwan changed her clothes, yawned and said, "Let's go to the bookstore in the afternoon." ”

Looking at how the movable type engraving is, Lin Qingwan packed up a box of books for the bookstore to print, naturally it can't be engraving, it's all movable type printing.

Steward Liu stared at the typesetting, and said to Lin Qingwan: "It's a pity that there aren't many prints, otherwise it would be more worthwhile." ”

"There's no way around it, I don't know what the sales of these books will be, and it's too risky to rush to print more."

Steward Liu nodded, even if it is not an engraving, it will not be wasted engraving, but paper and ink are not cheap, and if it is printed and cannot be sold, it will be a big loss.

The books Lin Qingwan is looking for are already commonly used, so each one has been printed in 100 copies, thinking that even if Hanmo Zhai can't sell it here, it can be recommended to other bookstores.

In short, I won't lose too much, and many books that few people will buy Lin Qingwan will keep all of them, and plan to ask someone to copy them when the time comes.

No way, even if it is movable type printing, the cost is not low, if only a few copies are printed, it will be a real loss.

After explaining the Liu stewardship, she turned around again, and Lin Qingwan went home.

There are a lot of things in the reading building, Lin Qingwan is very concerned about this, so every day is very fulfilling, Lin Yubin is busier than her, although she is smart, she has not thrown away books in these three months, but in the end, she took a break from school for three months, and suddenly returned to school, either she was too advanced in learning, or she was a little behind.

Moreover, the gentlemen's lectures have their own characteristics, and they will expand the class, and she has been absent for three months, and she has been somewhat unable to keep up.

So since I started school, I spent time in the make-up classes of my classmates, and I didn't go home after school, but made up for each other's lessons with a few good friends in the school, and when I got home, I had to make up for the homework I had left behind.

Mrs. Yang felt that she was still talented in the piano, and she caught her to practice the piano every day, so she was busier than her aunt.

Busy people will always think less, and after returning to Suzhou, the faint reluctance quickly dissipated, and even the unhappiness with her uncle and the Zhao family was quickly left behind by her.

Wandering in the ocean of knowledge, Lin Yubin felt a sense of satisfaction emanating from his heart, what his aunt said was really good, only knowledge in this world cannot be negative.

If you don't live up to your knowledge, you will succeed.

After Suzhou cooled down significantly, Lin Yubin finally caught up with the course and could study more happily.

But Shang Ping, who finally received the letter from Zhao Sheng and his wife, was not in a good mood.

Pinching Zhao Sheng's letter, and then turning his head to look at his wife and his letter, Shang Ping couldn't help but blacken his face, he shook his hand and pressed down the two letters, so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Defeated!

Zhao Sheng was defeated, and he was defeated so badly, not only did he not get the income from the money he invested, but he also lost his capital!

Shang Ping couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, and fell down while clutching his chest.

"Master-" Seeing this, the elder who was guarding the side rushed up to support the person after shouting, "Master, are you okay, do you want to call the doctor?" ”

Shang Ping took a deep breath, sat up straight with his chest clutched, shook his head and said, "No, no." ”

His face turned a little blue, and he stuffed the letter in his hand into a drawer and locked it, and then fell on Changsui's body, "Help me go back to rest, don't tell Mingjie." ”