After Liu Guiyuan saw that the wool turned into thread, she left Tian Erbo's house as she wished, and on the way home, she began to ask Tian Rubai to help collect the wool.

"There are a lot of sheep in our village, I will collect wool from today, I will collect as much as I want, the price will be collected according to the market price, sixty wen per catty, Brother Bai, you can help me talk to them."

Tian Rubai's heart moved and asked, "Do you know how to knit a sweater?" ”

Liu Guiyuan said bluntly: "No, how can I have a hair machine?" I know a way to knit a sweater with two hands, which is easier than wool. ”

Tian Rubai's ears moved, he wanted to ask but couldn't help but didn't speak, he didn't teach himself when he wanted to learn to catch the felt just now, why did he still ask.

Liu Guiyuan saw his thoughts, thought about it, and said: "When I have a scale over there in the future, I should be able to recruit helpers, Brother Xiaobai, don't worry, when the time comes, half of the people in Huashi Village will be able to find a job to do in winter, but don't say it, I'm just starting." ”

Tian Rubai's eyes immediately lit up, nodded, and the two went home separately, one went to talk about collecting wool, and the other went home to cut bamboo sticks and make sweaters.

Originally, Liu Guiyuan couldn't help with sewing cotton hand cages, so she could only watch from the side, and then she used two rods to knit gloves, and the two sisters were like curious babies, and they could only look at them strangely.

"No wonder you cut the bamboo stick when you come back, it turned out to be used on this, longan, stick needle for me to try." Liu Hongzao looked at it for a while, and understood the acupuncture method early, so he wanted to try it himself this time.

"Eldest sister, I will have a lot of stitches, enough for you to learn for a winter, don't look at your embroidery skill, the sweater will definitely not be as good as me."

Back then, Liu Guiyuan was in the university dormitory, but she was a first-class sweater master, she tried all kinds of needles and tattoos, and even sold several pieces on the Internet.

"Eldest sister, I want to fight too, you call me first." Liu Huaanhua stomped his feet excitedly, no way, girls naturally love to knit this kind of thing.

"Second sister, don't worry, wait for the wool to be harvested, some of them you will beat."

Liu Guiyuan's words are right, in a few days, there are people who come to sell wool, some are now this year, and some people are saved up to the present last year, some have better wool, and some have poor color.

Liu Guiyuan didn't understand this, so in order to prevent being deceived, he went to invite Liu Jindi's mother, Gu, and asked her to help check the quality of wool.

However, in a small Huashi Village, there are not many people raising sheep, even if the wool collected looks too much, Liu Guiyuan still feels that it is not enough, so she went to the fourth grandmother's house to find the dog baby and Xu Shanmei, and asked him to go to the neighboring village to collect wool.

In this season, every household has just finished harvesting wool, and if they don't hurry up to collect it, and then buy it in the town, the price they get is not the first-hand price. Besides, the townspeople also make their fortune from wool.

After seven or eight days, Liu Guiyuan's family became a big wool collector, and the yard was full of washed wool, and at the same time, the three sisters actually knitted three women's sweaters and ten pairs of wool hand cages with their skillful hands.

"Eldest sister, second sister, let's go to the town to sell sweaters, but this time we won't sell them ourselves, let's sell them at the ready-to-wear store."

Liu Guiyuan calculated the cost, an adult sweater is 75 wen, dyed the color of 130 wen, plus her before and after receiving, picking, washing, drying, weaving, the labor cost and time, at least double the price to not lose money.

However, even with this price, Liu Guiyuan still felt that he was losing money, so he thought about getting it to the ready-to-wear store and weighing the price first.

Lianzi asked the fourth grandmother to help watch, and the three sisters borrowed Liu Jindi's ox cart and came all the way to the town, where they often went to the boudoir ready-to-wear shop.

The female shopkeeper's surname is Yu, and the husband's surname is Shi, when the three of them unfold a sweater to show them, they immediately won the appreciation of the two, and even the hand cage they used to practice their hands, the store was very satisfied, and they opened their mouths to buy it.

"I want a sweater and a hand cage, how much do you want!" The Yu shopkeeper took a fancy to the sweater they knitted, and couldn't wait to buy it, but forgot to ask the price first.

Liu Guiyuan looked at the eldest sister, then looked at the second sister, raised his eyebrows and said tentatively: "The one in my hand is a flat needle, and the price is 400 Wen, the one in the second sister's hand is a twist needle, and the one in the hand of the eldest sister is a phoenix tail needle, and the price is 800 Wen." ”

Liu Guiyuan really didn't know how to set the price, so she had to deliberately quote a high price, first see how the store reacted, and then she slowly whirled.

Sure enough, as soon as she finished quoting the price, the female shopkeeper regretted her recklessness, but fortunately, her husband Shi Fu was still witty, and hurriedly remedied: "My daughter-in-law doesn't understand the price, according to my opinion, the flat needle sweater goes to 50 Wen, and the twist needle and the phoenix tail needle go to 100 Wen each, how about it?"

Liu Guiyuan was relieved, shook his head and said: "I quote the cost price, if you go too much like this, we will lose money." "As he spoke, he was leaving, and at the same time said to the eldest sister and the second sister: Why don't we go to another house and ask, Qinghe Town is so big, and I am worried that I can't sell it at a high price."

Liu Hongzao and Liu Huahua understood in seconds, and before the three of them walked out of the store, they were stopped by the shopkeeper behind them, and the male shopkeeper said: "Don't go, three girls, I'll give you a solid price, the flat needle sweater is 400 Wen unchanged, and the twist needle and the phoenix tail needle are 50 Wen cheaper each?" ”

Liu Guiyuan felt that the price was okay, but it was not obvious on his face, and continued: "My price is not dyed, if it is dyed with ordinary colors, each piece will have to add another eighty Wen." ”

In fact, she asked about wool dyeing before, 50 wen per catty of wool dyeing, and 8 sweaters per 10 catties of wool, so that each sweater dyed a regular color of about 60 wen, and she reported 80 wen, which is considered to make a difference.

"Okay, the price is set, and in the future, the sweaters you knit will be sent to me, and I will want both dyed and undyed." Shi Dianjia has the heart to round the sweaters they knitted, and they have to sign an agreement now, and all the sweaters they make will be sent here in the future.

"How much can you eat?" Liu Guiyuan smiled, it seems that this ready-to-wear shop has a lot of appetite.

"You can rest assured, my family has its own market, as long as you promise not to supply other people's sweaters, we will cooperate at this price." This was the idea of the Yu family from the beginning, and her mother's family opened several stores in Tai'an Mansion City

Garment shops, don't worry about selling out of these goods.

"Okay, then let's sign a one-year agreement, and renew it next year if the cooperation is good, what?" Liu Guiyuan is now literate and not afraid to sign agreements.

So, the two families spent most of the day to prepare the content of the agreement, agreed on the delivery time, the pricing of the new stitching method, and the price of different styles of hand cages, and spent money to invite a Chinese man, under his witness, signed an agreement to supply sweaters.

Before leaving, Yu first placed the first order: ten pink sweaters, ten crimson sweaters, ten lilac brown sweaters, thirty solid color sweaters, fifty pairs of hand cages, and three kinds of stitches.

"This is a deposit, I want to see the goods in half a month."

According to the thirty percent of the order, Yu first gave Liu Guiyuan eleven taels to them, and after seeing the finished product within half a month, they could get the remaining twenty-six taels. That is to say, this first order is worth more than thirty-seven taels!

On the way home, Liu Hongzao sat in the carriage and was worried, and asked Liu Guiyuan: "Not counting the hand cage, the sweater is sixty pieces, and we can't knit it in three and a half months, right?" ”

Liu Huahua nodded, she just learned to knit sweaters, no matter how fast she knitted, it was too late, she thought about it and said, "Why don't you ask Liu Jindi and them to help weave?" ”

Liu Guiyuan licked his lips, thought about it carefully, and said, "They are not enough, I also mobilized half of the village to help us knit sweaters." ”

When he got home, Liu Guiyuan called the fourth grandmother and the Gu family and asked them if they wanted to learn to knit sweaters, and each one could earn fifty yuan, provided that they signed an agreement with her, and they must not leak secrets.

The fourth grandmother smiled and said: "Sign the agreement, sign the agreement, as long as I can make money, I won't talk about it." ”

Xu Shanmei has always been grateful to them in her heart, and then nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, Brother Dog and I won't talk about it." ”

Gu Shi and Liu Jindi glanced at each other, and Liu Jindi patted Liu Hongzao's shoulder and said, "Hongjube, don't you know who I am?" You rub ice powder at my house, how many people come to inquire, I haven't even said anything about it. ”

Liu Hongzao pursed her lips and smiled, slapped her, and said, "You all come tomorrow morning, I will teach you how to make sweaters, we just received an order, and we are short of manpower." ”

Liu Guiyuan calculated, plus the eight of them, she has to recruit another twenty-two people, and only by gathering at least thirty people can she make the number of sweaters required by the order within half a month.

Moreover, this first order is just a trial order, and there will be a steady stream of orders after completion, these manpower is far from enough, she needs reliable manpower, and it is best to set up a sweater club.

The next day, the fourth grandmother and the Gu family came to Liu Guiyuan's house to learn to knit sweaters with the rod needles sharpened in advance, and Liu Guiyuan went to the village chief's house with a prepared confidentiality agreement to explain the establishment of a sweater club and recruitment.

"Chief Tamura, I want to set up a sweater knitting society, and you will recommend candidates from the village chief, and ask them to sign a confidentiality agreement, and never teach the sweater knitting method to people from other villages, including their relatives and their own daughters."

"I can understand why I can't teach my daughter if you can't teach it to your relatives?" Tian Youren asked her.

"I'm afraid that our daughter from Huashi Village will learn this craft and teach it to her husband's family, so how can she keep it secret? When the time comes, it will hurt them. ”

In case a woman who has not left the cabinet in Huashi Village learns the craft of knitting sweaters and marries to another village, won't this craft be brought to another village? Even if they sign a confidentiality agreement, the situation will be different when they arrive at their husband's house, and it is better to kill this possibility now than to be embarrassed by the time.

"You have some truth in that, how many people are you going to recruit?"

"Recruit thirty skillful women first, as for which people to recruit, you will be selected by the village chief, I think the village chief, you must be fair."

Liu Guiyuan skillfully patted a sycophant, entrusting the errand that was easy to offend people to the village chief, and at the same time allowing him to choose from their Tian family first, but he had to choose the right person.

"You girl, you're really like a monkey spirit, okay, I'll recruit you, what other requirements do you have?"

"As soon as possible."

After Liu Guiyuan left, Tian Youren's wife Li Xiuyun said: "My family can go to three people, I, Ruijuan, Shuzhen, two rooms, three bedrooms, four rooms can go to at least five people, this is eight people, and there are other rooms ......."

Tian Youren glanced at his old wife, interrupted her, and said, "How can you call us our own family?" You go to the village to find some people who are diligent and do their duty, and our Tian family will go to eight people first. ”

Li Xiuyun and Tian Youren have been married for many years, so they naturally understand what she means, and they are afraid that they will go out after patting their clothes, and Tian Youren will be left alone in the house.