I can't get this thing for a while, and for the time being, Qi Lele has written it down in the to-do list, and the most important thing now is to float these bamboos in the pond.

"According to the book, there are two ways: first, directly float the entire section of bamboo into the pond; The second is to cut the bamboo into slices, mix them with lime and soak them in the pond."

Xie Zi'an said: "It's the first time we've explored it, so why don't we try both methods."

"That's what I thought, too."

After speaking, Qi Lele said, "I think we should invite two more masters who can make paper?"

"Why?"

"It's easy to chop bamboo and float in the pond, and it's not too difficult to cook the fire later, but it's more suitable for someone who knows this craft to get into the curtain, right? Otherwise, we will have to take a lot of detours just by relying on us laymen to explore."

Xie Zi'an said, "Okay, I'll let someone inquire."

Qi Lele nodded: "When will the lime that Uncle Su bought arrive?"

"I'll be here early tomorrow morning."

"It's just the right time!" Qi Lele then asked, "Is the silver advanced enough?"

"I was about to talk to my wife about this, I'm afraid the silver is not enough, there are a lot of various things I have bought recently, and Uncle Su is not as careful as Uncle Wang."

As he spoke, Xie Zi'an took out a piece of paper, which was a list of Su Zhengtao's recent purchases of various items, and the total number of zeros and zeros added up to almost fifty taels.

Qi Lele didn't want to look at the price on the list, so he only let Xie Zi'an write it down to his account, and said, "It's already difficult for Uncle Su to buy all kinds of farm tools and fertilizers, so you don't have to worry about such a trivial matter as the price."

After all, they are people from big families who are determined to go to the rivers and lakes to be chivalrous! It's not easy to help them with such trivial things! Can't ask for too much.

"Madame!"

Qi Lele didn't say anything, endured the heartache and took a cloth bag, took the money box, counted fifty taels of silver from it, filled most of the bag, checked it, had to have a small two catties, and was ready to turn around and hand it over to Su Zhengtao.

The money box was almost empty, and now there was only a little bit of broken silver left in the previous silver taels, as for the three thousand taels that Ye Liu gave, when he sent food and various materials a few days ago, he had already brought five hundred taels back.

Qi Lele sighed faintly, took a silver ticket of five hundred taels, and prepared to exchange it for cash next time he went to the city.

Xie Zi'an looked at her with a painful look on her face, and he didn't have to guess what was going on in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel funny.

When Xie Zi'an finished recording the accounts, Qi Lele read it carefully and couldn't help but sigh again.

There are many people in the family, miscellaneous industries, and the expenses are really big!

In terms of agriculture, it is good to say that although the bulk of the current expenditure is in the field of farm tools and white cloth, these are one-time inputs and are acceptable.

As for the rest, there are just some seeds and fertilizers, the seeds have already been planted, and the fertilizers will have to be added from time to time in the later stage, but the expenses are also limited.

In the future, when they develop their own fertilizer, they will not only save money, but also earn money!

Animal husbandry is a big expense, and they buy a lot of food materials in order to do experimental research feed.

The yield of crops here is not high, and the price is naturally not cheap, even if you choose some inferior grain to make feed, it is not too cheap, the key is that this is a long-term fixed expenditure, after all, so many livestock are waiting to be raised!

Let's take a look at the production, sesame paste and sesame oil mainly rely on technology, and the raw material is just sesame seeds, which is okay.

The most troublesome thing is soap and pancreas, obviously the lowest cost, but in order to hide people's eyes, they have to purchase a lot of spices and spices every time, and even medicinal materials, resulting in a rapid rise in costs, and the silver flows out like flowing water.

There is also a big expense, that is, staff salaries, so many people, many of them are high-end talents, and the monthly money adds up to hundreds of taels every month!

However, this expense, Qi Lele is willing, and if he wants someone to work hard, of course he has to give monthly money! Silver can be earned, but talent is not available everywhere!

Then looking at the daily expenses, it costs a lot of money just to eat two meals a day, because the family does not have enough land, there is no grain in stock, and all the rations have to be purchased.

In addition to rice, flour and grains, there must also be eggs, meat and vegetables, otherwise the body can't bear it, and the work is not even more boring? Dozens of young and strong men add up, but it doesn't cost money!

In addition, you have to prepare bedding for them, add clothes, and so on.

It was also at this time that Qi Lele learned that the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the ancient domestic servants could all depend on the master's family.

The clothes can be slow, but the bedding can't wait. It is also because of this that the little money she had left was instantly cleaned up.

In addition to the above expenses, there are also some expenses that have not been recorded, such as the large number of seeds and livestock and poultry brought by Song Mingshan this time, if you really count it, it will cost a lot of silver!

It's just that this amount of money was put on by Xie Dai and Su Yaxian.

She is really glad now, when Su Yaxian gave her a box of silver tickets, she did not completely refuse, otherwise she would really face the dilemma of lack of money at this time.

"Why don't the papermakers ask about it first? We'll have to soak the bamboo for three months, so let's talk about it when we have more of it."

Xie Zi'an looked at her like this, and felt very cute, and couldn't help laughing, "Okay, don't invite you for the time being."

Qi Lele finally glanced at the expenses of the past half a month, and closed the account book with a heavy face.

The cost is really too big!

"When we're done with the drifting pond in the past few days, let's go to the city to have a look, choose a suitable shop, and open a wine shop.

Xie Zi'an bowed: "Okay."

After calculating the accounts, Qi Lele gave Xie Zi'an the cloth bag filled with silver and asked him to send it to Su Zhengtao, and she went to deal with the spring bamboo shoots by herself.

There are dozens of spring bamboo shoots dug this time, she pondered leaving a small part to eat fresh, and the rest were cut into slices and dried and saved, whether it was for personal use or for use in the wine shop, after all, it didn't cost money!

Although Shangxi Village is close to the continuous mountains, everyone doesn't seem to go up the mountain much, and at most they only pick some wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain.

After Qi Lele was taken up the mountain by Xie Zi'an a few times, he somewhat understood the reason, the groundwater resources here are abundant, the vegetation on the mountain is dense, and there are too many snakes, insects, rats and ants.

The spring bamboo shoots looked hard and heavy, but it was not a trouble to deal with, as long as the knife was sharp enough.

Qi Lele took a kitchen knife to cut off the tail of the spring bamboo shoots, and then cut the skin of the spring bamboo shoots from top to bottom from the root of the spring bamboo shoots, and then broke the bamboo shoot skin to both sides along the cut opening, and a complete white and tender bamboo shoot appeared.

Song Mingshan, who originally planned to help, looked at this crisp and neat peeling action, and subconsciously paused.

The other side.

You Qingyun said lightly: "For him, you don't hesitate to destroy your reputation, you don't even want to retreat, but he doesn't even want to break up your family for you, do you still think he is a good match?"

Du Lanqiu didn't speak, just stood quietly in front of the window, as if he wanted to look through the low wall of the courtyard to watch Qi Xiaojin who was guarding outside.