Chapter 238: Fire Kang
Listening to Jiang Tangtang talk about the hired workers, the villagers were very excited, and they all stopped their movements and listened carefully to Jiang Tangtang.
Jiang Tangtang means that everyone gets together to sew clothes, and arranges different jobs according to their strengths.
In fact, it is a bit of a modern assembly line worker.
Not only will this increase efficiency, but it will also allow the majority of women in the village to participate.
For example, if you are young, you can do chores such as threading needlework, and those who are better at tailoring can be responsible for cutting, and those who know needlework, but are not proficient, can do ordinary sewing work.
As for wages, Jiang Tangtang also gave everyone two choices.
If you give copper money, such as tailoring, which tests people's skills, it is given 40 wen a day, and the sewing work is calculated according to 30 wen, and as for the work that children can do with needles, it is 10 wen a day.
If you don't want copper money, then the cutting work is three catties of coarse grain a day, the sewing work is two catties of coarse grain a day, and the needle work is half a catty of coarse grain a day.
The villagers almost didn't think about it, and they all decided to ask for coarse grains. First, everyone is short of food now, and secondly, although the price of copper coins opened by Jiang Tangtang is high, the price of grain outside has long been unknown. Now that you have taken the money, you may not be able to buy the same amount of food.
Naturally, the villagers chose to ask for food.
For the assembly line workmanship proposed by Jiang Tangtang, the villagers also agree very much. Although most of the people in the countryside can sew and mend them, according to Jiang Tangtang's employment, the children in the family can also earn a pound of food.
In this era, there is no child labor, and children should have a good childhood.
The children of poor families help the family at a young age. Haven't you done anything to help in the field, cut pigweed, and collect firewood? What is a needle?
You can get a pound of grain with a needle, such a good thing, except in Jiang Tangtang, may be impossible elsewhere.
The villagers felt that Jiang Tangtang took special care of them and was full of gratitude to her.
After the wages of the hired workers and the method of hiring them are determined, it is the location.
With so much cloth and cotton, even the Lu family can't put it down. Moreover, ordinary people work noisily and noisily, which also affects the normal life of the Lu family.
Thinking about it, only the room she built earlier to be used as a school is the most suitable.
Although the children rescued from the last time were temporarily housed in that school, it was far more spacious than other rooms because it was originally built to be used as a school. The children live in it and there is still room for it.
After deciding, everyone moved fabrics, cotton and other things to the earthen building.
In addition to the villagers coming to help, Xie Ziang also brought a few older children to help.
After knowing that Jiang Tangtang was going to sew clothes where they lived, he took the child back to his residence first and cleaned up the room first.
The children are managed by Xie Ziang on weekdays, and the room is already tidy, and by the time the villagers come over with their things, the room has been completely cleaned up.
The villagers were not optimistic about Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan taking these children back to the valley and taking care of their food.
But after such a long time, everyone has also understood the character of the children, and the villagers no longer agree with the adoption of these children by the two as before.
Nowadays, the villagers mostly consider them as part of the lodge.
Seeing that the room was tidy, the villagers praised the children for being sensible.
Looking at the sensible children, Jiang Tangtang felt sad. Especially when she saw the thatch piled up in the corner, she felt sad for a while.
Although she brought the children back and gave them food rations, she didn't really care about them. As for the children's accommodation, she didn't care.
It's not yet cold yet, and the children are barely able to do this. But seeing that winter is about to begin, you will definitely get sick if you sleep on the ground like this when the time comes.
Buying a bed for each of them can be done with a little effort. It's the quilt that's hard.
If you want a quilt that can keep out the cold, you have to say more than four catties. With so many children, you have to pay a lot of cotton.
Nowadays, these cotton and cloth are only enough to issue a set of cotton clothes to the soldiers, and there is no more.
And where can it be divided for the children?
Jiang Tangtang frowned and thought for a while, but came up with a solution.
Maybe you can build an earthen kang.
Not only is the kang warm, but there is no need to spend extra effort to make a bed. It is currently the most economical and labor-saving method.
She recalled the memories of the original owner and found that there was no earthen kang in the village before.
She casually asked a few villagers to inquire, and the result of the inquiry was the same as she thought, the villagers did not know how to make clay kang.
Fortunately, she still has a system.
Jiang Tangtang opened the book stored in her system and quickly found the information on building a fire kang.
However, she didn't read its content carefully for the time being, but found Lu Shiyan and talked to him about changing the children's accommodation.
The tuzhai building is built according to the number of people, and in principle, there is no extra house. But the refugees who defected to Lu Shiyan with Liu Chengfeng at that time basically lived alone. If you can convince them to arrange the child for the time being, this problem can be solved.
This kind of thing, of course, is based on the principle of voluntariness, so Jiang Tangtang asked Lu Shiyan to talk to them, and casually talked about repairing the fire kang.
"Girl, what kind of kang can you really build?"
Jiang Laosi came over to ask about how to place the furniture, and just heard Jiang Tangtang talking about the fire pit, and he was suddenly excited.
Lately, he's been struggling with the winter.
Adults can survive in winter, but children cannot. What's more, his baby daughter has only been full moon for a long time, where can she withstand the cold of winter.
Now that I heard my sister say that the fire pit is hot, not only on the kang, but also the whole room is warm, how can this make him not excited?
"When have I ever told a lie?" Jiang Tangtang looked at his fourth brother and said, "When this time is over, I will teach you how to make a fire kang." You can talk to your family about not having to worry about getting a bed first. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll go tell them." Jiang Laosi turned his head and left, walked a few steps before remembering the matter, turned his head and asked Jiang Tangtang how to place the furniture.
Jiang Tangtang said: "Move the tables to the school first, and when the time comes to cut the fabric, it should be used." Leave anything else in the courtyard outside. ”
Some of the furniture she picked up was good, and some of it had a lot of minor problems.
For example, the drawer of the cabinet is broken, or the leg of the chair is loose or something.
But overall, it's not a big problem, as long as you fix it, you can still use it.
I have to let Second Brother Lu overhaul it first, and then put it in the room.