By the end of May, the seven or eight nearby villages seemed to be accustomed to buying burning paper and going to the Chu family in the backing village, and the copper money burning paper was also selling better and better, and even faintly surpassed the momentum of ordinary burning paper!

On this day, Shen Luzhu looked at the account book in his hand, and then looked at the inventory in the empty room, and fell into deep thought, in the past 20 days or so, they have earned a lot more than before, basically every day yellow burning paper and copper money burning paper, can be sold for about ten dollars each, and there are also different amounts of white money! According to this amount, you can earn almost six to seven taels a month!

Shen Luzhu felt that it was time, her original intention of doing the paper money business was to think that after making money, she could help Chu Yi share it!

Chu Yi had dinner, filled the water tank at home with water, went into the house and asked his wife to go to the empty house to make copper coins and burn paper, and when he saw that no one moved, he beckoned him to pass, so he stepped forward and reached out to probe Shen Luzhu's forehead: "Uncomfortable?" ”

Shen Luzhu pulled Chu Yi to sit down and leaned on his shoulder: "It's not uncomfortable, it's just a little tired!" ”

"Then Ah Zhu won't do it for a few days, I'll just come."

"Not only these days, I don't want to do it in the future, Chu Yi, don't do it!"

Chu Yi looked at Shen Luzhu, who was blinking with a pair of big eyes and looking at him innocently, stunned for a moment, and then smiled comfortingly: "Okay, when I finish disposing of what I have bought, we won't do it!" ”

"Really?"

"Well, if you don't want to do it, you won't do it!"

Shen Luzhu just wanted to tease Chu Yi: "But...... Chu Yi, if I sell you one day, will you still help me count the money! I'm teasing you! ”

Chu Yi was a little funny, as if no matter what Shen Luzhu did, he found it interesting: "Not tired?" ”

"I'm tired, why don't we make copper coins and burn paper, I'm too tired!"

"Good!"

What is it like to have a husband who has absolute trust in you, what do you say, and what he says is good? Shen Luzhu can answer this question now, that is, joking is absolutely unavoidable!

Okay, let's get down to business: "I mean seriously, you have to make a coffin during the day, I want to set up a stall, and I finally have to be idle at night, and now I have to make copper money to burn paper, one is that our paper money business is getting better and better, and maybe more will be sold every day in the future, but only the two of us will be supplied, I'm afraid it won't be available, and the second is that it's always so hard day and night, and the body will not be able to bear it!"

Therefore, in the future, when we do the work of burning paper with copper money, we will ask others to help us do it, and pay the wages according to the number of finished products done, so that although we earn less per knife to burn paper, we can also save some light, and we can do something else when we have time, right? ”

Chu Yi thought about it seriously and felt that his wife was right: "What Azhu said makes sense, it will be the Midyear Festival in a while, and the amount that needs to be done when pouring must be more, and it is better to ask someone to do it!" ”

Chu Yi remembered that when the Chu family shop was still there, before the fourth festival every year, the family had to stock up on more dark money and paper money, which was ready to be sold before the festival!

The amount of things that are usually sold is not too large. These shops that sell dark coins, mainly rely on the Qingming Festival, the Midyear Festival, the Winter Clothes Festival and the Spring Festival, important sacrificial festivals to make money, no matter what family, what origin, the four festivals are to sacrifice ancestors and deceased relatives, every year before the fourth festival, the sales of the dark money paper money will be doubled!

Shen Luzhu knew something before, and the Shen family would also prepare to sacrifice to their ancestors during the fourth festival every year, and he did think about preparing some in advance, but now he is more sure of his thoughts when he hears Chu Yiyi!

"Then who do you think is more appropriate, this copper coin burning paper mold is the most critical, only to see the burning paper may not be so easy to imitate, if you see the mold is much simpler, so it must be a trustworthy person! I think Chu Ping is good, my grandfather's family is very good, Chu Ping is good friends with you, and he always helps on weekdays! ”

"Although he is lazy on weekdays, there is absolutely no problem with his character!"

"Anyone else? It's better to have two or three, and we'll probably need a lot of them. Shen Luzhu roughly estimated that there were about seven or eight villages nearby, and there were people who came to buy paper money, and there were about more than 100 households in a village, that is, seven or eight hundred households, even if only half of the people came to buy, and each household bought two knives, it would be a lot of money, and one would definitely not work.

"Zhao Cheng can also do it, and his mother-in-law."

Shen Luzhu didn't know if A-Niang's side would do it, and planned to go back and ask in a few days: "My mother's side, go back another day and ask, just before I said that I would invite Zhao Cheng and Chu Ping to have a drink, why don't I invite them to eat tomorrow, by the way, ask them what they think, how about it?" ”

"Okay, then I'll go talk to them tomorrow morning."

Immediately after that, the husband and wife asked for how much salary should be paid, which was a little difficult for Shen Luzhu, if there was more, the copper money burned paper would be the same as the ordinary paper burning, so there was no point in tossing and doing this, but there was less to give, and I was afraid that people would earn less, and I felt that it was not interesting and did not want to do it, and I couldn't set a number after thinking about it!

In the end, Chu Yi, he said that the raw materials, technology and molds are provided by his own family, and the people who invite them only need to operate, even if they are relatives and friends, they do not lose themselves and fulfill others! The price of five cents for a knife was tentatively set, and I waited for tomorrow to discuss it with Zhao Cheng and Chu Ping, and then I decided to die!

Early the next morning, Chu Yi chopped firewood for the house, picked up water, and went out to find Chu Ping and Zhao Cheng. Shen Luzhu didn't go out of the stall that afternoon, took Chu Li out to buy a lot of ingredients and wine, went to the field to pinch some vegetables, returned to Chu's house, and began to prepare in the stove room.

Shen Luzhu told the three elders of the Chu family early in the morning that she would invite her friends to eat and drink in the evening, and said that she would prepare two servings for dinner, one of which would be taken to the hall for the rest of the Chu family to eat, and the other would be placed in her and Chu Yi's room, and Chu Li would also follow them to eat in the room.

Shen Luzhu didn't follow his own ideas for a long time, he went to the stove to cook, on weekdays, Grandma Chu always thought she didn't know how to save, and prepared dinner with the sister-in-law in the lobby during the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly to listen to the arrangement of the sister-in-law, this time I finally had the opportunity, Shen Luzhu was ready to cook a good meal, and solve the cravings!

The fat and thin pork belly is cut into large pieces and blanched, a little oil and sugar in the pot is fried to make the sugar color, the pork belly is stir-fried, and then water and spices are added to stew until soft.

Remove the scales of the fish and change the knife, fry on both sides until golden brown, sweep with shredded green onion and coriander, and pour over the thick sauce!

Chop the chicken into small pieces and blanch it, and then stir-fry it with sesame pepper and dried chili pepper, which is spicy and salty, and makes people appetize!

Mix a cold salad with seasonal vegetables, and finally come to a big bowl of egg drop soup, four dishes and one soup, just prepared, Chu Ping and Zhao Chengcheng went to the courtyard of Chu's house together, Shen Luzhu did not delay, Chu Yigang invited the two of them to sit down in the house, and the dishes began to be set on the table here!

A table of people ate fragrantly, after three rounds of wine, Chu Yi stopped chopsticks, and talked to two friends about wanting to ask them to help with the work: "Purchases, raw materials, molds and sales, all of which are done by us, only need to be picked up regularly, and then sent back when they are done!" ”

Chu Yi also told the two of them in detail how to use the mold, if it was like him and Shen Luzhu before, what should be done when the two of them cooperated, how to avoid loss, and how to do it faster. According to the experience of the two of them, a knife of paper has to be cut with a mold about ten times, and then carefully remove the part that has been cut, and then rearrange and pack, after proficiency, an hour can almost do about five knives!

Chu Yi not only have to stock up before the Midyear Festival, but also before the Winter Clothes Festival and Chinese New Year's Eve, as well as before the Qingming Festival, they all have to stock up, plus they usually sell, basically this is a small job that can be done all year round!

The only thing is that this mold can't be used by others to see, and can only be used by people who work at home!

After all the other things that should be said were said, Chu Yi finally said the tentative price: "The tentative price is a knife and five cents, you can go back and discuss, see if you want to do it, and write back to me as soon as possible!" ”

As soon as Chu Yi's words fell, Chu Ping spoke: "Cousin, I'll do it!" It's just that you just used what you said, I still don't quite understand what that mold is used for, if only you could let me see it later! ”

"I'm afraid you can't do it alone, don't you discuss it with your family?" Chu Yi was afraid that Chu Ping's head would be hot, so he didn't think about anything, although he hoped that he could do it, but he still discussed it with his family and decided again!

"Eh, cousin, you don't know my family yet, as long as I am willing to do the right thing, how can I disagree, and I am happy to work with my cousin!"

"That's good, but I still have to make it clear to my cousin!"

Compared with Chu Ping's heartless temperament, Zhao Cheng thought about it more, not because he was afraid that Chu Yi, who was a former classmate and friend for many years, would pit himself, but that Chu Yi would suffer a loss in order to take care of himself!

Zhao Cheng's family has a large population, but there is not much arable land, but it is enough for the family to eat, and he does odd jobs in the slack time, and his life is okay, in the first few years, his uncle became addicted to gambling, and the family was emptied, and finally he was killed by the debt collector, and it was the matter!

His grandfather was stimulated, and since then he has been seriously ill and bedridden, and his grandmother has been washing her face with tears all day long. Zhao Cheng and Chu Yi were in the same year, they just married their wives in the spring of the first year, and they were pregnant now, Zhao Cheng was afraid that Chu Yi would know that he was having a difficult life, so he took care of him!

You must know that although the backing village is still rich, the life of the people in the village is basically not bad, but the croppers, except for those who have a bit of craftsmanship like the Chu family or the Shen family, can only live on the output of the field all year round.

According to Chu Yi, if you can do five knives in an hour after being proficient, you can do five knives a day, even if you only do one hour a day, that is the income of seven or eight hundred wen a month, and when you go to the town to do odd jobs during the slack time, you can only earn six or seven hundred wen a month, and you have to do four or five hours a day!

Zhao Cheng hesitated again and again, but decided to ask clearly: "Ayi, this job is really good, but why don't you do it yourself, and ask someone to do it and pay another salary?" ”

A friend for many years, Chu Yi knows Zhao Cheng, just now I saw that he hadn't spoken, I knew that he had concerns in his heart, he really wanted to take advantage of this matter to pull Zhao Cheng along, but just like he and Shen Luzhu said, no matter what, they can't lose themselves, not to mention that they haven't succeeded yet: "Ah Zhu and I are our own private work, and we can't do it with such a large amount, so I thought of such a way!" ”

Hearing this, although Zhao Cheng was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it is no wonder that for such a big matter, none of the elders of the Chu family came forward, and finally let go: "Then I don't have any problems, count me in!" ”

Chu Ping moved the stool over, grabbed Zhao Cheng's shoulders and said with a smile: "Brother Cheng, that's right!" Don't overthink it! ”