Chapter 381 Envy

Shen Qingjiang told them that he had signed a cooperation agreement with Fangyang Village, whereby they would raise dairy cows and provide milk for his family.

"When I make milk soap, the mild smell of milk is more suitable than goat's milk."

The most important problem that fresh milk is easily spoiled due to the long distance can be solved.

Jiang Xiangbei opened his mouth, then said in surprise: "Mom, then I'll pack up and go to Chenzhou to transport the cattle back tomorrow!"

The sooner we ship it back, the sooner we can make milk soap!

His mother is so amazing that she actually thought of cooperating with the Sheep Farming Village in advance. Why didn’t he think of it?

There was not enough space and manpower in his own village to raise large numbers of livestock, so why didn't he think of expanding outward? He only had his own small village in mind.

Shen Qing looked at the exhausted Old Four, who had been running around for days, and smiled, saying, "Just rest at home. The cattle should be here in a few days."

Jiang Xiangbei took a breath, thought of something, and asked hurriedly: "Mom, are you asking Su Mu and the others to transport it?"

No wonder Su Mu and the other three left early!

Since they went there together, it was natural for them to return together. It didn't matter if they spent a few more days on the road. After leaving the capital, Su Mu said he would go ahead, and the four of them rode away.

They were riding horses, while we were riding donkeys, pulling carriages and cargo, so we were moving at completely different speeds. But even if we were moving at different speeds, wouldn't it be pleasant for us to walk and chat together?

Now I understand that my mother had already made an agreement with Su Mu!

Shen Qing hummed and explained: "Sumu and his men have strong horses and herdsmen who are most familiar with livestock, so it would be most appropriate for them to transport the animals.

Not only can they deliver the sheep, but they can also teach the villagers in the sheep-herding village how to raise, milk, and process the sheep."

The cowshed in the shepherd village is probably almost finished. Once Sumu sends the cows, a steady supply of milk should be delivered to the village and into the soap workshop within two days.

"Also, once the road is repaired and the weather is warmer, the villagers have decided to plant fruit trees and flowers. The fruit trees may not bloom and bear fruit this year, but the flowers and plants we have sown should not be a problem. If things go well, we can see them in two or three months.

But before that, there are still wild flowers from the mountains. Then fresh flowers, dried flowers, and flower-scented soaps will all be available, but it will just be a little later."

I had previously thought of selling the flowers and plants I grew to shops in the capital. If the soaps sold well, I could give priority to supplying them to my own soap workshop.

Jiang Xiangbei had already gotten over his shock. He was now only deeply shocked and didn't know what to say.

He was thinking two steps ahead and thought he was very capable, but his mother was in the village and had already anticipated all possible events and made preparations in advance!

My mother once said that the higher you climb, the more you see and the more you realize your own shortcomings. Following my mother, he can deeply understand his own shortcomings...

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After hearing the news brought back by Jiang Xiangbei, Shen Qing changed the original five-day suspension of the brush workshop to three days.

The villagers learned early on from the man who had gone to the capital that the brushes were selling well, so they hurried to work and were all very happy.

They are not afraid of having too much work or working hard, they are only worried that they won’t be able to sell their products and have no work to do!

The livelihood of the entire village mostly depends on the brush workshop. Firstly, they can get a steady income from wages, and secondly, the team that goes out is mainly responsible for transporting brushes. At the same time, they can also transport soap, sesame malt sugar and even medicinal materials.

You know, with the soap workshop, not only can the brush makers eat the oil residue, but every household can also buy a few pounds of oil residue from time to time to supplement their oil and water.

The sesame candies can be sold farther and in greater quantities, so the village chief's three families will contribute more money to the public treasury, and the price they are given will be cheaper!

These two things have greatly improved the quality of life for every family, and they are all good things!

As for medicinal herbs, I heard that the purchase price in Beijing is more than double that in Jincheng. Every family grows medicinal herbs in their fields, and there are also medicinal herbs on the mountain that belong to the village collectively. But no matter whether they are their own or owned by the village, the money will flow to them.

The selling price is much higher, so wouldn't that mean more money will flow into their pockets?

It's a good deal no matter how you look at it.

Therefore, the writing brush concerns every household in the village. There is no small matter concerning the writing brush, all of them are big matters!

Finally, we took the initiative to change it to one day so that they could feel involved in the road construction, and then we could go and make brushes after it was done.

Anyway, all the men who were away have returned. They are all men in their prime. After a day's rest, they are good at work again.

The next day, after washing up, everyone went to school.

A kitchen team of more than a dozen women has already prepared breakfast.

Three large iron pots are filled with bubbling vegetable and lean meat porridge, and two large wooden barrels next to them are filled with the same porridge that has been cooked and cooled. The weather is still a bit cold now, so scoop half a bowl of cold porridge and add half a bowl of hot porridge, stir it and it will be warm. Drink it down and your whole body will feel transparent, comfortable and warm from the inside out.

The other two large iron pots were piled high with steamers, each layer filled with soft and hot cornmeal buns.

A bowl of moist vegetable and lean meat porridge paired with dry cornmeal buns, it has both liquid and dry ingredients, as well as both fine and coarse grains, it is delicious and substantial.

The cleaned earthenware bowls were neatly stacked on the stove. Everyone came and scooped their own food, while the women in the kitchen were skillfully preparing food for lunch.

The invited craftsmen and bricklayers looked at the orderly crowd in front of them with envy in their eyes.

“Why do you feel more organized than last year?”

“I thought it was great that we were able to build those houses last year, but I didn’t expect that in just a few months, we would have to build so many new houses, all of them brick and tile houses!

The people in their village are really amazing. I wish our village could be half as good as them."

"Isn't it? Forget about half, even half of half is fine. But look at how united the villagers are. They work and eat together.

If my village were like this, people would have enough to eat, but they wouldn't be able to do any work and would just be cunning and deceitful.

"I heard that their work is divided up, so there's no need to worry about not working. Moreover, the thin ones are made finely, while the dry ones are rough. In order to have the physical strength to work, they will eat both thin and dry ones. Others just have a way."

"That depends on the people. Take those troublemakers in my village for example. They can always find fault with any task assigned to them, making it impossible to assign any tasks!

Do you believe it? They can pick out all the lean meat in the porridge~"

Others: ...Indeed, there are such difficult families in their village.

It's really a bad apple that spoils the whole barrel.

Why!

"Maybe our village is too poor. If we were rich, we wouldn't even look down on the lean meat in the porridge..."

“I think it has little to do with being rich or poor, but rather with one’s character;

It's so nice to be rich, you can even have meat with your porridge! We've also learned a lot."