"Hey, making money is always busy, and some busyness is a good thing. What color does Brother Huo like? I can help you dye a nice one, and I can even dye it into a pattern."
"Just get yourself something you like. I'm a grown man and don't need anything fancy." Hood brushed away the loose hair on her forehead.
Although she has a small body, she seems to have infinite energy. My little wife is really full of vitality.
Hood liked her liveliness.
"County Magistrate Yang's wife also wanted a piece of unique fabric, so I planned to dye her one too. I might as well dye more. Since I've already started, dyeing one piece is no different, so I might as well dye a few more.
Maybe this could be a business.”
The advent of Dacron brought more colors to fabrics in that era, but it was still far less than in later generations. If she had set up a dyeing and printing factory, she would definitely make money.
But... she doesn't have that much energy, and the dyeing and printing factory needs to buy machines, which requires a large investment. She can cooperate with the government.
I'll discuss it with Brother Yang when the time comes.
The workshop hired people and got on track. Li Mo and Zhou Xiumei made cakes, and the three brothers of the Huo family made braised dishes in the workshop.
The workshop is divided into several areas, and everyone does not interfere with each other.
Only Xu Mei, relying on being Li Mo's sister-in-law, went from one district to another, trying to learn everything.
Zhou Xiumei came to complain to Xiangnan: "Be careful with this Xu Mei, she is definitely a restless person. During the time when you had the accident, although she didn't leave, she didn't work either.
She eats and drinks well at your house every day, and orders the other aunts to do things for her.
She shouldn't have been paid double."
Aunt Xiangnan, who is staying with us now, is paid double the wages. It used to be ten yuan a month, but now it is twenty.
Xu Mei didn't stay there out of righteousness at that time. She just wanted to stay at Xiangnan's house to eat and drink, and learn something at the same time.
Xiangnan was not at home, so she stole openly.
"It's okay, Auntie. If she dares to steal, I can punish her. Just wait for her to jump around."
"She went home yesterday and brought a bag of things with her. Please look around to see if anything is missing." Zhou Xiumei really disliked Xu Mei. She always felt that she had a calculating look on her face.
"Yeah, I'll take inventory later."
As Xiangnan finished speaking, Xiao Lanxi ran over and said, "Auntie, auntie, my aunt is so annoying. She asked me to get some information and gave me a piece of bad candy. The candy melted, and when I opened it, it got all over my hands."
Little Lanxi's hands were covered with toffee, which made her feel sticky and uncomfortable. She pouted her lips and looked very angry.
Xiangnan pulled her to wash her hands and asked, "What news did your aunt ask you to find out?"
“She told me to ask my mom what the big white particles she added to the pot were.”
Xiangnan's eyes darkened slightly. Not only did he learn secretly, but he also set his sights on the children.
"Did you tell her then?"
Little Lanxi shook her head: "I won't tell her. My aunt is a bad person. She didn't let us eat when we were at grandpa's house."
Xiao Lanxi holds a grudge very hard, and even a piece of sticky candy cannot make her let go of her past grudges.
Xiangnan patted her head and said, "Aunt is a bad person, so we have to punish her. Little Lanxi, just tell your aunt that those big white grains are sour jujube seeds, okay?
This way, we can punish my aunt-in-law and make her suffer a great loss."
Little Lanxi asked doubtfully, "Why tell my aunt that I can punish her? Isn't that helping her?"
"Because we told her false news." Xiangnan winked at her.
Little Lanxi giggled: "Auntie is so smart, why didn't I think of telling her it was fake."
Because you are still a simple child.
After Xiangnan taught the child bad things, he went to prepare dyes for dyeing cloth. Zhang Ming's family had a grape field, and now was the time when the grapes were ripe.
Grape skins are natural plant dyes, and when combined with the blue grass that is abundant in the fields, the resulting mixture creates a pale blue color.
Of course, you have to try again and again to get the most satisfactory color.
Xiangnan arrived at Zhang Ming's house, but Zhang Ming was not there. Zhang Ming's wife came out to greet him with a smile: "Oh, how come you, a busy man like Xiang, have time to come? I heard you opened a shop in the county town."
"Yes, I match clothes for people. If you need anything, you can come to me. I will definitely give you a discount. I came here today to buy grapes from your family."
Zhang Ming's wife said happily, "That's great. I was just worried about how to get them to the county town to sell. How much do you want to buy? If you want to buy them all, I can sell them to you at a lower price so you don't have to go to the county town yourself.
I heard that selling things in the county town now requires paying industrial and commercial management fees, and you have to go to the First Market. If you sell outside, you will be arrested.
"Yes, everything is regulated now. Auntie will have to go to the vegetable market if she wants to sell things in the county town. If she sells things outside, anything she gets caught will be confiscated.
How many grapes does my aunt have?"
"In previous years, it was around 200 kilograms, and this year should be about the same. Xiangnan, do you want them all?"
"I don't think I need that much, but it doesn't matter. Sell them all to me and I'll pick them when the time comes. How much is one pound?"
"If you want all of it, it's 40 cents per pound. I'll sell it in the county town for 50 cents per pound." Zhang Ming's wife readily reduced the price by 10 cents per pound.
Xiangnan was also straightforward: "Okay, I want them all, but I only need to pick about 20 pounds today. Leave the rest on the grape racks. I will have someone come and take them all away in the next few days."
She probably doesn't need so many grape skins to make dye, so she took the rest to the county town to sell, and some of them can be kept in the refrigerator to make grape juice or grape cake.
Zhang Ming's wife smiled and said, "My grapes are really sweet, not sour like some others."
Zhang Ming's wife took Xiangnan to pick grapes. They picked a large basin of grapes, weighing 25 kilograms. Xiangnan paid for it on the spot.
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