"But if I hire someone, it will cost a lot of money..."
There are so many things to do at home now, and money is needed everywhere. If we hire more workers, I am afraid that the family will not be able to come up with so much money in a short time.
"Wanwan, Mom thought, why not just be a little tired? Anyway, Mom will stay at home all the time, so it won't be a problem."
"Mom, you need to take good care of yourself now. Besides, we need to make more than just one or two dolls. If the quantity is small, we can let you make them. But if we make them all ourselves, we might not be able to deliver enough."
When Su Yun heard this, he swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
"Besides, we can't hire many people. We can only find a few who are good at embroidery. We will need to teach them in advance..."
This puppet looks easy to make, but it is still quite difficult to get the size right and cut the strips of fabric.
Even if we hire workers now, we still have to wait a few days before they can start working.
Su Yun was silent for a while before looking up at her.
"That's true. We really can't make all those dolls. Why don't we pick a few capable women from the village and have them come over to learn how to make them before we start making them?"
"That's what I thought, too."
However, before hiring, there are some things that need to be considered seriously. These puppets are not difficult to learn, but they must find honest and loyal women and sign a contract.
This was to avoid the situation where some women would make things and sell them, and she would not be able to explain to the embroidery workshop.
"Mom, I'll leave this matter to you."
"good."
Su Yun smiled and nodded.
Of course she has to give her full support to her daughter's business, and she also has to keep a close eye on her.
Qingshan Village
A thin figure stood outside the Zhang family's gate, his body crammed into a patched gray shirt.
His sallow face looked like an old eggplant hit by frost, with sunken cheekbones and prominent cheekbones, giving him the appearance of malnutrition.
His eyebrows were so sparse as if they had been gnawed by something, his eyes were rolling around, but there was a gleam of light in his eyes.
As soon as he opened his mouth, a mouthful of yellow teeth was exposed.
"Well, you Zhang family actually dared to lie to me. You, a barren girl, actually dared to ask me for twenty taels of silver!"
He stood in front of the Zhang family's gate and cursed at Zhang Chunlai and Yang Hua inside.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
When Yang Hua heard him say this, she thought he was going to go back on his word.
Don’t even think about asking her to spit out those twenty taels of silver!
"Liu Guanggun, we agreed on this back then. Now that you've taken her away, we have to close the shop quickly. You're causing trouble in front of our house now. Do you really not want to get married?"
"Bah! You guys tricked me back then, but you never told me your daughter couldn't have children. If I hadn't gone out to buy some wine and heard what people were saying, I would have really been fooled by you!"
The reason he was anxious to get married was because he wanted to have a big fat son. Now the wife he bought can't give birth. How could he be willing to do that?
"What nonsense are you talking about? Who said she can't have children?"
When Yang Hua heard what he said, she was stunned on the spot, but she quickly realized that this Liu Guanggun might be dissatisfied with the previous betrothal gift and wanted to go back on his word now?
That won’t do!
"You don't have to hide it from me anymore. I've heard everything. Return the money to me right away, or we'll never be done with this!"
"Pah! What are you thinking?"
"Everyone in our village knows that Xiaoyun is going to marry you. Now you're breaking off the engagement. Where will Xiaoyun's reputation be?"
Zhang Xiaoyun, who was in the yard, heard the noise outside and collapsed in the woodshed.
She had been locked up in here for the past two days, only getting one meal a day, and Yang Hua only gave her food when she remembered.
There was a bleak look in her eyes.
Why did God do this to her? What did she do wrong?
Zhang Chunlai's figure appeared outside the woodshed. When Zhang Xiaoyun saw his shadow, he quickly got up from the ground.
"Dad, please don't sell me out, okay? I can do a lot of things. I... I can become someone's maid, and I'll give you all the money I make in the future..."
When Zhang Chunlai heard this, a look of confusion flashed across his face.
"Xiao Yun, it's not that Daddy doesn't want to save you, it's just that Daddy borrowed some money to buy some wine these past two days. If you don't pay it back, they're going to chop off Daddy's hand. Can you bear to see Daddy's hand cut off?"
He didn't mean to do it. He didn't want to break his hand.
"So you sold me out?"
Zhang Xiaoyun was in disbelief. She couldn't believe that he would sell his own daughter to such a bad old bachelor just for some money for wine?
"Dad, am I your biological daughter? Why do you treat me like this?"
She let out all the repression she had endured for so many years.
"Ever since my mother died, you've ignored me. I can only eat one meal a day. Sometimes, I don't even have any food when I come back from work. It's been like this for so many years, and you haven't even said a word to comfort me!"
"Not a single word!"
Zhang Chunlai listened to her accusations, his expression becoming increasingly grim. "You're questioning your own father!"
"It's your parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. I've raised you for so many years and never let you starve to death! What's wrong with marrying you off now?"
"That won't do. Do you still want me to support you for the rest of your life?"
A hint of gloom flashed across Zhang Xiaoyun's drooping eyes.
Support her?
After her mother died, she was left alone by Zhang Chunlai. Later, when Yang Hua married into the family, she would beat and scold her at any time. Zhang Chunlai would remain silent when he saw this.
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