In April, pruning began in the fields. Everyone became busier day by day, and Chunxiao also began to prepare for leaving.
She decided to buy another group of people before leaving. Otherwise, if she left and there were not enough people on the field and something went wrong, it would be too late to deal with it.
So she began to supervise the carpenters' work every day, and just like in Yard No. 1, she asked them to finish the beds and cabinets in Yard No. 2 and Yard No. 3 first.
Zhao Shitou's family has moved here for several days. He and Zhao An have started to get used to the work here. The old lady does some work in the yard every day.
Xingfu did not reveal his identity in front of her, and Zhao Shitou did not say anything either. However, the old lady felt that this manager named Xingfu was particularly caring towards her, which made her feel very touched.
Chunxiao once again found Chen Tingzhang, the head of the township government, and said that she needed 20 cows around the 20th, and asked Tingzhang to help her find a cloth shop to see if there was any backlog of cheap cotton cloth that needed to be disposed of. She wanted to buy more, and if there was cheaper old cotton, she also wanted to buy several hundred kilograms for the servants in the shop.
At the same time, she asked the township government to help her contact various restaurants and help collect eggshells, and gave her 10 taels of silver as a reward for her escape.
Although Chen Tingzhang didn't know what she wanted the eggshells for, he knew she was a capable person and that they would definitely not be useless, so he happily agreed.
Sure enough, within two days, someone from the township government came and asked him to go to the cloth shop and cotton store in the town to get cloth and cotton.
Chunxiao immediately drove the carriage to the town with happiness.
The yamen runners took them to the cloth shop, and the shopkeeper was very polite to them. "The day before yesterday, Chief Chen said you wanted some cheap cloth that was waiting to be processed. So, yesterday, I sent someone to the county town to find the owner and bring over all the processed cloth that was sitting in our shop. I don't know how much you want, but all of it is here."
Chunxiao followed him to the warehouse in the backyard to check. Oh my God, there must be hundreds of pieces of cloth. Some of these cloths have faded badly and the outer layer has lost its shape. Some of them have spots on the outside, and it seems that they have been stored there for a long time.
"Shopkeeper, how are you going to sell these cloths?"
"Miss, our boss said that since it was the Pavilion Master who introduced us, we naturally want a good price. Although some of the cloth here is unusable, most of it can still be used after careful selection. If you buy it all, it will be 450 coins per piece. You know the current price of cloth, and our boss is only giving this price out of respect for the Pavilion Master."
This price is indeed very cost-effective compared to the current cloth price, but the businessmen are all experienced. These cloths have been stored for at least a few years. She doesn't know what the price was at the beginning, but it is definitely not the current price. Moreover, if these cloths continue to be stored, they will definitely lose their value. If she sells them to them now, they will definitely be able to recover their costs.
She smiled and said, "Thank you, Master. How many horses are there in total?"
"A full 110."
"Okay, boss, please ask the shop assistant to help us move everything to the carriage outside."
She followed the shopkeeper to the counter to count the money, and got back 5 cents of silver after taking out 50 taels.
After leaving the cloth shop, the yamen runners took them to the cotton shop.
It is now April, the weather is getting warmer, and the demand for cotton is not high. The boss took them to the warehouse to see the old cotton, and finally bought 450 kilograms of old cotton at the price of 100 wen per kilogram. Chunxiao gave the cotton shop owner a size and asked him to make 90 quilts. Today is the 15th, and she said she would come to pick it up on the 20th.
The boss looked at the inventory in the store and agreed. Since it was the head of the store who came directly to say it, they would drive them out no matter what.
Chunxiao took Meiman for a stroll in the town, bought a lot of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, meat and vegetables, and finally returned to Ruoyun Mountain with a carriage full of things.
When they passed by the edge of the field, they called a few women who usually cooked and two men, asked them to go back to the yard, and also called the seven children back.
The carriage stopped directly at Yard 1. After everyone arrived, Chunxiao asked them to move the things prepared for the kitchen to the kitchen. The children's eyes widened when they saw the meat. Chunxiao felt sad and funny at the same time.
While the woman and the children were moving things, Chunxiao asked Chunliu and Chunshisi to go into the house and carry out two tables, and then asked them to help move all the cloth out of the carriage. After everything was moved, Xingfu tied the carriage outside.
When the women came over and saw the table full of cloth, they were surprised and envious, but they did not gather around to look through it. Instead, they stood aside politely with their children.
"Boss, so much cloth?"
"This is what we just bought in town today. There are 110 pieces in total. Open them and sort them out first. Put the old ones that are almost good in one pile, put the ones with bad colors but good quality in another, put some of the ones with quality problems in another, and put the ones that are completely unusable in another. Look at them carefully, and I will make arrangements after you have sorted them out."
"Boss, there's some fine cotton in here. Do you want to separate it?"
"First, divide it as I just said, and then divide the muslin and cheesecloth at the end."
A group of people started to work after hearing the order. A piece of cloth was more than ten meters long, and it would take a lot of time to check it carefully. The men were clumsy and could not see as carefully as children. Chun Xiao asked Chun Liu and Chun Shi Shi to go back to the field and call a few women back.
So all the women in the yard gathered to pick out cloth. Some women were afraid of dirtying the cloth, so they went back to the house and moved two tables.
She placed the cloth on the table and examined it carefully. Finally, the dozen or so women spent almost an hour picking out all the cloth. Chun Xiao looked carefully and saw that they had indeed picked out the cloth according to her instructions.
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