Qin's mouth is sharp and unforgiving; these days, she walks around the village with her head held high.
As soon as she spoke, the whispering women fell silent.
When Liu heard this, she was first surprised. She didn't expect the Tian family to arrange a marriage for Tao'er so quietly. She had even wanted to arrange it for her eldest grandson.
However, since it was scheduled for Xiaoman, she didn't have much to discuss.
Putting aside personal feelings, Xiaoman is much better than my eldest grandson.
Moreover, having just committed this desperate act with a knife, Xu Qiang wouldn't dare to do it even ten years from now.
The Tian family had no powerful backers, so they found a reliable one to support them.
She said to Wang Xiaoju, who was making mosquito coils with her, "These two kids are a good match. They both work at the pharmacy, which will make things easier for them in the future."
Wang Xiaoju was fiddling with mosquito coil sticks, saying absentmindedly, "Mother, you said that since they both work at the pharmacy, they'll earn at least two taels of silver a month!"
Madam Liu shook her head: "Tao'er is an apprentice. She hasn't received a salary for three years. She only gets one or two taels of silver during the Xiaoman solar term, which is enough to support her family!"
He has ten taels now, enough for his wedding and house repairs, but he'll need to take care of Dazhu and his grandparents later, which will be tiring.
Ignoring her mother-in-law's nagging, Wang Xiaoju turned to Xu Genbao, who was carrying mosquito coil mud, and asked, "Genbao, you know, we work so hard to come to the city to fluff cotton, and we only earn this much money in a month. We might as well just stay in the village."
"You can do farm work, fluff cotton, and earn some pocket money at the workshop."
She had just calculated that the mosquito coil workshop operated on a piecework basis.
If Genbao and I keep working, we can earn sixty coins a day.
If you can fluff cotton in the village every now and then, you can earn more than an ounce of silver a month, which is no worse than running around outside.
Liu had always resented the couple for working day and night to make a living, and Leizi would always cry for a while at night when he missed his mother.
At this point, the natural hope is that the couple can settle down, farm with Leizi, and ideally have a few more children soon.
He immediately said to Xu Genbao, "I think Xiaoju is right. You should stay in the village. If you have less money, just be frugal. The most important thing is for the whole family to live together peacefully."
From before to after the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu Xiaogu's series of misdeeds terrified Liu Shi.
She was afraid that Xiaoju and Genbao would be targeted if they went to the city to find work, so she felt more at ease if they were all under her watchful eye.
Xu Genbao was also somewhat tempted, having already heard about it from his elder brother, Xu Genyou.
Although it's not yet June, the village has two crops of corn, and it will soon be time to sell the green sorghum.
News is now coming from the post station that people are coming to the village from time to time to ask about the tender corn.
This area also needs someone to manage it; usually, Errui takes care of several things.
Now, among the villagers of similar age, Genqing works at the pharmacy, Gensheng is in charge of purchasing medicinal herbs, and his eldest brother manages dozens of acres of land belonging to Aunt Jiang, who will be responsible for distributing grain in the future.
They all have their own jobs to do, and if I could work with Aunt Jiang, I could earn some money.
Furthermore, Aunt Jiang is already preparing bricks, stones, and timber to build a house in the village.
The renovation resulted in two sets of brick and tile houses, one for Xiaoman and one for Errui.
While it's easy to hire odd jobs in the village, there's definitely not enough manpower to run errands and serve as a consul.
Thinking of this, Xu Genbao felt a surge of excitement. Everyone was saying that Aunt Jiang was a master at managing the household, and that she was good at everything.
As long as you follow along diligently, you'll have more work than you can finish.
Xu Gensheng manages a mosquito coil workshop, but he can't be happy.
He was illiterate, and when the village held night school, he just listened to it for fun and laughed along. He even teased and joked about Errui and Qiaoyun studying every day.
Now that he has taken over the mosquito coil workshop, he is extremely anxious and spends every day watching over Xia Xiucai to learn bookkeeping.
The workshop operates on a shift system, and it's important to keep track of how many people come and how long they work.
You need to remember who makes the powder, who presses the dough, and how much powder and adhesive are needed, and you can't make any mistakes.
The workshop had only been open for five days, and the accounts were already in complete disarray. Moreover, Xia Xiucai had to check the accounts every day, which gave Xu Gensheng a huge headache. He complained endlessly, "Counting heads is harder than digging sweet potatoes in the field!"
He still prefers to go to the rural market to collect medicinal herbs, as haggling and bargaining are his forte.
Xu Gensheng gets angry whenever the topic of going out to earn money comes up.
Grandfather Xu Changming led a group of people to the city to collect the money, and asked Pi to lead the way.
Who knew that after squatting on the street for a few days, my face would be swollen from mosquito bites and sunburn for so long, and now I have rashes and peeling skin.
First, I picked some mugwort and boiled it in water to wash with, but it didn't work.
I washed the affected area with the ointment Aunt Jiang used to treat the child's impetigo, but it was still itchy, so I had to quickly buy some ointment to apply myself.
The cheapest ointment from Baicaotang costs 100 coins a bottle, which is ridiculously expensive.
Now Pi's neck and chin are covered in rashes, and it costs money, but his great-grandfather doesn't care about anything. He just stays at home all day and doesn't go out, afraid of running into Aunt Jiang and being laughed at.
Actually, Xu Changming was overthinking it. Jiang Zhi had been extremely busy lately and hadn't even gone back to the mountain, so she didn't have time to argue with him about these things.
At that moment, she was arguing with someone at the post station.
The people arguing were Old Song and Zhang Juntou again.
During the Qingquan Bay massacre, three thugs who were with Dachong "disappeared".
At first, I thought they were hiding somewhere, waiting to make a surprise attack.
But those three thugs were like ancient turtles, hiding too well. Several days had passed, and they still hadn't surfaced.
People in town who knew the three of them also said they hadn't seen them return. Song Tingzhang said, "Jiang Shi, these three should have left home and gone to another town. Your pharmacy will be open in a few days, right?"
Magistrate Zhang said that the taxes payable by the pharmacy could be postponed for two months, and if any problems arose afterward, he, as the head of the pavilion, would be held responsible.
Now all he can do is urge Jiang Zhi to start work.
Jiang Zhi also wanted to start the project, but people had died there less than ten days ago, so who would want to go?
Moreover, Xiaoman's stitches haven't been removed yet; she'll have to wait at least three more days.
Wounds on the head, face, or neck heal relatively quickly, and sutures can usually be removed 7 days after surgery.
The back, waist, and buttocks usually take 7-9 days to heal, and the stitches can be removed after the wounds have healed.
Xiaoman's injury is in her waist and ribs. The wound is large, and Jiangzhi plans to wait until it is fully healed before removing it.
Beside him, Zhang Juntou tapped the table without saying a word.
He doesn't care when the pharmacy opens, but he's also inextricably linked to any problems that arise.
He had just taken over the mosquito coil business during the day, vowing to protect the area, and then caused trouble at Qingquan Bay that very night.
Especially now that the mosquito coil workshop has started operating, and he still hasn't found three thugs.
That's a slap in the face!
Fortunately, he's already secured a mosquito coil customer, which makes things a little better.
At this time, Errui was also outside talking to passing merchants about selling green grains. He had already arranged for three customers to come and participate in the auction next month, and then they would break off all the grains and sell them together.
After half a month of publicity, the news that Xujia Village was going to sell green grains had spread along the road.
Jiang Zhi plans to sell mosquito coils in addition to green grains, promoting Xujia Village's products to other areas.
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