Money, oh money, is linked to life; you have to be alive to earn it and also be alive to spend it!
Jiang Zhi glanced at the herbs beside her, her mind racing.
Once the Huo family learns the technique for making Banlangen granules, they can immediately produce other medicines and make money easily.
I will definitely sell the formula and technology myself, but I can't just collect money and be done with it.
I'd rather have a well than a lake.
They asked the Huo family for franchise benefits, promising to produce their own medicines and have the Huo family help with sales.
This is a very lucrative opportunity; Magistrate Zhang should also make some connections with him.
Money can be tempting, and no one can put all their money in their pocket.
One hundred taels of silver might not matter much, but if you have more money in the future, people will ask for your help from all sides.
For public taxes, for private charities, and for various other reasons, money always needs to slip through our fingers to be safe.
If you act ethically, your future will be bright.
Seeing that his mother was lost in thought, Xu Errui didn't dare to disturb her and secretly ran off to find his wife to play with the child.
Jiang Zhi was lost in thought, already imagining herself earning tens of thousands of silver dollars by visiting influential figures, building a big house, buying servants, and hiring people... until she was startled awake by Cai Xia's giggling laughter.
It's too early to think about these things now; we'll talk about it after we meet the Huo family tomorrow.
During dinner that evening, Jiang Zhicai asked about the construction of the post station at the foot of the mountain.
She was a lazy village chief; she only needed to assign tasks, and an eight-person team would take care of them, so she didn't need to manage things herself.
Xu Errui said, "We've collected almost all the stones. All we need to do is cut down a few trees to build the retaining wall. Mother, Uncle Tian said we'll use those trees to build a house for us first."
"Tian Gui gave us trees to repair our house?" Jiang Zhi asked in surprise.
Zhang Juntou once said that the felled trees would be handed over to the village for disposal. Since it was a form of corvée labor, each household had to contribute one person, so naturally everyone would have a share of these trees.
"Well, Uncle Tian and Brother Genyou both said that there are no houses in our village, so you have nowhere to rest when you go back to the village. You can't stay under the tree every time you go back."
Let's keep it simple and build a shack, a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
Xu Errui was very busy at the moment. While replying to the conversation, he fed his daughter, who kept tugging at him, soft, cooked vegetable leaves.
Jiang Zhi nodded: What these two people said makes sense. The reason I haven't come down the mountain these past few days is actually because of the rain.
The past two days have been rainy, so the "open-air office" under the tree was unusable, and she stayed at home, with Xu Errui managing it for her.
These past few days, Xu Errui and Xiaoman have been staying at Zhang Juntou's place, along with Li Laoshi.
Zhang Juntou had to support the three of them, and he even had to freeload meals when he went down the mountain...
I need a place to stay, money, money!
The fact that Tian Gui and the others are willing to offer it to us shows they have good intentions.
“Okay, we need a place to shelter from the rain!” Jiang Zhi decided that she would build a house herself once she sold the pharmaceutical formula.
However, it wasn't made from felled trees.
Freshly cut live trees can only be used to build temporary shelters, not houses. They need to be left to dry completely for several years before they can be used.
If Jiang Zhi really wanted to build a house, she would buy wood, bricks, and tiles in town. She wouldn't need to build a large yard; she would just build a few simple tiled houses with mortise and tenon frames and fences for the time being.
She no longer has to worry much about the farm work on the mountain; Chunfeng and Qiaoyun can take care of it.
Moreover, Xu Dazhu can now get down to the ground even while supporting himself on a straw mound.
He goes to the wood ear charcoal kiln next to the terraced fields every day, and he doesn't need to bother others with anything he can do in the kiln or the fields.
Grandpa Xiaoman didn't go to help either, he just watched Xu Dazhu and Chunfeng working hard in the fields, sweating profusely.
There's nothing we can do about it; both of them are very strong-willed these days, trying to prove to each other that they're capable!
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhi put down her chopsticks and said to Qiaoyun and Errui, "After we finish eating, let's go to Xiaoman's house! I've made a wooden chair for Dazhu to use."
She hasn't been idle on the mountain these past few days; besides collecting herbs, she also did some handicrafts.
Xu Dazhu's health gradually improved, and his range of motion increased. However, he couldn't use a wheelchair on the mountain, so Jiang Zhi thought of making him a walker.
This idea came to Jiang Zhi when she saw Xiao Caixia crawling on the ground every day and wanted to make her a walker.
Xu Dazhu's upper body has basically recovered to normal, and his lower limbs have regained sensation, but he cannot control his movements and his muscles are weak.
If you have an adult walker, you can frequently strengthen your standing exercises.
Otherwise, if they have to do farm work with their bodies and legs curled up like this every day, and Xiaoman and Xu Errui can't help them for long periods of time, they will miss the best time for recovery and their legs will become deformed and they will really be disabled.
Jiang Zhi originally intended to tell Xiaoman's father and Xu Dazhu about this, as they could have done it themselves. However, she felt it would be a good surprise for Xiaoman's family.
In the past few days, she first used the leftover wooden sticks from making the fence to make a fully enclosed frame, so that people inside could stand up by holding onto the wooden sticks on both sides.
In addition, a chair was woven from kudzu vines so that one could sit down and rest when tired of standing.
"Mom, what's a baby walker?"
Xu Errui was somewhat bewildered. He had been away from home for several days, so what was there that he hadn't heard of?
Qiaoyun saw her mother making a wooden chair and explained with a smile, "Mother tied a wooden stick together to make a wooden chair, just like a sedan chair for children, so you can stand or sit."
Jiang Zhi had to admit that Qiaoyun was absolutely right; this was indeed a large-scale "chair sedan chair".
Wooden sedan chairs, a child's childhood
It just didn't have those wooden planks, only some thin wooden sticks, making it lighter.
As your physical condition changes, you can also carry it in your hand and use it as a walking aid.
Xu Errui scratched his head: "Brother Dazhu, do you know how to use it? Will you fall down?"
"That's when we need to teach him!"
Jiang Zhi was very confident in her work, but she still needed Er Rui's help to put Xu Dazhu into the walker for the first time.
Time was short, and the three of them ate without even washing the dishes. Xu Errui picked up the child, Qiaoyun carried Xiao Caixia's canned food, and Jiang Zhi picked up the walker she had made and went down the cliff.
By this time, Xiaoman's family had already eaten, and they were burning a fire in the yard for light, each doing their own thing.
Xiaoman is still down the mountain and hasn't returned. Xiaoman's grandfather is sharpening his wood-chopping knife, and Xiaoman's grandmother is still constantly spinning hemp and kudzu thread from morning till night.
Xu Dazhu was making straw sandals again, while Chunfeng was washing the family's clothes, the wooden sticks hitting the clothes making a "bang bang bang" sound.
Only Nini was free. She squatted by the rabbit pen, grabbing blades of grass to feed the rabbits: "Little rabbits, eat quickly, grow quickly, and you can exchange them for white rice tomorrow!"
The child's innocent voice was filled with joy.
His family has been raising rabbits for over a year now. Because of ample food, the old ones have reproduced and the young ones have reproduced, and the number has grown to nearly one hundred across several generations.
We sell some, eat some ourselves, and now we have more than forty rabbits, enclosed in a long stone fence.
Grandpa Xiaoman said that his family could no longer eat rabbits, and from now on all the rabbits would be sent to town to sell for money to buy rice.
So now Nini feeds the rabbits even more diligently, hoping they'll have more babies so she can exchange them for candy.
The arrival of Jiang Zhi and the other two interrupted Nini's rambling. She ran over quickly, exclaiming, "Little sister, little sister is here!"
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