The couple spent a whole day in the dental office. They left home in the morning and returned home almost in the evening. Almost everything in the workshop had been done, except for replacing the new lock on the yard. They would give them a few days to get used to it.
There is also something to take care of with the newly rented shop. We need to hire someone to decorate it, customize tables, chairs, benches, and plaques. The sooner this is done, the better.
The indentures were all with her and had been verified. There was no problem at all, so there was no need to worry about them running away. In Daqing, if a person wanted to go somewhere, rent a house, or settle down, they needed household registration documents. This was even more so for slaves. Without proof of identity, they were considered illegal residents, which was even lower and more troublesome than slaves. They could hardly move around. Moreover, if slaves escaped without permission and were discovered, they would be beheaded, and their descendants would become the lowest class of slaves. If they had children, they might even be demoted to official prostitutes.
After calculating the total expenses for today, there were still 40 taels left from the cost given by Xiao's mother, which would be used for the decoration of the semicolon in the future. Jiang Sui had spent a net of 230 taels, which was the money for buying slaves, plus the management fee, introduction fee, and the purchase of daily necessities in the workshop, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
Before leaving, she gave the pawnbroker one or two taels of silver as a reward for his hard work, half of which was for his running errands, and the other half was for the introduction fee for Nanny Qian.
The two hundred and thirty taels will be compensated to Jiang Sui from the profits of the two branches in due time.
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Time was urgent, so the Xiao brothers sent the millstones and a series of tools for making sweet potato flour to the workshop. Jiang Sui gave them two taels of silver per month as living expenses, which was enough for daily groceries and they could almost have meat for every meal.
Grinding sweet potato starch is strenuous work. You have to be full and have some oily food to have the strength to do the work, right?
Xiao's mother and father both went to the workshop to see the four slaves bought by Jiang Sui. Jiang Sui called them Uncle He, Aunt He, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang. They were almost the same generation in age, and all members of the Xiao family could call them that in the future.
Jiang Sui asked them to call Xiao's father and mother "Master" and "Madam", saying that they were the head and mistress of the Xiao family. The four of them knelt down in front of the couple on the spot, ready to kowtow.
The couple had never seen such a scene before, so they asked them to stand up quickly before they even knelt down:
"No, no, no, you are almost the same generation as us, why are you kneeling down to us? No, no, no."
Xiao's mother was afraid that she would shorten her life.
Aunt He smiled and said:
"Madam, you are the master and we are the slaves. It is natural for us to kneel before you."
Having said that, Xiao's father and mother are rough people and do not understand the matters between master and servant. They only know that the person standing in front of them is a human being, a living person, not an animal that can't speak and can only work.
"Everyone, stand up. Don't take yourselves too lightly. Our family doesn't have so many rules now. As long as you do your job well, we won't treat you unfairly."
Xiao's mother was like this, so even after she was granted an imperial decree, she never felt that she was noble or superior to others, so everyone in the mansion, from top to bottom, respected and loved her very much.
Sincerity is always the key.
They were all quick learners, and with Jiang Sui teaching them personally, they were able to master it in just a few days. It wasn't a very complicated thing, just very labor-intensive.
Now that Jeju's economy has recovered, there is no shortage of food in the market. Jiang Sui bought another 1,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes and brought them to the workshop, asking them to slowly grind and dry them. They should make as much as they can every day and arrange their rest time reasonably.
They did not spend the living expenses given to them lavishly. They only used it for food and shopping and never wasted anything. Aunt Wang even mentioned to Jiang Sui that since the yard was so big, they could build a chicken coop in the corner and raise some chickens in it, and the leftover sweet potato residue from grinding starch could be steamed and used to feed the chickens.
However, there are too many sweet potato residues every day, and these ten or so chickens cannot eat them all.
It was because of Aunt Wang’s suggestion that Jiang Sui suddenly had a new business plan in his mind.
She can develop a chicken farm. Just like Aunt Wang said, it would be a waste if so much sweet potato residue is not used. It is a natural chicken feed. She can fence off a piece of land in the suburbs and raise a group of chickens there. Every day, the waste can be recycled and the sweet potato residue can be transported here to feed the chickens. The farmland in the suburbs is full of small insects and earthworms, which are a natural nutritional supplement for chickens. Raising chickens does not require any technology. After a year, chickens lay eggs and eggs lay chickens. Once the chicken farming business is established, Jiang Sui can develop the roasted chicken and braised chicken business. The main focus is on making the best use of all materials and completely self-producing and selling. Wouldn't a whole business chain be established?
She went back that night and told her family about her thoughts. She spoke with great excitement, detail and vivid expression. After she finished speaking, the Xiao family members, unusually, looked at her in unison with blank eyes.
Jiang Sui suddenly felt a little unconfident:
"What's wrong? Did I exaggerate? Do you think it won't work?"
Xiao Lanlan shook her head, swallowed her saliva, and said:
"No, what kind of brain do you have, Fourth Sister-in-law? How come it's so smart? It's only been a few days and you've come up with another good idea to get rich? You're not exaggerating at all. You're so smart that you can even think of using sweet potato residue to steam and raise chickens!"
"Not only can we raise chickens, we can also raise pigs. However, raising pigs is too expensive and difficult to develop. It requires patience and investment. But raising chickens is no problem. I am also good at roasting chickens!"
Jiang Sui actually didn’t know how to make roast suckling pig because it was too difficult. If she knew how to make roast suckling pig, she might have raised pigs.
"What do you want to do specifically? However, we don't have much money saved at home right now, and I guess I may not be able to give you much money in a short time!"
Xiao's mother used up the one hundred taels she had just earned to open a branch. There really wasn't much money left at home, and it wasn't that she was stingy.
But these are not problems. All Jiang Sui needs is money. She still has nearly eight hundred taels. Let's get started first. This chicken farm will only cost a hundred taels at most, right?
"I plan to buy a piece of land in the suburbs and build a chicken farm. I will start by investing 100 chicks, 30% male and 70% female, and hire two people to help raise them. The chicken farm should be located next to a farm. After the chicken manure is piled up, I can sell it to the vegetable farmers on the farm as fertilizer at a low price. I can also exchange it with them and ask them to send rotten vegetable leaves or vegetable leaves eaten by insects to the chicken farm for the chickens to eat. It will be a win-win situation for everyone..."
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