Fan Dazhu was filled with remorse and was almost stomping his feet in frustration.
He calculated, "A sedan chair costs twelve taels of silver. Everyone in our village has money to spend now. We've already made half of it back on the first day. It's only a matter of time before we break even."
"Now that the money's back, each additional person sitting in the back will earn two hundred coins. If two or three people come every month, that's at least six taels of silver a year. Six taels of silver in income without having to do anything! How did such a good thing fall into Hu Wenhua's lap!"
Hu Wenhua and Ding Jiajia didn't expect to make much money from the bridal sedan chair. Today they had recouped half of their investment, but they had basically covered all the men and women of marriageable age. Who knows when they will be able to get married? They couldn't rent the sedan chair to other villages, and the income from the villagers was limited.
However, judging from the current trend, the sedan chairs may not only break even but also make a profit, which is something they didn't expect, so it's not bad.
After all, nobody dislikes having more money. Earning money and having something useful is better than letting it sit there gathering dust.
Zhang Chunhua's face was dark and gloomy; only she and her husband were uncomfortable amidst the cheerful atmosphere.
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Since it was a new house for their upcoming wedding, the furniture, pots, pans, and other items from their old home in Niutou Town had been washed away and soaked by sewage for several days due to the flood. They hadn't been back for so long, so they couldn't keep them and weren't planning to. Therefore, everything in the new house, inside and out, had to be replaced.
After the house was built, the stove was set up and a bed was made. Hu's parents moved in and gradually added other things as they lived there.
Then they dug a well in the yard. There was a public well in the village, but it was inconvenient to get water because it was a long and tiring journey and there was a long queue.
The old village chief said he would use the village's savings to dig a public well for their land. However, in order to serve all the households on the land, the public well would have to be located in the middle. In the end, they decided to dig a well in their own yard, which would cost one or two taels of silver, but they would definitely get real convenience!
When the Hu family hired someone to dig a well, the old village chief also dug a well for his own family. Several large households, including Uncle Fan, Aunt Li, and Old Man Wu, lined up to reserve their wells.
A carpenter was hired to work at our home, building cabinets, tables, chairs, beds, buckets, tubs, basins... Fortunately, everything was finished before August.
Pots and pans, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, needles and thread, etc., were all bought in one go when I went to the prefectural city to collect raw materials.
At times like this, Butcher Hu would always marvel at the advantages of having a cart and money, saying how convenient it was!
It was already very hot in August, so meat couldn't be kept for long and food couldn't be prepared too far in advance. Hu Wenhua and Ding Jiajia were getting married, and it was foreseeable that the whole village would attend. Shuiqing gave the toothbrush shop a day and a half off.
On the afternoon of the 25th, Da Ni and Er Ni, along with eleven new brides, went to help. Other women from the toothbrush shop, either because they were on good terms with Hu's mother or because they had a good relationship with Qin Yilin and Ding Jiajia, also volunteered to help.
Because they lived in the same village and the Ding family had a small population, they didn't plan to hold a wedding banquet. So, regardless of which family they were on good terms with, they ended up helping out at the Hu family's house.
On the 25th, the vegetables were harvested from the field, washed clean, and drained.
The bowls and chopsticks were from the public school at the bookstore, which was very convenient. I brought them over this afternoon and washed them.
In the evening, pigs and sheep are slaughtered. Because of the hot weather, they cannot be stored. All the offal, pig heads and trotters are braised. After braising, they are soaked in the braising liquid to absorb the flavor. The next day, they can be sliced and served directly. The rest of the fresh pork is soaked in well water.
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