The people from Zhulin Village originally came to see where their daughter would live in the future, and after the wedding banquet, they could go back home with peace of mind.
Little did I expect that the trip would only truly begin after the wedding banquet!
First, they visited and admired the place, then they decided to imitate it, and then they worked hard to remember it. Later, the host family directly announced that they could take on handicraft work! And they could even return the necessities in advance.
That's a full five taels of silver.
No one was willing to take a nap at that moment—even if they forced themselves to sleep, they couldn't fall asleep, so they simply followed the lady to choose what to bring back to Bamboo Forest Village.
Piglets and lambs are a must-have. Gathering pig feed and cutting hay to feed the sheep takes time, but the profits are quite substantial: the meat can be sold for money and some can be kept to supplement oil and fat; the wool is very important, and it will be delivered together with the rabbit fur; and the manure is the best fertilizer!
The more animals you raise, the more manure you produce, and the more fertilizer you can produce. With more fertilizer in the soil, crops can grow better.
The lady said that the bamboo-like thing can be used to extract sugar in the future. Sugar is precious, so of course it needs to be carefully tended to in order to increase the yield!
The sugar pressing will take place next autumn. Before that, they need to select some brown sugar, salt, rice, and wheat flour. The lady said that they need to take good care of their health so that they will have the strength to work.
We don't need the fabric. The host gave us a lot on our first visit, enough for each person to have two sets of clothes. If we wear them carefully, they won't wear out for several years. If they do wear out, we can patch them up and wear them for several more years. The rest of the fabric will be exchanged for ducks, geese, and rabbits. Ducks and geese can lay eggs, and raising rabbits not only earns us more money, but also provides the host with plenty of wool.
After carefully selecting what they wanted to take back, the group went to a toothbrush workshop, where the person chosen by Shuiqing patiently demonstrated how to make a toothbrush handle.
I was busy until evening, and had dinner while the sky was still bathed in the afterglow.
Dinner wasn't as lavish as the midday feast, but it was still quite good with fish and meat. Even though the villagers of Zhulin Village were already thinking about going home and making money, they were still very satisfied with their meal.
After finishing breakfast and dinner, the group quickly took a nap before heading back to Zhulin Village, each one eager to get to work immediately.
The mother had originally planned to give her daughter a few words of advice, but she couldn't care less at the moment and hurried back to Zhulin Village overnight.
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The people of Zhulin Village were still figuring out how to make use of it.
Unexpectedly, during their trip to hold a wedding, they also transported livestock back to raise, creating another place to supply wool and adding more than a hundred workers to make toothbrush handles!
The construction of Wenhua's house has taken up some of the men in the village. Next, the families who have separated from their original households will also need to build houses and walls, which will inevitably affect the progress of the toothbrush handle project. Originally, we were worried about how to fill this gap, but now we don't have to worry about it anymore.
There are many people making toothbrush handles, and the forty or so women who are sorting and binding the woolen fabric are not enough to keep up with the demand. The eleven new brides who have joined the family can fill the gap perfectly!
Shui Qing looked at the girls standing in three rows in the middle of the main room and said gently, "Please sit down."
The eleven new brides timidly glanced at Shui Qing in the main seat. Seeing no displeasure, they sat down cautiously on either side, not daring to sit properly, but rather sitting loosely so they could get up and reply at any time.
Shuiqing noticed everyone's discomfort and cut to the chase: "You are newlyweds, so you have five days off. After five days, you will work at the toothbrush workshop. Your monthly salary will be the same as theirs, thirty coins a day."
Those who do well will stay; those who don't do well will be reassigned to other tasks. Understand?
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