The monthly wages in the mountain stronghold are divided into three levels: workers receive 600 wen per month, craftsmen receive 900 wen per month, and scholars receive 1,200 wen per month.
The money was not much, but the village provided food and accommodation, and four sets of thin clothes and two sets of cotton clothes a year.
In addition, many families have two or even three people receiving monthly wages, so everyone is quite satisfied.
In the mountain village, as long as you have skills, even if your techniques are not very good, you can receive a monthly salary as a craftsman; as long as you can read and write more than a thousand words, you can receive a monthly salary as a scholar.
This also makes many people without skills very willing to learn from those who have skills. People with skills can get extra rewards for training an apprentice, so they are also willing to teach others.
The weather was too hot and the pork could not be kept. For three consecutive days, everyone in the village was busy.
Cinnabar is needed to make lip balm. Dayong has cinnabar, but it is cheaper to buy it in the mall.
Kang Yueran still put the goods outside the village in the middle of the night. In the morning, Baihu roared and Kang Yueran took people to pick up the goods.
Because there were still disaster victims building houses in the village, the goods this time, in addition to cinnabar, gelatin and other things she needed, also included grain and pickled cabbage.
Making lip balm is very simple. Just boil the fat from the large bones to extract the oil, mix it evenly with cinnabar and essence, put it into a porcelain bottle, cool it, and it will be ready after it solidifies.
Thick soup base is used when cooking soup and noodles.
Boil water in a pot and add a piece of soup base. The soup base will melt when heated and the water will become soup, which can be eaten directly with noodles.
It is also very simple to make. Use a few pieces of pig skin, pig bones, and chicken racks, wash out the blood, put them in a pot and blanch for half a minute, then take them out and wash off the floating foam.
Put it back into the pot and cook, add a few pieces of ginger to remove the fishy smell, add salt, preservatives, and gelatin, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over medium heat until the soup turns white.
After turning off the heat, pour the soup into a mold and leave it overnight. After it solidifies, remove it from the mold and cut it into small pieces. When using it, take a piece and put it directly into the pot to boil.
The cooks have very good skills. Kang Yueran only needs to give them instructions once and they can make it almost perfectly. After practicing twice, they can master it and then teach others carefully.
These thirteen wild boars really kept Qingping Village busy for several days. Everyone was busy and happy...
Qingping Mountain is peaceful and serene, with a sense of "since we landed on this land, we are brothers, so why should we bother with blood relatives?"
Anzhou City
The lights in the prefect's mansion were on, and the yamen runners were working in groups of five, patrolling back and forth with torches, for fear that thieves would come in.
In the study, Governor Liao Changsheng, with a sullen face, handed a letter to his advisor, Mr. Feng, "Take a look, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has sent me another secret letter, asking for money.
The court has learned of the disaster in Anzhou, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to come to Anzhou to provide disaster relief, but the money allocated by the court is too little, so he asked me to prepare the money so that I can cooperate with him."
The prince wanted to come to provide disaster relief simply to take this opportunity to gain a good reputation for saving the people from danger and loving the people like his own children.
But if he wanted to have this good reputation, in addition to food and silver, he would probably have to sacrifice the head of the corrupt official Liao Changsheng to appease the people's grievances.
Liao Changsheng and Mr. Feng were both well aware of this. Mr. Feng said, "It was a mistake to let the eldest daughter go to the East Palace."
Liao Changsheng seemed to have aged more than ten years. Although his only son was not as bad as the legend said, he only knew how to enjoy himself.
He had used his daughter to marry Crown Prince Chai Shirong, thinking that he could secure a safe life for his son. However, he did not expect that he had become an abandoned son before the crown prince even ascended the throne.
Mr. Feng was also very sad. "Dong Weng, we have reached a dead end now. It's probably too late to turn around."
Liao Changsheng's face was full of sternness. "It's indeed too late, but who says that the alley is a dead end? We can still climb up the wall and jump over."
"What is Dong Weng's plan?"
"Since we have been abandoned by our master, we are now ownerless. Tomorrow we will gather all the merchants and force them to donate silver in the name of the prince. Once we get the silver, we will flee far away."
Mr. Feng was horrified. "That's the Crown Prince, the future ruler of Dayong. Where can we go?"
"You also said that it's the Crown Prince, not the Emperor, and he's not the master of Dayong yet.
"Let's hide the gold. Anzhou is in chaos right now. Let's pretend to be disaster victims and take a small amount of silver and leave first. We can come back and take it back when the situation calms down."
Mr. Feng is Liao Changsheng's man. If anything happens to Liao Changsheng, Mr. Feng can't escape. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Let's go back and prepare ourselves. Once we're ready, we can leave!"
Outside Qingping Mountain, Li Mao, with more than 20 villagers and three carts, was resting by the roadside.
Li Sangen looked around and asked in confusion, "Didn't they say there were many disaster victims at the foot of Qingping Mountain? Why are they gone?"
Someone was frightened. "Could he have been taken up the mountain? Didn't they say before that the bandits in Qingping Mountain tricked people into going up the mountain?"
After this person said this, everyone started to worry again, thinking that coming here was too reckless.
Li Mao scolded, "Alright, stop arguing. Now that we're here, we have to give it a try. You wait here, I'll go to the stronghold to call for help. If they don't come back by dark, you'll have to leave immediately."
Li Sangen grabbed Li Mao's arm and said, "Dad, I'll go with you! I believe the boss won't lie to us."
Li Mao glared at Li Sangen. He was angry that his son wanted to go with him, but he was also relieved. "Then let's go together!"
When the cart arrived near the stronghold, Li Mao asked everyone to stop and wait, and he took Li Sangen to knock on the door.
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