riverside--
After using the new bait, Shen Zhiyan cast out the fishing line and sat calmly in his usual spot.
Seeing that he was still using the same fishing rod with a reel, Ye Caiping asked in surprise, "Is this fishing rod easy to use?"
"good."
Ye Caiping, however, felt it wasn't very user-friendly, but everyone's feel is different, and maybe Shen Zhiyan would like it.
"Why aren't you coming?" Shen Zhiyan asked without turning his head.
"I don't really feel like fishing today." Ye Caiping looked at the calm lake surface, showing no interest in the effectiveness of the new bait.
Because she already knew that the problem with not catching fish wasn't the bait, but the person.
Ye Caiping coughed lightly: "The glass workshop I just mentioned should also begin."
Shen Zhiyan asked, "Are you done with your work?"
"Yes. Everything is sorted out. In the furniture workshop, Uncle Wang and his son and Yong'er are in charge of the technology, and Uncle Lizheng is in charge of management. The account books of the two workshops can be reviewed in an hour."
Shen Zhiyan said, "Then let's start building the glass workshop. You told me about the materials for making glass last time, and I already have the prices. I'll give them to you later."
Ye Caiping quickly pulled a piece of paper from her sleeve and opened it: "Take a look, this is the workshop blueprint and layout."
Shen Zhiyan looked at them for a while and asked, "What are these round things?"
"This is a furnace, used to increase the temperature and fire the glass."
Shen Zhiyan nodded: "Just like firing porcelain, seal it up and raise the temperature."
Ye Caiping said, "There's a town in Mingzhou that specializes in porcelain making. We'll find some craftsmen from there to come and build a furnace for making glass for us."
"Anyway, leave the workshop construction to me, and the materials and craftsmen to you. By the way, the craftsmen are mainly for making handicrafts. But I think making windows and doors is more profitable. So we don't need too many craftsmen, just hire about ten to start."
Making glass windows doesn't require much skill; anyone with hands can do it. Simply pour molten glass into a mold of a specific size, and once it cools, you have glass.
Shen Zhiyan suddenly narrowed his eyes: "The fish are here."
"Really?" Ye Caiping looked and saw that his fishing line really moved.
It's only been less than half an hour, is the fisherman's luck about to change?
Ye Caiping exclaimed happily, "Look, isn't my new bait working well? Quick, pull!"
What Xuguo pulled up was a yellow catfish about one finger wide.
Looking at the little fish splashing on the grass, Ye Caiping could hardly bear to look at them. She regretted saying that the bait was good.
Shen Zhiyan untied the small fish, put it in the fish basket, and continued fishing: "It works quite well."
Ye Caiping: "..."
He thinks it works well, so that's fine with him; she's actually quite guilty about it anyway.
After another hour of fishing, there was still no fish. In the basket, there was only a small yellow catfish that lived out its days alone.
Shen Zhiyan put away his fishing rod and handed her the fish basket: "It's all yours."
Ye Caiping accepted it with gratitude.
She had originally intended to tell him to stop sending her small fish.
But now that I think about it, even though the other fish didn't complain that her bait wasn't working, what right did she have to complain that the other fish only had one small fish?
Alright, it's a small fish it is. She can keep it safe from now on.
...
After leaving the riverbank, Ye Caiping put the fish basket into her spatial storage.
When Shanzi saw her, he jumped off the carriage.
Just as Ye Caiping was about to get into the car, she saw Ye Erquan and Sanquan Tieniu carrying a bunch of messy tools.
"Second Brother!" Ye Caiping waved.
Ye Erquan and the other two were overjoyed and quickly came over.
Ye Erquan asked, "Little sister, are you in town on business?"
"Yes, where's Second Brother? Is he off work?"
"Yes. I just finished working at one place and was about to take an oxcart home. It's such a coincidence that we ran into this little sister; we can hitch a ride in her carriage."
"Come on up quickly."
The group boarded the carriage and headed home together.
Ye Caiping said, "Second brother should buy a vehicle too, either an oxcart or a donkey cart will do. After all, when he goes out to work, he often needs to bring along some custom-made ceramic toilets and tools, so having a vehicle is always a good thing."
Ye Erquan said, "That's what I think too."
Tie Niu chuckled: "We were just talking about this a couple of days ago, but I just happened to be too busy. Anyway, we have to buy the ox in the next few days."
Ye Erquan nodded.
When the carriage returned to the village entrance, Ye Daquan was waiting there.
Shanzi quickly stopped the car, and Ye Caiping lifted the curtain: "Why are you waiting here, big brother?"
"I heard from Mom that you went out," Ye Daquan said, sounding a little aggrieved. "You didn't even ask me to take you with me."
Ye Caiping said, "You've already worked hard enough in the fields, I want you to rest."
"I'm not tired. Come on, let's get to my house first. Yong'er brought back a bunch of little stools at noon, come and take a look."
“Okay.” Ye Caiping knew that those were the first batch of items produced by the furniture workshop.
The carriage arrived at Ye Daquan's house.
Tie Niu and San Quan said they were hungry and decided to go home first.
When Ye Caiping and her group entered, they saw more than twenty small round stools in the courtyard.
The patterns and overall lines on the design were all created by Ye Caiping, making it unique.
Ye Daquan said, "These stools are defective. The patterns are carved incorrectly, the legs are of different sizes, there are small pits, and the hot waxing is not done very well. But they are still usable and sturdy. There are 23 in total."
Madam Du came out of the room, saw a pile of small stools on the floor, and sighed:
“These shouldn’t be waxed again once they’re damaged; what a waste.”
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "This batch of things was originally meant for them to practice with. If they can't heat the defective ones, how about they heat the good ones later?"
Du suddenly realized, "That's true."
Ye Daquan said, "Uncle Village Head asked Little Sister, what should we do with these stools?"
Ye Caiping picked one up and looked at it: "It's not easy to sell if it's flawed. Let's split it since it's usable. There's no need to divide it into shares. Take as many as you like."
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