Not to mention, it really reminded her that they had forged iron before, so this was somewhat of an experience.
Although it is said that there are three hardships in life, punting, blacksmithing, and grinding tofu, although it is hard, it makes money, otherwise there would not be so many people doing it, right?
Forget about punting and grinding tofu. They already have experience in blacksmithing. They can go to work in a blacksmith shop. After they learn more advanced blacksmith skills, they can also open their own shop in the future.
As for the women, you can open a snack shop. After you pawned the gold and silver jewelry to buy these three small yards, you still have some left. You can rent a shop facing the street, or just get a stove and a few Set up a table and sell some simple snacks.
Although they were short of things on the road before, the food cooked by a few old ladies still tasted good.
It's just ordinary wild vegetable paste, but it's not as hard to swallow as imagined.
Now that they are in the city, they don't have to worry about lack of food. Qingyan decides to teach them how to make some snacks such as steamed buns and wontons. Although she is not very good at making them herself, she knows the process. They can still make these pastas. They just need to adjust the fillings. Just fine.
Wheat is grown here, and they are quite good at pasta. It's just that the villagers have never been to the city, haven't tasted it, and don't know how to season it.
They didn't know about snacks like wontons, but they knew about dumplings. People here eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. As soon as Qingyan told them, they understood what it meant. They were dumplings mixed with soup!
Qingyan didn't refute. Anyway, that's pretty much what it meant. This thing should be very popular here. There are many merchants coming and going in this city, and there are so many sergeants in the city. They will also come out to perform dental rituals during their breaks. , I should also eat some snacks like this.
Doing some small business is better than doing laundry or doing odd jobs.
Everyone in Yangjiaping gathered together and figured out that doing business was really a way out. As for working in the blacksmith shop, this might not be feasible.
The main reason is that these people are no longer in their prime, and they don’t necessarily want them. Whoever recruits workers doesn’t want strong and healthy people, but who will want the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Now that they have two choices, it's good. Since it doesn't work out, they can just set up a small stall with the women at home to sell food.
Women have little strength, so they can help pick things and make noodles. They don't want to get rich, but they just need enough for the family.
If you really want to make money, when you have some extra money, you can buy a field outside the city. You can cultivate it yourself or rent it out. It will be an income.
The three small courtyards I bought today were all occupied by people before. They were sold for one reason or another, so they can move in directly without having to clean them up.
Of course, it's impossible to move in on the same day. After all, you have to leave time for people to move out.
The three small courtyards are not next to each other. Although they are all in civilian areas, they are at least separated by several houses. One of them is even separated by two alleys.
It's not that far away. Anyway, they won't be living with one or two people at that time. Basically, two or three families will live together, so there is no need to worry about not being taken care of.
As for where they will live these two days, they have somewhere to go, and they plan to live in the yard that Li Hao bought for Qingyan.
Before they went to see the house with Ya Ren, Feng Liang took them to the yard to see it, asked them to remember the location, and gave them the key.
So after they bought the house, they went directly back to the yard. The yard was taken care of and they could move in directly.
This is said to be a small courtyard, but it is much larger than the three courtyards Yang Dashan and the others bought.
It is a two-entry courtyard, with three main rooms in the front, four main rooms in the back, and two wing rooms in the front and back yards. There is also a concierge at the gate, and there is a janitor inside.
He was a one-armed middle-aged man. Feng Liang introduced them to him. His name was Chen Jingchuan. He was a sergeant who had retired from the battlefield and was arranged by Li Hao.
He also said that Qingyan didn't have to worry about his wages, as the garrison would pay them together, mainly to give him a place to stay.
Qingyan felt a little embarrassed when she heard this. What did she say? I bought a yard and gave it back to someone, and they also opened it for me. How embarrassing!
And she is not short of money, there is a golden mountain in Chou Chou Space!
However, when I think about it, I can't stay here anymore, and it's really hard to pay the salary myself. If she leaves, wouldn't she have no place to live?
So she didn't say much in this regard, just thinking that when she saw Li Hao give him the money to buy a house, she would give him more. She didn't want to owe such a big favor.
It was fine when she thought about it, but she didn't expect to see anyone at all.
In the first two days, Qingyan thought that she had just come here and was too embarrassed to come directly to the door. She felt that it was not good for a girl to rush to someone else's house to find a young man, and it was easy for others to misunderstand her.
I thought that Li Hao had just arrived and should be busy with something. Besides, the place should know that they were coming. He must also know the address of this courtyard and he should come to see them.
As a result, after waiting for three days, no one was found. I thought it would be better to go to the door and look for him. Maybe the other person was busy. If I went to look for him, as long as I saw the person and gave him the money, it wouldn't delay the other person's business.
The next day, she took Lanhua and Daya to go shopping and stopped by the garrison mansion.
Qingyan stepped forward and told the soldiers guarding the door that she was looking for Mr. Li Hao, the third son of Mr. Li.
The soldier was stunned for a moment and replied: "The Third Young Master has already left with Vice General Wang."
Qingyan was stunned on the spot, "Leaving? Didn't you just come here three days ago? Are you leaving so soon?"
The soldier shook his head, "I didn't leave today, I left the day before yesterday."
Qingyan frowned. Doesn't that mean that Li Hao and the others left on the day they arrived?
Even if they worked hard before, they wouldn't arrive much earlier than them. This meant they only stayed here for one night and left the next day.
It couldn't possibly be to avoid her. The two of them didn't make it too clear. They just felt a little uncomfortable and not very embarrassed. There was no need to avoid her.
The most likely thing is that something happened over there in Yecheng.
That's why they left in a hurry, probably rushing back to help.
After thanking the soldiers guarding the door, Qingyan slowly walked back with Lanhua and Daya in hand.
Something happened over there in Yecheng. What happened? Could it be that his father and his eldest brother couldn't hold it back and started fighting with the Khitans?
"Ouch! Don't you have eyes when you walk?"
Qingyan was thinking about something and didn't notice the person running next to her. She was hit and staggered.
It doesn't hurt. After all, with her physical condition, it's not easy to hurt her. If she hadn't been unprepared and knocked the other person away, she would have been fine.
