Jiang Michia scratched her head and thought for a while, then dug out the money box and showed the money in it to Song Jingyun, "A moon cake costs about six or seven cents. In terms of expensive ones, it costs seven cents each. This bunch is One hundred coins can buy fourteen or five, and here are more than a dozen strings of money, which can buy one hundred, seventeen or eighty mooncakes."
"And with this money, we have saved more than 20 taels. If we want to buy moon cakes, we can buy more than 3,000 moon cakes. Even if you eat one a day, you can last for more than ten years!"
"The reason I tell you this is that our family is pretty good, and we have been making money one after another. We can afford the food we want, and we can basically manage enough. We don't have to be so busy day and night. , I’m exhausted, but it’s not worth it.”
"Come again..."
"Furthermore, there are many ways to make money. Although basket weaving can be profitable, it is also the most basic and tiring. If we really want to make more money and buy more delicious things, we have to think of other ways and use more Make more money in an easy way, instead of spending all your limited energy on basic things.”
Jiang Michia reached out and patted Song Jingyun on the shoulder, "Now you don't know much about this place, and you don't know many ways to make money. You can listen to my arrangements first, and wait until you find better ways and opportunities, and then try to be yourself thing."
"In short, you can't work like this day and night. If your body is exhausted, you won't be able to eat delicious food. Instead, you will have to take unpalatable medicines and have taboos. It is very troublesome and may affect your life span. If you live a short time, you won’t have time to eat more delicious food, so the gain outweighs the gain.”
"Can you understand what I'm saying?"
Hearing this, the son-in-law thought for a while and nodded, "I understand."
Then he looked up at Jiang Michia and said solemnly, "You must listen to my wife."
Jiang Michia said too much and too long. Some of them he could understand, some seemed to be understood, and some seemed not to be understood. But there was one sentence that was very clear, and he felt that it was absolutely correct.
You must listen to your wife, that’s right!
Jiang Michia, "..."
Well, after talking for so long and analyzing so much, I only remember this sentence in the end.
My son-in-law, who has a photographic memory of his work, only has a memory of seven seconds when it comes to listening to principles?
But it’s good if I can remember this sentence, at least I won’t be so stubborn in working day and night these days.
"It's done. It's not appropriate to go back to sleep at this hour. Let's clean up quickly. Let's sweep the yard and help our parents make breakfast later."
Seeing Jiang Michia's words, Song Jingyun no longer obsessed with weaving baskets, packed up the bamboo pieces and bamboo strips, and then took a big broom with Jiang Michia to sweep the yard.
Today is August 15th. Starting from breakfast, it is quite sumptuous.
Thousand-layer meatloaf full of meat filling, red date rice porridge, soy beans, pepper beans, garlic eggplant.
Lunch is fragrant rice and fragrant braised lamb made from lamb legs.
At dinner time, at Jiang Michia’s suggestion, we had a barbecue in the yard.
Ready-made bamboo, cut some bamboo skewers, skewer some lamb leg meat skewers, pork belly skewers, eggplant skewers, potato skewers, green vegetables wrapped in bean skin...
Grill it on a small charcoal stove, brush it with some pasta sauce, sprinkle some cumin, chili powder...
Each one is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, extremely delicious.
Song Jingyun narrowed his eyes happily.
Just listen to your wife and you won’t be wrong.
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The double-layered bamboo basket held enough water for two days without any leakage.
Jiang Michia was very satisfied, and together with Jiang Youcheng and Song Jingyun, they began to weave such bamboo baskets.
To ensure quality, each piece must be tested for waterproofing to ensure qualified quality.
Jiang Youcheng marveled while working, "In the past, it was said that water in a bamboo basket was in vain. Now the bamboo basket we made is filled with water. I guess it will be very rare when you take it out."
"This wooden barrel is thick and heavy, and it is difficult to carry it in many cases. If it is made into a watertight bamboo basket, it is lighter than a wooden barrel and a wooden basin if it is used to hold water or something."
"But we worked hard to compile this thing, so the asking price cannot be low. I'm afraid it won't be easy to sell in the town."
The puppet that Jiang Chunshi returned to last time is an example.
Things look novel and beautiful, but I like them anyway, but I don’t have enough money to buy them.
Some people would rather go to the trouble and suffer a little more than spend extra money to buy these things.
"So we are going to the county town to sell." Jiang Michia responded with a smile, "Every household in the county town has a small land boundary, and they are busy using their strength to make money. Many things are more willing to be used in light and practical products, especially in various shops. Buy some of these things, and say It might be more cost-effective to save some workers’ wages.”
"That's right." Jiang Youcheng nodded.
"I happen to be going to shopkeeper Zheng to hand over the drawings and clay figures. Let's rent a car to take these things to the county town and try to sell them." Jiang Michia said.
"Sure, I'm going to talk to your third uncle about using the car this afternoon."
As he spoke, Jiang Youcheng knitted the bamboo basket faster.
After nearly a dozen watertight bamboo baskets were woven and Jiang Michia's clay dolls were basically dry, the three of them took Jiang San's ox cart and headed for the county town.
First we went to Qiuji.
Mrs. Zheng happened to be in the shop as well.
When I saw the drawings drawn by Jiang Michia and the clay dolls she made, my eyes lit up.
A complete set of little tiger styles, some lying, some sitting, some dozing with squinted eyes, some smiling, some angry and roaring...
They come in different shapes, but all of them are playful and cute, making people unable to put it down.
Mrs. Zheng looked at this one and touched that one, and felt that she liked them all.
I originally thought that the pattern drawn by Jiang Michia would be similar to the puppet she bought from Jiang Chunshi last time, but I didn't expect that the pattern and clay puppet this time would be so amazing.
Presumably, Jiang Chunshi's skills were limited and he could only make a rough appearance, but not the expression in the drawing. The clay doll made by Jiang Michia this time really showed all of this.
She really found a treasure!
Zheng did not deliberately hide the deep joy and exclamation on her face, she just nodded her head in appreciation, "The patterns and things are good, this is a set of ten, and the tiger has a good intention, so he followed one pattern and two Let’s calculate it for two or five denarii.”
In this case, these ten pictures are worth twenty-five taels of silver.
It was worthy of the fact that she had been busy for the past month.
Jiang Michia felt quite satisfied, "Just do what shopkeeper Zheng said."
When Mrs. Zheng saw that Jiang Michia agreed, she led them to the accounting room to settle the money.
After receiving the money, Jiang Michia and Jiang Youcheng asked if they could visit Jiang Chunshi.
On August 15th, Jiang Chunshi went home for a while and sat at Jiang Youcheng's house for a while. He said that everything was going well in Qiu Ji, including good food and accommodation, and that his master was approachable and willing to teach.
