After saying that, she already had a smile on her face.
Seeing this look in the eyes of other women, I can't help but envy them, but their craftsmanship is not bad, and they will definitely be recruited into the workshop.
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Today, as busy as Feng Ji's workshop, there is also Zhou Ji's workshop in the west of the city, but all the workers here are male.
As for the requirements, all you need is some knowledge of carpentry.
And such a request, to put it bluntly, is tantamount to no requirement, especially for villagers who have just moved into the city, who can't do some simple carpentry work.
Just like this time when building a house, the beams, purlins, doors and windows were all done by themselves.
Although the finished products made by the villagers are not as fine as those made by the carpenters, they are still usable. Farmers don't pay so much attention to things, as long as they can be used.
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After the work was completed and the workshops in Yongning City were recruiting workers, the group quickly went to Dinghu County.
Similarly, Feng Ji's workshop was recruiting female workers, and Zhou Ji's workshop was recruiting male workers. It took two days to finish the work.
As for Lin Yuanqiu, he didn't rest in the past few days. He gave the drawstring bag he bought last time to Mrs. Feng and asked his mother and uncle to think about how to make it first. Then he drew several new handbag styles.
There was the pattern of sewing various colored silk flowers on the cloth bag that he had already thought of before. There are also small puppet styles filled with cotton, such as rabbits, carps, butterflies, etc. I think this style of cloth handbags will definitely be liked by many girls.
In addition to this, Lin Yuanqiu painted dozens of Zen-like patterns, large and small. As before, each painting has a sentence of life insights.
For example: Life is unpredictable, peace of mind is the destination.
For example: adapt to the circumstances, and troubles will disappear.
Another example: contentment and constant happiness, the wind is clear and the moon is bright.
Although the sentences are simple, they have far-reaching meanings.
This time, Lin Yuanqiu does not intend to embroider the drawings on bookmarks or book bags. Instead, he intends to use embroidered cloth to embroider directly into a picture, and then install it on wooden frames to make picture frames, which can be placed On the table or hanging on the wall.
Lin Yuanqiu specially designed the picture frame placed on the table with a triangular support at the back, which is exactly the same as the picture frame in the previous life.
Considering that once these things are on the market, people will definitely learn from them, so the Lin family still adopts the same approach as before, that is, first save the goods, and when they have enough, they can make a big profit at once.
It is precisely because of this plan that Yongning City and Dinghu County recruited a total of 600 female workers this time, of which more than 300 were able to embroider. There are relatively fewer male workers, but the two cities combined have as many as 200.
With so many workers, it won't take long to save a lot of goods.
As for Feng and the others, they have been busy in the workshop every day since the day the work started. Today in Yongning City, tomorrow in Dinghu County, catching embroidery workers, watching the needle and thread, striving to make every embroidery picture and every drawstring bag perfect. Be flawless.
As for Lin Dazhu, Lin Erzhu, and Lin Yuanfeng, they were also busy in the two weekly journal workshops.
In order to sell these Zen paintings at a good price, Lin Sanzhu also added an additional process, which is to have the wooden frames painted, and the color of the wood paint used is the most fashionable vermilion brown at the moment, which looks atmospheric. Without losing elegance.
Lin Yuanqiu once again lamented his father's clever mind. If this were in modern times, he would definitely be a rich second generation.
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Every ten days, the workshop will give workers a day off so that everyone can take a day off at home and have a good rest.
The workshop stopped working, so Zhou and the others naturally took a rest.
It was rare for her daughter-in-law and grandson-in-law to stay at home, so Mrs. Wu specially asked the kitchen to make astragalus stewed chicken, thinking of supplementing it for everyone, and by the way, her son and grandchildren also had to serve them a bowl.
These days, these children are really exhausted. Especially for her daughters-in-law, seeing their obviously slimmer faces, Mrs. Wu would be lying if she said she wasn't distressed.
Mrs. Wu naturally knew why her daughter-in-law's face was thin. In addition to the daily hard work, the most important thing is the boxes of goods that are almost filling the two warehouses.
To be honest, Wu was also worried when she saw the warehouse getting fuller day by day.
It can be said that as long as these goods are not sold for a day, there will be no one in the family who is not worried about them.
You must know that these are all silver. Wu has calculated that in order to make this batch of embroidery and cloth handbags, she has spent more than 400 taels of silver just buying embroidery thread and fabric, not including the workers. As for the wages, if you include them together, it will definitely be six or seven hundred taels.
Therefore, how can people not worry before selling the goods for money?
However, in addition to gathering together to drink chicken soup and eat chicken today, the family also has a very important thing to arrange, that is, the Lin family is going to go out to sell goods tomorrow.
"Mom, how many goods do we have in the warehouse?"
Although he knew everything in his heart, Lin Sanzhu liked to ask his mother every time. After all, his mother ran to the warehouse as soon as she got up every day. I was afraid that she would not be able to count those boxes anymore. He was his son. , I always want to give my wife a sense of accomplishment.
Sure enough, when Mrs. Wu heard this, she immediately smiled and said, "Mom, I just counted them this morning. There are eighty-six boxes of handbags and one hundred and twelve boxes of picture frames."
"Have you saved so much already?"
Lin Dazhu was surprised. A few days ago, he heard that there were only more than 80 boxes of the picture frame.
Lin Yuanfeng replied, "Dad, these days we are embroidering large pictures. A dozen frames can fill a box."
"Yes, they are all large-sized framed paintings." Lin Yuanbai also replied.
During these days, he and his third brother had brought boxes of goods back from the workshop, so naturally they knew it best.
Because they were worried about leaving the goods in the workshop overnight, Lin Yuanhuai and Lin Yuanbai would put the finished handbags and picture frames into wooden boxes when the workshop was finished every day, and then transport them back.
The government office has a back door, so when moving boxes, you don't have to go through the front office.
"Dad, for this sale, no matter whether others ask about it or not, we will tell them the location."
Lin Sanzhu naturally knew what his son meant. He wanted him to sue the shopkeepers in Yongning City, so that they could come here directly to get the goods, so that they would not have to go door-to-door to sell them.
Lin Sanzhu nodded, "Father knows."
Although he said this, Lin Sanzhu thought that it would not be that easy for customers to come and pick up the goods themselves.
To be honest, Lin Sanzhu had no idea whether the picture frames and handbags were easy to sell. After all, these two items were not cheap. For example, handbags, the simplest style, cost 160 yuan each. .
There are also picture frames, especially large ones, priced at thirty taels. Such a price, not only for Lin Sanzhu, but also for Wu and Zhou, can be described as frightening. If it were them, it would be frightening. I was reluctant to take out thirty taels of silver to buy a picture frame that could be hung on the wall only for viewing but not for eating.
Therefore, Lin Sanzhu believed that unless these goods were very popular, it would be impossible for the shopkeepers to travel all the way to Yongning City to get the goods.
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Early the next morning, the carriage from the carriage company came over early, and also came with the escorts from the Xiangwei Escort Agency.
In border states and cities, the most indispensable thing is escort agencies and escorts.
Considering that there are so many goods to carry and there are many places to go this time, just like when they came from the capital, the Lin family also hired about a dozen bodyguards for this trip, including those from the mansion. With six or seven servants and a dozen coachmen from the carriage shop, the battle was not too small.
This time, in addition to Lin Sanzhu, there were also Lin Yuanfeng and Lin Yuansong who went to sell goods.
Others, like Lin Dazhu and Lin Erzhu, all stayed at home. Whether it was cloth handbags or embroidery samples, new styles came out in the workshop, so someone had to be at home to take care of them.
There is also the persimmon cake. At most half a month, it will be time to pick persimmons and make persimmon cakes. It will definitely be very busy by then, so it is necessary to leave more people at home.
After loading the car, the leading coachman flicked his whip, and the convoy started driving slowly.
Lin Yuanqiu stepped forward quickly and warned again, "Dad, remember to take the official road on the way. We are not in a hurry, just take your time."
"Don't worry, dad knows."
Lin Sanzhu was unfortunately killed, so it was necessary to take the official path.
After seeing off the convoy, Lin Dazhu and Zhou didn't have time to think about the sales of the goods, and soon they were busy in the workshop again.
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Zhong Yurou's delivery date was getting closer and closer, so close that Lin Yuanqiu began to feel uneasy.
No matter it was in the past life or now, a woman's childbirth would always lead to death. How could Lin Yuanqiu not worry about it all the time.
As for Zhong Yurou, every time she saw her husband staring at her belly with a nervous look, she could only push him towards the government office as much as possible, "Mr. husband, go and get on duty quickly. Anyway, it's just a few steps away from the government office." There are only a few steps away, and if Yurou really has a stomachache, it won't be too late to send someone over to call you."
What Zhong Yurou wanted to say was that she didn't feel scared at first, but seeing her husband fidgeting, she suddenly became nervous.
Therefore, I'd better "drive away" the person quickly so as not to put more pressure on her here.
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On this day, Lin Yuanqiu, Yan Tongzhi, and He Tongpanzheng discussed melting the tax money collected and then recasting it into official silver and handing it over to the national treasury.
Finally, when he started talking, he saw Liu Yefei running in.
Lin Yuanqiu stood up from his seat without waiting for Liu Ye to say anything, and ran to the back office. Looking at Liu Ye's anxious look, Yu Rou was definitely about to give birth.
Sure enough, Lin Yuanqiu had just run out a few steps when he heard Liu Ye say urgently behind him, "Uncle, the lady just complained that she had a stomachache, she is afraid she is going to give birth!"
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Chapter 196 Baoer
As early as ten days ago, Mrs. Wu had asked Mrs. Wen to live in her home, so that her granddaughter-in-law would not be in a hurry when she started.
Therefore, by the time Lin Yuanqiu ran to the back office, Mrs. Wen had already helped her into the delivery room that had been cleaned up a few days ago.
Lin Yuanqiu raised his feet and prepared to go into the house.
Seeing this, Mrs. Wu hurriedly stopped her and said, "Your wife is giving birth inside, what are you doing in there!"
It was a rule that men could not enter the delivery room, so Mrs. Wu naturally would not let go. "I've already asked someone to call you mother. I don't think I'll be back in a while."
This means that it will be fine if your mother comes in later. You, a big man, should not cause any trouble.
Lin Yuanqiu had no choice but to pace back and forth in the yard.
But he quickly remembered the window of the delivery room, so he walked over in a few steps and asked through the window lattice, "Yurou, are you okay?"
Zhong Yurou was inhaling in pain at this moment, so after hearing Lin Yuanqiu's question, she only replied with the word "pain".
Can it not hurt? Although Lin Yuanqiu has never experienced it personally, he knows that the pain of giving birth can reach ten levels. But at this moment, Lin Yuanqiu really had no way to share the burden with his wife. He could only shout out the window, "Yurou, don't be afraid, my husband is here."
This made several women present open their eyes in surprise, and they all sighed in their hearts at the good fortune of the fifth young lady.
Wu was used to it, after all, she had always known that the men of the Lin family loved their wives.
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Considering that her daughter-in-law is fully pregnant, Mrs. Feng has been staying at the workshop in Yongning City these days and has not gone to Dinghu County. She thinks that she can get home in time when her daughter-in-law starts. .
This was indeed the case. After receiving the news, Feng quickly returned home.
Seeing her panting, I guess she just got off the carriage and ran over.
Also returning with Feng were Zhou, Liu, and Gao Cui. They must also be worried about their nephew's wife (brother and sister) having a baby.
