If we calculate that one piece of cloth costs 400 wen, and if we prepare ten looms at home, we can weave at least 400 pieces of cloth a month, which is 160 taels of silver.
After deducting the cost of cotton and labor costs, you can at least make eighty or ninety taels.
He earns eighty or ninety taels a month, and my daughter says that it is more than what the county magistrate earns.
The key is that you can handle this by yourself.
The more Chunniang thought about it, the more beautiful it became, and she was filled with longing.
When the time comes, I can hire someone to farm the fields at home, so I can save some time.
After boiling the water, Chunniang took the bathtub and helped her husband wash his hair in the kitchen.
After washing his head and face, Jiang Sanlang changed into the clothes his wife brought.
"This dress is too loose for me. I see you have lost a lot of weight since last month."
Chunniang asked: "Is it very hard to be a slave?"
Jiang Sanlang shook his head: "It's just the focus of the work. It doesn't matter who is there. It's not a problem whether it's a pain or not."
Chunniang pinched her husband's arm lovingly, sighed, took a few eggs from the straw basket, and beat them in the wash basin.
She scooped in a few more spoonfuls of flour and prepared to roll egg noodles for her husband.
At this moment, Yingbao and her younger brother Jiang Wu ran in from outside and rushed over to their father when they saw him.
"Dad! I knew you were back." Yingbao handed over a bag of snacks in her hand: "This is the chestnut cake that my grandma, sister Dani and I just made. Try it."
These days, Yingbao took a few children from the village to pick all the chestnuts from their chestnut trees. They peeled the chestnuts and made chestnut cakes and chestnut biscuits in batches, waiting to take them to the county town to sell when Jiang Quan came back.
Jiang Sanlang held his son Jiang Wu in one hand and picked up a piece of chestnut cake with the other hand and took a bite.
The crust is crispy and the filling is sweet and sticky, very delicious.
"Not bad, not bad. Chestnuts cooked this way are really delicious." Jiang Sanlang praised.
Ying Bao said proudly: "I learned this from a snack shop in the county town. It is very popular in our shop."
In fact, the water she used to soak chestnuts was from Tongkong Spring, and she also used that water to knead the dough, so the taste was particularly sweet.
Jiang Sanlang finished a few bites and picked up another piece, asking, "How is the shop doing lately?"
"Very good. Golden ear and snow ear are also selling very well."
The fine golden ears sold to Zhou Mao last time were only a part of them. The rest were taken to the county town by Jiang Quan and sold in the shop. The price was twenty taels per box, and a box contained half a catty.
A box of snow fungus weighs 15 liang, which is also half a jin.
Because there are very few golden ear and snow ear mushrooms left, Yingbao told Jiang Quan not to worry about not being able to sell them. New Year's Day is coming soon, and there will always be people who will buy them regardless of the price.
Jiang Sanlang: "I see the dried persimmons at home are ready to dry. I will go to the county town with Erquan when he comes back in a couple of days."
By the way, I picked up the loom parts that my wife had customized at the blacksmith shop.
"I'm going too." Yingbao: "It just so happens that I have nothing to do now. Sister Big Ni and Sister Two Ni are going to the county town to go shopping."
The New Year is coming soon, and they all want to go to the county town to buy some beautiful hairpins and head ornaments, and to see how the young ladies in the county town dress up.
Ever since Erni came back from the county town last time and told her about the scene in Wa City, Dani has been extremely envious and has wanted to go there for a long time. Unfortunately, her family has been very busy recently and she has not had time.
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take them with me when the time comes."
"And me! And me!" Jiang Wu hasn't seen his brother Jiang Jie for a long time.
"Okay! And you too." Jiang Sanlang touched his son's head and looked at his wife.
Chunniang knew what her husband meant and said, "I won't go. We still have a lot of cotton at home. We should spin it quickly in the next few days. After a few days, everyone will go back to work on the New Year and we won't have time to spare."
"Okay." Jiang Sanlang also wanted to sell all the looms before the New Year. Money earned is real money.
The family discussed and agreed, and on the third day Jiang Quan drove back, and saw Ying Bao, laughing. "Ying Bao, we're rich!"
Yingbao asked: "Have all the golden ear and white ear fungus been sold?"
"Yeah!" Jiang Quan smiled from ear to ear and whispered:
"You don't know, Dongmei is really capable. She has been promoting us for more than a month, and many people have come to us because of her reputation. The gift boxes in our shop are in short supply.
Now the best pastry shop in the county is cooperating with us, providing freshly made pastries to our shop every day and asking us to sell them for them."
Yingbao was surprised and asked quickly: "Did Big Brother sign a contract with them?"
"I have signed it. My eldest brother has written down the ingredients of all kinds of cakes clearly. If the ingredients used in their shop are not fresh, or they are inferior, they must compensate our shop for double the loss."
"That's good." It turned out that my eldest cousin had the potential to be a shopkeeper.
but…
Yingbao is a little worried.
The most profitable golden fungus and snow fungus in the shop are all sold out. It is not a good sign that they are out of stock before the New Year.
Or, take out everything you have stored in your cave
No, no!
That was reserved for the Wen family and cannot be moved for the time being.
But no one from the Wen family has come to pick up the goods yet. Are they not planning to take them anymore
It doesn’t matter if they don’t want it. I will just keep it for the Wen family until a few days before the New Year. If no one from his family comes, I will sell all the golden ear and white ear fungus in the shop.
Yingbao only received a letter from Sister Wen a few days ago.
Wen Shu said in the letter that something unexpected happened in her family and she would go to Luzhou soon, so she asked him not to send letters to Yuzhou as she might not receive them.
Oh, I don’t know what’s going on with the Wen family. Things get into trouble again and again, and it seems like there’s no end to it.
At night, Yingbao entered the cave.
There were several baskets of dried golden ear and snow ear in the cave, weighing about 40 kilograms in total.
In addition, she filled the land around the pool with mushroom jars, more than a thousand jars in total.
These jars were accumulated bit by bit by her over the past few years. They are now full of golden ear and white ear. It is estimated that in a dozen days, the golden ear and white ear will be ready for harvest.
After harvesting, the mushrooms can be dried in four or five days by hanging them on bamboo plates in the cave. This is what Yingbao discovered a long time ago.
The mushroom roots can continue to grow in the jar after harvesting, which is more convenient.
If you want to expand the planting, just get some more jars in, fill them with nutrient medium and divide them.
But Yingbao didn't want to divide the strains anymore, because there were already enough strains of fungi in her cave and she was too busy to handle them all.
At present, apart from breeding and growing mushrooms, Yingbao does not plan to grow anything else on this land. The things originally planted on it, such as the melons, cucumbers and various flowers, will be left to fend for themselves.
As for the plants on top of the luminous body, Yingbao didn't go up to check, but she estimated that they were growing well.
The next day, Jiang Sanlang brought his two children, two nieces and Jiang Quan to the county town. After sending them to the shop, he drove a horse-drawn carriage to pick up the customized items.
Jiang Quan brought the persimmon cakes and chestnut cakes he brought back to the backyard and asked Yingbao Dani and Erni to help weigh and pack them. He took his little cousin outside to buy some delicious food.
The two brothers were eating and walking around, and when they were walking back after buying a big bag of snacks, they suddenly saw a group of people fighting at the entrance of an alley.
There were many people standing near the alley watching the fun.
Jiang Quan looked at it twice more out of curiosity, and was shocked by what he saw.
It turned out that the two unlucky guys who were beaten were my aunt Jiang Yunniang and my uncle Zhang Jia.
There was also a young woman with heavy makeup standing nearby, crying.
Aunt Jiang Yunniang tried her best to protect her uncle, crying, "Stop beating me! You are going to kill me..."
A big man with a face full of flesh sneered: "He deserves to be beaten to death! He dared to seduce my daughter, and he deserves to die!"
"No! He didn't, it was that woman who seduced him first." Jiang Yunniang defended herself, opening her arms and holding her husband tightly in her arms.
When the fat-faced man heard this, he became furious and started punching and kicking Jiang Yunniang and Zhang Jia.
While beating him, he yelled, "Bullshit! How dare you, my daughter, a virgin, seduce an ugly old man like that? Since you are so protective of him, you can either die with him or pay me money! You choose!"