However, once this general direction is determined, there will be more things Mingyue needs to do later.
There are many ways to learn about intangible cultural heritage. There is a website about intangible cultural heritage inheritance on the Internet, which specifically introduces the skills, characteristics, popular knowledge, etc. of intangible cultural heritage. Some simple paper-cutting, velvet flowers, etc. can be learned on the website.
In addition, there are quite a lot of intangible cultural heritage projects in Province S. Some intangible cultural heritage skills are on the verge of extinction due to lack of successors. If someone is really willing to learn them, the local cultural bureau will be happy to help connect them.
However, this will require the villagers to set aside a lot of time to learn.
Mingyue also has to think carefully about the categories of things the villagers learn. No matter if they are too simple or too complicated, they will be rejected first.
Don’t be anxious. You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry.
Mingyue let out a light breath, calmed down and wrote seriously.
There is still a long time in the future, so she still has to finish writing the manuscript in hand. She plans to submit this commercial manuscript to earn extra money.
The lights in the house were on for a long time, and the night gradually deepened.
Perhaps there were too many people gossiping in the village, and Liu Dadong was not shameless enough. He only stayed in the village for two days, then left with a snakeskin bag, and never came back for several months.
However, Liu Dabei has become active again in the village in the past two days. Mingyue occasionally sees him whispering something mysteriously to someone, but when he sees her, he stops talking as if he is guilty.
But Mingyue didn't care. As long as he didn't come to her on his own initiative, she didn't care how he felt.
It was during lunch time when Aunt Xiu said with an unpleasant expression, "Liu Dadong is such a jerk. He actually told Liu Dabei about your loan. Now Liu Dabei is talking about it everywhere. Some people even asked me about it. If Liu Dadong hadn't disappeared, I would have scolded him for always looking for trouble."
Only then did Mingyue know what Liu Dabei had said outside.
Mingyue shook her head and comforted him, "It's okay, don't be angry, this is fake, it can't be true, and it won't cause me any trouble."
As long as she keeps paying enough money, this matter won't cause any trouble.
Aunt Xiu thought about it and realized that it was true. Her expression calmed down and she said a little embarrassedly, "I am so old, but I still can't think as clearly as you, a young man. People who have studied are really different."
People of Aunt Xiu's generation have a natural respect for college students, teachers and the like.
Mingyue poured her a bowl of soup and pushed it over to her, saying softly, "No, you're just worried about me. You're too concerned."
Aunt Xiu was in a good mood. She turned around and mentioned her son again: "By the way, your godfather went to bring cotton wool to Junhao. I wonder if he has eaten yet? Junhao called back and said that the cotton wool he bought outside was not warm enough for him to sleep, and he didn't want to. The cotton wool outside is not as good as the one we make ourselves. The cotton wool we make is all good cotton from our own room, without any fake cotton. No one outside would be willing to give you such good cotton."
Mingyue paused with her chopsticks, perhaps she thought of the first product sold in Liujia Village.
Today, the number of fans of Liucun Qinsao's account has reached one million, but because Mingyue chose not to accept advertisements, it has maintained zero income.
There are quite a few netizens who commented below that it would be great if the food made by Mrs. Qin could be sold, but this is obviously not realistic because the food in the video is not suitable for long-term preservation.
So Mingyue has been thinking about how to monetize fans, and now she thinks quilts are a good idea. Just as Aunt Xiu said, because the surrounding villages are all growing cotton, everyone is used to making quilts with cotton, and the quilts at home are all top-notch, and they are very warm at night.
For example, when women here get married, their dowries always include several quilts, which is enough to prove the quality of the quilts here.
Moreover, it is now late summer and early autumn, which is the season for cotton harvest.
In the past, people from the factory would come to negotiate the price of cotton within a few days. Once the price was agreed with the villagers, the people from the factory would drive various cotton picking machines to the village to pick cotton.
The price of cotton is often very low. Mingyue vaguely remembers hearing Aunt Xiu mention it last year. It was 4.6 yuan per catty. You have to know that cotton is the worst thing to weigh. Even a big bag of it would only weigh a few catties.
However, when cotton is made into a quilt, the price becomes extremely expensive. Nowadays, an eight-pound quilt sold outside will cost over a hundred yuan. And even at this price, it is not pure cotton, but is mixed with various fiber materials.
So this thing can be done, and the profits that can be manipulated are huge.
Mingyue doesn't even need to find a factory to make custom quilts. She can just buy a few fully automatic quilt machines and the villagers can make their own quilts.
Thinking of this, Mingyue looked up at Aunt Xiu and said, "Godmother, do you know the village chiefs of the neighboring villages? I want to talk to them about buying cotton."
Aunt Xiu was still babble-ing about family matters, but when she heard this, she was stunned for a moment and then said, "Why are you buying cotton? Don't we have some at home? If you want to make a quilt, just use our own. Why waste money?"
"I want to make quilts, but I want to make a lot of them and sell them to people all over the country, so..." Mingyue shook her head: "My own quilts are not enough."
Although Aunt Xiu didn't quite understand how she was going to sell it, and didn't know why people would buy from her from such a long distance, she knew that she was a person with her own ideas, so it was right to listen to her.
Aunt Xiu spoke frankly, "I don't recognize those people, but your godfather can recognize them. Their village chief has to go to the brigade for meetings every month."
Mingyue nodded to show that she understood, and then asked, "When will godfather come back?"
"It will probably be within these two days. He will definitely be back after delivering the things."
This is good, she can take this time to prepare some things.
For example, shoot a video about cotton, a video about making quilts, and find out what the villagers think about the price of cotton...
Well, there are quite a lot of things.
Regarding Mingyue Loan, which borrowed hundreds of thousands of yuan from the bank, since there was no response from the person involved, the villagers just talked about it privately and the matter was eventually left unresolved.
Although Liu Dabei was furious, he didn't dare to really provoke Mingyue again. He could only watch sourly as the other villagers followed Mingyue all day long, taking pictures of this and that.
Liu Fanrong went out to work. I heard that he went to a construction site with people from the next village. He earned several thousand yuan a month, but it was hard-earned money.
(End of this chapter)