A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 209 Weaving
The money from selling grain was strung up one after another and placed neatly.

It wasn't finished until midnight.

"A total of 125 taels and 640 coins." Yu Dahai handed the account book he had recorded to Bai Xia and beat his shoulders, but he was exhausted.

"Well, let's take a rest first."

For more than 100 taels of silver, more than 4000 kilograms of grain were sold, and evenly distributed to each household, no more than 100 kilograms of grain was needed at most.

In today's villages, most families have three or four generations living under the same roof. The emphasis is on having more children and more happiness, and there is no separation of families.

There are more than a dozen people in the family, and one hundred kilograms of food only allows them to eat for one more month.

Bai Xia collected the money and felt a little more at ease as she watched the money in the transformation pool grow.

It's just that this time the grain sale is only for one day, so it won't be easy to sell more, and it won't be suitable to sell any more grain until this winter is over.

Everyone had been tired for a day, and after finishing keeping the account books, they collected the money and rested.

The income from selling grain is part of it, but it can't be sold in a big way, which slows down Bai Xia's earning speed a lot.

The days passed day by day, turning over September, October, and arrived in November.

Bai Xia collects grasshoppers and other gadgets made by children in the village every day, and earns a lot of income every day.

After people in the village saw that the children's knitting could make money, many women also learned to knit, which allowed Bai Xia to accumulate more and more money.

Sister-in-law Chunhua, the little pig at home, has been raised very well. It is visible to the naked eye that she has grown up and gained a lot of fat.

If they were fed better, they might be able to kill pigs for meat during the Chinese New Year.

The radish seedlings in the ground have sprouted up again, and it looks like the roots have begun to grow stems.

In early November, the loom sent by Li Xiuyuan arrived.

Jin Xi and Yun Shu picked up the cotton they bought during this period and twisted it into silk threads to dry in the shade for later use.

As soon as the loom arrives, spinning begins.

Bai Xia doesn't know how to do this job, and neither does Jin Xi. Only Yun Shuhui does.

There are many women in Liuyun Village who know how to do it, and many of the clothes they wear are made of their own cloth, so the life of the big guys is pretty good.

In Liu Yunzhai, Bai Xia could also save money, but after all, the supply exceeded demand, which easily caused prices to rise.

And with the population base there, no matter how much food is sold, there will always be enough.

Unlike here, there are hundreds of surrounding villages and towns. A village may have at least a dozen households and hundreds of people, and even more may have thousands of people.

Yun Shu stepped on the machine, and the little man sat in front of the loom all day, busy.

Bai Xia and Jin Xi stared at the pig pen and chicken coop.

It is worth mentioning that after November, the purchased chicken finally laid its first egg after raising it for more than a month, and it was an egg that could hatch a chick.

Bai Xia tried putting it into the transformation pool and taking it out again. The egg still did not change, but it was hard to say whether it could hatch a chick.

The two chickens were fed well, and they laid an egg every day. After about twenty days of laying, the hen stopped laying eggs again.

Start cuddling.

Bai Xia goes to see it every day.

Time goes like this, slowly coming to December.

Yun Shu wove the first piece of cloth he came to Dou'er Village. It was off-white cotton. The color was not very nice, but the warp and weft were fine, which was much better than the coarse linen cloth.

Bai Xia held the cloth and looked at it for a long time.

Another look at the transformation pool.

I have saved more than 150 taels of silver.

A loom costs 30 taels of silver.A pound of cotton costs half a penny.

But a piece of cotton cloth, worth three taels of silver, can be used to make two sets of adult clothes.

Yunshu was young and could only weave, but was not very skilled. It took him a month to weave. If a woman with superb skills was allowed to weave, one piece could be produced in five days at most.

This also has something to do with the speed of the loom.

Nowadays, the slowest loom is used, the horizontal one.

She didn't know much about machinery, but had only vaguely heard of it. There seemed to be a spinning jenny or something, which spun yarn vertically and was faster than this.

Touching the cotton cloth on hand, Bai Xia made a simple plan and took Yun Shu to find the village chief's wife.

She planned to rent out the machine, provide cotton, and let people in the village help process the cotton cloth.

For each piece processed, fifty cents are given.

When she heard that she was making money again, the village chief's wife immediately responded and asked what conditions were needed to rent the loom, how to distribute cotton, and how to pay for cotton cloth.

Bai Xia has already thought about this. He first selects five families and rents out five looms. Each family will be given a pound of cotton to weave a piece of cloth. If there is a lot of cotton, they can use it for themselves.

In other words, if their skills were better and they could use less material to weave more cloth, the part they would weave would belong to them.

In addition, there is fifty cash for each piece of weaving.

It's just that the five families to be selected must be of good character, honest and reliable, and those who are sneaky and slippery are absolutely unacceptable.

After the five families are selected, they must first assign one person to take charge of the work. Each family can only send one person, and Yunshu will train them and teach them weaving.

After you learn how to do it, you can take the machine back and spin at home.

After they learn it, they can hand over the skills to their family members. Here in Bai Xia, one pound of cotton is used to collect one piece of cloth. After the cloth woven from the cotton distributed for the first time is handed over, the wages can be settled, but every time the wages are settled, , will keep [-]% as rent, and will not pay all wages until the rent is paid.

The rent is one hundred cents a month.

If you are diligent, you can settle the rent by weaving three pieces of cloth.

After hearing Bai Xia's request for weaving, the village chief's wife immediately reserved a place for her second daughter-in-law, and then went to the village to find other familiar families.

The patriarch’s family needs to arrange one.

Other people who are familiar with the village chief are also arranged.

The five families quickly gathered together.

When I heard that there was money to be made from this, the village became excited again.

I heard that Bai Xia only chose five families. Those who were not selected even went to the village chief's house to make trouble, but the village chief's wife persuaded them to go back.

It is said that they are just trying it first, and if they do it well, every household will have a chance.

And to do this, you have to pay a hundred cash in rent. Although it is deducted from the salary, everyone is waiting to see whether the money will be deducted.

The selected people soon went to Bai Xia's house for training, and were taught by Yun Shu.

Although she is only six years old, in front of a group of women who have never weaved before, she is the master, and no one dares to look down on her.

Ten days later, under Yun Shu's guidance, the five women all weaved their first piece of cloth and handed it over to Bai Xia. After acceptance, it was determined that they had met the standards for accepting orders, and then each woman weaved the first piece of cloth. The family signed the deed and were given machines and cotton.

The deadline for handing over one piece of cloth is ten days. If you have the ability and can weave quickly, you can hand it in after weaving one piece.

In the winter, everyone is at home. With the loom, not only do they have something to do, but they also make money, so everyone works very seriously.

While studying, they spent ten days.

When it came time to actually start weaving by hand, they worked day and night. Some people weaved their first piece of cloth in just five days, then turned it in to Bai Xia and got their first payment.

(End of this chapter)