Before confiscating the house and going into exile, he emptied the enemy's warehouses and fled.

Chapter 20 Packaging box for steamed buns
The troops are on the road again.

Because Tang Zhan had begged Zhang Yong in the morning, Xie Yanyan paid more attention to their grandparents.

Tang Xiaolin was old, hungry and tired, and suffered from wind and cold last night. He couldn't leave, so Tang Zhan carried him on his back.

The 8-year-old sister followed quietly, carrying grass roots and wild vegetables.

It rained yesterday and the road was very muddy. Everyone rolled up their trouser legs and tucked their robes into their belts. Despite this, people without carriages kept getting mud and hay stuck to their shoes. Everyone had to pick up wooden sticks and pry the mud off the soles of their shoes.

Tang Zhan was carrying his grandfather with his bare feet on his back, and his shoes were strung with thatch and hung around his neck.

The younger sister would often put the snow-white grass roots in Tang Zhan's mouth, and also put a few grass roots into his grandfather's mouth. The three of them chewed the grass roots and walked in silence.

Xie Yanyan only glanced at it for a few times and then looked away.

Because the road was not good, there was no way to rest on the ground along the way, so we could only keep walking forward. The mood of the exiles was also slowly changing.

No one complained anymore on the road, except for the coughing cough, everyone walked silently with their heads down, not to fall behind or get whipped.

Finally out of yesterday's rainy area, the ground became dry, and Li Rong asked everyone to rest on the spot.

Many people suddenly collapsed on the ground and used small sticks to pry the mud off the soles of their shoes. Cloth shoes are particularly prone to getting muddy, and they get a thick layer of mud on them.

The horses' hooves were also stained with thick mud and hay. The horses snorted and moved around, and the wheels of the carriage were also stained with thick mud mixed with grass.

Tang Zhan put his grandfather and sister down, immediately took two wooden sticks, came to Xie Yanyan's car, quickly got under the horse's belly, grabbed the horse's hoof, and pried off the mud on the horse's hoof.

Horses are naturally wary of people and spin around trying to kick or step on them.

Xie Anfeng reined the horse hard. The horse couldn't run, but it kept walking.

Tang Zhan pried the mixed mud off the horse's hooves, and then started to pry the mud off the carriage wheels.

Xie Ning and Xie Yong both did it themselves, and they didn't ask Tang Zhanqian. They were not stupid. Who would work for Bai Gan? They must want to eat.

Tang Zhan refused to give in and just kept working.

Xie Yanyan watched him do it and asked, "Why do you help us pry the mud?"

Tang Zhan raised his head and glanced at her, his eyes were black and white, and filled with defiance.

"Because you are trustworthy."

Xie Yanyan looked into his eyes, and he looked at her stubbornly. Xie Yanyan lowered the curtain and didn't give him cakes or other food.

When he went back after finishing his work, Xie Yanyan didn't speak again.

Xie Yun received a beating last night. Today, he was sitting on the carriage shaft and saw Tang Zhan go back empty-handed. He almost burst into laughter and said, "We are all prisoners, who is more noble than who? We have to do so much work and not get a single meal. What a flattery." Let’s slap the horse’s hooves!”

Tang Zhan and Tang Xiaolin didn't say anything. His sister Tang Ranran was so sad that she burst into tears. Tang Xiaolin touched her head feebly, grabbed a piece of thatch and stretched it in front of her eyes.

Tang Ranran grabbed the thatch root, folded it several times, pinched off the white and fat part in the middle and stuffed it into Tang Xiaolin's mouth: "Grandpa, you eat it."

People around him sighed and looked into the distance with a hint of despair.

Because the first batch of soap has already been formed in the mold, the second batch is mixed and put into the mold waiting to be formed.

Xie Yanyan placed the mold and the soap in the space, and only poured them out when he was resting, ensuring that the molding process would not be affected by the vibration of the car outside.

The first batch of molded soaps were really good-looking. She, Song Linngling, and Jiang Shuang wrapped the soaps one by one in beautiful oil paper.

Now that there is no printing technology, those beautiful wrapping papers cannot be used. She can only find some simple gift boxes in the space.

Wooden box, lined with shredded paper and satin. Paper gift box with ribbon and bow tied on the outside.

Suddenly I had an idea.

During the noon break, they walked to a small market town called Aigou. They all rested on the roadside outside the market town. Xie Yanyan showed the small wooden box and cardboard box to Li Rong, Xie Anfeng and Xie Ning. "We promised the merchants 10 taels of silver each, excluding packaging. We can make some with packaging, and the price will be higher."

Xie Anfeng looked at the boxes and felt that these boxes were so ingenious that they might not be cheap if purchased individually.

Li Rong thought that the soap could be sold directly, and it would not be cost-effective to add packaging.

"The exiles are asked to make such boxes. These boxes are used as models for them. If someone is good at crafts, they can make the boxes and exchange them for steamed buns."

As soon as Xie Yanyan's words came out, Li Rong and Liu Mingjie immediately understood that they should let everyone participate in labor and support themselves without affecting the current profits.

"How much are we going to sell with the packaging box added?" Liu Mingjie only cares about the money, and he won't do it just for the sake of the prisoners.

"With the packaging box, the soap is slightly larger. The wooden box is 15 taels of silver each, and the paper box is 12 taels." Xie Yanyan took out a few pieces of the latest soap. These pieces were very delicate and had words printed on them.

"Dragon and phoenix present auspiciousness", "the hall is full of gold and jade", "life is as long as Nanshan" and "one of the best".

Used for weddings, birthdays, childbirth, and studies, they all have auspicious meanings.

Xie Yanyan meant that this kind of auspicious ones should be placed in wooden boxes, and the others should be placed in paper boxes without any special printing.

The escorts immediately felt that it was feasible. The steamed buns only cost a few cents, and they could make a lot of money.

These prisoners have to eat even if they don't do anything. If they don't eat well, they will get sick or die. They also have a mortality rate assessment when escorting prisoners.

Li Rong immediately called the prisoners together and told everyone about the decision. The boxes were exchanged for steamed buns, one wooden box was exchanged for five steamed buns, and one paper box was exchanged for one steamed bun.

If something goes wrong, you have to pay for it, because the materials also cost money.

This work will not affect the speed of progress, because it is used during rest time.

It is simple and easy to use, and you can make one or two cartons a day.

Sign up now for a big blockbuster.

As expected, the two people who knew how to make wooden boxes were Tang Xiaolin and Tang Zhan. Others signed up to make cartons.

Old Shen looked at these prisoners with shining eyes as they were trying to exchange boxes for steamed buns, and looked at them with disdain. They were a bunch of poor people.

As the former Madam of the Marquis, she didn't bother making boxes to exchange steamed buns, especially making boxes for that cheap girl Xie Yanyan's soap.

Under her instruction, none of the Xie family members of the Shen family signed up.

Xie Anhuai and Xie Qingmu's concubines are a little moved. They can only watch their direct descendants eat and drink every day. The eye sockets of their own children are sunken. If they can make paper boxes in exchange for steamed buns, they are willing to do it.

But due to the pressure from Old Shen and Little Shen, they could only watch helplessly.

The prisoners gathered outside the town, and Xie Yanyan, Xie Anfeng and Liu Mingjie went to the market to buy tools and materials.

There was a carpentry shop in the market. Liu Mingjie ordered a piece of wood and asked them to saw it into wooden box blocks. He filled three large baskets and bought paper.

Xie Yanyan "bought" four carving knives, a few scissors, paste, a few rolls of bow ribbons, and sandpaper for polishing.

Nowadays, the dyeing technology has been very developed and the colors are very rich. Xie Yanyan took out five colored ribbons of red, yellow, green, blue and purple, which are enough for the current use.

The materials were all placed on Li Rong's carriage. In order to reach the destination quickly to make boxes, everyone walked faster than usual today. When they arrived at the expected Nanzhao County, it was not long after Shenshi.

Li Rong and the others found an inn, and Shen proudly took out some silver and gave it to Li Rong: "Master Li, we will open four rooms."

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