Sweet and warm little peasant woman

Chapter 28 Acquisition of Kapok
"Sister-in-law Fulin, for so many years, Yuchen has been taken care of by Chief Zhao. I would like to ask the chief's daughter-in-law and his daughter to help. Do you agree?"

Sister Fulin nodded, "That's right, the three of us plus you should be able to get out."

"I can't do it here. I need tailoring, and I have to go to the town to buy vegetables and meat. I can't delay the lunch at the house. You can find another person, and you should be able to get it out if you chase it like this."

"Actually, there are a lot of idle women in the village. It's just that if we look for them, we must look for them with good character, so as to save trouble in the future."

Sister-in-law Flynn looked at the workers over there while she was talking, and suddenly her mind lit up and she said:
"Li Da's younger sister, Li Xiaomei, is not bad. She is 14 years old this year, and she is dexterous. Why don't you call her up again! If you hurry up, you should be able to finish everything."

"Okay, I'll listen to my sister-in-law." Tong Xiaowu had an impression of Li Xiaomei. She was often with Chen Meili, and she had a good personality. When Chen Meili was not around, she would secretly greet her.

Because the house hadn’t been built yet, Mrs. Fulin called everyone to her home, and Tong Xiaowu taught on the spot. She not only taught everyone the handwork, but also promised that if the product was qualified, each doll would be handmade for ten cents .

Here, Li Xiaomei is the youngest, and when she heard that she was earning money, she jumped up happily: "Sister-in-law, do you mean that you will still give us wages?"

"Of course!" Tong Xiaowu nodded as it should.

"Sister-in-law Hongzhu..." Li Xiaomei reached out and grabbed Zhao Hongzhu's daughter-in-law Li Shi: "We women can also earn money, I'm actually a little excited!"

Mrs. Li laughed, not to mention the countryside, even in the city, there are very few women who can come out to earn money, not to mention how much they earn, just talking about it can make people look good.

She used to cook all the meals at home, but now when the mother-in-law heard that she came to earn money, she promised that she would cook the meals for the past few days, and she felt happy thinking about it.

"Let's rush to work on the [-] first, don't stop after finishing, continue to work, as for the business, I will run."

Regarding sales, Tong Xiaowu is not worried at all.

"Okay!" Mrs. Fulin nodded happily.

Just do what you say, except Mrs. Fulin who has to cook for the workers at noon, everyone else is busy making dolls.

At the end of the day, these four workers are slow to do about eight a day, and those who work overtime faster can do more than ten, and more than 30 are completed in one day. At this time, the problem arises, and there is no more kapok.

The kapok was picked by Tong Xiaowu from the kapok tree on the mountain before. Now they are very busy. With so many dolls, it is not enough to pick the kapok by one person. Besides, more and more needs to be done in the future, how can we supply them? use it?
So, early the next morning, Tong Xiaowu put up a wooden sign in front of her house, and asked Feng Yuchen to write on it: Collect kapok, two cents a catty!
When the workers who came to work saw the news, they hurried home to inform their families. After a while, the news spread in the village, and all the idlers in the village left.

Go to the mountains to pick kapok, kapok is no better than cotton, cotton can be spun and weaved, and there are many people who buy it.

Although kapok is elastic, its toughness is not enough. If you use a little force, the cotton thread will be broken, so the use value is not high, let alone someone collects it.

Now, Feng Yuchen's family collects kapok at a price of two cents per catty. Although the price is cheap, it's still idle, so it's better to go up the mountain to have a look.

There are many wild kapoks on the mountain, and it is not a rare thing. After a while, someone picked a large basket and brought it to Feng Yuchen's house.

"Fellow folks, we don't need cotton seeds for our kapok, everyone must sieve it clean and bring it here..." Tong Xiaowu publicized loudly, for fear that others would not hear.

So, the cooperative villagers went back home to sieve cotton seeds.

But some people don't cooperate.

"Daughter-in-law Yuchen, your family needs to sift cotton seeds when they collect kapok. Feng Daqing's family does not sift cotton seeds when they collect kapok. I passed by his door this morning, and I saw a sign at his door, which also said harvesting Where is the kapok? Your family is not the only one collecting kapok..."

"Really? Doesn't his family need to sieve cotton seeds?" Someone heard the news, turned around and went to Feng Daqing's house with a basket on his back.

The others didn't want to bother, so they went home and went to trouble again, and followed suit.

There were a few families who had a good relationship with Feng Yuchen, so they went home and followed Tong Xiaowu's request.

Feng Yuchen looked at the villagers who had gone away, frowned slightly, then looked back at the woman beside him and asked, "Have you told anyone about the business talks with the owner of Fuyue Restaurant?"

Tong Xiaowu shook her head, "No, I didn't even tell Mrs. Fulin. I just said that someone ordered a hundred dolls, but I didn't say who ordered it."

"That's weird..."

Feng Yuchen felt that this matter was a bit strange, but he didn't know where the problem was. In addition, collecting kapok is the most urgent thing at the moment, so he didn't have time to think about it, so he said:
"In order to have enough kapok, I will borrow a sieve and let the villagers who came down from the mountain sift directly at our house, so that we don't have to go home..."

"Okay!" Tong Xiaowu nodded in agreement. Seeing another villager descending the mountain carrying bamboo baskets, she decided to stabilize the villagers first after she was ready to speak.

Sure enough, because Feng Yuchen prepared a sieve, many people stayed.

"Ten catties of kapok, twenty cents!" Feng Yuchen looked at the star flowers on the pole while keeping accounts.

Tong Xiaowu handed over twenty Wen coins to the villagers.

"Twenty yuan for a trip up the mountain is enough for my family to buy several catties of cornmeal. I will go up the mountain again..."

"I'm going too, I'm going too..."

Even the children in the village followed suit.

Tong Xiaowu knew that if the business wanted to last for a long time, the kapok must be harvested enough, after all, kapok was only produced in this season.

Cotton is too expensive to make and not flexible enough to be stuffed into a doll, so this time, even if it is borrowing money, she has to collect a lot.

On the other side, Feng Daqing's family is also harvesting kapok, and now some people are weighed in front of his house.

"It's not enough for eight catties, so if you count it at seven catties, it's fourteen cents!" Feng Daqing's nostrils turned to the sky, feeling that he was awesome.

He had quarreled with Zhang Qinghua a few days ago, and it was because she went to Feng Yuchen's house to make trouble, which made him afraid to go to his house to find work. Now their house is built, and if ten houses are built, one craftsman can at least Earn two or eighty-seven.

As for him, he knew how to be a bricklayer. After being idle for many days, he finally got a job in the village and was disturbed by that woman. Can he not be angry?

Because of this, the two of them have been very angry these days. They didn't expect his wife to go out yesterday and bring him back a big deal without his efforts. Today, there is a shortage of kapok at home, and he happened to help buy it.

(End of this chapter)