Unparalleled Fortune in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 131 The Craftsman
Tong Cheng'er thought so, and planned to act immediately, so she called Ru Lan: "Are there craftsmen in the mansion?"

Ru Lan was a little confused by the question, she has only been here for a few days, and now she is familiarizing with the various rules and personnel in Si Age's Mansion, but she is not familiar enough to know all the things in Si Age's Mansion!

"The slave doesn't know very well."

Tong Cheng'er didn't blame her, just said: "Go and ask, if there are craftsmen, bring them here, if not, let Gao Wuyong go out of the house to find some reliable workers, sign a contract and bring them here."

Although Ru Lan didn't know what Fujin was going to do, she still did it.

Yinzhen's mansion is very exquisite, and it took a lot of effort to build it, and it also needs various maintenance after the construction, so there are really a group of craftsmen in Si Age's mansion.

Ru Lan didn't know what kind of craftsman Fujin wanted, so she brought all the craftsmen there, including gardeners, wood carvings, clay sculptures, stone carvings... a series of craftsmen were called over.

Tong Cheng'er didn't expect Rulan to bring so many people over.

The fourth elder brother's mansion is very big, and she is rather lazy. Although she knows that there will be many people serving in such a big mansion, there are a total of 30 craftsmen alone.

I have to let her sigh the pride of the husband she married!So proud.

Thirty craftsmen, basically doing everything.

Tong Cheng'er asked what they did, and after asking, she left five.

Among the five are craftsmen who are good at coloring beams, carpenters, those who are good at working with clay, and craftsmen who are good at carving.

The reason why these five are kept is because they look more honest. Tong Cheng'er's sixth sense is super accurate, and she believes in her own feelings.

The five people who were left behind were a little nervous. Everyone in the house said that the master doted on Fujin, and they didn't know what Fujin wanted them to do.

Tong Cheng'er opened her mouth and told Ru Lan: "Prepare a small courtyard, clean it up, and let the five of them live in it."

Ru Lan: "Yes, Fujin."

Tong Cheng'er looked at the five of them and asked them: "How much is your monthly money?"

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen are not of high status, so Yinzhen treats them pretty well. They are given five taels of silver every month. If they do more work, there are other rewards.

Tong Cheng'er heard the words, and then said: "In this way, the monthly money for five of you in the future will be ten taels of silver per month. If you can meet my requirements, there will be extra silver rewards. If you can make what I request, At that time, Benfu will reward each of you with 100 taels of silver."

Regardless of Yinzhen's generosity, two shops for Tong Cheng'er are worth several million taels. In fact, silver is worth a lot. For an ordinary family of five, ten taels of silver is enough for a year's chewing.

Therefore, Tong Cheng'er gave a lot of monthly silver, and he did a good job, and there were extra rewards, which made the five people very motivated after listening to it.

Tong Cheng'er looked at their extraordinarily energetic eyes, and thought to herself, it's good to be energetic and aggressive, as long as she works hard, she will have a lot of rewards here, the premise is that she has to work hard.

The five people are not too young, the youngest one is 30 years old, and the oldest one is 45 years old.

The oldest of the five people is called Dong Cheng. Because he is older, he is more stable and has more far-reaching considerations.

He knew very well that since Fujin had given such generous treatment, it was impossible to let them idle, and he had to give them some errands.

So he took the lead and asked, "I don't know what Fujin will order the servants to do?"

Tong Cheng'er said: "Go back and rest for a day, and I will send someone to tell you tomorrow."

The main reason is that she suddenly remembered that pencils are mainly made of graphite and clay mixed in a certain proportion. The key is that she didn't know that there were these two things in the house.

She remembered that clay seemed to be more used to make bricks in ancient times, and the ink in the pen, ink, paper and inkstone is also made of graphite.

Regardless of whether there are these two raw materials in the mansion, they are not difficult to find anyway.

After the five craftsmen left, Ru Lan asked puzzledly, "Fu Jin, why did you remember what to do with the craftsmen?"

Tong Cheng'er said casually: "Make something good."

After finishing speaking, she ordered again: "You find two people to go out of the house to buy more raw materials and clay for making ink?"

Ru Lan was a little confused: "Fu Jin, the raw material slave for ink can only be found out, but what is this clay?"

Tong Cheng'er didn't know how to explain it, so she just said: "It's just a kind of soil, which can be burned and repurposed. If it doesn't work, just ask someone to get all the soil that can be used to burn bricks. Anyway, this stuff is not expensive. Where to go."

Ru Lan nodded understandingly: "Yes, the servant will let people buy it."

After Rulan gave the order, Tong Cheng'er went to the kitchen, startled everyone in the kitchen, the most senior nurse in the kitchen said tremblingly, "I don't know if Fujin came to the kitchen in person, but what do you want to order?"

The kitchen is a place for cooking, and everyone in the kitchen thought that she would come here because there was something she wanted to eat, otherwise, there was no other reason!

Tong Cheng'er smiled and said, "You are all busy with your work."

After that, she went to the place where the fire was made and asked the girl who made the fire, "Do you have any charcoal?"

The girl who lit the fire trembled and said, "Wood, charcoal, yes, yes."

As she spoke, the little girl wiped her handles thoroughly, and then began to take the charcoal.

Charcoal is the product of wood burning but not completely burned out. There are quite a lot of kitchens with this thing.

The little girl was also sincere, she heard that Fujin wanted it, but she took a lot out of it, Tong Cheng'er was very satisfied looking at it.

Then he opened his mouth and said to Ruxue: "Put it on, and take it to the study later."

Although Ruxue didn't understand the purpose of this thing, since Fujin ordered it to be useful, she quickly found a basket and put all the charcoal into the basket.

Before leaving, Tong Cheng'er said to everyone in the kitchen: "Your dishes are good, Ruxue, everyone will be rewarded with half a month's money this month."

Ruxue: "Yes, the slave has written it down."

When everyone heard the words, they all knelt down and thanked him.

Tong Cheng'er left after finishing speaking.

Then he took Ruxue to the study.

After entering the study, Tong Cheng'er ordered someone to bring measuring tools, and then spread the entire sheet of paper on the table.

Then go get the charcoal in the basket.

Seeing her taking charcoal, Ruxue hurriedly stopped her and said: "Fu Jin, this charcoal is not clean, don't touch it, if you need anything, just ask the servant to come, don't dirty your hands."

Tong Cheng'er said with a smile: "Just wash it when it's dirty, I have to do it myself."

After saying that, she straightened up the charcoal, and then used a knife to cut it into a slender strip that was as long as the little finger. She cut several sticks in a row before stopping.

Seeing that it was almost done, Tong Cheng'er began to pick up the small charcoal that had been sharpened and draw on the paper with a measuring ruler.

Tong Cheng'er's drawing looks like a pencil.

Although she is not an art student, she may have some talent in this area. In addition, she met a very serious art teacher during her nine-year compulsory education, and she really knows how to paint.

Although I haven't drawn for a long time, I can still draw with a pencil, especially this pencil can be used to measure and draw with a ruler.

Tong Cheng'er worked for a long time, and only used one piece of charcoal to draw it.

After finishing the painting, Tong Cheng'er thought to herself that it was simpler than she imagined.

After working so hard, it's almost time for lunch.

She asked the kitchen to prepare a balanced lunch with meat and vegetables, and then asked Gao Wuyong to deliver it to Yinzhen. Tong Cheng'er had a meal with Yinzhen recently, and found that he was very picky eater and couldn't eat anything that was not delicious.

Although I don't know what to eat when serving as an errand, it is still not as good as the ones in the mansion.

(End of this chapter)