Chapter 19 Making a Cradle

Yao Lei is one of the most honest people in Yaojia Village, and he is two years older than Yao Shu, but Yao Shu is already the mother of three children, but he has not yet married, because he is dragged down by the family situation.

"My father's illness is still the same, good for a while, bad for a while; now that my sister is growing up, my mother is also helping her to see others, thinking about marrying her by the end of the year."

After chatting for a while, Yao Feng took out another tael of silver and stuffed it into the young man's arms: "I made an agreement with the third master that day, one hundred lacquered rouge boxes, a total of one tael of silver, which should be given to you. "

Yao Feng was carrying a big box on his shoulders, and he didn't have any extra hands to refuse, but he shook his head repeatedly: "Brother Feng, what are you doing! The third master has already paid me wages, take them back quickly!"

Yao Feng smiled and said, "Third Master's belongs to Third Master, this is your share."

Yao Lei still insisted: "Brother Feng has helped me a lot these years. As long as the third master has work in hand, he will call me to do it. Brother Feng, it really doesn't need it."

Yao Shu had been listening to the chat between the two, and when he saw this, he also said to Yao Lei: "Brother Lei, put it away first, we have a lot to trouble you for!"

Yao Lei was puzzled: "Sister Ashu, what did you say..." What did you say?

Yao Shu didn't wait for Yao Lei to finish, and continued to ask with a smile: "Can Little Lei be a cradle?"

Yao Lei was stunned: "What is a cradle?"

Yao Shu said with a smile: "My family's three treasures are only a hundred days old. I thought about making a small bed for the child, which is shaped like a basket. I can put him in it and shake it, which can be regarded as coaxing him to sleep."

Looking at Yao Shu's pretty face, Yao Lei suddenly remembered that she was already a mother.

His voice was a little rough, and no one could hear it except himself: "It can be done."

Yao Shuxi said: "Then I will still draw the picture when I turn around, and Brother Lei will follow suit."

……

After Yao Shu returned home, he took the time to draw the blueprint of the cradle and asked Yao Feng to bring it to Yao Lei.

Then, she was busy boxing the dried rouge, and forgot about the cradle.

The two sisters-in-law of the Yao family also often went to the East Wing to help Yao Shu.

After the three of them worked hard for two days, they finally installed all the rouge!

"67, 68, 69..."

While counting, Mrs. Yao arranged the rouge boxes neatly in her hands.

The east wing room is putting on rouge these days, worried that the child will smell too much.

Yao Shu sent Sanbao to the main room and asked his mother to take care of it for two days.

She had just visited the children, and when she came back, she saw that the two sisters-in-law had cleaned up the room and were counting.

Yao Shu collected his thoughts, "Sister-in-law, can you count them clearly?"

Sister-in-law Yao finished the last box of rouge, raised her head and said with a smile, "74 boxes."

"In addition to the carved forty boxes," Second Aunt Yao said excitedly, "Ashu! We made a total of 110 and four boxes of rouge!"

A small table was set up in front of the window in the east wing, and now there are boxes of rouge neatly stacked on the table, each box is exactly the same size and shape.The afternoon sun shone into the room, and it just sprinkled on the row of rouge boxes, reflecting a lustrous gleam.

Yao Shu bowed his head and calculated, then laughed and said, "Put the rouge in the carved box first, and the remaining 74 boxes, if each box sells for 38 Wen, we can earn [-] taels of silver!"

Sister-in-law Yao is quite steady, and Second Sister-in-law Yao laughed a long time ago when she heard this, "38 taels! Sister-in-law, listen, 38 taels! How long will your tailor shop earn 38 taels of silver?"

The two sisters-in-law and sister-in-law came in almost at the same time. Sister-in-law Yao seldom saw such a lively appearance of her younger siblings. She also smiled and said: "It may take more than a month to earn so much, and the expenses in the shop are not small..."

The three said, full of expectations for their rouge business.

Yao Shu asked the two sisters-in-law again: "I saw that most of the rouge sold in the market is around two or three hundred yuan. Sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, you grew up in the town, so you should know better than me. If our rouge It’s sold for five hundred cash in the town, will anyone come to buy it?”

These days, sister-in-law Yao and second sister-in-law Yao have discovered that the rouge made by their sister-in-law is pure in color, and even the powder is much finer.Now it is packaged in a more delicate box, and some people will believe it if it is said that the rouge was transported from the capital.

Both of them nodded affirmatively: "Everyone in the town is not short of this money. Our rouge not only looks good, but is also much easier to use, and it will sell very quickly!"

Then Second Aunt Yao asked again: "Ashu, what price do you want to set for these rouge in carved boxes?"

Yao Shu smiled: "A box of ten taels of silver."

The two sisters-in-law of the Yao family gasped: "Ten taels of silver?!"

The two opened their eyes wide, looked at each other, and then at Yao Shu, speechless.

On the one hand, they thought the carved box was really beautiful, so they wanted to buy it even if it was more expensive; on the other hand, they thought, is ten taels of silver too expensive? !
"Isn't this... ten taels of silver too expensive?"

Yao Shu didn't say much, just smiled and said, "If I sell it in the county, or sell it to the relatives of those dignitaries, is it still expensive?"

Sister-in-law Yao and Second Sister-in-law Yao stopped talking.

"Sister-in-laws, don't worry," Yao Shu picked up a box of rouge, turned it over and pointed to the word "Yao" at the bottom, and affirmed, "Our rouge is different, I have my own way to sell it, and I promise to make a lot of money .”

There are so many marketing methods emerging in modern times, Yao Shu has already conceived countless ideas for selling rouge in his mind, and now everything is ready, just waiting for action!

The most important thing now is to launch Yao Ji's rouge in the cloth shop in the town.

Thinking of this level, Yao Shu asked, "Sister-in-law, why didn't you see brother today? Has he gone to town?"

Mrs. Yao was still thinking about the topic of expensive and not expensive, so she was taken aback for a moment before responding: "I never went to the town, I heard he went to pick up some kind of cradle..."

The door of the East Wing was not closed, and when my sister-in-law was talking, she heard the voice of Mrs. Zhang talking to Yao Feng coming from the yard next door.

"Afeng, what are you carrying in your hand? It looks like a basket...why is it so big?"

Yao Feng returned to the old lady with a smile: "The cradle painted by Ashu a few days ago was entrusted to little brother Yao Lei to make it out of wood, and it was used to rock the three treasures at home to sleep!"

"Hey, this thing can still be shaken? Doesn't that save people from hugging and coaxing?"

"Yes! I tried it just now, and it is light and practical. Why don't you take it back and give it to your child to try?"

When Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrived, his aunt and sister-in-law looked at each other, Yao Shu was still a little surprised: "It only took two days, and the cradle is ready?"

Second Aunt Yao asked: "I haven't heard from you yet, this cradle can really coax children? How?"

Mrs. Yao hesitated and said, "I heard that they put the three treasures in the cradle and rocked them..."

Well, she couldn't tell why.

Listening to the conversation between the two sister-in-laws, Yao Shu couldn't help laughing: "Let's go and have a look! The two sister-in-laws will know when they see the cradle."

(End of this chapter)

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