Chapter 420: Setting up a Brush Workshop in Advance
Suddenly there were fifty or sixty men missing from the village, and it was suddenly quite empty.
However, unlike the panic last time, every household this time is full of hope and hopes that the medicinal materials can be sold smoothly.
Although it doesn't matter whether it is sold or not, the wages for transporting the medicinal materials are not affected, but if it cannot be sold, it will affect the next time, whether they earn money once or earn money multiple times, they still make a clear distinction.
After two attacks, the old village chief and Shui Qing did not dare to be careless. The governor and the guards were still on duty day and night, and they were prepared with lime, powder, stones, etc.
In the days that followed, every household was busy, planting medicinal materials, making dried potatoes for preservation, feeding livestock, and building fences... Families with a large number of people have already begun to build adobe for their new houses, trying to take advantage of the slack time to build their houses. Cover.
The water here was suddenly as clean as it had ever been before.
Feng Damancang and other eighteen men all went out, Ding Heli and Hu Wenhua and Fan He also went out. Hu's father, Hu's mother, and Dani and Erni went to take care of the mountains and forests every day. The family's population was much smaller, and everything seemed empty.
The herbal medicine shop has stopped working and will not reopen until autumn. There are fewer dozens of people coming and going every day, and it suddenly returns to its former tranquility.
Fortunately, Qin Yilin and Ding Jiajia were free. Qin Yilin no longer needed to go out to collect medicines and could bring Ding Jiajia over from time to time to talk.
Qin Yilin's cooking is not good, and she doesn't like to eat the food cooked by her daughter. Coming over to talk is equivalent to improving the food.
But she doesn’t eat for free. Shui Qing doesn’t want money, but she can give her herbs!
They had everything from powder to repellent mosquitoes in the summer to mosquito repellent wallets for everyone in Fan and Hu's family, pills for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and even supplements to regulate the body. Shuiqing was determined not to suffer a loss.
At this moment, I came here to chat and wait for the meal. My hands were not idle. I ground the mixed mosquito repellent herbs into powder. Looking at the empty and cold yard, I sighed: "It's so quiet all of a sudden, but I'm not used to it."
Shui Qing was lying on the big deck chair, slowly swaying and basking in the sun. The February and March sun made her body warm and comfortable. After hearing Qin Yilin's words, she came back to her senses and said with a smile: "Hurry up and enjoy the rare pure time. , I won’t be able to enjoy it next year.”
Qin Yilin obviously understood the wrong meaning. He looked up at the girl in the room who was cutting a piece of red cloth, and asked in a low voice: "It shouldn't be that fast, right?"
The Hu family has just purchased land and the house has not yet been built. Once the house is built and furnished, it will not be until at least the second half of the year.
Although it is said that the betrothal gift and the date can be set at the same time, the wall over there will not be built for a while. Can't we wait until it is built before we get married and move in? That's much safer too.
The wall over there is bigger than that of Shanshui Village, and it will take at least two or three months to build. With all these things put together, even if one of them is not completed, we will have to wait later. Jiajia and Wenhua’s The wedding will probably take place by the end of the year at the earliest.
Once you have a baby and then conceive in ten months, you will still be pure at this time next year.
Is it possible that the Hu family will arrange a wedding if they want to come back?
Upon hearing this, Shui Qing knew that Qin Yilin had something different. He took off the straw hat covering his face and joked: "What are you thinking about? I'm talking about business!"
Knowing that she had gone astray, Qin Yilin rolled her eyes angrily, "What kind of business? We women don't need to go out to deliver goods, and the medicinal materials shop has to harvest the medicinal materials in the autumn before we can make it. There is nothing to be busy about if you want to be busy."
Shui Qing was indeed thinking about business matters. Hearing this, he sat up straight and expressed his thoughts: "I think that all the medicinal materials in our medicine shop will be prepared by February, and we will wait until September to start work again, which means that February During the seven months of September, the medicinal shop remains closed for most of the year;
In addition, the women and girls who work in the medicinal materials shop are all idle at home and have no wages. The houses, warehouses and staff of the medicinal materials shop are all empty. What a waste. "
Qin Yilin listened carefully.
At first she thought Shui Qing was just thinking about it casually, but after listening to her seriousness, she understood that she must have an idea in mind.
"Do you have any idea?"
Shui Qing smiled and didn't hide anything, and said: "Needless to say rabbits, every household in the village raises a lot of them. At the end of last year, there were also more sheep and pigs in the village, and these batches will be raised as soon as this year. They will give birth in June or July, and with the addition of mine, every household in the village will be able to raise at least several sheep and pigs by this time next year.”
Qin Yilin couldn't grind the powder in his hand anymore, so he asked out of curiosity: "Do you want to sell the livestock?"
Then I thought that that was wrong. In February, when the herbal medicine shop was closed, the weather was about to get hotter. Neither meat nor fur could be stored well. In addition, people only store bacon in the twelfth month of winter, and the demand is high at that time. , February is about to be bleak. Isn’t it appropriate to sell meat in large quantities at this time?
Shui Qing shook his head, "I want to do the brush business."
Qin Yilin opened his mouth, and then he clearly thought that the writing brush would be great!
Pig hair, wool, rabbit hair, and now even horse hair are also available, and the bamboo used as the penholder is also readily available, so there is no need to worry about the raw materials.
It’s just, “Can you make crafts?”
"No, so I thought, why don't we give it a try this year? We don't need too many people at first, just the same group. Fan Jin knows a general step. Let's try it first. Anyway, no matter what step it is, it will work in the end. Isn't it the craftsmanship of the person responsible for this step?
Let’s practice this year. There is a lot of rabbit hair anyway, so it’s okay to waste it. When the wool and pig hair catch up next year, it won’t be wasted! Shui Qing's eyes sparkled as he spoke, and he wanted to do it right away to try the effect.
Qin Yilin knew the income and profits of the medicinal materials shop, and analyzed: "A piece of rabbit fur in the village costs 20 yuan, right? It's not expensive, and with the labor cost, you can give it a try;
The biggest difficulty is that we don’t know when this battle will end. The imperial examination has been suspended. As long as it does not end for one day, the imperial examination will not be held for a day, so this brush cannot be sold. "
When it came to the war, Shui Qing had already read it in the book he bought. It was four years in a row. In other words, there was chaos last year, and the world would probably be peaceful the year after.
I will practice for two or three months this year. After I get familiar with it, I will start making small batches next year. The raw materials will be more abundant the year after next, and the workers will be more skilled. By then, I will be able to make large batches. Once the world is stable, we will first start to conduct scientific examinations to recruit talents. All the pens, inks, paper and inkstones will be in great demand!
She wanted to seize this first wave of overwhelming wealth.
"It has to end one day. This year, I have already thought of a use. Aren't the dolls in our village's schoolhouse short of brushes? It's just a good way for them to practice their skills and see where they need improvement."
After Shui Qing finished speaking, she stood up from the recliner, told Qin Yilin that she was going to Aunt Zhang's house, and walked out in a hurry.
Qin Yilin: .... Sure enough, some people earn money for a reason. They are too powerful.