Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 898 Too Mixed

It's too complicated. It sounds like the gifts returned by just a few families have already been sorted out, and the ones behind are still on the way. It's still not clear which family is going to return the gift and which one is still on the way.

Instead, I picked out the small and valuable return gifts, packed them up and brought them back first. The rest of the return gifts and other things were still on the way and would be brought back by Uncle Chang Qing.

That's fine. In addition to the return gifts, there were actually several gifts for congratulations on the list. She couldn't understand it. It was reasonable to give a gift to Dajiang, but why give one to her?

Congratulations to her for having a sister-in-law?

“Hahaha…” Gu Wenxuan, who was pinching his wife’s calf, laughed, “Some families are worried that they will send the third-day-washing ceremony too late, so they want Uncle Chang Qing to bring it later.”

"No wonder. That's what I was wondering. Why didn't even my mother give me a gift list? She must be worried that I'd overthink it. The baby hasn't even been born yet, but the gifts have already been given to me."

"That's right." Inducing labor was not a good topic, so Gu Wenxuan immediately changed the subject, "So, you haven't even read the letters in the box yet?"

"Yes. I was too busy. Dajiang even hinted that my aunt had letters in a certain box. The banknotes could not escape and were stuffed back by my aunt. I wanted to wait for you to read them together.

I won’t read the rest of the letters from other people as they contain almost the same words. There’s no need to open the box in the middle of the night to get the letters. I’d better wait until tomorrow to read the letters and reply at the same time.

You should go to bed early tonight. The letters that Big Brother and the others wrote to you don’t need to be sent overnight. If there is something urgent, Dajiang would have handed it to you personally as soon as he saw it.”

It makes sense. If Zhou Yanqing and the others had urgent news, Dajiang would most likely ask Zhiming to rush back to inform him personally.

Gu Wenxuan gave his wife an appreciative look, and spoke many nice words to her. He also used some sweet talk to make Zhou Banxia smile like a flower.

After washing up and getting on the kang, he took a rare night off for himself. He held his wife in his arms and had a good rest for the night, not in a hurry to do any "private work".

When he woke up the next day, Zhou Banxia was still sleeping soundly. He went out for morning exercise as usual, then returned to his room and went to the outer room to review.

Don't ask him why he doesn't go to his parents' yard first. If you ask, he won't say that his father doesn't like to get up too early on weekdays, let alone he just got home after a long journey.

Gu Xiaoshun made excuses for himself and insisted on staying in bed until almost noon. Then he picked up a large roll of paper from the couch and went out of the house on the west garden to the central courtyard.

"father?"

What are you feeling guilty about?
After waking up from a good sleep, Gu Erzhu had breakfast and went to the courtyard to stretch his arms and legs. He also took a look to see why his wife hadn't come back yet. Then he noticed that his eldest son called him dad in a different tone.

"What are you trying to do now?" Gu Erzhu put away his fist and looked at the roll of paper Jiaxing was holding behind his eldest son. "What blueprint is this?"

Guess it right!
Gu Wenxuan nodded quickly, and took the hot towel offered by the servant next to him and handed it to Gu Erzhu, "My son wants to equip those farms with small workshops.

My son has seen that there is a farm that is now growing hemp and there is no need for spring ploughing. I would like you to help him take a look at the hemp bag processing workshop on that farm.

The burlap bag doesn't need to be made too finely, as long as it is sturdy. If the journey is long, it will need to be framed with wooden strips on the outside and stuffed with straw.

Of course, we not only grow hemp on our own farm, but we can also harvest the good hemp, but the main reason is that we need a lot of hemp bags every year in our own workshop.”

That's true, but it's not a good idea to always use straw and rattan baskets and wooden boxes to pack things. Not only is it difficult to count them by baskets or boxes, it also takes up space and doesn't look impressive.

For example, scented soap and scented candles, when you open the wooden box, you will find that the pieces are neatly wrapped with colored paper, which looks very stylish and not cheap. In Zhao Laosan's words, his daughter San Ya is so clever that she even made the paper strips look very colorful, which makes the scented soap look very expensive.

Gu Erzhu nodded slowly while thinking, and suddenly he had an idea, "Is the farm where hemp is grown the farm of the Qian family, the relative of County Magistrate Huang?"

Gu Wenxuan was not surprised that his father knew who the farm he was talking about originally belonged to as soon as he heard it. It was the Qian family that had provided sacks to the county government granary over the years.

It’s so easy to guess.

However, it would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that this was the Qian family's unique business. County Magistrate Huang still held a large stake, and the master's indenture was also in the hands of the Huang family.

County Magistrate Huang was quite capable and knew how to capture the core figures, so, “Dad, I’ll buy the person who knows this craft too.

Including this one, there are now six. I quickly asked Zhiming to send someone to buy it and move it to the other side of our Hexi yard, just waiting for you to come back."

good boy!
You are digging up their roots!
Gu Erzhu glanced at his son in a helpless manner, and without even bothering to throw the towel after wiping his face to the servant, he hurried towards the main hall.

Gu Wenxuan followed immediately.

"Also, during the time you were away from home, the new granddaughter-in-law of my second grandfather set up a weaving workshop in our village for the young wives and the eldest daughters-in-law.

At present, the main focus is to teach them how to weave cloth. Once they have learned how, the cloth they weave will be passed through her mother's dyeing workshop and then purchased by Uncle Zhao's cloth shop."

Isn't that Wen Can's wife? Gu Erzhu nodded to show that he knew who his son was talking about. It was not surprising that Canzi's wife wanted to clean up the weaving workshop.

With the support of the Zhao family, Canzi's wife's family got involved in weaving and dyeing cloth, and they had the largest dyeing workshop in the entire Qingyang County, but that was all.

After all, he is not Zhao Lao San's brother-in-law, so it is already very good for him to be promoted to this position. Before, Zhao Lao Er wanted to recruit him to be a partner, but he refused.

"Wencan's wife is looking for Sanya?"

"Yes, my wife has also contributed to the weaving workshop. If the quantity becomes too large for Uncle Zhao to handle in the future, my wife and I have considered the next step.

At that time, we will separate the cotton and linen. The woven linen does not need to be very fine, and we can use it in our own workshop. However, this idea has not been made public yet.

My husband and I want to let her take the lead first. It's not easy to find our granddaughter-in-law from the Gu family to take the lead. We should wait until the weaving workshop can no longer be run before we decide on the next step."

Very good, the child already understood it without him saying anything. Gu Erzhu nodded again, signaling his eldest son to continue speaking and slowed down his pace.

"Now, my eldest sister-in-law is still helping them, but the next step will not be my eldest sister-in-law, but Baoya, and I would rather Baoya take over.

She is young and has nothing to fear. It is right in front of her house, and there is her cousin’s wife blocking the way. If she can find a capable mother to take care of things for Baoya, it will be a great opportunity for her to practice.”

Gu Erzhu understood the implication of his elder son's words. He wanted to make a lot of different burlap bags. Not only did he want them to be sturdy, he also wanted to make fine linen bags.

However, things like this, where one step is taken and ten steps are considered, are something that the eldest son and his wife could come up with. There's nothing surprising about it, it's just that they are too good at making trouble.

"Besides wanting to run this sack processing workshop, what else do the five companies want to do with it? Could it be that each of the six companies has a craft?"