Jinxin

Chapter 10 Weaving
Since it was autumn and there was no place to buy newly hatched chicks, Ruan Yunsi asked Yunniang to buy three hens and one rooster from someone else's house, as well as a male and a female, two ducks and two geese. It just hatched this year, and it is only half-grown now, and has not yet started laying eggs. The seller said that eggs can be laid by the end of autumn.It's just that she didn't raise pigs after thinking about it. She thought that killing pigs would be too earth-shattering. Anyway, there will be a big fair every few days outside the village. Usually, there are people who kill pigs from time to time. They want to eat meat and go to the fair. Or just buy it from the pig slaughterer in the village.

Now this small courtyard with a single family is finally looking like it.So after everything was settled, Ruan Yunsi and Yun Niang came to Li Baochang's house at the east end of the village.

Then Li Baochang and his wife were planning on this year's harvest on the kang, when they heard a woman shouting outside, they knew that they were looking for his wife to discuss a deal, so they quickly got up and avoided the inside. Not long after Yunniang and Ruan Yunsi came in, Yunniang told Li Baochang His wife said: "Sister-in-law Li, this is Sister Yun. Although you don't know her, you have heard of her. She doesn't farm the land now, but she has to make a living, so I want to come to you to ask for some weaving work." Do it, do you think you can arrange it for her?"

Sister-in-law Li looked at Ruan Yunsi up and down, then smiled and said, "Hey, look at Zhou Zheng's appearance, he doesn't look like someone who does rough work like us. Of course there is such a job as weaving. Nowadays, people only recognize farming and doing business. How many people make money by spinning at home? Not because of other things, or because it is hard to earn money? But they have to pay a few percent more hard work than usual. Can my sister endure this hard work? Tell me, it’s still a kind of The land is more important, and now the imperial court treats farmers preferentially, so why don't you get two mu of land to plant a species."

Ruan Yunsi was not afraid of hard work, but knew that she was not the leader in farming.Yin laughed and said, "Sister-in-law Li, I love weaving by nature. I am not afraid of hard work. If you have a job here, give it a try. I thank you now."

Hearing what she said, Mrs. Li responded happily: "It's no problem. Since you want to do it, I have persuaded you. Don't say that I lied to you for black-hearted money. If you want to weave, don't worry about it." No one accepts it. I have been in this business for 20 years, and I know many big cloth merchants and silk and satin cloth houses in the city. Now they are worried about the lack of people who are willing to weave, and they are unwilling to raise prices. You Look, there are still hundreds of catties of raw silk and hemp silk piled up in my room, but few people are willing to take this job."

Ruan Yunsi followed Li Shi's hand and looked inside, and sure enough, she saw a hill of raw silk and hemp silk piled up in the west room, she couldn't help being very happy, nodded and said: "If sister-in-law believes in me, I can do this for you It came out. I just don’t know how to calculate the money?”

When Ruan Yunsi asked about money straight to the point, Li smiled instead of anger, and slapped her hands and said, "Okay, it's refreshing, I just like my sister's temperament, and my brothers have to settle accounts clearly. Everyone is trying to get by, so why bother to be so cautious I’m not going to hide from my sister, I just said that the interest rate is extremely low. Weaving a piece of linen or Gebu is 150 Wen, of which I have to draw 130 Wen as a middleman, and the remaining 25 Wen is yours. Yes, weaving a piece of satin costs [-] coins, and I draw [-] coins. Weaving a piece of silk yarn or silk costs [-] coins, and I draw [-] coins. My sister will see if she is willing? Sister-in-law has to remind you again, planting a There will be at least [-] catties of grain in autumn. Now the government has clearly marked the price and checked it strictly. Those officials don’t dare to be greedy too much. The [-] catties of grain is [-] yuan. , although you earn a little less than you weaving, but it is much lighter than you, this weaving looks simple, but it is not an easy job."

Ruan Yunsi smiled and said: "I know my sister-in-law is doing it for my own good. Don't worry, I don't know how to farm, so I just make money by weaving. Do sister-in-law here have other materials besides hemp and silk? Although I am stupid, But I can also weave several kinds of materials.”

Mrs. Li looked at Ruan Yunsi in surprise, laughed again for a while, nodded and said: "I said my sister is so determined, but I dare say you are in this profession. Forget it, these materials have been piled up with me for a while, so you can take half of them each." Go weave, I don’t have any other materials for the time being, next time I’ll go to the city and ask, if I have, I’ll bring some back.”

Ruan Yunsi agreed, and Mrs. Li was also very happy here, so she helped to pack the materials in several large bags and brought them back to Ruan Yunsi. She watched Yunniang and Ruan Yunsi go, and then rushed inside and said: "The head of the family, people Let's all go, come out. Alas, earlier people said that this little lady moved from other places and looked quite rich, but now she wants to use this to make a living. I really don't know if she is really rich or not."

Li Baochang said with a smile: "How much money can she have if she is a woman's family? I'm afraid that after buying this family, there will be very little left, otherwise I won't be able to do this job, that's all, let's stop messing with others." Heart, where did that account just now go?"

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The big straw pot covered with the lid was steaming, and bursts of fragrance rushed to the face.Ruan Yunsi added a few more sticks of firewood to the stove, then touched the head of the little black and white flower dog beside her, and said with a smile: "Wait a little longer, there will be meat and bones to chew on later. Our Xiao Hei can also quickly When I grow up, I can help me take care of the nursing home."

A voice came from outside the door, Ruan Yunsi stood up and opened the door, only to see Rhubarb jumping in covered in snow.

"Ruan Yunsi, where did you go crazy again? You might as well be as good as Xiao Hei. Huh? You dragged these branches back?" Before Ruan Yunsi finished her reprimand, she saw a few branches on the snow outside the door, and couldn't help but Surprised and delighted, they quickly hugged them in.

In a blink of an eye, she has lived in Xiaowang Village for nearly half a year. Because of her hands and feet on the loom, the speed of spinning is extremely fast. In addition, her craftsmanship is also good. The cloth spun is delicate and soft, which is very popular among those cities. The welcome from Libu Zhuang unexpectedly gave her a little money increase, so in the past six months, she has saved twenty or thirty pennies only by relying on the pitifully thin profit of spinning.Although it was much less than the hundreds of guan that those farmers in the countryside got in autumn, Ruan Yunsi was already very satisfied.

All kinds of cloth have been woven, and it can be said that this handle has been completely picked up.For the rest, after the spring of the new year, you can start to study printing and dyeing. As long as you can weave those finished fabrics with exquisite patterns, the profits will not be comparable to the current small money.What made Ruan Yunsi depressed was that cotton cloth hadn't come out yet. Although cotton was grown in some places, most of it was used to make cotton quilts and jackets to keep out the cold. I hadn't heard of anyone using it for spinning.

Ruan Yunsi was annoyed that she couldn't go out, otherwise, as long as she spun cotton cloth, wouldn't the money flow in?It's just that when she thought of the fame that came with it, she dismissed the idea: no matter what, let's just mess around, anyway, it's pretty good now, and life is getting more and more prosperous.

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