The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 52

"Next year is the Year of the Rat!"

Happy Year of the Rat, I can’t think of anything else but Mickey Mouse always knows!He Tao immediately rolled up his sleeves and drew the design with high spirits.

However, as far as her basic level of ABC drawing is concerned, she can only spend some sketches of square houses, and it is not enough to draw a Mickey Mouse.After working hard for half an hour, she showed the masterpiece to He Lian and Fu Shi, and both of them asked her blankly, "What is this?"

"It's so obvious that you can't see it?" He Tao opened his eyes wide and asked, "Look again, look carefully, you can definitely see it!"

The small talker He Lian was speechless, "Yeah" for a long time and said, "Looks like something."

nonsense!Of course it is a thing, the question is what it is!
He Tao sadly revealed the answer: "I drew a mouse."

Fu Shi glanced at her and said, "Okay, daughter-in-law, just do what you say!"

Which means it doesn't look like a mouse at all, does it?Is this blatantly accusing me of referring to a deer as a horse?He Tao held his breath, rushed to work overnight and made a Mickey Mouse, threw it on Fu Shi's face and asked, "What is this?"

Fu Shi pinched it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, then looked up at the arrogant daughter-in-law, took a breath and asked cautiously, "Is it a mouse?"

"You know what to do!" He Tao was satisfied.

Fu Shi glanced at the cloth mouse on the kang, daughter-in-law, if you say it is a mouse, it is a mouse, but there is no mouse like this in the world!

He Tao made Mickey Mouse with his hands on his hips and his belly grinning. After watching it, He Lian said that he looked like a little corrupt official in a big drama.So He Tao made another official gown for Mickey Mouse to wear. It was really like that. Even Fu Shi, who had no roots, praised him sincerely. After being affirmed, she continued to work hard to be a version of Minnie, the sesame official wife. Both Fu Shi and He Lian said it was pretty good.

Therefore, the business of Great Wasteland this year has been decided like this: selling rabbit satchels and sesame official mouse couples.

He Tao bit the tip of the brush and muttered, and was estimating the cost of the satchel and Mickey Mouse.The former is easy to say. Rabbit fur is ready-made. Mickey Mouse is more complicated to calculate. First, let’s talk about the fabrics needed. Mickey Mouse itself has two colors: light lotus root pink and black. The four-color fabric, the cotton stuffed inside, the copper wire that supports the shape of the ears, and the silk threads of various colors used for sewing... He Tao bit off the tip of the pen to calculate the cost price of a Mickey Mouse: four after rounding Ten cents a piece, equivalent to the price of two catties of pork!

That's not even counting labor costs!He Tao has made two by himself. The cutting and sewing are all delicate work. If you are not careful, you will make them look different. Compared with the rabbit bag, the technical content is very different, which means that the labor cost also needs to be sewn. The bag is much taller.A satchel would cost three Wen for sewing a bag, and if calculated according to the difficulty, it would be at least thirty Wen to sew a mouse in good conscience.

Thirty Wen?It's almost catching up with the cost, of course not!She calculated from another angle, calculating daily wages.

At her level, apart from three meals, if she cooks without interruption, she can cook fifteen a day.At this time, when men go out to do odd jobs, it costs about 35 renminbi a day to pack a lunch, which is equivalent to [-] renminbi labor costs. If you divide this salary by the daily output, sewing a Mickey Mouse is more than [-] renminbi... This is also true. It's too low, and it's not as good as the wages of the two sisters sewing rabbit bags last year.

After He Tao struggled with the numbers on the paper, he decided to calculate his salary from another angle.

"What do you think if the mouse is set at sixty cents a piece?" He Tao asked Fu Shi.

Fu Shi came back from the border town all the way, and traveled through several cities, which can be regarded as having seen the world, and his opinion is much more valuable than He Tao's own speculation.

"It's not expensive." Fu Shi thought for a while and answered.

"That's good." He Tao immersed himself in calculating the labor cost again.

"How much do you plan to make, daughter-in-law? Can it be sold out?" Fu Shi couldn't help asking.Seeing that He Tao is hiring people and calculating the cost, this is planning to set up a big stall!This time, it is no different from last year's ones with one penny and two pennies. You can make thousands of them without worrying about selling.Sixty cents a toy, probably not many people in Liushu Town can afford to buy it!
"It should be possible. I want to ask my second uncle to help transport it to the county or provincial capital for sale."

Willow Town definitely can't eat so many toys, so we need to take a longer view.It was already the end of the year, and the outbound caravans probably had already begun to return to Daqi from their subordinate countries. Fu Quan was already sorting out the goods and planned to go to Nanshan County at the end of the month. After finishing the last transaction of the year, he would close the shop for the New Year.As long as you hurry up, you can hitch a ride, transport Mickey Mouse to wholesale to the caravans, and let the caravans bring them back to their respective towns for retail sales.

"What do you think?" He Tao pointed to the data on the paper and explained to Fu Shi one by one.

Fu Shi couldn't make up his mind. According to He Tao's calculation, they had to put in about 100 taels of silver.

"Why don't I ask my second uncle, he handles the business, so his opinion should be the most pertinent!"

The second uncle, Fu Quan, is now acquainted in Liushu Town, and he is called Shopkeeper Fu and Boss Fu when he is out of the house.

"Okay, I'll find my second uncle after I figure it out." He Tao nodded and continued to count.

According to the retail price of [-] Wen, He Tao felt that he could pay [-] Wen each for labor costs. If calculated in this way, the net profit of one Mickey Mouse would be [-] Wen.

If each person makes 150 pieces per day, then there are 20 pieces for 30 people, and there are [-] pieces from [-] days to the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. If they are all sold, it means that they can earn [-] taels of silver!

He Tao was taken aback. Their year-round production in Yunshui Village was only less than 15 taels.

However, the profit is high, and the cost of the initial investment is also high, requiring 100 taels.

If 100 taels was placed at the beginning of the year, it would not be a problem, but later on, all the money that could be spent was spent on building a house and buying property, and now the working capital that can be used does not exceed 20 taels.

How to do it?

He Tao and Fu Shi stared with big eyes.

An hour later, Fu Shi grabbed Mickey Mouse and his wife and appeared in the local product shop, and recounted all He Tao's questions to Fu Quan.

"...Second uncle, do you think this business can be done? If so, what my wife means is, let me talk to the owner of the cloth shop to see if the fabric can be credited, and we will settle the bill after we sell the goods."

Fu Quan held the sesame official mouse to watch, crackling the abacus.Hey, you can earn 30 taels after doing this!He stood up abruptly and walked around the room.At present, the average profit of the shop is about three taels of silver a month. This is because the shop is owned by the family and there is no need to pay rent. If the rent is excluded, the profit will be less than 20 taels a year at most.Now there is a business in front of you, and you can earn 30 taels a month. Do you want to do it?Of course do!
Generally, people in the countryside look for loans from relatives and friends when they are short of money, and if they can't borrow money, they find special interest lenders.He Tao even thought of this, and directly used the real estate and fields as collateral for the owner of the cloth shop to buy goods, not to mention saving interest money, and avoiding getting involved with those who specialize in interest lending.

Brother Shi's daughter-in-law is capable!Fu Quan sighed again.I don't know how that elm head of He Fuguo raised such a good girl, it's all cheap for their old Fu's family!

"Do it, of course!" Fu Quan stopped and put the doll on the counter and said, "Go, I'll go with you, let's go talk to the owner of the cloth shop together!"

Two hours later, Fu Shi showed up at the tooth shop with his family's land deed and house deed in hand.Boss Buzhuang, Fu Quan, and Guanya Luo Baocheng were sitting together drinking tea, when they saw Fu Shi, they all stood up.

Luo Baocheng has already drawn up a sales contract, and wrote: There are buyers Fu Shi, from Rongshu Village, and sellers, Luo Dacheng, from Luoying.The buyer ordered several pieces of fabrics of various colors at Dacheng Cloth Shop, and the total payment was 78 taels of silver.Due to poor capital turnover, the buyer used the real estate and land deeds under his name as offsets, within three months, and promised to pay off the purchase price before February 29, [-] Chengyuan.Otherwise, the real estate and land under the name of the buyer will be used as the goods and belong to the seller Luo Dacheng.Guarantors: Luo Baocheng, Fu Quan.

In triplicate, one for the official, one for both the buyer and the seller.Fu Shi and Luo Dacheng, the owner of Buzhuang, respectively pressed their fingerprints happily, and the contract was concluded.

When Fu Shi was busy ordering mortgages, He Tao was not idle, in fact, it was He Lian who was not idle.Because this time it is a big business, the manpower needed has also increased accordingly. He Lian took on the role of running errands again, and went to the village to contact suitable daughter-in-laws to do the work.

In the morning of the next day, the owner of the cloth shop personally escorted the car and sent the ordered cloth to the Great Wasteland.

In the afternoon, Fu Qiuyue, the three daughters-in-law of the second room of the Fu family: Tang Wenmei, Cheng Miao, Xue Ya, and the second daughter-in-law of the He family Wang Qionghua arrived at the Great Wasteland.The later group of people was led by He Lian, including old acquaintances Lin Chunya and Lin Chunni, and the other two were their mothers.

When He Tao and the two daughters-in-law of the Lin family met for the first time, it was inevitable that they would get to know each other first.He Tao doesn't need to be introduced, not to mention that she is the master, and she has several nicknames, broom star, wife of mourning star, daughter-in-law who kidnaps someone with a knife... Everyone in Rongshu Village knows everyone.The elder of the two daughters-in-law of the Lin family, surnamed Song Cuihua, is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lin family, Lin Chunya's mother, and the other Li's daughter-in-law, Caiyue, is the second daughter-in-law of the Lin family, Lin Chunni's mother.

After the courtesy was over, He Tao began to talk about what he was doing this time.Everyone here is used to needlework. He Tao disassembled the samples he made while talking, so that they can see more intuitively. In less than a quarter of an hour, everyone will have a clear understanding.Because of sufficient manpower, and He Tao himself and He Lian had a total of eleven people, He Tao divided them into two teams. He Lian, Lin Chunya, and Lin Chunni were in charge of making relatively simple rabbit satchels, and cutting sesame seeds. For the fabrics to be used, the rest of the wives only need to concentrate on sewing Mickey Mouse.

"Sister-in-law, you are so smart, how could you think of such a fun thing!" Wang Qionghua did not forget to praise He Tao when she had time.

This made He Tao very embarrassed, so he could only fool around vaguely: "I just made it to amuse the children. If sister Qiuyue hadn't mentioned it the day before yesterday, I would never have thought of selling this! Also, thanks to my second son Uncle has a lot of brains, and it was second uncle's idea to sell it to the county."

"So that's what happened!" Tang Wenmei glanced at her with a half-smile.Others don't know, but she knows it perfectly. When the father-in-law came home, he praised He Tao for a long time, saying that she has vision and courage, and it's a pity that she was born into a daughter's family!
He Tao hurriedly lowered her head and sewed dolls desperately. She didn't want to show off, and making money in a low-key manner was the right thing to do.

However, she also felt a bit of disobedience. She always felt that Wang Qionghua was a weird person, and she would praise her in various ways whenever she got a chance.I didn't think it before, but now that I think about it carefully, this is blatant flattery!
He Tao secretly glanced at Wang Qionghua, thinking, pretty girl, what on earth do you want to do?

"Oh, we can feel proud this time. My man used to do part-time jobs and earned thirty yuan a day. When he returned home, he looked like a heavenly king." Lin Chunya's wife, Song Cuihua, had the most outgoing personality. Interjected: "When I get my wages and go back, let him bring me the water to wash my feet!"

A group of people were amused by her words, the most pitiful one was her daughter Lin Chunya, who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and made herself blush all the time.

More than a dozen women were nesting in the conservatory, some were sitting on the kang, and some were nestling on the sofa, talking and laughing as they worked, and it was a lively scene.Fu Shi, the male owner of the Great Wasteland, is lying in the West Room decadent.

Why did I forget this!Once someone comes to do needlework, he can't stay with his wife.The weather was already very cold, and he was reluctant to take his daughters to the west room to suffer from the cold, so he had to stay alone in the nest to get moldy.

"Hey... call Shang Lei and my younger brother to go into the mountains tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)