Fight the Giants Chapter 308

Chapter 308 Heirloom craftsmanship

Huo Xi nodded, and told him about the Zhuangzi in Tangquan Town.

"The Zhuangzi in Tangquan Town has a lot of chrysanthemums and flowers of various colors. When you go back to the city tomorrow, let shopkeeper Shen go to the Zhuangzi over there to have a look, and transport some flowers to the city to sell some during the festival. The owner of the village is called Zhao Zhutou. You also worked as a small steward in the old owner's shop before, you can ask shopkeeper Shen to chat with him to see if he has any good ideas, or if the old owner has a business partner in the past."

"Okay. I heard there are only three farm servants left, is that enough?"

Huo Xi shook his head: "I asked him to buy a third room for servants. You and shopkeeper Shen should also pay attention to it in the city. If there are suitable ones, buy them and send them over."

Yang Fu nodded in agreement, and said again: "This time, besides collecting a lot of cane sugar, the shop also collected a boatload of Xiangfei bamboo. Last time I went to collect fans, I heard from the fan maker that I wanted to find some Xiangfei bamboo to make fans. Shan, Xi'er, do you think you want to stay?"

Huo Xi was happy when he heard this: "Well, stay here. It's rare for us to meet Xiangfei bamboo once we have harvested bamboo for a year. Send the Xiangfei bamboo and sucrose to Zhuangzi."

"Okay. Xi'er, we sell a lot of velvet flowers now. Do you want to send the silk to the village so we can dye it ourselves? This way we can make more money."

After hearing this, Huo Xi began to ponder.

Now the silk for making velvet flowers is bought from special velvet flower workshops that are cooked and dyed.

The specialized velvet flower workshop not only sells velvet flowers, but also provides raw materials for semi-finished products. Processing with supplied materials is also accepted. For example, if you send boiled silk and ask the other party to dye it in the desired color, they will also accept this kind of business.

The dyeing pool of the velvet flower workshop is different from the dyeing pool specialized in dyeing fabrics, and the price is also slightly lower.

A piece of white cotton cloth is sent to the dyeing house to be dyed into ordinary blue cloth. The processing fee ranges from seventy-five renminbi to one renminbi. A piece of white cotton cloth costs about four renminbi. If calculated in this way, the processing fee of the cloth is about 20% of the price of the cloth.

Silk is slightly lower, about 10% to 15%.

If you do your own dyeing, you can certainly save some costs, but it is not easy to open a dyeing room.

It doesn't mean that you can't hire people. If you open a dyeing room, the cloth woven by your own workshop in Songjiang doesn't have to be sold as white cloth. Cloths dyed in other colors are then sold, and of course the profits will be greater.

Huo Xi thought about it for a while, then shook his head: "Forget it, there are a lot of people to be hired here, it's a big project, we will think about it when our weaving workshop grows bigger in the future. We still keep a low profile and don't show off. It's fine if the mountains don't show water.”

Yang Fu just mentioned that they don't have the extra energy to open the dyeing workshop now, so he agreed, "Then this time to give gifts on the Double Ninth Festival, I will also give a gift to the dyeing workshop we usually cooperate with? "

Huo Xi nodded: "Yes. Many friends, many paths."

The next day, Huo Erhuai sent Yang Fu away.

Yang Fu is going to be busy with the shop, while Huo Erhuai is going out to collect some shrimps and crabs. Yang wanted to follow, but Huo Xi refused. He only said that she has not had a stable pregnancy yet, so she is not allowed to go with the boat.

Mr. Yang argued for a few words, but failed to argue with Huo Xi, so she could only watch Huo Erhuai sail away.

Huo Xi watched the two of them leave, she asked Yang Fu to deliver a letter for her, last night she wrote a letter to my uncle, asking him for some people.

Before, there was a shortage of managers in the shop, and my uncle sent someone to fill the vacancy. He still has a lot of servants who used to take care of the farm for his grandfather. It's just that Huo Xi didn't buy a Zhuangzi before, and he didn't have a place to arrange it, so he didn't want it.

Let him send some people this time, so that the two Zhuangzi can let some of their own people go, so they can feel more at ease.

And Li Shimian from Shangyong just returned from delivering the letter. Before he approached his yard with his hands behind his back, he saw the old wife sending some village women and young ladies out.

stood far away. It was not until the people left that they walked over.

"Are you looking for work again?"

Mrs. Ma went up to help him, nodded: "That's not true. Since our family is now teaching the women and girls in the village to make velvet flowers, women from all over the world have come to ask for help."

Mashi was both happy and sad.

Happily, because of this work, my family has won the love of the villagers. As a criminal exiled to the village, my life is much easier.

Before walking on the road and in the village, others avoided them and regarded their family as a scourge, and some people spit on them quietly, treating them as heinous bandits.

Now, in order to subsidize the family more, they all come here to make friends.

There are constant people at home every day. Sometimes it is chaotic and annoying.

Hey, I didn't expect that this small remote village would be like this.

Li Shimian turned his head and glanced at her: "Why are you sighing? Isn't our family's life much better now? Use the silver taels sent by Sister Ning to build a backyard, and close the door between the two courtyards. If they can't enter the backyard, Mingjin, Mingyue and the others can work with peace of mind. They are not afraid of many people coming."

"That's true, but it's tiring to deal with them every day. You don't know that some village women are very difficult."

Li Shimian also sighed: "I know how to make such a simple velvet flower, but they haven't learned it yet? Why don't you come to our house to get the materials?" Why don't you make it yourself and sell it?

Ma Shi rolled his eyes at him: "Do you think it's easy? Not to mention where they go to find silk and where to dye it. Even if they have raw materials, the dozen or so processes are so easy to learn? Just one cut velvet, you can cut it perfectly. It's like a dog gnaws. They just hold the velvet flowers I made and stare at them, and they can't shape them well. The people in the village have never even been to the town or county once or twice, and you still expect them to do it. A velvet flower with aura?"

Raw materials can't be bought at Li's house, where can I buy them? Do you want to build a dye pool yourself? If you don't send it over, you can sell one or two of your own flowers, and you won't be able to sell them at a high price.

Li Shimian thinks about it too. She has never worn jewelry, and has never looked at all kinds of jewelry. It is a bit embarrassing for you to ask her to design.

"Then can we keep doing this job in our family?"

"That's not true." Ma Shi looked a little smug.

"Even if they take the velvet flowers made by our family and go back to imitate them to make the same ones, we are not afraid. Last time I asked shopkeeper Bai to help buy a lot of broken jade, millet beads, silver pieces, emerald feathers, etc. , when we embed these jewels on velvet flowers, the selling price will only be higher. Let the villagers make ordinary velvet flowers, and if they make more, we can earn more money."

Li Shimian nodded and smiled. Sister Ning really found a house for the family, which is suitable for a few women who can earn a living without showing their faces.

That kid, thinking about them.

"Has the letter been sent?" Ma Shi asked him.

Li Shimian nodded.

Ma Shi was a little worried: "Will he do what you say?"

Li Shimian is not worried: "Although he has an aloof personality, he has been suppressed by others all these years, and the family life is very difficult. It is estimated that a lot of pride has been worn away. I will agree."

In the afternoon~ Thank you for your concern and support, thank you, okay?

(end of this chapter)

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