Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

"Miaozhu, have you seen the drawings left by your grandfather?" Shen Huai took the small chair in his hand and looked at it, then placed it in his palm and touched it, letting it shake by itself.

Seeing her senior sister was stunned for a moment, Shen Lingzhu nodded quickly: "Second sister has read many books by Jia Jia.

I can also take apart and put back together the things that my dad threw aside.

Uncle, did my grandfather also make chairs like this? Is there any place else selling them?"

"Yes, uncle, have you seen grandpa somewhere else?" Shen Miaozhu said it casually. She was just thinking about how long the small bamboo forest on the mountain could last if her family made a large number of bamboo chairs, so she didn't answer her uncle's question immediately.

Shen Huai smiled and said, “So far, I haven’t seen anyone selling it in the places I’ve been to.

As for your grandfather, he once made a small wooden horse for us, and later he made a chair like this.

Unfortunately, it couldn't bear the weight. When my younger brother and I climbed up to play, the chair broke and knocked out one of my younger brother's teeth."

"Grandma doesn't allow us to do it anymore?" Shen Lingzhu made a blind guess, but seeing his uncle playing with the small chair, he thought he was remembering some interesting childhood memories.

She and her senior sister exchanged a glance, and after a moment, she said, "Should we try again?"

"can."

"Ok?"

"The Chang children are all good at farm work. Tomorrow I will take them to cut some bamboo and make a bamboo bed for each of them."

"I'm going too." Shen Lingzhu didn't expect her uncle to agree. She wanted to go up the mountain so much that as soon as she raised her hand, her senior sister kicked her toe.

Shen Miaozhu said, “Uncle, if you want to make bellows or bamboo chairs a long-term business, you can’t just have apprentices.

We'll have to hire two skilled carpenters to make more."

The three uncles were only half-handed. They could saw wooden boards steadily and drill holes, but the mortise and tenon joints that connected the wooden boards were not up to standard.

The result is that when the wooden boards are spliced ​​into the box, the front panel and the upper and lower panels are not tightly clamped, and after forced assembly, it becomes a leaky waste product.

For this reason, Third Uncle Shen Du, who always worked hard, got so angry that he went up the mountain with an axe and cut down a lot of bamboos before he put out the fire.

"Yes, uncle, sometimes crafts look simple, but you will realize how difficult it is once you get started.

In fact, we don’t have to hire a master craftsman, we can just find those craftsmen who are experienced in woodworking.

For example, last time at the village head's house, his eldest son worked as a laborer in the county coffin shop. He could definitely be hired as a laborer for me to earn more money." Shen Lingzhu also recommended a candidate.

Shen Miaozhu tapped her arm with her index finger: "It's not appropriate to look for him. He's less than thirty miles away from the county town, but it takes nearly fifty miles to get to our remote village."

"But our family pays a lot of money. Even if the county town is prosperous, how can he, a laborer in the city, have time to go shopping?

Give him a couple of taels of silver every month, and I'm sure he'll be willing to work." Compared to the county town's daily wages of only twenty or thirty, Shen Lingzhu was confident.

But Shen Miaozhu did not support it. The two of them each stated their reasons, as if the uncle opposite had already agreed to find someone else to join.

Shen Huai saw that the two of them were discussing very clearly, listing all the pros and cons, so he listened attentively without saying a word.

After a moment, the two girls stopped talking and just stared at him. He asked, "You guys, is this acting fun?"

Shen Lingzhu was not as calm as her senior sister. She stepped forward and shook her uncle's sleeve: "Uncle has a magical eye and can see through it at a glance.

But we really need to move fast and expand, and quickly distribute the goods throughout the county. The longer we delay, the greater the chance that our bellows trick will be discovered.

By then, even if we don’t hire a carpenter, the production method will be spread.”

So far, they have sold seventy or eighty bellows. It is hard to say that there are not clever people who think it is profitable to buy a second-hand one and take it apart for research.

She never doubted the Chinese people's talent for reverse engineering on all kinds of equipment, big and small.

Shen Lingzhu continued, "Uncle, we can tell the carpenter we found that he needs to work for us for three months to choose the monthly salary. He will be provided with food and lodging in Beigou and is not allowed to go out during this period.

The other option is to not receive the monthly salary, but leave after three months with the bellows making method and start this business on your own."

Shen Huai thought about it for a while. The current speed was indeed slow and many of the scheduled items had not been completed. He said, "It would be best to find a truly experienced carpenter.

The skilled worker who was affiliated with the craftsman household of the Construction Department received fifty coins of silver for daily wages and food, and earned one ounce and five coins of silver per month.

Carpenters who can work in the county earn more, about 60 cents a day.

"It's too high to charge a rural carpenter three months of free work without being allowed to go home. How about changing it to two months?"

"Just do as uncle says. It's better to find a few more people so we can make as much money as possible." Shen Miaozhu had no objection. She just asked her uncle not to find specialized craftsmen.

The skills that he learned from his own background were easily mastered by the craftsmen who had passed down from generation to generation.

Shen Huai understood what she meant, "We need to ask your grandfather to find someone for this matter. He has more connections in the village than I do.

Boil some eggs, two each, and have Xianzhu bring them to me later."

Shen Lingzhu asked, "Uncle is staying at the Qixing Temple tonight?"

"Well, the female guests can stay at home, and you two can help your aunt entertain them." After Shen Huai gave the instructions, he led a group of Chang family men away.

After they left, the second and third grandfathers came to the kitchen and called out, "Xiao Zhuzi, come out for a moment."

"I'm here." Shen Lingzhu put down the beans he was cutting, exchanged a look with his senior sister that said "I wonder what they want", and walked out the door.

The two old men came to brainwash her for no other reason than to discuss the matter of money for building houses that she had just mentioned. In short, all the family members should help build a few adobe houses, and asking for money would hurt their relationship.

Shen Lingzhu listened for more than half a minute before the two of them said, "Tell your uncle tomorrow and we'll prepare the clay."

Seeing the two of them leave after talking, she chased after them and asked, "Why do you let me talk? I'm still a child."

"Humph, it's because you are young." That's why you are forced to learn to speak. The Third Master responded without even turning his head.

Shen Lingzhu...

Early the next morning, the women of the Chang family got up early to help clean the yard and cook.

When he discovered that the bellows next to the stove could help with the fire, he only exchanged silent glances without asking any further questions.

After Shen Huai brought the men back, they did not delay any longer. They left the five young men behind and told them to work hard before driving away.

Shen Lingzhu waited until the car disappeared from view before whispering to her senior sister, "They all seem quite well behaved. I hope they won't cause any more trouble in the future."

"With the talisman painting incident, they dare not act rashly." Shen Xianzhu, who was behind them, held her shoulders and said, "Dad told me to go to Dahuangzhuang to ask for help. Do you want to go?"

"I must go. The braised donkey meat at grandma's is delicious." Shen Lingzhu is at the age when she craves meat, but there are many people eating at home, and sometimes after the wild game is cooked, they can't even get two pieces of meat.

Her grandparents really loved her. When they heard that she liked it, they immediately gave her a large pot of braised donkey meat hanging in the well, but she refused to take it away, saying that she didn't want so much.

As we were arguing, a neighbor came over and said, "Uncle Huang, good news has arrived. A soldier had eaten your braised meat last time and came to buy some."

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier with a sword on his waist came in from behind and met Shen Lingzhu who turned around.

Both sides looked at each other in surprise...