Otherworldly Days

"Tell me, what do you plan to use these things for?" Cao Gang looked at Cao Xiangnan and asked.

"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you next." Cao Xiangnan nodded, took a sip of water, and then continued, "The cotton I brought back this time is not too much, and these cotton cloths are naturally brought back. For making clothes and shoes, I plan to find a few brothers who can live with trust and have accomplished craftsmanship to make a batch of winter clothes."

"In addition, it is also very good to see where you can get wool, which can be used to make clothes. See where you can get wool. After the batch of chickens and ducks in the village are ready, there will be a batch of chicken feathers and duck feathers at that time. , when the time comes to pick out the fluff inside, it can also be used as stuffing for clothes. It is just right to make clothes. When the time comes to make a batch of clothes, they will be shipped to the town and Nanyang for sale.” Cao Xiangnan plans to start a garment factory , but in the current situation of limited materials, it is possible to start with a small workshop.

Like when he was in college in his last life, a down jacket could be sold for hundreds of dollars, and it was filled with a little duck down. It was that expensive, but I have to say that down jackets are the lightest and warmest clothes. In the world, duck feathers and chicken feathers are discarded and no one knows how to use them.

In fact, there are not many resources in this world, but there are few people who know how to use them, and it happens that he knows how to use these things, so he uses them now.

What he wants to do now is the early small workshops. The small workshops gather more people at the same time and the speed is faster, which will shorten the time required for production and increase the output. If the production mode can be like an assembly line, it can be greatly shortened. Production time, increase labor force, thereby reducing costs and earning greater profits.When these clothes of his are put on the market, as long as the price is cheap and can keep warm in winter, most people are still willing to spend money to buy a piece of winter clothes.

What Cao Xiangnan thought at the beginning was just to let his daughter-in-law and children wear warm clothes in the winter so that they would not suffer from the cold.If he could, he could also make a little money by the way to make their lives better, and he could also help these friends around him, so why not do it.

But he didn't know what kind of shock his words had in Cao Gang's heart. If there were a batch of clothes that could keep warm in winter, the heavy snow that year would not have killed so many brothers. Yes, the man's eye sockets were slightly moist at this moment.

"Leave this matter to me." Cao Gang said suddenly.

"Ah..." Cao Xiangnan came to his senses, oh, and said, "Okay, brother Cao Gang, you are responsible, right?" He remembered one thing, looked at Cao Gang and asked, "Brother Cao Gang, didn't you serve as a soldier before?" , you have been in the army for so many years, you should have quite a few brothers, do you still keep in touch?"

"What's the matter?" Cao Gang didn't answer, but asked instead.

"If you have good brothers, if they are willing to come here, you can find a few who can help you on the ground, otherwise you can go back to the village and find someone to help you." Cao Xiangnan just knew Cao Gang and the people in the village He doesn't interact with people very much, so I want him to find his brothers, who can help him.

His goal is not such a small workshop, it will be next year at the latest, if this garment factory can be built, it will be a new line for them.

Before he came back, he briefly mentioned his thoughts with Fang Ziye, and Fang Ziye only said to let him do it freely, and he could come to him if he had any problems.Having a solid backing is better than anything else, and Cao Xiangnan dared to do it freely.

"Okay, I'll write to them later to ask." Cao Gang has indeed not been in touch with those brothers who have gone through life and death for many years. He has wanted to live a simple life since he came back to Caojia Village.

But Cao Xiangnan's plan and idea today aroused the deepest desire in his heart. If one day he can contribute a little bit to those brothers who are still guarding the border, he is willing to do it, so even if it is now After so many years of stable life, he didn't mind letting those brothers know where he was from.

Thinking of people in this cold weapon era, once a soldier is injured and retires from the battlefield, the government will not provide any subsidies. I am afraid that life will be difficult. Cao Xiangnan added, "It doesn't matter if you have been injured before, as long as you can do it. Live it."

"Okay!" Seeing the smile on Cao Xiangnan's face, Cao Gang felt a little hot in his eyes.

"Let's talk about the rest when everyone comes back tonight. I won't go to the town. You will go to the town and talk to everyone later. Let them come to my house for dinner tonight. Let's sit down and have a meeting. I have something to do too. Talk to everyone." It is their practice to hold meetings several times a month, and it just so happens that he has something to tell everyone when he comes back from Nanyang, Cao Xiangnan said.

"Yeah." Cao Gang nodded, it seemed that the time was almost up, and he had to rush to send the finished pho to the town.

After the carriage was cleaned and rice noodles were loaded into the carriage, Cao Gang drove the carriage to the town.

After talking to Wanfeng, Cao Xiangnan went to Lizheng.

The two sat in the room, talking about his mother being locked up in the ancestral hall, Cao Xiangnan stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his eyebrows, asking Grandpa Qi to come back and release his mother and second brother, what are the names? It's still his Eminem and relatives, isn't it?

"Well, good." Li Zheng responded, but he couldn't hide his anger at that Chen Zhu, and his words were still full of anger, "Your mother is also confused, you can blame Cao Laoer for that matter." Is the evening wind with you?"

In front of Mr. Cao, he couldn't tell Chen Zhu's fault, so he sighed and said, "It's a good thing you are upright." Lizheng asked about his going to Nanyang, and Cao Xiangnan also picked something up. As for the matter of cotton, he planned to talk about it later.When Lizheng heard it, it was all a good thing, and he repeatedly said that Cao Xiangnan was promising.

Compared with the village chief who can't tell the bell, Lizheng wants to take a long-term view after all.

Cao Xiangnan mentioned that he wanted to buy land. Naturally, he didn't want to use the place where he lived as a factory. The best location for this site should be some distance away from where he can live, but not too far away.Furthermore, he wanted to find someone to build the road, a road leading to Fenshui Town, so that it would be convenient for the carriage to run in the future.

"You want someone to build the road? This is a good thing for the village." Lizheng smiled gratifiedly when he heard Cao Xiaozi said that he wanted to build the road.The two talked about it, and Cao Xiangnan asked how to do it, Lizheng just said that they don't need to pay wages to everyone, just eat two meals a day.

Are you going to take care of the meal again?The veins on Cao Xiangnan's forehead twitched as soon as Guan Fan heard it. He compromised and said, "Well, I can't let everyone work for nothing. I'll take care of lunch here. Anyone who comes to work, as long as they are not lazy, everyone Giving another ten dollars a day is considered a subsidy for everyone."

It's not good to make people work for nothing. It's better to give a few dollars for a meal, and it will also get a good reputation.

Don't say that he has made a fortune now and cut off his relationship with his mother. His mother is now coming to his house to make trouble. After this matter is over, someone will say behind his back that he does not recognize his father or mother.For things like reputation, try not to stink as much as possible, and he doesn't mind if he can earn a good reputation.

So the matter of road construction was decided in this way, and it was handed over to Li Zheng to go to the village to talk to everyone.

The autumn harvest will be in half a month at the latest, and everyone will not have time to work by then. In about ten days, this road can be completed.At worst, as long as there are hard-working people from the nearby villages who can come to work, Cao Xiangnan doesn't mind hiring people to do it. Anyway, people in the nearby villages are intermarried. It is also successful.

After sitting with Li Zheng for a while, and saying hello to Li Zheng about these things, Cao Xiangnan went home.

Li Zheng went to the village head and told the village head about it, and then the village head and Li Zheng called the people in the village and told the villagers about it.Knowing that Cao Jiashilang wanted to build a road to Fenshui Town in the village, and that he could get ten dollars for a meal, they all said that Cao Shilang was a kind person.

You must know that now the village grows vegetables and sells them to Cao Silang, not to mention earning hundreds of dollars. If a man in the family goes to work with him, he can earn [-] dollars a day.Building roads now is to do good things for the village, and it is good enough to take care of their meals, but now Cao Silang has to pay them ten big money a day to go to work, which is simply a waste of money.

It happened that there was nothing to be busy at home, so I went to the village chief and Li Zheng to tell them that it would cost hundreds of dollars to work for ten days, and it was enough for the family's food expenses for a month, so the men in the village all paid for it. They all went to sign up for work.In addition, there were a few who quickly signed up to help cook. It was only later that they realized that they could earn a lot of money for a few days by cooking, and the brothers were overjoyed.

Someone came to eat at home tonight. After returning from Lizheng's place, Cao Xiangnan started cooking. It was a big table full of ten people sitting together, and it took a little time to cook a table.

After Fulang came back, Qi Wanfeng felt that he had found support. He never knew that he was so dependent on Fulang.It feels really good and happy to see Fulang at home now, and he also helps cook in the kitchen.

"Wanfeng, go and rest for a while, I'll do it here." Cao Xiangnan saw that Wanfeng stretched out his hands to support his back from time to time, and knew that he was tired.Qi Wanfeng smiled, went to the chair and sat down, looked at his husband, but didn't leave.

"There is heavy oily smoke here, go outside and see if Cao Gang and the others are back." Cao Xiangnan said.

"Okay." Qi Wanfeng sat for a while, then got up and went outside.

Sun Bailian was cooking dinner at his side, Qi Wanfeng came out and saw that no one came back, so she walked over to Sun Bailian's side.Seeing that Qi Wanfeng wanted to help with her chubby belly, Sun Bailian laughed angrily, stretched out her hand to chase people away, and said, "I don't need you, there are so many people here who don't need you."

This feeling of being rejected by others is really bad, Qi Wanfeng was stunned.

Chen Hong and Wu Yue just laughed a few times. Now that they all have Cao Silang's help, their lives are getting better. Naturally, they need to take care of Cao Silang's daughter-in-law. Besides, they are enough to have them here, and there is no need to pray. Wanfeng has a big belly and wants to help.

Looking back, Qi Wanfeng went back and complained to Fulang that they didn't allow him to work. Cao Xiangnan took the roasted chicken out of the oven and turned to look at the frowning and pouting person. After getting rid of the sorrow, the eyebrows are relaxed, and now she is pregnant and she has gained a lot of weight and whiteness, which is the most beautiful.

Cao Xiangnan listened to Wan Feng nagging and complaining that everyone didn't want him to work, but he had to hold back a laugh in his heart and comfort him in a nice voice.

When the dinner was almost ready, the people who went to the town to sell things came back together, and Aning also came with the children and the carriage.