Da Ya is not very young, but she already has the mentality of an adult. Maybe she is the older sister of so many children, or maybe she grew up in this family and the child of the poor has long been the head of the family.

Acer carried water faster than usual today. He felt that he had a new challenge today. Yesterday he was able to carve four wooden Bodhisattvas in one day. Today, he has a lot of work. He must speed up and use more time on

Engraving.

During the process of carrying water, he met villagers, many of whom had seen the excitement yesterday. This morning, he decided to go to his house after finishing his work in the morning to take a look at Acer's craftsmanship.

"Acer, you're carrying water, hurry up and finish the carving, because I'm going to your house to see your craftsmanship."

Acer could only nod and walk much faster. Most of the time when asked such questions, he would politely say: "Well, welcome to my home."

Acer knew that these people came to his home not really to see his craftsmanship, but more to watch the show.

So what? He's not really bragging. You can tell if he's a "good dog" by taking him out for a walk!

He is not afraid of others laughing at him. If he says he doesn't know how to carve at all, he has the confidence to let others see his craftsmanship, but it may not be as good as those real carving masters.

So what? The price he sells is not high. It’s not that the things sold in other counties or big cities are expensive.

Acer has already set a price for carving a wooden statue in his mind. The cost of painting is about two cents. In addition, his handiwork costs ten cents a day. In addition, his daughter's wages for painting the portrait are also included. He calculated that the cheapest one is eight cents.

The money, in total, is 20 cents.

When Acer was having breakfast, Lai asked him about the labor cost and the price of the wooden statue.

He told the price in his mind. When Lai heard his son say that the wooden Buddha sold for 20 cents each, he narrowed his eyes with laughter.

"Okay, okay, just set this price. Whether they buy one in the future, or ten or twenty, they can only sell it at this price, it can only be higher and not lower."

Ye Shuzhen originally wanted to tell her elder brother that he should carve a wooden Bodhisattva and put it in the room. When she heard the price mentioned by her elder brother, she opened her mouth and did not dare to say anything more.

I felt that the price was so high, so I put something worth 20 pennies in my room. I felt like my mother had given her the money for selling the wooden portraits, which cost 20 pennies each.

However, Ye Shuzhi calculated shrewdly. Yesterday, her eldest brother was able to carve four wooden Bodhisattvas. One cost 20 cents, and four cost 80 cents. Calculated in a month, there are several taels of silver.

He was sure to make a fortune in one year. Ye Shuzhi felt that she got engaged too early and got married so quickly. When she was poor, her parents' family didn't have much dowry when she got married.

If you marry after your family is rich, you may find a better husband than you do now, and the dowry will be much larger.

What makes me even more anxious is that the wedding is getting closer and closer, and I am even more envious of Ye Shuzhen, a silly girl who has not yet been engaged. It’s true that silly people have silly blessings.

Ye Shuzhi was unwilling to just marry a shop owner. She used to think it was very advantageous, but today she regrets it. Why did she get engaged?

She didn't dare to say anything about breaking off the engagement. No matter how good a woman was, it was the same as being divorced from the engagement on her own initiative. She would be gossiped about.

After hearing the price mentioned by his son, Acer's father thought it could be sold at such an expensive price.

If it can really be sold, my son will not need to follow him as a carpenter on furniture. He will specialize in carving wood portraits, which will make more money than carpentry on furniture.

He was a bit more shrewd, and he calculated in his mind that the money his son made in one day was more than what the father and son made together in the past.

Acer's father had another idea. He couldn't carve like his son, but he could help with a few tasks, such as polishing and painting wooden pictures. He was perfectly capable of doing such a job.

If he couldn't pay for his second daughter's dowry due to lack of time, he would rather leave the work to others, and it would be worthwhile to give others some wages.

With him helping his son with the work, his son will be able to carve several more wooden Bodhisattvas in a day, which will make the calculation easier.

With this idea, he told his son about it, and Acer told his father that he wanted his daughter to learn from it when she had time.

Acer's father was silent and didn't say anything. Their family's carpentry skills were passed down from generation to generation, not from men to women. Carpentry work was very dirty and tiring, and there were some jobs that women couldn't do.

As the son said, women can learn carving, but it is not as heavy a job as making furniture. At his age, there is no one to carry on the family line, which is a problem for their family.

Acer's father finally agreed with his son and let his female dolls learn sculpture.

Ye Shuzhi and Ye Shuzhen heard the conversation between their father and their eldest brother. Her third sister failed to learn her father's carpentry skills, but only learned the lockpicking skills.

Normally, I would only learn needlework from Lai, but Nühong is something every woman must learn to sew, make shoes, and make clothes.

When the eldest brother asked his girls to learn the craft of carving, the two of them were a little moved and asked the eldest brother to also learn carving.

Ye Shuzhen and Ye Shuzhi want to learn carving, not for the craftsmanship, but because they were attracted by what their elder brother said just now about the price of selling a wooden Bodhisattva.

After learning this craft, carving a wooden Bodhisattva in one day can be sold for more money than if they made needlework for a month.

At this moment, what they are thinking about is money in vain. They are not afraid of learning crafts and working hard and being lazy.

Acer did not reject the idea of ​​the second sister and the third sister. If they wanted to learn, let them learn. Maybe they would spend three days fishing and two days drying the net.

There is no perseverance in learning a craft, no determination not to be afraid of hard work, and it is not possible to learn carving in a day or two.

Acer asked them to finish the work at home and then learn to carve. However, they could not use the wood that he had already painted, but use the scrap wood used for making furniture at home.

After hearing what their elder brother said, Ye Shuzhi and Ye Shuzhen happily ate their breakfast and quickly went to do the laundry. They wanted to finish the housework quickly and learn skills from their elder brother.

When Hongji told Daya and the other three girls, Daya and the two younger sisters nodded and said they would do the work in the fields outside and study at home at noon and at home in the evening.

The fourth and fifth children were ignored by the family. They were the two most idle people in the family. The youngest, the fifth child, had not yet woken up when her sisters had breakfast and went to work in the fields.

Da Ya was worried that the fifth baby was sick, so she touched the fifth baby's forehead with her hand and found that the body temperature was normal. Then she told the fourth baby to wait for the fifth sister to wake up and feed her breakfast.

The fourth baby was obedient and took up the responsibility of taking care of his sister.

When Ye Shiqi woke up, she found that only her fourth sister was beside her. She climbed up from the bed and sat up.

"Fifth sister, are you awake? I'll take you to the latrine."

Ye Shiqi nodded to the fourth sister.

The fourth baby then fulfilled his promise to the eldest sister and fed the fifth sister breakfast.

Ye Shiqi shook her head at the fourth sister and asked her to give her the bowl and chopsticks to eat by herself.

"Fifth sister, can you use chopsticks? Hold the bowl steady and don't drop it. Grandma will scold you if you break the bowl."
Chapter completed!