Compared with last month, the weather in February is much more comfortable, but there is relatively more rain. Guangning County has been experiencing hazy drizzle for five consecutive days.
Because of the rain, road construction can only be temporarily stopped. So far, most of the roads in the village have been built. The road from Yuan's house to the entrance of the village has been paved. Moreover, one mile of road requires more than two hundred stones of glutinous rice.
One stone of glutinous rice costs 500 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 100 taels of silver for one mile. It is about eight miles from the village to the county seat, and the cost is almost 800 taels.
With Su Yueling's character of wanting to be perfect in everything she does, she naturally would not only build the road from Yuan's house to the entrance of the village, but also build other roads in the village. Anyway, the total amount is only one thousand taels, and including the food provided, it is less than one thousand taels.
One thousand one hundred taels. This way she doesn't have to worry about getting her feet dirty when she goes out occasionally. For her, this money is well spent.
It takes more than ten days for the Nuomi Road to be completely hardened. After the Nuomi Road hardened, the villagers immediately saw the benefits of using Nuomi Road to build roads.
Needless to say, this road is really not that solid. They walked on it with their bullock carts, but they never left any mark on the road. The road surface is very smooth, not as bumpy as before. It is very enjoyable to run on it.
In particular, although they did not pay for this road, they built it themselves. Everyone stepped on it, not to mention how proud they were.
This is all thanks to Su Yueling. If she hadn't spent money to build roads, how could anyone benefit from it? Even the roads in the county are not as good as theirs.
Unfortunately, after the spring rain, everyone has to go to the fields to sow seeds. The progress of road construction will inevitably slow down.
Su Yueling thought about spending money to invite craftsmen from the city to come over when the villagers were busy in spring.
Who knew that the villagers knew about it and protested.
"This is our way! You've already paid enough for the glutinous rice. How can you spend extra money to hire someone?"
"Paving roads is not a delicate job. People in our village can do it."
As the person with the best relationship with Su Yueling in the village, Zhang Li was promoted to speak to Su Yueling on behalf of her.
Su Yueling was a little confused, "But you will have to be busy with things in the fields for the next two months."
"Yes, but this does not delay our road construction. We can do the work in the fields in half a day, and build the road in the other half. If the time is not enough, it is no problem to continue building the road at night." Zhang Li said,
"If you don't let everyone help, everyone will not be able to walk steadily on this Nuomi Road."
Su Yueling didn't expect that she wanted to give them a holiday, but the villagers were not happy and even offered to work overtime without overtime pay. What kind of sentiment was this.
"Well, after the rain stops, everyone can continue to build the road."
Zhang Li suddenly showed a comfortable smile, raised her head and walked out of Yuan's house happily, and said to the other villagers who had been waiting at the door for a long time: "Yueling said we should repair this road!"
When the villagers at the door heard this, they immediately burst into cheers.
"We should have come in the first place, there is no need to waste money on inviting people from the city."
"That is, their strength may not be as strong as ours."
"Let's hurry up and see if we can repair this road before the spring rush."
Everyone was in high spirits and looked proud.
Su Yuewei closed the windows and doors tightly, not wanting to hear the voices of the villagers. She felt that the villagers were out of their minds. They spent every day building roads for Su Yueling without paying a penny, yet they were still so busy. They
are you crazy?
Su Yueling has money. If she wants to waste it, just waste it. Is it necessary to save money for her?
Nowadays, she likes to go out less and less. She just feels that she has nothing in common with these stupid villagers. She only hopes that Chengwang will become a civil servant soon, and then their whole family will help in the county seat, and they will no longer need to be neighbors with Su Yueling.
. She had heard that every time someone in Guangning County was admitted to the exam, the wealthy officials would give generous gifts to the new candidate. Some would also give them money in order to put their fields in the name of the exam.
Cheng Wang's future achievements are not limited to fame and fortune. Sooner or later, she will become the royal wife.
No matter how prosperous Su Yueling was, she could only show off her power in a remote and remote village like Lushan Village.
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After the rain stopped, for fear that Su Yueling would really invite craftsmen from the city, the villagers plowed the fields and built roads at the same time, not sparing either of them. The men were not stingy with their efforts, even Wang Lu, who liked to take advantage the most in the village.
Because the three meals provided by Su Yueling were so good, she urged her son to go to work. As for the female relatives, in addition to taking care of housework, they spent their free time spinning with a three-spindle pedal spinning wheel. The efficiency of this spinning wheel is particularly good.
After a month, they can earn at least eight taels of silver, and if they are good at craftsmanship, they can even earn one tael or more. This was something that was unimaginable in the past. They also know in their hearts that when more and more pedal spinning wheels are used,
, the price of cotton and yarn will definitely drop, so they have to make more money before then. In the past, everyone was lazy because no matter how hard they worked, they didn't make much money, but now they have seen hope.
Shuguang is very motivated in every job.
Both men and women, young and old, are busy working, and the atmosphere can be said to be completely new. The three aunts and six women who used to love gossiping are no longer too lazy to get together and gossip. With this time, they might as well make more money by weaving more. Save more money, they can still
They can repair the house or build a new one. Although it is definitely not comparable to Su Yueling's big house, they are already satisfied.
When Aunt Chen's nephew Chen Qi came to deliver the letter, he saw that the road conditions in Lushan Village had completely changed.
This road actually looks better than their county town. The carriage is much smoother when walking on it.
He marveled for a while, then went to the door of Yuan's house and said to the concierge: "This letter is for Miss Wu Shu. Please be sure to give it to her."
Old Man Sheng nodded and went in immediately.
Chen Qi was waiting at the door. He still had to wait for Wu Shu's reply. Even he didn't expect that his aunt would actually join forces with Wu Shu. You must know that Wu Shu is the enemy of the Wu family. But think about it.
It's not that I can't understand it. The Wu family's family is clearly going to decline, and my aunt will definitely have to find a new way out for herself.
When the letter arrived, Wu Shu was cleaning the peach blossoms and preparing to make peach blossom rouge for Su Yueling.
When she heard that Chen Qi had sent a letter, she put down what she was doing and said to Shengnan: "Just wash the petals three more times. The next three times must be washed with spring water from the mountain."
There is a mountain spring in the mountains of Lushan Village. The spring water is clear and clear, much better than well water. Ever since Su Yueling learned about the existence of the mountain spring, she now eats and drinks from the mountain spring. They specially used bamboo tubes to bring the spring water down from the top of the mountain. This bamboo is used every day
You have to change it every few days to prevent it from getting dirty inside.
Wu Shu took the letter that was delivered, opened the opening, took out the letter paper, and unfolded it.
As she watched, she couldn't help but smile slightly.
It happened that the Yuan family wanted to open a dyeing shop, and the Wu family took the initiative to open a dyeing shop. According to Su Yueling, it would be unjustifiable not to award them a good person medal.