Huo Xi nodded and told him about the Zhuangzi in Tangquan Town.
"There are many chrysanthemums and various flowers in that village in Tangquan Town. When you return to the city tomorrow, ask shopkeeper Shen to go to the village there and take a look, transport some flowers to the city, and sell some during the festival. The head of that village is called Zhao Zhutou. I used to work as a steward in the old owner's shop, so you ask Shopkeeper Shen to talk to him to see if he has any good ideas or if he has any business partners that the old owner worked with in the past."
"Okay. I heard there are only three households of servants left. Is that enough?"
Huo Xi shook his head: "I asked him to buy three more servants. You and Shopkeeper Shen should keep an eye on it in the city. If you find something suitable, buy it and send it over."
Yang Fu nodded in agreement and said: "This time, in addition to collecting a lot of cane sugar, the shop also collected a boatload of Xiangfei bamboo. Last time I went to collect fans, the fan maker said that I wanted to find some Xiangfei bamboo to make fans. Handle, Xi'er, do you think you want to stay?"
Huo Xi was happy after hearing this: "Well, stay here. We have been harvesting bamboo for a year and it is rare to encounter Xiangfei bamboo. Send the Xiangfei bamboo and cane sugar to Zhuangzi."
"Okay. Xi'er, we sell a lot of velvet flowers now. Should we also send the silk to the village and dye it ourselves? This way we can make more money."
After hearing this, Huo Xi began to think about it.
The silk used to make velvet flowers now is purchased from specialized velvet flower workshops that have been cooked by others and dyed.
Specialized velvet flower workshops not only sell velvet flowers, but also provide semi-finished raw materials. They also accept processing of supplied materials. For example, if you send cooked silk and tell them to dye it into the desired color, they will also accept such business.
The dyeing pool of the Velvet Flower Workshop is different from the dyeing pool that specializes in dyeing fabrics, and the prices are slightly lower.
If a piece of white cotton cloth is sent to the dyeing room to be dyed into ordinary green cloth, the processing fee will range from seventy-five cents to one silver. A piece of white cotton cloth is about four cents of silver. If you calculate it this way, the processing fee for the piece of cloth is cloth The price is about 20%.
The price of silk is slightly lower, about 10% to 15%.
If you dye it yourself, you can certainly save some costs, but opening a dyeing room is not an easy task.
It doesn't mean that you can't hire people. If you open a dyeing room, the cloth woven in your own workshop in Songjiang will not be sold as white cloth. If you dye the cloth in other colors and sell it, the profit will certainly be greater. Some.
Huo Xi thought for a while and shook her head: "Forget it, there are a lot of people to be hired here. It is a big project. If our weaving workshop becomes bigger in the future, we will consider it again. We have always been quiet and low-key, not showing off. It’s better if the mountains don’t dew.”
Yang Fu just mentioned it. Now they don't have the extra energy to open a dyeing workshop, so he agreed and said: "So this time for Double Ninth Festival gifts, I will go to the dyeing room we usually cooperate with and give a gift as well?" "
Huo Xi nodded: "Yeah. Many friends, many paths."
The next day, Huo Erhuai sent Yang Fu off.
Yang Fu was going to work on the shop, while Huo Erhuai was going out to collect some shrimps and crabs. Yang wanted to go with her, but Huo Xi refused. She only said that her fetus was not stable yet, so she was not allowed to go with the boat. .
Yang argued for a few words, but she couldn't argue with Huo Xi, so she could only watch Huo Erhuai sail away.
Huo Xi watched the two of them leave, and asked Yang Fu to deliver a letter to her. Last night, she wrote a letter to her maternal uncle, asking him for some people.
There was a shortage of stewards in the shop, so my great-uncle sent someone to fill the vacancy. He also had many farm servants who used to manage the farm for his grandfather, but Huo Xi didn't buy the farm before and had no place to arrange it, so he didn't ask for them.
This time I asked him to send some people, and the two Zhuangzi let go of some of their own people, so that they would feel more at ease.
Li Shimian, a noble man, had just returned from delivering a letter. Before he even approached his yard with his hands behind his back, he saw his old wife sending a few village women and young ladies out.
He stood far away. He didn't walk over until the person left.
"Are you here to ask for work again?"
Ma went up to help him and nodded: "No. Since our family has been teaching women in the village to make velvet flowers, women from all over the country have come to ask for help."
Mr. Ma felt happy and sad at the same time.
Fortunately, because of this job, my family has won the love of the villagers. As a criminal exiled to the village, my family has had a much better life.
When they were walking on the road in the village, others would avoid them and regard their family as ferocious beasts. Some people would secretly spit on them, treating them as heinous bandits.
Now in order to provide more support for the family, they all come here to make friends.
There are always people at home every day. Sometimes it’s noisy and annoying.
Hey, I didn’t expect that this small, remote village would be like this.
Li Shimian turned to look at her: "Why are you sighing? Isn't our family's life much better now? We used the silver sent by Sister Ning to build a backyard and closed the door between the two courtyards, so that others could
Without being able to enter the backyard, Mingjin, Mingyue and the others can work without any worries. They are not afraid of the presence of many people."
"That's true, but it's tiring to deal with them every day. You don't know that some village women are very difficult to deal with."
Li Shimian also sighed: "I know how to make such a simple velvet flower, but they haven't learned it yet? Why don't they come to our house to get the ingredients?" Why don't you make it yourself and sell it?
Ma rolled his eyes at him: "Do you think it's easy? Don't tell them where they go to find silk or where to dye it. Even if they have the raw materials, the dozen or so processes are so easy to learn? Just one shearer can do it.
It's like a dog chewing it. They just took the velvet flower I made and stared at it, but they couldn't shape it properly. The people in the village have never even been to the town or county once or twice, how do you expect them to do it?
Are there any spiritual velvet flowers?"
If you can't buy the raw materials at Li's house, where can you buy them? Should you build a dye pool yourself? If you don't send them over if you make them, you can't sell them at a high price even if you buy them one or two at home.
Li Shimian thought about it. She has never brought jewelry or looked at various kinds of jewelry often. It would be a bit embarrassing for you to ask her to design it.
"Then can our family continue to do this job?"
"That's not true." There was a little pride on Ma's face.
"Even if they take the velvet flowers we made and try to make them the same when they go back, we won't be afraid. Last time I asked shopkeeper Bai to help me buy a lot of broken jade, millet beads, silver flakes, green feathers, etc.
, when we embed these jewels on the velvet flowers, the selling price will only be higher. Let the villagers make ordinary velvet flowers. If they make more, we can get more money."
Li Shimian nodded and smiled. Sister Ning had really found a job suitable for the family, where a few women could stay anonymous and earn a living.
That kid, thinking about them.
"Has the letter been sent?" Ma asked him.
Li Shimian nodded.
Ma was a little worried: "Will he do what you say?"
Li Shimian is not worried: "Although he has an aloof temperament, he has been suppressed by others over the years, and his family has had a very difficult time. It is estimated that his pride has been worn away a lot. He will agree."
There will be more in the afternoon~Thank you all for your concern and support, thank you, okay?
