Compared to Fang Xiaoyue, the other educated youths got up early.
Two girls, Yang Hongxing and Cheng Yaqin, were busy in the kitchen, Huang Xiangdong, Li Xueqing, and Wang Sixin were cleaning, and Liu Gexin and Zhou Sheshe were chopping firewood.
This is not surprising. Although Wang Sixin, Liu Gexin, and Zhou Sheshe did not learn straw weaving, Fang Xiaoyue still recruited the three of them into the straw weaving factory to serve as security guards and general workers.
For example, it is their job to purchase dried mats and other materials from villagers.
Cleaning, opening and closing doors, transporting goods to supply and marketing cooperatives, etc. are all their jobs.
Of course, the three of them are also satisfied with this.
No matter how busy you are in a straw weaving factory, it's much better than going to farm, right?
After the public grain was paid last time, the village chief came back and asked the scorekeeper and the clerk to calculate the work points of the whole village in Kuixing Village. Then he held a village committee to discuss some issues regarding summer grain distribution, and then summoned the whole village to follow the instructions.
According to the work points, the food and part of the money were distributed.
Fang Xiaoyue and other educated youths also got a lot. A certain warehouse in the straw weaving factory was used to store grain.
Of course, after the summer harvest, not only grains and money are distributed, but also peanuts, beans and some rapeseeds.
Of course, since the climate in Kuixing Village is not very suitable for growing oil crops, very few rapeseeds are planted, and the work points for exchanging rapeseeds are high. Therefore, many villagers did not choose to exchange rapeseeds at all, but
The work points were exchanged for more food.
Their thinking is very simple. Rapeseed is so expensive, and they need to go to the countryside to extract the oil themselves, which is an extra expense.
If the work points are exchanged for rice and other grains, it will be much more cost-effective.
However, Fang Xiaoyue and others didn't care about this at all, so they changed a lot of rapeseed oil and beans.
As for the rapeseed oil that needs to be extracted in the countryside, it doesn’t matter.
But with vegetable oil, the dishes cooked will definitely be more fragrant than those cooked without vegetable oil.
Today's breakfast was quite good. It consisted of cooked rice porridge, pickles, a basket of steaming steamed buns, and a salted duck egg for each person. In this era, it is already considered a luxury.
The pickled vegetables were made by two girls, Yang Hongxing, before, and the salted duck eggs were obtained by the duck herder from the neighboring village whom Fang Xiaoyue saw last time. Fang Xiaoyue exchanged two packs of goldfish cigarettes for more than 20 duck eggs.
After returning, Yang Hongxing soaked the more than ten duck eggs into the pickle stall.
No, I'm lucky to be able to eat it just in time.
After breakfast, the apprentices also arrived, and Fang Xiaoyue immediately arranged for them to study with him for two hours before starting the straw knitting work on their own.
After all, it would be too slow for them to improve their technical level by just letting them learn on their own. They also have to learn and help!
Then the next time is for Fang Xiaoyue to compile the straw work alone.
Time slowly passed through summer and entered autumn.
The autumn harvest is coming soon, and the straw weaving factory is also doing well. The straw weaving works sent to foreign stores for sale are well received by foreign friends. Some foreign friends even buy large quantities and bring them back to their own countries as precious gifts from the mysterious East.
's good friend.
At this time, most of the foreign friends who could come to Xia Kingdom were diplomats, and they belonged to a relatively high social class in any country.
Naturally, their good friends are also from similar social strata, such as senior executives of international companies, senior politicians, bigwigs in academia, etc.
As a result, Kuixing straw knitting has become famous in many countries.
As for the straw weaving factory, two female educated youths, Yang Hongxing and Cheng Yaqin, passed Fang Xiaoyue's assessment first, probably because of the girl's delicateness and seriousness, coupled with some talent.
In Fang Xiaoyue's opinion, their skills are barely adequate, and although the straw weaving works they produce are not up to her own average level, they should still be considered outstanding in the country.
Besides, Fang Xiaoyue gave them some cleverly conceived patterns and asked them to weave according to the patterns, which invisibly improved the sophistication of their works.
To put it bluntly, it is not a work of art, but with its clever patterns, it can still be considered a high-quality handicraft.
Therefore, when the supply and marketing cooperative came to collect goods recently, Fang Xiaoyue also added their straw knitting works.
Niu Deshui also felt good about the straw weaving works of Yang Hongxing and Cheng Yaqin, so he did not make things difficult and sent them to the foreign store together.
Those foreign friends also seemed to be very interested in these ingeniously woven straw works. In addition, their prices were lower than Fang Xiaoyue's, so they also sold well.
Fang Xiaoyue was very satisfied with this.
With Yang Hongxing and Cheng Yaqin as the main force, after the apprentices have completed their studies, even if the straw weaving factory leaves him, the operation will not be affected.
In fact, it is not normal to support a straw woven factory by yourself like now.
If I go to college and leave, won't this straw weaving factory be doomed?
A straw weaving factory that closed down two years after its establishment probably brought not wealth but pain to Kuixing Village.
A few days later, autumn harvest mode begins.
Although Fang Xiaoyue did not actively participate in the autumn harvest battle, she still made some contributions to Kuixing Village.
After the corn cobs were harvested and dried, the husks were peeled off. In the past, they were thrown away directly. In later generations, they were beaten into pellets, fermented, and fed to livestock.
But Fang Xiaoyue, on behalf of the straw weaving factory, purchased all the corn husks peeled off from Kuixing Village.
Although the price is very low, for Kuixing Village, this is undoubtedly an income obtained out of thin air.
After all, corn husks in the past could only be thrown into compost.
This made Wang Degui, the head of Kuixing Village, smile for several days and tell everyone that Director Fang was a good person.
Fang Xiaoyue certainly did not purchase these corn husks for charity.
Corn husks after being dried are a good straw material. The fibers that make up corn husks are relatively long and can be easily decomposed into filaments. Moreover, they are not easy to rot. As a straw material, these properties are excellent.
In later generations, scientists also used corn husk fiber to replace cotton and silk to make fabrics. This shows that its fiber length and toughness are quite considerable.
In fact, in later generations, many people liked to use corn husks to make handicrafts.
The most important thing here is that it is easier to color than other straw woven materials, making the colors of straw woven works more colorful.
In Fang Xiaoyue's hands, with the addition of corn husks, the straw woven works he woven began to undergo earth-shaking changes.
On this day, Yang Hongxing finished her work. She looked at the time and saw that it was time to get off work at noon. Then she stood up and prepared to go to the kitchen to do some preparations, such as lighting up the fire on the stove.