Li Xiaonan finished eating a piece of smoked fish and reached out to get another piece. The spindle in Li Yinzhu's hand hit Li Xiaonan's hand.
"Just eat one piece, no more." Li Yinzhu stood up, covered the bowl of smoked fish, and put it into the bamboo basket hanging on the beam.
"So much." Li Xiaonan licked the smoked fish sauce on her fingers and muttered.
"How many! There are thirteen pieces in total. If you eat one piece, the rest will be exactly two pieces per person." Li Yinzhu sat down and continued spinning.
"Just stir-fry two vegetarian dishes for dinner?" Li Xiaonan tilted her head at Li Yinzhu.
"There are two large pieces of smoked fish per person! Just fry one vegetarian dish. You have to fry two." Li Yinzhu sighed.
Grandma is really lazy and greedy!
Li Xiaonan slumped her shoulders, sighed, and moved the small bamboo chair closer to Li Yinzhu.
"You're not watching me spinning, so don't come here." Li Yinzhu raised his arm and pulled out the slender cotton thread.
"Sister San, I'm going to see the weaving workshop today..."
"You've told it twice." When Li Yinzhu heard about the weaving workshop, he thought of the six-heddle loom and felt a little sad.
She wanted that loom very much.
"I mean, I want to start a weaving business." Li Xiaonan cupped her chin and looked at Sister San.
Sister San is not in a good mood today.
"Do you want to open a weaving workshop?" Li Yinzhu glanced at Li Xiaonan.
"You can't open a weaving workshop. If you open a weaving workshop, you have to pay tax. Jacquard muslin is the same as silk, and the tax is 30%.
"I thought, for example, Sister San, if you marry into the Hong family, you don't have to do housework and you can weave every day, right?
"You weave every day. If you weave too much, you will definitely not be able to wear it out, right? So I will buy the cloth you weave and sell it resale. The jacquard muslin is very expensive, so I get half of the profit."<
/p>
Li Yinzhu paused, thought for a while, and nodded, "That's the truth. Even if you want to wear it, you can only wear muslin at most, and certainly not jacquard muslin. However, heald boxes and looms are too expensive, and most people can't afford them." p>
"What if we lend them money to buy looms and heald boxes? Let them use the jacquard muslin weaved to pay off the debt." Li Xiaonan's eyes sparkled.
"How do you have money?" Li Yinzhu's eyes widened.
"It's just a metaphor, a metaphor!" Li Xiaonan bit her tongue hard and said three words.
"Then you also need to be able to weave. There are so many pedals, one, three, two, six, five, four and so on. If you make a few mistakes, a piece of cloth will be useless. You also need to have a steady hand. Jacquard muslin is similar to silk, and weaving silk is difficult and difficult.
Slowly." Li Yinzhu frowned.
"How many people do you think can learn it?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"The second sister can definitely do it, I think I can do it, the eldest sister can definitely do it, and others, like our little village, the hall sister-in-law can definitely do it, Daliang sister-in-law can do it, the fifth aunt can do it, and Aunt Gensheng's eyes are not good.
, and..."
Li Yinzhu frowned and slowly shook his head.
"It's hard to tell other people."
Li Xiaonan let out a disappointed sound.
There are fifty or sixty households in Xiaoli Village, just a few people...
Hmm! It’s not too small. There can be four or five in a medium-sized village, seventy or eighty in a large village, and there must be more in the town...
Li Xiaonan jumped up, brought paper, pen, ink and inkstone, spread the paper and polished the ink.
"What do you want to write?" Li Yinzhu stretched his head over.
"Write my business plan!" Li Xiaonan replied happily, "The four-heddle loom we went to see last time cost nine thousand yuan, and the silver price was eight hundred and sixty yuan per tael. A four-heddle loom
Even if it’s only ten taels of silver, it’s so expensive…”
Li Yinzhu saw Li Xiaonan write four-heddle loom ten taels of silver, she glared and shouted: "This is the high-quality paper sent by your second brother Hong. It is very expensive. You can't scribble like this!"
"This is my business plan, not scribbling..." Before Li Xiaonan could finish her words, the paper had been taken away by Li Yinzhu.
"What are you planning? Do you have silver? A loom costs ten taels of silver! How many copper coins do you have?" Li Yinzhu glanced sideways at Li Xiaonan and took away the ingots.
Li Xiaonan held Li Yinzhu sideways, raised her chin and snorted.
She has twenty-five taels of silver!
Li Xiaonan looked at the pen in her hand and the inkstone on the table. Forget it, she wouldn't write anymore. She would still plan in her mind.
Li Xiaonan planned until the next morning and made a long list of things she wanted to ask about.
After breakfast, Li Xiaonan first followed Sister San, watching her feed the chickens and water the vegetables, and then watched Li Yinzhu and Sister Mei wringing two sheets together, standing under the loquat tree, looking up
After watching for a long time, I walked out of the courtyard gate with my hands behind my back.
"Where are you going?" Li Yinzhu asked hurriedly.
"Go to the paper shop in front and see if you can pick up a few paper corners." Li Xiaonan answered and walked out of the courtyard.
Li Xiaonan turned at a right angle at the door of the paper shop and entered the teahouse next door.
The shopkeeper hurriedly welcomed him out.
"Do you want tea, girl?" the shopkeeper lowered his voice and asked with a smile.
"Do you know Miss Wanqing?" Li Xiaonan also lowered her voice.
"I know, I know." The shopkeeper nodded hurriedly.
"Then can you send a message to Wan Qing and ask her to come to me when she has free time, or I can go find her and tell her if I have something." Li Xiaonan said in a low voice.
"Yes! Don't worry, girl." The shopkeeper agreed simply and easily.
Just over an hour later, Wan Qing's voice sounded outside the courtyard gate.
Li Xiaonan jumped up and rushed straight to the entrance of the courtyard. When she saw Wan Qing, she smiled happily.
"You came so quickly, so you don't have to be on duty today?"
Wan Qing was stunned when Li Xiaonan asked, "Why did I come so fast? You knew I was coming? I don't have to stand here if I'm not on duty today!"
"I asked you to come!" Li Xiaonan nodded the tip of her nose.
"Our prince asked me to come here. I'm not your girl!" Wan Qing tilted her face towards Li Xiaonan with a speechless expression.
"I mean, I went to that teahouse and asked the shopkeeper to send you a message asking you to come. Then you came. It was me, not your prince." Li Xiaonan explained patiently.
Wan Qing's shoulders slumped, and she was speechless and weak, "How could I know that you asked me to come? I came with our prince! Let's go, let's go."
Wan Qing grabbed Li Xiaonan's arm and pulled her out.
"I called you here because we were talking. Why did you call your prince here?" Li Xiaonan turned and looked at Wan Qing.
"Can I call our prince?" Wan Qing screamed strangely, "You! How many times have I told you that I can't gossip with you when I'm on duty. You have to keep talking to me. You have to talk.
You have to say it!”
Wan Qing was so angry that her throat was thick.
"I didn't..."
"Stop talking!"
Already at the entrance of the alley, Wan Qing paused slightly, took a deep breath, lowered her head slightly, and walked forward with a serious look on her face.
"Hey!"
"Stop talking!" Wan Qing tried not to move her lips and shouted.
Li Xiaonan swallowed and followed Wan Qing into the teahouse.
