On this day, during breakfast in the morning, Yang from the Huang family on Hulu Street wrapped the poached eggs in oil paper. During lunch and dinner, Yang wrapped up four taels of pork and secretly hid it in his arms.
When she got off work at Zhengxu, Mrs. Yang was full of joy and walked briskly back home with four ounces of meat and a poached egg.
Yang's house is a shared courtyard with half a yard. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw her two children, Daya and Shitou, playing in the yard. Daya was nine years old and had a dirty long braid.
.Shitou is only six years old, playing silly in the yard with mud.
As soon as she saw Mrs. Yang, Daya threw herself into Mrs. Yang's arms and said, "Mother is back!"
Yang smiled and touched Da Ya's head, took out the oil paper wrapped with meat from her arms, waved it proudly in front of Da Ya's eyes, and said, "Da Ya, what do you think this is?"
Daya smelled it hard with her nose, hesitated for a while, and then said: "It smells so good! It smells so good! It seems like, it's meat!"
"Does it smell good or just like it?" Ms. Yang was amused by Daya's words. She picked out a shredded meat from the oil paper, gently put it into Daya's mouth, blinked and asked: "Is it delicious?
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The last time Daya ate meat was during the Chinese New Year. At this time, she got shredded meat. She chewed it hard a few times before swallowing it hard. With excitement on her face, Daya shouted: "Mom, this meat is really good."
tasty."
Seeing that Da Ya said it was delicious, Mrs. Yang happily poured half of the shredded pork in the oil paper into Da Ya's hand and said with a smile: "Da Ya, I'll give you half, and give the remaining half to my brother, okay?"
Daya held the shredded meat in both hands, licked her lips and said, "Mom, my brother and I have eaten them all, you should eat them too!"
Yang said happily and proudly: "My mother has been eating it for several days, every day. Today, my mother secretly brought it out for you and Shi Shi to eat."
Daya picked up a shredded meat and put it into her mouth, chewed it hard and nodded.
Yang raised her head and was about to call Shitou when she saw that her son was already standing next to Da Ya. He was watching his sister eating meat, and saliva was already flowing from the corner of his mouth.
"Silly Shitou." Mrs. Yang picked out two shreds of meat and put them into Shitou's mouth. When her son got the meat, he immediately started biting it with a look of happiness on his face.
Seeing her son's happy face, Yang breathed a sigh of relief and felt a sense of happiness.
This is all the happiness brought to me by my employer, the Li family! If it weren’t for the weaver’s work, where would my family have meat to eat on weekdays? In the past, I would get up early and go to bed late, weaving every day, and could not earn more than one or two or five dollars a month.
Money, my husband works as a waiter in someone else's gourd shop, and he only has one or two taels of silver a month. He can feed a family of four with less than 3 taels of silver, and life is very tight. It would be nice to have food to eat.
Now that I can work in the Li family's weaving mill, I don't need any money to eat and drink. With the monthly payment of two taels of silver, my family's life will soon become prosperous.
Maybe, after saving for a few years, I can buy a small yard for my own home.
Yang thought about the hope for the future and became more and more happy. She gave the remaining shredded meat to the stone and opened the door of her home.
In the room, her husband Huang Gui was sewing a broken patch on his cotton-padded coat in front of the tung oil lamp. His sewing skills were not good, and the sewing thread was crooked, which looked very clumsy under the tung oil lamp.
When Yang saw this, he snatched the cotton-padded jacket from Huang Gui's hand and cursed: "What are you sewing? How can a grown man do such sewing?"
Huang Gui smiled coquettishly and said, "Isn't it your late get off work day, so I'll do something for you?"
Yang spat: "I get off work at midnight and I'm still at home for an hour and a half. Why can't I do these things? Do I need your help?"
Huang Gui touched his head and said: "Now that you can earn so much money by working in the Li family weaving workshop, shouldn't I make more contributions?"
Yang was amused by her husband's words. She lowered her head and chuckled. However, she only smiled for a moment before raising her head and handed the poached egg in the oil paper to her husband: "Here you go!"
Huang Gui looked at the poached eggs, his face actually turned red, he shook his head and said: "This is what you earned from working, how can you hide it for me to eat? Don't let your 'supervisor' see it and deduct your wages."
"The supervisor saw it! But he doesn't care. It's meat and eggs that are given to me anyway. The boss doesn't care what I do with them." Yang stuffed the eggs into her husband's mouth and said, "Here they are for you!"
Huang Gui's face was blood red, and he waved his hands and said, "I won't eat it! I'm embarrassed to eat your eggs!"
Yang became dissatisfied, stuffed the egg into Huang Gui's mouth, and said loudly: "I'll give it to you if I tell you to eat it. Why are you such a grown man?"
Huang Gui had the poached egg pressed against his mouth, but he couldn't twist Yang's, so he could only open his mouth and bite it. It had been a long time since he had eaten meat, and the sweetness of the egg made Huang Gui feel refreshed.
Seeing that Huang Gui finally opened his mouth to eat, Yang asked with a smile: "Is it delicious?"
Huang Gui nodded quickly and said: "It's delicious, it's delicious!"
Seeing her husband's silly look, Yang was filled with happiness. She raised her head and laughed, the sound of her laughter getting louder and louder, her laughter filled with happiness.
In early March, the cotton cloth from Li's Weaving Mill was shipped to the store of Dong Zhiyi, a large cloth merchant, and was put on the market through Dong Zhiyi's channels.
Lijia cloth, which is twice as wide as ordinary cotton cloth, immediately attracted the attention of all parties.
Ms. Xu of the Lin family in the tea shop was getting married in the next few days, and she would go to her husband's house to shop for the dowry in a few days, so she wanted to make some new clothes for her daughter. She walked to the Dong family's cloth shop in the south of Tianjin, and was immediately attracted by that
The wide cloth catches the eye.
"Seller, why is this white cotton cloth so big? It is twice as wide as ordinary cotton cloth."
The shopkeeper walked up to Mr. Xu and said proudly: "This is the newly launched Li family cotton cloth, which is twice as wide as ordinary cotton cloth." The shopkeeper raised the piece of Li family cotton cloth, gestured on the cotton cloth and said:
"With cotton being so wide, there is more leeway when cutting, and the cloth can be used more. In the past, a lot of scraps came out when the cloth was slightly cut. Now that the cloth is wider, these scraps have become larger, and these scraps have become
The useful parts can be used to make clothes."
"And!" After a pause, the shopkeeper continued: "The cloth is wider. When making clothes, the front and back can be cut directly into one piece. There is no need to cut and shape them twice and then sew them together with threads. It saves effort in making clothes and is easy to make."
My clothes have one less seam and are more decent!"
"Li family cotton cloth, could it be the Li family who makes soap in the east of the city?"
"It's the Li family in the east of the city!"
"How come the Li family is so powerful, they have made something as useful as soap, and now they are weaving such wide cotton cloth?"
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