Zheng Yuan was overjoyed to be promoted from workshop manager to textile factory manager.
That night, Zheng Yuan knocked on the door of Buzhuang and bought six feet of purple silk before returning home.
Zheng Yuan got off work at midnight every day and came home late. His wife Qu was used to eating by herself. That day, Qu was sitting on the bed spinning when she saw Zheng Yuan mysteriously walking into the house with his hands behind his back. She covered her mouth and smiled.
Said: "Why are you so tiptoeing, like a thief!"
After her husband was promoted to the workshop manager of a textile factory and earned five or two months of money, Zheng Yuan's family's economic conditions suddenly improved. Apart from anything else, Qu had the confidence to eat some eggs and pork every day. The woman's family has a small appetite, even if
Even eating some meat every meal for a month doesn't cost five cents, and Mr. Qu can afford it now.
After being married to Zheng Yuan for ten years, Ms. Qu only lamented that the hard days were finally over. Now that her family's conditions are good, she has a status in front of other women, and she speaks louder. She is in a good mood, and her whole person is much plumper. It used to be
Qu looked like she was in her thirties, but now she looks like she is only 28 years old.
Her mood improved, and her attitude towards her husband became better. Although Zheng Yuan was tiptoeing around, Qu only thought her husband was joking with her, and still talked to Zheng Yuan with a smile.
In the past, Qu Shili would not have bothered to deal with Zheng Yuan.
Hearing Mrs. Qu's question, Zheng Yuan smiled, sat on the bed with his hands behind his back, and said, "Madam, I have been thinking recently that we should buy a house!"
Qu stopped the spinning machine and asked: "Buy a house?"
Zheng Yuan said: "Yes, buy a house! Buy a single-family two-story house!"
When Mrs. Qu heard Zheng Yuan's words, a flash of excitement flashed in her eyes. Women have a natural desire for the sense of security of owning their own house. Mrs. Qu didn't want to rent a house for the rest of her life. But after thinking about it, she said hesitantly
Said: "Husband, although your monthly income has increased in the past few months, it has only been a few months and we have only saved more than 20 taels of silver. How can we buy a house in TJ City? There are two floors in TJ City.
The house I’m afraid will cost at least six or seventy liang!”
Zheng Yuan shook his head and said: "If we don't have enough money, our boss can lend it to us. But we don't buy TJ's house, we buy Fanjiazhuang's house!"
Mr. Qu was stunned when he heard Zheng Yuan's words, and murmured: "The house in Fanjiazhuang? The Fanjiazhuang where Brother Zhi is an official?"
"Exactly!" Zheng Yuan said loudly: "Now the boss has expanded Fanjiazhuang to the size of a county town, and will gradually move textile factories and soap workshops there. The boss will build thousands of two-story independent houses in the city.
Sell or rent it to workers. I am now the general manager of a textile factory, so of course I have to take the lead in buying a big one! We will buy one with six rooms..."
Listening to her husband's talk becoming more and more mysterious, Ms. Qu couldn't react, so she interrupted and said, "Are you the manager of the factory? Aren't you the manager of the third workshop? Why did you become the manager?"
Zheng Yuan chuckled, and then said slowly: "My nephew Li Xing was transferred to the first battalion of the Fanjiazhuang Selection Regiment as battalion commander, so I filled the gap and became the general manager of the textile factory."
Hearing Zheng Yuan's words, Ms. Qu was stunned for a moment, and it took her a while to react. Looking at Zheng Yuan, Ms. Qu asked: "How much money does the general manager of the factory get per month?"
"Fifteen taels! Hehe."
When Mrs. Qu heard Zheng Yuan's words, she looked at Zheng Yuan happily, opened her mouth little by little, and finally grinned upward exaggeratedly and laughed loudly. The more she thought about it, the happier she became. She stood up on the bed excitedly and danced.
He waved his arms and said with a laugh: "Fifteen taels? Get rich, get rich! With fifteen taels a month, my family will live a good life! We will live a good life!"
When she was so excited, she knocked over the spinning machine on the bed, and Ms. Qu didn't even know it.
Zheng Yuan let his wife jump on the bed and sat at the end of the bed without saying a word. After jumping for one or two minutes, Qu calmed down, looked at Zheng Yuan and said, "Why are you unhappy?"
Zheng Yuanyun said calmly: "My boss's business is getting bigger and bigger. Since I keep up with my boss, I will become prosperous sooner or later. This is a matter of course!"
Mrs. Qu looked at the indifferent Zheng Yuan with admiration and said, "Husband, you are getting more and more powerful!"
"That's natural!" Zheng Yuan smiled, then took out the six feet of purple silk from behind, and said with a smile: "The purple silk I just bought will make you a skirt!"
Mrs. Qu looked at the purple silk on Zheng Yuan's hand, and covered her eyes with her hands in surprise. She could only look at the six feet of thin and silky purple silk through her fingers. Mrs. Qu was used to living a hard life, how could she have thought that she would
I was able to put on silk clothes, but for a while I didn't dare to pick up the purple silk.
Zheng Yuan pulled Ms. Qu's hand over, put the purple silk on her hand, and said with a smile: "You can sew it yourself, or you can find a tailor to do it. Anyway, we are rich now and don't have to live a tight life anymore."
Got it!"
Ms. Qu held the purple silk in her hand and stared blankly for a long time. Her eyes changed from surprise to excitement, then to joy, and finally calmed down. After a long silence, she suddenly said: "Husband, I have it!"
Zheng Yuan was stunned for a long time and asked, "What do you have?"
Qu's face turned red and she said, "I have a child!"
Zheng Yuan's face was full of excitement when he heard this, and he asked loudly: "Are you pregnant?"
Mrs. Qu nodded with a blush on her face, then lowered her head and stopped talking.
In the past, Zheng Yuan's family had no money, and the couple were afraid that they would starve to death after giving birth to a child, so they did not dare to share a house. It was not until Zheng Yuan worked in Li Zhi's soap workshop that he could earn twenty taels a month, so Zheng Yuan and Qu did not share a house.
After half a year, Qu became pregnant.
Zheng Yuan's face was full of excitement. His wife was pregnant! He was about to have a child and have offspring. As the male of the Zheng family, he also shouldered the responsibility of carrying on the family line. He was in his thirties.
, I am finally no longer the honest and pitiful Zheng Yuan, I am going to be a father!
The good news came one after another, and Zheng Yuan felt that his breathing was a little short!
He grabbed his wife's head, put his mouth on her face, and kissed her hard.
After finishing the arrangement of the new army and the city wall, Li Zhi used the money he had earned in the past few months to start large-scale construction within the new city wall. The masons and carpenters in Gyeonggi Province found work throughout this year.
There are now two groups of masons in Fanjiazhuang: one group was hired by Li Zhi to build the barracks for the selection group, and Tao Youmao's group; the other group came a few days ago to help more than a hundred craftsmen and blacksmiths repair the broken buildings.
of the house.
The second group of masons and carpenters numbered more than 400 people and had already finished repairing the gunsmiths' houses. Now Li Zhi hired them all to build factories and villas inside the newly built city walls.
Not only did he hire this group of craftsmen, Li Zhi also sent people to various prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi to find more than a thousand masons and carpenters, and hired more than 600 civilian workers to carry bricks and wood, all of whom came to Fanjiazhuang to build houses.
Fanjiazhuang suddenly gathered more than 2,000 construction workers, moving all kinds of materials in and out. It was so lively! The craftsmen who repaired the houses and the team who repaired the city walls turned Fanjiazhuang into a huge construction site inside and outside.
Only Li Zhi, who owned such a large industry, could afford to hire so many craftsmen.
Although the city wall has not yet been built, Li Zhi's plan for the "New Fanjiazhuang" within the city wall has been designed. In the future, not only will the barracks of the Selected Front Regiment be within the city wall, but the textile factory, soap factory and cement workshop will also be within the city wall.
Zhi also plans to plan 7,000 pieces of residential land within the city walls - 5,000 pieces of blank residential land are left vacant for sale, and the other 2,000 pieces of residential land are now used to build "villas".
