Chapter 284 The Art of Making Money
After dinner, the Huo family led Bao Xia's family to light the lamp and start boiling sugar again.
This time, a hundred shi of sugar was sold in Songjiang, and then sold from various places to the capital. Including what Shen Qianzhong bought, there were more than 200 shi in total.
Huo Xi wanted to buy Zhuangzi with money, so he wanted to practice all of them and transport them to Songjiang together.
So the whole family did not relax, except for sleeping and eating, they almost never stopped.
After a busy night, I fell asleep when I was so tired.
The next morning Huo Xi woke up, washed up and went to eat breakfast. Mrs. Yang came in with a box: "Xi'er, you gave this to your mother?"
Huo Xi turned his head to glance at the porridge in his mouth, and nodded: "Well, almost all the goods this time were sent to Young Master Mu's shop for sale, and I only left these for my mother. Those few bolts of foreign cloth, mother took Let’s make clothes, and don’t keep them, they will turn yellow and fade.”
"Oh, what do you want these pearls and agates for? You might as well sell them and buy fields."
"Mother, you are the master's wife now, you are the wife of servants, why don't you dress better? We are not unconditional."
Mr. Yang was very sweet when she heard this, and she was very happy because her daughter was filial.
Which woman doesn't like jewelry?
Touching the beads in the box, he said in his mouth: "It would be nice to sell them. Mother just takes those velvet flowers. Mother likes those flowers. The flowers are invincible, and she doesn't feel bad if she loses them. These mothers save them for you and Nian'er." on."
Huo Xi didn't say anything, let her mother arrange it as she pleases. After a while, take her to a jewelry store and find someone to process it into jewelry for her to wear.
He lowered his head and grilled the rice.
"By the way, my mother gave two of those pieces of cloth to Zuo. Her family seems to be loyal. Her son will not have any other thoughts. Let's take care of Gu Xiaokang more in the future, and their husband and wife will meet us. loyal."
Huo Xi nodded in response.
"The remaining few horses were sent to your grandparents. They couldn't see these fan goods in Sichuan and Shu, so I sent them all. Aren't you going to Songjiang in a few days? If there are more fan cloth, go to Keep a few more horses for the family."
"Okay." Huo Xi nodded.
Shangyong, the Li family.
Early in the morning, Mrs. Ma brought Mrs. Miao and Mrs. Cui, while Ming Jin and Ming Yue got busy.
The last time Huo Xi sent a large box of materials for making velvet flowers, the family began to learn how to make velvet flowers.
I didn’t know the bottom line, so I made a dozen or so flowers first and sent them to Tantan Market in Shangyong County.
Unexpectedly, it was surprisingly easy to sell, and one flower sold for a penny! Ma Shi made the bird competing for spring and sold it for a tael of silver!
Ten velvet flowers can get more than three taels of silver!
Besides, the shopkeeper thought they were hiding them and wanted to sell the rest of the velvet flowers elsewhere, so they refused to let them go.
Surprised the whole family.
This is still less unskilled at the beginning. If you become proficient at this, it is not a problem for one person to make two or three flowers a day.
And everyone divides the labor, like the assembly line operation Xier said, and can produce more velvet flowers. Saving ten taels of silver that month is not a problem.
The whole family is full of energy, lighting the lamps and cooking wax at night, and getting up to work every day at dawn.
The production of this velvet flower is not easy at all. There are more than a dozen processes, and it is all meticulous work. The family has never done it before.
Fortunately, Huo Xi wrote them a detailed tutorial, and sent them all the materials and tools.
From being cautious and groping slowly at the beginning, I am becoming more and more proficient now.
The family also bought and wore velvet flowers in the capital before, and they have seen many patterns. The Ma family and the Miao family and the Cui family also grew out of the wealth, so it is not difficult to think of a few patterns.
Now the velvet is cooked, and the two processes of dyeing are saved. The five women were only busy with the rest of the process.
Xiao Mingyue divides the boiled silk dyed in various colors, and fixes them on wooden clips to arrange them evenly. Then, she uses a pig brown hair brush to comb them through very carefully like combing hair.
Split these silks into thinner yarns, and then pick out the miscellaneous silks.
Ming Yue likes to do this job very much.
She can't do other processes well, but touching this silky thread is like combing hair, combing them smoother and finer, and picking out the stray threads. She likes to do this job very much.
Her uncle, Miao, used charcoal to burn the brass wires to soften them.
After Mingyue finished combing one color of wool, Miao cut the yellow paulownia silk into different lengths and clamped it on both sides of the silk. Pinch one finger apart.
Then cut out the clamped wool, put one color in a basket, and Mingjin hooks and rubs the strips.
Ming Jin twisted the cut wool into a spiral shape, and rubbed it softly with a wooden brush to make it a fluffy wool. These velvet strips are the basic materials for making velvet flowers.
Mingjin made velvet strips of various colors, and then Aunt Cui sharpened and trimmed the velvet strips.
Cui used scissors to trim these velvet strips into different shapes, styles and sizes according to the drawings drawn by her mother-in-law.
The last step of passing flowers is made by Ma Shi.
Mashi has a calm personality and a scholarly background. She has a collection of poetry, calligraphy and painting. She has worn and seen a lot of jewelry styles. It is not difficult for her to style and combine the pointed and trimmed velvet strips.
I saw her holding tweezers in one hand and velvet strips in the other, twisting, sticking and sticking them together with leather paper, copper wire and other things. After a while, a pink chrysanthemum was made, and she also took two pieces of chrysanthemum. The verdant leaves.
"nice."
Li Shimian was standing beside his old wife, seeing her finished making a velvet flower, he was looking at it carefully with a copper wire, and praised it generously.
Ms. Ma immediately felt a little smug: "That is, I haven't done it before, and I have been tossing around for a few days. This job will be easy after I figure it out."
"It's not so simple, I feel dizzy seeing it. You are splitting, combing, burning copper wire, cutting the velvet, hooking strips, rubbing strips, sharpening and trimming. It makes my eyes dizzy."
Ma Shi then said: "Then how much money do you think a small flower in the capital sells for? How easy is it to make a velvet flower? This is not leftovers, it is high-quality silk! If there are beads and gold and silver pieces , I can do better."
"When the money is sold, you take Mingjin and Mingyue to buy some."
"That's up to you. At that time, I will find some silk and dyes, and we can get them by ourselves, so that Ning Jie will not have to worry about us. Oh, Ning Jie sent us so much silk. Distressed."
"The child is filial, and he brought this craft to our family." Li Shimian raised his mouth.
Miao and Cui listened to it, and nodded with a smile: "Sister Ning loves her grandparents. I'm afraid we will wash clothes for the oars, collect firewood and sell money, and send these things."
"This child, it's hard for her to be so thoughtful at such a young age." Madam Ma touched the velvet flower in her hand, thinking of her granddaughter who brought her younger brother to work hard in the capital, feeling very uncomfortable.
Li Shimian glanced at his old wife, changed the subject and said, "It didn't take long for me to watch you make one. Aren't you afraid that others will learn to make it and steal our business?"
Ma Shi immediately sat up straight: "Even if they come to learn from them, they can't take them away. I'm not boasting, I don't have a few tricks in my mind, I don't know how to match colors or shapes, and the things I make are not spiritual. Can't sell it."
Li Shimian looked at her and smiled: "And your granddaughter sends you some new patterns in the capital from time to time, right?"
"That is. The headdress pattern in my mind, plus the new pattern sent by Sister Ning, who can take away our business!"
Satisfied with his face, Ma Shi put down the velvet flowers in his hand, and picked up the velvet flowers in the basket to make them.
(end of this chapter)