Chapter 149

The Gao siblings sat at the table, lowering their heads, drinking the porridge in their bowls and biting the pancakes in their hands in small bites, not daring to pick the vegetables Jiang Xiaoxiao picked for them at all.

This mouthful of porridge and mouthful of pancake was already a very luxurious delicacy for them, especially this pancake, which was mixed with lard and eggs, crispy and fragrant, and they couldn't even eat it at home, so how could they pick the vegetables on the table?

Jiang Xiaoxiao had no choice but to let them be. People's habits couldn't be changed overnight, so take it slowly.

After observing all morning today, she was satisfied with Gao Xiaoshuan. Although he was young, he was serious and hardworking in his work. He could be kept for long-term development. In the future, when the family's cement and soap industries were officially launched, a lot of manpower would be needed.

After eating, Gao Xiaoyan grabbed the bowls and chopsticks on the table and went to the courtyard to wash them without saying a word.

This work was originally done by Chunmiao and Zhao Dasao. In addition to their bowls and chopsticks, there were also the bowls and chopsticks of the more than forty people in the courtyard to wash. This was not an easy job. Now that Gao Xiaoyan took the initiative to help, the two could also be much more relaxed.

Gao Xiaoshuan didn't dare to be idle either. After eating, he ran to the courtyard to continue drying the osmanthus picked from the mountain in the morning, and he had to pick out some debris and dust mixed in it. These were fine jobs, not tiring, but required patience.

After the impurities in the osmanthus were cleaned, he drew a basin of water to wash them, and after washing, he put them on the bamboo mat to dry again.

Jiang Xiaoxiao pulled her mother back to the room, closed the door, and showed the wild beehive, which was nearly as big as a basketball, to Jiang Wei, and told her about the discovery of osmanthus on the mountain.

"This wild honey is good, but..."

Jiang Wei waved her hand, and several large jars of honey suddenly appeared on the table. They were all packed in glass jars, and the golden, translucent liquid inside could be clearly seen. "The wild honey you brought back from the mountain is good, so keep it for yourself to eat. Use these of mine for the honey for making soap."

Natural wild honey is not common and has a very high nutritional value. It would be better to keep it for her daughter to eat. Although she had a lot of honey stored in her space, they were all honey brewed by artificially raised bees, far less rare than this wild honey.

"Okay!" Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded with a smile. Her mother was truly a treasure bag, having everything. Only she couldn't think of it, and there was nothing she couldn't take out.

"And..." Jiang Wei continued to wave her hand, and several silver notes suddenly appeared on the table. In addition to going to town to buy goats today, she also went to deliver goods with Chunmiao and settled the accounts for the past half month. Originally, it was planned to be settled daily, and the money would be brought home after Chunmiao delivered the goods.

But Chunmiao was timid and always felt uneasy when she had to bring more than ten taels of silver home every day. As for Old Man Zhao, who was responsible for driving the carriage, he didn't dare to take the ten taels of silver at all, so it was simply changed to Jiang Wei going to town to settle the money every half month.

The ice cream business in town had also lasted for more than two months, with more than ten taels of silver coming in every day, and now it had earned more than six hundred taels of silver in total.

Added to the goods ordered by Jiang Yu, they had earned a total of more than one thousand two hundred taels of silver by relying on the snow cake and ice cream business.

Excluding costs, they had also made a net profit of about one thousand taels of silver!

But calculating it actually, the cost was far from that much. The raw materials for making ice cream and snow cakes were almost taken from Jiang Wei's space, which could be said to be almost zero cost.

More than one thousand taels of silver, excluding some family expenses and the silver used for building the house, Jiang Wei took out five hundred taels of silver separately to exchange for silver notes at the money house, one hundred tael denominations, a total of five.

This money was saved to buy a shop.

Jiang Wei knew that her daughter had always wanted to have her own shop in town, so she had to make plans early.

"After entering autumn, the number of people eating ice cream and snow cakes has gradually decreased, and the order volume of various restaurants and teahouses has decreased by half..." Jiang Wei said faintly. "Our ice cream and snow cake business will have to stop at most in half a month."

One was that the storage of ice cream and snow cakes in her space was not much, and it could only last for half a month at most. The second was that it would be the Mid-Autumn Festival in half a month. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather would get colder day by day, and it would really not be suitable to continue selling snow cakes and ice cream. It would be better to sell them in the summer of the coming year.

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded. As long as her soap making was successful, she could continue to sell soap in half a month.

After the mother and daughter finished discussing things, they left the room.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the five goats in the chicken coop and realized that the five goats were not all milk goats. Two of them had plump bodies, dense coats, and a pair of spiral large horns on their heads, which were clearly sheep.

But sheep don't produce milk.

Jiang Wei said: "I led those two girls to visit the livestock area on the West Street of Yong'an Town, and only found three milk goats. I did see sheep for sale, so I bought them all back."

Milk goats are goats mainly used for milk production. Generally, only herdsmen in the Northwest region of Dayin will raise them on a large scale, and they rarely appear in their area.

It was already extremely lucky for Jiang Wei to be able to buy three milk goats at once.

Now that the tax collection instructions for major towns and counties had been issued, many families had to sell some of the poultry at home in order to scrape together this tax collection. Jiang Wei was also lucky to run into it this time, otherwise, this kind of milk goat specially produced for milk was almost impossible to find.

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled: "Sheep produce a lot of wool, just right to raise them and use the wool to make clothes in the future."

She paused and added: "I saw in a book that sheep wool fabric is comfortable and soft, most suitable for making clothes."

Jiang Wei originally planned to buy them back for her daughter to eat roast whole lamb, as mutton is tender and delicious, but she didn't expect Jiang Xiaoxiao to be thinking about using wool to make clothes, so she could only nod and say: "That's fine, let these sheep be raised for a few more days, and the wool produced will just be enough to make you a few wool sweaters."

Although she didn't lack such things in her space, since her daughter liked it, then raise them.

Thus, Chunya's workload increased again. In addition to feeding the chickens and rabbits at home, she also had to find some coarse, hard stalks or short grass to feed the sheep.

The progress of the new house also reached the end. This day, Master Zheng came to find Jiang Wei.

"The brick wall is almost built, and the beam can be raised tomorrow. Do you have a choice for this wood?"

Jiang Wei nodded, looked at her new house with a considerable scale, and said: "I plan to use fir wood for the beam and pillar parts."

Fir wood has stable anti-corrosion and anti-compression properties, is not easily eaten by insects, and the wood is heavy and not easily deformed, making it an ideal building material.

Moreover, there are fir trees on the mountain, and you can find a lot of them without much effort.

As the load-bearing frame beam for building the house, it cannot be sloppy. Jiang Wei and Master Zheng led more than ten people up the mountain to find fir wood.

There are many fir trees on the mountain, but it still takes a lot of time to find that kind of straight, uniform-thickness fir wood.

A group of people worked until the end of the Shen hour, which was about five o'clock, before carrying the carefully selected fir wood home.

(End of chapter)