Chapter 169: 169. Chapter 169: The Soap Workshop Officially Starts

169. Chapter 169: The Soap Workshop Officially Starts

Jiang Xiaoxiao spread her palm and looked; the peanut-sized crystal core in her palm had actually turned into powder!

As she loosened her five fingers, the powder scattered along the gaps between her fingers.

This... it's gone?

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt somewhat distressed.

"The energy factors in the crystal core are absorbed, so naturally it becomes powder and is useless." Jiang Wei explained, "Don't be distressed. There are so many rabbits at home; as long as you insist on feeding them ability water every day, there will always be new crystal cores growing."

"Mm, okay!" Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded vigorously. There are so many rabbits at home, and they reproduce fast. One rabbit takes less than a month from pregnancy to production, and one litter gives birth to five or six. Before long, her backyard will be full of rabbits.

"Also, don't be slack in your usual training. The higher the ability, the harder it is to upgrade, so you must practice diligently."

Jiang Wei said as she looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao's palm again, "Alright, now show me to what extent your water-system ability has been practiced?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Just upgraded and already being assessed...

She could only spread her palm again and urge the energy factors in her body to her palm just like before.

The tender white palm didn't flow out a trickle like before, but suddenly surged with a fierce water flow, condensing into a water arrow and shooting out.

Opposite Jiang Xiaoxiao was an open window, and outside the window was a big tree. The water arrow shot out of the window and hit the thick tree trunk.

The big tree shook violently twice. Although the rough tree trunk wasn't shot through by the water arrow, it had an extra hole that was not big or small.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of surprise.

Is the third-tier water-system ability this powerful!?

If this water arrow shot at a person, wouldn't it shoot a big hole!

"Not bad." Even Jiang Wei rarely issued a word of praise, "There is a big improvement compared to before, but you can't be proud; you must practice more in the future."

"Okay, Mother!" Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded repeatedly and agreed fully.

Anyway, when it comes to ability, listening to her mother is definitely right!

However, in the evening, Jiang Xiaoxiao experienced the "pain" of ability upgrade.

She slept in bed, wrapped tightly in a quilt, with the door and windows closed tightly, but she could still hear the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves outside, as well as the sound of autumn cicadas chirping loudly at night...

Actually, these sounds were there every night.

But tonight, they sounded exceptionally clear and loud.

Although she knew that every upgrade of ability would improve physical fitness and greatly improve body strength, sensitivity, memory, etc., she didn't expect the effect to be so obvious!

Jiang Xiaoxiao covered her ears helplessly, listening to these noisy sounds; how could she sleep?

When her mother first transmigrated, it was early summer, and the cicadas chirped endlessly at night. Who knows how she endured it?

But thinking about it, Jiang Wei was accompanied by the roars of zombies every night in the apocalypse. These small cicada sounds at night meant nothing to her...

Time passed like this for two days.

The autumn planting ended, and the busiest time of the year also ended.

In the days that followed, the villagers gradually became free.

In these free days, in the past, most of the men in the village would go to town to find work, earn some money to prepare winter clothes for the family, and make plans for the winter days as early as possible.

But this year is different.

Many adult men in the village have work to do in the Jiang family, so they don't have to work hard to find work in town.

And the wages given by the Jiang family are higher than those of the Cao family in town, so everyone is willing to work in the Jiang family.

Early this morning.

The thirty people in the village gathered in the Jiang family courtyard early.

Jiang Wei stood in front of everyone, her expression serious, and her tone was colder and harder than ever before: "Before you officially work at my house, I will state one point clearly in advance. No matter what you see or do in the workshop, you are not allowed to reveal half a word to the outside! Once I find out—"

Her voice paused, and Jiang Wei's cold gaze swept over every person's face here, saying word by word: "Not only will you return all my wages, but you will also compensate me ten taels of silver!"

As the words fell, everyone present widened their eyes in disbelief.

Compensate ten taels of silver?!

Good heavens, they, these farmers who scrape food from the ground, can't earn two taels of silver in a whole year. This ten taels of silver is undoubtedly a large number for them!

In the crowd, a woman was unhappy and spoke up: "Jiang Shi, how can you be like this? You invited us to work, why aren't we allowed to talk about it, and why do we have to compensate you ten taels of silver?"

"Those who have objections to this, please leave as soon as possible, so as not to regret it later!" Jiang Wei swept a cold glance over, "There are plenty of people who want to do the work at my house."

The woman had nothing to say.

Everyone also lowered their heads one after another, and no one dared to question.

They knew in their hearts that Jiang Shi was doing this to prevent them from secretly revealing the soap formula... After all, this is something that makes money for others, and it can be understood.

"Very good, if there are no objections, come and press your fingerprint on this paper." Jiang Wei said as she took out a contract that had been written long ago.

Jiang Xiaoxiao stood on the side and promptly brought out an ink pad.

The villagers stepped forward one by one and pressed their fingerprints on the paper.

Now that the contract was formed, they could let go of many concerns.

"You are all people who have signed the contract. If anyone violates what I just said, I can completely go to the Yamen to file a complaint and force you to compensate those ten taels of silver." Jiang Wei raised the contract in her hand, "So, don't have any fluke mentality."

Hearing the word "Yamen," the two or three people who still had little thoughts didn't dare to have any thoughts anymore.

The villagers also hurriedly patted their chests and promised: "Xiaoxiao's mother, rest assured, whatever I do here, whatever I see, even if I'm beaten to death, I will absolutely not say it out!"

"Yes, I won't even tell my own mother!"

"I, I have a poor memory, I'll forget everything once I go home and sleep."

Listening to the villagers' promises one after another, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.

Sure enough, it still depends on her mother's thunderous means, plus the contract and the deterrence of the government, to make some people completely honest.

With the rules set, Jiang Wei took these thirty people to the soap workshop.

The soap workshop is on the right side of the Jiang family's new house.

Everyone followed along, and could see a row of five bungalows standing, built with the most ordinary stone brick materials, not exquisite, but sturdy.

Actually, this is just on the surface. Master Zheng and his disciples worked hard for these few days, completely following Jiang Wei's requirements, and built it with cement. Not to mention the sturdiness, the most important thing is that it has the advantages of cement such as corrosion resistance, fire resistance, and water resistance.

In this way, even if there is heavy rain or heavy snow, the house won't be crushed. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 170 =====