Madam, She Has a Tender Heart - Chapter 248
Chapter 248 The news spreads
Zhongzhai Master ran to Su Qingyu’s house panting, but when he got to the courtyard, he found that he couldn’t squeeze in.
I saw the women from Baijiazhai surrounding Su Qingyu.
Zhong Zhaizhu stood on tiptoe and saw Su Qingyu talking to everyone about what buds are, what tea greens are, and how to pick them.
Zhongzhai was listening very excitedly and stretched his neck to look inside. He saw that the women in the inner circle had turned around and ran out.
The crowd almost pushed him to the ground.
He had no choice but to dodge back and forth.
Oh my god, I don’t respect the elderly at all. What if I cause a stampede?
He also wanted to go back and carry the basket up the mountain. He is also very nimble with his hands and feet, no worse than the women.
Just, another important question came to mind.
Squeezing to Su Qingyu’s side: “Qingyu, if you do this, I’m afraid the people in the market town will be unstable.”
Su Qingyu also thought about this problem.
After thinking for a while, he said: “Notify each village that each family must contribute one laborer to work in the market town. If there are no male laborers, women will do it.”
“If there is no one to do the work, record it in the book. In the future, it will be used in other ways or money to offset the work that must be done in the alliance.”
“I’m afraid a group of people will have to be rotated over in the market town. In order to prevent the new workers from being unfamiliar with the job, Uncle Zhong, you and my family, Siyuan Siyuan, need to inform there and work hard to inspect the work there.”
“Okay. I understand. This is fair. No one will complain.”
Zhongzhaizhu and Siyuansiyuan set off immediately and rushed to the market town and various villages to inform them.
The village owners and mountain people who came to Baijiazhai to inquire about the news immediately turned around and returned to their own villages after receiving the exact news on the way.
The return journey took half as much time as the return trip.
No one has ever felt so short of time.
300 Wen per pound!
That one said, the women in my family are very nimble and can pick a lot in a day.
Another one said, I have a large family, and I might be able to earn several taels of silver a day.
Everyone thought about the feeling of having copper coins thrown into their arms, their faces were filled with joy, and the wind was blowing under their feet.
As soon as they were notified after returning to the village, everyone ran to the mountains one after another.
Carrying baskets, sacks, baskets, dry food and water, and their families, they ran up the mountain for fear of being late than others.
The villagers of Baijiazhai had already rushed to the top of the mountain early.
The village was quiet again, and not even the dogs barked.
Su Qingliu is also eager to try. She is very diligent.
I also want to contribute.
But Su Qingyu asked her and Lu’s mother and daughter to check the quality of the tea sent by the mountain people at home.
When there was only the last trace of ashes left in the mountains, people from Baijiazhai came to Su’s house one after another carrying burdens.
Most of the tea buds were sent over.
After all, once everyone heard that young sprouts cost 300 yuan per catty, they no longer paid attention to the 300 yuan per catty of tea greens.
It was only when I went up the mountain that I realized how easy it was to pick these young buds.
There is only one bud per branch. Some people harvest only a few taels and a half catty in a day, and the largest one weighs just over a catty.
Su Qingyu had already expected this.
The sprouts must be so good, how much can they cost 300 yuan a pound?
You need to be able to pick twenty or thirty kilograms a day, so that the whole family can eat at home for the next year.
Su Qingyu took Lu’s mother and daughter, and Su Qingliu carefully inspected the buds sent by everyone in Baijiazhai.
After Su Qingyu collected mountain goods and tea seeds last year, everyone knows Su Qingyu’s style. If it is not up to standard, it will really be rejected, but there is no mercy.
So there are less adulterations in it that do not meet the requirements.
Su Qingyu poured the buds sent by everyone into a large bamboo dustpan, spread them out, inspected them, picked out the unqualified ones and impurities, and then weighed and settled the rest.
There is no ambiguity at all. Although everyone was inexperienced on the first day and did not collect much, when they got the copper coins, some had dozens of copper coins, and some had two to three hundred coins, and everyone was very happy.
I took the money and thanked him again and again before leaving.
Su Qingyu was still picking up the sprouts sent from Baijiazhai, and the two tea frying masters sent by Manager Li over there had already set up the pot and started to work.
Su Qingyu discussed with them for a day and found that both of them were experienced tea frying masters, so she didn’t worry about it.
The whole family gathered around to watch.
Before the tea was ready, another group of older men and women arrived.
Seeing that everyone in the family has made money, they cannot climb the mountain and can only worry about it at home. Then they agreed to go to Su Qingyu to ask for some work.
When they were picking tea fruits, they could still help peel and dry the tea seeds at home, but now they don’t even bring the tea home when picking tea fruits, so it’s none of their business.
This won’t work.
They also have to contribute.
“I really have something to do with you. I need a lot of bamboo dustpans, drying mats, and drying racks. If you can do it, help me make some. I want them all.”
The old man and the old lady nodded happily: “Okay, we can do that. We can make several at home in a day. Don’t worry, we will cut bamboo when we get back.”
“This, it’s too late…” Su Qingyu looked at the sky.
“Not too late, not too late, there are bamboos in front of the door and behind the house, you can still see them.”
All right.
You can’t stop others from making money, right?
Two tea frying masters fried all the dozens of kilograms of young sprouts sent by the villagers overnight before going to bed. The whole family fell into a good sleep smelling the fragrance of tea filling the courtyard.
The next evening, the tea sent from Baijiazhai contained not only buds, but also tea greens.
Girls and women like buds the most, so almost all the gifts are buds.
Men and older women bring tea.
Plucking buds requires too much patience, it is a delicate job. If you don’t pay attention, it will be cut off and crushed.
However, although the price of tea leaves is low, the quantity is large and the money earned is quite high.
An aunt with quick hands picked more than twenty kilograms. I got more than 600 yuan and jumped for joy.
But there are more unqualified tea greens than young shoots.
There were a lot of tea stems and old leaves mixed in, which dazzled Su Qingyu and others.
In the end, I really couldn’t choose, so I left the person who delivered the tea on the spot. You pick mine and I pick yours. Only when the tea leaves are qualified will they be weighed and the money calculated.
No one has any opinions. The copper plates were hanging in front of my eyes, and I didn’t feel tired at all. In the Su family, I just picked them all.
The two masters continued to cook until dawn that day and couldn’t finish the cooking.
I feel like I can’t bear it anymore.
The people in Baijiazhai picked more for two more days, and their hand speed improved. As novices became more experienced, their quantity would only increase.
And I’m afraid that other villages will also send tea.
Even if the two of them kept frying for twelve hours, they probably wouldn’t be able to make it. One person can fry thirty or forty kilograms of dry tea a day, which is incredible.
Fortunately, at noon on the third day, Manager Li sent six more tea frying masters.
They occupied the backyard of Su Qing’s house, pulled out all the vegetables grown by the Lu family, set up a bamboo shed, and set up eight large pots in a row.
Su Qingyu invited eight women from Xinzhai to come back to make fires. This solved the frying problem.
Since the third day, Su Qingyu has never been idle for a moment.
(End of this chapter)