In the blink of an eye, August came, and the workshop was completed. A dozen workers were hired to chop and pound sweet potatoes and filter the powder.

They worked long-term and did not bring food. Su Ziling gave them fifteen cents a day and two days off a month.

After hearing about the fifteen articles a day, many people enthusiastically signed up. Su Ziling chose the few people who had come to help last time. In addition to them, she also picked two others.

On the first day the workshop started, Su Ziling signed a confidentiality agreement with them. No matter what happened in the workshop was not allowed to be disclosed to anyone, not even her family members.

If word spreads, they will never be able to enter their home to help in the future, and they will also face a hundred taels of silver compensation.

These people can understand it. Anyway, as long as they don't tell it, nothing will happen. Wouldn't this agreement be in vain?

Su Ziling originally didn't want to do this, but after listening to Su A'nai's words, she felt that she still had to sign it. People's hearts cannot withstand temptation.

Although powdering is not a secret matter, you should be careful when sailing.

Su Ziling hasn't found anyone reliable yet for the job of making vermicelli. She wants to make further observations. This is a technical job and she needs to find someone reliable.

Su Ziling also hired a special person to pick mushrooms. Now the output of mushroom paste every day is very impressive. They still pick the tea leaves themselves. Since there are only two tea forests, they usually pick them every few days. Considered busy.

During the rest of the time, Su's father and the others would keep an eye on the workshop, while Su's mother and the others were responsible for sorting out the picked mushrooms.

Su Ziling is no longer in the tofu business, because the body odor wood is no longer distributed, and there is still a little bit left. It is estimated that the fourth uncle and the others can sell it for about ten days and then it will be gone.

Su Yong and his two brothers also joined the workshop. These two brothers were pretty good. Su Ziling planned to call them when she was making vermicelli in two days, as well as her fourth uncle and the others, so that the number of people would be about the same.

"Qing'er, the August Festival is in two days. Should we go buy some pancakes?" Mother Su asked while picking the mushrooms.

"Let's make some by ourselves, and ask the fourth uncle and the others to help bring back a few kilograms of white flour and pork. We've done it ourselves, and Er Niu seems to be on field leave, so by the way, let the fourth uncle and the others pick them up. I We can't leave from here." Su Ziling put the basket on her back, threw the sickle and the water bottle into the basket, picked up her bamboo hat and prepared to go out.

"Where are you going?" Seeing how she was dressed, Su's mother quickly called her out.

"Going for a walk in the mountains, I haven't been there for a long time." Some time ago, the business of fungus sauce and vermicelli was so good that Su Ziling was too busy to go into the mountains.

She wanted to take advantage of the free time in these two days to go and have a look. The ice powder fruit should be ripe this season. If she could find it, it could be sold on the roadside, or she could pick it up and sell it in the county.

She estimated that these were the only two days that she would be free. Chen San and the others said they would come back to pick up vermicelli and fungus sauce around the August Festival. She estimated that these were the only days that they would be free, and so would Lu Anyu's brother.

Huh?

What's the name of Lu Anyu's brother?

Su Ziling was confused when she thought of Lu Anyu. She didn't seem to know his brother's name yet. She only knew that his surname was Lu...

Forget it, forget it, let’s go up the mountain first.

Mother Su asked, "Are you alone? Why don't you let your father go with you?"

"No, Auntie, I'll ask Uncle Yonghe to go with me." Su Ziling quickly refused, "Nonsense, it's better to let Su's father come with you!"

She is planning to enter Tianmen Mountain! It must be done secretly.

"Yonghe? That's okay. Then be careful. Don't run too far. Come back for lunch at noon." Mother Su was relieved to hear that she was not alone.

"I understand, Auntie, I'll go first."

Su Ziling waved her hand and walked to the nearby workshop.

The workshop was in full swing, because there was a spring at the foot of the mountain, so Su Ziling used bamboo to draw the water directly down, which made it much more convenient to wash sweet potatoes and flour.

The first process is that two women are cleaning the sweet potatoes. Because the sweet potatoes collected by the farmers have already been washed, they only need to do a simple cleaning.

The second step is to chop sweet potatoes. There are still two women. They hold knives in both hands and chop them together with both hands. They move very quickly.

The swords were all shaken out. When they saw Su Ziling coming in, they were stunned, and then greeted her with a smile.

"Xiao Qing is here? Do you think this one we chopped is okay? If not, let's chop it into finer pieces."

"Come and take a look," Su Ziling smiled, "Auntie, it doesn't have to be so fine, you can make it a little thicker. Your hands won't be able to handle it if it's too fine."

"It's bearable, bearable, and it's not hard work."

"Yes, yes. If we chop it finer, we can pound it faster. In this way, we can increase the output a lot in one day!"

They still learned the term "yield" from Su Ziling.

"Besides, it's fifteen cents a day, and we're so excited. In one month, it's more than four hundred cents. In one year, I can equal the family's annual income in previous years! Isn't this tiring life? , if you have any sweet potatoes, just bring them, aunt can chop them."

Su Ziling didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"If we are too busy, the two people who wash the sweet potatoes will come over to help. You don't have to worry, we will be busy and we won't be tired!"

"Yes, yes, yes, you're not tired. Xiaoqing, just go and do your work if you have something to do. We can do what we can!"

Su Ziling nodded. She was about to leave, but suddenly thought, "Auntie, haven't you guys had a rest yet? It's time to harvest the corn at home after the August Festival. Let's take two days off and go back to collect the corn." Collect and come again.”

When they heard it was a holiday, the four people stopped moving. Harvesting corn?

"No, no, no need for a holiday. We only have so much corn at home, and it's not enough for them to harvest!"

"Yes, yes, yes! We don't need to rest. This work is not tiring. There are people harvesting the corn, so you don't have to worry."

Asking for leave to go home and harvest corn?

That's impossible!

What are you thinking! How much corn do we have at home? Besides, there are so many people at home, and it will only take three or four days to finish the harvest. If they take a day off, they will lose fifteen cents. This business is not worth it!

Su Ziling touched her nose and said, "Okay, you guys are busy, I'll go inside and take a look."

As soon as she came, those people started talking.

"You really don't want to rest?"

"If you don't rest, what's the point of resting? I'm only fifteen cents a day. You don't know that since I came here to work, the old man and the old lady at home have become kind to me. They have prepared meals for me every day. , sometimes they even give me an egg to eat, and I don’t have to wash the dishes after the meal is over. Do you think it’s strange?”

"They said I just need to work hard and don't need to take care of my family. They even help take care of the baby."

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