North and South groceries

Budget-conscious merchants know to process cashmere where labor is cheap.

The purchased cashmere has to be sorted first, then the thread is washed and dyed, and finally the processed cashmere thread is transported to Xipo Village, Lishi County, and the young women in the village are paid to weave them into cashmere sweaters and trousers. .

I heard that in that village now, not only the young women can knit sweaters, but also the daughters-in-law, and there are even many married daughters who come back to their natal families to work. There are more people knitting sweaters, and the shipment will naturally be faster. Merchants usually don't have to wait too long.

In fact, there is no harm in waiting a day or two longer. The food at Xu's Guest House is good, the accommodation conditions are also very good, and the price is reasonable.Recently, Luo Sanlang was there to teach people arithmetic. The matter of arithmetic may not matter to other people, but to merchants like them, it is really important.

In the area of ​​Lishi County, there are now quite a few people who process cashmere for others. Some outsiders want convenience, or they are not short of money. The cart came over with some unsorted winter wool.

The processing market in Lishi County is more mature than other places. Usually, visitors only need to find a reputable hotel in the city to live in, and then pay a little introduction fee, and the store will help them arrange it well. , you can find a reliable middleman to contract the goods, take away the goods for processing, or find scattered people to do the work, and the owner of the goods can watch from the side, but this will cost a little more, after all, so many people work together To do work, always provide them with a place to work.

If you can go to Lishi County to find processing, it is not bad at all. After all, although the local wages in Lishi County are not very high, it is always inevitable to pay some copper coins. Most local people recognize copper coins, and silk cloth and food are not So easy to use.

If it is changed to some other places, the poor in the city generally have no economic income, and there is no farmland for them to cultivate. Food and cloth are what they need, so ordinary merchants only need to pay a little food or some cloth to be able to Recruit a lot of cheap labor.

"Aniang, you and Amei will live in this house." In the courtyard of Yao's family in Xipo Village, Yao Dalang's new daughter-in-law, Aunt Liu, was leading her mother into a room at this time.

"This room is really tidy. Look at the big windows that brighten the room. Our main room is not as good as this." After entering the room and closing the door, the mother took her daughter to sit down and talk. When she was outside, she didn't talk very much. It's been half a year since her new daughter-in-law came in, so she must be polite when she comes here as a mother, so as not to make people feel unhappy when they see her.

"It was originally a guest room, but it's winter recently, and no one lives there. This time when you come over, Da Lang told you two to live in this room, and this room is the best." Aunt Liu was sitting on the kang talking to her mother, The kang was also set on fire early in the morning, and the room was warm at the moment, which made her face a little blush.

"How is Da Lang treating you well?" Mother Liu was also happy to see her daughter looking good.

"It's all right." Aunt Liu blushed even more.

"Let us come over this time, but what did you say?" Mother Liu asked again.

"I just thought about it in my heart. After all, this matter is not settled by one family. There are so many people in the village. A few days ago, the villagers gathered together and said that it was this sweater knitter. There is too much work, and these people in the village can’t do it. If you don’t ask some relatives to come over to help, it’s not easy to let these unfinished work sit there. My relatives have people in their homes, but they have no place to earn money..."

Aunt Liu told the whole story. This time her mother brought her younger sister to learn how to knit sweaters. It is also good to make some money.

"Then you told them?" Mother Liu held her daughter's hand, her eyes filled with joy. Originally, she was already very happy that the eldest daughter could find a good home. My younger sister was also brought out, as long as I learned the knitting skills, I would never worry about getting married in the future.

"Before I spoke, Da Lang mentioned it for me." Aunt Liu said with a smile.

"This Yao son-in-law is really good." Mother Liu sighed, and then told her daughter: "You should cherish such a good marriage, and if there are bumps in your life, don't get stuck, but You can’t compare with the little ladies in this village, you have to always think about the hard times we had in the past.”

"I can save it." Aunt Liu nodded.

She also heard people say that the young ladies in Xipo Village have had a better life in the past two years. They used to have a hard time. The village is not big, the location is not good, and there are not many good lands outside the village. The little ladies in the village are also worried about getting married. Many of them go to the fields with their families since they were young, washing, cooking, herding sheep, twisting twine, and doing everything.

Now life is easier, money is easy to earn, and the little ladies in the village cherish it very much. Many people are saving dowry for themselves. The adults say that if the dowry can be richer, they will go to the in-law’s house when they get married in the future. Life will be easier.

"The little ladies in Xipo Village are mostly looking for those who are comparable." Aunt Liu thought for a while, and then said to her mother.

"But what do you say?" Liu's mother naturally knew that the matter of daughter-in-law here was to be matched with the family, but she didn't expect that her own daughter knew to say such things at such a young age.

"A little lady in the village was cheated by someone before, and everyone was afraid. If she was too far away, she would not dare to go, and if her family was too high, she would be afraid that after she married in, everything would be out of her control. If something happened, My natal family can't protect me either." The aunt was also worried that her family would be deceived in the future, and she was also afraid that their eyes would be too high.

"Oh, we have heard about Mrs. Yin's matter. Don't worry. With that matter ahead of you, how can you and I be so confused." When Mrs. Yin was kidnapped by gangsters, The people in Xipo village made such a big commotion in order to find her. Now who in the ten miles and eight villages don't know about this matter, they only think that the villain is treacherous and has an unmarried daughter at home , I can't help being a little more careful than before, even if I don't have the ability to find a good future for them, I can't let them fall into the wrong hands.

"You and Sanniang will concentrate on knitting sweaters from now on, and I will help you when I have time," Liu's mother said.

There are no girls in the Yao family. Recently, Yao's mother also learned to knit sweaters, but she knits slowly.This time the mother and daughter of the Liu family came over, although they were asked to learn how to knit sweaters to earn some money, but at this time there are still two or three months before the beginning of spring. The Yao family ate for nothing.

Liu's mother thought that she would do more chores in and out of the yard, so that her mother-in-law could breathe a sigh of relief. In such a big yard, there is a lot of work all day long.

My daughter is a sensible girl, and the Yao family treats her well, and they are willing to pull her mother's family away. As a mother, I can't hold back any longer.

The mother and daughter talked, and it didn't take too long. After a while, Aunt Liu led her younger sister to her room, gave her two sweater needles and a piece of thread, and asked her to learn little by little. with.

Aunt Liu is eighteen this year, and she has a 17-year-old brother under her, who is now an important labor force in the family, and then there is this Liu Sanniang, with two younger brothers under her.

Liu Sanniang is only 13 years old this year, and she is still a young girl who is not enlightened. In the past, when Aunt Liu was not going out, she was on top of her. When she got married, many things fell on Liu Sanniang. It looked a lot calmer.

Liu Sanniang is envious of her elder sister's good marriage, and hopes that she can find a good husband's family like her in the future and live a good life. This time, Aunt Liu asked someone to bring a message to Shizigou, saying that she wanted their mother and daughter to come and learn weaving. Sweater, but the little ladies and daughters-in-law in the village are envious.

Originally, she was very excited, but for the past two days, A Niang has been whispering in her ears every day, what to do when she arrives at Yao's house, which makes her a little nervous, for fear that she will make a mistake and call Elder sister's in-laws didn't like it, sitting on the kang with elder sister who was wearing a green dress at the moment seemed somewhat reserved.

"Let me see what you knit." After knitting a sweater, Aunt Liu stopped her work and went to her sister to have a look.

"But weaving is wrong?" Liu Sanniang asked anxiously.How could she look at the things she wove? It was completely different from what her sister wove.

"There's nothing wrong with knitting. It's just handmade. It's like this at the beginning. If you knit a little more, you'll get started in two or three days." Aunt Liu laughed.

"Sister, how long have you been studying?" Seeing that her sister was still the kind and easy-going sister in the past, Liu Sanniang felt more at ease, and dared to talk to her.

"After two or three days of learning, I started to knit a pair of woolen trousers. However, I have to learn slowly about adding stitches and subtracting stitches. At the beginning, I did it according to the size of other people's knitting. How tall and fat people wear what clothes and pants, and how to weave them, you will naturally know it in your heart." Aunt Liu explained.

"Sister, who did you learn from before, but Na Luo Erniang?" The little girl also heard that this method of knitting sweaters was thought up by Na Luo Erniang.

"No." Aunt Liu said with a smile.

"Who did you learn it from?" The little girl became even more curious.

"I learned it from your brother-in-law." Aunt Liu sat upright, and then buried herself in knitting the sweater in her hand.

"Brother-in-law can do this?" Liu Sanniang wondered.

"What's the matter, there are quite a few young men in the village who know how to do it." But it seems that Yao Dalang is not as good at weaving as quickly as possible. After thinking about it, Aunt Liu added: "You can make more money doing this than making tofu."

Aunt Liu didn't know that her husband, Yao Dalang, was not the fastest and best knitter in the village.

Now there are quite a few people who know how to knit sweaters in Xipo Village. Some people don’t think it’s a big deal, so they don’t hide it. speak out.

"I melted a few pears, do you want to eat them or not?" At this moment, Tamura Masa's daughter-in-law entered the main room with a few frozen pears.

"Leave one for me." On the kang in the main room, Tian Cun was sitting there knitting a sweater.

"These pears are so delicious, I should have bought more if I had known about them." Village Zheng's wife put a frozen pear in a pottery bowl and placed it on the kang table.

When the pears came down this autumn, Wang Dang's group brought a lot of pears to their Xipo village to sell. They were the most common kind of thick-skinned pears. They all bought some.

As for the Luo family, they planted pear trees on the mountain this year, and they produced a lot of fruit in autumn. The pears were much bigger than those obtained by Wang Dang and the others. They were full of moisture and tasted good. It's a pity that their family didn't sell them either. , Keep it for yourself to eat.

Village Zheng's daughter-in-law kept a frozen pear in this room, and moved the rest to the next room. Her two daughters-in-law and the youngest daughter were knitting sweaters over there at the moment.

But the wife of the village is watching, the speed of the three of them can't keep up with the old man in this house.