Civilian Edition Traveling Farming Diary

The weather is cloudy on October [-]th of the Gengzi Year

It's a bit cold today, I'm going to go outside the city and go up the mountain.

There is a mountain in the west of Fengzhou City, and there is a temple on the mountain. There is an old monk in the temple, and the old monk is chatting with me.

Haha.

Seriously, this temple is called Guangming Temple, it is quite big, and it is the only place that has not been damaged during the war.

I entered the temple and asked the little novice if I could see the abbot. The little novice asked me what happened and went to report.

The abbot was very approachable, and soon the little novice led me in. I met a very old monk.

That is Abbot Mercy.

I put my palms together and saluted. The old abbot looked at me and smiled, and the first sentence he spoke was very scary: "The benefactor came from outside the world, so what's the point of coming to my place?"

I was stunned for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Master, did you see anything?"

The abbot waved to me and asked me to sit down opposite him, I sat down obediently, this is an expert!

He said: "Since it's here, it's fate, and it's fate. The benefactor only needs to stay at ease."

I blinked: "Master, my surname is not Xu, and there is no lady named Bai in my family."

Abbot: "???"

I coughed: "I mean I don't want to become a monk yet."

The abbot smiled and shook his head: "You know that poor monk doesn't mean that."

Me: "..." How the hell did he see that I was a time-traveler, there really was an eminent monk!

I didn't dare to be rude anymore, and asked humbly: "Master, can I still go back to my hometown?"

The abbot said: "What is the hometown, what is the foreign country, where the heart is, is the place to live."

I thought about it, my heart is here with Chen Xiang, it means that I can't go back, but it doesn't matter, I have no relatives in the original world, and I can't say that I care about anyone, but I'm still a little disappointed, I really can't go back, The first 28 years of my life were like a prosperous dream, and when I woke up from the dream, I was still a commoner in this backward era.

The abbot asked me what I was doing here.

I said that the war was just over, the people were in dire straits, and many people in the city were still in panic. I wanted to ask for a peace talisman, and I would ask the embroiderer to embroider it and sell it to everyone.

The abbot sighed: "The benefactor is really a benevolent person, with a heart for the common people!"

I said embarrassedly: "Not all of them, mainly for the sake of selling money. I just bought two real estates, including the one rewarded by His Majesty, there are three in total, all of which are waiting to be renovated. There are still several families in the house. People are waiting to eat, I have to support my family, don't I?"

Abbot: "..."

I didn't mean to show off, I was just telling the truth about Versailles, but I was afraid that the abbot would hit me, so I hurriedly said, "But I plan to give away twenty for free every day."

The abbot raised his eyelids to look at me, sighed and said, "It's always good deeds. I have some ready-made ones here. You can take them back."

Ah, the monks are really easy to talk about. I took the peace talisman with both hands and made a big gift to the abbot, saying: "After the embroidery is finished, I will take it and offer it in front of the Buddha. May the Buddha bless the people safe."

The abbot nodded and said, "Go."

I ran down the mountain with the peace talisman in my hand. On the other side of the half-light streamer, Chen Xiang brought the incense sticks and sister-in-law Fen had almost cleaned up, and the two rows of houses in the backyard were ready for use.

I went to Zhao Lao Si's two days ago and ordered eight models, and it will be done in a few days, and half a streamer will be able to officially open for business by then.

When I went, they were still packing up. I gave the peace talisman to Chen Xiang and told him that we should make this first and make some clothes at the same time. When the peace talisman is sold, we will hang all the clothes on the rack, and someone will buy them. .

Chen Xiang said that his hands were dirty, so let me put them away first, so as not to dirty the amulet.

I put the talisman close to my body and put it away.

I looked at the backyard, and the two rows of houses have been sorted out. Chen Xiang and I said that the top one on the left should be used as a design studio, and the latter ones should not be opened up in a hurry. We can divide them into production areas for different products. .

The first few huts in the row on the right are also used as workshops, one in the back is used as a warehouse, and the other is reserved as a canteen.

Chen Xiang looked at the warehouse and asked if it was too small.

I said let’s use it like this first. The output is not too large now, and the raw materials are not much. If it is not enough in the future, other empty rooms can be used first, and these can be changed.

Chen Xiang muttered: "Then what are you planning?"

I:"……"

It's too late, it's really too late!

We plan to clean up today and start working on safety charms tomorrow, but at the same time, we need someone to design clothes, make clothes, bags, etc. There are still some fabrics, and we can buy some, but there are not enough people.

I wanted to go to the labor market to sell, but Chen Xiang reminded that the girls I want to help usually don't go there.

We asked Xiangzhi and Sister-in-law Fen to go back to see if there were any girls who could not stay at home and knew how to embroider. I went to Zhuangzi and told Lao Zhu that we don't want too many people, seven or eight are enough. , I can't afford more.

When going home for dinner at night, Chen Xiang suddenly said: "Where will those girls who can't stay at home live after they come?"

Uh……

Yes, it would be fine if the family can accommodate them. If not, wouldn't it be necessary for staff dormitories?

So prepare two rooms to make dormitory!

Chen Xiang muttered again: "So the planning is not right at all!"

I really...

If Mr. Feng and Niang Rong were not here, I would throw him on the bed without even eating!

It was getting colder and colder, so I shared a box of moisturizer with Fenglai and Rongniang. Fortunately, Fenglai said that Rongniang is an oiran. In my house, I use very ordinary face cream without any fragrance, and clean water every day. The appearance of dried noodles, I can't even afford to use a lipstick, I feel aggrieved.

Rong Niang herself felt very good, she said that now it is very leisurely and comfortable, there is no need to turn night and day upside down, no need to paint inside and outside, and no need to force a smile to welcome all kinds of guests, which is very good.

That's right, after removing the heavy makeup, Rong Niang is actually just a 17-year-old girl, with a pure and lovely makeup, less graceful than before, more lively and lively, which is very good.

Even Feng Lai is still the same as before, he doesn't like to talk much, he doesn't like to laugh, and he always looks indifferent.

We had the cheek to live in the small courtyard of Cui's house, and we became more and more like a family. It was good, really good, except that it was not convenient at night.

The weather is fine on October [-] of the Gengzi Year

Half of the streamer is almost finished, and all eight models are on display, but the clothes haven't been made yet, and it feels weird to be standing there with eight headless half-figures.

The original model was put into the design studio by us. In fact, the design studio still needs more models, but let’s do it temporarily to save costs.

There are not only eight models in the front hall, but also four sets of tables, which are shorter. The floor is covered with carpets, and rattan futons are placed on the floor. This is the reception area. Customers can discuss with the shop assistants here if they have any needs. , can also rest here.

The plaque inscribed by Wang Zhifu asked me to put it indoors, in the most conspicuous position directly opposite the door, and the plaque on the outside door was made separately.

I also ordered a row of clothes hangers, which haven't been made yet, but I'm not in a hurry, there aren't many finished products yet.

When it came to the shelves in the warehouse, I was in a hurry, so I had to urge Zhao Laosi.

Speaking of which, I have talked with Mr. Zhao, and I feel that Mr. Mr. Zhao is very reluctant about the matter that Mr. Wang mentioned about imparting some skills. My scooter and wheelchair have brought him a lot. Yield, I told him that he could hold a training class and charge some tuition fees, but he still hesitated, and was reprimanded by Mr. Zhao who came out of the back room, saying that he was petty, okay, it's settled like this.

After everyone's introduction, we have four new female workers here, two are married women, and two are unmarried older girls.

The four of them were very timid and kept their heads down, not daring to meet anyone. Chen Xiang drove me to the design room and received them alone. Look at this little guy, he is becoming more and more fashionable.

Afterwards, Chen Xiang kept them all, saying that the four of them were quite pitiful, and they were all victims of the war. The two older girls had marriage contracts, and they just waited for the national mourning period to get married happily. They didn't expect to start a war I didn't hide well, I was...

Alas, one of them was dragged back to the rebel camp, and it took several days to run back. The family didn't want to see her anymore, and the man's side also retired, and wanted to return the engagement gift.This girl is called Hongxiu. She has been rescued several times, and she is a distant relative of Sister-in-law Fen. We brought her here when we heard that they are recruiting people. She said that the embroidery work is very good, and she does it for herself. The wedding dress was only embroidered at the beginning before something went wrong.

The other big girl is Chuncai. Her husband's family also dislikes her, but her fiance loves her and wants to marry her. She thinks that if she can earn some money by working here, her husband's family will let go.

Two married girls, one is Liu Ersao, and there are four children who are waiting to be fed. The man was cut down by the rebels in order to protect the family's food. Now there is only an elderly mother-in-law in the family, and there is another one named Qing. Sister-in-law, without her husband’s family, and her son depended on each other for life. His son’s arm was cut off during the war. The medical expenses are a bottomless pit, and life is very difficult.

War, Huainan King, why did this idiot want to fight this war? We were all good people in life!

Chen Xiang also sighed unceasingly. He said that he asked these four people to do some embroidery work on the spot, and they all felt good, so they all stayed. In this way, only Hongxiu and Chuncai needed accommodation, so we stayed in a dormitory. There are ready-made wooden beds. I bought two of them. They were made of simple wood. The two of them just slept here. Neither of them had bedding. Chen Xiang bought them pillows and bedding, but said that It belongs to the public, and it is for them to use. If they leave, the bedding will be kept. Chen Xiang is afraid that their character will be unreliable, so he ran away with his things. Learned well.

This is considered to be settled, Chen Xiang took out the fabric, asked them to embroider according to the pattern of the peace talisman, and asked Xiang Zhi and Sister-in-law Fen to make small sachets, and the peace talisman would be wrapped in these sachets in the future.

Everyone sat around a big table in a room that was cleaned up and worked on the benches. These are all temporary equipment, and when we have money, we will tidy them up.

Chen Xiang and I design clothes in the design room. I still plan to take the fashion and high-end route. Chen Xiang is worried that everyone has just been devastated by the war and has no money. Selling to ordinary people, like the clothes at the Qixi Festival clothing show, they were all sold to rich people in the end.

Now is the national mourning period, all clothes should be made of simple and simple materials, and can not have too fancy shapes, we choose to use the softest cotton cloth, I refer to the style of cheongsam, of course, it is impossible for people here For those who wear cheongsam with thighs exposed, we still have a skirt underneath, and the waist and sleeves on the top have been changed to slightly show the slender waist of women. Lace is made on the cuffs, which is simple, elegant and a bit feminine.

Chen Xiang thinks it looks good, and so do I. You can’t wear colorful skirts at this time. This kind of plain clothes is conservative and innovative, and someone will definitely buy them. After all, the emperor is too far away from the people, and not many people are willing to wear them. In his mourning, girls still like to dress up beautifully, don't they!

We also designed several bags to match the clothes, which are also simple and elegant styles. I also designed a small wrist bag, just like the wristband flower of the poetry meeting, which can be worn on the hand and can hold a small box of rouge inside , a small box of lip balm and the like, girls who feel that the big bag is flamboyant can choose this exquisite wrist bag.

This time, no one drew the design for us. Chen Xiang drew it himself, and the drawing was okay, but Rong Niang changed a few strokes after seeing it. This little girl is quite talented as a designer. She twisted a small With a flower button, a small plain flower is added to the neckline, which makes the dress lively.

I decided to hire her as a designer!

Rong Niang is also very happy, she especially likes those half-length models, haha.

Chen Xiang and I decided on the issue of wages. The female workers will not get a lot, because we need money very much now, and we will not earn a lot. Banzhang Liuguang is our private workshop, which is different from the company in the original world. All the money we earn is ours.

We set [-] Wen per month for the female workers, and [-] Wen for Rong Niang, which is very little, but it is considered good when no one has any income, and even has no money to buy rice. And now we have to rely on the profit of half a lamp to furnish the new home and the inn. The pressure is really great.

When everything is running normally, their wages will increase. After talking about the wages to the female workers, everyone is very happy and expresses their satisfaction. After all, the family hardly earns any money.

But I feel that Xiangzhi is not very happy, just following everyone's agreement.

Rong Niang was very happy, and went back at noon to show off to Feng Lai that she had found a job first, and could raise Feng Lai in the future. Feng Lai rubbed her head and asked her to work hard.

I think it is necessary to talk to Fenglai about his way out.

I want to hand over the inn to Fenglai. He has management experience, and I just need a shopkeeper. Of course, I can do it myself, but I want to run between Zhuangzi, Banzhan Liuguang, and the inn. Some are too busy, and besides, I have never seen an official as the shopkeeper, so who dares to come!

Feng Lai agreed and said thank you, which made me terrified, why don't I just find a shopkeeper, why do I feel like I am begging a god to give me a part-time job?

In the afternoon, Chen Xiang and the others continued to work. I went to Zhuangzi, and Lao Zhu’s son and daughter-in-law were there. The two children didn’t know what suffering was. They were digging mud and playing in the Zhuangzi. The children are really good!

Several of my fruit trees survived the war, and the peach tree was hacked and left a scar, but it still survived tenaciously.Lao Zhu said that the figs produced five fruits and were robbed by the group of rebels. Okay, I didn’t eat figs this year, and I couldn’t give them to Boss Zou to taste. There will be more next spring, and this thing will bear two fruits a year. The second fruit is so cute!

They borrowed one of the two cows, saying that they were borrowed from the village. There was nothing to grow this season, and they used the cows to help clean up the damaged areas.

I touched the cow and sighed. The cow wagged its tail and looked at me, as if puzzled. In fact, I was wondering why it couldn’t produce milk, but I wouldn’t tell it because he is a male hahaha.

Old man Sun's sheep were eaten by the rebels. I asked him before, and he said that he would look after a while and get another lamb to raise.Anyway, I haven't had fresh milk for a long time.

On the way back, I passed Tian Lai Fang... the ruins?

Some people cleaned it up there, so I walked around to see if there was anything useful, and brought it back to Fenglai.

In the end, I really found it. There was a violin pressed under a broken log. I asked someone to pull it out for me. Several strings were broken, but the body of the violin was intact. I recognized this violin. This is the violin. The one that Feng Lai uses most often has a crabapple flower carved on the end, which is three-dimensional and very special. The crabapple flower is quite beautiful, and there is not a single petal missing at this time.

I took the qin away and gave it to Fenglai when I went home. Fenglai was very excited, holding the qin and touching it again and again, saying that it was a qin made by himself, and it was the only one. He found the wood far away from the south and made it for a long time. He talked a lot, and he also said that a small horn was knocked off at the end of the piano. He borrowed a knife from me and said that he would carve a The pattern comes out.

I think the violin is everything to him.

While talking, A-Dong hurried over and said that Qingping had just given birth to a son!

My God, it's only been a few months?A-Dong said it was a little early, probably because she was startled during the war. He said that Qingping had taken anti-fetal drugs for several days, but she still couldn't conceive the baby. Fortunately, the mother and child are safe now, and there is no danger.

I hurried to find Chen Xiang, we bought some things and went to see the child, Cui An led me there, and I saw Mrs. Cui’s young lady holding the child there, looking at the child’s smiling face tenderly, with an aunt’s smile on her face, Master Cui, Mrs. Cui, and Cui Changrui were also there, and they were overjoyed to see the little baby.

When they saw me, they all came to say hello to me, and showed me their only seedling. I saw that the child was red and wrinkled, with eyes closed, and it was very novel. Chen Xiang also liked it very much. I asked Cui Changyu, Mrs. Cui He said, "The one who doesn't understand the rules, ran to the delivery room!"

It turned out that I went with Qingping, I have to say that Cui Changyu is really a model husband, if not... I looked at the young lady and felt very complicated.

At this time, Cui Changyu came out of the house. He opened the curtain lightly, closed it tightly again, looked at me with a smile on his face, but said to the girl at home: "Pigeon When the soup is ready, bring it here."

The girl went in response.

Cui Changyu ran to see his son, grinned happily and said to me, "Mr. Zhang, look at how strong my son is!"

He took the child from the young lady's hand, looked at it carefully for a long time, and said to me happily: "Mr. Zhang, I have a son! Hurry up too!"

Me: "..." I swear that I will never take a paddle three to four times a week, but Chen Xiang is so hard to get pregnant that I can't help it!

We teased the children together... In fact, there was nothing to be amusing about. The child was asleep with his eyes closed, and a group of people watched it, which was extremely rare.

Cui Changyu said that he would give Qingping some points and let her be an equal wife.

The joyful atmosphere suddenly froze, the young lady lowered her head and said nothing, Master Cui scolded Cui Changyu, but he didn't dare to speak too loudly for fear of shocking the child.

What he meant was that Qingping was from a bad background, so she could only be an aunt. This was already for the sake of having a child, so how could she be an equal wife, on an equal footing with the young lady from an innocent background!

The affairs of their family are really hard to explain in a few sentences. Every time I see the young lady, I feel sad, and when I see the lovely Qingping, I also feel sad. Who is to blame, no one can blame.

After returning home, Chen Xiang was a little depressed. He poked his stomach and whispered why he was so disappointing. This was stimulated by Cui Changyu's words. No children of their own.

Chen Xiang said he cared very much.

Then he looked at me eagerly, blushing and said, why don't we work harder?Ah, I would love it so much!