The Life Through Books of the Salted Fish Family - #410 - Chapter 410: winter

  Chapter 410 Winter

Snapped!

  Yan Er Er looked up and saw that the craftsman who laid the tiles was careless and stepped on a piece of tile.

   “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” The other party apologized and turned around to see if they hurt the people below.

   “You have to step on your feet, be careful.” Second Yan urged.

  The people above responded hurriedly, and when they turned around, they only saw a figure walking away.

  Yan’s second son walked to the official courthouse familiarly.

   Today it is the turn of the poor room to be remodeled, and all documents are transferred to this office.

  There are a lot of people in the hall, today is the day when every three days, people come here early to receive wages and vouchers.

  The wages paid by the government office are not high, ranging from five to twenty.

  Most people can’t get the salary of 20 Wen. It must be a scholar who can write and count.

The wages are less than those paid by part-time workers on weekdays, but the work assigned by the government office is a long-term job. They have calculated in their minds that they can work until the twelfth lunar month. There is no income in Japan in winter, and this job in the government office has become the common people. Hope, except for the old and the young who really can’t do it, I wish the whole family could join the battle.

  The arrow towers in each village were completed earlier than expected, not five like Xiaoan Village, but one or two for each village depending on the population.

  After a period of running-in, the people of Huju have adapted to the life of going to work every day, giving wooden signs when they are off work, and coming to the government office of Huju City to settle accounts every three days.

   Gradually, the people found that it was time-consuming to line up at the government office on the settlement day, and the strong laborers at home did not come. All the old people, women and half-old children came.

  They have a wooden sign with the name of the village and town where the head of the household is located in their hands. Show this sign to the official, and the other party will point them to the documents for handling the accounts of the corresponding village and town, and line up in turn.

  The team is orderly.

  Check the wooden sign, register, and then find the name from the work form in the newspaper, and compare the amount of money, and the two are correct.

  Another person next to him took back the wooden sign and asked if he wanted wages or food vouchers.

   After confirming, write down the name, the amount of money and the amount of the voucher, cut the paper with a bamboo knife, and hand it to the other party.

  The latter took the note and walked further back.

   Today it is Yan Hushu’s turn to be on duty here. Behind him are two baskets full of strings of copper plates.

   After paying the copper plate and the voucher, Yan Huaiwen put the note in the box at hand, and wrote it down on the book on the table. After writing a page, he would take out his private seal and print it at the corner of the page.

  Yan Laoer approached quietly, seeing that there was a slight gap between him, he gently put down the honey water he brought.

  Yan Huaiwen got used to the hot drinks and food brought by his younger brother from time to time, and nodded to him.

  Yan Er Er grinned and left quietly.

  The sweet taste escaped in the mouth, and Yan Huaiwen slowly narrowed his eyes.

  Yan Er Er left the lobby and went to the police room.

  The dilapidated houses in the city have been repaired in sevens and eighties, and finally it is the turn of the government office. The same unbearable thing as the leaky roof is the heating of the entire government office.

  The backyard where the teacher lives, and the room where the guards rest, Yan’s second son decides to set up the kang.

   Then there is the transformation of the office space.

  In places like aberration rooms and warehouses, it is not easy to have open flames. The stove is good, but if it is accidentally kicked over, it is also a hidden danger. Yan Lao Er proposed to add bricks and a fire wall between the two adjacent office rooms.

  The reduction of office space is nothing compared to the warming up of a cold room.

   Has been tinkering in the city, these people are working more and more quickly, Yan Er is satisfied.

   I figured in my heart that the work would be finished here in the afternoon, so I didn’t rush to move it back, just light it up and let it dry for another day, and it would be almost done.

  He left the Yamen through the side door and went to the city gate.

   From a long distance, I saw a few children in the village beside the city gate collecting firewood.

  Luo San set up a stall nearby to sell meat, and the sound of sharpening knives sounded very friendly.

   “Second Brother Yan!” Luo San’s sharp eyes greeted him happily.

   Several children also looked over, Erbo Yan and Uncle Yan kept screaming.

   “Alas, good, put on your gloves and hats, don’t blow the wind.” Yan Er said to the children.

  The adults want to train, go hunting in the mountains, and go to various places to do business, so they show this group of children again, and they take turns to collect firewood every day.

   “What kind of meat is it today?” Yan Lao Er asked while looking at the stall.

  Luo San didn’t come every day, it was his turn in about five or six days.

  It’s just the children going back and forth, the village is not at ease, so an adult follows every day.

  When it’s Luo San’s turn, he will come with the meat.

Luo San smiled and said: “Hey, I collected a few sheep at the Daji a few days ago, and sold them while raising them. I just killed them early in the morning. They are very fresh. I brought both the blood and haggis. It’s for you, Brother Yan, if you don’t come, I’ll drag you to Fucheng in the afternoon.”

   “Then quickly weigh it all for me, your second brother Yan will open you an account, haha!” Yan’s second brother heard that there is mutton, his eyes lit up, and he said: “Do you have ribs? Give it to me too.”

   “I asked Mrs. Rong to keep it, and said she would keep it for your second child.” Luo San smiled.

  Yan Lao Er thought to himself that his daughter should be home soon, and Nanny Rong would probably make roast lamb chops for her…

   Suck!

   “Then cut another two catties of meat for me.” Second Yan said.

   “Okay!” Luo San looked at the place, and the scale was high.

  Yan Laoer gave him a piece of broken silver, and Luo San found him a copper plate.

  Put two catties of mutton into the basket he brought and pass it to him together, which contains the packed sheep blood and haggis.

   “How’s the firewood business these days?” Yan Laoer asked casually.

  Luo San: “It’s very easy to sell. Basically, if we pull it away, it will be gone. I want to wait for Xiaoer to come back and talk to her about whether it should be increased.”

   “Didn’t it just go up one penny at the beginning of the month?” Yan Laoer asked.

After the family’s charcoal business was handed over to the daughter, it was booming. Simply collecting firewood from Huju and selling it to Yongning was no longer enough for her. The four gates of Fucheng squatted around the children of Xiao’an Village every day, collecting nine coins and selling ten coins. Ten texts in and out do not make money.

  At first, the children didn’t understand, and they just listened to what the boss Xiao Er said, but gradually, there were fewer and fewer people selling firewood at the gate of the city, and they almost carried them back to them and left.

  After the monopoly, the first thing Yan Yu did was to raise prices.

  A bundle of firewood costs eleven cash, which is the price at the gate of the city.

  By using the three railways, he opened up the relationship with Ximen, and paid a toll every month, and the firewood sales team in Xiao’an Village can enter and exit unlimited times every day.

  Walk the streets and alleys to deliver it to your home, and carry it to the woodshed, and you need fourteen coins.

   At the same time, charcoal is also sold together.

  The retail price is higher, which can cover three cents and seven cents per hundred catties of silver. When he returned to the village last time, the charcoal-burning mounds in the woods could not be seen at a glance…

   “It’s seventeen today, and it’s getting colder and colder. There are more people using firewood, and charcoal is also easy to sell. I’m thinking about the increase.”

  Yan Er Er suddenly felt a chill on his face, and looked up.

  The sky was gloomy, the sun was covered by thick dark clouds, and the snowflakes were falling, soon filling the sky and overturning the earth.

   “It’s snowing again.” Luo San muttered, taking out a clean cloth and covering it over the meat stand.

   Check whether the donkey’s cloak is tight.

   Went to where the children were, dug out with an iron hook, and added two pieces of charcoal to the furnace.

   Sorry everyone, I wanted to snooze for a while yesterday, but I didn’t expect to sleep until noon~

   Beep, sleep soundly~

   Go down, continue to code words~

  (end of this chapter)