Transmigration Of Mian [Reluctantly] Becomes His Man [Wife] (穿越之勉为其男)

Chapter 101: Someone Wants to Buy the Honey Peaches

If they wanted to help Zhang Dashuan Family, Wu Di Family, and Li Zheng Family, they couldn't help them openly. The advantage of living in the countryside was that the villagers could help each other. The disadvantage was that they knew the economic conditions of others as they knew each other too well. Once the gap between the rich and the poor became too large, it was easy to lead to contradictions.

If other people knew that the sudden rise of the Zhang, Wu, and Li Zheng families was related to the Qin Mian, the village would certainly be restless. To avoid trouble, Qin Mian decided to stay behind the scenes.

Zhang Dashuan couldn't do any craftmanship work, but he was young and vigorous, and his mind was flexible. Previously, he made a small profit by making bamboo skewers for Eating Savory Restaurant and bought a donkey cart before the busy farming season. Qin Mian thought that he could do "cart service".

The business of Double Xiang House and Eating Savory Restaurant was getting better and better. Many people came to Running Water Town from Zhaoyang County for a meal every day. Even the merchants, who passed through Zhaoyang County, heard that Double Xiang House and Eating Savory Restaurant were very famous, and would likely take a detour to have a meal there. Not only to satisfy their appetite but could also be an idle conversation topic when they got home.

More people meant more transport. Picking up and dropping off customers, he could earn at least 30 Wen per day. In a month, it could be almost a thousand Wen, which was a tael silver. Plus, there had not been a cart service yet.

Not only limited to this. Many girls and married women in the village could weave ornament knots, embroider insoles, embroider handkerchiefs, and make embroidered pouches, right? Women were inconvenient to go out and usually had to take care of the housework and did not have much time to go to the market. While running the service, Zhang Dashuan could help them sell these small items. And perhaps, people from other places liked the local embroidery style? Every time he sold an item, he earned some money, which was another income.

The Wu Family was a little more difficult to handle. Wu Di himself didn't know any craftmanship. Qin Mian didn't want to take Wu Di into his business, so he gave this family an idea to raise earthworm-fed chickens. Currently, people raised chickens as their food and only knew how to feed the chickens with rotten vegetables and leaves. At most, they gave some leftovers of brown rice. The cost of breeding earthworm was low, so it was suitable for a family with an average financial situation as his.

He discovered from the inquiry that Li Zheng's eldest son was a bamboo craftsman, and his second son was a cotton craftsman. Li Zheng had foresight after his two sons were born. To avoid them competing for family property in the future, Li Zheng arranged for the two sons to learn different skills when he found out that they were not gifted in learning. Unfortunately, these days, life was not easy. Craftsmen were only a little better than ordinary people, but the competition between them was also big. When the two sons grew up, they were still mainly engaged in farming. When it was not farming season, they found some casual jobs to do and earned money enough to buy oil and salt.

Normally, when the villagers wanted to weave baskets or fluff up their old quilts again, they usually asked for these two men. Qin Mian's idea for Li Zheng's eldest son was to weave bamboo into various designs, or dye them with different patterns to make them more exquisite and artistic, including large bamboo baskets, bamboo cylindrical baskets, bamboo mats, and reed mats. At the same time, he also gave away some drawings of woven products he had seen in his previous life for free. For more patterns, it relied on the eldest son to fumble about.

Qin Mian gave Li Zheng's second son a drawing of a cotton gin that could be operated by hand or by foot. Namely, a cottonseed remover. It was also regarded as keeping his old profession. The principle of the ginning machine was not complicated. Qin Mian remembered that when he was very young, his grandfather had an old manual seed remover, and he had seen his grandfather dismantle and clean it. This machine was one and only. It could certainly make a lot of money.