OBS Chapter 385 Divide the money
Chapter 385 Divide the money
Li Jingshu felt quite content. After they settled down, they had almost spent all their money on buying land and food, and they didn't buy anything else, so their money was running out.
Now it's settled and he has some more money. Thinking about it, Li Jingshu laughed out loud again.
Shen Zhiqiu looked at his wife's satisfied face and grinned, suppressing the feeling of always being short of money in his heart:
"Come on, stop being silly and clean up your meal and get ready for the meeting!"
The ribs we stewed tonight have quite a bit of meat in them, and the kids were all excited after school.
Shen Luming held a big bone and took a bite with a mouthful of meat. He leaned in Shen Zhiqiu's arms and turned his head to smile happily at his father.
Shen Zhiqiu looked at his expression and asked, "Are you so happy?"
Shen Luming nodded his little head, his cheeks puffed up: "There are a lot of bones and meat today."
Shen Zhiqiu was happy: "Do you like to eat more meat?"
Shen Luming nodded his little head like a chicken eating rice, saying that he loved it very much. Who would like to eat bones when there is meat?
"Then you should study hard with the teacher, and I will earn more money to buy you meat later."
Shen Luming and his friends have already started attending classes at the Tang clan school. Because his predecessor had already taught Luming a lot of things when he was at home, this child really started reading the Three Character Classic at the age of three.
If it weren't for his memory, Shen Zhiqiu wouldn't have believed that in his previous life, it was quite good for a three-year-old kid who had just started kindergarten to learn a few ancient poems.
Therefore, Shen Luming said in a baby voice: "Dad, what the teacher taught is too simple, I know it all."
Shen Zhiqiu pulled his son over and patted his greasy face: "My son is great, but even if you have learned it before, you still have to listen carefully and treat it as a review."
Shen Fugui also sighed when he heard this: "Among these guys, Lu Ming is the best student. The others can't keep up!"
Shen Zhidong also complained: "Yuanbao is the same, he can't sit still at all."
Shen Zhiqiu was afraid that they would discourage the children's enthusiasm, so he quickly made up for it: "Lu Ming has already learned it at home. The kids are just starting now, but they will catch up slowly."
He smiled at Yuanbao and said, "Yuanbao, you are the captain of your group, you have to take the lead."
But Yuanbao was enjoying his pork ribs so much that he didn't want to discuss study with him.
At this moment, classmate Shen Youyou was holding a bamboo spoon, scooping a bowl of soup, and drinking it mouthful by mouthful. It was so delicious, especially the one when she took a sip of soup and a mouthful of corn bread. She enjoyed it so much.
Old Lady Hua kept looking at her while eating: "Everyone else is eating meat and you're drinking soup?"
"Nai, you don't understand. All the nutrients are in the soup. That's the essence."
Old Lady Hua rolled her eyes: "I won't argue with you, you are always right anyway."
Shen Mazi had already gnawed three large pieces of pork ribs, eaten three steamed buns, and filled a bowl of soup to soak the buns in. "I just realized that Yoyo really knows how to eat. The steamed buns dipped in soup are so delicious!"
The women also gathered in groups of three or five, eating and chatting. The atmosphere was very lively. Life was becoming more and more promising. They could eat and dress warmly, and make money. Even before they fled the famine, they could not even imagine such a life.
After Shen Youyou had eaten and drunk her fill, she squatted down in front of Shen Tietou and said, "Uncle, are the two things I asked you to make almost finished?"
What she needed to make was the pan-like tool that she had previously wanted to use to heat-press plastic sheets and make shoes, and also a machine for making plastic cotton.
Shen Tietou finished eating the steamed bread in his hand, wiped his mouth and said: "The pancake maker is almost done. The round bowl machine is difficult to use."
Now there is no electricity, everything needs to be done manually, so the plastic cotton machine designed by Shen Youyou is actually a cube with four corner brackets.
On the bracket is a gear turntable, connected to a handle that can be turned by hand, and on top is something like a large iron bucket.
A hole is drilled in the middle, and a steel pipe similar to a long screw is passed through the center of the large iron barrel and then connected to a small iron barrel.
The opening on the small iron bucket cannot be fully open, but should be recessed a little to prevent the liquid plastic from being rotated out, thus serving as a shield.
There are also many irregular small holes on the body of the small iron barrel, so that when it rotates, the liquid plastic can be thrown out from the small holes and turned into plastic cotton.
To put it bluntly, it is feasible to make this thing directly. It is made according to the machine.
However, the one designed by Shen Youyou is relatively large, about half a person's height, and requires two people to operate it.
Place the machine on a small stove. The stove should not be too big, and should be slightly smaller than a small iron bucket.
One person heats the liquid plastic and pours it in, while the other person turns the extended handle to connect the gear set.
Then the small iron bucket will rotate quickly, and the person who poured the liquid plastic in before can use a bamboo pole to do the same as before.
Wrap the cotton-like plastic cotton around the bamboo pole, make a large ball, take it off, and then continue to wrap the next ball.
This plastic cotton is not sugar. After it becomes floc, it cools down very quickly, is not afraid of squeezing, and is very elastic. It can be used to make cotton-padded clothes, quilts, shoes, or even for spinning and weaving.
In fact, in Shen Youyou's opinion, the principle is quite simple.
But Shen Tietou just couldn't figure it out, so although he made the first tool, the plastic cotton machine still had no results.
Shen Youyou nodded and said, "It's okay. I'll make a plastic mold first, separate each part, and explain it to you before we do it."
By this time, everyone had almost finished their meal, and Shen Zhiqiu talked about dividing the money, and everyone was very excited.
"Let's distribute the money today, and then we can buy what our families need, such as some clothes, etc."
The men also responded, "Yes, we make money and buy two sets of clothes for the elderly, children, and wives."
"Yes, we won't wear patched clothes anymore, so that those who come to buy goods won't see us wearing them and look at us with strange eyes."
This is because, although they had made a set of clothes before, didn't they buy a set of clothes for Shen Zhiqiu's father-in-law when he was preparing for his tomb?
But people are reluctant to wear it when they are working at home, so they just wear the patches on their clothes.
So the people who purchase goods are puzzled. You say these people are making huge profits, but why don’t you even make a new piece of clothing? Is it that the production cost of these things is very high? Even though they are working hard, they actually don’t make much money?
Finally, the money was distributed. Except for Mr. Shen who received five taels of silver, the rest of the group leaders, Wang Fuxi, Li Quan, Shen Mazi, Shen Fugui, Shen Tietou, Guo Langzhong, and Gao Liehu, received four taels of silver.
The other able-bodied laborers received three and a half taels, and the young boys and women received three taels each.
Even though Shen Youyou and Shen Zhiqiu felt that the money was too little and there wouldn't be much left after dividing it, everyone else didn't think so.
For ordinary farmers, if they work for more than a month, they can get three to four taels of silver. That's just one family. But for them, this is for everyone, except for the kids.
Even young boys can earn money.