Cui Zhubu's wife, Qiao, carried a big bag and entered Su Song's house and was led to the flower hall by his servants. Han Yueniang was visiting her and sat in the flower hall with Su Song's wife. When Qiao saw her, she hurriedly greeted her.

The guest and host took a seat and drank a cup of tea. Qiao put the bag on the table and said, "Madam, here are six kilograms, all cut. This is prepared bamboo paper, cut properly, and the figures are printed on it, and the front and back sides are divided. You must not make any mistakes. Take a look, if it is correct, draw a letter on the receipt, so I can go back and submit the transaction. Two days later, I will come to collect and settle the money."

Su Song's wife Ling stepped forward, opened the bag and checked it, and wrote a letter on the receipt.

Qiao took the receipt and said, "You guys are here, I have a few other families to run away, so I will say goodbye."

After sending Qiao out, Ling returned to the hall and said to Han Yueniang: "This sister-in-law of the Cui family is a worker. She has lost all the money these days. She ran around and brought us these candies back. She had nothing to do and earned some spare money to supplement the family income."

This is a newly made crisp candy from the field affairs. After it is prepared, it must be subpacked with bamboo paper. As a benefit for the officials of the yamen, the final packaging process is distributed to their families and the money is calculated according to the pieces. All the officials of the yamen, except Du Zhongxiao's family, took on this job. Han Yueniang felt that she was not too conspicuous and had to take her family to do it, but was stopped by Du Zhongxiao. This is a benefit for her subordinates. Her family does not lack this money, so there is no need to pretend to others. The Du family has a big business and a small population. Everyone knows that there is no need to pretend.

This matter was organized by Cui Zhubu's wife, who brought the candy from the venue, and sent it back after it was packed. She calculated the money and earned some errands. In her spare time, he also packed candy at home, and bought some wine and meat from the money he earned to improve his life.

The salaries of officials are not low or low, but they are not as high as they are, depending on how many people they have to support.

Like Du Zhongxiao, he had a salary of dozens of stagnant per month and a few stones of rice. His family had a small population and he didn't need to save money, and his life was quite rich. Su Song's salary was much smaller, 10 or 20 stagnant, and the rice he paid was almost the same. Cui Zhuzhu's salary was much smaller, and his salary was only six or seven stagnant.

If it is a small family like Du Zhongxiao, these salary is enough. Not to mention wine and meat every day, there is at least no worries about food and clothing. However, in this era, there are ten or twenty people in the family at any time. With this salary alone, many officials are busy with life. Grandfathers are there and they cannot share wealth and live in different places. This is the law of the court and officials must abide by it, otherwise they may be impeached. In addition, the fact that they are not allowed to have industries under their rule, the family of officials can only live on the salary of officials. If the family has a large population, the pressure of life is very great.

Not to mention these middle and lower-level officials, Yang Yi, the magistrate of the imperial edict during the Zhenzong period, would rather give up his future and go to a low-price place to become a magistrate because of his family's population. As for the selection of low-level people, it was difficult to spend the day, so that those who feed on wild vegetables never stopped. Some even died in office. After the family cut off their income, they could only sell their children and daughters to make up for the money they had to return home.

Su Song's family was still wealthy, and his father Su Shen once became a Hanlin bachelor. But a few years ago, Lu Yijian passed away because Su Shen was a party of Lu Yijian, and was attacked by Ouyang Xiu and others. He was demoted and his life was getting worse day by day. After his father passed away, the burden of supporting the family fell on Su Song. After his family came to Qingtai Town, he had to rely on his salary to make a living, so his life was not good.

After mass production of crispy candies, Du Zhongxiao distributed the last packaging process to the officials' families at home, which was to give them benefits in view of the actual situation. Anyway, there were a bunch of idle people in the family, and the job was not heavy, so it was always good to make some money to subsidize the household income.

After the policy was released, Su Song's wife took over at home and made a lot of money in a month. In addition to the wages of candy, the amount of candy given is always slightly more than the amount collected, which is considered consumption, and there are still a few pieces of candy left to coax the child.

She sat down again, took the candy and paper from the bag, and Han Yueniang helped wrap the candy paper together, and the two women were gossiping.

Ling said: "With such a job, you can earn three or two chunks of money a month, and things are getting harder and harder."

Han Yueniang said, "What's wrong with doing? She's not tired and is all familiar to everyone in the yamen."

Ling sighed: "We are all together every day, but there is nothing. Recently, I heard that the farming farms in the village below are not as good as the yamen's wishes. Many officers can't continue to do it, so they transferred them to the town. These people are different from us, and some are too greedy. A few days ago, a family took candy home, but they didn't know if it was eaten by their family or broken, so they had to say that the number was wrong. Oh, it made the sister-in-law of the Cui family so angry that she couldn't eat for several days. If it weren't for everyone's sake, she wouldn't have made it for that family anyway."

After hearing this, Han Yueniang felt funny: "It's just a few pieces of candy, how could it lead to such an embarrassing thing?"

Ling said, "Your family has no shortage of expenses and a small population. I don't know how difficult it is. For example, in my family, not only my own children, but also my uncles. There are too many children, so how can I see it? Children have to eat candy when they see it. If the tutoring is not strict, the number will be wrong."

Thinking of his son, Du Zhongxiao scolded him and refused to listen because he was greedy for eating candy. He did not get rid of his fault until he beat him. Han Yueniang had nothing to say. Only one son, Du Zhongxiao's salary was much higher than others, and he did not have these worries. However, because of a son, everyone was treasured and he was too spoiled, Han Yueniang struggled to take care of him.

The two women chatted about family matters and were chatting, while doing their lives, time passed without realizing it.

The land construction project was in full swing, and many grassroots officers could not continue to do it. They were transferred back to Qingtai Town and worked in various venues. Just a place to make candy can no longer be arranged. These changes also affected various families.

There is no need to worry about selling candy. The crispy candies in Yingtianwu are simple to make, have a sweet taste, and are subcontracted, good luck and good sales, and they are popular as soon as they are launched. From Liangjing to Liangzhe in the north, to Liangzhe in the south, they are sold in all directions in a short time. When the sales are good, the output will quickly increase, and the family members will also have a job to do.

However, for the huge land business, the income is too small, and it is just a drop in the bucket.

The venue for making crispy candy is not far away. Du Zhongxiao and Su Song stood in the yard, with a row of wooden tables in front, and several big men kneading dough there.

After kneading the dough, it was put into a string of pressing rollers and gradually pressed it thinly, and finally became a thin piece. A young man rolled up the thin and large bread with his hands and pushed it behind. A big man held a wide and thick knife and pressed it on the bread with both hands, cutting it over quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he cut the bread into a pile of thin strips. The last two men picked up the thin noodles and hung it on the bamboo pole next to him.

Seeing the noodles being thin and long, floating with the breeze, Su Song said: "I have seen people selling such bearded noodles on the market, but they are too troublesome to make. Most people don't know how to make them. It's much simpler."

Du Zhongxiao said: "No matter how troublesome the matter is, as long as you plan reasonably, divide it into steps, and arrange the manpower well, it will become simple."

Su Song nodded: "It's true. However, fresh noodles are not durable and stored. What's the use of making so many beef noodles? If you open a shop to sell them, Qingtai Town will not have much population and it will not be sold much."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "Fresh noodles will not last long, but dry noodles will be different. These prepared beard noodles are hung on bamboo poles and dried in shade. They can be stored for a long time without any moisture. We made them and sold them. After buying them, they can be eaten as long as they cook them, which is very convenient."
Chapter completed!