After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields Chapter 64

Chapter 64: One drop after another

 The shed is set up and the mill can be officially opened.

 In fact, it is more appropriate to call it a pavilion. A shed has only a roof, with supporting bamboo poles on all sides. A bamboo pole runs across the middle of three sides as a fence, and one side is left empty as a door.

Qin Yao is satisfied with being able to get such a mill in such a short time and without spending a penny.

The mill is at the foot of her house, so she doesn't have to worry about it being stolen. She can hear any movement at home.

With all preparations made, Qin Yao took advantage of the villagers gathering in the village well to rest and went over to explain the rules for charging fees.

 Five cents an hour, all she had to do was send the grain to be ground, and she was responsible for grinding it for them and sending it home.

Qin Yao and Liu Ji warmly received him. After seeing off Liu Dafu, Liu Ji was responsible for the grinding and Qin Yao was responsible for the grinding. It was the first time that the two of them completed this large-scale cooperation with such a tacit understanding. It only took three and a half days to complete the grinding. Fifty loads of grain were all sent to Liu Dafu's house.

There are two more.

Liu Ji also brought a small table from home and put a pot of cold brew and two cups on it. He thought he would have a drink by the river when he had free time, and imitate the behavior of a noble man in the city, who indulged himself in the mountains and rivers.

 But only occasionally.

 Liu Ji drank his fourth glass of cold water and said, "Yeah."

“She wanted to go to the water mill to grind flour in the morning. When she heard that it cost five cents an hour, she went back to the stone mill in despair.”

There are a few people here and there, all of them children.

 After learning the truth, Liu Ji jumped on the spot, "I don't dare to spend this little money, I deserve to suffer!"

 But when he came back from going to the hut, there was still no customer in the mill.

Don't forget that five pennies is just over a pound of brown rice, but everyone is used to hardship, and suddenly using so much rice to buy some leisure time feels like something evil.

“Idle time is idle anyway. The stone mill costs nothing, so it's nothing if she puts in a little effort on her own.”

"Then she's just tired." Qiu sneered.

She felt strange that the water mill was much better than the stone mill. She had experienced it personally yesterday. She just stood and put grain into the millstone. It was not tiring at all.

 After listening to the conversation between her sisters-in-law, Mrs. Zhang finally figured out the reason why there was no one in the water mill.

“Reducing the price to three cents an hour, someone should come, right?” Qin Yao was no longer confident.

At night, a family of six drank white rice porridge and a plate of stewed melon slices. The food was tasteless.

He thought to herself that it was just because Lao San's family allowed them to use the grinding machine for free that she thought it was good.

As soon as they entered the door, they heard Mr. He and Ms. Qiu complaining while weaving, "Aunt Zhou came to me and said, why does the third family's water mill charge such a high price? All the relatives in the village want to earn relatives with broken bones and tendons." What's the money like?”

 Call back the eldest grandson who was catching grasshoppers for the chickens on the field ridge and ask him to pass on a message.

There is really a problem, and it is a big problem.

She guessed that the third child and his wife were afraid and didn't know why.

 Bird feathers are also feathers, so it doesn't mean they can't be made into down jackets, right?

　At this moment, the couple was drinking cold drinks, while the other was sorting out feathers and down, expecting guests to come.

The stone mill is so crowded, why are no one willing to go to her water mill?

 What went wrong?

At this time of year, there is a lot of water in the river, and the impact and the whirring of the water mill make it much faster than human grinding. Yesterday, when she came with a load of grain, it only took her half an hour to grind, which was almost an hour less than before. times the time.

 Let Liu Ji go to the village to publicize it, and continue to wait the next morning.

Liu Ji asked in a trembling voice: "How much?"

 Chin Yao is a little calmer, but not much.

 “Why is there no one?” Mrs. Zhang muttered and returned home with a puzzled look on her face.

But if they really had to spend money to rent the water mill, they would rather be tired and slowly grind it themselves with a stone mill.

Qin Yao caught Jin Hua and asked her where she was. Jin Hua called her aunt affectionately and pointed towards the ancestral hall with her little hand.

　　No, I couldn't hold it in any longer, "Madam, I'll come as soon as I go!"

 Thank God, Liu Dafu is here, and he is walking towards the water mill with his heavy fifty loads of grain!

 If it were her, she would be very willing to pay the service fee.

 Everyone was not sure how long it would take the grinder to grind, and there was work to be done in the fields at home, so the method of queuing up with grain burdens was derived.

 It's absolutely impossible to think that their charges are too expensive!

Qin Yao: “Wait a little longer?”

  Three and a half days, actual time taken is 25 hours.

From morning to night, only Yun Niang from Liu Gonglang's family brought a bucket of shelled wheat to grind the flour.

Qin Yao hurried towards the ancestral hall. Before he arrived, he saw the grain burdens lined up in front of the mill.

Since it was less than a penny for half an hour, Yun Niang asked Liu Ji to pick two small melons in her garden at any time.

Mrs. Zhang went to the fields to weed the vegetable fields. When she returned home, she passed by the river and subconsciously glanced at the water mill. She thought there would be too many people, but she didn't expect that the millstones were not running and there was no one at all.

Liu Ji was also confused, "No matter how busy you are, you should have some free time at noon, right?"

"Move down again!" Qin Yao still didn't believe it. No one wanted to spend money, save effort and time.

 Liu Ji then went to the village to publicize it again.

If a daughter-in-law is afraid of being tired and suffering, she will spend five cents to rent a water mill, but she is afraid that the old men and women in the family will stab her in the spine and call you a **** bitch!

This made the two people who were originally confident no longer confident. Qin Yao was not one to sit still and wait for death. She immediately went to the village well where the villagers gathered to see what was going on.

Jinbao went happily. He wanted to find Dalang and the others to catch grasshoppers together. It would be more fun if there were more people.

Of course, occasionally when a large amount of food is needed to hold a wedding or wedding, I am also willing to spend some money to rent the water mill.

Yesterday, I shot so many birds. Qin Yao plucked out all the feathers and dried them in the sun. She planned to save them to make gloves and scarves later.

"But." Thinking of the price of five cents an hour, Mrs. Qiu's heart skipped a beat, "We are an ordinary family, and it's not easy to earn five cents."

The water grinder is very efficient. It took her half an hour to grind the noodles and earn two small melons.

So the husband and wife each took a stool and sat in the mill waiting for the guests to come.

 He wants to shuck all the grain.

Listening to He's vivid narration, Qiu frowned, feeling a little dissatisfied with his family.

Even after three cups of this cold drink, and all the feathers and downs sorted, why hasn't anyone come yet?

Qin Yao looked at Liu Ji, "Too busy and no time?"

"The water mill in Lao San's house was not blown by the strong wind. I spent money on it myself. How can she use it in vain without giving me the money? How can such a good thing happen?" He said, "It's not like you don't know who she is. No matter how stingy she is, she will."

Liu Ji felt panicked at the loss, and had to help guard and deliver it home. No fool would come.

Qin Yao herself feels that this service is very good. After all, the villagers only need to spend a little money and leave their things to her, and then they can do their own things.

The more grain burdens lined up, the more people have to grind them. Qin Yao couldn't understand the long dragon-like burdens.

Qin Yao gritted her teeth, "Two cents an hour!"

Looking at the fifty cents handed over by Liu Dafu with a smile, Qin Yao couldn't laugh at all.

 The villain inside: Destroy them all!

 (End of this chapter)

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