Chapter 23: The Zhaizhu Helps Out
As the Moon Festival approaches, the villagers of Yangjiazhai are starting to get busy.
Like the world before Yang Xu, Zhao's Moon Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the day is also on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.
In Zhao State, the Moon Festival is one of the most important festivals of the year.
Every night on the Moon Festival, every household in Zhao State reunited and admired the moon, burned incense and worshiped the moon god, and expressed their wishes for the year in order to get the blessing of the moon god.
Since the villagers of Yangjiazhai learned to carve and weave, they have burst out with great enthusiasm.
During these days, many villagers made some small items day and night to sell to Jinyang City at the foot of the mountain.
In Jinyang City, objects like bamboo weaving are not lacking, but they are not as delicate and exquisite as those produced by Yangjiazhai, and have a complete range of types.
Therefore, every time the bamboo weaving pieces brought to the city by Yangjiazhai Village people, they sell the fastest and best.
As for those cute cartoon wood sculptures, they are even more popular among children from wealthy families in the city.
After a long time, many children in Yangcheng, Jincheng knew where to sell cartoon wood carvings, so they were full of expectations and would pull their adults over every day.
As long as they see the stalls set up by the Yangjiazhai Village people, there are cartoon wood sculptures they have never owned, they will pester their own adults to buy them. If the adults don’t buy them, at least seven or eight out of the ten children will lie on the ground and roll on, crying and shouting, and will never get up.
Some children even compete with each other, clamoring to see who can collect the wood carvings of the twelve zodiac signs first.
The villagers of Yangjiazhai visited Jinyang City several times before the Moon Festival. After selling the objects they woven and carved, almost every household of the villager was given some money.
Although there is not much money and it is not enough to completely change their lives, at least they can buy some wine and meat to celebrate a "fat festival" in the upcoming Moon Festival.
So a few days before the Moon Festival, the men in the village were still weaving and carving, while the older girls and wives began to get together and discuss what to buy their fathers, brothers or men into the city.
Originally, Yang Xu had earned dozens of taels of silver, and thought he had spent a while, but now there was a thrush around him. Although the little girl said firmly that as long as she was not hungry, Yang Xu felt that it was reasonable and he should give her some monthly money.
In Yang Xu's previous world, although there were servants and nannies who specialize in serving people, those servants and nannies received a considerable high salary.
And a docile, well-behaved, bright and charming girl like Huamei, in that world, even if you pay a high salary, she may not be willing to serve you, let alone just pay for food.
In fact, in this world with distinctive ranks and inferiors, it is normal for Yang Hongyu to assign a maid named Huamei to serve Yang Xu. Yang Xu can accept it with peace of mind.
But Yang Xu was not a person in this world after all. The education he received since childhood was that everyone was equal. He felt a little guilty when he was young.
But he was really reluctant to drive Huamei back and not only hurt the little girl's heart.
So giving the thrush some monthly money is also a pleasure.
As for Yang Hongyu never gave Huamei monthly money, it was because Yang family village was poor before, and Yang Hongyu, as the leader of the village, was also troubled by money.
I now have some spare money on hand, and if I keep hiding it and refuse to take it out, it is really unreasonable.
So no matter what Yang Xu thought about Huamei, he directly ordered her one or two taels of monthly payment for her, and she would not turn against her.
When Huamei saw Yang Xu say this, she looked stern and looked angry, so she dared not object.
She also knew that Yang Xu was good to her, and she was only grateful to Yang Xu in her heart.
Yang Xu felt that he was really unable to make a fortune at one tael of silver a month, but for the thrush, there were already many.
"When I earn more money in the future, I will add some monthly money to you! When I get to my place, I will never treat you badly!"
Yang Xu touched the top of the thrush's head and said with a smile.
If you want to increase your monthly income from thrush, you can only continue to work hard to make money.
So seeing that other village residents were busy, Yang Xu also began to think about how to make another profit during this Moon Festival.
In Yang Xu's previous world, every holiday, it was the time for merchants to make money.
The next morning after dinner, Yang Xu and Huamei came to the school in Zhulin.
When we arrived in front of the school, many village residents, including Yang Hongyu, had already lowered their heads to carve and weaving, and they were busy.
They are planning to make another batch of bamboo weaving and wood carvings, and take them to Jinyang City to sell on the Moon Festival, so as to make more money.
Because of the Moon Festival, the school has been on holiday these days and let the children have fun. Yang Xu has completely freed.
Yang Hongyu sat with several women in the village, holding a piece of wood in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and was carving a puppy.
She lowered her eyebrows and eyes, focused, carved her very seriously, and a cute cartoon puppy is about to take shape.
Yang Hongyu not only weaves bamboo quickly and well, but also has a very high talent in carving. She can only see Yang Xu demonstrate anything once and try it herself and then she can carve it out.
Perhaps the girl is more delicate in her mind. Not only is Yang Hongyu carving faster than Yang Xu, but she is also better in details. I don’t know how her hands grow.
Yang Xu thought that if Yang Hongyu was in the world before him, at least in art, he would have achieved great success.
When the villagers saw Yang Xu coming, they stood up and greeted each other, and called "Mr. Yang" respectfully.
Even Yang Hongyu stopped her work and got up and nodded at Yang Xu.
"Miss……"
Huamei walked to Yang Hongyu and bowed. Thinking that she would not be able to follow the lady to serve her in the future, her voice choked up.
Yang Hongyu took Huamei's little hand and walked aside, whispering to her something. Huamei's little face turned slightly red, and she nodded and shook her head.
Yang Xu also started chatting with several village residents.
A moment later, Yang Hongyu and Huamei returned hand in hand.
"Mr. Yang, Huamei is still young, and I am negligent in discipline. If there is any inappropriate service, please don't blame me... Huamei is smart and smart, I believe it will get better and better..."
Yang Hongyu said to Yang Xu in a serious and solemn voice.
Huamei followed Yang Hongyu since childhood. Although they were masters and servants, they were actually like sisters.
If it weren't for keeping Yang Xu, Yang Hongyu wouldn't have let Huamei leave.
Yang Xu also said seriously: "Don't worry, the master of the village, the thrush is with me, just like my sister, I will not treat her badly."
Yang Xu would not say anything to refuse at this time, otherwise he would appear pretentious.
"Huanwu, you must take good care of Mr. Yang's daily life in the future. Everything is mainly based on Mr. Yang. Don't be lazy and sloppy, which will delay Mr. Yang's affairs... Do you remember?"
Yang Hongyu gave the thrush earnest instructions in front of Yang Xu.
Huamei knows her own lady's temper. She seems to be cold and talkative, but she is not in conflict with the world, but in fact she is cold and warm, and she is just a word.
If he neglects Mr. Yang, even if Mr. Yang doesn't say anything bad, his lady will probably punish him severely.
So she nodded and kept it in mind when Yang Hongyu's instructions.
"Master, I want to ask you for help..."
Chapter completed!