After seeing Zhang Ran receive so many fish from the fish cage and having a beautiful meal of grilled fish, no one of the teenagers doubted whether Zhang Ran's fish cage could catch the fish.

What they are thinking about now is how to learn how to weave fish cages from Zhang Ran faster and how to make more fish cages to catch fish.

After this double stimulation, the enthusiasm of the teenagers to study was unprecedentedly high. Not long after the sun rose the next day, most of the teenagers prepared tools such as axes and hemp ropes, and came to Zhang Ran’s house ready to go.

After everyone arrived, Zhang Ran did not say nonsense and directly led everyone to the back mountain. After coming to the mountain, Zhang Ran not only directed everyone to cut bamboo, but also taught them how to make rope covers and how to set up hunting traps in the mountains.

The boys did not expect that in addition to catching fish, Zhang Ran also had some hunting skills, and they couldn't help but admire Zhang Ran a little more.

After returning from the mountains, Zhang Ran found Sankui's sister Cui'er and invited her to teach the young people the skills of weaving fish cages.

At first, Zhang Cui'er was very shy and was not willing to participate in such things, let alone be a "teacher" to teach others.

But with Zhang Ran's persuasion and Sankui's begging, Zhang Cui'er finally reluctantly agreed to come and help.

Just as Zhang Ran was about to take Sankui and his sister to his home to teach the boys the skills of weaving fish cages, he accidentally caught a bamboo basket not far from Zhang Cui'er's feet, and there was a very exquisitely crafted bamboo basket.

Under the trend of curiosity, Zhang Ran bent down, picked up the bamboo basket and looked carefully, and found that the bamboo basket was very new and seemed to have just been weaved not long ago.

"Miss Cui'er, did you make this bamboo basket?"

"Yeah~" Zhang Cui'er shyly lowered her head, twisted her fingers, and whispered: "When I'm free, I'm making it up and having fun..."

"It's pretty good!" Zhang Ran was surprised to find that the "inventor" of the fish cage not only had the speed of weaving the fish cage far less than Zhang Cui'er, but even the knitting skills seemed to be surpassed.

Although Zhang Cui'er has only learned it for less than a month, she has surpassed her ambitions and left Zhang Ran far behind.

Not only was Zhang Cui'er's fish cage fast and beautiful, but in addition to the fish cage, she also learned to weave bamboo baskets and bamboo baskets, which are bamboo daily necessities without any knowledge. From Zhang Ran's perspective, the things she woven are even more exquisite than the bamboo baskets he saw in Xinfeng Liu Market.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but feel moved and said happily: "Miss Cui'er, your skills are so good that you can put this bamboo basket in the market for money!"

"Really?" Zhang Cui'er said in surprise.

"Well~" Zhang Ran nodded, and then said to Zhang Cui'er solemnly: "Sister Cui'er, I have said before that I want to lead the whole family to make a fortune and get rich together. Since you have such good skills, would you like to teach your weaving skills to the others in Lijunei with me?"

"Uh, this..." Hearing Zhang Ran's inquiry, Zhang Cuier hesitated a little and didn't know how to answer for a moment...

Seeing this, Zhang Ran added: "If other girls in us have learned how to build bamboo baskets like you, wouldn't that mean they also found a way to make money? When they have the skills to make a living, they will no longer have to live a life-thinking life every day. Even if they get married in the future, they can still gain a foothold in their husband's family!"

"Ah? Really?" Zhang Cui'er widened her eyes and looked at Zhang Ran in surprise.

Zhang Ran replied with great affirmation: "Of course it is true. I have seen your craftsmanship. It is very good. It is also of excellent quality when put in the market. It is absolutely no problem to sell it."

"That's great, great!" Zhang Cuier was almost crying with joy when she heard that the skills of making bamboo products were so important to the girls in the village.

The eyelashes blinked, and looked at Zhang Ran’s eyes with bright colors. Suddenly, Zhang Cui'er bit her cherry lips, clenched her fists and whispered: "Then...then I'll try it!"

"I believe you can do it!" Zhang Ran laughed and said happily: "After finishing these few days, I will teach you how to weave straw mats, straw sandals and other things. Then see who in the village dares to look down on girls again!"

Zhang Ran knew very well that only economic independence can be independent personality. Only by finding a job that can make money can we change the common phenomenon of favoring boys over girls in the village. Girls are smarter and more suitable for making bamboo products than men, so Zhang Ran had the idea of ​​letting girls in the village participate.

In the future, after Zhang Ran built more advanced textile machines, he would recruit female workers in large quantities, completely changing the current situation of women's low status.

Fortunately, it is the Han Dynasty, the old Zhou rituals have collapsed, the new order has not yet taken shape, and Confucianism has just made its fortune, Gongyang Confucianism advocates change, is relatively enlightened, and Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which extremely restricts the status of women, has not yet appeared.

Only then can Zhang Ran have room to display his ideas. If it were the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, no matter how capable Zhang Ran had, he would not be able to let a woman show up to work in public!

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With Zhang Ran's support and encouragement, Zhang Cuier quickly found some girls of the same age in the gathering, and taught them her skills in making bamboo products, and brought them to join Zhang Ran's work to get rich.

With the addition of these girls, the teenagers in Zhangli became more enthusiastic and their learning progress increased rapidly. In just three days, except for some guys who really don’t have this talent, everyone else basically mastered the skills of fish cage weaving. Some of them were more ambitious and had a strong learning ability. They also went to Zhang Cuier to learn how to weav bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets and other things.

Then, after they had just learned a little, they ran to teach the new girls...

Seeing this scene, Zhang Ran seemed to have ten thousand divine beasts rushing by, and he wanted to go over and ask those guys, don’t you know that intermarriage is not allowed in the same surname within the five sermons?

Seeing that most of the people had learned how to weave fish cages and other bamboo products, Zhang Ran was determined to teach them the skills of weaving straw mats and straw sandals.

But unfortunately, the methods and steps of weaving straw mats are relatively complicated, and the raw materials needed are not as easy to obtain as bamboo.

The calamus grows in the pond and there are not many near them. The other material, reeds, need at least autumn to mature, and the mature reed poles will take a long time to dry before they can be used.

So Zhang Ran can only teach them things such as straw sandals that have relatively low requirements in all aspects.
Chapter completed!