She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Chapter 126 Lime

Wen Wuyan almost didn't sleep all night. He swore that he definitely didn't hear anything he shouldn't have heard. He was just worried about Qingqing's kiln. He couldn't sleep, so he got up every few days to put some firewood into the kiln.

This caused Gu Qingqing to wake up early the next morning and yawn repeatedly. She complained to Wen Wuyan, "Why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night and always going to see the kiln?"

What could Wen Wuyan say? Nothing, nothing.

He could only smile slightly, "You said that was very important before, I was a little worried at night."

"Why worry? At most it's just a matter of wasting some firewood. Okay, don't worry about the rest and go about your own business." Gu Qing started to drive people away.

Then she started to make today's portion of pig intestines. When she was done, she loaded them into the car with Luo Meihua who had been waiting there.

After reminding them to be careful on the way, I watched them leave.

At the same time, just as she was about to send Erhua away, she called Wu Fang and the others over. When she finished talking to Erhua, she saw the three of them coming towards this side.

When they got closer, Gu Qingqing said to them, "I'm busy here and can't leave. I was just about to ask Erhua to call you, but you came over."

When the three heard that Gu Qingqing was going to look for them, they were delighted. Wu Fang smiled cheerfully and asked, "But is there a result?"

"Well, let me start by saying that you are discussing whether to make it or not. Making pig intestines is quite complicated. There are many tricks to the spices, ingredients, firewood, and fire. It is also very complicated. So, if you send a wooden barrel of waste water, I will take 130 coins. If you send two barrels of waste water, I will take 252 coins. In this way, all the above mentioned things are on my account. There is only one thing I need you to do, which is to clean the pig intestines here. I will provide the wood ash, and I will also teach you how to rub it."

Cleaning pig intestines was really hard work, so Gu Qingqing didn't plan to do it herself. She let them do it, and her supervisor would just watch for any parts that were not rubbed properly and clean them up herself.

In addition, she said that she wanted to rub it at her home. Firstly, her home had enough wood ash, and secondly, she wanted to throw the wood ash used to rub the pig intestines into the manure pit at the edge of the field.

Zhao Dong had helped her dig the manure pit a few days ago. Not only that, when they heard that she wanted to store water, they also made a large wooden pier and hammer to tamp the soil around the pit firmly, so that when she stored water in it, it would not all seep out.

The three knew that her business was good, but they had no idea how much one bucket could be sold for. When they heard that she would charge one hundred and thirty coins for one bucket, they all took a deep breath.

Yang Xing'er smiled and asked a little embarrassedly, "Qingqing, how long have you been doing this? According to your experience, how much can this bucket sell for? Don't worry, even if we can't make it this time, we won't pass on your profits."

After asking this question, Yang Xing'er felt that it was a bit presumptuous and quickly added a guarantee.

Gu Qingqing waved her hand nonchalantly, "It's nothing. Normally, one bucket can be sold for around 180 or 90 wen, and two buckets for around 380 wen. But you must have sold so much in the early stages because you need to let customers taste it. Only when they taste it and think it's good, will business come faster later."

Gu Qingqing explained to them.

In fact, she still gave them twenty cents in disguise, because two portions required just a little more than one portion of spices, and she only charged for one portion of spices.

Yang Xing'er's mind was working, and after listening to what Gu Qingqing said, a smile immediately appeared on her face. She didn't even wait for the other two to react, and immediately nodded hurriedly and said, "Let's do it, let's do it." She was afraid that if she responded slowly, Gu Qingqing would change her mind.

The two people on the side had finally figured out the result, but when they heard Yang Xing'er's hasty agreement, they relaxed and the calculation they had just finished halfway became confusing again.

Gu Qingqing said nothing more and let Yang Xing'er and her friends explain.

"It's better than we expected. According to the income in Taohua Town, we can get about 50 coins per barrel. Two barrels is 100 coins. If we divide it equally among the three of us, we can get 30 coins every day."

As Yang Xing'er spoke, the others immediately realized, one hundred cents a day, my God, can they earn that much?

They have to do it, they must do it.

When they went back yesterday, they were still thinking that it would be great if they could earn around fifty or sixty cents a day. If divided into three groups, each family could get twenty cents, which would be six hundred cents a month.

If they go to town, the two of them can stay together, and one can take care of the children at home. It is always a long-term livelihood.

Who would have thought that today I could get only a hundred cents.

Seeing that they were happy about it, Gu Qingqing said to them, "Today, Meihua will bring back pig intestines. I will make two jars tomorrow. She will take one jar to Taohua Town and sell the other jar to you. You can go to Jiangping Town to try your hand. If you think it's okay, bring back the pig offal there. If it's hard to sell there, you can tell me at any time and I will reduce your share later."

When the three heard that they could start tomorrow, they couldn't help but get excited again.

Then the three of them insisted on helping here no matter what, and Gu Qingqing had no choice but to let them cook in the kitchen.

She took the opportunity to go and see her kiln.

There is a small air inlet under the kiln. It is called an air inlet, but it can actually be used to check the approximate quality of the items fired in the kiln.

When Gu Qingqing used a stick to pull out a stone from inside, the stone opened with a sound as she hit it.

Gu Qingqing jumped up excitedly when she saw the burnt lime.

She hurried to find Wen Wuyan, and then told him about the burning of the stones. She also said, "Can you ask Zhao Dong and the others about mixing lime powder into the yellow mud? Or what the proportion is? If he knows, we will add lime powder. If he doesn't know, then we can build it according to the traditional method."

The reason why she asked Wen Wuyan to ask Zhao Dong was because the houses in Niutoushan Village were built with yellow clay, and they never used lime powder here.

Zhao Dong and his friends have been around a lot, so they must have more experience than Niu Zhanghe, so Gu Qingqing asked him to go and ask.

As for her?

She knew that quicklime could be added to the mud to increase its strength, but she had no idea how much to add.

"Okay, I'll go ask right away. Qingqing, look over there, is Zhuangzhuang coming?" Wen Wuyan said as he raised his hand and pointed towards the path behind her.

Gu Qingqing uttered a puzzled "Oh" and turned her head to lock her eyes with the person who was coming.

After she recognized it was Gu Zhuangzhuang, she greeted Wen Wuyan and walked towards Gu Zhuangzhuang.

"Why are you here today?" Gu Qingqing asked as she approached.