diskusbooks Chapter 299 New Textile Machine
Chapter 299 New Textile Machine
Before Bai Jingzhou had the time to tell Gu Wenxuan, the master craftsman who made the ring was introduced to him by the steward of the Mu Mansion, and he was the best craftsman in the Mu family's silver shop. The ruby was bought from Mu Hanzhi before. Bai Jingzhou picked out the best quality piece and took it to the silver shop, asking the master craftsman to make a pair of couple rings for him and Gu Wenxuan.
Gu Wenxuan was not sensitive to these decorations, and she didn't even realize that the gem was one of the ones they had hoarded before.
Under Bai Jingzhou's nervous and expectant gaze, she smiled and stretched out her left hand, "Please put the ring on me."
This means agreeing to Bai Jingzhou's proposal.
Bai Jingzhou smiled brilliantly. Although Gu Wenxuan had already agreed to marry him and this was just a formality, he still couldn't control his excitement because of Gu Wenxuan's words, like a young boy who had never seen the world.
He gently held Gu Wenxuan's hand and carefully put the smaller ring on her left middle finger. "After we get married, I'll find someone to make a pair of wedding rings for us."
He picked up his own and asked Gu Wenxuan to put it on for him. He smiled and asked Gu Wenxuan, "Do you like the white jade one or the black jade one?"
"White jade, right?" Gu Wenxuan smiled and picked up the bunch of paper roses to admire them. "Please put the little lantern away for me. I want to treasure it and take it out to look at it from time to time in the future."
Bai Jingzhou naturally responded to everything.
Gu Wenxuan pointed at the rose bouquet and asked Bai Jingzhou, "How did you get these green leaves?"
Apart from the various types of paper used by scholars, there are basically only yellow paper and the red paper used for writing couplets on the market. This is the first time that Gu Wenxuan has seen green paper.
Bai Jingzhou smiled, "I bought some paper and dyed it myself."
Gu Wenxuan gave a thumbs up, "You are awesome!"
After appreciating it enough, Gu Wenxuan handed the paper rose to Bai Jingzhou, "Put it together with the lantern. It will be too troublesome to take it home and be questioned by everyone."
Bai Jingzhou smiled, "Okay."
Gu Wenxuan also smiled, "Then I'll leave your parents and my parents to you to take care of."
Bai Jingzhou nodded, “Leave it all to me!”
After a pause, he asked again: "Do you have any requirements for the wedding date?"
Gu Wenxuan shook her head. "It's just a ceremony anyway. You can do it whenever you want."
Neither of them is a novice, so they naturally wouldn't be busy making little people at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Although they have never discussed this topic face to face, they still have this tacit understanding.
In that case, it doesn't matter when the wedding is held.
Bai Jingzhou smiled unconsciously, "Then I'll ask someone to pick an auspicious day."
Their two families were now living a decent life, so they didn't have to wait until after the autumn harvest when they had surplus food like most families in the village did to get married. So he could use the whole next year to carefully choose a good day for their wedding.
The day after Bai Jingzhou successfully proposed, he invited his uncle and cousin to their home and asked them to help make spinning wheels and looms.
Bai Jingzhou decided to set the work location in the workshop. He said to Bai Jun and his son, "I will provide the materials, and you will use the tools. My family will provide you with three meals a day. I plan to pay you 60 coins per day. Do you think this is okay?"
Bai Jun waved his hands repeatedly, "We are family, so we don't need any wages."
Bai Jingtai nodded in agreement, "Yeah, anyway, my father and I don't have much to do these days, so we can help you make whatever you want."
After Bai Jingzhou's family lived better, his family also benefited a lot.
Especially since his mother didn't allow him and his brother's wife's family to live in their house, and his grandparents brought them back to their home to live temporarily, his second uncle and third uncle provided a lot of support for his grandparents' food and daily necessities.
How much of that could his grandparents eat? In the end, it was him and his brother's wife's family that ended up eating it.
Bai Jingtai always kept this favor in mind. It was a rare opportunity for Bai Jingzhou to use him, and he was so excited that he was full of energy and didn't even feel the cold, let alone care about the wages.
Bai Jingzhou couldn't help laughing and thought to himself, look at how energetic his cousin is.
His eldest cousin couldn't hide what was going on on his face. Ever since his wife's family came to seek refuge and lived in their grandparents' house, every time his eldest cousin saw people from their family and his second uncle's family, he would unconsciously put on a heavy expression of gratitude and guilt.
What made the two families most frustrated was that his eldest cousin always dragged his second cousin to run to his grandparents and two uncles' houses, rushing to help with this and that, making others feel embarrassed to bother with his weird mother.
Of course, no matter how unusual the views are, we should still keep our distance from others.
Bai Jingzhou thought about this and shook his head slightly at his uncle and cousin, "That won't work. I need to make a lot of sets, and you probably won't be able to take on other jobs during the New Year. If you don't want to charge me, I'll find someone else to help me do it."
His uncle and cousin couldn't convince him, so they finally agreed to do carpentry work for him. But they still felt that they were taking advantage of him by charging him 60 cents a day.
Bai Jun said to Bai Jingzhou, "Sixty cents a day is too much. Twenty cents a day for me and your eldest cousin will be enough."
They usually made furniture for people in several nearby villages, and they only earned hard-earned money. If they met someone who loved to bargain, they, father and son, would only earn about twenty-seven or twenty-eight cents after a busy day.
Bai Jingzhou is his nephew, so he has to give a reasonable price.
Bai Jingzhou disagreed. He shook his head and said, "What I want you to make is not as simple as the tables, chairs and benches that everyone usually wants. Besides, I need you to keep it a secret for me. Sixty cents is not a lot."
He explained to the father and son in a gentle voice, "I plan to make a new type of spinning wheel and loom that are not available on the market. If you accept my order, you must keep this matter to yourself and not tell anyone. Even to my parents, my aunt, and my sister-in-law, you can't reveal a single word. Can you do it?"
When Bai Jun and his son heard that it was something new that wasn't available on the market, they nodded vigorously in unison, "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone."
Bai Jingzhou nodded slightly, "Then the wages will be based on what I said, otherwise I will find someone else to help."
Bai Jun and his son: ......
The two of them were worried about him asking other people to help him. You know, any new thing represents an opportunity to make money. They don't want the kid to find unreliable people and then get cheated by them.
Bai Jun, who was completely controlled, nodded helplessly, "Okay, I'll do as you say."
Bai Jingzhou was satisfied. He took out the drawings of the improved spinning wheel and loom and asked his uncle and cousin to make new spinning wheel and loom for him according to the drawings.