sjar Chapter 603 New Year.
Chapter 603 New Year.
That night, the four of them gathered together to play mahjong and stay up late. Even the two children joined in the fun until very late before returning to their room to sleep.
The next day, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Han first took the two children to pay New Year's greetings to Grandpa Zhao and the Taoist priest, and then Mu'er and Ze'er went to pay New Year's greetings to Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun. Without exception, both of them prepared generous red envelopes.
After the family members greeted each other, the servants came to greet them.
Li Wen led everyone to kneel down and said, "I wish you good health, success in everything, and prosperous business in the new year. May everything go smoothly and may the God of Wealth be with you."
Lu Chuan and Xu Han sat in the upper seats, looking at the large group of servants in front of them, their hearts were filled with joy, and they were all thinking, "Life is getting better and better."
Xu Han picked up the tray that had been prepared at the side. Inside the tray were red envelopes. She handed the tray directly to Li Wen who was at the front, signaling Li Wen to distribute it to everyone.
Li Wen took the tray she handed over and knelt down again. The people below shouted in unison, "Thank you, Master and Madam, for the reward."
Xu Han waved her hand and said, "I have already said what I wanted to say yesterday. Today is the first day of the new year, so everyone should have a good rest and don't have to go out to open up wasteland.
You all have holidays these days, and you can go back to work after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year."
Everyone laughed even more happily after hearing this. After working every day, who doesn't want to have a good rest?
But they all know that this so-called rest does not mean doing nothing or lying down at home and sleeping every day.
The master's family still needs people to serve them, and the chickens, ducks and geese at home all need someone to look after them, so how can they really just ignore everything?
But since the master could say so, no matter whether they could do it or not, they were grateful. At least the master was thinking about them.
After the servants left, Xu Han started playing mahjong with a few people again.
They spent two or three days like this. Finally, the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan could not stay any longer, so they went into the mountains to hunt again on the fourth day of the New Year.
Not only they couldn't stay, but the servants in the house also couldn't stay any longer.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they didn't feel bored at all. They each took time to deal with their own personal affairs.
The next day, everyone cleaned up the yard together, put things in order, repaired what needed to be repaired, and replaced all the broken things with new ones.
On the third and fourth days, all the work had been done. Old Man Zhu organized people to go to the mountains to cut a lot of bamboo and started weaving backpacks and baskets at home. He also weaved a lot of drying nets, drying mats and other things.
While I have free time, I will prepare all these things first, and then I can start drying various mushrooms and other things in the spring.
While the male laborers do these tasks, the women are not idle either. They are not allowed to use needles before the fifth day of the New Year, so they make delicious food for everyone in different ways every day.
Cleaning the house, changing clothes and bedding, etc. are all chores.
There is a saying that goes, there are only lazy people in this world, but there are no invisible housework. It depends on whether you want to do it or not. If you do it, you can wash everything.
By the fifth day, the strong laborers could no longer stay and started to open up the wasteland.
The women were also busy making spring clothes and doing some sewing and mending.
After a few days of idleness, Xu Han couldn't sit still anymore, so on the afternoon of the fifth day of the New Year, he called Juxiang and Li Wen over and began to deploy tasks for the new year.
This task plan was also something she wrote and drew in her free time in the past few days. She revised it many times before she was finally satisfied with it.
"The most important thing right now is the land at the foot of the mountain. There is too much land and we can't plant it all.
Li Wen, you are very smooth and I can trust you to do things. During this period of time, you can teach the wine shop out first.
The tavern has gradually stabilized. It doesn't matter if you're not here. You should focus on the outside business first."
Li Wen was a little unhappy when he heard this, but he nodded in agreement.
Although he was certainly reluctant to hand over the shop he opened with his own hands to other people to manage, he also understood that his wife had more important things for him to do.
The lady likes him and doesn't want him to be trapped in the shop forever. The lady is thinking about him, and he should be happy about it.
Seeing that Li Wen understood, Xu Han did not say much, and then continued calmly, "In a few days, Li Wen, you go down the mountain and find people at the foot of the mountain to build a workshop.
I have already chosen the location for the workshop. It will be built at the intersection where we go down the mountain every time. It is not far from the official road and is convenient.
After the house is built, you will lead people to repair the road leading to the official road, which will make it convenient for vehicles to travel back and forth.
I have already drawn the blueprints in advance, you two can check if there is anything you want to change."
The new workshop is very large, and the locations for living, storing goods and the workshop are all marked.
For convenience, Xu Han specially divided them into different courtyards, each of which is large and fully functional.
This blueprint was finalized after a long discussion between her, Lu Chuan, and the Taoist priest.
Similar to modern factories, everything is in one yard, and there are many large yards in the middle, which is very convenient for drying things or parking.
Not only that, there is also a large open space in front of the entrance of the entire yard, so when there are vehicles coming to transport goods, there will be a place to park.
In addition, there is a special granary. All the land at the foot of the mountain adds up to nearly two thousand acres. Although there are only one thousand seven hundred acres on the surface, the county magistrate gave a lot of allowance when measuring the land!
All in all, the entire workshop covers a very large area and is of considerable scale.
If it weren't for the silver rewarded by the emperor, Xu Han really wouldn't dare to build it all at once, mainly because it was too expensive.
Although they are all ordinary blue brick and tile houses, they are so big!
It would cost at least seven or eight hundred taels of silver to build the entire thing. You can imagine how huge the scale is!
Of course, since Xu Han dared to build it, he certainly wasn't afraid of anyone causing trouble.
She held an official position, and no wealthy family near the county town dared to provoke her, let alone cause trouble for her.
Otherwise, Xu Han wouldn't even have to take action himself, someone would help deal with him.
Xu Han herself is now very tough and holds her head high. As long as she doesn't seek death by confronting people from the capital head-on, she is like a overlord in this small county.
Having said that, Xu Han has no intention of oppressing the people.
At most, she just wanted to rely on her official position to avoid being bullied.
Bullying others is even more impossible. Whether in her previous life or before, she was also a member of the lower class, and she knows the difficulties of being a member of the lower class.
It doesn't make sense for him to bully his past self now that he is successful. Neither he nor Lu Chuan has this habit.