After dressing as a widow

There was a lot of ice, and Lin Zhen asked Zhou Zhengchu and others who had ordered to come back before to send some to the No. [-] and No. [-] courtyards of Shuifenfang, and told them the two ways of making cold fish, and asked Mrs. Niu to take her daughter-in-law to cook. Come out, the weather is hot, and it will cool off for everyone.

Suddenly, Lin Zhen, who was eating ice and sweet cold fish, thought that ice could also be used to extend the shelf life of the dew. It was too hot this day, and the time for the dew to be used normally was greatly shortened with wax. It is much better to store it on ice.

After all, from Lizhou to Yunzhou, even the fastest waterway will take some time, and the shelf life of the flower dew transported there is less than two days.

Lin Zhen waited for Zhou Zhengchu and the others to leave with the ice, and called Lu Lu and Lu Xuan to ask them where the saltpeter was produced, and to buy some more saltpeter, not much more than a few hundred or a thousand catties.

Lu Xuan, who had already guessed the effect of saltpeter, thought that Lin Zhen was going to be in the ice business. The price of saltpeter was cheap, but the price of ice was so high that the difference in price could make people's eyes red.

This is a sure-fire business.

Lu Xuan and Lu Lu immediately went to inquire about this matter.

With the ice made of saltpeter, Lin Zhen felt much more comfortable when he distilled it. He couldn’t bear it anymore and just wrapped a small piece of ice in the handkerchief, and applied it to his forehead, face and neck. too much.

The entire Lin's gouache workshop, and the morning of the fourth day when Lin Zhen worked overtime, when Lin Xiaoyao's subordinate finally couldn't bear to ask Lin Zhen, Lin Zhen, who had just bathed and changed his clothes, told him: "The thing Everything is ready, you follow me to have a look.”

Lin Zhen said before that these things were a return gift for Lin Xiaoyao, and the young man followed Lin Zhen to Lin's gouache shop full of doubts.

When the gatekeeper in the gouache workshop saw Lin Zhen coming, he quickly walked up to him and said, "Boss."

Lin Zhen asked: "Have you checked out all the goods?"

"The count has come out, and the specific count is available from the steward and the bookkeeper."

"Well, I'll go take a look." It's been almost a month, and the yard I rented has changed a lot. A roof has been built on the open space, and I can continue to work in sunny or rainy weather. The ventilation is also good, and the rice milk will not be delayed. Dry the sediment.

Steward Niu and the accountant's old boy walked down the steps, greeted Lin Zhen and said, "Boss, the total number of jade powders of various colors made in the past few days is [-] boxes, plus the previous goods, [-] boxes The dew is also bottled, there are twelve thousand bottles."

"Is it all stored in ice?"

"Yes, according to what you said, put ice under and around it, and floral dew in the middle."

Niu Dao Dao: "Fortunately, boss, you thought of using ice to cool down. It's hot, and the wax that seals the bottle can't stand it. It melts very quickly, and almost pollutes the floral dew inside."

Lin Zhen walked ahead and went with them to the warehouse where the goods were placed.

This room is full of jade powder. Jade powder is a dry substance. It’s okay in hot weather. There is a lot of rain, and it’s only worried that it will get damp and agglomerate when it’s humid.

The room next to it is filled with dew, and when you enter, you will feel a refreshing chill. A piece of ice is placed in the room, and the dew is stored inside.

On the way here, the young man wondered what gift Lin Zhen would give his boss in return, and followed Lin Zhen here at a loss.

He didn't understand it when he saw Yurong powder, but now he looked at the flower dew preserved in ice, and he didn't know it.

The weather in Yunzhou is hot, and the price of ice is extremely high. Even transporting the ice that preserves the dew to Yunzhou can make a lot of money.

What on earth should be preserved in expensive ice.

Lin Zhen looked at the young man: "These goods are gifts for your boss Xiaoyao. The specific usage method is recorded here, and he will know when it is delivered to him."

Lin Zhen wrote the usage method of Yurong Fen Hualu lipstick that he had prepared long ago into a booklet and handed it to the young man.

The young man took the brochure without flipping through it, he just needs to know that these things belong to Boss Xiaoyao.

Lin Zhen said to Niu Dao: "Let the workers put all the goods on the carriage, and then ask Shaoying and Ge Yang to come over and escort the goods to Dongyang County."

Knowing that the young man was in a hurry to return to Yunzhou, Lin Zhen didn't waste his time, and immediately ordered the workers to carry the goods to the carriage.

Jade powder is the best way to store it. After piled up, cover it with several layers of oil paper and tie the rope tightly. Lipstick and toilet water are more troublesome. First, put a layer of straw in the carriage box, and then a thick cotton Be, and then put the ice on it, it is best to pile toilet water and lipstick.

In this way, the cargo that can be loaded in a carriage is reduced by half. Lin Zhen watched the momentum and asked Niu Da to rent some more horses and carriages.

A total of [-] carriages were able to barely load all the goods.

The young man came here to send a letter with only one person. When he lived in the Yamen before, this person lived in the inn of the state capital. Now he was brought by the young man. Seeing the huge amount of goods in front of him, he couldn't react. Come.

"This, is this the big boss that Boss Xiaoyao said?"

"What a great handwriting!"

"What kind of goods is that, and it is still stored in ice?"

The young man said with a cold face: "I don't know, I will know after I go back."

The young man walked up to Lin Zhen with this man, and saluted Lin Zhen with fists cupped.

Lin Zhen handed him a letter: "Let me tell you boss Xiaoyao, everything is fine with me in Lizhou. If you are still interested in this business, you can send someone to Lizhou to pick up the goods, or my people can go to Yongzhou I'll contact you when it's time to sell."

"The little one understands, and the big boss takes care." The young man stepped on his horse, and behind him were Shao Ying, Ge Yang and the others who were escorting the goods.

Zhou Zhengchu's injuries were not healed yet, so he stayed in the state capital this time.

Seeing the people around Lin Xiaoyao, Lin Zhenxin can finally let go of the part that he was worried about. He watched the last shadow of the young man and others leaving Guangshun Lane, stood at the door of Lin's gouache workshop, and asked what happened to him in the daytime behind him. Workers who have to work the night shift at night: "Are you tired in the past few days?"

The worker standing at the front shook his head again and again when he heard his words: "We're not tired, we're all happy. With so much work to do, we can have an extra meal and get an extra six cents."

The workers behind also heard his words and said loudly: "Boss Lin, we wish we could have night shifts every day!"

"It is true that you will be required to work the night shift for a period of time recently. Our gouache workshop is now out of stock except for the one left for Boss Yan, but the new shop will open soon, so we must not run out of stock to sell. "

"However, you also have to do what you can according to your own body. If you feel uncomfortable, don't work the night shift."

When Lin Zhen was recruiting, he thought that the work intensity was a bit high, and he specially recruited those over 15 years old and under 40 years old, which seems to be right now.

Working overtime until eleven o'clock every day, the elderly can't bear it.

The girls, brothers, and men are all alive and well, "Boss Lin, don't worry, we are doing well, and it won't be a problem to work for you for decades!"

Lin Zhen looked at the man who was going to work for him for decades, and said with a smile: "I will remember this."

"Since the big guys still have to work night shifts, it's the same as before, let's fill up the warehouse first."

"Also, it will be a month after you come to work in Lin's gouache workshop in two days. This month's wages will be distributed together on the day of the shop. What do you think?"

The girl, the brother, and the man said, "Whatever Boss Lin should do."

"Boss Lin, let's help out when the shop opens, everyone can't be idle."

Lin Zhen said: "Don't worry, you are indispensable."

All the goods were taken away by the young man, and Lin's Gouache Shop didn't have a single box of goods that could be sold now. After chatting and laughing with Lin Zhen a few times, the big guys continued to work energetically.

Lin Zhen, who had been distilled for three days, stretched his waist, beckoned Niu Da to come over, and asked him: "How is the matter I ordered before, are the cabinets, counters and decorations almost finished?"

"I asked the craftsmen to make them as soon as possible. They also used off-the-shelf materials. I delivered some yesterday and put them in the shop."

"Boss Lou, who fired the kiln, also went to see it. Porcelain pieces have been coming out of the kiln one after another. He said that they will all be delivered today or next year."

"Okay, I'll go over there and have a look, you look at the gouache workshop."

I came out today, and Lin Zhen planned to take a stroll and then go back to continue distilling toilet water, and make some lipstick in the gap.

This day was really fulfilling.

Over the past few days, the rough prototype of the two shops that Changping took over to merge into one shop has come out.

The remodeled doors and windows are twice as big as the original ones, and after they are all removed, you can see the whole picture of the shop, and these large doors and windows have been taken to the old master and pasted with the best window paper at that time, which is thin and translucent, and the quality of the paper is still high. It is dense, and it will not be damaged quickly if a little water is poured on it.

Lin Zhen looked at the doors and windows placed in the shop, and touched them with his hands.

The man who tidied up the shop saw him coming in, and said, "Boss Lin is here, the paper on the doors and windows is really good, it's like daytime in the room."

Lin Zhen took his hands off the doors and windows, looked at the extremely spacious shop, walked towards the tall and long showcases that were delivered first, and nodded with satisfaction.

The wooden boards on the wall have been pasted up, and the men are doing the final cleaning of the ground. According to Lin Zhen's request, a layer of sand and gravel was laid on it first, and it should be as smooth as possible without any unevenness.

The slaked lime specially requested by Lin Zhen and the fine sand from the bottom of the river were piled up in the corner next to it. The slaked lime men are all familiar with it. When they go out to work, people from better families use lime and crushed stones to build walls, which is more expensive than ordinary people. The yellow mud wall should be firm and not easy to collapse when it rains.

But the shops were almost orderly, and the men didn't know what Lin Zhen was doing with the slaked lime and fine sand.

Suddenly, just as Lin Zhen was thinking about whether to go to Lou Feng's kiln to see the condition of the porcelain pieces, three carriages stopped at the door of the shop, and the middle-aged man who had seen Lou Feng that day jumped out of the carriage and saw He came over from behind: "Boss Lin, the goods you asked for have arrived, go and see if you are satisfied."

It really means that Cao Cao has arrived, and Lin Zhen is also looking forward to the tiles, saying: "Just now Niu Da said that it will be delivered today or tomorrow, and your speed is fast enough."

"Boss Lin's business, we don't dare to neglect the kiln."

While talking, the middle-aged man pulled away the porcelain piece wrapped in straw to prevent it from being damaged, and tapped on it with his fingers: "According to what you said, Boss Lin, the left and right sides are three and a half feet thick, and the thickness of a finger Only a dozen or so pieces can be produced in one kiln, and a lot of them are damaged, that's why we got these."

The pattern that Lin Zhen gave that day was the flowing water of the image, and the color he chose was also jade color as the base, with light gray as the pattern. The effect was very beautiful, no different from those modern high-quality ceramic tiles.

Lin Zhen looked at the tiles reflecting light in the sun, nodded his head, and was very satisfied: "Your shopkeeper is indeed the best kiln master in the state capital, carry them all in."

The middle-aged man smiled: "Boss Lin said yes, that's really good. There are 97 tiles in total in these three carts."

"97 pieces?" It was higher than Lin Zhen's previous estimate.

Lin Zhen looked at his spacious shop and said, "When you go back later, tell your boss that if you burn this number of tiles again, they may not be enough."

The middle-aged man said: "Yes."

These tiles are not cheap, Lin Zhen earns more if he wants them more.

The workers in the kiln helped to carry the tiles in. Lin Zhen told them to be careful when they put them down, and said to the people who worked for him in the shop: "You big guys, come and have a look, this is what I want you to use to spread the tiles. ground material."

"Try your hand with two yuan first, hurry up and spread it out, it's only a few days before the store opens, so don't delay."

The leader of the work came over, and he carefully took out a piece of porcelain from the straw. He saw that the three-and-a-half-foot piece of porcelain was as thick as the side of a thumb. The color was bright, and there were light gray lines like running water on it.

They have been working for so many years, and they have never seen anyone use such good tiles to pave the floor. It is a bit hypocritical for this job to look at each other for a while.

The leader thought about Lin Zhen's good remuneration, and said honestly: "Boss, we have never done this kind of work before, and we are afraid that your materials will be damaged."

Lin Zhen tried hard to recall the things in his head, managed to find what the former decoration master said in front of him, and said: "It is normal to have damage during the laying, but it should not be damaged too much. According to your many years of building walls and flattening the ground, With experience, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"It's just that the tiles need to be poured with water before laying, so that the side facing down can absorb enough water, and the ground should also be sprinkled with water, so that the tiles can be firmly glued to the ground."

"Pay attention to the texture of the tiles when pasting them, and the taste must be right, and you can't just paste them randomly, which looks messy."

"After pasting, take a wooden hammer, wrap several layers of cloth, tap it, and tap and paste the gap below, which can also make the tiles fit better."

At this moment, Lin Zhen felt that he was good at asking questions about everything. Although he hadn't tried it before, at least he wasn't blind and didn't know anything.

The men who came to work for him heard what he said so carefully, and didn't ask them not to damage a single piece. They were very generous and kind, and the leader hesitated for a while before he dared to agree.

"Boss Lin, let's try two slices first. The viscosity of the lime is probably not enough. How about adding some glutinous rice juice to make the effect better?"

"Glutinous rice juice?" Lin Zhen had heard before that there was glutinous rice juice in the ancient glue. It must be used when building the city wall, which can increase the strength of the city wall.

He nodded: "Okay, I'll give orders on this right away."