"When I went to the cloth shop today, I happened to see a store being put up for sale. Then we won't have to keep running back and forth. We can just set up a small workshop in the store."
They had already mentioned opening a store last time, so the old master wasn't surprised.
"Do we have enough money?"
They had to build a house and buy a store. Wouldn't they fall short?
"Once this batch of goods is sold, we definitely will."
The old lady had nearly five hundred taels in her hands now, which was actually quite a lot.
But what Su Qiao wanted to build was a place with living quarters, vegetable plots, orchards, flower gardens, and a farm.
"Then do as you see fit!"
The old master trusted her abilities, so he simply let go and allowed her to handle it.
Early the next morning, the old lady took her second son and carried bolts of cloth to the orchard in the mountains.
Su Qiao had just gone with her mother to her maternal grandmother's home in Shahe Village.
Around noon, they returned to Willow Tree Village. This time, her second maternal uncle and Fourth Male Cousin came back with them as well.
They drove two ox carts, whose backs were piled high with all kinds of wooden parts.
After returning home for a meal, they carried the parts to the riverside.
Her second uncle had already dug a channel. It stretched from the riverbank all the way to their rice paddies.
As soon as they arrived, Su Qiao rolled up her sleeves and began assembling it with her second maternal uncle and Fourth Male Cousin.
"If this really works, the villagers won't have to work so hard anymore."
The old master held his tobacco