393 Tricky
The next day, after breakfast, Xue Sifu drove the ox cart to town to buy the materials and ingredients needed. Xue Dafu, Xue Erfu, and Xue Sanfu went to finish up the workshop’s wall and to install the gate. This wasn’t a lot of work, so it was enough for just the three of them to work on it. Li Qingshu and the others only worked for their family until yesterday, but before Xue Dafu, Xue Erfu, and Xue Sanfu went to the workshop, they had asked Liu Guixia to send their wages to Li Qingshu and the others.
Li Qingshu and the others had worked for half a month, and it was all hard-earned money. This money couldn’t be earned somewhere else. Liu Guixia also felt that it was right to pay them as much as they worked. After breakfast, she let Li Hehua wash the dishes, and she gave Li Qingshu and the others half a month’s salary.
After the payment was sent back, Liu Guixia, Li Hehua, and Xue Wufu sent the soaked and dried early rice to the workshop to be ground into rice flour by the stone mill.
On the other hand, Xue Yifu had been assembling the small wooden blocks into bowls since early in the morning.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan didn’t stay idle either. They went to the bamboo forest and cut down a dozen bamboos that were suitable to be made into popsicles, as well as a few big ones for sticks.