Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside-Chapter 1307 - 1309: We Can’t Even Scrape Together 20 Taels

The Zhong family’s craft is turning that stone into lifelike various objects.

For instance, the stone lions at the county government office entrance. Besides stone lions, they can also be crafted into various other animals, like carp leaping over the dragon gate, deer, horses, sheep, and so on.

They can also craft various stone tables, stone benches, round ones, square ones, with patterns on top, for use in outdoor courtyards.

These require more advanced skills, only the Zhong family can craft them.

Additionally, this bluestone can also be used to make steps and pave roads; in the city, people like to use this bluestone to build houses.

Apart from these, this bluestone is also very useful in the countryside; it can be used to build walls, make pig troughs, or stone mills for grinding beans.

The skills for these are not advanced, so all villagers in Stone Village can do it.

Because various objects need to be made, the stones blown down from the mountain vary in size.

This requires someone to cut the big stones into the desired sizes, and the villagers of Stone Village have done this for a long time and are quite adept at it. If people from other villages are hired, not only do they need to be taught, but they also risk damaging quite a lot of stones.

Because some stones are just the right size, splitting them can create two objects. If someone inexperienced makes a slight mistake, it might ruin the size of the stone, resulting in only one object being made.

Neither option works, and the elder aunt of the Zhong family was worried because this is a matter of losing two thousand taels, "His father, this won’t do, we need to discuss this with everyone and let everyone come up with ideas."

The elder aunt of the Zhong family while speaking, also blamed her son, "Why didn’t you mention this earlier and let Yang Ming come up with ideas? Now it’s too late, everyone’s gone, and you’re just bringing it up now. With just our family members, how could we come up with any good ideas?"

In the heart of the elder aunt of the Zhong family, Yang Ming was capable of everything, her trust in Yang Ming was limitless.

Hearing his mother’s words, Zhong Lihui suddenly remembered that Xiaoxiao said she would think of a way, "Dad, Mom, let’s go to Second Uncle’s house to see if they have any solutions."

"Right, let’s head to your Second Uncle’s house first." The elder aunt of the Zhong family echoed and got up.

They told the other younger children in the family to stay home, and the three family members went out and soon arrived at Xiaoxiao’s house.

Seeing the elder uncle’s family of three come, Xiaoxiao guessed why they had come.

As soon as they entered the house, before they could speak, Xiaoxiao asked first, "Elder Cousin, is it that none of the villagers are willing to go up the mountain?"

"Xiaoxiao, what should we do? Your elder cousin didn’t mention such an important matter earlier. If the business falls through, we have to compensate others with a thousand taels. Where would our family come up with a thousand taels now? We might not even gather twenty taels." Xiaoxiao’s elder aunt was a quick-tempered person, and as soon as she entered, she rattled off the situation.

Hearing this, Zhong’s father and Xiaoxiao’s mother were also very surprised, "Have to compensate that much?"

"Exactly! Second brother, Second sister-in-law, what do you say we should do about this?"

Xiaoxiao had been thinking of a solution for this for a long time, but since she didn’t know how they did it originally, she wasn’t sure which idea was feasible. She said, "Uncle, Aunt, don’t worry about this, there will always be a way."

"What way could there be? Now no one is willing to go up the mountain! I’m so anxious." Right now, Xiaoxiao’s elder aunt couldn’t stay calm anymore.

"Aunt, please don’t worry. How about I go up the mountain with Elder Cousin to check the situation, and then we’ll think about what to do about this."