PNB Chapter 303 Competition
Chapter 303 Competition
After returning home, Ye Qing went to see Ye Lao Da first, "Dad, I just bought a forest with a lot of pine trees. Can you help me find some people? I want to get more pine oil."
"What do you need so much pine oil for? We have enough lamp oil at home."
"I want to light lanterns along the road from the workshop to the village so that I can see the road clearly when I walk back and forth at night." Ye Qing thought of the street lights in the past.
"That will require a lot of lanterns. You should be prepared to keep them lit all night." Boss Ye disagreed.
"It's getting dark now, so just light it for a while at 11 pm. If it's too late, no one will go there."
Boss Ye calculated that not much pine oil would be needed in two hours.
"Okay, I'll send someone up the mountain to get pine oil tomorrow." Boss Ye did not stop his daughter. He was also worried that his daughter would fall when she came back in the evening.
Boss Ye thought about it, but still felt uneasy. "The lanterns are not safe. I'll have someone order some stone pillars and make them into stone lanterns. They will be safe to use."
Ye Qing also thought of this. "I will go and say hello to the head of the village tomorrow and ask him to talk to the patrol team and ask him to help us keep an eye out at night."
The two discussed it for a while and decided to order more and install street lights in the entire alley outside the yard.
All the people living on this street are family members. There are lights outside, so it is convenient to go out at night.
Early in the morning, Ye Dalang took the street lamp design drawn by Ye Qing and went to the stonemason shop in Wu'an City and ordered 100 street lamps.
The street lamp looked a little strange, but Ye Qing didn't require it to be too exquisite, as long as it could be used. The stonemason shop made all of them and delivered them to him in ten days.
Ye Qing went to report to the village head first, "Grandpa Village Head, I plan to install street lights between the workshop and the village, and also on the street outside my house."
"It's the one you told me about last time. I'll go see what it looks like." The village head was curious.
When they arrived at the place where the street lights were placed, it was already crowded with people. The people in the stonemason's shop had not left yet, and Ye Qing had not signed to pay.
Ye Qing and the village head came over, and the crowd automatically made way for them. The village head looked at the street lights in front of him and was a little surprised.
It is easy to see how to use this street lamp. There is a stone pillar at the bottom and a hollow hole on the top with a roof, so there is no need to worry about the street lamp being extinguished even if it rains.
Ye Qing asked someone to count the quantity and checked it again before giving the money to the clerk in the stonemason shop.
The guy was young and very curious. He took the money and refused to leave. He wanted to stay and see how they would deal with the stone pillar.
The head of the village called Liu Jing to help, and asked him to help choose a location for the street lights, which should be an open place with no flammable materials around.
Those who had nothing to do in the village came to watch the fun. Some young people volunteered to help, saving Ye Qing a lot of trouble.
It was evening when all the hundred stone pillars were planted in the soil.
The villagers had never seen such a strange thing, so they did not go home and waited to see the lanterns.
Boss Ye asked someone to bring the lamp oil over and added the oil to the lamps one by one. Some children thought it was fun and helped to add the oil by carrying buckets.
The village head did not go back. He sat with a few brothers on the bench brought over by Boss Ye, waiting to see the results.
It took a while to add oil to the one hundred street lamps. By the time the last street lamp was filled with oil, it was almost dark.
Ye Qing took out a few fire starters and distributed them to the older children, asking them to help light the lamps.
Ping'an was a playful kid, so he also got a fire starter and went to light the lamp at the door.
The child was quick and in a short while, all the hundred street lights were lit up.
The crowd watching exclaimed, and everyone's eyes brightened. It was usually dark outside, but now they could see the road clearly.
The happiest ones are the children, as they can play outside for a long time at night.
The village head and his companions looked at the situation before them and saw the convenience of it.
"Qingya, how much did you spend on these street lights?"
"One hundred street lamps cost five taels of silver, and the lamp oil was obtained from the mountains."
The head of the village silently calculated the money in the account and decided to ask the villagers for their opinions and install it in other places in the village as well. It would be bright outside at night and look spacious.
The village head told everyone that there would be a meeting early the next morning and then went home with his hands behind his back.
At first, I didn’t feel anything when I walked on the road with street lights, but when I got to a place without street lights, I suddenly felt the difference.
He is old and can't see the road clearly, so he falls easily.
Boss Ye followed the head of the village and sent him back, and he also clearly felt the difference.
The village head believes that anyone who comes out to see it today will agree to install street lights.
Now the villagers are rich and have industries. Most of the money earned every year is used to buy land, and the rest is used to build the village.
Now all the roads in the village have been compacted and paved with stone slabs, so you won’t get covered in mud when you go out when it rains.
The next morning, the village gong sounded and everyone in the village rushed over there.
There were also some women, with needles and threads in their hands, listening to the conversation while doing their work.
The children didn’t come. They went to the mulberry forest to pick mulberry leaves. The silkworms at home need to eat a lot of them every day.
The head of the village only suggested installing street lights and the village would pay for it from the account, and everyone under him agreed.
You don't have to pay for it yourself and it's convenient for you to travel. There's no reason to object to this.
The head of the village selected another person to refill the village's street lamps with oil, and also returned the money for the street lamps on the street in front of Ye Qing's door to Ye Qing.
It is also a village and should be treated equally.
The person chosen to add lamp oil was Wang Yongsong. Everyone usually called him Grandpa Song. His leg was injured while fleeing from famine, so he couldn't walk properly.
None of the children in the family survived the famine, leaving only a little grandson who is now seven years old and studying in a private school in the village.
The villagers asked him to take care of the street lights. It was an easy job. He just added lamp oil during the day and lit the lamps in the evening.
He doesn't have to light every lamp individually. Anyone can light one outside someone's yard.
Grandpa Song only needs to turn on the streetlight outside the village. His grandson is old enough to help run errands.
The village was quite big, so he didn't have to walk all over the village. He just had to drive the ox cart to refill the street lamps with lamp oil.
After the rules were set, the village head asked someone to go to the stonemason's shop to order the street lights, while everyone else went back home to get busy.
The stonemason shop worked as hard as possible and finished the street lights they ordered within the last month.
The head of the village received the street lights and arranged for the villagers to install them to ensure that every road in the village is brightly lit.
Ye Qing's workshop also showed some success, and they had basically mastered the weaving techniques, but the speed was still very slow.
In order to encourage them, Ye Qing held a weaving competition. Whoever weaved faster and better in the same time would win a first prize.
The reward for the first place is five taels of silver, the second place has two places, each with three taels of silver, and the third place has three places, each with one tael of silver.
The competition will be held in ten days. If anyone is found cheating, the workshop will never hire them again.
There are five taels of silver hanging in front, and everyone has been practicing at the loom later and later these days.