It was unclear how much time had passed before Bai Sheng finally snapped out of her picturesque daydream.
"Lu Ye, when you have time, build a livestock bath!"
"Okay!"
"Then build a warehouse. Our grain and silver will increase in the future, and we need a place to store it. Otherwise, everything will be messy."
"Okay!"
"Um, also build a small kitchen, so we can cook meals here sometimes."
"Okay!"
"And build a sleeping area. Sleeping in the space is too comfortable, the air is pleasant, not hot, and you can see these beautiful bamboos!"
Lu Ye looked up at Bai Sheng, his eyes shining. "Okay!"
The two continued like this, one busy, one idle, one asking, one answering, until the moon was almost at its zenith outside, and then they left the space.
Bai Sheng walked to where the bamboos were kept and took out several more bamboos as thick as bowls from the space. It wouldn't be noticed if there were a few more.
The next day, after breakfast, Bai Sheng asked Du Min if she could write. Du Min glanced at Bai Sheng in surprise and nodded, saying she could.
Bai Sheng then took out a ledger and asked her to record the basic information of the residents of Hongshu Po. In the future, work would be assigned according to strength and personal specialties, and Du Min would be fully responsible for this.
Du Min was secretly delighted. The mistress was giving her the job of managing personnel!
She opened the ledger and saw that the mistress had already written down the registration content: family members, age, gender, literacy, and specialties.
These few items did not involve any important privacy issues.
With nowhere to sit, Du Min sat down next to a large rock, spread the ledger on it, and loudly called out to the people who were coming to work, "Everyone, come here and register your family and personal basic information!"
"What? Work... and register family information?"
Du Min smiled, "The owner said that in the future, work will be arranged according to strength and personal specialties. Don't worry, it won't involve personal privacy!"
"Oh, is that so? That's good, that's good!"
In a short while, the basic information of more than a dozen people was clearly registered. Du Min took the ledger to Bai Sheng.
First family: Tian Guihua, 25 years old, illiterate, specialties: cooking, shoemaking, clothing making, weaving.
Son: Tian Dou, 6 years old, illiterate, specialties: eating a lot, catching insects.
Second family:
Grandmother: Granny Zhong, 53 years old, illiterate, specialties: housework, shoemaking, clothing making, weaving.
Son: Zhao Dazhuang, 30 years old, illiterate, specialties: strong, can do any manual labor.
Grandson: Zhao Tiezhu, 5 years old, illiterate, specialties: not yet determined.
Third family:
Zhou Ligen: 32 years old, illiterate, specialties: strong.
Wife: Qian Zhaodi, 28 years old, illiterate, specialties: arguing, fighting, raising livestock, strong.
Fourth family:
Husband: Hu Daniu, 25 years old, illiterate, specialties: strong, honest and simple.
Wife: Yang Shi, 23 years old, illiterate, specialties: embroidery, shoemaking, clothing making, weaving.
Brother-in-law: Yang Ming, 15 years old, illiterate, specialties: fast running, hunting.
Bachelor 1: Huang Gousheng, 23 years old, illiterate, specialties: carpentry.
Bachelor 2: Ma San, 35 years old, illiterate, specialties: strong, knows how to slaughter pigs.
In the space, Hengheng glanced at the ledger and trembled three times in fear. Called Ma San, right? In the future, this pig must stay as far away from him as possible.
Bai Sheng read through it and gained a general understanding of the neighbors' basic situations. She returned the ledger to Du Min. Except for cooking, all other work arrangements were fully managed by Du Min.
Since the grain at home should not be exposed, Bai Sheng planned to personally handle the cooking, with the three children of Lu Hua assisting.
Du Min divided all the personnel into several groups. Those who were good at physical labor would help build houses and dig wells later.
Huang Gousheng, who was skilled in carpentry, was responsible for setting up a temporary kitchen, a simple thatched pavilion, and temporary stove.
The women who were good at weaving were responsible for splitting the bamboo into strips, weaving shed roofs, straw mats, back baskets, and bamboo baskets.
Tian Dou and others ran errands and assisted nearby.
With all the work assigned, everyone got to work enthusiastically while the sun was not too hot.
As it was the first day of official work, Bai Sheng planned to take out the wolf from the space, skin it, and eat its meat to increase nutrition.
Ma San, who was skilled in slaughtering pigs, skillfully removed the wolf hide intact. Bai Sheng spread the wolf hide on the ground to dry, and asked Lu Ye to go into the space to process it properly that night, so it could be made into fur coats when winter arrived.
Bai Sheng cut off two wolf legs and asked Ma San to chop them into small pieces. After washing them, she put them in a large iron pot to simmer.
After finishing everything, Ma San immediately joined the house-building army.
While Lu Hua was stoking the fire and simmering the wolf bone soup, Bai Sheng washed and chopped a large bag of wild vegetables she had dug in the space last night, and kneaded them into flour to make vegetable noodles. This would not only increase their food supply and supplement vitamins, but also make it difficult to identify the ingredients.
When the bone soup was simmered, she finally added the vegetable noodles, sprinkled in salt, and added a little seasoning, and it became delicious bone soup noodles.
When the bone soup began to emit its aroma, everyone couldn't help but lift their necks and sniff vigorously.
So fragrant! They hadn't smelled such an aroma in a long time!
Lu Yu sat by the pot, unable to take his eyes off the steaming pot.
Bai Sheng smiled. When the bones were almost cooked, she scooped out three small bones and gave one to each of Lu Hua, Lu Yun, and Lu Yu.
The three children knew that there was not enough to go around and did not make a sound, hiding to the side and gnawing them clean in a few bites.
Lu Ye watched Bai Sheng knead the dough by the temporarily built stove, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved.
"Owner, your wife is really capable," Zhao Dazhuang praised uncontrollably, smelling the aroma of the bones.
Lu Ye's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he smiled, "She is very capable."
As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, threw down the stone in his hand, and ran towards the kitchen.
Zhao Dazhuang looked at Lu Ye's hurried back, scratched his head, and looked inexplicably puzzled.
"Bai Sheng, I forgot, your hand..." Lu Ye ran to her side and carefully examined her fingers.
"It's nothing, just a little skin scraped," Bai Sheng pulled her finger out and glanced at a few women smirking in her direction.
"I'll help you knead the dough!" Lu Ye said, scooping some water from the water缸 to wash his hands.
"Okay!" Bai Sheng did not refuse. Kneading such a large lump of dough was really strenuous for her small frame.
After Lu Ye kneaded the dough, he pulled off a small piece and rolled it into a thin sheet, and Bai Sheng was responsible for cutting it into noodle strips.
The workers usually didn't eat enough, so they finished work early in the morning and started work late in the afternoon. Around midday, Lu Ye let Feng Pingyuan finish work.
Everyone impatiently lined up by the pot with their bowls.
Today was wolf bone soup with vegetable noodles. Everyone got a large bowl, plus two small pieces of wolf bone. Mixed with the fragrant soup, everyone ate ravenously.
For a long time, this was the first time they felt full.