Lao Fang felt that the money he earned while lying in bed was unsatisfactory. Li Yi disagreed with this statement.
Making money while lying in bed is also a skill. With Lao Fang’s physique, he definitely has a bright future in this line of work. Although compared with later generations, the overall atmosphere of society today tends to be conservative, but as long as he stands holding a sign
On the street, he will definitely attract many lonely and unbearable ladies, who will send their maids to secretly send him messages...
Finally I know the reason why Lao Fang has been depressed these past few days.
Just free time.
"Do you know why you can't make a living with this money?" Li Yi looked at him and asked.
Lao Fang looked up at Li Yi with a confused look on his face.
"Have you ever seen my second uncle sitting under that tree outside and napping all day long?" Li Yi looked at him and asked.
Lao Fang nodded. In the past few days, he occasionally sat under the tree and was in a daze. His second uncle took a nap all day, and he was in a daze all day.
But why did my uncle ask him this?
"Have you ever seen Xu's sister-in-law go out early and come back late every day carrying candied haws on her shoulders?" Li Yi continued to ask.
Lao Fang nodded again. Although the profit of Ruyilu was greater, some women were bored at home and still went out to sell candied haws every day without stopping.
"Have you ever seen the sun rise from the east roof and set from the west roof?" Li Yi finally asked.
The expression on Lao Fang's face became even more confused. He didn't know why his uncle was asking these things, but he still nodded mechanically.
"That's your problem." Li Yi threw the bag with the money to him and said, "If you don't work hard, just look around all day long. Take the money back and call a few people over later. Once you have something to work with, from now on
Don’t even think about being idle..."
Li Yi discovered that not everyone could be as peaceful and content as he was. People like Lao Fang had to find something to do in order to live in peace.
As the New Year approached, the weather got colder and colder. Even though the stove was lit in the room, it was still too cold to stretch out his hands. He planned to set up a kang in the kitchen.
Almost every house in the rural areas in the east and west has this, which is usually connected to the bottom of the stove. There is no need to deliberately add firewood to make the fire. The heat generated by cooking every day is enough to keep warm for the whole day. If there is no temperature before going to bed at night, grandma will heat it from outside.
I brought a lot of firewood, straw or corn stalks, and within a few minutes my body became very hot.
Because of this thing, when I lived in the countryside when I was a child, I never had to worry about heating in the winter. I stayed on the kang all winter, eating and sleeping on it. This situation lasted until I graduated from elementary school. Since I entered middle school, I have moved from the countryside to
After moving to the city, I never slept on a heated bed again.
There is nothing to do in the winter, so the family can just sit on the kang, play cards, and kill time.
Lao Fang quickly brought people over. There are now more than a dozen families living in the village, and they all stick to each other in times of crisis. Li Yi did not treat them badly. Ruyilu's profits have long been divided into shares for them, and recently he has given them shares.
It was adjusted a little higher for each family.
These men have been very busy these days. After moving out of the village, they have nothing to do. Sugar-coated haws is now a small business, and the aunts and relatives of the family are doing it. It’s not easy for grown men to get involved.
It is not a man's job to take care of children at home. Lao Fang only said that my uncle had something to do, and they all came running over.
It's just a kang. Two or three people are enough. With Lao Fang and his team's hard work, they can make it today. If more than a dozen people gather together, the kitchen can't even accommodate it.
Counting Lao Fang, there were five people left here. The others went back with regrets on their faces. Before leaving, luckily Lao Fang and the others discussed whether they could change things, but Lao Fang flatly refused.
"Uncle, tell me, what are you going to do this time?" Lao Fang rolled up his sleeves. At this time, even if Li Yi asked him to go up the knife mountain and the sea of fire to kill people on the street with a kitchen knife, he would probably do it.
Something was done, the money was collected safely, the knot in my heart was untied, and Lao Fang came back to life with full blood.
After learning that the six grown men were busy in the kitchen, Lao Fang's excitement weakened significantly. He originally thought he was going to do something big, but found that the gap between his ideal and reality was too big.
Two people went out to buy bricks and stones, and the remaining people dismantled the original stove and changed the stove. The stove at this time was not easy to cook. I often saw Xiao Huan in the kitchen choking and crying, no matter how he lit it.
There is no fire, because the ventilation is not good, and there are people nearby when lighting the fire. You need to keep pulling the bellows next to it, which makes it squeak and takes a lot of effort.
The stove at home was like this when Li Yi was a child. His favorite thing to do was when his grandma was cooking, he would rush to the stove to help her add firewood and pull the bellows. Later, when he built a new house and rebuilt the kitchen,
It was just changed to a new type of stove promoted by the state. Without the bellows, the ventilation is better, the ignition is faster, and it saves more materials. However, when I was a child, I could never get back the feeling of giggling and pulling the bellows hard at the same time.
The kang must be connected to the stove. At that time, rural areas basically had such a structure. When he was a child, he had seen craftsmen building this thing, but it was of course impossible for him to recall it completely now.
He had found the drawings long ago. Lao Fang and the others violently dismantled the stove. After clearing out the garbage, he had already drawn the drawings, detailing the dimensions of each structure. This thing looks simple, but the dimensions cannot be different. Where is the height?
A little, a little short, and problems will arise.
"Uncle, what is this?" Lao Fang flipped the drawing back and forth without seeing the reason. He scratched his head and looked at Li Yi and asked.
"As long as you put this thing in your kitchen, Zhuzi won't cry out when he sleeps at night." After explaining too much to Lao Fang, he couldn't understand it. Li Yi said simply and straightforwardly.
"Okay, we'll do it tomorrow." Lao Fang has never doubted Li Yi's words. He heard from his uncle that lying on this thing is as warm as summer. It's quite beautiful to sleep on this kang with his mother-in-law and baby in his arms at night.
"Lao Xu, we agreed to get this thing for my family tomorrow. Remember to come over and help. If your family wants to do it too, call me then." He patted the shoulder of a man next to him and said.
When he was dismantling the stove, he wiped the black dust with his hand. A big palm print immediately appeared on Lao Xu's coat. Lao Fang was kicked on the buttocks. The man cursed: "What a bastard!
It was just washed by my mother-in-law. The clothes are not dry well in the cold weather, so you have to scold me again when you get back!"
Lao Fang patted his butt and was not angry. He said mockingly: "Your mother-in-law is used to it. If she dared to scold me, she would have slapped her away."
Old Xu laughed and said: "I don't know who was whipped by my mother-in-law with a broom in the yard yesterday and howled hard. By the way, who is Miss Xiaohong? Why have I never heard you mention it? When did we hook up?
?”
Lao Fang's face suddenly turned red as if he was about to drip blood. In Lao Xu's proud eyes, he kicked him.
"Fang Laosan, do you still dare to take action?"
"Say little red girl again and I'll beat you up!"
"Okay, I can't beat you. Now I'm going to ask your mother-in-law what's going on with Miss Xiaohong?" Lao Xu sneered and strode outside.
"..."
Lao Fang was stunned for a moment, his face changed drastically, and he immediately chased after him, and his voice came from far away.
"Old Xu, Brother Xu, please say goodbye. We brothers have something to talk about..."
Xiaohuan walked in from the outside mumbling, blinked at Li Yi with her big eyes and asked: "Uncle, who is Miss Xiaohong?"
Before Li Yi could answer, he went to his kitchen and found only a few familiar figures. He was still fine in the morning, so he panicked and said, "Why did our kitchen become like this!"
