Liu Daben only thought about keeping his own kang warm in the winter. Did he ever think that he could still make money with this newly learned craft?
If nothing else, this banker girl has a better brain than the others!
"Hey! There is still such a way!" After rubbing his hands, Liu Da wished he could go home immediately and drag some bricks back to the mason's house.
only……
He hesitated for a moment, and he could clearly count how many days he would spend making the kang. It would cost a lot of bricks, and it was not a small expense. He only spent money on his own money, all for the sake of the baby, but if he really had to rely on this
To make money from crafts, don’t they have to pay a brick first?
The families in the village usually have tight financial resources, and they have only recently made some money from sweet potatoes. I am afraid that not many will be willing to spend money to make kangs.
Zhuang Keqing saw the originally cheerful Liu Da become silent, frowning and thinking deeply, then asked: "Uncle Liu, is there anything else that you don't understand or is embarrassed about?"
Liu Da scratched the back of his head and felt embarrassed to speak.
Someone taught you a craft and also gave you some tips on how to make money. This is a good thing that has never happened anywhere. If you ask shamelessly about the idea you are considering, wouldn't it be the same as asking someone to grab a copper plate?
It's stuffed in my pocket.
Qin Manzhi sat aside, willing to help Liu Da.
When Zhuang Da was buried, it was the two brothers of the Liu family who worked hard for several days before making a thin coffin. Now if they had anything to say, she could just push it in again.
"Brothers of the Liu family, just say it, if Kerr can help, I will definitely help."
"Yes, Uncle Liu, I am willing to share this fire kang with you, just to make the winter easier for everyone in the village. Just ask if you have anything, and I will tell you everything."
The mother and daughter were talking about Chen Ken, and Liu Dabao put aside his good-looking thoughts and asked: "These bricks are expensive to sell, and they are used a lot. If you want to build a kang, it will cost several hundred."
Wen, I'm afraid this business won't be easy to do."
This is what I was worried about, Zhuang Keqing thought to himself.
This was an oversight on her part.
Before, I just wanted to make it as soon as possible and buy whatever materials I needed. But if Liu Da wanted to make money from this job, then buying bricks was really not cost-effective.
But if you don’t want to buy bricks, why not make bricks yourself?
Most of the households in the village have adobe houses. Aren’t the adobe houses also made of dried mud bricks? Mud bricks can be used to build houses, but why can’t they also be used to make adobe beds?
This is where Liu Dayi's blindness has come to a head.
"Uncle Liu, wouldn't it be better to just use the mud bricks used to build the house? There is so much yellow mud in the back mountain, mixed with straw, and at most you can just make a few brick molds. It takes a little more effort, and you don't have to go to the bricklayer's house to buy them.
It’s made of blue brick.”
Zhuang Keqing reminded with a smile.
Only then did Liu Da wake up the dreamer with his words.
That's right!! There are mud bricks everywhere. Just make the embryo and blow it dry. Why am I so stupid? I have to ask the dealer's girl to remind me of such a simple method, just like feeding a child.
Similar.
Liu's barley-colored complexion turned a suspicious red. He sneered twice, said haha, and then turned his head to express his thanks solemnly.
In the next few days, apart from the payment of wages in the sweet potato workshop in the village, the Liu family's brick making attracted the most attention.
He completely complied with Zhuang Keqing's wishes, instead of working with his own family, he also invited the brothers he had made friends with to work together. After the bricks were dried and the kang was built, people saw that this thing was indeed useful.
I went back to make arrangements for myself.
Just after a while, the fire kang thing became popular in Erlizi Village.
If there is one, there are two. There are about a hundred households in Erli Village. Now there are twenty or thirty families who make kangs. They all have children in the house. Some families are afraid of spending too much money, so they just build a big kang in the house.
Yes, the whole family can lie down on it. Some families have newly married couples, so they pay attention to building separate houses, so as to leave some space for the young couple to talk.
Some people went home to visit relatives and chatted about how good the fire kang in our village was, which aroused the curiosity of people in neighboring villages.
After further inquiry, it turned out that Erli Village also has a special fire-kang construction team. They are very agile and quick at work, and it takes less than a day to build a kang. Even the mud bricks are brought by the people themselves, and there is no extra charge.
, a kang costs one hundred to two hundred cents depending on the size. It is something that can last a lifetime, so it is not very expensive. You can build one at home with just your teeth. It is better than freezing like a quail in the winter.
So it didn’t take long for Liu Da’s construction team to start taking over business from other villages.
"I said, our family also needs to build a kang."
Mrs. Wu, the third daughter-in-law of Zhuang, sat cross-legged on the bed and changed the diaper of her child A Qing. She threw the wet cloth into the basin on the floor and said, "Hurry up and wash it while the sun is still there, otherwise you won't have to change it until late."
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Zhuang San's cheeks tightened, and a blue vein appeared on his forehead. He endured it, but still took the basin out, fetched water from the water tank, and wiped the diaper obediently.
Just because of the incident where Sugan lost money last month, he has been nagged by his wife so many times that even his best temper will be worn away.
Mrs. Wu doesn't always talk about herself, but she has a deep resentment towards her mother. She never forgets to make a few sarcastic remarks, and even wants him to join her in scolding her. She is caught in the middle, which is very uncomfortable.
At the stall where diapers were dried, Mrs. Wu had already taken her child out and mentioned making a kang again, "There are people in the neighboring villages who are making kangs. You said that our family's conditions are not bad. We must use it before the end of the year."
"The sooner the better. Ah Qing is weak and might get frozen in the winter."
Of course Zhuang San had no objection, and immediately nodded, saying that he would go to Liu's house in two days to settle the matter.
But Mrs. Wu still refused to let him go. She just wanted to pester him and go immediately. After saying that, she took the child back to the house, took out the money box from the bed, counted a hundred coins and put it in the money bag for him.
"It must be done today. Let Liu Da come in a few days to avoid delaying the time."
Zhuang San grabbed a money bag and sighed in his heart, but he had no choice but to hang his head and go out.
The Liu family's business is now very good, and it is bustling all day long. The construction team is not enough, and now they are thinking of expanding their manpower.
When Zhuang San arrived, there happened to be a man who had a scheduled date in front of him. Liu Da sent people out, and in a blink of an eye he saw Zhuang San standing outside the courtyard.
The smile on his face dropped instantly, and Liu Da asked: "Is something wrong?"
Zhuang San knew that he was not welcome in the village now, but this time he asked for help and it was not easy to argue. He just forced out a smile and said, "I want to put a kang for the head of the house. Brother Liu, you
When will you be free?"
"The solo queue is full, so I can't do it."
After saying a cold and indifferent sentence, Liu Dadu didn't even look at her and turned around and left.
"Hey, don't leave? Didn't you just make an appointment?" Zhuang San called again and again, standing outside the yard and jumping up and shouting: "My house only needs to be completed before the year, so don't rush it in a few days!"
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"No time!"
Liu Da just yelled and went back to the house, not wanting to talk to the village again.
What's going on? Is it really fully booked?
Zhuang San instinctively didn't believe it, but when he thought about it, he felt a little unsure. Indeed, he had heard that people from other villages came to visit him, and he was afraid that he might be too busy.
When the matter was not done, Wu naturally lost his temper again when he returned home. He explained for a long time and finally promised to buy a stove and put it at home before the year.
But not two days later, as soon as he came back from the field, and even though the farm tools were confiscated, Mrs. Wu pointed his nose at him and scolded him for being useless and planting seeds, which made him confused and angry.
"When you're ready, try scolding me again?"
It was rare for him to get angry at Mrs. Wu, but Mrs. Wu was frightened and stunned when he yelled like this.
Zhuang San thought he had restrained his wife, and felt happy for a while. Unexpectedly, the next second, Mrs. Wu rushed up with the child in her arms, beat him again and again, and then cried out, "You yelled at me? You actually
Still yelling at me?"
"I went through hell and back to give birth to Ah Qing, and finally came back, and you still yell at me?! I'm not alive anymore~"
Wu's commotion made the child in her arms cry loudly, crying hard and coughing and wheezing, as if he was about to get sick again.
Zhuang San panicked and rushed over to hold the child, but Wu was unwilling. She muttered: "My dear, don't let me hold you. He won't even give you a bed to use. He's just cruel and cruel."
Just like that old immortal mother of his!"
"Alan! Why do you mean I don't want to do the kang? Didn't I tell you last time that Liu Dajiao's list was full and he couldn't do it?"
