Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 39 A small sum of money
  "Okay, thank you, Boss Liu. I wish you a prosperous business. I have more than ten kilograms of eels here, including one that is particularly big." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay!" Liu Yu took the eel over with a smile, his expression even more enthusiastic than before.

"It's a total of nine catties and eight taels. If you count ten catties and give me eight yuan, the total will be twenty-three." Liu Yu took the initiative to add the scale and took twenty-three yuan for Lin Heng.

"Drink some water before we leave, and let's chat for a while." Lin Heng was about to leave, but Liu Yu still wanted to persuade him to stay.

"Forget it, we still have things to do." Lin Heng waved his hand and left the hotel with his eldest brother.

After coming out, he handed 12 yuan to his elder brother and said with a smile: "Brother, this is your portion."

Lin Yue did not accept the money, but looked at him curiously: "What did you tell Liu Yu that he accepted this turtle for fifteen yuan?"

Lin Heng smiled, knowing that his elder brother would ask this, and replied with a smile: "Nothing, I just told him that the father of a leader in the town was sick and needed a lot of supplements, so he took it."

"How did you know about this?" Lin Yue was even more shocked.

"Because I heard what the village chief said when I played with his son before." Lin Heng lied. This was something he knew in his previous life.

Not long after, the old man died. At that time, he was doing a lot of things for nothing.

"Okay." Lin Yue was impressed and felt that his brother's brain was so flexible. Even if he knew the news, he probably wouldn't be able to take advantage of it.

"I only take ten yuan of this money. The rest is earned by your own ability." The eldest brother gave him the extra money.

Before Lin Heng could speak, he said forcefully: "Don't say any more, just take it as I ask you to. It turns out that I took advantage of you."

"Okay then." Lin Heng opened his mouth, agreed, and didn't bother to do anything more.

He calculated that, including the money from selling snakes, mushrooms and medicinal herbs, the total was 32 yuan, which was pretty good.

Normally, a worker working in the city only earns this much for two months. Rice costs about 45 cents per catty, which can buy more than [-] catties of rice. Sugar costs [-] cents per catty, which can buy [-] catties.

Xiulan sells mushrooms and herbs for a total of seventy or eighty yuan a year, which can be said to be a huge sum of money.

However, this is not enough for Lin Heng. He cannot make his family rich at all, and he has to work harder.

"Do you want to buy something?" Elder brother Lin Yue asked.

"There's nothing to buy. Let's buy tiles first. We'll talk about it after we finish it." Lin Heng shook his head and said, of course he saved the money and used it as capital to buy Phellinus huang to make a profit. At most, he spent a few cents to buy a candy. daughter.

"Okay, let's buy tiles first." Lin Yue nodded. There are three brick factories in the town, two of which come with tile burning. They have to ask about the price separately.

The two went to the nearby Tuanjie Brick Factory first. The huge chimney of the brick factory was billowing thick smoke, and there were many red bricks and terracotta tiles placed in the open space outside.

In this era, there were no glazed tiles in Huangtan Town. They were all clay tiles fired from loess. Glazed tiles, which are very common in later generations, are also very difficult craftsmanship in this era, and ordinary small brick factories simply cannot do it.

When Lin Heng and his elder brother came over, many workers were making tile embryos. They used sifted yellow mud to make a cylinder, and then divided it into four parts, which became four tile embryos.

"Are you here to buy bricks?" Seeing Lin Heng and Lin Yue walking in, a middle-aged man in his thirties put down his work of making bricks and walked over to ask.

"We are here to buy terracotta tiles. How much does one cost for you?" Lin Yue asked first.

As soon as he heard that he was buying tiles, the man immediately became friendly. He quickly wiped his hands and said with a smile: "Come into the house, let's drink tea and talk slowly."

Lin Yue was impatient and didn't like nonsense. He shook his head and said, "Just tell me how much it will cost. After asking you here, we have to go to Hongsheng Brick Factory to ask the price."

Upon hearing this, the boss pulled the two of them a little further away and asked with a smile: "How many watts do you want to buy?"

"Buy [-] first, then buy later when it's not enough." Lin Yue said.

"This is a lot of money. I can give you three cents and five cents. This is the lowest price." The boss said with a smile.

When Lin Heng heard this, he felt that the boss was an honest person. Looking at the situation in this brick factory, this was a brick factory that had just been built not long ago. It was normal to lack orders. "Will you sell it for three cents?" Lin Yue asked again.

"That's really no good. I can only earn some hard-earned money for three-and-a-half points." The boss said with a wry smile.

"Then let's go to another brick factory and have a look." Lin Yue turned and left.

Half an hour later, we arrived at Hongsheng Brick Factory. This is a big brick factory. The price is [-] cents, with the lowest price being [-] cents. If the goods exceed [-] yuan, the price can be as low as [-] cents.

While Lin Heng supported his elder brother to ask about the price, he went to check the quality of the bricks and terracotta tiles.

"Forget it, let's go to Tuanjie Brick Factory to buy it." Lin Yue shook his head, and after half an hour, the two returned to Tuanjie Brick Factory.

"Brother, I'll talk later." Lin Heng said while walking.

"Okay, come on." Lin Yue didn't think much about it.

When the two of them came back, the boss hurriedly greeted them and said with a smile, "How about it? My price is low enough, right?"

Lin Heng didn't say anything. He walked into the brick factory and took a look, looked at the equipment, and then looked at the tiles and bricks. The quality was a bit worse than that of Hongsheng Brick Factory. No wonder there were no orders.

"Boss, the quality of your tiles and bricks is much worse than Hongsheng's." Lin Heng said with a smile while holding a brick.

Upon hearing this, the boss couldn't help but smile apologetically and said: "It's a little off, their brick kiln is a big place, the temperature of the brick kiln is high, and the bricks are fired well.

But ours does not affect the use. Don’t worry, you will have no problem using it for hundreds of years. "

"Okay, how about three cents and two cents?" Lin Heng began to negotiate the price.

"The minimum is three cents and four. If it's any lower, I might as well not do it. I won't make any hard-earned money." The boss's attitude was very firm and he would not make any more concessions.

"Okay, just three cents and four cents. At this price, I'll place an order of five thousand. We'll pay a ten percent deposit first. You can issue a receipt. How about we pay the balance after everything is delivered?"

Lin Heng asked.

I just remembered something. In my previous life, Tuanjie Brick Factory was eliminated by Hongsheng Brick Factory due to its small scale and poor quality. Calculating the time, it still seems to be more than a year, which seems to be at the end of [-].

In his previous life, he worked in the city after going into debt and worked in various factories, including the brick factory.

He could see the problem with the bricks at a glance. No stone powder was added, which resulted in the sintering temperature being too high and the small brick kiln could not meet it.

He even knew the craftsmanship of glazed tiles, but did not choose to tell them.

It's not time yet, let's wait until the brick factory is about to close down, and it's not easy to explain to your family how you know it when you say this suddenly.

"No problem, five thousand yuan is 170 yuan. You just pay a deposit of 17 yuan first." The boss was a little excited and calculated the price in one breath.

Then he went into the house to write a receipt. Lin Heng took out the receipt but confiscated it. Instead, he asked: "What are you using to transport goods? Horses or donkeys?"

It is impossible for this small brick factory to own something like a tractor. The price of industrial products in this era is ridiculously high. The cheapest small tractor costs tens of thousands of yuan.

"Carriage, our factory has two carriages. Each carriage can pull two to five hundred clay tiles." The boss said immediately.

"Then load the car immediately and come with us. We will show you the way." Lin Heng said.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away." The boss seemed to have become a worker, doing things exactly according to Lin Heng's arrangements.

"Then after you finish loading the car, come directly to the bridge in the center of the town. We will wait for you there." After Lin Heng finished speaking, he motioned to his elder brother to give the money and took the receipt.

The money my father gave me to buy bricks is at my eldest brother's place.

(End of this chapter)