Chapter Thirty-Six: Night Talk in the Tea Country
"The wild camellia in Hongshi Bay was a tribute tea to the imperial court in ancient times, and it was difficult for ordinary people to buy it. It's a shame that no one picks such a good tea every year!"
Wang Yuanchu took out the firewood under the hanging pot and lit a cigarette, and sighed continuously.
"Car, go back and call the secretary to publicize with the members, each family takes advantage of these days to pick and roast more, our mountain store is open to buy all year round! Even if the craftsmanship of roasted tea is not refined, such a good tea herb is made into large-leaf tea, and we also accept it, but the price is lower. ”
"Then do we want to ask someone to pick tea and make tea?"
His father's words made Wang Shichuan feel a little confused, and he asked very puzzled.
"Shichuan, your tea business is not just for a few days, it is a perennial business, how can you do it without a stable supply of goods! You don't have a place to stock up your own tea, you can't afford to hire so many roasted tea masters for a while, and there is no place to store the roasted new tea. The members of the club are scattered to pick and scatter and fry, we buy all the year round, and all the problems are solved! You must prepare more tea barrels next time you come over, and the best tea leaves will become old coarse tea if they are not well preserved!"
Wang Yuanchu did not directly answer his son's question, but carefully analyzed the dilemma and solution of the tea supply.
"The old principal's method is good, it can not only increase the income of the members of Hongshi Bay, but also ensure our tea goods! The old gentleman is the old gentleman, and it is longer than us old people!"
Teacher Zhang complimented him sincerely, and when he got up to get the wine, he found that all the loose beers brought by Wang Shichuan had been drunk.
At that time, beer was still a novelty for those of them in the mountains, and they had never seen or drunk it.
When Wang Shichuan came back from Lu'an Prefecture a few days ago, he happened to meet a newly opened brewery in the county selling loose liquor, so he bought a plastic bucket and brought it to Hongshi Bay to open a foreign meat dish with a few teachers.
At first, everyone was not used to drinking it, and there was a smell of large leaf tea with strong swill.
When you open your voice and drink until your face is red and your ears are red, a stream of sweet wine swells up from your belly, and the charm of beer comes out.
Compared with Liumao Chongzi and Xiaojiao Shochu, it is a completely different realm.
"Uncle, you mean that picking and roasting tea is still going on as usual. In the future, we will not collect tea herbs from the outside world, only accept fried new tea, and re-sort and process it by ourselves. Am I right?"
Xiaoche privately called Wang Yuanchu "uncle", which was much more cordial than calling "principal".
That's what it means. Wang Yuanchu nodded.
"As long as the new tea is well kept, and then an old fire is pulled after it is recovered, the quality of the incense will not have much impact. The old headmaster has the best of both worlds, and we can also get the students home and spread the word about it!"
Lao Wu said quietly and made a very professional summary.
"Okay! Tomorrow, the master bricklayers will come over and build a shack for us first, and the pot stove for roasting tea must be set up first! If you have money, you will make money, and you will rely on the support of the two eldest brothers and sisters in the future!"
Wang Shichuan raised the wine bowl to salute the three teachers, and everyone's hearts were full of pride in entrepreneurship.
"Three colleagues, the business of the mountain goods store can only be a side business for our primary school. In addition to helping me with some ideas, Lao Wu and Lao Zhang and I must not participate in the buying and selling of things, and the car can only be taken care of in our spare time! Everything we do is for the development of the school, and we can't always think about making money at home!"
Wang Yuanchu listened to a few people chatting a little off the right path, and hurriedly reminded everyone.
If the Education Committee can help solve the various difficulties that Hongshiwan Primary School is currently facing, he actually doesn't want his son's mountain goods to have anything to do with the school.
"Old principal, I just want to ask if the mountain goods store is on the road, what is the benefit to Lao Wu?" Teacher Zhang was already a little drunk.
"In the future, when a new school building is built, we will each have a dormitory. Give everyone a lunch subsidy every month, and a bonus during the New Year's holidays. The school environment is better, there are more students, the financial allocation of the Education Commission will also increase, and we will have a greater sense of belonging and accomplishment in our work!"
Where there are people, there will be struggles, and if the distribution of interests is not clear, there will be endless troubles, and the "old right" Wang Yuanchu knows this very well.
"Lao Zhang is drunk!
After listening to Wang Yuanchu's affirmative reply, Lao Wu scolded Lao Zhang fiercely, and turned his head to ask the old principal.
"Lao Wang, what I'm most worried about is that what we do is not in line with the policy?
"The next time I go to the commune for a meeting, I will ask the leaders of the education committee for instructions, which should be in line with the policy. At the time of the big collective, all the universities, middle schools, and primary schools in the city were allowed to have school-run factories, but now that they have all been reformed and opened up, has this policy changed? After the development of our mountain goods store, it is a school-run tea factory, and in fact, it is a collective industry like Xuetian, and it should be fine. ”
Wang Yuanchu replied quietly, but Lao Wu's reminder still made him break out in a cold sweat. In the past years, he has been scared.
"I think the mountain goods store is more stable in the name of Brother Wang, and others won't gossip!"
Lao Zhang came to his senses, feeling that his appeal just now was a bit shameless, and quickly changed his tone and spoke.
"It's for the best. Sagawa, in the future, you will rent the land of the school to build a tea factory. But in private, it's still the old rule, we buy tea, you can only be a second-class dealer! Tomorrow we will build a tea shed, and the stone, wood, and bamboo schools will help solve it, but you will have to bear the wages and food expenses of the masters!"
Wang Yuanchu adopted Lao Zhang's suggestion on the spot, and turned to his son.
"Dad, don't worry! If you don't say I'll do the same!" Wang Shichuan replied briskly.
"In this way, Brother Wang will suffer a loss, our school has taken such a big advantage of you for nothing!"
Lao Wu was very dissatisfied with Lao Zhang's proposal, thinking that he had a bad idea, but since the principal nodded, it was not easy to say anything more, and he also thanked Wang Shichuan for going against his will.
"Big brother will see me when he says this, and I can't succeed in this business without a few helpers! It's still the same sentence, in the future, there will be rich people to earn! With my Wang Shichuan meat to eat, I will never let the three old brothers and sisters gnaw bones! Hahaha!"
Wang Shichuan also understands people, and hurriedly said beautiful words in front.
All the processes of the camellia business have been fully figured out, and not cooperating with Redstone Bay Elementary School has not had much impact on him.
But it seems that building this primary school is the greatest wish of the old father for the rest of his life, and as a son, he has to help him.
Teacher Xiao Che didn't squeak anymore, and Lao Zhang and Lao Wu were red and white, which made her feel ashamed and resentful.
As soon as the mountain goods store had a stroke, the two old men began to compete for profits, which really disappointed the old principal's hard work.
In a word, the four of us must work together to run the school well, this is our one-acre and three-point land! The school is good, and the three of us old guys have a good life. I usually live in school, play ball, read books, go down the mountain to fish to improve my life, and go out to play in the mountains and rivers together! The car teacher will also have a great future! Such a good situation, I will not change the county magistrate! Hahaha!"
Night had fallen, Wang Yuanchu patted the shoulders of the two old colleagues, laughed heartily, and the slight unhappiness during the banquet was also swept away with the laughter.
Teacher Car's home is in a ravine with Lao Zhang and Lao Wu, and the three of them happen to be on the road together, and they are not alone in the mountains at night.
Sending Lao Zhang away and cleaning up the mess after the dinner, it was already very late at night.
The full moon in the sky was full, and the cold moonlight sprinkled all over the mountains and fields, like day.
The evening class of the three children in the classroom has ended, and they are boiling water to wash their feet on the open stove.
The cheerful laughter came all the time, and it also reminded Wang Shichuan of his son.
"Chengzi was still two days ago, and I'm going to transfer to your school. These kids are used to living in school, right?"
Father and son sat on either side of the wooden table, quietly smoking cigarettes and talking about family affairs.
The dining table and benches were all made by Wang Yuanchu himself, and it was not long after they were completed.
When Mr. Wang Yuanchu first came to the school, he didn't even have a small table for eating. After some self-reliance, now I have everything.
As the carpenters became more skilled, the evening construction progressed much faster than at the beginning.
It took five nights to complete a desk at the beginning of the term, but now the old gentleman only needs three nights to complete it.
"These three babies are good, they have grown meat during the school days, and they are cleaner than before, and collective life seems to be very important for the growth of children. The new school building will be built next semester, Dachengzi and Mao Yatou will come over, and I will teach them! Take your mother over and do laundry and cooking for the grandchildren, hehe. Your brother didn't study, and I feel sad just thinking about it!"
Wang Yuanchu sighed, extinguished his cigarette and prepared to go back to the house to rest.
"At that time, it was not like this, it would be nice to survive. Dad, what do you want to do with this, hehe!"
Wang Shichuan comforted his father with a haha, but his eyes blurred.
The past of his childhood longing for school is bitter and distant, and he is too envious of the three little babies in front of him who live in school and study at night.