Xiao Mu had no choice but to run to ask the old man why he kept pig hair in the pigsty, and heard the old man say that he was praying for good pigs to be raised in the coming year.

After sending the butcher away, Zhang Laohan didn't have the money in his pocket yet, so he returned the part of the money that Wan Rong had paid before.

Later in the evening, Zhang Laohan put his wallet in a bag and went to the secretary's house.

"Secretary, I'll settle the arrears, a total of 6 days, 50 yuan a day, a total of 300 yuan, you see. ”

The secretary was not in a hurry to settle accounts for Zhang Laohan, but handed Zhang Laohan a stool very kindly and made him a cup of tea.

In other words, this secretary's house is different from ordinary people's homes, the house is clean and tidy, it looks very comfortable, and the house is naturally slightly better than ordinary people, after all, it is necessary to take the lead in setting an example.

sat down next to Zhang Laohan and handed Zhang Laohan more cigarettes, Zhang Laohan hurriedly refused and said: "No, no, secretary, I'm not used to cigarettes, let's smoke my dry tobacco." ”

He took out his pipe from his pocket, wrapped some tobacco leaves and smoked it.

The secretary lifted Erlang's legs, the cigarette in his hand was almost burned out, and the snow-white soot dripped to the ground.

"Zhang Laohan, your family is also very difficult, everything is not going well. ”

When the secretary said this, Zhang Laohan did not feel sad about it, but smiled at it.

smiled and said: "It's not, this is life, sweet and sour, spicy and salty, with all five flavors, everyone is the same." ”

After smoking, Zhang Laohan got up and went home, and the secretary naturally asked Zhang Laohan to have dinner together, but Zhang Laohan did not accept the invitation.

Zhang Laohan, who arrived at home, was not idle, and just after eating, he called Wan Rong to his side and discussed what Ji should do next and what to do.

"Next, you should go to the water pipe, I can't do it. ”

Wan Vieng was silent, perhaps agreeing.

Although I now have a pool, it is not practical, it is made of plastic buckets, and it often leaks.

So Wan Rong said: "Why don't you take advantage of the money now and get a slightly better pool, now this water storage is not good, and drainage is not good." ”

Zhang Laohan thought for a while, Wan Rong was right, it was time to repair a better pool.

But the problem also arises, it is inevitable that sand and gravel, cement, bricks and so on will be used to repair the pool, but if you purchase it separately, the cost plus freight is estimated to be not enough.

"But this money is not enough, right?" said Zhang Laohan what he was worried about.

The little Mu on the side moved, the bricks may be able to use the mud bricks in their own homes, after all, they are similar to the red bricks, although they are not waterproof, but they also have to be plastered with cement mortar.

So Xiao Mu walked between the two and boldly put forward what he thought.

Wan Rong looked at Xiao Mu and said in surprise: "Ouch, silly boy, yes, you can have this idea, if it is feasible, then you can save a lot of money." ”

However, this feasibility has yet to be studied, otherwise it will be a failure to do it blindly.

The next day, Wan Vieng got up early, took some mud bricks, and went to the village to borrow some cement and sand.

First, the surface of the mud bricks was drenched with water, and then the sand ash was mixed with the only cement and sand to build a small pool next to the previous pool.

After the sand ash is completely dehydrated and solidified, fill it with half a bucket of water to see if there is any leakage.

After a night, the experiment was a success, and no leaks were found.

Wan Vieng was overjoyed, no one had done this in the village, so he had to try it boldly.

The bricks have been solved, but the sand and cement have not been solved, what should we do? Cement is destined to be bought, and there is nothing to replace, and it is easy to buy in bulk.

But this sand is different, it is sold according to the square, and it is very inconvenient to buy less of it, but you can't use it up if you buy more.

It's really hard to build a pool, so I'll put it aside for the time being.

Until one day, Wan Vieng went to lay the water pipes with his friends in the village as usual, and accidentally mentioned the matter of repairing the pool.

I heard someone say that there is a place in the village where you can dig sand, but there is no river in front of the river, and there is no river in front of you, where is there sand to dig in a place full of mountains at a glance?

So Wan Rong specially inquired about who said that there was sand to dig and found the person.

The family was also very poor, and the water was stored in large wood, and the middle was hollowed out, leaving the bottom and the surrounding area, which looked very much like a coffin.

When he arrived at the man's house, Wan Rong got straight to the point, didn't detour, and asked directly: "Brother, I heard that you found that you can dig sand in the village, where is it?"

The man was not stingy, "It's at the intersection of the north of the village, isn't there yellow sand there, I dug it from there." ”

Wan Rong thought about it carefully, isn't it all yellow gravel at the intersection of Zhaibei Road? How can there be sand?

So he asked with a stomach full of doubts: "Why don't I know that there is sand there, isn't it all rubble?"

The man smiled and said, "You don't understand this, you break the gravel and it will turn into sand, if you don't want to break it, remove the rubble and dig it directly." ”

But can that work? Wan Vieng was skeptical again.

"What do you think of the quality of the sand, how much is the difference between it and the river sand, is the viscosity good, and is the strength enough?"

Faced with Wan Vieng's questioning, the man took Wan Vieng directly to the side corner of his house.

The corner of the wall was piled with several large bags of sand dug up from the intersection of the north of the village, and they were tightly covered with plastic film.

The man tore off the plastic film, pointed to one of the bags and said, "You can see whether the quality is good or not, I can't say, anyway, I didn't make much difference between it, it's still okay." ”

Wan Rong stepped forward, reached out and fished out a large handful of sand, poked it in the palm of his hand, and felt okay, and it was finer than the river sand, presumably the quality would not be too bad.

Reach out and scoop up another handful, and it flows back into the pocket through the finger seams, and the flow is very good.

"Well, that's good, is there anything else there?"

The man smiled, "Don't be funny, Wan Rong, so far only I know, there must be thi, if you want to dig then you should do it as soon as possible, such a good thing will be spread sooner or later, no, you have come to the door." ”

After thinking about it carefully, what he said was extremely true, so Wan Rong said goodbye to the man and hurried back home.

found Zhang Laohan and said, "Dad, great, we can build a pool, and we don't have to buy sand alone." ”

When Zhang Laohan heard how could this be possible, who would send it to the door if he didn't buy the sand, so he sneered and said: "Heh, the sand will be sent to the door by itself, or who wants to sell it?"

Wan Rong said excitedly: "No, it's not, there is yellow sand at the intersection of the north side of our village, we can dig it ourselves, this is not too good." ”

"Oh, and such a good thing, I haven't found out for decades, and it would be great if that was the case!"

This is undoubtedly great news for Zhang Laohan, and the long-stalled pool project can be restarted.