After grandma knew the idea of collecting child models, she went to Zhangji to buy goods, so she took her with her. Grandma still can't figure out Yoyo's e-mall, but as long as Yoyo says that she can make money, she will fully support it.

Because her old man understands that the goods in Yoyo Mall also have to be bought. The good news is that the value of goods in the two worlds is different.

Wild vegetables, which no one wants here, are very expensive in the mall. The incomparably cheap chemical fiber products in the mall are rare here.

What makes Grandma even more puzzled is that there are a lot of waste products here, and when they arrive in the shopping mall, they have become treasure collections, which are more valuable than gold and silver, and even a cigarette box can be exchanged for hundreds of catties of brown sugar.

The kiln factory of Zhangji Commune does not fire child molds, but the mother and mother inquired about the person who fired child molds. He is an artist surnamed Zhang in Zhangzhuang Village, Pingcheng County, and he is nicknamed "Child Model Zhang", and the firing of child models is also in their kiln factory.

Yoyo was overjoyed after hearing this, and found a treasure. She still remembers the record on the Internet that the old man in Zhangzhuang Village, Pingcheng County, was the pioneer of child model production in Lu Province. He was born in the thirties of the twentieth century and died at the end of the eighties.

The next morning, my grandmother took you to Zhangzhuang on a bicycle. The back seat of the car is tied to a saddle-shaped basket, which is a special basket made for the big golden deer bicycle.

There are deep baskets on both sides of the empty middle of the basket, which are connected together, straddling the wide back seat of the Golden Deer Bicycle, and then tied with ropes on both sides, so that many things can be placed steadily. The top is flat, and you can put a long cloth bag. In this way, the big golden deer bicycle can sell grain, and it can carry more than 200 catties at a time.

Zhangzhuang Village is located in the northwest of Pingcheng County, north of the Yellow River embankment, more than 40 miles away from Hantun Village, along the Yellow River embankment all the way to the northeast, grandma rode for more than two hours to arrive.

As soon as I inquired about entering the village, everyone knew his house, and you could see the door of his house from a distance, and from time to time there were merchant cars coming in and out.

Walking into the gate, I saw a big greenhouse set up on the south side of the yard, and the child model in the shed was held in a large frame, and the same was placed on the ground, there were dozens of kinds, and more than ten merchants picked up the child model in it.

"What's the matter with you?" a man in his forties greeted her as she entered the door.

"I'm looking for Master Zhang. Grandma replied

"Master doesn't dare to be, I don't know what is wrong with you?" It turned out that he was Master Zhang.

Grandma told him that he had opened a sales outlet in the village and wanted to buy some child models to sell, so he inquired about coming here.

"Hurry into the house and rest, it is not close from your place here, it must be more than forty miles. Have you eaten, the child is hungry, and if you haven't eaten, let the child and his mother hurry up. Master Zhang greeted them warmly and let them into the hall, and his wife came over and poured a cup of hot water.

"We got up early to eat, big brother, you are busy, I will go to pick up the child model in the rest of the meeting, and the road is far away to rush back early. ”

"Then sister-in-law, you will rest, I'll go out and have a look. Master Zhang went out, and his wife accompanied his grandmother in the house, and he was doing homely work with his grandmother.

Master Zhang's wife told her grandmother that Master Zhang had gone to school when he was a child, had a high level of education, and read a lot of books. He also studied painting for several years and has certain painting skills, which has laid a good foundation for him to create child model characters.

After liberation, in his twenties, he began to experiment with making child models and began to sell them in the surrounding markets.

On the basis of the traditional child model, combined with the local customs, he created a series of characters in "Water Margin", which is deeply loved by people. At that time, although a child model was only sold for one and a half cents, a market could earn more than one dollar, which was a good income at that time.

Later, the whole family joined the ranks of making children's molds, and built a kiln at home to fire children's molds, which burned non-stop 24 hours a day. The child model has also developed from retail to wholesale, and the scope has gradually spread outward, becoming the representative of the child model in Lu Province, and spreading to the surrounding provinces and cities, and he has also become a well-known "child model".

When his own kiln was destroyed, he asked the commune's kiln factory to burn it on his behalf, and each time he sent two boxes of cigarettes to the people in the kiln factory, it was easier than burning them at home. There is no need to go out to sell his own family, and every spring, there are several batches of his family's child models poured out and sold hundreds of miles away.

He has four children, the two eldest are sons, all married and living separately. The two daughters are young and still in school. The whole family makes child models all year round, and he is responsible for batching it here. The lives of several families rely on child models, and they are quite passable.

Grandma rested for more than half an hour, and told Grandma that it was almost ten o'clock, so she went to the yard to pick up a child model.

The child models in the courtyard also show the characteristics of this era: airplanes, cannons, trains, tank cars. There are several types of guns and automobiles: long guns, short guns, submachine guns, box guns, trucks, buses, cars, tractors.

The heroes are even more vividly portrayed. The *** who lifted the explosive bag, the *** who would rather die than give in, the *** who was wearing a big hat, Li Yuhe who was carrying a red light, Li Tiemei's big braid, and Pan Dongzi's red star hat made people unable to take their eyes off it.

The series of characters in "Journey to the West" is rich, with Monkey King and Zhu Bajie being the majority. The image of Sun Wukong is witty and brave: holding a golden hoop stick and looking into the distance, soaring clouds and fog wantonly, being pressed Wuzhi Mountain and reaching for peaches, and leaning on the Monkey King banner triumphantly.

The image of Bajie is honest and simple: Bajie wielding a rake is simple and cute, Bajie who leads the horse looks around, and the image of Bajie's daughter-in-law is even more hilarious. In addition, there are Nezha who pedals Hot Wheels and Li Tianwang of Tota.

The shape of the animals is mainly based on the 12 zodiac signs, as well as lions, tigers, cats, birds, and fish. The largest number of fish is probably related to the fact that the fish has been a mascot since ancient times, and it has both the expectation of having more children and more blessings, and the good wish of having more than enough every year.

There are not many child models in the shape of plants, and the plum blossoms of Aoxue bloom in the wind and snow, representing the literati's temperament and perseverance.

There are lotus flowers in full bloom and lotus flowers with lotus roots, which respectively imply "flowers bloom and wealth" and "even give birth to noble sons", and it seems that the auspicious meaning is an eternal theme, regardless of the age and period.

It's good to look at this, that one is more attractive, pick and choose more, only a dozen of each type are picked, and a full frame is picked. Seeing that the time was eleven o'clock, I quickly asked Master Zhang to weigh it.

Master Zhang's wholesale child models are weighed by weight, five cents a catty, and there are about 5-10 child models. According to Yoyo's observation, people who come generally cost ten pounds and twenty pounds, only five cents a piece. Yoyo calculated, since they came, there have been no people, there must be more than a dozen, and this morning will have to collect more than ten yuan.

With the addition of afternoon and reselling, there must be a small income of 1,000 a month. Although it was only three months in the spring to sell the child model, the father and son had to have 1,000 yuan each.

At this time, the salary of cadres was thirty or forty yuan a month, and only four or five hundred yuan a year. 1,000 yuan was equivalent to the annual income of a dual-income family, which was the top existence at that time.

Who would have thought that the little child model was so cheap that any child could afford it, but Master Zhang's family made a fortune with it.

Grandma asked for a lot, and the two of them lifted it up and weighed it, more than 70 pounds. Youyou picked some more, and got eighty pounds, and grandma gave four yuan. Let Master Zhang help and pour the child model into the basket tied to the back of the bicycle.

Seeing his grandmother pushing the cart, Master Zhang and his daughter-in-law pulled and refused to let them go, "Sister-in-law, you are too far away from home, and it takes more than two hours to travel." Eat and then leave, you don't have to be hungry, the child can't stand it. ”

Seeing that they had left it for good, Grandma took a cloth bag from the handlebar and handed it to Master Zhang's wife.

"Okay, just eat at the big brother's place, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back, so I'll trouble you with dry food. ”

"Sister-in-law, you still carry dry food, I can afford a meal, don't take dry food next time." His wife said and took the cloth bag.

It was close to noon, and the others got close and all checked out. His wife went to the kitchen to cook, and Master Zhang accompanied his grandmother to sit and chat in the hall, talking about the experience of being a child model over the years.

The more they talked, the more speculative they became, and Master Zhang asked his grandmother: "Sister-in-law, I heard you speak with our accent here, so I think you have been outside and have seen a lot." ”

"Don't hide it from my eldest brother, I did leave home when I was a child, and I only came back in the past ten years. Grandma told him about her simple experience, and Master Zhang sighed too. The more they talked, the closer they became, and they didn't call their sister-in-law anymore, but called their sister directly.

He led his grandmother into the back room, took out several bags of child models from the cabinets, carefully took them out and placed them on the empty bed next to them, and explained them one by one. Yoyo can be regarded as an eye-opener and a long insight.

Master Zhang has a lot of children, more than 200. There are several kinds of complete sets alone: Liangshan One Hundred Orders and Eight Generals, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Bao Gong Case, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Fengshen Bang, and The Legend of the West Chamber. He grasped the image characteristics of each character, and portrayed it vividly and vividly.

Yoyo saw a pattern engraved with lotus flowers and heron birds, and curiously picked it up and asked, "Grandpa, what kind of bird is this?"

"This is a cormorant, together with the lotus, which means all the way, but unfortunately it is not allowed to be sold now. ”

His wife cooked, came over to take a look, and said to his grandmother embarrassedly: "Let my sister-in-law laugh, he is so excited when he remembers the original thing." ”

Then he persuaded him: "We are not the same as selling child models now, we can sell anything with money." Don't be too bothered, you have to like to play secretly at home, no one cares, you have to sell it to be happy. ”

Grandma also persuaded her: "Big brother, what my sister said is true, it's good to be able to take care of the family this year." We have to think about it ourselves, don't admit that dead reason, we can't get along with ourselves. ”

"Eldest sister, I'm not afraid that you know, if you want to talk about life, your brother's family is really no worse than other people's families. Master Zhang said proudly.

"You let the eldest sister say, isn't it good for us to do this? Don't be annoyed when you think about it in the future, it's not like we can't get by. His daughter-in-law continued to advise.

As the servants talked, they packed up the children's models that had been set up, and Master Zhang's youngest daughter also came back from school. She attended junior high school in a nearby village, and her sister lived in the commune high school.

Everyone washed their hands and sat down to eat, and there were two pots of vegetables on the table, one fried tofu and one scrambled eggs with leeks, which were all good dishes in the countryside. Grandma looked at it and said embarrassedly: "Big brother, you two are too polite." ”

Master Zhang's wife replied grinningly: "Sister, I really didn't be polite to you, and my family usually eats like this." Youyou saw that the basket was full of flower rolls, and the mixed noodles were like a line, and she knew that she was telling the truth.

While eating, Master Zhang told his grandmother that in addition to participating in the team's labor, his family worked as a child model all year round, even in winter. Dry a batch and burn a batch, and store it at home after it is burned, so that it is not conspicuous. After a year, a large number of batches were sent out, but there was never enough left.

"Sister, people say that the building that sells pear paste is boiled slowly. This kid doesn't look like it's worth a pear paste, but it doesn't have a book. It's not a brother to blow, I can build a building in a year. But this year, we don't dare to build it if we have money. Then eat better, adults and children follow the busy work all year round, don't lose them. "Listening to this, people live more clearly.