Chapter 1282 Frequent Events27

1.

Sure enough, not long after Chun Shuwu and Chun Shuli left, many masters with pot stoves and chimneys came to the door, along with many hired workers who had been found for Xu Dan.

This hired worker is none other than Xu Dan's brother who has not been out of five suits, named Xu Jiang. Xu Jiang is honest and honest by nature, and he is not good at words, and his family is poor, so he is still alone in his thirties. On weekdays, he works at home to make a few acres of thin land to make a living, but he has the strength to do it, but unfortunately he has no skills, that is, he is a life of digging in the soil. The reason why many people choose Xu Jiang to be Xu Dan's hired workers is that they have taken a fancy to Xu Jiang's honesty and truthfulness, and they know Xu Jiang well, and they promise that they will not have two hearts with Xu Dan with this kind of person; second, they also want to take advantage of this to pull Xu Jiang and let him earn a few pocket money to subsidize the family, and the salary of 200 yuan per month is better than facing the loess with his back to the sky in those few acres of mountains and thin land; third, he is optimistic about Xu Jiang's skills in the kitchen, because he has lived alone for many years, Xu Jiang has practiced a good cooking skill, and he is proficient in frying, cooking, and frying, making steamed buns, dumplings, rolling noodles, and everything, and helping Xu Dan make a steamed bun and scone is not a piece of cake？

Although Xu Dan's steamed bun shop is still in the construction and preparation stage, many of them still brought Xu Jiang over in advance. Many of this is done in order to find a small job for the master of the pot stove, Xu Jiang has a lot of strength, sieving sand mixed with cement and moving bricks is just right, and the second is to let Xu Jiang come over to familiarize himself with the working environment in advance, and Xu Dan and Spring can also get familiar with each other and run in, which is also convenient for future work. As for whether Xu Dan will pay Xu Jiang a salary from today, it is not a lot to worry about.

2.

Many of the masters who are looking for the pot stove and chimney are over 60 years old, and their families live in Liujiatun, which is three miles away from here, and they are called "Old Master Liu".

From the "small blast furnace" of the 58 years of the iron and steel smelting era, to the "flue-cured tobacco house" of the production team that flourished in the Hushan area in the sixties and seventies of the last century, Master Liu has participated in the construction, and is the master of the famous pot stove and chimney in Shili Eight Villages. Later, in the 80s of the last century, the Hushan area implemented the "big package", and the "flue-cured tobacco house" as a collective production team disappeared, and the original towering chimneys of each village were demolished by the villagers to build pigsty and chicken coops, and the towering chimneys that symbolized Master Liu's great achievements also disappeared without a trace. Later, as Master Liu grew older, he no longer did this kind of business of climbing high and low pot stoves and chimneys. However, in the minds of the older generation, Master Liu can be regarded as a representative figure of the pot stove and chimney. Therefore, when Xu Dan and Spring proposed to find someone to build a pot stove and a chimney, the first thing that came to mind was Master Liu in Liujiatun.

Originally, Master Liu had already washed his hands in a golden basin and no longer took over the business of building pots and stoves and chimneys, and when he was older, he wanted to live at home for a long time. However, many people came to the door in person to invite Master Liu and couldn't refuse. Many village cadres who have been working in Hushan Village for many years had some friendship with Master Liu when they were young, and at this time, many people came to invite them for their daughter's business, and Master Liu could only "go out of the mountain" again.

After Master Liu entered the courtyard gate, he turned around the side house with his hands behind his back, and then instructed Xu Jiang to start sifting sand and cement. When Xu Jianghe and Spring were busy sifting sand and cement, Master Liu took out a tape measure from the canvas pocket he brought with him and began to measure it in the house. After a while, dozens of white cotton threads were pulled horizontally and vertically on the open space of the partial house, which seemed to be a messy "spider web" or "gossip array" for people who did not know how to do it, but as long as a person who knew a little about the line or a layman looked carefully, he would find that these horizontal and vertical white cotton threads were actually pulled out of the prototype of a pot stove, and the position of the pot edge, pot table, vent and chimney were clearly marked. Master Liu's hand has been with him to play many admiration, this is really in response to the old saying "connoisseurs will know if there is a shot or not", many although they do not understand the mason's craft, but even many laymen have seen that this is a pot stove that has not yet started.

3.

Just when everyone was busy, the second car of yellow sand transported by Chunshuwu and Chunshu's family tricycle arrived.

Hearing the sound of tricycles, many hurriedly came out of the yard. Chun Shuwu and Chun Shuli saw that their father-in-law was personally supervising the formation here, and the two of them hurriedly expressed their gratitude to many. Anyway, the matter of Xu Dan and Chun opening a steamed bun shop is always the business of Lao Chun's family, and it is always a bit unreasonable to bother his father-in-law to go out in person. Facing the politeness of Chun Shuwu and Chun Shu's family, many smiled and waved their hands, saying that he should come to help when his daughter's family opened a store, not to mention that it was still on this one-third of an acre on the street of Hushan Town?

Chun Shuwu has also been on the streets of Hushan Town for many years, and he and Master Liu, who built the pot stove, also knew each other, and the two of them smoked cigarettes and exchanged pleasantries for a while. In the interval between Chun Shuwu and Master Liu's gossip, Chun Shujia stared at the horizontal and vertical "spider web" that Master Liu pulled with an iron peg and couldn't move his legs. The Chunshu family will also have a little mason craftsmanship, and has also built a pot stove for the people in the village to play the earthen kang, but the stunt of the pot stove to find the flue is ignorant. So, under the pretext of staying here to help, Chun Shujia said that he would not go back to Shimengouzi Village to install yellow sand. Thinking that anyway, there was Chun Shuli at home to help load the car, so he didn't force the Chun Shujia family, so Chun Shuwu drove the tricycle back to Shimengouzi Village alone.