Chapter 1274 Frequent Events19

1.

After Lao Yang Tou left, Spring and Xu Danyuan went around the courtyard again, and discussed the matter of inviting someone to build a pot stove and a chimney.

In the Toyama area, almost every household has an earthen stove for burning firewood and grass, and almost every house has one or two thick chimneys erected on the roof. Although pot stoves and chimneys can be seen everywhere and are used by every household, the pot stove and chimney are a handicraft job. There are many masons in the Toyama area, and there are a dozen or dozens of masons in almost every village, but there are very few masons who can actually build pots and stoves and chimneys. Of course, almost every mason can complete the work of painting a pot stove or chimney according to the gourd, but whether the pot stove and chimney are good to burn and whether they can reverse smoke is a key issue.

From ancient times to the present, the craft of building pot stoves and chimneys in the Toyama area is to be learned from a master in the Eight Classics. Of course, the craftsmanship that has been learned through a lot of hard work will not be easily passed on, which is the foundation of the survival of craftsmen, and no one will be stupid to pass on their unique skills to others. Passing on the craft to others is equivalent to giving one's job to others. "Taught the apprentice to starve the master" is a common saying in the Toyama area, which roughly means to warn the craftsman that the technique should not be easily passed on.

In the Hushan area, most of the pots and stoves are used to burn firewood and grass, and under normal circumstances, the pots and stoves are built between the stoves, and the flue should bypass the earthen kang of the bedroom and then discharge the smoke through the chimney erected on the roof, and the purpose of the flue through the earthen kang of the bedroom is actually to heat the earthen kang. In the winter slack season, the old and young gather around the hot earthen kang to talk about the short gossip of their parents, which has become a unique scenery in the rural areas of the Toyama area. However, the pot stove to be built in the steamed bread shop is different from that of ordinary farmers, the pot stove in the people's house is to burn firewood and grass, while the pot stove in the steamed bread shop is to burn coal, and it is not good to burn coal, it is necessary to burn pulverized coal. Ordinary pulverized coal is not enough, it is necessary to use high-calorie "Xinwen pulverized coal", which produces a large amount of heat energy when fully combusted, and in the words of the common people, it is "fire". Therefore, it is not enough to find an ordinary pot stove master for the steamed bread shop, and it is necessary to find a master who specializes in burning pulverized coal pot stoves.

There is no doubt that there is skill in building pots and chimneys, and pots and stoves that specialize in burning pulverized coal may also have a unique skill. After thinking about it, Spring and Xu Dan didn't think that among the people they knew, no one would build this kind of pot stove for burning pulverized coal.

It was nearly twelve o'clock, and Xu Dan was too lazy to cook, so he told Spring that he would simply go back to his parents' house for lunch, and by the way, he would ask his father if he knew many masters who burned pulverized coal pots. As soon as Spring heard that this idea was good, he rode a motorcycle and drove Xu Dan to his father-in-law's house.

When he entered the door, Xu Dan's mother was still busy in the kitchen, and Xu Dan hurriedly washed his hands and went into the kitchen to help. Many are playing with Xiao Chunguang in the yard, and the old and the young are having a lot of fun. Seeing the spring coming over, many people asked about the steamed bun shop. In the spring, he told many people about the purchase of equipment, the transportation of equipment, and the contact with electricians, and then asked many masters who knew whether they knew the pulverized coal pot stove. Many frowned and thought for a while, and then told Spring that the master and labor of the pot stove did not have to worry about Spring and Xu Dan, and he was responsible for arranging everything, and what Spring and Xu Dan had to do was to prepare building materials such as sand, cement and bricks. As soon as I heard it, I was happy, and I quickly expressed my gratitude to my father-in-law.

2.

After lunch, Spring and Xu Dan went to prepare the materials for the pot stove and chimney according to many instructions.

Cement and bricks are good to say, when Xu Dan opened a shop on the street, next to Lin Xiaoli's father, a student in the building materials business, there was it, although Lin Xiaoli's father's façade house on the street was demolished, but Lin Xiaoli's father has moved all the building materials to the house, and the building materials business is still doing. It is not wrong to find Lin Xiaoli's father for bricks and cement.

Sure enough, as soon as Spring and Xu Dan came to the door and told Lin Xiaoli's father about the matter, Lin Xiaoli's father patted his chest and said that he would immediately load the cement and bricks and send them to the compound of Hushan Middle School, and said that all of them would be settled at cost price, and Spring and Xu Dan had to thank them again.

Since Lin Xiaoli's father said that the settlement would be made according to the cost price, Chun Chun and Xu Dan were embarrassed to stand by when the car was loaded, and the two of them also rolled up their sleeves and helped move the bricks and cement to the motor tricycle.

In this way, one cart of cement was pulled, three carts of bricks were pulled, and when the cement and bricks were all pulled according to many prescribed quantities, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and Spring and Xu Dan were already sweating profusely, exhausted, and their bodies were also dirty.

After settling the payment and sending Lin Xiaoli's father away, Xu Dan and Spring took a break and discussed the matter of sand. Lin Xiaoli's father also has sand for sale, but Chun and Xu Dan did not spend money to buy it, the reason is because there is a lot of silted yellow sand by the small river in Shimengouzi Village, their hometown, and they can dig a big cart as long as they pay half a day's labor, so why spend that unjust money? Chun and Xu Dan decided to go back to Shimengouzi Village in the evening, and send their son Chunguang back to their hometown by the way. Now that the matter of opening a steamed bun shop is imminent, Xu Dan has no time and energy to take care of Chunguang, and it is not a matter to keep it at his parents' house, so it is most appropriate to send it back to his hometown for his parents to take care of.