This was in late September, when the mountain breeze was bleak and the leaves were falling. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The charcoal kiln has been out of the charcoal twice, and Su Zhenghe has not heard from him yet, so everyone is a little breathless.

"Fang'er, I'll go to the town to find the third uncle and ask, if Fugui Restaurant wants our charcoal, there must be a sentence, otherwise we have to ask other houses in the morning."

Su Changfu came to Su Fang to discuss, the third uncle said that he wanted to negotiate the Fugui Restaurant, and now that the charcoal has come out, they have tried to burn it well, there is no blind smoke, the fire path is even, and it will not suddenly burst into flames.

If the Fugui Restaurant is decided, this charcoal will be left to the Fugui Restaurant, if people don't want it, they can't delay finding their next home.

If the two eight kilns of charcoal are successful, the number will only be piled up smoothly, and this day will pass, and the order of Fu'an Inn alone will not allow him to meet it with peace of mind.

"Wait a minute, Fu'an Inn also said that at the end of the month, come to see the quality of the charcoal, so we can drag it away, and then we will make plans, and with Fu'an Inn as a reputation, it will be much easier to pull business in the town in the future."

That day, Mrs. Lin went to the town to inquire clearly, and the price of the charcoal market was inferior charcoal five wen, medium charcoal eight to fifteen wen, high-grade charcoal fifteen to twenty wen, and high-grade charcoal more than twenty wen.

Of course, there is also top-quality charcoal, but there is nothing to sell in the town, and those who can afford it are either blessed or expensive. Fu'an Inn can only use medium charcoal, which is too expensive.

And the charcoal market is like wholesale, they are all priced according to the pile, and they weigh too much, and they bring baskets and baskets to load.

Before Su Zhenghe said that the general charcoal burned by his family was only a few dozen dollars a basket, which was a back basket that could hold thirty or fifty catties, and there were also small back baskets of about ten catties.

When he said that, it was either medium or low charcoal in a small basket, or he didn't tell the truth. But Su Fang knew that large families would definitely only burn high-grade charcoal or even high-grade charcoal.

It is much more convenient for Su Fang to make a charcoal basket, and there are not so many charcoal chips mixed in, although the length of each one is not neat, it is very neat and beautiful when put into the charcoal basket.

And the size of the basket has been tried to be improved several times, the small basket can just fit ten catties, the big basket can just fit twenty catties, how much can there be a difference of half a catty.

But she only counts the accounts according to the basket, and will not weigh them one by one, just count the number of baskets, and it is more convenient to settle the accounts.

If someone has to weigh it, this charcoal basket weighs one to two catties, how to weigh it? Moreover, if you give a charcoal basket for ten yuan, you can buy a large basket of charcoal for fifty yuan cheaper, and a fool will fight with you for this difference.

Su Fang's price is a total of 150 yuan for 10 catties in a small basket, and only 250 yuan for 20 catties in a large basket, which is 50 yuan cheaper, and a charcoal basket is also given.

The rest is only the buyer to see how well you burn the charcoal, according to their test burning results, this charcoal is said to be high-grade charcoal, others want to think that it is medium-sized charcoal.

But except for the uneven quality of the first time, the experience was quickly summed up later, of course, Lin Tianming, who remembered that he was the first to start charcoal burning, had the most experience and improved a few places.

The second time the charcoal is much higher-grade, and the color is also good. This is also where everyone's confidence is doubled, because the charcoal they burn can really be sold for money.

There was also a lot of charcoal in the first four kilns, Su Fang didn't want to sell it as inferior charcoal, thinking that doing so would destroy your reputation and make people think that you were also a novice, so she planned to stay and take some back and burn it yourself in winter.

Every day, Su Changfu led Su Chang'an, Lin Zeyi, and Sun Zhisheng to look for suitable charcoal wood in the mountains and forests, but Su Fang reminded them not to guard one place, not to cut too hard, the mountains and forests need trees to guard.

They themselves know that most of the peasants cut firewood by cutting branches, treetops, branches, leaves, pine needles and other things that are easy to burn, and rarely uproot them easily, so as not to hurt the mountain.

At the end of the month, people from the Fu'an Inn came to buy charcoal and drove the carriage into the village, which attracted attention all the way, but they seemed to be very familiar with the road and went directly to the west of the village.

Su Fang opened the courtyard and couldn't help but be stunned when she saw the people outside.

"Little sister, you don't know me after only a few days?" Bai Bufan greeted Su Fang with a smile, he was still dressed in scholarly white, and he jumped off the carriage in a dashing manner, and he was in front of him in a blink of an eye.

"Hello Aunt Chen! Hello sister! Su Fang glared at him and turned to the two people who had just gotten off the carriage, Aunt Chen and her little daughter Chen Zihua.

"Hello Sister Fang!" The little girl saluted Su Fang neatly, with a smile on her face, and her eyes looked around.

"Tianming daughter-in-law, the old woman has long wanted to come to your house, but she has not been available, it is rare to get a task today, and she can finally leave the work at hand and go out."

Aunt Chen has a cool temperament, and she laughed when she spoke, which is completely different from the gentle and quiet Aunt Lin, but the wonderful thing is that these two have become good girlfriends.

"Where is the eldest lady, you have to come often in the future." As she spoke, Su Fang took Aunt Chen's hand and walked into the courtyard, shouting that Aunt Lin had a distinguished guest coming.

And Chen Zihua had already run into the courtyard by himself, and shouted "Brother Lin" loudly. Lin Tianming heard it in the backyard, shook his head helplessly, and the others looked dazed, who is here?

Only the scholar Bai Bufan, who was left out in the cold, almost squatted in the corner of the wall to draw circles, and when he saw his senior brother coming, he was so frightened that he hurriedly drove the carriage to the corner of the courtyard.

On this day, Su Fang used a charcoal stove to set up a frying pan to roast meat for them to eat, and made a fish head hot pot, and the fish body was cut into pieces and fried to make another dish.

The hot pot has been cold recently, and Su Fang wants to eat it, only to know that the bottom of the farmer's clay pot is made of charcoal in the charcoal, so the hot pot can be eaten hot, and the temperature will be determined by the weather later.

Only wealthy families can afford to eat copper hot pot that can add charcoal.

Of course, there are also small stoves to burn clay pots, and it is really warm for the family to eat around the stove.

But what Su Fang is doing now is not the kind of copper hot pot that burns charcoal in the middle and circles around it, but a small charcoal pot that can be placed on the table customized by the blacksmith shop, with a small iron pot on it.

The iron pot is not high, and it will not boil boiling soup to avoid accidents, but it is still very convenient to burn a fish head or stew a mutton, and there are pot ears on both sides of the small pot for easy handling.

After eating a warm hot pot, there is no need to add charcoal halfway, which shows how long this charcoal can be burned. Mrs. Chen is a clear-eyed person, and she bluntly said that if the charcoal business is opened, there will definitely be many repeat customers.

Everyone was very proud when they heard it.

However, after Aunt Chen asked the price, she immediately shook her head, asking Su Fang not to follow this preferential method, otherwise people would lose more if they bought more, so frightened that Su Fang hurriedly put down her chopsticks and got up, saying that she was listening.

"You see, the average person buys charcoal for the winter, not to buy side dishes, to buy a few catties every day, not to store, if you charcoal is good, some people buy it is a winter, at least to burn until the next year's summer."

"In addition to this charcoal for heating, there are also people like you who eat hot pot, and the big families are not only the masters who use charcoal, there are decent subordinates who can afford it, and the well-hearted masters will also let the subordinates burn charcoal pots for heating."