Busy until almost twelve o'clock, the number of buyers gradually decreased, Xiuying asked Pan Shiyao to take care of the business, she took five yuan from the change box and put it in her pocket, went to the roast chicken shop to buy a roast chicken, and played two or two scattered wine, and there were beans and eggplant winter melons at home, enough to cook a few dishes.

Pan Yang and Pan Shiyao, father and son, are not very good at drinking, each of them is only a small glass, who knows that Pan Shisong also took a wine cup from the red lacquered wooden tray on the long table, and said to Pan Shiyao, "Big brother, bring me a glass too." ”

Pan Shiyao covered the wine bottle, measured his body and said, "Go aside, how old are you, children don't drink." ”

Pan Shisong said stubbornly, "I'm fourteen years old, not young, big brother, you will get out of school to work at fifteen, I want to be like you, come down to help Ada, and wait for the first kiln brick to be burned, I will go back to the kiln factory to step on the mud and make bricks and pour me a cup, I will taste the taste."

At present, Pan Shisong coldly threw out the news that he was unwilling to study, but everyone except Pan Ying, a milk doll, was surprised, Pan Shiyao reacted, and immediately objected, "No, what can you do if you don't study, I got out of school because the family was not in a good situation at that time, and I had to come down to work, but now it's different, there is no shortage of money for you to study at home, if you want to continue to study, you must read!" ”

Xiuying also said, "Yes, it's better to study more if you can study, I heard that you don't need to take the exam in junior high school now, but you have to pass the exam to go to high school, you can study hard in the past three years of middle school, and strive to be admitted to a high school in the county, and it is convenient to go to high school, and you don't need a dormitory. ”

Don't look at the current Pan Shisong is only a fourteen-year-old hairy child, he has an idea in his heart, he has already made up his mind not to go to school, and he is still the first to say, "I have poor grades, I don't like to study, even if I go to middle school for three years, I can't get into high school, since I can't pass the exam, don't be blind for these three years, and I don't want to come down as soon as possible, I want to learn to burn bricks with Ada, and I will open my own brick kiln in the future!" ”

Pan Shiyao was happy and said with a smile, "The hair has not grown yet, so I want to go so far." ”

Pan Shisong said, "No matter, I don't want to read it anymore." Ada, don't let me study anymore. ”

The two of them are brothers, you have a word and I will say a word, Pan Yang pricked up his ears and listened, he didn't say anything, he always had to come, Pan Yang and her father didn't want to read anymore after finishing the fifth grade, knowing that her father wouldn't be bad in the future, Pan Yang categorically wouldn't change her father's life trajectory at this time, so he asked, "I really don't want to read it anymore?" Don't regret it? ”

Pan Shisong's still childish little face showed a serious look, and said, "I definitely don't regret it." ”

Pan Yang nodded, "Cheng, if you don't read it, you won't read it, I'll invite Master Zheng when he comes back in two days, and we'll go back together when the time comes." ”

Master Zheng is a good hand at burning bricks, but he is very busy, and the reason why Pan Yang pounced was because he was asked by the secretary of the production team of Tangji Village in the northeast of the county to guide their production team to burn bricks.

Tangji Village intends to follow the practice of Chengguan Village, and the strength of the whole production team to collectively build a brick kiln, and after the bricks are sold, everyone makes a total profit, and the secretary of the Tangji Village production team does not know from which person to inquire about Master Zheng, so he deliberately ran over and communicated with the secretary of Chengguan Village first, and got the consent of the secretary of Chengguan Village, and the secretary of the production team of Tangji Village personally invited Master Zheng to go, at the cost of a guidance fee of 20 yuan per day.

Twenty yuan, can be regarded as a sky-high price, the secretary of the Tangji Village production team knew in his heart that Master Zheng designated that he was instructed by the secretary of Chengguan Village to ask for the price, but in order to master the brick-burning technology, the secretary of the Tangji Village production team had to grit his teeth and promise to give twenty yuan a day.

Master Zheng stayed in the production team of Tangji Village for a total of ten days, during these ten days, he not only got 200 yuan for guidance, but also lived in the richest family of the production team of Tangji Village. But what made Master Zheng most proud was that there, he was held by the stars like a moon, and even the secretary of the production team of Tangji Village was polite to him, but he didn't nod his head and waist, this taste, Master Zheng has never tasted it!

But this kind of treatment is no longer after Master Zheng returned to Chengguan Village, in the Chengguan Village production team, their secretary is the number one, all the things in the brick kiln are in charge of him, and he Master Zheng is just a technician, and the small workers who intend to learn to burn bricks with him are still respectful, and others are not so birdy to him, because in the eyes of most people, he Master Zheng is just an ordinary member of the production team, you are busy and I am busy, why should I look at you differently?

This huge gap in status made Master Zheng faintly dissatisfied in his heart, and he even thought indignantly in his heart, he simply went out to guide other households to burn bricks, and he could earn twenty yuan a day, which was better than staying in this ghost place!

So when Master Zheng heard from the kiln factory that a person from another village came to him, the first thing that came to Master Zheng's mind was Pan Yang, and Master Zheng made up his mind to go out to earn technical wages, and he didn't go anywhere in the kiln factory these days, so he sat and waited for Pan Yang to come and invite him.

On the third day after Master Zheng returned, Pan Yang went to Chengguan Village again, and this time he found Master Zheng by Shun.

Master Zheng knew Pan Yang's intentions in his heart, and made a negotiation posture with Pan Yang, so he could sit on the pile of bricks and smoke all day, and said to Pan Yang, "Do you know where I've been these days?" I went to other villages to earn money, and they also burned kilns, do you know how much they pay me a day? ”

Pan Yang chuckled in his heart, the point of what Master Zheng was going to say was here. There is no free lunch in the world, Master Zheng and her are not related, so why should he help her in vain?

Thinking about it like this, Pan Yang smiled directly, "Okay, Master Zheng, we are also acquaintances, you can make a price directly." ”

Master Zheng spit out the filter cigarette holder, spit out thick phlegm again, clapped his hands and said cheerfully, he made a gesture of two, and said to Pan Yang, "Twenty yuan a day, this is my salary in another village, you also said that we are acquaintances, I didn't ask you much." ”

Pan Yang sighed twice in his heart, twenty yuan is not too much, why don't he just grab the money!

Pan Yang is not a vegetarian either, so he asked Master Zheng directly, "Then master, how many days are you going to burn bricks in my church?" If you drag on for a month and a half and a month for the original three or two days, then I really can't afford this salary. ”

Pan Yang asked so directly, Master Zheng was not angry, laughed and scolded the ghost, he said, "Don't worry, I will burn the first kiln bricks for you, you will follow behind and watch, I will ensure that the bricks you burn have nothing to say, the second kiln bricks you burn, I will follow behind and watch, if there is no problem, you just let me stay longer, I don't want to." It will take about five or six days before and after, can this be done? ”

Pan Yang put it in his heart and calculated the account, according to Master Zheng's eight days of work, twenty yuan a day, one hundred and sixty yuan for eight days, Master Zheng lived in her house and ate in her house, Mao estimated that one pound of grain for eight days was more than 20 pounds, plus vegetables and meat, it was estimated that it would cost about fifteen yuan in bits and pieces, as well as tobacco and alcohol, these are indispensable, it is estimated that it will be calculated in total, at least two hundred yuan out.

Pan Zhaofeng's investment in the shares is only 200 yuan, which is not enough to pay Master Zheng's wages!

Pan Yang couldn't help but secretly scolded the person who raised Master Zheng's appetite in front of him, but he had to maintain a smile on his face, gritted his back tooth socket and agreed, and said, "Cheng, then we will say so, Master Zheng, when do you think you can go back with me?" ”

Master Zheng thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow, let me explain this matter clearly today, and I have to go home and pack two clothes." ”

After the two agreed, Pan Yang had to go back to the county seat and sleep for another night at Pan Shiyao's. After eating in the evening, Xiuying squatted at the mouth of the well to brush the dishes and chopsticks, Pan Shiyao hugged his daughter and played for a while, he saw Adada sitting under the eaves of the porch at the door to enjoy the coolness, his face was worried, and he thought that after Adada came back from Chengguan Village, he didn't talk more than usualPan Shiyao thought about it, handed his daughter to Pan Shisong, and asked Pan Shisong to play with her, Pan Shiyao sat down next to him.

Pan Shiyao handed a cigarette to Pan Yang and said, "Ada, let's have one." ”

Pan Yang shook his head, "I can't get used to this thing." ”

Pan Shiyao lit one by one, took a puff of cigarette, and then asked, "What's the trouble with Ada?" ”

Pan Yang told Pan Shiyao about Master Zheng's lion opening his mouth to ask for wages, Pan Shiyao listened quietly, and when Pan Yang finished speaking, he said, "Ada, good Master Zheng is proficient in burning bricks, we have to eat if we don't eat, if we annoy him and burn the bricks, we will lose more, Ada, is worrying about money?" If that's the case, Xiuying and I have some money in our hands, about 300 yuan, and you can take it first to deal with emergencies. ”

Pan Yang's first reaction was to refuse, "It's not easy for you and Xiuying to live in the city, things are expensive in the city, you can't spend money when you open the door one day, but it's not as good as the countryside, you can live on two points of vegetables grown on your own land, the money is still kept for you and Xiuying, I'll find another way." ”

Xiuying heard the conversation between the father and son, and as soon as Pan Yang's voice fell, Xiuying took over the conversation and said, "The money is also put away, Ada, use it if you need it urgently, Shiyao and I can't spend money for the time being, and besides, which of the rice noodles we usually eat is not brought from home?" I usually spend some money on groceries and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, but I can't spend it elsewhere. ”

Pan Shiyao got up directly and went back to the house, and when he came out again, he gave Pan Yang all the savings he and Xiuying had accumulated, and said, "Ada, you can use it, it's not that you don't have money at home, and you still go to borrow it from others to do something, and besides, you bought my house, if our father and son really care about it so much, then wouldn't I have to return all the money for the house to you?" ”

The young husband and wife talked about this, and Pan Yang no longer refused and took Pan Shiyao's money. At present, she is really in a hurry, and she will return the money to the young couple after the kiln factory is profitable.

Coupled with more than 300 yuan in Pan Shiyao's hand, Pan Yang had some bottom in his heart, and the next day Pan Yang took Pan Shisong and met Master Zheng at the gate of the county bus station, Pan Yang paid for three tickets and brought Master Zheng to their township.

When the three of them arrived home, Pan Yang asked Pan Shisong to call Pan Zhaofeng, and asked Pan Shixun to ride a bicycle to Yaojia Village to call Yao Baozhong to come over, Pan Yang was going to cook a good dish at home at noon, which was considered to be a bit too much for Master Zheng.

Pan Yang invited Master Zheng to sit in the hall, made another cup of tea, and handed a pack of cigarettes to Master Zheng.

Master Zheng was very useful to Pan Yang's courtesy, and unconsciously told Pan Yang more about the skills of firing the kiln. In the hall, Pan Yang accompanied Master Zheng to chat, and Zhang Xuelan outside carried a rattan basket, ready to pick vegetables in her own field, before leaving, she told Pan Shiyun, "Shiyun, go to your third aunt's house, call your third aunt over, and let her come over at noon to cook." ”

In fact, Zhang Xuelan was dissatisfied, because in her opinion, the kiln factory was not her man alone, it was obviously a business done by three people in partnership, why was it her family to invite guests?

Not to mention vegetables, grown in your own field is not worth a lot of money, but what about meat, tobacco and alcohol? What don't she want to pay for? Even if Yao Baozhong's family lives far away, the third room is so close, and Meng Guangmei has to be busy with anything.

Not only does Meng Guangmei come to work, but Master Zheng's daily expenses here in the future must also be shared equally among the three families!

At noon, the three 'brothers' who jointly organized the transaction had a meal with Master Zheng, and after they were full of wine and food, they led Master Zheng to their construction site, two acres of clay land, about half an acre of place was covered with a brick kiln, and the foundation was laid with stones, and the top was built with red bricks, the old-fashioned tomb bag look, and there were three brick doors left at the outer mouth, and the brick doors were facing the tight and flat yard brick field

After inspecting the kiln factory and coming back, Zhang Xuelan and Meng Guangmei at home had a table of meals, and a few masters on the table of the Eight Immortals ate and drank, about the kiln factory, Master Zheng mentioned some things that he thought could be improved, about the experience of burning bricks, he could talk for three days and three nights, especially after drinking two glasses of wine, the chatter could not be contained, Pan Yang's "brothers" three had to be accompanied, and it was late at night after the banquet was dismissed.

That night, Master Zheng rested at Pan Yang's house. Pan Hengchun went to the grocery store at night to watch the door, Zhang Xuelan cleaned up the room where Pan Hengchun slept originally, put on clean sheets and covers, and after everyone rested overnight, it was officially started the next morning.

Now is not the busy farming season, the three families are almost the whole family of all ages to go into battle, shovels to dig soil and mud, molds to make bricks, dry, carts to load kilns, and then fire to produce bricks

For these three farmers, this kiln factory is now all their hard work, if there is nothing else, they can't wait to stay in the kiln factory day and night.

The key is that after the bricks enter the kiln, how many bricks should be put into a briquette, and after the kiln is installed, the temperature of the bricks to be grasped, when the temperature is high, when the temperature is reduced, and when to cool down are all things that they urgently need to grasp.

Fortunately, the staff is short, Master Zheng eats and drinks well in Lao Pan's house, and the salary can be obtained every day, the mood is naturally not bad, teaching Pan Yang They are also conscientious, Master Zheng first took the lead in burning a kiln of bricks, he has good skills, and the firing color is naturally good, bright red and strong. When Pan Yang took over the kiln, the bricks burned were obviously not as good as Master Zheng's, she made the fire bigger, the color was a little dark, and many bricks were burned.

In this case, Pan Yang was inevitably anxious, but Master Zheng reassured, "It's already good, it's much better than when I burned the first kiln bricks, as long as you burn the bricks of this composition, you can also sell them, others sell them for two cents, you need two cents, and someone wants to keep them." ”

On the kiln factory of Pan Yao two families, the big chimney is bubbling every day, the bricks come out of the cave one after another, neatly stacked on the brick factory, the cooperative's barren east suddenly appeared a new pattern, almost a few days, the whole cooperative people know that the kiln factory was opened next to the road leading to Yaojia Village in their township, which family wants to build a new house in the future, but there is no need to go all the way to the town to pull bricks!

In this era when pork is only seven cents a pound, a red brick is more than two cents, definitely not cheap, in the vast rural areas, red bricks in their eyes, has always been a symbol of wealth, now they cooperatives actually have a special brick-burning factory, this landscape can be regarded as a revelation to the whole cooperative people, take advantage of the current world is lively, hurry up to make money, the two broken thatched houses at home, should have been replaced with red brick houses!

The big chimney of the kiln factory has been bubbling for several days, and the bricks out of the kiln are estimated to be 20,000 pieces, according to the price of a brick of two cents and two cents, 20,000 bricks can be sold for more than 2,000 yuan, and the manpower is their own, and they don't need to pay any labor money, as long as the money for burning coal is removed, the rest is all net, and it is estimated that it can fall about 1,500 yuan!

Pan Yang's first business was an order from the commune middle school, the classrooms of the commune middle school are still old-fashioned mud houses, the walls have cracks, rainy days, the roof is always leaking, it is a new era, such a middle school is really a bit shabby, after the school leaders repeatedly applied to the top, finally got the approval, and strive to complete the school before the fall semester.

The school leaders prepared to build a row of eight large tiled houses, six of which were used for students, one for teachers' offices, and the remaining one for storing books and miscellaneous items.

A seven-meter-by-eight-meter tiled house needs about 1,500 bricks, and eight rooms need more than 12,000 bricks.

Correspondingly, the school leaders asked Pan Yang to send bricks to the construction site, instead of sending people to pull them themselves, which meant that Pan Yang and their already sufficient manpower had to send another group of people to deliver bricks.

In this partnership, Pan Yang is the big leader, she has the right to speak, Pan Yang did not hesitate, and directly asked Pan Zhaofeng and Yao Baozhong's son Yao Qitian to send bricks together.

Originally, Pan Zhaofeng didn't think much about it, but Meng Guangmei was not very happy, and said directly to Pan Yang, "Zhaofeng has done all the hard work, he goes outside to deliver bricks all day long, when can he learn the brick-burning technology?" ”

At present, among Pan Yang, Pan Zhaofeng and Yao Baozhong, only Pan Yang has learned the technology of firing the kiln, Pan Zhaofeng and Yao Baozhong are still a little hot, Pan Yang will not dare to let them risk burning bricks for a while, in case it burns out, they will lose it, the business has just started, and they really can't afford to lose.

If Meng Guangmei is also a person with a heart, of course she will not say this kind of thing in front of Yao Baozhong, let alone quarrel with Pan Yang, but after returning to Panjia Village after work, Meng Guangmei asked her, the eldest uncle, to think about it in a consultative way.

How do you know that Pan Yang said clearly between public and private, "When the batch was counted, Yao Baozhong accounted for 30%, and Zhaofeng's capital was less than his, so I can't open my mouth and let Yao Baozhong send it, right?" ”

"Besides, Yao Baozhong's family finally let his son send bricks together, what about your family? If Zhaofeng has a son who can do things, I can do it too! ”

Pan Yang's words made Meng Guangmei speechless, yes, I usually work in the kiln factory, the Yao family has Yao Baozhong's father and son plus Yao Baozhong and his wife, and Pan Yang's family is Pan Yang's two brothers, Pan Shixun and Pan Shisong, who are working, what about Pan Zhaofeng's family? There is only one male laborer, Pan Zhaofeng's son, who is only a few years older than Pan Shixuan, is only in the first grade of primary school, so he can't take it seriously at all.

When it comes to interests, it's so realistic, Pan Yang categorically won't compromise the interests of the big house and then pull the third room, it was enough to let the three rooms participate in the dividends at the beginning, it was enough to take care of them, Pan Yang is not a charity, and he is kind to everyone.

Take 10,000 steps back, Pan Zhaofeng is just her third grandfather, Yao Baozhong is her grandfather, which is more important, do you still need others to mention it.

Pan Yang is so non-negotiable, Meng Guangmei is a little uncomfortable, after separating from Pan Yang at the entrance of the alley of the old Pan family, Meng Guangmei couldn't help but muttered to his man, "Zhaofeng, you have to be careful, don't always work hard, you should find an opportunity to learn more after your boss's ass." ”

Meng Guangmei is uncomfortable, where can Pan Zhaofeng be happy? Right now, in the eyes of Pan Zhaofeng and his family, Pan Yang is tantamount to turning his elbow outward, but they have less capital, so what can they do!

The two of them chattered and talked, passing by the door of the second room, Zhu Xiuzhi was sitting outside the door with a bowl of porridge, and a few chopsticks and sour cabbage were sporadically sandwiched in the porridge bowl. The moment Pan Zhaofeng and his family saw Zhu Xiuzhi, they all stopped talking and stopped talking about the kiln factory.

Zhu Xiuying greeted Pan Zhaofeng with a smile, "Yo, just came back from work?" ”

Although the big room and the second room no longer interact after the stalemate, but the second room and the third room are still reasonable on the surface, Zhu Xiuzhi and Meng Guangmei can still sit together and chatter, but this kind of 'harmonious' phenomenon will no longer exist after the third room and the big room partner to open a brick kiln, for Zhu Xiuzhi, the third room is tantamount to betraying their second room and defecting to the big room, this kind of 'traitor', Zhu Xiuzhi can still give him a good face?

Zhu Xiuzhi didn't give Meng Guang a beautiful face, could it be that Meng Guangmei would use a hot face to stick a cold ass? Anyway, the mud in the second room can't support the wall, it's unprofitable, and what time does it take to slap her!

For the grievances between the second and third rooms, the people in the big house naturally don't know, and they don't care, after all, they can't take care of their own affairs!

No, not long after Pan Yang's father and son came back from work, Pan Shicong, the current secretary of the production team of Panjia Village, hurriedly came with a cigarette in his ear, and said as soon as he entered the door, "Uncle Zhaoke, I can be regarded as arresting you, hurry, I want to tell you a good thing." ”

Pan Yang smiled and asked, "What's the matter, look at you." ”

Pan Shicong laughed and said, "I want to give you a matchmaker, how about telling my niece to be your daughter-in-law?" ”