"By the way, this reform and opening up means that we can take some things from home and sell them in the market, and the money from the sale can be used to buy the guys we need," Zhang Fugui said.

The villagers of Zhangjia Village listened to it with relish one by one, and some young descendants even listened to it and licked the halazi water with their tongues from time to time, Zhang Erzhuang stood in the crowd and shouted loudly, "Rich!" After the engineering team is formed, those bricks, sand, steel bars, and cement miles will be needed to build a house! My father-in-law, Liu Laohan, was burning bricks for a living in the early years, can we burn bricks by ourselves, so that building a house can also reduce the cost, what do you think? ”

Zhang Fugui was beaming with joy after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "Okay, as long as you can persuade your father-in-law to come to our village to build a brick kiln, then we can build a house faster, and now every household in this county has begun to build a house, if we have our own brick kiln, the burned bricks will not be able to sell miles, and our villagers can also rely on their own strength to make some money." ”

Suddenly, the villagers of Zhangjia Village all smiled like flowers on their faces, and the croppers who had no ink on their chests all became cultural people with ideas for a while, and the women in the village also said what they really thought in their hearts, although they were not as powerful as the young men in the village, but this raising pigs and chickens or something was not difficult for these women's families, just do it, and the old and young in Zhangjia Village were busy.

There are those who join the engineering team, those who engage in aquaculture, and those who engage in small traders, and there are all kinds of occupations of this kind, but there is only one person who eats idle food, and this person is Zhang Tianyou's brother Zhang Tianming.

Zhang Tianming didn't dare to fight like Zhang Fugui, the younger generation, nor did he engage in breeding like those women, let alone get up early and go to the fields to sell his strength every day like those croppers, he just wandered around the village all day long, and when he saw what others had obtained by relying on the fruits of his labor, he would only be anxious and always complain, but no one in this village took care of him, and they were all busy with their own affairs.

Zhang Fugui returned home, secretly looked inside and outside the house, and did not see his father Zhang Youcai, so he relaxed his heart a little, took out the money of Zou Zou Baba from his purse and handed it to Li Jianmei, a woman.

Li Jianmei took these Zou Zou Baba's money and counted it carefully, roughly counting the money is only a lot more, the whole thing adds up to seventy-one five cents and six cents, she is a little anxious, after all, when Zhang Fugui went to the county seat, Li Jianmei gave Zhang Fugui a total of thirty-seven yuan, and the cost of Fugui's back and forth travel expenses, food expenses and those things bought for his family was estimated to have also cost some, but this money not only did not decrease but increased. It was a bit of a scratch for her.

She asked Zhang Fugui suspiciously: "Rich! Where did you get all this money for me? How can it be more than the money I gave you before? ”

Zhang Fugui put his index finger to his mouth and "shhh This money was given to us by Uncle Wang, just let the two of us dolls study it, you must not tell your father, otherwise your father will definitely not be happy. ”

"Why don't you tell your father, is there anything you can't say?"

"This money was given by Uncle Wang, our father and Uncle Wang are comrades-in-arms, our father values the affection of this comrade-in-arms, if you tell your father that this money is given by Uncle Wang, according to our father's temper, he will definitely return all the money to Uncle Wang, after all, our father never takes advantage of others, and would rather suffer by himself, so you must not tell your father that this money was given to us by Uncle Wang."

Li Jianmei, a woman, was silent after listening to what Zhang Fugui said, after all, if you want to live a good life in the current situation, these money miles are indispensable, plus the two dolls have just started to go to school, which will cost more miles in the future, so she also acquiesced in her heart not to chew her tongue with her father Zhang Youcai.

"Rich! You see that everyone in our village has something to do, and I also want to go to Yanjia Commune to buy some piglets and chickens to engage in breeding, and I can also add some income to our family, what do you think? Li Jianmei said.

"Well, okay, I won't ask you if you use this money, but it's just one thing, don't tell your father."

"Okay, I promise you."

After Zhang Fugui explained clearly, he was ready to leave to accompany Zhang Erzhuang to Liujia Village to find Liu Laohan, although he handed over this matter to Erzhuang, but this heart is always a little uneasy, after all, this matter of inviting people can not be sloppy, in case you can't invite Liu Laohan, then there is no hope for this kiln to burn bricks, so he feels that he must go with him personally, firstly, he has a relationship with that Liu Laohan, more or less there is still some friendship, and secondly, he must grasp the big thing of this kiln burning bricks. After all, the burned bricks are to build houses for the villagers, and if they are burned well, they can be sold to the county, and they can also make some money for the villagers.

This Liujia Village and Zhangjia Village are not far apart, not long after walking out of Zhangjia Village, and then bypassing Eagle Mountain and walking a short stone road to Liujia Village.

Zhang Fugui and Zhang Erzhuang walked into Liujia Village not long after they walked to Liu Laohan's house, Liu Laohan was alone and leisurely in the courtyard of his own house lying on the Taishi chair basking in the sun, Zhang Erzhuang shouted to Liu Laohan, "Dad, Erzhuang came to see you." ”

Liu Laohan heard someone shouting him, so he stood up from the Taishi chair and looked up, he looked at the corner of his mouth when he saw Er Zhuang, Zhang Fugui followed behind Er Zhuang, Liu Laohan teleported his eyes to see Fugui, and hurriedly smiled and said: "Er Zhuang! Come and see how Dad brought Village Chief Zhang too. ”

"Dad, Brother Fugui misses you as an old man, don't you follow me to visit you", Zhang Erzhuang said.

Zhang Fugui said with a smile: "What Er Zhuang said is right, we just want to come to visit Uncle Liu, and it's no wonder to disturb Uncle Liu's rest." ”

"Look at what you said, when you came to see me at the old man's house, I was too late to be happy, so how could I blame it?" , Liu Laohan said.

Liu Laohan took out two wooden stools from home and beckoned Zhang Fugui and Zhang Erzhuang to sit outside their own house, at first the three of them chatted casually and felt uncomfortable, but they didn't get to the point for a long time, Zhang Fugui was a little anxious, after all, the villagers were sincere, and they couldn't hold back anything, so they spit out if they wanted to do something.

Liu Laohan is also a person who has lived for most of his life, this person is more or less sophisticated, he can see that Zhang Fugui is a little unsure, so he said with a smile: "Does Village Chief Zhang have something in his heart that he wants to say to the old man!" We are all croppers, and we are all villagers, so if you have anything to say, you can tell me directly, the old man is also a straight person, and I know that this is uncomfortable in my heart. ”

Zhang Fugui saw that Liu Laohan was so bold in his words, and he was the same kind of person as himself, so he responded with a smile: "Uncle Liu, here's the thing, our Zhangjia Village has just set up an engineering team, and we want to build a house, I heard Erzhuang say that you burned bricks for a living in the early years, so I thought about coming to your Uncle Liu to see, can you ask Uncle you to go to our Zhangjia Village to guide the construction of a kiln to burn bricks." ”

This Liu Laohan is also a real person, there is one saying and two saying two, and the speech is not ambiguous, and he said to Zhang Fugui with a smile: "Erzhuang said the right mile, not the old man I blow, this ten miles and eight towns have not known my Liu Laohan's ability to build a kiln to burn bricks, the old man I burned out the brick heart is burned thoroughly, but not like some people burn bricks like the brick heart is black, but the old man I have not used it for many years, this technical work is more or less rusty, I am afraid that the heart is more than enough and the strength is insufficient!. ”

"Uncle, you are modest, these ten miles and eight towns know that your Uncle Liu burns bricks, this technical work is unique, as long as you agree to go to our Zhangjia Village to build a kiln to burn bricks, you have any conditions and wealth will promise you", Zhang Fugui said.

"Thanks to Village Chief Zhang, I can afford to look down on the old man, and I won't shirk the old man, but the old man needs some capital to build a kiln to burn bricks."

"As long as Uncle Liu goes to our Zhangjia Village to build a kiln to burn bricks, we will give you all the money, even if I am rich and rich, I will have to make it up for you."

Liu Laohan felt that Zhang Fugui was more realistic, and he was also a loud speaker, so he agreed to Zhang Fugui's sincere invitation.

This Liu Laohan promised to go to Zhangjia Village to build a kiln to burn bricks, but Zhang Fugui was very happy, because he knew that he had finally taken this step, and this step was one step closer to him leading the people in the village to live a better life, which had to make his whole heart bloom.

The afterglow of the sunset slowly sank, Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Shao'an, the two dolls, came home from school in Qilong Town Primary School on the first day, and along the way, the two dolls carried on their shoulders the shoulder bags sewn by Li Jianmei, a woman, overnight, the schoolbags were filled with books and some paper and pens, and the heavy shoulder bags pressed the shoulders of the two little radish heads sour.

Although these two dolls are twins, the time of birth is only half an hour apart, but Zhang Shaoping, who is a brother, is more mature and stable than his younger brother Zhang Shaoan, on the way home from school, Zhang Shaoping took his younger brother Zhang Shaoan to run in the mountain alleys from time to time, and stayed on the banks of the Tianshui River from time to time to play and play, the two brothers walked across the Tianshui River to Eagle Mountain, and walked from Eagle Mountain to Zhangjia Village.

The two dolls are younger, so this step is a little smaller, it was dark when they walked to the entrance of the village, Zhang Renyi, who lived at the entrance of the village, saw the two dolls jumping up and down with their schoolbags into the village, so he smiled and shouted, "Shaoping, Shao'an, how did your brothers come back from school on the first day of school?" ”

The two dolls responded with a smile: "Grandpa Renyi, of course we walked back." ”

"Silly boy, how could grandpa not know that you two walked back, what grandpa wants to say is that you can find your way home?"

"I can find it, my father took my brothers and I walked in the morning, and I remember it clearly all the way," Zhang Shaoping said.

"Yes," Zhang Shaoan said.

"Okay, good, good, you can find your way home on the first day of school, it seems that your brothers will be able to study well, by the way, grandpa has already cooked a meal, your brothers come in and put down their schoolbags and prepare to eat!"

The two dolls walked into Zhang Renyi's house, threw the schoolbag in their hands and hurriedly sat down at the dinner table, Zhang Renyi filled the two bowls of white rice with a bowl and handed it to the two dolls, and the two dolls gobbled up the food on the table with chopsticks.

Zhang Renyi was a little scared when he saw the two dolls eating, so he said eagerly: "Slow down, be careful to choke, don't worry, there is still something in this pot, although grandpa doesn't have any good dishes for your brothers to eat, but this big white rice is enough." ”