Chapter 35: New Business ----- (Thanks to Qingfeng Xiulin for the tip)
Zhou Bingrui from Yushan County is very comfortable now, since his waist was healed by the two gods of Shenhe Bay, people suddenly became cheerful, and everyone was smiling, but now his cheeks hurt a little, this time it was not a fall, it was a smile after making money. In the bedroom, the tin stove was burning brightly and the room was warm, looking up at the chimney rolled out of the window, and drank two taels of wine. The last time I went to my cousin's house, I saw this ondol, so I begged for help to plate one, and I didn't want to get up comfortably lying on the warm kang after two or two drunk.
A few days ago, Ershunzi used a car to pull seven or eight round big iron bucket-like things, and he didn't know what it was, and the people who came with Ershunzi explained that this thing was called an iron stove. Moved one to the bedroom of his own room, lit a primer with firewood and stuffed the black briquettes with holes into it, the room was warm at once, and the iron tube was connected to the stove to prevent carbon poisoning, and more importantly, the house was clean. There is a large one in the shop, the guests open the door curtain, and when they enter the door, they see the hot stove, the tin kettle on the stove shelf sprays white smoke, the house is hot, the guys make a bowl of boiling water with ginger slices and red dates for the cloth buyer, and the cold is completely dissipated after drinking it in a sip of heat, and the guests do not want to go out after entering the door. More than a dozen tin stoves have not had time to shout, three days, was bought by other shrewd merchants, hurriedly urged Ershunzi to quickly send the second batch of stoves over, the price suddenly rose from five to ten, the rich and noble people in winter went to each other's doors, saw that some people put a warm tin stove to show off, their own eyes are also red, a query in the east of the city Zhoujia silk cloth village is selling, with the money rushed over, three days and out of stock. If you go late, you will enter the door and put fifteen yuan on the counter and turn your head and leave, Zhou Bingrui is afraid of offending the guests and saying that he can't provide the goods. There are even some old customers who often buy cloth, and they also threaten that if they can't get this tin stove within a month, then they won't even buy cloth, and they will cut off contact in the future!
In just half a month, the iron stove made more money than he made by selling cloth in a year. Besides, this briquette is also a good thing, with this stove, this briquette is still sold? Seeing that this briquette is not expensive, five yuan a penny, how to make these briquettes with holes, I really don't know, but I can't stand the large amount, the two guys who sent the briquettes are too busy, and they keep saying that they won't do it if they don't process the money. I don't know where this stupid cousin got such a good way to make money, but I casually asked Ershunzi how to make this iron stove and briquettes, how do I know that this cousin who grew up with himself since he was a child looked at himself like a thief, and said that he didn't know three words, and turned around after unloading the goods, who is this.
Seeing that Huang Chengcheng's copper money could not be earned, Zhou's wife was a little anxious and couldn't sit still, so the husband and wife took the money from selling iron stoves and briquettes, bought some gifts, and followed the ox cart that pulled briquettes and went to Lizhuang. As soon as I entered Zhuangzi, I felt that Zhuangzi was different from the last time I came. On a cold day, the other villages were all lifeless, only seven or eight cars went back and forth on the road of this Zhuangzi, some pulled some red stones into the village, and some cars loaded with black and shiny coal to the village. When I arrived at the gate of the compound, the high courtyard wall enclosed the inside, and the sound of iron striking had come out from inside, and I looked up at the thick smoke and flames rising from time to time in the air. When he entered the door and saw Xiao Hai, he put more than 200 yuan on the ground and said, "Brother Xiao, this is the money earned from buying stoves and briquettes, this is the account book, you and Mr. Xiao should also take a look." Xiao Hai said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Zhou, Mr. Xiao has already told me, there are also you Sancheng here, you can take what you should take, and your brother will settle the account, don't be polite."
After dividing the money, Xiao Hai first asked the Zhou couple to stay in the house for a while, and went to the courtyard to do something by himself, Zhou Bingrui was fine, he walked out of the house and walked to the doorway under the high courtyard wall, and heard someone shouting inside, and the smell of urine came when the wind blew. I heard Xiao Hai shouting inside: "Mr. Xiao Xiao is right, have you seen the money you have made these days, you will send money after work today, inform the big guys to sell more strength, pull more coal and ore, we will also make a few more stoves, take advantage of the year before the year to make more money, and have a good New Year!" Just Er Shunzi pushed the door out from the inside, through the crack in the door, driven by curiosity to see what was going on inside, only to see Er Shun glanced at his cousin vigilantly, and closed the courtyard door with a "bang", and the businessman also understood that his wife's way to make money sometimes came to his wife would not tell, let alone the outside. No matter, as long as I Zhou Bingrui has money to make, after paying the account, I took my share of the profit and urged the goods, and the husband and wife followed the car pulling the briquettes back to the city.
"You and Xiao Hai really went to be a ringing horse?" There is also an iron stove in the gentleman's house that is burning vigorously, sitting on the kang and looking at the dozens of dollars piled on it, he was a little dazed, turned his head and looked at Xiao Zheng and asked, "I..., Master, what the disciple has been doing these days has been under the nose of your old man, and besides, who in these villages around here has so much money for me to rob", "I didn't say that you guys really went to rob it, but the old man didn't believe it, just a few iron rolls, and a little charcoal mixed with soil and gypsum can make so much money?" ”。
Xiao Hai's iron-making yard outsiders can't enter, but it doesn't mean that Mr. can't get in, he didn't expect that his apprentices and a few people used a seemingly simple method to smelt so much fine iron, the two workers sandwiched the reddened iron plate into the two iron rollers opposite, shook it vigorously, after the iron plate rolled out, the iron sheet came out so easily, next to the pile of good iron stoves and chimneys, Rao Zhuzi took advantage of the red-hot hoe just calcined, and smashed the one-inch square steel seal to the hoe surface, and waited for the hoe to cool down. In the printed trough with a small crucible to pour a little copper water in advance, another older child took Xiao Changning to take a file, slowly grinding in the cooled copper, and after a while, the hoe appeared on the surface of the hoe with the three words "Yu Ji" neatly written in Song style, the small copper characters are particularly conspicuous on the hoe, and make the simple farm tools a little more extravagant. asked Xiao Zheng what he was doing, and told himself that this was his own unique logo, called a trademark, which outsiders could not use, and it was also a mark that people who bought things remembered, and he was old and couldn't understand the apprentice's explanation of the trademark, so the young people let them toss.
"A gentleman loves money, take it in the right way, take advantage of the winter to practice calligraphy, read more books, these are the right way, you have to collect your heart in the future, don't keep putting your mind on these ways to make money, you make yourself like a profiteer, in that case, the teacher will follow you and can't afford to lose this person", Mr. said to Xiao Zheng again. "The disciple understands Mr. painstakingly, and will not disappoint Mr. in the future, Mr. Xie taught", after all, Mr. lived in an era that still has a deep prejudice against business, and Mr. chatted for a while, then walked out of the room, and saw Jin'er struggling to hold the money to another room, so he walked over and said to Jin'er: "I'll help you, by the way, give me a few money." Jin'er hurriedly dodged, holding the money and looking at Xiao Zheng with a smile and said, "I want it", "Nonsense, who doesn't want money", "This money will be mine when it comes to me, if you have the ability, you can earn it yourself, and I won't give you a penny, I'm angry with you!" After saying that, Jin'er turned around and bypassed Xiao Zheng and left. Alas, after earning a little money and being educated, I can't live a life", looking at Jin'er's graceful back as she turned away, Xiao Zheng swallowed his saliva and muttered in his heart: "You little money fan, see how I clean you up in the future", shook his head and went back to sleep.