Chapter 22: Making Money
Huo Qidong began to go out early and return late every day, after cutting bamboo, boil a large pot of hot water, boil bamboo, which can well prevent bamboo insects and cracking, bamboo stalks are too long, boil one end first, then boil the other end, and soak the middle section with boiling water.
Grinding, cutting, planing, drilling, and finally grinding with coarse sandpaper and fine sandpaper, the process is repeatedly very hard, a bamboo pole is made, Huo Qidong is busy for most of the day.
Tian Xiaoya will not tie the mop head, or Huo Qidong uses vices, wires and other tools to sort and smooth the cloth strips, tie them vertically with wires, and then tie them tightly in a circular direction, and finally fix them on the bamboo pole with wires and screws, and a mop is made.
The two of them saw the finished product in the room where the miscellaneous items were kept, but they didn't expect it to be like this.
"Huo Qidong, you are so powerful."
Tian Xiaoya grabbed the mop and tried it on the ground, and stumbled it twice, the mop head was very strong and did not move at all, she dragged it back and forth a few times, and there was no problem at all.
"I'll try this mop for my milk first, let's hurry up, and do the rest of it, and when it's all done, my milk will be tried almost, if it's okay, we'll take it to the market and sell it."
Huo Qidong's fair face was flushed, half tired and half excited, and there was only one thought in his heart, he could finally make money.
Mrs. Tian didn't expect her granddaughter to give her a mop, and repeatedly told her that now she is only allowed to use the mop she gave for mopping.
She thinks that the second girl is so old, why is she not in shape, and she plans to tell the second child, don't let Xiaoya go to school, she still needs five yuan for tuition for a semester, and she has a lot of money to buy a pen on weekdays, and this child's grades are not good, and now he doesn't even go to school, and the money is in vain, so it's better to drop out.
Tian Xiaoya didn't know that her grandmother had this idea, if she knew, she would definitely ask her grandmother to lobby her parents immediately, she graduated from the most famous journalism department of a double first-class university, and then went to high school, or a high school with simple exam questions in the eighties, it was a waste of life, and she just wanted to make money at the moment.
Every morning, Huo Qidong went to the mountains to cut bamboo, and Tian Xiaoya shouted that her eldest nephew would go outside with her to pick up firewood, cooking bamboo needed a lot of firewood, and she couldn't be busy alone.
The two of them are like hard-working little bees, working hard, and the Huo family didn't dare to say anything, Huo Fengnian just scolded Huo Qidong for not working at night, and the next day Tian Aimin went to his house to help his family farm, so that Huo Fengnian didn't dare to say Huo Qidong anymore.
At first, it was relatively slow to make mops, but after getting familiar with it, it became more and more comfortable, and Tian Xiaoya was busy non-stop, and after ten days of hard work, he made eighty-three mops, and all the cloth strips were used up.
In the past ten days, Huo Qidong's opinion of Tian Xiaoya has changed a lot, he used to be disgusted when he looked at Tian Xiaoya, if it wasn't for making money to treat his grandmother, he would have avoided Tian Xiaoya for the rest of his life.
But after getting along for more than ten days, he felt that Tian Xiaoya seemed to be a different person, able to endure hardships, flexible in his brain, and even had unique insights in many things, he went from disliking Tian Xiaoya to being able to face her calmly, to being willing to communicate with her, and even a little impressed in his heart.
However, Tian Xiaoya didn't notice the change in Huo Qidong's view of himself, after all, that person still kept a straight face when he saw him every day.
Li Sufen bumped into Huo Qidong and Tian Xiaoya drilling into the woods several times, she was surprised and a little scared, for some reason she always felt that Tian Xiaoya seemed to have changed as if she had changed a person, and she even boldly guessed, could it be that Tian Xiaoya was also reborn like herself?
She plans to find an opportunity to verify it, if Tian Xiaoya is reborn, wouldn't she want to rob her wealth, she tore her face with Tian Xiaoya in her previous life, if she smeared herself in front of Huo Qidong, wouldn't her plans be in vain.
Tian Xiaoya didn't find out that Li Sufen had followed her several times, she was now happy that she was about to make money, more than eighty mops, which could be sold for more than 200 yuan at the market price, and tomorrow was the big market, so they had to go early.
Before dawn, Tian Xiaoya quietly went out, Huo Qidong pushed the cart, on which was the mop that the two of them had worked hard to make, tied with hemp rope, the sky was not yet bright, but it was not so dark, it was blue and white, as if it was a light of hope.
"Here, eat something."
Tian Xiaoya took out an egg and a pickled rice ball from his pocket, "Eat it while it's hot." ”
The aroma of rice wafted into Huo Qidong's nose, and he couldn't help but move his nose, but what he said was refusal.
"Don't hold on, I know you definitely didn't eat breakfast, I don't pity you when I give you food, there are still more than ten miles to go, if you don't eat enough, who pulls the car, I can't do it."
After saying that, Tian Xiaoya couldn't help but say that he threw the food to Huo Qidong, Huo Qidong, who was hungry, would not waste food the most, and when he saw Tian Xiaoya throw it over, he instinctively caught it steadily, and finally lowered his head and ate all the things in his stomach.
The two went on the road in silence, and were seen by Li Sufen, who got up early in the morning to do farm work, she hurriedly hid next to the firewood stack on the side, it was still dark, I didn't know what Huo Qidong was pulling on the cart, how could he be with Tian Xiaoya.
Mean woman!
She knew that Tian Xiaoya said that she didn't care about Huo Qidong, but in fact, she was all lying to herself, because she was afraid that she would be with Huo Qidong.
Tian Xiaoya didn't know that she went out with Huo Qidong early in the morning, and was seen by Li Sufen, she and Huo Qidong walked to the county seat, and when it was dawn that day, the market was very lively.
Tian Xiaoya found a position, unloaded the things and began to sell, the two people who charged last time came again, and saw Huo Qidong's face was very bad.
In addition to paying the stall fee, she also gave each of them a mop, only saying that Huo Qidong was from her own village, and his brain was not very good, so please don't worry about him as well.
got the mop that didn't need money, and then learned that Huo Qidong had a bad brain, the two looked at Huo Qidong with a little more indescribable sympathy, Huo Qidong blushed, but he couldn't speak, which made the two staff feel even more sorry.
It's a pity that he looks so good-looking, he has a sick brain!
At this time, the mop was three yuan, and Tian Xiaoya's price was reduced by five cents, which soon attracted many aunts and young women to choose, but everyone saw that the mop rod was made of bamboo, and they were afraid that the quality would not be good, and there were many wait-and-see, but no one bought it.
I don't like the mop rod is not good, so how can I do it, in fact, although this mop rod is made of bamboo, in order to strengthen the use of it, Huo Qidong also used a lined bamboo strip in it, and the strength is better than that of ordinary mops.
Tian Xiaoya asked Huo Qidong to look at the stall, ran out by himself, found a mop seller in the distance, gritted his teeth and bought two, and the six yuan was gone.
Reluctant that the child couldn't trap the wolf, she kept comforting herself that the first penny of the rag didn't cost a penny, and the cost of these six yuan was not high.
After Tian Xiaoya left, Huo Qidong was embarrassed to shout, and the people around the stall gradually decreased a lot, and he didn't sell a single one.
Seeing Tian Xiaoya coming back with two mops, Huo Qidong couldn't help but be anxious.