Xiao's family happens to have two ladders, one wooden and one bamboo, and the four brothers are divided into two groups, one escalator and one ladder.

More than a dozen palm trees, each stripped of more than ten pages of palms, a total of more than 140 pages.

The weight of each page of palms, stems and silk is about one or two halves, and the total weight is more than twenty catties.

With white hands, he used the method taught by the old man Chen Jiaqiao to tie them into two bundles, just one load.

Teacher Cai was hospitable, brought a teapot and a bowl, and let the four of them drink water.

After peeling the palm and drinking the water, the host and guest remembered that they didn't talk about the price of the palm.

Teacher Cai smiled, and his white hands smiled embarrassedly.

Teacher Cai said, "I don't know your name yet. ”

Introduced one by one by one, "...... My name is Baishou, and we are all members of the Baicun Brigade of Chentong Commune. ”

"Oh, the surname is white, a good name. Are you all students? ”

"No, my younger brother Bai Dang is still in junior high school. I graduated from junior high school last year. The two of them basically never went to school. ”

Teacher Cai nodded and smiled, "Okay, let's negotiate the price now." ”

Bai Shou said: "Mr. Cai, it is the first time for us to peel palms, and we don't know much about the market. Still, Mr. Cai, let's talk about the price first. ”

"Wow, I won't say it first, it's conventional."

"Teacher Cai, that's right. Our master said that palms are valued in terms of a single sheet, that is, a single page, not by weight. The method of valuation is to divide the palms into three grades, four to five cents for each third grade, five to six cents for each second grade, and six to seven cents for each first grade. ”

"I know this, so tell me about the price of my palms."

"Well, six and a half points each, what does Mr. Cai think?"

Of course, the white hand has to say the price up, because it is for the sake of the next time. What's more, Teacher Cai said that her mother-in-law's house and her mother's house also have palms to be cut.

Teacher Cai said: "I know my palms, I only need five and a half cents per piece. ”

"This ...... Low, right? ”

"That's it."

"Then, thank you, Mr. Cai." The white hand is no longer polite, and the politeness is contrived.

Among the three partners, Lu Shuilong is relatively clever.

The white hand took out the money to pay, and at the same time glanced at Lu Shuilong.

Lu Shuilong didn't understand at first, but he pursed his lips with his white hand, and then kicked the bundled palm, and Lu Shuilong suddenly realized.

"Teacher Cai, can you help, go to your mother-in-law's house and your mother's house to help us talk?" Lu Shuilong asked with a smiling face.

"Wow, no need to remind, I can't forget, let's go right away."

With Teacher Cai by her side, going to her mother-in-law's house and her mother's house to peel palms is a matter of course.

In addition to Mr. Cai's in-laws and mother's family, they also peeled the palms of three other families in the village.

Mr. Cai's mother-in-law and mother's family have a total of more than 210 palms.

The other three families in the village stripped more than 260 palms.

There are a total of three burdens, and the white hands let Chen Sanbao, Lu Shuilong and Bai Dang carry it.

Teacher Cai enthusiastically asked the four of them to have lunch.

Of course, you can't stay to eat, and if you don't want to stay and eat, it's not a business.

The four of them said goodbye to Mr. Cai and walked back with their burdens.

On the way, rest by the creek pit, take out the rice balls, spoon some mountains and rivers, it is a good lunch.

In vain, they shouted tired.

Carrying the burden is learned, strength plus skill, carrying the burden to go the long way, and the most exquisite force.

Three burdens, respectively 20 catties, 30 catties and more than 30 catties, have to walk more than 20 miles, not to mention children, even adults may not persevere.

So, it's easy to peel a palm, but it's hardest to transport it home.

Chen Sanbao, Lu Shuilong and Bai Dang all walked a long way with a burden for the first time.

Bai Hand said: "Remember, you have to pay attention to the trick of carrying the burden. You're going to get the hang of it, as if you don't have a burden on your shoulders. ”

Chen Sanbao smiled, "Brother Hand, we just walked three or four miles, and you can't coax us." ”

Bai Dang also smiled and said, "Big brother, you can show me." ”

"Okay, you guys follow and see."

He picked up the heaviest burden with his white hands and walked.

Walking with a white hand, he shook his shoulders step by step, but he saw the bamboo flat shoulder swaying up and down, one by one.

"Do you see it all? Use your waist to exert force, make your shoulders shrug and your shoulders tilted. In this way, your shoulders are equivalent to putting force on one side and reducing force at the same time. In other words, if you walk ten miles with a burden, it is actually equivalent to walking only five miles. ”

The other two burdens were carried in the back, hurrying slowly.

Walking with his white hands, he actually took away his right hand holding the flat burden, crossed his waist with both hands, and let the burden move on his shoulders.

"Huh...... If you had learned this trick, you would have been able to carry a burden of fifty pounds, but now you will certainly be able to carry a burden of one hundred pounds. ”

Bai Dang shouted: "Big brother, you slow down, we can't keep up." ”

The white hand slowed down, but made another movement, moving the burden from his right shoulder to his left.

"See? This is also a skill to carry the burden. As long as you learn to swap your shoulders and can walk five miles, you can walk ten miles. ”

Lu Shuilong asked, "Brother Hand, what other skills do you have?" ”

"If you want to have a light burden, the flat burden is the most important. You should remember that when you go out to carry a burden, you must use a bamboo flat burden, because the bamboo flat shoulder is elastic. There is also a few more bamboo poles, 30 catties of burdens with 30 catties, and 50 catties of burdens with 50 catties of flats, which must be matched. ”

Bai Dang said: "I know this, neither can we use too much material, nor can we use too much material." ”

Chen Sanbao said: "You just can't use cannons to fight mosquitoes." ”

The white hand shouted: "The last one, when you walk with a burden, it is best not to fart, and not to fart up and down, so as not to lose your strength." ”

Suddenly, the four brothers laughed and laughed.

"You guys take turns, I'll wait for you in the next village."

With his white hands, he hurried up and quickly left them behind.

When they reached the next larger village, they stopped again.

In order to train Chen Sanbao and Lu Shuilong and Bai Dang, the white hand did not enter the village by himself, stayed to guard, and sent the servants into the village separately.

More than half an hour later, the servants came back dejectedly, and the family had not negotiated.

The white hands didn't care, after all, it was the first time, and the main thing was to cultivate their cheeky spirit.

Today's harvest is big enough.

In doing business, the biggest capital is not money, but cheeky and cheeky.

When we arrived at Longao Street, we stopped again to rest.

There is still work to be done in the white hands.

To make a series of palm products, you also need moso bamboo tips, that is, the top part of moso bamboo, and Longao Commune is the largest production area of moso bamboo in the county.

The price of moso bamboo is calculated by catties, and he ran to the street with his white hands, spending about seven yuan and buying more than 110 catties of moso bamboo.

Today's task is basically complete.

Each of the four men carried a burden, and returned home when it was dark.

I didn't have time to eat dinner, so I set up a scene in the yard with my white hands, one is to divide the goods and the other is to keep accounts.