Zhu Xiaohua said: "Now I can only be cheeky to ask those people who are in labor camp to see if they have any money." ”

In normal times, the families of these prisoners will come over, and some will also send money and food stamps.

Captain Xiao did not object.

Zhu Xiaohua returned to the collective dormitory, told everyone about the farm's fund-raising situation, and told everyone that there was still a shortage of more than ten yuan.

After everyone heard about it, the poor boy Tang Yimin took the lead in donating five cents, and the others also made up for three, five, and eight cents.

Some of the re-education through labor prisoners intended to curry favor with Zhu Xiaohua and donated a lot of money, one or two pieces of land.

In this era, everyone is still relatively poor, and the rich are very few after all. Watching them rummage through their pockets and socks to find a few cents and a few yuan of RMB, Zhu Xiaohua felt very uncomfortable.

He thought, this money, he has to find a way to earn it back and give it back to everyone.

In the end, when he almost collected fifty yuan, Zhu Xiaohua stopped donating money. He counted it, and received more than fifteen yuan in the dormitory of the prisoners. Coupled with the donation amount from Captain Xiao's side, fifty yuan is more than enough.

Early the next morning, Zhu Xiaohua appeared in front of the house of Liu Daqiang, the owner of the brick kiln, as promised.

He handed over fifty yuan to Liu Daqiang and said, "This is a little bit of our farm's heart, and renting your brick kiln can't be used in vain." ”

Liu Daqiang was stunned, he didn't expect the young man in front of him to be so heartfelt. He had promised to let them use it for free, but he still gave money to himself, and the amount was not small.

Liu Daqiang, who opened his mouth and said, "Since this is the case, I will accept it." As long as the brick kiln is idle, you can use it whenever you want. In addition, if there is anything you don't understand in the process of burning bricks, you can come to me at any time. ”

Zhu Xiaohua was waiting for his words.

Zhu Xiaohua said: "Thank you so much, but seriously, we don't have as much experience in brick burning as you, and we may really have to ask you to give me some pointers when the time comes." ”

Old man Liu was happy, nodded and said, "This is easy to say." ”

His brick kiln, I'm afraid no one knows better than him. He was also worried that these people would not be able to use it, and that the brick kiln would be broken.

With him by his side, there will be no mistakes when burning bricks, and secondly, his brick kiln will not suffer.

In addition, for the sake of this fifty yuan, he is naturally willing to agree. In this way, it is more suitable for him in every way.

The two sides discussed and agreed, and Old Man Liu led Zhu Xiaohua to inspect the brick kiln.

The earth-red brick kiln stands in an open yellow mud depression, and about 100 meters away from the brick kiln is the loess mound.

Old man Liu picked up the loess with his hands, rubbed his thumb, and the yellow mud fluttered in the wind like fine sand.

Old man Liu said: "The loess here is very fine and has an excellent texture, which is a good raw material for making red bricks." When you burn bricks, you can use local materials, which saves a lot of manpower and material resources. If it weren't for the fact that I had to build a house for my two sons this year, and there was a shortage of manpower, I would have continued to burn it. Now that the houses are being upgraded, the red bricks of the entire Los Angeles are in short supply. As long as you can burn it, you basically don't have to worry about selling. ”

Hearing Old Man Liu's words, Zhu Xiaohua's eyes lit up, it seems that burning bricks, this road is right.

The two of them wandered around the brick kiln for a long time, and then went deep into the brick kiln to take a look, and when they came out again, Tang Yimin and the guards had already appeared next to the brick kiln with more than a dozen labor campers in civilian clothes.

Old man Liu was stunned: "I'm so anxious, everyone has brought it over." ”

Zhu Xiaohua smiled: "Yes, there are many places waiting for bricks to be used urgently." ”

Zhu Xiaohua immediately arranged for these people to dredge, sieve materials, and install molds, and Old Man Liu occasionally pointed out and told these people how to place the blanks to do it faster after they were ready.

Zhu Xiaohua calculated, in fifteen days, it takes seven days to burn each round of bricks, and fifteen days is only enough to burn two rounds at most, and these four thousand bricks are sold without any defects, and they can barely earn five hundred yuan at most.

In case of a mishap in the middle, then the task promised to Captain Xiao may not be completed.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be faintly worried.

After the division of labor in the brick kiln was completed, he hurried back to the farm and went to Captain Xiao's office again.

"Is the brick kiln arranged?"

As soon as they met, Captain Xiao asked eagerly.

Zhu Xiaohua nodded, "However, there is obviously a shortage of manpower over there, and I want to transfer all the more than forty labor prisoners on the farm." ”

Captain Xiao looked out the window at the farm, where the wheat fields were endless and there was still a large amount of wheat that had not been harvested.

It's the busy farming season, and harvesting wheat is a priority task.

Captain Xiao said: "After all the wheat is cut, it is estimated that it will take three or four days. Even if you want to transfer it all, you will have to wait three or four days before you talk about it. ”

Zhu Xiaohua said: "I want to transfer most of them tomorrow. ”

Captain Xiao's eyes lit up: "Do you have a way to harvest these wheats in advance?" ”

The wheat here is his top priority during the busy farming season, and he can't delay it for a moment.

And it usually takes half a month every year, and no one can shorten the construction period.

Zhu Xiaohua said: "I want to organize everyone to work all night ...... night."

Captain Xiao hesitated, although this method can shorten the time, it is still impossible to complete three or four days' workload in one day.

He looked at Zhu Xiaohua with hesitation.

I don't know if he understands the rules here.

Captain Xiao said, "If you can harvest all this wheat, I have no objection. ”

He also wanted to see what method Zhu Xiaohua, who had different ideas in his head, could shorten the construction period.

In the evening, everyone gathered in the wheat field.

Zhu Xiaohua announced in public that everyone would have to work all night at night.

The weather was sunny that day, and the moon was sparse at night, and the bright moonlight shone on the wheat fields as if it were day.

More than 40 prisoners, except for Niu Jiefang, who was guarding the six pigsties, the rest of the personnel were all present, and even the two brothers Zhang Qing and Zhang Yang, who repaired the latrines, also stood in the line with sickles in their hands.

Everyone looked at the lonely cattle emancipation next to the pigsty in the distance, and some people sighed, "He named the release cow, but he will be with the pig for the next six months." Last night, he was afraid that the pigs would run away again, so he slept directly by the pigsty. ”

Someone smiled and echoed: "The cattle have been liberated and run away, so naturally they can only feed the pigs." ”

Zhu Xiaohua sat on a chair on the ground, with a simple pergola above his head.

He glanced at the neat labor army, his eyes stayed on the face of the boy in the torn tunic and the girl with braids, and said, "Tang Yimin and Xiaoding stay, and the rest of the people start cutting wheat." ”

Xiao Ding was the braided girl who instigated Brother Huo to hold her fists and salute before the martial arts competition that day, and it was her instigation that gave Zhu Xiaohua the opportunity to take the lead in attacking Brother Huo.

She has just turned eighteen years old this year, and when she heard Zhu Xiaohua's words, she turned a pair of flexible and alert eyes, and her appearance was very cute.

Among these labor forces, the only people Zhu Xiaohua can trust now are Tang Yimin and Xiaoding for the time being.

Others, some are not familiar with each other, and most of them have followed Huo Ge, Niu Jiefang and others to bully the original Wei Xiaohua. Emotionally speaking, he was still difficult to accept for a while.