At this time, Zhu Xiaohua came over and reported the wheat harvest to Captain Xiao: "After a night of hard work, eighty percent of the harvest has been completed, and it is expected that it will be completed at noon today." ”

Captain Xiao nodded in satisfaction, which was much faster than he expected.

Captain Xiao said, "In that case, you can take half of the people to the brick kiln first." The rest of the people waited until they had finished their work on the farm and then went over. ”

Zhu Xiaohua took the order and took half of the people to the brick kiln in Luoshui Village. They were accompanied by several caretakers. These people are responsible for monitoring their every move and preventing anyone from getting into trouble or escaping.

Zhu Xiaohua asked Tang Yimin, as well as those who had come to the brick kiln yesterday to observe, to make adobe first. He went to the old man Liu Daqiang's house.

When he passed, Liu Daqiang was busy organizing people to load the red bricks onto the tractor and pull them away. The bricks were used to build a house for his two sons.

When he saw Zhu Xiaohua, he stopped what he was doing and handed it over to someone else to take care of.

Although Zhu Xiaohua's fifty yuan may be just a drop in the bucket for him, a 10,000-yuan household, after all, he has taken someone else's hand. He couldn't help but say, so he went to the brick kiln with Zhu Xiaohua. The inmates were taught how to make better blanks and how to store them in the air.

At the end of the day, a few wall-high adobe bricks were placed in the open space in front of the brick kiln. He made a rough estimate, about four or five hundred.

At this rate, if the remaining half of the people were brought in, they would be able to make 800 to 1,000 billet bricks a day.

In ten days, tens of thousands of bricks can be made.

If all of them are fired into red bricks, then these 10,000 red bricks can be sold for 1,200 to 1,500 yuan.

Zhu Xiaohua was calculating the time it would take to earn 10,000 yuan in this era, and he seemed to see a door of wealth open to him.

He waited until it was dark, and did not see the remaining half coming, so he had to bring the twenty-odd people back to the farm.

As soon as he entered the farm compound, Captain Xiao grabbed him apologetically and said, "As soon as you left today, I received a call from the leader above, saying that someone would come to inspect in the next two days. The leader also asked us about the situation on the farm. ”

Zhu Xiaohua instantly remembered the news he heard last night.

The leader was neither early nor late, but he came to inspect at this time, and he didn't know if it was related to the burning of brick kilns or Huo Ge's matter.

Captain Xiao patted Zhu Xiaohua on the shoulder optimistically and said, "Maybe I'm here to inspect the promotion of cadres, and you will give me a good performance when the time comes." ”

It was as if he saw that his promotion was just around the corner.

The next day, Zhu Xiaohua led more than 40 people, except for Niu Jiefang, to Luoshui Village and threw themselves into the great cause of burning bricks. By the time it got dark, more than 1,500 bricks had been made.

The long bricks are stacked and arranged in a long way, which looks like the Great Wall, which is magnificent.

In this way, two days later, the open space in front of the entire brick kiln was filled with more than 3,000 earthy yellow bricks.

Liu Daqiang watched these works with satisfaction, and said: "The more people there are, the faster, usually when I take people to make adobe, it usually takes half a month to a month, but you only took four days to make enough bricks." ”

Zhu Xiaohua is also very satisfied with these square bricks.

Liu Daqiang said: "After two or three days of exposure, you can enter the kiln to fire after it is completely dry." ”

Usually, workers take a few days off after making a kiln of bricks. Because there is usually no place to stack the bricks made in the multiplicity, it also affects the use of the brick-burning site.

Zhu Xiaohua decided to open up a new site for stacking the newly made bricks.

He pointed to two walnut trees 800 meters to the east of the brick kiln and said, "I see that there are piles of grass over there, and it is perfect to stack bricks." ”

Liu Daqiang said: "There is an artificial ditch under the walnut tree. First, the ground is damp, and under the shade of the trees, the bricks are not easy to dry. Second, it is far away from the brick kiln, and it is necessary to carry the bricks back and forth when burning the bricks, which is more time-consuming and laborious. So, usually we don't choose there. However, if you have to choose there, you can't do it. ”

Zhu Xiaohua looked around, and only there was enough space to put down one brick wall after another.

He led several prisoners to remove weeds under the walnut trees, and followed Liu Daqiang's advice to spread oilcloth and wood on the damp ground, so that the bricks could be placed off the ground, so as to isolate the moisture from the ground.

After all this, Liu Daqiang also nodded with satisfaction and said, "In this way, you have opened up a new site for my brick kiln." Although it is slower to dry here, if there is a rainy and light rain, the shade of the trees is a good place to protect from the rain. ”

After getting along for a few days, he became more and more satisfied with Zhu Xiaohua, who was in his early twenties.

I only felt that this young man had a twenty-year-old face, but he had the old age of forty or fifty years old. And he is open-minded and eclectic, which is very different from the people he has come into contact with before.

But he can't say what is different, he can only give a conclusion, which is a feeling.

Two days later, the brick kiln was fired, and all 2,000 bricks were transported into the kiln. The people who came to buy bricks were already waiting by the brick kiln with tractors and trolleys.

In this era, it happened to be the time when houses were upgraded and red brick houses were popular, and looking at the whole of Los Angeles, most of the places that could really be used to burn bricks were in the suburbs, or in the urban-rural junction like Luoshui Village.

In addition, Liu Daqiang burns bricks all the year round, has rich experience, guaranteed quality, and good reputation, so many people heard that the brick kiln was fired, and they rushed over as soon as possible.

Even children from nearby villages went to the brick kiln to see the excitement.

They were jumping and playing at the mouth of the kiln, rolling hoops, fighting cocks, and jumping rubber bands, as if they were rushing to the market.

There was a boy whose iron ring rolled into the kiln fire, and in an instant it was burned red, and he cried and cried to take it out.

Zhu Xiaohua was not only worried that these bear children would fall into the kiln fire, but also afraid that they would be scalded by the high temperature outside the kiln, and he had to deal with the unreasonable demands of the little boy, which made him very annoyed.

In the end, they simply drove all these bear children to play a hundred meters away from the brick kiln.

"Brother, I ordered your two thousand bricks."

A balding man in a white sweatshirt who looked to be in his thirties stuffed ten large solidarities into Zhu Xiaohua's hands.

Ten sheets of great unity, one hundred dollars.

In this era, there were no banknotes with a denomination of 50 or 100, and the unity of a denomination of 10 yuan was the highest amount of a single banknote.

Before Zhu Xiaohua could catch up, a little old man wearing a straw hat rushed up next to him, about fifty or sixty years old.

Instantly stuffed a thick handful of money into Zhu Xiaohua's hand, and said: "My eldest son's newlywed house has only built two rooms, the bricks are gone, and the remaining two rooms are only half a wall, just waiting for the bricks to be used urgently." This is two hundred and forty yuan, I will give the money first, and when the bricks are out of the kiln, I will pull them away. ”