Chapter 18: The brick kiln is robbed
Liu Daqiang was teasing his grandson at home, and when he saw Zhu Xiaohua and others coming over, he showed a look of embarrassment and said, "I thought you wouldn't burn bricks again in the future, so I rented him to Zhang Shui in the same village." ”
"Zhang Shui is from the same village as us, and when he saw that it was so easy for you to make money by burning bricks last time, he had to rent it from me and gave me a hundred yuan. Now that the kilns have been burned, they are all from the villagers, how can this be good? ”
He put down his little grandson and let him run around under the eaves, and he and Zhu Xiaohua and others went to the brick kiln again.
In the open space in front of the brick kiln, the young men and women of the farm and the group of Zhang Shui's family were already surrounded and quarreled.
"It's okay for you to burn the kiln, but you can't burn our bricks, don't you need money for bricks?" Wu Zhizheng loudly reprimanded a middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man has inch hair, wears a white sweatshirt, and shorts, and is about 50 years old.
Liu Daqiang pointed at him and introduced: "This is Zhang Shui." ”
Zhu Xiaohua was worried that Wu Zhi would be impulsive and do something stupid again, so he hurriedly rushed to the middle of the two groups and asked them to retreat.
If they disagree with the villagers at this time, they will be known by their superiors, and their brick-burning business will probably be completely yellow.
Wu Zhi stepped back and said, "Brother Zhu, it's obvious that they stole our bricks, why do we have to retreat?" ”
Others chimed in: "Yes, they stole our bricks, and that must be made clear." ”
"What is it called stealing your bricks, don't speak so badly. This brick is written, how do you prove that it is yours? ”
Zhang Shui retorted confidently.
He was extremely disgusted by the use of the word "stealing" by everyone.
Zhang Shui's sons also stood aside, holding sticks in their hands, and threatened: "Don't bully people just because you have too many of you." If you move a single hair of my dad, I'll fight with you. ”
Zhu Xiaohua smiled, Zhang Shui's sons are quite filial.
"This brick was made by us under the sun, with mud and sweat. You use other people's bricks, and you are still so arrogant, you can't be too shameless. ”
Xiao Ding shouted at each other in the crowd, and she wanted to jump out several times, but was stopped by Zhu Xiaohua.
Zhu Xiaohua said: "Wu Zhi, Xiaoding, you bring all these people back to the farm. Here's it to me and Don Jr. You wait for our news. ”
Zhang Shui, as well as Zhang Shui's two sons, heard the word "farm", and their faces changed.
Zhu Xiaohua didn't care about their feelings, and drove Wu Zhi, Xiaoding and others back to the farm. After the two sides disengaged, he pulled Liu Daqiang, Zhang Shui and others to sit down under the brick wall.
Zhang Shui said: "I don't care where you are, I rented this brick kiln for 100 yuan." Besides, Liu Daqiang and I have been neighbors for many years, and I use the brick kiln of my neighbor's house, and outsiders don't want to interfere in the burning of bricks again. ”
Liu Daqiang looked embarrassed again and said to Zhu Xiaohua: "Originally, I thought you wouldn't come again in the future. You see how it works. ”
Zhu Xiaohua said: "Why don't you come, there are more than 6,000 of our bricks here." ”
Zhang Shui was stunned for a moment and asked, "This brick is really yours?" ”
Zhu Xiaohua nodded: "If you can make so many bricks in just five or six days, except for us, I'm afraid there is no one else." ”
Looking at this Luoshui Village, I am afraid that no one can have such a huge manpower and such a strong manufacturing capacity.
Zhu Xiaohua has this self-confidence.
"Then Lao Liu told me that no one wants these bricks, let me use them casually......"
Zhang Shui and Zhu Xiaohua met Liu Daqiang's gaze at the same time, and Liu Daqiang's eyes flashed with a hint of panic.
His face suddenly turned red into pork liver, and he said, "I thought you didn't want these bricks." Seeing the resolute tone of the leader who came to inspect that day, I thought you would never have a chance to come out again......"
He really didn't expect this Zhu Xiaohua to come out intact.
So many leaders came to inspect that day, and the staff resolutely asked Zhu Xiaohua and others to stop burning bricks. He thought that these people would be locked up when they returned. But I didn't expect it to be okay so soon.
Zhang Shui said: "We are not unreasonable people, in this way, I used your 2,000 bricks, and I will compensate you." But what about this brick kiln, you still can't use it, and in the next six months, it will be used by me. ”
Zhang Shui said as he took out a few large solidarity sheets from his coat pocket and counted them. A total of ten pieces were counted, totaling 100 yuan, and stuffed them into Zhu Xiaohua's hand, saying, "These two thousand bricks are considered to have been bought by me." Each brick is five cents, two thousand bricks, exactly 100. You count. ”
What Zhu Xiaohua is rare is not the 100 yuan, but the right to use the brick kiln.
Looking at the vicinity of Jiazigou Farm, only the brick kiln of Luoshui Village is the closest. Far away, they can't get out at all.
If there were no brick kilns, there would be no point in them making bricks, and these 40-odd people would have lost their way to generate income for the time being.
In addition, the bricks they had made before had to be like this all the time, in the open air to withstand the wind and rain.
Zhu Xiaohua said: "It's not about bricks, it's about renting brick kilns first, and you are later." ”
Zhang Shui said: "That's no way, after you rent it, you don't need it." Liu Daqiang rented it to me as a matter of course. Moreover, the brick kiln belongs to Liu Daqiang, and he has the right to decide who to rent it to and who not to rent it to? ”
Zhu Xiaohua looked at Liu Daqiang again, hoping that Liu Daqiang could uphold justice.
However, Liu Daqiang muttered: "You really don't rent it, I rented it to Zhang Shui." He's my neighbor, and I can't ...... to outsiders."
Zhu Xiaohua was angry, these people, this is obviously a hooligan.
If this is in a society governed by the rule of law, we can still find a place to reason. But in this Luoshui Village, he didn't even have a place to comment.
These villagers know each other, and their attitude is the law and reason.
Zhu Xiaohua took Zhang Shui's 100 yuan and said, "In this case, I will accept the 2,000 bricks." The remaining four thousand or so bricks can also be sold to you if you want. ”
Zhang Shui's eyes lit up and asked, "Really, are you really willing to sell it all to me?" ”
Their family of five made bricks, the progress was extremely slow, and it took ten days and half a month to make a kiln of bricks, which naturally could not be compared with Zhu Xiaohua's more than 40 people.
He thought that if he could burn bricks with Zhu Xiaohua's ready-made bricks, it would really make a lot of money.
The brick is five cents, the production cycle is extremely long, and it is hard and not profitable. And firing into ready-made bricks, it only takes two or three days, and the cycle is extremely short. And the price of bricks is three times that of bricks, which is easy and profitable in comparison. It's really cheap.
Looking at the rows of bricks, he seemed to see a large unity of RMB.