Looking at her rare confused look, Ah Che only hooked his lips, shook his head and stopped making a sound.

He Zao frowned and continued to bow his head and struggle.

Uncle He is a person who loves to eat and drink, and he regards drinking and eating meat as the first major event in his life to complete, and this kind of person is often the most sociable, but after going to the Zhenxi Coal Mine for a few days, Uncle He is familiar with those small leaders and the coal diggers below.

When they went to the town to sell scorpions, they went to visit Uncle He. Because He Laosan repeatedly told them not to go near the coal mine, he sent a letter to Uncle He in advance, and Uncle He was waiting for them in the western suburbs of the town.

At this time, the coal mine was a private product, and the periphery was very large, and many coal workers could be seen busy with baskets on their backs, all of them with haggard faces and ragged clothes.

Qibao clutched the hem of He Zao's clothes and didn't dare to approach.

He Zao was also afraid of an accident, so he obediently followed Uncle He to stand on the periphery, looked inside twice, and then asked Uncle He with great interest: "Uncle, will you go down the well?" ”

Most of the coal mines in Wuxian Town are underground.

The latter still had coal marks on his face, black, really similar to coal, and showed a mouthful of white teeth: "Of course I will go down, but I am the one who supervises the weighing, and I will not always go down." ”

He Zao breathed a sigh of relief, which supervised the weighing of coal, which can be described as a poor oil, and a little bit of finger leakage, which is enough for individuals to eat and drink.

The thirty taels of silver were worth the money.

She asked carefully, only to know that Uncle He, the small foreman of supervision, basically belongs to the lowest level of the Zhenxi Coal Mine, and he is only responsible for weighing those scattered personal coal, and those big heads, which are transported to the county town, are served by Wang Fuhu's henchmen.

He Zao breathed a sigh of relief, a mining enterprise with huge profits like this has always been the darkest and most dangerous, and she was very afraid that Uncle He would be involved in various power struggles and become a victim.

However, the scattered coal customers only belong to the bottom and the least profitable part, and the profit in Uncle He's hand is not as good as a little finger of others.

He Zao looked at the black earth soaked in coal, and the familiar coal miners who were only more emaciated and black, and finally understood what the white light that flashed in her mind yesterday was.

It's just that there are some things she can't do now, but she can do other things.

He Zao smiled an extremely slow but powerful smile.

I talked with Uncle He for half an afternoon, and after He went back early, he took He Laosan, and said that He Laosi went up the mountain, the wattle forest on the mountain is dense, you can see it everywhere, the sharp leaves, the emerald green color, constitute the most common scenery in the Central Plains Mountains. Because the flowers of Vitex are broken purple and very beautiful, Vitex has another name called "Bauhinia".

Many wattles have grown in the mountains for many years, and they are as thick as a tree, but they are very tenacious plants, like weeds, the seeds are scattered with the wind, and they take root wherever they fall, and in the blink of an eye, they can grow a large forest of wattles.

He Zao deliberately chose those new and tender thin and straight wattles, and let He Laosan and He Laosi take a sickle to cut, and soon cut out two large piles, and then took two thin wattles, rubbed them, kneaded them, and then braided the two together, which is the strongest rope. It was bundled into two bundles, one on his back, and He Zao leisurely followed him down the mountain with his hands behind him.

That's right, He Zao was going to make jingtiao, and later Wuxian Town had been crazy for more than ten years to be used as a jingtiao piece for coal mining. Wuxian Town also has a very distinctive name for the jingtiao piece "drifter", and the weaving of jingtiao is called "weaving drifter".

The family has found a very suitable wooden brace and wooden stepper, which are the dialects of Wuxian Town.

Put the four wattle sticks cut to the general size and thickness on the wooden support, arrange them according to the distance, and then step on them with a wooden pedal, and start weaving them with the split thin wattle sticks, He did this job when he was a child, the action is very skillful, the thin fingers dexterously pass through the four wattle sticks, and then repeat back and forth, until the upper part is braided, and then turned upside down, continue to step on, and then weave the lower part, and then a complete drift is braided.

It's boxy, it's beautiful, it's strong, it's upside down in your hand, and it doesn't fall apart!

There are a lot of utensils made of wattles in the Zhuang family, but they are all mats, baskets or something, what is this square piece?

The people in the third room all showed questions.

He Zao explained with a smile: "I heard from my uncle that the ventilation in the coal well is not good, and there are often water leaks, so I thought about using this mat to give it a try." ”

There are a lot of coal mines in Fangyuan Village, He Laosan has also seen in the well, and naturally knows the disadvantages of the underground that He Zao said, and then compares the newly produced vitex strips, and then sees the point of the door: "This should be, the vitex leaves absorb water, and dense, some of the coal just unearthed is too fine, all leak out of the coal wall, with this shield is the best, but also pad the puddle!" ”

"I've already discussed with my uncle, let's make up a hundred drifters first and show them to the steward of the Wang family, if we can, we can compile them for a long time in the future."

He Zao said with a smile.

"Can this still be sold for money?" He Laosi heard some doorways and asked in surprise.

He Zao raised his chin, full of momentum: "Of course, otherwise what are we doing so hard!" If the Zhenxi Coal Mine is really used, the Zhendong Coal Mine, and the coal mining areas of other villages can be used, and everyone in our village can compile miles. ”

He Laosi felt that He Zao was a little bragging, so he made up two square films, and someone really wanted it?

He Laosan believes in He Zao's ability a little, basically as long as she says that she can make money, then she will definitely be able to make money! Never lie!

He asked tentatively, "Zao'er, how are you going to sell this drift?" ”

He Zao touched his chin and thought thoughtfully: "Let's just start, there must be a shortage of supply, so let's pay for two." ”

He Laosan breathed a sigh of relief, he was used to seeing He Zao's lion open his mouth, and he was really afraid that the other party's mouth would be a piece of dozens of texts!

It's very simple to weave a drift, you can almost make one in a minute, and the people in the three rooms have started, and finally before going to the dark, a hundred have been made. Every twenty stacks were neatly stacked.

instructed He Laosi not to make a noise, and the next day, He Laosan, He Laosi, and He Zao and Sibao drove the carriage to the town.

The result went well, and it was not without reason that this vitex piece became popular in the northern regions without bamboo in later generations, bringing additional income to tens of thousands of small farming families, because it was indeed simple and practical, and suitable for the overall prosperity of a village.

There are five or six large coal mining areas in Wuxian Town, as well as other adjacent towns, a total of one or twenty coal mining areas, and the demand for Jingtiao slices is huge.

He Zao did not hide his secrets, and deliberately let the old and young masters of the whole village watch, and He Chun'er demonstrated how to compile it.

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