Until Lin Qianqian's family walked away, the young man still stood in place with his head down.

If someone looks closely, they will find that the young man's bright eyes are overflowing with tears, and the tears have been stubbornly refusing to slide down.

It was a tear of emotion, and after several days, they finally had something to eat, and Grandpa would never be hungry again.

After a long, long time, the young man finally forced back his tears, so he carried two pieces of konjac tofu in the front of his clothes and rushed home as fast as he could.

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Lin Qianqian took everyone to the vegetable market and cut a few catties of pork, and also bought a large piece of lard and some spices for green onions, ginger and garlic.

At present, there is no shortage of food or clothing at home, and although the living conditions are simple, they are quite passable.

It's good to eat meat and vegetables every day, anyway, you have to come to the county every day in the future, and it's convenient to buy things back.

Considering that now that shipments have increased, there are more and more places where barrels need to be used, Lin Qian bought four pairs of barrels in the first bite, plus the original two pairs at home, there are a total of six pairs of barrels at home.

For now, it should be enough.

After the daily food is finished, Lin Qianqian has to do the most important thing, buy a stone mill and go home.

A group of people walked several streets in a row.

Street restaurants, inns, noodle shops, dumpling shops, chaos shops, dim sum shops, grain stores, cloth Zhuang silver building....

There are all kinds of things sold, but I don't see anyone who sells tools like stone grinders.

Lin Qian thought about it for a while and decided to try his luck on Da Rong Street in the north of the city.

Tai Rong Street specializes in selling handicraft things, such as blacksmith shops, carpentry shops, coffin shops, contouring shops...

Miscellaneous things can be found on this street.

Lin Qianqian walked along the street, asking one shop after another.

She asked a few shops with carved monuments, but no one knew what a stone mill was.

Lin Qianqian was not disappointed, she had already imprinted the appearance of the stone mill in her mind last night, and there was no ready-made stone mill to buy, so find someone to make one.

But she asked several shopkeepers who carved the monument in a row, but they were unwilling to take the job, only saying that they couldn't do it, and they didn't even talk about the price.

Lin Qianqian became distressed.

Several shopkeepers in the vegetable market have ordered 300 catties of konjac tofu, and there will definitely be more people coming to her to order in the future.

Crushing konjac into a puree with sticks and basins alone is too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Stone grinding is the key to expanding the konjac business.

Just when she was disappointed, they went to Lin Dafa's house.

Lin Dafa was originally from Quxi Village and grew up with Father Lin.

Because of his great strength and strong growth, when he was a teenager, his family sent him to the county blacksmith as an apprentice, and after he learned the craft, the family pooled money for him to open an ironsmith shop in the county, which can be regarded as taking root in the county.

Last time, Daddy Lin told me a thousand times that if I bought a lock, I would go to Lin Dafa's house.

Lin Qianqian had already met Lin Dafa last time, and this time she greeted her familiarly: "Uncle Dafa, busy." ”

Lin Dafa, like Daddy Lin, is not good at words, and when he saw a group of people in front of Lin Qian surrounding the stall at the door, he only nodded and continued to strike iron.

Aunt Dafa came out of the back room, and when she saw Lin Qianqian, a smile unconsciously appeared on her face, "Come forward, come in and sit down." ”

She had also heard rumors that Lin Qianqian had a bad temperament before, but a few days ago, Lin Qianqian came to buy a lock, and after a few words, she felt that Lin Qianqian was not as unbearable as the rumors said.

This girl has a hearty temperament, thoughtful work, and a degree of progress and retreat in the world, which is the kind of arrogant and unreasonable, and the character of splashing and beating people at every turn, it can be seen that the rumors are not credible.

Lin Dafa's blacksmith shop is the simplest house, with business in the front yard and people living in the backyard.

There was only one façade room in the front yard, which was used for striking iron, and a large table was placed at the door, on which were put tools such as hoes, sickles, and kitchen knives.

Usually Lin Dafa struck iron in the house, and Aunt Dafa sat at the door to take care of the business.

Aunt Dafa saw that so many people came to the Lin family at once, so she hurriedly went to the backyard and moved several stools at the door in one go, so that all the Lin family members could sit down.

Lin Qianqian smiled politely: "Aunt Dafa, don't be busy, we still have something to do, so we won't sit, I want to ask you something, do you know a master who is more skilled in masonry?" I wanted to find someone to make something, but I asked several shopkeepers who carved the monument, but they didn't want to do it. ”

In her opinion, the person who carves the stele is engaged in the work of making stones, and the engraving of steles is not only about carving words on the stones, but also about carving the stones into different steles in the early stage.

Making a stone mill is also making a fuss about the stone, and it is much simpler than making a stone stele.

But those shopkeepers were reluctant to take the job, probably because they had never seen what Lin Qianqian described, and they were unwilling to do it because they were troublesome.

Aunt Dafa thought for a while, and before she could come up with a reason, Lin Da, who was striking iron in the house, said loudly: "Big girl, go find Master Li at the end of the street." ”

As soon as Lin Dafa said this, Aunt Dafa immediately came to her senses, "Yes, yes, Master Li at the end of the street, he has good skills, but his shop is at the end of the street, and few people go there, so the business is not good." You walk along this street, and you see a thatched house on the street on the right, which is his house, and there is no sign at the door, but there are a lot of stones. ”

Lin Qianqian thanked him with a smile and said, "Dad, mother, Xiaoyue, Xiaoguang, you can stay here, and Xiao Ming and I can just go for a while." ”

They pushed two cars and walked several streets in a row, and they were carrying so many things that it was troublesome to take them with them.

Aunt Dafa smiled and said, "Yes, just sit here and wait, just a little ahead, not far." ”

Father Lin and Aunt Lin nodded and agreed.

Lin Yueyue and Lin Guangguang were unwilling, the two of them ran to the front one after the other.

"Eldest sister, let's go and have a look."

"Eldest sister, let's go first."

Lin Qian smiled, everyone has already left, can she still say no?

She stepped forward to follow, and Lin Mingming automatically and consciously followed.

I walked along the street until I reached the end of the street, and sure enough, I saw a thatched house.

The worst house on this street is also an adobe house, and this thatched house stands at the end of the street, which looks extremely abrupt.

It's as if people were still in the county just now, and suddenly they are in the countryside, after all, thatched houses are not common in the county.

At the door of the thatched hut sat an old man with gray hair, carving a stone with a hammer and chisel.

Lin Qian stepped forward and asked politely, "May I ask you are the shopkeeper Li, right?" ”

The old man looked up at Lin Qianqian and couldn't help frowning.

The people who came to him were all going to engrave monuments for the dead, and the people who came either had sad or expressionless faces, and they would not be as smiling as Lin Qianqian.

Lin Qian looked at his expression, and knew that this was what Aunt Dafa said, Master Li, and she immediately explained her intentions: "Grandpa Li, it's like this, I want to carve a stone, not to make a stone tablet, it's a tool, and it looks like this..."

She sat down on a stone next to Master Li, picked up a wooden stick and drew a rough picture of the stone mill on the ground, explaining what each part should look like as she drew it.