Chapter 19: The Father and Daughter's "Conspiracy"
Li Xiaoyue crossed her fingers to settle accounts for Liu Changxi, she has always convinced people with virtue, of course, she can't let Liu Changxi complain, but let him be convinced.
"Changxi, it's important for you to study, but it's also important to make money! If you study for a year, you will have to pay four taels of silver, plus a gift to your master, and you will need two taels of silver. ”
"You don't need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation for a year, but the rest adds up to at least two taels of silver, plus your pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and you need three taels of silver. The family will spend at least eleven taels of silver for you a year. ”
"If you get sick again, or have other expenses, it's far more than eleven taels of silver. You are the most expensive in our family, you must know that even your youngest sister Changle fights pigweed every day to raise pigs and feed pigs, you are the elder brother, why can't you do things for the family? ”
"Don't tell me you're going to study, so much time in a day, it's not bad for you. Wake up a little earlier and you'll be able to make up for it. Listen carefully in class, draw inferences from others, improve efficiency, and save time. ”
"Having said so much, I just want to tell you that you can't sit back and enjoy your success and wait for others to worship you to study. Just now you came up with a good idea, and you will be rewarded with 100 Wen. Write a hundred notices, and I will give you a hundred letters, which can be used as your pocket money. ”
As soon as he heard this, Liu Changxi's little abacus in his heart crackled and counted, "Mother, pocket money, can I use it myself?" ”
"Yes." Li Xiaoyue nodded, the money that can't be used at your own discretion is not called pocket money, "Save it yourself, and when you grow up, you can go out with your friends and have money to spend." ”
Liu Changxi's eyes showed joy, "Mother, I write, I promise to write neatly." ”
"Write before it gets dark." Li Xiaoyue urged, now that there is no separation, the way of "big pot rice" is easy to breed laziness.
Especially the second son and his wife, it's not a family that doesn't enter the door, the two of them are very calculating, and they are also very lazy.
Next, she had to make honeycomb coal and stoves in large quantities, and she had to set up a reward and punishment system to get them to work voluntarily.
The more you work, the more wages and rewards you earn. Do less, get the hand, try to be fair.
Stealing and playing tricks doesn't work with her!
Wu Cuihong uses the stove to make cakes, and without burning the fire, one person can be busy.
After the pancakes, another pot of vegetable soup was burned on the stove, and some pickles were cut and saladed, and this was dinner.
Wu Cuihong especially likes honeycomb coal stoves, "Mother, it's so convenient to have this stove, our stove must be very good." ”
"Of course." Li Xiaoyue is very confident, only a woman can feel the convenience brought by the honeycomb coal stove, cooking while burning the fire, tired and troublesome.
These stoves at home, Li Xiaoyue will not sell them for the time being, and will be used as samples. After the next batch of 100 sets is ready, it will be sold in the market.
In the evening, Li Laohan handed over the title deed to Li Xiaoyue, "Xiaoyue, put things away, tomorrow I will ask a few of your nephews to come over to help pull Shini powder and loess." ”
Li Xiaoyue did not refuse, and handed the silver to Li Laohan, "Dad, thank you, this is silver, you must accept it." By the way, Dad, there is only one tool for making honeycomb coal at home, and I want to get a few more, and in addition, to change the honeycomb coal, you need to use tongs, and I have to order a hundred of these things. ”
Li Laohan calculated and said: "One honeycomb coal tool costs five dollars of silver, but this one is strong and can be used for a long time, set ten, make more honeycomb coal, and sell it to the county seat in the future." ”
"Fire tongs for a hundred wen, stove, how much are you going to sell it? It's too expensive, maybe no one wants to buy it, in fact, I think you make a lot of money with the endless supply of honeycomb coal in the back, so the stove must not be too expensive. ”
Li Xiaoyue gave a thumbs up to Old Man Li, "Dad, you're right!" The stove was sold at the original price, and the stove plus tongs was one hundred and fifty yuan, and if you were not satisfied, as long as it was not broken, it would be returned. ”
Hearing this, Li Laohan glared, "You are blind and generous, and it is natural to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other." You said that you can return it, but if you take it home, it will cause cracks artificially, so you can replace it with a new one, or return the money, is it asking for trouble? ”
"When the time comes, put it next to my meat stall, put two burning stoves, keep boiling water, put bowls on the table, drink water for free, and you can gather a lot of people. If you see it, you will buy it; I didn't like it, unless you give it away for nothing, or you can find a bunch of faults. ”
When Li Xiaoyue heard this, she was in awe, she couldn't use the sense of service in her previous life to use it for the present.
"Dad, you're right. Our honeycomb coal and stove focus on a convenient, clean and cheap. With so many advantages, there's no need to complicate it too much. ”
"Now a load of firewood fifteen wen, our family, can be used for one day. It takes six to eight pieces of honeycomb coal a day, and we need one penny a piece of honeycomb coal, and at most eight pieces of honeycomb coal is enough, which is eight dollars. ”
"Coupled with the fact that it is clean and does not take up space, and it is convenient, it will definitely be able to impress those in the town and in the city, and the stove and honeycomb coal will definitely sell well."
Li Laohan was very pleased, "Yes, anyway, the loess and stone nirvana powder don't need money, I heard Sanqiang say that yesterday he could make thousands of honeycomb coal in a day." That's a tael of silver, which is more cost-effective than me killing pigs and selling meat! ”
Now the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the meat is getting harder and harder to sell, and every summer is the off-season.
Originally, he also wanted to take his son and grandson to the county seat to find some work, but now that his daughter has honeycomb coal at home, he doesn't have to look for work elsewhere.
Li Xiaoyue nodded, "Dad, you go back to my brother and nephew, let them all come, fifty a day's wages, don't go to the county seat to find work." ”
"Come and help, you don't have to pay for it." Li Laohan refused, the family still had savings, and his family's life was better than his daughter's.
Li Xiaoyue didn't agree, "Dad, you have been teaching our brothers to settle accounts." Come to work with me, not for a day or two, but all the time, and you can't do it without paying. ”
"Whether it's making honeycomb coal, stoves, or selling honeycomb coal, it takes people. Rather than me going to work with the people in the village, I would let my own family work with me. ”
"Dad, I've done the math. There are still some Shini on the edge of the Shini waste mine, which are six or seven acres in size, enough for us to work for three years. After digging up, we will stop doing it and do other business. ”
Li Laohan nodded, lowered his voice, and his big eyes were full of cunning, "Actually, I also secretly took a shovel to dig it, and I also found that it was all some fine fragmented stone nirvana ore on the edge." ”
"The previous mine owners didn't look down on it, and we can use it to make honeycomb coal. Originally, I wanted to buy 10 acres, but the county government said that if you want to buy it, you have to buy it, and it is worth spending more money to buy 30 acres. ”
"Fortunately, the price is not high, but after three years, you will have to pay a tax of two taels a year, but you can plant some pasture grass on it, and it is not bad to feed cattle and sheep."
Li Xiaoyue thought so, "Dad, you're right. With you, my heart is at ease. ”
Li Laohan was coaxed happy by his daughter, and he was quite proud, "This is a good business." No, I won't talk to you, I'll go to the town and ask Blacksmith Wang to make honeycomb coal tools for us overnight, and strive to start work tomorrow. ”
After speaking, without waiting for Li Xiaoyue to answer, Li Laohan got wind on the soles of his feet and strode away.
Li Xiaoyue pursed her lips and smiled, it's good to have a father who thinks about her in everything!
Just as Li Xiaoyue moved the dining table to the courtyard and was about to eat before the sun set, there was a quick knock at the door.