On the last day of the winter month, the north wind blew the sky cloudy.

Xu Deyong woke up and the smell of alcohol had already dissipated.

Winter training is just in time.

Get up and exercise, hey, hey, hey.

Things are expensive to suck, but also hard to be the foundation!

In this way, we can reach the realm of inner and outer integration, vertical and horizontal!

After Xu Deyong's squat workout, He Yuzhu didn't come out, it seemed that the wine had not woken up completely.

He opened today's blind box with a thought.

"Ding!"

A kerosene lamp and a 1,000-milliliter bottle of kerosene appear in the space.

Xu Deyong couldn't help but raise his eyelids, yesterday there was a power outage, and today I gave a kerosene lamp, this blind box space is quite good!

Thinking of the dilapidated kerosene lamp that was about the same age as me last night, it was indeed time to change.

Go back and find a chance to take it out, anyway, this one doesn't look new, so I said that it was made outside, and grandma asked a few words and passed.

After breakfast, Xu Deyong looked at the burning briquette stove, rubbed his chin and said, "Grandma, do you always burn this kind of briquette at home?" ”

Xu Nanshi glanced at him in surprise and said, "What do you burn if you don't burn briquettes?" ”

As the saying goes, "people should be real, and fire should be empty".

This briquette is not honeycomb coal, it is a solid briquette, which not only costs coal to burn, but also is not easy to ignite, and it takes almost a pound of wood to split wood each time.

At that time, Sijiu City alone used more than 200 million catties of firewood a year, and about 300,000 tons of coal was consumed to burn briquettes.

Of the more than one million cubic meters of garbage produced in the city a year, there are almost 60 cubic meters of cinders.

It's terrifying!

"Wujin ink jade, stone fire and light constant", "Nanshan high end, Beishan red coal" are all advertisements for briquettes.

At this time, there are two industries, one is "briquette-shaking"; The other is "the one who sells loess".

Every autumn is cool, there are "briquettes" from the countryside, they carry large shovels and chopping shovels on their shoulders, and behind them buckle a diameter of one meter, a depth of thirty or forty centimeters of rocking baskets and a large flower pot.

These people come every year and know where to use them for work, so they are familiar with the people in the alley.

Shaking briquettes is hard work to earn food, and you can earn five cents and six cents a day, just enough to chew and wrap.

The briquettes in crowded institutions and factories are all made by themselves.

Even primary and secondary schools use labor classes to mobilize students to hold briquettes, which is called "do it yourself, have enough food and clothing." ”

Hand briquette technology can be unambiguous, "seven points of coal three points shake system", to go through and slime, spreading, sprinkling coal, cutting, shaking baskets and other processes, need to be skilled in the use of large shovels, shovels, chopping shovels, nail rakes, baskets and pots and other tools, all kinds of work show amazing physical strength, extraordinary craftsmanship, not just find someone can do.

If the briquettes are not good to burn, it is called "shriveling", at this time the briquette stove has a fatal problem: "can eat can not pull", if it is blocked at the bottom of the furnace, it can not be opened with fire chopsticks, you can only carry the furnace legs, pour out the inferior briquettes and re-cage a furnace, which is time-consuming and laborious, and you have to smoke again.

In the first two years, two machine-made briquette factories were built in Sijiu City, and "organic coal" was gradually popularized in the market, and in the 60s, the industry of "hand-cranked briquettes" gradually declined and disappeared.

Because it takes firewood to ignite briquettes, the places where briquettes are sold also sell chopping firewood, and the daily work of employees includes sawing, chopping wood, and stacking.

There is also a kind of raw coal called "ballast", which is easy to burn and vigorous, the price is more expensive than briquettes, and ordinary people are reluctant to burn it.

At this time, "honeycomb coal" had already appeared, which was designed by Guo Wende, a Texas worker, in 49 years, and began to be named "economic briquette", but it had not yet been popularized.

Next year, Professor Lao Yanruo developed the automatic honeycomb coal pressing machine, and it began to be promoted on a large scale.

At this time, honeycomb coal and furnace were not as convenient and reasonable as later generations, and they were constantly improved in use.

Even if by the middle of next year, there will be more than 600,000 coal-burning households in Sijiu City, of which only about 40,000 will burn honeycomb coal, and the habits that people have developed will not be able to change in a while.

As for gas, it's going to take two years!

Many people may not know that "honeycomb coal" has won the "Classic Design Nomination Award" of Beijing International Design Week for 16 years, and at that time, it was nominated together with "Beidou Navigation Satellite" and "Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge", which shows its weight!

Xu Deyong said: "Grandma, let's burn honeycomb coal." ”

"Honeycomb coal?" Xu Nanshi showed a puzzled expression, and then suddenly said: "You're talking about the kind of big briquettes with holes, you have to change the stove to burn that thing, and we haven't burned it for fear of not burning well." ”

Xu Deyong said: "That thing is very easy to burn, and you don't need to shake ash often, add coal, pull out the fire, and save coal." ”

Xu Nanshi was a little moved when he heard his grandson say this, the key is that the word "coal saving" moved him in the end!

"Is it really not troublesome and saves coal?" Xu Nanshi asked with questions.

"Definitely." Xu Deyong said: "Don't worry about this, leave it to me." ”

Xu Nanshi nodded and said, "Okay, you show me first, if it's really like what you said, we'll burn that honeycomb briquette in the future!" ”

Xu Deyong glanced at his own briquette stove, which was simply rolled into a sheet of iron and riveted together, and the inside had to be wiped with clay, which was called "enamel furnace" in the jargon, and there was not even a chimney.

If the house is not tightly sealed, otherwise you will have to be poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Grandma's skill in sealing the stove is also high, otherwise it would be troublesome to relight the fire every morning, but the smoke from the fire would be unbearable.

There must be smoke billowing from a few houses in this alley on a morning basis.

Yes, this stove is not successful, it seems that everything has to be redone, and the stove and chimney alone will cost a lot of money.

Moreover, it is also expensive to buy ready-made honeycomb coal, so getting a manual press tool and buying pulverized coal and yellow mud to make it yourself is the choice of many ordinary people later.

Don't hand over the money to grandma recently, the money for the stove and chimney must have a source.

In the cold north wind, Xu Deyong rode out on three wheels "fully armed", and the wooden tower clock was also fixed in the car by him.

Originally, I wanted to ask my grandmother to inquire about a buyer, but I thought about it because the three melons and two dates couldn't be done, so I still let the commission go, and the longer the time, the longer.

On a cold day, people don't go out unless they can go to work.

Xu Deyong rode all the way and sent the wooden tower clock to the previous commission bank at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the other party still recognized him.

"Yo, you're here, you've repaired the clock?"

"Luck, luck, you give you long eyes, if you can, I'll let you sell it."

The two chatted a few words, and after checking the clock, they signed the note for consignment, and the price was ten yuan, and the commission bank took seven cents after the transaction.

Xu Deyong looked around and didn't find the items he liked, and said goodbye and left.

It's hard to do business on this cold day, no, even the film master of Layang Pian opposite the tavern has no stall.

Xu Deyong glanced at the tavern with the closed door closed, and kept riding away under his feet.

A moment later, a figure with a headscarf wrapped around his head and wearing a flowered cotton jacket walked out of the alley.

Her pretty face was slightly pale, she bit her lip resolutely, looked left and right, and saw Xu Deyong's distant figure, her eyes paused, and she couldn't help revealing a look of contemplation.

Immediately, she slowly walked to the grocery store at the corner of the street, and she still had to live after giving birth.

There is no one around to take care of me, and I have to take care of my children and sick father-in-law.

She has to carry the days alone.

She firmly believes that she can carry it.

It's not like you can't live without a man!

He Yongqiang, even if her father-in-law doesn't allow her to go out of confinement, she will divorce!

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