Reborn Craftsman

Chapter 54 Friends
After Liu Xing took a careful look, he immediately put it in his pocket.

His father, Liu Dageng, came over at this time, with a happy expression on his face: "Son, I have checked all the 3000 yuan. There is no fake money. This is a big deal! It is bigger than Mrs. Zhang's."

"Not necessarily, we have never made bamboo mats before!" Liu Xing frowned: "This order is too much, but the cost is also high, and we have to increase the purchase of bamboo and other materials. You alone Are you busy?"

"That's true." Liu Dageng nodded repeatedly.

Buying and selling Nanzhu is not an easy task. It takes almost half a day to pick, transport and unload the goods. I suffered a loss once.

"Let's do this! My father will take my fourth uncle to purchase Nanzhu first, and try to purchase as much as possible. After all, I have a large order in my hand and I am not afraid of a backlog of materials. As for the manpower, let your mother arrange it. Try to recruit as many skilled bamboo craftsmen as possible. Don’t be a beginner.” Liu Xing looked at the time: “I’m hungry, let’s have breakfast first.”

"Okay!" Liu Dagen collected the money, turned around and went to find his wife Zhu Meiling.

The door of the shed.

As soon as Liu Xing walked out, he met Zhu Xiuqing.

Behind Zhu Xiuqing, there were six or seven children aged 13 to [-] or [-]. Among them, Zhu Xiaoxiao was inside, biting her index finger with her bare feet and curiously looking at the environment around the shed.

These six or seven children are all from Liu Xing's grandmother's place. During the Chinese New Year, they often play together. Although they don't know their names, they all know their faces.

Seeing this scene, Liu Xing couldn't help asking Zhu Xiuqing in surprise: "Sister, you...why did you bring so many people to my place this early in the morning?"

"They...they all want to come to you as apprentices, don't worry, they don't need wages, they just need to take care of the food!" Zhu Xiuqing seemed to know that she had done something wrong, and immediately lowered her head in embarrassment.

"The problem is that my small bamboo workshop doesn't need so many people right now!" Liu Xing covered his head, not knowing what to say for a while.

"No!" Liu Xing suddenly realized that he had said something wrong. He had just received a large order for bamboo mats from Zhang Yan, the owner of Limin Department Store. How could he not need manpower.

It's just that you don't need these novices in front of you.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, he sneered and said to Zhu Xiuqing: "Sister, work does not support idlers, and the team does not support idlers. It's not that I'm unkind, but that I can't afford to lose money now!"

"I know this, but although the partners I lead are young, they all know a little bit of basic bamboo craftsmanship. As long as they are a little proficient, making dustpans and baskets is not a problem at all!" Zhu Xiuqing is not here Open your eyes and tell nonsense, the children in the countryside did not do any work when they were young in order to earn money, but they were fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, and they did not really do it as a real job.

Didn't I hear that Liu Xing opened a bamboo bamboo products workshop, learned to earn three or four dollars a day, no different from a skilled master, so a swarm of bees came here.

Of course, it was all approved by adults, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to show up at the door of the greenhouse early in the morning.

Liu Xing heard what Zhu Xiuqing said, and when he thought about it carefully, he felt that this was really the case. Let's take grandpa as an example!

He knows a little bit of bamboo craftsmanship, and when it comes time to go to the market, he will make some simple bamboo products for sale a day or two in advance, and many of them are woven by cousins ​​in their teens or even a few years old. from.

Bamboo products.

It is a science.

It's easy to get started, but hard to master.

Since Zhu Xiuqing said that these partners all know a little bit of bamboo craftsmanship, there is no harm in staying. Anyway, in a word, it is summer vacation now, and they will not be suspected of using child labor.

And looking at the height and age of these partners, most of them are about fifteen or sixteen years old, which means they are adults, except for Zhu Xiaoxiao.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing pretended to be impatient and waved his hand: "Since you have such confidence in them, sister, then I don't care. I will leave these people to you to take care of. Let's talk about it first! For the time being, just eat, and wait a while." After weaving baskets, I can only pay for other bamboo products.”

"It's natural, I can't let my cousin lose money!" Seeing that Liu Xing agreed, Zhu Xiuqing happily winked at the friends around her, and then took the lead into the greenhouse.

But at this moment, Liu Xing stopped Zhu Xiaoxiao: "You go in later, follow me to the grocery store."

"Ah?" Zhu Xiaoxiao shrank behind Zhu Xiuqing in fear.

"What do you want, cousin?" Zhu Xiuqing asked nervously.

"What else can you do! Look at your sister who doesn't even have a pair of suitable shoes. She is working here with bare feet. What if something happens?" Liu Xing replied angrily.

"I... I was negligent!" Zhu Xiuqing lowered her head with a blushing face.

"Xiaoxiao, are you going?" Liu Xing looked at Zhu Xiaoxiao and urged.

"En, um!" Zhu Xiaoxiao knew that Liu Xing was not a bad person, so she nodded timidly.

"Then let's go!" Liu Xing turned and walked towards the nearest grocery store in the market.

Zhu Xiaoxiao hurriedly followed shyly.

Zhu Xiuqing looked at Liu Xing and his sister who had gone away, and for some reason, felt inexplicably moved in his heart.

Seeing the partners around her curiously looking at the environment in the shed, she quickly came back to her senses, and shouted with a straight face: "What are you looking at, this is where your apprentices are, if you don't work hard, then get out of here , My cousin has already said that work does not support idlers, and the team does not support lazy people, let me go clean first, and then learn how to make baskets with broken bamboo sticks!"

"Good Le!"

"Sister Xiuqing, I've been waiting for your words!"

"Go, let's go!"

The partners took action, cleaning and moving the scattered Nanzhu that was full of energy, Zhu Xiuqing saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, she didn't want to bring these partners here, but when her sister was at home, she was helped a lot by them, and sometimes she ate at their home for several days.

Although the uncle is also good to his sister, the situation at home is not optimistic, so after thinking about it, she made a decision without authorization.

If Liu Xing doesn't take them in, she has made a plan, that is to teach these little friends to make simple bamboo products at home and sell them in the market for money.

Anyway, she is very familiar with this market now, and she is very confident in selling some bamboo products for money to spend.

But what she didn't expect was that Liu Xing agreed to take in the partners she brought, no!To be precise, he is also Liu Xing's partner.

Every year during Chinese New Year, we have a great time playing together.

It's just that this took in these partners, but the pressure on her was much greater.

(End of this chapter)