The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 24 Bullock carts are not easy to use on steep mountain roads!
"When cutting tofu, the knife should be smaller. The tofu can't be kept, and you cut too much. Although the business is fine this time, next time people won't come to our stall. The tofu business, we have to do it as a piggyback business." On June 29, Song Yingkui and his second uncle took their second brother Song Yingfang to the street again to set up a stall.This is their third set day in a row.

When the second uncle was cutting tofu for others, he was suspected of cutting too much on purpose. After the guest left, Song Yingkui told him about the business.In this era, everyone's money is tight, and there is no refrigerator to store it, so the crooked idea of ​​deliberately cutting more tofu is unacceptable.

Today's tofu business is not very good, and Liu Tofu, who missed several market days, also has a stall today.There are only so many local consumers in Wuying Street. If there is one more tofu seller, the business will definitely be affected.Until the afternoon, there were still about ten catties of tofu left from the thirty catties of tofu brought from home.

Fortunately, the business of bean curd sticks has improved a bit today, selling more than a dozen catties, which is considered to be bright in the east and bright in the west, and the total income has no effect.

"Second, cut two catties of good tofu and send it to the second room. Let's collect the stall and go home. The next time we go to the market, we need to make less tofu, just bring twenty catties. If there is more, we can make less." Seeing that it was getting late, Song Yingkui hurriedly collected the stall, and sent his second brother Song Yingfang to deliver tofu to the second room.With competition, the market is indeed saturated.

"Kui Wa, you'd better look at the market. Fortunately, we still have yuba to sell, otherwise the tofu business would be really hard to do. If we follow your grandfather's advice, we might lose money." Seeing that the yuba sold better today, the second uncle couldn't help admiring his nephew.The idea of ​​doing business at home really has to be picked up by my nephew.

"The yuba business will be good in the future. After a few more days, we will focus on the afternoon market. As long as the tenants sell our yuba, the business will be easy." Now the stalls are mainly for the farmers who go to the streets nearby and the people living in the streets.Without market cultivation, it is difficult to do anyone's business.

After closing the stall and returning home, the grandfather was silent for a while after inquiring about today's business situation. It seems that his grandson's prediction was right.It is really not enough to only do tofu business.

After talking about business for a while, the topic turned to the upcoming harvest.Soybeans will be harvested in three or four days, followed by wheat, and the busy farming season will officially begin.This year's situation is a bit special for the Song family. The business of setting up stalls on the street cannot be stopped, so they must find a way to use their staff instead.If you can't go to the street to set up a stall like now, it will take up three laborers.

"I think the Second University has started to do business now, and it's no problem to settle accounts. From now on, the Second University and the second child will mainly go to the street to set up stalls. It's too busy, and the Second University can go alone. Recently, I still mainly worry about collecting grain." Originally, the family's idea was to let Song Yingkui mainly take care of the business, and the others were busy harvesting the fields.But Song Yingkui felt that such an arrangement was not enough. The tofu business needed to be developed slowly and let the second uncle do the cooking. He still took his hands off and did other things.

"That's fine, but if Kui Wa can free her hands, I'd better follow her to the street to watch. Your second father hasn't done anything big, so people don't feel at ease." Song Tianshun now trusts his grandson more than his son.Who let the grandson do more important things in the past year or so.

"Making tofu in the house, grinding and other heavy work, the men in the house are replaced, so our mother and younger sister can take more care of making tofu and scooping up the bean skin." In addition to selling tofu, making tofu is also very simple and labor-intensive, and we need to allocate manpower.

Song Yingkui felt that there were too many people in the family when he first traveled through time, but now when he was really busy, he realized that thanks to the large number of people, otherwise a small business like tofu would not be able to open the staff.

After rushing to the market again, the family began to collect grain.There are not many soybeans planted this year, about five acres. Apart from grinding some soybean flour, soybeans are mainly used to feed livestock and provide stubble for next year's grain fields. The stubble in soybean fields is easy to grow crops.Soybeans can be used to extract oil, but there is no habit of using soybeans to extract oil here. The oil crop in the northwest is a plant called flax.

There are few soybeans, and they are ready in a few days, and they are carried home from the field.While carrying the bundle of beans, Song Yingkui discovered a problem.The bullock carts made by myself are not easy to use on steep mountains.Originally, some roads were impassable, and even if the roads were cleared, the bullock cart could not pull heavy loads from top to bottom.

The cart and the ox are one. When carrying heavy loads down a steep slope, the ox simply cannot bear such a heavy force of gravity.

It is necessary to find a way to separate the cart from the ox, and use people to operate the cart, so that the cart can be used to pull things down from the ground when the house is full of steep ground.

"There are still a few days to pull the wheat. These days, my family will help me out. I will bring my third father to build a new car. I will first use the wood saved by my grandfather to build the house. After the busy farming is over, I will buy some wood from the street to make up." Since the car and the ox can be separated, Song Yingkui thought of a human-powered frame car he had seen in later generations.

"Do you want to build a cart? Don't you have an ox cart at home? Why waste wood and build another one? I am saving wood to build a house." Song Tianshun's ignorant petty words spoke again.

"Grandpa, money is earned in a way. How many years have you saved wood, and now there is still not enough wood to build a house? Our family has only been in business for a few days, and the money we earn is more than enough to buy your wood. How much effort can I save by building a new car and pulling crops from the mountains down the mountain? The time saved can be used to grind tofu.

It’s not a big bill, but if it’s a small bill, our family has been working hard, and we can’t make money, and we have been poor.In addition to building a new car, I will also spend time this year to repair the road up the mountain.After walking for most of my life, the roads are still so broken that I can't even get on a car in many places.With so many of you, what do you do for a year?Don't be stubborn with me on this matter, just do as I say! "As Song Yingkui spoke, he expressed all his opinions on his family members, especially his grandfather.

He now has a lot of opinions on his grandfather's short-sightedness and love to make up his mind.Especially the matter of not repairing the road in the field, he would get angry when he thought about it.Counting from my great-grandfather, this land has been planted for more than ten years. It is understandable that the manpower was thin at the beginning. Later, with the addition of people from the old house, the whole family of more than a dozen men worked hard. Couldn't the road in the field be repaired?The land on the mountain is all your own, and there are no outsiders' fields. Are you afraid to work for others?

(End of this chapter)