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

Chapter 32 As soon as the store opened, the first business came to the door!

"Open a shop at the mouth of the Yanchuan Gorge? Kuiwa, why did you suddenly have this idea? There is a mill on the other side of the Yanchuan Gorge. Is it a place for business? Also, our family has to save money to build a house in Chuntou, so we have the money to open a shop! Besides, you open a shop that does all the iron work and wood work. Who will do the iron work if you can do the wood work?" Song Yingkui just finished speaking, and Song Tian asked a lot of questions.The matter of grandson opening a shop was mentioned too suddenly, and he was not mentally prepared at all.

"Opening a blacksmith shop does not need to sell goods. There is a ready-made yard by the river beside the mill, and no one lives there. The rent for a year should not be much, so the shop opened with five or six taels of silver. There is no bustling Wuying Street on the Yanchuan Gorge, but there are [-] or [-] mills nearby. The shop I opened is mainly for farm tools, and I can meet buyers. As for blacksmithing, I can do it now. At the beginning, my third uncle and I can switch. Get up, you can't do without a shop, and opening a shop that does iron and wood work is the beginning of standing up."

"Brother, what Kuiwa said is right. It's not expensive to open a shop in Xiakou. The two of us are craftsmen now, and opening a shop is just enough to take on jobs and practice hands. Now that the big things on the second brother's side have been settled, he is also working on the tofu business. Kuiwa and I also need to have a long-term livelihood. , plus the second brother who does business on the street, our family can really thrive."

The third uncle Song Xueliang, who was obedient beside him, saw that his father seemed reluctant to open a blacksmith shop, so he hurriedly spoke out to help.After Song Xueyong's marriage was settled, the pressure shifted to him.He has to hurry up and do something for himself now, so it's easier to talk about his daughter-in-law.Look at my second brother, who has only been doing business on the street for a few months, and the marriage came to him by himself.

"What his grandfather and Kuiwa are going to do is to be seen. Kuiwa is young now and does a good job, but the people in front of him still can't believe it. Open a shop and watch him do the work. In the future, there will be many people looking for him to do woodwork. As long as there are two more master craftsmen in the family, you can really be an old man. And the third and Kuiwa are also at the time of talking about daughter-in-laws. Opening a shop and meeting people is easy. Guang Guang, the father-in-law first fell in love with him! In the past, the children were all nested in the house and farming, and they couldn’t even meet a relative!” Grandma Jiang also quickly interrupted, helping to say good things.

In the end, even Song Xueqin and Song Yingkui's mother, Ji, who had never liked to talk about family affairs, expressed their support for their sons to open a shop in Xiakou.Mother Ji's words are very straightforward: My son is capable now, and even the business of making yuba is left to his second uncle. He will open a blacksmith shop to make a living, and he will marry a wife later.

Faced with overwhelming support from almost everyone except himself.Song Tianshun had no choice but to agree with his grandson to open a shop!The large sum of money that I just got in my hand, why is it going to be spent in a blink of an eye?

After convincing his grandfather to agree to open the shop, Song Yingkui called his third uncle early the next morning to visit the shop along the mouth of the Sichuan Gorge.When he went to Xiakou Mill before, he saw a small idle courtyard by the river over there.

The small yard that was left unoccupied was built by Jia’s family, who owned a mill, to live in. Later, he felt that it was too close to the river, and the tide was too high to live in, so he left it unused and built a new house on the Yanchuan Zhuangzi. The small courtyard is now used for people who come to grind noodles.

The Jia family was very happy when they saw that someone wanted to rent out their idle yard for carpentry and blacksmithing. After some discussion, they agreed to rent out the yard.The rent is not expensive, a little more than one tael a year.But there is a condition, you can't open mills and other businesses to steal their business.

Originally, there was no plan to open a mill, but Song Yingkui agreed to the conditions offered by the Jia family.The yard was designated on the same day.

After deciding on a place, in the next few days, he was busy going to the streets of Wuying Town to buy some things for blacksmithing, and then sold a set of carpentry tools. Song Yingkui opened the shop in a hurry.It is indeed easier to start a workshop for manual work, there are not many things to prepare, and there is no need for deliberate decoration.Simply put up the traditional Chinese cloth signboard of Songji Iron and Woodsmith Shop, and the business begins.

"Kuiwa? Can you make two cars like yours for my family?" On the first day the shop opened, a job came to the door.The person here is Yang Shun'an from Zhuangzi!In addition to the unwatered Sichuan land, his family also has dozens of acres of mountain land on the side of the ditch.He had long taken a fancy to the convenience of the Song family's shelf cart for pulling things on the mountain, and when he heard that Song Yingkui had opened a woodworking shop, he hurried over and asked if he could make two for his family.

"All right! If you use your own wood, the cost of one car is 450 to [-] renminbi, and you can pay [-] renminbi for two. If you don't have wood, you can buy wood for another price." Song Yingkui asked for a very cheap price when he opened the door for the first order.

"Where do I have wood at home? I'll pull it over for you tomorrow with an ox cart. Kui Wa, you need to be careful when you're doing the work. We're all in the same village." Yang Shunan has no objection to the wages. It costs two to three hundred renminbi to make an ox cart!
"Uncle Yang, don't worry, I will definitely do a good job for you. If there is any problem with the car made by me, I will guarantee it for free within one year." In business, word of mouth is very important, and Song Yingkui thinks it is necessary to promise a one-year warranty.It just happens to reflect the advantage of having a pavement, unlike a carpenter who comes to do work, and the job is done when it is done!
"That's good. I can trust your doll's craftsmanship. You can be a carpenter on the construction site of our mausoleum. Recently, I heard from your grandfather that Carpenter Qin invited you to the county to build a mill for Guo's family. There are not many carpenters in our village who go to the county to work. Your shop is very good. In the future, if there is any carpenter work at home, I will come to the shop to ask you to do it."

What Yang Shunan said was half polite and half sincere.He really trusted Song Yingkui's craftsmanship.In addition, it is indeed more convenient to hand over small casual jobs to the shop than to invite the carpenter to the house.At least you don't have to take care of the craftsman.If you invite someone to make an ox cart at home, you have to take care of several meals.

"Thank you, Uncle Yang, for taking care of the business. I estimate that the car will be ready in seven or eight days. You can come and pick it up." The work for two cars at a time will be less than that of two cars alone.The materials of the two cars can be changed at one time.This is just the beginning. After the conditions are met in the future to make hydraulic saws, the labor union will be more economical.Song Yingkui chose the location of the store at the mouth of the Yanchuan Gorge, and Song Yingkui's idea was that there was water power available in this place!

(End of this chapter)