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

Chapter 34

Below the mouth of the Yanchuan gorge is a pile of rocky mountains, and after leaving the pile of rocky mountains is Dayingchuan.There is a large amount of limestone in this pile of rocks between Yanchuan and Daying Chuan. At the mouth of the gorge, there is a small kiln that burns lime all the year round, known as Shajia Kiln.Farmers in the nearby ten miles and eight townships buy lime and they all come here to pull it.

Song Ji blacksmith's shop is very close to Shajia Kiln, and it is very convenient to get lime from their house. After serious consideration, Song Yingkui planned to set up the place where the egg was produced in the shop instead of at home.It is very convenient to use sawdust and lime to make eggs in the shop, and it is also convenient to collect eggs. Those who come to grind the noodles can bring the eggs to sell.In terms of manpower, when I and my third uncle don't have carpentry and blacksmith work, they take their hands to do it.

"Mother, let me bring my third brother and younger sister to the shop to help. They can also do some small work when we're doing egg-changing, so we won't be too busy." Song Yingkui was afraid that he and the third uncle would be too busy to make egg-changing, so he turned his ideas on the two little guys.

The third brother and the younger sister are over ten years old and the other is almost seven years old. The work of changing eggs is not very tiring, and they can still help.If you use child labor, use child labor. In this era, it is common for seven or eight-year-old children to help the family with small jobs.

"You take the third child there, and Miss Ga will stay at home. A girl, who will marry in the future, how can we let all of our family's crafts learn?" Ji objected to taking the younger sister to work in the shop, not because she was afraid of tiring her, but because she was afraid that she would learn her skills and bring her to her in-law's house in the future, which was quite speechless.

"Let my younger sister follow me to the shop. Our family will earn a lot of money in the future. It's no big deal to learn how to make eggs and bring them to your husband's house. With this skill, you may be able to find a good husband." In Song Yingkui's opinion, making eggs is really not a craft that needs to be kept secret. Besides, this is his own sister, so why not participate!

"If you want to take it with you, just take it with you. It's okay to go and help you cook and boil water. There will be fewer couples in the family to eat, so I will take it easy." Seeing that her son insisted on insisting, Ji did not object. Having said that, a woman who brings a craft from her natal family will indeed have more status and will not be easily bullied when she comes to her in-law's house.

Bringing the third brother and younger sister to the shop, the popularity of the blacksmith shop suddenly became more active.

"Ying Quan, watch carefully when you take your sister with you. Don't go to the blacksmith's stove. And remember, you must never touch the burnt iron, even if it doesn't look red. If you burn your hands, I can't explain it!" As soon as he arrived at the blacksmith shop, Song Yingkui emphasized his safety awareness.And the last words that the blacksmith taught his apprentices were said to his younger brothers and sisters on the first day.

Doing carpentry and blacksmithing, trial production of eggs, the blacksmith shop was busy in the next few days.It took ten days, and when the first batch of trial-produced eggs was cracked open for inspection, it was found to be successful!Now that the trial production was successful, Song Yingkui took the Biandan back home that afternoon, let the family taste the taste first, and asked the second uncle to bring some to the street for a try.

"The taste of this biscuit is exactly the same as the one I ate at your second uncle's house. Our Wuying town makes biscuit, and our family is the first one. When you buy it on the street, you second child, you will sell it to other households. Whoever has eaten it will know what it is." Song Tianshun tasted the cold preserved egg made by his grandson, and he was full of praise.He felt that he had also lived the life of a city person, although he could no longer remember what the preserved eggs tasted like at his brother-in-law's house in Wazhou City.

"Second University, let's set the price of Biandan at five Wen a catty. When we harvest the eggs in our village, it costs about three Wen per catty. When we weigh them, the outer shell can also account for the most of the weight. This business can be opened up, and the money earned is not less than that of the yuba business." Song Yingkui is now thinking about the business of Biandan, when will it be able to open up the market.Logically speaking, Biandan should be easier to open up the market than yuba. After all, the gamers have tried it before, but they don’t know if there is any advantage in pricing.As long as there is an advantage in pricing, there is no problem in opening up sales.

Another one is that the second uncle has been setting up a stall on the street now, and the yuba business can attract traffic, unlike when he first started, he had no customer base at all.

"Kui Wa, the preserved egg you mix tastes good, and it can catch up with the chef's craftsmanship. When we have a distinguished guest at home, we can serve it well." Grandma rarely has a good appetite for home-cooked rice, and while eating the egg that Song Yingkui picked up in her bowl, she commented on the taste.

Seeing his family happily eating eggs, Song Yingkui felt a burst of satisfaction in his heart.Through their own efforts, this poor family can be regarded as living a life with a little bit of quality.

Zheng Xiang was sleeping in the kiln at night, but suddenly the kiln was pushed away by her father, who woke up Song Yingkui who was sleeping. "Kui Wa, get up quickly, Zhuangzi is going up against the bandits!"

"Bandits in? Did you know?" Song Yingkui, who was sleepy, hadn't figured out the situation yet.

"You can't hear it in the kiln. The village is full of bandits shouting. Come outside quickly."

Putting on some clothes and running outside the kiln, Song Yingkui did hear a mess of shouts.There were shouts from Master Zhuangzi, and even more strange cries from bandits.

The small group of bandits in this place will not enter the village quietly, and they will scream strangely as soon as they enter the village.Through this kind of cry, first of all, people in the village should be frightened and feared.At the same time, the people in the village could not tell where the bandits were and how many bandits had entered the village. Anyway, what they heard was that there were bandits everywhere in the village.

"Kui Wa, what should we do now? Should we run up the mountain, or hide in the house?" Song Tianshun was wearing a torn sheepskin coat, and asked his grandson what to do next with his mind full of doubts!He was terrified of the bandits entering the village, so he couldn't make up his mind.

"Everyone in the family went to the kiln. My father, my second father, and I each took a guy to guard in the yard. Fortunately, I brought a big axe for chopping wood into the house when I came home today! The two youngest members of the family and the third father are in the shop, otherwise it would be difficult to squeeze into the kiln. Now this black light is running outside, and maybe the bandit will run into him, so he can only guard in the house." intention.When they shouted, no one could figure out the exact location of the bandits, and it was really difficult to run outside the house.If one is not good, the road will be blocked by bandits.

Fortunately, I just bought a long-handled wood ax for the family that is convenient for chopping large logs, thinking that it is convenient for the grandfather and father to chop and build the house during this time.Otherwise, there is not even a defensive weapon at home.It was too careless, and I forgot to make a few weapons for self-defense!
(End of this chapter)