Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 416 Buying Earthen Bricks

After leaving the village, riding on the road will be fast.Although Liu Ya has never been to Zhoujiayao, she has a good sense of direction, and she will not go wrong after asking the general direction.

The road to Zhoujiayao is also quite good, at least better than the mountain road in Yanshan, Pingshan Village.This may also be because the brick kiln needs to pull earth bricks out from time to time, and the road is not good, and the carriage cannot move fast, so it is a waste of effort.

It really didn't take much time to come to Zhoujiayao, and from a distance, you can see smoke from the clay kiln for firing bricks, and there are still unfired clay bricks in the open space outside.

Liu Ya jumped off the horse, tied the horse and walked in, a young man with bare upper body and only a cloth vest came out to meet her.When the man saw that it was a little girl who came on horseback, he quickly turned his head and said hello: "Yaping, come to meet the guests, it's a little girl."

After finishing speaking, he turned to Liu Ya and said, "I'm a rough person, and I'm too hot when I work, don't blame local girls for being rude. I'll ask my wife to come over and say hello."

Liu Ya felt that this man was quite polite, so she agreed and stood outside waiting without going inside.She reckoned that the clay kiln for burning bricks must be extremely hot, and the workers are all rough men, and they must not be well dressed. It's not good for her to just walk over like this.

After a while, a little daughter-in-law came out.Although the man who fired the bricks was tall and strong, his wife Yaping was petite and dainty.Not enough to wear a short dress, with a purple turban wrapped around his head, looking sharp and neat.

When Yaping saw Liu Ya, she also apologized first: "Little girl, don't be surprised. This is a place where men work. My house is also rough, but it's an unintentional abrupt girl. Let's go, I'll take you over there to talk."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a small shack on the north side of the brick kiln, and said, "I usually rest there, and the inside is quite clean. I just went there to prepare breakfast for a dozen or so people. Little girl Do you want to buy bricks? How much?”

Before Liu Ya opened her mouth, the little daughter-in-law Yaping had already talked so much, which showed that she was also quick and sharp on weekdays.But listening to her talk is not mean, she is very warm, and she is a material for business.

Liu Ya replied: "I'm here to buy earthen bricks. My family plans to build five houses, so you can figure out how many bricks will be used. Besides, all the masons will be here tomorrow, and they will start digging the foundations. In a few days, the house will be built with adobe bricks."

"Yeah, I need to use it these few days." Yaping looked a little embarrassed, and said, "You should have made a reservation a few days earlier. Didn't you see that our family has opened a kiln to burn bricks? It's for Dazhang Village. It was burned by a family. Their family came to make a reservation last month, and they said that they would come to pull the bricks when the date was set. You have to wait for bricks here. They only build one room, but The kiln was only opened today, and it will be the day after tomorrow when all the bricks used by their family are fired. Then, even if the workers are rushing to make adobes for your family, it will not delay the work, but the kiln temperature is not enough, and it will not be fired before the time. "

Liu Ya saw that Yaping was embarrassed and didn't seem like she was cheating to raise the price, so she said: "Then can you give some to our family first? If you continue to burn here, our family will use it first, don't let the workers Stop working."

Yaping thought for a while and said: "Their family needs two kilns of earthen bricks in total. It is agreed that they will be baked for them the day after tomorrow, and they will be taken away by car at noon. If I give you even..., tomorrow your family will take away one car and use it first." Let’s go, I’ll let the workers on the kiln burn another furnace overnight, and the next morning, it’s just right for it to work.”

After hearing this, Liu Ya thanked her again and again, and said, "Okay, it's better to use a car first, than to let the workers wait. Then, how much deposit will I pay first? Sister Yaping, you are so helpful, I will pay half of the deposit .”

Yaping was also very happy to hear that Liu Ya was so bright.Those who do business are most afraid of credit.What's more, her brick kiln has to hire people to work, and the daily expenses are quite a lot.All the hard-earned money is earned, and they are afraid that the customers will end up making trouble, wiping out the zeros, or simply withholding the final payment and not giving them any money. These people will suffer in vain.

Yaping hurriedly said: "Little girl, you are really refreshing. Don't worry, the bricks fired by our Zhou family kiln are not cracked or empty, and they are well-shaped, with edges and corners. They are especially easy to work with. I will pay for it now." Let me do the math for you, five rooms also use a lot of bricks, I will give you the most realistic price."

Liu Ya laughed as soon as she heard it, and joked: "It's really interesting to hear what Sister Yaping said, can the bricks fired by other people's houses be round instead of angular?"

Yaping also smiled and said: "That's not true. But the bricks are fired well, the size is the same, and there can be no deviation in size. The adobe bricks from my house were taken back, and a brick wall as high as a person was erected. No need to stick mud. It's crooked. Do you think it's okay?"

While talking, he also walked to the small shack.The shack has no door, just a curtain to block it.Yaping raised the curtain and fixed it with a brass hook by the door, letting Liu Ya come in and sit down.

Liu Ya didn't dislike it either, she followed in and saw that it was really clean, there was no floating dirt on the ground.However, the shack is too small to accommodate a bed, but there is a reclining chair inside, a small table in the middle and four small benches around the table.There are abacus, account books and other things on the floor table. It seems that Yaping usually does business, and her small shack is also a place for business talks.

Yaping sat on a small bench, pointed to the opposite bench and asked Liu Ya to do it, and then picked up the abacus and "cracked" it.Yaping was quick to settle accounts. First, she calculated how many clay bricks Liu Ya's family would need to build five rooms, and then calculated how many furnaces their brick kiln had to burn.

After thinking for a while, Yaping took the time to explain to Liu Ya: "If the last furnace is full, the price will be cheaper. If the brick you want is only half of the furnace, we have to burn it for you. One brick is not enough to build a house. However, it is not good to store the extra bricks in the wind and rain, and we don’t want to sell them to others. We don’t keep them. But the customers who buy the bricks have to bear some The fire of the furnace, so the price of the last furnace is generally expensive. Unless the bricks you want are exactly one furnace, or you see who builds cowsheds and stables, and jointly buy a whole furnace, then you will be much cheaper , we also save trouble."

Liu Ya said: "It's okay, you can count according to the whole furnace, I want as much as I want, and I plan to build a separate large room for the dining hall. If there are more bricks left, build it bigger. There are too few left, and I plan to buy more.”

"Ah, that's great. We've got a big deal, and you don't spend too much money, and you don't waste materials. Okay, I'll do the math for you." After Yaping finished speaking, she set up her abacus again.This time the calculation was very fast, and the price of the adobe bricks was directly calculated.

(End of this chapter)