Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 21

The elder sister Chen Ping's words startled Chen Yang.

"Smelly girl, don't talk nonsense."

The eldest sister smiled slightly, "When you were working, the other two female classmates were not very good. Just her eyes, they have never left you."

"So what. I'm from the city. Even if I can't pass the college entrance examination, I will have a job soon. What do I have? I have a big family. Follow me to drink the northwest wind."

The eldest sister fell silent.

Chen Yang had already figured it out at this moment, let's mix up the present day first.

5000 jins of coal cinders, 1000-[-] jins of coal ash, and [-] jins of coal rocks are enough for the whole family to work.

Working at home and working for yourself also has an advantage, that is, the whole family is mobilized.

Chen Yang, grandfather, eldest sister and second brother, all of them are indispensable.

The second younger sister, younger brother and younger sister go to school during the day and come to help at night.

Grandma is a woman with small feet, she can't walk long distances, and she doesn't work in the fields, but she can still help with the work of cleaning coal cinders.

Only the mother, paralyzed in bed, unable to do anything.

The whole cinder is a laborious job, and it is divided into several processes.

First, the cinder should be crushed with a stone mill. The more crushed the better, it is best to grind it into powder.

This job is the most tiring, and Chen Yang does it by himself.

After the cinder is crushed, it needs to be screened with a sieve, and the cinder powder that is sieved is considered a finished product.

The slag left over from the sieve should be hammered with a wooden hammer, and then sieved with a sieve until there is no slag left.

Cinder powder does not have enough firepower to burn, so it needs to be mixed with coal ash. One hundred catties of coal cinder powder should be mixed with at least five catties of coal ash.

This is also a laborious job, and you need to use a shovel to mix it. The more even the mixing, the better the appearance of the cinder.

The last process is to mix the cinder powder with water before selling it.

This is a technical activity.

Clean cinder powder will fly away when the wind blows, so it is not suitable for transportation.

And cinder powder with too little moisture cannot withstand burning, and other buyers will think you are a layman.

However, too much water should not be mixed. One hundred catties of cinder powder can be mixed with five to seven catties of water.

The water mixing cannot be done immediately, only after the buyer places an order and before sending it to others.

The whole family worked for five or six days before finishing the cinder powder.

Next, Grandpa and the others began to smash coal stones.

As for Chen Yang himself, he had to find a way to sell the cinder powder, otherwise, all the previous efforts would be useless.

Collecting coal cinders and selling coal cinder powder are two jobs, and both need to put down face.

Gaotian Village is just across the river. There are six clam kilns there, and Chen Yang, the person in charge, knows all of them.

Doing business with acquaintances made Chen Yang feel even more embarrassed.

After hesitating for a long time, Chen Yang still didn't make up his mind.

Or grandpa understands grandson.

After lunch, grandpa took out a cloth bag and filled it with about ten catties of cinder powder.

"Yang, tell me a price, I'll go to Gaotian Village."

Chen Yang smiled embarrassedly.

"Grandpa, I'll go with you."

Grandpa smiled and asked, "Why, aren't you afraid of losing face?"

"Where did we get face?"

"Okay, let's go together, next time you will go by yourself."

Chen Yang carried a cloth bag filled with cinder powder, and followed his grandfather towards the ferry.

Chenjia Village is located on an island surrounded by water. There is a road but no bridge to Gaotian Village, and the ferry travels there.

In fact, apart from his own face problem, Chen Yang is also taking advantage of his grandfather's face.

In ten miles and eight townships, grandpa can be regarded as a highly respected old man.

Take the ferry to the shore, and walk more than 100 meters to Gaotian Village.

Gaotian Village, Gaotian Village, is not because of Tian Gao, but because the people in this village are either Gao or Tian.

Grandpa suddenly slowed down.

"Grandpa, what's wrong?"

"Yang, do you know what to pay attention to when doing business with Gaotian people?"

(End of this chapter)