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Chapter 63 A free opportunity delivered to your door (asking for monthly tickets)

Xu Ye's words stumped Fan Dajun.

Fan Dajun really wanted to say that the brigade was responsible, but he didn't dare to say it out loud.

Can he take responsibility for a human life?
If you are the only labor force in the family, it is not just one life, it is the life of the entire family.

"I told you this problem cannot be avoided, so let's just forget it." Yang Zongming sighed.

No one dares to take this responsibility, after all, this is not going to the battlefield.

What's more, there are pensions for those who die on the battlefield.

"Oh, how can we get money to buy explosives like this?" Fan Dajun exhaled a puff of smoke, his face full of worry.

"Why don't we just do blacksmithing? Xu Ye is a blacksmith, right? Let's set up a blacksmithing team. We can earn something at least." Yang Zongming felt that blacksmithing was more reliable.

It's not a bad idea to have the brigade's collective ironware shop. As long as they don't go to the town or the county and sell it in the villages, there won't be any problem.

"Captain Fan, Accountant Yang, are you really here?" Zhang Fu asked in surprise.

When everyone mentioned the hunting team after work today, it was rejected by Fan Dajun and Yang Zongming.

Hunting can be fatal, and no one wants to take the risk themselves, only to make others take the risk.

They would rather do farm work without risks than face death at any time.

Zhang Fu felt that the two of them came to see Xu Ye not because of the hunting team, but it was probably related to saving firewood.

Seeing that the two did not respond, Zhang Fu asked again: "Are you also here to learn how to build a wood-saving stove?"

"What do you mean by firewood-saving stove?" Yang Zongming suddenly became excited and asked.

Zhang Fu's heart skipped a beat, realizing he had said the wrong thing.

The 'master' hasn't even opened his mouth yet, but his 'apprentice' has already spoken, which is very inappropriate.

So, he looked at Xu Ye with apology.

"It is a stove that can save firewood. Compared with the old-style firewood stove, the firewood-saving stove optimizes the relative distance between the stove chamber, the pot wall and the stove chamber."

"With the design of the hanging fire height, flue and ventilation, the thermal efficiency can be above 20%, which can save firewood and time for cooking."

"In theory, we can save 30 to 40 percent of firewood," Xu Ye explained.

"You, really know how to build?" Fan Dajun asked excitedly.

If there really is such a stove that saves firewood, every household would definitely think about building one.

"Isn't that nonsense? My son-in-law won't let Zhang Fulai and I learn anything?" Jiang Youshou retorted directly.

He finally understood why the team leader of Team 1 asked him to get something when calculating work points today. It turned out that he was deliberately trying to get him out of the way.

He was not very satisfied with Fan Dajun in the first place, thinking that he was too hypocritical and pretended to be fair and honest all the time.

When he saw that Fan Dajun was plotting against his son-in-law, he immediately became furious.

But he was still restrained and didn't curse directly.

Fan Dajun suddenly held his breath and then coughed violently twice.

"Cough cough."

"Now that you have learned it, can't you start a sideline business and build fuel-saving stoves everywhere to earn money for the brigade?"

Yang Zongming patted Fan Dajun's arm excitedly, and then said, "What's the point of setting up a hunting team? You can still make money by setting up a stove-building team. With the money you make, you can buy explosives and dig mountains!"

Fan Dajun nodded vigorously. He wanted to set up a hunting team just to make money.

If there are better and safer ways, there is naturally no need for hunting teams.

"Xu Ye, can you recruit a few more?" Fan Dajun looked at Xu Ye eagerly.

Whether the entire brigade can live a good life depends on Xu Ye. "Okay, but I have only one request, my dad will be the captain and Uncle Fu will be the deputy captain." Xu Ye directly put forward his request.

"Yes, absolutely. You can decide the candidates. The team will never interfere." Fan Dajun said, patting his chest.

"The brigade can buy some bricks and cement for you to practice on. You can start by building firewood-saving stoves in the homes of the stove-building team members." Yang Zongming said generously.

It would be most appropriate for him to bring up this matter.

After all, no one else in his family would join the stove-building team, so no one would criticize him for doing so.

At the same time, it can also stimulate the enthusiasm of the stove-building team.

"We should call them the Sanxi Village Construction Team. I can not only build stoves, but also houses. I can teach you everything."

"But this is just practice..." As he said that, Xu Ye couldn't help but look at Fan Dajun.

This is a free opportunity that comes right to your doorstep!

Yang Zongming's suggestion just now reminded him that he could take this opportunity to renovate the Li family's and his father-in-law's houses.

Yang Zongming also started coughing violently, choking on the smoke.

"Ahem, this matter is not urgent, not urgent."

"You have to take one step at a time. You can't get fat in one breath."

He didn't expect that Xu Ye would really take advantage of the situation and directly ask to repair the house.

"That's right, that's right. This educated youth has his household registration in our village, but he still doesn't have a homestead. This is an oversight on our part, and we should reflect on it."

"Is that so, Old Yang?" Fan Dajun quickly looked at Yang Zongming.

"Yes, yes, yes. We need to reflect on this and find a piece of land for Xu Ye to build a house."

"Otherwise, people from other brigades will suspect that we are abusing the educated youth and not complying with the policy." Yang Zongming followed Fan Dajun's words.

Xu Ye looked at the two people and figured out some hidden meaning.

Is it still not appropriate for me to live in Li’s house alone?
Xu Ye rolled his eyes and said, "The land in the village is already owned by someone else, so it's not easy for the brigade to apply for it."

"I think the mountain behind the Li family's house is pretty good. It's all loess. We need a lot of loess to build brick walls, so it won't be a problem to dig out a residential plot." Xu Ye suggested.

"I think it's okay!" Yang Zongming said with a smile.

"That's settled then. I'll write an application and submit it to the commune. Once the bricklaying team starts taking work, it should be approved." Fan Dajun said with a smile.

These two old foxes!
Xu Ye complained, and then said: "Thank you both leaders for your concern. We will get back to work first."

Everything has to wait until the firewood-saving stove is built before these things can be implemented, otherwise it will be just verbal promises that cannot be cashed.

After all, there was no way to record the evidence at that time. They wiped their faces and said it didn't happen, and Xu Ye had no choice.

As long as Fan Dajun says that the application is not approved, what can Xu Ye do?

"Let's go and see this firewood-saving stove." As he said that, Fan Dajun followed into the Li family's yard.

There were two bags of lime and a small bucket of cement in the yard.

"Originally, cement should have been used, but our conditions were limited, so we could use white lime mixed with yellow mud to replace cement."

"If there is really nothing, you can also directly mix wood ash with yellow mud or river sand, but the effect will be much worse."

After all, it is a rural area, and cement is not easy to buy, but lime is relatively easier.

Since we are going to teach, we have to start from the most basic.

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(End of this chapter)