Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 104 Welding Business
Speaking of this uncle, he is a legend in the village.

I fought and gambled in high school and was almost expelled. At that time, the old man had just gotten married and the family had few food coupons, so they decided to take him and me to Tongjiang Avenue to "earn" extra money.

Later, my father-in-law found out and I almost scolded him to death.

The most amazing thing is that my uncle actually got into an undergraduate university, which was so shocking that my eyes dropped.

After graduation, I went to a sales agency in Hong Kong, which is the company that sells mobile phones in later generations. It specializes in selling switches and should be rich now.

According to his later memories, he quit the company two years later, sold his original shares, and then focused on stock trading at home.

It is said that a genius can succeed in anything. With a starting capital of 10 million, he traded at home for 20 years and his net worth reached nearly ten figures.

Then, in a futures transaction in 2023, he was forced to short sell and lost all his life savings. He only recovered with the help of his aunt's family.

To be honest, when he quit the company, his entire family, including relatives, were against it.

Later on, he was so proud of it that his thighs were swollen. With the original shares of a certain person, his status as a small shareholder was enough to make him a guest of honor in this small place, especially since he was a veteran who joined the company half a year after it was founded.

When he first set up the factory, he was thinking that if his uncle still worked at the mobile phone company, he wouldn't have to run around to get orders. He could just make a phone call and the upstream manufacturers would come to him to place orders.

When my uncle comes back this year, I will try to persuade him no matter what. It's such a pity.

The autumn wind was blowing, the sky was getting brighter, and Qin Dahe came out of the house after feeding the fish.

"It's cold." He rubbed his hands, picked up the cold car keys and started driving the tricycle.

It was cold in the car too, so getting up in the morning and eating a bowl of hot porridge was useless.

I drove all the way to the entrance of Liming Supermarket and saw someone selling osmanthus cake, so I bought one and put it on my hand to warm it up.

At this moment, there were two cars parked on the road. The driver of the other car had a very impressive name, Li Shimin.

The key is that he can control this name, and his life will be smooth sailing. He is even holding the osmanthus cake to cover his hands.

"Grandpa, it's cold, the car is not running well."

"It's so painful. Your car is better. Please seal it for me one day." He took the initiative to give Qin Dahe a cigarette.

"It's cold, and we need a lot of sheet metal." Qin Dahe didn't want to take the job. Wouldn't that be stealing the job from the owner of Limin Supermarket? "Just ask Mr. Huang to do the welding."

"His handle is not as good as yours."

As he was speaking, he saw the owner of Limin Supermarket coming over with a gloomy face.

"Li Shimin, you son of a bitch, you're saying bad things about me again."

"How could that be? I just mentioned it when I saw the river coming." Li Shimin said embarrassedly.

"Grandpa, I'm going out on the street." Qin Dahe handed over his Sheng Tang cigarettes. Smoking high-end cigarettes makes you look more handsome.

"Well, take Xiaoxue to the town." Since Qin Dahe didn't like the girl, he introduced another one and the two families had lunch together at noon.

"If you want to help someone fix the front end of a car, go ahead and do it. Don't worry about me." He lit a cigarette and took a puff with his eyes squinting. "I'm too lazy to do those jobs like soldering iron sheets. I just like to tinker with these."

His supermarket is profitable, so why would he care about car repair, which is just a hobby?

"It's not easy to charge. I fiddle with it for half a day and only charge a dozen or twenty yuan." How much can you charge in the countryside?

"Just charge a little more for the materials."

The person is right next to us, is it really okay to say this?
"Dahe, if you can help me weld the front of the car to the same size as yours, I can pay you fifty dollars." Li Shimin said.

It's just a little colder now. Winter is life-threatening. The big tricycles that have not been sealed rarely run in winter because it is too cold.

"It's not enough. I need at least 80 kilograms of iron sheets and some welding rods. The material cost is yuan. If you really want it, it will cost at least yuan." Since the grandfather had asked, he didn't hesitate and asked for a huge amount.

No one is doing this now, and the tricycle manufacturers are too rigid and insist on making a front end with air leaks on three sides.

"Okay, I'll drive the car over after your family is done." He also knew that Qin Dahe's family was busy recently and probably didn't have time to help him weld.

It’s just eighty yuan, just think of it as winter cold medicine.

At this time, a beautiful figure appeared. Her waist was really thin and her skin was fair and tender, but the reason was too small.

She glanced at Qin Dahe, her eyes narrowed, and she pulled the owner of Liming Supermarket into Li Shimin's car.

"Dahe, I'm leaving now. Don't forget to weld the car door."

"I know." Qin Dahe waved his hand. Five people were in the other car, which was enough. There were people at every intersection in the morning.

He also noticed Xiaoxue's dissatisfaction just now, but it was none of his business. He couldn't marry a woman who didn't even know she was sleeping with her back to him.

The little girl felt very upset when she heard that he looked down on her. He was just a college student. What else was there that made him so special except for his academic qualifications?

How could she know the hobbies of middle-aged men? At this age, who still cares about looks?

After a while, people started to come here. Qin Dahe kept calling out "Grandpa" and "Auntie", and finally there were five people.

There was another car parked behind him waiting in line to pick up passengers. He was also ready to leave, but when he saw the silly kid carrying a big red bucket, he waited for a while.

"Baby, did you catch any fish?"

"Yeah." The silly kid grinned and handed the bucket to him to have a look.

There are a lot of big crucian carps in it, and a bream weighing over one kilogram. I don’t know where it was found.

I saw the silly kid took out another rabbit from behind him, which I hadn't seen just now.

"Fuck, that's awesome! Erhu and Tiedan froze for a whole day but still couldn't catch a big crucian carp." In this weather, the crucian carps are bigger, but their bites are light, so it's hard to kill them.

"Ground cage."

Qin Dahe nodded and pointed at the crucian carp and rabbit and stroked them.

"Send them all to my house. I need vegetables right now as I'm building a new house."

The customers behind him started to urge him to pay, and he couldn't continue to delay.

"Okay." Seeing that he was busy, the silly kid picked up his things and went to his house.

"Let's go now. It's just a few words."

He started the engine, lit a cigarette and took a deep puff, then set off with the cigarette in his mouth.

As the weather gets colder, more people go out on the streets.

It's sunny and cold, which is a good time to pickle salted fish and meat so that they can be eaten in winter.

After sending the people to town, he immediately started buying groceries.

I don't have time to make two trips today, so when I get back I'll give the car to my dad to haul cement and steel bars.

I came across a beautiful batch of flower oil and thought of the fragrant oil residue, so I bought it again.

We grow rapeseed at home, so we have plenty of rapeseed oil, but we eat less lard. The freshly fried lard is also very delicious.

I also bought a bottle of pepper and salt. I will fry some small white strips to eat when I have time. As long as I can coax my mother into doing it, she will help him clean it up.

After buying groceries, he came to his elder sister's place. Last time, his brother-in-law went out to collect his motorcycle, and he was thinking about him. "Sister, brother-in-law." Seeing the two of them looking sleepy, he knew that they must have done something last night.

Farmers get up early because their fertilizer stores have to open at dawn. If they sleep late, they will look like this in the morning.

"Abao, come in. I'll buy you some soy milk. It's so cold so early in the morning." The elder sister greeted him and went next door to buy breakfast.

Her family doesn't cook in the morning, they just buy ready-made food.

Qin Dahe was not polite either. He took out a cigarette and walked closer to Brother Yong.

"Brother-in-law, didn't you go to collect the car last time? How was it?"

"I bought a wrecked car. The engine and everything inside is intact, but it would be difficult to completely repair it because both wheels are rotten. I have to go to another dealer in a few days to get two more." My brother-in-law was very satisfied when he thought about the car he bought back.

Brand new motorcycles are expensive, but I bought this tattered one for just 700 bucks.

"Okay, wait until that one is put away, and then we can modify it together." Qin Dahe was overjoyed when he heard that.

It is so convenient to have a tricycle in the spring. I don’t have to ask my dad to take me there when I go fishing in the morning. It’s so troublesome.

As long as the car can run, he can fix it no matter what is wrong with it, unless the engine is broken.

"Abao, take your brother-in-law back with you later. He can't hide from doing housework." At this time, the elder sister came over with soy milk.

Qin Dahe looked at his brother-in-law. Logically speaking, if his father-in-law was building a house, the son-in-law must go to work.

"Go away, I'm just bored staying here." Thinking of what happened last night, he wanted to fly to his father-in-law's house.

Now his wife and children take turns draining his energy. If this continues, he is afraid of sudden death.

You can work there and exercise at the same time.

"Then I'll go greet the guests."

There were already quite a few people on the bus. He went up and asked where to get off, then collected the money and waited by the side.

When carrying passengers on a tricycle like this, the driver must have a good memory, as there are seven or eight get-off points along the way.

His family is very busy today. His mother started cooking porridge early in the morning, and the workers started working at seven o'clock. They will have breakfast at nine o'clock and then work until twelve o'clock before taking a break.

During this period, the construction team for building tile houses in rural areas consisted of relatives and friends, and two master craftsmen would be enough to complete the job.

Unless you are building a building, you still have to hire some teams to come over, otherwise accidents are likely to happen.

Although Qin Dahe's house is a tiled house, it is quite tall. Qin's father called three master craftsmen to work on it, and other relatives and friends just helped out.

This time, the tile house needs to be built quickly. Both father and son can earn money, so it might as well spend a little more money to save time.

When he came back, the master craftsmen had repaired the foundation and were nailing the formwork. Qin's father saw him driving out in a hurry to get steel bars and cement.

The formwork was completed in the morning, and the cement and steel bars were brought in in the afternoon. We took advantage of the sunny weather these days to quickly complete it so that the cement could dry faster.

Qin Dahe started helping with the work as soon as he got home. It would be better if his second uncle and Hanwaer came to help in the afternoon, but now he had to do it himself.

"First light the fire and stew the meat, and bring more cotton stalks."

I have to cook a pot of meat soup for everyone today, which consumes a lot of firewood, but now we are growing cotton, so every household has no shortage of firewood.

My brother-in-law went to the back to help the masters get things, and he couldn't do other work.

"Mom, are we going to kill all the crucian carp today?"

"Just kill five and save the rest for tomorrow." The old woman took the cotton stalks and piled them next to the stove.

"We'll take care of that rabbit tonight. Your second uncle and his family need it for drinking. Don't let the hell use it." She stared at her son with a bad look.

This bastard son always does bad things, even a rabbit can clean up its mess.

"I know. There was no paper last time." Qin Dahe curled his lips. What was he looking up in the almanac?

Then he went to the small fish pond to catch the crucian carp in the fish basket and killed the fish directly in the backyard.

His house is located just behind his old home, and the two yards are going to be connected together to enclose a large side of the small pond.

At ten o'clock, the old man finally pulled the things back, and Qin Dahe began to help unload the goods.

The steel bars and cement were very heavy, and the father and son were sweating while working.

"Dad, are we going to harvest corn later?"

"I'm afraid the feed mill won't want the goods, so I'll just give up. I finally got in touch with them."

Qin's father had high hopes for these factories. He used wooden boats and tricycles to collect corn and resell it. If things went well, he could earn hundreds of yuan a day.

Afterwards, the old man had a quick meal and went out to pull corn, leaving it to his son to deal with at noon.

Here we have to tie the steel bars before lunch. It takes several people to tie the steel bars for one tile-roofed house. It works very fast and we have to wait until noon for lunch.

There are few people in the morning, so we can only do this. When friends and relatives come in the afternoon, we can finish the work faster.

Qin Dahe took the time to go to the back and take a look. Several masters were working very hard. Today's workers care a lot about reputation.

Today is the first meal, so I have to prepare something better. I stewed a pot of mixed fish and crucian carp, and also made a braised duck and a dish of braised pork with lettuce.

In the evening, friends and family will come over to eat together, so it can’t be bad.

The workers were busy until half past twelve before they finally tied the steel bars. Qin Dahe hurried to greet them.

As usual, they distributed cigarettes, but they were Sheng Tang cigarettes, one pack per person.

A pack of cigarettes and a meal every day is considered normal treatment here, and the workers will do their job well.

"Thank you for your hard work, three masters. A few people will come to help in the afternoon." Qin Dahe said with a smile.

"No rush. We'll pour the cement in the afternoon. After it dries, we'll have to drive the piles. We don't need too many people these few days." The leading master craftsman took out the drawings in his hand.

"We have to wait for the wall of this house to be built. Three or four people will be enough."

"Let's take a look first. There will definitely be people there in the afternoon."

There are definitely enough people. Together with relatives, friends and Erhu, it's enough to build a building.

"This drawing is good. Where did the young master find it?" At this time, the masters were not in a hurry to eat. They took a break and smoked their cigarettes before eating.

"I drew this myself because I thought a tiled house would be too monotonous, and adding an attic would be nice."

"This blueprint is very detailed, but we need to hire a better carpenter, otherwise the loft won't look good when it's built."

The master chef was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the owner could draw the blueprint himself. He had to be more careful when doing things.

If you can draw this picture, you know a little about building houses.

Qin Dahe smiled proudly. The best carpenter nearby was his father-in-law, and he would definitely come over to work for him.

As for the wages, any amount is fine. It’s just one girl after all, and she will be yours in the future, hey!
Qin Dahe accompanied a few masters to finish smoking, and then invited them in for dinner.

(End of this chapter)