Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

When Liu Maoquan got home, he smashed the teacup. Wang Cuilan could tell what he was thinking just by looking at his expression. After decades of marriage, didn't she know him well enough?

"I'm so angry! Is Da Wang's family trying to completely cut ties with us now?"

Look, all those families get a share, but our family doesn't. Do you think our family can't come up with five taels of silver?

And then there's Liu Jinsheng. Look at how smug he is standing in front of everyone; it makes me so angry.

When the son and daughter-in-law saw Liu Maoquan so angry, they were too scared to go inside. They quickly went back to their room and quietly watched and listened. If their father dared to go crazy and hit people, they would go out and arrest him. They absolutely could not let their father hurt their mother.

"Liu Maoquan, I think you're quite ill. Shouldn't you see a doctor? This happened 800 years ago, why can't you get over this?"

"Why? Why? I used to treat them so well, why are they so stingy and always so calculating?"

"Such a great opportunity to make money, why shouldn't we get a share?"

"Why aren't we getting a share? Didn't they say that 5% of the income would be distributed to the villagers? We should get a share too!"

"I'm not talking about the profit sharing; I'm talking about the five taels of silver invested. How much of the village's silver will be distributed? The profit sharing from that investment will make up the majority."

"Honey, don't say those things again, lest outsiders overhear and tell the village chief, and then the village chief will hold a grudge against us, which will do no good for our family."

Even if you don't think about yourself, you should at least think about the children.

What you need to do now is to calm down and let time erase these unpleasant feelings. Perhaps the relationship between our two families can be repaired.

If you don't listen to my advice, this is the end for our family.

Liu Maoquan plopped down in a chair, and Wang Cuilan poured him a glass of water. "Drink some water, calm down. You're getting on in years, why can't you understand?"

Wang Cuilan sighed as she went out. She really couldn't do anything about this person.

When the village chief returned home, Pan Dongmei had already poured him some water. "Honey, you must be so thirsty after drinking so much water. The water has been warm for a while now, just the right temperature to drink."

Liu Jinsheng drank two bowls of wine before he felt better. "Hurry up and make lunch. After lunch, I need to go to Dawang's house to discuss some specific details with Siyue."

"The food is being prepared and will be ready soon."

"Honey, just like you said today, if this charcoal factory opens, and we make money from selling the coal, won't we be able to build a big brick house with tiled roofs?"

"Of course! Let me tell you, they've already found a market for our charcoal in April. As long as we can produce good charcoal, we won't have to worry about selling it or making money."

"That's wonderful! When we have money, we'll tear down this house and rebuild it, then send our grandson to school."

"Yes, you're right. Our house is really too dilapidated and needs to be repaired. We'll repair it when we have the money. We can't delay the children's schooling either. Making money is the priority right now."

"If you can't make money, it's all just empty talk."

After lunch, the village chief and the clan chief went to Da Wang's house together.

Liu Dawang and his family had just finished lunch and were chatting and resting in the main room.

"Grandpa Clan Chief, Uncle Village Chief, you've arrived! Please have a seat."

When the other children saw that their family had come, they knew they had something to discuss, so they quickly went out.

"April, your uncle came to discuss the construction work starting tomorrow. Where should we build the wall at the village entrance? Why don't we go take a look and decide on a location? I'm afraid I won't be as thorough as you in my considerations, and I might mess things up again."

"Then let's go take a look in a bit and decide on the location."

The location of the charcoal kiln is the place we looked at before. First, we need to level the area. Some people will dig the kiln first, while others will go into the mountains to cut wood. We need to select the same types of hardwood that we agreed on beforehand. We must not be careless in choosing the wood.

This is the charcoal-making process, precautions, and firing method that I wrote. If you follow this process, you'll be pretty much on the right track.

First, dig a small charcoal kiln and test it twice. If there are any problems, we can make adjustments. Once the large charcoal kiln is dug and they have more experience, it will be easier to fire and the charcoal yield will be better.

The person who fires the kiln is extremely important; Uncle must choose someone reliable and responsible.

"I will follow your arrangements and find a reliable person."

Liu Jinsheng took the paper. It felt hot to the touch and incredibly heavy. He carefully tucked it into his pocket. This was something he couldn't lose; it represented the hope of the entire village.

Seeing that they had finished discussing their business and were about to leave, Liu Dawang quickly asked, "Village chief, you assigned tasks to everyone else, but not me. What am I supposed to do?"

"Oh dear, I forgot to mention this in the meeting today. Since you have a lot of things to do at home, I've assigned you an easy job. Don't the people building the earthen walls need to receive food every day? You'll be in charge of distributing the food to them."

"Isn't this job a bit too easy?"

"It's not easy either; all of this needs to be kept in the books."

"By the way, didn't you say that the people at the charcoal factory are paid? How is that paid?"

"The people who cut down and transported the wood were paid 30 coins per day. They did heavy physical labor. The wood sawers were paid 25 coins per day, and the kiln workers were paid 50 coins per day."

Each job had a designated person in charge, who was paid an extra 10 coins. The village chief, who was in charge of managing the charcoal factory, also received a wage of 50 coins per day.

We'll keep a record of everyone's wages for now, and we'll pay them back once the charcoal factory becomes profitable. We need to make that clear to everyone.

If the charcoal factory doesn't make money, then everyone won't get paid, which means they've worked for free.

Of course, it's impossible not to make money.

"We're going to open a charcoal factory, which will involve accounting matters, so Uncle Village Chief will need to find someone to keep the books."

"Yes, I've thought of that too, and I'm looking for someone to do it."

"Why don't we go to the village entrance now and see how they're going to build the earthen wall?"

"Okay, let's go now."

When they arrived, a large crowd had already gathered at the village entrance, discussing how to build the wall.

"Village Chief, April, Clan Chief, you've arrived! We're currently discussing how to build this wall. Where do you think would be a suitable location?"

The group leader and the village chief led everyone to see the terrain and location, and finally designated a piece of land.

"The wall should be two feet thick and eight feet high, and it should be made solid."

"How to allocate and arrange the work, Baozhu, you decide that. This is your responsibility."

"Don't worry, village chief, we'll definitely do a great job."

The charcoal-making work was in full swing, and the villagers were very enthusiastic. According to the previous plan, they first dug a small earthen kiln to conduct an experiment.

The village chief and his men tried firing two kilns according to the recipe, but they failed. Either the kilns weren't fired thoroughly, or they were overfired. They still didn't know what the problem was, and the villagers were extremely anxious.

Despite his exhaustion, the village chief, his eyes bloodshot from staying up all night, hurried off to find Liu Siyue.

"Village Chief, have you finished making the charcoal? You look exhausted, go home and rest."

"The charcoal has been produced, but none of them have been successfully burned. Either they weren't burned through, or they were overburned. We followed the recipe strictly, but we don't know what went wrong. April, come with me to take a look."

"Okay, I'll go get it for you right away."

"Your second uncle will go with you; he can help you out if anything happens."

"Mom, I'm leaving the house in your care. My second uncle and I have gone up the mountain and might not be back for a day or two. Don't worry about us."

"You two be careful, don't overwork yourselves. If you don't come back, I'll have Ruxue and the others bring you food."

"Okay, Mother, we understand."

In the following days, Liu Siyue was extremely busy. She and her team fired four or five kilns in a row before they finally produced qualified charcoal.