After the children's affairs were cleared, Liang Chuan was not only guilty but also blamed himself. He did not expect that Yi Niang secretly concealed the matter because she was afraid that she would disagree, and was worried that this incident would hurt the child if she knew it.

It’s just a dozen children, how much rice can they eat? If you train these dozen children into outstanding talents in a thousand, it will require talent and financial resources. But this is just a solution to their food and clothing, what’s the difficulty?

During the disaster period, the food for nearly a thousand people in four villages, and during the war period, the military food for more than a hundred people in the management brigade was solved with a blink of an eye. Will these dozens of mouths be missing?

In the past, I only had to worry about two mouths and knew the feeling of suffering. Yi Niang was still worried that she would have too much burden. She always took everything silently, but after all, it was because her ability was not enough.

"How did you think of burning charcoal?"

"After the winter begins, I want to pick up this job again. Think about it, the mountains are full of forests, and the most undeficient thing is wood. A pound of charcoal is now a bit higher than last year. It can be sold

It’s nearly a hundred cents, and the firewood of more than ten cents is burned into a hundred cents, and there are so many transactions.”

Yi Niang became interested when she mentioned this: "Now there are so many children, we can burn a lot of charcoal in a day. In addition to the restaurants introduced by Master Baozheng, and the ones sold in the store, I won't be able to take long.

Can build a big house for the children."

It is good to be able to build a house, but there is a problem Liang Chuan still said with concern: "It is a good thing to make money with the children, but at present, the children are about the same age as our He Lu's children, and they are at the age of studying.

Wouldn't they be better off after school?"

The two of them walked slowly on the path in the fields, and the wind was blowing on their bodies, and the weather was so cold. Yi Niang hugged Liang Chuan's arm and said, "I also discussed with Mr. Meng and arranged all the dozen children.

When he entered the academy, Mr. Meng was also very happy. The more students, the better. He was a good person without saying anything."

"Then why the kids still...."

"I asked the children, they were unwilling to go to the academy. They said that studying is beautiful, but now they want to have a stable life, so they want to see if they can learn bamboo weaving and other things and do bamboo weaving together.

.”

Liang Chuan knew that they were more eager to survive than to improve themselves. Studying is good, but not everyone is the material. Other children can go home to eat after school and sleep in a hot bed.

As for them, they have to cook their own food when they go home and worry about tomorrow's food rations themselves. Not everyone has such a firm belief in achieving academic success. If they don't read any grades, so many

Time is wasted. Reading is the job of the ancestors to enjoy food, and not everyone is the material for reading, so it is not difficult to understand their decision. There are also many older children in the village who are unwilling to come.

It's time to go to school in a college.

"You didn't ask them to make bamboo weaving, but took them to burn charcoal, right?"

"Yes, there are many people making bamboo weaving now. Many women in the three villages have nothing to do, so they all arranged to come in to make bamboo weaving. Just the bamboo weaving made every day can be piled into small hills. There are too many bamboo weavings in the store and it's almost ready to pack them in the store.

I can’t afford it anymore. Now I’m calculating money by calculating pieces. I’ll keep it at the hands of each store and wait until the shop sells it, and then collect the bamboo weaving from the villagers to sell it.”

"I understand. Bamboo weaving is not easy to sell now, so you didn't let the children make bamboo weaving."

Yi Niang was a bit prescient. She rushed in to make bamboo weaving. Although she could change her state, she would definitely have to make a living by doing it too many people. After all, the market is so big, there are so many monks and few porridges. And few people make charcoal

I've had a lot of it, but this is a feasible way.

"The clothes on the children are too thin, why don't you change the children's new clothes?" Logically speaking, Yi Niang shouldn't be stingy, why didn't you notice this at all.

Yi Niang was not willing to accept Liang Chuan's criticism and said back: "Nowhere? I made a new outfit for each of them. They were reluctant to wear it. They said that they would dirty the new outfit when moving charcoal. I said a lot of them.

Time, they just didn't listen."

This is definitely the reason. When they bought new school uniforms for their children, they regarded them as treasures. They would never touch mud or crawl in school uniforms, but they were worried that they would get dirty and torn.

Liang Chuan sighed quietly. There were more and more people around him, and his pressure was getting greater and greater. He used to think that the thousands of taels of silver he snatched from Dafeishan was a huge astronomical amount.

But now I can't handle anything at all. I have dozens of mouths hungry for feeding. When I encounter something bigger, I can't even have hair left to build a house.

"Now all the children live in the ancestral halls themselves. During the day, everyone goes to chop firewood and charcoal together. The big children of the burned charcoal sent the charcoal to Xinghua and Fengshan. Now many places buy our charcoal for use

, when the north wind blows, there is no supply of charcoal every day."

Yi Niang was quite proud of their affairs because she did something herself. More than a dozen children came back from cooking charcoal, cooked their own rice and water, and did not think about going around after taking a shower.

Run away and stay obediently in the ancestral hall. More than a dozen children were very obedient and united, and they were all miserable children who would not bully each other.

Liang Chuan asked: "How is the charcoal kiln I made later? Is it easy to burn charcoal?"

Yi Niang said abnormally: "Third brother, I always thought you were the most profitable. Whether it was making water trucks or growing sugarcane, what did you say would be like? No one dared to say you were not, but later I found out that you also had it.

It's not as good as others."

Liang Chuan was quite surprised: "So let's talk."

"At that time, we were selling charcoal in Jinzun Restaurant in Xinghua. At that time, I happened to go to Xinghua with He Baozheng. Before we could get the charcoal supply business in Jinzun, I personally brought some charcoal to me."

Now not only charcoal, but also mosquito coil business, but also kimchi bamboo weaving have been expanded to Xinghua. The scale of this business is much larger than before. In the past, it was made in dozens of cents or hundreds of cents, but now it is a few cents.

Money is earned from a few cents, but today is different from the past.

Yi Niang recalled what happened at that time and said in detail: "At that time, we met two merchants in that building. They came down from the north. I don't know what they were doing, but when they saw me, they

The bamboo charcoal inside came over to talk to me.”

"What did they tell you? Do you want to buy your charcoal?"

Yi Niang smiled and said, "You guessed this wrongly."

"They said my charcoal was not good enough."

The two of them have already walked to the door.

Liang Chuan asked Yang Xiu to make some kimchi, called Xiaochai Yuzhen and Li Erhua, Li Chuyizhi, wanted to drink some wine. As a result, a few people lay in bed early when they were idle, and only Liang Chuan and Yi Niang were left.

Yang Xiu and the other three.

Yang Xiu has made a lot of kimchi recently and the taste is OK. Several restaurants have demanded it. Liang Chuan has been thinking about introducing chili peppers into China. This crop is a magical existence. It can directly create a cooking genre and add kimchi.

It can even make the flavor of this food go up to a higher level, which is much stronger than mustard root and ginger. Unfortunately, I don’t know where this crop is located yet.

"Yi Niang, please continue to talk about those businessmen."

"The two businessmen are not good-looking. As soon as they come up, they pick up my charcoal, break down a small piece, and rub it again and again. I don't understand what they want to do, but they didn't stop them. Maybe they want to do it.

What about buying charcoal?"

Yi Niang poured a bowl of wine for Liang Chuan and continued, "They claimed that they were businessmen in Guanzhong. I heard that there was a war in Xinghua, but the war was over as soon as the war came to Xinghua. But the business could still be done after the war was over, see

When we came to the charcoal we produced, they said that our charcoal was burning well, but not good enough!”

Liang Chuan drank all the wine. When Yang Xiu heard them talk about charcoal burning, he had no interest in himself. After eating two bowls of wine, he felt a little warm and went to bed. Everyone in this family had no interest in charcoal burning.

Because this thing is dark and very tired when burned, it is necessary to chop wood and move charcoal. It is very hard for a woman to do it, and Yi Niang wants to do it. Yi Niang is because of this life for their life.

After opening up the situation, she couldn't bear to leave this job.

"What's wrong, what did they say."

"First of all, we didn't pick the wood well. We said that we would burn charcoal when we saw it. This is not good. All the trees on the mountain have been cut down and the quality of the charcoal is not good. It's like there are a lot of fir here, and the fir trees are not dense enough.

The charcoal burned is easy to dissipate, crush, and has a lot of smoke, so it is not an ideal charcoal material."

Liang Chuan agrees with this point. Although it is easy to burn charcoal, it is not easy to do this craft well. People in folk crafts have been engaged in this industry for generations, and the charcoal they make is necessary.

There are huge differences between specializing in supplying firewood charcoal and industrial charcoal. Liang Chuan's original plan was to burn it, and it would be fine if the store wanted it...

"Did they say that it is better to burn charcoal on wood?"

"They said the best one is mainly oak tree and selves. Of course, elm tree and maple tree are also very good. If there is green hill tree, it is the best, but that kind of wood usually grows in the two lakes, Yunnan and Guizhou, and is rare in the middle of Fujian, so it can

No need to think about it.”

"Is it just these?" It's not good to have too single wood. Although the quality of charcoal has improved, it is impossible to mass produce it, so naturally there is no need to mention making money.

"He said that the ponytail pine and red pine here are also the best charcoal, and this kind of wood is everywhere here!"
Chapter completed!