Chu Yue looked at Lu Xinghe: "Aren't the prices of bricks in each kiln different?"
Lu Xinghe nodded.
"Brick kilns have different owners and locations, so there are differences, but the price difference is not too big. The biggest difference is the quality of the green bricks. Some brick kilns produce bricks with good color, high hardness, and not easy to break. , The green bricks fired from some brick kilns not only have poor color but are also easily broken."
"But haven't you ever visited the brick kilns in the neighboring village? How do you know their quality?" Chu Yue was confused.
"I have never been there, but I have seen their bricks, so I have some impressions."
Two quarters of an hour later, the two finally arrived at the kiln.
The brick kiln is very large, with well-fired green bricks stacked everywhere. Because the kiln is fired all year round, there are no grass or trees around the kiln, and the temperature is much higher than elsewhere.
The young boy saw the two of them from a distance and ran up to him while wiping his sweat and asked, "Do you two want to see the blue bricks?"
Lu Xinghe nodded: "I wonder what the price of the green bricks here is?"
"Two coins and three yuan." The boy pointed to the bricks behind him, "You two can come and take a look at our green bricks. Our brick kiln has been in Nanping Town for a hundred years, and more than half of the houses in the town are made of bricks. Our house is made of green bricks."
Lu Xinghe stepped forward to take a look, and then knocked on the green bricks.
Seeing this, the boy quickly took two blue bricks and knocked them together. The sound was crisp and not dull, and there was no breakage.
As expected of an old brick kiln, the quality of the green bricks produced is quite good.
Lu Xinghe looked at him.
"Can the price of these green bricks be cheaper? There are also brick kilns in Yaojiagou, which are cheaper than those in your kiln."
The boy immediately laughed and said: "Hey, how can the small brick kiln in Yaojiagou compare with our old brick kiln that has been burning green bricks for hundreds of years? Since the customer knows about the brick kiln in Yaojiagou, but has not gone there to buy bricks, I must also know the quality of their products. When we do business, we always get what we pay for. If customers want high-quality green bricks, our Kaiyang Brick Kiln Factory is the only one within a hundred miles."
Lu Xinghe already knew that the price of bricks from such large kilns would definitely be slightly higher than those from small workshops. Although the price of two cents and three yuan was much more expensive than the price of blue bricks from Yaojiagou, the important thing was that the quality was good.
He told the boy about the approximate size of the house he wanted to build, and the boy immediately calculated the approximate number of bricks for him.
"Roughly 60,000 bricks are needed. It won't be much more. If there are less, you can make up for it. It's really a lot. If you don't need that many bricks at home, as long as the bricks are not damaged, you can still get them. Come and retreat, what do you think?"
Sixty thousand green bricks cost a total of forty taels of silver. After all, it was a full ten taels of silver higher than the price of the brick kiln in Yaojiagou!
This is no small sum of money.
Lu Xinghe turned back and looked in Chu Yue's direction, thought about it for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay."
Then, he asked about the price of tiles.
The price of tiles from Kaiyang Brick Kiln Factory was similar to that of Yaojiagou, but the quality was not comparable to that of Yaojiagou, so he directly made the purchase here. The total cost of the tiles was six taels of silver.
In the end, Lu Xinghe paid a deposit of ten taels of silver, ordered sixty thousand green bricks and the necessary tiles, and then led Chu Yue back.
The firing of green bricks and tiles takes some time. The brick kiln agreed to deliver the bricks and tiles to Banpo Village in half a month. After half a month, the rice in the fields has been harvested, and the house of the uncle and the second uncle's house should also be built. That's almost it.
Once the green bricks arrive, their family can start building a house.
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By the time I got home, it was already the end of time.
Because a few hours had passed, the injury on the corner of Lu Xinghe's lip was not as obvious as it was at first.
Yun Cuihe was worried, so when she got home, she just said that she accidentally hit it. Then she gave the remaining silver to Yun Cuihe and went to the field with the bucket.
Chu Yue returned to the house, packed the broken silver on her body in bamboo tubes, and hid it in several places. The box containing the gold bracelet was too big to be hidden in the wall hole, so Chu Yue wrapped it in old clothes and stuffed it. Into the kang.
Anyway, it's been hot these days, so they won't be able to burn the kang. By the time it's time to burn the kang, they will have already moved to a new house, and they will have a place to hide these things.
After hiding the things, she went to the kitchen and unpacked the meat and vegetables that Lu Xinghe packed in Ruyiju from the oil paper bag.
Lu Xingping walked into the kitchen smelling the aroma.
"Sister-in-law, what is this?"
"Your eldest brother packed the food in town and said he would like to bring it to you to try." She put the food in a bowl and handed it in the direction of Lu Xingping, "Try it."
Lu Xingping waved his hand in embarrassment.
"It still doesn't work. It will be dinner time in a while. Then we will eat together as a family."
Chu Yue smiled and put the vegetables in her hand upside down on the stove in a larger bowl to avoid dust.
As soon as he left the kitchen, he saw Yun Cuihe coming out of the house.
"Yueyue, come with me to the house."
Chu Yue followed Yun Cuihe into the house with a puzzled face.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Yun Cuihe took out the silver that Lu Xinghe gave her: "I remembered that I gave Xinghe fifty taels of silver this morning and asked him to buy books and green bricks. The deposit for the green bricks cost ten taels, so how come there are still forty taels here? Two miles? So many books for no money?"
There were two scholars in the family, and she knew very well that books in the town were more expensive than gold.
Chu Yue smiled: "Mom, my husband bought books with our own money."
Yun Cuihe sighed.
"You kids, we're all a family. What's mine and yours? You'll have a lot more to spend money on in the future. The road to scientific research, even if it goes smoothly, will take many years. Once the galaxy continues its journey, Not to mention that my family can’t help me with this road, you still have to keep busy. When you become an adult in a few years, and a fat boy is added to the family, the cost will be even greater.”
Chu Yue didn't expect Yun Cuihe to think so far ahead.
"Mom, it's not that time yet. Let's just work hard to make more money in the future."
Yun Cuihe patted her hand: "You kid, you have been lucky these days, but no one can guarantee that you will always have this good luck, right? If you have money, just keep it close to your chest. Xingping Xing'an is not worried. , they are still young, but Xinghe has suffered too hard these years."
Hearing this, Chu Yue couldn't help but ask: "Mom, Xing Ping and Xing'an are not young anymore. Do you have any plans for their future?"
Yun Cuihe was a little worried: "Xing'an has a calm temperament. If he can read a few words, it will be an easy job to be an accountant in the future. As for Xingping's monkey, there is really nothing I can do about it."
She is a pragmatic person. Lu Xinghe can only take the scientific examination path in the family. Everyone has to live. If they all go to school, they simply can't afford it.
Chu Yue said with relief: "Mom, don't worry. Although Xingping is a little out of touch, he is also bold and careful. Maybe he will have his own fate in the future."
