"You said the wrong thing? How can you people in the village say the wrong thing?"
Someone pulled her, and the matchmaker finally found someone to talk to, or rather spit out!
"My eldest daughter has neither eaten nor drank water since she was a child. She can grow up by drinking the northwest wind."
"So, who wants a bride price when marrying their daughter? If you want a bride price of thirty yuan, isn't that selling your daughter out of conscience?"
"I heard that people in your village marry a daughter-in-law to be their ancestor. Once you get married, you don't have to work or have children. All you need to do is eat and drink well every day!"
"That's good. If any daughter wants to enter your old Qin family in the future, let alone a bride price, she must be accompanied by Shili Hongzhuang. Otherwise, what's the point of just enjoying the happiness?"
"Haha, your Qin family is amazing."
"From now on, the young men in your village will definitely not have to worry about finding a wife."
"How good would it be if every household takes an ancestor as an offering?"
"I think everyone's parents would agree. They are vying to marry into your old Qin family. They will enjoy the blessings as soon as they come here. No need for any gifts!"
This matchmaker Li is indeed a matchmaker, she is really good at talking.
Listening to her spouting like this, no one knew what was going on.
"Just because of the thirty yuan gift? No, no!"
Captain Qin Zheng's mouth twitched. Although he felt that the thirty yuan gift was a bit much, he absolutely couldn't say it.
Who made their village poor? Who allowed there to be so many unmarried young men in their village?
The competition is huge! It's not easy to get a wife, you can only coax her!
"Why not? Look at Lao Jiu and his wife, they look like gourds with their mouths sawed off. Do they want to ignore me? Am I being unreasonable?"
"No, absolutely not. The two of them usually can't get anything out of their way. If they could talk well, how could their children still not be able to get a wife?"
After saying so much, Aunt Li is not so angry anymore considering the good attitude of the Qin family.
Besides, how can being a matchmaker always be smooth sailing?
She has encountered this kind of thing a lot. Now that she has suppressed the master's family, she may be able to get a matchmaker gift.
The matchmaker's mouth is a liar!
"Captain Qin, actually I'm not too angry."
"To be honest, the bride price of thirty yuan is the highest in the surrounding areas. But, does the woman ask for so much money for no reason?"
"Let these two people tell themselves. When I first sent the message, how much was the bride price?"
"It's only eighteen yuan. Although it's not low, it's definitely not a lot."
"Why did you say thirty? It wasn't just the two of them who were making trouble."
"In the middle of the year, they said they were looking for someone to build a house. Now look at their dilapidated house. I'm afraid it will collapse if the wind blows."
"It's a house like this. The woman just wanted to leave after seeing it, but I reluctantly stayed."
"Look at the clothes your family wears? If you don't have good clothes, you won't borrow them like borrowing money?"
"You were dressed so poorly, but the woman didn't say anything, right?"
"Later, okay! He kept saying that his family was rich, but he didn't have time to build a house, and he didn't have enough money to buy clothes to wear on his face!"
"Haha, you are really rich. I just took out five hundred yuan in cash. It was a big pile. It was really bluffing."
"Haha, I'm laughing so hard. I've seen this kind of thing a lot. Since you can spend so much money, why don't you build a house!"
"Why do you pretend to be fat with a swollen face? You are so rich that you don't know how to stick it on your face?"
"It's okay now. Is it sticky to the buttocks? It's really not embarrassing enough."
"I don't know how many families I borrowed five hundred yuan from, are you trying to get married?"
"The woman's sister-in-law just tried it a little bit and said, since your family is so rich, then I will give you a bride price of thirty yuan."
"I didn't expect that, just for a little probing, you actually blew it up first? Are you selling your daughter?"
"Even if we really sell our daughter, it's not the woman's sister-in-law's turn to sell her. Where's her brain?"
"Even if you're borrowing money to get married, you're just showing off!"
"What's wrong with giving me thirty yuan as a bride price if I don't back down?"
"Let's wait until the wife gets married! Isn't it just thirty yuan?"
"No one is chasing your house, asking you to build a house now!"
"Dead-headed! No, selfish, only thinking about yourself, forget it, I'm not angry, not angry..."
The matchmaker's mouth is really eloquent.
In just a few words, I picked it all off.
Seeing this situation, Qin Jun was helpless, because this was a common phenomenon in rural areas in the 1970s and 1980s.
This can be regarded as a characteristic of the times, because now even city dwellers with a sense of superiority can only live like that.
You know, city people are now regarded as the pride of heaven. They are all workers, but they are very different from farmers!
After all, Mr. Lu Xun once said: There are aristocrats in the Republic, and they are city people.
They eat royal food, receive wages, have fixed rations, various vouchers, and various benefits.
However, compared to the beggars a few decades later, their lives now are not much better.
Since the nobles of the Republic all live a poor life, let alone the farmers in a small mountain village.
The matchmaker must know what the people in the village are like.
In Qin Jun's opinion, thirty yuan for a wife is really not a loss.
However, if you were to live in this era and live in a family of seven or eight people with a year-end income of only 130 yuan, then 30 yuan would be an astronomical figure.
Needless to say, Uncle Jiu's cousin still had to stay naked.
"Let's go dig bluestone and try to build five large tile-roofed houses by the end of the year!"
Not wanting to continue watching the excitement, Qin Zhihe said in a low mood and pulled Qin Feng away.
Qin Jun looked at his second brother who looked unhappy. If his family couldn't afford a new house, he might not be able to get married smoothly.
As they walked out of the village together, Qin Jun's expression was a bit complicated.
Originally, he only thought of burning lime because of his stuttering and to improve his living environment.
Now it seems that burning lime is really an important matter and must be done well.
To the west of the village, there are mostly flat fields and some dry land.
The land here is full of large and small gravels, and they are all limestone.
Because of this, nothing grows well here.
In a place like this, if you look carefully, you can find piles of round and oval bluestones.
Generally these rocks are not buried deep, at most two or three meters underground.
There is no good way to find this kind of stone nest, you can only rely on experience.
This depends on Lao Qin, he knows which part of the land is most susceptible to drought.
For example, when growing peanuts, when there is a drought every year, whichever area of peanuts grows dries up first. Needless to say, there is either sand or rocks in the ground there.
The soil layer is thin and cannot hold water, so drought naturally begins first.
This is experience. With Qin Zhihe choosing the excavation site, their family soon began to reap rewards.
In winter, at least 20 centimeters of the soil is frozen soil, which requires painstaking digging.
As long as this layer of frozen soil is peeled off, the soil below is easy to dig.
Soon, a large pit of one meter appeared in front of Qin Jun.
Comrade Qin Zhihe made the right choice. As soon as he put down the manuscript, he hit a stone.
Use a crowbar to peel it off, and you will find a blue-black stone the size of a human head.
This is bluestone, which can be used to make stone sculptures or used as building materials in the future.
In the future, if you can buy cement and mix it with cement and sand with water, it will be concrete.
It can be said that limestone is a very high-quality raw material with a wide range of uses.
One harvest means countless harvests, which is the distribution characteristic of limestone.
That is to say, in the central part of Qilu where the Qin Army is located, there are not many limestone mineral deposits. Otherwise, a large cave may be dug out.
The limestone in their local underground is all in round, oval, or irregular oblong shapes.
It goes without saying that this shape was formed by being washed away by water over a long period of time.
Therefore, if you generally find a place where bluestones are piled up, there must be sand nearby.
When you find bluestone, you will find a big nest, and when you find sand, you will find a strip!
Sand and lime are indispensable for building a house, so these two materials can be used at no cost.
"Third brother, are you really good at burning lime?"
Seeing that the eldest brother Qin Li had gained something, he still couldn't help but ask.
"Definitely!"
Qin Jun picked up a piece of bluestone and threw it directly outside the pit.
"How did you learn it? Who did you learn it from? It doesn't matter if we contribute a little bit. You have to know how to burn lime, but carbon is used, and carbon is not cheap." Qin Li asked again.
"You still need to learn this thing? Can't you just take a look at it? Second brother, have you ever learned how to dig a marching stove in the army? Can you dig a smokeless stove?"
