Li Wanquan received verbal praise from his wife, but he just smiled foolishly. It seems that his wife rarely praises him.

"Our mule is a horse and mule!" Liu Yuzhen proudly boasted. Then she began to introduce the origin of this mule.

This mule can be in the hands of Li Wanquan and has a lot to do with Wang Changshan's eldest wife.

Li Wanquan usually works for others in a short-term job. He is an expert in farm work and has no other skills, so he does all physical work for others.

Two years ago, Wang Changshan's wife's younger brother set up a brick-burning kiln factory. Wang Changshan's wife bought a large share in the brick-making factory. When Li Wanquan was in the slack farm, he went to make bricks for her kiln factory.

There is a local rumor to describe the four major tiring tasks in rural areas: "Cut wheat, take off large blanks, feed children, x big b." This "take off large blanks" is one of the four major tiring tasks.

There are two types of de-blank removal and de-brick removal. The common point between the two is to reconcile the mud, put it in a wooden mold to form, and then take off the wooden mold to let the adobe dry in the sun. The difference is that the adobe wood mold is larger, while the brick mold is smaller; the mud that takes off the adobe mud is worse, and the mud that takes off the brick is harder; the adobe mud is dried and then it is used when building the house. After the brick is dried, it is sent to a brick kiln to make blue bricks.

Before the invention of the mechanized brick making machine, all the procedures for burning bricks, such as mud, de-blanking, turning, palletizing, and transporting were done manually, and they had to be completed in the sun. The more summer it was, the stronger the sun was, the more conducive it was to dry adobe. Therefore, the summer was the golden time for de-blanking. In addition to the scorching sun, the dirty soil, and heavy adobe, these tasks required people to bend over constantly, so it was particularly tiring, so most people were unwilling to do such work.

Two years ago, Li Qinglin entered the Wenmiao Primary School in the town. He had to pay ten yuan a day for tuition fees every semester, and it was several days to live in the school to board. Li Wanquan was under great economic pressure. Because others were unwilling to do such work, the salary was very high. Under economic pressure, Li Wanquan had to do such tiring work.

In addition to doing the farm work in his own fields, Li Wanquan worked in the kiln factory throughout the summer of the previous year. He took off the blanks, palletized, and bricks were released from the kiln. Li Wanquan almost vomited blood in the end. However, at the end of the year before yesterday, Li Wanquan went to the kiln owner to pay the wages, and Wang Changshan's wife pushed him to pay, but he just refused to pay the bill.

This summer, Li Wanquan should have a salary of fifteen. This is the hard-earned money that Li Wanquan deserves to work hard and also the tuition for Li Qinglin next year. Li Wanquan went to the kiln factory to ask for wages whenever he had time last year. Wang Changshan's wife's face became increasingly ugly, and she just refused to pay him.

Due to Li Wanquan's persistence, Wang Changshan's wife was also annoyed by him. Last September, Li Wanquan went to him to ask for wages, and she handed a four-month-old green mule and a broken wooden cart in the corner of the kiln factory to Li Wanquan.

The mule and wooden cart were also used by others to the kiln factory. Although Wang Changshan's wife was toxic, she also had an opponent she couldn't afford to offend. The opponent she couldn't afford to offend was Hongtuzi, the leader of the security group. After becoming the security group leader, Hongtuzi flipped up his own courtyard, and the blue bricks used were from this kiln factory. Hongtuzi finished building the house and finally owed more than 20 oceans of bricks from the kiln factory. The security group didn't know where to get the mule and cart to pay for the brick money.

The mule is very small, with dark hair and thin body, and the cart is broken and broken. Together, it can be worth ten oceans. Wang Changshan's wife suffered a great loss, but she couldn't afford to get involved in the cheaper people in her family. She was so angry that she couldn't say anything about her suffering. At this time, Li Wanquan came to ask for the debt, and she was angry and gave Li Wanquan to him, which could be regarded as reducing his losses.

Li Wanquan couldn't get the wages, so he felt helpless and had to drive the mule and cart home.

Although this mule is small and thin, it has a long neck, wide chest, thin waist and thin shin. It is a good mule, but it has not been fed yet. Although the cart is tattered, the axle is very good and can still be used after repair.

Mules are big livestock in rural areas. Horses and mules are smart and docile. They can pull and run, and are particularly capable of heavy work. They don’t pay attention to feed. As long as they are carefully fed and trained properly, they will definitely be worth four or five strong labor in plowing fields, plowing and carrying goods. Therefore, there is a saying in rural areas that “one mule has half a home”.

Li Wanquan cherishes mules very much. After he carefully cared for and trained them, the nine-month-old mule was fat and strong, and everyone who saw them was amazed. In a few months, the green mule would be over one year old, and then it could do some light work. After another year, the mule would be able to sell thirty or forty oceans, so Wang Xiuzhen felt that although she had suffered a loss before, she was now taking advantage.

In the world of my previous life, the same job as mules were cars and tractors. In this life, I owned mules and mule carts, which was also considered a "car" family. Mules can do both farm work and transportation. Li Qinglin decided to develop into a professional transportation company in the future, so that they can make money and do less farm work - Li Qinglin really doesn't know how to do farm work now!

As the three of them talked, they talked about the topic of spun cotton yarn. The father said that he would wait until the tung oil was sold before buying cotton, but his mother disagreed. The mother meant that he would buy cotton after selling tung oil. At least after fifteen, it would be worth it to be idle at home. It would be better to use his own money to cushion the cotton first and buy it back to spun into yarn in these days.

Li Qinglin agreed with his mother's idea and suggested using the money he had on hand to buy cotton first, spin the cotton yarn first, and then take back the money he had placed after he could sell the tung oil.

Li Qinglin had read historical materials related to modern cotton textiles in China before. In the late Republic of China and the early Qing Dynasty, a large amount of machine-spun cotton yarns from abroad were imported, which impacted the local hand-spun cotton market shrinking, but China's hand-spun cotton yarn never really exited the market. There are three main reasons: First, the output of domestic cotton continues to increase, and the cost of cotton and cotton yarns continues to decrease; Second, the main practitioners of hand-spun are rural women, and their minimum wage requirements may be to just eat three meals, so labor costs are extremely low; Third, due to the stimulus of the golden decade of the Republic of China period, the overall market demand has expanded, and local cloth has been loved by farmers since ancient times, so hand-spun weaving cloth is common in rural areas.

Li Qinglin also understood that after the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, in order to weaken the economic strength of the National Government, Japan implemented an "economic interruption" on China, and implemented an embargo on strategic materials such as salt, cotton yarn, steel, chemical raw materials. In order to ensure the large demand for military uniforms required by the army, the National Government vigorously advocated spinning and weaving; in Yan'an, in order to ensure the supply of anti-Japanese military and civilians, the border government launched a large-scale production campaign, including spinning and weaving, land reclamation and farming, etc. The great Chairman Mao also wrote the inscription "Self-reliance and hard work."

Since spinning and weaving have a promising future, it must be done. If you want to do it, you must seize the opportunity. If you want to get the opportunity, you can make money. The two things that Li Qinglin liked to do in his previous life were making money and women. He had no reason not to do what he could make money in this life.

Li Qinglin needed to enhance Li Wanquan's confidence. He said to Li Wanquan firmly: "I bet that spinning will definitely make money! And the price of cotton yarn will definitely rise!"

Li Wanquan was a little unhappy. He believed that the cotton of the two families should not be paid for each one; and if the cotton yarn is not profitable, the money he paid for may not be collected. Seeing that Liu Yuzhen and Li Qinglin were consistent, he reluctantly agreed.

He muttered to Li Qinglin: "Anyway, these twenty oceans are ready for you to get married. You can use them as you like!"

Turning over a small hill, there is a small village at the hillside, and there is a big locust tree on the side of the village road. Qian Duofu's wife Jiang Xiuzhi stood under the tree with her son in her arms. There was a girl next to her, carrying a basket with some things in it.

This girl is about fifteen or sixteen years old this year. Her eyebrows look a bit like Jiang Xiuzhi, but she looks richer than Jiang Xiuzhi. She has a round face, big eyes, curved and black eyebrows, and a big black and thick braid. The girl is about the same height as Wei Sanya, and her body is stronger than Wei Sanya. She has a better development than Wei Sanya. Her small breasts are tall and she looks a bit large.

Liu Yuzhen got off the mule and greeted Jiang Xiuzhi: "Xiuzhi, why are you standing by the road in this cold weather? Duofu didn't go home with you today?"

Jiang Xiuzhi pointed to a road next to her with her hand and replied, "Let's go back together, look, isn't he there?"

Qian Duofu was talking to two people over there, and the three of them were whispering and gurgling. Qian Duofu saw Li Wanquan’s family of three coming, and shouted from afar: “You go home with your second aunt. I’ll go to Genwang’s house to drink and play cards tonight. When you go back, you tell my dad that I won’t go back tonight.”

Jiang Xiuzhi sneered and said, "Playing cards? I think I'm going to gamble or smoke big cigarettes!"
Chapter completed!