Siheyuan Diaosi Attack

After listening to Carpenter Chen's words, Li Yue looked at him sincerely and said, "Thank you, sir!

I'll go buy some lumber now."

Carpenter Chen heard this, waved his hand and said, "Then go buy it there!"

At this time, Sha Zhu smiled and said to Carpenter Chen: "Okay, Uncle Chen, I will push the cart away."

Carpenter Chen nodded and said, "Okay, then you can push it away."

Sha Zhu smiled and said, "Okay, then we'll push it away."

After saying that, Sha Zhu pushed the cart and walked out.

Li Yue was behind, and after saying goodbye to Carpenter Chen, he followed Sha Zhu and pushed the cart out of the yard.

After leaving the yard, the two walked towards the coal station. Along the way, Li Yue curiously asked Sha Zhu: "Brother Zhu, where is the coal station?

Is it far away?"

Sha Zhu smiled and replied, "Not too far.

Let's start from here and walk to South Road, where there is a coal station, about two miles away.

After buying the coal, I have to go out of town to get some soil so that I can make it into briquettes.”

Li Yue was confused when he heard this and asked doubtfully: "What? What does it mean to make coal balls?

Still need to go out of town to collect soil?"

Sha Zhu heard that Li Yue didn't seem to understand this, so he patiently explained: "We bought flour coal at the coal station. If we want it to burn, we have to add some soil and water to it to make it into balls, so that we can use it to burn fire and cook.

Don’t you even know this?”

Li Yue muttered to himself that his understanding of this era was very limited and he had never even seen what a coal briquettes looked like.

He only remembered that in the original owner's memory, her family used straw and branches to make fire and cook, but he had no idea how to use coal balls.

In modern society, people have never even seen coal, so how can they understand how to use coal briquettes?

So he answered honestly: "Brother Zhuzi, my family is not from here, so I have never seen coal briquettes."

After hearing this, Sha Zhu couldn't help but ask curiously: "What do you usually cook at home?"

Li Yue answered truthfully: "Usually it's just some straw and branches."

Hearing this, Sha Zhu understood that Li Yue was talking about using the traditional earthen stoves used in the countryside, so he smiled and explained: "We are now using that kind of small stove in our yard, which needs to burn coal balls."

Then he reminded: "Look at the small stove in your kitchen. It has such a small opening, how much straw and branches can be stuffed in it!" After Li Yuejing was reminded by Sha Zhu, he thought about it carefully and realized that it was true. Such a small stove opening could not accommodate those large fuels.

He realized that he knew very little about the common sense of life in this era, and hurriedly asked Sha Zhu for advice: "I have never burned coal briquettes before, so I have to trouble Brother Zhu to teach me how to do it."

After hearing this, Sha Zhu said, “What’s so difficult about this?

Watch it once and you will get it!"

After hearing this, Li Yue replied, "Well! You can teach me when the time comes."

As they were talking, they came to the entrance of the coal station and saw many people buying coal in the station. Some were pushing carts and some were carrying loads on shoulders. They didn't know what they were doing, so they asked, "Brother Zhuzi, what do those people carrying loads do?"

After hearing this, Sha Zhu said, "Those people make coal briquettes. We also sell coal briquettes here, but they are a bit expensive. It's better to buy coal flour and make coal briquettes yourself."

Li Yue asked curiously, "Brother Zhuzi, why don't we buy coal briquettes?"

Sha Zhu smiled and explained: "Because buying coal briquettes is more expensive than buying coal flour, and making coal briquettes yourself can also exercise your body!"

Li Yue nodded with sudden realization, indicating that he understood.

Then, he pointed at the people who were busy and asked, "Brother Zhuzi, can I go and see how they are doing it?"

Seeing that Li Yue had never seen coal briquettes made, Sha Zhu smiled and said, "I'll take you over to have a look. You'll understand once you see it."

So the two of them came to the place where coal briquettes were made, and saw a group of people busy making coal briquettes.

Li Yue looked at their hands which were covered with black coal dust, which was exactly the same as the scene described by Sha Zhu.

Li Yue couldn't help but wonder, if he also made coal briquettes, would he become as dirty as them?

He couldn't help but turn to Sha Zhu and said, "Brother Zhu, why don't we just buy coal briquettes directly? This will be more convenient.

You don’t have to do it yourself.”

After hearing this, Sha Zhu replied somewhat reluctantly: "If you don't do it yourself, it will be very expensive."

Li Yue quickly responded: "It doesn't matter if it's a little more expensive. Anyway, I bought a ready-made one, which saves both trouble and effort. I can use it right away when I get home. Isn't that good?"

Sha Zhu thought this made sense and agreed: "Okay, then you can buy coal briquettes. This way you don't have to get soil."

After hearing this, Li Yue immediately said, "Then let's go get the invoice and buy coal!" After that, the two of them went to the invoice office together to prepare to buy the required coal briquettes.

After hearing this, Sha Zhu pushed his cart to the coal sales place. Looking at the person selling coal, Li Yue stepped forward and asked, "Comrade, how much do you sell coal briquettes for?

How much is a basket?

When the coal seller heard someone calling him, he looked at Li Yue and said, "The coal briquettes are 1 cent for two kilograms, and a basket is 50 kilograms. How many briquettes do you want?"

After hearing this, Li Yue thought to himself that it would not take long to fill one basket.

Besides, one basket didn't cost much, so he just bought more. He said to the coal seller, "I want 10 baskets of coal briquettes. How much do you want, comrade?"

卖煤的人听了，又看了一眼李越，心想这个人可真能买。他回答道：“这一筐煤球是 2 毛 5 分钱，10 筐就是 2 块 5 毛钱和 10 张 50 斤的煤票。”

Li Yue took out 3 yuan and -jin coal tickets from his pocket, handed them to the coal seller, and said, "Comrade, I'll give you yuan, and you can give me cents in change."

The coal seller took the money, counted it, and then gave Li Yue a receipt for 10 baskets and said, "Okay, here is your cents change and the receipt. Please take it. You can go over there to pick up the coal."

As he said that, he handed the money and receipt to Li Yue.

Li Yue put the money and the receipt into his pocket, then said to the coal seller, "Thank you!" Then he said to Sha Zhu, "Let's go get the coal briquettes."

Sha Zhu nodded, pushed the cart and headed to the place where the coal briquettes were delivered. When they got there, they took the coal and pushed the cart full of coal briquettes out of the coal station. Li Yue pushed it back with them. Along the way, they chatted.

Li Yue smiled and said to Sha Zhu: "Sha Zhu, we bought so much coal this time, it's enough for us to use for a while."

Sha Zhu responded: "Yes, these coals should last for a long time. But you have to come back more often to buy them in the future."

The two chatted as they rode the cart and soon returned to the courtyard.

He parked the cart at the door, and Sha Zhu looked at him and said, "Li Yue, we can unload the coal briquettes and put them in the coal bin in the yard."