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It is said that since Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin transported those bamboo and hemp slippers away, everyone in Xiejia Village has devoted themselves to weaving shoe soles. Talking and working together in the bamboo forest and other places.

Burn bamboo tubes and knead bamboo hemp, put some guys on the rack to weave soles, use the kneaded bamboo hemp to weave a layer of soles, and then use the fabric that Luo Meng bought for them to make a shoe upper and sew them on. The sides are all sewn firmly.After the upper is sewn, another layer of sole is added underneath, which is tightly sewed with thin and strong bamboo hemp thread. With these two layers of sole, even if you step on the gravel road, you will not be afraid of hurting your feet.

The soles made of bamboo and hemp are the color of natural bamboo flesh. The soles of the men’s models are slightly wider, while the soles of the women’s models are slightly slender and more delicate. The plain soles are paired with various colors of coarse cloth uppers, which also have a special flavor. In summer, they are paired with shorts With a skirt, you can also wear socks in autumn and winter, which is good for home and leisure.

The sole made of natural bamboo and hemp has a slightly rough feeling under the feet, just like stepping on a stretch of grass. It is a little rough, but it doesn't hurt your feet.Wash it with a brush when it gets dirty, and continue to wear it after drying. Although the slippers made of bamboo and hemp are not as durable as some plastic leather, they are definitely not disposable.

Luo Meng said that a pair of bamboo and linen slippers was collected from them at a price of 12 yuan. The people in Xiejia Village did the math, and after deducting the cost and freight, if a pair of shoes can earn 100 yuan and make ten pairs a day, that would be [-] yuan. Yuan, three thousand a month, thirty-six thousand a year.

Those with quick hands in the village can make more than a dozen pairs in one day, and those with slow hands can make five or six pairs at least, which is not good for the people of Xiejia Village. A small income.

In a place like Xiejia Village, there are not many families with an annual income of tens of thousands. Some of them are earned by young people working outside. Those who stay in the village and stay busy all year round are considered good enough to be self-sufficient.

This time, Romon found a way for them to make money by weaving bamboo and hemp slippers. They were very happy, but they were also afraid that this way would not last long, and they would also strive for excellence in quality.

Romon made an agreement with them. At the beginning, when the quantity is not large, several families can send it together. After a long time, it is better for each family to save a little more and develop it separately. In this way, when he receives As for the shoes, it is clear at a glance who made the shoes that there is a problem with the quality. Of course, when he receives the shoes, he will immediately transfer the payment to their account.

On the tenth day after Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin returned to Niuwang Village, the first batch of goods from Xiejia Village arrived. One thousand pairs of slippers were neatly divided into several packages and mailed to the post office in Buffalo Town.

Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin took them to Niuwangzhuang after dispatching their manual work at noon that day, and contacted Xiejia Village to inform them that the goods had been received. People continue to weave shoes in a down-to-earth manner.

Then these shoes were sent to Luo Xingyou's home together with the shoe boxes they had collected in the past few days, and Luo Xingyou immediately put this batch of shoes on the shelves.

This afternoon, many netizens from all over the country saw that their home had new products. In the details of the baby, it was stated that the products were not produced by the Luo Meng family, but were handmade by villagers in impoverished mountainous areas, and a few photos were attached. Photos of villagers weaving bamboo and hemp straw sandals in Xiejia Village.

Netizens reacted differently to this incident, with some pessimistic and negative saying: "Oh, this online store is now famous, and the goods are not enough to sell, so I followed others and engaged in reselling. The society is really a big dye vat. "

"He also plays the charity card. Grandpa, I am the most disgusted with this thing now, and I firmly resist it."

"If nothing else happens, it won't be long before the quality of their stuff will drop."

"If this goes on like this, sooner or later it will close down."

"That's not necessarily true, there are a lot of brain fans in their family."

The Tongcheng forum was also boiling, and a red hot post firmly occupied the best position on the front page, with the title: "What is Lao Zhou going to do?"

The following forum friend commented: "I have made money, and it is normal to want to do some charity."

The person downstairs interrupted and said, "Why do I think Lao Zhou's image is so far from that of a philanthropist?"

Another person swore: "I pressed a watermelon, the slipper business must have made money!"

The buddies downstairs snorted: "If you don't make money, can you still be called Lao Zhou?"

Later, this post was liked again and again, from political discussion to economics, from discussion of truth and goodness to hypocrisy, it was called heaven and earth.

No matter what others say, the slippers of Luo Meng's house are still selling well, and most of them are for the beautiful photos they took, which shows that those watermelons of Lao Zhou have no white flowers, and some are purely for Comes in a shoe box.

Another part of them believed in Lao Zhou's character and came with sympathy for the villagers in remote mountainous areas. They felt that a pair of shoes didn't cost much, and what they wore was a love.But when they receive the shoes, they will know how much the mountain people have given them.

After the shoes are sold, it will take three or two days to wait for the reviews to come back. Romon is not worried about the reviews at all.These shoes, no matter from an objective or subjective point of view, Romon thinks they are worth the price. As long as they are worth the money, there is no need to worry too much about customer satisfaction.

The people in Xiejia Village were not as calm as she was. The villagers borrowed the cell phone of the village chief's house and made several calls, asking how the Romon slippers were selling, if anyone bought them, and what they said after they bought them back. Not satisfied?Every time, Romon told them that the shoes were easy to sell, and told them not to worry, they could weave the shoes with peace of mind, and they would charge as much as they made.

In the evening at Niuwangzhuang, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin had just picked a small basket of plums from the orchard by the stream.If people want to make money and kill birds for food, the birds in Niuwang Village are desperate to eat. Recently, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin went to catch birds every morning and noon, making the whole valley full of mournful birdsong , but even so, there are still some plums that are pecked by birds every day.

It's not that Romon has never thought about bagging, but bagging will affect the photosynthesis of the fruit, so think about it or forget it.In the end, they had no choice but to reduce losses by increasing the frequency of picking. They went to the fruit forest to see if they had nothing to do, and picked them back when they saw ripe ones, so as not to give those little birds a chance to harm them.

"Old Zhou! Is it still ten yuan?" Seeing that Luo Meng and the others came back from picking plums, several students quickly gathered around.

"Old price, 15 yuan for those that have been pecked by birds, [-] yuan for those that have not been pecked." For these students who work in Niuwangzhuang, Luo Meng still gave some discounts.

"Tsk, it's still delicious if it's been pecked by a bird. The harder you peck, the sweeter it tastes." Several students gathered together in the baskets and picked them up.

"This is too cruel, only half of it is left." A student picked up a plum that had been eaten by birds, and felt very distressed. Such a good fruit was eaten by birds.

"The ones that have been pecked badly, put them here for me." Xiao Shulin said and handed these students a little blue woven with packing tape.

"Hey, what a pity, there are too many birds in Niuwangzhuang." The students took the baskets and said while picking them.

"Who would catch bugs for me without them, you guys?" Romon laughed.

"This is so contradictory. Alas, let's eat plums. Old Zhou, I want these two." A black and fat student picked two big and red plums and asked Luo Meng for money.

"Little bastard, what time is it? You still eat two plums so big? It's almost enough, and each person is limited to one." Although plums are also nutritious, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, eating too much can hurt the body, and folks have had it since ancient times There is a saying that "peaches nourish people and apricots hurt people, and the dead are buried under the plum tree".

"Where's a plum? I'm hungry right now."

"If you're hungry, grab a sweet potato and eat it. You won't be charged."

"You don't need to pay for how much you eat?" The fat man's eyes lit up when he heard that sweet potatoes don't cost money. Recently, Niuwangzhuang just took back a batch of early-planted sweet potatoes and sold them for a pound in the town. It's several yuan, which is more expensive than watermelon. Of course, it's still delicious to eat.

"Yeah." Romon rolled his eyelids, knowing that he was about to bleed again.

"Hey! Students! Quickly copy the sweet potatoes! We don't need money for the sweet potatoes today!" A student next to him, who had been listening with his ears stretched out, immediately yelled.

"Old Zhou! Really don't want money?" The students upstairs were not sure if someone was joking.

"Just tonight, before nine o'clock." Romon added a restriction to them.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" the row of dormitory upstairs suddenly boiled, students rushed downstairs in groups, and some city people who came to work also joined in the fun.

"Hey, it would be great if I could be so active when I was working." Luo Meng touched his nose, and carried the plums in the basket that were to be sold tomorrow to the warehouse, and then he was pecked by a bird with a small basket. The powerful plum, go out to eat with Xiao Shulin.

Under the big tree outside the courtyard, Yaya Dabao and Erlang were all waiting there neatly. For the past few days, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin would come here to eat some plums after dinner every night. As long as the animal legion is present, they will have a share of vegetables and melons.

"Ahhhhh..." Yaya urged Luo Meng and the others to hurry up.

"It would be great if I could be so active when working." Looking at the two groups of foodies in and out of the yard, Romon said what he had said just now helplessly.

"Do you want to grow this plum more next year?" Xiao Shulin used a knife to cut off the part of the plum that was pecked by the bird, and then cut off a large piece and handed it to a Yaya who kept barking. Crying children get milk, this matter is the same everywhere, even if it is annoying, you have to plug its mouth first.

"I still want to grow peaches." Luo Meng's concept of "healthy peaches" rooted in Luo Meng's childhood was revealed at this time. The Guiling plums in Niuwangzhuang grow well, Luo Meihui, Luo Meiling and Aunt Ayun's family. The three girls liked it very much, but the adults refused to tell them to eat more. If they were replaced with peaches, they would have to give them as much as they wanted.

"Planting peaches is also possible. When winter comes this year, I will plant peach trees." Xiao Shulin also loves to eat peaches. Dogs and puppies eat, these foodies lie on the ground and line up in a row, holding the plum meat with their two front paws and gnawing on it, screaming loudly.

"Moo..." Erlang felt as if he had fallen out of favor.

"Come here, Erlang, eat a vegetable melon to cool off the fire." Luo Meng said, taking a vegetable melon from the basket next to him and feeding it to Erlang. It will grow into a big buffalo.

"!" Erlang snorted contentedly, his share was much larger than that of those big dogs and puppies.

"Ahhhhh..." Yaya said that it also wants to eat vegetables.

"Okay, let's all eat vegetables and melons, and don't eat plums." Xiao Shulin stuffed the last piece of plum meat into his mouth, and the remaining plums in the basket stopped moving. These plums pecked by birds will be brought tomorrow Go to the town, how many yuan can be sold.

Early the next morning, Ma Congrong went to Buffalo Town in a hurry. This car is too cool, and there is a lot of movement every time he comes out, especially the young people in the town. One by one, they saw Ma Congrong's car I couldn't walk anymore.

Ma Congrong recently went out of town to negotiate a business with someone. Two days ago, Martin Liang called him and said that the Guiling plums grown here in Luomeng were ripe, and he specially sent two of them by express delivery. , so the idea of ​​this batch of plums from Romon's family came into play.No, once the deal over there was finalized, Ma Congrong drove to Buffalo Town.

"Do you still have plums in your house now?" When Ma Congrong arrived in Buffalo Town, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin happened to be in the store to send out handwork.

"The output is too small, so I can't supply it to you." Luo Meng was a little helpless. Before Ma Congrong called, he had already told him about it. He never thought that this guy would go to Buffalo Town himself for a few plums. coming.

"I don't want too many, you just need to supply me with twenty a day." Ma Congrong pulled a bench by himself and sat down.

"You are such a big place, why do you need twenty fruits a day?" How much can you earn with twenty fruits a day?

"I can't make a sign?" Ma Congrong said, looking at the baskets in the store, and then said: "Your basket is not bad, can you get a package for plums? I'm worried about this."

"What do you want?" Although Xiao Shulin doesn't like Ma Congrong very much, business is business. He didn't like Luo Meng back then, so he didn't take his business as usual.

"The smaller one is enough to hold a plum." Ma Congrong said.

Xiao Shulin thought for a while, took some white imitation rattan materials from the side, and started weaving. Since weaving things like baskets and baskets, he has also purchased a lot of various materials. I also bought a lot of iron wires of various thicknesses and thicknesses. Later, I also bought some rattan-like materials and various accessories.

"Do you want a cover?" Xiao Shulin asked Ma Congrong while weaving Xiaolan in his hand.

"Yes." Ma Congrong's direction is, the more precious the better.

"Do you want to raise your hand?" After a while, Xiao Shulin asked him again.

"Yes." Ma Congrong didn't think the craftsmanship was too complicated and costly.

"Is this okay?" Xiao Shulin weaved and disassembled, and it took nearly an hour to weave a basket.

Strictly speaking, this is no longer a basket. It looks a bit like a round food box used by a wealthy family in ancient times. Because each box only contains one plum, the weaving is too small and stingy, so Xiao Shulin had to add another one. Some complicated patterns and decorations made it a lot bigger, and two iron wires were installed on the handle to make it orderly.

"Hey! That's right, that's it! A white retro basket with a bright red plum in it, tsk, that's what I want!" Ma Congrong took the basket, opened and closed the lid, with a very satisfied expression.

"It's too complicated, they can't even make it up?" Luo Meng looked at the basket with some embarrassment, and then at Xiao Shulin. It would take a lot of time for Xiao Shulin to make up [-] baskets a day. Woolen cloth.

"I can't make it up." The person next to him quickly said that this basket is made to hold plums, and it's so complicated. When they learn it, the plums will be out of season, so what else to make up? Son?So he quickly declined.

"Why can't you make up? There are so many of you, and none of you can?" Ma Congrong didn't believe it.

"We've just started learning." The big guys lacked interest. They weaved baskets to increase their income and subsidize their families, not for fun. This basket would take days to read.

"Why don't you call Zheng Yingying over and ask?" Someone gave them advice.

"There is also Chen Lizi, he is also good at making these things." Then someone said.

"I have their phone number, so I'll call him to come over now. If it's these two people, I guess I can learn it today." The people in the town are also very enthusiastic.

After a while, Zheng Yingying and Chen Laizi arrived at Luo Meng's shop. Ma Congrong didn't give them a chance to refuse, and without saying a word, he handed over a few red tickets to let them study hard. They learned it during the day and worked overtime at night. , weave twenty baskets for him.

When Xiao Shulin taught these two people to weave baskets, Luo Meng and Ma Congrong negotiated the price.

"Why do you need 50 yuan? Didn't you just say that the basket's manual cost is only [-] yuan, and you can earn another [-] yuan, plus plums, isn't it only [-] yuan?" Ma Congrong is willing to spend money, but he doesn't like it either. He was slaughtered when he was taken advantage of.

"What about the design fee for our grove? And look at him now, it takes more than half a day to teach these two people. You have to pay for the teaching fee?" Luo Meng was a little impatient with Ma Congrong, It's too troublesome, not to mention troublesome to him, even their grove is in trouble now.

In fact, how could these two people really learn so quickly? They finally figured out the chin pattern in Xiao Shulin's explanation in the morning. After an afternoon of practice, they could barely make this basket. That night, one person could make four or five. One is not bad.

Xiao Shulin had no choice but to make up a dozen more by himself, and the next day he managed to get [-] together, and put [-] bright red plums in each, and asked the two guys in charge of purchasing from Jiweilou to transport them back.

Ma Congrong was so proud that he launched a lottery at the Jiwei Building that night, and the winner would get a "Extreme Tribute Plum".

In fact, it is the Guiling plum produced in Niuwangzhuang, but there are really few people who know this kind of plum in the market, and the plum grown by Luo Meng and the others is really delicious. The next period of time can be said to be like a cloud of customers, and Ma Congrong made a lot of money, which made him smile.

As the moon bends over Jiuzhou, some families are happy and others are sad.Ma Congrong was proud, but some people in Buffalo Town lost their hearts. They went to Luo Meng's shop for a few days and were told that the Guiling Li had been sold out. How could this be so embarrassing for someone who just fell in love with this fruit?

Then someone in the know told them, "All the plums from Luo Meng's family were bought by a Tongcheng man named Ma Congrong, [-] a day."

"Who is Ma Congrong?!!" Someone eagerly rolled up their sleeves and went to Ma Congrong for a one-on-one challenge.Ma Congrong, who was smiling and counting banknotes in Tongcheng, still doesn't know how many enemies he has made in the boundary of Buffalo Town.