North and South groceries

After a while, Luo Yong heard that Hengyu and his son finally built the thirty Yanerfeis of the Ma family, and also heard that the reason why they were able to complete them in a relatively short period of time was also because they were from the Yin Dynasty. The family has seconded some manpower.

The Heng and Yin families both pass on carpentry to their families. Over the years, each of the two families has produced a few good talents, but none of them can completely suppress the children of the other family. Therefore, between the two families, It has always been hard to tell.

In the past few years, the Yin family has had more sons than the Heng family. In comparison, the Heng family seems a bit weak. In this age, it is better to have more children, but it is not easy to raise children.

After handing over the thirty Yan'erfeis and getting the balance, Heng Yu asked his eldest grandson Hengmo to take nine hundred Wen coins and send them to Luo for use. Along with these copper coins, there were also some boxy ones. small ceramic pieces.

"Ah Weng said, next time if someone brings the chain to sell again, you can give them this mold." Heng Zhu first gave the nine hundred coins to Luo for use, and then gave the pottery that he brought. The small items were placed on the table for Luo Yong to see.

Luo Yong's gaze was immediately attracted by these things, and he saw that there were four dents on each of these small pottery pieces, which were the shapes of the parts of the bamboo chain. A flat shape with a hole at the end, two ring shapes, one deep and one shallow, and a small, deep cylindrical hole.This thing is really exquisite and regular, where the parts have holes, corresponding to small cylindrical protrusions in the mold, looking at the level of fineness, it really doesn't look like it can be pinched with bare hands.

"How is this thing made?" Luo Yong already had guesses in his mind when he saw this thing, but he still wanted to hear Heng Zhu's talk.

"A few days ago, my uncle asked me to use ordinary wood to make a batch of bamboo chain parts of equal size, and then asked me to go to the pottery workshop to inlay those small pieces in clay, and after beating them flat, After firing, all the wood will be turned into ashes, and this is what I finally got." Heng Zhu is two years older than Luo Yong, but he is always ready to answer any questions in front of his master A Weng. Words respectful.

"This method is wonderful." Luo Yong sighed in his heart after listening to the manufacturing process of this mold. The creativity of this ancient man cannot be underestimated. Looking at ancient and modern times, which dynasty is not full of talents, leaving countless stars in the long river of history A little bit of light.

He thought for a while, then asked Heng Zhu: "Is this thing sold in your car shop?"

Knowing that he had already guessed that the molds were not given away for free in his family's car shop, Heng Zhi no longer concealed them, smiled, and replied: "One penny each, and sell them in the shop."

A penny is also the cost price, and they didn't expect to make money from this thing at first, they only hoped that the chains purchased in the future would be more regular, and the size would not vary too much.

At the same time, this is actually reducing the risk of the person who made the chain. After all, if the error exceeds a certain range, the chain will be useless.

With regard to giving free molds, Luo Yong knew that Hengyu wanted to elevate his status, and took the opportunity to sell himself well to those villagers.

So he was convinced, Yan Erfei's business seemed to be able to make a lot of money, and as a master, he was not polite to his disciples.

Maybe in later generations, many people will not even notice whether it is one yuan or ten yuan, but at this time, a penny is quite a big deal.

In the era when commerce was extremely underdeveloped, farmers had only income from selling grain, but the price of grain these days was so low.In autumn, after the grain is harvested from the field, various taxes have been paid, and the rations of the whole family have to be kept, so there is not much surplus grain to sell, and a little bit of money can be sold, and the expenses throughout the year are all there. Fortunately, most of the farmers at this time are self-sufficient, and there is not much money to spend.

"How busy are you Aunt these days?" Luo Yong asked.

"Since my family opened a car shop in the city, many people came to the door every day, and the Mawang family even urged me day after day, so that I, Aunt, wished I could lock myself in the big house in the backyard to work every day." Heng Wu said helplessly.

"Go back and tell you, Aunt, those people urge him to urge him. He just needs to deliver the goods according to the date on the original contract, and he doesn't need to be so long in advance." Luo Yong laughed.

He knew that most of the people at this time were upright, and when they were urged three times and twice, he would get angry accordingly, and he didn't care what the contract period was out of sync with, he just wanted to hurry up and get things done for others.

"I'll tell him when I get back." Heng Zhu nodded.He, Weng, is a bit old after all, and recently he often heard Aye talk about it, worrying that if this continues, the old man's health will not be able to bear it. Now that Luo Yong said so, his A Weng should listen.

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With these pottery molds, when Hengyu and the others buy chains later, they don't need to worry much about the error.

Some people who were still hesitating whether to make money with the bamboo chain finally made up their minds at this time.

When they learned how to make chains from Heng Zhu and the others, although the other party taught them carefully and gave them back the chain links they had made as a pretense, the things they saw with their eyes were still prone to errors. If the chain I made can't be used at that time, wouldn't it be a waste of hard work?

It's all right now, with this model, naturally there is no need to have such worries, so for a while, many people in Lishi County went to Heng's Automobile Building to buy this model and put it at home, and some people cut it from the mountain. Carnations are sold in the city. Bamboo sticks as thick as sugarcane, cut into arm lengths, can be sold for a penny for five.

Because the carnation is valuable, many villagers pay close attention to the mountains and forests near their homes. If they find out that people from other villages are cutting bamboo near their village, they will inevitably have a quarrel.

Those with a long-term vision knew that Yanerfei would definitely become a big industry in their local area in the future, so they went to the mountain early to dig some bamboo roots and carefully planted them around their house, hoping that they could grow bamboo next to their house. A lot of bamboo grows to benefit future generations.

Some people lead, and then others follow suit.In their Xipo Village, some people went up to the mountain to dig bamboo roots from time to time these days, and some people gave some to Luo Yong.

Luo Yong planted them in the gravel field behind the pigsty. In the early stage, he was afraid that they would not survive, so he filled the pit with some soil. Later, he didn’t care about it. The ones that grow out have the hardest texture. Besides, some bamboos can be sold for some money and food, but who would be willing to use good land to plant them.

As the number of people involved in the production of bamboo chains continues to increase, special tools have finally appeared on the market. The tools are also simple, a small carving knife, a hand drill, nothing more, but they are better than the previous sickle and kitchen knife. Countless times.

The blade of the small carving knife is only the size of a fingernail. One side is sharpened as a blade, and the other side is sandwiched between two bamboo pieces. The bamboo pieces are thinly tied with hemp rope for reinforcement.

The structure of the pull drill is a little more complicated, but as far as the metal part is concerned, only the drill bit is made of iron, and the others are made of wood and bamboo.

These two small tools are not very expensive, but they bring a lot of convenience to the production of bamboo chains.

Luo Yong also asked his disciples to help him bring a few sets back from the city and put them in his grocery store. If someone brought the chain to him to sell, he would ask the other party if he wanted this tool, and he didn’t make much money. To provide everyone with a convenience.

In fact, this tool is also very useful for Luo Yong himself.When he was free these few days, he took a small wooden strip and slowly whittled it into the shape of a toothbrush handle in his grocery store.

Then at the place where the bristles are planted, slowly drill out rows of fine holes with a hand drill, and then ask Erniang to rub a small ball of thin and strong twine for him, and take a handful of wool that has been washed repeatedly. Use two threads to fix the wool into the holes one by one in the same way that the shoe repairer put on the soles of the shoes I saw at the shoe repair booth when I was a child.

When Luo Yong was filling the toothbrush with bristles, the little ones in the family were watching strangely.

Si Niang Wu Lang needs to use more, and is already able to help. He also imitated Luo Yong's way and sorted the wool into handfuls. Seeing that Luo Yong had filled a hole, he quickly gave the wool in his hand to He handed it over.

After the wool is finished, trim it with scissors to make it flat. In this way, a wool toothbrush is made.

In fact, Luo Yong thought about making toothbrushes and brushes a long time ago, but because of the lack of tools, he didn't know how to make them for a while, but he didn't expect that because he gave Hengyu a blueprint of a bicycle, and later developed In the bamboo chain industry, even his tools for making brushes appeared directly in his grocery store in the end, which is really unpredictable.

"This thing can brush your teeth, so give this to Siniang. From now on, you can use it to brush your teeth every day, okay?" After making a toothbrush, Luo Yong tested the hardness of the bristles, and then gave it to Siniang.

"Okay!" Si Niang was very happy to get this novelty, as for brushing teeth, let's talk about it later.

"Brother, I want it too!" Goro hurriedly shouted from the side.

"Okay, I'll make one for you too." Luo agreed with a smile.

"I want me too."

"Brother, I want it too!" The two little ones below also yelled.

"You two also want to brush your teeth?" Luo Yong pretended not to believe it, and asked the two younger ones.

"I need to brush my teeth! I need to brush my teeth!" The two little ones didn't know what brushing their teeth was, so they just yelled indiscriminately.

"Then I'll make toothbrushes for you guys, don't break your promise." Luo used this to start vaccinations.

"Don't break your promise, bro, we also have to brush our teeth." The two little guys agreed again and again.

So Luo Yong made another wool toothbrush for Wulang, Liulang and Qiniang, but Erniang and himself hadn't made one yet.

After all, this wool toothbrush is still too soft. It may be more suitable for the elderly, children or those with dental calculus. For Luo Yong, a brush that is too soft is a bit hard to use.

If it is used to make brushes, sweep the grinding disc when grinding the surface or something, this is very suitable, so Luo used to make a few brushes and put them in the store. If someone buys them, he will sell them, and if no one buys them, he will keep them. Own consumption.

As for the toothbrush, since wool is not good enough, Luo Yong decided to try pig hair. The material is also ready-made. I have several pigs in my pigpen, and now they are all grown up, round, and the hair is hard. With a big black hair, glossy and slippery.

I twisted two green vegetables from the vegetable field and put them in the trough, and the half-big pig in the pen rushed over and gnawed fiercely at the two green vegetables. A large amount of hair was cut off, but it He didn't even lift his head.

I cut the pig hair and tested its hardness. Luo Yong felt that it was too hard. It is so hard that it can be used as a scrub brush.

After much deliberation, pig hair is too hard and wool is too soft. If you want to make a toothbrush with moderate hardness, it seems that there is only the last choice.

Luo Yong walked to the yard with the pair of scissors, waved to his big donkey and said, "Five pairs, come here."

"Ang um...Ang um..." The five couples instinctively sensed the crisis, and after a few ups and downs, they took several steps back.