Chapter 100 Brick Purchase Incident

The next day.

Ye Caiping waited for Ye Erquan to return with the morning goods before going to look at the bricks.

You don’t have to go to a small town to see bricks, but go to Daliushuang.

There is a family in Daliushuang who runs a brick kiln with a very good reputation. It is only a quarter of an hour’s walk there.

Ye Bajin's old cow was very tired after making four trips a day. Ye Caiping felt sorry for his cow and decided not to take the car.

Ye Caiping, Old Man Ye, Ye Erquan, Wei and Ye Yinhua, a group of five, set off chatting and laughing.

As we chatted, we arrived at Daliushuang.

Under the guidance of the villagers, we soon arrived at the brick kiln.

From a distance, I saw an elderly couple in their fifties sitting idly at the door. Next to the brick kiln, there is a small building made of green bricks.

Seeing Ye Caiping and others coming towards them, the old couple's eyes lit up and they hurried forward.

"Hey guys, do you want to buy some bricks?"

"Yes." Ye Caiping nodded.

The old couple's surname was Liu. Uncle Liu quickly led them to the small building of blue bricks and said, "Look, our bricks are strong and the color is good."

Ye Caiping was not very good at seeing, so she touched it and turned to look at Old Man Ye.

Old Man Ye and Ye Erquan immediately stepped forward, touched and threw the blue bricks, and asked Aunt Liu to get a bucket of water and pour it on the bricks.

Although their home was a mud house, both Old Man Ye and Ye Erquan had built houses for others before. They also helped build Ye Lizheng's blue brick house.

After looking at it for a while, they both felt that the quality was fine.

"How much do you want for this brick?" Old Man Ye asked.

Uncle Liu said, "Our price is very fair, two bricks for one penny. This is the same price for the whole Dashu Town."

Old Man Ye also knew the market situation: "Cai Ping, how big a house do you want to build?"

Ye Caiping bought five acres of land, but it was impossible to build houses on all five acres of land.

Ye Caiping was well prepared. She took out a blueprint and handed it to Mr. Liu:

"Uncle, as for the house, I want to build a six-mu land with a small courtyard. Outside the small courtyard, there will be a row of four houses on the right. These are cattle sheds, pig pens and other animal sheds."

"On the right is a vegetable field, and behind it is a row of 10 houses, which are small workshops. Then a wall is built to surround the house, barn and workshop."

Grandpa Liu was dumbfounded. He had never seen anything like this in his life. "Just what you built... at least one acre of land, and what you enclosed, plus the open space, is two acres."

"Yes. How many bricks do you think it will take?"

Uncle Liu is an experienced man. He estimated: "At least 120,000 bricks."

Wei stuttered, "120,000 bricks...how much...does that cost?"

"This needs to be calculated. Everyone, please come into the house."

Uncle Liu quickly led Ye Caiping and others into his large blue brick and tile house.

Aunt Liu looked at them with great excitement, what a big business!

She hurriedly served tea and water to Ye Caiping, Old Man Ye and others, and was very attentive.

Uncle Liu sat at the table, clacking at his abacus. After a long while, he said:

"120,000 bricks, that's 60 taels. But I'm afraid it's too much. If you really want it, I suggest you ask for 100,000 bricks first, which is 50 taels. If you really don't have enough, tell me in advance."

Ye Caiping nodded: "Okay."

As he said that, he turned around to look at Ye Erquan and Wei: "Where are my second brother and second sister-in-law?"

Wei's face turned pale a long time ago. The blue brick house is really too expensive!

Ye Erquan thought for a while and said, "Uncle Liu, please calculate for me. I also want to build a house. My family has 4 mu of land. It's a common ordinary yard."

Mr. Liu is more experienced: "At least 30,000 bricks, 15 taels. But you need to budget more, maybe it won't be enough, maybe you need to add another 1,000 or 2,000 bricks."

"Boss." Wei pulled his sleeve and whispered, "It's too expensive. Let's just build an adobe one. Adobe doesn't cost money!"

Ye Erquan frowned, feeling very nervous.

He wanted to build a blue brick house, but Wei was right, it was too expensive. You have to spend 15 taels more at once.

Old Man Ye said, "Second Brother, I think we should build a house with blue bricks. Caiping, what do you think?"

Ye Caiping said, "Building a house is a big deal, and it's where big money should be spent. Second brother's life will only get better and better in the future. If you build a mud house now, you will definitely regret it in the future. So if you want to build it, do your best to build the best."

She has seen too many people in modern times who just buy small houses.

Although he had money, he was reluctant to spend it. In order to save a few tens of thousands of dollars, he bought a small house.

But after I moved in, I saw other people’s big houses and felt that my own house was not good in this way.

If I sell the house and buy another one, I will still lose money, so I can only live here as is, and nothing is going well.

In her previous life, Ye Caiping would never remind people of such things, for fear that she would be blamed if something went wrong.

But Ye Erquan was her brother, and she wanted to help him, so she tried to persuade him with kind words.

As for Wei, his vision is indeed a bit short-sighted.

But she was not afraid of her complaints, because Ye Erquan's life would really get better and better. It will be fine once she sees it.

Old Man Ye also said, "Cai Ping is right. Er Quan, build a blue brick one."

Wei frowned, "Dad, little sister...the family's money still needs to be saved for Peng'er to marry a wife."

Old Man Ye choked. If Old Lady Ye was present, she might have scolded her daughter-in-law.

As a father-in-law, he was embarrassed to criticize.

Finally, he could only say, "Peng'er is only fifteen, it won't be too late to wait a year or two. Don't you two have wages every month? Why can't you earn enough for Peng'er's wedding?"

Uncle Liu also looked at Wei speechlessly and said with a smile: "If you have money, you will build it. Even if others borrow money, you will build it. Unless you really don't have the ability."

Ye Erquan nodded: "Let's build one with blue bricks! It will be done in one step."

Wei felt dizzy. The 30 taels in his hand had not even warmed up yet, but he had to spend most of it!

Ye Yinhua pulled her: "Mom... the blue brick house is so prestigious! It will be prestigious for my brother to marry in the future, and it will also be prestigious for grandma to come to our house."

Wei pursed his lips. That was right...

But it was not her turn to decide on this matter, so she nodded: "Yes."

Ye Erquan grinned with joy when he heard this.

Uncle Liu was even happier: "Then let's pay a deposit first."

Ye Caiping raised her eyebrows and said, "Wait. Uncle, we bought so many bricks, no matter what, you have to give us a discount, right? Where can you find big customers like us?"

Grandpa Liu's face froze: "Yes, yes, how about this, I will give each of you 500 bricks!"

Ye Erquan was very happy.

Ye Caiping raised her eyebrows: "500 bricks, isn't that just 250 coins? Do you really think I'm 250?"

"Well... young lady, what do you want to do?" Aunt Liu walked forward with a smile.

"Give me a 20% discount!"

"What is 20% off?"

"Give us a 20% discount!"

"What... this, this is too much." Mr. Liu and his wife changed their expressions, "No, no. We will cut it in half for you!"

"Reduce it by 15%." Ye Caiping said, "This order of ours is enough for you to lie low for two or three years, you have to make some profit. You are not the only brick and tile cellar in Dashu Town."

Mr. and Mrs. Liu looked at each other. Indeed, it was difficult for them to get even an ordinary small order, let alone a big order like this.

After all, in this remote and poor area, how many people would be willing to build blue brick houses? There are only two or three such houses in a village.

Uncle Liu said, "Okay, okay, I'll give you a 15% discount. I'll calculate the price for you."

Ye Erquan, Old Man Ye and others were all delighted.

Ye Caiping smiled and said, "It's a 15% discount, not bad."

Uncle Liu fiddled with the abacus for a while before saying, "Young lady, your 50 taels, minus 15%, is 42 taels and 5 cents. This brother originally had 15 taels, and now it's 12 taels, 7 cents and 5 cents."

As he spoke, Uncle Liu's heart felt like bleeding.

Aunt Liu also covered her chest with her hands, feeling like she was about to suffocate. In the blink of an eye, more than ten taels were gone.

Uncle Liu took a deep breath and said, "If it were someone else, we wouldn't give such a big discount. At most, we would round off the amount or give away a few hundred bricks."

He is telling the truth. Because most others are like Ye Erquan, building a four or five mu of land. Who is like Ye Caiping, who buys dozens of taels of bricks at once?

"By the way, after you bought the bricks, you must buy tiles, right? We have those too!" Grandpa Ye said expectantly.

He must earn back the more than ten taels he just lost! Small profits but quick turnover!