Since the type and quantity of kilns to be purchased were determined yesterday, once we arrived at the factory, all that remained was to compare the performance of different grades.

This large kiln factory is the original place of origin for wholesale. Under the guidance of the person in charge of the factory, Shen Qingqing not only saw kilns of all shapes and sizes, but also saw how the simplest and most basic kiln was made.

However, she also saw the raw materials used to manufacture the old kilns that her family used to use in their porcelain kiln.

Truckloads of loess mud were used to build the old-fashioned earthen kilns.

Although modern kilns are much more convenient, some people still prefer the old-fashioned kilns, feeling that the fired items have a more unique charm.

Upon hearing what the person in charge said, Shen Qingqing lowered her head and smiled silently.

She had just overheard that there was still a price difference between building an earthen kiln and buying a modern one.

Nowadays, the old-fashioned earthen kilns only earn money from labor and raw material costs, and are not as expensive as the new-style kilns.

Therefore, some porcelain factories still prefer to use earthen kilns.

Upon hearing that Li Xunli and her group wanted to buy not only a gas-fired kiln but also an electric kiln, the person in charge's smile became even brighter.

After all, this is a big order!

Then Shen Qingqing followed the person in charge and saw what the electric kiln looked like now.

It wasn't much different from what she saw in videos on Bilibili in her later life; it was a square cuboid, the only difference being that it varied in size.

Some are vertical, some are horizontal; it all depends on the buyer's individual needs.

However, when you open the lid and look inside, you can see that each one is indeed not very large.

Even the smallest one can only hold one piece of porcelain.

Shen Qingqing could tell at a glance that her mother definitely wouldn't buy this.

As expected, after discussing with the construction team leader, Li Xunli decided that they would need three medium-sized gas-fired kilns, one large one, and three small and medium-sized electric kilns.

After agreeing on the price, I left an address with the person in charge and asked him to deliver it to the porcelain factory the next day.

It's not that we don't want to buy more, nor that the porcelain factory doesn't have enough space; it's that we don't have enough money.

When the total price was calculated, Li Xunli found that she was still short more than 50,000 yuan.

I need to borrow some money from Li Xunjin.

Originally, Li Xunjin wanted to buy it for Li Xunli directly, but Li Xunli stopped him.

She said if he refused to lend it, she would rather not buy it at all.

Having no other choice, Li Xunjin had to agree to lend the money to Li Xunli, promising to write and sign an IOU when he got back.

Because they bought the portable type, not the embedded type, the person in charge didn't have to worry about coordinating the kiln and the walls.

Half a month later, the Xunqing Porcelain Factory was finally completed!

The purchased gas-fired and electric kilns have all been moved in.

However, once the new factory is completed, a grand opening banquet is always a must.

Li Xunli and Li Xunjin didn't send out invitations widely; they only invited their own relatives, including Li Yuxing's relatives and Zhang Mingfang's relatives, setting up five tables in total. They also invited General Manager Zhang and Chen Man's family. They sent an invitation to Zhang Hengyun, but she was unavailable. Then there were all of Li Xunjin's clients who had signed cooperation contracts for several years. All in all, they set up ten tables in total.

It was held right here at the new porcelain factory because the space was big enough.

It was also to show their partners their current production capabilities.

Li Yuxing's relatives were actually her four other sisters and their families, while Zhang Mingfang's relatives were her six brothers and sisters and their families. However, two families lived far away, so they only sent gifts and did not come in person.

The adults each received their own guests.

The children didn't need any, so Shen Qingqing led them to gather together and open a bottle of Sprite. Each of them had a small glass and sipped it while waiting for the meal to begin.

Seeing the group of relatives she hadn't seen since her rebirth, especially her fourth uncle and fourth aunt, Shen Qingqing seemed to recall all the messy things that had happened in this family.

Fourth Uncle was the brother who looked most like his maternal grandfather, Zhang Mingfang.

Back then, it was during the period of mutual assistance between the countryside and the countryside. Her maternal grandfather was assigned to their village. He met her maternal grandmother there, got married and had children, and later settled there. So he also moved his household registration to Lijia Village. However, he did not change his surname, but he was registered at the Lijia Ancestral Hall.

This is why her mother and her uncle both have the surname Li.

Her fourth great-uncle came right after her maternal grandfather.

My maternal grandmother, Li Yuxing, had no male descendants in her family. All her daughters were married out of the family and there was no one who married into the family. When my maternal grandmother's parents passed away, there was no one to hold the memorial tablet and break the basin.

So, by chance, through marriage, the fourth uncle, who had come with the maternal grandfather, was adopted by the maternal grandmother as her son to continue the family line.

However, the formal naming convention will still follow the way it's called on the maternal grandfather's side.

Because of this relationship, my maternal grandmother took good care of my fourth uncle's family in her previous life, since my parents' memorial tablets were enshrined in my fourth uncle's house.

Unexpectedly, Fourth Uncle and Fourth Aunt were an unreliable and brainless couple who made all sorts of decisions about things in the village on their own, keeping them to themselves until things went wrong and the truth could no longer be hidden. Only then did they eagerly come to Li Yuxing for help.

Li Yuxing was furious, but she had no choice but to grit her teeth and deal with it.

As the saying goes, if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too; the couple's daughter and son are not exactly good either.

The eldest daughter was determined to marry into a wealthy family and secretly started dating a rich man behind her family's back. However, she was tricked into having a son and was told that she needed to have another son before she could get a marriage certificate and move in. As expected, the second child was a daughter.

Meanwhile, the man met a younger and more beautiful woman, and immediately disowned the two children, spending one million to sever the kinship and pay child support for the rest of his life.

As a result, before Shen Qingqing's rebirth, one of the children became extremely introverted, and the other went to jail for theft.

When Li Yuxing first learned about her niece's affair, she was so angry that she cursed her fourth uncle and his wife. But in the end, she couldn't resist their pleas and gave them a solution to clean up the mess.

Fortunately, their son did not do anything that would lead to such a terrible outcome for his children due to his laissez-faire parenting. However, after his wife contracted cancer while giving birth to his children, he openly brought his mistress, whom he had found after becoming wealthy, home to meet his parents.

When Shen Qingqing heard about this, her previous positive and amusing impression of her uncle shattered completely.

So when Shen Qingqing saw her fourth uncle and fourth aunt bringing her cousins ​​over with great enthusiasm, she felt an ominous premonition taking root in her heart.

The main problem was that she only heard her mother give a general account of what happened back then, and she didn't remember the specific timeline at all. So she didn't know what stage her great-uncle's family had reached in 2007, and what kind of financial difficulties were waiting for her grandmother to fill.