Chapter 40 Amber

"Brother, I feel like you are very familiar with these, much better than I can say."

Walking out of the brick factory, eldest brother Lin Yue sighed.

"Brother, you just don't have enough practice. I used to walk around the city a lot, and I've seen a lot, so I can speak better."

Lin Heng smiled and said, when buying and selling things, don’t be afraid of bargaining, you need to be thick-skinned and talk more to determine the other party’s psychological price.

Never accept a price immediately after someone offers it, because that's the end of the matter. The other party will probably take advantage of you to kill you.

"Then I'll leave this kind of work to you from now on. I'm not good at it." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Just exercise more. We still need to go to town to buy nails, cigarettes, glutinous rice flour and other things. Let's put them on the carriage and take them back."

Lin Heng put his arm around his eldest brother's shoulder and said with a smile.

The two of them walked down the street talking and laughing, and the eldest brother Lin Yue went to buy some things his father asked him to do.

Lin Hengze wandered around out of boredom.

Huangtan Town is crossed by the Huangtan River in the center. There is a stone arch bridge in the center of the town. Market stalls are set up on the bridge and on both sides of the bridge.

The vendors selling pork, mutton, dried tofu, fruits and vegetables were all placed together, but Lin Heng was not interested in them.

However, he was very interested in a man selling animal traps nearby.

"Would you like to buy one? 50 cents each?" the boss looked at him and asked.

"No." Lin Heng shook his head, thought for a moment and asked again: "Do you have a slingshot leather rope here?"

"Do you want a medical pulse cuff?" the boss said with a smile.

"Do you really have it?" Lin Heng didn't expect that his casual question would turn out to be true.

The slingshot he had at home, made from a motorcycle inner tube, was not very powerful. It couldn't even kill a squirrel at a long distance.

"One dollar a stick, take a look."

The boss took out two yellow compression cuffs as thick as little fingers from a box.

Lin Heng took it and looked at it carefully. He did not find any small holes or other scars, and confirmed that this was a new pair of compression cuffs.

"One price, one dollar and fifty cents for two. I'll take them. If you don't sell them, I'll leave." Lin Heng put the things down and said.

"No... Never mind, come back and I'll sell it to you."

The boss was speechless. This thing was not easy to sell and Lin Heng really had the upper hand over it.

One dollar and fifty cents, Lin Heng paid a high price to buy the two compression belts. There was no other way, the price of this industrial product was just that expensive.

The previous slingshot couldn't kill a pheasant at a distance of ten meters, but with this one, there is absolutely no problem.

After buying this, he continued to wander around. On the riverbed under the bridge, he sold piglets and lambs, all of which were bred by the villagers themselves.

April and May are good times to buy piglets, but Lin Heng already has some at home.

I found a store and bought ten lollipops for my daughter Xiaoxia, spending five cents.

On the way to meet up with his big brother, Lin Heng suddenly discovered a man selling stamps.

I originally wanted to buy it, but then I thought, forget it, stamps will only be valuable in the future, and there is no point in exchanging them now.

"Uncle, can you give me a candy? I'll trade it with you!"

Suddenly, a little boy of six or seven years old came in front of Lin Heng and looked at him timidly.

He opened his slightly dirty little hand, and inside was an orange-yellow translucent stone.

Lin Heng took a closer look and found that it was actually a piece of amber with a ladybug inside.

"Where did you pick this up?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

This should be true. After all, in this day and age it is probably harder to make a fake one than to pick up a real one.

"By the river, I picked it up by the river." The little boy said, pointing to the Huangtan River.

"Are you sure you want to exchange it?" Lin Heng asked again. This small piece of amber was not worth much money, but it was a little more expensive than candy.

"Yeah!" The little boy nodded. He was tired of playing with this stone a long time ago.

"Okay then, I'll give you all five." Lin Heng gave him five lollipops.

Without saying thank you, the little boy ran away with the candy. Lin Heng saw him run to a little girl, give her the candy, and even asked her to kiss him before giving it to him.

"Alas, at such a young age, you have already learned how to coax girls." Lin Heng shook his head and smiled, finding it interesting.

I took the amber and looked at it. It felt smooth like a pebble, oval in shape, three centimeters high and more than one centimeter wide.

The inside is orange-yellow and translucent, and a red ladybug is clearly wrapped inside.

There is a lot of amber in the world and it's not very valuable, but it's still quite interesting to hold it, and it can be considered a small profit.

Then he bought ten more candies for his daughter Xiaoxia.

"Lin Heng, have you finished shopping?"

Seeing Lin Heng coming over, Lin Yue asked.

"I've finished shopping, but I didn't buy anything." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then let's wait together." Lin Yue nodded.

After waiting at the bridge for more than half an hour, I finally saw two horse-drawn carriages carrying pottery tiles coming over.

"Boss Zhao, we are here." Lin Yue greeted.

"Get in the car and lead the way." Boss Zhao said with a smile.

The two got on the carriage together. Although it went very slowly, they didn't have to walk at all.

There are only some big potholes on the road where you need to come down and help push.

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At noon, the rain stopped and the carriage arrived at the road below the Lin family.

Lin Heng led the way, and Boss Zhao took the first two workers to carry the goods together.

Seeing Wa coming back, Lin's father hurried over and took out the Daqianmen cigarettes, which he usually was reluctant to smoke, to entertain the guest.

After a few discussions, they enthusiastically helped unload the goods and move the tiles.

Lin Heng was too lazy to help, so he took a hatchet and chopped a slingshot fork and polished it carefully.

He was planning to go deep into the mountains soon. He had been wandering around in these low places all the time, but the gains were too little.

"Five hundred tiles have been moved, and the thirty pieces are broken. I'll keep them in mind and replace them all at once when I'm done."

Boss Zhao said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll pay the money after you move everything in." Father Lin nodded and sent the man to the street.

After lunch, Lin Yue was assigned to hire someone to help build the house at 50 cents a day.

Lin Hengze drew lines and scattered ash on the ground according to the drawings he designed, preparing to build the house the day after tomorrow.

"Carpenter Liang, can you make me some arrow shafts? The ones I made myself aren't very straight."

After finishing the work, Lin Heng found Carpenter Liang.

"Okay, can we use paulownia tree?" Carpenter Liang said indifferently.

"Can."

Lin Heng nodded. He also made a few with bamboo, but they still felt a bit heavy, probably because the bamboo was not dried well.

He had bought some tail feathers, and the feathers of the grouse he had killed before could also be used.

"I'll do it for you when I'm free!" Carpenter Liang said lightly.

During lunch, Xiulan came back, and Lin Heng grabbed her when she went into the bedroom to get something.

"What?" Xiulan turned around and looked at him.

"Save the thirty yuan I earned today." Lin Heng handed the money to his wife.

Xiulan was stunned for a moment. This was the first time since they got married that Lin Heng asked her to save so much money.

Made her feel like she was dreaming.

"Why don't you want it?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

Xiulan shook her head: "No, you can keep it for yourself, just don't spend it recklessly."

"Then kiss me and I'll keep it for you." Lin Heng smiled. He liked seeing his wife like this.

Xiulan blinked, a little embarrassed: "It's broad daylight, let's do it at night."

"No." Lin Heng shook his head.

Xiulan looked at the door and saw no one. She suddenly moved closer, pecked Lin Heng on the face, then turned around quickly with the money and put it in a small iron box of her own.

Lin Heng laughed and said, "After the house is built, I will go to the mountains."

Earthen houses in rural areas can be built very quickly. With dozens of people, it can be completed and covered with tiles in five days at most.

(End of this chapter)