"First, this method of making bricks was not invented by me alone. You should treat those who came up with it with you well.
Secondly, I don’t care about the future profits of the brick kiln, but you need to distribute it equally to everyone. You cannot be partial, and the capable ones must be in the top positions.
Thirdly, I will try to help you get the documents for setting up the factory, but the bricks produced in the first two days of firing in the kiln must be used by me first. From the third day onwards, you can distribute the bricks for your own use or other purposes.
If we can do that, we can sign an agreement based on these terms in duplicate, so that neither party will deny their commitment later."
Whatever Li Guang thought, the team would make money this way! Wasn't this a free gift from the leader?
"You are such a good leader! You are the lucky star sent down to our team by the higher-ups!"
"Since you agree, let's not waste any more time talking. Just pick a vacant site, and we'll include the site in the agreement to avoid any further trouble in the future."
Bai Lu struck while the iron was hot, fearing that Li Guang would discover something wrong...
Jun Jing was very quick-witted. He originally thought that it would be faster to just buy the bricks. However, Bai Lu's words clearly left a trap. Once the names on the paper were signed, she mentioned that the Xu family were the ones who came up with the idea of making bricks. It was written in black and white. The captain had nothing to say and must treat the Xu family well!
My wife is really meticulous in her work, and she always takes ten steps at a time...
After finding a pen and paper, Bai Lu signed two copies of the agreement. She folded the agreement and put it in Jun Jing's coat pocket. "Don't lose this important thing."
Jun Jing: ...
I am my wife's pocket.
"Okay! There is a vacant lot to the north of the cowshed in Lijia Village where we can build a brick kiln. I'll ask everyone to gather there?" Li Guang felt very at ease holding the agreement in his hand.
"Okay, he and I will go first." Bai Lu glanced at Jun Jing, and the couple left first.
After returning to the cowshed to find some unchopped firewood, Bai Lu used the wood to make a template, and finally made a round wooden hammer for the wooden template. His third uncle Xu Zhiren found it interesting and came to help. By the time everyone in the village gathered in the air, four templates had been made.
"Uncle San, please make a few more according to this. There is a huge demand for this." Although they had only met for a short time, Bai Lu did not feel unfamiliar with her uncles at all.
Xu Zhiren agreed, and Bai Lu and Jun Jing went to the open space.
Li Guang and his men had already arrived. Bai Lu first took the prepared molds and went over to make normal bricks. Strength lies in numbers. In just an hour or so, they had made about a thousand molds and covered the ground.
"Come on, build the brick kiln! Let's build the brick kiln before the afternoon! We can produce bricks in the afternoon, and we can see finished bricks tomorrow morning." Bai Lu said, and the men in charge started to build it.
Bai Lu directed and instructed a row of 12 brick kilns, "High yield, high quality, and low energy consumption—kiln operation is crucial! Don't forget the eight key steps, and remember the three preventive measures..."
Everyone: ...
We are just brick makers, why do we need to endorse books?
Xu Zhiyi, who was watching from the sidelines, realized that no one understood and said to Bai Lu, "It's not spoken in plain language, no one can understand."
Bai Lu was being unreasonable. "Then explain yourself. I've already taught them how to make bricks, and now I have to give lectures?"
Xu Zhiyi: ...
"Second son of the Xu family, if you understand, tell us what these words mean. Haven't you read a lot of books?" Li Guang felt that Bai Lu deliberately wanted Xu Zhiyi to show up and add fuel to the fire.
Xu Zhiyi forced the issue and translated the jingle into more colloquial language, and everyone got it!
"Don't say that! People who have some knowledge of culture are different from us rough guys!" Someone started to make a fuss, and everyone followed suit.
Xu Zhiyi has been here for a few years. This is the first time he has been praised by these villagers. He subconsciously looks at Bai Lu.
However, Bai Lu was squatting on the ground, playing in the mud with a group of children. The key point was, Jun Jing was helping them play in the mud!
Xu Zhiyi opened his mouth, then closed it, saying nothing. His niece had come as a leader, so he couldn't say anything about her in front of so many people. Besides, she seemed quite happy...
The man in his forties squatted next to Bai Lu for some unknown reason and watched her play in the mud.
Xu Zhiren finished the model and brought it over. Seeing his second brother and Bai Lu squatting on the ground, he also came over and squatted beside them, watching Bai Lu play in the mud...
The old man saw that his two sons had not returned after going out and were squatting on the ground with Bai Lu in the distance. He thought something had happened, so he asked the fourth son Xu Zhizhi to go and take a look. Then, the fourth uncle followed to watch Bai Lu playing in the mud.
There was a row of clay figures standing on the ground.
Bai Lu told the children a story, "Nuwa blew a breath of fairy air at these clay figures! The clay figures became you!" Then she touched the clay in her hand on the children's faces...
Instantly, all the children started to make a fuss, their hair and faces disheveled. Bai Lu was carried back to the cowshed by her three uncles...
Xu Yuzhen looked at his granddaughter and suddenly stood up. "What's going on? Was she bullied? Who did this?"
The eldest, second, and third uncles didn't dare to say a word. Bai Lu's hands were covered in mud, but other children's faces and heads were covered in mud! It was clearly her niece who bullied other children.
Bai Lu didn't mean to bully those kids. She was just so angry that a few kids stepped on the bricks that had been made and even broke a brick mold. That's why she gathered all the kids together to tell them stories, just to make them look dirty and make their parents clean up after them when they got home!
But she never thought that she would be punished when she returned home.
"She was teaching the children how to make bricks. Don't be angry, Grandpa. It's all serious business." Jun Jing said nonsense seriously.
"Is that so?" Xu Yuzhen glanced at his three sons.
The uncles nodded in unison, no one objected.
That group of naughty kids had come to the cowshed to steal things many times before. Although the Xu family had many men, they were all scholars, not just strong laborers. In addition, Xu Nuo was never allowed to go to the fields on weekdays, and she was never allowed to do anything other than housework. Then there was Xu Yuzhen. There were six people in the family, and four of them earned work points, so they were not rich.
Last year, Xu Zhili brought some wild vegetables from the mountains. A child saw them and brought the villagers to accuse the Xu family of fleecing the public by indiscriminately digging up publicly owned wild vegetables.
In short, the Xu family has no good feelings towards the people in the team, and the people in the team will do everything they can to suppress the Xu family and will never let them go.
Today, although it was a minor fight, after the chaos and Bai Lu's escape, those kids started fighting wildly, and they were bound to get punished afterward...
Bai Lu had lunch at the educated youth's place at noon. She didn't see Gu Mo, and she felt relieved knowing that he was not from the same team.
After dinner, on the way back to the cowshed, Bai Lu told Jun Jing about her previous encounter with Gu Mo. "When I left, they encountered a pack of wolves. I don't know if he was taken away by the wolves. If not, we have to find a way to bury him."
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