The three families have a good relationship, and they are all trustworthy partners. They are all doing well, and they are able to take care of each other.
So whether it was the Lu family selling ice bricks or the Xu family selling clay stoves, Old Master Xiao and Li Qingya were not jealous at all.
After discussing the clay stove business, everyone turned their attention to two buckets filled with honeycomb briquettes.
"This bucket of honeycomb briquettes is quite heavy!"
Xu Haiguo, who was the first to receive the bucket from Grandpa Xiao, lifted the bucket of coal and couldn't help but say something.
"That's right, this bucket of honeycomb briquettes contains twenty-one pieces, which is enough for each household for a week!"
Before anyone could ask, Xu Chao took the initiative to report the amount of coal he had received.
"No wonder the neighborhood group chat reminded everyone yesterday to bring a big bucket to collect it!"
The group chatted as they carried their two buckets of honeycomb briquettes home.
After each harvest, the Xu family carefully placed the stalks and leaves of the crops on the land in the space to dry in the sun, and then bundled them up and stored them in the space warehouse.
The space warehouse where firewood is currently stored now has plenty of dried potato vines, rice straw, wheat straw, corn stalks, etc., enough for their family's use.
Therefore, Xu Haiguo placed the honeycomb briquettes he received directly in a corner of the kitchen.
Let's see what we've got today!
After putting their things down, everyone went into the air-conditioned room and poured the work points they had earned from selling clay stoves or the goods they had bartered out of their bags onto the floor.
Xu Lai and Song Qiu'e quickly moved a bunch of work point cards aside and counted them.
The work point cards had some with 20 work points, some with 5 work points, and some with 1 work point. The mother and daughter counted them and found they had a total of 126 work points.
This is the price of thirteen clay kilns. Two of the families were in dire straits and had been lowering their prices. Song Qiu'e secretly reduced their work points by two.
The other two people who bought clay stoves traded for other items.
One of them was a teacher and had a lot of books at home. He first discussed with Xu Lai and the others, saying that he would go home and bring a classic book to exchange for it.
Xu Lai thought about how the only dozen or so novels in the house had long been messed up by her and her brother in order to pass the time.
So we discussed it with the teacher and chose a famous novel that we didn't have at home.
Another person, who used to be a wholesaler of work safety supplies, replaced his clay stove with two new pairs of work gloves.
They hadn't thought about gloves and other small items when they were stockpiling them, but now these two pairs of work gloves are coming in handy.
"Today's harvest was indeed quite good!"
The five of them earned an average of 29 work points each.
After careful calculation, considering the cost of materials, one day's labor, and two days of drying time, it's actually quite good.
For the second and third days, their clay stoves were in short supply.
People from other nearby communities even came specifically to buy clay stoves.
After selling the clay stoves, Song Qiu'e took the initiative to discuss with her family whether they should expand the business, hire more people, and make the business bigger and stronger.
Thinking of the few people who had been glancing at their stall from time to time these past two days, Xu Lai smiled and said to Song Qiu'e, "Mom, let's wait a few more days and see. Maybe business won't be as good in a few days!"
"Pah, pah, pah! What nonsense are you spouting, child? Who would worry about their own business not doing well?"
Song Qiu'e had been watching her family make a fortune these past few days and was full of expectations for this business, when suddenly things went wrong.
Xu Lai couldn't help but smile when she saw her mother's hesitant expression.
Everything depends on tomorrow.
On the morning of the fourth day, when Xu Lai and his family brought the newly dried clay stove downstairs, there were eight or nine other stalls near where they usually set up their stall. Four of them were selling the exact same thing as them – clay stoves.
However, three of their clay kilns looked rougher than Xu Lai's, while the last one's clay kiln looked quite good.
Xu Lai scanned all the people who had set up stalls here.
Besides the clay stove vendor, three of the other five vendors sell a variety of miscellaneous secondhand household items, including secondhand children's shoes and old children's clothes.
There were also the two people who traded their clothes and work gloves for a clay stove when they first set up their stall.
The middle-aged bespectacled teacher who traded classic novels for a clay stove was probably too embarrassed to shout loudly. He had written down what he was selling on a thick cardboard sign in front of his stall: classic novels for rent and some picture books for beginners.
The price is half a work point per book per day, and one work point is awarded for reading for two days.
For the safety of the books, anyone who rents books must sign the rental form and write down their ID number and specific address.
To Xu Lai and his companions' surprise, at a time when work points were hard to earn, quite a few people came here to rent books.
Grandpa Lu and his daughter were out for a stroll when Leng Jia also brought her daughter to rent several children's picture books.
Next to this bespectacled teacher is the same guy who traded work gloves for a clay stove yesterday. His stall is full of work gloves, safety shoes, safety helmets, protective glasses, protective masks, and safety ropes, etc.
These items are naturally much more expensive, but still much cheaper than those in government supermarkets.
As a result, several people were squatting next to his stall, picking and choosing, and haggling over prices.
Originally, Song Qiu'e was looking forward to making a fortune before going downstairs. However, when she saw that there were four competitors on this road, her excited heart instantly turned into anxiety.
Moreover, judging from their soliciting voices, a clay stove only costs seven work points, while another one costs a full three work points less.
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