Later, five more parents of junior and senior high school students brought their children to see Teacher Xia.
From then on, Xia Shiyuan used the four hours of the incoming calls each day to teach these students.
The tutoring fees paid by the six students' families were enough to ensure that Teacher Xia's family of four had no worries about food and drink, and even had extra money for her spouse to see a doctor.
Leaving that aside for now, after Xu Chao acknowledged his teacher, the rest of the Xu family, seeing that the weather was hot and that they hadn't sold any clay stoves at their stall, decided to pack up early and go home.
As a result, two of the four people on the other side, who had sold almost everything, deliberately raised their voices and secretly mocked the Xu family.
"Sigh, it seems some people are still no good at business. Their business is not even half as good as ours who came later!"
"That's right, doing business also depends on luck. There's nothing we can do about it, we're just lucky, our customers like our products more!"
The Xu family members weren't angry when they heard this; they were just speechless.
"What kind of weird thing is making noise here!"
Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo weren't afraid of trouble. They deliberately raised their voices and cursed incoherently before carrying their things and walking towards the entrance of the building.
The two sarcastic people were angry after hearing this, but they didn't dare to actually go up and cause trouble for Xu Lai and the others.
When they got back today, seeing the unsold clay stoves, Xu Lai and the others decided to stop making them and take a day off until they had sold out.
The next morning, when the family brought their belongings downstairs, they saw four vendors selling clay stoves. Xu Lai and her family discussed it and decided to find a different place to sell their wares.
Fortunately, they had an electric tricycle, and Xu Lai used it to transport the several baskets of clay stoves he was carrying to the gate outside the residential area to set up a stall.
People come and go here, and there are even people from outside the residential area passing by the entrance.
Seeing that they were selling clay stoves, they actually sold out all fifteen of their clay stoves in one go.
So the group went back and brought the other half back, and in less than an hour, it was all sold out.
"Haha, Lai Lai is so quick-witted! Since there are people maliciously competing with us at the previous stall, we can sell here instead. Anyway, we have an electric tricycle!"
Grandpa Xu smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the bag full of work point cards.
From that day on, ever since the Xu family changed their business to selling clay stoves, their business has become exceptionally good again.
In just two to three hours each morning, they can sell twenty to thirty clay stoves, and even people from other neighborhoods come to place orders.
Xu Lai's family started selling clay stoves in the mornings, and spent the rest of their time, except for eating and sleeping, making clay stoves.
Because Xu Lai had space, they ran out of clay for making the clay furnace, so they went to the original location and dug up a lot of clay to put in the space.
This is much more convenient than the four colleagues working downstairs in their apartment complex.
After selling for about a week, the business inside the community was almost saturated, so Xu Lai and his group rode their electric tricycle to take the clay stoves to the entrances of other communities and even other streets to sell.
Xu Lai and his family even became famous in City C for selling clay stoves.
As the saying goes, "People fear becoming famous, just as pigs fear growing fat." Just as Xu Lai's family's clay stove business was booming, trouble also came knocking.
"Everyone, come and judge this! The clay stove we bought from this store cracked after only a few days of use! We paid a full ten work points for it, which isn't cheap at all!"
In no time, a large crowd of onlookers gathered around their stall.
Right in front of the stall, five people who were throwing tantrums were showing off a clay stove that looked just like the ones they made at home to the onlookers.
Under this extreme heat disaster, various facilities have not yet been restored, and ordinary people have no other entertainment options.
Since there was something interesting to see here, passersby stopped and gathered around to watch.
In an instant, customers who had come to choose a clay furnace put down what they were holding and joined the crowd of onlookers.
"Can we take a look at the clay furnace?"
Xu Lai walked over to the group of people who looked indignant and reached out to take the cracked clay stove from their hands to examine it.
When she took it, she made a point of looking at the expressions on those people's faces.
"Here you go, since you want to see it, then take a good look!"
These five people, three women and two men, all looked to be in their forties or fifties.
After Xu Lai took the clay stoves from the five men and examined them, he handed them to Old Master Xu and the others.
While inspecting the clay furnace, Xu Lai secretly glanced at the expressions of the five people.
She noticed that the five people were not panicked.
"It really is our family's clay stove!"
From the very first sample clay furnace that Mr. Xu made, he habitually carved a small double-person radical on the bottom side of the furnace to represent that it was a product of the Xu family.
If you're not one of their own, it's very difficult for outsiders to notice this characteristic.
When Xu Lai discovered the characteristics of the sample clay furnace, he specifically asked his second uncle for the reason.
After his second uncle explained, Xu Lai insisted that the clay furnaces in the back should also retain this feature.
Now it has been confirmed that these five clay kilns are indeed their products.
However, they added rice husks to the materials used to make the clay stove, which greatly increased the stability of the stove and prevented it from cracking.
The clay furnace made using this method will become more and more solid the longer it is fired, and it will not crack after only a few days.
Xu Lai remembered that her second great-uncle made a clay stove back in her hometown, which was still in good condition after several years of use.
Thinking of this, the group exchanged glances. It seemed that someone had deliberately come to cause trouble.
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