Chapter 38 Kiln Firing

After receiving the 20 yuan red envelope from the woman, Deng Shirong's wealth soared to more than 370 yuan. Now the man sent a thank-you gift, a 30 yuan red envelope plus the system's tenfold reward, which is 330 yuan. Counting the previous more than 370 yuan, he has a huge sum of more than 700 yuan.

With such a large sum of money, Deng Shirong felt that the time was ripe to build a house.

After all, building a house in this era is completely different from that in later generations. In later generations, labor costs accounted for nearly half of the cost of building a house, and there were even cases where labor costs were more than the cost of materials. But in this era, the labor cost of building a house is extremely low. You can call on relatives, friends, and villagers to help, and they just need to provide meals. You don’t have to pay any wages at all.

Therefore, Deng Shirong can invest all of the 700 yuan in purchasing building materials.

For most people, with such a large investment, they could build many mud brick houses, but for Deng Shirong, this amount of money was not enough to build the house he wanted.

Of course, then again, although he doesn't have enough money now, the house cannot be built all at once. It will take at least several months. Moreover, he can buy building materials on credit, so there is room for maneuver.

With these few months of buffer time, he can help with matchmaking everywhere. With the tenfold reward from the Matchmaker Reward System, he is sure to make a lot of money.

In addition, the first batch of goods from the tile factory is about to be loaded into the kiln. If everything goes well, it won’t be long before the tile factory starts to make money.

Because he was sure of the situation, Deng Shirong revealed to his children the news that his family was going to build a new house this month.

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In the countryside, no matter how successful you are in the outside world, if you don’t have a decent house in your hometown, the villagers will look down on you in their hearts even if they don’t say it on the surface.

Because no matter how well you do outside, no one can see it, but the whole village can see what your house looks like in your hometown.

Therefore, in later generations, those who made money outside or became officials, even if they could not return to their hometown three times a year, would spend a lot of money to build a beautiful house in their hometown. In this way, the villagers would know that you are doing well outside and it would be an honor to come back occasionally.

In his previous life, Deng Shirong's four sons were doing relatively well. Even the second son, Deng Yunheng, who embarked on the path of no return of gambling, made a name for himself in this evil way and lived a life that was envied by countless people.

The third brother, Deng Yunsong, became an official. He just retired the year Deng Shirong was reborn and enjoyed the treatment of a deputy director. It was quite amazing that he could get to this point without any family background.

The fourth brother, Deng Yunhua, did business and opened a fruit wholesale store in the county town, making a lot of money.

The fifth brother, Deng Yunheng, became a small contractor. He took on some work from the big contractors and could earn three to five hundred thousand a year. He was considered a boss-level figure in the village.

The four brothers were doing well outside. No matter they returned to live here or not, the house in their rural hometown could not be worse than others. So the four brothers pooled their money to build a pretty good house in their hometown.

The design of this house was made by the fifth son Deng Yunheng after he consulted his father Deng Shirong. Deng Shirong participated in the whole process. He lived in the house for nearly 20 years after it was built and he is very familiar with it.

When Deng Shirong wanted to build a house now, the first thing he wanted to do was to build it like the one in his previous life.

However, he could only think about it in his mind. Not to mention that he didn't have that much money to build such a house now. Even if he could come up with so much money, he had to pay attention to the impact in this era. After all, it was still the early days of reform and opening up, and many things had not yet stabilized. There was no need for him to be the first to take action.

Therefore, after much deliberation, Deng Shirong decided to build his new house with blue bricks and large tiles. This would not only meet his living requirements, but also not be too out of the ordinary. Most importantly, the cost would not be that high. When the time was right in a few years, he would not feel bad about tearing it down and rebuilding it.

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Three days later.

The tile factory began to install kilns.

Loading and firing the kiln are also technical jobs, which are usually done by the master craftsmen in the tile factory.

This master craftsman's status in the tile factory is second only to the boss. This does not mean that the skills of loading and firing the kiln are higher than those of making large vats, but that if there is a problem in any step of loading and firing the kiln, the entire kiln of goods will be scrapped, and the loss will make the boss heartbroken.

Therefore, it cannot be overemphasized how important loading and firing the kiln are.

Some tile factories have special master chefs who are responsible for loading and firing the kilns, while some tile factories have their own master chefs who are also vat chefs. The master chef of Deng Shirong's tile factory is none other than Deng Yungui, one of the bosses.

Deng Yungui was originally the master craftsman of the brigade's tile kiln, responsible for loading and firing the kiln. He was extremely experienced and had never made a mistake in all these years. With him in control of the overall situation, Deng Shirong was absolutely relieved.

Of course, loading and firing the kiln is not something that a master chef can do alone.

Loading a kiln is not a big deal, two people can do it slowly, it's just more tiring and time-consuming, but firing a kiln usually takes several days and nights, and the fire is not just in one place, so if you divide the work into two shifts, it will take at least seven or eight people.

When loading the kiln, Deng Shirong did not go to the tile factory.

Deng Shirong arrived at the tile factory only when the kiln was installed and ready to be fired.

On the day when the kiln was lit, the tile factory would offer sacrifices to Emperor Huaguang (it was said that Emperor Huaguang was a businessman, so all things related to business would be worshipped by him), and then prepare two tables of food and wine, just like the opening ceremony of movies in later generations.

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"Come here, Yungui, I toast you. Thank you for your hard work in the next few days!" Deng Shirong said as he picked up the wine.

Seeing that it was time to harvest, Deng Yungui was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Uncle Jiu, you are too polite. I am only responsible for the overall situation of firing the kiln. It is Yuntai and others who actually light the fire. It is not hard for me."

After they drank some wine, Deng Shirong asked, "Where are we going to sell this first batch of goods? Yungui, have you decided?"

Deng Yungui put down his wine bowl and said, "In the past, the goods from our brigade's kiln were all transported to Hepu County for sale. This time I don't plan to change. What do you think, Uncle Jiu?"

Deng Shirong swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "We can hold on to the first batch of goods first, but I suggest that when you transport the goods to Hepu to sell, don't rush back after you sell them. You can take the opportunity to go to Beihai to investigate the market and inquire about the price of tiles there. If it is higher than in Hepu, we can transport the second batch of goods to Beihai to sell."

Deng Yungui nodded repeatedly and said, "Uncle Jiu, how about this? After the first batch of goods is cooked, I will go with you to Hepu to sell them, and then we can go to Beihai together to investigate the market. How about that?"

Deng Shirong waved his hand and said with a smile: "I won't go. Let my son Yuntai go with you. You have been in the tile business for so many years. It's just a matter of investigating the market. It will definitely not be difficult for you."

Deng Yungui laughed and didn't mention it again. It was just a matter of investigating the market, which was really not that difficult.

After eating and drinking, Deng Yungui lit the first fire in the kiln in front of the crowd.

(End of this chapter)