Chapter 41: For a bite of delicious food, it is worth working hard for a day

Brick and tile factory.

Deng Shirong explained his purpose and said, "I plan to build a large house with blue bricks and tiles. The building area is about 580 square meters. I need a lot of blue bricks and tiles. I wonder what the price of blue bricks and tiles is here?"

This was a big business, Deng Changbao was instantly excited, and greeted him enthusiastically: "Jiu Gong, come over here and sit down. There is a chimney here. You can light two cigarettes first. I will give you the best price for these blue bricks and blue tiles."

Deng Shirong nodded, and at Deng Changbao's invitation, he went to the factory to sit down and smoke some cigarettes.

While Deng Shirong was smoking, Deng Changbao introduced him, "Jiugong, I usually sell blue bricks for 5 or 6 cents a piece. Jiugong, you want so many, so I will give you the cheapest price, 4.5 cents a piece. What do you think?"

Deng Shirong exhaled his cigarette and said, "Four and a half cents a piece is no problem, but I want the best quality blue bricks."

Deng Changbao said with a smile on his face: "That's for sure. The blue bricks I give you, Jiugong, are guaranteed to be of the best quality."

Deng Shirong said, "I'll order 35,000 bricks first, and I'll make up for it if it's not enough. How much do you want for a tile?"

Deng Changbao said, "Mr. Jiu, I usually sell small green tiles for 1.8 to 2 cents per piece. I will charge you 1.5 cents per piece now."

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "I will first order 90,000 of these small green tiles. If they are not enough, we can make up for it later."

Deng Changbao smiled and said, "No problem. My brick factory has a kiln of green bricks to be fired. I wonder when you will need them, Jiugong?"

Deng Shirong said, "I will dig the foundation of my house on the 16th, and lay the brick foundation on the 21st. You can send it to me whenever you finish firing the green bricks in the kiln."

Deng Changbao hummed and said, "Okay, but the firing time of blue bricks is quite long. It will probably take at least until the end of the month to be fired. Once the kiln is opened, I will send the bricks to you, Jiugong, as soon as possible."

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "The end of the month is the end of the month. Anyway, I use stones for the foundation. Once the foundation is ready, I guess your kiln of green bricks can be connected as well."

Deng Changbao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good as long as it doesn't delay your progress in building the house, Jiugong."

Next, the two chatted about some details. Deng Shirong emphasized the issues of payment in batches and delayed payment, and Deng Changbao readily agreed.

After all, in Deng Changbao's eyes, Jiu Gong was not only highly respected in the Deng clan of Bangjie Brigade, but also one of the owners of the brick and tile factory. He would definitely get the money, and as long as it did not affect the operation of his brick and tile factory, it would not matter if the payment was made a little later.

After finishing the business and leaving the brick and tile factory, Deng Shirong went to Shuangwang again to inquire about purchasing cement.

If Deng Shirong wanted to build a building like that of later generations, he would need a large amount of cement. However, he chose to build a large blue brick and tile house, so the demand for cement was relatively small. It was only used when laying the foundation. After the ground was out and the blue brick walls were built, lime was used instead of cement.

This is not to say that lime walls are better than cement walls. The main reason is that Deng Shirong does not plan to paint the exterior walls. For the sake of beauty, blue bricks and white lime are the perfect match. If cement is used, the exterior wall will not be so beautiful.

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Building a house, whether now or in the future, is a very tedious task.

In the next few days, Deng Shirong was busy with this matter. For example, he organized people to move stones from the brigade's stone mountain and then pull them back with ox carts. He also had to organize people to pick sand from the river. The lime lake also had to be prepared and the lime had to be soaked in advance.

You don't have to spend money to buy things like stones and sand, you just need enough labor to get them back.

Now is the time when every household is busy planting rice. If it were other people in the village, it would be difficult to mobilize enough people to do these tasks.

Fortunately, Deng Shirong still has a good appeal in the village. After the word spread, more than a dozen young and strong people came to help.

This is already very awesome. After all, this is voluntary help without any pay. People don't even do their own work to come and help, so Deng Shirong naturally cannot treat them unfairly.

Paying wages is definitely not an option. It's not that he can't afford to pay, but he can't set a precedent. Now when someone in the village builds a house, everyone helps each other. If Deng Shirong pays wages this time, then when it's the turn of other people in the village to build a house, should they pay wages or not? Therefore, in order to avoid this embarrassing situation, Deng Shirong can't pay wages, so he can only work hard on eating.

So, from the day when the young and strong people in the village came to help, Deng Shirong prepared food for them in different ways every day.

In his system space, there are hundreds of kilograms of pork, five-flavor pork, pork butt, and braised pork. He also asked the children in the village to help catch fish, eels, snails, and frogs. With Deng Shirong's cooking skills and his willingness to use oil, the dishes he made are naturally delicious and the dozen or so young and strong people in the village almost swallowed their tongues.

It is no exaggeration to say that they have never eaten such delicious meals since they were young! Deng Shirong is also very good at cooking. He will prepare at least three meat dishes for each meal, but the portions of these three meat dishes are not enough for more than ten young men to cook casually. Of course, the portions are not too small, and they can be eaten with other vegetarian dishes to make them very satisfying.

In short, after eating the food prepared by Deng Shirong, the young and strong people worked with great enthusiasm, and stones and sand of all sizes were constantly brought back.

The news of how delicious the food at Deng Shirong's house was spread throughout Naye Village through word of mouth among the young and strong men, and even people from other nearby villages knew about it.

In later generations, many foodies would drive thousands of miles just to eat a dish.

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In this age when people can eat meat less than once a month, everyone’s desire for delicious food is definitely not comparable to that of foodies in later generations. For people today, being able to eat a bite of delicious food is very worthwhile, even if it means working hard for a day.

Therefore, after the news of Deng Shirong's family's food situation spread, several young and strong men came to work spontaneously.

If it weren't for the critical moment of transplanting rice seedlings, there would probably be more people coming to work.

In this regard, Deng Shirong accepted it all. It really couldn't be a better deal than providing meals in exchange for so much labor.

While Deng Shirong's family was busy, the first batch of goods from the tile factory was successfully shipped out of the kiln. Deng Yungui did not delay for a moment. He directly contacted the truck, loaded a full truck with goods, and went to Hepu County with Deng Yuntai to sell the goods.

At the same time, this trip also listened to Deng Shirong's advice and planned to go to Beihai after selling the goods to inspect the tile market there to see if the prices would be higher than those in Hepu.

Even if the price is the same, they have to open up more markets. After all, their tile factory will continue to ship products. If they just focus on the Hepu market, if sales are not smooth, then there will be big problems.

With cross-selling in other markets, there is no need to worry about this problem.

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