In earlier years, there were indeed well-made clothes, but those clothes were generally very expensive, and many had very limited sizes, making them difficult to fit properly.
On the contrary, clothes made from cloth, because they are cut to fit the body, are very close-fitting and popular among ordinary people.
If you ask the older generation, almost every village has a tailor like this.
It won't cost much.
Wang Tianxiao didn't know if the tailor had any machines that needed electricity, but since there were electric lights, they certainly didn't need kerosene lamps.
They should be considered suspects.
He is considered one of the suspects.
With three targets in mind, Wang Tianxiao handed over the tailor and the Xue family to Wang Dabao to handle. These two matters were minor; a little persuasion should resolve the issues, get them to repay the money they had advanced, and also get them to pay their electricity bills honestly.
However, Cao Hong's family definitely needs to come up with a solution.
That family is notoriously shameless; they'll basically never admit it unless you catch them red-handed.
Years ago, Wang Tianxiao once cut down a tree and painstakingly chopped the firewood and piled it neatly outside the gate, thinking it would be enough to burn for the whole winter.
But when they woke up the next morning, they found that all the firewood had been stolen, not a single piece was left.
And it even snowed lightly that night.
Following the clear footprints on Xiaoxue's clothes, Wang Tianxiao found Cao Hong's house. They had already burned a lot of firewood and put the rest on their own woodpile.
They insisted it belonged to them and that it wasn't stolen.
Wang Tianxiao was so angry that he had no way to deal with it.
He's so shameless, he just won't admit it. What can you do? Because every household does have those apricot trees.
Another time, one of Wang Tianxiao's chickens went out and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After searching around the manor without finding it, someone suggested going to Cao's house. When they arrived at Cao Hong's house, the chicken had already been killed and was half-cooked in a pot within half an hour.
What can you do with people like that?
Especially when they encounter honest people like Wang Tianxiao's family, they are completely bullied and have no way to deal with them.
Wang Tianxiao had always wanted to find an opportunity to teach this family a lesson. Since they had come to him, he wouldn't hold back.
Having made up his mind, Wang Tianxiao returned home, found Wang Tianxin and Wang Tianyi, and also called Wang Tianbao. The four of them waited until midnight and then sneaked to Cao Hong's house in the dark.
Tofu making usually takes place in the middle of the night, so Wang Tianxiao and his team rested briefly until after 2 a.m. before setting off.
Upon arriving at Cao Hong's pit-shaped courtyard, Wang Tianxiao quietly pointed down.
Sure enough, the lights were on.
Moreover, the brightness of that tofu shop was definitely not from a 25-watt light bulb; it must have been from a 60-watt or 100-watt light bulb.
However, Wang Tianxiao felt that even such a large light bulb wouldn't use much electricity, and the huge gap must have come from some high-powered appliance.
If I'm not mistaken, it's probably a blower.
In earlier years, people in Qingcheng used firewood to start fires, and the tool for starting the fire was a bellows.
There's a Chinese proverb that says "a mouse trapped in a bellows is suffering from both ends," which refers to this very thing.
The bellows requires pulling the lever repeatedly to continuously send air into the boiler. A new bellows is fine, but after a long time of use, it becomes very heavy, causing sore hands and arms to ache from pulling it.
Later, as living standards improved, especially after electricity became available to every household, people started using blowers.
It replaced manual labor.
However, it will be a year or two later for blowers to be widely used in people's homes. After all, electricity is too expensive. Everyone uses 25-watt lights, so how can they afford to use blowers with a power of several hundred or even thousands of watts?
In this day and age, labor is practically worthless.
If you can use people, you should never use money.
Making money is such a difficult thing.
Therefore, although blowers appeared at this time, they were mainly used by street vendors or restaurants.
Cao Hong's family traveled from state to state selling tofu, so they must have seen people selling blowers. I don't know where they learned the skills, but they not only knew how to use electricity, but they could also use blowers.
Even while stealing, he maintained a very good learning spirit.
"what to do?"
Although Wang Dabao was the team leader, the four of them clearly regarded Wang Tianxiao as their leader.
His two younger brothers would definitely listen to him, and Wang Dabao now completely obeys Wang Tianxiao, feeling that his cousin is really too amazing now.
Wang Tianxiao had two considerations in mind when he called on Wang Tianyi.
Firstly, he didn't want to continue the stalemate with Wang Tianyi.
Wang Tianyi is somewhat hypocritical, but regardless of the true intentions behind this hypocrisy, he is sometimes willing to help Wang Tianxiao with some things.
For example, when Wang Peng was admitted to university, Wang Tianyi took the initiative to give him 500 yuan and delivered it to his home.
Even though he quickly got the money back, the problem at the time was resolved after all.
Wang Tianxiao is that kind of person; he never forgets even the smallest kindness shown to him.
Based on this alone, he was willing to maintain a relatively stable brotherhood with Wang Tianyi.
We're not exactly close, but we're not exactly distant either.
That way, the children from both families will get along better in the future.
Otherwise, the relationship between the two sets of parents would be very strained, and the cousins would also find it difficult to get along.
The children in Wang Tianyi's family also had a difficult life.
The eldest son, Wang Tian, was either in his thirties or twenties when he died in a motorcycle accident. His wife ran away with someone else, leaving behind a son who was the same age as Wang Tianxiao's grandson. Because he had no parents to discipline him, he eventually became a petty hoodlum.
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