Lu Chaoli wanted to expand the pig farm and signed a big business deal with their brick kiln. Now he is a major customer of their brick kiln. The workers who saw him that day recognized him at a glance.

Lu Chaoli explained: "I have something to discuss with the factory director."

"The factory director is in the office. It's quite hot outside. Please go in!"

The workers working in the brick kiln were all sweating and their faces were tanned, but the smiles on their faces were simple, and they were still warm and welcoming even though they were panting from the heat.

Lu Chaoli went to the factory director's office yesterday. After learning that the factory director was in the office now, he took Jiang Li to the office.

“Knockknock——”

When Lu Chaoli arrived at the office door, he knocked on it. The factory director, who was sitting at his desk calculating accounts, answered without even raising his head.

"Come in."

Lu Chaoli pushed open the door, and cool air instantly came out of the room, dispelling the heat for him and Jiang Li.

Jiang Li's eyes lit up: "Air conditioning?"

Lu Chaoli turned his head and looked at her, then smiled and said, "Let's go in."

Lu Chaoli walked forward and lifted the door curtain for Jiang Li, allowing her to go in first.

"Factory Director."

Lu Chaoli greeted the factory director who was sitting at the desk. The factory director raised his head after hearing Lu Chaoli's voice.

"Xiao Lu? Come on, come in!"

The factory director sat up from his chair and looked at Lu Chaoli at the door with a smile. He was stunned for a moment when he saw Jiang Li beside him, and then waved to the two of them.

"Come on, come on, comrades, come and sit down!"

The factory director pointed to the sofa beside him, and then poured a cup of tea water for Jiang Li and Lu Chaoli.

Since there are many customers who come to the brick kiln to discuss business with the factory manager, the factory manager specially asked people to put several sofas and coffee tables in the office to facilitate conversations with customers.

Lu Chaoli and Jiang Li walked to the sofa and sat down. The cool air from the air conditioner instantly dispelled the dryness in their bodies.

"Come on, comrades, drink some water first. I'll go cut you some watermelon!"

"No, no, Director, please don't bother me. I came to see you to confirm the quantity of that batch of bricks and to take a break."

Lu Chaoli was honest and said directly that they came here to enjoy the air conditioning.

The factory manager laughed when he heard this: "Next time you come to town at noon and have nowhere to rest, come to my place. It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer. You can rest as long as you want!"

As he spoke, he took out a chilled watermelon from the refrigerator, cut it twice with a fruit knife, and placed it in front of Lu Chaoli and Jiang Li.

"Try it, the iced watermelon is so cool!"

The factory manager was afraid that they would be too polite, so he quickly took two pieces of watermelon and handed them to them.

Lu Chaoli knew that the factory director was a warm-hearted person, so he didn't refuse him. He took the watermelon from his hand and gave a piece to Jiang Li.

The factory director also sat down on the sofa, picked up a piece of watermelon, and while eating, he talked to Lu Chaoli about the batch of bricks.

"I just had someone count the bricks. There are 2,136 bricks in total. Xiao Lu, take a look and see if they are enough. If not, I will ask the kiln to work overtime and burn your batch first."

"More than two thousand?"

Lu Chaoli roughly estimated the number of bricks needed based on the size of the land they measured, and finally shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not enough, we need at least double it."

The factory manager's eyes widened and he sat up straight in an instant: "Four thousand, Xiao Lu needs four thousand bricks?"

The factory manager nodded quickly, not even bothering to eat the watermelon in his hand.

"Don't worry, Comrade Xiao Lu, I will let the brick kiln burn your batch of bricks first!"

This is big business!

Two thousand bricks are already enough, but I didn’t expect Comrade Xiao Lu to buy four thousand bricks at once!

The factory manager, who received such a large order for the first time, was so excited that he wanted to go to the brick kiln and make bricks with the workers! Lu Chaoli nodded and said, "Then I will pay for these two thousand bricks when we deliver the bricks tomorrow. Can the factory manager lower the price a bit?"

Now that he was here, Lu Chaoli mentioned the price of bricks.

It would be better if the price could be lowered a little more. If not, the current price is much cheaper than that of the other two brick kilns.

The factory manager smiled and said, "Since Xiao Lu wants to buy 4,000 bricks at once, I will lower the price a little bit. How about 1.9 cents per brick?"

"Then it's a deal! I'll come to the factory director to buy bricks when my family builds a new house!"

"Hahaha, okay, I'll be waiting for you anytime!"

The two smiled at each other, and the price of the brick finally dropped from 1.95 cents to 1.9 cents.

"Comrade Xiao Lu, don't stop, keep eating. Eat the watermelon to quench your thirst. I'll go calculate how much these two thousand bricks will cost!"

The factory manager pointed at the watermelons in front of the two men, stood up excitedly and walked towards the desk nearby.

Jiang Li had finished the watermelon in her hand, and there was some watermelon juice on the corner of her mouth. When Lu Chaoli saw this, he pulled a piece of paper from the table and handed it to her, then took the watermelon rind and seeds from her hand and threw them into the trash can next to her.

It was only natural for him to do all this for Jiang Li and take care of her meticulously.

"Still eating?"

Lu Chaoli took another piece of watermelon from the table and handed it to Jiang Li. Jiang Li waved her hand and said, "I don't want to eat it anymore."

"Then let's cool down here first, and when the sun goes down a little, we can go to the town to buy rice, flour, grain and oil."

Jiang Li nodded, took off her hat, and picked out the strands of hair stuck to her forehead.

Lu Chaoli looked at her with a smile. As long as he was with her, it was an extremely pleasant thing even if he did nothing.

“v zero v zero v v v zero——”

The sound of a calculator came from the front. The factory director pressed his fingers on the calculator twice and found that the calculator had malfunctioned.

"Hey, why doesn't it work at this time?"

The factory manager tapped the calculator twice again, and after making sure it was out of battery, he threw it aside.

"Come on, there's no electricity at this hour. Comrade Xiao Lu, wait a moment. I'll do the math."

The factory manager took out a pen and paper, wrote down the number of bricks and the amount of money required for each brick on the paper, and started to calculate with his head down.

The factory manager was used to using a calculator to do his calculations, so it was quite difficult for him to do mental arithmetic at this moment, and he made mistakes in the middle of the calculation.

He had slashed through half of the paper, and just as he threw the pen aside and went to the drawer to look for batteries, Jiang Li spoke.

"That's forty dollars, fifty-eight cents."

After Jiang Li finished speaking, the factory director also found the batteries in the drawer. He replaced the batteries in the calculator, pressed a few times with his fingers, and the number he calculated was exactly the same as what Jiang Li said.

"Oh, Xiao Lu, I didn't expect your wife to be such a cultured person!"