096: We are going to make money
Du Lianxi knew that the two brothers were relatives of statistician Li Dasong.
The Ninth Company was not large, and everyone was familiar with each other. If a stranger came to someone's house, everyone else would know clearly.
Du Lianxi heard that the two young men carried axes to chop firewood all day long, so he suddenly wanted to buy their firewood.
It just so happened that one wanted to buy and the other wanted to sell, and the price was reasonable, so they reached an agreement in a short time.
After Du Lianxi returned with the hatchet, Yu Erye excitedly grabbed his elder brother's sleeve:
"Brother! Brother! We need to make money!"
Yu Daye finally smiled:
"Yeah, second brother, there is always a way out. We are going to make money."
"When we make enough money, I can go home and marry Cuihua!"
Yu Daye suddenly raised his arm and slapped Yu Erye on the head:
"I told you, don't mention Cuihua to me anymore! You keep talking about Cuihua, Cuihua, Cuihua all the time. Why don't you just go back to your hometown and marry into their family?"
Yu Erye covered his head with his hands in grievance, tears welling up in his eyes from the pain, and sobbed:
"I think their family doesn't want a son-in-law who marries into the family."
"I----"
Yu Daye angrily slapped him again.
Damn it, this useless idiot will be pissed off to death sooner or later!
"Let me tell you right now, the money you earn from chopping wood is with me. No one can touch it, and don't even think about taking advantage of it!"
Yu Erye murmured boldly:
"Why? We chopped the wood together, so we should each get half. Why should we give it all to you?"
"Why? Because I'm the eldest in the family! In ancient times, people still respected the order of seniority. It's only natural for me to help you save money. Besides, how much money can you make from selling firewood? Do you really expect to make money from cutting firewood to marry a wife? Do the math yourself. A bundle of firewood weighing 20 kilograms only sells for 1.1 cents. How much firewood do you have to cut to get enough money to marry Cuihua? Do the math yourself?"
Yu Erye is really a simple-minded person. When asked to calculate, he actually started to calculate.
He had asked someone to do the math before. How much money would he need to earn to marry Cuihua?
Answer: At least eighty yuan!
We also need at least 40 kilograms of food and two big roosters!
If a bundle of firewood sells for 11 cents, how many bundles of firewood do I need to sell to save up 80 yuan?
How many?
????
My brain is like a pot of thick cornmeal paste.
Oh, it’s so troublesome, I can’t calculate it. It would be easier to calculate if I sold it at ten cents. One cent per bundle, and one hundred bundles would be eighty.
But it's only 1.1 cents, what the hell am I worth if I get one extra cent?!
Yu Erye was confused here. Seeing his bewildered look, Yu Daye was furious:
"Stop being silly here, go!"
"Oh!" Yu Erye turned and walked out.
However, Yu Daye was walking in the opposite direction. Yu Erye turned around and saw his elder brother heading towards the company and said:
"Brother, you're going the wrong way. Aren't you supposed to be chopping wood? Why are you going back to the company?"
Yu Daye snorted coldly and calculated:
"We've chopped a lot of firewood these days, so let's sell it today."
"Ah?" Yu Erye was shocked. "Is this even possible?"
"Why not? Let's use it first, and then cut it and sell it later. Just don't let the Li family find out. Hurry up, don't dawdle, keep up!"
"oh oh!"
Yu Erye habitually followed the boss's arrangements.
Whatever the boss says, we do.
The two brothers returned to company headquarters and hid outside, peering into the Li family's courtyard. No one was there. Cai Honghua, carrying her hoe, had gone to her private plot. The Li family had opened up a plot nearby and had been busy planting pumpkins and winter melons. Cai Honghua knew the brothers were out chopping wood at that hour, so she left the house without worry.
The two brothers took the opportunity to sneak back to the yard.
Outside the kitchen, there was a pile of firewood against the wall.
There are also a lot of them in the kitchen.
Since the two brothers arrived at the Ninth Company, they have been chopping wood all day long. Although they are a bit perfunctory, they have still saved up a lot of wood over such a long time.
Yu Daye looked at the firewood, a hint of cunning in his eyes:
"Let's take out this firewood and sell it today. Pick out the good ones. We only cut small branches before. They said they don't want branches, so we'll just pick out the thick sticks. We'll take all the sticks out and sell them, and leave the small branches for them to burn."
"But what if their family finds out?"
"Who cares about this? Just take it!"
As he spoke, Yu Daye began to collect firewood, picking only the thicker ones.
But these firewoods still need to be weighed. A bundle weighs twenty pounds. They know how much twenty pounds is, so they have to borrow a scale to weigh it, otherwise it would be bad if they are short of something.
Yu Daye turned around and went out again. He went to a nearby house and borrowed a scale from them. He lied and said that someone from the Li family needed it. The family didn't suspect anything and lent it to him directly.
Yu Daye didn't know how to use a scale, so he specifically asked where the mark for 20 jin was.
When someone told him which rope weighed twenty pounds, Yu Daye pinched that spot with his fingernail, and went back with Yu Erye to weigh out twenty pounds of firewood.
However, he couldn't borrow a scale every time he sold firewood. Yu Daye came up with another idea. He weighed out another 20-jin portion of firewood and kept it for comparison next time.
At that time, it can only be more than this one, not less than this one, so there is no need to borrow a scale anymore.
In order to verify my idea, I did an experiment.
He bundled up some firewood based on his feeling and found a bamboo pole.
Yu Daye didn't understand physics, let alone the principle of leverage, but he did have some basic common sense.
He found a spot in the middle of the bamboo pole and hung the weighed twenty-jin firewood on one side, and the unweighed firewood on the other side.
The distance between the two sides is one
Sample length.
In this way, whichever side is heavier will fall down.
Whichever side is lighter will be raised.
Make sure that the newly bundled firewood falls down slightly to prove that it is weighed enough.
I put the compared firewood on the scale and weighed it, and it was indeed twenty kilograms.
That's great! I finally found a way to solve the weight problem without using a scale.
Yu Daye asked the second brother to return the scale, and he tidied up the pile of firewood himself, deliberately placing it a little messy so that it would appear more abundant. If the people in the Li family didn't pay attention, they would not notice that sixty kilograms of firewood were missing.
Yu Erye returned the scale and came back. Seeing that no one was at home, the two brothers secretly carried three bundles of firewood out of the yard and carried them to a big and dense pine tree outside.
This pine tree looks to be at least thirty years old. It has a dense crown and pine needles hanging directly to the ground. I guess no one usually comes here.
The two men came in carrying firewood, and the pine needles pricked their faces and heads, causing them pain.
But after getting inside, there are many gaps between the branches.
So they put the firewood on the branches.
In case someone bored enough to sneak in for a tryst, or a child sneaks in to play hide-and-seek, the two of them deliberately climbed higher, put their feet up high, and broke off a few branches with pine needles as a cover. This way, even if someone sneaked in and looked up, they might not be able to see what was wrong.
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