Chapter 132: Pulling Orders

After Big Brother Lu left, Lin Shu asked Jiang Weidong and her second sister to help grind rice paste in the afternoon.

The rice was soaked until it broke into pieces when squeezed, and then ground into rice paste and left to stand to make rice flour. Then, old dough starter was added to ferment, and then an appropriate amount of flour was mixed in.

In order to cater to the taste of the old lady, Lin Shu added sugar.

After fermentation, red dates, candied dates, peanuts, chestnuts and the like can be added to the pot and steamed.

She steamed eight of them, each weighing about one pound.

She prepared to give Jiang Weidong three to take back to Old Lady Jiang, one to Lin's mother, and one to Big Sister Lu's family. They still sent food and oil to her home regularly, and although her family gave money, she also benefited from it.

Send another one to Fang Dihua's parents' home, and ask Lu Ping to ride his bike to deliver it.

Keep two for yourself.

Oh, by the way, you have to send two small pieces to old lady Jie.

Rice, sugar, red dates, chestnuts, peanuts, so many good things, she prepared these things without telling her mother-in-law, and was scolded after being discovered.

Even if you are not moved, you have to know how precious these things are!

In the evening, Lin Shu cut rice cakes for everyone to taste.

Local people rarely eat rice, after all, they don't produce it themselves, and the price of rice is not worth it.

This rice cake exudes a sweet rice fragrance, mixed with the aroma of red dates, chestnuts, and sugar. One sniff makes people feel like floating in the air, and one bite is really unforgettable.

Second Sister-in-law Lu had never eaten such delicious steamed cakes. When I gave her a piece, she was still bragging about it.

After taking a bite, she thought it was so delicious. She had never eaten it before and wanted to take it back for her mother to taste.

Then there was no more. She took a second and third bite until she finished eating. She was still thinking about Lu Cuicui.

Lu Cuicui curled up and pretended not to see it. She ate it by herself.

Because it was a valuable thing, Second Brother Lu didn't want it at first, so there was no extra to share with Second Sister-in-law Lu and Lu Cuicui.

After all, this was not something from the family. It was brought by the third brother's wife and the second sister and the partner. His wife and children had eaten it, so he saved that one bite.

Give it to Panpan and Tiantian.

However, Panpan still stuffed a mouthful of food into Second Uncle's mouth, watched him chew and swallow, and asked him: "Second Uncle, is it delicious?"

Second Brother Lu smiled and said, "It's delicious, don't tell Hu Zi and the others, they will cry."

Panpan was satisfied, this was the effect she wanted, she wanted to make them cry!

Second Sister-in-law Lu felt uncomfortable, but she didn't dare to show it in front of Jiang Weidong, the distinguished guest. She just felt aggrieved.

Her mother-in-law didn't support her wish to be the director of the women's department. Now she wanted to help make incense at home without going to the fields, but her mother-in-law didn't say anything. She was really suffocated.

Jiang Weidong and Lin Xia looked at Panpan and Tiantian eagerly. Why are these two children so popular?

They are simply two little treasures. They are so warm and enthusiastic to everyone and will not leave anyone in the family behind.

Even Lu Cuicui and Lu Ersao, they care about them from time to time.

Of course, if they don’t appreciate it and respond coldly to them, they will realize it and will not release too much enthusiasm.

Jiang Weidong secretly looked at Lin Xia: Such a good child, I want it.

Lin Xia also wants it. She understood the meaning in Jiang Weidong’s eyes. Although she is not a shy person, she also felt her cheeks a little hot, and turned her head to talk to Lin Shu.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "I can vaguely hear the cicadas chirping. Do you want to go find the cicada monkeys?"

Jiang Weidong wanted to go with Lin Xia, but he and Lin Xia were just dating and had not yet married. It was not appropriate for them to go out together at night, as it would easily lead to people gossiping about her.

Lin Xia refused to go, saying that she had touched a scab when she was a child and felt sick for a long time, so she didn't like to find cicada monkeys anymore.

Jiang Weidong whispered to her, "I will bring a flashlight with you to find them in the future. It will be bright and you won't get scared if you touch one."

After dinner, Fang Dihua discussed family matters with Old Man Lu and Second Brother Lu.

Fang Dihua: "The south room is too small, and it is too frustrating to be used as an incense making room. The second child has to bend down to walk around in it, and it is easy to bump his head accidentally. The party secretary said that the brigade is willing to help us, and we can build two new tile houses after harvesting the wheat."

It is not easy to build half-meter-thick earth walls like the old house. Nowadays, it is basically made of adobe and blue bricks, which is easy, fast, and beautiful in appearance, but it is not as warm in winter and cool in summer as the old house.

Father Lu: "Then I'll go to the commune's eldest daughter's house tomorrow and ask her in-laws to help talk to the kiln owner about ordering three loads of blue bricks and getting a few large foundation stones."

The brigade supported some blue bricks and adobe, but it wasn't enough to build two houses, so the boss had to buy it himself.

There is a kiln factory in the commune, but the bricks and tiles are in great demand and people have to queue up to buy them, so he found someone to buy them back as soon as possible.

In addition, he killed a few more trees to the east of his house and contacted people to exchange for dried wood that can be used directly as beams and purlins. The trees he killed at home need to be dried for at least a year or half a year and cannot be used immediately.

He exchanged one of the trees he killed earlier, and the rest are almost enough.

In addition, he had to find someone to level the sorghum stalks and find women to help tie the sorghum bundles, which are used to replace the rafters.

The locals use sorghum stalks to tie them together and make long bundles in the shape of a human. When the time comes, they will be directly placed on the ridge of the roof, and then covered with thick yellow mud and tiles.

Such a house is warm in winter and cool in summer.

Nowadays, farmland is basically collective, and it is not easy for families who want to build a house to collect so much sorghum stalks. They have to plant sorghum in their own plots, make an appointment with close relatives and friends to let them plant some for them, and apply to the production team for more stalks when the crop stalks are distributed after the autumn harvest.

Sorghum is a treasure from head to toe, and sorghum stalks can be used to weave mats, so the production team will not distribute all of them to member families.

It is really not easy to build a house by yourself, and it takes at least ten years to save.

Jiang Weidong said goodbye after breakfast the next day.

He did not visit the Lin family this time because he could see that Lin Xia was a little resistant. She didn't mind taking him to the third sister's house, but she seemed a little hesitant to meet her parents.

Since she was hesitant and not ready, he naturally would not force her, as there was a long way to go.

He is not in a hurry to get married after so many years of not getting married. He values ​​the sweet feeling of being with the person he likes more.

He hopes Lin Xia will treat him the same way.

Lin Shu hurriedly loaded his car with things, including steamed cakes, homemade millet, pickled Chinese toon sprouts, salted duck eggs, and various pickles.

Oh, and there was also soybean paste from the spring, which was still drying in the soybean paste jar, but it could be scooped out and eaten.

The soybean paste that was drying was similar to the bean paste that you buy today, but it was stickier and more delicious.

After drying, it could be molded into soybean paste balls.

Old lady Jiang liked this, so Lin Shu pretended to be nice to her and told Jiang Weidong: "Tell the old lady to eat less salty food and more vegetables."

Jiang Weidong agreed one by one, "I said she thought my grandfathers were nagging, and my third sister said she liked to hear that you cared about her."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Okay, I will talk to the old lady more in the future."

Jiang Weidong: "Don't worry, your sanitary incense is very good, it will definitely sell well, and there will be orders in the future."

Lin Shu thanked him and asked her second sister to see him off.

Lin Xia got in the co-pilot and sent Jiang Weidong to the village entrance.

Originally, when the villagers saw such a rare thing as a jeep, they would definitely chase and watch.

But this is a relative of the Lu family, and they all gave Lin Shu face, and it was not good to watch monkeys like watching people, so as not to disgust people.

Besides, the team leader just passed by and shouted that Director Jiang was the major customer of their team's incense factory. He could make money for the team and no one was allowed to offend him.

If anyone offended the major customer and caused the team to lose business, he would break his lackey's legs!

So they just watched secretly and didn't come forward to watch.

Jiang Weidong drove out of the village, parked the car on the side of the road, and smiled at Lin Xia: "Remember to eat on time. If you run out of charcoal, give me a call and I'll send it to you."

Lin Xia hummed, "I will eat well and won't do that again."

That time was really uncomfortable.

Jiang Weidong looked at her quietly. She looked much better than before the divorce. She was more cheerful and smiled, and there was tenderness between her eyebrows.

He was very relieved.

Lin Xia met his eyes and thought he wanted to do something, so she reached out and held his big hand that was holding the steering wheel, and reminded him: "Drive carefully on the road, don't rush."

​​This was the first time they held hands.

Jiang Weidong's heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably.

He held her hand back. Her hands were beautiful in shape, but because she had been working hard, there were many scars on her hands, and there were also rough spots on her fingertips and palms, which were similar to his.

He held her hand, slowly intertwined their fingers, and kissed her thumb when Lin Xia's cheeks slowly turned red.

Lin Xia's face turned red instantly, and she quickly pulled her hand back.

She got out of the car quickly, turned around and waved to Jiang Weidong, "Let's go, drive carefully on the road."

Jiang Weidong smiled at her, stepped on the accelerator and left.

He saw Lin Xia watching him leave from the rearview mirror, and his heart was filled with happiness.

Thinking of what his mother said: You look like a big factory manager, but who knows, you are not as lucky as Xiao Lu, look at his daughter-in-law, she is so hot!

He couldn't help but want to show off to his mother, your daughter-in-law is also very hot, are you happy? Are you surprised? Are you going to say I am useless?

The old lady would probably beat him with a broom, blaming him for hiding it from her.

Lin Xia could no longer see Jiang Weidong's jeep, so she turned around and went back to her third sister's house from the small road, refusing to take the main road at the entrance of the village, because there were two rows of old men and women sitting there to cool off and enjoy the hustle and bustle!

Among them is the 94-year-old old man, who has no teeth but still has bright eyes. He loves to stare at the person he is dating. He has

an expression that says, "I didn't see it, but I know everything."

Most people can't stand his stare.

After returning home, Lin Xia went to the south room to help with the incense.

Lin Shu asked her quietly, "Second sister, have you taken Brother Jiang home?"

Lin Xia shook her head, "No, I don't want to take him now. I'm afraid that our mother and the aunt will nag. They are forcing me to get married quickly and catch Jiang Weidong quickly, so as not to let him run away."

She now enjoys being in love with Jiang Weidong but does not feel the pressure of marriage.

She was afraid that marrying him would be like her last marriage, where she would soon lose the feeling of anticipation and would feel like chewing wax as she lived a mechanical life day after day. It

was too scary.

But she knew that this idea was very bold and no one except her third sister could understand it.

If she told her parents that she wanted to date Jiang Weidong now and didn't want to get married, her mother would be scared.

The old lady was ignorant and easily surprised.

Lin Shu supported her second sister's choice. If she liked it, she should do it. It was rare to have such a comfortable life. If she missed it, it would never come back.

Lin Xia went to report to the struggle commune after lunch. They had to do a lot of preparatory work, and they had to take their time to bury the poles and pull the wires.

The incense factory would be officially put into production next, and it would need to continuously collect various raw materials, especially elm bark, pine, cypress, mint, etc.

The branch secretary and the team leader discussed it and decided that the incense-making team had too few people with three people, so they asked Lin Shu to choose a few more people.

Lin Shu chose the youngest son of Mrs. Qiu and the second son of Aunt Li.

The incense factory only needs two more people for the time being, and someone else needs to cooperate in purchasing materials. The team leader's eldest son and Big Brother Lu will be in charge of this.

In the future, when there are too many orders to handle, more people will be added.

Although others want to work in the factory, they also know that the Lu family will definitely choose their own people first when they take the lead in running the factory.

Xu Laonian and Mrs. Qiu are the closest to the Lu family besides their children, so it is right to choose them.

Didn't you see that they didn't even choose Lu Shaocai and his son?

Lu Shaocai's family didn't get into the incense factory, so what else do they have to compete with?

I just hope that when the incense factory expands in the future, I can select people from them so that they can also live a life of getting paid.

Lin Shu did not choose Lu Shaocai and Lu Changfu to help, which made Lu Shaocai so angry that he cried and yelled at home.

He went to Lu Laodi and complained that his second uncle did not promote his nephew.

Lu Laodi was helpless. The incense factory was not his job. What qualifications did he have to select people?

If you have the guts, go and make trouble with my third daughter-in-law, you can't make trouble with me.

Lu Shaocai didn't dare.

Lu Shaotang loved his wife so much, if he acted rudely with Lin Shu, he believed that Lu Shaotang would throw him into the dung pit.

He couldn't act rudely, he could only play the emotional card.

Lin Shu didn't even look at him, how could he fight?

He could only let Zhao Meifeng flatter Lin Shu.

No matter how they felt superior as big men before, now they can only be humble if they want to beg others.

The key is that you want to be humble to others, but Lin Shu doesn't even want to pay attention to you.

Zhao Meifeng was also worried enough.

At dinner time that day, Lin Shu set the table with the help of her two children, and called everyone at home to eat.

The voice of the eldest brother Lu came from outside, "Someone come and give me a hand, I'm so exhausted!"

The second brother Lu in the south room saw it and immediately went out to let the eldest brother in.

The eldest brother Lu was exhausted and still holding his briefcase. The second brother Lu helped to carry in two bundles of packaging bags wrapped in oil paper.

Lin Shu was surprised and said, "Brother, are you done?"

The eldest brother Lu went to the county that afternoon, and it has only been three days since then. The speed is really not slow.

Originally, she thought it would take at least ten days or half a month to finish it.

The eldest brother Lu: "Originally, I wanted to place an order and go home first, and then pick it up after it was finished. As a result, I encountered a good opportunity that I don’t usually get, so I waited for two days to make the packaging bags. The price is much cheaper than normal, so I made more packaging bags."

Fang Dihua disliked him for taking the initiative.

Second Brother Lu had already opened the oil paper and took out the packaging bag inside to show Lin Shu, Fang Dihua and others.

Big Brother Lu: "Although it is a little different from our design, they gave a thousand more large ones!"

Fang Dihua was about to scold him, but Lin Shu held her mother-in-law and said, "Big Brother, you did a great job. The quality of this packaging bag is better than I expected."

Big Brother Lu is now the accountant of the team. He will have to go out to take orders in the future. He should maintain his confidence and face and not be scolded all the time.

He is not a child.

Fang Dihua understood what the third daughter-in-law meant and held back.

Brother Lu was relieved when he saw Lin Shu nod, and he began to take credit for his hard work, "I wasted a lot of time and effort to print this batch of packaging bags as soon as possible. Originally, they said they didn't have time and had to schedule it ten days later."

Panpan and Tiantian's appetite was immediately aroused, and they wanted to listen to their uncle's story.

Although Brother Lu doesn't smoke, he is used to carrying a box of cigarettes when he goes out. He gives out cigarettes before doing something, so that he can get information even if he fails.

In addition to cigarettes, he also carries candies, and gives candies to female comrades when he meets them.

This time when he went to the printing factory, he first gave cigarettes to the security guard, and when he found out the person in charge, he went to the office to find him. As a result, the young man looked arrogant and didn't care about his cigarettes. He said coldly that he had to wait ten days before he could schedule a new order.

Brother Lu won't let go no matter what, and he doesn't want to return without success and wander around in other people's factories.

The printing factory was not big, so he walked around for a while and met a kind-looking elder sister. He handed out sweets to people and asked for news.

It turns out that the eldest sister is the person in charge of the workshop!

Sister Wu said that there was something wrong in the workshop and a batch of wrapping paper was printed out. If they had to rework it, they really didn’t have time to arrange a new order.

Badly printed wrapping paper not only costs the factory money, but also delays production.

Brother Lu saw the damaged packaging bags. Regular manufacturers have strict requirements, but don't they?

They are a small team and they are cheap, so it makes sense to save money on the packaging bags, right?

He saw that the badly printed packaging paper had small jasmine and chrysanthemum flowers on it, and wondered if it was for tea bags. Since the factory name and address had not been printed yet, he might as well continue printing his own paper!

He told Sister Wu that she could help him find a way to recover his losses.

If the factory was willing to give him a discount, he could buy the badly printed packaging paper and print it as his own packaging paper. After printing, he could glue them together with paste to make sanitary incense packaging bags.

His suggestion was great, solving the urgent problem of the printing factory and recovering their losses.

Sister Wu immediately decided to make it for him first, not only giving him a discount, but also giving him a thousand large paper bags for free!

Because Brother Lu planned to order 5,000 paper bags.

Now that they were giving him a thousand large bags for free, he ordered another 6,000 small ones.

Lin Shu saw that the packaging bags were a little different from her own, but she designed them casually. They were a small business and could not make too delicate paper bags. The main thing was to print the slogan and the factory name on them.

Now they also gave away patterns of jasmine and chrysanthemum, and they made a fortune.

She smiled and said, "We are a small business. It's good that big brother is so casual. It saves money and does big things."

Seeing that she not only did not complain but also praised herself, big brother put aside his worries and became very happy.

He said mysteriously, "Guess what else is good?"

Panpan rushed to say, "I know, uncle made money!"

He likes to make money, and he is very sensitive to who makes money and is very happy.

Big Brother Lu said happily, "By the way, my nephew still understands me."

He proudly took out the order form, the order form for the printing factory, ordering fifty large bags of sanitary incense.

He looked at Fang Dihua, as if to say, "You always find fault with me, now I have done a good thing, you should praise me."

Fang Dihua subconsciously wanted to scold him.

Lin Shu quietly tugged at the back of her mother-in-law's clothes, Fang Dihua understood, took the order form and looked at it, and praised stiffly, "You did a pretty good job on this."

Big Brother Lu was happy!

It was not easy for my mother to praise him since he was a child.

Just then, old man Lu came in with a small basket of eggs, and Big Brother Lu ran over to ask for praise again.

Father Lu was not as serious as Fang Dihua. When he heard that his eldest son had done such a good thing, he immediately asked Lin Shu to fry some eggs for him as a reward and allowed him to have a few drinks. Brother

Lu was so happy that his head felt numb.

He happily told everyone how he got the order.

"How can I go out for nothing? I brought our sample perfume." Brother Lu showed off, satisfying his desire to show off. "I smelled a moldy smell in their office, and I didn't persuade them to buy it. I took out our perfume and lit it on the spot. The elder sister said it smelled better than the Tiger brand sanitary perfume she bought. Hearing the price was cheap, she decided to buy fifty bags on the spot."

One bag is 1.3 yuan, and fifty bags are 65 yuan.

My God, he made money again in the time he spent on a trip!

This business is more profitable than his job as an accountant.

He put his arm around Second Brother Lu's shoulders and clinked glasses with him, "Second brother, you stay home and make incense, and I, the eldest brother, will go out and sell incense. Let's work together and make a lot of money!" Second

Brother Lu was also excited for a rare moment and clinked glasses with him, "Okay."