Chapter 133 Popularity

So far, they have received orders for 150 large packages, a total of 30,000 incense sticks.

If there is enough incense mud, Brother Lu can make it in one day and one night, and two days is very easy.

After the incense is made, two days are enough to dry and dry.

The key is to prepare all the materials, process the raw materials well, grind out the required incense powder in time, and then knead the dough, etc., which is more time-consuming.

Fortunately, the brigade fully supports it. The eldest son of the brigade leader, Zhang Guiqi, drives a donkey cart out every day to collect various materials. He pulls back two carts of pine, cypress, and elm bark, which is enough for a while.

Now mugwort, calamus, wild mint, etc. are growing lushly in the wild, and there is always another crop after cutting one.

The team leader also asked people to plant mint wherever they could, such as along ditches, at the edge of fields, and by rivers, so as not to let the incense factory run out of materials.

Lin Shu handed the packaging bags to Aunt Li, who was energetic and could take care of things. She organized a group of old people and children to paste paper bags.

The work points were evaluated by the team leader.

Six thousand paper bags could be made in three or four days by a dozen old people and children.

Even if they were given five work points a day, they would be very happy.

In a blink of an eye, the wheat was ripe.

According to the agreement, when the wheat was harvested, the members of the incense-making cooperative had to stop and participate in the rush to harvest grain.

For ordinary people, grain is their lifeblood, and that is the most important thing.

But Brother Lu still wanted to go out and get orders!

Moreover, it is best to store the finished incense in a cellar for a period of time to anneal, so it is best to squeeze the incense every day and store the dried and aired incense in a cellar, so that he can ship it directly when he gets an order!

Brother Lu discussed with Lin Shu and asked her to whisper to the branch secretary and the team leader, not to withdraw all the manpower, at least let Brother Lu and Fang Dihua make incense at home?

Lin Shu gave him an idea, "Brother, you can ask the branch secretary to go to the commune to find Director Qin. It's not too much for the agricultural machinery team to help our team harvest wheat for one more day, right?"

The Fighting Commune bought two medium-sized tractors this year and also purchased three wheat harvesters.

Although the current wheat harvesters can only cut the wheat but cannot thresh the grains, let alone bale the wheat straw, they are faster and more labor-saving than the members who use sickles to cut wheat.

One person can only cut two acres of wheat a day with hard work, and he needs to be accompanied by someone to bundle the wheat.

Although their wheat harvesters are less efficient than the combined harvesters on other farms, they can still cut more than 20 acres a day.

A tractor can do the work of Lu Erge and his team in a day.

Naturally, Lu Erge and his team can be replaced to make incense.

The next day when he went to work, Lu Da Ge ran to tell the branch secretary and the team leader, hoping that the branch secretary would tell Director Qin.

The branch secretary puffed on his cigarette, "Look where did this cigarette come from?"

Brother Lu didn't smoke, so he naturally didn't care about this. He just wanted him to go to the commune.

The team leader smiled and said, "The branch secretary has already been there. Director Qin agreed."

The cigarette was naturally distributed by Director Qin, and the branch secretary didn't want to smoke it.

Originally, the two of them wanted to go to the commune to make trouble, but Director Qin said, "Lujiazhuang Brigade has more fields and more people than other brigades, and pays more public grain. It is reasonable for the harvester to work for two more days."

Listen, the leaders talk differently, you don't need to make trouble, they have directly found reasons.

With the help of tractors, harvesting wheat is much faster now, and it saves effort.

How tiring is it to bend over and cut wheat every day?

Even the strongest men are afraid, and they grit their teeth to get through each wheat harvest. Who wouldn't lose three layers of skin and five pounds of flesh?

So when the members were busy harvesting wheat, Fang Dihua and Lu Erge didn't have to go to the fields, they were busy making incense.

As the accountant of the brigade, Lu Dage was naturally very busy, but he was different from Lu Shaocai. Lu Shaocai was stupid, unmotivated, and lazy, while Lu Dage was willing to find ways to be lazy.

From the time he took office until now, he has been focusing on the business capabilities of the production team accountants, training them through regular competitions, selecting the production team accountant with the best bookkeeping every month, and then hanging a floating red flag.

While training the accounting of the production teams, he also promoted the scorers of each production team to help with bookkeeping.

If these people were capable, wouldn't it be easier for him?

Not only that, he often asked Lu Ping to help him with the accounting.

Although there were educated youth in Lujiazhuang Brigade, who were generally more educated than the country people, the brigade generally did not require them to participate in scoring and bookkeeping. At most, they would hire two of them as elementary school teachers. Although

Lu Ping was only an elementary school student, he was a good student and was quite good at helping with bookkeeping and arithmetic as required.

Big Brother Lu exploited his son mercilessly.

Originally, Lu Ping was supposed to go to the fields with other primary school teachers and students to pick wheat ears and bundle wheat, but now he was taken to the brigade by Brother Lu to help keep accounts.

The brigade leader and others thought that he wanted to train his son to take over in the future, but later they found that it was not his intention at all. Brother Lu wanted to get out and get orders by himself!

He was addicted to this.

Brother Lu personally carried the fifty bags of sanitary incense to the printing factory to deliver the goods, and also ordered another 1,000 large paper bags and 5,000 small paper bags.

When delivering the goods, he gave Sister Wu a small basket of honey apricots.

The apricots at home were ripe, golden yellow and sweet.

He was so popular that Sister Wu introduced him to a customer. She took him to a textile factory and lit incense for the customer on site.

Although the textile factory had just bought a batch of Tiger brand sanitary incense, it was more expensive than his and the smell seemed not as good as his. The quality seemed to be about the same.

This product is consumed in large quantities, and the textile factory only bought enough stock for one month, so they ordered another 100 bags from him.

100 bags is 130 yuan!

The raw materials are very cheap now, and you can earn about 50 yuan from 100 bags!

Brother Lu was so excited that he wanted to swear brotherhood with Sister Wu and call her his sister.

Before leaving, he gave the woman a big bag of incense as a gift, "Sister, I will pack the toilet incense for your family from now on. When my peaches are ripe, I will come back to give you some."

Sister Wu was so happy that she insisted on inviting him to dinner at the state-owned hotel next door. She also sold two big bags of toilet incense to the hotel and a big bag to a customer.

For those who have to buy toilet perfume, if there is a cheaper product with the same quality, then of course they will buy the cheaper one.

Speaking of which, Brother Lu's amiable personality and humorous conversation are easy to win people's favor. In addition, he has a handsome face despite his age, and a clear and foolish youthful spirit despite being over 30 years old, which makes him very popular with middle-aged and elderly women.

Not only Sister Wu, but also the waitresses in the state-owned hotel were amused by him, saying that her uncle also wanted to help him get orders at the fertilizer factory.

He doesn't need to promote his toilet perfume hard at all. People will buy it when they see him selling it and think of their own needs.

But Brother Lu didn't think that he opened up the market with his looks. He went home and showed off how eloquent he was, how hard he sold the Tuanjie incense, and how he impressed customers with his solid sales skills.

He even summarized his sales skills and wanted to train salesmen for the Lujiazhuang Brigade.

Of course, it was just a thought now.

So from the brigade cadres to the members, they liked to listen to him selling incense whenever they had time. They never got tired of listening to him.

Accountant Lu was awesome. He could get orders whenever he went out, and he never came back empty-handed!

The incense factory could make money with orders, and they could also share dividends at the end of the year.

Those who were a little nervous before are now reassured. Why are they hesitating about something that will definitely make money?

Damn it!

So the incense-making team of Brother Lu Er felt at ease not to go to the fields, and made incense at home every day.

Jiang Weidong didn't have to work hard.

This is how selling things is. You may not be able to open up the market no matter how hard you try, but the same thing will be very easy to sell if someone of status recommends it.

Jiang Weidong went home and felt that the house smelled damp, so he lit a few incense sticks first, and took a small bunch of samples to find the factory director to recommend that the factory buy local incense in the future.

Old Mrs. Jiang liked the rice cake made by Lin Shu, and she didn't want to eat it alone, so she took one to give to Han Yun.

Han Yun was picky and asked her where she bought the incense when her family changed it, saying it smelled better than Tiger Brand.

Old lady Jiang didn't understand this and casually said that Jiang Weidong brought it back.

So Jiang Weidong didn't bother to divide the sample incense he brought back. Han Yun ordered 100 bags for their union, and the steel mill also ordered another 200 bags. They decided to purchase from Lujiazhuang Brigade in the future.

The main reason is that it is cheap and smells good.

The director of the factory office also got half a rice cake from Old Lady Jiang. Knowing that it was the incense made by Lin Shu's brigade, he took the initiative to help promote it.

So he pulled another order for 200 bags from Lujiazhuang. For

such a large factory, 100 bags of sanitary incense only cost 130 yuan, which is 20 yuan less than Tiger Brand. Since you have to spend money, why not buy cheap and good quality ones?

Han Yun asked Jiang Weidong what Lin Shu was doing at home and whether she was busy. She also took a few yards of cloth and asked Jiang Weidong to take it to Lin Shu to make a few skirts.

She had measured the sizes and written them down. She also paid in advance, 2.2 yuan for each skirt.

The remaining cloth did not need to be brought back.

On this day, Jiang Weidong went to Huangxian first and then to Fendou Commune to pick up Lin Xia. They went to Lu's house together. He also picked up the first batch of toilet paper.

Lin Xia had just returned from field measurements. Although she was wearing a hat, her face was still two shades darker than before.

Jiang Weidong wiped her sweat with a towel and stared at her, "Ah, have you lost weight again?"

Lin Xia took off her hat and hung it on the wall of the office, "Impossible! I got a salary subsidy when I went to the countryside, and I ate a lot."

Jiang Weidong: "That must be because there is no fishy smell. Let's go to the village and see if anyone has an old hen that doesn't lay eggs and buy one."

Lin Xia: "Now the chickens are laying eggs, don't bother."

The main reason is that the Lu family is a big family, and each person can't eat more than two bites of a chicken. Lin Shu will not give the chicken legs to Tiantian and Panpan alone. Lin Xia feels a little bit of a loss.

It's better to buy it when you go back to Linjiatun, so that you can give the chicken legs to the two children.

The fool Baoer doesn't like to eat chicken legs, he likes to chew chicken heads, just save them for Tiantian and Panpan.

Jiang Weidong thought for a while, "Doesn't the commune have a slaughterhouse? Let's go and have a look."

He took Lin Xia to the slaughterhouse next to the pig collection station. They didn't kill pigs today, but they will kill them tomorrow because one of the pig legs was broken.

Jiang Weidong found the person in charge of the slaughterhouse and reserved a pig hind leg for two packs of Daqianmen.

The man took it happily.

They all paid for it, so it doesn't matter who they sell it to? It's enough to share the rest with the commune.

Lin Xia didn't expect Jiang Weidong to buy a pork leg. When he returned to the commune, he whispered to him, "Just a few pounds will be enough."

Jiang Weidong smiled and said, "I want you to eat more."

The third sister was very smart. She would definitely know what he meant and try to give Lin Xia more.

Lin Xia was warmed by his smile. From childhood to adulthood, no one had ever been so... accommodating to her.

Meat is so hard to buy, and so expensive. He bought a whole pork leg just to let her eat more?

People are afraid of comparison, but they also like comparison the most. Jiang Weidong is good to her, and she can't help but wonder if there is anyone else who is so good to her?

After the divorce, she seldom thought of the Qian family, let alone the little things she had with Qian Lisheng. The main reason was that compared with Jiang Weidong's kindness to her, Qian Lisheng's so-called kindness in the past was not good at all.

For example, she could not eat at a fixed time, and Jiang Weidong would directly buy her a charcoal stove and charcoal, so that she could cook when she went out to the wild.

When she lived with Qian Lisheng before, she had to wash clothes after returning from the night shift at night, and he said he felt sorry for her and asked her not to wash them.

She said that if she didn't wash them, they would be piled there and become smelly, and he said, "It's okay, you can wash them tomorrow."

He felt that cooking, washing clothes, and cleaning the house were what women were born to do, and either she did it or let Qian's mother do it.

Lin Xia found that Jiang Weidong was different. He would take the initiative to clean the house and tidy up the house, and not let Mrs. Jiang climb up and down.

He can cook, too.

It would be a lie to say that I wasn't touched.

Seeing her lower her head and not saying anything, Jiang Weidong asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Lin Xia smiled and said, "I just think you're a really nice person."

Jiang Weidong held her hand. Last time she took the initiative to hold his, which meant that she allowed him to hold her hand.

"Let's go." He led Lin Xia's hand and left work.

Shen Meizhi, who was hiding and spying, was more convinced that Lin Xia was scheming. She was really good at it. Look how she hooked Jiang Weidong!

No wonder she got divorced. She must have fallen for Jiang Weidong and kicked Qian Lisheng out!

She was absolutely right!

When Jiang Weidong and Lin Xia arrived at Lu's house, Lin Shu had just set the table.

Lin Shu was very happy to see them coming, "Brother Jiang, if you didn't come these two days, my sister and I would go to the city to bring you some toilet perfume."

Jiang Weidong: "I have to visit branch factories recently, so I can't trouble you to go there."

He took down the materials entrusted by Han Yun and handed them to Lin Shu together with the labor fee, "I didn't ask you in advance, but I helped to take it because she offered a lot of money."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Brother Jiang, you are too polite. I wish I could do that. Chairman Han is generous and not picky. I make money by making clothes for her."

Jiang Weidong took out a few more order lists, two hundred packages for the steel rolling factory, one hundred packages for the trade union, one hundred packages for the glass factory, and one hundred packages on the other side of the street.

Lin Shu said seriously, "We will give commission to Brother Jiang later."

Jiang Weidong waved his hands, "No, I am doing good things now, supporting the brigade's sideline business and introducing good products to brother units. If I am given commission, I will make a mistake."

Lin Shu did not insist. If they don't want her, she can subsidize them in other ways.

When he and the second sister get married, she will give them a big red envelope on behalf of the brigade.

Because Jiang Weidong came, Lin Shu asked Lu Cuicui to call Father Lu and Brother Lu to come back early, and also call the branch secretary and the brigade leader to come for dinner.

She asked Lin Xia to help, and they quickly cooked two talents, a stir-fried salted meat with chili and dried beans, and cut two garlic sprouts before taking it out of the pot and stir it in. It was delicious.

There were plenty of eggs at home, and there was already steamed eggs with shrimp sauce on the table. She also took out a few preserved eggs she made herself, peeled them, cut them with cotton thread, and simply sprinkled them with ginger juice and vinegar, and added two drops of sesame oil.

In addition, there were several large plates of seasonal vegetables from the vegetable garden on the table, and a small bowl of tomatoes mixed with white sugar, which was already very rich.

The secretary came with a bottle of Lao Baigan, and the team leader came with a plate of salted peanuts.

They were all very happy to see Jiang Weidong. They heard that he had brought another order. He was the God of Wealth, so of course he had to be worshipped.

The team leader was particularly enthusiastic about Jiang Weidong. He asked about the work at the steel mill and took the initiative to talk to him about the wheat harvest, the electricity problem, and the insect-killing chrysanthemum seeds that Chen Yanming had sent. Now they have been planted in the river ditches of the brigade, the edges of the fields, and many places in the village.

The Lu family’s yard, the front and back of the house are also planted, and they can harvest a crop of flowers in the fall.

Jiang Weidong also returned his enthusiasm and chatted with him very warmly. He talked about harvesting wheat, planting corn, and vine potatoes very authentically. It was obvious that he knew farm work.

The team leader liked him more and more.

What a good person!

He helped their brigade to get orders, and he didn’t despise him for being an uneducated peasant!

After drinking a few cups of wine, the team leader began to make promises, "Director Jiang, when you marry his second aunt in the future, you don't have to buy beds, cabinets, dining cabinets and the like. Our team will give you a set, all made of good wood and good carpenters."

Jiang Weidong was not disappointed and thanked him with a smile. Since the other party said it, it means that he is sure that he can do a good job and he will pay him when the time comes.

Everyone had a happy meal.

The next day, Lin Xia rested. After breakfast, she took Tiantian and Panpan to accompany Jiang Weidong to buy pork. By the way, they went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy soap, toilet paper and other supplies.

Lin Shu was shocked, "Second sister, Brother Jiang, where did you buy such a big pig leg?"

The key is how can you buy one? Will they sell it?

Jiang Weidong smiled and said, "I said I was a relative of the third sister, and they sold it to me."

Lin Shu didn't believe it, "You are just fooling me. I only have enough face to buy two pig trotters and two pounds of meat. It's not enough to buy a leg."

So much meat can't be eaten at once, and it will go bad easily in summer, so Lin Shu pickled some of it and cut another four pounds and strung them with straw ropes.

"Second sister, you and brother Jiang go to see mother and give them a piece of meat."

Jiang Weidong's eyes lit up, and he was a little nervous. He didn't change his clothes, nor did he buy malt milk, snacks, wine, candy, etc. Would it be a bit rude to go to the target's house?

But he was afraid that Lin Xia would not agree.

Lin Xia said naturally, "Okay, but they will definitely nag me. You and Tiantian and Panpan will go with us?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "No, my parents are very different now."

Now everyone at home is busy harvesting wheat and making incense. No one is cooking. She has to stay at home to cook and can't leave, so Tiantian and Panpan will accompany her second aunt and second uncle-in-law.

Lin Shu packed a basket of seasonal vegetables, a small basket of eggs, and also took two bottles of white wine, two packs of peach cakes, a bottle of malted milk and two cans.

When the honey apricots were ripe before, Lin Shu rode back to deliver a basket. These things cannot be kept. They are pecked by birds and sparrows as soon as they are ripe. Once they are ripe, they must be picked quickly, otherwise they will fall to the ground overnight.

There are only a few left on the tree now, so I keep them to feed the birds. Some of them have been made into dried apricots by Lin Shu and haven't been dried yet, so I won't give them away.

Seeing that her third sister had packed so many things,

Lin Xia whispered, "You don't need to bring so many, do you?" Lin Shu: "Why not? This is not for mom, but for dad and mom. The more he gives, the better he treats you."

It would be better if they took all the pork leg they bought, but it would be too conspicuous, so it would be better for her to give some other gifts.

Lin Xia pursed her lips. In fact, she didn't know much about the ways of the world. After all, her family was average, and everyone was not well-off when visiting relatives.

In the past, when she and Qian Lisheng went back to her parents' home, Qian's mother would say, "Anyway, the in-laws can't stay, so don't take the heavy things you carry." Qian Lisheng also agreed, saying that he would give his parents a few dollars anyway, so if they didn't want to carry anything, they didn't have to.

As a result, they returned to her parents' home with two bags of snacks, and her parents had to give her more gifts when they left.

She thought that her mother-in-law said that she would not take what was not left for her parents, so she could just leave what she brought.

Qian Lisheng said that it was not possible, and that you could not visit relatives empty-handed, but you could not leave empty-handed either, as this was a rule and custom.

Lin Xia felt strange, this was not a relative, this was my parents' home?

Qian Lisheng said that when a girl gets married, she is a relative when she returns to her parents' home, because your parents' home is your brother's home.

At that moment, Lin Xia felt so sad. Going to the city meant going to her mother-in-law's house, not her own home. Going back to her parents' home meant going to her relatives' house, not her own home.

She felt like she had no home.

Now that she and her brother are divorced, she feels like her parents' home is her home again.

Jiang Weidong wanted to borrow Lu's bicycle to take Lin Xia there. He had never taken her there by bike before, and he always thought that riding a bike to take someone back to her parents' home was a very romantic thing.

But he soon changed his mind. If people saw him and Lin Xia while riding through the village, they would definitely be surprised why Lin Xia had changed a man.

He didn't think Lin Xia and her family would announce her divorce, but who knows if there would be gossips everywhere?

If they knew she was divorced, they would definitely criticize him and Lin Xia, comparing which of her two men was better. The

more extreme ones would definitely surround her and ask, "When did you get divorced, when did you get married again, what does your new man do, how old is he, how much does he earn, is it your first marriage or your second marriage. Are you a stepmother or..."

He didn't care, but when he put himself in Lin Xia's shoes, he felt suffocated for her.

It's better to drive, step on the accelerator and let those gossipers eat dust!