Ji Shilin gave his two brothers a look: "Just do whatever you're told, don't ask!"
Later, when it came time to open the furnace, the three of them turned their heads away and pretended not to see it.
Ji Changying checked and found that only less than 10% of the finished products were produced in the first furnace. Most of them were burned because the temperature was too high.
After hearing her request, the three Ji Shilin brothers turned around and went into the woods to continue looking for wood.
It didn't take long for a new furnace to start.
The success rate of the second furnace was 30%, and the successful ones were all charcoal fragments, because the density of the wood was not enough.
The third furnace, the fourth furnace...
Ji Changying kept summarizing his experiences of failure, and finally on the fifth try, he mastered the temperature and the time to start the furnace, and burned out a whole furnace of charcoal.
Not only does it have a nice shape and color, it also produces very little smoke when burned.
Ji Shilin and the others couldn't help but hug each other excitedly: "This is better than the ones sold here! This smoke is not choking!"
Ji Changying was a little surprised: "Are there many charcoal cigarettes for sale?"
"Generally speaking, there are more. I heard that the silver charcoal burned by rich people doesn't produce much smoke, but I haven't seen it."
Ji Shilin scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Is that so..."
Ji Changying didn't say anything else. Seeing the effect, Ji Shilin and the others became more motivated. Based on their previous experience, they went to pick up a pile of wood and continued burning it.
Just as he was put into the kiln, he saw Ji Fengshou coming over with a small basket. "I saw the smoke over here and thought you were here. Come on, brothers, sit down and have a rest and have something to eat."
As soon as they met, Ji Fengshou pulled Ji Shilin and his three brothers to sit on the ground and gave them some sesame cakes to eat.
"I'm out today. I heard you guys came to help me so early this morning, so I don't have much to say. I bought some food in the city and hurried over to see you. Thank you for playing with my Ah Ying. Are you tired?"
Ji Shilin put his dirty hands behind his back, too embarrassed to reach out and take it: "Not tired, not tired!"
Ji Fengshou took the pancake and stuffed it into his hand: "You are an outsider, aren't you? We are your brothers, so why are you embarrassed to eat it? It's stuffed with the special lamb intestines of this border area. It's delicious! Try it quickly. I just heated it up before bringing it here. It won't taste good if it gets cold."
He didn't leave any behind, and the remaining two brothers each stuffed one in their hands.
The three of them were at a loss, holding the pancakes in their hands, and choked up a little: "My mother won't let me eat..."
"Eat! Eat with big mouthfuls! If I beat you up later, I'll speak up for you." Ji Fengshou handed the pancakes to their mouths.
After being busy for a long time, he was really hungry. Ever since Ji Shitou got the pancake, his eyes were fixed on it. As if he was bewitched, he lowered his head and took a bite unconsciously.
This bite made him unable to suppress his inner desire any longer: "Delicious! So delicious!..."
He was eating and shouting incoherently, while Ji Shilin was still trying to refuse. But when he turned around, he saw his brother eating with oil dripping from his mouth, and he wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
Ji Fengshou smiled and left the space here to them, then took a pancake and went to find Ji Changying.
"Here! You'd have to be my real father! He never forgets to bring you food when he goes out." Ji Fengshou did not forget to brag about himself.
"Okay, you did a good job!" Ji Changying didn't care about his image. He wiped his black hands on his body and took the food and started chewing it.
"How is it? Did it work?" Ji Fengshou looked around mysteriously.
Seeing the black thing on the ground, his face lit up with joy: "You really made it?!"
Ji Changying munched on a sesame cake and said proudly, "Don't you see who your daughter is? There's nothing I can't do as long as I want to do it!"
Ji Fengshou chuckled, with an indescribable arrogance on his face: "No matter how great he is, he is still my son. This shows that your father is smart! Hahahahahaha!!!"
Ji Changying really wanted to say that she was her mother's daughter, but seeing Ji Fengshou laughing wildly and looking at the sky in a very childish manner, she was too lazy to remind him of this fact.
Ji Fengshou quickly recovered and picked up a piece of charcoal to examine it: "This charcoal is really good. If we burn more, maybe we can sell it!"
His eyes were bright.
He didn't expect that there would be such a big surprise waiting for him when he came back from a trip.
"You decide."
Ji Changying had no objection. She burned charcoal just to make life more comfortable in the winter.
In the evening, Ji Fengshou invited the three brothers to his home for dinner. Ji Shilin turned pale with fear and kept waving his hands to refuse: "My mother would beat us to death if she knew. No way! Absolutely not!"
Helplessly, Mrs. Hu could only ask Ji Mingxuan to bring another pot of vegetables and steamed buns to the three brothers' homes.
When they arrived at the door, they were hesitant to go in. It was Ji Mingxuan who went in first with a smile and explained, and then the three of them were able to enter.
Ji Shilin didn't even dare to look up at his mother's face. He waited for a long time but he didn't get hit by the shoe.
I couldn't help but look up and saw that my wife and mother had already started eating.
He was stunned: "Mom, you are not angry?"
Aunt Li rolled her eyes at them and said, "Hurry up and eat! You three idiots!"
Ji Shishan and Ji Shitou cheered and sat down at the table, their mouths filled with food and steamed buns.
The three of them finished the whole bowl of steamed buns in no time.
"Given the way you three eat and how much you eat, why do you think I don't let you eat at my house? Isn't it because I'm afraid you'll scare them?"
Aunt Li thought she was smart all her life, but she ended up marrying an honest man and gave birth to three stupid children.
It’s also a very edible stick!
"Next time I call you to eat, just eat. But!" Aunt Li's eyes were fierce. "You can only eat one bowl of rice or at most two steamed buns. If you eat like this at home, I will beat you to death!"
The three brothers nodded repeatedly: "Got it!"
After quickly eating dinner at Ji Changying's home, he began to look at the results of Ji Changying's afternoon work.
"Oh my god! It really burned out!"
Hu exclaimed as she looked at the piles of charcoal on the ground.
"At the beginning, some of the smoke is bigger, and some is broken charcoal. Later, the ones that are burned more and more are shaped like this, and there is less smoke."
"We can use the pot to cook, make tea, and warm wine in winter."
Ji Fengyi took a look and said, "It actually came out. It's very well done."
After receiving the affirmation from his uncle, Ji Changying smiled.
"I went to the city today to contact the kang builders. They will be here tomorrow. They can also repair our house. I also bought the roof tiles. Starting tomorrow, you can just help out at home and watch them work. I will start working with Shi Lin and the other two brothers to make charcoal tomorrow."
You Tianming raised his hand: "I need wood, lots and lots of wood!"
The new house was missing all kinds of furniture, and there were so many things he had to do that he couldn't handle it all by himself.
If he were to cut down trees, he probably wouldn't be able to finish these things until next year.
"no problem!"
Ji Fengshou agreed decisively.
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