Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Well, thank you, Boss Liu. I wish you a prosperous business. I still have more than ten kilograms of yellow eels here, and one of them is particularly large." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay!" Liu Yu took the yellow eel with a smile, and his expression was more enthusiastic than before.

"A total of nine kilograms and eight ounces, count as ten kilograms for you, eight yuan, a total of twenty-three." Liu Yu took the initiative to add a scale and gave Lin Heng twenty-three yuan.

"Drink some water before leaving, and chat for a while." Lin Heng was about to leave, and Liu Yu wanted to keep him.

"Forget it, we have something else to do." Lin Heng waved his hand and left the hotel with his brother.

After coming out, he handed 12.5 yuan to his elder brother and said with a smile: "Brother, this is your share."

Lin Yue did not take the money, but looked at him curiously: "What did you tell Liu Yu that he actually bought this turtle for 15 yuan?"

Lin Heng smiled, knowing that his elder brother would ask this, and smiled and answered: "Nothing, just told him that the father of a leader in the town was sick and needed a tonic, so he bought it."

"How did you know this?" Lin Yue was even more surprised.

"Because I heard the village chief say it when I was playing with the village chief's son before." Lin Heng lied, this was something he knew in his previous life.

Not long after, the old man died, and the funeral was a big deal at that time.

"Okay." Lin Yue admired him, thinking that his younger brother had a very flexible mind. Even if he knew the news, he might not be able to use it.

"I will only take 10 yuan of this money, and the rest is earned by your own ability." The elder brother stuffed the extra money into him.

Without waiting for Lin Heng to speak, he said forcefully: "Don't say more, just take it if I tell you to. I took advantage of you."

"Okay then." Lin Heng opened his mouth and agreed, not wanting to bother.

He calculated that, with the money from selling snakes, mushrooms and herbs, it was 32 yuan in total, which was pretty good.

A normal worker working in the city only gets this much in two months. Rice is about 1.5 yuan per catty, which can buy more than 200 catties of rice, and sugar is 70 yuan per catty, which can buy 45 catties.

Xiulan only makes 70 to 80 yuan from selling mushrooms and herbs in a year, which can be said to be a huge sum of money.

However, this is far from enough for Lin Heng, and it is completely impossible to make the family rich. He has to work harder.

"Do you want to buy something?" asked the eldest brother Lin Yue.

"There is nothing to buy. Let's go buy tiles first and talk about it after we finish it." Lin Heng shook his head. Of course, this money was saved. He would use it as capital to buy Coriolus versicolor to make a profit, and at most spend a few cents to buy candy for his daughter.

"Well, let's go buy tiles first." Lin Yue nodded. There are three brick factories in the town, two of which also burn tiles. They have to ask about the prices separately.

The two went to the relatively close Tuanjie Brick Factory first. The huge chimney of the brick factory was billowing thick smoke, and many red bricks and ceramic tiles were placed on the open field outside.

In this era, there was no glazed tile in Huangtan Town. They were all ceramic tiles fired from loess. Glazed tiles, which are very common in later generations, are also very difficult to make in this era. Ordinary small brick factories don't know at all.

When Lin Heng and his elder brother came over, many workers were making tile embryos. They used sieved yellow mud to make a cylinder, and then divided it into four petals, which were four tile embryos.

"Excuse me, are you here to buy bricks?" Seeing Lin Heng and Lin Yue come in, a middle-aged man in his thirties put down his tile-making work and came over to ask.

"We are here to buy ceramic tiles. How much is one piece here?" Lin Yue asked first.

When he heard that he wanted to buy tiles, the man immediately became friendly, wiped his hands quickly, and smiled and invited: "Let's go in and talk over tea."

Lin Yue was impatient and didn't like nonsense. He shook his head and said: "Just tell me how much it is. After asking you here, we still have to go to Hongsheng Brick Factory to ask the price."

Hearing this, the boss pulled the two of them to a slightly farther place and asked with a smile: "How many tiles do you want to buy?"

"First buy 5,000, and then buy more when it's not enough." Lin Yue said.

"This is a lot of quantity. I can give 3.5 yuan a piece. This is the lowest price." The boss said with a smile.

When Lin Heng heard it, he felt that the boss was an honest man. Yes, looking at the situation in this brick factory, this is a brick factory that has just been built not long ago, and it is normal to lack orders.

"Will you sell it for three cents?" Lin Yue asked again.

"This is really not possible. I also earn some hard-earned money for three cents and a half." The boss smiled bitterly.

"Then let's go to another brick factory to have a look." Lin Yue turned and left.

Half an hour later, we arrived at Hongsheng Brick Factory. This is a big brick factory. When we asked the price, we asked for four cents, and the lowest price was three cents and eighty cents. If we wanted more than ten thousand, we could get it cheaper to three cents and five cents.

While Lin Heng supported his elder brother to ask about the price, he went to see the quality of bricks and tiles.

"Forget it, let's go to Tuanjie Brick Factory to buy them." Lin Yue shook his head. After half an hour, the two returned to Tuanjie Brick Factory.

"Brother, I'll talk to you later." Lin Heng said as they walked.

"Okay, you come." Lin Yue didn't think much about it.

As soon as he saw the two of them coming back, the boss hurriedly greeted them and said with a smile: "How about it, my price is already low enough, right?"

Lin Heng didn't say anything. He walked into the brick factory first, looked at the equipment, and then looked at the tiles and bricks. The quality was a little worse than that of Hongsheng Brick Factory. No wonder there were no orders.

"Boss, the quality of your tiles and bricks is much worse than that of Hongsheng." Lin Heng said with a smile while holding a brick.

Hearing this, the boss couldn't help but smile and said: "It's a little different. They have a big site, the temperature of the kiln is high, and the firing is good.

But ours will not affect the use. Don't worry, you will have no problem using it for hundreds of years."

"How about this, 3.2 cents?" Lin Heng began to bargain.

"The lowest is 3.4 cents. If it's lower, I might as well not do it. I won't make any money from hard work." The boss's attitude was very firm and he would not lower the price.

"Okay, 3.4 cents, order 5,000 at this price, we will pay a 10% deposit first, you issue a receipt, and when all are delivered, we will pay the balance, how about it?"

Lin Heng asked.

Just now I remembered something. In the previous life, this Tuanjie Brick Factory was also eliminated by Hongsheng Brick Factory because of its small scale and poor quality. It seems that it was more than a year ago, and it seems to be the end of 1984.

In his previous life, he worked in the city after he got into debt. He went to various factories, and the brick factory was naturally among them.

He saw the problem with the bricks at a glance. No stone powder was added, which resulted in a sintering temperature that was too high, which the small brick kiln could not reach.

He even knew the production process of glazed tiles, but chose not to say it.

It was not time yet. Let's wait until the brick factory is about to go bankrupt. Besides, it would be difficult to explain to his family how he knew it if he suddenly said it.

"No problem, 5,000 yuan is 170 yuan, you can pay a deposit of 17 yuan first." The boss was a little excited and calculated the price in one breath.

Then he went into the house to write a receipt. Lin Heng took out the receipt but did not take it. Instead, he asked: "What do you use to transport the goods? Horses or donkeys?"

This small brick factory could not have a tractor. The price of industrial products in this era was ridiculously high. The cheapest small tractor cost thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.

"Carriage, our factory has two carriages, and one carriage can carry 2500 to 100 tiles." The boss said immediately.

"Then load the car immediately and go with us. We will lead the way for you." Lin Heng said.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." The boss seemed to have become a worker, doing everything according to Lin Heng's arrangement.

"Then when you finish loading the car, come directly to the bridge in the center of the town, we will wait for you there." After Lin Heng finished speaking, he motioned to his eldest brother to give the money and take the receipt.

The money given by his father to buy bricks is with his eldest brother.