Lao Fang felt that the money earned while lying on the bed was unsettling, but Li Yi disagreed.
It is also a skill to make money while lying on the bed. With Lao Fang's physique, the future of this line of work is absolutely boundless. Compared with later generations, the overall atmosphere of today's society tends to be conservative. On the street, he will definitely attract many lonely and impatient noble ladies, and send their own maids to secretly insert posts for him...
Finally, I know the reason why Lao Fang is depressed these days.
Pure idleness.
"Do you know why you can't live with this money?" Li Yi looked at him and asked.
Lao Fang looked up at Li Yi with a confused look on his face.
"Have you ever seen Second Uncle sitting under the tree outside and dozing off all day long?" Li Yi asked looking at him.
Lao Fang nodded. These days, he occasionally sat under that tree in a daze. The second uncle took a nap all day, and he was in a daze all day.
However, what did my uncle ask him for
"Have you ever seen the sister-in-law of the Xu family carrying candied haws out early and returning late every day?" Li Yi continued to ask.
Lao Fang nodded again. Although Ruyilu's profit is greater, some women are bored at home and still go out to sell candied haws every day without interruption.
"Have you ever seen the sun rise from the east roof and set from the west roof?" Li Yi finally asked.
The expression on Lao Fang's face was even more puzzled. He didn't know why my uncle asked these things, but he nodded mechanically.
"This is your problem." Li Yi threw the bag containing the money to him, and said, "If you don't work hard and look around all day, take the money back, and call a few people over in a while. Don't even think about being idle..."
Li Yi discovered that not everyone can be as peaceful as he is, and people like Lao Fang have to find something for him to do in order to live in peace.
As the year approached, the weather became colder. The stove was lit in the room, but it was still too cold to reach out. He planned to make a kang in the kitchen.
Almost every household in the northern rural areas has this thing. It is usually connected to the bottom of the stove. You don’t need to deliberately add firewood to the fire. The heat generated by cooking every day is enough to keep you warm for a whole day. If there is no temperature before going to bed at night, grandma will bring a lot of firewood, straw or corn stalks from outside, and the body will become warm in a few minutes.
Because of this thing, I lived in the countryside when I was a child, and I never had to worry about heating in winter. I stayed on the kang for a whole winter, eating and sleeping on it. This situation continued until I graduated from elementary school. After moving to the city, I never slept on the kang again.
There is nothing to do in winter, the family sits on the kang and plays cards to kill time.
Lao Fang soon brought people over. There are now more than a dozen families living in the stockade, all of whom will never leave in times of crisis. Li Yi did not treat them badly. Adjusted up a little bit for each one.
These men have been quite idle these days. After moving out of the stockade, they have nothing to do. Candied haws is now a small business, and the mother-in-law and relatives of the mother's family are doing it. Big men are not easy to mix. Taking care of children at home is not something men do. Lao Fang only said that my uncle is busy, and they all ran over.
It's just a kang, two or three people are enough, with Lao Fang's labor, they can make it within today, and the kitchen can't accommodate more than a dozen people.
Counting Lao Fang, there were five people left here, and the others went back with regret on their faces. Before leaving, they discussed with Lao Fang and the others whether they could change, but Lao Fang categorically refused.
"Grandpa, tell me, what are you going to do this time?" Lao Fang rolled up his sleeves. At this time, even if Li Yi said to let him go up the mountain of knives and go down into the sea of fire with a kitchen knife to chop people on the street, he would probably do it.
After doing something, An Sheng got the money, his heart was untied, and Lao Fang was revived on the spot with full blood.
After learning that the six big men were busy in the kitchen, Lao Fang's excitement obviously weakened. He thought he was going to do something big, but found that the gap between ideal and reality was too great.
Two people went outside to buy bricks and stones, and the rest of the people removed the original stove, and the stove had to be replaced. At this time, the stove was not good for cooking. I often saw Xiaohuan choking in tears in the kitchen. There is no fire, because the ventilation is not good, and people cannot be separated from the side when the fire is burning. It is necessary to keep pulling the bellows next to it, which is very laborious.
When Li Yi was a child, the stove at home was like this. His favorite thing to do was when his grandma was cooking, he ran to the stove to help her add firewood and pull the bellows. Later, when building a new house and rebuilding the kitchen, It was changed to a new type of stove promoted by the state. Without the bellows, the ventilation is better, the ignition is faster, and it saves more materials. It's just that I couldn't get back the feeling of pulling the bellows while giggling when I was a child.
The kang should be connected with the stove. At that time, the rural areas basically had such a structure. When I was a child, I saw craftsmen building this thing, but it is of course impossible for him to recall it completely now.
I found the blueprints a long time ago. Lao Fang and the others violently demolished the stove. After the garbage was cleaned out, his blueprints have already been drawn. It is specific to the size of each structure. This thing looks simple, but the size should not be bad. Where is it high? A little, a little short, there will be problems.
"Uncle, what is this?" Lao Fang flipped the blueprint back and forth, but didn't see why, scratched his head, looked at Li Yi and asked.
"As long as you get this thing for your kitchen, Zhuzi won't cry when he sleeps at night." After explaining too much to Lao Fang, he couldn't understand, Li Yi said simply and straightforwardly.
"Okay, I'll do it tomorrow." Lao Fang never doubted Li Yi's words. He heard my uncle say that this thing is as warm as summer when lying on it, and it's pretty beautiful to sleep on this kang with my mother-in-law and auntie in my arms at night.
"Old Xu, it's settled. I'll get this thing for my family tomorrow. Remember to come and help. If your family wants to do it, call me when the time comes." He patted the shoulder of a man beside him and said.
Just now when the stove was dismantled, he wiped the black ash from his hand, and immediately there was a big handprint on Lao Xu's coat, and Lao Fang was kicked in the buttocks, the man scolded: "Damn it, this is My mother-in-law and aunt just washed, and the clothes in the cold weather are not easy to dry, and they have to scold me when they go back!"
Lao Fang patted his butt, but he was not angry, and said mockingly: "Your auntie is used to it. If my guy dared to scold me, he would have slapped him."
Old Xu laughed and said, "I don't know who was yelled at by my mother-in-law with a broom yesterday in the yard. By the way, who is the little red girl? Why have you never mentioned it before? When did you hook up?" ?”
Lao Fang's face turned red immediately, as if he was about to bleed, and under Lao Xu's proud eyes, he kicked him.
"Fang Lao San, do you still dare to do it?"
"Say one more word, little red girl, and I'll beat you up!"
"Okay, I can't beat you, so I'll go and ask your mother-in-law what happened to Miss Hong?" Old Xu sneered, and strode outside.
"..."
Lao Fang was stunned for a moment, his face changed drastically, and he immediately chased him out, and the voice came from afar.
"Old Xu, Big Brother Xu, don't, we brothers have something to talk about..."
Xiaohuan came in from the outside muttering, blinked at Li Yi with big eyes and asked, "Master, who is Miss Xiaohong?"
Before Li Yi could answer, he turned to his kitchen and could only find a familiar figure. He was still fine this morning, and he said in panic, "Why did our kitchen become like this!"