The more Song Tan listened, the weirder it seemed:
"etc."
"Grandpa, aren't you building a stove?"
Song Youde then laughed: "How can we roast the tobacco leaves in such large pieces in a stove? They can't even be spread out."
"I'll build a taller oven. We'll take our time. Grandpa's not in a hurry."
Wow, after seeing this gesture, Song Tan realized that they wanted to build a small house two meters high!
The square was sealed tightly, leaving only a hole at the bottom for burning coal.
That's right. In order to ensure the temperature and precision, there was no need for firewood underneath, and Song Youde even planned to go get some coal.
Coal is durable and its temperature does not fluctuate, so its advantage lies in its stability.
In the drying room, the tobacco leaves are tied up and placed on racks. Coal is burned on both sides outside. After drying for a few days, the tobacco leaves will surely be golden and bright, and of top-notch quality!
And it is easier to store than those exposed to the sun.
Song Youde became more motivated after imagining this. He hurriedly got on his bike again, determined to get some more bricks.
Just for such a small brick house, the two of them spent half a day and used up all their strength!
Fortunately, because it was against the wall, we saved the effort of building a wall and it was finally done.
After a hasty lunch, the two old men looked at the big sun in the sky, then looked at each other and said at the same time: "Let's go to the fields and take a look!"
Song Youde hurriedly picked up the basket and said, "Let's build a roof at the same time. You can collect the leaves in the afternoon. I'll go get some coal and heat up the house first."
The two of them had their own division of labor and cooperated well. At this moment, they really didn't feel any trouble at all.
Only Qiao Qiao stubbornly held a cigarette box and said loudly: "Smoking is harmful to health!"
However, at this moment, only the backs of the two old men could be seen.
In just half an hour, the two of them came back with a heavy basket of tobacco leaves, all with the inflorescences on top.
At this moment, Song Youde couldn't wait to contact the coal seller again. By the way, he also set up firewood to heat the newly built house, as if he was racing against time.
My seventh cousin was sitting in the corridor, picking leaves one by one.
He discussed with Song Youde and decided to roast the tender leaves picked from the top first.
The second time, we roasted the old yellow leaves at the roots of the tobacco.
The third time, we carefully roasted the best quality tobacco!
As for how to distribute it, the two did not discuss it. Whoever doesn't have it can take it. They didn't plan to sell it.
However, Zhang Yanping was getting restless again.
He secretly asked Song Tan: "People who smoke cannot resist this. How about planting more next year so that we can prepare more to sell?"
It will definitely be expensive!
Sell
Song Tan asked back: "Who are you selling it to?"
Large-scale tobacco cultivation must be registered, and then tobacco companies will come to collect them. The top-quality leaves will be sold for 50 or 80 cents each...
"I don't do this business."
Zhang Yanping instantly became depressed. Then he wondered:
"You didn't even know how to clean tobacco leaves just now, how come you know so much now
Song Tan shook his phone and said, "Thanks to the almighty group members, they know everything."
Of course, there was also a bad thing. After she asked about the tobacco leaves, some customers in the group seemed to smell something. Several of them came to chat privately, wanting to buy a batch privately...
Just look at the appearance of these two old men in the room, how can there be too much tobacco leaves
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Tan also took a look at the newly built brick house which was more than two meters high.
The room is not big, only two meters long, two meters wide and two meters high. There is a channel at the bottom for filling coal, which allows the coal to burn in the bricks and stones and evenly transmit the heat to the drying room, so that the tobacco leaves inside can be evenly heated and roasted more thoroughly.
My seventh cousin broke off the tobacco leaves, placed a bamboo pole in front of him, and then used a hemp rope to carefully and tightly wrap the tobacco leaves around the bamboo pole.
A shelf was filled with neatly arranged, densely packed, green tobacco leaves stacked up.
However, compared with other companies that specialize in large-scale tobacco leaf curing, the leaves on his shelf appear much more sparse, with leaves one by one, and some can even be fully unfolded.
There is no other way. After all, they are picked from the top, and the quantity is limited. This is my first time doing it, so I will try it on a small scale first!
While working, the seventh cousin was thinking: he started smoking many years ago, and when the tobacco leaves are roasted, he will also have to take over the whole pipe!
Online shopping is popular nowadays, so I asked a few young people to find a good one for him online...
It is unknown how many years that Song Youde has been using his pipe. The pipe is made of bamboo, and the bamboo joints on it have been polished by him to a rosy and shiny red. He can't lose!
…
In the evening, Wulan, who had taken some time to pick two handfuls of tea leaves in the mountains, came back. Seeing another room in the courtyard that was already filled to the brim with Tremella racks, she couldn't help but wonder, "What is this for? A toilet?"
There is no choice, the yard of my grandparents' house has the same problem as Song Tan's house, that is, the toilet is not big enough.
There is no way, because there are more and more people living in the house now.
Even if Zhang Yanping and Xin Jun both moved in with their seventh cousin, there was only one toilet for a family of six, which was obviously not enough.
However, when Wulan looked inside, she found that this was not a toilet at all, there was not even a window! The ground was cleaned and leveled, and there was a proper chimney built!
Looking at Song Tan again, she really gave the answer: "My grandfather used it to roast tobacco leaves."
Ulan: …
Okay.
This time she was unexpectedly happy: "It's free to grow tobacco leaves at home. It saves a lot of money all year round than buying tobacco. Let's roast it."
Then he looked at the bricks used: "Are these all taken from the house over there? Oh my, Tantan, the construction team you hired is really meticulous in their work!"
"I went to take a look at the brickwork this morning, and the little bit of cement that had seeped out had been scraped away to make it smooth. It was a really nice job!"
…
And at this moment.
The guy working the excavator got off the vehicle and took a break for a while. He tried to hold it in but couldn't and went to the person in charge.
He didn't mean anything else, just one question, which he had been thinking about for several days:
"Boss, why don't we eat with this family?"
The boss's reason was simple: "If they want to provide meals, wouldn't we get less money? For the same money, isn't it better to do it ourselves?"
"What do you mean? Do you think the food is bad? I'm not like others who feed you three-piece sets of food every day!"
The so-called three-piece set of construction site necessities are cabbage, potatoes and radishes. This construction team often takes on such villa projects, so the employers are mostly generous and the food is quite good.
For example, at noon, there are large chunks of meat and ribs in the dishes, but...
The dark-skinned young man gave him a look of grievance:
"Have you never eaten their home-cooked meals?"
"If I could eat with my family, I would be willing to pay for my meals every day!"