38. Inadvertently inserted willows
After a while, Luo Yong heard that Hengyu and his son finally built the thirty Yan'erfei of the Ma family. He also heard that the reason why they could complete it in a short time was because they seconded some personnel from the Yin family.
Both Hengyin families passed on their families by carpenters. Over the years, both families have also produced several good talents, but no one's light can completely suppress the children of the other family. Therefore, it has been difficult to distinguish between the two families.
In the past few years, Yin's family has more sons than Heng's family. In comparison, Heng's family seems a little thin. In this era, it is better to have more babies, but it is not easy to raise babies.
After handing over the thirty Yan'erfei, he got the remaining money. Hengyu asked Changsun Hengwei to take nine hundred cents and give it to Luo Yong. He took it with these copper coins, and some small pieces of square ceramics.
"Aweng said, if someone brings a chain to sell next time, you will give them one of the molds." Heng Qing first handed over the nine hundred coins to Luo Yong, and then placed the small pottery items he brought on the table for Luo Yong to show.
Luo Yong's eyes were suddenly attracted by these things. Each piece had four dents on these small pottery pieces. They were the shapes of the bamboo chain accessories, which were a flat shape with holes at both ends, two circular rings with deep and shallow, and a small, deep cylindrical hole. This thing was really made in detail and neatly. At the position of the parts with holes, the mold corresponded to small cylindrical protrusions. It looked fine, but it didn't seem like you could pinch it with bare hands.
"How did this thing be made?" Luo Yong had already guessed in his heart when he saw this thing, but he still wanted to hear Heng Ming say it.
"Sometimes ago, my uncle asked me to make a batch of equal-sized bamboo chain parts from ordinary wood, and then asked me to go to the pottery workshop. I inlaid the small pieces in the clay, smashed them and leveled them, and then burned them. After the fire, all the wood turned into ashes, and finally got this thing." Heng Fei was two years older than Luo Yong, but in front of his master Aweng, he also answered questions and spoke respectfully.
"This method is very wonderful." Luo Yong sighed in his heart after hearing the manufacturing process of this mold. The creativity of the ancients cannot be underestimated. Looking at the past and present, which dynasty is not full of talents, leaving countless rays of light in the long river of history.
He thought for a while and asked Heng Wei again: "Is this thing available in your car manufacturer?"
Heng Wei knew that he had guessed that the mold was not given to him for free at his car manufacturer, so he stopped hiding it. He smiled and replied, "One penny is sold in the store."
One cent is also a cost price. They didn't mean to make money by relying on this thing, but they just hope that the chains they bought in the future will be more regular and the sizes will not be too different.
At the same time, this is actually reducing the risks of those who make chains. After all, if the error exceeds a certain range, the chain will be ruined and the Heng family will not accept it. The hard work will naturally be wasted.
Luo Yong knew that Hengyu wanted to raise his status and took the opportunity to sell himself well with the villagers.
So he understood that Yan'erfei's business was just enough to make a lot of money, and he, the master, was no longer polite to his disciples.
Perhaps in later generations, whether it is one dollar or ten dollars, many people will not see it at all, but at this time, a penny is still quite impressive.
In the era of commerce and underdeveloped, farmers had to earn the income of selling grain, but the price of grain was so low these days. In autumn, after the grain in the fields was sold, they paid various taxes and had to keep food for the whole family. So there was not much surplus grain for sale, and a little money was sold. The expenses were all over the year. Fortunately, most farmers were self-sufficient at this time, and there was not much room for spending money.
"Ah Weng is busy these days?" Luo Yong asked.
"Since my family opened a car shop in the city, many people have come to the door every day, and the two Ma Wang families have urged me for days, which made me, Ahon, wished I, to lock myself in the big house in the backyard every day to work." Heng Wei said helplessly.
"Go back and tell you Ahon that those people urge you, and he just needs to deliver the goods according to the date on the contract, and there is no need to be so many days in advance." Luo Yong said with a smile.
He knew that most of the people at this time were upright and urged them to do so. He became anxious and became angry, regardless of the contract period and the same period, and just wanted to make things for others as soon as possible.
"I'll tell him when I go back." Heng Wei nodded. After all, Ah Weng is still a little older. Recently, he has often heard Ah Ye say that, and he is worried that if this continues, the old man's body will not be able to bear it. Now that Luo Yong says this, his Ah Weng should listen.
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With these ceramic molds, Hengyu and others no longer need to worry about errors when they purchase the chain.
Some people who were still rushing to make money by making money by making money by the bamboo chain, and finally made up their minds.
When they learned to make chains with Hengfeng and others before, although the other party taught them carefully and took the links they made for them to look like, the things they could see with their eyes were still easy to cause errors. If the chains they made were not used at that time, wouldn’t it be a waste of effort?
Now that we have this mold, we naturally don’t have such concerns anymore. So for a moment, many people in Lishi County went to Heng’s car manufacturing shop and bought this mold at home. Some people cut stone bamboo sticks from the mountain and carried them to the city to sell them. The bamboo sticks as thick as sugarcane were cut into about one arm long, and five could sell them for a cent.
Because this stone bamboo is valuable, many villagers are nervous about the mountains and forests near their homes. If they find people from other villages cutting bamboos near their homes, they will inevitably have a quarrel.
With the long-term vision, he realized that this Yanerfei would definitely become a major local industry in the future. So he went to the mountain early to dig some bamboo roots and planted them carefully around his house. He hoped that many bamboos would grow next to his home to benefit his descendants.
Some people took the lead, and then some people followed suit. In their Xipo Village, people went up the mountain to dig bamboo roots these days, and some people gave Luo Yong a lot of money.
Luo Yong planted them in the stone field behind the pigpen. In the early stage, he was afraid that they would not survive, so he filled some soil in the pit and ignored them later. The stone bamboos were originally grown from the cracks of the rock slopes and the texture was the hardest. Besides, some bamboos, although they could sell some money and grain, who could be willing to take good land to plant them?
As the number of people participating in the production of bamboo chains continues to increase, special tools have finally appeared on the market. The tools are also simple, a small carving knife and a hand-pulled drill. This is all, but it is countless times better than the previous sickle and kitchen knives.
The blade of the small carving knife is only as big as a fingernail piece. One side is sharpened as a blade, and the other side is sandwiched between two bamboo pieces. The bamboo piece is tied with hemp rope to reinforce it.
The structure of the hand-pulled drill is a little more complicated, but when it comes to metal parts, only the drill bit is made of iron, while the others are made of wood and bamboo.
These two gadgets are not very expensive, but they bring a lot of convenience to the production of bamboo chains.
Luo Yong also asked his disciples to help bring a few sets from the city and put them in their own grocery store. If someone takes the chain to him to sell it, he will ask the other party if he wants this tool and will not make much money. He just provides everyone with a convenience.
In fact, this tool is also very useful to Luo Yong himself. When he was fine these days, he took a small wooden strip in his grocery store and slowly clewed it into the shape of a toothbrush handle.
Then, at the position where the bristles were planted, he used his hand to drill and slowly drilled out rows of fine holes. Then he asked Erniang to help him rub a small ball of thin and strong twine, took a handful of wool that had been repeatedly washed, and used two threads to fix the wool in the holes using the method of the shoe repairman who used the shoe repairman to put the soles on the shoe repairman.
When Luo used to apply bristles to his toothbrush, the few young people at home were watching the strange ones next to him.
Siniang Wuro had to use it a little, and he could already help. He also learned how Luo Yong did and sorted the wool into small bunches. Seeing that Luo Yong had filled a hole, he quickly handed the wool on his hand to him.
After applying the wool, trim it with scissors to make it flat, so a wool toothbrush is made.
In fact, Luo Yong had thought about making toothbrushes and brushes in the morning, but because of the lack of tools, he didn't know how to make them out. However, he didn't expect that because he gave Heng Yu a bicycle drawing, he later developed the bamboo chain industry. In the end, even the tools for making brushes appeared directly in his own grocery store. It was really hard to predict.
"This thing can be used to brush your teeth, so give it to Si Niang. From now on, you can use it to brush your teeth every day, okay?" After making a toothbrush, Luo Yong tried the hardness of the bristles, and then gave it to Si Niang.
"Okay!" Si Niang was very happy to get this novelty. As for brushing teeth, I will talk about it later.
"Brother, I want it too!" Goro shouted quickly.
"Okay, I'll make it for you too." Luo Yong replied with a smile.
"I want it too."
"Brother, I want it too!" The two little ones below also started shouting.
"You two need to brush your teeth too?" Luo Yong pretended not to believe it and asked the two young ones.
"You have to brush your teeth! You have to brush your teeth!" The two little ones didn't know what brushing was, and they were clamoring there.
"Then I'll make a toothbrush for you, but don't break your promise." Luo Yong started to get a vaccination.
"If you don't go back on your word, we have to brush our teeth, brother." The two little guys agreed repeatedly.
So Luo Yong made another wool toothbrush for Goro Liulang and Qiniang, one of them, while Erniang and his own had not done it yet.
This wool toothbrush is still too soft after all. It may be more suitable for elderly people, children or some tartars. For Luo Yong, a brush that is too soft is a bit unsatisfactory.
If it is used to make brushes, sweep the grinder when grinding the noodles, this is very suitable. Luo Yong made a few brushes and put them in the store. If someone bought them, they would sell them. If no one bought them, they would keep them at home for consumption.
As for toothbrushes, since the wool is not good, Luo Yong decided to try pig hair. The materials are also ready-made. There are several pigpens in his own pigpen. Now they all grow, round and hard, and they all have big black hair, which is smooth and smooth.
Two green vegetables were twisted from the vegetable field and put them in the food trough. The half-big pig in the pen rushed over and chewed at the two green vegetables. A large chunk of hair was cut, but it didn't even raise its head.
After cutting the pig's hair and testing the hardness, Luo Yong thought it was too hard. It was so hard that it was almost the same as using it as a board brush.
After thinking about it, the pig's wool is too hard and the wool is too soft. If you want to make a toothbrush with moderate softness and hardness, it seems that there is only one last choice left.
Luo used the pair of scissors to walk into the yard, waved to the big donkey in his house and said, "Five pairs, come here."
Chapter completed!