Chapter 124: Borrowing a stone mill

After borrowing the stone mill, Jiang Wei poured all the washed and dried ceramic waste into it to grind and grind it fine. The old yellow cattle pulling the mill was sent by Old Man Zhao early in the morning.

Jiang Xiaoxiao watched from the side. These ceramic waste can be put into the stone mill to grind, but those abandoned bricks won't work. They are too big, and the stone mill can't grind them.

Thus, she saw her mother holding a large hammer and smashing those abandoned bricks hard, smashing them into small pieces, and then putting them into the stone mill.

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..." Should we hire someone to do this job?

So many bricks, how long will her mother have to smash them?

These few days, Old Man Zhao pulls a full car of waste materials back to the town every day except for delivering goods. There are several piles of bricks and ceramic waste in the courtyard at home. Not to mention her mother doing these jobs alone, even one stone mill is not enough.

It can be seen that her mother is used to fighting alone in everything, and almost never relies on others, but sometimes, completing certain things also requires external help.

Jiang Wei gasped, stopped her movements, and turned to look at her: "Then Xiaoxiao, you arrange the manpower for me."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Trust her so much?

She thought for a while, and then counted with her fingers: "We can call Tiezhu brother's father to help, and Dagang brother, come to our house in the afternoon to help smash these waste bricks. It's hot at this time, everyone is at home, and it won't delay the work in the fields. Then for the stone mill, we can also borrow a few more..."

"Okay." Jiang Wei nodded quite satisfied, looking at her with trust, "Then these things will be arranged by you, Xiaoxiao."

"Good!"

Being trusted by her mother, Jiang Xiaoxiao naturally couldn't live up to it. After saying that, she ran out of the courtyard in a hurry and rushed to Aunt Qiulian's house.

"Xiaoxiao, why are you here again?" Aunt Qiulian asked in surprise when she saw her return.

Jiang Xiaoxiao told her about asking Zhao Youcai to work at home, only half a day, and fifteen wen of wages a day.

"What kind of wages for a small half-day job." Aunt Qiulian smiled and waved her hand, turning to the inner room to call her man.

Zhao Youcai walked out of the inner room wearing straw sandals: "What job, Xiaoxiao?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao simply said about smashing bricks.

Zhao Youcai nodded while listening: "Okay, I'll go to your house now."

There were not enough hammers at home, so Jiang Xiaoxiao asked him to bring a hammer to her house.

After explaining the matter, Jiang Xiaoxiao ran to the Lizheng's house again.

"Yo, Xiaoxiao, why are you here?" Lizheng's wife saw her and hurriedly greeted her into the room, "Look at you running in a sweat, what's the rush, come in and drink some cool tea."

This is the hottest moment of the day. Jiang Xiaoxiao was sweating all over after running back and forth, and the hair on her forehead was soaked with sweat.

She wiped the sweat on her head casually, took the large bowl of cool tea handed by Lizheng's wife and drank it, then let out a long sigh of relief and asked: "Aunt, is Dagang brother at home?"

"Xiaoxiao, what's the matter with you looking for me?" Liu Dagang lifted the bamboo curtain of the inner room and walked out with a messy head and a bare chest.

He was preparing to take a nap in the inner room, but it was too hot, so he didn't sleep well.

Jiang Xiaoxiao simply said about hiring workers at home.

Lizheng also walked out of the inner room. After listening to her words, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "Sigh, how much money does your family waste by hiring workers every day? These heavy and tiring jobs can't be done by you mother and daughter, if there is a man at home..."

Halfway through the words, he stopped again, smiled at Jiang Xiaoxiao embarrassedly: "Forget it, Dagang, you go to Xiaoxiao's house to help when you are not busy these few days."

"Don't worry, Father." Liu Dagang put on a short jacket with patches and prepared to go out with Jiang Xiaoxiao.

Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't show it on the surface, but she was quite surprised that Lizheng would say such a thing.

In this era, although feudal thinking is not as serious as she imagined, it is still very difficult for a widow to remarry, let alone one with a drag-oil bottle. Lizheng does not oppose her mother finding another man, but has a vaguely supportive attitude.

However, she actually feels that it is the same whether there is a man at home or not. Her mother is an independent and capable person, no matter what she does, she won't think about relying on others, and she doesn't need a man to accompany her at all.

If it's about work, her mother's strength is greater than that of several men combined, and if there are outsiders, her and her mother's little secrets will not be easy to cover up.

Thinking about this, Jiang Xiaoxiao collected her thoughts and asked Liu Dagang on the side: "Dagang brother, do you know who has a stone mill?"

"Tiezhu's family has it. His grandmother used to be the famous Tofu Xishi in our village." Liu Dagang thought for a while, and added a few: "And Wang Shen's family also has it, Shuanzi's mother's family, Zhang Dalin's family..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao listened and wrote them down one by one.

Zhao Tiezhu's has been borrowed, Wang Shen's family is not right with her family, so she shouldn't borrow it to her family, so only three families are left to borrow.

"Dagang brother, you go to my house first, I still have to help my mother borrow a stone mill."

"You go alone?" Liu Dagang was worried, "I'll go with you."

"Okay." Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't refuse. She was actually not very familiar with these families with stone mills. With Liu Dagang going with her, it should be easier to borrow.

Thus, the two went to these three families one by one.

Jiang Xiaoxiao almost didn't open her mouth. Liu Dagang is Lizheng's son. As soon as he said to borrow the stone mill, these families agreed without hesitation.

However, Jiang Xiaoxiao would not let others suffer. She took out five wen from the purse at her waist and handed it over: "Aunt, our family has to borrow this stone mill for several days, and this money is the rental fee given by my mother."

"Yo, what's the politeness of borrowing a stone mill." Shuanzi's mother, who thought it was a free loan, saw these five wen, and smiled so much that her teeth were invisible, "Xiaoxiao, don't worry about returning it, your family can use it for as long as you want."

This stone mill is useless at home. The family doesn't grind tofu anymore. I didn't expect that it would be a windfall to get five wen after borrowing it!

"Then thank you, Aunt." Jiang Xiaoxiao responded with a smile.

"Yo, what's the politeness with Aunt." Shuanzi's mother looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao who was only as high as her waist, and then looked at Liu Dagang on the side, and said with a smile: "I see that Dagang can't move it alone, I will let Shuanzi and his father carry it to your house later."

Liu Dagang said gratefully: "That's fine, then trouble Shuanzi."

The two left Shuanzi's house and went to borrow stone mills from the other two families in the same way.

When Jiang Xiaoxiao brought Liu Dagang home, three stone mills had already been transported to her house, and Zhao Youcai was helping to pour those ceramic fragments into the stone mill.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 125 =====