Spring rain is as precious as oil!

This spring rain, which is more expensive than oil, fell until early the next morning. When Li Qinglin got up, the rain stopped and the clouds dispersed, the sky was clear, and the sun came out.

"It was raining all the time before, and today I grew sweet potatoes." It rained last night, and today is the best day for growing sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes buried in the seedling pit have grown long enough vines. Choose sweet potato vines that are more than five inches long, cut them with scissors, then insert them into the well-planted ridges, and then press them with fat soil. As long as the inserted sweet potato vines can survive, the management will be simple in the future. Usually, they are nothing more than loosening the soil, top dressing, turning over the vines, and watering them when the weather is particularly dry. When the ridges are dug up in autumn, you can harvest a large amount of sweet potatoes.

The people in Xiaoli Village all went to the steamed bun slope to plant sweet potato vines, except for Li Qingqi staying at home to entertain Tailor Ye.

Li Qinglin doesn't grow crops very much, but this is not a problem, because there are two masters of grain growing at home as masters. Since ancient times, there has been no school teaching in farming. Some of them are the older generation who teach the next generation by words and deeds. Li Wanquan and Liu Xiuzhen are the experienced masters of this older generation.

When Li Qinglin was a farmer, he had no pre-job training, so he only used it urgently on the job. Therefore, he was stiff and busy at the beginning, which made people feel that he was stupid. Everyone was working on the same slope, and some people started to make fun of Li Qinglin, saying that he should teach and could not become a farmer.

No labor is a simple physical job. The difference between knowing how to do it and not being able to do it lies in whether you can master the tricks, that is, you need to have certain skills. As a young man with modern education, this problem is not a problem. Li Qinglin followed Li Wan's body and followed the cat and painting behind him. He secretly thought about the labor skills. After a long time, he looked decent. Although the speed was slower, his movements were absolutely in line.

Plumbing sweet potato vines is not considered a heavy physical work, and general farm work is repeated. Plumbing sweet potato vines requires bend over, and pressing the soil requires bend over, and pressing the soil to water it requires bend over. On this day, the sweet potato vines are inserted, and Li Qinglin feels that his waist is about to break. Fortunately, the ten acres of slopes at home did not fully grow sweet potatoes because they were afraid that the piglets would not be eaten. Liu Xiuzhen thought that the growth period of vegetables was short, and there was a source of water needed to grow vegetables under the slope. She left two acres of vegetables to grow, and Li Qinglin's labor volume was much smaller.

The next day was sunny, and Li Qinglin and Qian Duogui went to Changsheng Town early in the morning to see the grinding wheel at Lao Sun's house.

The eldest and older sons of the Sun family only worked as an apprentice in a machinery factory in Kaifeng a few years ago and studied sand turning. By the time this year, it has been full in three years.

The sand turning technology has existed since ancient times, especially cast iron parts must be manufactured using sand turning technology. With the rapid development of modern industry, the demand for large cast iron parts is increasing, and technical workers such as sand turning workers are scarce, so this profession has become a high-income occupation. It was precisely because the old Sun family saw this promising business that they asked someone to send their eldest son to a machinery factory for an apprentice.

The Sun Jiacai apprentice in the factory is different from the Liu Zhengsheng apprentice in Wantong Business. The Sun Jiacai apprentice also has a different place. It took three years for the Sun Jiacai apprentice. The factory did not pay wages during the apprenticeship. It only paid for food and accommodation. It only paid the monthly "monthly rules" of "three heads and six baths". This "three heads and six baths" means shaving the head three times a month and taking six baths.

The Sun family has been apprenticing for three years and has to continue to serve the factory for three years. This is called "learning for three years and helping for three years". He can only leave the factory after six years. This is obviously different from Liu Zheng's resignation for a year, and it is even more unfair.

If you want to leave the factory within the deadline, it is easy to deal with. The factory deducts the apprentice's "deposit" and then finds the insured when entering the factory to compensate for the losses. This "insured" and "deposit" system is a conventional system and is also a channel for factory owners to obtain funds for free. When a young man wants to enter the factory to apply, you must have more than two medium-sized families to guarantee you to ensure that you abide by the laws during the apprenticeship, care for the factory, and obey discipline. In addition to the insured, the apprentice must pay a certain amount of funds by himself, and when the factory feels there is a loss, it will be deducted from it.

The amount of "deposit" for each type of job varies. If you learn more advanced technical jobs, the deposit will be very high. For example, the Sun family paid for 40 o'clock. Each factory has many apprentices, and these deposits are used free of charge by the factory owner. The maximum deposit can reach 10% of the total capital of the factory when the deposit is collected.

Because Liu Zhengsheng's family is in the town, and the boss of Wantong Trading is quite upright, Liu Zhengsheng's apprentice did not pay a deposit. Sun Jiacai's boss is particularly bad. The sand-turning worker has a strong labor force and is dangerous. Not only does he never provide labor protection supplies, he only provides the worst food for three meals a day, and he forced the apprentice to work more than twelve hours a day, and even the apprentice is not allowed to rest when he is sick. There are fifteen apprentices with Sun Jiacai in three years, and six of them died of illness.

Sun's apprenticeship was only three years old and suffered a lot. He wanted to leave the machinery factory, but his family still had forty oceans pressing against his boss, so he couldn't leave. He thought that he would suffer in this factory for three years. He felt depressed. Before returning home this time, he buried a hand-crank grinding wheel in the dumped waste sand before taking it out of the factory when no one was paying attention. After returning home, he wanted to sell it as compensation for the factory owner's three years of oppression and exploitation.

When Li Qinglin saw the grinding wheel, he immediately decided to buy it.

The grinding wheel of this grinding wheel is obviously new, the shell is cast iron, there is no label or factory name, there is a hole for filling engine oil, and the base has three holes for fixing. The whole grinding wheel is more than 90% new. However, the price of Sun Jiacai is not low, and if you want to buy it, you need four o'clock. Li Qinglin agreed immediately without saying a word. He asked Sun Jiacai to find a piece of paper to wrap the grinding wheel, and took out four o'clock and paid the bill.

Before Li Qinglin left, he asked the Sun family to pay attention to whether there were any tools such as visors, wrenches, screwdrivers, etc., and even good steel. If there were any, bring them back, and Li Qinglin would definitely buy them. These things are very common in machinery factories and are very small in size. It is naturally not difficult for the Sun family to bring them out with convenient work, so the Sun family agreed.

On the way home with the grinding wheel, Qian Duogui was still complaining to Li Qinglin: "Qinglin, no one can use this grinding wheel in our town. If we don't buy it, we can only sell it as scrap iron; Besides, his thing was stolen, and no one of his big brothers spent it. He was doing a business without capital. Four oceans, he regarded us as rich people. If we had lowered the price just now, we would definitely spend less money."

Li Qinglin knew that he was feeling sorry for money, and he was too lazy to talk about how expensive it was. Grinding wheels can be regarded as semi-mechanized tools. When it is expensive, it will naturally change your mind when it sees the efficiency of the grinding wheel.

When he returned home, Li Qinglin asked Qian Duogui to fix the grinding wheel on a bench with iron wire, and then asked him to bring a part that needs to be processed. Li Qinglin aimed the iron parts that need to be processed at the position, then shook the grinding wheel, and the grinding wheel flew and the iron flowers were flying. After a while, the parts that need to be processed had a prototype, and the polishing area was smooth and flat.

Qian Duogui finally surrendered. He gave Li Qinglin a thumbs up and praised: "Qinglin, you still have a vision. This guy is many times better than my file. This time I can make a gun at least five or six days. The things that the Sun family will only get back in the future. As long as you like it, we will definitely buy them."
Chapter completed!