"The work clothes of this era were relatively large, requiring 4 feet of fabric for the upper body and 3 feet for the lower body. Adding half a foot of wastage, a suit of clothes requires seven and a half feet of fabric. The width of the cloth is 4 and a half feet. One piece of cloth is 40 feet. . Two hundred and fifty sets of fabrics require forty-seven pieces of cloth." Zhang Xingmin, director of the logistics department of the cotton spinning mill, looked at Li Weidong and said, "Brother, I won't take advantage of you. Let Lao Yang bring out fifty boxes of workpieces. Let's Two factories can complete this exchange." These days, because the material used in the workpieces is steel, which is a controlled substance, it is as in demand as cloth, and the price of a box of workpieces is about one piece of cloth.
Of course, the specific price depends on the situation. Li Weidong smiled: "Brother, fifty boxes of workpieces is too much. You also know that our steel rolling mill has built a new workshop. The few supplies reserved at the beginning of the year have been spent. Fifty boxes of workpieces are really expensive. No way..." Zhang Xingmin looked embarrassed: "It's not that I don't give you face, brother, you also know how scarce fabrics are now."
"Brother, I won't embarrass you. How about forty boxes, forty boxes of workpieces? Last time your factory owed our factory half a piece of cloth!"
"Forty boxes are too few. I can't explain it to the factory director... That half piece of cloth was caused by Lao Yang playing tricks. It's nothing at all."... During the verbal battle, Li Weidong seemed to find out I remember the feeling of buying clothes in a small store in later generations.
The completion of a transaction required compromise between the buyer and the seller, and in the end forty-seven pieces of cloth were sold for the price of forty-five boxes of workpieces.
After the deal was negotiated, the tense atmosphere in the office suddenly disappeared, and a cheerful atmosphere returned.
Zhang Xingmin said: "Weidong, the cloth is in the warehouse now. You can take it back right away."
"Let's follow the rules. Hand over the workpiece with one hand and the cloth with the other. I'm going to call Director Yang now." Li Weidong picked up the phone on his desk, shook it for a while, asked the operator to connect to the steel rolling mill, and then put the transaction in The details were told again.
Director Yang's voice came from the other side of the phone: "This result is already very good. That old Zhang is a cunning old man. It is rare for us to take advantage of him. I will ask Niu Yong to arrange a truck to deliver the workpieces and pull the cloth by the way." return."
"Okay, I'll wait here." Li Weidong put down the phone and went through the procedures with Zhang Xingmin. Although the transaction was carried out secretly, the necessary procedures were still necessary. If the superiors tracked down the transaction, there would be a reason to explain.
The person who came to deliver the goods was Shan Xiaolin. Seeing that Li Weidong was also there, he was particularly enthusiastic and jumped out of the truck as soon as the car stopped.
"Weidong, I just came back from a long trip. I heard that you were transporting goods, so I hurried back in a hurry. I didn't waste any time." Shan Xiaolin seemed to have changed his mind since being jumped by Xu Damao and Cuihua Immortal. He has a girlfriend and still devotes himself to work all day long. Now in the team, Shan Xiaolin is the most motivated and is on the road almost every day.
Li Weidong saw that his eyes were bloodshot and his face showed the exhaustion of not sleeping all night. He patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Old man, please pay attention to your health and never drive while fatigued." There is no such thing as fatigue driving these days. However, based on Li Weidong's suggestion, Niu Yong formulated relevant rules and regulations, stipulating that a driver cannot drive continuously for more than five hours at a time.
The drivers didn't understand it at first. After all, these days, there are only a few trucks, and the emphasis on driving is to pack more and go faster. Seeing so many goods waiting to be transported, how could the drivers have the time to rest, so they expressed their opposition one after another, and even Some drivers even said that Li Weidong had bad intentions and was sabotaging the construction of the steel rolling mill.
But when they saw the accidents that Li Weidong had spent a lot of energy on, the trucks that had been smashed into a mess, and the families of the drivers crying and screaming, they were speechless. In this way, preventing fatigue driving has become a mandatory rule for the rolling mill truck fleet.
"It's okay, I sleep in the truck for an hour every five hours." Shan Xiaolin rubbed his red and swollen eyes, looked to see if there was no one around, walked up to Li Weidong and whispered: "Brother Wei Dong, what happened last time Thank you, if it weren’t for you, I might have been expelled from the truck team if I was caught by those two people.”
"We're all brothers, don't be so polite, but you guys need to be more careful. You can't continue to fool around like this. Your mother is still waiting to have a grandson!" Li Weidong took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed over the bill. Xiao Lin took one and said, "Come on, refresh yourself." Check.
Hiss, whoosh...Shan Xiaolin lit up the cigarette, took two deep puffs, became a little more energetic, and said with a smile: "I was about to tell you that I have a girlfriend. No, that's why I work so hard to get married. "In addition to the monthly salary, drivers also receive long-distance subsidies. The more miles they travel, the more money they get each month.
"Oh, your boy is finally getting married. Which girl is she from?" Li Weidong's eyes widened.
"Zhang Chunhua from the packaging workshop of the thermos bottle factory affiliated to our factory." Shan Xiaolin, an old driver, was a little shy when he mentioned his girlfriend.
"Zhang Chunhua..." Li Weidong raised his eyebrows. He felt that the name was familiar, but he couldn't remember it.
Shan Xiaolin chuckled and scratched his head: "Her family lives in the front yard of your courtyard, opposite Yanbu Gui's house. Her old man's name is Zhang Er Lengzi, and he is a butcher in the slaughterhouse. You should have met her."
"It turns out to be Huahua! Everyone in the compound calls her Huahua, and they have all forgotten her real name." Li Weidong slapped his forehead violently: "Good boy, that girl Huahua is pretty good. You have found a treasure." Li Weidong was not complimenting Shan Xiaolin.
Huahua is the only daughter of the Zhang family. She has thick arms and legs, a height of 1.7 meters, and a strong body.
Once I picked up Yan Bugui with one hand. Her waist is about as thick as a bucket, and her butt is also very big, so she looks like she is fertile.
In this era, marrying a wife requires a strong body. A young lady like Shirley Yang is not popular at all.
besides. Zhang Erluzi is a butcher and can often buy pig offal from the slaughterhouse at low prices. The family's life is considered first-class in the courtyard.
Yi Zhonghai and the others had been greedy for a long time. They once tried to take advantage of the Zhang family, but were scared away by Zhang Er's butcher's knife.
The Zhang family focuses on living their own small life and has no sense of presence in the courtyard. If Shan Xiaolin marries Huahua, he will definitely live a comfortable life in the future. As his friend, Li Weidong is really happy for him.
"Huahua is indeed a good girl. No, we are already engaged. When it comes to marriage, Huahua doesn't want anything, but we are a man, so we have to give it. Three turns and one ring will hardly break me." Shan Xiaolin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I have saved some money over the years, but tickets are too difficult to get, especially bicycle tickets and sewing tickets. I searched all over the pigeon market and couldn't buy them."
"Bicycle tickets are indeed in short supply, but if you don't mind whether it's old or new, you can follow Yan Bugui's example and go to a bicycle repair shop on the street to buy a bicycle."
"Saving bicycles? This is a good idea." Shan Xiaolin's eyes lit up and he said: "It doesn't matter whether it's new or old. The thermos bottle factory has a spray painting workshop. If you go to the workshop and go through the old bicycles, they will become new ones. Wait until I get off work today. , just go and check it out. Brother Wei Dong, do you know which car repair shop is reliable?"
"The Liu's car repair shop at the corner of the Siheyuan street should be good. There are several families in the nearby compound who have saved their bicycles." After Li Weidong finished speaking, he thought for a moment and added: "If I want to sew air tickets, I have A friend may have one, let me think of a solution for you." Hearing this, Shan Xiaolin almost jumped up with excitement: "Brother Wei Dong, I really thank you."
"Brothers, don't mention this. When you get married, just toast me with an extra glass of wine." Li Weidong said.
As the two talked, the workpieces on the truck were unloaded. After Zhang Xingmin led people to count the number, he took the truck to the logistics department warehouse and asked the workers to move the cloth piled in the corner onto the truck.
Forty-seven bolts of cloth, half a truckload. Shan Xiaolin helped cover it with a tarpaulin, jumped out of the car and prepared to drive: "Brother Wei Dong, let's go back to the factory together?"
"No, I still have something to do. Drive the car to the poverty alleviation workshop and ask Niu Meng to store the cloth in the warehouse."
"Okay! Don't worry." After Shan Xiaolin drove away, Li Weidong said goodbye to Zhang Xingmin, got on his bicycle and left the Fifth Cotton Mill.
Cloth was enough now, all that was needed was a tailor. Li Weidong knew two tailors. One was Liang Ladi from the machinery factory, who was Da Mao's mother.
In order to make ends meet, she occasionally helped her neighbors sew clothes, but her craftsmanship was terrible and she often put the buttons in the wrong place.
The neighbors would not ask her to sew clothes unless they saw that her family was living a difficult life! Making work clothes is a big deal, and you definitely don’t have to worry about it.
The second one is Chen Xueru from Xueru Silk and Satin Shop. In the original work, Chen Xueru's husband was messing around outside and had another woman. Chen Xueru was a strong woman, so she naturally couldn't tolerate betrayal, so she and her husband had a heated argument, and finally divorced.
After the divorce, Chen Xueru married Fan Jinyou again under the attack of Fan Jinyou's sweet words. However, due to Li Weidong's intervention, Fan Jinyou was dismissed from his post and naturally no longer had the ability to marry Chen Xueru.
Chen Xueru is still a young widow and has good skills, so she is suitable for taking on this important task. Xueru Silk and Satin Shop is not far from the tavern, both located on Zhengyangmen Street.
When Li Weidong rode his bicycle to Xueru Silk and Satin Store, he happened to see a plump middle-aged woman walking out of it angrily.
The middle-aged woman kept chattering: "It's true, Chen Xueru, we have been friends for many years. You don't give up the price at all. Do you still want to do business?" A clear voice came from the store: "Aunt Zhang, it's not me. If we don’t give up the price, the profit is really too thin, and I have to support my family in Hukou.”
"Hmph, if someone dares to ask you to make clothes these days, it's considered a good one! I think your store will become famous sooner or later." The middle-aged woman got on the bicycle, and her fat body crushed the bicycle.
Chen Xueru chased him out of the store and looked at the bicycle going away, feeling a little frustrated. Her silk and satin shop is considered an old one. It was passed down from her father's generation. In recent years, the business has gradually become deserted.
Especially this month, not a single business has been completed. If this continues, it may really close down.
Chen Xueru also knows that fewer and fewer people dare to wear satin clothes, and her store will become famous sooner or later. She also wanted to close the silk shop and find a formal job again.
But she was unwilling to do so. Xu Huizhen can support the tavern. She, Chen Xueru, is no worse than Xu Huizhen. Why can't she make the silk and satin shop prosperous?
Chen Xueru was about to enter the door when she saw a burly young man standing aside pushing a bicycle, and thought to herself: This young man is really good-looking.
However, she just regarded him as a passerby and didn't care. She smiled at Li Weidong, turned around and returned to the store.
Ha, this is Chen Xueru, she is really exciting. Li Weidong parked his bicycle and entered Xueru Silk and Satin Shop.
"Wait a minute, I'll be out soon?" A crisp voice came from the cubicle behind. Then Chen Xueru walked out of the back room wearing an emerald green cheongsam, silver earrings, wavy hair, and a charming smile on her face.
Every frown and every smile is breathtaking, and her brows are full of the charm of a mature woman. Seeing that it was Li Weidong, Chen Xueru was a little surprised: "Comrade, what are you..." The silk and satin shop sold only women's cheongsam, and few gay men patronized it.
Li Weidong walked around the store with his hands behind his back. The cheongsam hanging on the shelf was exquisitely made. If it were left in future generations, it would be enough to be displayed in a large department store and marked with a staggering price.
What a pity... Li Weidong turned around and said with a smile: "I'm here to give you a big deal."
"Big business?" Li Weidong nodded: "Let me introduce myself first. I am Li Weidong, the owner of the poverty alleviation workshop of the steel rolling mill."
"Li Weidong... this name is so familiar!" Chen Xueru raised her eyebrows, thought for a moment, pointed at Li Weidong and said, "You are that little bitch Xu Huizhen, the Li Weidong I mentioned before." Xu Huizhen... little bitch Man... Li Weidong was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that this silk shop owner and Xu Hui were really a couple.
"Enemy sisters".
"Yes, I am Li Weidong." With a smile on her lips, Chen Xueru walked swayingly to Li Weidong, and came over to look him up and down.
"You are indeed good-looking. No wonder Xu Huizhen's little slut likes you. For you, Sister Zhang from the sub-district office introduced her to a cadre from the sub-district office, but she rejected them all." Xu Huizhen has a crush on me?
Li Weidong frowned: "Comrade Chen Xueru, Comrade Xu Huizhen and I are innocent. We cannot accuse someone of innocence out of thin air."
"Okay, you can be innocent if you say you are innocent..." Chen Xueru seemed to have remembered something, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, and a strange look appeared on her face.
Her attitude suddenly became warm, she held Li Weidong's arm and asked him to sit down, and then made some good tea.
"Comrade Weidong, my name is Chen Xueru. My situation is similar to that of Xu Huizhen. I admire you workshop directors the most. Come, please drink tea." The slender white hands held up the teacup, with charming eyes lingering and a smile on the lips. The aura on his body was even more charming. Li Weidong reached out to take the teacup, brought it to his lips and took a sip.
It is indeed good tea. ....
