It was time for Yang Liufang and Shitou to get off work. Before they finished watching the Kang, they lit a lantern for them and gave them a pack of cigarettes.
"Brothers, if you can't finish it today, you can do it tomorrow."
"Well, we'll leave after we finish talking. Let it dry like this overnight, burn it tomorrow, lay out a board and you can use it. Otherwise, you won't be able to sleep on it tomorrow. .”
"Thank you, brothers."
After Yang Liufang finished speaking, he and Chief Shitou went out to cook. They stir-fried the morning's leftover rice with eggs and chopped green onions. Before it was ready, the two eldest brothers on the kang had finished their work and were about to leave. Yang Liufang hurriedly wanted to pay. They said that the village promised to pay, so Yang Liufang stopped arguing and asked the village chief Shitou to send the two of them out of the gate and continued to fry rice.
In the evening, the two of them listened to the radio and finished eating. Since there was no bed, they moved the wooden board in and slept on it. Village Chief Shitou had been tired for a whole day. He didn't even wash his feet after eating. He fell asleep soon after. Yang Liufang turned off the radio, watched "Chinese Furniture" for a while and went to bed.
Over the past few days, due to the biological clock, Yang Liufang has become accustomed to getting up at 5:30, and so has the village chief Shitou. Yang Liufang knew that the village chief Shitou would go back in the evening, so he planned to finish the parts that needed help today, and he could do the remaining joinery by himself even if the village chief Shitou was not around. In this way, with the help of the village head Shitou, he downloaded the materials that made him eager to file a lawsuit.
Since the bill is 50 centimeters wide, and the diameter of the materials he chose is 40 centimeters, using a full board is against the rules, so he can only choose a 30 centimeter full board and add 10 centimeters of side rails on both sides. Yang Liufang used a carpenter's tape measure and Combine the squares, dot the dots, and draw the lines with the ink fountain. Then he sawed with the village chief Shitou and cut the boards. Then use a plane to flatten the board. After each item is completed, the village chief Shitou will be carried to a shady place to press the materials. He does not stop to have breakfast until all the materials for a long desk are finished.
Before breakfast was finished, the craftsmen of the Kang table had already arrived. Head Shitou opened the door and invited the two in, cleared the smoke, and asked them to work before returning to eat. By this time, Yang Liufang had already finished eating and started working. The head of Shitou Village hurriedly grabbed the two of them and joined in. The people who made the kang finished it before noon. Village head Shitou took the time to help them get some wood chips and sawdust, and lit a fire to bake the kang. Thick smoke came out of the chimney on the roof, like willows in the oil field and his hometown. Just like the big chimneys in factories seen in the city, it has a hint of industrial atmosphere.
When steaming rice at noon, Yang Liufang found a plastic bag and scooped out two bowls of rice. He planned to take it back when the village chief Shitou left after finishing work in the afternoon and cook porridge for Gawa when he went home. There was no rest after lunch until the work was about to end. Before the materials for a large bed were finished, Yang Liufang urged the village chief Shitou to go home quickly with the little rice. He knew that despite the lanterns, the road would get harder the later he got.
Yang Liufang ate a few mouthfuls of dinner alone, and then went back to the room to rest. Because the heat had not dissipated from the heat of the day, the room was much warmer. After working hard all day, Yang Liufang didn't even turn off the radio and fell into a deep sleep.
Early the next morning, before the 7:00 work time for Yang Liufang, there was a knock on the door. I put down my work and opened the door. A tractor pulling charcoal loaded with a load of charcoal stopped at the door.
"Master Yang, right? Zhao Ling gave it to me at a big concession and asked you to receive it."
"Oh, please come in, please come in." Yang Liufang hurriedly opened the door wide, lowered his head, took off the door baffle, and stood aside. The driver started the tractor and drove straight into the yard. Yang Liufang asked him to unload it to the corner of the house where he put the charcoal. The master picked up the shovel, climbed into the carriage, and started shoveling down the charcoal. Yang Liufang saw that he was sweating profusely from exhaustion, so he found a bowl, poured a bowl of boiling water, placed it on the opened wood board, and told the charcoal unloading master: "Please come down and drink water yourself when you are tired." Then he went about his own business. alive.
The master drank water twice before unloading a load of charcoal. Before the tractor left the hospital, two more tractors had already arrived at the door. Each of the two tractors pulled four willow tree sections that were about 50 centimeters thick. Three tractors parked at the entrance of the small courtyard next to the small village committee. They reversed and moved forward several times before they finally drove the wrong way. When the tractor delivering charcoal left, Yang Liufang asked the two masters to wait for a moment. He thought about how to place the eight new logs so that they would be most convenient for future use without affecting his work and without making people feel that he was The wood he brought was used on other people's furniture. After all, his furniture making business had just started.
After totaling, Yang Liufang asked the tractor master to unload the wood to the center left side of the door, so that it would be separated from the existing wood and convenient for him to access. The tractor drove into the yard, and Yang Liufang was instructing them to unload the truck. The old horse dealer walked in with a copper pipe. As soon as he entered the door, he proudly said: "Xiao Yang, uh (me), how is this wood?"
"Hey, you're fine!"
"That's, well (I) asked people to search the entire Hanwang River. This is the best."
"Big brother, let them unload it here. Firstly, it will avoid confusion between the two wood materials. Secondly, it will not block the sunlight. Let the moisture of these wood evaporate as soon as possible. Ermeng (we) can open the wood as soon as possible."
"Okay, now that we're on stage, I'll listen to you."
The old man smoked a dry cigarette, called Yang Liufang out, took him to the village headquarters, and gave him a thick stack of solidarity in the office of the village chief Zhao Jinchuan.
"This is wages. I'll pay you this much first, 1,000. I'll get it from the credit union in the morning. You swish (count)."
"Dad, there's also E Sou (uncle) here, so why should I be worried? Take it, I won't count."
"Then put it away. Do you know why I called you here?"
"Two elders, I really don't know."
"As soon as a person passes a hundred, he will be in a hurry (sexy)! You understand. The stone is not here, and you are usually alone. Please pay more attention."
"Um, I understand. Thank you two elders for your advice. Uh, pay attention to it later. That's okay. Let's go back to work first."
"go Go."
"Jinchuan, come over and see if they have finished unloading."
The old horse dealer and Yang Liufang left the village headquarters and arrived at the carpentry courtyard. The old man looked around the wood again, then looked at Yang Liufang's newly opened filing materials, and felt the newly carved dovetails before leaving with satisfaction. Yang Liufang poured a bowl of hot water for each driver and master unloading wood, in case they were thirsty and went back to their work. It wasn't until they left that Yang Liu remembered that he hadn't even eaten breakfast. Looking at the alarm clock on the radio, it was already 10:30, so he might as well have lunch.
After continuous intense work, Yang Liufang was so tired that he could not straighten his waist or straighten his legs. Every time before going to bed, he would lie on the pillow, straighten his legs and raise his arms to feel comfortable and relieved, but He never cried tired. People from Wenzhou have been unafraid of hardship and hardship since ancient times. The formation of this character has a lot to do with the geographical environment of their hometown: typhoons every year, more mountains and less land, but more rivers.
If we say that when he first entered Xizhou, Yang Liufang was ignorant and followed Li Tongfu to sell shoes purely for survival. So now Yang Liufang has the ambition to open a factory here and start a business, and it is this ambition that laid the foundation for his future development.
After Yang Liufang put the rice into the pot, he looked at the eight new pieces of wood and thought: If he and Brother Shitou were to pull the saw manually, it would be another laborious and large project. He remembered the electric planer his master bought when he was an apprentice. It would be more convenient and labor-saving if he had it. But then I thought about it, my home on the southeastern coast has already had electricity, but here we still light kerosene lanterns. It is a luxury for me to light lanterns every day. Thinking about it is still in vain, forget it, just eat honestly and prepare to work hard.
In the afternoon, Wang Shan drove a carriage. In addition to bringing a slaughtered chicken, he also brought him a sheepskin jacket. It was the kind of jacket-like jacket that people in the northwest often wear. He said that he had brought it back. of. And the sales account was delivered.
"Brother, you drank too much that day and I couldn't pay you the bill, so I've been here until now. Yesterday, my brother-in-law went home and passed by my house. He told the Buddha that the money he received for the new project was It’s more than three times the price of Meng (our) house, and we have to add charcoal. The Buddha (said) I will give you everything, thank you, and the Buddha (said) I can’t let you suffer. The raw lacquer and cinnabar of these two sets of furniture. It’s all covered, here’s the cost, a total of 300, do you think it’s enough? If it’s not enough, the Buddha (said) I’ll give it to you after the New Year Pig is killed.”
"Third brother, Uncle Sou is too polite. I can't ask for this amount."
"No, one size equals one size. That's it. Not only is your forehead big, but your forehead won't let you suffer!"
