5:30 in the morning is the time when Yang Liufang's biological clock wakes up. According to the contract, the delivery time of students' desks and chairs is before the junior high school students' high school entrance examination. According to the current progress, there is plenty of time. But as a habit he had developed over the years, Yang Liufang got up as soon as possible and devoted himself to another day of furniture making with the workers.
After he finished washing, people had already consciously devoted themselves to their posts, assembling, assembling, and polishing. Everyone performed their duties in an orderly manner. Yang Liufang started the machine and, with the help of two porters, began to process the mortise and tenon joints of other furniture. Just after breakfast, the head of Shitou Village had returned from hauling the first load of water. He used a long pipe, inserted one end into the water tank converted from an oil drum on the donkey cart, and took a few deep breaths at the other end. The clear water was instantly clear. The water gushed out, and he hurriedly inserted the water pipe into the factory's large bucket until it was drained.
He took two steamed buns, two eggs, and a piece of salted tofu from the canteen, and drove the donkey cart on his second trip to bring water to the villagers. After finishing his meal, Li Tongfu was doing some sorting. When he thought of something, he came out and asked Yang Liufang.
"Brother, are you going back to apply for an ID card soon?"
"Oh, at the beginning of next month, let's finish the delivery to the township education committee."
"Well, just remember it. Don't be unable to buy a ticket without your ID card."
"Remember, brother. By the way, who is going to the countryside with you today?"
"It's Wang Shan's turn."
"Oh, I haven't seen him for a long time. I wonder how busy he is?"
"Wang Shan has made a fortune now. It is estimated that he will take over directly in the spring election."
"Really? How much money can you make from washing sand?"
"Yes, because the water is pumped from the ground and the sand is dug from the ground. They are all free. People say they make a lot of money, but he makes a lot of money."
"Well, people make money in different ways. Let's just do our business in a down-to-earth manner."
It turned out that just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Shan went to Xizhou City on his father's order to find a drilling team and drilled a 20-meter deep well on the shore of Zhaomagou on the Wangshawan side. In the name of the village, I bought a high-power water pump and several hundred meters of gauze from the supply and marketing cooperative where my old classmate Yanhua worked. More than 10 strong laborers from the village were mobilized and started their sand washing work.
Sand miners from Zhaomacuan dug nearby to collect sand, and then took it to the sand washing plant in nearby Wangshawan for washing. It costs one yuan to wash a square meter of sand, and Wangshan also provides free loading and unloading. In this way, truckloads of sand are poured onto the sand filter, and through powerful flushing by the water pump, the mud is washed away and turned into yellow sand that can be used for construction. The sand miners sold the sand directly to the sand field in Xizhou City at a high price to avoid secondary exploitation.
Since spring has just begun and the freeze has not completely thawed, Zhaomagou is in the dry season. The muddy yellow sewage discharged from the sand washing has settled on the river bed of Zhaomagou. It will only wait for the flood season to wash away part of it and let it flow along the Zhaomagou river. Magou goes straight into the Yellow River.
When the sand washing was carried out for a month, Wang Shan settled the settlement for the villagers who participated in the sand washing at the end of the month. Each person received more than 40 yuan. The villagers were overjoyed. Since they were making so much money, they all asked the village to drill another well and speed up the rotation. , so that everyone can earn more money.
Unable to withstand repeated requests from the villagers, and because the sand washing was really profitable, they drilled a second well in early April. When Yang Liufang led the workers to eat soybean noodles to celebrate May Day, Wang Shan also led the villagers to share the second month's money, nearly 100 yuan per person. The villagers in Wangshawan got the money and celebrated it like a Chinese New Year. Celebrated.
Around May Day, the weather gradually became hotter, and the entire Zhaomagou watershed also thawed. The spring floods are coming day by day, and the water is getting stronger day by day. It impacts the river bed and takes away the newly discharged sand washing water. But in the end, part of it cannot be taken away and sediments, raising the river bed little by little.
The villagers work day after day in the sand washing plant. As a manager, Wang Shan no longer needs to keep an eye on the site. Occasionally, he and his second brother-in-law take turns recruiting Li Tongfu to sell goods in the countryside to earn some extra money. Today was his turn. He arrived at the furniture factory at 8:30, still driving the familiar carriage, but Wang Shan's clothes changed greatly. He put on fashionable jeans and a jacket, and Li Tongfu gave him a pair of shoes. He wears leather shoes and has long hair like Yang Liufang, making him look particularly handsome.
"Third brother, you go to the countryside to sell goods, not to go on a blind date. Why do you dress up so nicely!"
"People depend on their clothes. Besides, now that we have the conditions, we don't come into the village like we did before. People only welcome us because of the old man's face, but they look down on us privately. It's different when you put on good clothes. He thinks we have strength." .”
Yang Liufang thought that what Wang Shan said was true. If he hadn't opened his own factory and had a registered enterprise worth 100,000 yuan, he wouldn't have been able to get his turn in the desk and chair replacement project of Hanwangchuan Middle School.
"Third brother, listen to my brother, you are going to be the village chief."
"Let's wait for the election. It should be about the same. After all, I am responsible for washing the sand. Everyone makes money from this."
"Oh, then you should also be careful. Try to drain the sand when there is flowing water in the river. Otherwise, it will not be flushed away and the river bed will be raised. Once there is a flood, something may happen easily."
"Once the sand is washed, it doesn't matter whether it drains fertilizer (water) or not. It's all just money. I don't think the people are willing to stop."
"That's right. I originally said that workers were not willing to take a day off on May Day. It's all about money. Anyway, be careful."
The two chatted for a while, Li Tongfu prepared the goods, and they drove the carriage to the countryside.
Soon, Zhang Feng pulled the vegetable farmer, Uncle Han, over, with a few willow sections loaded on the cart.
"Oh, uncle, you haven't been here since my new factory opened. I'm worried that you'll find the original place again."
"Yeah, I've been busy getting a new house. Didn't I just block your army cadre Brother Qin on the road and ask him to notify Xiao Zhang La'er? Otherwise, how would I know about this place."
"New house, so fast."
"Yes, I heard from Buddha (that) Xizhou City is going to be expanded to Emeng (us), and the airport is going to be expanded. The airport expressway passes by us, so everyone is spending all their savings to build houses. I can make more points when I vacate in the future.”
"Oh, it's better to live on the outskirts of the city. They may be demolished at any time. How is the journey going?"
"It's a good walk. Especially the more than ten miles into the village, it's very good. The small willow trees on the roadside are growing well. In two years, they will be full of green trees."
"Oh, this road was driven by the village chief Shitou. The trees were saplings I bought for the villagers to plant and they will be recycled by the factory in the future."
"Sou (Uncle), what are you doing with all this wood?"
"I'll let you help me make doors, door frames and windows."
"How many are there in total? Do you have the sizes?"
"Yes, yes, the foreman who built the house has already written it down, you see." Yang Liufang took a piece of paper filled with densely written words and found that it was quite detailed.
"Sou (Uncle), according to the news you heard, how long will it take before the demolition?"
"Oh, we've been saying this for years, let's not care about that, let's live according to our own standards first."
"Well, Uncle Sou, I saw the dimensions you gave me. I'll make some improvements to the doors and windows used in your and Gawa's room. Add screens and bright windows at the door, and add glass windows outside the windows. This way you can open the windows when it’s hot and close them when it’s cold, so you don’t have to use paper every year.”
"Well, my brother, you are still thoughtful and I will listen to you. I will go back and promote it for you. If nothing else, the neighbors should come to our factory to do it."
"Thank you, Sou (Uncle)."
"Thank you very much. This is five hundred yuan. I don't have much to bring with me. You should keep it first."
"Sou (Uncle), this won't work. As the saying goes, a drop of kindness will be repaid by a spring. When I first started last year, you not only took care of food and drink, but also took care of housing. You can't ask for money for anything."
The two argued for a long time, but in the end Yang Liufang also confiscated the money. It was only later that the vegetable farmer also confiscated the money for vegetables for two consecutive weeks. Finally, Li Tongfu threatened him that he would not buy his vegetables if he did not collect money, so he started to continue to collect money.
The vegetable farmer uncle went back and told the neighbors about his window plan. Some of the neighbors knew Yang Liufang, the boy who cried bitterly in the shack at the end of the field. Now he is shaking (Northwestern dialect: well done) and opened a factory in Hanwang. Sichuan is famous far and near. Under the leadership of vegetable farmer Uncle Han, everyone came to him to customize furniture. Yangliufang Furniture Factory had more and more projects.
