"After the new tables and chairs are delivered, the leader of the old tables and chairs asked your factory to bring them back and refurbish them, and prepare them for distribution to the fifth grade of primary schools in each village. They asked you to give us a quotation, and we can go back and have a meeting to study them."
"Leader, look at this, we are going to the school to deliver tables and chairs in the afternoon anyway. If you are not in a hurry to report, we can go to the site together. I will draw you a picture of the renovated site and give you a quotation. How about you take it back together? ?”
"That's great, just do as you say."
"Brother, you go to the canteen to make arrangements and stay with the leader for a while. I will take the workers to prepare the truck."
Yang Liufang came out and saw Zhang Feng instructing two driver masters to protect them. They used the tattered quilts from the car and rag strips found from unknown places to wrap up the places where the new tables and chairs might be bumped. Yang Liufang saw this and was happy in his heart, feeling that Zhang Feng was really a responsible freight driver. He called his workers and prepared to move it. Thinking that he didn't know how to place it to load more, he called Zhang Feng over and prepared to give him full authority to load the truck.
"Brother Feng, there are 450 sets in total, and there are 5 sets left as spares that don't need to be taken away. Each vehicle needs to carry 150. You can instruct everyone to move and place them. Don't be overwhelmed."
"Okay, Boss Yang."
"Come on, brothers, listen to me. You are responsible for moving, and we are responsible for placing them. We will pass them on the assembly line. It is faster and less laborious. Brothers, don't do it. One of you comes up to help me, and the other one stands below to pass it up." Yang Liu Fang thought, and he had indeed seen the right person. A few words had arranged the moving work in an orderly manner.
He turned back to the kitchen and asked the master chef to get two thermos bottles filled with boiling water and seven or eight empty bowls. He found a clean and cool place and filled them with water for everyone to dry in case they were tired of moving and quenching their thirst. By lunch time, the second car was almost full, and everyone drank all the water in the thermos bottles.
After dinner, everyone didn't rest and started loading the third car. After loading, they all covered it tightly with tarpaulin and tied it firmly with straps before asking Yang Liufang for instructions on when to set off. Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu were chatting with the leader. Once they heard that they were ready, they asked the leader for the departure time.
"Leader, what do you think?"
"Then don't wait, let's set off now."
So the leader and Yang Liufang took Zhang Feng's car, and the other four workers took the remaining two trucks and drove to Hanwangchuan Middle School. They still walked along the newly built road in Shige Village and saw the green willows planted on both sides of the road. Although they were still very thin, their lush branches were already forming shade. The leader said: "Last time, our leaders, Principal Wang and I came to inspect the newly built road. When we saw this newly built road, the leader said with emotion that he never expected that the famously poor Shige Village would have such a good road. It was simply amazing. It’s an image project to benefit the people.”
"Yes, these are the roads and trees that the village chief of Shige Village led all the villagers to build. In fact, no one wants to be poor. Look at the workers in the factory, how hard they work. Their idea is very simple, they just want to get rid of poverty as soon as possible. Poor hat."
The car turned at the three-way intersection and entered the road to Zhaomacuan Township. It returned to the bare loess road. Occasionally there were one or two old willow trees, which were also mottled because the road was unowned and unmaintained, and its branches had been cut down. Everything is broken. Compared with the "Image Engineering Road" in Shige Village, it is indeed inferior. The group of three cars passed Hongtu Village and drove north for another three or four kilometers before entering a main road paved with red bricks. Rows of red bricks were spliced into patterns like firecrackers and laid flat on the road. There are some sparse shops on both sides. Compared with the cave dwellings in the village, this place may be closer to Hongtu Village. It is built with tile houses. It turns out that this is Hanwangchuan Town.
The vehicle continued to move along the red brick road. Two-thirds of the way down the street, a gate made of red brick columns and hung with two hollow iron doors appeared. The two red brick columns were written with red artistic calligraphy. "Integrity, dedicated study, prudent thinking, discernment", and the door head is made of two steel bars bent into an arc like the Xizhou Wholesale Market. In the middle of the two arc-shaped steel bars, five round iron bars with a diameter of 50 cm are welded. The iron piece had the five characters "Hanwangchuan Middle School" written in red paint.
The janitor should be a retired teacher from the school, wearing reading glasses and reading a book. Hearing the sound of the car, he took off his reading glasses and looked up. He recognized the leader of the township education committee. He quickly got up and opened the door to let them in, and then closed the door again. Zhang Feng followed the directions of the leader of the Education Committee and drove the car to a row of houses where the office area was located before stopping. Principal Wang happened to be in the office and heard the sound of the truck and came out to greet him. Yang Liufang hurriedly opened the door and got out of the car.
"Hello, Principal Wang!"
"Xiao Yang, I was thinking about it. It's time to arrive. I really mean Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here."
"Principal, I hired a car from Xizhou very early in the morning. How about arriving early?"
"Hello, Principal Wang." Zhang Feng also quickly came down to say hello to Principal Wang.
"Who are you?"
"Principal, this is Brother Qin's soldier. His name is Zhang Feng. He has retired and is engaged in transportation in Xizhou. We have cooperation."
"Principal Wang, we met in the army cafeteria when Brother Qin got married. I guess you were too busy at the time and forgot about it."
"Oh, hello, hello, Comrade Zhang, thank you for your hard work."
"No hard work, no hard work, we are happy to do something for the students. Principal, you will take command next, and I will lead everyone to unload the goods."
"Then please work hard, everyone, wait for the students to finish class, and unload them at the door of the classroom, so that the students can move out the old tables and chairs and move the new ones in. Xiao Yang, what to do with the old tables and chairs, has Director Li told you? ?”
"Principal Wang, Director Li has conveyed the leadership's instructions. I'm just going to take a look at it this time and draw out the renovation drawings later. You can also check them."
A loud bell rang for the end of get out of class. According to the instructions of Principal Wang, the directors of each grade were responsible for guiding Zhang Feng and other three vehicles to the teaching area and parked them in the middle of the three rows of classrooms. After the vehicles stopped, the workers began to unload the vehicles, and the students also arrived. One after another, their old tables and chairs were moved out, and new tables and chairs were brought in.
Yang Liufang saw for the first time what kind of table and chairs this was. It was a combination of two high and low benches. The tall bench is about 40 centimeters wide and 5 meters long, and can seat 6 students. The short bench is only 15 centimeters, and one bench can seat two students. Each row of tables requires Three benches match it. Yang Liufang couldn't bear to see the four students struggling to carry the long table, so he asked the workers to spare two people to help the students, and he also helped from time to time. The teachers also stepped in to help, and they were busy until the students were out of school, and then the replacement was completed.
Yang Liufang already had an idea while helping with the transportation. He decided to keep the large structure of the tables and chairs unchanged, but make them shorter to adapt to the bodies of fifth-grade children. At the same time, the surface of the table was polished into an arc shape to prevent collisions, and a height difference of 2 centimeters was created between the front legs and the back legs. In this way, the table naturally formed a slope, which is convenient for students to read. At the same time, hidden grooves were made on the arc edges. , to prevent the pencil from falling. In this way, the modification cost of each table is 10 yuan, and the modification cost of the stool is 1 yuan.
When Yang Liufang presented the drawings and explained various functions to the leaders of the Education Committee and Principal Wang one by one, they kept nodding. The leader of the Education Committee was quite satisfied with the price, which was probably within their expectations. He thought for a moment, then asked Yang Liufang and the others to load the long table and benches into the car, then brought them back to the factory, and told Yang Liufang that the problem was not a problem. It's big, but it requires democratic decision-making. It was only at the last office meeting that we could decide how to sign the contract.
Yang Liufang expressed his understanding. He knows that public institutions do things unlike their factories, where he alone has the final say. All major and minor issues in public institutions must be resolved through meetings and collective discussion and decision-making. In the end, it can reduce the chance of some mistakes, but it often also misses opportunities. He asked Zhang Feng to lead the workers to load the truck. At this time, the students had already finished school, leaving them sweating profusely on the University of Nottingham campus. It took two trucks full of old desks and chairs to load. For the remaining empty truck, Yang Liufang paid the driver and sent him directly back to Xizhou from Hanwangchuan Middle School. Zhang Feng and the driver of the other truck took Yang Liufang and the workers back to the factory.
When several people returned to the factory to unload the goods, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. The master chef stir-fried vegetables and steamed rice for them, and several of them wolfed down the food. Seeing that there was still water in the water tank, everyone took out two basins. Li Tongfu got everyone a new towel, and everyone used the new towels dipped in water to wipe their bodies, which was considered a bath. This is how the workers deal with the smelly sweat every time they get off work. The bath water cannot be wasted and the willow trees around the factory must be irrigated. On the water-scarce Loess Plateau, this is already quite a luxury.
