Regardless of the Wenzhou heat in June, the old couple worked in the kitchen for two hours, making fried razor clams with egg, fried yellow croaker, green pepper beef, pickled pomfret, cold shredded jellyfish, shrimp and vegetables, and fish ball soup. A large table was filled with stir-fried, stir-fried, stir-fried, stir-fried, stir-fried, mixed and stewed hometown dishes cooked in various techniques. Yang’s mother also went to fetch a barrel of rice wine she brewed. Yang Liufang, who was about to turn 18, enjoyed it again after nine months away from home. To the warmth of family and the doting of parents. In the bowl in front of him, the various kinds of meat that his parents put for him could not be filled, and they were still putting them in, as if they were afraid that he would not be full. After drinking a few more glasses of rice wine, Yang Liufang became drunk again. In his blurry eyes, he saw his mother blaming his father.
After sobering up the next day, Yang Liufang had breakfast cooked by his mother, went to the village committee early to issue a certificate, then rode a yellow croaker to the town to get the stamp stamped, and deposited the car at the door of an acquaintance's house.
"Hey, isn't this Al Fang? When did you come back?"
"Uncle, I, I came back yesterday."
"Have you been gone for a year?"
"That's about it. Uncle, I'll leave my car here and I'll go get my ID card."
"Oh, go ahead, go ahead, you can't throw it away."
Yang Liufang locked the car and walked towards the bus station. With his peripheral vision, he saw someone pointing behind him. It turned out that the village had passed, and people in the town who didn't know what was going on were still misunderstanding him. Without thinking too much, he got on the bus to Yueqing.
It was only when I arrived at the Yueqing Public Security Bureau that I learned that due to the decentralization of power, I can now apply for an ID card directly in Yueqing. It was much more convenient than last year when Li Tongfu had to go to Wenzhou City to apply for an ID card. After filling out all the forms as required, taking photos, and paying the fee, the next step was a long wait.
He didn't go out while waiting. In addition, when he was a child, he didn't like to play with his peers in the village, and now many young people have gone to work in low-voltage electrical appliance factories in the town, so no one bothered him. He was also happy to be clean and take a good vacation for himself.
His mother once tentatively asked him to go see his master. Yang Liufang remembered that when he was in the town, the people behind his back were pointing fingers. In addition, he didn’t know where to start after they met. Both parties were embarrassed. He also heard that his junior sister Liu Xia was in her third year of high school, and he didn't want to cause trouble, so he put it off. His mother stopped asking questions, but he went with his father to clean the yard of his master's house. He felt a little sad when he saw that a small yard full of life had turned into a jungle of weeds. People will grow up, things will change, and he believes that everything will pass.
Time in his hometown is always short and fleeting. Yang Liufang sleeps until he wakes up naturally every day at home, reads books, and goes fishing by the river. Half a month passes quickly with the doting of his parents. Because he was worried about the factory, he said goodbye to his parents as soon as the fifteen-day waiting period was up. He took a bag full of jellyfish skins, dried duck and other hometown specialties prepared by his grandmother and went straight to the document processing window of the Yueqing City Public Security Bureau to collect his identity. certificate. Looking at the ugly mugshot on the plastic ID card, he couldn't believe it was him. But with this card, you can finally handle many things legitimately, such as bank cards, staying in hotels, buying tickets, and even registering a company.
It was already July 15th when Yang Liufang arrived in Xizhou. In order to return to the woodwork factory as soon as possible, he came out of the train station and went directly to Zhang Feng, and gave him some of the specialties from his hometown. He asked him to drive a truck to take him back to the factory. He also went to the Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative and asked Yanhua to buy some belts and springs for making sofas. He also left some of his hometown specialties for Yanhua. Yanhua insisted that they wait for her to get off work and have dinner together at noon. Yang Liufang made an excuse and said that there were more than a dozen people in the factory waiting for food, and they had to go to Yantan to bring some food back. Indeed, after being gone for so many days, he could not I don’t know what’s going on in the factory.
It was just noon when the two returned to the factory. Since Yang Liufang was away, there was no one to do the joinery. Therefore, except for the delivery of desks and chairs renovated for fifth grade these days, everything else was basically at a standstill. In order to save him money, the head of Shitou Village announced a holiday for the workers. He took Li Tongfu to the countryside to sell goods every day.
The canteen chef and Zhang Feng unloaded the vegetables from the cart and made noodles for them. The chef said that in the north, "dumplings get on the cart and noodles get off. It means longevity."
Yang Liufang was indeed hungry, so he ate two large bowls of soybean noodles with garlic.
After dinner, Zhang Feng was sent away, and he started the machine, seized the time to catch up on the fallen progress, and began to make furniture in earnest. Not long after the machine started, a worker came in and said that as soon as he heard the machine start, he knew the boss was back. I have been going crazy these days, so I put on my work clothes and started working with Yang Liufang. In one afternoon, the materials for two Eight Immortals tables were laid out, and the mortise and tenon joint structures were ready. Yang Liufang, who had not worked for a long time, was sweating profusely from exhaustion and felt particularly relaxed.
"Afang."
"Oh, brother, you are back. When did you arrive?"
"Brother Shitou, brother. We'll be here at noon. How are you doing?"
"Everything is good, and the goods are selling well. Even if the factory stopped for a week while you were walking along this section, we didn't understand, so we had to ask the workers to stop."
"Oh, I understand, wash up quickly and eat quickly."
After they finished washing, several people gathered around to have dinner.
"It's better to eat when there are more people."
"Yeah, it looks affectionate."
"Brother Shitou, you have to work hard after dinner. Please notify the workers and ask them to come to work tomorrow. In the afternoon, Xiaoga and I opened the materials for two sets of tables. There will be work tomorrow."
"Okay. If you're not here, the workers will go crazy."
The next day, all the early workers came to work. Yang Liufang also got up at 5:30, brushed his teeth and washed his face briefly, then started the machine and led two workers to drive out two double beds and several As for the material for the stool, he had to produce enough material for workers to work on it before he could focus on starting a new project - making a sofa.
Although in front of the guests, he clearly marked the drawings and felt that the furniture would never deviate from its origins, it was a strange thing to him after all, and he still didn't understand the structure inside, so he could only make it while making it. try.
After breakfast, he picked a shrewd worker to cut the ingredients with him. He picked out a cut willow board, drew lines and points, used a machine saw to change the 3 cm board to 2.6 cm thick, and asked workers to use a planer to polish both sides of the board as a support board for the main structure. The handrails and flat parts are made of 0.4 cm thin plates, which are also polished and nailed to the main structure. After the frame was nailed, he tightened the belt he bought and nailed it to the back frame of the sofa.
Since the backrest is lightly stressed, a belt can be used, while the base is where people often sit and sit. With Li Tongfu's reminder, he used springs to connect the base to achieve this effect. After the springs were hooked together, I found a quilt to cover it and tried to sit on it. The backrest was fine, but the springs would always separate due to the difference in force. Sometimes one is under the buttocks, while the other is next to it. If you don't pay attention, the spring will be squeezed out, and the person will be empty.
The first attempt at the base ended in failure. He asked the workers to use pliers to remove all the springs, while he went to look up the information. He regretted not taking these two books with him when he went back. As the saying goes, you will regret less when you use the books. Finally, he found a new term in the introduction of the sofa: "S-shaped spring". It turns out that truly high-end sofas use such springs, supplemented by small tension springs, so that the force is evenly distributed, and a mesh surface is naturally formed after the hooking. , and at the same time, because of the hooking of the small tension spring, the S-shaped spring as the main force will not deviate, so that people will never sit empty when sitting on it.
Yang Liufang found a treasure, but it was already time to get off work, so he could only go to Xizhou Supply and Marketing Cooperative the next day to buy S-shaped springs. When Li Tongfu came back from going to the countryside in the evening, he saw this half-finished sofa and admired Yang Liufang a little. This man only went to the mall to look at it, and it was really amazing that he could actually make it in a decent way. Yang Liufang told his brother about the problems he encountered and had found a solution.
He went to the Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative again. He didn't hire a car. The tossing back and forth on the road made him want to buy his own car. If he had a car, he wouldn't need to hire someone else's. It could also deliver goods back and forth, and it would be convenient for his brother to go to the countryside. . But when he thought about money, he gave up this idea. He had to save enough money to open a leather factory so that he could make leather sofas.
"Alas!" Yang Liufang sighed, thinking that he never worried about money when he had no money before, but now that he has money, he worries about money every day. People, this mountain always looks higher than that mountain. But in the world of hard work, which one is not on the way to climb?
