In the past few days, the villagers have been immersed in the joy of having electricity. The villagers participating in the Zhaomagou dredging work have become more motivated when they see that the government is indeed sparing no effort to do practical things for the people. In the early morning of April 19, according to the tasks assigned by the village chief Shitou, the villagers who participated in the river dredging work got up early, took dry food and set off to Zhaomagou. According to the government's requirements, they must completely clear the river before the spring flood. sludge removal.
Before leaving, the breeze swayed the willow trees slightly and the temperature became a bit cold. Due to the good weather in recent days, most people have begun to take off their winter cotton-padded clothes and trousers and put on spring separates and thin clothes. When the head of Shitou Village sent the migrant workers off, he asked everyone to bring more clothes, as the weather might change. There are stubborn young people who not only refuse to listen but also become stubborn.
"It's time for the village chief to wear more clothes."
"It's just that I'm shirtless when I'm working. Isn't it a burden to carry clothes?"
Chief Shitou had no choice but to let them go. After they were sent to the Zhaomagou River, a slight blowing of sand began to appear in the sky, and the sand and dust gradually spread from west to east, and soon enveloped Hanwangchuan, Yantan, and even Xizhou City further east.
After Mayor Shitou sent everyone off and pulled back the first load of water, before it was even finished unloading at the furniture factory, strong winds whipped up the sand and dust from the Hexi Corridor and spread rapidly. The visibility also decreased, and by the afternoon the visibility was less than 100 meters, and the newly installed electric lights had to be turned on in the factory in broad daylight. The wind blew on the roof of the factory building, making a whirring sound accompanied by the impact of sand and stones, which was quite scary. As the wind got stronger, the lights hanging from the ceiling began to shake, giving it an earthquake-like feeling.
Suddenly there was a whooping sound, and the asbestos tiles in the middle part of the factory facing the wind were blown off. The sandstorm blew into the factory along the torn hole. The workers working inside were instantly frightened. They started running around with a loud sound, thinking that the factory was It's going to collapse. Yang Liufang was different from them. This was his own property. With the dim light, he went up against the wind and found a nearby willow tree to top the asbestos tiles next to him. While blowing open a larger gap, the workers saw that the boss was desperately trying to do it. While rescuing the factory building, the workers who had fled also followed, imitating the willow pattern of carrying the logs on top of the asbestos tile walls. The crackling sound continued, and everyone coughed loudly due to the dust blown in.
As the wind got stronger and stronger, the wall began to sway again and again. Yang Liufang had to ask workers to pick up the opened boards and lay them across the middle of the asbestos tiles, and then use wood to top them up to get relief. Then he asked four workers to pick up the broken asbestos tiles and put them up, plug the gap again, and use wires to connect the three sides with the surrounding asbestos tiles that had not been broken, so that the sand, dust and strong wind could be blocked out. Go wash up and dust yourself off. After finishing the work, everyone had no intention of working anymore and patrolled along the wall of the factory to avoid being blown open by the sandstorm again.
Those migrant workers on the river began to regret not listening to the reminder of the village chief Shitou. They huddled together, covered their heads, and lay down in the river, waiting for the sandstorm to pass. Sand and gravel particles poured into their clothes through the gaps in their clothes from time to time. It was cold and itchy, but I couldn't move. It was even worse when I got up and was hit by a sandstorm. This severe sandstorm attack caused sandstorm weather in 16 counties and districts in northwest province. The minimum visibility was less than 100 meters. A total of 12 strong winds occurred in five cities in Hexi, with the maximum wind speed of 29 meters per second.
The sandstorm lasted until the 20th. It started to rain lightly in the early morning of the 20th. The rain moistened the dust and deposited it, turning the ground into a yellow mud soup. This situation happens several times every spring and autumn. Secondly, this is determined by the local natural conditions of Xizhou. Xizhou City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with complex and diverse landforms. People often say that Northwest Province has the most complete landform features in the country, and Xizhou City, the provincial capital, is a typical representative. The Hexi Corridor in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Xizhou has always been one of the areas with high incidence of sandstorms. In addition, people still have no awareness of environmental protection. They have unscrupulous grazing, sand dredging, sand washing and other primitive development methods that destroy surface resources and water resources. It continues, so people here have to bear the consequences of this extensive development.
The workers who built the river were sent back by tractors the next morning. They were hungry, cold, and suffered from colds, fevers, and lung infections due to excessive inhalation of sandstorms. It took them a long time to recover. After this incident, Yang Liufang was also frightened. Fortunately, someone in the factory had wood at the time and blocked it in time. If it hadn't been for everyone when they were working, the damage to the factory would have been serious if it collapsed due to a sandstorm, and the subsequent effects would have been very bad. of.
As soon as the weather cleared up, he asked Qin Jiajun, who was delivering food, to go to Red Earth Village and bring back several carts of scrap red bricks. He built a 2m red brick wall around the factory building and added a red brick wall to the roof. That's peace of mind. The first four months of the whole project in Yangliufang Factory were in vain, but looking at the newly reinforced factory building made me feel more at ease. I no longer had to worry about sandstorms blowing down my factory building.
After doing this, Li Tongfu came back once. It turned out that the money raised from the club was due. After paying the principal and interest, he only had a surplus of more than 2,000 yuan after half a year of hard work. However, he finally owned these counters. The village had electricity, and Yang Liufang wanted to replace the machinery and equipment in the factory with electric ones but had no money, so he had to wait for the project's payment. In order to make more money as soon as possible, Yang Liufang asked Li Tongfu to go to the relevant sales department of the supply and marketing cooperative to ask if he could sell the furniture he made inside. This would also be a sales channel. After many communications, he reached an agreement with the contractor of the building materials sales department. According to the agreement, they will receive a 10% commission for every set of furniture sold, and the sales proceeds can only be deposited into their account, and their portion will be deducted before being returned to Li Tongfu and the others.
The man is a swordsman and I am a fish and meat, so Yang Liufang had no choice but to agree. He first made some small chairs and children's study tables and sent them to sell. Unexpectedly, people in the city still recognized them. People are always generous in buying things for their children. The first batch of goods was sold out within three days of delivery. He asked Li Tongfu to come back to rush for the second batch of goods. In addition to the small tables and chairs, Yang Liufang asked Qin Jiajun to pull out a set of sofas for the second batch of goods. Unexpectedly, within a week, another batch of goods was sold out. Sold out. When the contractors in the building materials sales department saw that this was cost-free and easy to make money, they stopped selling some building materials with lower profits and vacated the space to sell furniture. And gradually people began to customize it.
With this sales channel, sales at Yangliufang Factory have increased, and the equipment has been quickly replaced. With the support of power tools, the factory's production efficiency has been greatly improved. In the past, it only took a month to produce a set of sofas. , now it can be completed in half a month, and they started to produce sofa cushions. He asked the village chief Shitou to find a few skillful women in the village, lay sponges on the prepared tension springs, and then sew the sofa covers. Unexpectedly, the sales effect was quite good. Some units, such as the Cultural Bureau, Education Bureau, and schools, which have limited funds and cannot replace old-fashioned tables and chairs with new-style sofas, bought a pair of sofa cushions and put them on chairs or wicker chairs. It's much more comfortable on it than on a stiff stool surface.
After Yang Liufang discovered this situation, he asked workers from Wangqingchuan to sew sofa covers for them to design and sew seat covers specifically for chairs based on the conditions of existing chairs. As soon as they were released, they became a hot commodity. Dozens or hundreds of units were bought. In those two years, many families used this kind of seat cover to improve the uncomfortable sitting situation of chairs at home, and Yang Liufang also made a small profit.
The sales of furniture factories are getting better day by day in May, especially the sales of supply and marketing cooperatives continue to rise, because there are no stores dedicated to selling furniture in Xizhou, and although the supply and marketing cooperatives have been internally reformed, they are still state-owned in the eyes of ordinary people. unit, but the service attitude has been greatly improved. In the past, customers regarded the salesmen of the supply and marketing cooperative as gods, but now the sales staff regard customers as gods. They not only come to take measurements, but also deliver goods upstairs. Seeing that the sales of their own products in the same sales department were going very smoothly and that they were making a lot of money in recent days, Li Tongfu, Wang Shan and Yanhua saw this and were anxious in their hearts. They would have known that they would free up a section of the counter to specialize in this product. How nice the furniture would be.
The three of them also discussed simply informing Yang Liufang to stop supplying them and leaving him with no goods to sell, but they felt it was unethical. After all, he was the one who asked others to cooperate in the first place. Now I can only watch others make big money selling furniture, while I make small money selling hardware nearby.
