"Brother Xiao Yang, isn't that unsafe? You can open the window to get light, but what if a thief smashes the glass and comes in to steal something?" Village Chief Shitou said worriedly.
"Beware of gentlemen but not villains. We have 12 walls. If someone tries to steal a log and hit it a few times, it will knock him down. Besides, in our village, who dares to steal things."
"Then open it, because it is a single wall, so we probably have to dismantle the entire wall before we can open it."
"Then demolish it. If there are not enough workers, please ask Brother Shitou to find masons from the village."
"Okay, I'll make the arrangements. By the way, the day before yesterday while you were gone, I went to the village and told the president of the supply and marketing cooperative that he came to inspect our place. Secretary Lu wanted to come in person to accompany him, as well as the president of the township supply and marketing cooperative. Come and join in the reception.”
"Really! Brother Shitou, you are so awesome! Okay! Okay!" Yang Liufang was so excited that he couldn't express it in words.
"Oh, I am so good! It's the guests you invited who are so good. It is said that he is the first choice to be the next president of Xizhou Supply and Marketing Cooperative?"
"I don't know. My brother and the others should know. After all, I have very little control over the management there."
"For the reception, the township requires us to make some preparations. The expenses can be reimbursed from the township supply and marketing cooperative. I plan to make a banner and buy some tea, tobacco and alcohol. Xiao Yang, take a look and see what else needs to be prepared. ?”
"Brother Shitou, since the township has a request, I'll just ask you to accommodate us in accordance with the township's request. Lunch will be in the new canteen of our factory."
"Okay, I'll prepare in the next two days. When will your brother come back?"
"As planned, we should leave today. He will follow the goods, and the goods will be transported directly to our factory for handover."
It turned out that Li Tongfu, who had been doing business since he was a child, had done such a large deal for the first time. This time, he, Yang Liufang, and even Yang Liufang's master bet all their wealth. Therefore, even though Northern United in Yiwu has government supervision and guarantees, he still insists on returning with the goods to avoid losses caused by the goods being lost during transportation on the road. As for Northern United, because Li Tongfu and them had not settled the freight, they were willing to let him follow the train.
This time their goods totaled three wagons, including bulk goods such as sanitary ware and aluminum alloy fasteners for office partitions. The goods from the two suppliers each occupied one wagon, and they were responsible for transporting them to the Northern Alliance warehouse at Yiwu Railway Station. The small hardware accessories are supplied by more than a dozen merchants in the small commodity market, and they jointly contract for one wagon. The considerate person in charge of Northern United coordinated a sleeper ticket for Li Tongfu in the name of a staff member. However, Yiwu Railway Station had not yet opened passenger services, so when setting off from Yiwu, he accompanied Li Tongfu and squeezed into the cab of the locomotive. , the two of them changed to the sleeper car when they arrived in Hangzhou.
Li Tongfu's train ride was bumpy, and it was already the morning of March 3 when he arrived in Xizhou. After getting off the train, he did not leave Xizhou Station. He waited with the Northern Union staff for the trucks coordinated by the railway freight station to arrive. He had to personally watch the goods he escorted being loaded onto the truck, and he didn't feel relieved until they reached their factory. There were three wagons, a total of nine trucks, and it took a whole morning just to load them. When the loader asked Li Tongfu if he needed to unload the goods, Li Tongfu hesitated. He knew that there were four porters in his factory, but how could four people do it with so much cargo? Li Tongfu asked the staff of Northern United how long to leave to unload the goods. After communicating with the team, the staff of Northern United told him that they only had half a day, that is, 6 hours.
Li Tongfu stared at the loading and had no time to make a phone call. He didn't take the time to call Yang Liufang until the goods were all loaded.
"Brother, I'm back. The goods have been loaded at Xizhou Railway Station. There are nine trucks in total. People asked us if we want to unload the goods?"
"So much? How much do you charge for unloading?"
"I haven't asked yet."
Because Yang Liufang's bedroom had been converted into a private room in the cafeteria, the phone was moved out. Because the line was not long enough, it had not been moved to the reception room where he lived, so he could only answer the phone in the work area. This happened to be heard by the village head Shitou who was staring at the renovation of the canteen.
"Unload the goods and let the villagers do it. Don't let the fertilizer flow to outsiders' fields."
"Brother, Brother Shitou just said that the village coordinator will come and we can unload it ourselves."
"Okay, then I will escort the car and set off with the Northern United staff from Yiwu."
"What, someone is coming from Yiwu?"
"Um."
"Then if you do this, brother, if you lead the convoy on the main road, just say we are building roads here."
"Why?"
"Why, if you take the small road, do you want the leaders of Yiwu to see how poor we are in Xizhou?" Yang Liufang said half-jokingly.
Village Chief Shitou, who was standing by, also echoed: "Yes, Xiao Yang, you are thoughtful and don't leave a bad impression on others."
"Oh, okay. Look, my head is so anxious that it's all turned to mush."
"Brother, the canteen is still under construction. We will eat at Brother Shitou's village committee for the time being. If you find it inconvenient, you can take the guests to Hanwangchuan or when I call Yanhua to check out later, let her take the guests. It's okay to take Yanhua's car back to Xizhou for dinner. Don't be slow to treat others. After all, we have to do business with them for a long time, and we will inevitably trouble them when we purchase goods in the future."
"Then let's go back to Xizhou. After dinner, we can arrange a hotel or something for him."
"Okay, brother, let's go. I'll contact you after I hang up the phone, and at the same time, let Brother Shitou coordinate the moving workers."
"Okay, bye."
The head of Shitou Village waited for Yang Liufang to hang up the phone and confirm with Yang Liufang the number of people unloading the goods, then left the factory and went to the village committee. Because Yangliu Fang needs 18 loaders this time, in addition to 4 in the factory, 14 more need to be found from the village. The head of Shitou Village could not notify everyone one by one. He had to use the village radio to call the able-bodied laborers over. Yang Liufang asked him to inform the master chef to add a working meal for 14 people. The food must be hard. After all, these porters have to work hard. It takes two people per truck and it takes six hours to unload everything.
After a while, the village committee broadcast came out, and the village head Shitou was calling names: Muzhu, Shiyang, Shanhou Daga, and Liushu Xiaoga. Those who didn't understand thought it was the slang of bandits, which made me laugh to death. Yang Liufang lives in this village, and sometimes he feels ridiculous when chatting with several of his apprentices. Take Daga and Xiaoga as an example, there must be fifty or sixty people of the third or fourth generation in the village with this name. Therefore, they can only be distinguished by the names of elders or markers near the home. For example, Liushu Xiaoga... there were so many people with the same name, Yang Liufang even doubted whether they had ID cards like him.
While Chief Shitou was calling the roll, Yang Liufang called the supply and marketing cooperative and asked Yanhua to see which car was there so that her grandma, the God of Wealth, could settle the freight.
"Zhang Feng went to deliver the goods. Your brother Qin is here. Let's go."
"That's good. When you go back, take the leader who came from Yiwu to deliver goods back to Xizhou, arrange food and accommodation, and receive him seriously. The hotel should be of a higher quality. After all, we want long-term cooperation."
"Okay. Let's inform Wang Shan in the store and we'll leave in a moment."
"Hard."
"If you don't work hard, your life will be hard." Yanhua also made a wisecrack. Yang Liufang was very pleased after hearing this. There was nothing better than the unity of everyone during the development of his career.
Before Yang Liufang finished the call, villagers whose names were called one after another came to the factory. They gathered together to chat and waited for the arrival of the motorcade.
Near noon, Qin Jiajun and Yanhua arrived at the factory first, followed by the convoy that took the long way around. The first car arrived and Li Tongfu got out of the car. Yang Liufang saw Li Tongfu with unkempt hair and dirty new clothes, and felt a little sorry for this brother who tried his best to help him. He hurried forward and hugged her.
"Brother, thank you for your hard work."
"Hi! It's my own business, why bother? Just arrive safely." There was no room for the two of them to exchange too many greetings because the time for unloading was limited.
"Well, let's arrange the unloading. Brother Qin, it's just right for you to take command. Our factory has a limited area, leaving the rest of the pedestrian passages to be sorted and stacked." Yang Liufang said to Qin Jiajun.
Cars from behind are arriving one after another. Because the Yingbin Road built to introduce the factory only reaches the end of the furniture factory, and is followed by farm roads, so these delivery trucks can only line up on Yingbin Avenue. All the women and children in the village came out to watch the fun. The head of Shitou Village asked the women of each family to take care of their babies and stay away from the cars, lest the babies be hurt if the cars started.
A car had just been unloaded and the factory was almost full. Qin Jiajun hurried out to discuss and coordinate the unloading site with Yang Liufang. Yang Liufang was greeting guests from Yiwu with Li Tongfu and Yanhua. After hearing this, the two looked at each other and smiled. The Qin family army didn't understand, they were in a hurry and they were not in a hurry. At this time, the head of Shitou Village stopped unloading, and Yang Liufang and others gathered together as if to discuss something, so they hurried over to ask what was going on?
"Brother Shitou, there's no room for it in the factory and it can't be unloaded. We may have to move it away and find another place."
"Where else to go?"
"I'll call Yantan later and ask."
"No need for now, alas! I didn't expect so much goods to arrive at once. Let's go coordinate and unload it into the wheat field first."
"Wouldn't that suppress other people's wheat? We still have to pay for it."
"There's nothing we can do about it, it's important to unload the goods." Head Shitou hurriedly went to coordinate the unloading of goods in the wheat field in front of the factory.
After he left, Yang Liu just whispered to Qin Jiajun that the layout should be larger when unloading the goods, and he should occupy as much as he could. Only then did Qin Jiajun understand what was going on. After understanding the situation, regardless of whether the village chief Shitou had coordinated or not, he directly let the car at the front of the queue drive into the wheat field. It happened to be the field of a worker who was unloading goods. When he saw the wheat field being crushed, he beat his chest to stop it and shouted to find the village chief Shitou.
"Chief of Cong (Village), look! Don't let them crush my family's wheat field. What will my family eat after crushing it?" He was anxious, angry and crying.
"Ouch, I got it. Not only your home, but other people's homes will also be taken over. Don't make people laugh. I'll pay for the food later, and I'll pay you for the money." Village Chief Shitou said to the worker majestically, and hurriedly went to coordinate Other people’s wheat fields.
After the workers heard this, they thought that since they had given money and grain, they should just roll it, so they stopped making trouble and hurriedly went to unload the goods to make money. Qin Jiajun told the workers who were unloading the goods that they should put them in categories to make it easier to pick up the goods. If you don't understand something, you must ask yourself. After arranging the first vehicle, we coordinated other vehicles to drive into the wheat field one after another.
The rolling trucks and the stacking of goods destroyed more than ten acres of wheat field in front of the factory.
