"What is this place?"

Following Feng Xiaochen into an old residential area where the walls of the building had been mottled, Ning Mo frequently turned his head to look around, and asked Feng Xiaochen in surprise. This kind of community Ning Mo and Zhao Yang are very familiar, much like the kind of staff dormitory area built by Lengshui Mine in the seventies and eighties, a six-story unit building in Yishui, no elevator, each set of area is about 40 square meters, including kitchen and bathroom, in the 80s it was a mansion, but today it seems very simple. Ning Mo: They didn't expect that there would be such a house in the capital.

Feng Xiaochen didn't answer Ning Mo's inquiry, but just took him and Zhao Yang to the community. Arriving at a unit building, he identified the unit number, then walked down the narrow, dark staircase to the fifth floor, knocking on the door of one of the houses.

"Who is it?" said a hearty voice from the room.

"Old Xu, it's me, Xiao Feng. Feng Xiaochen replied loudly.

The door opened, and a spirited old man appeared, his hair almost white, and his face and body looked thin, as if there was no flesh but skin and bones. Seeing Feng Xiaochen outside the door, he was full of smiles, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull Feng Xiaochen's wrist, and said while letting him into the room: "Oh, it's Mr. Feng, rare guest, rare guest, why did you think of coming to see me, an old man?"

Feng Xiaochen turned sideways, revealing Ning Mo and Zhao Yang behind him, and said to the old man: "Old Xu, I also brought two friends over today, don't you mind?"

"Don't mind, don't mind, come in. The old man was quite enthusiastic, greeted Ning Mo and the others, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, my son's family is too young, you can take care of it." ”

The three of them followed the old man into the door, Ning Mo and Zhao Yang looked at the house, and recognized that this was a very common two-bedroom apartment in the past, with a living room in the middle and a bedroom on each side, the area of the living room was very small, about three or four square meters, and the bedroom was slightly larger. If you look down from the air, two large rooms are sandwiched by a small living room, which looks like a pair of glasses, so it is also commonly known as the glasses room.

The living room of the spectacle room is actually a crossroads, with two doors, one south and one north, leading to the two bedrooms, the east door facing the stairway, and the west door connecting the kitchen and bathroom. Because there are doors on all sides, things in the living room can only be placed in a seamless way, and if a few guests sit down, the whole family's traffic will be paralyzed. As for the fact that there are too many people, especially if there is a fat man among them, the living room will be so crowded that you can't even find a place to put your feet.

Ning Mo and the others are now crowded in the living room of the old man's house, and the old man's wife is also at home, and when she heard that a guest came to the door, she came out of the bedroom on one side and said hello, poured water for everyone, and hid back in the bedroom. It's not that she's afraid of life and doesn't dare to chat with outsiders, but she can't sit a fifth person in the living room.

"Alas, alas, this condition...... , let you see the smile. The old man looked very cramped.

Feng Xiaochen didn't care, he smiled and said, "Old Xu, let me introduce you." These two are my friends, this is Ning Mo, this is Zhao Yang, we have been friends for more than 20 years, and the two of them are now working together to open a company called Moyang Trading Company. …… Ning Mo, Zhao Yang, let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Xu Wenliang, the former chief engineer of Qinzhou Heavy Machinery Factory, the first generation of metallurgical equipment designers in our country, and the world is full of peach and plum. ”

"Overrated, overrated. Xu Wenliang waved his hand embarrassedly and said: "I am outdated now, and I can't understand the new continuous casting machine and rolling mill that Qin Zhong has introduced with foreign technology." I am now a retired old man who comes to the capital with my wife to help watch my grandson. ”

"What about the little grandson?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Xu Wenliang said: "I went to school, and my wife and I had to pick him up from school in a while." That is, when the grandson is at home, our old couple can still exert a little residual heat, usually the son and daughter-in-law go to work, the grandson goes to school, and our old couple stays at home and is completely two wasted people. ”

Feng Xiaochen said with a smile: "Elder Xu, you can't say that, the current state of you and your wife is called enjoying the joy of family. I'll tell you the truth, I want to retire now, and I don't have to think about anything at home all day. ”

"What are you kidding Xiao Feng, how old are you, you dare to talk about retirement!" Xu Wenliang was amused by Feng Xiaochen, he reprimanded Feng Xiaochen, and then said with emotion: "If you don't want to stay with your children, my wife and I are really not happy to come to the capital." You see, under such conditions, it is difficult for the family to even turn around. I live in Qinzhou in the general engineering building assigned to me in the factory, 200 square meters, and there is no problem in twisting Yangge in the house. ”

Ning Mo couldn't help it, and interjected: "Old Xu, you live so aggrieved, why don't you change to a bigger house?"

"Change to a bigger house?" Xu Wenliang looked at Ning Mo like a fool, and after a while, he smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Yes, Xiao Feng introduced that you two are in the company just now, and the consideration of the problem must be different from us salaried people." My son works in an agency, and my daughter-in-law works in a company, earning a dead salary and not saving much money. My wife and I have some savings, but that little money to buy a house in the capital is a drop in the bucket.

Last week, we went to see a real estate with our son and daughter-in-law, a three-bedroom apartment of 80 square meters, almost 600,000 yuan, our money can pay a down payment, and then we have a mortgage of more than 2,000 a month, but we can also afford it. However, the daughter-in-law said that her colleagues in their unit are now buying a 120-square-meter house, and she is worried that she will regret buying an 80-square-meter house now. No, the family meeting did not form a resolution, and it is still hanging. ”

At the end, he laughed, and seemed to think that the idea of a family meeting was funny.

"I'm ......" A thought flashed through Ning Mo's heart, and he couldn't help but want to say something again.

Feng Xiaochen stopped Ning Mo quickly, turned his head to Xu Wenliang and said, "Elder Xu, we came this time because we want to hear your opinion, is it convenient for you?" ”

"I'm a retired old man, what advice can I give you?" Xu Wenliang said in surprise, but his face still showed a little expectation. He was really bored at home, and finally someone came to talk to him about business, and he was still quite excited.

Feng Xiaochen took out a few enlarged photos from his bag, handed them to Xu Wenliang, and said, "Old Xu, look at these devices, do you understand?"

Xu Wenliang took the photos, took out a pair of reading glasses from nowhere, put them on the bridge of his nose, and then began to inspect the photos. He only glanced at it, and then commented endlessly: "Isn't this just a set of double wire rod mills? It should have undergone technical transformation, and it can eat 150 mm continuous casting billets and produce 6 mm, 6.5 mm and 8 mm carbon wire rods." However, the transformation is not complete, the main motor power of its middle rolling mill is 1600 kilowatts, if it is replaced by 2500 kilowatts, the production efficiency can be increased by at least 40%......"

“……”

Ning Mo and Zhao Yang were dumbfounded, these things that the old man said, they had heard it from the boss of the gold chain two days ago, but people use that set of equipment every day, it is not strange to know these situations, Xu Wenliang just relied on a few photos they took, and said the equipment parameters, this professional level, I really didn't say anything.

"Old Xu, you really know too much about metallurgical equipment!" Zhao Yang said adoringly.

Xu Wenliang said proudly: "What's strange about this. This set of equipment was rebuilt by our Qin, and its drawings were drawn by me, can I still understand it? Let me tell you, even if it is dismantled and recast into steel ingots, I will be able to recognize it. ”

"Uh, okay......" Zhao Yang was defeated, he could see from a lump of steel ingots that it used to be a rolling mill, what else could he say, it was better to kneel directly.

After finishing in front of Zhao Yang, Xu Wenliang turned to Feng Xiaochen again and asked, "Xiao Feng, where did you get the photos? This kind of equipment has been completely eliminated a few years ago. We are now on a fully automatic high-speed rolling mill, the efficiency is several times higher than this, the unit energy consumption, labor productivity, are much higher, who will keep this kind of double rolling mill?"

Feng Xiaochen said with a smile: "Elder Xu, let me tell you, not only do some people keep such a rolling mill, but there are also people who want to renovate it and use it. If you look at the photo, this set of equipment, including electric furnace, continuous casting machine, heating furnace, rough rolling, medium rolling, finishing rolling, plus coiling machine and baler, is a complete set. Do you think it's possible to refurbished it and use it?"

"How is this impossible?" Xu Wenliang said disdainfully, "Not to mention that this set of equipment is basically complete, and the condition is still relatively new, even if it is an old equipment that has been pushed in the warehouse for 20 years, we have also refurbished it in the past, and it is no worse than a new machine." It's just that it's really not necessary to refurbish it, and the state doesn't allow this level of equipment anymore. Even if this set of equipment is refurbished, the annual output will not exceed 400,000 tons, which is a backward technology, who will want it?"

"We want it!" Ning Mo and Zhao Yang replied in unison.

"What are you going to do?" asked Xu Wenliang puzzled.

At this time, Ning Mo no longer understood Feng Xiaochen's intentions, and he had been in the mall for 20 years. He leaned forward to get closer to Xu Wenliang, and then said: "Old Xu, I won't tell you, Xiao Zhao and I recently went to India, there is an Indian steel mill, and we want to introduce a set of such wire rod mills, but they are relatively short of funds and can't afford to buy brand new equipment, so we recommended to them the equipment we eliminated." What you see now is a set of equipment that Xiao Zhao and I found, and we want to refurbish it and sell it to that Indian merchant, you see if it is suitable. ”