Chapter Seventy-Three: Buying Scrap Iron
Xu Xiaoyantian opened his eyes and looked outside with some confusion. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The sun is almost rising, why don't you see Yan Fei coming over and waking himself up?
Suddenly, she subconsciously sniffled, and then laughed happily.
I got up and tidied up my hair that was a little messy when I slept in my sleep, and went to the kitchen with a comb and combing my hair: "Yan Xiaofei, why are you in such a mood this morning?
"It's not a scallion pancake, don't you see that I'm a pancake?" Yan Fei glanced up at her. "Hurry up and pack up, and let's go to the county seat later. I'm going to buy some scrap metal. ”
"Mmmm, pancake pancake, I was wrong...... That, I said to play yesterday, are you really going to strike iron?" Xu Xiaoyan looked at the pancakes in the pot and nodded, and asked with a little surprise.
"Yes, I've got all the tools for striking iron ready and put them in a place where they won't affect others. After that, I went out at night to practice striking iron for a while. Yan Fei told the truth. Caiyuan Island certainly doesn't affect others, it's definitely true.
"Where can you put it without affecting people?Where else can you put something that strikes iron?" Xu Xiaoyan stopped combing his hair and tilted his head to ask him.
"Then you don't care, it's not easy to find, and you can't go. Later, when my craft is complete, I'll show you. Yan Fei said with a smile.
"Hey...... I know, you're embarrassed to let others see it, right? and sneaking around to practice your craft, I want to see if you can learn anything?" Xu Xiaoyan had an expression that I guessed what you were thinking. "yes...... I haven't noticed yet! Actually, you know a lot of things! You can cook, you can make your own small tables and benches, you can do some work, and you can raise cattle...... Can't you see you're pretty good?"
"Of course, Yiduo is not pressing. Learn more, maybe you'll use it later!" Yan Fei triumphantly.
"Cut ......" Xu Xiaoyan rolled her eyes, shook her hair that had just been combed and had not been tied up, and turned her head away.
Yan Fei slowly flipped through the pancakes, still thinking about how to learn to walk as soon as possible when he changed into a giant python.
After eating, the two stood on the side of the road and waited for the car to go to the county seat, and left in the car.
In the past, when Grandpa Yan Fei was striking iron, the scrap iron he bought was bought from the steel mill in the county. There are all kinds of scrap iron there, but the purchase station in the town is not good, it is all scrap iron collected from the people, and it is difficult to find suitable raw materials.
In the past two years, the steel mill in the county has also failed, and it was originally the best factory in the county, but now it is not only compared with the fertilizer factory, but also some other small factories. The place occupied by the factory is not small, a few years ago when it was the most prosperous time from the county to the suburbs, a factory occupies a territory, is almost larger than half of Sanchahe Town.
It's just that it gets red fast, and it doesn't work faster. It turned out that the workers complained about overtime every day, and in a blink of an eye, it became two days of work and three days of rest, or simply no work for a whole month, and the workers became complaining when they were paid.
If you want to say that this factory is not good, it is not all good, at least Yan Fei thinks it is good.
I remember when I was a child, when I followed my grandfather to buy scrap iron, it took a long time to register at the gate gate. And grandpa also sighed, every time he came, it was not the same person who registered, he had to explain for a long time to let him in, and he had to run to several places in the process of buying scrap iron, and he had to be checked when he went out, troublesome!
Think about it, too, in a large factory with thousands of people, there are quite a few people at the gate post alone! Dozens or hundreds of people rotate jobs, so that his grandparents and grandchildren can enter and leave as soon as they say, and they always meet the same person!
Later, it was fine, there were fewer and fewer people at the gate of the factory, and there were only a few people who came over and over again, and Grandpa Yan Fei came a few times, and they got to know each other, and it was not so difficult to enter the door.
It's even better now, when Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan arrived at the gate, two or three old men squatted in the shade of the tree in front of the door to 'occupy the square', they were all familiar faces, and even Yan Fei remembered them.
'Zhanfang' is the entertainment of the old men in the countryside, and of course the young people also play in their spare time. It is to draw a few lines on the ground, and a small square forms a large square, which is the same as the chessboard of Go, of course, there are not as many squares as Go.
The opponent uses different 'chess pieces' to grab the four corners of the small square, and whoever squeezes the opponent out of the position first, and whoever makes up the square with more squares at the four corners of his own chess pieces wins. The general 'chess pieces' are made of local materials, sticks and leaves, broken stones, rotten tiles and broken bricks, which are simple and convenient, and can be played at the root of the wall in the shade of trees anytime and anywhere.
Yan Fei can remember the old man at the gate of the steel mill, and the other one is also familiar and knows that they are the current gate posts of the steel mill. But he remembers people, and they don't remember him anymore. No way, he has grown too fast and changed too much in the past year.
He went up and said a few words, and the old men immediately remembered it, and when they learned that the old Yan blacksmith was gone, they all sighed a few words. I heard that he was going to continue to strike iron, and persuaded him a few words that this industry was no longer good. It wasn't until I heard that he was just playing and continuing to go to school that I let him go.
The old man who was standing next to him was still enthusiastic, and he took him in directly, without even registering.
Therefore, what materialist dialectics is said in the textbook of junior high school is very reasonable, and the factory of these thousands of people is about to go out of business, which is not necessarily a bad thing for everyone.
The old man was old and nagging, and he talked as he walked.
I feel that Grandpa Yan Fei died early, and I feel that this factory is no longer working, and people have been replaced by people who are not doing it properly. The factory is too big, and it takes half a day to walk to the scrap iron pile, and Yan Fei has to be patient and listen to the old man's nagging with Xu Xiaoyan.
When he was about to arrive at the place, the old man still confessed, and now the person in charge of the treasury has also changed, and it is not the same person as before. Let Yan Fei speak politely, don't mess with others or anything, and repeatedly pay treatment to others to say something unpleasant.
It is said that it is a warehouse, but in fact, it is a large pile of scrap iron piled up in the open air, all kinds of them, and even large machinery dismantled from them, and there are scrap iron larger than the house, which is piled up in a mess into a hill.
There is a row of blue brick and large tile houses next to the scrap iron mountain, and on the ground at the entrance of the outermost house, there is also a large scale that is a little rusty, which is where the scrap iron is excessive.
When he entered the door, the old man instructed Yan Fei again: Speak well for a while, the newcomer is not very easy to talk.
After repeated explanations, the old man took the lead in and shouted to a young man: "Comrade Xiao Li, there is a man from the town down here, come and buy some scrap iron." ”
In fact, when the servants stood outside the door, they had already seen that there were four or five young people in the room, all playing cards with cigarettes in their mouths, and two of them were simply shirtless. This posture is naturally a matter of winning or losing, and the tickets of ten and five dollars are thrown around on the table, and the shouting of cards is heard from afar.
Looking at so much money, it must be regarded as gambling. However, Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan are not stupid, they know that when they come to someone to do something, they can't say what they can and can't say.
"What scrap iron to buy? These are all raw materials collected from the factory, and after they are sold, what will we do with them for production? Not for sale!" was shouted by the old man, and a young man with a red face and a thick neck who was playing cards replied, and began to shout at others to hurry up and open the cards.
Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan glanced at each other, both of them were unhappy, what is the rust of so much scrap iron, and I don't see you start producing anything, so what's wrong with me buying some?
But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, other people's things, love to sell or not, don't sell him, can't he?
"They are all from the villagers, who come from all the way, and in the past, we sold them here for the convenience of the masses. They don't want much, and they won't delay the production in our factory. It's not a bother, let them pick any point, weigh it in a while, count the money, keep an account and sign it. Yan Fei and the others thought that they couldn't buy it, but the old man didn't give up, and continued to intercede for Yan Fei with a smile.
"Open it, I'll go, this special idea is really back, and the last five dollars will be given to you." I owe you first...... No, no, or borrow me again, continue to play, don't leave, don't leave if you don't turn over the book today!" Comrade Xiao Li slapped the table and shouted, before turning back to the old man to speak. "I said uncle, you should leave quickly! I didn't see what you caused me to lose when you came, so I left quickly, and I didn't sell or sell ......."
As he spoke, he didn't even look at it anymore, and shouted to take the cards again.
"Huh...... Comrade Xiao Li, it's not easy for this kid to come all the way, or I'll take them to pick out a good name, and you can count the money when you go back, do you think it's okay?" the old man was very patient, and continued to plead with a smile.
"You ......" Comrade Xiao Li, who was holding the cards and looking at the cards cautiously and like a thief, was not happy, and wanted to get angry when he turned his head, but when he saw Xu Xiaoyan next to Yan Fei behind the old man, his eyes lit up. "This girl is also here to buy scrap iron? Where did it come from? Come on, look at this girl's face, this scrap iron will be sold today, you should hurry up and pick it!"
A few young people next to him immediately burst into laughter, saying that this Xiao Li couldn't see a beautiful girl or something, and Yan Fei was a little angry.
But the old man had eyes, so he quickly pushed him and walked outside, muttering to him as he walked: "Serious matters, serious matters......
Yan Fei is not ignorant, the old man begged for a favor for a long time with a smiling face for himself, and immediately pushed the boat out.
I didn't want to go out as soon as I went out, and Comrade Xiao Li shouted again: "Wait, wait, don't go first, hand over the money first and then go to get something." ”
That's so strange!
Buying scrap iron is not something else, the buyer himself does not know how much to buy, if you don't weigh it, who knows how much it will cost?
Not to mention Yan Fei, Xu Xiaoyan and the old man, even a few people in the room subconsciously took the cards in their hands and didn't move, and they all looked at this Comrade Xiao Li in surprise.
(To be continued.) )