In the past two days in Jincheng, Ye Ziyu took his girlfriend to visit several places of interest and historic sites, and bought a lot of special products for Li Xin to take home. When saying goodbye at the train station, Ye Ziyu kissed his girlfriend goodbye on the platform and made an appointment to send him a letter as soon as he got home. When he saw the train start, Ye Ziyu thought that he had to convince his mother to call the home decoration department. However, the post and telecommunications bureau is like robbing money, and it costs more than 4,000 yuan to install a telephone, and it is unprecedented to convince my mother.

The girlfriend left, and Ye Ziyu returned home. Ye Chengxuan went home at night to see his son and was very happy. After dinner, father and son made a pot of tea and sat down to chat slowly, all of which were different topics. In fact, the biggest benefit of universities lies in the change of the identity of ordinary people. As soon as I go to college, I always have a bit of the taste of the pride of the sky, which adds a bit of confidence. The content and tone of Ye Ziyu's conversation with his father have changed a lot, it turned out that Ye Chengxuan spoke in a somewhat commanding tone, but now it is more exploratory. From Ye Chengxuan's narration, Ye Ziyu learned about his father's situation in the past six months.

In the half year that Ye Ziyu went to university, Ye Chengxuan also started his "part-time" career. No one expected that the old gentleman would have this courage when he was about to retire, which made many young workers in the unit who were worried about being laid off very admired and sighed. But Ye Chengxuan has worked really hard in the past six months. Through the introduction of his old classmates, he went to a mattress factory called "Sweet Dream". The spring mattress produced by this factory is well-known in Jincheng. The work of the private sector is naturally more compact than that of the state. His boss's surname is Qian, and he is less than 50 years old, and his name is Qian Dajin, which is a good name. At first glance, he is a rich man. Ye Chengxuan was in charge of the financial work, and as soon as he went, he sorted out the chaotic financial statements of the factory for many years, and immediately impressed the boss. After learning that Ye Chengxuan was still an intellectual, he had more respect in his heart, and he was originally called Lao Ye, but he also changed his name to Teacher Ye.

This factory is not big, with more than a hundred workers, but the monthly sales are quite large. Ye Chengxuan roughly estimated that the gross profit of the factory was about 1 million yuan per month, and the average monthly profit of this private owner was between 400,000 and 500,000 yuan after deducting various expenses, taxes and depreciation rates of fixed assets. This really amazed Ye Chengxuan, this was a number he had never dared to think of.

The main business of the factory is the production of mattresses and related machinery and equipment, which are commonly known as "Simmons". After the improvement of living standards, citizens began to use this high-grade spring mattress generally, and gradually eliminated the cotton wool spread under the bed. Ye Ziyu's family also bought a mattress like this, and the price on the market is quite high, generally around 1,000 yuan.

Ye Chengxuan went to the production workshop to visit and learned that the production process of mattresses is not complicated. The spring is made of iron wire, and then the spring is strung according to various types with a stringing machine, and fixed with a steam nail, and the inner liner of the mattress is formed. Then, the fabric of various colors is rolled together with the bubbles cut into a whole sheet with a ginning machine to make the fabric for the mattress, and then the inner liner and the fabric are sewn together with the hemming machine, and a Simmons sheet is made.

After being familiar with the production process, Ye Chengxuan found that the work efficiency of the workers was very low, and at the end of the day, there were not many finished products, and in order to meet the customer's order, he had to work overtime, otherwise the supply exceeded demand. Overtime is very tiring, but the overtime pay is not high, and it takes up the leisure time of the workers, and everyone complains. It's just that he was afraid of being fired, so he didn't dare to protest against Qian Dajin. And Qian Dajin is also distressed, and he has to spend more money on water and electricity bills for overtime!

Ye Chengxuan noticed that the workload of some workshops is not saturated. In several production processes, the manufacture of spring liners is the most time-consuming, often after the fabric is made, the workers in the finished product workshop have nothing to do while waiting for the liner to be delivered to the edge. And the spring liner workshop has the largest number of people, and it is still too busy. So Ye Chengxuan proposed a plan with the boss: divide the spring liner workshop into two and set up two workshops. One workshop is in charge of processing springs, and the other workshop is responsible for stringing nets and making springs into liners. Instead of processing a lot of springs first, as is the case now, and then stringing the net. In this way, wouldn't it be possible to shorten the production time of the finished product?

In fact, this is just the simplest principle of co-ordination. Students who have attended junior high school have all studied the text "Coordination and Arrangement". Mathematician Hua Luogeng used the simplest example to say: it takes 1 minute to wash a teapot, 4 minutes to boil water, 1 minute to set up a tea set, and 1 minute to make tea, a total of 7 minutes. However, if you have to make a little overall arrangement, within four minutes of boiling water, you can take out your body and set up the tea set, won't you save one minute? Everyone understands this truth, but Qian Dajin has made such a low-level mistake now. After listening to Ye Chengxuan's explanation, he applauded repeatedly. As a result, the production efficiency has improved, the overtime hours of the workers have been greatly reduced, and the boss who has fallen into the eyes of the money no longer has to worry about spending more water and electricity bills, and everyone is happy.

Solving this problem, Qian Dajin realized the value of Ye Chengxuan even more. After a period of time, he saw that Ye Chengxuan was upright and introverted, orderly in scheduling, and a gentleman, so he simply let Ye Chengxuan be the factory director, and he was more happy to be idle.

Ye Ziyu saw that his father was in high spirits, and he was very happy in his heart. He said, "It's wonderful, I can tell people now that I'm the son of the factory manager." ”

The father and son talked happily, but the mother was afraid that the father and son would not know the height of the sky, so she said: "What's so great about being a self-employed factory director? You don't listen to other people's shouts, and you are embarrassed to brag in front of your son! Why don't you ask your son how his studies are?"

Ye Ziyu told his mother that college is different from high school, he studies well and guarantees that he can get his graduation certificate smoothly. Ye Ziyu took the opportunity to say to her mother: "Let's install a phone at home, Dad is now the director of the factory, and a home appliance is printed on the business card, how majestic." The main thing is that I can call you every week at school, which is so convenient. ”

My mother glared at me and said, "How can you be more sassy than your father? Do you know how much it costs to install a telephone? Not to mention the long-distance call fee for making a phone call at school! You should honestly write a letter to your family." ”

In fact, Ye Ziyu already knew that his mother was thrifty by nature, if he asked her, it would definitely be such a result, and when he saw that his mother really refused, he no longer had delusions.

After staying at home for a few days, Ye Ziyu sent a letter to Li Xin, and began to look forward to Li Xin's letter again. Every day he counted, counting when he should have received a letter. When I woke up early in the morning of this day, I couldn't help but be full of poetry, and I lay on the bed and wrote a small poem:

Every day, I wander around the mailbox.

In my heart, I am burning with hot anticipation!

Looking forward to my letter there,

The handwriting on the envelope is the girl I have been dreaming of.

However, hope is always disappointed,

I'm still just wandering.

Perhaps, this is providence.

Providence wants me to understand,

Without this girl, joy will not come!