Chapter 42: Sweet Pain

I'm sorry, I drank two glasses last night with a brother who was about to enter the marriage grave, this guy is a thief, and he actually got married! If you don't get married, you can't do it, your girlfriend's belly is big, your girlfriend's family won't let it go, and it is said that your girlfriend's family let out a word: If you dare not get married, your master will abolish you.

The most shameless thing is: this girl said that she invited me to drink, and in the end, she asked me to pay, and she went under the table.

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After a month and a half, after employing almost all the masons and masons in the village and several nearby villages, on the basis of the small lake under the original spring, they began to drain and dredging and dig deep, and did all this, and built a huge reservoir 50 meters long, 50 meters wide, and three meters deep with cement, stones, and red bricks.

At the same time as the construction of the water storage tank, taking advantage of the difference in the terrain from the water storage tank to Zhang Lan's house, a buried water diversion pipe was excavated at the same time. With this pipeline, the water used in the production at home no longer has to be pumped from the well every day. With the advantage of the terrain difference, as long as the valve of the faucet at home is opened, the flow of water is even greater than that pumped up by a pump.

An accidental accident during construction made Zhang Lan worry that someone would accidentally fall into the water while playing here. In order to prevent the child from accidentally falling into the pool when he came to play, Zhang Lan suggested that Zhang Zongjun use barbed wire for a week to wrap up the land, hearing his son's worry, Zhang Zongjun also thought of this possibility, this kind of thing does not happen and everything is fine, if it happens, it is a big trouble, of course, it is also a happy compliment, and the extra cost accidentally added nearly 10,000 yuan to the budget.

Even after the completion of the whole project, people walked on tractors all day long, and the path, which was originally just a grass path, was forced to step out of a smooth road more than five meters wide.

Of course, the cost of building the pool and the pipes was also quite expensive, including the cement red bricks and molded stones, and finally the labor hours of the stonemasons cost more than 40,000 yuan. In the countryside of the 80s, this was undoubtedly a relatively large project.

But it's all worth it, after all this is completed, the quality of Zhang Lan's canned food has suddenly risen to a higher level, the original product is in short supply, and now there are people waiting in line every day, and even someone finds the workshop director and proposes: as long as you give us the goods, the quality of the canned food is a little worse. It doesn't matter if you put less sugar, how much or how much it should be. Hearing this, the workshop director in the factory was very moved, and tried his best to encourage Zhang Zongjun to sacrifice quality and sell more goods.

Knowing this, Zhang Lan almost went out and pointed at this guy's nose and scolded his mother - he didn't dare to see that the altitude was quite high - but he told his father that no matter what, even if the supply could not keep up, the quality of the canned food could not be reduced. Our canned food is to win by quality, this is undoubtedly to smash their own signboard, although a while may earn a lot of money, but lost the customer's trust in the quality of our products, is undoubtedly very unfavorable to the future development, basically a dead end.

After listening to Zhang Lan's detailed explanation, he was shocked by a cold sweat on his forehead. Zhang Zongjun, who originally saw the current situation of hot sales and some unable to keep up with the supply, began to be anxious, and was quite moved by the workshop director's suggestion. Now when I hear my son's words, I realize that doing so is basically tantamount to looking for death, and in the end it will only be completely annihilated after a moment of splendor.

After completely dispelling her father's idea, Zhang Lan designed a new type of packaging for the canned food at home, which abandoned the simple monochrome carton packaging used before, and turned to a beautifully printed coated color packaging box. It is a pity that the printing plant at this stage rarely has the ability to print this kind of packaging box, Zhang Zongjun begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to spend a lot of effort to finally find a printing factory in the provincial capital that can print this kind of packaging, which is to solve the problem of packaging.

The exquisite packaging makes this kind of fine canned food not only taste better, but also the exquisite packaging is more suitable as a gift to relatives and friends, the double improvement of quality and packaging, so that the canned food on the market is completely in short supply, and the price is rising again and again. Zhang Lan asked her father to raise the shipping price a little, but he still couldn't stop the wholesalers from all over the country who came to pick up the goods, and the wholesalers waved the banknotes in their hands, foaming at the mouth, in short, as long as there was goods, the price was easy to say. Even a few more clever wholesalers saw the newly released canned food, threw down the money and ran away, which made Zhang Lan smile bitterly. As for the phone at home, it rings non-stop all day and night, and everyone on the phone is surprisingly consistent: if you want goods, as long as there are goods, you will pay immediately. Now everyone has only one meaning: now, we are not short of money!

Zhang Zongjun, who counted the money all day until his hands were soft, saw the hot sales of canned food after the quality and packaging were improved, in addition to complaining every day that his busy feet did not touch the ground and did not have a good rest, he never mentioned exchanging quality for quantity; Mom's biggest pleasure in watching every day is holding the ever-increasing number of passbooks, and her mouth cramps with laughter.

The workers in the whole factory are spontaneously divided into three teams, and the three teams take turns to work in shifts day and night. Zhang Lan took the lead in abandoning the practice of eating big pot rice at the beginning of the opening of the factory here, and adopted the piecework wage system.

This is a matter of course, can you not work hard? Now that you can get a salary of nearly 300 yuan a month after doing a good job, which is more than what you earned in a year, who can not work hard? Even once again, Zhang Zongjun saw that everyone was working too hard and advised everyone to rest for a few days, but he almost aroused public anger. Since then, Zhang Zongjun has never said such things again, and he also understands that it is not easy for everyone to make some money in the countryside, and finally there is a chance to make more money, or do you not have to go far in the village, where to find such a good opportunity? Of course, no one will give up this opportunity easily. Rural people are the least afraid of hardship, as long as they have money to earn, they are not afraid of anything else, and it doesn't matter how hard they are.

Socialist labor-management relations are really harmonious! Zhang Lan often lamented that it is said that in capitalist society, workers think less and the boss desperately makes workers do more; Look at how high the consciousness of our working class is in a socialist society!

Being able to enter Zhang Lan's canning factory has also become the goal of young people in nearby villages, as long as they enter Zhang Lan's canning factory, basically find a daughter-in-law to build a house, you don't have to worry, the girls in the village can pick and choose, and you can build a few bright big tiled houses in a few years.

Looking at the busy appearance of the factory now, Zhang Lan has a headache, it is estimated that there is nothing in the world that is more painful than you see that there is money to be made, but you can't make it to your heart's content! It seems that the expansion of the factory is imperative, looking at the river surface that has frozen, Zhang Lan sighed, this winter is not good, this year's winter is cold to death, much colder than in previous years, the ground is frozen thoroughly, there is no way to dig the foundation, even if it takes a lot of effort to dig well, I am afraid that the cement can not guarantee enough cohesion. It seems that we will have to wait until after the beginning of spring next year, and this state of affairs seems to continue for a few more months.

When I got up in the morning, I suddenly found that it was snowing outside, Zhang Lan was in a trance, and time passed so fast. Before I knew it, a year was almost over. If you think about it carefully, it is already December of the lunar calendar, and before you know it, the New Year is about to begin.

Looking at the thick snow on the ground, Zhang Lan did not run immediately, and began to slowly look at what may be the biggest snow this winter, the snow is very thick, more than ten centimeters, the sky is still gray, and the snowflakes the size of goose feathers in the gray sky are falling one after another, like elves flying in the air, without any sound. Stepping on the snow with both feet, making a "creaking" sound, the world is very quiet, there is no sound, Zhang Lan has a long breath, this kind of whole world only has his own feeling, very good!

The temperature is not very low, there is a way that the snow is not cold and the snow is cold, Zhang Lan is not wearing a lot of clothes, Xiao Chenxi has already gotten up, the two of them slowly ran back, and found that the parents also got up early.

"Why did you wake up so early today?" Zhang Lan was very surprised, her parents rarely seem to get up so early, what's wrong today?

"It's almost the New Year, it's time to prepare some things for New Year's gifts." Yang Zhi's face was filled with a happy smile, this year's family is not worried about this matter at all, when the family just got married two years ago, the family was poor, and there was no money to prepare for the New Year, and every year when it came to the New Year, it was worried about how these relatives should move, this year, the situation at home is better, when relatives come and go on weekdays, it is no longer the kind of eyes that seem to have contempt but want to hide this contempt in the past, but now with flattery and stuttering. Speaking from the heart, Yang Zhi is not a person who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, but unfortunately, it seems that his relatives are like this, and the eyes of his relatives in the past deeply stimulated Yang Zhi and really hurt him. Yang Zhi is also very happy, fortunately, his mother's family is still as good to him as ever.