A black Toyota Crown sedan drove east along the Yanha Expressway, with my uncle driving, my aunt sitting in the co-pilot, and Anne and Xiaodong sitting in the back seat.

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has not completely set, the sky in the Mid-Autumn Festival is high and far, the blue sky is floating with white clouds, and only a faint touch of red appears on the edge of the setting sun.

The trees are still green, but they are no longer verdant green, they are ripe dark green, as if there is juice about to drip down...... The autumn wind blew, and there was a sense of gloom in the rumbling sound, and occasionally there were a few weak tears of the autumn cicadas...... Everything presents a poetic beauty and desolation.

Along the way, the family talked and laughed, and drove towards the lathe processing workshop of her cousin in the distance of Anne's house.

The car stopped in front of a yard gate on the side of the road, and the sound of machinery could be heard from inside the yard.

The gate of the yard was closed, only a small door was opened, and a sign was hung on the right side of the courtyard gate: Yanbin lathe processing.

The family of four got out of the car, and the aunt led them into the yard, where some steel pipes, angle iron and other materials and piles of processed waste were piled up.

Several small circular flower beds made of red bricks are planted with clusters of slender bamboos.

When I came to the processing workshop, there were several lathes, milling machines and wire cutting machines and other machinery and equipment in the workshop, and there were workers working next to each machine, which was very noisy.

The aunt shouted at a man in a work coat, "Third brother."

The person called "Third Brother" is less than forty years old, with a flat head, skinny, a big round face, and a huge contrast between his figure and face, which makes the whole person look honest and simple. The third cousin was engrossed in processing a small part, and when he saw us coming, he stopped the machine and said, "Coming?"

My aunt introduced: "Anne, Xiaodong, called Third Uncle."

"Hello third uncle!" Xiao Dong and Anne shouted in unison!

The uncle also stepped forward to greet with a smile and said, "Third brother!" Then he stepped forward and shook hands.

The third uncle stretched out his hands and said, "No, no, no, what's inside, my hands are full of oil." Go to my office, there's air conditioning in the room, it's warmer. ”

The office is a house next to the courtyard gate, which is a little messy, with two filing cabinets side by side against the wall, two desks facing each other, a stack of paper on the east and a teacup and a phone in the west, folders and other things are scattered all over the table, and there is a small solid wood coffee table between the two single sofas, which is obviously for entertaining guests. The room was much warmer than outside, with hot water boiling on a briquette stove and a tall chimney stretching out.

The third uncle took us into the office and said, "Sit down, I'll wash our hands first."

Then he walked to the tap in the corner and grabbed a handful of things mixed with alkaline flour and sawdust from the side of the sink and washed his hands.

The uncle asked the aunt and Anne to sit down on the sofa, and he brought two chairs from the side of the office, and Xiaodong and his uncle sat down on one chair each.

The coffee table was full of things, except for an ashtray stuffed with cigarette butts and a lighter color page torn from an unknown pictorial, all the rest were stainless steel lighter parts, most of them were semi-finished blanks, only two of them seemed to be processed, because the fuselage had already been thrown away, and the light of stainless steel was shining.

Uncle picked up a lighter, heavy. It feels moist, but the weather is a little cold, and it's very cold.

My uncle pushed open the tightly closed lid and heard a soft steel sound, which felt very comfortable in his hand. I hit the flint and burned, and it was a completely functional lighter. So he asked, "Third brother, did you make this lighter?"

The third uncle nodded and replied, "Yes." Then he brought a chair from outside the house, sat down, and the aunt got up to give up the seat to the third uncle, but the third uncle insisted on letting the aunt sit on the sofa and sit on the hard chair himself.

My uncle said, "It feels so good, do you sell it?"

The third uncle said: "There is a stove company in my place to process stoves, cooperation for several years, the relationship is good, let me help him make a batch of lighters according to the picture, for promotion, five sets of stoves with a lighter as a gift, not for sale, you like." Take it! ”

The uncle looked at the text description on the color page and said, "Yo, third brother, your lighter is still pure gold!" It's worth hundreds of thousands. ”

The third uncle said: "This fireboat is famous, and there are many imitations, copper, silver, stainless steel, and all kinds of materials."

At this time, my aunt would not know that this lighter, which only existed in pictorials and legends, was actually the pure gold lighter that Lao Wang had given to my aunt. It's just that my aunt actually doesn't know the goods at all, and she has been using them at will, and she often throws them away and doesn't know where they are.

My uncle said, "Then I want two, and I'll have to give you money for two."

The aunt said: "That's for sure, the third brother also has a family here, and he must give money."

The third uncle smiled and said, "The third brother will also give it to you, and the third brother can afford to give it away, hehe."

My aunt said: "If the third brother doesn't collect the money, then I can't take it, then the two of us don't come to rob with our children." After saying that, he laughed to himself.

The third uncle said: "What, you want to use the machine method to achieve the effect of handmade noodles, so let's make two sets of machines, and you two people have one set?"

The uncle said, "Okay, the third brother is righteous!"

The third uncle said: "What, what do you say about Lao Wang, I have two problems I have to tell you, one is that you don't need to use three machines, it is not necessary to simulate hand-rolling dough and simulate hand-cutting machines." Hand-rolled noodles are better than machine noodles, just in this kneading effort, it is not delicious if it is not kneaded, and the noodles are too soft and not delicious. The bar noodles are hard and strong, of course they are delicious, the bar dough sheeter and the dough cutting knife are the most critical, the hand-rolled dough and the dough can not be said to be no different, but the taste has little impact, you modify the knife head of the existing noodle machine, and change the right-angle extrusion cutting surface to the blade cutting surface, the effect is actually the same as the manual cutting surface in theory, and even better than the manual cutting of the dough. In this case, all you need is a bar dough sheeter and a few dough cutters of different widths. ”

My uncle said in surprise: "The third brother is so good at noodles!"

The third uncle smiled shyly and said, "Your sister-in-law is a noodle presser, and she has been working for five or six years, and she rents a house next to a vegetable market in Lubei District, where her children go to school." Sometimes when I go to the city, your sister-in-law also makes noodles for me to eat, as long as the noodles are ready, there is not much difference between hand rolling and hammer pressing, how many times have I eaten this, not theoretically. ”

Uncle understood, no wonder the third uncle knew something about noodles.

The third uncle said: "What about these two, there is no need for Lao Wang to make two of them at once, and he doesn't use them now." You can make one first, and see, it can't be suitable all at once, there has to be room for improvement! ”

The uncle said with a happy face: "That's it, that's it, what the third brother said is very reasonable. Lao Wang, he also helped others get it, he was a complete layman, he didn't understand anything, thanks to the third brother, otherwise he wouldn't be fooling around. ”

The third uncle said, "Then you agree to these two questions?"

The uncle said: "Agree, agree, you look at it, how to do it!"

The third uncle said: "Lao Wang was introduced by you, I definitely can't make more money from him, to be honest, the bar dough sheeter is not complicated, in fact, it is up and down movement." The purpose of up and down movement can be achieved by using the cam principle and the crankshaft principle, but any experienced master can make it. But this job, don't say that the big factory doesn't take it, if it is the customer who comes to do it himself, I don't take it, you just do one or two, I still have to do design, pondering, all the accessories I have to process one by one, you are not worth it, I am not troublesome enough. The cost of five or six thousand yuan is unbelievable, and a new car bed is only tens of thousands, and I can't get it if I want him tens of thousands of dollars for that thing. ”

The uncle nodded, waiting for the third uncle to make a condition.

The third uncle continued: "Third brother, I am a hard worker, I don't know how to go around in circles, I will get straight to the point, a bar dough sheeter and three dough cutting knives, 10,000, I don't want him to do anything." The dough cutting knife uses the existing blades in the market, a piece of more than ten yuan, three cutting knives to use more than 260 pieces, this alone has to be more than 3,000, you can calculate. ”

My aunt couldn't wait to say, "That's it, ten thousand."

The third uncle then said: "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet, except for 10,000, you help me register three trademarks, you help the third brother think about the name, the third brother doesn't have that brain." Three trademarks: one for restaurants, one for machine manufacturing, and one for noodles. You know about the registered trademark, but the trademark holder can't be my name, you have to write your sister-in-law's name. ”

My aunt and uncle nodded yes in succession.

After saying that, he said goodbye to the third uncle, and when he came out of the yard, the black curtains had been closed, and Anne's family rushed away on the way to Anne's house......