"The tooling of this era was relatively wide, and the upper body needed 4 feet of fabric and the lower body 3 feet. Add half a foot of wear and tear, and a set of clothes requires seven and a half feet of fabric. The width of the cloth is 4 and a half feet wide. A piece of cloth is 40 feet. Two hundred and fifty sets of cloth required forty-seven pieces of cloth. Zhang Xingmin, director of the logistics department of the cotton mill, looked at Li Weidong and said: "Brother, I won't take advantage of you, let Lao Yang take out fifty boxes of workpieces, and our two factories will be able to complete this exchange." "In these days, because the material used in the workpiece is steel, which is a controlled substance, it is as tight as cloth, and the price of a box of workpieces is about one piece of cloth.

Of course, the exact price depends on the situation. Li Weidong smiled: "Brother, fifty boxes of workpieces are too many, and you also know that our rolling mill has built a new workshop, and the little materials reserved at the beginning of the year have been spent." Fifty boxes of workpieces really can't be taken out..."Zhang Xingmin looked embarrassed: "It's not that I don't give you face, brother, you also know how scarce the fabric is now." ”

"Brother, I don't embarrass you, forty boxes, forty boxes of workpieces, how about it? Last time, your factory owed our factory half a piece of cloth! ”

"Forty boxes is too little, I can't explain to the factory director.... That half of the cloth is Lao Yang's trick, and there is nothing to do at all. ”...... In the war of words, Li Weidong seems to have found the feeling of buying clothes in a small store in the future.

The completion of a transaction required a compromise between the buyer and the seller, and in the end 47 pieces of cloth were sold for 45 boxes of workpieces.

The deal was negotiated, and the tense atmosphere in the office suddenly disappeared, and the cheerful atmosphere was filled again.

Zhang Xingmin said: "Weidong, the cloth is in the warehouse now, you can take it back immediately." ”

"Let's follow the rules, hand over the workpiece with one hand, hand over the cloth with the other, and I'll call Director Yang now." Li Weidong picked up the phone on the desk, shook it for a while, asked the operator to connect to the rolling mill, and then explained the details of the transaction.

On the other side of the phone, Director Yang's voice came: "This result is already very good, that Lao Zhang is an old slippery head, and it is rare for us to take advantage of it once." I'll now ask Niu Yong to arrange for a truck to deliver the workpiece, and then pull the cloth back by the way. ”

"Okay, I'll wait here." Li Weidong put down the phone and followed Zhang Xingmin to go through the formalities, although the transaction was carried out secretly, the necessary procedures were still indispensable, and in case the above was traced, there would be a reason to explain.

It was Shan Xiaolin who came to deliver the goods, and when he saw that Li Weidong was also there, he was extremely enthusiastic, and jumped off the truck as soon as the car stopped.

"Weidong, I just came back from a long trip, and I heard that you were going to deliver goods here, so I hurried back in a hurry, without delaying time." Since Shan Xiaolin was jumped by Xu Damao and Cuihua Immortal, he seems to have changed his mind, talked about a girlfriend, and pounced on work all day long, and now in the team, Shan Xiaolin is the most motivated, and he runs on the road almost every day.

Li Weidong saw that his eyes were bloodshot, his face showed the tiredness of not sleeping all night, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Lao Dan, pay attention to your body, and don't drive tiredly." There is no talk of fatigue driving in these years, but according to Li Weidong's suggestion, Niu Yong has formulated relevant rules and regulations, stipulating that a driver cannot drive for more than five hours at a time.

The drivers didn't understand at first, after all, in these years, the number of trucks is small, and the driving is about loading and running fast, looking at so many goods waiting to be transported, how can the drivers have the heart to rest, so they have expressed their opposition, and even some drivers want to say that Li Weidong has bad intentions and destroys the construction of the rolling mill.

It's just that when they saw the accident cases that Li Weidong spent a lot of energy to make, looked at the trucks that crashed into the lake on the examples, and looked at the families of the drivers who were crying and screaming, they couldn't speak.

"It's okay, every five hours, I sleep in the truck for an hour." Shan Xiaolin rubbed his red and swollen eyes, looked at no one around, leaned over to Li Weidong and whispered: "Brother Weidong, thank you for what happened last time, if it weren't for you, I would have been caught by those two people, and maybe I would have been expelled from the truck team." ”

"It's all your own brothers, don't be so polite, it's just that your kid has to take care of it, you can't be so foolish anymore, your mother is still waiting to hold her grandson!" Li Weidong took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and gave Shan Xiaolin a stick: "Come, refresh yourself." "Ts.

Hiss, whew.... Shan Xiaolin lit a cigarette, took two deep breaths, was a little more energetic, and said with a smile: "I was about to tell you, I have a girlfriend." No, in order to get married, I worked so hard. "In addition to the monthly salary, the driver also has a long-distance allowance, and the more miles he runs, the more money he gets every month.

"Heh, your kid is finally ready to get married, which girl is it?" Li Weidong's eyes widened.

"Zhang Chunhua from the packaging workshop of the thermos bottle factory attached to our factory." Shan Xiaolin, the old driver, was a little shy when he mentioned his girlfriend.

"Zhang Chunhua...."Li Weidong raised his eyebrows, he felt that the name was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it.

Shan Xiaolin smiled and scratched his head: "Her family lives in the front yard of your courtyard, opposite Yanbu Gui's house, her old man's name is Zhang Er, she is a butcher in the slaughterhouse, you should have seen her." ”

"It turned out to be Huahua! Everyone in the compound called her Huahua, and they all forgot her real name. Li Weidong patted his head reluctantly: "Good boy, that girl is good, you can be regarded as picking up a treasure." "Li Weidong is not complimenting Shan Xiaolin.

Huahua is the only daughter of the Zhang family. She is stubby, 1.7 meters tall, and her body is very strong.

once picked up Yan Bugui with one hand. The waist is about as thick as a bucket, and the buttocks are also very large, so it looks like it is easy to raise.

In this era, marrying a daughter-in-law is to have this kind of strong body. A young lady like Yang Xueli is not popular at all.

And also. Zhang Erzi is a butcher, and he can often buy pig offal at a low price from the slaughterhouse, and the family's life is first-class in the courtyard.

Yi Zhonghai and the others have long been greedy, and they once tried to take advantage of the Zhang family, but they were scared away by Zhang Er's butcher's knife.

The Zhang family lives their own small life wholeheartedly, and they have no sense of existence in the courtyard. If Shan Xiaolin marries Huahua, he will definitely have a comfortable life in the future, and Li Weidong, as his friend, is really happy for him.

"Huahua is indeed a good girl, no, we are already engaged, when it comes to marriage, Huahua doesn't want anything, but we are a man, we can't help it." Three turns and one sound or something, but it was hard for me. Shan Xiaolin shook his head with a wry smile: "I have saved some money over the years, but the tickets are too difficult to get, especially the bicycle tickets and sewing tickets, I have traveled all over the pigeon market, but I have not been able to buy them." ”

"Bicycle tickets are really in demand, but if you don't mind the old and the new, you can learn from Yanbu and go to the car repair shop at the corner to save a bicycle."

"Saving a bike? That's a good idea. Shan Xiaolin's eyes lit up and said: "It's no problem with the old and the new, the hot water bottle factory has a painting workshop, and the old bicycle will become a new one when you go through the workshop." Today, when I get off work, I'll go and find out. Brother Wei Dong, do you know which car repair shop is reliable? ”

"The Liu family's car repair shop at the corner of the courtyard street should be good, and there are several families in the nearby compound, all of which are bicycles saved by him." After Li Weidong finished speaking, he thought for a while, and added: "If you sew a ticket, I have a friend who may have it, and I will think of a way for you." Hearing this, Shan Xiaolin almost jumped up excitedly: "Brother Weidong, I thank you so much." ”

"Our brothers, don't mention this, when you get married, just give me a glass of wine." Li Weidong said.

The two were talking, and the workpieces on the truck were unloaded. After Zhang Xingmin took people to count the numbers, he took the truck to the warehouse of the logistics department and asked the workers to load the cloth piled up in the corner onto the truck.

Forty-seven pieces of cloth, loaded with half a truck. Shan Xiaolin helped cover it with a tarpaulin, jumped out of the car and prepared to drive: "Brother Wei Dong, let's go back to the factory together?" ”

"No, I've got something to do. You drive the car to the poverty alleviation workshop and ask Niu Meng to store the cloth in the warehouse. ”

"Okay! You can rest assured. After Shan Xiaolin drove away, Li Weidong said goodbye to Zhang Xingmin and rode out of the Fifth Cotton Mill on his bicycle.

Now the cloth is enough, only one tailor is needed. Li Weidong knows two tailors, one is Liang Ladi from the machinery factory, that is, Da Mao's mother.

In order to make ends meet, she occasionally sewed clothes for her neighbors, but her craftsmanship was so stinky that she often embellished the buttons in the wrong place.

The neighbors didn't look for her to sew clothes because their family was having a hard time! Making tooling is a big deal, and it's certainly not at ease.

The second is Chen Xueru from Xueru Silk Shop. In the original book, Chen Xueru's husband was messing around outside, and there were other women, Chen Xueru was a strong woman, so she naturally couldn't tolerate betrayal, and she had a lot of trouble with her husband, and finally divorced.

After the divorce, Chen Xueru married Fan Jinyou again under the attack of Fan Jinyou's sweet words. It's just that due to Li Weidong's intervention, Fan Jinyou was dismissed from his position, and naturally he is not capable of marrying Chen Xueru anymore.

Chen Xueru is still a little widow now, and her skills are good, so she is suitable for this heavy responsibility. Xueru silk and satin shops are not far from the tavern, which is located on Zhengyangmen Street.

Li Weidong rode a bicycle and when he came to the Xueru silk shop, he happened to see a fat middle-aged woman walking out of it in a huff.

The middle-aged woman was still chattering: "Really, Chen Xueru, we have been friends for many years, you don't want to do business at all." A crisp voice came from the store: "Aunt Zhang, it's not that I don't let the price, it's just that the profit is too thin, and I have to support my family Hukou." ”

"Hmph, if someone dares to ask you to make clothes these days, it's not bad! I see, sooner or later, your shop will be yellow. "The middle-aged woman got on the bicycle, and her fat body crushed the bicycle.

Chen Xueru chased out of the store, looking at the bicycle in the distance, feeling a little depressed. Her silk shop is also an old shop, which was handed down from her father, and her business has gradually cooled down in recent years.

Especially this month, there is still no business completed, and if this continues, it may really be closed.

Chen Xueru also knows that there are fewer and fewer people who dare to wear satin clothes, and her shop will get yellow sooner or later. She also wanted to close the silk shop and get a new job.

But she was not reconciled. Xu Hui can really support the tavern, she Chen Xueru is no worse than Xu Huizhen, why can't she carry forward the silk shop!

Chen Xueru was about to enter the door, when she saw a burly young man pushing a bicycle and standing aside, and said to herself: This young man looks really good.

But she was just a passerby, and she didn't care, smiled at Li Weidong, turned around and returned to the store.

Heh, this is Chen Xueru, really energetic. Li Weidong parked his bicycle and went into the Xueru silk shop.

"Wait a minute, I'll be out right away?" A crisp sound came from the back compartment. Then Chen Xueru wore an emerald green cheongsam, silver earrings, wavy curly hair, and a charming smile on her face and walked out of the back room.

A smile is breathtaking, and the eyebrows are full of the style of a mature woman. Seeing that it was Li Weidong, Chen Xueru was a little surprised: "Comrade, you are..."

Li Weidong walked around the store with his hands behind his back, and the cheongsam hanging on the shelf was exquisitely made, if it was placed in the future, it would be enough to be placed in a large department store and marked with a staggering price.

It's a pity .... Li Weidong turned around and said with a smile: "I'm here to give you a big business." ”

"Big business?" Li Weidong nodded: "Let's introduce myself first, I am Li Weidong, the owner of the poverty alleviation workshop of the rolling mill." ”

"Li Weidong.... This name is so familiar! Chen Xueru raised her eyebrows, thought for a moment, pointed at Li Weidong and said, "You are Xu Huizhen's little slut, the Li Weidong he once mentioned." "Xu Huizhen.... Little slut.... Li Weidong was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the owner of the silk shop and Xu Hui were really a pair

"Sisters of the Enemy".

"Yes, I'm Li Weidong." The corners of Chen Xueru's mouth hooked up a smile, swayed to Li Weidong's side, and leaned over to look him up and down.

"You are really good-looking, no wonder Xu Huizhen's little prodigal hoof will take a fancy to you, for your sake, Sister Zhang of the street office introduced her to a cadre of the street office, but she refused." Xu Hui really takes a fancy to me?

Li Weidong frowned: "Comrade Chen Xueru, Comrade Xu Huizhen and I are innocent, we can't smear people's innocence out of thin air." ”

"Okay, if you say it's innocent, it's innocent..."Chen Xueru seemed to remember something, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, and a strange look appeared on her face.

Her attitude suddenly became hot, and she took Li Weidong's arm and invited him to sit down, and then brewed fine tea.

"Comrade Weidong, my name is Chen Xueru, the situation is similar to Xu Huizhen, I admire you workshop directors the most on weekdays, come, please drink tea." The slender white and tender little hand picked up the teacup, the eyes were full of charm, the corners of the lips were smiling, and the temperament on his body was even more moving and enchanting, Li Weidong reached out and took the teacup, and came to his lips to take a sip.

Good tea indeed. ....