The next day was Wednesday, Geng Wenyang returned to Caojia Street, and the hot pager rang before his butt was seated. When he picked it up, it turned out to be the phone number in Zheng Baisheng's office.

Geng Wenyang called and asked, "Senior brother, is there something wrong with me?" ”

"Wen Yang, are you in the wholesale market?" Zheng Baisheng's loud voice came from the phone.

"Nope! I'm on Caojia Street. Geng Wenyang heard that there seemed to be something in his tone, so he guessed: "What? Senior brother has something to look for me? ”

"That's right." Zheng Baisheng took a breath and said: "The Baicheng District Lock Factory can't go on, and I want to find a buyer to buy it, are you interested?" ”

Baicheng District Lock Factory is a small factory with only seventy or eighty people, the level of equipment and technical level are very general, can only produce common padlocks and the simplest wooden door locks, product performance is far behind the needs of the times, belongs to the dying enterprise that has long been unable to pay wages.

"I don't need a lock, so why do I want it? I'm not interested! Geng Wenyang refused.

"Don't!" Zheng Baisheng persuaded: "Aren't you going to build an anti-theft door factory?" The security door must be equipped with a lock, right? With this factory, don't you have to buy locks? ”

Geng Wenyang said helplessly: "Senior brother, the anti-theft door is equipped with a high-level anti-theft lock, but it is not a simple padlock and a wooden door lock that can be opened with a kick." ”

"I know! I know! Zheng Baisheng said bitterly: "The district lock factory just doesn't have the money to buy new equipment, and the technical level of their workers is still good." Can you buy it and make upgrades? Don't you say? ”

Geng Wenyang heard a hint of a different taste, and said suspiciously: "Senior brother, are you doing someone someone else a favor in this matter?" ”

"Ah, this ......" Zheng Baisheng turned his head and looked at Wang Wendong, the director of the district lock factory who was looking forward to him, and said step by step: "The situation of the district lock factory is special, and the superior promised that as long as the in-service employees are fully accepted, the transfer fee is only 200,000 yuan." 200,000 yuan, Wen Yang, it's very cheap. ”

It is indeed very suitable to buy a lock factory for 200,000 yuan, but Geng Wenyang is busy with the construction of Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. in the North Economic Development Zone, where is there still energy to acquire a lock factory.

"Senior brother, I'm really not interested, don't force me, okay?"

Geng Wenyang gave an ultimatum, Zheng Baisheng reluctantly put down the phone and said: "Lao Wang, you also heard it, people are not interested in you, and I can't help it." ”

Wang Wendong said disappointedly: "Alas! The district let our factory find its own way out, but ...... Alas! ”

The district lock factory not only has to pay wages to the 70 or 80 workers on the job, but also has to pay the retirement expenses and medical expenses of more than 30 retirees. Under heavy pressure, Wang Wendong, who was just in his early forties, was already full of gray hair and looked to be fifty or sixty years old.

He originally planned to mobilize the workers in the factory to pool their money to buy the factory and run their own business. But workers have long since lost faith in the future of the company, and are willing to risk their precious personal savings, so few responded.

What's more, even if you buy a company, you need to invest a lot of money to update equipment and develop new products, which requires money. It's a pity that the most lacking thing in the factory is money, how can the big guy have the confidence to raise funds to buy the factory?

As the weather warmed up and a large number of fresh seasonal vegetables went on the market one after another, Li Yufen went straight to the vegetable market after work, planning to buy some freshly picked toon sprouts to make some salty food for her son to satisfy his hunger.

After buying toon sprouts, she turned to buy some of her son's favorite leeks or garlic sprouts. As she was looking for them one by one, she suddenly saw a familiar figure shouting for kelp.

"Yuzhi!" Li Yufen hurriedly came to the kelp stall and shouted, "Why are you selling vegetables here?" ”

It turned out that the owner of the kelp stall was Li Yufen's cousin Li Yuzhi, the only daughter of Li Peiyuan's second brother Li Peifu.

"Eldest sister, what a coincidence, you're also here to buy vegetables?" Li Yuzhi smiled when she saw her sister.

Li Yufen looked at her sister's tanned and thin face and dusty clothes, and couldn't help but feel distressed: "Yuzhi, why did you come to sell kelp?" Isn't the furniture factory working? ”

Li Yuzhi's eyes darkened and said: "No one wants the furniture produced in the factory, and it has long been impossible to pay wages." My father's pension has not been paid, and the money spent on medical treatment has been saved for more than two years, and the factory has not been able to reimburse. ”

"Gee, how so? In the past, the furniture factory was quite prosperous. Li Yufen sympathized: "What about Lao Ding, how is his factory?" ”

"He's not as good as me." Li Yuzhi sighed: "I heard that the lock factory was going to sell, but there was no one to buy. Big...... Alas! I hope that someone will quickly buy the factory so that it can pay wages. ”

The two sisters whispered for a while, and then reluctantly separated. Before leaving, Li Yuzhi forced two bundles of kelp into the eldest sister. Li Yufen had no choice but to throw ten yuan at the stall and turn around and leave.

In the evening, Geng Wenyang rarely went home for dinner, and Li Yufen took the opportunity to say: "Yangyang, do you still need workers in the factory?" ”

"What's wrong, Mom?" Geng Wenyang asked while eating the delicious salty food made by his mother, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"I met your second aunt at the vegetable market today." Li Yufen said sadly: "The furniture factory can't pay wages, I didn't expect your uncle's lock factory to pay wages either, and the two of them can only earn some money by pouring kelp now." ”

As Geng Wenyang once said to Zheng Baisheng, the local shoe-making factories, light bulb factories, battery factories, flashlight factories and lock-making factories in Baicheng are weak and competitive, so they can only survive on the local market. Once those high-quality and low-cost goods from the south enter the Baicheng market, of course, they cannot compete, and it is inevitable that they will have poor efficiency or even go out of business.

Furniture factories are another example. Under the squeeze of modern panel furniture from the south, local enterprises that are confined to traditional crafts to make furniture are naturally vulnerable. Losing the market means that the company has lost its vitality, and if they do not change their concept, closing the door and closing down is their only way out.

"My second aunt is in a locksmith?" Geng Wenyang was surprised: "I remember that his hands are very skillful, and when he was a child, he made me an iron rubber band plane, which can fly high." ”

"yes!" Geng Huizhong sighed: "Lao Ding likes to study the lock cylinder the most, and said that the lock we use now is the same as useless, and the thief can easily open it with an iron piece." ”

Li Yufen said: "Yangyang, your second aunt and second aunt have a good relationship with our family, we can't watch others fall idly by." ”

"Mom, I know it in my heart, don't worry." Geng Wenyang comforted his mother and said, "I will arrange the second aunt and the second aunt's husband." ”

Geng Huizhong sighed: "Alas! A good company can't say no, thanks to our bearing factory is quite good, otherwise I have to go to the street to sell things. ”

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Geng Wenyang said unhappily: "With me here, can I let you go to the street?" As I said a long time ago, don't you want to let the two of you come back and enjoy the blessings? ”

Li Yufen also blamed her husband: "That's it, we still have a son!" Even if we can't earn a penny, our son will support us. ”

"That's right! Right! Right! Geng Huizhong knew that he had made his son unhappy by saying the wrong thing, so he quickly patted Geng Wenyang on the shoulder and said, "Son, we will rely on you." ”