When it was time for Yang Liufang and Shi to leave work, the people watching the pankang had not finished yet, so they lit a horse lantern for them and handed out a pack of cigarettes to the two.

"Two big brothers, if you can't finish it today, you can get it tomorrow."

"Well, Emon (we) will leave after we finish our mouths. Leave it to dry overnight, burn it tomorrow, and spread the board and you will be able to use it. Otherwise, tomorrow you will not be able to pay (sleep) for you. ”

"Thank you, big brother."

After Yang Liufang finished speaking, he went out to cook with the village chief of Shishi, and they stir-fried the leftovers of the morning with eggs and green onions. Yang Liufang hurriedly wanted to pay, and they said that the village promised to pay, so Yang Liufang didn't argue, and asked the stone village chief to send the two out of the gate and continue to fry rice by himself.

In the evening, after listening to the radio and eating, because there was no bed, they moved the plank in and slept on it. The stone village chief was tired all day, and he didn't wash his feet after eating, and fell asleep soon after he collapsed. Yang Liufang turned off the radio, watched "Chinese Furniture" for a while and went to sleep.

In the past few days, because of the biological clock, Yang Liufang has become accustomed to getting up at 5:30, even with the stone village chief. Yang Liufang knew that the stone village chief would go back at night, and he was thinking about finishing the parts that needed help today, and the rest of the joinery, even if the stone village chief was not there, he could do it alone. In this way, with the help of the village chief Shi, he put down the materials of the headline case.

Because the strip is 50 centimeters wide, and the diameter of these materials he chose is 40 centimeters, it is not in accordance with the rules to use the whole page, so he can only choose a 30 centimeter whole board, add 10 centimeters on both sides, and Yang Liufang combines a woodworking tape measure and a corner ruler, dots, and then uses an ink fountain to draw lines. Then he saw with the head of the stone village and cut the board. Then use a planer to flatten the surface of the board, and after each item is done, let the stone village chief carry it to the shade and press the wood, until all the materials of a warping case are finished, and then stop for breakfast.

Before breakfast was finished, the craftsman of the pankang had already arrived. The village chief of Shi opened the door and invited the two of them in, scattered the cigarettes, and let them work before they came back to eat, at this time Yang Liufang had finished eating and began to work. The village chief of the stone village hurriedly took two mouthfuls and joined in. The people who were panning the kang were finished before noon, and the village chief took the time to help them get some wood chips and sawdust, and lit the kang on fire, and thick smoke came out of the chimney on the roof, like the big chimneys in the factories that Yang Liufang had seen in the oil fields and his hometown city, with a hint of industrial atmosphere.

When steaming rice at noon, Yang Liu Fang had a heart, found a plastic bag and scooped two bowls of rice out, ready to take it back when the stone village chief left after finishing work in the afternoon, and went home to cook porridge for Gawa. After lunch, he didn't rest until it was almost over, and before the materials for a big bed were finished, Yang Liufang urged the village chief of Shi to go home with that bit of rice. He knew that despite the lanterns, the later the road became, the harder it was to walk.

At dinner, Yang Liufang ate a few bites alone, and then went back to the room to rest, because the kang was baked during the day, and the residual temperature did not dissipate for a long time, and the room was much warmer. Yang Liufang, who had been working nervously for a day, didn't turn off the radio and fell asleep deeply.

Early the next morning, before Yang Liufang got off work at 7:00, someone knocked on the door. Putting down the job and opening the door, a charcoal tractor loaded with a cart full of charcoal stopped at the door.

"Master Yang, right? Zhao Ling sent it to me and said that he was looking for you to receive it. ”

"Oh, please come in, please come in." Yang Liufang hurriedly opened the door wide, lowered his head and took off the door baffle again, and stood aside. The driver started the tractor and drove straight into the yard, and Yang Liu asked him to unload it to the corner of the house where he put charcoal. The master picked up the shovel, climbed into the carriage, and shoveled charcoal down with a hula hula. Yang Liufang saw that he was tired and sweating, so he found a bowl and poured a bowl of boiling water, put it on the boiled wood board, and told the charcoal unloading master: "When you are tired, please come down and drink water by yourself." "I went to work on my own.

The master drank water twice before unloading a cart of charcoal. Before the tractor was discharged, two more cars had already arrived at the door, each pulling four willow trees with a thickness of 50 centimeters. Three tractors were at the gate of the small courtyard next to the village committee, which was not spacious, and they reversed and tossed forward several times before driving the wrong car. Waiting for the charcoal tractor to leave, Yang Liufang first asked the two masters to wait, he calculated how to place the new eight pieces of wood, so that it is most convenient to use in the future, and does not affect his own work, and can not make people feel that the wood they pulled is used in other people's furniture, after all, his furniture making business has just begun.

After summing up, Yang Liufang asked the tractor master to unload the timber to the left side of the doorway in the center, which is not only separate from the existing timber, but also convenient for his own use. The tractor drove into the courtyard, Yang Liufang was directing them to unload the truck, and the old man walked in with a copper cigarette pouch, and said proudly as soon as he entered the door: "Xiao Yang, how is this wood?" ”

"Great, good!"

"That is, (I) let people find the entire Hanwangchuan, this is the best drop."

"Great, let them unload here, one is to avoid confusion between the two woods, and the other is not to block the sun, let these woods volatilize the moisture as soon as possible, and Emeng (we) will open the material as soon as possible."

"Okay, let's get in, just listen to you."

The old man smoked a dry cigarette, called Yang Liufang out, led him all the way to the village department, and gave him a thick pile of unity in the office of the village chief Zhao Jinchuan.

"This is the salary, pay you so much first, 1000, the credit union will take it in the morning, you swoop (count) one ha."

"Great, there are still Esu (uncle) are here, what else is there to worry about. If you take it, you won't count it. ”

"Then put it away. Do you know why I called you here? ”

"Two elders, I really don't know."

"As soon as there are more than 100 people, they will be plugged (colored)! Got it. The stone is not there, you are usually alone, so pay more attention. ”

"I understand, thank you two elders for mentioning it. Note later. That's fine, I'll go back to work first. ”

"Go, go."

"Jin Chuan, let's go over together to see if they are finished."

The old man and Yang Liufang left the village and arrived at the carpentry courtyard. The old man looked around the wood again, and then looked at the newly opened case materials of Yang Liufang, and touched the newly carved dovetail tenon before leaving satisfied. Yang Liufang poured a bowl of hot water for the driver who unloaded the timber, in case they were thirsty and went to work again. It wasn't until they left that Yang Liu Fang remembered that he hadn't even eaten breakfast, looking at the alarm clock on the radio, it was already 10:30, so let's just have lunch together.

Continuous intense work, Yang Liufang's tired waist can't straighten, and his legs can't be straightened, every time before going to bed, he lies on the pillow, stretches his legs and arms up, and feels comfortable and relieved, but he never shouts tired. Since ancient times, people from Wenzhou have not been afraid of hardships and burdens, and the formation of this character has a lot to do with the geographical environment of his hometown: typhoons every year, more mountains, less land and more rivers.

If it is said that he broke into Xizhou at the beginning, Yang Liufang was with a kind of ignorance, purely for survival, and followed Li Tongfu to sell shoes. So now Yang Liufang has the ambition to open a factory here to do a career, and it is this ambition that has laid the foundation for his future development.

After Yang Liufang put the rice in the pot, he looked at the eight new pieces of wood and calculated: if he and Brother Shi manually pulled the big saw, it would be another laborious and big project. He remembered the planer that his master had bought as an apprentice, and it would be convenient and labor-saving if he had it. But when I think about it again, my home is on the southeast coast, and I have already been electrified, and I am still lighting kerosene lamps here, and it is a luxury to light a horse lantern every day. Think about it or think in vain, forget it, eat honestly and be ready to work hard.

In the afternoon, Wang Shan came with a carriage, and in addition to bringing a slaughtered chicken, he also brought him a sheepskin jacket, which was the kind of jacket that the Northwest people often wear, and said that he brought it back. And the account of the sale of the goods was delivered.

"Brother, you drank too much that day, and I couldn't give you an account, so it's been until now. Yesterday, my brother-in-law went home and passed by the forehead (my) house, and the big Buddha (said), said that the new project collected more than three times the money of the Mongolian (our) family, and had to add charcoal, the big Buddha (said) everything to let the forehead thank you, and the Buddha (said) can not let you suffer, these two sets of furniture lacquer and cinnabar forehead are packaged, this is the cost, a total of 300, do you see enough? Not enough for the big Buddha (said) to kill the New Year pig, and then send it to you. ”

"Third brother, Suo (uncle) is too polite. You can't ask for this amount. ”

"No, one yard is one yard, yes, not only is the amount big, but the amount can't make you suffer!"