When Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu returned to the carpentry courtyard, the stone village chief had already returned to the village to fetch water for the villagers. The three of them unloaded the goods and equipment together, and Yang Liufang began to try to assemble a painting equipment by himself.

He asked Li Tongfu to help him boil a pot of hot water, wait for the water to boil, dip one end of the snakeskin tube into the boiling water to scald the soft and soft whirring, and then quickly put the softened snakeskin tube on the air nozzle under the air pressure gauge on the air pump, according to the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, the snakeskin tube was easily put on, but he was in a hurry and did not wear gloves, and Li Tongfu's hands were scalded by the hot snakeskin tube A few blisters. After the snakeskin tube cooled down, it was already firmly fastened to the air nozzle, so it was already very firm. But to be on the safe side, he used a pipe hoop to tie the rubber tube and the air valve firmly together. I tried it, but I couldn't pull it open even if I pulled it hard.

He first tried to remove the air pipe of the pump and connect it to the snakeskin tube, then disassembled the watering can for glass washing and inserted the tube, but it could not be connected. I just found a problem, it turned out that the watering can also relies on pressure, so he wanted to simply connect the watering can directly to the snakeskin tube. It's just that a watering can has been destroyed, and fortunately, the foresight was enough to buy an extra one at the time. This time, they used fire to ignite the snakeskin tube directly, endured the pungent plastic paste smell, welded the snakeskin tube directly to the lid of the watering can, and then used an awl to poke the air outlet at the weld open, and sealed the entire lid with their own boiled kraft glue.

When everything is ready, add water to the pot, then close the lid of the watering can, let Wang Shan step on the air pump, fill the pressure, Yang Liufang holds up the watering can and presses the control handle on the handle, and the uniform and powerful water mist comes out. The three of them worked the renovation work, and by the time the renovation was completed, it had already entered midnight, and they were so excited that they were not sleepy at all when they saw the results.

Because of staying up late the night before, the three of them slept for the first time, and it was not until three o'clock in the morning that the three young men got up to boil water and wash. It was almost ten o'clock, so lunch and breakfast were eaten together. After the meal, Wang Shan and Li Tongfu decided to go around the nearby village to see if they could sell some goods. And if you spray paint, you need two people, and the stone village chief is not there, and Yang Liufang can't do it alone, so he can only do a new project, the furniture of the old man who sells horses.

Wang Shan and Li Tongfu wrapped their coats and went to a small village, selling a few pairs of socks and a few pairs of gloves. Out of the village, sit in a carriage and walk along the Yangguan Ancient Road. In early winter, the Yangguan Ancient Road is sparsely populated, and occasionally one or two pedestrians are also holding their hands, shrinking their necks, and wrapping themselves tightly with woolen scarves. Just when they were bored, a carriage larger than their carriage came on, because they were moving forward against the wind, the smell of mutton smell wafting in the wind mixed with a slight smell of blood, which made Li Tongfu, a southerner, cough suddenly.

"Ahem...... Brother, what did he pull? So choking! ”

Wang Shan was not surprised: "Brother Fu, this is a herdsman from the side near Qinghai who went to Xizhou to sell skins. ”

"Oh, I say, why is it so fishy."

As he spoke, the two cars crossed and came together. Unlike Wang Shan and Li Tongfu, who wrapped themselves tightly in coats and scarves, the herdsmen in the car wore sheepskin jackets and carried wine bags in their hands, and their faces were red and fluttering with the smell of milk and wine. Li Tongfu asked Wang Shan to stop the car, and he didn't know what to call the other party, so he sat in the car and asked directly: "Brother, sell skins?" ”

After hearing this, the other party also pulled the reins, stopped the car, took a sip of wine, and raised the wine bag, which means: "Take a sip?" ”

"Thank you." As he spoke, Li Tongfu took out a paper cigarette and handed one to the other party. Wang Shan may have been sitting for a long time and was relatively cold, but he was not polite, jumped out of the car, took the wine bag and took a sip of it, and after thanking him, he returned it to the other party.

"Where are you from?"

"Outside the gates."

"It's so cold over there?"

"Yes, so a batch of cattle and sheep was slaughtered in advance, so as not to come in winter, and the heavy snow blocked the road and could not be sold."

"Oh, where do you sell the skins in your car? How to sell? ”

"They are all sold to tanneries, no matter how big or small, 5 yuan a piece."

$5? It's so cheap, Li Tongfu thought quietly. He has learned some prices in some tanneries in Wenzhou, and knows that a whole cowhide will cost about 20 yuan in the past, and after it is cooked, it can be sold for 30 yuan. And the price of leather shoes, leather clothes and belts or leather bags made by the shoe factory or garment factory according to the parts will be increased more than ten times, and at this moment, he has the idea of doing a leather business.

"Big brother, my family is in the south, where do you live? It is also a leather business, if I want to buy leather, how to contact you? ”

"Alas, we herdsmen, how can we have any fixed residence, we are outside the gate in winter, and we have to drive cattle and sheep to find water and grass in spring."

Li Tongfu was a little stunned after hearing this, and thought that he should go back and discuss with his brother, if he did a leather business, it would be much better than selling some needles and threads every day. The two drove the carriage on, and one after another met several herdsmen who drove the carriage to sell skins, and after turning to the next village, it was dark before driving the carriage back.

Back in the carpentry courtyard, Yang Liufang had already prepared dinner and was waiting for them, and a new Eight Immortals table had been assembled, because the outside of the house was already full of furniture, so this table was placed directly in their bedroom. At the time of eating, the two of them talked about leather.

"Brother, but looking at the overall acquisition cost and the sales cost over there, it is indeed a good business."

"I'll just say it, but I don't know how to calculate this transportation, after all, it's thousands of kilometers, and it's not worth it to transport less."

"And where did our Wenzhou leather come from, we don't know. This matter is not in a hurry, you can understand it when you go home during the Spring Festival, and we will make plans. ”

The stone village chief rushed back overnight, and the men in the northwest are always so sincere. Yang Liufang looked at his frozen face, and hurriedly brought him a cup of hot water, and the stone village chief took it to warm it up, and put it aside and started working. One morning, together they had brought out the material for the slats and planed the boards. After breakfast, after Wang Shan and Li Tongfu went to the countryside, the two began to paint the furniture with their own modified spraying machine.

Yang Liufang tried it himself, after sweeping it again, there was always a time when he couldn't spray it, he wanted to try to make the paint thinner, when he unscrewed the lid of the pot, he forgot that there was air pressure inside, and the red paint suddenly collapsed out, spraying him all over, if it wasn't for the towel and plastic sheeting to block the eyes, it is estimated that the red paint mixed with cinnabar burned out the eyes.

When the village chief saw this, he hurriedly brought water, poured hot water from the stove, and asked Yang Liufang to wash it quickly, and washed out several basins of water like blood in a row, and he still had palpitations after washing. Yang Liufang added some warm water to the mixed lacquer, stirred it again, and tried again, feeling better than the last time. Continue to dilute until the paint mist is evenly sprayed, and then let the stone village chief operate.

The first operation of the stone village chief, the spraying is not very even, but fortunately, the paint is thinner and needs to be sprayed many times. The two tossed for a morning, and finally achieved some results. But the two who inhaled the paint mist lost their appetite for lunch at noon. The operation continued in the afternoon, and in the evening there were signs of poisoning, and the two began to vomit nausea.

After Wang Shan and Li Tongfu found out, they couldn't care about the fatigue of the day, so they drove more than 20 kilometers and sent them to the Hanwangchuan Health Center, where they were infused for two days before they recovered. It turned out that they did not use professional gas masks and inhaled unfiltered paint mist.

After lying in the health center for two days, Li Tongfu went to Xizhou to buy gas masks, and Boss Chen and Boss Zhou deliberately closed the shop after hearing about it, and asked Zhang Feng to drive in the car to see him, and brought a large box full of gas masks. It happened that Qin Jiajun was discussing some things with Zhang Feng, and after hearing about it, he also came over.

The infusion room of the small township clinic was crowded with several people. Yang Liufang was very moved, in this strange place, there is nothing more heartwarming than the care of friends.