In the past few days, the villagers have been immersed in the joy of electrification, and the villagers who participated in the dredging work of Zhaomagou have seen that the government is indeed sparing no effort to do practical things for the people, and they are more energetic. In the early morning of 19 April, according to the tasks assigned by the village chief, the villagers who had gone to participate in the dredging of the river got up early, took dry food and set off for Zhaomagou, and according to the government's requirements, they had to completely remove the silt from the river before the spring flood arrived.

Before leaving, the breeze shook the willow trees slightly, and the temperature became a little colder. Due to the good weather in the past few days, most people have begun to take off their winter cotton clothes and pants and change into spring clothes. When the village chief Shi sent the migrant workers off, he asked everyone to bring more clothes, maybe the sky would change. There are stubborn young people who not only listen but also stubbornly pout.

"When is the village chief still wearing more clothes?"

"That's it, I'm shirtless when I work, and it's not a burden to take clothes!"

The stone village chief had no choice but to let them go. When they arrived at the Zhaomagou River, a slight sand began to appear in the sky, and the sand and dust gradually spread from west to east, soon enveloping the Hanwang River, Yantan, and even further east to Xizhou City.

After the stone village chief sent everyone off, when the first load of water was brought back, it was not unloaded until it was delivered to the furniture factory, and the strong wind swept the sand and dust from the Hexi Corridor and spread rapidly. Visibility was also reduced, and by the afternoon the visibility was less than 100 meters, and the newly installed electric lights had to be turned on in the factory during the day. The wind blows on the roof of the factory, and the sound of whirring and cheering is accompanied by the blow of sand and gravel, which is quite scary. As the wind became stronger, the lights hanging from the ceiling began to shake, and there was a feeling like an earthquake.

Suddenly, there was a whirl, the middle part of the factory was blown off, and the sandstorm blew into the factory along the torn opening, and the workers working in it were instantly stupid, and their mothers began to run around, thinking that the plant was going to collapse. Yang Liufang is different from them, this is his own property, with the dim light he went upwind, and found the willow section nearby to top the asbestos tile next to it, while blowing a bigger gap, the workers saw that the boss was desperately trying to rescue the plant, and the workers who ran away also followed, learning from the appearance of Yang Liufang to carry the asbestos tile wall on the top of the log, the crackling sound continued, and everyone was choked by the sand and dust that was blown in.

As the wind became stronger and stronger, the wall began to shake again and again, and Yang Liufang had to let the workers pick up the open board and lay it across the middle of the asbestos tiles, and then use wood to top it to alleviate it. Four workers were asked to pick up the scraped asbestos tiles and stand up, plug the gap again, and connect the three sides with the surrounding asbestos tiles that had not yet broken with wires, so that the sand and wind were kept out, and everyone went to wash and beat the dust all over their bodies. After the work was done, everyone no longer had the heart to work, and patrolled along the fence of the factory to avoid the situation of being blown open by the sandstorm again.

The migrant workers on the river began to regret not listening to the reminder of the stone village chief, they curled up together, wrapped their heads, and lay down in the river, waiting for the sandstorm to pass, the sand and gravel particles poured into the clothes through the gaps in the clothes from time to time, cold and itchy and unbearable, but they couldn't move, and they were even more uncomfortable when they got up and were hit by the sandstorm. The strong sandstorm hit caused sandstorms in 16 counties and districts in Northwest Province, with a minimum visibility of less than 100 meters, and a total of 12 strong winds in five cities in Hexi, with a maximum wind speed of 29 meters per second.

The sandstorm lasted until the end of the 20th, a light rain fell in the early morning of the 20th, the rain will be the diffuse sand and dust after the sedimentation, and the ground has become the same as yellow mud soup, this situation can be met several times in the spring and autumn of each year, this is determined by the local natural conditions of Xizhou, Xizhou City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the landform is complex and diverse, people often say that Northwest Province has the most complete geomorphological characteristics in the country, and the provincial capital Xizhou City, is a typical representative. The Hexi Corridor in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Xizhou has always been one of the areas with a high incidence of sandstorms, and people still have no awareness of environmental protection, and various primitive development methods such as unscrupulous grazing, sand dredging and sand washing that destroy surface resources and water resources continue, so people here have to bear the consequences of this extensive development.

The workers who repaired the river were sent back by tractor the next morning, hungry and freezing, and with excessive inhalation of sandstorms, colds, fevers, and lung infections, they took a long time to recuperate. After this incident, Yang Liufang was also frightened, fortunately there were people in the factory at that time with wood, in time to block, if not when everyone went to work, once the plant was blown and collapsed by the sandstorm, the loss would be very serious, and the subsequent impact would be very bad.

As soon as the sky cleared, he asked Qin Jiajun, who came to deliver vegetables, to go to Hongtuzhuang to pull back a few truckloads of waste red bricks, built a 2m red brick wall around the factory, and put a red brick wall on the roof to press the roof, which was at ease. After the whole project, the first four months of the Yangliufang factory were in vain, but I was much more relieved to see the newly strengthened plant, and I no longer had to worry about the sandstorm blowing down my plant.

After doing this, Li Tongfu came back once, and it turned out that the money for the meeting was due, and after paying the principal and interest, he had to work hard for half a year to have a surplus of more than 2,000 yuan, but these counters were finally his own. The village was connected to electricity, and Yang Liufang had no money to replace the machinery and equipment in the factory with electric ones, so he had to wait for the return of the project. In order to make more money as soon as possible, Yang Liufang asked Li Tongfu to go to the relevant store department of the supply and marketing cooperatives to ask if he could put the furniture he made in it to sell, which is also a sales channel, after many times of communication, he reached an agreement with the contractor of the building materials store department, for every set of furniture sold, they received a commission of 10%, and the sales money can only be advanced into their accounts, and the part they should have deducted before returning to Li Tongfu them.

People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, Yang Liufang had to agree. He first made some small chairs and children's study tables and sent them to sell, but he didn't expect that the people in the city still recognized this, and people have never been stingy in buying things for their offspring. The first batch of goods was sold out in the past three days, so Li Tongfu came back to urge the second batch of goods, and the second batch of Yang Liufang asked Qin Jiajun to pull a set of sofas in addition to small tables and chairs, but he didn't expect it to be sold out again within a week. The contractor of the building materials sales department saw that there was no cost and it was easy to make money, so he directly stopped selling some building materials with low profits, and vacated the site to sell furniture. And gradually someone began to customize.

With this sales channel, the sales in the Yangliufang factory came up, and quickly replaced the equipment, with the blessing of power tools, the production efficiency of the factory was greatly improved, and it used to take a month to produce a set of sofas, and now it can be completed in half a month, and they began to produce sofa cushions, he asked the stone village chief to find a few skillful women in the village, lay with a sponge on the finished tension spring, and then sew the sofa cover, I didn't expect the sales effect to be very good, some units such as the Cultural Bureau, the Education Bureau, schools, these funds are small can not replace the old-fashioned tables and chairs with new sofa units, buy a pair of sofa cushions and put on the chair or rattan chair, make it on the top is much more comfortable than the stiff stool surface.

After Yang Liufang found out about this situation, he asked the workers from Wangqingchuan to sew sofa covers for them according to the situation of the existing chairs, designed and sewed a special chair cover cushion, which became a hot commodity as soon as it came out, and some units bought dozens or hundreds, and many families used this kind of seat cover to improve the uncomfortable situation of the chair at home in those two years, and Yang Liufang also made a small profit.

In May, the sales of furniture factories are getting better and better, especially the sales volume of supply and marketing cooperatives continues to rise, because there is no store specializing in the sale of furniture in Xizhou, and although the supply and marketing cooperatives have been reformed internally, they are still state-owned units in the eyes of the people, but the service attitude has been greatly improved. Seeing that the same store department was selling their own goods very smoothly, and the day was near, Li Tongfu, Wang Shan and Yanhua were anxious in their eyes, and they knew how good it would be to vacate a counter to specialize in furniture.

The three of them also discussed simply notifying Yang Liufang to stop supplying them and let him have no goods to sell, but they felt immoral, after all, they were begging others to cooperate in the first place. Now I can only covet others to make a lot of money by selling furniture, and I can make a small amount of money by selling hardware on the side.