When it was time for the supply and marketing cooperatives to get off work, the counters and furniture had not yet been installed. Li Tongfu asked Yanhua to go home from work, and the three of them helped Yang Liufang and the workers he brought to install the remaining furniture and counters on the spot.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening when the work was over, Xizhou in mid-October, the temperature difference between day and night was large, it was already very cold at this time, five people found a beef noodle restaurant nearby, and each asked for a big bowl of "meat and egg double flying", a big bowl of beef noodles with soup and noodles to eat, the body was warm. Qin Jiajun worked hard all day, and Yang Liufang was worried that it would be unsafe for him to drive at night, so he didn't let him send him back, but found a simple hostel nearby and spent the night here with the workers he brought.

The next day, Qin Jiajun got up early, first sent Yanhua to the supply and marketing cooperative, and then came to the hotel to pick up Yang Liufang and prepare to send him back to the factory. Yang Liufang asked Qin Jiajun and the workers to finish the beef noodles at breakfast before returning to the furniture factory. When he arrived at the furniture factory, he began to study folding dining tables and dining chairs, in fact, these things were not unfamiliar to him, he knew the model of ancient furniture when he followed the apprentice of the master, and also saw and repeatedly studied in Wang Shixiang's "Ming Style Furniture Appreciation" and "Ming Style Furniture Research", but he didn't start to do it.

The folding furniture that is being made now is different from antique, it does not need handrails, and it does not require complicated mortise and tenon technology. The purpose is to have a dining table to eat in the small space where people live, and they can be put away after the meal, without affecting the flow of people, but its basic principle and "chair" are the same.

Yang Liufang was thinking, while holding the wood in front of a wall to compare, he wanted to make the dining table and dining chairs after the production can be put away and placed against the wall, as far as possible does not take up space, after several attempts, he finally studied and understood, put the legs of the "chair" under a tabletop, one side is connected with the desktop with a hinge, so that when the table top is lifted up to form a horizontal plane with the crossed legs, it can occupy a position of about 20 centimeters against the wall, so that there is enough passage for pedestrians to pass. The dining chair adopts the same principle, and he creatively adopts a three-stage folding structure, which can fold the back of the chair in the direction of the chair surface, so that it forms a plane with the legs of the chair after folding, which is also nearly 15 cm thick.

Thinking of this, Yang Liufang began to try to be the first "chair", because compared with the three-section folding chair, the table only has two folding, and the chair can be made according to his own ideas, and the table is not a problem. He took the wood to dot and draw lines, punched holes in the machine saw, made shafts, and in about two hours, the material for a three-fold dining chair was ready. After his meticulous assembly and trying to put it against the wall, it was exactly as he imagined, and this dining chair was perfect for saving space. Yang Liufang handed over the chair to the spraying worker to spray it out, and began to lay down the materials for the other chairs. When the workers came to get the chairs, they complained that the manpower compressor pump was too tired now, and since the electricity had been turned on, it was better to buy a large set of air pumps as soon as possible, so that two people could work at the same time with two spray guns.

Yang Liufang was indeed too busy in this section and forgot about such an important matter, but fortunately, the workers reminded him in time. Yang Liufang immediately agreed, and he couldn't wait for Zhang Feng or Qin Jiajun to deliver the food, so he decided to go to Xizhou tomorrow to buy power tools. Thinking of this, he hastened his speed, and wanted to get tomorrow's chairs and tables out before today's end of work, so that even if he left the workers, he would have work to do. Yang Liufang found that although the roads were repaired, it was as difficult as before to go to Xizhou every time, and it was still a bumpy road for donkey carts, hitchhikers, and buses. When he decided to buy an air pump this time, he asked someone to see if they could install a telephone, and also installed one in the supply and marketing cooperative, so that it was convenient to communicate and saved time on the way back and forth.

Yang Liufang set off early in the morning by the donkey cart of the stone village chief pulling water, and when he set off, Yang Liufang looked at the watch at 5:00 in the morning, and when he arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, it was already 10:00 in the morning, and it took 5 hours on the road. If five hours were spent making furniture, with their factory's current work efficiency, a single sofa would be completed.

"Brother, why are you here?" Li Tongfu, who had just finished receiving customers at the door, asked when he saw Yang Liufang getting off the bus and walking towards him.

"Brother, I'll buy power tools and update the machinery and equipment in the factory, but now the efficiency is really too low. By the way, I have a very important matter to discuss with you. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Brother, let's install a phone in the factory and the supply and marketing cooperative, so that what the factory needs or there is a customer order here, we can communicate, save the toss of running back and forth, and waste time on the road."

"Oh, it's a good thing to install a phone, but I don't know if it's expensive to install a phone?"

"In the afternoon, let Brother Qin go to the post and telecommunications bureau to ask, this installation phone should be in their charge."

At noon, Qin Jiajun came back from delivery, and Yang Liufang asked him to consult about installing telephones in the factory and the supply and marketing cooperative.

"The application of the supply and marketing cooperatives should be possible, our factory belongs to private enterprises, and I don't know whether to install it. A few years ago, when I was in the army, there was a leader who wanted to install it at home, and I went to the post and telecommunications office to pick up people and asked them, saying that this phone could be installed not if you wanted to, and it would cost about 5,000 yuan to install one at the leader's house. ”

"Let's go ask first, if it doesn't work in the factory. Let the village come forward to issue a certificate, and the village's red seal should also work. ”

Near noon, a contractor came to buy building materials with customers, Wang Shan is now accustomed to this situation with the foreman pit owner, he and Li Tongfu have reduced the price to the greatest extent, and even let out 2% of their due profits, although their conscience is a little uneasy, but not at least so unbearable. He would write a feed list based on the amount calculated by the foreman, although he didn't think he would use that much based on experience. After two days, Qin Jiajun was already able to load the goods according to the material list alone, although he didn't understand the price, but he was clear about the freight and the amount of goods in the truck he drove.

When Qin Jiajun came back in the afternoon, he had already asked clearly from the post office, the supply and marketing cooperatives and factories were applied for installation according to the enterprise unit, the initial installation fee for each telephone was 5358, the monthly rent was 18 yuan per month, and the local call was 1 yuan/minute, and the long-distance call was 2 yuan/minute.

"How's it going, brother?"

"It's too expensive! The installation fee for two phones alone is 10,700. Li Tongfu blurted out.

"The price is expensive, but brother, if we make the time wasted on the road and sell it as furniture, the two sets of sofas will be earned, and it will be worth it overall."

"Yes, then listen to you, let's pretend."

"Okay, brother, if you're done, go get a planer and an atmospheric pump that can use dual spray guns, load the car directly, and send me back first while you're not busy at this time."