"Brother Shi, tomorrow we have a year-end dinner in the factory, you have to come to the town, let your sister-in-law and Gawa also come, but drink less wine, and you have to send Wang Shan and them back after the end."

"They're coming, too?"

"Yes, the sales department of the supply and marketing cooperatives will also have a holiday tomorrow, and Wang Shan and they will celebrate the New Year in their hometown this year."

"Oh. Then I got it. Are you ready to go home? ”

"Ready, Brother Stone."

"Well, that's good, your sister-in-law and I have braised ten catties of mutton and ten catties of beef for you, and you can bring it back to Esu and Aunt (Liufang's Abba and Aunt) to taste our northwest specialties."

"Oh, Brother Shi, it's a waste again."

"This is my heart and that of your sister-in-law. What's the cost. ”

Yang Liufang arranged for Shi Yong and Shi Fang to put away the sharp and sharp tools such as saw blades, wallpaper knives, saw blades, nails, chisels, and planing blades, so as not to pay attention to the children and scratch their bodies. Shi Yong and Shi Fang were packing up, and Li Tongfu led the staff of the sales department of the supply and marketing cooperatives to drive two cars.

Adults greet each other, but children don't. The children of Shibi Village are familiar with each other, and the children's nature has long been released in the vast world, so the girls and the quieter boys pick up waste wood blocks to build blocks; Daga's son mischievously rode a wooden stick as a big horse and ran all over the factory; Shi Fang's children had to ask their father to find wood to carve guns; Shi Yong's son was even more naughty, and somewhere he got the ink fountain out, making his face black and white, and simply stood on the pile of materials and roared in a decent manner, and the children stopped playing when they heard it, and coaxed under the pile of wood, and everyone had a great time.

And the children of the Qin family and the Wang Shan family from the city may be young, or they may be recognized, dragging the corners of their mother's clothes, standing behind their mother, watching them play. It wasn't until the stone village chief came over with Gawa and asked Gawa to take her two little brothers to play with everyone that they timidly broke away from their mother. Gawa took them to play with everyone for a while, and the three dolls went to the cafeteria to watch TV. Yanhua and Yinhua came to the factory for the first time, without the ties of children, they walked around the factory, and saw the planer and the wood felt very novel, and it turned out that those exquisite furniture were processed in this way.

Yang Liufang greeted everyone warmly and chatted about some things that were not salty or light, Li Tongfu took advantage of the gap to call him to the canteen and gave him a stack of red envelopes: "Brother, everything is ready, the number is only too much." ”

"Thank you, brother."

"Go ahead."

Yang Liufang turned around and saw that the master and his mother-in-law were busy in the cafeteria. The master has worked in the factory for two years, and the craftsmanship goes without saying. His mother-in-law was a first-time visitor, and she was also very capable. Help the master wash and cut the vegetables, and then help the master set the plate. Shi Yong, Shi Fang, Daga, and Xiaoga's mothers-in-law also helped inside, washing the dishes and pouring the water from the dishes and bowls outside and pouring it on the roots. Afraid that the tree would freeze, the head of the village asked several workers in charge of transporting vegetables to sprinkle sawdust on the roots of the tree in woven bags filled with vegetables.

Qin Jiajun and Wang Shan told them about the state of the people in the city buying building materials, and how the decoration foreman of the city people opened more materials and made money from the materials, and the owners were not known most of the time. The workers who had never experienced it were stunned when they heard it.

"That's not wronged, if anyone dares to trap me, I can kill him." Shi Yong said indignantly.

"Pull it down, how many people like us know a little about decoration? If you don't understand it at all, it's not like being cheated. Shi Fang said.

Li Tongfu discussed the color of lacquer with Da Ga and Xiao Ga, and the modern furniture should avoid using cinnabar to tone, and change to clear lacquer with exposed wood grain or directly paint white.

"White paint, how ugly it is, we only use white paint or black paint to do white things. I don't understand what the mentality of the people in the city is. Xiao Ga said.

"We are serving customers, and we will do whatever color the market needs." Everyone discussed together, from decoration and building materials, to furniture colors, and to modern furniture. Wang Shan said: "Recently, paint-free boards have been sold more, and customers use this kind of board for home decoration doors, door covers, window covers, etc. Most of the furniture made with it does not use mortise and tenon and nail structure, and instead uses a three-in-one nut connector. ”

"What is a 3-in-1 nut?"

"I can't figure it out, let Boss Yang take you to see it after the Spring Festival, I heard that it is very convenient, as long as you punch holes in the board that needs to be connected, and then stuff the nuts and screws into it, and there is a cross cap in a hidden place, tighten it with a driver, so that the plates are combined together."

"Really? It's all so advanced. Third brother, tell the factory in time if you find anything in the future, we not only make antique furniture, but also keep pace with the times. ”

"Okay, I'll write it down."

"Boss Yang, it's almost noon, the adults forgot the time to chat, but the children are hungry, why don't we have dinner?" The master came over to ask Yang Liufang.

"Open the meal, open the meal. Here, everybody wash your hands. Yang Liufang greeted everyone.

The workers' mothers-in-law had already set up tables and stools. Adults 12 people a table, women with a baby 15 people a table, a total of three tables, after the food, the stone village chief has not yet spoken, the young more greedy dolls, reach out to eat, the child's mother hurriedly hit their hands with chopsticks.

"Listen to your big talk."

"Wow......" The children cried aggrievedly, and their mother hurriedly held him in her arms and swayed him.

"Everyone has worked hard, and I know that everyone has made money working in the factory, more than in previous years. I won't talk much about the other amounts, I will follow Boss Yang in the future, and I will work hard to make money. ”

"Okay."

"Come, let's have a drink first, and then ask Boss Yang to say a few words." Everyone responded, raising a glass and drinking, and the women who could drink followed suit, and those who did not drink also drank boiled water instead.

"I won't talk about it, everyone has worked hard for a year, today I brought my family to the factory to celebrate the New Year in advance, I have nothing to prepare, I have prepared New Year's money for the children, and now I will send it to everyone."

"Okay, okay, thank you Boss Yang......" The workers and their families applauded and cheered continuously.

"Don't cry, you (uncle) are making New Year's money." The child quickly stopped crying, sobbing and looking at Yang Liufang standing at the main table, Yang Liufang came over and came to the child first.

"Come, little friend, yours, whose doll are you?"

"Boss, Ejiadi (mine), the child is not sensible, please forgive me." A worker who had been engaged in handling in the factory hurriedly stood up and said.

"Hey, kid! People say that children's faces are in June, and they say that they will change. ”

"Coming to the next one, whose child are you? What's it called? ”

"Master, the forehead belongs to Shi Yong's family, this one is the eldest, the singing one is the boss, and the second one went to grandma's house and didn't come." Aunt Shi Yong hurriedly got up and replied.

"Oh, it's good, it's a big family, Shi Yong, it's prosperous, it's good."

"Shi Yong, give your master a good training reserve force."

"That is, village chief, as long as the children like it in the future, they will definitely pass on Master E's craftsmanship."

"Master, there are too many, don't send them if you don't come."

"All of them, take them. Buy new clothes for the kids for the New Year. ”

"Gawa, come, uncle is busy, I haven't been to your house for a long time, I've grown so big, I heard you say that you went to elementary school? Do you know your uncle? Yang Liufang walked to the side of the stone village chief's aunt and said to Gawa, who was sitting next to her mother.

"Yes, Uncle Yang. I'm in the first grade of elementary school. ”

"Oh, that's good, study hard. Come, take it. ”

"Thank you, uncle. Ah, 50. So much. After Gawa took it, she couldn't wait to open the red envelope, and was a little surprised to find such a large denomination of money, and shouted out loudly.

"Ah, so many." The mothers of the children who had already received the red envelopes couldn't hold on to it, and they opened the red envelopes one after another, and everyone was in a mess.

"Brother Shi, brother, come quickly, you two also come, give everyone a share, the food will be cold in a while." Yang Liufang hurried to call for help. After hearing this, the two and Yang Liufang worked together to give the children New Year's money.

According to the tradition of the banquet in Xizhou, after the three rounds of wine, it is free to play time, everyone got up to toast, first Shi Yong carried the wine bottle, held the wine glass, and brought his wife and children to toast the master, and the children had to kneel down to kowtow to the master, Yang Liufang hurriedly stopped.

"Shi Yong, this can't be helped, the master is not married yet, and he will lose his life. I took the heart, and I drank the wine. In the midst of everyone's laughter, Yang Liufang took the wine glass and drank it all. Then there are Shi Fang, Da Ga, Xiao Ga, after a few glasses of wine in a row, Yang Liufang is already slightly drunk, a little drunk. Others don't know, Shi Village Chief, Wang Shan, Qin Jiajun, Li Tongfu, these people who have seen Yang Liufang drunk can know that Yang Liufang is not strong enough to drink, and when they saw the workers coming to toast, they hurriedly stopped.

"Township Party Mengmeng (people), Boss Yang can't drink, so let's do it, (I) propose that everyone collectively respect Boss Yang, just have a heart, he has to catch the train back to his hometown in the afternoon."

"Yes, village chief."

"Village Chief, Emeng (we) listen to you." ...... Everyone responded.

Shi Yong, Shi Fang, Da Ga, and Xiao Ga knew the relationship between Li Tongfu and Yang Liufang, and they couldn't respect the master, so they came to respect the master's elder brother, and Li Tongfu could drink it, and he begged for mercy after drinking a round. Qin Jiajun and Zhang Feng wanted to drive, so they escaped. Everyone is familiar with Wang Shan, who knows that he is the brother-in-law of the village chief and the son of the village chief of the neighboring village, and many of them used to wash sand and dig sand in the sand washing factory in his father-in-law's village to make money to support their families.

Now the feng shui turns, after the province governs Zhao Magou, the sand field and the sand washing factory are shut down, because there is a wood factory in their village, everyone's life is getting better and better, and the people who used to go to the Hanwangchuan market to buy meat are the people of those two villages, and now most of them are from Shibi Village. So the workers came over, took turns toasting, and soon put Wang Shan down. Yinhua and his second sister were so distressed when they saw the drunk Wang Shan, they hurriedly asked Zhang Feng to send their family home.