Chu Li was sitting under the signboard of Chu Rong Machinery and was eating a bowl of freshly soaked Tongyi instant noodles. The roads and fields that had just been dusted by the sun were turned into mud by the rain of mango planting, and they exuded an impure smell of mud. Since the beginning of this year, the fields in this area have also begun to be stopped, and the rapid development of urban construction will soon turn it into a factory following the pace of industrialization.

"Battery." Uncle Ye said. When he came to collect the rent with the owner of the warehouse, he shared the only information he had with Chu Li. "This is where the production of batteries begins."

Chunlai has been blown away by himself for more than a month. He couldn't get used to seeing him doing nothing like himself, and he was about to be unable to open the pot. Life flies, and yesterday he called to say that he had found a job.

Chu Li, who was unwilling to accept Chunlai or anyone's help, had already eaten instant noodles for five days in a row. If you continue like this, you will soon have to sell your equipment to get by. There was no fear of fate on his face, he had already digested all the raw materials as best he could, and handed over the last piece of jig. When Xiang Yang Hua stepped out of the taxi with a briefcase in the evening, he didn't show a joyful smile, because the calendar on the wall told him that today was the first payment day. On the 27th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, it is advisable to seek medical treatment, cure the disease, break the ground, put on the beam, enter the burial, break the ground, and bury. Don't marry, open the light. You see, it's just a very ordinary day.

He was entrusted by Sun Ning, and Huang Jing came with him. Xiang Yanghua's legs were not as lame as before, and his face was full of happiness, infecting anyone around him. Like an old friend, he hugged Chu Li a little too excitedly. The latter was too unaccustomed to such intimacy, but obediently completed the ritual. The embarrassment affected Huang Jing, because she was about to laugh out of breath. Stretched out his hand and twitched on Yang Hua's shoulder: "I'm going to die!" ”

Huang Jing, who I haven't seen for half a year, has become a ring fat, dressed a lot more casually, and his hair has turned back to pure black, cut extremely short, which sets off the extremely beautiful big eyes. The faintly visible freckles on her face proved that she hadn't worn makeup for a long time. There is no past sensitivity in a smile and a smile, and it is fickle. The intimate behavior between him and Xiang Yanghua is naturally tacit, and after watching it for a long time, it makes people feel that it should be like this. Wearing a cotton shirt, the slightly bulging lower abdomen is noticeable after the wind blows.

"Are you happy?" Chu Li said to the two with a smile.

"Yes, it's been three months. She shouldn't have been asked to come with her, but she wanted to come and see the factory director. “

"This is a...... Got you down, didn't you? “

Huang Jing naturally bared his teeth and smiled, "No! This place is good! The environment around here is also good. “

"Have you eaten? Let's go and deal with it. “

"After we ate, we came to see you, and Sun Ning asked me to send you the money for the previous fixtures. Mr. Li said that your fixture is very good, but Sun Ning deliberately didn't let him come over in person. Is your card ready? Next time, I don't have to send cash, I'm still a little scared if I tell the truth. “

Chu Li immediately understood what Xiang Yang Hua meant, Mr. Li was Sun Ning's customer who brought him along and opened a large packaging material processing factory. If he sent someone over himself, in case he saw that his temple was so small, he was afraid that he would dislike himself, and then he would not believe in the processing ability. I secretly thanked Sun Ning for her thoughtfulness.

"The card is ready. The head is Chu Rong machining. Rest assured. “

"With so many machines, are you busy coming here alone?" Huang Jing shuttled through several lathes, all kinds of processing drill floors, and tools made her not believe that this was something that one person could do.

"I don't have anything else to do now, from morning to night, it's not enough for me to do."

The sky darkened, Xiang Yang Hua took a closer look at the warehouse in the gradually dimming light, the wiring, the layout was very reasonable, Chu Li naturally had applied the industrial engineering of foreign companies to his own small workshop, even if he was the only one to operate, the brief operation instructions of each machine were clearly marked by the A4 paper on the board that was erected one by one, and the safety tips were also very conspicuous. Unlike most of the individual processing factories I have been to, the oily floors, messy wires, scrap parts rolling everywhere, machines with sharp blades and gears, and workbenches in the east and west, the kind of prohibitive workshop is difficult to give people confidence. But here the windows are bright and orderly. Following Chu Li to the corner of the warehouse, there was a small roofless compartment made of preset plates, and the whole compartment was only ten square meters. Chu Li turned on the light, and saw that there was an old-fashioned table inside, on which there were two book stands cut from metal, which were thick and shiny, and the middle of the book stand was full of various tools and books. A stack of drawings was stacked next to it, and a plastic stool that looked new next to the table. There is a very strange "bed" in the corner. From under the sheets, you can see that they are stacked with standard pallets shipped from the factory. Even so, the quilt on top was neatly folded. Although the conditions can be described as simple and coarse, in the eyes of ordinary people, the environment must be difficult. But from Chu Li's mental outlook and neat and clean everything, Xiang Yang Hua did not see the slightest "down" atmosphere.

Moved a plastic stool to Xiang Yang Hua, Chu Li bent down and took two bottles from a box of mineral water under the table, handed him one bottle, and then went outside to deliver another bottle to Huang Jing.

"This time, a total of the first two batches of fixtures were settled, the first batch was five hundred thousand, and the second batch was ten hundred thousand. Add up to twenty-eight thousand, you order a little. ”

Chu Li took the money and didn't want to touch it, but in order to prevent Xiang Yang Hua from being held accountable for the wrong account in the future, he seriously ordered the two hundred and eighty sheets in front of him. These two piles of banknotes are not enough to pay off the credit card, and the profit is too low...... These fifteen jigs can't earn 10,000. You can complete it in two weeks, that is to say, if you continue like this, if you don't invite someone, you can earn up to 20,000 yuan a month, and after deducting 10,000 yuan of rent plus water and electricity, the net profit will be about 10,000 yuan. The utilization rate of the equipment is only 20 percent. I only have two ways to go, the first is to walk like my neighbors, open the machine day and night, and ask the salesman to ensure sufficient orders, but also have to hoard raw materials, and invest more money. Second, do quality and increase the selling price. With their own foreign garbage equipment, it is estimated that it will be scrapped for a long time if the volume is gone, but it takes time to accumulate quality quality. At present, if you are in debt, if you can't earn it, it is estimated that you will have to roll up and leave.

Advance and retreat are dead ends.

Chu Li looked at the dark night outside, and quickly stood up, "It's not early, you and Huang Jing have to go back." Otherwise, it is not safe on the road. ”

Xiang Yang Hua put the bag under his armpit, stood up and drank a few sips of water, "Resist, brother." It's a little difficult at the moment, and Brother Ning knows it. How about your other orders? ”

"I also did some, and the profit was low. The most important thing is that most of them have low tolerance requirements, anyone can do it, and my goods are not rare. Chu Li smiled.

"If I can't have enough money on hand, I have some spare money here......"

"No!" Chu Li interrupted him firmly, "Take good care of Huang Jing, and the baby." Don't worry about mine. ”

Xiang Yang Hua nodded, "Then I'll go first." Come back next time you have time. ”

"Okay."

Chu Li helped them get a taxi, and after seeing them get into the car, he saw dark clouds approaching in the distance, the surrounding barren fields were black and green, the wind was rolling up from afar, and the wild reeds were blown to the ground. He pulled the roller shutter door down, and the machine shimmered in the darkness. When he walked to the cubicle and tried to read quietly, he suddenly remembered Chen Si for no reason, and he couldn't calm down anymore. Pick up homemade dumbbells and keep repeating the tedious exercise in an empty warehouse.

One day at the end of June, Chu Li saw Sun Lei walking into the warehouse with the help of Xiao Ye on crutches, while he and Chunlai were processing a few small parts with goggles. Taking advantage of Xiao Ye's spare time when he went to order food in the stall, Sun Lei gave Chu Li a stack of photos. Unexpectedly, he didn't find the slightest mood swing from Chu Li's face. Chu Li forcibly asked him to take off his pants on the pretext of inspecting the wound. was bumped into by Xiao Ye who came back and saw Chu Li squatting on the ground. Sun Lei put on his pants, opened Xiao Ye again, and said to Chu Li, "We didn't find Xia Hongfei. It was as if the boy had evaporated from the world. ”

"Can't evaporate!" Chu Li stared at Duan Wen's photo, his eyes were slightly open, there was a bullet hole from the corner of his mouth to the middle of his cheekbones, and the torn skin and muscle tissue made him look extremely hideous.

"Do you know that his sister is actually from your company?"

"Sister?"

"It's called Duan Yan." Sun Lei stuffed the cigarette butt into the mineral water bottle, and after hearing the snort, he looked up at the clock on the wall and said, "The two have nothing to do with it." It is said that this sister did not shed a single tear when she came to identify the body. She is actually the second wife of Hong Kong native Huang Hongli, what a mess. ”

"Hasn't Huang Hongli already returned to Hong Kong?"

"I'm back again, in Shenzhen. Opened a jewelry store. This time, my wife came with me. “

"Will Xia Hongfei have a relationship with him?"

"It's already under control." Sun Lei lit another cigarette. "The bug applied to Shenzhen, and she said she would pay attention."

"You smoke less, beware of impotence!"

"That's right, this time the baby wasn't shot, it's a blessing!"

Xiao Ye and Chunlai were chatting, and suddenly there was a burst of laughter, and Sun Lei raised his ears vigilantly.

Xiang Yanghua soon came again, this time with Sun Ning.

In addition to bringing a new fixture, there was also a stack of drawings. "This is a fixture used in the high-voltage test of transformers, which is somewhat complicated, and does not need to be made of stainless steel, and acrylic is used instead where the sticky notes are pasted. The structure is somewhat complex, and the processing difficulty is not small, because it is an energy module, and the precision requirements are very high. He took a pen and pointed to a small hole densely packed on the stainless steel surface, which must be changed to a resin material, which is connected to the probe, and the hole diameter and surface roughness tolerance range are required to be strictly in accordance with the drawings. Otherwise, the probe will break, and the test failure is a trivial matter, and the probe will be all gold-plated, and the loss will be great. There are also two micro-funnel-shaped ones with a curved surface that are used to import the test connector. I looked at your equipment, it's not easy to process it, you can study it. “

He picked up the stack of drawings and reminded Yang Hua: "You take a closer look at the quotation." “

"Let's see how complicated the drawings are." Sun Ning touched Yang Hua's arm, saying that he should indeed look at the drawings first.

Chu Li looked at the drawings carefully, it is not complicated, but the accuracy requirements are high, if it is a power supply test, it is actually not high-tech, just contact, pressurization, and output. However, each contact needle needs to be installed one by one, and the only difficulty is the curved inverted foot processing. The acrylic part is nothing more than the assembly of multiple parts, and the tolerance requirements are not strict, and they are only superficially complex.

"Strip?"

"There are no materials, but all purchases have designated suppliers."

"Row"

"It's not complicated." Sun Ning looked at it. "Let's try it first."

"Lao Li said that the contract will not be signed first, you make a sample, if there is no problem, I will send the contract over."

"Okay."

When he came over the weekend, he saw a pile of jigs neatly arranged on the table in the left corner of the warehouse. "How long did it take?"

"Two weeks."

"Anything else? I'll take a look at a few. ”

"No, twenty in all."

"How much did you earn?" Chunlai was so excited that he was gearing up.

"It's going to be a loss."

"Ahh How so? “

"Twenty, three thousand each. Sixty thousand. “

"Boss, did you have more food today?" Spring is still in ecstasy.

"The cost of materials is two thousand six each. Each gross profit is four hundred, twenty, and eight thousand. ”

"Next time the two of us work overtime, can we finish it in one weekend?"

"If you grow two more hands, I will become four hands, and I can do it in two days."

"That's four people, earn eight thousand in two days, each person can earn two thousand, one thousand a day, if the night shift is opened, that one class will earn a thousand, yes!"

"That's not how it works."

At this time, Chunlai didn't understand what was wrong with him, but he would soon understand.

After twenty deliveries, Lao Li's order became two hundred, an increase of ten times. And ask for a week delivery. Chu Li thought about it and said, don't do it. Sun Ning's face turned green. Harurai said next to him, "Do it!" ”

Sun Ning said angrily, "Go aside." ”

"Think about it again?"

"Don't think about it, Brother Ning, this can't be done."

Sun Ning thought for a while, "I'll talk to Lao Li about the delivery date." ”

"No need to talk about it, you can't do it." Chu Li pulled Sun Ning to the cubicle, sat down with Chunlai, took a drawing, turned it over and listed a few formulas on the blank side. Sun Ning understood at once. He nodded and sighed.

"Brother Ning, it won't work."

Sun Ning patted Chu Li's shoulder, "Let's figure out a way together." ”

Chunlai finally understood that it was not a matter of buying one and paying for one. The stakes are so great that they are staggering.

"If the order is large, you have to stock up a bunch of raw materials. The cost of taking out a loan to buy materials is 2,61, and 200 is 520,000. The interest on the loan is at least 6 to 7 percent, and if Lao Li's payment is not delivered until 45 days after the order is placed, plus 45 days after the arrival of the raw materials, even if the processing cycle is not counted, the loan money will be eaten up by the interest of March. The interest for 500,000 for three months is close to 8,000 to 10,000. If Lao Li defaults, we will be miserable. The profit is only 80,000 yuan, and for 80,000 yuan, you have to take the risk of a house. Chunlai finished speaking in one breath, his face flushed.

"I'll pay a part of the money." Sun Ning made up his mind to do it. "With a profit of 80,000 yuan, all your accounts can be repaid."

"I'll give 100,000." Harulai stood up.

"If I want to hurt you, I won't do it. Besides, to borrow from you without interest is to take advantage of your own people. “

Both were silent.

"This old Li ...... Is it reliable? ”

"It's useless for me to say anything, why don't I take you to meet me?"

When Chu Li saw Lao Li for the first time, he made up his mind to make this deal.

Lao Li's full name is Li Wansheng, he is a disabled person with a prosthetic leg, and he has participated in self-defense counterattacks. The spirit on his face makes people know that this person who has been a soldier is definitely not easy to bully. He walked steadily, with such vigor that he couldn't spot the prosthetic leg without looking closely, but his shorts exposed the mechanics of his left leg. The left leg squeaks like a transformer, and the sound of a low gear grinding while walking is made. In fact, he is also an assembly line supplier of TMK's circuit board factory and packaging materials, with a factory of seventy or eighty people. He began to expand from Dongguan's industrial upgrading two years ago. There are too many orders to do, and a small machinery processing factory, which originally had only 20 people, has tripled, and the orders are still overwhelming. The risk of further expansion was too great, and he began to go the route of outsourcing, and finally did tooling and assembly. With the connections of his comrades-in-arms, he has steadily held orders from large multinational companies such as TMK and TTI. Even if you have crawled and rolled on the minefield of Laoshan, the steel and iron bones polished in the days of dried sauerkraut and radish with rice are now inevitably poisoned by the delicacies of the mountains and seas, with a big waist and a round waist, short hair, a Chinese face, a fat chin, and an extremely complex and incomprehensible middle-aged temperament in the eyebrows. Confidence reveals humility, and shrewdness permeates heroism.

"You can deliver in a week!" Li Wansheng said condescendingly.

"Can I take a tour of your factory?" Chu Li didn't answer his words, and didn't take into account Sun Ning's "try to be obedient" to him

Li Wansheng was stunned for a moment, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in this young man's gourd. "What do you want to see?"

"Just take a look."

Chu Li walked to his factory and saw a skilled worker in Yishui, who was older. The hands and feet are not sharp, but it can be seen that they are all disabled. Later, he learned that most of them were Li Wansheng's comrades-in-arms and some like-minded veterans.

Lao Li, absolutely reliable. Where the money comes from is the question to be solved. I wanted to take out a loan, but the recent accounts are not pretty, I am afraid that there will be many dreams at night, and when the loan is approved, Li Wansheng will be too late. Come to think of it, he only has the person who gave birth to him and raised him to rely on.

"Mom, do you have any money on hand? I need money."

"Yes, I have all the money you sent me. How much do you want? “

"Five hundred thousand." Chu Li plucked up the courage to say to this microphone

"Five...... Lakh? “

"Mom, I didn't send you much money before. If not, then forget it. ”

Li Qianhui was silent on the phone for a while, and said firmly: "I'll transfer it to you tomorrow." I saved a current account, just afraid when you will use it to buy a house. “

Chu Li could hear her worry from Li Qianhui's tone, her mother was like this, she didn't want to ask in detail.

"Mom, I opened a small factory. Is 500,000 all our belongings? “

"We have 600,000. Mom doesn't have to spend any money, you can take it. If you want to buy a house in the future, it's a big deal to sell the current one. ”

”……“

In mid-July, Chu Li got the raw materials, Chu Li invited two people, Chunlai asked for a week's leave from the factory, and the four of them began to work day and night. After six days of rushing out, Chu Li paid for the two workers to leave, carefully inspected the quality of the products, reworked more than a dozen, and on Tuesday of the second week, Chu Li rented a car and sent the products to Li Wansheng's factory.

"Make a friend." Li Wansheng stood up and stretched out his hand to Chu Li.

"Please take care of Mr. Li."

"All the payment, don't wait for forty-five days, I'll let the finance call you today."

"That would be great. Thank you so much. Chu Li was very surprised, he didn't expect this person to be so generous and bold.

"It's rare to get a person like you these days."

When Chu Li heard this, he knew that there was something in the words, and he concluded that Li Wansheng had already checked his past. A businessman like him definitely has many outlets, and with a military background, he must have a strong source of information.

"If there is a quality problem with the product, I will be responsible for it in accordance with the contract."

"Actually, I can do your job, but it's too late."

"I know that."

"Now there's one I can't do." Li Wansheng took out a stack of drawings from the cabinet behind him. "You see?"

Chu Li quickly flipped through the drawings and knew that this was a flexible fixture, with cylinders and springs, and it was a piece of the main plate, arranged sixteen in a plane, and from the analysis of the flexible clamp, the products processed by the company could not withstand too much clamping force. Another possibility is that this product is very expensive. But according to the sixteen matrix, it should also be mass-produced. He flipped to the quotation at the back, and the quotation was five thousand two, and the quantity was ...... Three hundred and twenty!

Showing his customer contract directly to himself, how can he trust himself very much, but no matter how righteous Li Wansheng is, he will not give up more than 1.6 million business to himself. Cylinders, springs, need to be purchased directly, and the profit is not too high. But Li Wansheng said that he couldn't do it, that was too modest. However, with a few rotten machines, it is almost impossible to do mass production with such tight tolerances in a short period of time.

"It's a tolerance that I'm hard to commit."

"I'm not asking you to do it." Li Wansheng smiled. "If you've seen my factory, you should see that I'm not doing R&D. All the drawings were given to me directly, and I asked my brothers to follow them and make some hard-earned money. And this, I can do it, but the other party's request to me is not to make them. They asked me to do it in three steps, the first step was to make the three hundred and twenty, and then to refine the design and produce the remaining six hundred and forty. This is all export-oriented, the quality requirements are very high, and I don't dare to outsource, but if I want to improve the design, I don't have the ability, if I want to find a design institute, my profits will be eaten up. “

"So you want me to help you improve? Is there anything wrong with this design? “

"This kind of defective, only one product can be clamped at a time, and it needs to be matched with a variety of irregularly shaped products. I didn't go to college seriously. I can't afford to hire the design institute, do you see if you can do me a favor? I'll give you a profit of ten pips. Frankly speaking, the profit of this second batch of goods is about more than 600,000 yuan, and I can give you 60,000 yuan. ”

Chu Li smiled and said with some self-deprecation: "But why do you believe that I can help you improve?" “

"You have been in contact with the assembly of the manipulator, and all the training, didn't you help Sun Ning install so many TMK companies?"

"Yes, I'm just assembling and debugging. Design development is not my forte. I look at Mr. Li, in order not to delay your big event, you have to find another master. “

Li Wansheng smiled slightly, revealing his neat teeth, he supported his body with his upper limbs, stood up, and his prosthetic leg squeaked. "I've looked for it." He opened the refrigerator door, took two cans of Coke from inside, and threw one to Chu Li. I snapped open the pull ring, tilted my neck and drank half a can. Chu Li put the Coke back and took a bottle of Cestbon mineral water from it. Li Wansheng leaned next to the refrigerator and said to Chu Li: "I have already found the other two people and told them the situation, 60,000 yuan is the price I can pay, and I can't pay until after acceptance." I'm going to choose one of the three of you. Give me a plan by the end of September. ”

"It's fine, but the cost of proofing is ......"

"I'm out!" Li Wansheng put his right hand on his chest, "Of course I'll bear it." Even if I don't adopt it, I will bear the cost of scrapping the engineering samples. “

"Okay!" Chu Li nodded, "I have a request, can you show me the environmental information of the application?" “

Li Wansheng took out a remote control from the drawer, turned on the TV, selected the content of the USB drive, and started to play a video. Originally, this flexible manipulator was used to fix jewelry and carry out laser marking. And jewelry includes rings, gold amber and so on.

Chu Li has only one way to go. He had to leave immediately.