Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

In this era, buying a stove is considered a big item for a home. After all, in the north, winter is still very long.

Such a stove should be used for at least four months. When it is coldest, the temperature can reach minus 10 to 20 degrees Celsius.

Many aunties wanted to buy the stoves after seeing them. When Wu Haiyan arrived, she paid and got the invoice. Chen Changan also began to arrange for people to use carts to transport the stoves and coals, and then install the stoves in the residents' homes and move the honeycomb coals to the designated locations.

This job was indeed hard, and sometimes they couldn't come back for lunch. Chen Changan also arranged for the cook to leave some food for them.

A cart could only go to a few households a day, because there were not many buildings in those days. Otherwise, it would be even more tiring to carry coal up and down the stairs.

There were only five carts in the entire processing plant. After all of them were arranged, Chen Changan told the workers to speed up production. This load began to sell. After seeing the benefits of the furnace, I am afraid that more and more people will buy it. It seems that the number of carts and manpower will have to be increased.

After briefly talking to Wu Haiyan and the gatekeeper, Old Man Lu, Chen Changan came to the street office again.

After saying hello to the concierge, he went directly to Director Wang's office. When passing by the big office, several aunties working in the street office saw Chen Changan still praising him, saying that the stove was well made and the room was much warmer. They chatted about gossip even more.

This made Chen Changan feel a little embarrassed. So this warm room is just to provide better conditions for you to chat about gossip?

After dealing with the aunties with a few simple words, Chen Changan pushed the door and ran into Director Wang's office.

Director Wang was working in his office. When he heard someone come in, he looked up and saw that it was Chen Changan. He looked dazed. He asked, "What happened? Is there a tiger chasing you?"

Chen Changan immediately said, "It's not just a tiger, but a lot of tigers chasing me? The aunties here are too powerful. If I don't run away, they will strip my clothes off. I'm confused, they were praising me for coming here at the beginning, how come they started stripping my clothes while we were chatting?"

Director Wang smiled and said, "You made a good stove. They wanted you to experience whether it's cold in the nest without clothes."

Chen Changan immediately said aggrievedly, "Auntie Wang, is it wrong for me to provide you with a stove? Then I won't dare to come to your place anymore."

Then he whispered, "They strip people's clothes as soon as they meet. Aren't they a bunch of hooligans?"

Director Wang couldn't hold it in any longer. He laughed for a long time. Looking at Chen Changan's increasingly ugly face, he said, "The aunties like you. Let's change someone else and see what their attitude is. It's good enough if they don't scold you. You should be happy that you are so popular."

Seeing that Chen Changan still had a stern face and looked like he was about to cry, Director Wang couldn't bear it and said, "Okay, okay, I'll tell them next time. Young people are shy and won't let them tease you anymore."

Then he asked, "Didn't I ask the street office to notify the residents about your stove? Why are you coming to me?"

When it came to business, Chen Changan stopped pretending to be wronged. He said directly, "It was because the officials of the street office notified me that I was surrounded by a group of aunties early this morning. There were too many people buying stoves and honeycomb coal. I just arranged things at the factory and came to you for help."

Director Wang said, "I know the factory is busy, but you still have time to talk nonsense here. Tell me, what's the matter? Other small factories have nothing to do, but you have so much to do every day. Look at the small textile factory you suggested to set up. It has been open for several days. It's doing well. How can you be like this? You rely on your good relationship with me and come to my place every day to take advantage of me, right?"

Director Wang has been in contact with Chen Changan for a long time, and he even learned Chen Changan's spoken language.

Chen Changan didn't care and said, "Of course, she is my Aunt Wang after all. Who else can she support if not me?"

Director Wang glanced at Chen Changan, but his smile did grow even more.

Chen Changan continued, "Although I came here to ask for your help, I can also help you solve some problems, right?"

"Just you? What other problems can you solve?" Director Wang asked.

Chen Changan said aggrievedly, "Why can't the problem be solved? Our small factory has helped the street office solve employment problems, right? Isn't the stove we provided to the street office also of some use?"

Seeing Director Wang looking at him without saying anything, Chen Changan said helplessly, "Hasn't the business expanded? We don't have enough people delivering coal. I want you to arrange a few more people to deliver coal and get a few more carts."

Director Wang laughed and said, "It's a small matter to hire people, but it's a big matter to hire a cart, right? Don't you have enough funds?"

Chen Changan nodded awkwardly and said, "We have bought coal several times to feed dozens of people. We have bought five carts. There is a lot of goods piled up in the warehouse and we need to sell them quickly. The five carts are too slow to ship. So I came to you for help, right?"

Director Wang thought for a while and said, "There are definitely no spare carts. How about this? There are quite a few residents in the street office who have carts. They usually find odd jobs outside. I will let them pull the carts directly to your processing plant every day. Just pay them half a day or a day. What do you think of this?"

Chen Changan thought about it and decided that this would be a good idea. With more work, more and more of these people would slowly gather at the entrance of the processing plant.

They are not affiliated with the processing plant, do not need to provide meals, and their wages are settled on a daily basis. Suddenly I realized that this is not the temporary worker used to fill the jar in the future? No, my factory is full of temporary workers, and this is not a temporary worker among temporary workers.

Seeing Chen Changan remain silent and his expression constantly changing, he thought that Chen Changan was not very willing to accept this model and was only thinking about making the processing plant bigger and stronger. After all, in people's eyes nowadays, the more people there are in a factory, the better the factory is.

So he said earnestly, "Changan, don't be too ambitious. There are too many people in this factory, and your burden is heavy. You know that your funds are tight. Once the funds are sufficient, it will not be too late to hire more people."

After hearing what Director Wang said, Chen Changan knew that Director Wang had misunderstood, and quickly said, "Aunt Wang, I was just calculating the pros and cons. Just do as you say, and go to my place to pick up the goods. It's better to wait at the door when nothing happens than to look for work outside. I don't have to worry about their meals here."

Director Wang said with relief, "Well, it's good that you can understand. I know you have a kind heart and want to help more people. But Changan, you have to remember that you should help as many people as you can. If it exceeds your ability, even if you help more people, you will be dragged down in the end. If you can't help others, you will lose yourself. You should do things within your ability."

"Don't worry, Aunt Wang, I know what to do." Chen Changan replied heavily.