The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen took Xiao Zhao home on the bicycle of the landlord's eldest brother. Water was splashed in the yard below. The landlord's family of three moved tables and stools into the yard and were eating.

When he saw them, he made sure to invite them to eat together. The landlady came over, grabbed Xiao Zhao, and told her that there was porridge that had been frozen in the well water.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao saw a large wooden basin under the eaves, a wooden basin filled with well water, and a steel pot sitting in the middle of the basin. In the pot was thick cold porridge. It looked very tempting on a hot day. .

Zhang Chen pushed the bicycle into the front of the hall and parked it at the foot of the wall where it originally parked.

A square table was originally occupied by the landlord's family of three. One person occupied one side. Zhang Chen parked the car and came out. Xiaofeng had moved to sit with his mother and gave up his seat to Zhang Chen. Xiao Zhao occupied the originally empty seat. side.

The landlady took the bowls and chopsticks and told them that it was a homely meal with no vegetables, so they could eat whatever they wanted.

Xiao Zhao smiled and said that there were so many dishes, it felt like the Chinese New Year, and he said there were no dishes.

The landlady smiled and served Xiao Zhao a bowl of porridge. Xiao Zhao lowered his head and twitched his nose, grinning. It tasted so good! Sister-in-law, if you want to drive me away now, I won't leave. This porridge is too tempting.

Everyone at the table laughed.

The landlord picked up a plastic jug and poured Zhang Chen a full bowl of wine. It was not beer, but what they liked to drink. There was a jar of zero-copy rice wine in the agency store, also called old wine.

The two of them picked up the bowls and clinked them. One big gulp consumed a third of the bowl.

The atmosphere at the dinner table soon became lively. Everyone chatted about everything, and naturally they talked about the clothes they made in the tailor shop. The landlord told them that it was a bit noisy, but The main reason is that place. What's wrong is that there are still three brothers in that row of houses. For more than ten years, they have either beaten or scolded them, just like enemies.

"The brigade cadres couldn't do anything when they saw this kind of people." The landlady said from the side.

"Whose house does the tailor shop belong to?" Zhang Chen asked.

"The second child's right hand is the boss, and the left hand is the third child." The landlord brother said. Zhang Chen understood. It turned out that Caidi said that the people on the left and right were the landlord's own brothers.

Zhang Chen remembered and asked the landlord if there was any secluded house nearby that would not disturb others at night.

"What do you want it for?" asked the landlord.

"Even if we are making clothes, you know that when we make clothes, sometimes we have to work overtime at night to rush the goods. It seems that we can't work at night in the tailor shop."

"Where do you want to move those gangsters?"

The landlord asked, the Jiangshan guy he was talking about was Zhao Zhigang. Although Caidi was from Sichuan, Zhao Zhigang was from Jiangshan. On Sanbao Street, they still called them a pair of Jiangshan guys. Anyway, to them, Sichuan and Jiangshan There is no difference, they are all foreigners.

Zhang Chen is right.

On the street, one is inconvenient, and the other is too small. Zhang Chen has already thought about it. If they can find a larger house, although they are not yet able to set up a clothing factory, they can start by setting up a clothing processing workshop.

The landlord thought for a while and said, there is one place, but I'm afraid it's too big.

The landlady interjected, is there any available house nearby?

"The warehouse at the brigade headquarters." The landlord said. Zhang Chen knew that the brigade he was talking about was the current village.

"Yes, if you want to make clothes, it's a good place there. It's noisy and out of touch with people." The landlady also agreed.

"Is it far from here?" Zhang Chen asked.

"A little way." The landlord said excitedly, stood up, patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder, and said to him: "Let's go, I will take you to see it now, it will only take a few minutes to walk, we will have a drink when we come back. "

Xiao Zhao also wanted to follow, but the landlord shouted, "You have a big belly and can't walk fast. Why should you follow? Just go to your man's house."

Xiao Zhao made a face at him, and the landlord asked, "Why, can't Xiao Zhang still make the decision in your family's affairs?"

Zhang Chen laughed on the side.

The landlady also said, Xiao Zhao, we should continue to eat. The roads there are very bad and difficult to walk.

Xiao Zhao could only give up.

The landlord brother led Zhang Chen, and the two of them walked out as they talked, heading in the opposite direction to Hanghai Road and into the village. After passing four or five rows of houses, they saw another large vegetable field in front of them, which was all green. celery.

The landlord pointed to a lonely house in the middle of the vegetable field not far away and said, "Look, it's right there. This used to be the warehouse of our brigade headquarters. After the fields were divided into households, this place became empty."

There was a cement road in disrepair that passed through the middle of the vegetable field. The two people approached. Zhang Chen saw that in front of the house was a cement drying yard with mud walls and red tiles on the roof. However, it had been aged for a long time. The red color of the tiles has long since faded.

The two people walked through the drying yard. Zhang Chen saw the house, which was about three to four hundred square meters. It was evenly divided into four rooms. The doors were all locked. The locks on the doors were rusty. On the side of the house, there were There was a small room with no door. The landlord told Zhang Chen that this place was used to raise pigs, and all the rotten vegetable leaves in the fields were picked up here.

Zhang Chen stood there and looked around. There were vegetable fields in front, back, left, and right of this place. The nearest row of houses was dozens of meters away, so there was really no noise.

"Is the water and electricity available here?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Yes. In the early years, the canteen of the brigade headquarters was set up here. How could the water and electricity not be connected? Did you see it? There is also a motorized well over there. Before the tap water came in, the well water was used."

"How much does the rent here cost per year?"

"It won't be expensive. This kind of shabby house can be used as a factory, but it is not suitable for people to live in. It has been here for many years and it is not worth a copper coin. If you want it, I will help you go to the brigade headquarters tomorrow to ask."

Zhang Chen quickly said yes, thank you, brother.

The two of them returned to the yard of the landlord's house and sat down to continue drinking. Xiao Zhao asked Zhang Chen if he had seen that place and how it was?

Zhang Chen said, I feel that the place is still very suitable. The house is a bit big for the current use, but if the business is good and there are more people, it won't be too big. Let me see if there are thirty or forty sewing machines there. question.

"It's no problem to put a hundred of them." The landlord said, "If the house is not enough when the time comes, I will put up the colored steel tiles on the open space in front of me. That open space also belongs to our brigade, and this house will be rented to If I leave you, the land will definitely be yours to use, and no one will care about what you build there."

The landlord and Zhang Chen drank until dark. Xiaofeng went back to the room to do his homework. The landlord's wife and Xiao Zhao had already eaten and sat beside them to chat with them.

They didn't finish until someone came over and asked the landlord brother to beat old K. Xiao Zhao wanted to help the landlord's sister-in-law clean up, but the sister-in-law told them to leave, saying that she could be alone.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao did not go upstairs, but went directly to Zhao Zhigang's tailor shop. When they walked to the tailor shop, they saw that the door was open and Zhang Chen's bicycle was parked at the door.

Probably because they were worried that someone would come to pull out the valve core again, they put the car in the light of the door, where Caidi could see it.

Zhang Chen took a closer look and saw that the bicycle tires were already inflated. It seemed that Zhao Zhigang had bought him a new valve core.

Zhao Zhigang and the three of them were sitting in front of the sewing machine. On the cutting table, there were piles of ready-made clothes as high as a mountain. Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao wanted to order buttons, but Caidi stopped them. Caidi said, after ten o'clock, we will have enough. Time, just sit down, rest, and chat.

Only then did Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao understand that the three of them wanted to finish all the work on the sewing machine and the hemming machine before ten o'clock. After ten o'clock, they would do some manual work that was quiet. In this way, the people around them would always be busy. There is nothing to say, and this is also a helpless move.

Zhao Zhigang will also use the time after ten o'clock to cut out all the pieces needed for tomorrow and iron all the areas that need to be ironed for the adhesive lining. In this way, he can work on the sewing machine throughout the day.

Zhang Chen told them about the house he was looking at earlier and gave them a rough description of the place. Zhao Zhigang and Caidi looked at each other and laughed.

Zhang Chen asked curiously: "Why are you laughing?"

Caidi asked: "Are you talking about the old warehouse in the village?"

Zhang Chen said yes, you know?

Caidi pointed at Zhao Zhigang and said, you ask him.

Zhang Chen looked at Zhao Zhigang. Zhao Zhigang's face turned red but he said nothing. Zhang Chen continued to look at Caidi, and then Caidi said to them:

"The first time he tricked me into coming to Sanbao, he said he was going to set up a clothing processing factory there. It turned out that his master promised to lend him money. When we came out of the factory, his master said again, we are so busy this year, what are you doing? I just left. It was originally agreed that I would let you go solo next year, but when I got angry, I stopped borrowing the money.

"Actually, I think he just found this excuse and had no intention of lending us money. We all had to go out, so we had no choice but to open this tailor shop here."

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao laughed. It turned out that this was what happened. Zhang Chen asked: "Then what did you want to do when you set up a factory?"

"I just process clothes for the Sijiqing stall." Caidi said.

"Do you know any stalls?"

"No." Zhao Zhigang said, "I just go to every stall to attract business."

Zhang Chen thought to himself that he couldn't tell that this guy was more courageous than him. He didn't have a stall or money, so he dared to say that he wanted to set up a clothing factory. He was hesitant.

When Zhang Chen saw Xiao Zhao looking at him and smiling, he knew that she must be laughing at him for being timid again. Zhang Chen himself was confused for a moment. He couldn't figure out whether he was timid or just being rational. ?

Zhao Zhigang and Zhang Chen said: "That place is really good for a garment factory. I have visited it many times and talked with them in the village."

"Then do you know how much rent is available in their village?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Eight thousand, eight thousand yuan a year, water and electricity bills are paid by yourself. We negotiated the price at that time." Zhao Zhigang said.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao looked at each other. The rent was 8,000 yuan, and there were other expenses. If they didn’t add more people and machines, they should be able to run the place for 20,000 yuan. This amount of money is still within their capabilities. within the range.

Zhang Chen had thought about it. They could start with just three people, but with this base, they could expand step by step. He believed that they could soon expand to thirty or three hundred people.

In the beginning, it might just be a clothing processing factory. Who says they can't develop into a formal clothing factory?

Zhang Chen had already made up his mind that he was going to take this place down. Only in this way would he not be tied hand and foot.

At around nine o'clock, someone was already looking outside the door. Zhang Chen simply stood up, walked outside the door, and stood there smoking. Before ten o'clock, if someone came to Luo Liba Sui, Zhang Chen was ready to yell at him, anyway. If we don't plan to stay here anymore, we'll have a falling out.

Zhang Chen thought of A Yong's scene in the car in Nanjing at noon. He knew that in this world, many times it was really bully and weak, especially when he saw a fair and tender guy like Zhao Zhigang.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen stood there until ten o'clock. The sound of the machines behind him stopped, and no one came over to say anything.

safe and sound.

Zhang Chen threw the cigarette butt on the ground and returned to the house. Caidi told them that you can go back and just come and pick up the goods tomorrow morning.

Zhang Chen said yes.

He pushed the bicycle or walked back with Xiao Zhao. Halfway there, Zhang Chen suddenly asked, do you want to see that place now?

"Okay!" Xiao Zhao shouted.

Zhang Chen walked to the small shop nearby and bought a flashlight.