Chapter 191: Winter is hard without cotton
The company opened and everyone started to get busy.
Lin Musen was busy decorating the Chinese medicine clinic. According to the clan leader's instructions, the decoration should be as luxurious as possible, with all mahogany furniture.
Lin Sanqi was busy choosing the company's office location and company registration matters.
Fortunately, there are 5 office buildings for rent in Shilou Village, all of which are skyscrapers. Villagers only need to rent them at half price, so we quickly chose a location.
Lin Sanqi, who was not short of money, rented half a floor on the 66th floor of Building B of Tianhe Center, which is 800 square meters. Half of it was used as an office area and the other half as a product display area.
In the future, the second floor of Lingnan Hall Chinese Medicine Clinic in May Square will be used for retail, while the company's location in Tianhe Center will be used for wholesale, with different divisions of labor.
Lin Tianhua poached all his direct troops from Mercedes-Benz, one of whom sold cars and the other sold Chinese medicinal materials. They avoided the restrictions of the competition contract and were able to take up their posts directly.
So the sales team of Lingnantang Company was quickly established, and it was an elite team, which could be said to be achieved in one step.
The reason these sales elites were willing to follow Lin Tianhua to switch jobs was not only because of personal relationships, but more importantly, Lin Tianhua promised to double everyone's income.
There is no talent that cannot be hired with money. If you still can't hire them, then keep doubling your money...
Yin Lianyi's finance department has also been established.
Miss Yin recruited her three college roommates and best friends. An annual salary of 500,000 yuan was definitely the ceiling, so a group of young and energetic girls became a beautiful landscape of Lingnantang Company.
Anyway, Lin Sanqi always likes to go to the Finance Department to give instructions whenever he or she wants...
The processing workshop and cold storage warehouse were located in the "storage area" southwest of Shilou Village.
All the workers in Lingnan Hall are villagers from Shilou Village, so the location must be chosen in the village, which is convenient for villagers to go to work and the village protection team can provide support at any time.
After all, the processing workshop contains top-quality Chinese medicinal materials or food ingredients. If someone steals just one box, the loss will be huge.
Of course, this processing and storage workshop is temporary. It will definitely have to be relocated as the company grows. Industrial activities are not allowed in urban areas.
After being busy for more than a month, the company's affairs were finally almost settled. Lin Sanqi announced to the public that he was going to go out of town to purchase again, and then returned to 1959.
It was already December in Sijiu City, and the temperature dropped to -5 degrees Celsius, which almost froze Lin Sanqi to death.
The most difficult thing for people from the south to adapt to when they come to work in the north is the climate.
Lin Sanqi stood in the yard, looking at the dark sky and the cold northwest wind, feeling strange. Why wasn't it snowing?
As a native of Huadu, Lin Sanqi is very much looking forward to the snow, just waiting to enjoy the scenery of thousands of miles of ice and snow, the vastness of the Great Wall inside and outside, and the surging rivers.
Is it still called winter if there is no snow?
Lin Sanqi ran to the front yard trembling, and saw that every household was pasting window paper, which made Lin Sanqi feel quite strange.
"Hey, Prince, why are you putting up paper on the windows? It's pitch black in this room. Go get some glass."
When the old man saw that it was Lin Sanqi, a southerner, he began to teach him like a teacher:
"This isn't just any paper. It's Korean paper. Cover the windows with it so the cold wind can't blow into the house, making it much warmer in the winter. If you use glass, the wind will blow through the corners and edges, and it won't be tight."
At that time, the glass was fixed with nails, and there was no later glass glue. In addition, the size of the window frame and the glass could not be perfectly matched, so people were still accustomed to the traditional method of paper pasting.
Lin Sanqi was still puzzled:
"But the lighting is poor. If the glass isn't airtight enough, at worst we can use double-glazing and seal the gaps with paper strips."
That Beile was so angry that his teeth itched:
"If I could get the glass, I wouldn't need you whining here. Get out of here!"
Lin Sanqi was disappointed, but at the same time he understood that glass, a common commodity in later times, was still quite valuable in this era.
At this time, Ma Dazhuang came in carrying a load of coal briquettes:
Lin Sanqi saw it and prepared to tease him:
"Hey, Debojing, what's this load of yours? Is it furnace rolls or salted duck eggs?"
Hahahaha~~~Everyone in the yard started laughing.
Ma Dazhuang also laughed and said:
"If I had two baskets of donkey rolls, I wouldn't be starving. These are coal briquettes. I finally got them. Damn, look at the quality of these coal briquettes."
Hou Daya was the first to run over:
"Do you have any left? My family hasn't bought any yet, so I have to go pick some up. Hey, Ma Dazhuang, did you buy coal balls or clay balls? Why are there only loess?"
Hou Daya squeezed open a coal ball and found that it was full of yellow clay. Even an amateur like Lin Sanqi could see that the coal content was very low.
Ma Dazhuang was so angry that he threw the carrying pole away:
"Who says it's not true? In previous years, they would mix some loess into the coal briquettes as a binder. Now, it's just a bit of coal briquettes mixed into the loess. This kind of coal briquettes can't burn well at all and produces a lot of smoke."
"Yeah, this is too dark."
"We need to report this to the street office. We can't fool people like this."
Mixing loess into coal briquettes is an old trade in the old city. The owner of Donglaishun made his fortune by relying on this skill. It is no longer surprising to everyone, but this is the first time to see such a low coal content.
At this time, Wu Xinhou also came out of the house and sighed:
"I've inquired about this and heard that all the coal was sent to Big Brother. This year, our domestic coal shortage is very large and the country has no other options. We just have to overcome it."
Hou Daya was unhappy: "Overcome it, how can we overcome it? Without coal, we'll have to eat raw food. Without coal, we'll all be ice sticks in the middle of winter. How can we have the energy to go to work?"
Lin Sanqi blinked and asked again, "Is honeycomb briquettes any better? We can buy honeycomb briquettes. There must be a way."
Lin Sanqi wanted to be a good person. After all, they were all neighbors, especially those with elderly and children at home. If there were no heating tools, people might really freeze to death, and the reputation of the yard would be ruined.
So he thought of finding an excuse first, then pretending that he had connections, and secretly buying dozens of tons of honeycomb coal in 2013 and transporting them to everyone in the yard to share. This way he could help people and make some money, killing two birds with one stone.
The prince burst out laughing and pointed at Lin Sanqi and cursed:
"You're just like Emperor Hui of Jin. The country was in chaos, the people were starving to death, and the emperor said, 'Why don't we eat meat porridge?' Lin, do you understand what this means?"
Lin Sanqi thought to himself, you old man are really bad, always finding ways to curse people. I am not like you, I take your kindness for granted.
"My Lord, I know what you mean. It means that the feudal remnants of the Qing Dynasty used to oppress the people and exploit the working people. If they eat too much meat porridge, they will all starve to death in the future."
The old man was so angry that he was like a Buddha born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. He didn't even bother to paper the windows. He glared at Lin Sanqi fiercely:
Lin Sanqi glared back:
"Old man, don't glare at me. Your good days won't last many years. Don't say I didn't warn you. Be nice now, and you'll suffer less in seven years. Otherwise, if you're beaten to death and thrown into a stinking ditch, don't blame others for being cruel."
The old man was not one to give in. "Who the hell do you think you are?"
Matchmaker Wang quickly came out to smooth things over:
"Alright, alright, stop talking now. Let's think about what to do now. This winter will be tough without coal."
Lin Sanqi thought of another way:
"If we don't have coal, can we burn firewood? Even though firewood doesn't last long, it's better than nothing, right? Let's go to the outskirts of Beijing and chop some wood on our day off."
Hou Daya slapped her thigh:
"Here's a solution. My mother's family is in Mentougou. I'll go there tomorrow to get some firewood. I'll use coal briquettes to keep warm at night, and use the wood stove to cook and boil water. I can get through the winter."
When the people in the yard heard that Ji Niaohou actually had a way, they immediately rushed over:
"Daya, please bring some for me too."
"Yes, we're from the same hospital. Why don't you bring a whole truck back and we can split it up. Just tell me how much it costs."
The yard was noisy, but Lin Sanqi didn't bother to pay attention to it. After all, the Lin family would not be the only one that was short of coal. For a time traveler, this was not a big deal.
Arriving at the door of his father's house, Lin Sanqi knocked on the door and went in. A burst of warm air rushed out from inside.
There is a coal stove in the corner of the wall, with a chimney connected to the top of the stove to discharge the exhaust gas outside the house. This coal stove can be used to cook and boil water, as well as for heating. It was the main heating tool for the people in the capital at that time.
Anyway, no one in the princess's house built a fire pit or a fire wall. The house is so small, and if you built a fire pit, there would be no room to put things.
Besides, the supply of coal for a stove is tight, so burning a fire pit will definitely lead to bankruptcy.
Today is the weekend. Jin Caifeng is sewing a small cotton jacket with her two daughters-in-law, while Lin Jiageng and Lin Zhenzhen are playing by themselves in the house.
"Qizai, you've been sleeping for a few days, have you recovered? Look at you, you've gotten a bit tanned after running around."
Jin Caifeng saw her youngest son come in, wearing reading glasses, holding a needle in his hand, and speaking words of heartache.
Lin Sanqi touched his face and thought to himself, I ran around a lot in 2013 to start a company, and it seems that I have become tanned. It seems that I need to get whiter.
"Mom, I'm fine, don't worry. By the way, are you making cotton-padded clothes for Jiageng and Zhenzhen? There are so many people in our family, we have to make one for each of them, right?"
Sister-in-law Fu Muxiang smiled and said:
"There are nine people in our family. If everyone makes one, where would we get all the cotton and cloth? Look, all the cloth and cotton coupons in the house combined only cover the expenses for two children. The children grow up so fast, so we need to renovate once a year."
Lin Sanqi sat at the table, casually stuffed two oranges into the hands of his nephew and niece, and then began to touch the cotton:
"The quality of this cotton isn't very good. It doesn't look like new cotton."
Lin Sanqi touched his mother's cotton-padded jacket and frowned.
"Mom, why is your cotton-padded jacket so thin? It feels stiff to the touch. This cotton must have been there for years, right?"
Cotton-padded clothes or quilts will become "hardened" after being used for a long time. The cotton will become hard, and the gaps between the cotton fibers will become smaller and less.
In this way, the warmth retention of cotton clothes or quilts will be reduced, and the comfort of covering the body will also be reduced.
So if you want to keep warm, you must use new cotton.
(End of this chapter)
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