While eating, Wan Feng asked, "Sister Huaer, what factory do you work in?"
Upon hearing this, Hua'er's smiling face fell down like a door curtain being lowered.
"Don't mention it. It's a lousy hosiery factory."
For a family like Hua'er's, the hosiery factory does seem low-class.
"In fact, it doesn't matter what kind of work you do. Aren't we all working on the Four Modernizations?"
Hua'er looked at Wan Feng with a changed expression and then looked at Bai Liyun: "Mom, you're right, he really does speak the same tone as Dad."
“It really feels like a family.”
"What kind of socks do you knit in your factory?"
"It's the kind of socks you wear on your feet."
Isn't that nonsense? What you wear on your hands are called gloves.
"My brother, what kind of clothing will you produce in the future?" Zhou Binghua was obviously more interested in clothing than socks.
"There are so many. We haven't even launched women's clothing yet. We're worried you won't have the money to buy it once we do."
"Tsk, I still make over 30 yuan a month, and with bonuses it's 40. You and I don't have money to buy it?"
"But can you use all that money to buy clothes? Let me tell you, if we launch the product, there will be dozens of styles alone, and there will be dozens of color combinations, too. Your money is not enough."
"Bullshit!" Huaer curled her lips.
"It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
After dinner, Wan Feng and Zhou Binghua left the house together.
Zhou Binghua was still wearing a pair of blue baggy pants, which rustled in the wind.
"Why aren't you wearing your new pants? Why did you buy them when you only had them in the bottom of your closet?"
"I want to see if the other sisters are wearing it first?"
Wan Feng laughed heartily: "It's over. I guarantee that none of the sisters in your factory will be wearing new pants this afternoon."
"Why?"
"Because everyone has the same idea as you, they all hope that someone else will wear it first so no one else will."
"I don't believe it."
"Don't believe me? You'll know when you get to the factory. Okay, I'm done with this bullshit. I'm going to the bus station to catch a bus."
After separating from Huaer, Wan Feng did not go to the bus station to take a bus. Instead, he went to the department store and bought dozens of zippers of different lengths and some round and flat elastic bands.
These things come in handy when making jackets.
Fortunately, he borrowed ten feet of cloth coupons from Bai Liyun at noon, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to buy this thing.
Then I went down the mountain to the bus station and got off at Gushan Commune. I sat in front of Xiao Jun's stall for a while and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to pick up my pants.
He had delivered the pants to the garment department this morning when he went to the car shop to get his wheelchair. There were only a dozen pairs delivered today, so Yan Shufang and the others probably had them made by now.
The pants were indeed ready. Wan Feng took the pants and asked Xiao Jun to take him to the river on his bicycle.
Xiao Jun borrowed Xiao Dexiang's bicycle and sent Wan Feng to the depression before going back.
Luan Feng and Jiang Min were both anxiously waiting for Wan Feng to come back. They were anxious to zip up the jacket so that they could see what the complete outfit looked like.
So when Wan Feng walked in, Luan Feng snatched the bag from Wan Feng's hand, opened it and grabbed a handful of zippers and elastic bands.
She threw the elastic band aside, picked out a zipper of suitable length and threw it to Jiang Min.
Jiang Min started zipping up quickly.
"I took on a big order. Do you remember the dress I made for Mr. Zhou's wife?"
Luan Feng nodded.
"She contacted us for twenty sets of clothes, all in one style, but these twenty sets of clothes couldn't use the fabrics we had. They had to use good quality fabrics."
"Where can I get the fabric?"
"First, I'll get the cloth coupons. Once I have them, I'll go to the textile factory and try to find a way. If that doesn't work, I'll have to buy retail cloth from the store."
"Then the cost will be several times higher?"
"That's not a problem. The price offered over there is very high."
As for how high the peaks are.
"I have something to ask you. Mrs. Feng Lan from the Waqian team wants to come to me to make clothes. Her family is in financial difficulty and her husband is not in good health. She wants to make some money. Is it okay with you?"
Luan Feng is definitely hiring people. Once her garment factory holds a meeting, it will need a lot of people, at least a dozen.
There are many reasons why Wan Feng has not allowed Luan Feng to open the business yet.
The first is naturally policy. There are no clear regulations for individuals starting businesses. Although many places in southern China, especially Wenzhou, already have many private businesses, they are all run covertly, and no one dares to openly advertise. For someone like Luan Feng, someone is investigating. I just do some mending work at home, so a fine of two cents at most isn't a serious offense.
But if you make a big fuss about it, you'll be courting death.
The second reason is the manpower issue. Wahou currently does not have enough manpower. Once Luan Feng withdraws some more people, even if they are all women, Wahou's manpower will become even more scarce, which will create a conflict between the two sides.
The third reason is the equipment problem, that is, we can’t buy so many sewing machines, and even if we can buy more, we can’t afford it.
A garment factory without sewing machines is nothing.
Wan Feng thought for a while before answering Luan Feng's question: "I don't object to recruiting people. We do need people right now, but I have a condition for recruits from outside teams. Those who can bring their own sewing machines will be given priority."
This is a best of both worlds solution.
Although the number of sewing machines in rural areas is small, there are still some. Even if these families have sewing machines, they are mostly used for mending at home, and there is not much other use for them.
But moving to Luan Feng's place or adopting a more attractive machine will solve the problem, and they will also have an extra income.
"Spread the word tomorrow. We'll pay two cents for each sewing machine we bring in. Those without machines can put it aside for now. For those in Feng Lan's situation, like you just saw, you can give them some of your work to do back home, like embroidering, hemming, buttonhole sewing, and so on. Hemming can be done by the piece, but buttonhole sewing is done by the piece. You decide the price yourself."
Overlocking, cutting buttonholes and sewing buttons are very tedious tasks that have to be done by hand. At that time, there were no overlocking machines, so in addition to using fire, overlocking had to be done by hand, which was time-consuming and laborious.
Luan Feng's eyes lit up. "Yes, these tasks like sewing the edges, buttoning, and eyeletting will take up a lot of our time and energy. We can definitely let others do them. Yes, I'll arrange it tonight."
Jiang Min had also sewn the zipper by this time, and Wan Feng acted as a model again, being fiddled with by Luan Feng for a while.
Naturally, there was another round of laughter.
After trying on the clothes, Wan Feng decided to go to Shutun to see how much glass slag Xu Bin had accumulated. If it was enough for a car, he would send it out. Although the money was not much, every little bit counted.
Then Wan Feng planned to transfer the business of human books and glass stubble to Xu Bin. If he couldn't do it, he could let his father do it.
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