Wan Feng came to Wang Yuan to discuss setting up a clothing factory, not to teach modern dance and perform.
After Wan Feng left the stage, the young men of the 47th Company finally came to their senses and gave Wan Feng a warm round of applause.
Wang Yuan ran over to Wan Feng and said excitedly, "Wan Feng, you must teach me. If you don't, I will die with regret."
"Wang Yuan, let's talk about this later. I came to see you today for something serious."
"What's the matter?"
"Let's talk outside. It'll be quieter out there."
"How can this be so embarrassing? If you want to discuss something at my house, please go outside. Let's just talk inside and ignore them."
Interrupting the entertainment of a group of middle school students would cause public outrage, but Wan Feng is not so stupid as to not understand this.
"Let's go outside. It's not cold outside and we won't be able to talk for long. A few minutes will be enough."
"That's fine too!"
Wang Yuan put on a cotton jacket and walked out of the house with Wan Feng.
"What do you want from me? Why isn't Zhang Xuan here?"
"How could she have the time to come? She's already so busy with school and work."
"Oh! I really miss the days when I made clothes in the garment factory. Look at how idle we are now. As you said, we are bored to death."
"Sister Yuan, are you also working on the family farm now?"
"What else can I do? Even if four people in my family worked hard, we only earned a little over 600 yuan last year. Each person carried 150 yuan, which is about the same as my dad's annual salary before. And that's with three people involved."
The natural conditions of the 47th Company are not as good as those of the 42nd. This company has a good harvest in drought years, but is completely ruined in flood years.
Last year was a pretty good year. I only made 600 yuan, which was not bad.
"Are you interested in going back to work?"
"I want to, I really want to, but I can't go. It's too far from home. I couldn't go to school there before, and now it's not possible."
"Suppose this factory appeared in the three-point field and also needed accommodation, what would you do?"
"Yes! Even the accommodations at the three-point field are different from those at the one-point field. At least it's close to home, so when I miss home, I can just ride my bike back."
"Zhang Xuan wants to open a branch factory in the three-point field."
"Really!" Wang Yuan jumped up, her face full of disbelief.
"It's already been decided. She feels it's a pity for these graduating students to stay at home, so she decided to open a branch factory here, and she also decided that you will be the factory manager in charge of production."
"Ah! Choose me?" Wang Yuan was a little surprised.
"I choose you!"
Wang Yuan's face was then filled with surprise. She clenched her fists and turned them 720 degrees in front of her chest, as if she was about to spread her wings and fly into the sky.
"Tell me, what can I do?"
"Of course, the first thing I need to do is choose a factory site. What you need is to connect with your classmates, both those who have worked in a garment factory and those who haven't. Zhang Xuan's first step is to scale up to 50 machines. Including sewing workers and other service personnel, we'll need at least 70 people. You'll be responsible for communicating with these people."
"That's no problem. Isn't it just about finding people? The last thing we lack is people."
"After the factory is established, you will be in charge of production. As the production manager, your salary will be 70 yuan per month. If you are willing to work in the workshop, your salary will be calculated separately. If you think it's okay, we can finalize it."
Wan Feng prefers to be straightforward in this kind of matter, and negotiate the conditions first, and then decide if it's okay or not.
"Okay, okay! That's great! Where are you planning to choose a site for the factory?"
In this way, if she doesn't work, as long as she focuses on production, she can earn 800 yuan a year, which is almost as much as her family's annual income last year.
If she works in the workshop and earns forty or fifty bucks at the same time, her annual income will be several hundred bucks. Only an idiot would not do that.
"In order to take care of the people in each company, we can only choose the battalion headquarters, so that several remote companies can also be covered."
"Have you chosen an address?"
"I haven't chosen yet. I'm just looking for someone first. I'll go choose a place after I find you. I don't know if there's any ready-made housing at the battalion headquarters."
"Let me think about it. I remember there seemed to be some vacant houses at the battalion headquarters. There was more than one, an abandoned elementary school, and a defunct flour mill. How about I take you to see them?"
The 47th Company was eight miles away from the battalion headquarters, and Wang Yuan knew that some situations in the battalion headquarters were relatively normal.
Wang Yuan hurriedly pushed out the bicycle and called out a young man, who was the young man who had been cold to Wan Feng when he entered the room.
"My boyfriend's name is Li Fulin."
"Your boyfriend! No wonder I said he had no face or nose when I was looking for you."
"He's just like that. If I talk to that man for a few more words, he'll behave like this. Hey! Han Fujiang, you have to change this bad habit in the future. I haven't married you yet. If you keep being jealous like this, I'm going to change my mind."
Li Fulin was a little embarrassed.
"Take Wan Feng to the camp headquarters. I'll borrow a car and come right after."
Wang Yuan quickly borrowed a bicycle, and the three of them headed towards the battalion headquarters.
Ten minutes later, three people arrived at the battalion headquarters.
The battalion headquarters is larger than an ordinary company. As the highest administrative center of the three-division field, it has a middle school, shops, a post office, a machinery factory, a repair shop and dozens of households.
The abandoned primary school that Wang Yuan mentioned is a nine-room earthen house. It is not far from the road. There are houses on the left and a repair shop about thirty meters away on the right.
"This used to be an elementary school, but because the number of students increased and the space was insufficient, a new school was built. This building has been vacant since last spring. What do you think of it?"
The house is an old-fashioned combination of earth and wood with a thatched roof.
Wan Feng entered the house and walked around.
The width of these nine houses is about six meters. Wan Feng measured them and found that the length of each house is about ten meters.
The area of a house is about 60 square meters, and the total area is more than 500 square meters.
This area has two workshops, a material warehouse, a finished product warehouse, an office, a canteen and two dormitories, so there is still one room left for spare use.
The space in the house is still a little small.
There were no windows or doors, even the door and window frames were gone. There was a lot of garbage and feces on the floor inside the house.
The grass on the roof was in a terrible state, and some places were exposed to the sun.
This house needs to be properly cleaned up if it is to be used.
Wan Feng looked at the yard again. It was quite big.
"Sister Yuan, didn't you say there was an abandoned flour mill? Take me there to see it too."
The three of them came to the flour mill at the foot of the mountain.
The flour mill's factory building is much better than the old school. It now has a gate and some equipment inside.
But this place is too remote, located alone at the foot of the mountain, a hundred meters away from the nearest building, and with the mountain behind it.
Wan Feng didn't even go in. He just stood outside the gate, took a look, and gave up on this place.
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