"The bricks and tiles have been signed for by Yijian. We will officially start delivering them tomorrow."
Zhang Hai frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "We have four trucks in our team, but we can only allocate three to deliver goods. If we only send one, that won't work. Nephew, is there any solution?"
"Use the brigade's tractor. You'll have to go and pay the brigade two cents per brick. I think the brigade can do it. They're just sitting around doing nothing anyway."
In the 1980s, fuel for rural tractors was allocated according to quotas by the commune agricultural machinery stations and was basically supplied free of charge, so there was no problem with fuel consumption.
This phenomenon did not change in Beiliao Province until around 1985, when parity oil and premium oil appeared successively. At that time, a barrel of No. 0 diesel weighed about 160 kilograms and was priced at around 40 yuan per barrel. The price of premium oil that appeared later fluctuated year by year, and by the end of the 1980s, the price of a barrel of premium oil had risen to nearly 300 yuan per barrel.
The Yongshi Commune is located in a hilly area. There are almost no large tracts of flat arable land. Most of the land is mountain ridges and hills. The tractors of the brigades are almost just decorations and are of little use in arable land. There was no need for transportation at the time, so the tractors of the brigades were rarely used in a year.
This situation results in the diesel allocated from above being basically left idle, so there is no problem of running out of fuel.
Therefore, the price of two cents per piece offered by Wan Feng was basically free profit for the team, and there was no reason for the team not to do it.
"Isn't this money earned by others?" Zhang Hai felt distressed again.
"Why, you still want to keep it all for yourself? Can you transport it all yourself? Peace is only possible if everyone makes money. If the brigade's tractors aren't enough, I'm ready to hire tractors from the Pingshan Brigade. That's it. How are the molds from Xiao Dexiang?"
"I've already arranged everything with Xiao Dexiang. I told him that he must produce a thousand sets of molds for me within ten years, no matter what method he uses. Xiao Dexiang agreed."
One thousand sets of molds plus the original two hundred sets can produce one thousand two hundred tiles in 24 hours, and more than thirty thousand tiles a month. Although this scale is impressive, it still seems a little insufficient.
But this is all we can do now.
"After that, I went to the commune and borrowed another 5,000 yuan from the credit union."
Now that bricks and tiles were sold, Zhang Hai became bolder and lending money was a piece of cake for him.
The mold problem and the money problem were solved. Wan Feng felt that nothing was wrong with him, so he left the brick factory and went home. When he passed by Luan Feng's house, he turned in.
Luan Feng sat in front of the sewing machine with a somewhat listless look, her eyes vaguely showing signs of turning into those of a national treasure.
"What's wrong? Are you thinking about sex?"
Luan Feng rolled her eyes at Wan Feng and said, "I'm tired. I need to rest for a while."
"Why are you working so hard? When did you go to bed last night?"
"A little after one o'clock."
"My eyes look like a panda's. Are they white?"
"There's so much work coming at once. I won't feel at ease and won't be able to sleep until I finish it."
Luan Feng was born with a bad temper, and there was no cure for her! Even Wan Feng couldn't change her.
"No matter how much work you have to do, don't stay up late. Women, in particular, age quickly if they often stay up late. Remember?"
Luan Feng was very docile this time: "Okay, I remember."
"Are those clothes finished?"
"I'm done. I made three dollars and twenty cents. This is the first time I've made money." Luan Feng was very happy, even her brows were smiling.
"I'll make more money in the future. Okay, I'm going back. I've been so busy these past few days that I haven't even had time to take a shower. I'm almost stinking. I'm going to take a bath in the river."
When Luan Feng heard about taking a bath, she immediately became excited: "I want to go too, I want to go too. I haven't taken a bath in the past few days."
Wan Feng immediately felt a headache. Why are you joining other boys in taking a bath? Do you want to help me scrub my back and take a bath with me?
After returning to his grandma's house and saying hello to her, Wan Feng went to the river.
Maybe it was because the peak time for bathing at noon had passed, there were only three or four kids at Laodaokou whom Wan Feng didn’t know, and they were all still on the beach. Their pants were almost dry, and they looked like they were getting ready to leave.
There were quite a few people at the stone dam at the uppermost part of the river, but that was for older children and adults. Wan Feng knew his swimming ability well, so he didn't dare go there.
Luan Feng probably ran to her grandma's house, and she hasn't been seen since.
Even though he didn't see her, Wan Feng didn't dare to go into the water naked. What if he was blocked by her?
He took off his vest and threw it on the beach, then went into the water in his shorts. When he went into the water, the kids from unknown teams left the river, leaving Wan Feng alone.
Wow! The water in Yinna River seemed a little cold. When I got in, I found that there were a lot of foam floating on the surface of the water.
The Yinna River is always crystal clear and pure when it is at sea level, and there is never any foam. So where do these foams that float on the river like clouds in the sky come from?
Wan Feng didn't take this question seriously. He just lay down in the water on the shore and soaked his whole body. After soaking thoroughly, he would rub off the dirt on his body.
The river water quickly flowed over my hot body and took away the heat in the blink of an eye. It was so comfortable.
But when he was feeling relieved, the comfortable feeling had not yet permeated his whole body, and Wan Feng had not yet fully enjoyed it when he heard shouts coming from upstream.
"There's water coming in! There's water coming in! Anyone in the water, get out of the water quickly!"
Is there water? Where does the water come from when it's sunny and there's no thunder or rain? Who has the time to make an international joke?
Wan Feng, lying in the water, tilted his head and looked upstream doubtfully, and was immediately stunned.
I saw a water wall about two meters above the river surface rolling down from the downstream at the bend where a stone dam upstream connected to the team behind the mountain. The water head was spitting out white foam flying everywhere. In a blink of an eye, it reached the next stone dam and rushed towards the second stone dam at an extremely fast speed.
These two stone dams were built many years ago to prevent the river water from eroding the embankment. After years of erosion by water, only the shadow of the dam can be vaguely seen on the shore. The part that originally extended into the river to block the water has long been silted up and has disappeared.
The distance from the second stone dam to the old entrance is only about a hundred meters.
Where did this water come from on such a clear day? Could it be that the reservoir upstream released water?
This is the only explanation.
When Liang Wanjin passed Beishan, there was a heavy rain. Since the upper reaches of the Na River are in Beishan, the water must have been released because the Biliu River Reservoir upstream had stored too much water.
When he thought of this, Wan Feng jumped out of the river and ran to the embankment on the shore, not even bothering to pick up his vest.
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