Your mom and I aren't that old. Can we just eat and sleep all day long without doing anything?
We don't do much, just the little land and vegetable garden we have at home.
No matter how much homework there is, both children do their homework as soon as they come in the door, and then play after they finish.
"Oh, Xiping's back? Yueyue, Qiqi, you two come down quickly, don't tire your dad out."
Just then, Aunt Li came out of the kitchen carrying dishes. Upon seeing the situation, she quickly said...
Upon hearing this, the two girls quickly came downstairs and, one on each side, pulled Sheng Xiping into the house.
"Dad, please sit down." Sheng Xinyue patted the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and gestured for Sheng Xiping to sit down.
Over there, Sheng Xinhua moved the table in, and Sheng Xinyu went to the kitchen to bring out the dishes and food. Before long, the food was all brought in.
"Let's eat first. Qinglan has class tonight and won't be back until after nine o'clock."
"I left some food for Qinglan, I'll heat it up for her when she gets back," said Aunt Li, glancing at the clock on the wall.
Normally, the children would have finished eating and been watching TV by this time, but they came at this hour today just to wait for Sheng Xiping.
The children were hungry and eager to watch cartoons, so they ate very quickly, wolfing down their food before rushing to turn on the TV.
Sheng Xiping wasn't in a hurry. He leisurely finished his meal, helped clean up, and then sat on the sofa, hugging his daughter on both sides, watching cartoons with her.
We watched until seven o'clock, when the news started on TV. The children weren't interested in that, so they went off to play.
Aunt Li boiled water and called Sheng Xinyue and Sheng Xinqi to wash their feet and get ready for bed.
The two girls clung to their father, insisting that they wouldn't sleep with Grandma Li tonight; they wanted to sleep in the same room as their father.
"Aunt Li, it's alright, let them sleep in the east room."
Upon seeing this, Sheng Xiping went up to the kang (a heated brick bed) to lay out the bedding, coaxed his two daughters to take off their clothes and get into bed, and then brought them rag dolls.
The two girls each held a doll, lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), and soon fell asleep.
Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu are both grown up now, and they don't insist on staying with their father. They have their own rooms, and they obediently go to the west suite to sleep when it's time.
After the children had all gone to sleep, Sheng Xiping called the driver and told him that he didn't need to pick up Zhou Qinglan.
At nine o'clock, Sheng Xiping drove to Songlin High School to pick up Zhou Qinglan from get off work.
When Zhou Qinglan saw Sheng Xiping, she was both surprised and delighted. The couple chatted and laughed as they went home.
After dinner, they took the two children, Sheng Xinyue and Sheng Xinqi, to the west room to sleep with Aunt Li. The couple lay in bed, whispering to each other until midnight, before finally falling into a deep sleep.
Sheng Xiping has entrusted the trade in Heihe to Sun Jinggang, Zhang Zhiqiang and others. They are familiar with Andrei, Sergei and others, and Sheng Xiping does not need to be involved in routine trade.
Therefore, Sheng Xiping can stay in Songjianghe for a longer period of time this time.
The morning after returning home, Sheng Xiping went to the processing plant.
"President Sheng, our new products, plastic laminate panels and melamine resin impregnated paper decorative panels, have passed the technical appraisal of eight units, including the Provincial Research Institute and the Forestry Department."
It was also recognized as an outstanding new product in the province and included in the provincial economic commission's production plan.
Recently, customers from Japan, the United States, and Canada visited our factory and placed orders for many new products.
As soon as Sheng Xiping arrived at the factory, Zheng Hua quickly reported to him everything that had happened recently.
"Merchants from Dongwa have placed another order for a lot of disposable wooden chopsticks, and the factory is now working overtime to meet the demand."
We've already reached the limit of our production capacity with the current orders. Even if the wooden chopsticks workshop works around the clock, we still can't complete them all if we order more.
However, the Japanese merchants are still urging us to place more orders. What do you think we should do about this?
Expanding the workshop and recruiting workers will probably take a long time, and the orders are pressing urgently right now, so it's not easy to handle." Zheng Hua carried a thick stack of documents and reported them one by one.
Don't underestimate these small, unassuming disposable wooden chopsticks; as long as you find the right sales channels, you can make just as much money.
The wooden chopsticks workshop produced over 100,000 boxes of disposable wooden chopsticks last year, generating nearly two million US dollars in foreign exchange through exports.
It can be said that, looking at the whole county, apart from the ginseng farm, Sheng Xiping's timber processing plant is one of the biggest exporters and foreign exchange earners.
"That's easy. Give my Uncle Zheng a call and ask what the forestry processing plant is up to now. If the forestry collective is interested, we can cooperate."
We provide the machinery and technology, they provide the factory and workers. As long as the chopsticks they produce pass inspection, we'll buy them all.
Sheng Xiping laughed when he heard this. Isn't this thing simple? The Songjianghe Forestry Bureau has so many forest farms under its jurisdiction, and they all have attached processing plants.
Those disposable wooden chopsticks are actually not technically difficult to make. As long as you have machines and raw materials, workers can produce them after a few days of training.
"Oh, look at my brain, how come I didn't remember?"
Yeah, let's just contract it out directly. They produce it, and we'll buy it back at the agreed price. Okay, I'll talk to my dad about this later.
"I went back to the forest farm a while ago, and I heard him talking about it. He said the processing plant wasn't making money, and if things continued like this, it might go out of business." Zheng Hua said happily upon hearing this.
"Alright, then you should discuss it with Uncle Zheng and see what he thinks."
"It's alright. If Qianchuan Forest Farm isn't willing to cooperate, we can find other forest farms or other bureaus."
In the past, many forestry bureaus in Northeast China produced disposable wooden chopsticks, which were exported to South Korea and Japan.
At that time, there were reports that all the trees on Changbai Mountain had been cut down to produce disposable chopsticks.
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