Just two days after the Li family had drunk the mung bean soup, the watermelons from the fertilizer factory came on the market.
The fertilizer factory rented a stall in the market and sold watermelons at a price of one cent per pound.
This price is really not cheap. A watermelon costs about fifty or sixty cents.
However, such a high price could not stop people's enthusiasm, and the watermelons were sold out in just two days.
After deducting the cost of recycling seeds and various initial expenses, the fertilizer factory made a lot of money.
Li Mei was very happy with the result and felt that her hard work over the past few months was not in vain.
What made her even happier was that the quality of this batch of watermelons was very good, laying a solid foundation for future sales.
Li Mei's great success made her the focus of the county again. She was not only praised by the people, but also praised by county leaders many times.
The factory managers who had blindly submitted their plans without considering the feasibility of making money in order to compete with her were now extremely jealous, but they did not follow her lead.
It’s not that they don’t want to, but that they dare not.
In the past month, two factory managers in the county have stepped down. According to gossip, they both lost their positions because they blindly followed the trend.
This made the remaining factory managers who followed the trend extremely frightened, fearing that they would lose their jobs one day.
So now they try hard to pretend to be doing their job well and dare not make any small moves, hoping that the county leaders can let them off.
Of course, their efforts were doomed to be in vain, and it wouldn't be long before their positions were removed by county leaders.
Only twelve days had passed since Li Xu ordered the doors and windows, and the supply and marketing cooperative's building was completed.
After the house was handed over, the construction masters and laborers did not rest for a single day and went straight to the construction site of the street office to start work again.
That night, Fu Qing came to the Li family.
When he arrived, Li Mei was teaching. Seeing this, Fu Qing was a little surprised.
Before he could ask, Li Xu gave him a brief account of the situation. After listening, Fu Qing expressed his desire to send his eldest son over.
Li Xu thought about it and did not agree directly. Instead, he asked a question, "Can your son read?"
"Learn to read."
"That's fine. Send him over every night after dinner."
Teaching people to read is too troublesome, and Li Mei and others don’t have the time, so Li Xu will only agree if he is sure that Fu Qing’s son can read.
Fu Qing responded and then greeted each member of the Li family one by one.
Then Li Xu introduced him and Liu Yunxiao to each other.
After everyone chatted for a while, Li Xu got to the point, "Old Fu, how come you have time to come here today?"
"I came to ask you when you're going to move into your new house so I can ask for time off to help you."
Just because he hadn't been to the Li family for a long time didn't mean he and Li Xu hadn't met.
He had known about Li Xu building a house for a long time.
Li Xu did not refuse his kindness and said directly, "Move in the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll come over the day after tomorrow morning, and then you can introduce me to the carpenter you know."
Li Xu knew that he also wanted to build a house, and that he must have asked him to introduce a carpenter to make furniture. So he asked jokingly, "I remember last time you said you wanted to buy furniture from the lumberyard. Why did you change your mind now?"
"If the new house had doors and windows, I would definitely not change my mind."
Upon hearing this, Li Xu knew that he was trying to save trouble so as to avoid the hassle of finding someone to customize doors and windows in the future.
On this point, the employees of the supply and marketing cooperatives have the most say.
Ever since the supply and marketing cooperative started building houses, all the reliable carpenters in the city have been overwhelmed with orders.
Like the carpenter Lao Yang, he received the order before Li Xu came to his door.
After Su Weidong, other people also came to him to ask him to make furniture.
But he rejected it.
As the first unit to build the house, no one knew that the new house had no doors or windows.
After Li Xu and others chose their rooms, the director allowed others to choose their rooms two days later and revealed the news that there were no doors or windows.
Because there are so many people making doors and windows, the carpenters cannot finish so many before handing over the house, so they can only focus on the customers who make furniture for them.
I will only take orders from other people if I have extra time after finishing the work.
However, in order to make the most money, they compressed their time as much as possible so that they could take on one or two more orders.
In this situation, they really can't squeeze out much time. Most carpenters can only complete the doors and windows required by previous customers, and they really don't have the spare capacity to continue taking orders.
As a result, more than half of the orders for making doors and windows individually were left unaccepted.
In order to move into their new house as soon as possible, the owners of these orders went to the countryside to find a carpenter, which was really a lot of effort.
Some people may ask, why don’t they just find those unreliable carpenters in the city?
The answer is that I dare not look for it.
Doors and windows are different from furniture. They are exposed outside and represent the face of the family, especially the courtyard gate, which is of paramount importance.
These things may be damaged due to long-term use, but they must not have problems in the first place, otherwise the homeowner will be laughed at and lose all face.
If unreliable carpenters make a mistake, even if it is discovered in time, it will take time to have them redo the work, which may cause you to miss the scheduled moving date.
So after considering all these factors, people would rather spend more time and go to the countryside to find a reliable carpenter.
Although the news that the new house has no doors and windows has spread, it does not affect the fact that it will be very troublesome to make doors and windows separately in the future.
There is no other way. You can only choose a house when it is almost built and about to be delivered.
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