Starting from the 16th of this month, the boiler room will officially start construction.

Twelve handymen were divided into three shifts. Laishun, Jiao Da, Zhang Bing and Zhao Yi were assigned to one place.

Although the two people were originally unwilling to do so, they were still prepared to take over Laishun and Jiao Da's errands because of the benefits that Lai Wang had privately given them.

But Laishun refused to do this. Instead, he insisted on taking charge of one boiler alone, leaving the other one to Zhang Bing and Zhao Yi.

Although Zhang Bing and Zhao Yi were surprised, they would not really let Laishun take on half of the work, and rushed to take over all the bits and pieces.

In this way, Laishun is only slightly harder than other handymen, but overall he is still able to do it with ease.

This is because time has changed.

In the early years, working as a handyman in the boiler room was indeed hard and tiring. Only servants who were marginalized or made mistakes would be assigned here.

But as time went on, more and more people were left to "suffer", and the number of handymen in the boiler room gradually increased from the original six to ten, and this year it increased to twelve.

The work is still the same, but the manpower has doubled, so the work intensity is naturally far less intense than before.

That’s why Laishun feels comfortable.

Just in his spare time, listening to the roar of the four steam piston pumps, he could not help but have the illusion that he was not in a dream of Red Mansions, but a state-owned enterprise worker in the 1980s.

…………

The busy and boring time always flies by so fast, and before I know it, it’s already late November.

That night, they rushed in to deliver coal again. As usual, all the handymen went into battle, but Laishun and Jiao Da were left on duty in the boiler room.

There is no way, who makes this boiler inseparable from people?

What's more, Laishun is supposed to be on duty tomorrow night, so being willing to come to take care of the boiler in advance is enough to be 'people-friendly'.

Besides, in this old society where people cannibalize people, is it possible that the word "fairness" really exists?

Anyway, the handymen didn't believe it, so they didn't think there was anything wrong with assigning errands like this.

It was approaching midnight, and when I saw that everything was sorted outside, I left behind the shovel for shoveling coal. I wiped my sweat and turned back to Jiao Avenue: "Old man, next time you get up late and work overtime, don't come here..."

"how?!"

Jiao Da frowned and said angrily: "Do you think Grandpa Jiao is dragging you down?"

"How come you old guy can't hear good words?" Lai Shun also glared: "No one is picking on you now, so why are you joining in the fun?"

"I'm happy!"

As Jiao Da spoke, he tapped the water pump with his finger and said proudly: "Besides, if it weren't for Grandpa Jiao, you would have died a few days ago."

This is true.

A few days ago, a water pump suddenly had a problem. Lai Shun, a "modern man", just stared at it and did nothing. He didn't want Jiao Da to go up and fix it easily.

According to Jiao Da, he led others to build the boiler room back then. Back when Laishun's grandfather was still peeing in the mud, he had dismantled several water pumps.

Seeing that Laishun was speechless at this time, the old man became more and more complacent: "Who could have praised me back then, saying that I am at least as good as a fourth-level worker!"

Level 4 worker?

This name is really...

Laishun pretended to be curious and asked: "What does this fourth-level worker mean, and who is praising you? Looking at your proud face, could it be old Ning Guogong?"

Jiao Da suddenly fell silent. He lowered his head and fiddled with the buckle on the water pump. After a while, he shook his head and said, "Ms. Du Te, Lao Huang, why did you mention him?"

This old man!

He usually likes to brag about how he was when he was young, but if he really wanted to ask about his past glory and deeds, this old man would resist.

However, Lai Shun saw that he was not in a good mood, so he stopped arguing with him and took off his coat from the wall, saying: "I'm going to leave first. You should rest early when you go back after eating. We have to stay up all night tomorrow night." Woolen cloth."

After telling Pan Youan that there was no need to prepare his own late-night snack, Laishun wrapped himself tightly in his cotton-padded jacket and walked out of the boiler room alone.

While walking through the private alley, I heard the sound of a night watch coming from the Rongguo Mansion next door. Laishun subconsciously looked across the wall, thinking of Mr. Yang for no reason.

The woman said she wanted to think about it carefully and then give her an answer, but she just left and was never heard from again.

Could it be...

The benefits he promised were not enough to make her tempted?

But even so, she should ask first what she is going to ask her to do, right? If she doesn't ask anything, how can she know whether the deal is a good deal?

After much deliberation, Laishun couldn't figure out what Yang was thinking, so he had to put the matter behind him for the time being, quickly left the private alley, and hurried home in the dark.

The whole journey was silent.

When he arrived in his courtyard, he saw that the lights were still on in the main hall's living room. Laishun just thought that his mother was waiting for him to come home again. He sighed with emotion, "A loving mother has a thread in her hands and a wanderer has a coat on her body" and walked into the living room with a smile.

But after entering the door, he was stunned.

The person waiting for him in Gein's room was not his mother, Mrs. Xu, but Mr. Cheap - but when he went out after dinner, Mr. Cheap had obviously also gone to the house.

"father."

Laishun couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you going to be on duty in the mansion today?"

"I've temporarily passed it on to someone else. Come with me."

Lai Wang waved to him, got up and went to the west room.

Lai Shunran followed closely behind, and when he entered his bedroom, he saw several large sacks on the ground, one of which had been opened, revealing the rubber water pipe coiled inside.

"Dad, found the materials?!"

Laishun's eyes lit up. He squatted down and pulled out a section, twisting and bending it to measure its toughness.

"It was delivered to our house after dark."

Lai Wang said: "I searched around the capital for a long time, but couldn't find anything suitable. Later I found out that the Xue family has several rubber plantations in the south."

"Is this made by the Xue family?"

"That's not true. I got it from an old customer of his."

After a pause, Lai Wang added: "But if this can really happen, the Xue family will have to come forward to take over the workshop."

At this point, he asked slightly nervously: "How about it? Can these tubes be used?"

"It should be okay."

Laishun nodded: "It actually contains silk, which is much better than those cheap ones."

Lai Wang waved his hand: "Since it can be used, make this pneumatic tire as soon as possible!"

Over the past month or so, he has been working vigorously and resolutely. While looking for materials to make inner tubes, he has also purchased all the other accessories.

The outer tire is the simplest, just hollow out the solid tire.

Wheels are not difficult to make either. Wooden wheels are still popular nowadays. Although not as strong as iron wheels, they are very easy to modify.

The valve has been made by someone a long time ago, but the valve core is not easy to work with.

Later, I found a cobbler from nowhere and made several substitutes using animal fascia. Although the cost was high, the effect was not bad at all.

Now that everything is ready, all we have to do is wait for Lai Shun to save them up!

In fact, Lai Shun originally wanted to invent pneumatic tires because he planned to make a fortune and then try to "ransom" his citizenship from Rongguo Mansion.

Now that there is no hope, it is inevitable that there will be some lack of motivation.

But looking at Cheap Laozi's extremely looking forward to it, he could only cheer up and said: "Then I will do it early tomorrow morning..."

"etc!"

Lai Wang suddenly remembered something, frowned and said, "If anyone sees this in broad daylight, wouldn't it ruin our big event?"

"Then tonight..."

"No way!"

Lai Wang denied it again: "It's late at night, and a fire suddenly lit up in our courtyard. Wouldn't it make people suspicious?"

This is where caring leads to chaos.

I remember when I first came to Shuntian to bake water pipes at home, I never saw him nervous.

Besides, the reason why there was such a big fight in the first place was entirely because the purchased water pipes were too flexible and had to be heated as a whole before they could be reshaped.

But now this batch of high-end goods has become a circle in itself.

What Laishun needs to do is to measure the circumference, heat and butt the two ends to form a closed ring, and then insert the valve.

Of course, even if it sounds like such a simple step, it may take many exercises to succeed.

However, Laishun briefly explained the difference to me, and I was relieved.

Then he made a decision: "In this case, there is no need to light a fire in the yard, you can just make it in the kitchen!"
Chapter completed!