Li Manjun was so preoccupied with tomorrow's work at the scrapyard that he didn't even care about the little problems at home, so he lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
She didn't get up very early the next day. She waited for the wake-up call at the middle school in the town to ring before she got up. She waited at home for a call from Liu Yan's sister and brother.
The school garbage dump was left there for two days, but now it is mainly the 'big business' of the abandoned soy sauce factory.
Yesterday afternoon, Li Manjun and the three of them had received all the tools they needed to use at the canteen at Aunt Wu's house. Now the three of them gathered together and went to the station sign to wait for the brothers Hao Jian and San to come over. When everyone gathered together, they took the tools and led the horses to Soy Sauce.
factory.
The excavator is already in place, and the person in charge is instructing the masters to bulldoze the factory building.
After a loud rumbling sound, the entire three-row factory building of 300 square meters was pushed down. The machine crushed it several times, and the steel bars wrapped in bricks and cement were exposed.
Seeing these steel bars, Li Manjun and others took a deep breath, rolled up their sleeves and started drying!
Knocking on cement requires some skills. Li Manjun showed several people how to knock on cement.
Afraid that they wouldn't be able to knock it all out in one day, Li Manjun arranged for Hao Jian's two strong cousins to move the ones with a large amount of steel to the side of the factory first, so that even if they couldn't knock it out within 24 hours, they could continue to process the rest.
If people don't stand on the old factory site, they won't delay the start of work, and they won't say anything if they want to come.
Six people each had a hammer, and they hammered away until noon. Li Manjun took the time to go to town and bring everyone's meals.
She specifically asked Wang Xiaojuan to prepare the meal in the morning, and left her fifty yuan, including the afternoon dinner and midnight snack.
Made at home, the portion is large and filling, and there is plenty of meat.
In the countryside in the 1990s, there were still many people who did not have enough to eat. Eating meat was an important event that was worth a long time.
Hao Jian's family has a carpenter father, and his life is pretty good. He can eat meat two or three times a month.
His two cousins' families were in a more difficult situation. The meaty smell they smelled every year was from the villagers' funeral banquets.
When I saw that the big bowl that Li Manjun brought was covered with a layer of shiny, evenly thin slices of pork belly, I suddenly felt that today's work alone could offset my wages just by having this bowl of lunch.
"Everyone, eat quickly. After eating, take turns to have a rest. Let's continue working."
Li Manjun vaccinated everyone in advance, "You may have to work overtime at night. I have prepared flashlights. Everyone, please work hard. We will use two kilograms of meat per person as overtime pay later."
Two pieces of pork weigh one pound, two pieces of pork belly cost eight pieces, and three pieces of ribs.
The overtime pay of five yuan is pretty good.
Hao Jian and his two cousins nodded. The three of them had nothing to say. They wrapped the meat slices in rice and stuffed them into their mouths, feeling satisfied.
Li Manjun also brought water for everyone, carrying it in a five-kilogram plastic bucket of liquor. The cups were brought separately. After everyone finished eating, they drank half a bowl of water before continuing to work.
This kind of physical work mainly relies on Liu Cheng, Hao Jian and the four men. After most of the steel bars were moved out, Li Manjun and Liu Yan wore cotton gloves and cloth masks, took tools and rummaged through the ruins to find factory remains.
Falling things.
There are a lot of things that the people in the soy sauce factory don't want anymore. They have moved away the big pieces of machinery, but there are still a lot of small parts. These things weigh 34 kilograms when packed away.
To be honest, if his strength didn't allow it, Li Manjun looked at the red bricks on the ruins and wished he could pull them all away.
But maybe the factory will also come to clean it up. After all, there are still a lot of red bricks that can be used.
In later generations, there was also a business that specialized in removing waste from construction sites, which was very profitable, and both the old and new buildings took advantage of it.
New ones are dismantled, old ones are towed, and in many places the doors and windows of new buildings are dismantled, and the transportation and dismantling costs are directly credited to the workers.
This kind of brand new doors and windows can make a small profit once they are resold.
Some companies specialize in scale and can make a lot of profits from it.
It was too boring to work alone. Several people heard Li Manjun talking about this during the chat, and couldn't help but curiously asked her:
"Sister Manjun, how come you know everything? If I hadn't seen you doing this, I wouldn't have known that these seemingly worthless things were so profitable."
The person asking the question was Hao Jian. He didn't talk much. This was the first time Li Manjun heard him say such a long sentence in one breath.
She threw away the obstructing bricks in front of her and said, "Read more newspapers and read more. I learned this from newspapers and books."
Hao Jian thought suspiciously, is this really the case?
Can you learn so many useful things by reading books and newspapers?
"Sister Manjun, you are still awesome. If I were reading a book or a newspaper, I wouldn't be able to see these things." Liu Cheng flattered her without having to write a draft.
But he also really admired Li Manjun. Just like that canopy bed, he didn't know it was worth so much.
Thinking of the numbers written on the passbook in his hand, Liu Cheng couldn't help but smile.
Li Manjun smiled and did not continue the topic.
You can indeed learn a lot by reading newspapers, but she did not learn this knowledge from reading newspapers.
Before, on the surface, she seemed to be a social worker in a big factory, but secretly, when she came home every day, she was still a handicraft area grandma (self-media video blogger).
The soul of a craftsman is handmade, and it will move on its own when it sees the scrap DNA. What can she do?
Thinking of the past and looking at his disgraced appearance at the moment, Li Manjun could only sigh: Fate is impermanent.
In the afternoon, Li Manjun went back to get food, and everyone took a rest while waiting.
Not going back at night, Li Manjun brought a flashlight and supper for the night.
Wang Xiaojuan knew that she wouldn't be back at night, so she was a little worried, "How about I go hang out with you for a while?"
"You can't do it." Li Manjun refused.
Wang Xiaojuan had no choice but to make the midnight snack they wanted to eat more solid.
Steam the glutinous rice, roll various vegetables into it, then smear it with a layer of fragrant chili peppers, wrap it up, fasten each one in a bowl, and put it in a warm quilt. You can eat it at night to keep the remaining warmth.
This is completely the enlarged and luxurious version of the glutinous rice on the street. Li Manjun was stunned when he saw it, then smiled and said: "Mom, I'm leaving."
"Be careful when you work at night." Wang Xiaojuan warned.
Li Manjun agreed and returned to the ruins with a backpack full of food. Everyone ate and drank and worked with flashlights.
They did most of the work during the day, and now the remaining six people were busy until four in the morning before they finished all the work.
However, the steel bar is not finished when it is knocked out, it still has to be pulled back.
The horse has been eating grass all day long, and now it's time for it to contribute.
Liu Yan took the light, Liu Cheng drove the truck, Li Manjun and Hao Jian loaded the goods, Liu Cheng pulled the goods three times and estimated: "It must be seven or eight hundred kilograms."
Li Manjun silently looked at the blisters on his hands and the split nails, but what he was thinking in his mind was, fortunately, this factory is quite shabby. It is almost made of bricks sandwiched with steel bars, and only part of the cement, otherwise the hand would be broken.
Can't even type it out.
Now Liu Yan is still a little scared when she thinks back to how quickly she rushed to get this job.
Only after I got started did I realize how difficult it is to make money from this job!
It's also my good luck that I encountered a "shabby" project, otherwise the two hundred yuan would have been wasted.
