Xu Wenqiang and Teacher Wang walked around the store and bought a wooden folding table. For the sake of being an acquaintance, Zhou Yan gave it a wooden art pen holder.
After sending the two of them away, Zhou Yan returned to the warehouse at the back and continued making furniture. But as soon as he made a chair, there were customers in the store again.
Xu Wenqiang left and came back, which really surprised Zhou Yan, but what surprised Zhou Yan even more was what happened next...
"Brother, let me be honest with you, can you really lead an apprentice?"
"It's no problem to have an apprentice," Zhou Yan chuckled, "but carpentry can't be learned in a year or two, and to be honest with you, I don't plan to have an apprentice myself."
"Why?" Xu Wenqiang was a little confused.
"With all the best intentions, I can stay in the cloud for two more years," Zhou Yan said with a smile. "Normally, I have to give tutoring lessons to my girlfriend, so how can I have the time to take care of my apprentices..."
Xu Wenqiang was dumbfounded: "Yes..."
"By the way..." Zhou Yan chuckled, took out a sample album of a complete set of customized furniture from under the coffee table, and handed it to Xu Wenqiang, "Marriage should be on the agenda soon, let's take care of my brother's business...
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"Damn it, it's still early!" Xu Wenqiang glanced sideways at Zhou Yan, "Didn't you already tell me that I can't get it in a short time? I finally got a chance to show off, and you messed it up..."
"Is it my fault?"
"Forget it..." Zhou Yan was about to take the sample back, but was stopped by Xu Wenqiang.
"Forget it, there seem to be a few people in our team who are getting married, and they should have such plans. Let me ask for you..."
On the second day after construction started, Zhou Yan received a big order: the middle-aged customer who had consulted the day before placed an order in the store and asked Zhou Yan to come to the door to measure it on the spot.
The other party chose multi-layer plywood, which is cheaper than solid wood. Zhou Yan's store only had solid wood. After calculating the materials, he placed an order with the material supplier Lao Liang.
After the goods arrived, it didn't take much effort to cut the materials, color and plastic edges. After the workpiece was completed, Zhou Yan drove a three-wheeled cart and delivered it to the door...
"Oh, Xiao Zhou, you are really good at saving money..." The New Year customer was a bit dumbfounded when he saw the dilapidated tricycle.
"To be honest, I have only been in Yunzhong for two years, so there is no need to buy a car..."
There is no need to consider traditional mortise and tenon joints for plywood boards. Only the frame of the entire cabinet is made of solid wood. After being assembled on site, the plywood boards only need to be connected using eccentric wheel female buckles...
The middle-aged uncle who originally thought he could save money by using plywood felt a bit hasty when he saw that Zhou Yan just stuffed screws and nuts into the slots that had been opened in advance and tightened them with a screwdriver...
"Xiao Zhou, you are like this..."
Zhou Yan turned around helplessly: "Uncle Li, I told you at the time that the plywood connection looked a bit rough..."
"But..." Old Man Li still felt uneasy.
"Let me tell you the truth," Zhou Yan took out an eccentric wheel female buckle from the box, "these connectors I use are exactly the same as those luxury brands in the furniture store. If you think they are not strong, just wait and see.
Son, you can try it yourself with your hands..."
After assembly, Zhou Yan used putty to level the screw holes and added paint...
After the completion, Old Man Li pushed it with his hand and found that the wardrobe was quite strong. After carefully checking the appearance, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked back at Zhou Yan with a smile: "Xiao Zhou, you are a carpenter and you make money.
It’s so easy!”
Zhou Yan couldn't help but smile: "If you go to a furniture store to buy the same furniture, the price will at least double..."
Fortunately, Old Man Li still had a conscience, and later helped Zhou Yan introduce a few customers...
"Learning from the past," Old Man Li's guys ordered solid wood cabinets for the children's new houses, which made Zhou Yan happy for a while...
However, the three-wheeled cart used by Zhou Yan once again became the target of criticism from customers.
"Xiao Zhou, why don't you buy a pickup truck? The price of these three wheels seems to have dropped a bit..."
So Zhou Yan bought a four-meter box light truck.
Zhou Yan also didn’t expect that he had learned B-photography specifically for RVs, and that it would be a perfect match for the first car he bought.
"I'm drunk too..."
The only advantage of having a car to run your business is that you don’t need to ride a tricycle by yourself.
The day after Zhou Yan bought the car, "online" Xu Jingguo made a special call to laugh at him: "Are all rich people so wild? Driving a light truck, working as a carpenter, and moving furniture exhaustingly?"
"Boss, if you called me specifically to criticize me, congratulations, you succeeded!"
"Ahem..." Xu Jingguo became serious now, "Classmate Zhou Yan, I have good news for you. Your intelligence record has been cleared..."
"Thanks!"
If possible, Zhou Yan wouldn't want to drive a light truck to deliver furniture, but where there is a beginning, there must be an end. The road he chose must be completed with tears...
Fortunately, school will start soon, and Zhou Yan's woodware shop will soon return to its previous business hours of evenings and weekends...
Before the official start of school, Zhou Yan naturally had to go to the dormitory to disturb his classmates.
What Zhou Yan didn't expect was that as soon as he entered the door, he found Yan Wentao and his little follower Yu Hongliang packing up...
"Are you planning to pack up and get out?"
"Fuck you," Yan Wentao gave Zhou Yan a pair of stupid eyes, "I am preparing to take the postgraduate entrance examination. The house has been rented. Please help me move my things later..."
Zhou Yan was a little dumbfounded: If you don’t move earlier, you won’t move later. You have to wait until I buy a light truck before you move.
"Where did you rent the house?"
"Xinheyuan!"
Zhou Yan was immediately speechless: "Xinheyuan must be six or seven kilometers away from our school, right?"
Yan Wentao smiled helplessly: "Other places are not suitable..."
"Okay, I'll help you move later, wait a minute..."
Zhou Yan returned to Jindun Community and drove out his new car.
Then, when Zhou Yan's roommates saw that Zhou Yan was driving a light truck, they were really shocked...
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Zhou Yan chuckled: "Before the university starts!"
Everyone worked together and stuffed the messy daily utensils into the car.
Only three people can sit in the cab, so except for the driver and the two "cargo owners", other students can only take the bus.
Zhou Yan has been to Xinhe Garden several times and is very familiar with the doorman. When he got to the door, he put down the window glass and smiled at the doorman: "Please open the door!"
"Hey, Boss Zhou, do you have another big business?"
"Help people move things..."
The "laborers" hadn't arrived yet, so Yan Wentao was too lazy to do anything himself and led Zhou Yan directly upstairs...
After entering the house, Zhou Yan knew why the budget-conscious Yan Wentao rented it: there was no furniture in the room, but it had more walls, floors, doors and windows than the rough room.
As for the bed…
"Old Yan, are you just going to sleep on the floor?"
"The floor is cool," Yan Wentao said slightly proudly, "it's not cold in winter with heating..."
In the evening, after the "housewarming banquet", Zhou Yan went back to the carpentry shop, stuffed two beds, a table and five or six small benches into the truck compartment, and caught up with the two people who were walking back...
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The two people who were leisurely walking along the road were really touched when they saw Zhou Yan coming to pick them up...
It's a pity that in those years, the proud young people were not very good at thanking people. They smiled and said: "Old Zhou, are you a little stupid..."
"If you don't come up yet, diesel is not cheap!"
When they arrived at the place, Zhou Yan got out of the car and pulled the two of them to the carriage: "I'll lend you the furniture for two years, and you have to return it to me after graduation!"
Looking at the brand-new bed and cabinet in the carriage, both of their eyes were a little red...
Yan Wentao was a showman. He smiled slightly and patted Zhou Yan on the shoulder: "Old Zhou, how much will it cost, I will transfer it to you later!"
"I owed you something in my previous life," Zhou Yan smiled, "Didn't I tell you everything? I lent it to you..."
In my previous life, the person who got along best in the dormitory was naturally Comrade Lao Yan, who had a good family situation and a high level of emotional intelligence. Zhou Yan had been running for a while as an amateur, and many of them were introduced by Comrade Lao Yan within the system.
Some favors, if not repaid, become cause and effect, affecting mental health...