During the internship period, Fang Di returned to Beijing. She would graduate in half a year. A round trip from New York to Beijing was not cheap. It would not be arranged unless there was a special need, but she still came back.
No one would have thought that Fang Di came back at a time that seemed like he shouldn't have come back to order a set of machines: a simulated hand-made noodle press, a simulated hand-made dough rolling machine, and a simulated hand-made noodle cutting machine.
As soon as she arrived in Beijing, she rushed to various machinery manufacturing factories every day. Although she failed to negotiate with any of them, she also learned some things.
Old classmates haven’t seen each other for a long time, and having a meal together has become an indispensable process to connect with each other. That night, eight female classmates, convened by Sun Yao and Dong Li, had a dinner at the restaurant where Dong Li worked. The restaurant is a state-owned time-honored restaurant.
, the newly renovated environment is elegant and elegant, with 18 private rooms each with its own characteristics, which is very suitable for high-standard banquets. Everyone sits around the table, everyone's face is filled with bright smiles, and the atmosphere is particularly warm.
Dong Li raised a glass of wine as a prelude and said: "Dizi is back, Zhang Xiaolan got married, Zhai Ying gave birth to a baby, Zhang Jie was promoted to supervisor, these are all happy things. Sun Yao called me and asked us to get together. As for me,
If you can't afford it, just make arrangements, and it's Sun Yao's responsibility to pay the bill. Who makes her a rich woman? Come on, let's have a drink first.
After drinking and clinking glasses of wine, everyone started eating and chatting while eating.
Zhai Ying said with emotion: "Time flies so fast. Yesterday I was a little girl, and in the blink of an eye I became a young woman."
Zhang Xiaolan said: "That's right."
Zhang Jie asked: "What has Sun Yao been busy with recently?"
Sun Yao said: "I have been used as a lackey for Dizi. I run to the machinery factory every day, and my legs have become thin."
Zhang Jie said: "I haven't contacted Di Zi for a few days since she came back. It's outrageous."
Fang Di said: "Running errands during the day and going on blind dates at night are too busy."
Sun Yao said: "That's right, I'll testify. Tonight is a class reunion and Dizi has asked for leave. She will make up for it tomorrow with two interviews. I went to pick her up this afternoon and saw her negotiating with her mother with my own eyes."
Zhang Juan said: "Every day we have a phase, so how many phase will we have to get?"
Fang Di said: "This has been registered with my mother a long time ago and has been saved for two years. In fact, I am a victim of guanxi studies. My mother can't save face, so I will accept it and treat it as an old man.
Sharing worries and solving problems.”
Zhang Jie said: "Huh, huh, this is so cheap and so good."
Fang Di smiled and said, "I didn't take it seriously. What's the advantage? I believe in fate, but I don't believe what the matchmaker says." Zhang Jie said, "Oh, isn't it a waste? If you go on a blind date, take me with you. Sister, I'll give it to you."
You clean the battlefield." Zhang Juan raised her hand like a primary school student raising her hand to speak, and said: "Sister, I also want to share the spoils." Home.
Zhang Xiaolan asked: "Why are you going to the machinery factory?"
Fang Di said: "Sun Yao didn't make it clear. It's a machinery manufacturing factory, or many factories."
Zhang Xiaolan said: "Zhao Zhiqiang's father is the chief engineer of Hongguang Machinery Factory. You should contact him for this matter." Sun Yao said: "It's useless. You just build one or two machines, which are not enough to fill the gap between people's teeth."
, I won’t pay attention to you at all. You can’t process it even with the drawings. The parts are too trivial and can’t be used in batches. To put it bluntly, it’s just a cannon to swat mosquitoes.”
Zhai Ying said: "Fang Di has a way, he can take the upper-level route."
Sun Yao said: "Hey, that's more like using cannons to swat mosquitoes. The people from the machinery factory said that for your little work, a lathe processing shop on the side of the road will do it for you. Di Zi is ready to adjust his thinking.
I’ll be looking for a lathe processing workshop starting tomorrow.”
Zhang Juan said: "If this is the case, I have a distant cousin who is a lathe and shop maker. On the Ring Road, I don't usually have much contact with him. He only visits my parents at home during the Chinese New Year."
Fang Di said: "Okay, thank you first. You can take us there tomorrow."
Zhang Juan said: "I can't do it tomorrow. I have to contact you first to see what kind of work is done here and whether it can be done over there. You guys can go over if you don't know how to do it. This is to help Di Zi, so be careful and don't flatter him.
It also made me feel embarrassed."
Fang Di said: "Did I provoke you?"
Zhang Juan smiled and said, "Look, the truth doesn't sit well with you, but I still know how to tell the truth."
Sun Yao said: "Hurry up and take advantage of my free time to drive and run around with Dizi. Beijing is so big, driving around for several days is very tiring, and it is even more inconvenient for her to drive from house to house."
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Zhang Juan said: "I understand, I will handle it as soon as possible."
Fang Di said: "Let's eat first and talk to Juan'er in detail later. Let's get together, don't let me get off topic." Dong Li said: "No, the purpose of class reunions is to connect with each other. What's the point of having a supporter?"
emotion"
A black car was speeding along a ring road in Beijing. There was still white snow in the large fields on both sides of the road. It was freezing outside the window, but it was warm inside. Sun Yao was driving, Fang Di was sitting in the passenger seat, and Zhang Juan was sitting in the passenger seat.
Behind them, they were talking and laughing all the way towards Zhang Juan’s cousin’s lathe processing workshop.
The car stopped in front of a courtyard on the roadside. The sound of machines could be heard outside the courtyard. The courtyard's gate was closed, only a small door was opened. A sign was hung on the right side of the courtyard door: Wei Dong
Lathe processing. Fang Di and the others got off the car, and Zhang Juan led them into the yard. In the yard were some steel pipes, angle irons and other materials, piles of processed scraps, and several small round flower beds made of red bricks.
There are clumps of slender bamboos planted inside. When we came to the processing workshop, there were several lathes, milling machines, wire cutting machines and other machinery and equipment. There were workers working next to each machine, and the noise was very loud.
Zhang Juan shouted loudly to a man wearing work clothes and cotton-padded clothes: "Brother Dong."
The man called "Brother Dong" was less than forty years old. He had a crew cut, was chubby, and had a simple and honest face. He was concentrating on processing a small part. When he saw Zhang Juan and the others coming, he stopped the machine and said:
"Here?" Zhang Juan introduced: "This is my cousin, Lei Weidong. These are my classmates, Fang Di and Sun Yao." Fang Di greeted, "Brother Dong" stepped forward to shake hands.
Lei Weidong stretched out his hands and said, "No, my hands are full of oil. Let's go to the office. It's warmer there." The office is a room next to the courtyard gate. It's a bit messy inside. There are two files side by side against the wall.
There are two desks facing each other on the cabinet, with piles of paper on them, teacups, phones and other things scattered all over the table. There is a small wooden coffee table between the two single sofas, which is obviously for entertaining guests.
The room was much warmer than outside. Hot water was boiling on a briquette stove, and a tall chimney extended to the outside of the house.
Lei Weidong brought the guests into the office and said, "Sit down, I'll wash my hands first." Then he walked to the tap in the corner, grabbed a handful of something mixed with alkaline noodles and sawdust from the side of the sink, and washed his hands.
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Zhang Juan asked Fang Di and Sun Yao to sit on the sofa, and she moved two chairs from the desk. Sun Yao insisted on sitting on the chair too, so as to free up the other sofa space for Lei Weidong and Fang Di to talk face to face.
The coffee table was also piled with things. Except for a large filthy ashtray filled with cigarette butts and a lighter color page torn from an unknown illustrated magazine, the rest were all stainless steel lighter parts, most of them.
Only two of the semi-finished products appear to have been processed, because the fuselage has been polished and shines brightly like stainless steel.
Fang Di picked up a lighter. It was heavy and smooth to the touch, but it was too cold in winter and the ice was severe. She pushed open the tightly fitting upper cover and heard a soft steel sound. It felt very comfortable. She hit the flint,
It actually caught fire, and it turned out to be a fully usable lighter. So I asked, "Brother Dong, did you make this lighter?"
Lei Weidong nodded and replied: "Yes." Then he insisted that Ms. Sun Yao sit on the sofa and he sat on a hard chair.
Fang Di said: "It feels really good. Do you want to sell it?"
Lei Weidong said: "There is a stove company that processes burners here. We have been working together for several years and we have a good relationship. They asked me to help him make a batch of lighters as shown in the picture for promotion, one for each of five sets of stoves.
It’s just a lighter as a gift, not for sale. Juanzi said you are good friends, and if Miss Fang likes it, she will give you one."
Sun Yao looked at the description on the color page and said, "Hey, this lighter is made of pure gold and is worth hundreds of thousands."
Lei Weidong said: "This lighter has always been famous. There are many imitations, made of copper, silver, stainless steel, and other materials."
At this time, Fang Di had no idea that this classic lighter, which only existed in pictures and legends, was actually the pure gold lighter that Dai Mengyan gave to Ye Zi Nong.
Fang Di said: "Then I want two, so I have to buy two."
Sun Yao also.
Fang Di said: "Then you have to buy more, otherwise it will be a robbery. I want three, and I will give one to Sun Yao."
Lei Weidong smiled and said, "I can afford three of them, haha."
Fang Di said: "Put the lighter aside first and let's talk about the machine first."
Lei Weidong said: "Juanzi told me that you want to use the machine method to achieve the effect of hand-made noodles. You need to make two sets of machines, give one set to others, and keep one set for yourself."
Fang Di Right.
Lei Weidong said: "There are two questions I have to tell you. First, you don't need to make three machines. There is no need to simulate a manual dough rolling machine and a simulated manual dough cutting machine. Hand-rolled noodles are more delicious than machine noodles.
, just on the kneaded surface, it doesn’t taste good if it’s not kneaded hard, and it doesn’t taste good if the dough is soft. The stick noodles are hard and chewy, so of course they are delicious. The stick noodle machine and noodle cutter are the key. Hand-rolled noodles and
It cannot be said that there is no difference between roller noodle pressing, but the impact is not big. If you modify the cutter head of the existing noodle machine and change the right-angle extrusion noodle cutting to blade noodle cutting, the effect is theoretically the same as manual noodle cutting, or even better than
It’s okay to cut the noodles by hand. In this case, you only need to make a noodle press and several noodle knives of different widths.”
Fang Di said in surprise: "Brother Dong is so good at noodles."
Lei Weidong smiled shyly and said: "My wife is a noodle maker. She has been working for five or six years. She rents a house next to a vegetable market in Haidian District. My children go to school there. Sometimes when I go to the city, my wife also makes it for me."
When it comes to making rolled noodles, as long as the noodles are cooked well, there is not much difference between hand-rolling and rolling. I have tried this many times, so this is not a theory."
Fang Di understood, no wonder Lei Weidong knew something about noodles.
Lei Weidong said: "As for these two, you don't need to make two gangzi noodle machines at once. You don't need to use them now. You can make one first to see. It can't be suitable all at once. You have to have one."
The process of improvement." What does developing two less machines mean in terms of cost? You don't need to do any calculations to know this. Fang Di said: "Thank you, Brother Dong. Thank you very much. This way the cost will come down all of a sudden. If it doesn't work, you can still improve it.
." Zhang Juan also said: "That's right, that's right."
Lei Weidong said: "Then you agree with these two questions?"
Fang Di said: "Agree."
Lei Weidong said: "Then let's talk about the conditions. To be honest, the noodle pressing machine is not complicated. It just moves up and down. It can achieve the purpose of up and down movement using the cam principle and the crankshaft principle. A master with some experience can build it. But.
Don't tell me that big manufacturers won't take this job. If a customer does it, I won't take it either. Just make one or two. I have to design and figure it out, and the accessories have to be processed one by one. It's not worth it for you to ask for more.
Yes, it won't be troublesome without me. The cost is five to six thousand yuan, which is a lot. A new lathe only costs tens of thousands, so I can't get rid of it even if you want it for tens of thousands."
Fang Di nodded and waited for Lei Weidong to make conditions.
Lei Weidong said: "I'm a hard worker, I don't know how to talk in circles, so let's get straight to the point. A noodle press and three noodle knives cost 10,000, so I don't need more from you. The noodle knives take advantage of the existing market conditions.
The blades cost more than ten yuan each, and three slicing knives require more than 6 blades. This alone is a lot, you can calculate it."
Sun Yao couldn't wait to say: "Of course ten thousand is fine."
Lei Weidong said: "I haven't finished talking yet. In addition to 10,000 yuan, you can help me register three trademarks with the names you want. I don't have the brains. Three trademarks, one for restaurants and one for machine manufacturing."
A noodle type. When you open a restaurant, you always have to register a trademark. It’s a matter of business. However, the trademark holder is not my name, but Zhang Juan. Don’t think that Juanzi and I have an agreement. No,
I lied and I am a grandson, so please don’t accuse Juanzi unfairly.”
Zhang Juan's face was already very unhappy and she asked: "Brother Dong, what do you mean?"
Fang Di said: "Juan'er, listen to Brother Dong finish what he has to say."
Lei Weidong said: "There are several reasons why I took this job. Juanzi is my cousin, and I have to help my relatives. Your American friend has a good idea. Maybe it is another revolution in noodles, because now
Machine noodles are not as delicious as hand-rolled noodles. It can be used in your sister-in-law's noodle shop. Some people are paying for the test. I think it is. If there is a market for this machine, I am just a hard worker. No.
I know nothing about business and image, but my talents are useless. I have no use holding a trademark. I can't do it. Juanzi is engaged in business. She understands. What if it's worth it for her? If she wants to do it, she needs me.
It’s not worth doing and you won’t lose anything.”
Fang Di said: "Understood."
Lei Weidong said: "This is my request. If you think about it, we will sign a contract if you agree."
Fang Di said: "I am very grateful to Brother Dong for his willingness to do this. He also made such good suggestions, which saved a lot of costs. I accept all Brother Dong's conditions. The cost of the machine may not be enough, so it is not limited to one person."
It is based on ease of use and durability. Finally, the general ledger and the three lighters will be included in the general ledger." Lei Weidong said: "Then, that's it?"