Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

After Ermao from the Nan Yi family got into trouble, the entire residential area was in an uproar.

All the parents are warning their children not to go to the river to play again.

Liu Guangfu's service company also organized a family patrol team.

They are all unemployed middle-aged women who just hang out on the road by the river when they have nothing to do.

When he saw a child approaching the river, he immediately shouted at him.

For a while, the children in the residential area felt gloomy when looking at the riverside.

Time came to the winter of 1965.

With the popularity of honeycomb briquettes, there is no longer only one honeycomb briquettes factory in the entire city.

Chen Changan left the honeycomb coal factory and handed it over to the street office.

As more people became aware of the benefits of honeycomb briquettes, other street offices also opened honeycomb briquettes factories.

This also led to a significant increase in the consumption of anthracite. Chen Changan wanted to provide central heating for the entire community, but the source of coal became a problem.

When it comes to the coal-producing areas in the north of our country, anyone in the future can say a few words about it.

Unfortunately, due to limited transportation capacity, it is difficult to transport coal from many places.

The anthracite that was barely transported was controlled by the various street offices.

Chen Changan didn't want to rob the coal from the street office. That wasn't robbing coal, that was robbing the livelihoods of many people.

So Chen Changan could only start fighting with the unpopular local coal in Sijiu City.

Shi Heping had already developed a new type of engine, after all, he was using an engine that had already been built by someone else.

It's just a one-to-one replica of the parts. It's not a new engine design.

Such things were easy for Shi Heping to accomplish. At most, the material was inferior and the service life was not as good as others.

But with the presence of Chen Changan, some of the shortcomings in materials have long been made up, and they are even far ahead.

Limited by steel production and automobile factory output, the production of trucks made with the new engines is seriously insufficient.

After weighing the pros and cons, the army finally chose the previous model that was capable of off-roading.

The load capacity is a little lower, but the performance of the car is good, and the most important thing is that it is not picky about the road.

During this period, not to mention in the wild, even in the city.

Once it rains, the roads will turn into mud, not to mention in the wild.

The steel production was insufficient and the automobile factory's production capacity was insufficient, so Chen Changan stopped the production of the new large-load trucks after only a dozen of them.

These dozen trucks were left at the automobile factory, and Chen Changan formed a car team.

The task of transporting coal from surrounding areas to boiler rooms in residential areas was given to them.

From the first day of heating, the workers at the auto factory were excited.

In the past, winter was the most difficult time for my family.

Many houses in the courtyards have fallen into disrepair and are leaking everywhere.

In the early years, poorer families had to endure the entire winter.

Later, Chen Changan invented a honeycomb coal stove and a chimney for heating in the house. This made life a little better.

But the house wasn’t warm enough, and with no money to repair it, it wasn’t much better.

Although we moved into a residential building and had a gas stove, everyone still kept the honeycomb coal stove.

Although the factory keeps claiming that there will be central heating in winter, everyone has no idea what central heating is.

When the heating started on the first day, everyone's first reaction was heat.

The thick cotton jacket I was wearing was no longer wearable, and even after taking it off, I was still hot.

Some people even took out their spring and autumn clothes and put them on.

At Chen Changan's home, he was wearing long-sleeved shirt and long pants, but he still felt a little hot.

I was thinking to myself that these people in the boiler room are really inexperienced. How much coal will be wasted by making the temperature so hot?

You really won't feel bad if you don't use your own things. I'm going to call Liu Guangfu over tomorrow and have a good talk with him.

The eldest sister Xiuying couldn't sleep because it was too hot in the bedroom, so she came to the living room and saw Chen Changan eating a pear.

He quickly ran to the balcony, took one out for himself, washed it casually, and started eating.

This large white pear belongs to Director Meng of the farm, who plans to sell it in the community vegetable market.

As a result, Director Meng still underestimated the spending power of the families of the employees in the automobile factory.

Fruit is difficult to store. These pears are not very popular in other places.

Director Meng felt that if the products were put in the vegetable market near the automobile factory, it would take at least a week to sell them.

As a result, they were all gone in one morning. This also made Director Meng sigh at the consumption power of the workers in the automobile factory.

It’s not that the car factory workers have strong purchasing power, it’s that their homes are too hot.

The heat makes it dry, so we can’t just drink water, right? So this fruit became the first choice for workers in the automobile factory.

Although it's hot at home, no one objects. Your house is so warm in this cold winter, and you're still being pretentious?

At most you can open a window and ventilate the room. Would you be happy if I make you so cold that you have to stay in the quilt all day long?

Xiuying sat next to Chen Changan, eating a pear and complaining to him.

"Brother, it's too hot in this room. It's hot even with the windows open.

This is such a waste! Can't you tell the boiler room not to heat it so hot?

I am sweaty every day when I get home, and the first thing I do when I get home is to take a shower.

Although it is a good thing that we have hot water every night, it also consumes too much coal, right? "

"It's a bit hot. I'll talk to Liu Guangfu about it tomorrow. We just had a few days of good life, and it's wasted like this."

Hearing that her elder brother agreed, Xiuying asked again hurriedly.

"Brother, what benefits are our factory planning to distribute on New Year's Day?"

Chen Changan glanced at her without saying anything and continued eating the pear.

“We in the Finance Department all know that I’m your sister, and everyone’s attitude towards me has improved a lot.

They all asked me what kind of benefits the factory was going to provide this year, but how would I know?

If you don't tell me everything, can you tell me one or two things?"

"What can we give out on New Year's Day? Just a few kilograms of fruit per person, because most of the people are celebrating the New Year.

There are still 20 days until the Chinese New Year after New Year's Day. We will give the workers some goodies during the Chinese New Year."

"What good stuff?"

"How about seafood?"

"Hairtail? Hey, big brother? You only know hairtail, right?

Whenever it comes to festivals, we always eat hairtail. Can’t we change to something else?

Aren't you afraid that you will catch all the hairtail fish in the sea? What Zhoushan hairtail fish, what Bohai hairtail fish?

Whenever there is a festival, we always serve hairtail fish. Even a few more pounds of meat would be good.

You are not buying vegetables? If you go to our vegetable market, you will see that the hairtail fish is the worst off, and no one buys it.

The service company has already decided not to sell hairtail fish in the future."

Chen Changan looked at Xiuying and said with a smile.

"Although it is hairtail, this time it is shrimp, how about it?"

"Well, that's good enough. In the future, give more shrimps instead of always sending fish."

After saying that, Xiuying stood up and threw the remaining pear seeds into the trash can.

Said to Chen Changan.

"I'm going to bed, brother, you should also get some rest early."

Looking at Xiuying's performance, Chen Changan shook his head. After she gets married, she is afraid that she will not be liked by her mother-in-law.