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Chapter 42 Maintenance
Song Jining has been thinking about making money.
His mother's salary has now risen to 30 yuan, which is still not much.The establishment of the factory is a few years later, and he can't just sit back and wait.
It's impossible to drop out of school to repair watches. He only has a middle school education. He has no face to be the director of the factory, and Ji Yu will beat him up in anger—for some reason, that kid always wants him to go to college.
Is it easy to get into university?
After all, Ji Yu is just a primary school student, and he thinks about the exam too simply.
Seeing so many goods piled up in the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative, Song Jining thought about buying these goods on credit at a low price and selling them in the surrounding countryside.It should be a good thing to have the best of both worlds. It can help the supply and marketing cooperative dispose of waste, and he can also make some small money himself.
Unexpectedly, Sister Li did not agree to be beaten to death.
"The price is regulated, and you can't change it casually. If you want it, you can only buy it at the original price. And you can't pay on credit, otherwise I won't be able to explain it here."
"These things can't be sold. Isn't it a waste to keep piling up in the warehouse?"
Sister Li spread her hands and said without concern, "Then what can I do, the rules are like this."
Even if Song Jining had never done business by himself, he knew it would be impossible to do so.Fortunately, the supply and marketing cooperatives are run by the state. If they were privately run, they would have to close after a few months.
Of course, if it was opened privately, no one would dare to waste it like this.
In the end, Sister Li still only asked Song Jining to choose a few damaged items as his service fee.Song Jining picked out some buckets, pots, vegetable baskets and other things needed by the family. These were missing a small corner or a small hole, and sold them at a low price in the surrounding villages, and most of them were bought by people.But they would rather drop their hands than sell it at a discount.
On the way home with Ji Yu, Song Jining warned him again and again: "Yuanyuan, remember, we must not be like them when we build a factory in the future. If I dare to be so stupid when I become the factory manager, you will fire me .”
Ji Chen nodded with a smile: "I believe Brother Song won't be so stupid."
In fact, Sister Li may not be ignorant of flexibility. With her shrewdness, if she wanted to, she would have sold it in various ways.After all, it has nothing to do with her, and the purchase is not her family's money, so of course she is too lazy to waste her time.
The two returned to Song Jining's house together, and after putting down the things, Song Jining took out the toothpaste skin and began to fill the basin.
Ji Zhuan moved a small stool to help. Although he has never mended pots, he has seen it a few times and he is quick to get started.While cutting the toothpaste skin, he asked Song Jining: "Little brother Song, do you still want to make money?"
Song Jining nodded: "I think, no, it should be said that I must earn money. My mother's salary is still too low, and I have to help the family reduce the burden."
Watching him neatly repairing the hole on the pot, Ji Chen suddenly thought of those people who repaired pots and pots in the streets and alleys, and said, "Why don't we also get a mobile repair vehicle?"
"Fix pots and pans?"
"No, mending watches, radios."
If Song Jining wants to drop out of school to repair watches, Ji Yu will not agree, but if it is just a part-time job on weekends, Ji Yu thinks it is good.
Whether it is him or Song Jining, there is too little social practice.Especially him, although he was reborn ten years ago, he was an idiot before, and he never even left the town. Basically, except for his own situation, he was blind to the outside world.
Of course, the point is that he also wants enough pocket money for himself.
He bought all the new year's money he got from his grandfather's house, and there were still some odds left, so he went to buy snacks for his grandfather.
Ji Laogen is getting old, his mouth tends to be dull, and he often wants to eat some candies and biscuits, but he feels that he is still greedy at such an age, so he is embarrassed to buy them.Ji Zhuan bought him a box of biscuits and a few packets of brown sugar with the remaining pocket money.
So now Ji Yu has become penniless again, only relying on the family's daily pocket money to survive.
By the way, his pocket money has increased by a dime, and now he has [-] cents a day.
congratulations.
Both of them are very good at hand-making, and they did it as soon as they said it. Immediately, they used the old wooden box of Song Jining's family to transform it into a trolley, made the wooden box into more than ten squares, and put various tools and spare parts in it.Originally, I wanted to write a brand for repairing various home appliances, but thinking about it, the current home appliances are nothing more than radios and electric fans, so I simply wrote about repairing watches, bicycles, electric fans, and radios. Part-time job in the city.
"Repair all kinds of household appliances!"
"Bicycles, watches, electric fans, radios, nothing can't be repaired!"
"The technology is superb, and the repair package is guaranteed!"
Song Jining had a thick skin, pushing the box and shouting as he walked, not caring about other people's eyes.Ji Zhuan also wanted to help out by shouting a few times, but his voice was too soft, and when he shouted out, passers-by only laughed, thinking that a child was playing!
He could only shut his mouth resentfully and push the cart silently.
It's not that there are people who need to repair electrical appliances, but basically when they saw two children with their probes, they turned around and left.Song Jining yelled that his throat was thirsty and didn't call for business, so the two had to find a place to rest and discuss what to do next while drinking water.
"It's really hard for a child to be believed!" Ji Yu was a little worried. Maintenance is still a trivial matter. He has a lot of research that he wants to do, and he is afraid that he will not be able to pass the report due to age restrictions in the future.
"I can't do that." Song Jining bought an ice cream for each of them, licked it, looked at the department store not far away, and suddenly turned over the maintenance card, and wrote the words "repair TV" on the reverse side.
"That's it, we fix the TV."
"Is this okay?" Ji Zhuo is a real person who doesn't know how to brag, and said, "I don't know how to repair TVs?"
For color TV, you can try it. He has never been exposed to black and white TV, so he doesn't know it at all.
"Don't worry, this is just a way of marketing." Song Jining patted the sign and said, "Anyway, no one dares to repair the TV for us."
After that, Song Jining yelled "repair TV" all the way and walked around the streets, attracting the attention of many people, but he didn't look like a joke anymore, but was full of surprise.
A TV is an extremely luxurious household appliance, and most people can't afford it. Those who dare to claim to be able to repair a TV must have at least a certain level of competence.
When they passed a small street, a middle-aged man stopped them and asked with a smile, "I said kids, can you really fix TVs?"
Song Jining nodded without hesitation: "Of course."
"Very confident, have you ever touched a TV? Do you know what it looks like inside the TV?"
Song Jining couldn't answer.
The TV sets of the supply and marketing cooperatives are placed high on the cabinets, and only the salesmen of the supply and marketing cooperatives can even switch them, and no one else is allowed to approach them.Not to mention touching it, he never turned the switch.
Ji Yu on one side replied: "Of course, TV accessories are nothing more than transformers, rectifier circuits, filter appliances, detectors, transistors, etc. The principle is simpler, but it receives high-frequency TV signals through the antenna, converts them into video brightness signals and It’s just an audio signal. If you have a TV in your home that needs repair, trust us and we’ll fix it.”
He had been thinking about the principle of the TV all the way just now, and it was not difficult after he remembered it. Although he had never touched a black and white TV, it was not more complicated than a color TV. Give him a little time to study, and he is confident that he can fix it.
The middle-aged man couldn't understand what Ji Chen said, and he was stunned for the reason, but he felt that the two children seemed to have some skills, so he said immediately: "I don't have a TV at home, but I have a radio, a radio Can you fix it?"
Song Jining's marketing was successful. The other party seemed to think that people who could repair TVs would have no problem repairing other electrical appliances, and they didn't care that they were just two children, so they asked them to come to his house to repair the radio.
The radio in this person's house is similar to that in Ji Yu's house, both of which are as big as cement bricks, but this radio seems to have been dropped, one of the horns is completely recessed, and a few switches are missing. Song Jining picked it up, and Hearing the sound of Caracalla, it was obvious that all the accessories inside were also lost.
"The child was naughty and broke it. Can you fix it?" the middle-aged man asked.
"Should be no problem." Song Jining has recently specialized in radio research, and he is quite confident in himself: "It may be necessary to replace the parts, which may not be very cheap. Uncle, can you accept it? Don't let us fix it and you won't pay."
The uncle was straightforward: "Tell me how much it will cost to fix it first."
"We'll check to make sure."
The two of them took apart the back cover of the radio in a familiar way, and more than a dozen parts fell out immediately. The middle-aged man hurriedly shouted: "Hey, be careful, don't lose them, these parts are precious."
These accessories are basically broken and can no longer be used. Song Jining asked, "Uncle, have you repaired it in a department store? How much does it cost?"
"Don't worry about it, just say how much you can charge."
Song Jining was not sure about repairing it, so he asked Ji Yu in a low voice: "How is it, can it be repaired?"
Ji Yu nodded: "Just replace the accessories and change the wiring."
"Is it expensive?"
"Cheaper than the one we made."
Song Jining understood, and said to the man, "It's no problem to fix it, but the accessories have to be replaced, at least 6 yuan."
"Too expensive, 3 yuan."
"6 yuan, otherwise you can find a department store to fix it for you."
Finally, the deal was made with a repair fee of 5 yuan.
Ji Yu didn't have any accessories for this radio, so the two of them completely disassembled the radio to find out the usable accessories, and combined with the existing parts in the box, they redesigned the circuit.
This time Ji Yu didn't do it himself, he just sat aside and guided Song Jining.
Seeing that they were not doing anything, the middle-aged man sat down and began to draw, urging: "What are you doing? Why don't you do it?"
"Wait, it will be ready soon." Ji Yu said in a good temper, took out another accessory, and asked Song Jining: "The magnetic rods will be replaced next, do you know how to adjust the wiring of the c3 and c4 magnetic rods?"
The original radio used a c3 magnetic rod, but Ji Yu only has a c4 magnetic rod. If you want to use it, you need to re-adjust the circuit.
It can also be regarded as Ji Yu's test of Song Jining.
At this time, Song Jining had already redrawn the design halfway, just looked at it, and answered without any hesitation: "add coils, add two magnetic lines of force, add pn junctions, is there a single capacitor?"
"Yes." Ji Yu smiled.
"Add."
The middle-aged man listened to them, but he couldn't understand what they said, but he felt that they were very powerful. Seeing the two children quickly draw a complicated circuit diagram on the paper, he didn't dare to urge him any more, and sat down obediently.
The technician in the department store hadn't drawn anything like this when he was repairing his radio!
After drawing the blueprints, it's easy to fix the radio.It should be said that reinstalling a radio is much easier than repairing it.Using existing materials and their own accessories, the pair quickly reassembled the radio.Except for the damage of the shell, which cannot be repaired, the radio is exactly the same as the original one. The sound is clear and free of impurities, and several stations can be received.
The middle-aged man was very satisfied, and readily paid the repair fee.
Song Jining took the money and asked, "Uncle, can you tell us how much the department store charges you for maintenance? You can use it as a reference for us so that our children won't be cheated."
"Oh, I told you, don't ask me to make up the price! The department store said it would cost 10 yuan to repair it."
So Song Jining became depressed.
"It's a big loss." He was still complaining after walking all the way.
Ji Yu smiled: "I made money anyway."
Compared with making money, he is more happy with Song Jining's increasingly proficient technical level.
Song Jining hummed: "Forget it, it only took more than an hour anyway."
As for the energy spent in it, he didn't find it hard. It felt similar to homework, and it was more fulfilling than homework.
In any case, after deducting the cost, he earned more than 3 yuan in an hour. Song Jining was basically satisfied after thinking about it, which made him more active.
After that, the two continued to walk around the streets under the brand of repairing TVs. Of course, no one asked them to repair TVs, but they were willing to let them repair electric fans and radios.Both charges are cheaper than the maintenance department. Although they earn less, they have gradually gained some reputation. Some people see that their repairs are good and cheap, and they help introduce friends.
Song Jining calculated his daily income, and suddenly had the urge to drop out of school to do maintenance.Fortunately, seeing Ji Rafter next to him, he endured it.
I don't know if there is a sympathy, but Ji Yu suddenly worried about whether Brother Song would want to drop out of school again. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Brother Song, do you really want to learn how to repair TVs?"
He doesn't have the eloquence to persuade people, so he can only rely on his interest to attract Xiao Song.
Song Jining was really interested: "Really? Can you teach me?"
His mother's salary has now risen to 30 yuan, which is still not much.The establishment of the factory is a few years later, and he can't just sit back and wait.
It's impossible to drop out of school to repair watches. He only has a middle school education. He has no face to be the director of the factory, and Ji Yu will beat him up in anger—for some reason, that kid always wants him to go to college.
Is it easy to get into university?
After all, Ji Yu is just a primary school student, and he thinks about the exam too simply.
Seeing so many goods piled up in the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative, Song Jining thought about buying these goods on credit at a low price and selling them in the surrounding countryside.It should be a good thing to have the best of both worlds. It can help the supply and marketing cooperative dispose of waste, and he can also make some small money himself.
Unexpectedly, Sister Li did not agree to be beaten to death.
"The price is regulated, and you can't change it casually. If you want it, you can only buy it at the original price. And you can't pay on credit, otherwise I won't be able to explain it here."
"These things can't be sold. Isn't it a waste to keep piling up in the warehouse?"
Sister Li spread her hands and said without concern, "Then what can I do, the rules are like this."
Even if Song Jining had never done business by himself, he knew it would be impossible to do so.Fortunately, the supply and marketing cooperatives are run by the state. If they were privately run, they would have to close after a few months.
Of course, if it was opened privately, no one would dare to waste it like this.
In the end, Sister Li still only asked Song Jining to choose a few damaged items as his service fee.Song Jining picked out some buckets, pots, vegetable baskets and other things needed by the family. These were missing a small corner or a small hole, and sold them at a low price in the surrounding villages, and most of them were bought by people.But they would rather drop their hands than sell it at a discount.
On the way home with Ji Yu, Song Jining warned him again and again: "Yuanyuan, remember, we must not be like them when we build a factory in the future. If I dare to be so stupid when I become the factory manager, you will fire me .”
Ji Chen nodded with a smile: "I believe Brother Song won't be so stupid."
In fact, Sister Li may not be ignorant of flexibility. With her shrewdness, if she wanted to, she would have sold it in various ways.After all, it has nothing to do with her, and the purchase is not her family's money, so of course she is too lazy to waste her time.
The two returned to Song Jining's house together, and after putting down the things, Song Jining took out the toothpaste skin and began to fill the basin.
Ji Zhuan moved a small stool to help. Although he has never mended pots, he has seen it a few times and he is quick to get started.While cutting the toothpaste skin, he asked Song Jining: "Little brother Song, do you still want to make money?"
Song Jining nodded: "I think, no, it should be said that I must earn money. My mother's salary is still too low, and I have to help the family reduce the burden."
Watching him neatly repairing the hole on the pot, Ji Chen suddenly thought of those people who repaired pots and pots in the streets and alleys, and said, "Why don't we also get a mobile repair vehicle?"
"Fix pots and pans?"
"No, mending watches, radios."
If Song Jining wants to drop out of school to repair watches, Ji Yu will not agree, but if it is just a part-time job on weekends, Ji Yu thinks it is good.
Whether it is him or Song Jining, there is too little social practice.Especially him, although he was reborn ten years ago, he was an idiot before, and he never even left the town. Basically, except for his own situation, he was blind to the outside world.
Of course, the point is that he also wants enough pocket money for himself.
He bought all the new year's money he got from his grandfather's house, and there were still some odds left, so he went to buy snacks for his grandfather.
Ji Laogen is getting old, his mouth tends to be dull, and he often wants to eat some candies and biscuits, but he feels that he is still greedy at such an age, so he is embarrassed to buy them.Ji Zhuan bought him a box of biscuits and a few packets of brown sugar with the remaining pocket money.
So now Ji Yu has become penniless again, only relying on the family's daily pocket money to survive.
By the way, his pocket money has increased by a dime, and now he has [-] cents a day.
congratulations.
Both of them are very good at hand-making, and they did it as soon as they said it. Immediately, they used the old wooden box of Song Jining's family to transform it into a trolley, made the wooden box into more than ten squares, and put various tools and spare parts in it.Originally, I wanted to write a brand for repairing various home appliances, but thinking about it, the current home appliances are nothing more than radios and electric fans, so I simply wrote about repairing watches, bicycles, electric fans, and radios. Part-time job in the city.
"Repair all kinds of household appliances!"
"Bicycles, watches, electric fans, radios, nothing can't be repaired!"
"The technology is superb, and the repair package is guaranteed!"
Song Jining had a thick skin, pushing the box and shouting as he walked, not caring about other people's eyes.Ji Zhuan also wanted to help out by shouting a few times, but his voice was too soft, and when he shouted out, passers-by only laughed, thinking that a child was playing!
He could only shut his mouth resentfully and push the cart silently.
It's not that there are people who need to repair electrical appliances, but basically when they saw two children with their probes, they turned around and left.Song Jining yelled that his throat was thirsty and didn't call for business, so the two had to find a place to rest and discuss what to do next while drinking water.
"It's really hard for a child to be believed!" Ji Yu was a little worried. Maintenance is still a trivial matter. He has a lot of research that he wants to do, and he is afraid that he will not be able to pass the report due to age restrictions in the future.
"I can't do that." Song Jining bought an ice cream for each of them, licked it, looked at the department store not far away, and suddenly turned over the maintenance card, and wrote the words "repair TV" on the reverse side.
"That's it, we fix the TV."
"Is this okay?" Ji Zhuo is a real person who doesn't know how to brag, and said, "I don't know how to repair TVs?"
For color TV, you can try it. He has never been exposed to black and white TV, so he doesn't know it at all.
"Don't worry, this is just a way of marketing." Song Jining patted the sign and said, "Anyway, no one dares to repair the TV for us."
After that, Song Jining yelled "repair TV" all the way and walked around the streets, attracting the attention of many people, but he didn't look like a joke anymore, but was full of surprise.
A TV is an extremely luxurious household appliance, and most people can't afford it. Those who dare to claim to be able to repair a TV must have at least a certain level of competence.
When they passed a small street, a middle-aged man stopped them and asked with a smile, "I said kids, can you really fix TVs?"
Song Jining nodded without hesitation: "Of course."
"Very confident, have you ever touched a TV? Do you know what it looks like inside the TV?"
Song Jining couldn't answer.
The TV sets of the supply and marketing cooperatives are placed high on the cabinets, and only the salesmen of the supply and marketing cooperatives can even switch them, and no one else is allowed to approach them.Not to mention touching it, he never turned the switch.
Ji Yu on one side replied: "Of course, TV accessories are nothing more than transformers, rectifier circuits, filter appliances, detectors, transistors, etc. The principle is simpler, but it receives high-frequency TV signals through the antenna, converts them into video brightness signals and It’s just an audio signal. If you have a TV in your home that needs repair, trust us and we’ll fix it.”
He had been thinking about the principle of the TV all the way just now, and it was not difficult after he remembered it. Although he had never touched a black and white TV, it was not more complicated than a color TV. Give him a little time to study, and he is confident that he can fix it.
The middle-aged man couldn't understand what Ji Chen said, and he was stunned for the reason, but he felt that the two children seemed to have some skills, so he said immediately: "I don't have a TV at home, but I have a radio, a radio Can you fix it?"
Song Jining's marketing was successful. The other party seemed to think that people who could repair TVs would have no problem repairing other electrical appliances, and they didn't care that they were just two children, so they asked them to come to his house to repair the radio.
The radio in this person's house is similar to that in Ji Yu's house, both of which are as big as cement bricks, but this radio seems to have been dropped, one of the horns is completely recessed, and a few switches are missing. Song Jining picked it up, and Hearing the sound of Caracalla, it was obvious that all the accessories inside were also lost.
"The child was naughty and broke it. Can you fix it?" the middle-aged man asked.
"Should be no problem." Song Jining has recently specialized in radio research, and he is quite confident in himself: "It may be necessary to replace the parts, which may not be very cheap. Uncle, can you accept it? Don't let us fix it and you won't pay."
The uncle was straightforward: "Tell me how much it will cost to fix it first."
"We'll check to make sure."
The two of them took apart the back cover of the radio in a familiar way, and more than a dozen parts fell out immediately. The middle-aged man hurriedly shouted: "Hey, be careful, don't lose them, these parts are precious."
These accessories are basically broken and can no longer be used. Song Jining asked, "Uncle, have you repaired it in a department store? How much does it cost?"
"Don't worry about it, just say how much you can charge."
Song Jining was not sure about repairing it, so he asked Ji Yu in a low voice: "How is it, can it be repaired?"
Ji Yu nodded: "Just replace the accessories and change the wiring."
"Is it expensive?"
"Cheaper than the one we made."
Song Jining understood, and said to the man, "It's no problem to fix it, but the accessories have to be replaced, at least 6 yuan."
"Too expensive, 3 yuan."
"6 yuan, otherwise you can find a department store to fix it for you."
Finally, the deal was made with a repair fee of 5 yuan.
Ji Yu didn't have any accessories for this radio, so the two of them completely disassembled the radio to find out the usable accessories, and combined with the existing parts in the box, they redesigned the circuit.
This time Ji Yu didn't do it himself, he just sat aside and guided Song Jining.
Seeing that they were not doing anything, the middle-aged man sat down and began to draw, urging: "What are you doing? Why don't you do it?"
"Wait, it will be ready soon." Ji Yu said in a good temper, took out another accessory, and asked Song Jining: "The magnetic rods will be replaced next, do you know how to adjust the wiring of the c3 and c4 magnetic rods?"
The original radio used a c3 magnetic rod, but Ji Yu only has a c4 magnetic rod. If you want to use it, you need to re-adjust the circuit.
It can also be regarded as Ji Yu's test of Song Jining.
At this time, Song Jining had already redrawn the design halfway, just looked at it, and answered without any hesitation: "add coils, add two magnetic lines of force, add pn junctions, is there a single capacitor?"
"Yes." Ji Yu smiled.
"Add."
The middle-aged man listened to them, but he couldn't understand what they said, but he felt that they were very powerful. Seeing the two children quickly draw a complicated circuit diagram on the paper, he didn't dare to urge him any more, and sat down obediently.
The technician in the department store hadn't drawn anything like this when he was repairing his radio!
After drawing the blueprints, it's easy to fix the radio.It should be said that reinstalling a radio is much easier than repairing it.Using existing materials and their own accessories, the pair quickly reassembled the radio.Except for the damage of the shell, which cannot be repaired, the radio is exactly the same as the original one. The sound is clear and free of impurities, and several stations can be received.
The middle-aged man was very satisfied, and readily paid the repair fee.
Song Jining took the money and asked, "Uncle, can you tell us how much the department store charges you for maintenance? You can use it as a reference for us so that our children won't be cheated."
"Oh, I told you, don't ask me to make up the price! The department store said it would cost 10 yuan to repair it."
So Song Jining became depressed.
"It's a big loss." He was still complaining after walking all the way.
Ji Yu smiled: "I made money anyway."
Compared with making money, he is more happy with Song Jining's increasingly proficient technical level.
Song Jining hummed: "Forget it, it only took more than an hour anyway."
As for the energy spent in it, he didn't find it hard. It felt similar to homework, and it was more fulfilling than homework.
In any case, after deducting the cost, he earned more than 3 yuan in an hour. Song Jining was basically satisfied after thinking about it, which made him more active.
After that, the two continued to walk around the streets under the brand of repairing TVs. Of course, no one asked them to repair TVs, but they were willing to let them repair electric fans and radios.Both charges are cheaper than the maintenance department. Although they earn less, they have gradually gained some reputation. Some people see that their repairs are good and cheap, and they help introduce friends.
Song Jining calculated his daily income, and suddenly had the urge to drop out of school to do maintenance.Fortunately, seeing Ji Rafter next to him, he endured it.
I don't know if there is a sympathy, but Ji Yu suddenly worried about whether Brother Song would want to drop out of school again. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Brother Song, do you really want to learn how to repair TVs?"
He doesn't have the eloquence to persuade people, so he can only rely on his interest to attract Xiao Song.
Song Jining was really interested: "Really? Can you teach me?"
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