“Where is this place?”

Following Feng Xiaochen into an old residential area with mottled walls, Ning Mo frequently turned his head and looked around and asked Feng Xiaochen in surprise. Ning Mo and Zhao Yang are very familiar with this kind of community, very similar to the employee dormitory area built by Cold Water Mine in the 1970s and 1980s. It has a six-story unit building in Yishui, without an elevator, and the area of ​​each unit is about 40 square meters, including a kitchen and bathroom. Even a luxury house in the 1980s, it seems very simple today. Ning Mo and the others did not expect that there would be such a house in the capital.

Feng Xiaochen did not answer Ning Mo's inquiry, but took him and Zhao Yang to the community. He came to a unit building, and he identified the unit number, then walked along the narrow and dark stairs to the fifth floor, knocking on the door of one of the families.

"Who is it!" A voice full of energy came from the room.

"Old Xu, it's me, Xiao Feng." Feng Xiaochen replied loudly.

The door opened, and an energetic old man appeared in the door. His hair was almost white, his face and body looked very thin, as if he had no flesh except skin and bones. Seeing Feng Xiaochen outside the door, he smiled and hurriedly reached out to pull Feng Xiaochen's wrist. While letting it into the room, he said, "Oh, it's Mr. Feng, Xike, Xike, why did you think of seeing me, the old man?"

Feng Xiaochen turned his body, revealing Ning Mo and Zhao Yang behind him, and said to the old man: "Old Xu, I brought two friends here today, don't you mind?"

"I don't mind, don't mind, come in quickly." The old man was quite enthusiastic and greeted Ning Mo and the others, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, my son's family is too small, so you can take care of it."

The three of them followed the old man into the door. Ning Mo and Zhao Yang looked at the house and recognized that this was a very common two-bedroom apartment in the past. There was a living room in the middle and a bedroom on both sides. The living room was very small, about three or four square meters, and the bedroom was slightly larger. If you look down from the air, the two large rooms had a small living room, which looked like a pair of glasses, so it was commonly known as the glasses room.

The living room of the glasses room is actually an intersection, with two doors one south and one north leading to two bedrooms, the east door facing the corridor, and the west door connecting the kitchen and bathroom. Because there are doors on all sides, things in the living room can only be placed at any time. If a few guests sit down, the traffic for the whole family will be paralyzed. As for too many people, especially one of them, there is a fat man, and the living room will be filled with crowds and you can't even find the place to stand.

Ning Mo and the others are now huddling in the living room of the old man's house. The old man's wife is also at home. When she heard a guest coming to the door, she came out of the bedroom on one side to greet everyone, poured water for everyone, and hid back to the bedroom. She was not afraid of having sex and did not dare to chat with outsiders, but she couldn't sit in the living room.

"Oh, ah, this condition... makes you laugh." The old man looked very cramped.

Feng Xiaochen didn't care at all. He smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, let me introduce you. These two are my friends. This is Ning Mo, this is Zhao Yang. We have been in love for more than 20 years. They have now cooperated to open a company called Moyang Trading Company... Ning Mo, Zhao Yang, let me introduce you to Mr. Xu Wenliang, the chief engineer of Qinzhou Heavy Machinery Factory. The first generation of metallurgical equipment designer in our country, and there are many students all over the world."

"It's too good, too good." Xu Wenliang waved his hand embarrassedly and said, "I'm already out of date now. I can't understand the new continuous casting machine and rolling mill created by Qin Chong's foreign technology. I'm now a retired old man, and I'm going to the capital with my wife to help see my grandson."

"Where is the little grandson?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Xu Wenliang said: "When I go to school, my wife and I have to pick him up after school later. That is, when my grandson is at home, we can still make some use of our remaining energy. Usually, our son and daughter-in-law go to work and grandson go to school, and we are completely useless people when we stay at home."

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, you can't say that. Your current state and your master's wife are called enjoying family happiness. To be honest, I want to retire now, and I don't have to think about anything at home all day long. How comfortable it is."

"What a joke, you little Feng? How old are you, you dare to talk about retirement!" Xu Wenliang was amused by Feng Xiaochen. He scolded Feng Xiaochen, and then said with emotion: "If I hadn't wanted to stay with my children, my wife and I would not be happy to come to the capital. Look, with such conditions, it would be difficult for the family to even turn around. I live in Qinzhou in the general engineering building assigned to me by the factory, which is 200 square meters, and it is no problem to dance yangko in the house."

Ning Mo couldn't help it and interrupted, "Old Xu, you live in such a frustrated place, why don't you change to a bigger house?"

"Change a bigger house?" Xu Wenliang looked at Ning Mo as if he was looking at a fool. After a while, he smiled with a self-deprecating smile: "Yes, Xiao Feng just introduced that you two are in companies, and the problem is definitely different from our salary staff. My son works in the agency and his daughter-in-law is in the company. He earns dead wages and can't save much money. My wife and I have some savings, but taking that little money to buy a house in Beijing is like a drop in the bucket.

Last week, we went to see a property with our son and daughter-in-law. It was a three-bedroom apartment of 80 square meters, which was about 600,000 yuan. We could pay a down payment, and then we had more than 2,000 yuan a month, which could afford it. However, the daughter-in-law said that colleagues in their unit are buying a 120 square meter house now. She was worried that if she bought an 80 square meter now, she would regret it in the future. So, the family meeting did not form a resolution, and it is still hanging now."

At the end of the day, he laughed, as if he thought the statement of family meetings was quite funny.

"I..." A thought flashed through Ning Mo's mind, and he couldn't help but want to say something again.

Feng Xiaochen stopped Ning Mo with a clear eye and hand, turned to Xu Wenliang and said, "Old Xu, we are here this time, because we have something to say, is it convenient for you to see?"

"What advice can I give you, a retired old man?" Xu Wenliang said in surprise, but his face still showed some expectations. He was really bored at home, and finally someone came to him to talk to him about his business, and he was quite excited.

Feng Xiaochen took out a few enlarged photos from his bag and handed them to Xu Wenliang, saying, "Old Xu, look at these devices, do you understand?"

Xu Wenliang took the photo and took out a pair of reading glasses from somewhere and put them on the bridge of his nose. Then he began to look at these photos. He only looked at it and commented continuously: "Isn't this a set of double wire rolling mills? It should have been technically transformed and can eat 150 mm continuous casting billets to produce 6 mm, 6.5 mm and 8 mm general carbon wires. However, the transformation is not thorough. The main motor power of its medium rolling mill is 1,600 kilowatts. If it is replaced with 2,500 kilowatts, the production efficiency can be increased by at least 40%..."

“…”

Ning Mo and Zhao Yang were both dumbfounded. They had heard about the things the old man said in the Jinlianzi boss two days ago, but they used that set of equipment every day, so it was not surprising that Xu Wenliang just said the equipment parameters based on the few photos they took. This professional level is really nothing to say.

"Mr. Xu, you really know much about metallurgical equipment!" Zhao Yang said admiringly.

Xu Wenliang said proudly: "What's so strange about this? This set of equipment was rebuilt by us Qin. The drawings were drawn by me. How can I not understand it? Let me tell you, even if I remove it and re-cast it into a steel ingot, I can recognize it."

"Uh, okay..." Zhao Yang was defeated. He could see from a pile of steel ingots that it was once a rolling mill. What else could he say? Why not just kneel down.

After finishing the exclamation in front of Zhao Yang, Xu Wenliang turned to Feng Xiaochen again and asked, "Xiao Feng, where did you get the photos? This kind of equipment has been completely eliminated in the past few years. We are now on fully automatic high-speed rolling mills, with efficiency several times higher than this one, and their unit energy consumption and labor productivity are much higher. Who would still keep this kind of double rolling mill?"

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Old Xu, I tell you that not only are some people keeping such a rolling mill, but also people want to renovate it and use it. Look at the photos, this set of equipment, including electric furnaces, continuous casting machines, heating furnaces, rough rolling, medium rolling, fine rolling, refining wire rolling, and baling machines, is a complete set. Do you think it is possible to renovate it and use it?"

"How is this impossible?" Xu Wenliang said disdainfully, "Don't say that this equipment is basically complete and its quality is relatively new. Even if the old equipment that has been launched in the warehouse for 20 years, we have renovated it in the past, and it is no worse than the new machine. It is just that it is really unnecessary to renovate it, and the country does not allow this level of equipment to be used anymore. Even if this equipment is renovated, it will be fully calculated, and the annual output exceeds 400,000 tons. It is a backward technology. Who would still want it?"

"We want it!" Ning Mo and Zhao Yang answered in unison.

"What do you want to do? What are you going to do?" Xu Wenliang asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!