Back to the 80s Machinery Factory

Chapter 368 A Factory You Can Move In With Just Your Bags

As the two were talking, someone suddenly knocked on the courtyard gate.

"Director Chen, is Director Chen at home?"

A male worker stood at the gate of the courtyard and politely inquired.

"Yes. What's up?"

Chen Dazhi knew this person.

This man is Zhang Guoqiang's apprentice, named Zuo Zhuo.

I had heard Chen Luyang mention before that she was also going to Pian'er City with them.

"Deputy Factory Director Yu asked me to inform Director Chen that the factory buildings in Pian'er City have been completed and we need to go and take possession of them in the next couple of days."

Taking possession of the house?

Chen Luyang jogged out of the main room and heard the news of the house being taken over as soon as she stepped outside.

"Yes! Deputy Factory Director Yu said that the ministry just called and said that the procedures for the factory in Pian'er City have been completed and we can get the keys now."

Zuo Zhuo opened his mouth.

"This is great news!" Chen Luyang exclaimed with delight.

These past few days he's been thinking about the factory in Pian'er City.

Ideally, we could obtain the factory keys and arrange all the staff before the start of the school year, ensuring the auto maintenance and repair center could officially open before then.

Otherwise, I'd have to attend classes and manage factory affairs at the same time.

Just one day of this could drive him crazy.

"I'm going to find Deputy Factory Director Yu now. You contact the rest of the people. This time, we'll all go to Pian'er City together."

After finishing her sentence, Chen Luyang rushed off to Yu Anshan's office.

……

With Wang Qingzhou's approval,

The next day,

Chen Luyang, along with Lu Quanyou, Zhang Guoqiang, Zuo Zhuo, Jiao Long, Zhang Hongjun, Li He, and others, boarded a train to Pian'er City, leading the first advance team to seize the factory buildings.

This trip was kept very secret.
Although Wang Qingzhou had already announced on the radio that the factory was going to build an auto maintenance and repair center in Pian'er City.
However, specific details have not yet been released.

The factory workers are still speculating about who will be assigned to manage the repair center.

but,

When Chen Luyang, Lu Quanyou, Zhang Guoqiang and several others went missing, the people in the factory finally realized what was happening!
They guessed for a long time,

That legendary, mysterious car maintenance and repair center was actually going to be in charge of Chen Luyang!

Lu Quanyou wasn't going to be the workshop director of the rubber workshop, but rather to work at the repair center in Pian'ercheng and continue being the perennial runner-up!

As for Zhang Guoqiang, needless to say.

Some people have already speculated that he had the audacity to fight with his workshop foreman because he had already found a repair center to work for.

However, these speculations are none of Chen Luyang's business right now.

After getting off the train,

Chen Luyang and Director Lu split into two groups.

They followed Chen Luyang to the Planning and Construction Section of the Industrial Administration Bureau in Pian'er City to retrieve the key.

Along the way, we followed Director Lu to find a place to stay near Fengnan Bus Station.

in the afternoon
When the two groups reunited after obtaining the keys...
A group of people, full of joy, high spirits, and hope, unlocked the factory gate and pushed open the large iron gate!
next moment,
Lu Quanyou's kneecap trembled.

"What's that?"

Lu Quanyou pointed to a large cloth bag inside the factory.

"Is that hair or a human brain?"

There was a dark, hair-like mass piled up in a large cloth bag.

Her hair was black and long, and at first glance it looked like a woman's head was hidden inside.

Chen Luyang was also startled.

He slowly surveyed the factory.

The factory was not as desolate and messy as expected; on the contrary, it was filled with a dense array of things.

Scrap wood, old furniture, building material packaging bags, scrap iron, hemp rope... and even a lot of scrap materials used on construction sites.

These things were piled up layer upon layer, filling most of the factory building.

As you know, this is an abandoned factory that no one is willing to take over.

If you didn't know better, you'd think this was a garbage dump.

Li He is a bold man.

He casually picked up a long wooden stick from the side, carefully walked to the cloth bag, and gently poked at it with the stick.

The sack fell to the ground with the force of the wood.
Clumps of long hair were scattered inside the cloth bag.

call……

Seeing that there was only hair inside and no head, the panic in everyone's hearts calmed down a bit.

Even so,
These clumps of hair are quite unpleasant to look at.

"Don't move yet."

When Director Lu saw that Li He had packed the bag of hair and was about to throw it outside, he quickly stopped him.

Li He thought it was bad luck: "Why leave it here untouched? To breed?"

Director Lu walked over with a smile, bent down, and placed the bag containing the hair in the corner.

"With so much hair, it could fetch a good price. It's such a waste to throw it away."

"Besides, I reckon this place has already been taken over; we came later."

"Moving things behind someone's back can easily lead to conflict later."

Sun Hongjun protested: "Our director got the keys to this factory from the Planning and Construction Section of the Industrial Administration Bureau, and all the procedures were followed!"

"It's unreasonable for them to put their things here in the first place. Even if a conflict breaks out, we're not afraid!"

Zhang Guoqiang and Lu Quanyou are one thing.

These two are getting old; their skills and strength have diminished.

However, Chen Luyang, Jiao Long, Sun Hongjun, Li He, and Zuo Zhuo are all young and strong, and they are truly fearless when it comes to fighting!
Director Lu chuckled and reached out to calm Sun Hongjun's anger.

"Don't rush, don't rush~ We're new here, let's avoid conflict if possible."

"Let's talk things out, let's have a good chat!"

While speaking,

Director Lu also greeted Li He and the other two:

“Come on, let’s move their things aside and clear a path.”

"I'll go out and ask around, see what's going on."

Li He and the others glanced at Chen Luyang.

Seeing Chen Luyang nod, he then buried himself in the work and moved the obstruction in the middle to the side.

It took the group of people nearly two hours of hard work to finally get the factory roughly organized.

Chen Luyang observed with a frown.

He truly hadn't expected the factory to be in such a state.

I looked around from front to back.
Chen Luyang had gained a general understanding of the overall structure of the factory.

The layout of the entire factory is actually quite good.

The first floor, besides the factory buildings, also has a small kitchen and a small mailroom.

The second floor houses offices and dormitories.

There is also a toilet in the backyard of the factory.

The place is quite large. If we can clean up and organize all this junk properly in the future, we can store a lot of things inside.

Jiao Long, Sun Hongjun, and Li He, three young men, ran up and down the stairs several times.

In the corner, they also found several bags of sunflower seeds that had been sitting there for who knows how long.

After they finished packing, Director Lu returned with the intelligence.

“There’s a group of people in Fengnan who collect scrap by going from street to street. Before, there was no one here, so they used this place as a transfer station.”

"A junk collector?"

Chen Luyang glanced at the pile of things.

Last time he chatted with the guy roasting sunflower seeds in front of the platform, the guy didn't tell him about this story!

"Okay, I see."

Chen Luyang had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

After reporting the situation, Director Lu cheerfully lit a cigarette, leaned closer to Zhang Guoqiang, and the two began to discuss it together:
"We can put a reception desk here at the entrance, use this area as a car repair area, turn the left side into a workshop equipment area, and the right side into a repair tool storage area." "The backyard can be combined into a parts warehouse."

"The shelves are readily available, but I think these broken wooden shelves here can be used as shelves for now."

"Let's set up a repair stand here and see if we can bring some large machinery from the factory... I wonder if we can fit the car paint spraying machine and the conveyor belt."

"I think it's about right, we can move it around like this later..."

One of the two men is a veteran worker who has worked on the factory floor for over twenty years.
One was a long-time second-in-command who had worked in four different workshops.

Just by standing there, one can basically grasp the layout of the workshop work area inside and out.

With these two people working on the layout of the work area, Chen Luyang was naturally relieved.

He went up to the second floor and began to examine the staff rest area and offices.

Although this place was previously known as a "capitalist factory," it is actually managed in a way that is not capitalist at all.

There are more than twenty rooms on the second floor, but only two are offices.

There are about 10 dormitories alone.

To Chen Luyang's surprise, the dormitory here was well preserved.

Each dormitory room has four bunk beds, with simple quilts and blankets on top.

Aside from a slightly sour smell, it perfectly meets the "move-in ready" convenience.

Chen Luyang looked down and examined it carefully.

There were a few strands of hair on the pillow, and not much dust on the blanket or the floor.

It must be someone who finished taking out the trash downstairs and was so tired at night that they slept on the second floor.

"There are enough dorm rooms... but not enough offices."

Chen Luyang frowned slightly.

Given the current limited resources, he doesn't necessarily insist on having his own room as the center's head.

However, at that time, accountants, cashiers, general staff, and so on will all need an office.

We can handle it now that there are fewer people.
Once this car maintenance and repair center gets on track and becomes a small, sizable entity, that's when things will get better.

Two offices are clearly not enough.

but……

There's still space in the yard behind the factory; we can build more buildings when we have more money later.

Besides offices, dormitories, and storage rooms
What Chen Luyang didn't expect was that there were two large ping-pong tables on the second floor.

There were also several rackets on the table.

Chen Luyang waved her hand casually, creating a gust of wind!
"If Xiao Dong took this back, it would be much more useful than a feather duster!"

Chen Luyang put the racket away.

As I went downstairs, I saw several people standing around the kitchen.

"what happened?"

Chen Luyang leaned closer to take a look.

"Director, look at this large stove in the kitchen. It seems like it can easily cook for more than 20 people!"

As he spoke, Director Lu gestured to illustrate the enormous pot and stove.

"It would be a waste not to roast melon seeds in this big stove!"

Chen Luyang was amused.

"This factory used to be used specifically for roasting sunflower seeds."

As she spoke, Chen Luyang stepped forward, picked up the large spoon, and examined it.

Although there was a layer of dust on it, you could still vaguely see how the previous owner had taken care of this large spoon.

"Good!"

Chen Luyang was optimistic: "This saves me a lot of money on a large spoon."

The group thoroughly inspected the factory, inside and out, and were just about to head out to find a restaurant for a meal when...
Then there was a "click".
An inconspicuous little back door at the back of the factory was opened.

Then, three or four middle-aged men, dressed in sloppy clothes and with tanned faces, walked in carrying large bundles.

The leader was a burly man.

The man was only about 1.75 meters tall, with glasses perched on his nose, and his face was tanned dark red from the sun and wind.

The teeth are very big and long.

With just a slight opening of his mouth, you can see a set of teeth sticking out, making him look like a leader.

"who are you?"

When the men saw that there were people in the factory, they immediately became alert and gripped the sacks they were carrying on their shoulders.

"Who are you?"

Sun Hongjun asked the question instinctively.

He was born tall and strong, and had a loud voice.

It was just an ordinary sentence, but he managed to make it sound like he was about to start a fight.

The air suddenly became stagnant.

The burly man put down the sack on his shoulder, glanced around, his eyes sweeping over Chen Luyang and the others before he spoke coldly:
"This factory is ours. I don't care how you got in. Leave the keys, and go back to where you came from."

The provocative tone in his words made the air feel somewhat oppressive.

The middle-aged men next to him followed his words, put down the sacks on their shoulders, straightened their bodies slightly, and their eyes gleamed, as if they were ready to act at any moment.

Chen Luyang quickly observed.

These middle-aged men were dressed casually, each carrying a large burlap sack on their back, and they exuded a stench of sweat and the unique sour smell of old, broken objects.

If I'm not mistaken
The junk in the factory must belong to them!

Just as Chen Luyang was about to speak, Director Lu walked over naturally, took out a few cigarettes from his pocket, and cheerfully offered one to each of them.

"Hello comrade, this factory building was approved for us by the city. We just received the keys today and are here to take possession of the building."

As he spoke, Director Lu skillfully took out matches and lit them for his men.

"This is our leader, Chen Luyang."

As he spoke, Director Lu stepped aside, making way for Chen Luyang behind him.

Chen Luyang walked up with a smile, extended his hand, and said politely, "Hello, comrade, my name is Chen Luyang, what's your name?"

The burly man stared at Chen Luyang for a moment and said:

"I just finished collecting things from the dead today, so I won't shake hands."

Chen Luyang instantly remembered the clump of hair in the large cloth bag.

“My name is Sheng Haisen,” the burly man said.

Just as the burly man finished speaking, a series of footsteps sounded.

then,

A dozen or so strangers swaggered in through the small door.

These people all had dark reddish-brown faces, wrinkled hands, and black crevices under their fingernails.

Although they don't look strong, they're all quite thin.
But their arms were all muscle.

He reeked of a strong odor of sweat and old things.

He's clearly in cahoots with Sheng Haisen and his group.

moment,

The situation in the factory became one where the other side had more people than they had.

Jiao Long, Sun Hongjun, and Li He exchanged glances.

Fortunately, I listened to Director Lu's advice and didn't throw the things out to them or get into a conflict with them.

Otherwise, if a real fight breaks out, our side will definitely not gain any advantage.

Chen Luyang naturally saw all of this as well.

The dozen or so people who came in later didn't know what had happened.
Upon seeing outsiders enter the factory, everyone's expressions immediately changed.

Sheng Haisen quickly scanned the factory.

The tattered sacks and large shelves that they usually piled up haphazardly were now neatly gathered to one side, with nothing missing.

His expression softened considerably, and he said, "This factory was empty before, so we put our things here."

"It should!"

Chen Luyang said gently, "The room is just sitting empty anyway, it's only right to put something in it."

“The city has now approved this factory building for our workshop to use. As you know, our work is different, so we definitely need to clean up these things.”

"Could we discuss moving these things to another location temporarily, so that everyone can have a better arrangement?"

(End of this chapter)