Chapter 187 Special Requirements
Xu Qiang moved into his new home, which once again caused a sensation in the factory.

In fact, people had long expected Xu Qiang to get a house. After all, he was the factory's model worker this year, and it was reasonable for him to get a house. However, Xu Qiang's move this time was too high-profile, which aroused the envy and jealousy of many people.

But this kind of thing is very normal. After a period of time, people will get used to it.

After moving, the first thing Xu Qiang did was to bring his mother from the village to live in the new house.

Mother Zhang Fenglan is an honest and hardworking rural housewife. She has suffered a lot for the sake of this family over the years. Her husband passed away half a year ago, which was a great blow to her. Fortunately, her son worked hard and got a job in the factory. In less than two months, he became a model worker and got a regular job. This made Zhang Fenglan very happy and greatly alleviated her pain of losing her husband. Now she is the envy of everyone in the village.

When Zhang Fenglan heard that her son was getting a house, she was very happy. On the afternoon of the moving day, she rode her son's motorcycle to the new community.

The environment of the community in front of her opened Zhang Fenglan's eyes. Not only were the houses in the community newly built small Western-style buildings with beautiful and elegant appearances, the environment inside the community was also quite good, with small flower beds and various fitness equipment. It was even much better than the houses in the county town.

As for the interior of the room, it also made Zhang Fenglan's eyes light up. The snow-white walls, the living room facing the sun, the stove that could burn honeycomb coal, and even the separate toilet, all of which made Zhang Fenglan feel very comfortable.

However, when Zhang Fenglan learned that raising chickens was not allowed in this community, she immediately refused to live here with her son.

In fact, Xu Qiang's house in the countryside was built only a few years ago, and it is a bungalow with a backyard. They can raise chickens and dogs and grow some vegetables in the yard. Although the conditions in the factory area are better in all aspects, Zhang Fenglan is still more accustomed to rural life. In addition, she has always been thinking about the dozens of chickens she raises and the small vegetable garden in the yard.

Seeing that his mother was unwilling to live here, Xu Qiang did not force her. After all, the factory was very close to the village and he would go back to the village normally, so he could still take care of his mother.

Since his mother didn't want to live with him, Xu Qiang started to decorate the house.

Xu Qiang first drew a design, and then asked Wang Yongsheng to help find a few carpenters and bricklayers to start paving the floor and making furniture for the new house.

Generally speaking, when an ordinary family in the factory moves into a new home, the most they would do is ask a carpenter to make a set of "48 legs", but Xu Qiang is really rich, and in order to make his life more comfortable, he plans to buy a lot of furniture.

As a doctor in his previous life, Xu Qiang still wanted to restore the family environment of his previous life. However, these days few people in the local area buy ready-made furniture, and they all need to hire carpenters to make them.

"Uncle Wang, this room is my study. I need to build bookshelves on both walls, just like what is drawn on this blueprint. The wood should be good. Books are heavy. If the wood is too soft, it will definitely deform over time..." Xu Qiang pointed to the furniture sketch in his hand and continued, "I also need to put a desk here. The desktop should be larger so I can sleep on it..."

In order to help Xu Qiang make furniture, Wang Yongsheng simply called his father. His father, Wang Shuanzhu, was the foreman of the mold making team in a workshop. He had a very high level of carpentry skills, and all those who worked with him were from their team.

"Xiao Xu, this will cost a lot of money. According to your drawings, including bookshelves, desks, beds, sofas and so on, it will cost at least eight or nine hundred yuan. This is not a small amount. Our factory guesthouse does not have such good facilities..." Wang Shuanzhu said with a frown after listening to Xu Qiang's request.

Generally speaking, these days ordinary workers have their home furniture made by carpenters, and rarely buy ready-made furniture.

Due to the low income, many workers make small furniture such as benches and chairs using the equipment and waste materials in the workshops when they are not busy at work. If it is a large piece of furniture, they don't need to buy materials if possible. At most, they can get a set of '48 legs' for a wedding by treating guests to a meal. All in all, they spend at most a hundred or eighty yuan.

But Xu Qiang had too many requirements. He not only wanted '48 legs', but also large bookshelves, desks, wardrobes, sofas, double beds, and even a rocking chair and a TV cabinet. It seemed that the project was huge.

Actually, Wang Shuanzhu wanted to help Xu Qiang save some money. He found some scraps from the carpentry class, invited the brothers in the class to have a drink, and directly made 48 legs for them. It didn't cost much money at all. But now it seems that Xu Qiang is not satisfied with the preparations he imagined.

"Uncle Wang, you don't have to worry about the money. Besides, with so many craftsmen working for me, I will definitely not treat them unfairly." As Xu Qiang spoke, he took out a paper bag from his arms, handed it to Wang Shuanzhu and said, "Here's 600 yuan for you to buy the materials first, and I will give you another 300 yuan later. In addition, I will give you 20 yuan for food every day. It's up to you to eat and drink what you want. I only have two requests. You must make the furniture for me, and the sooner the better. Do you think a week is enough?"

For an average family, one thousand yuan is definitely a large sum of money. Even in Shengli Machinery Factory, there are very few families that can save one thousand yuan.

But for Xu Qiang, this amount of money is nothing. You know, every time he delivers goods to Fuzhou, he can earn more than a thousand yuan each time, so this is just the net profit of the peat field for one or two days.

After all, the purpose of making money is to live a better life, so Xu Qiang is definitely willing to invest a lot of money in his new home.

"Xiao Xu, this..." Seeing Xu Qiang handing over so much money, Wang Shuanzhu was a little hesitant.

After all, Xu Qiang was his son's friend, and now Xu Qiang was a model worker in the factory and a favorite of the factory director. Wang Shuanzhu didn't want such money. "Let's be fair. You can help me with the work, which is a great favor to me. If you have anything to do in the future, I will do my best to help you." Xu Qiang smiled and continued, "Also, please don't save money for me. I really don't need money. Even if you don't want it, you can't let your brothers lose money, right?"

"Okay, I'll take it." After hearing what Xu Qiang said, Wang Shuanzhu accepted the money and then said to Xu Qiang, "I'll finish the work as soon as possible. Half a month will be enough. I think a week will be enough."

"Then I'll trouble you, Uncle Wang." Xu Qiang thanked him.

The people led by Wang Shuanzhu are all his apprentices and also the best carpenters in the factory.

So Xu Qiang was not worried about the quality issues. Moreover, before this, they had already made many sets of various furniture for others, so this time they were familiar with it.

After settling down in his new home, Xu Qiang went to work at the scrap yard as usual.

At the scrapyard, the house is also being renovated.

After two days of renovation, the house behind the scrap yard has begun to change. The roof was paved with asphalt, several new panes of glass were replaced on the windows, and the walls inside the house were repainted. When the windows were opened, the front and back were transparent, and the house looked brand new!
Considering that many valuable machines would be placed here, the factory sent two electricians to replace all the previous waste wires, and even set up a special electrician room next to it to control the electricity consumption here.

By this afternoon, the first equipment ordered by the factory from Shanghai had been moved into the laboratory, and the factory director Liu Biao came personally to direct the installation of the equipment.

It can be seen that Liu Biao is very concerned about the construction of the laboratory in order to allow Xu Qiang to start work as soon as possible.

"This spectrometer cost our factory a full 17,000 yuan. You must be careful when you use it in the future." Liu Biao said to Xu Qiang.

"Don't worry, these are the utensils I use to make a living, how could I not take good care of them?" Xu Qiang replied.

"There will be some more equipment to come. I estimate that all the equipment here will be in place this week. If you need any raw materials in the future, just write a list and give it to the technical department, and they will pass it to the supply and marketing department for procurement. You should have no other needs this time, right?" Liu Biao said.

"Have!"

"What needs?"

"There's an unused room here, and I want to put a table tennis table in it. Also... this yard is pretty big, so it would be best if I could put a basketball stand there, so that I can exercise when I have nothing to do..."

Xu Qiang is also a sports enthusiast. He loved playing table tennis and basketball when he was a student, and he was quite good at them. After graduation, he went to work in a company where these sports facilities were available.

Sometimes after a busy day in the laboratory, he would play table tennis with his colleagues after get off work, sweat a lot, and then take a shower when he got home. He really enjoyed the feeling of refreshment.

There is a lot of vacant space in the compound where the laboratory is located, so Xu Qiang took the opportunity to make some requests.

"Do you want me to build you another bathtub so you can take a bath when you're tired?"

"use!"

"Why do you have so many problems?!" Liu Biao was immediately furious and yelled at Xu Qiang, "You haven't even done any work yet, and you're already enjoying yourself! The factory spent a full 100,000 yuan on this laboratory! And you're still thinking about playing basketball?"

"This is also educational entertainment..."

"Entertainment is bullshit!" Liu Biao was usually serious but usually spoke in a civilized manner. However, after meeting Xu Qiang, he had already cursed several times. He continued, "If you can come up with a military product for foreign trade this time, let alone a basketball stand, I can even build you a basketball court! If you don't have the skills, go back to the workshop and be your porter!"

After Liu Biao finished speaking, he turned around and left...

(End of this chapter)