“What place is this?”

Following Feng Xiaochen into a building wall skin has been mottled old residential area, Ning Mo frequently turned around, surprised to ask Feng Xiaochen.This kind of community Ningmer and Zhao Yang are very familiar, much like the cold water mine in the 1970s and 1980s built the kind of staff dormitory area, a water six-storey unit building, no elevator, each set of area is about 40 square meters, including kitchen and bathroom, in the 1980s even a mansion, but today it is very simple.They had no idea they had such a house in Chicago.

Feng Xiaochen did not answer Ningmer's inquiry, but took him and Zhao Yang to the community.In front of a unit building, he recognized the unit number, and then walked along the narrow and dark stairs to the fifth floor and knocked on the door of one of the families.

“Who is it!”There was a loud voice in the house.

“Old man, it’s me, Xiao Feng.”Feng Xiaochen responded loudly.

The door opened, and a ceremonial old man appeared in the door, his hair was almost all white, and his face and body looked thin, as if there was no more flesh but skin and bones.Seeing Feng Xiaochen outside the door, he smiled, and stretched out his hand to La Feng's wrist, and said, "Oh, it is Feng, rare, rare guest, how do you think of seeing my old man?"

Feng Xiaochen leaned over, revealing behind Ningmer and Zhao Yang, and said to the old man, “Old man, I brought two friends here today, don’t you mind?”

"Don't mind, don't mind, come on in."The old man was very enthusiastic, greeted the two of Ningmer, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, my son's house is too small, you have to take care of it."

Three people with the old man into the door, Ningmer and Zhao Yang look at the house, recognizing that this is a common two-bedroom apartment in the past, the middle is the living room, each side is a bedroom, the living room area is very small, about three or four square meters, the bedroom is slightly larger.If you look down from the air, the two large rooms are sandwiched with a small living room, like a pair of glasses, so it is also commonly known as the glasses room.

The living room of the glasses room is actually an intersection, one south and one north and two doors lead to two bedrooms, the east door is facing the corridor, and the west door is connected to the kitchen and the bathroom.Because the four sides are doors, so the things in the living room can only be placed in stitches, if a few guests sit down, the traffic of the whole family will be paralyzed.As for the number of people, especially if there is a fat man in it, the living room will be crowded, and even the place where the foot can not be found.

This is how they now huddled in the old man's living room, and the old man's wife was at home, and when she heard a guest coming to the door, she came out from the bedroom on one side to say hello, poured water for everyone, and hid back to the bedroom.She was not afraid of life, did not dare to talk to outsiders, but in the living room really can not sit down the fifth person.

"Well, alas, that condition . . . let you laugh."The old man looked very cramped.

Feng Xiaochen did not care, he smiled and said, “Old man, I will introduce you to me.”These two are my friends, this is Ningmer, this is Zhao Yang, we have been in a relationship for more than 20 years, the two of them are now working together to open a company called Moyang Trading Company.Ningmer, Zhao Yang, I will introduce to you, this is Xu Lao, the former chief engineer of Qinzhou heavy machinery factory Mr. Xu Wenliang, the first generation of metallurgical equipment designers in our country, Tao Li is all over the world."

“It’s overrated, it’s overrated.”Xu Wenliang was embarrassed to wave his hand and said, "I am now outdated, Qin re-introduced a new generation machine, even rolling mill, I have not understood."I'm a retired old man now, and I'm going to Beijing with my wife to help see my grandson."

“Where is the grandchild?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

Xu Wenliang said: "Go to school, a moment my wife and I have to go to pick him up after school."That is, when the grandson is at home, our old couple can still play a little waste heat, usually the son's daughter-in-law goes to work, the grandson goes to school, and our old couple stay at home is completely two waste people."

Feng Xiaochen smiled, “Old man, can you say that, the current state of you and your master is called enjoying the joy of heaven.”I'm not saying that I want to retire now, I don't have to think about staying at home all the time, how comfortable it is."

"What a joke you little Feng is, how big you are, you dare to say retirement!"Xu Wenliang was teased by Feng Xiaochen, he reprimanded Feng Xiaochen, and then said with emotion: "If you don't want to stay with the children, my wife and I really don't like to come to Beijing."You see, such a condition, even the family is difficult to turn around.I live in Qinzhou is the factory assigned to my total building, 200 square meters, in the house is no problem to twist the song."

Ningme couldn't help but interject: "Old man, you live so hard, why don't you change the big house?"

“Change the bigger house?”Xu Wenliang looked like a fool looking at Ningmer, and for a while he smiled at himself and said, "Also, Xiao Feng just now introduced that you two are doing companies, and considering the problem must be different from those of us."My son works in the organ, his daughter-in-law is in the enterprise, earns all the dead wages, and there is not much money left.My wife and I have a little savings, but that little money to get to Beijing to buy a house, it is simply a cup of water.

We also went to see a real estate with our son-in-law last week, 80 square meters of three-bedroom, almost 600,000, our money can pay a down payment, and then a month has more than 2,000 mortgages, but also can afford.However, the daughter-in-law said that their colleagues in the unit are now buying 120 square houses, and she is worried that she will regret it now.No, the family meeting did not form a resolution, and it is still hanging.”

At the end of the day, he laughed and seemed to find it funny to say something like a family meeting.

“I...” Ningmer flashed a thought in his heart, and couldn’t help but want to say something again.

Feng Xiaochen quickly stopped Ningmer with his eyes and turned to Xu Wenliang and said, "Old Xu, we are coming this time, there is something we want to hear from you, do you see it convenient."

“What can I give you, a retired man?”He was surprised, but his face still showed some expectation.He was also bored at home, and it was hard to have someone come to him to talk about things, and he was still very excited.

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

Xu Wenliang took the photos, and from nowhere to turn out a pair of old glasses, wearing on the bridge of the nose, this began to look at these photos.He only looked at it and gushed out: “Isn’t this just a double wire mill?”It should be technically modified to be able to eat a 150 mm continuous cast billet and produce 6 mm, 6.5 mm and 8 mm pipe wire.However, the transformation is not complete, its main motor power is 1600 kilowatts, if replaced by 2500 kilowatts, the production efficiency can be increased by at least 40%.

“...”

Ningmer and Zhao Yang are blind, the old man said these things, two days ago they also heard the gold chain boss there, but people are using that set of equipment every day, know these things is not surprising, Xu Wenliang just with a few photos they took, the equipment parameters said a seven-eight, this professional level, really did not say.

“Old man, you know so much about metallurgical equipment!”Zhao Yang said admiringly.

He said, “What’s so strange about this?This equipment is rebuilt by us Qin, its drawings are my paintings, I still can not understand?I tell you, even if I remove it and turn it back into a steel ingot, I can recognize it."

"Uh, all right..." Zhao Yang lost, from a steel ingot can see that it was once a rolling machine, what can he say, it is better to kneel directly.

After finishing in front of Zhao Yang, Xu Wenliang turned to Feng Xiaochen and asked, “Little Feng, where did you get the picture from?”This equipment has been completely phased out in the past few years.We are now fully automatic high-speed rolling mill, the efficiency is several times higher than this, the unit energy consumption, labor productivity, are much higher, who will keep this double mill?"

Feng Xiaochen smiled, “Old man, I tell you, not only do some people keep such a mill, but also someone wants to renovate it and use it.”You look at the photos of this set of equipment, including electric furnace, continuous casting machine, heating furnace, coarse rolling, rolling, precision rolling, and then add coiling machine, baler, is a complete set.Do you think it’s possible to use it?”

“How is that impossible?”Xu Wenliang said disdainfully, "Not to mention that this equipment is basically complete, the color is relatively new, even if it is pushed in the warehouse for 20 years of old equipment, we have also renovated in the past, not at all worse than the new machine."It is not necessary to just renovate it, and the state is no longer allowed to use this level of equipment.Even if this equipment is refurbished, full of calculation, the annual output is not more than 400,000 tons, which belongs to backward technology, who will want it?

“We want it!”Ningme and Zhao Yang answered in unison.

“Do you want to?”What to do?”He asked incredulously.

At this time, Ningmei no longer understood the intention of Feng Xiaochen, which was white in the mall for 20 years.He went forward to explore, in order to get closer to Xu Wenliang, and then said: "Old, not to mention, I and Zhao recently went to India, there is an Indian steel plant, want to introduce a set of such wire mills, but their funds are relatively short, can not afford new equipment, so we recommended them to the equipment we eliminated."What you see now is a set of equipment that I and Xiao Zhao found, and we want to renovate it and sell it to the Indian businessman, and you see if it is appropriate."