On the first Saturday of April, a first quarter performance summary meeting was held in the Zhaohua Company conference room.
Gan Xiaofeng: "The Hongbao Village vegetable base is progressing smoothly. The Dongshan Town Government is signing the contract. Sister Sun led a team into the village last week."
Ye Zhao looked down at the financial report and asked, "How is the road repair going?"
Liu Yang, a new male colleague, said: "The bulldozers and excavators rented from Guipi are estimated to take about a month to dig the road."
"The construction period is longer than expected." Ye Zhao made a rough calculation and found that the cost would be less than ten thousand.
Liu Yang: "I will keep a close eye on the construction schedule."
Ye Zhao glanced at Liu Yang. This boy had been working for several years and was quite experienced. She said, "You go to the scene and keep an eye on him. Guipi is very cunning, so you have to keep an eye on him."
"Then I'll go tomorrow."
Aqin: "Sister Sun said that it would take another month for the first batch of leafy vegetables to come out. Once the road is repaired, it will be just in time for the first batch of leafy vegetables to be transported out."
Gan Xiaofeng: "The more troublesome thing now is how to tell Mr. Jiang that we have changed the vegetable base in Huicheng that supplies Hong Kong."
Ye Zhao thought for a moment and said, "We can't just replace them directly. Right now, Hongbao Village can only provide a limited amount of vegetables. We have to replace them step by step. This week we'll replace spinach, next week we'll replace Shanghai greens, and the week after that we'll replace lettuce. We'll replace them back and forth, slowly. What Hongbao Village can't produce in time, we'll get from the Huicheng vegetable base that supplies Hong Kong. We'll make the change of suppliers a gradual transition without anyone noticing."
Ah Qin laughed and said, "Isn't this called boiling a frog in warm water?"
Liu Yang exclaimed: "This move is brilliant!"
Ah Qin laughed and said to him: "The boss still wants your praise?"
Liu Yang responded bluntly: "Is it not okay to praise the boss? Or is it that you are the only one who can praise the boss?"
Aqin: "Liu Yang, you've just arrived and you've already become a seasoned veteran."
Liu Yang is also a person who refuses to admit defeat. He said, "You always argue with me no matter what I say. Look at Mu Xin, he won't do that."
Ah Qin wanted to retort, but Gan Xiaofeng stopped her: "We are in a meeting, don't joke around."
Ah Qin stuck out her tongue and quickly got back to the point: "Then I'll add the name of Hongbao Village's vegetable base for Hong Kong to the supplier list first."
Ye Zhao asked again: "When can the small yellow ginger from Xishan be harvested?"
"At the end of this month. I discussed the price with Mr. Cai of Song Rongji last time. The initial purchase price they gave was 1.2 yuan."
Ye Zhao expected that they would lower the price, so she said, "Tell them that we can give them this price for the small yellow ginger in October. The current batch is planted off-season, and the cost is much higher. This price is definitely not acceptable. We have to give this price to all ginger farmers."
Gan Xiaofeng: "Then I will talk to them at the meeting next week. Will you go to the meeting next week?"
Ye Zhao shook his head: "No."
Gan Xiaofeng: "Boss, what is your target price?"
"Last year, the ginger farmers suffered huge losses, but the compensation they received was not much. This year, the purchase price will be set higher, at 1.2 yuan. The price we give to Song Rongji cannot be lower than 1.5 yuan. After deducting the transportation and labor costs, we can only make 0.2-0.3 yuan per catty, which is not a high profit."
Aqin: "Our profit is not high, but Manager Cai will definitely not agree to this price."
Ye Zhao: "If he doesn't agree, forget it. We'll just collect the ginger and not sell it. Let's see who gets anxious."
Ye Zhao continued to look through the financial report. In the first quarter, the vegetable trade with the ninth floor of the cafeteria made a profit of 130,000. The cafeteria's profit decreased because it was the off-season. Together with the profit of the canteen, the profit was about 25,000.
The Hongbao Village vegetable base supplying Hong Kong currently costs 30,000 yuan.
Now, with the remaining money in her account, there is about 14.
The new accountant, Sister Min, resigned due to family matters, so Mu Xin was still reconciling the accounts with Ye Zhao. Mu Xin added in a low voice: "The money from the scrap yard in Zizhulin has not been included."
Ever since the mute opened the Zizhulin scrap yard, he bought out Liang Po's blue shed in one shot. He made a profit of more than 600 yuan in the first month, and gave 300 yuan to Ye Zhao.
Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Just use the money from Zizhulin as pocket money for me, don't put it into your account."
Aqin was full of envy: "Boss, your pocket money is higher than our salary."
Liu Yang retorted: "How else can you call me boss?"
Aqin rolled her eyes at her and continued, "Xiao Zhao, it would be better if you were a man. I would be your boss's wife." After saying that, she burst into laughter.
Gan Xiaofeng laughed at her: "You are quite ambitious. You even want to be the boss's wife."
"Can't you even tell me a little?"
After the meeting, Ye Zhao asked Xiao Feng to stay, "From now on, only you and the financial staff can attend the financial meetings. No one else needs to attend."
"I was just about to tell you about this. There will be more people in the company in the future, so it's better to sort them out." Gan Xiaofeng said, glancing at the clock on the wall. "By the way, Sister Min introduced an experienced financial officer to me. He's scheduled to come at 3 o'clock. I think he'll be here soon. Do you want to have an interview?"
"No need, just interview. You know my standards." Ye Zhao's standard for finance is to have honest people like Mu Xin.
As they were talking, Ah Qin knocked on the door and came in, saying mysteriously, "Guess who Sister Min introduced?"
"Who is it?"
"She's the old lady in the finance office of the Irene Toy Factory. She looks fierce but has a big smile on her face."
Who was Gan Xiaofeng still thinking about? Ye Zhao knew, "Sister Zhong?"
"Yes, that's her."
Ye Zhao was just about to send her away, but that idiot Liu Yang, seeing someone having an interview at the door, led the person in directly.
Sister Zhong saw Ye Zhao standing at the door in a daze. No wonder she felt that the girl who received her just now looked familiar. It turned out that she was the same group of people in the cafeteria before.
This is really a meeting of enemies. Sister Zhong's face was hot. She didn't know whether to leave or not.
Ye Zhao said with a smile on his face: "Sister Zhong, you still haven't found a job after so long? I see you have lost a lot of weight, you must have lost weight successfully!"
Ye Zhao controlled the sarcasm just right, and Sister Zhong didn't know how to respond directly.
Ye Zhao just glanced at her and ignored her. He took the notebook on the table and went back to the office.
Ah Qin said to Gan Xiaofeng, "Our temple is small, so it can't accommodate a big Buddha, right?"
Staying any longer would just be a humiliation for herself as the other party would never hire her. Sister Zhong turned around and left in anger.
As she walked on the road, Sister Zhong became more and more angry. Bai Yunping went back to work in Irene. Although she went to a branch factory, she finally solved her work problem. As for her, her career was tarnished. She was looking for a job at an old age, and not only did she encounter repeated setbacks, but she also suffered a lot.
She decided to find Bai Yunlian.
Because today is Saturday, Bai Yunping was also there. After hearing about what happened to Sister Zhong, Bai Yunping was also very angry.
Bai Yunping: "I heard that Ye Zhao rented the canteen in someone else's name, and the canteen of the branch factory was also rented to her. This shows that we were right to mess with her in the first place. We were not wrong, but our method was wrong."
Bai Yunlian didn't want to talk about these things in front of outsiders, so she hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about the past anymore."
Sister Zhong didn't want to dwell on the past anymore. It had nothing to do with her in the first place. She was the one who got dragged down. She just wanted to solve the work problem now. She asked quietly, "Is the branch still short of financial personnel?"
"Don't say anything. All the positions in finance are taken." Bai Yunping couldn't tell Sister Zhong directly that she couldn't help her, so she just said, "I'll keep an eye on it for you. I'll let you come as soon as there's a chance."
Bai Yunlian had a cold these two days. She took some medicine and leaned on the sofa, looking listless and looking frighteningly haggard.
She said, "Yesterday a friend of mine asked me to go house hunting. She was very familiar with a property manager and could get a discount, so I went to see it. Guess who I ran into?"
"Who did you run into? Could it be Gao Yueyue?"
"That's her."
Bai Yunping sat up straight: "She is also looking for a house? Your old Ye is going to buy her a house so soon? When you two met, didn't you fight?"
Bai Yunlian: "Look at me, I look so sick, am I fit to meet people? I saw her, but she didn't see me. I pretended to be busy and left secretly."
Bai Yunping hit her sister: "Sister, why are you so cowardly? Are you still my sister?"
"Should I really fight her? She's so fierce, can I beat her?"
"That's not right. Isn't she sick? I've always suspected that she was pregnant and hid from everyone."
Bai Yunlian had already found out, "She had a miscarriage last month."
"Miscarriage? Who told you that, sister? Why didn't you tell me such a big thing?"
"I also found out after I called Secretary Liu last night and asked her about it."
"Luckily it was a miscarriage! Sister, let me tell you something you don't want to hear. If that bitch Gao Yueyue really gave birth to a child, you would have no chance of winning. It's a pity now that you have been with Old Ye for more than ten years and you haven't given him a child."
Bai Yunlian frowned: "What can I do? I've been sterilized, can I get it fixed?"
Bai Yunping doesn't dare to give her sister any advice now. She has finally returned to work in the factory. After losing once, she now understands how important this job is to her. She doesn't dare to act recklessly again, for fear of being kicked out again.
"Why don't you just be patient, take a step back and accept Gao Yueyue as your mistress. I'm afraid she'll become the boss and you'll be the underdog!"
"Shut up." Bai Yunlian glanced at her sister, and after a while, she said, "I want Bai Lu to have the same surname as him, Ye."
"Why did Bai Lu take his last name? You and Ye Dingguo are married, and you are on the same household registration book, so Bai Lu can change her last name." After saying this, Bai Yunping understood, "You want to use this as an excuse to force Old Ye to get married?"
"If he doesn't agree, then let me go back to work in the factory, or even in a branch factory. You have to agree to one condition of mine."
"Why don't you try to be more tactful."
When Ye Zhao returned home from the company, he found out that Zeng Xiang and Zeng Xiaotian had been called by Fatty Ying to help the mute with his work.
She rode her bike to the Purple Bamboo Forest to look for them. From a distance, she saw Granny Liang sitting at the door of the blue shed. Ye Zhao stopped the bike and asked, "Granny, did you just wash your hair?"
Granny Liang had just washed her hair and was sitting at the door drying it. She waved for Ye Zhao to come forward and talk, "I heard you're also in the business next door?"
Ye Zhao smiled and lied and denied: "No, I rented the land to Uncle Fugui..."
Granny Liang shook her head: "I've never seen anyone doing business like this. They have no sense of shame to be next door to others."
"Isn't it always like this? Next to a Sichuan restaurant is a Hunan restaurant, next to a car repair shop is another car repair shop, next to a KFC is a McDonald's, it's better to do business when they are together."
Granny Liang waved her hands: "I don't understand what you are saying. You guys are all in the same group."
Ye Zhao sincerely suggested: "Mrs. Liang, if there is no business, why not just give up and sell the land so that you can enjoy a peaceful life?"
"I know you want to buy my land!" Grandma Liang combed her gray hair.
Ye Zhao: "No, no, no, I don't want to. I don't have money, and I don't need it. My land is big enough."
"Didn't you buy this for your friend?"
"Neither do my friends."
Granny Liang snorted, "I won't sell it either. Let's see who can outlast the other! You dumb bastard, you can't even speak, and you're trying to steal my business. You're such a piece of shit."
Ye Zhao sincerely advised: "You have money anyway, it would be more comfortable to have some free time, there is no need to work so hard. If I were you, I would not live in this shabby factory, I would go home and live."
Granny Liang didn't think Ye Zhao was sincere. The little girl had a lot on her mind. She said, "You just want me to close down, right?"
Ye Zhao ignored her and prepared to leave. Seeing that Ye Zhao ignored her, Liang Po called her again: "Hey, pretty girl..."
Ye Zhao turned back helplessly: "What?"
"Eat maltose?"
"I don't have any money."
"It's freshly made. Wait for it." Granny Liang went into the house, knocked out half a paper bag of maltose, and handed it to her. "It's free. It's for you."
Ye Zhao stared at Granny Liang, who was tough on the outside but soft on the inside, and took the maltose with a smile, "Thank you, Granny."
Granny Liang waved her hand and said, "Let's go. You guys are really annoying."
Ye Zhao rode his bike to the Zizhulin Scrap Station. The big words "Scrap Station" were written on a wooden board by Zeng Xiang with a brush.
Two asbestos-tiled houses were built in front of the scrap yard, where the mute now lives and eats. A large shed was built at the back to store cardboard and other waste that is afraid of water. The open area further inside is filled with scrap copper and iron.
Xiangzai, who was still attending Gangcheng Noble School yesterday, was now helping the mute to press plastic bottles with Xiaotian. The two of them rolled up their sleeves, frowned, and looked extremely dedicated to their jobs. Xiaotian was even cursing at the same time.
Ye Zhao recalled the first time she met Zeng Xiang. She and Ye Xiaoqin were hiding in a corner, shivering while holding waste cardboard and cans. Who would have thought that one day they would see BKing collecting waste.
This picture is so beautiful.
Ye Zhao walked up to him and teased, "Xiaotian, you haven't eaten yet, so you don't have the energy to work."
Xiaotian looked hopeless: "How about you come?"
Brother Xiang urged him: "Stop talking nonsense and finish the work!"
He looked up at her and said, "Did you see the game console?"
Zeng Xiang gave Ye Zhao a Nintendo game console. She smiled and said, "I saw it! Brother Xiang, you are trying to delay my studies."
"Then I'll take it."
Xiaotian responded hastily: "Put it to me! Put it to me! I'll take care of it if I have to work hard!"
Ye Zhao and Zeng Xiang said in unison: "You wish!"
Ye Zhaobai glanced at them and said, "What do you want to do? What you give to me is mine."
On the other hand, Ye Dingguo returned home and heard Bai Yunlian tell him that she wanted Bai Lu to take his last name. He frowned and asked, "Whose idea? Yours or Bai Lu's?"
"Bai Lu represented the school to participate in the district speech contest. Someone asked her who Ye Dingguo was to her. She said he was her father. Then someone asked, Ye Dingguo is your father, why don't you take his last name? Bai Lu was shy and didn't know how to answer others. The more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt. She came back and hid in her room crying."
(End of this chapter)