On the one hand, Fulong implements the last-in-first-out system, standardizes processes, and strictly enforces employee assessments. On the other hand, it also has irresistible rewards for those who work hard and shed sweat.
In addition to high salaries and equity incentives, a points system is also used to distribute housing. Employees who have obtained enough points and years of contribution in Fulun can first purchase a house through collective fundraising, and only after they obtain the property rights five years later can they buy and sell it freely.
In addition, there are some houses that can be rented and occupied, and can be purchased at an agreed price after five years. However, this type of house will have to wait another five years before it can be put on the market to ensure that employees can only enjoy the premium of the house after serving the company for a sufficient period of time.
In this context, after Fulun’s first batch of welfare housing was launched, the old employees who had been with Fulun since its inception were able to catch this wave of benefits.
With the construction of staff housing and the shift of business focus, the old employees of Fulongshanhai Office began to move to Chengdu. Many people left their place of residence for decades and moved to Chengdu to start a new stage of their lives. This process was novel and full of hope, and people could feel a sense of upward momentum.
All of this makes people feel emotional when talking about Cheng Feiyang.
Of course, there are still some people who are beginning to feel regretful, such as the Liu Ying and Yao Beibei families. They did not join the reorganized Fulong, and they did not ask for compensation from Fulong. In exchange for equity, each of them received 5,000 shares and was entitled to dividends. When the equity dividends were distributed last year, 5,000 shares received a dividend of 25,000, which was beyond their expectations.
Now, the old employees who joined the company at that time can raise funds to buy welfare housing at a price of about 700 yuan per square meter. This makes Liu Ying and Yao Beibei, who spent 2,000 to 3,000 yuan per square meter to buy commercial housing and move into Chengdu, feel uncomfortable and jealous.
If it weren't for the strong invitation from old colleagues to the Chengdu meeting, both families might not have come. For no other reason, when they heard at the party who wanted which house, how many square meters, whether it was a big or small one, and what the layout was like, they would probably feel even more upset.
The parents gathered together, while the children from the mountains and seas of Fulun gathered privately. The adults didn't care at this time. After all, the children nowadays are no longer at the age where they can be followed around by others. Young people have their own circles and ways of playing.
Everyone agreed to meet at the Fulong Courtyard in Chengdu. After many people were transferred here, their houses had not been renovated or were just beginning to be renovated, so they naturally rented houses nearby or directly in the Fulong Family Compound for the transition.
It was so busy some time ago. The Fulong Family Compound in Chengdu was bustling with people moving in, old friends coming to visit, people wanting to contact schools for their children, and people using their connections to get help... the compound became a Grand View Garden.
For the old residents of the Chengdu Family Compound, it was just a fun thing to watch, but these people who might become colleagues in various departments had different ideas.
Everyone knows that these are Cheng Feiyang's old subordinates from Shanhai. Now that the base camp in Rongcheng has been built, the whole group from Shanhai has moved here. Some people want to build relationships with them. After all, Shanhai is the origin of Fulong, and there are countless people with complicated relationships with the top leaders. Although Fulong has strict internal systems, some human relationships are still unavoidable. Some people are trying to get possible opportunities.
Some people can't help but speculate that when this group of people enter the Chengdu headquarters, they don't know how the internal reshuffle will happen. Some middle and senior managers will naturally worry about the impact on their current positions and power.
All in all, opinions, wait-and-see forecasts from all sides are ongoing.
Liu Ying and Yao Beibei came here to meet up with their friends from Shanhai for dinner. They arrived first, but stood at the door without going in. They stared at the Fulong Building for a long time.
Then Yang Xia, who had talked to them on the phone earlier, got out of the arriving taxi.
Yang Xia wore a blue skirt and carried a small bag across her body. She had a small hairpin pinned on the right side of her bangs and her black hair fell down to her shoulders. When she got out of the taxi, even Liu Ying and Yao Beibei, who she usually saw, were dazzled.
Liu Ying smiled mischievously, "Yeah, you are dressed so beautifully, who are you showing it to?"
Yang Xia didn't care, "I've always been like this."
Yang Xia's father is in business, but his mother Xiao Yun stayed in Fulong as a cashier after the reorganization, so Yang Xia's family also has a welfare house, and they chose the top floor of Building 3. However, Yang Xia's family does not live here at present, but lives in the old house vacated by his cousin's family. It is estimated that they will move in next year after the new house is renovated.
Yao Beibei said, "Yu Xiao took Cheng Ran to the city center to go shopping with him, and they are on their way back. Xie Dong and Wang Yu will come over in a while. Those two are always unreliable."
Yang Xia smiled and said, "Then wait a while."
Then she seemed to feel a little cold. She put her right hand on the bend of her left elbow and then raised her head to see the whole picture of Fulong. The arch of the ten-meter-wide gate was built with granite, and the interior revealed a lush jungle. In the smaller door on the side concrete wall, stairs could be seen, and the stairs led directly to the Fulong Building, which was visible when looking up. The building was 18 stories high and was a landmark in this area.
Liu Ying said, "Have you heard about it? It is said that when Fulong welfare housing was proposed, construction was a big problem, so Cheng Ran's mother partnered with others to open a real estate development company, and then this company built the welfare housing. Yang Xia, have you seen your house?"
"I haven't seen it yet." Yang Xia said. She has not been in Chengdu for too long and has been busy with moving and sorting recently.
Liu Ying was amazed, "Cheng Ran's mother is actually very capable."
Yao Beibei said, "My mom said that developing houses nowadays is like making money out of nothing. In fact, Cheng Ran's mom didn't pay any money at all. The land belongs to the Huatong Company. With this and the approval document from the Housing Authority, we can apply for a bank loan! Moreover, we also let the employees raise funds, which means that the construction party's funds can also be started. These things come very easily!"
It was the first time that Liu Ying and Yang Xia heard this, and they both looked surprised.
Yao Beibei nodded confidently, and couldn't help but show some envy, "Hey... It's Cheng Ran's family's turn now, they are so lucky!"
Liu Ying suddenly spoke up, "Hey, do you know how far the relationship between Jiang Hongshao and Cheng Ran has progressed?"
Yao Beibei immediately looked at him with concern, "Wow, you know something, tell me now..."
Yang Xia also moved his ears and looked over with a curious smile.
Liu Ying said, "I stopped Yu Xiao that day and asked him to tell me the truth. Yu Xiao and I really weren't friends. He asked about the process several times at different stages."
"Tsk..." Yao Beibei said, "I said..."
Yang Xia smiled, "That's the same as saying nothing."
Liu Ying added, "But Yu Xiao said it will probably happen soon. Jiang Hongshao will know about his illness through Cheng Ran and call him to express her sympathy... I think there is something going on between the two of them. It just depends on who will bring it up first. Ah... I am so looking forward to witnessing this scene."
Yao Beibei said with a smile, "Hey, you've witnessed so many of my romances, but I've never seen you so excited."
Liu Ying sneered, "How can you compare with that? Your shortest one was three days. Do you want to break through it again?"
The two of them poked and teased each other for a while. Yao Beibei remembered something and turned to Yang Xia, winking, "Xia Xia, what about you? Luo Zhixian is really a good person. It is said that his family heard that your house is not ready yet, so his parents took the initiative to let you live in their small villa for a while, right? Why don't you go... Do you think of you as your future daughter-in-law... Is it true that Luo Zhixian will be responsible for your study in the United States and make arrangements for you? He said that all he needs is your word?"
Liu Ying raised her eyebrows and said, "Who is Xia Xia? How could she possibly accept their favor? Besides, it was just a one-sided wish from Luo Zhixian and his family. It doesn't count at all."
Yang Xia shook her head and said, "It's not that exaggerated, it's all spread by outsiders." Although many things were spread by relatives on her side, the truth was not that exaggerated. Luo Zhixian's parents were just a guest at most and were a little closer to his parents. But Yang Xia couldn't tell why, in fact, she was not very close to her brother Luo Zhixian's father Luo Chen. She always felt that this "Brother Luo" in the circles of the two families always exuded an indescribable shrewdness, which made her not want to deal with them.
Yao Beibei was a little disappointed. "Ah, didn't they say they would send you with Luo Zhixian when he went abroad to study?"
"How is that possible? Besides, I won't agree to it." Yang Xia smiled.
Yao Beibei said, "It's so convincing, it's really unreliable. But I think Cheng Ran must have the advantage over Jiang Hongshao because he's close to her. Hongshao transferred to No. 10 Middle School, so she must be unfamiliar with her. Cheng Ran transferred there later, and they were in the same place before, so they must have become closer. It's very possible that the two of them..."
The girls always have endless topics to talk about in this regard, and several of them smiled from time to time by the flower bed.
But when Yang Xia was smiling, she would occasionally look at the flowers, trees and buildings of the new city where she had just started her life.
I feel like things and people have changed.
…
Yu Xiao dragged Cheng Ran to the city center to visit many stores that were not available in Shanhai, and bought some popular brand clothes. Only then did they return with Cheng Ran contentedly. When Cheng Ran got off the car, a group of friends from Shanhai had already arrived one after another. Although they had met each other one after another when they moved to Chengdu, today was the most formal gathering after settling down. In fact, they often met in the Shanhai circle, but Cheng Ran was a rare guest. Now that they met, they felt very cordial.
What Cheng Ran saw were the friends he remembered. Now they were taller, had generally grown up, and were wearing more fashionable clothes. The boys had hair on their lips, and the girls' figures began to stand out, appearing more slender. Although their conversation still had some characteristics of the past, it was now more different.
People also looked at him with scrutiny and eagerness, and joked with him, and Yang Xia also looked at him with a gentle smile, as if he was talking to an old friend.
Everyone then went to have dinner at the Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurant on Babao Street.
In the private room, everyone sat around eating hotpot and chatting about the mountains, seas and the past of Chengdu.
Yu Xiao usually reported Cheng Ran's experiences and observations, because when Yu Xiao called, he would hear most of what Cheng Ran had said.
Shanhai's friends also got a lot of information. It turned out that at the end of last year, Jiang Hongshao's father Li Jingping was already a senior official in Shanhai City. Shanhai City has successively completed a number of key projects that are well-known in the province and even the country. After Li Jingping created the Shanhai International Tourism Festival, the subsequent Shanhai Airport expansion project has made Shanhai flourish. This combination of punches has made Shanhai City famous overseas for tourism. Li Jingping can be said to be a rising political star in the province.
Cheng Ran thought of Cheng Bin again. He didn't know which step Li Jingping would take next, but there was no doubt that no matter which step, Cheng Bin would have a lot of resources and reputation to rely on. These two came one after the other, one was making waves in his hard work, and the other was famous for fighting crime and eliminating evil. Shanhai was the place that attracted the most attention from the provincial high-level officials in the past two years.
Everyone asked again, "Cheng Ran, did you really rank second in your grade in the final exam of No. 10 Middle School?"
The parents of these friends who came from the mountains and seas had already heard about this matter, so naturally the rumor was unbelievable. Of course, they had to confirm it in person at this time.
Cheng Ran nodded, which immediately caused an uproar in the audience.
Now when everyone looks at Cheng Ran, they don't joke with him anymore. Because they feel that Cheng Ran, who came to Chengdu, is no longer the same as they used to be, in terms of the things he comes into contact with and the place where he lives. He seems to be different from the friend they knew before. This is not surprising, because everyone grows up. Some growth actually makes people alienated and unfamiliar.
When everyone heard the news that Cheng Ran was ranked second in the grade, although they condemned it as "unforgivable", it was actually obvious that most of them were reserved when looking at Cheng Ran.
He seemed to no longer be the boy they once knew, the boy who would be reckless, do stupid things, mess with the girls when they went out for a picnic, get scolded by Yang Xia, be a worry, and make people worry about him getting a bamboo stick fried meat scolding from his parents when he got home after every exam.
He became more calm, his eyes more profound, just like in such gatherings, he was more like a spectator, withdrawing from the past and looking back at his past. It made people feel a little alienated, and some of the jokes and insults that people used to say to him, they thought twice before saying them.
Almost everyone's school choice was settled. Yu Xiao went to No. 30 Middle School, Yao Beibei and Liu Ying went to No. 12 Middle School together, and Xie Dong went to No. 17 Middle School... These schools seemed to remind them that everything in Shanhai, a small city with only two or three outstanding high schools, was far away from them.
However, everyone discovered that they didn't know Yang Xia's school.
Countless people looked at her.
Yang Xia smiled and looked at Liu Ying and Yao Beibei, "I came late today. Actually, I was just confirming this matter... I just received the admission notice from No. 10 Middle School."
The whole audience burst into laughter.
Liu Ying said, "After the final exam, you said you came to Rongcheng to take the exam. I remember you said you wanted to take the exams for several schools, Mianzhong, No. 27 Middle School, and Nanzhong. So in the end, you were admitted to No. 10 Middle School?"
Then, a large group of people at the dinner table almost simultaneously thought of the childhood sweetheart relationship between the two, and watched Cheng Ran and Yang Xia banging the drink bottles and slapping the table, shouting “Oh my…!”
Yang Xia seemed to want to explain, but was interrupted by countless voices every time, so she simply rolled her eyes, boiled the food and ignored these crazy people.
Finally, the meal ended with everyone enjoying it to the fullest. The spicy hot pot and beer made everyone's face red. When everyone walked out of the restaurant, the lights were just coming on. Yang Xia stood next to Cheng Ran without knowing when.
She was standing alone in a blue skirt, which was blown by the wind, revealing her graceful girlish figure, and her calves exposed from under the hem of her skirt were as pure as ice.
There is a faint fragrance in the air.
Maybe it was because she drank some beer and ate some spicy food, she turned her pretty face and gave Cheng Ran a half-joking smile, saying with seven parts of playfulness and three parts of teasing, "Cheng Ran, I didn't come to No. 10 Middle School for you."
Under the starlight.
Cheng Ran nodded and said, "I know."
Yang Xia said "Oh" and looked very interested.
Cheng Ran said, "You must be here for the return of the wild geese in spring."
After being stunned for a moment, Yang Xia kicked him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Why are you still as poor as before!"