Chapter 68 Look carefully, look carefully, you guys...

"Now that the factory is open, we need someone to manage the finances. Essentially, the factory needs a finance officer and a cashier, one managing outgoings and one managing incomings. With these two people overseeing each other, the company's financial situation is clear. So, the most crucial thing right now is to find two people to manage the finances and, by the way, have them manage all the internal data."

"The specific number of factory employees should also be determined. This requires careful consideration by Great Grandfather and Second Grandfather."

"Also, everyone's salary, how the money will be invested and how it will be divided should be negotiated in advance."

"For now, Grandpa is still in charge of all matters related to flour at the factory, and Second Grandpa is in charge of the rapeseed oil. Just like before, we need to take our time. All regulations need to be implemented gradually; we can't change everything all at once."

"My grandfather's main responsibility right now is sales, which is our factory's responsibility. Those who are good at purchasing will be responsible for it. Those who are not good at dealing with people will be assigned to transport goods or deal with flour mills and grinding mills. Those who think they have potential in sales will try to find clients. Sales staff can stay in Qingshui Village or move to Liuping and live with our company. It depends on everyone's opinion. We are just a factory, and from now on, we must strive to have a clear division of labor. Drivers are drivers, warehouse staff are warehouse staff, workers are workers, sales is sales, and purchasing is purchasing."

After all, we're still small, so drivers and warehouse workers can be mixed together. But sales and purchasing personnel really need specialized training. And the finance and cashier roles must be carefully selected. Once they're on board, they'll handle finance, back office work, clerical work, tax payments, and even everyone's payroll, initially. Of course, we can't just hand all of this off to them and call it a day. Once they're done, we'll conduct spot checks and regularly check in with them. We'll also verify, approve, and thoroughly understand all the data they calculate.

Opening a factory is just opening a factory, it’s not enough to just hang a sign.

After everyone had finished having fun and sat together for the first meeting, after everyone had expressed their own suggestions for opening a factory, Chen Pan also sat down and expressed his own views.

From the very beginning, her grandfather, great-grandfather and second grandfather all had the idea that great-grandfather would continue to be in charge of flour, second grandfather would continue to be in charge of rapeseed oil, and her grandfather would continue to be in charge of sales.

When Chen Pan spoke, he clearly put this on the table for the first time. He then mentioned that they still needed to find a financial officer and a cashier.

She also said that they could be in chaos for the time being.

But in the follow-up, we must gradually separate all positions and make them as detailed as possible so that everyone can perform their duties.

Then, regarding the financial matters, Chen Pan immediately suggested that her grandfather and his family contact Fang Qinghua. As for the other person, they could find someone within their own family who was competent. They could find a younger person and then someone a little older.

"Anyway, in a factory, finance and cashier positions are extremely important. We can't just look for someone with the same surname, or someone with a particularly close relationship."

Now that the factory has opened, no matter what others think, Chen Pan told everyone everything he knew.

Everyone in the Chen family, young and old, came to today's meeting.

Of course, the door was open, and those who were not interested in the meeting and did not want to listen to such a meeting also left quietly with their backs bent.

In such occasions, most of the speakers are men, and they are older men.

In principle, people of Chen Pan's age should not speak in such occasions.

But almost all the Chen family members present knew how the Chen family's pancake shop came about.

Many people at the scene knew that Chen Pan had helped everyone make money during the summer vacation and National Day.

Even many people at the scene had followed Chen Pan to make money.

So at this moment, when Chen Pan opened his mouth to speak, no one present objected.

After she finished, Grandpa Chen, who was presiding over the meeting, said, "Okay, we'll talk to the Yang family about the financial matters later. The key question now is, who wants to work in this factory? Who's willing to work here? Who wants to try something different? This is a rare opportunity. We're all here, so everyone should share their ideas."

"Yes, say it all, speak openly." Chen Aimin was not good at speaking, and now after his elder brother finished speaking, he could only repeat it instinctively.

"Who wants to work in purchasing, who's willing to work at a flour mill, who's willing to deal with rapeseed oil every day? Who feels they have sales skills, who thinks their children can do the finance or cashiering job that Panpan just mentioned? Everyone can recommend each other, or you can recommend yourself. Although our factory has just started, everyone is actually familiar with the work of purchasing grain, delivering goods, and going to the flour mill.

If you feel your family arrangements aren't good enough and you'd like to try something else, please let us know now. We're trying to switch it up, and if you can, you can continue doing what you enjoy. If you try it and find you can't do it, or if you don't like it anymore, we can switch back. For the time being, we really encourage you to apply for sales positions."

Chen Aiguo was worthy of having attended two entrepreneurship classes. Now he was no longer flustered when speaking in front of people.

Although Longcheng was cold in December of the Gregorian calendar, it was not yet freezing cold.

In the master bedroom where the cabinets had been pulled out of Chen Pan's house, some people sat on the kang, some sat on the sofa, some sat on the bench, some squatted against the wall, and some stood by the door.

When everyone heard the three elders say this, they immediately spoke up enthusiastically.

In fact, many members of the Chen family came to the scene in the morning.

But everyone present was actually Great Grandfather Chen's family, his three sons' families, and all the grandchildren, grandsons' wives, and so on. Then there were Second Grandfather Chen's two sons and two daughters-in-law. As for the grandsons, they were too young, like the ones who had just come in to listen, then sneaked away when they felt uninterested. Then there were Chen Pan's family of three, and the three younger Chens who had come to help while Great Grandfather and Second Grandfather were busy, including the patriarch, Chen Lao Si.

"Master, Second Master, Third Master, I want to try my hand at sales. Can you let me do sales?"

"Dad, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, our Pingping has graduated from junior high school this year. Can she work as a financial officer or cashier in our factory?"

The 30-square-meter master bedroom was suddenly filled with so many people, and the atmosphere was really bad. She felt that she had said everything she needed to say, and she knew that no one wanted to hear her nonsense anymore. As Chen Laoshi and the aunt raised their hands to speak, Chen Pan lowered her head and quietly emerged from the crowd.

"Panpan, where are you going?" When Chen Pan was about to leave the main room, Chen Pingping, who was hiding behind the door curtain, suddenly called her.

"Sister Panpan!" Chen Zhenzhen from her second uncle's family, who had been following her, also called her softly.

"Pan Pan, are you going out?" They were accompanied by a young girl in red clothes, who must be her second cousin's new young wife. The other girl must be very shy. After looking at Chen Pan embarrassedly, she finally squeezed out those words with a red face.

"Hello, second sister-in-law!" Chen Pan greeted her and patted her cousin's head. Finally, she turned to her cousin: "Sister, it's a rare opportunity for me to come here. I want to see my good friend. Besides, it's useless for me to stay here in this situation."

"How could you—"

Chen Pingping wanted to say, how could her words be useless?

But at the last moment, she suddenly lowered her voice and changed the subject: "If you go there now, they may not be home. They may be plowing the fields or picking potatoes."

"It's already December, and they haven't finished plowing the land yet?" Chen Pan frowned subconsciously.

Seeing this, Chen Zhenzhen immediately explained, "Anyone who's diligent will definitely finish all their farm work before the end of autumn. But there are also those who are a bit lazy and will keep putting it off until winter is almost here and they have no other choice but to do it. It seems like his family hasn't plowed all the fields yet. Yesterday I saw them pulling the oxen back from the fields. If nothing unexpected happens, they might have taken Yang Xiaomei and her three siblings to the fields today."

Knowing that Chen Pan only had Yang Xiaomei as his real friend in Qingshui Village, Chen Pingping and Chen Zhenzhen both told each other what they knew to prevent Chen Pan from making a wasted trip.

"Okay, thank you. I'll go for a walk outside first. I'll go to their house when it gets a little darker."

Looking at his own old Huang who had been sent back and a dozen lambs that had become fat and strong in the distance, Chen Pan, who didn't want to stay here any longer, immediately decided to take them out for some water.

Her current age means that people sometimes listen to her and sometimes don't.

I know that because of those regulations, for those few jobs, and for everyone scrambling for those easy and lucrative jobs, the people inside will definitely not always be so harmonious.

Chen Pan, who had a very clear understanding of human nature, decided to go out and hide for a while.

In fact, there was a clear spring flowing down from above in front of the gate of Chen Pan’s house, but seeing the hay outside that was yellow but still edible, Chen Pan drove his cows and sheep down there to drink water.

As she pulled her cow slowly forward, Xiao Hei, who she had let go again, turned into a sheepdog and quickly drove the dozen or so sheep that had just returned to the house.

"Sister, do you want to take them to eat grass or drink water?"

"Panpan, you're out too?"

After Chen Pan walked out the door, he ran into Chen Sanbao and Chen Sibao who were standing at their door and smoking secretly.

When the two men saw Chen Pan, they instinctively hid the cigarettes in their hands.

"I'll put them down there and give them some water."

Chen Pan, who was an adult at heart, didn't care whether they smoked secretly or not. She also didn't think that a boy of her age and two years older than her was a bad kid just because he smoked secretly.

Anyway, at this moment, she just smiled and answered them casually.

Seeing that she didn't care about them, the two young people who had gone with her to her great-uncle's house to celebrate the New Year and followed him out to earn a few days' extra money during the National Day holiday looked at each other. Then they helped Chen Pan and quickly drove her sheep and dog to the bottom of the road.

"Sister, next time you go to People's Park, you must call me!"

Of the two half-grown boys, Chen Sibao was the least scheming. After helping Chen Pan drive the sheep to a safe area, he immediately said.

"Okay, but the earliest we can do that is next year's Qingming Festival!"

Compared to Chen Panpan and Chen Pingping inside, Chen Pan was more familiar with them. So she didn't think much about it and immediately nodded with a smile.

"It's okay, anytime is fine. Just call us if you need us." Chen Sanbao, who was already in high school, put out the cigarette in his hand, and then asked Chen Pan a few questions about the situation in No. 6 Middle School.

Chen Pan told him about the situation at No. 6 Middle School. Chen Sibao and Chen Sanbao, who were both at No. 4 Middle School, also complained to Chen Pan about their situation there. They generally said that the food in the cafeteria was terrible, the dormitory environment was terrible, and the teachers didn't pay much attention to their affairs.

Everyone talked for a few minutes, and finally, when Chen Pan's cattle and sheep had eaten the grass for a long distance, Chen Pan separated from them.

In his previous life, Chen Sibao unexpectedly failed the college entrance examination for the first time. He then repeated a year and was admitted to a junior college again.

Even though he only had a junior college degree, he was the first one in his generation to be admitted to university and the first one to successfully get a stable job after graduation.

Chen Sibao, who is the same age as Chen Pan, also went out to work immediately after graduating from junior high school.

Even Chen Pingping, who had just been outside the house, was arranged by her parents to work in a packaging factory right after graduating from junior high school. However, the factory closed down within two years, and after Chen Pingping left the factory, her parents arranged for her to marry off before she was even 18.

As for Chen Zhenzhen, she was swindled away by a gangster right after graduation, before she even ventured out into the world. Chen Pan still remembers a time in her past life when she ran into him. He, with his two children, told her, looking weary, how her husband had easily swindled her with just a phone, a new set of clothes, and two bags of snacks her parents had never bought her.

"Xiao Hei, hurry up, don't let them go down any further, hurry back!"

After shouting at Xiao Hei in front of him, Chen Pan slowly turned his head.

Looking off in the distance, Chen Pan saw that Third Brother Chen, who was said to have performed poorly on his second attempt at the Gaokao due to excessive pressure on his first attempt, and also that Fourth Brother Chen, who, like her, had been working outside since his youth and would continue to do so, gave a gentle smile and then turned back to herding cattle and sheep.

It is said that Chen Pan's family was full of laughter and joy in the morning, but in the afternoon the situation was so tense that they almost started fighting.

Chen Pan didn't care about these things. When he came back from letting the cattle go, he found that the meeting had not yet finished.

Chen Pan found his grandmother among the crowd busy in the kitchen, said something to her, and then Chen Pan went out again.

When Chen Pan arrived at Yang Xiaomei's house in the dark, he found that it was already seven o'clock in the evening and they had not returned home yet.

After waiting at the door of Yang's house for a while, Chen Pan slowly came down because he felt a little cold.

Then, just as Chen Pan came down, she happened to see Yang Xiaomei, who was carrying half a bag of potatoes on her back. At this moment, Yang's father, mother, and Yang Xiaofang were walking with her, each carrying half a bag of potatoes on their backs, while her brother was leading a cow.

"Xiaomei!!"

Seeing that the other party was a little surprised, Chen Pan ran over immediately.

“Panpan!!”

Yang Xiaomei didn't expect Chen Pan to come back, and she immediately ran towards her twice with a look of surprise. However, because of the weight on her back, she only ran two steps.

"Uncle Yang, Aunt Yang, Xiaofang, Xiaokang, hello!"

After running up to them, Chen Pan immediately greeted Yang Xiaomei's parents and family reflexively.

"It's Panpan. Didn't your family open the factory today? Why did you come here on such a happy day? Did you come here specifically to play with our Xiaomei?"

Among the Yang family members, the first person to speak to Chen Pan was Yang Xiaomei's father. He looked frail, good-looking, and wore a pair of round glasses.

In short, Yang Xiaomei's father was very kind and amiable at the moment. No, it should be said that he was always very kind and amiable to outsiders. But when it came to his family, he would basically become a different person when he returned.

"Yes, I came back to see them open the factory. After I finish my work, I will come to see Xiaomei."

No matter what the other person's personality was, Chen Pan responded with a smile.

While speaking, Chen Pan quickly lifted up half a bag of potatoes on his good friend's back.

"Look at this, look at this. Kids your age are really the most loyal and friendly. If it weren't for your help last time, our family wouldn't have earned that 3,000 yuan. That's 3,000 yuan! You're such a talented kid, you're so good at making money. If Xiaomei and Xiaofang could be as talented as you, I wouldn't have to worry about anything in the future."

He glanced at Chen Pan casually, then asked, "By the way, Panpan, why didn't you invite our Xiaomei and Xiaofang to the National Day last time? I heard that you went out to make money last time, so I thought you would invite them, but you didn't even invite them!"