Chapter 237 Meet the Little Sister

At the Spring Fair, there are many people who can translate accurately, but there are very few people who can both translate accurately and understand the psychology of foreigners.

When there were several booths where she couldn't come to an agreement with foreigners, she would just pull Yue Ning over and chat with them for a few minutes. She could analyze the mentality of the foreigners, and even the mentality of the Chinese businessmen. She could eliminate those who were not sincere in the negotiation, and basically win over the remaining ones who were interested.

In his previous life, Ning Shao La opened stores in more than 20 countries. Yue Ning paid great attention to the proportion of local diners. He believed that Ning Shao La’s overseas expansion was not only to bring hometown food to overseas Chinese, but also to become the local "Western fast food". Non-Chinese diners accounted for more than 50% of the vast majority of stores. In most major countries, such as the United States, France and Germany, non-Chinese customers even accounted for 70%.

Their team has conducted in-depth research on the preferences and habits of local guests, so Yue Ning has a basic understanding of people from these countries. On the basis of understanding and respect, coupled with the low prices of Chinese goods, how could the goods not be sold?

The booths in their area always like to ask Xiao Yue to come over and ask questions when they have something to do. Now Xiao Yue said she was going back to Gangcheng. They all knew that this outgoing girl who grew up in the northwest was the big boss of Gangcheng. She had her own business in Gangcheng, and it was very good that she could help them for so many days.

Everyone was very poor and couldn't give her anything valuable to thank her, so they could only give her some worthless local specialties.

Yue Ning took Torreya nuts and walnuts, as well as bacon, tea leaves, and golden thread dates. The Jiangxi Agricultural Products Exhibition gave her a piece of Anfu ham, and repeatedly told her that this ham was no worse than Jinhua ham. Yue Ning said she would definitely use it to cook.

Comrades at the Northwest booth stuffed a lot of things into their little girls' hands. The Northwest is a long way away, and the roads are inconvenient in those days. It is difficult to transport good things. Only things that can be stored for a long time, such as peppers, walnuts, wolfberries and potatoes, can be transported. The transportation cost of fresh lamb is high, and it is not easy to transport apples either.

The comrades from Sichuan Province were obsessed with the Mapo Tofu he made. Although the beer fish was delicious, they still suggested that she try the Tai'an fish and gave her pickled radish and pickled peppers.

All right! All right! All right.

Yue Ning handed most of the things to the Guangdong Agricultural Products Import and Export Company, which had to undergo inspection and quarantine before they could pass customs, and asked them to bring them to the port city for her. She took some pickled radishes, Qin peppers, and pickled peppers, as well as a large bag of potato eggs.

When they were at home, they were tired of eating potatoes, but when they really came out, the potatoes in Pengcheng were so soft and chewy, how could they be as delicious as the chewy potato eggs in the northwest? Uncle Agen and his friends must have missed him.

Yue Ning did not wear silk clothes, but a half-worn T-shirt and a pair of khaki pants, and took a bus to Pengcheng.

There was no elevator in the train station at that time, so she walked in with a suitcase in her hand and a bag of potato eggs on her shoulder as she walked up the stairs.

There was a hunched old lady in front who was carrying a big bag. Yue Ning wanted to help her, but both his hands were busy.

Suddenly, she saw a girl with two pigtails chasing after her: "Grandma, let me help you."

The girl with pigtails took the bag from the old lady, then turned around and said, "Guohua, help this little girl carry it."

A young man came over and said, "Little comrade, let me help you get it!"

"No, no, I can do it." Yue Ning said to him.

The girl with pigtails said, "It's okay! Let my boyfriend help you carry it. You are a little girl, how can you be as strong as a grown man?"

"Don't be polite, young comrade. It's still a long way to the station!" The young man took Yue Ning's snakeskin bag without saying a word. His face changed color slightly the moment he took it.

"It's too heavy, I'll do it myself!" Yue Ning said. The young man felt that he was being looked down upon and said, "If you can do it, why can't I?"

This? Yue Ning didn't want to hurt the other person's self-esteem, so she carried the luggage and went down the stairs with the girl with pigtails and the old lady.

The young man was carrying a snakeskin bag down the stairs. He was out of breath after only a few steps. He asked, "What are you carrying here? It's so heavy?"

"Potatoes." Yue Ning replied.

"This thing isn't worth much, so why would you carry it so far?" said the girl with pigtails.

"The potatoes in our Northwest are different from those outside. Aren't comrades from the Northwest participating in the Spring Fair? They brought me some potatoes from their hometown, and I took them to Pengcheng for my fellow villagers to eat." Yue Ning said.

The young man laughed out loud: "Ah? You just want to give some food to your fellow villagers?"

"Yes! When I'm at home, I want to eat noodles and rice every day. When I go out, I want the potatoes that are unique to my hometown." Yue Ning said.

The girl with pigtails nodded and said, "That's the kind of thought that I want."

When they arrived at the platform, the girl with pigtails helped the old lady find the carriage and sent her on the train.

When she arrived at this carriage, she found that Yue Ning was in the same carriage with them, and their seats were facing each other.

The train started moving. The girl took out two boiled eggs from her cloth bag and handed one to the boy. When she was about to eat one herself, she stopped and handed it to Yue Ning: "Sister, eat the egg."

Yue Ning waved her hand: "I'm full after breakfast, thank you sister, you can eat!"

The girl took out the paint-chipped military canteen, drank a sip of water, and ate a bite of egg. The boy also took the canteen and took a sip.

Yue Ning looked at the young couple. The young lady had delicate features, and was gentle and pretty; the young man also had regular features and was well-mannered.

"Where are you going, sister?" Yue Ning asked.

"Let's go to the port city and live with his uncle." The girl looked at the young man.

"Reform and opening up have started! My uncle went back to his hometown and said he was doing business in Gangcheng. This time he wrote to us and asked us to go to Gangcheng to help him do business. The procedures were really difficult to handle. It took us more than three months to get it done." The young man said with a little excitement.

"The procedures for going to Gangcheng are more difficult now than before. It will be fine once you get it done." Yue Ning told them.

The girl was surprised and asked, "You know this?"

"I've been in Hong Kong for a year," said Yue Ning.

"Really? Can I ask you about the situation in Hong Kong City?" the young lady asked.

Yue Ning nodded: "Of course!"

During the conversation, Yue Ning learned that the younger sister graduated from a teachers' college and taught in an elementary school; the younger brother graduated from a medical college and worked as a factory doctor in a large state-owned factory. Both of them were employed by the government.

The two of them were longing for Hong Kong. Now the gap between the mainland and Hong Kong is too big. With such a road available, it is natural for them to want to go to Hong Kong.

But as he spoke, Yue Ning felt something was wrong.

The younger brother said, "My uncle said that in the factories in Gangcheng, even an ordinary worker can earn three to four thousand yuan, and teachers in Gangcheng are also well paid. When the time comes, I will help my uncle with his business, and find a primary school teacher in late autumn..."

Qiao Junxian's Yimei benefited from the economic crisis in Europe and the United States and the interest rate hike. Their fan factory was overwhelmed with orders from Europe and the United States. The mainland also wanted goods. The factory was constantly recruiting people and working overtime. Even so, workers could get 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, which was already very good. The average salary was around 1,500 yuan. Those who got 3,000 to 4,000 yuan were all technicians and managers.

This made Yue Ning suspicious: "What kind of business does your uncle do in Hong Kong City?"

The young man said, "He is a worker who specializes in finding workers for factories, so he knows the market very well. He also told me that in Gangcheng, even a waiter in a restaurant can make three to four thousand, and a chef can make tens of thousands. How can Gangcheng pay so much?"

The salary he mentioned is the salary standard of Baohualou. Baohualou is unique among its peers, but Ningyan has extremely high requirements for waiters. Baohualou has a high turnover rate, and the waiters work very hard, and they only make about 3,000 yuan a month. Other restaurants are not as popular as Baohualou. Regular large restaurants can get half the salary of Baohualou, which is already good. Those small restaurants basically employ new immigrants from the mainland. In order to make a living, new immigrants will work as long as they can, and they are willing to work for 700 or 800 yuan a month.

Yue Ning shook his head: "There are factories and restaurants like he mentioned, but they are very few. When they are recruiting, they are very popular."

"Maybe my uncle has cooperation with such a family?"

This made Yue Ning alert. She didn't know whether her own human resources department had cooperated with this kind of employment agency. She could accept the management using headhunters to find people, but she could not accept the use of employment agencies for ordinary positions. She made this very clear to Sophie and the human resources manager.

In her previous life, a supervisor in charge of recruitment at Ning Shao La opened a job agency outside, recruiting grassroots employees for the company and charging employment referral fees. Therefore, Yue Ning's requirement for personnel is that they must have the ability to screen applicants. In recent days, most of the people recruited have been trained and are competent for the positions. She is very relieved.

Yue Ning remained calm and nodded, saying, "It's possible. The salary is high, and the requirements are high. This money is not something you can take casually."

"Of course. They have high requirements, and we have to help them choose the right people." The young man said seriously.

"Yes, we must be serious and responsible." The young lady asked Yue Ning: "Sister, what are you doing in Gangcheng?"

"I just passed the college entrance examination. I hope there will be good news in July and I can be admitted to Hong Kong City University." Yue Ning said.

The young lady asked happily: "My sister is taking the college entrance examination! By the way, what is the content of the examination in Hong Kong? Is it very different from our mainland?"

"It's completely different, and a lot of the content that we think is common sense cannot be touched there at all. The government authorities are very careful and cannot allow the mainland or Taiwan to come to Hong Kong to influence Hong Kong's education." Yue Ning said.

The young lady looked at the young man and said, "I told you before that it would be hard to teach."

"Even if you don't teach, there are still many jobs you can do. Let my uncle arrange a good job for you. You graduated from a teachers' college, so how can you not have a job?" said the little brother.

The young lady said helplessly: "Now that we are out, we can only take things as they come."

Yue Ning always felt that this little brother's uncle was too good at bragging, and she was a little uneasy. However, this little sister and brother were well-educated and smart, and she thought she also had the ability to judge. However, there was one thing she needed to pay attention to.

She reminded them, "Brother and sister, Hong Kong is now very strict with immigrants from the mainland, and the resistance policy is about to be cancelled. Remember to get your identity card as soon as you arrive in Hong Kong, otherwise it will be very troublesome if the policy changes in a few months and you can't get your identity card."

"What will happen if you can't get the identity?" the young man asked her.

"If you want to stay in Hong Kong for a long time, you must have a formal identity. Otherwise, if you are caught, you may be deported." Yue Ning said with a smile, "Too many people have gone to Hong Kong in the past two years. Hong Kong can't bear so many people at once, so the policy has been tightened."

"Thank you, sister!" The young lady thanked her sincerely.

"It's okay. You still have to be careful when you go out!" Yue Ning told them.

"Yes, it is." said the young lady.

They chatted for a while, and when the train was about to arrive in Pengcheng, the young lady stood up and said, "I'm going to see that old lady. She has difficulty walking."

"Go!" said the little brother.

When the train arrived at the station, the young man helped her carry the potatoes first. Yue Ning got off the train with her luggage and waited on the platform for the young lady to help the old lady get off the train.

The old lady said she was coming to her daughter's house. When she arrived outside the station, her daughter was already waiting there.

After handing the old lady over to her daughter, the young lady said to Yue Ning, "Goodbye, sister."

"Sister, wait a moment." Yue Ning took out a notebook from her bag and wrote down her name and office phone number. "This is my contact information. When you get to Hong Kong City, you can find me if you have any questions."

The young lady laughed and said, "Can't I find you if I have nothing to do?"

Yue Ning couldn't help but laugh. This sister was very nice. She was willing to make friends with her. She said, "Of course."

The young lady said happily: "My name is Li Wanqiu, and his name is Zhou Guohua. I will come to see you after we are settled."

"Yeah." Yue Ning nodded.

The young lady looked down at her snakeskin bag and said with a smile, "Look how confused I am. Where is the station? We'll take you there."

Yue Ning looked at Qiao Junxian who was approaching and said, "No need, my partner is here."

The young lady looked at Qiao Junxian with a slightly surprised expression and said with a smile: "I feel relieved that someone is carrying potatoes for you. See you in Hong Kong City!"

"See you in Hong Kong!"

The young couple waved goodbye to her.