Because they were going boating in the afternoon, Wei Xuan gave Liu Ying a day off: "Sister-in-law, you haven't been home for a long time, right? Jiang Che and I are here today, and you don't need to be busy here. You can go back and see the children. You can stay at home for one night. Just come back before dark tomorrow."

"Hey," Liu Ying agreed happily, "Then have fun. I'll be back after lunch tomorrow." Wei Xuan and Jiang Che were very busy these days, and she really didn't have time to go back. Her son was about to take the college entrance examination, and she was thinking about him a lot. If she went back at this time, she could cook a meal for them in the evening.

With Wei Xuan's approval, Liu Ying packed a change of clothes and left.

Wei Xuan's family hesitated for nearly half an hour before finally setting off.

It’s not surprising. My son is still young and he needs to carry a lot of things when he goes out. By the time our family of four arrived at our destination, it was already past two in the afternoon.

There were boats of different sizes in the garden. Jiang Che rented a small boat with a shed. He let Yuanyuan get on first, then helped Wei Xuan and her son get on and sat down. Finally, Jiang Che got on the boat.

"Everyone sit down, I'm going to start rowing."

"Sit tight, let's go."

Nowadays, all boats are rowed by hand. As Jiang Che rowed the oars, the boat slowly started to move. Perhaps because he was not skilled, the boat started to move but kept spinning in the same place.

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Yuanyuan became anxious when she saw this, and pointed to the distance and said, "Dad, let's go to the middle."

"Okay, let your dad get familiar with the boat first, it will be ready soon." Although he said that, he fiddled with the boat for a long time, but it still didn't move an inch.

Wei Xuan couldn't help laughing when she saw this, and patted her daughter beside her: "Don't be anxious." But her eyes fell on the two paddle boards in Jiang Che's hands, and a hint of interest appeared in her eyes.

It was also her first time to ride on this kind of boat, and she thought it was fun to watch Jiang Che rowing back and forth.

Jiang Che saw her eagerness to try and said, "I'll give it a try when we get to the middle."

"Um."

Just when Yuanyuan was getting impatient, the boat finally began to slowly move towards the center of the lake under Jiang Che's rowing, and it was getting faster and faster. Perhaps he had mastered the technique, Wei Xuan saw that he was rowing more and more easily.

Yuanyuan was so happy that she almost jumped up on the boat: "Dad, faster, faster!"

How could this girl be so bold? Wei Xuan held down her restless body and said, "Sit tight, or you'll fall down again."

Although her movements were restricted, Yuanyuan was not unhappy. She pointed at the willow trees by the lake and said to Wei Xuan, "Mom, look, those trees are getting farther and farther away from us."

Wei Xuan looked in the direction she pointed, and when she looked away, her eyes swept across the lake. Under the sunlight, the shimmering lake surface flashed in her eyes, and she suddenly felt dizzy.

Wei Xuan quickly looked away and blinked twice before she felt better.

He held his forehead and said, "I can't just stare at this lake. I'll feel a little dizzy if I look at it for too long."

"Just don't look far away and you'll be fine." Jiang Che put down the paddle board and motioned Wei Xuan to let him hold their son: "Try paddling."

"Okay," Wei Xuan handed her son to him, picked up a paddle board and paddled a few times tentatively: "It's quite fun."

Seeing this, Yuanyuan on the other side hurriedly said, "Mom, let me help you." As she said that, she picked up the paddle board on her side and started paddling shallowly like Wei Xuan.

Jiang Che sat opposite with his son in his arms, watching the mother and daughter having fun.

After rowing for a long time, the boat didn't move much, so Yuanyuan lost interest: "It's too tiring, I don't want to row anymore."

Wei Xuan then put down the paddle board, leaned back in her chair, and sighed, "This breeze is quite comfortable."

The weather in April was neither too cold nor too hot, and the breeze blew gently on her body. In addition, there were not many people rowing today, and it was very quiet around. After a while, Wei Xuan felt sleepy again.

Just when she couldn't hold on any longer and her eyelids were about to droop, Jiang Che took out his camera and suggested, "Since we're here, take a few more photos."

Yuanyuan volunteered: "I'll take the photo for my brother."

Wei Xuan just watched the father and daughter struggling with what they were doing. After taking a round of photos, it was almost time. Wei Xuan took the child from Jiang Che so that he could free up his hands to row the boat.

After getting ashore, the family of four strolled in the garden for a while and played until four o'clock before preparing to go home.

Halfway through the walk, Wei Xuan remembered that Sister-in-law Liu Ying was not at home today, so she said, "Let's eat outside today." After playing for a whole afternoon, she really didn't have the energy to cook.

"Okay." Jiang Che looked at the time and saw that it was still early: "Where are we going to eat?"

"Just find any restaurant nearby." The planned economy era is over, and now it is still easy to find a place to eat on the street.

The meal took more than an hour, and it was almost six o'clock when they finished and returned home. Although Wei Xuan had just ordered a bowl of stewed eggs for Jiang Yuanlang at the restaurant, he was small and could not eat too much, so the first thing Wei Xuan did when she got home was to make milk powder for him.

The little boy from Yuanlang was leaning against his bed, drinking the bottle enthusiastically. Wei Xuan called Jiang Che to look after him, while she took her daughter to take a bath.

After taking a shower, Wei Xuan sent Yuanyuan back to the house to sleep, and then went to get some water to wipe her son's body.

After finally coaxing the little ancestor to sleep, Wei Xuan collapsed on the bed: "I won't go out to play next time." Yuanyuan was fine, after all, she had grown up and didn't need much care, but her son was still young. It was too much suffering to carry him all the way. He was hungry and peed from time to time. Even though Jiang Che was holding him most of the time, Wei Xuan still felt very tired.

When Jiang Che returned to the house, he saw Wei Xuan looking exhausted. He smiled and joked, "You don't have the stamina. I think Yuanyuan is better than you."

Wei Xuan didn't say anything back, because Jiang Che was telling the truth.

Jiang Che climbed onto the bed with a smile: "Are you really that tired? Do you want me to give you a massage?"

Well, Wei Xuan didn't bother to be polite with him. She turned over and motioned for him to take action.

Jiang Che smiled and resigned himself to her fate, and started to press her, while asking her: "Is this strength appropriate?"

"Yeah." Wei Xuan closed her eyes comfortably. After a long while, she suddenly opened her eyes, sat up, rubbed her face and said, "I almost fell asleep. I still have something to tell you."

Jiang Che took his hand back and asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

"The food factory is about to open for business, but we haven't decided on a proper name yet. People outside who don't know the whole story still call it a sugar factory. That won't do. Now that I've bought it, I have to let others know about it. It can't be confused with the previous sugar factory." We have to make the sign and hang it up before the opening.

Wei Xuan wanted to do this as soon as she bought the sugar factory, but she didn't have time to do it because she had too many things to do. Now that she has Zheng Yi's help in the factory, Wei Xuan can finally put this matter on the agenda.

"What do you want to ask me? I'm not good at naming things." He had spent a long time thinking about the name of the transportation company. He really had no idea about naming the food factory.

Wei Xuan obviously felt that this was a bit embarrassing for him, and after a while she said, "Do you think it's okay to name it Good Taste?"

Jiang Che wanted to laugh after hearing this. The name his wife gave was just as usual... superficial.

The clothing store is called Beautiful Women's Clothing and the food factory is called Good Taste.

"Very good. Easy to understand. I can tell what your factory produces right away."

Wei Xuan's eyes lit up when she heard this: "You think it's good too? Isn't it a bit vulgar?"

"Not vulgar," Jiang Che denied immediately, "Besides, I'm not afraid of being a little vulgar. The most vulgar is the most elegant. As long as your brand's reputation is known, others will think it has style when they hear it."

Really? Wei Xuan was half-believing and half-doubting. No matter how hard she thought, she couldn't associate the three words "good taste" with style?

But since Jiang Che agreed, she felt relieved and planned to find someone to prepare the sign tomorrow so that it could be hung up before the opening.

The next day, because Sister Liu Ying would not be back until the afternoon, Jiang Che offered to stay at home to take care of the children and let Wei Xuan go out to do her work.

Wei Xuan didn't bother to be polite with him. She was indeed very busy recently. Although there was a factory manager, she couldn't leave everything to him. Especially today was the first day of recruiting, and she, as the boss, had to be in charge. Zheng Yi couldn't handle it all by himself.

When Wei Xuan arrived, Zheng Yi was already there. He was moving the desk in the office to the open space in front.

Seeing Wei Xuan coming over, he put down the work in his hands and ran over to say, "The recruitment is written to start at 8:30. I thought that there will definitely be a lot of people coming at that time. It would be better to stay in the open space. The house will definitely not be able to accommodate so many people."

"Yes," Wei Xuan nodded, "Just arrange these for you."

After receiving Wei Xuan's affirmation, Zheng Yi turned around and went back to work. Wei Xuan looked towards the gate, where many people were already waiting. She looked at the time and saw that it was almost half past eight, so she said to Zheng Yi, "When you're done here, let's get started."

"Okay." Zheng Yi had no objection and ran to the gate to tell the people waiting at the gate: "Everyone go in and line up, one by one, and don't squeeze."

These people still want to come in and work, so of course they will listen to whatever Zheng Yi says.

When Zheng Yi came back with his people, Wei Xuan was already ready behind the table. She took the paper that Zheng Yi had prepared in advance and began to ask these people some simple questions.

Admission or not can be decided on the spot because the standards have been set in advance. Both of them are very fast and reviewed everyone in the morning. Only 120 people are left to practice on the computer tomorrow. Only those who pass the test can be admitted.

Of course, not all of these 120 people are applying for factory workers. Many of the others are applying for positions such as accountant, purchasing, office clerk, security guard, etc.

Wei Xuan separated these people and would discuss the matter in detail after the employees in the production room were settled.

Seeing that not many people came in the afternoon, Wei Xuan left Zheng Yi alone in the factory while she went to the store to collect the account books.

The next day, she came to the factory again. This time, she planned to directly appoint ordinary employees and production team leaders in the production room. May was coming soon, and time waited for no one. She had to sort out the food factory's affairs before then.

The selection criteria today is mainly based on who has better skills. After a day of assessment, forty-four people finally passed the assessment. These forty-four people were divided into four groups, each with a total of eleven people including a group leader.

After the test, those who failed left, leaving only the forty-four people. Wei Xuan had a conversation with them.

"Hello everyone, my name is Wei Xuan, and I'm the owner of this factory."

After hearing Wei Xuan's introduction, the people below couldn't help but whisper to each other. They had always thought that Zheng Yi was the boss, but it turned out that the boss was a woman.

It’s not that they look down on women, it’s just that their habitual thinking makes them think that the boss would be a man. Now they are a little curious when they suddenly hear it.

Wei Xuan ignored their stares and did not stop them from talking. After about half a minute, she coughed lightly to interrupt them: "Okay, if you have anything to say, you can save it for later. Just listen to me first."

Seeing that the audience was completely quiet, she continued, "I know that most of you were former employees of the sugar factory, but some of you were not. Whether you are or not, it doesn't matter. From now on, you are all employees of my food factory. Don't bring those bad habits you had in the past with you. I'll make it clear that when you work in my factory, you must follow the rules of my factory. After you officially come to work, I will issue an employee code of conduct and post it at the factory door. You must strictly follow it in the future. If anyone violates it, I'm sorry, not only you, but also your team leader will be fined."

Speaking of deducting money, everyone who had been listening attentively showed an unhappy look on their faces. Wei Xuan pretended not to see it and didn't force them to do it if they didn't want to. It's not difficult to recruit people nowadays, but it's difficult to find a better job.

If she didn't suppress them from the beginning and let them know that she was not easy to mess with, it would be even harder to manage them in the future. These people were all old hands in state-owned factories. In addition, she ran a food factory. In order to prevent any mistakes, Wei Xuan had to be more strict and cautious with them than with the employees in several stores.

But punishment alone is not enough, there must also be rewards. She changed the subject and said, "Of course, there will be rewards for those who do well. For example, we will have an evaluation of the best employees every month. I will give extra bonuses to the employees who are selected. Those who perform particularly well may be promoted to team leaders. Above the team leaders are supervisors and production directors. These positions are now vacant and are waiting for you. Let's see who has the ability to take them up."

In fact, Wei Xuan felt that with their current small production lines, there was no need to set up these positions. Having team leaders was enough. However, these positions would surely be filled slowly in the future. She was not lying to them. At most, she was just hanging these in front of them to motivate them to be more proactive in their work.

Sure enough, the effect was very good. As soon as Wei Xuan finished speaking, she could see excitement on the faces of many employees below.

The shop had not officially opened yet, so Wei Xuan didn't say much. She just told them the working hours and let them go home.

Wei Xuan didn't expect that she would be stopped by a group of people at the factory gate when she was going home from get off work. Zheng Yi was right beside her at the moment. Seeing this, he quickly stood in front of her and shouted, "What are you doing?"

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Wei Xuan sees several people here who look familiar. Aren’t these the people who came for the assessment today and yesterday but were not selected?

So what is going on now? Did they come to threaten her because they didn't get elected?

Seeing that there was a misunderstanding, the group of people quickly explained: "No, no, we don't mean anything else. We just want to ask if you will still hire people here in the future?"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Yi glanced at Wei Xuan. At Wei Xuan's signal, he put down his arm that was protecting her and took a step back.

Facing everyone's expectant gazes, Wei Xuan asked, "Are you all old employees of the sugar factory?"

"Yes, now that the sugar factory is gone, we just want to find a job to make a living. We can do any job."

"Yes, we are not picky. As long as we are paid, we will do any job."

Wei Xuan raised her hand to remind them to be quiet: "Everyone listen to me, my factory has just opened, and I will definitely not recruit anyone in the short term." After saying that, seeing everyone's eyes dimmed, she couldn't bear it and said: "However, I can promise everyone that if I recruit people, I will definitely notify the old employees of the sugar factory to come and try first."

After finally getting rid of the group of people, Zheng Yi said, "They are also a bunch of pitiful people."

Wei Xuan looked at their backs as they walked away without saying anything. It was just the pain of reform, something everyone had to go through. All she could do was to do her part and strive to provide two more jobs.

In the next two days, Wei Xuan met with the remaining people. All the positions were filled, and the personnel structure of the factory was preliminarily determined. She and Zheng Yi were finally no longer alone and had soldiers under their command.

At this time, Jian Xiangliang also found the factory.

That day, Wei Xuan was discussing something with the purchasing department when there was a knock on the office door.

"Boss, someone named Jian Xiangliang wants to see you."

The person knocking on the door was a young girl named Zhang Yao, a newly hired office clerk.

Wei Xuan's lips curled up when she heard that. He finally came. If he hadn't come earlier, she would have thought he wouldn't come.

"Go and bring him in."

"Okay." After Zhang Yao left, Wei Xuan said to the purchasing department, "That's all for now. We can also find out which company does good packaging. When the cakes are produced, we can work on the packaging."

"Okay, I understand. I'll go get busy then."

"Um."

As soon as the purchasing agent left, Zhang Yao brought Jian Xiangliang in.

Wei Xuan asked him to sit down, and then said to Zhang Yao, "Please pour a glass of water."

Jian Xiangliang sat down and looked around and said, "Boss Wei, the speed is quite fast. It has only been a few days and the factory has been set up in a proper manner."

He hadn't come these few days because he wanted to observe if Wei Xuan was really capable of doing what she said. He admitted that he was a little shocked by what Wei Xuan said that day, but when he returned home and thought calmly, everyone can talk big, but whether she can really do it depends on whether she has the ability to do it.

As a result, he observed from the sidelines for a few days and found that Wei Xuan acted in a very methodical manner, so he came here today just to take a gamble, and maybe he would win.

Wei Xuan said modestly: "It's OK, mainly because we have the foundation left over from the former sugar factory."

Jian Xiangliang did not comment on this. The sugar factory needed a foundation, but it was not a good foundation. He believed that if there was still a little room for maneuver, the sugar factory would not have sold the factory to Wei Xuan.

Just at this time, Zhang Yao brought water over. Wei Xuan waited for Zhang Yao to leave before asking, "I don't know why Mr. Jian came here?"

Since he has decided to accept Wei Xuan's invitation and come to work in the factory, Jian Xiangliang will no longer act in a pretentious manner and make people feel uncomfortable.

He put on a very straight attitude and said bluntly: "I am here to apply for the position of sales manager, Boss Wei, I wonder if this position is still vacant?"

Wei Xuan pursed her lips and smiled, "I promised to wait for you for a week. Now it's not even a week yet, so of course I'll keep this position for you."

Wei Xuan's words gave Jian Xiangliang enough face, so the last bit of resentment in his heart also dissipated. He stood up and extended his hand to Wei Xuan solemnly, saying: "Then please take care of me in the future, boss."

Wei Xuan also stood up and shook his hand back: "You're welcome, Manager Jian."

Although there is only one word difference between Boss Wei and Boss, the meanings contained in them are very different.

The two withdrew their hands and sat down again, and Wei Xuan briefly told Jian Xiangliang about the current situation of the sales department.

"For now, there are only two employees. You can slowly recruit the rest. As for how many to recruit, it depends on the needs of the factory. You should discuss this with Director Zheng. Quality is more important than quantity, especially since these people will be deployed in the future. It's not enough to just be smart, they also have to be steady. Although I don't mind hiring female saleswomen, their safety must be guaranteed."

Nowadays, women are always weaker than men when they go out. If something happens outside, they are really out of reach.

Jian Xiangliang nodded when he heard this: "I'll see to it. When do I start work?"

"Tomorrow." Although the factory had not yet opened, the administrative staff had already started working to prepare for the opening. Jian Xiangliang had been a deputy factory director before, so his experience should be of great help. Thinking of this, she said, "The sales department is not busy right now, so you can go and help Factory Director Zheng more."

Jian Xiangliang understood what she meant and nodded in agreement.

Wei Xuan had something else to do, so Jian Xiangliang didn't bother her. After he left, Wei Xuan called Zheng Yi over and gave him some instructions.

"Jian Xiangliang will be the manager of the sales department in the future. He will come to work tomorrow. When I'm not around, you can ask for his advice if you have any problems you can't solve. Although you are the factory manager, he is much older and more experienced than you and me. When facing him, you must not have any negative emotions."

Wei Xuan said this in a joking tone, but Zheng Yi knew she was not joking. She was reminding him not to think too much and get stuck in a dead end.

Therefore, he immediately stated: "Boss, rest assured, I will definitely get along well with Manager Jian."

"Well, both you and he are very important to the factory. The factory still relies on you in the future. Work hard and strive to expand the factory. Then we will give you dividends."

After these words came out, even Zheng Yi, who had no ambition, stopped breathing for a moment. He was just an employee, could he still get dividends? He had never dared to think of such a good thing before.

Seeing that he was standing there stupidly for a long time without any movement, Wei Xuan didn't keep him any longer and let him go out.

In fact, whether to distribute dividends or not is just talk so far. Wei Xuan, the boss, hasn't made a penny yet, so it's a bit early to talk about dividends. But it doesn't prevent her from using it to motivate employees.

If the factory can really do well and make money, it is understandable to give some dividends to the employees. It is impossible for her to make a lot of money while Zheng Yi, the factory director, has to live on a salary of a few hundred yuan a month! This is not right!

The reason why she called Zheng Yi in to give him some instructions was because both he and Jian Xiangliang held important positions, and she didn't want them to have any grudges against each other, which would definitely be detrimental to the future work. Jian Xiangliang was a strong person, but also a smart person, and Wei Xuan couldn't talk to him directly, fearing that it would backfire. She could only start with Zheng Yi. As long as Zheng Yi had a positive attitude towards him, she believed that Jian Xiangliang would not embarrass him.

After a long time of interaction, the two became almost familiar with each other, and this little thorn in their hearts was no longer a big deal and was naturally digested.

While Wei Xuan was busy preparing for the opening of the food factory, Jiang Che was about to set off for Shanghai with the people from the transportation company.

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