Chapter 217 Rejecting Secretary Jiang
The next day
After breakfast, Gu Yihan rode her bicycle to the textile factory. After parking her bike, she turned around and almost bumped into Secretary Jiang.
Startled, she quickly took a few steps back.
"Director Gu arrived quite early," Secretary Jiang said, trying to make conversation.
Gu Yihan frowned. Was this person sick?
She arrives at work right on time every day, so when Secretary Jiang said that, she heard it as sarcasm.
Gu Yihan glanced at Secretary Jiang expressionlessly and nodded in response to his words.
I strode past him.
Secretary Jiang's smile froze for a moment, then she turned around and followed Gu Yihan.
He patiently spoke up, "Officer Gu, the garment factory needs your help."
Gu Yihan paused, then laughed.
She slowly turned around, glancing at him with disdain in her eyes.
He said sarcastically, "Secretary Jiang is truly like Zhong Wuyan when there's trouble, and Xia Yingchun when there's no trouble."
A cold glint flashed in Secretary Jiang's eyes as he suppressed his anger, thinking about the phone call from the garment factory.
He said, "Officer Gu, you have successfully completed the task assigned by the factory this time. Given your contributions to the factory, you are undoubtedly the model worker of the year."
Gu Yihan scoffed, "Such a great achievement, Secretary Jiang, you should give it to someone more capable."
After saying that, she ignored him and quickly walked towards the accountant's office.
Secretary Jiang's clenched fists, hanging at her sides, cracked.
They don't appreciate being given a chance. They don't even want the model worker position that's practically handed to them, while other employees in the factory would work day and night to earn the title of model worker.
Gu Yihan didn't even care.
On the other side
Gu Yihan hummed a song as she pushed open the office door, greeting everyone in the room with a smile.
"Xiao Han, why are you in such a good mood today?" Hu Shan asked curiously.
Gu Yihan skillfully put her handbag into the drawer, looked up at Hu Shan, and said with a smile, "The weather is getting warmer and warmer, which makes me feel better."
Hu Shan then noticed that Gu Yihan was wearing a floral shirt and straight-leg pants, and asked in confusion, "Xiaohan, aren't you cold?"
"It's not cold."
Gu Yihan responded while flipping through the account books.
She was wearing thermal underwear underneath.
It's already the end of April, and the weather is gradually warming up. Riding a bicycle from the residential compound to the factory, you'll still feel a bit damp.
"Crunch."
Zhang Limin pushed open the office door and walked straight to Gu Yihan, placing the ledger in her hand on her desk.
Gu Yihan frowned, looked up at Zhang Limin, and said in a flat tone, "Sister Zhang, what's wrong?"
Zhang Limin didn't care about Gu Yihan's attitude and pushed the account book in front of her.
He smiled and said, "We need Director Gu's help to calculate this month's costs."
Gu Yihan flipped through the document with one hand and glanced at it; it was a record of correspondence between the textile factory and the garment factory in April.
She closed the ledger and pushed it back in front of Zhang Limin.
She refused, saying, "Sister Zhang, this is not within the scope of my work."
Sister Min stood up, walked to Zhang Limin's side, picked up the ledger, and said with a smile, "Sister Zhang, let me help you with the calculations."
Without waiting for Zhang Limin's reply, she took the ledger back to her seat and began working diligently.
"Didn't Secretary Jiang inform you that the accounting department will be under my management from now on?" Zhang Limin frowned as she looked at Gu Yihan.
She didn't expect that her first job assignment would be met with such a setback.
No wonder she heard that the only three people in the accounting department didn't get along even before she joined the factory.
Gu Yihan looked up at Zhang Limin in surprise: "Our department hasn't received any notification from HR!"
Even if Secretary Jiang gave a verbal notification, what good would it do? They hadn't received any official notice of Zhang Limin's appointment, nor was there any announcement on the bulletin board.
Zhang Limin was from the provincial capital, where interpersonal relationships were far more complex than those at the Kunming Textile Factory.
Now that she knew Secretary Jiang hadn't informed her, she didn't take Gu Yihan's rejection to heart. She turned around, exchanged a few pleasantries with Wang Guixiang, and then took her leave.
noon
Staff canteen
Gu Yihan carried her lunchbox, found an empty seat, and sat down to eat.
Suddenly, Secretary Jiang's voice rang out from above.
"Officer Gu, why are you eating so little?"
Gu Yihan frowned slightly, seeing him sitting opposite her as if nothing had happened.
"Director Gu, your salary has increased too. You can't just take the money and not do any work, can you?" Secretary Jiang said with a smile.
Gu Yihan then ate a couple of mouthfuls of rice, closed the lunchbox, and looked directly at him: "Working with foreign friends doesn't seem to affect your application for a transfer to the Industrial Bureau, right?"
Secretary Jiang's expression gradually turned cold as Gu Yihan spoke.
Her voice was icy: "How did you know?"
He applied for a transfer to the Industry Bureau without telling anyone.
He believed that a secret was only a secret if it ended up in one's own mouth.
Therefore, he would remember in his dreams never to divulge anything concerning his future.
"It wasn't easy for you to get to this position, was it? You don't want Director Yang's father to know that you climbed up by stepping on his son!" Gu Yihan said calmly.
She learned this from Hu Shan.
The woman who married Secretary Jiang's father was always worried that Secretary Jiang would steal her son's property.
He stirred up discord between his father and Secretary Jiang when he was very young.
More than a decade of instigation has led to a bitter feud between the father and son.
Secretary Jiang's success today is entirely due to Director Yang's father, who used his connections to send him to Kunming to help Director Yang.
Secretary Jiang remained expressionless, quietly watching Gu Yihan, then chuckled softly, "Director Gu, it seems I underestimated you."
Even if he was very angry, he had to hold back, because the cooperation with foreign friends would greatly help his transfer application.
The connections have already been established, and the requirement is that he can lead the textile factory to the next level, so that the transfer will not seem abrupt.
“Officer Gu, you can’t be so selfish. As the great man said, the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves is an antagonistic contradiction.”
“The country needs foreign exchange now. You can’t abandon the country’s interests because of personal conflicts with me.”
Gu Yihan gave Secretary Jiang a cold look, actually using a quote from a great man to intimidate her.
"Secretary Jiang, did the great man mean to let farmers develop technology and invent the atomic bomb?"
Secretary Jiang shook her head subconsciously. How could she let farmers do such professional work? They couldn't read a single word.
"That's settled then. I'm just a lowly accountant. I've never studied fashion design. No matter how great the situation, a great man wouldn't put the pressure of earning foreign exchange on a mere young woman."
After Gu Yihan finished speaking, she sneered, picked up her lunchbox, and turned to leave.
Wanting her to help secure follow-up orders from foreigners? That's wishful thinking.
She's not the kind of person who would sacrifice everything for honor.
Secretary Jiang watched Gu Yihan's retreating figure and knew that her approach was not working. She needed to quickly find someone who understood the Western market.
A hint of malice flashed in his lowered eyes: "You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences. It seems we need to inform HR that Gu Yihan's salary will remain the same as before!"
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