Chapter 129 Chapter 129 Trivial matters before the New Year.
Lin Nanjiang's behavior is called "if you don't make a sound, then you will be nothing, but when you do, you will make a big splash." After a few years of setting up business, he has now taken off and is booming. The noodle shop and night snack stall that he half-let go of still bring in more than 40,000 yuan a month, and the fast food restaurant he manages carefully is making a fortune every day with an alarmingly high turnover. Good news also keeps coming from the long-distance passenger transport sector.
Let me put it this way, during the peak season at the end of the year, Lin Nanjiang alone could make over 10,000 yuan a day.
It can no longer be described as a huge profit.
Of course, no matter how much he earns, the biggest winner is always Liu Suqin.
Because she is the holder of these assets and the collection account is in her name, even if the card is temporarily out of her hands, Liu Suqin can take her ID card and go directly to the bank when she occasionally thinks of it. Then she is always shocked by the exponentially increasing deposit amount in her name.
It can never be spent.
What is it like to finally understand that money is just a number?
But it was just a show of Versailles. Seeing the child's father so confident, Liu Suqin was not only happily counting the money, but also felt a little unwilling to be outdone in her heart, and began to think about what else she could do.
She could think this way because the people under her were capable enough. Li Hong and Zhang Mingliang were trained by her very successfully. Their workaholic potential was fully developed. Whenever they worked overtime, they simply forgot about love and became ruthless. They might have forgotten where they lived and even their partners' names. They wanted to treat the company as their home and their work as their lover.
Liu Suqin had not yet evolved into a black-hearted capitalist, but she felt that she was in trouble when she saw this situation. Before, they were all single and could treat people like beasts of burden without any scruples. Anyway, they were given full overtime pay, commissions and bonuses, and they worked overtime voluntarily, so her conscience would not bother her.
But weren't these two capable men already engaged? They were in their prime, financially secure, and, barring any major setbacks, would soon be married and having children.
They can accommodate each other during the dating stage, but if they have a family and children to take care of, it is not appropriate to be so workaholic. Liu Suqin does not want to be the culprit of their unhappy marriage in the future, not to mention that her half-sister Li Hong is also involved. This kind of thing must not happen!
In order to enable them to balance career and family like herself, the resourceful Liu Suqin began to lay the groundwork in advance. She spent almost every day in the store a while ago, and talked to employees whenever she had time. When the employees were busy, she would quietly observe their work status. It seemed like just ordinary chatting and communication, but in fact she was assessing and promoting talents. She also consulted Li Hong and Zhang Mingliang for their opinions respectively, and finally determined the candidates for deputy store manager and deputy supervisor.
The deputy store manager was the first intern makeup artist recruited by Liu Suqin. When their personal abilities were similar, she would give priority to this group of veteran employees. Sometimes seniority is also a kind of strength.
However, the deputy supervisor is not a veteran, but a master that Liu Ping brought over from another store on a whim. In terms of ability and experience, he is not much worse than Zhang Mingliang, but he came a step late and missed the opportunity for advancement. Now when it comes to arranging an assistant for Zhang Mingliang, the first person Liu Suqin thinks of is him.
Li Hong and Zhang Mingliang both have assistants to assist them in their work. Liu Suqin cannot fall behind and has also chosen an assistant manager for herself. However, as a manager, she does not have much work to be responsible for. Her assistant is more responsible for assisting the store manager and is mainly responsible for administrative work such as personnel attendance and performance appraisal.
Work dealing with numbers has always been tedious and arduous, and particularly mentally draining. Only when someone was specifically responsible for this area did Li Hong feel truly liberated and able to focus more on store management and finding ways to improve employees' KPIs.
The assistant chosen by Liu Suqin is also a veteran. She has been working at the front desk since the opening. She is a careful and down-to-earth girl. Her salary is low compared to other colleagues, but the girl is still serious and responsible about her work. She has worked steadily for several years. Liu Suqin has a good impression of her and gave her a promotion and a raise this time.
The store suddenly added three management positions, and the labor cost was much higher, but the effort was proportional to the reward. The three promoted people were full of energy. Li Hong and Zhang Mingliang also felt the urgency of the previous wave being washed onto the beach, and performed more actively. They rolled up like a competition and successfully turned the boss into a mascot-like existence.
Liu Suqin's biggest role now is to boost morale. She occasionally visits the store to make employees more motivated to work, gives them wages and bonuses, and treats them to dinner from time to time. Everyone still loves the boss as always.
With a lot more time and energy, Liu Suqin began to think about doing something else. Now she has so many properties under her name that she even finds it troublesome to collect rent in person. It is easier to feel a sense of accomplishment by pursuing a career. Liu Suqin first considered opening another photography studio, or directly entering the wedding industry.
Anyone who has been involved in this industry will know how much money there is to make. It is said that money from women and children is the easiest to make, and compared to marriage, everything else is nothing. Since ancient times, ordinary people have been willing to empty their family fortunes and do their best to marry a wife. Now that living conditions are better, they are even more willing to spend money in this regard. Other things can be weighed against the pros and cons, but weddings must be made the most lively and festive as possible.
As a result, related industries made a lot of money.
Liu Suqin thought that opening another photography studio would not necessarily be easy. It was just that with the experience she had once, the success rate would be higher, but she still had to do what she had to do.
Opening a wedding company requires learning as you go along, and investing more energy and time. But as long as it goes smoothly, she can introduce business to the current photography studio. The industries under her name can share their resources and achieve a win-win situation. No matter how you look at it, the latter is more advantageous.
Thinking about this, and seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching, Liu Suqin simply let it go and decided to enjoy the holiday first.
It was already a foregone conclusion that their family would go on vacation abroad with Julie and Afeng. Their passports and visas had been approved, and their plane tickets had been purchased. Everything was ready for departure at any time, but some things still needed to be arranged before that, such as entertaining Uncle Liu and his wife who had come all the way to Shenzhen to meet their in-laws.
Yes, Liu Xiangxiang, who had been dating for only half a year, was getting married. The whole family was shocked by this, but Liu Suqin was quite relieved.
In her previous life, she knew that her cousin was a love-sick person. She married the scumbag with a child after knowing him for only a few months. In this life, at least she listened to her advice and was not easily tricked by the man into checking into a hotel. As long as she kept her bottom line, it didn't matter if she was a little clingy with him. Anyway, the man's parents were becoming more and more satisfied with her.
Chen's parents originally looked down on her family's conditions, feeling that it was unfair to their youngest son who had a good job and was outstanding in everything. However, they could not resist their son's preferences, so he often brought his girlfriend home to show her off to them like a treasure. After a long time of contact, their attitude gradually softened.
Putting aside her family background, Liu Xiangxiang herself is still very impressive. She is young, beautiful, lively and bright, has a decent job, and judging by her clothes, she is not the vain girl. The most important thing is that she is in love. Specifically, her heart and eyes are full of her boyfriend, and she almost obeys his every word. Chen's father and mother gradually feel that it is a good thing for their son to marry such a devoted daughter-in-law, who will definitely take good care of him.
People are like this. Once they like someone, they think everything about him or her is good. It just so happened that Lin Nanjiang and Liu Suqin were doing well in their careers, and the news of the demolition had spread back to the village a while ago. Chen's parents gave Liu Xiangxiang more points, thinking that having such promising and capable cousins-in-law was one of her advantages.
Later, when Liu Xiangxiang went to her boyfriend's house for dinner, his parents asked her indirectly about meeting his parents.
Chen Jiaxin was in the passionate period of love with his girlfriend, and they were at an age full of vigor and vitality. He could only see her but could not get her, so he was eager to win her heart. As soon as his parents said so, he responded actively. Liu Xiangxiang could not resist, so she took her boyfriend back to her hometown during the National Day holiday.
This efficiency even astonished Mr. Chen, who brought them together, while Liu Suqin kept her achievements and fame to herself.
At that time, she accepted Uncle Chen's kindness to introduce a partner on behalf of her cousin because she thought that love-brain might not be cured, so she should start from the source and try to find her someone who is not so bad. At that time, Uncle Chen had just introduced a partner to Li Hong, and the conditions sounded very good. Later, facts also proved that he never matched people blindly. Liu Suqin felt that the person introduced by Uncle Chen was always more reliable than her cousin looking for someone outside.
The process of Liu Xiangxiang bringing her boyfriend to meet her parents was naturally very smooth. After all, the conditions were there. Aunt Liu, who had previously said that her daughter would not be allowed to marry outside the city and that if she disobeyed and found a son-in-law from another place, she would not be allowed to come back and recognize her as her mother, was completely speechless under the impact of a building in Shenzhen.
My second uncle and second aunt are indeed partial and don't care that much about their daughter. There is still the old idea that "a daughter who is married off is like spilled water", but this does not mean that they don't want to find a good man for their daughter.
The key point is that even if they find this person, it is impossible for them to find a son-in-law with the same conditions as their family in their hometown. It would be good if they can find one with one-tenth of the other party's conditions. Even if their daughter marries and is willing to take care of them and their younger brother, how much can she take care of them?
To put it bluntly, if Xiangxiang marries her current partner, she will only need to squeeze a little out of her husband's family to subsidize her parents' family, which will be enough for them to live a comfortable life.
In the face of absolute advantage, distance and other things are nothing. Even a strong woman like Aunt Liu put aside all her picky and harsh comments and warmly entertained her future son-in-law. The two sides had a pleasant communication and preliminarily decided on their marriage. Liu Xiangxiang's parents agreed with their idea of picking a good day at the end of this year or the beginning of next year to get the marriage certificate first, and then find time to hold the wedding later. They also took the initiative to suggest that they would go to Shenzhen to meet their in-laws in person when they were not busy in the fields at the end of the year.
Liu Xiangxiang was caught off guard by their initiative.
According to her idea, the two families are far away from each other and transportation is inconvenient. Her parents and future parents-in-law are rural people who have never traveled far in their lives. It is better not to make things difficult for them. She and her partner can just meet each other's parents separately, and then introduce the elders of both sides to each other after the wedding. Chen Jiaxin said that their wedding must invite his father-in-law and mother-in-law and some close relatives and elders to attend the wedding. If his father-in-law and mother-in-law are willing to take care of it, he will accompany her back to her parents' home to hold a banquet later, and there will be a chance for them to meet.
Liu Xiangxiang has experienced in her life that once she gave her salary to her mother for safekeeping, she could never get it back. She could only tighten her belt and finally relied on the silent support of her old father and cousin to survive the difficult times. Her trust in her mother had long been broken. In the past few years, she had only been doing face-saving projects. At most, she bought some clothes and shoes for her father and younger brothers. She kept the salary firmly in her hands and always said she had no money when asked.
She knew even more clearly that her father cared about her as his daughter and valued his son the most. The key point was that he listened to his wife in everything, and her mother had the final say on all the big and small matters in the family. Her mother would travel thousands of miles to meet the in-laws, and it was impossible that she did so just to check things for her or to gain benefits.
I guess he saw that the Chen family was in good condition and wanted to negotiate a good price at once.
Liu Xiangxiang has never been a brother-supporting demon in her two lifetimes. She just woke up late in her previous life, but she saw things clearly early in this life. She has regarded the wages she handed over in the early years as a repayment to her parents, and now she does not owe them anything. She does not expect her family to give her a dowry, nor does she want them to think about her betrothal gift.
But her parents were determined to come, and she couldn't stop them. Chen Jiaxin, who didn't know the inside story, had already agreed to entertain his parents-in-law. Besides, there were relatives and fellow villagers here, so as long as her parents asked carefully, they could find the way directly to the Chen family.
Unable to stop her parents who were determined to come to Shenzhen, Liu Xiangxiang could only find her cousin in advance to find a solution and tell her parents everything about their attitude and her speculation about their true intentions.
Liu Suqin was not surprised by this. If her second uncle and second aunt were reliable, they would not have sat idly by and watched their daughter being abused in their previous life. She calmly asked her cousin, "What do you think? You can tell me first. After all, this is your marriage."
Liu Xiangxiang was also very frank. "Sister, you, Liu Ping, and Sister Li Hong all have your own houses. I've always envied you. I've saved up some money over the years, and Jiaxin also said he would give me all his savings. If I add the betrothal gift from his family, it should be enough for me to buy a small two-bedroom house in the company as a dowry. If that doesn't work out, buying a small storefront will also be fine. After all, it can be considered an asset."
She doesn't expect anything to be demolished. As long as she has a house or a shop, she feels secure and at ease.
Liu Suqin was quite pleased to hear this. She patted her head and praised her, "You've thought it all through, haven't you? Let's do it this way. I think it's a great idea."
Liu Xiangxiang blushed and stammered, "But this definitely requires the cooperation of Jiaxin and his family. I don't know how to tell them. I'm even more afraid that they will think I have bad intentions and would even lie to my own parents."
Liu Suqin thought about it and didn't think she was just worrying too much. The older generation believed that family disgrace should not be made public. If Chen's parents knew about these things, they might not feel sorry for Liu Xiangxiang. They might even look down on her and criticize her for her calculations from a moral high ground. So she pondered, "Then let's not tell them. Let's go find Uncle Chen. He will definitely be present as the introducer when we meet the in-laws. With his help and cooperation, we can have a better chance of success."
Compared with her future parents-in-law, Liu Xiangxiang actually feels closer to and trusts Uncle Chen more. Not to mention the relationship between her cousins and Uncle Chen's family, she herself works under Uncle Chen's son Chen Jiaming and receives a lot of care from them, so she naturally prefers their family.
After telling Uncle Chen about these household items, Liu Xiangxiang felt less stressed. The two sisters took time to visit Uncle Chen, and he immediately agreed to help. However, when they finished their business and were about to leave, the old man reminded them, "Axin grew up under my care. He is a responsible young man. Besides, the most important thing for a couple to live together is to work together."
What he meant was that it was not easy to hide this matter from Chen Jiaxin. Liu Suqin thought it made sense. Liu Xiangxiang was mainly afraid that telling the truth would destroy her good image in her partner's mind, but she trusted her cousin and Uncle Chen from the bottom of her heart. After some mental struggle, she finally revealed the truth to Chen Jiaxin.
Of course, the final result was a happy one for everyone. Chen Jiaxin decided to cooperate with Uncle Chen. After his father-in-law and mother-in-law and his parents agreed on the price of the betrothal gift, the money would be directly transferred to his or his partner's card, and then they would go buy a house together.
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