When Chen Xia walked into the room, he saw that everyone in the room had red faces, and their hands were even shaking slightly as they counted money.
"I'm saying, can you guys be more ambitious? Look how tight you are with this little money." After spending it, he counted out 4,100 yuan, thought for a while, and counted out another 500 yuan.
After handing the payment to Zhang Guozhi, Chen Xia quietly pulled him aside and stuffed 500 yuan into his pocket.
How could Zhang Guozhi dare to accept it? "Brother Chen, what are you doing?"
"Brother Zhang, listen to me. If Sanliu Weitai becomes popular, you'll definitely need to buy more pills from me, right? So, could you please help me collect more ginseng and cordyceps? These herbs are not easy to collect. This is a gift from me, and it would be pointless to refuse."
It is impossible for Zhang Guozhi not to be tempted, as 500 yuan is his salary for most of the year.
Today's pharmaceutical companies are weak companies, and pharmaceutical factories are the strong departments, so he can't get any kickbacks at all.
If it were in the future, any clerk in a pharmaceutical company would be as arrogant as a big shot.
Chen Xia insisted, and Zhang Guozhi refused several times before he took it out of his pocket again. Everything was said without words, and then he left happily.
Chen Xia’s money was not wasted. The efficiency and results of working passively and working actively are completely different.
Are ginseng and cordyceps rare? They were quite rare in 1981, so most pharmaceutical companies wouldn't buy too much, fearing they wouldn't sell well and end up losing money.
But rare is by no means uncommon. After Zhang Guozhi returned, he gave up the idea of transferring goods from other companies and immediately placed orders with several pharmaceutical companies in the Northeast and Northwest. It wouldn't be long before these precious medicinal materials would be shipped in continuously. This is the power of red envelopes.
evening.
The girls in the plum garden were carefully sorting the Cordyceps, classifying them according to their size, and then laying them flat in paper boxes.
Chen Xia was standing by, quacking like a little duck:
"Be careful, Chen Zhen, you little fool. It will break if you do this. Yes, Qiaogu, don't put two layers. Just put one layer in each box, and then fix it with needle and thread. Yes, be gentle and careful."
Chen Chun was annoyed. "Go away, are you annoying? I don't know what you are doing with these Chinese herbs. You treat them like treasures."
Chen Xia said with disdain, "Humph, nerd, you have to remember that this Cordyceps will cost at least 200,000 yuan per kilogram in the future. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, okay?"
The whole group of people immediately burst into laughter, and Zhan Aiju laughed so hard that she was out of breath:
"Xiao Xia, what are you talking about? This Cordyceps will cost hundreds of thousands per kilogram in the future? It's just some fungi. What's the difference between the nutrients and mushrooms? Are you still asleep, or are we?"
Chen Xia thought to himself: How could I have known that the price of Cordyceps would rise to such a ridiculous level, practically doubling every year, even more outrageous than housing prices? I was just trying to capitalize on the hype and earn some hard-earned money.
When talking about hard-earned money, Chen Xia glanced at Gu Lin.
While everyone else was busy, she and Chen Dong were having a heated discussion about whether cream popsicles or sesame paste popsicles were tastier.
She would take a few more bites from time to time, and the popsicle went in and out of her mouth, with some milky white cream remaining at the corners of her mouth.
MD, this is so evil.
This person has the typical fate of a young lady.
Chen Xia suppressed some unhealthy thoughts in his heart and walked to her side:
"Mrs. Gu, everyone else is working, how can you just sit there and watch? If you don't work hard to make money now, we won't have enough money for our son's milk powder in the future."
"Don't worry, Section Chief Chen is so capable. From now on, you will be responsible for making money to support the family, and I will be responsible for looking beautiful."
Well, Chen Xia was speechless.
After the two officially established a relationship, Gu Lin basically regarded Meiyuan as her own home and would stay there until very late every night before going back.
If Comrade Lao Gu hadn't known that there were so many people in the Plum Garden, he would have wanted to ask his friends from the police station to seal the door.
Since returning from Shanghai last time, some small changes have taken place in Gu Lin's home, such as replacing the black and white TV with a large color TV.
For example, Comrade Lao Gu often happily smokes Marlboro on the balcony, and his squinted eyes reveal a sense of satisfaction.
Gu's mother has already started preparing for the wedding. Since she only has one daughter, she naturally wants to make it a grand wedding, but she doesn't know what kind of dowry she should prepare.
It seems that the Chen family has everything they need. When they came back from Shanghai this time, they bought 20 sets of beautiful bedding sets alone. They are so extravagant.
Dean Gu and his mother's hometowns are both in the Northeast, so obviously those relatives can't come over, which is a headache.
Mother Gu asked during dinner, "Old man, what do you think our relatives back home should do? They probably won't be able to make it here."
Gu Wei sighed: "Yes, I haven't been back to my hometown for more than ten years, and I haven't seen my parents and mother-in-law for more than ten years. I am really unfilial.
How about this, during the Chinese New Year, we go back to our hometown in Northeast China together, have Xiaoguo bring his new wife back, and then we can hold a wedding banquet in Northeast China with the two young couples, Chen Xia and Xiaolin. What do you think?"
Mother Gu was obviously touched by the pain in her heart. She wiped her eyes and nodded in agreement:
"Okay, if you don't go back, I'm afraid I won't be able to see my parents for the last time. Let's go back and have a wedding. It's settled. You must take some time off and don't be so absorbed in work like before."
"Hehe, this is really strange. We've worked so hard for so many years, how much savings do we have at home? Not even 10,000 yuan, right? And you say that brat Chen Xia actually earned over 600,000 yuan in just one year. Times really have changed."
Old Man Gu was a little self-deprecating, while Old Lady Gu was a little worried about whether her heartless daughter could keep this man in the future, so she decided to educate Gu Lin well before marriage.
Chen Xia's workshop decided to expand production, and the first thing to do was to solve the problem of insufficient production capacity. The most important link was grinding the medicine.
When producing two to three hundred pills a day, it is actually very easy for the girls.
But when the daily output of pills doubled to more than 500 pills, grinding the pills became a physically demanding task that became a bit too much for everyone.
When Qiaogu came to report, did she ask Chen Xia to recruit some more employees?
Chen Xia was so frightened that he quickly waved his hands.
"Recruiting workers is impossible. The current policy only allows a maximum of seven employees. More than eight is considered exploitative capital. I don't want to go to jail for money, and I'm not interested in money, so I'm not considering it."
This is not a joke, but a matter of principle.
Being in jail is no joke, and it was probably not until after 1984 that the situation was completely relaxed.
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