Backer (big supplement at the end)
Shen Baichuan went downstairs early the next day, and when Chen Jin came downstairs, they both drove their own cars to the rose garden.
This year, there are not only my third uncle, my third aunt and Aunt Zhou, but also Uncle Chen and his wife, and Ma Guihua and her husband.
Although there is just enough space for two cars, but...
"No, why are you going out after your family has bought New Year's goods?" Chen Jin glanced at Aunt Guihua who was so happy. She really couldn't understand.
Ever since Aunt Guihua was troubled by her family members last time, she has become more easy-going, especially when facing the villagers from Qiaodong Village.
I just don’t know how long this “easy talk” can last. She bets that it will only last for this New Year, and there will be no more.
Ma Guihua replied: "I'll go to the market to see if there are any missing ones. It's a good opportunity to see what you guys bought so I can make up for it."
That's fine.
Chen Jin didn't expect that it would be so difficult to park in the old market in the suburbs of Dongcheng District this year. The nearby open spaces were filled with cars of all sizes, including a lot of vans.
It can be seen that everyone’s life is getting better and better, and more and more people are making money.
Shen Baichuan finally understood what Chen Jin meant when he said that the vegetable market before the New Year was a crowded meat market.
If you go to a busier stall, you have to rely on the people behind you to push you forward, otherwise you won’t be able to squeeze to the front.
queue? No matter who queues up with you at the vegetable market, they all rely on squeezing.
He just followed Chen Jin and paid the bill together with his third uncle and the others for whatever he bought. There was no need for them to bargain, as Aunt Zhou was enough to do the bargaining on her own.
Aunt Zhou even reminded him: "When we bargain later, you don't have to say anything, just let me do it."
Chen Jin smiled and said, "Aunt Zhou is afraid that you will lower the price and exaggerate it. She doesn't trust you."
How can I say it so bluntly? Aunt Zhou wanted to turn around and glare at her, but there were too many people and it was difficult to turn around, so she gave up.
The elders buy lanterns for good luck and festive mood, and they buy lanterns based on whether they look good.
Fortunately, the lantern shop is still there. It was still the same boss and his wife, as well as a kid helping with change.
"We are a bit pressed for time. After the meeting at your company this afternoon, we will go back to the small western-style building to put up the couplets. My house has been cleaned, so there is no need to clean up again. We will go back to my third uncle's house for dinner in the evening. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and we have to go back to the village ancestral hall to burn incense in the morning. You can go with us and take a look. It's okay, but you don't have to go in. We will start preparing the New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon. We have to go back to the village ancestral hall again on the morning of New Year's Day..."
Chen Jin counted out the upcoming arrangements for him. Every day was packed with things to do.
It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when they left the vegetable market. After sending the people and New Year's goods back to the Rose Garden, Shen Baichuan and Chen Jin had a casual meal outside, and then hurried back to change clothes before going out again.
It’s not that they don’t want to eat good food. At this time, there are people everywhere, especially in delicious restaurants. It is impossible not to queue up.
People look forward to having better food during the Chinese New Year all year round, so in the one or two days before and after the Chinese New Year, everyone is willing to spend money on food, drink and clothing.
When passing by the storefront of Baiyou, Chen Jin saw that it was full of people, and the loud speaker at the door was still playing automatically: "20% off for all items! Welcome the New Year!"
I haven't been to Nancheng District for a long time, and it has changed a lot.
The factory site in the suburbs has now been completely flattened, leaving only a large bare area. Some have even been fenced off, and construction may begin after the new year.
Chen Jin saw that the restaurant he went to last time was still there, and the two restaurants next door looked like they were newly opened and were doing pretty good business, but that restaurant had very few customers.
Qiaoxi Village has undergone a complete transformation.
The foundation has been laid and there are still workers working on it. Across the village, there is said to be a large shopping mall being built, but now the progress has slowed down and cannot match the construction speed in Qiaoxi Village.
Going further ahead is the former Qiaodong Village, now the Science and Technology Park.
In just three years, everything has changed.
"Do you think it's better to live in the village?" He has heard Chen Jin mention his previous days in the village many times, when they were carefree, happy and comfortable.
"No, not really. Anyway, I have never heard anyone say that it would be better if the houses were not demolished."
Chen Jin said very honestly: "With money and without money, there is a huge difference in life. I know it well."
As he was talking, he had already arrived downstairs of his company.
Shen Baichuan's companies all moved to the Science and Technology Park.
We moved again after moving here, and only after we rented out the three connected floors did we feel stable.
As for the expansion in the future...I guess Shen Baichuan will move away. He bought a piece of land nearby to build the company.
By the way, Qiaoxi Village sells land for development and construction, and pays dividends every year. This year's dividends have not been paid yet, but they are said to be directly transferred to individual bank accounts.
Chen Jin felt that there must be something fishy going on here. But for her, the dividends every year are unexpected wealth, so she doesn't intervene. What if someone gets angry and finds the higher-ups to target her company?
Well, it’s better to mind your own business.
Chen Jin looked around and found that the inside was not as densely packed with buildings as it looked from the outside. There were quite a few green spaces and activity areas in the middle.
The iron wall that encloses the science and technology park has not been removed yet, and the interior is still under construction and has not been completely completed. But it looks like it should be about the same.
"This is my first time coming in here since the science and technology park was built." You can't get in at normal times. They have very strict management here. Except for those who come here to work and some construction workers doing construction inside, outsiders are not allowed to come in casually.
"It will be completed by the year after next at the latest. A gymnasium has been built in the front, and a swimming pool is under construction..."
Shen Baichuan pointed out the approximate direction of these buildings to Chen Jin, and Chen Jin said in surprise: “The gymnasium and swimming pool are built on top of our orchard!”
If time wasn’t tight, Chen Jin would definitely think of taking a walk.
We took the elevator directly to the 16th floor where Shen Baichuan’s office was located. As soon as the two of them got out of the elevator, you looked at me, I looked at you, and no one moved. In the office, someone had quietly looked over through the glass door.
"Go ahead. I'm not familiar with this place. Go ahead and lead the way."
"Let's go together."
Then Shen Baichuan walked and introduced to her: "The 14th and 15th floors are two project teams, basically all technical personnel. This floor is for various support departments, and there are also meeting rooms for meetings..."
After entering his office, Chen Jin said, "Your office is much more impressive. Your company, well, looks like it's very wealthy."
Shen Baichuan chuckled and said, “It just looks like the two companies in your place are more impressive.”
Chen Jin chuckled and said, "Let's stop bragging about each other."
She walked to the window and looked down, and she could actually see the ancestral hall of her village.
They came in a hurry and had only been sitting in the office for less than ten minutes when Shen Baichuan's assistant, Assistant Yu, came over to remind them to go to the meeting.
Chen Jin discovered that he had met Assistant Yu in the small western-style building community before, and he should have gone to deliver documents to Shen Baichuan at that time.
"Hello, Boss Chen, I'm Mr. Shen's assistant, Yu Li." This is the first time I've formally met the future boss's wife, which is rare.
When the boss said yesterday that he wanted to bring his girlfriend over, he specifically reminded him to call her Boss Chen when they met.
At that time, he had the illusion that his boss was a gigolo.
His boss is also...a boss that he doesn't know how to evaluate.
Every time he called the boss to look for someone, the boss said he had to go to class and go to school to look for someone. The boss told him to call him Teacher Shen instead of the boss...
I've never seen a boss who loves teaching so much!
Could it be that it was because he taught at the school that he got a girlfriend named Boss Chen? After all, he had seen Chen Jin before when he went to the small western-style building to deliver documents. Chen Jin lived next door and was busy catching a little orange cat hiding in a pile of potted plants in the front yard.
Assistant Yu had already played out a TV drama in his mind, but he still had a smile on his face. With his meticulous suit and tie, he looked like a complete professional assistant.
“Hello, Assistant Yu.” Chen Jin thought to himself: Shen Baichuan’s assistant, the name is really easy to remember.
Chen Jin thought that although there were differences in everyone's company's annual meetings, they wouldn't be that bad. They should all find a spacious place and decorate it in a festive way. At the very least, they should hang a red banner, right? The leader comes up to give a summary and some boasts and prospects, then things are distributed and bonuses are given out, and finally everyone goes back home.
but!
The annual meeting of Baichuan Technology Company seemed to be just an ordinary meeting. Each department reported on the progress, the vice president made a summary, and Shen Baichuan said a few more words.
Well, she counted, no more than ten sentences. Including the last sentence "Give out the bonus."
Everyone's tone was as dull as a pool of stagnant water.
Even when Shen Baichuan introduced her, he didn’t make anyone gossip, they just looked up curiously.
It was the words “Give out bonuses” that finally made the employees on the left show a slightly different expression, and the employees on the right showed even richer emotions.
Shen Baichuan said that there is a little difference between the technical staff of the project on the left and the administrative staff of the support department on the right.
"No, are you really like this all the time?"
Shen Baichuan smiled, "Their project has not made any progress recently, so the atmosphere in the company is a bit tense, which is normal. We usually care about what we should care about. The annual gift bonus and holiday allowance are decided by everyone's vote. They don't want to bring New Year's goods home."
"The corporate atmosphere is different. This is quite common among companies in science parks."
Chen Jin thought about it carefully and felt that it was right. Now Qiaoxi Village has been demolished, and there are no employee dormitories in the science and technology park, so we can only live in the city or near the suburbs and bring back New Year's goods... It's tiring.
Moreover, given the workload of their technology company, those technicians probably don't have much time to go home and cook. The rice, flour and oil distributed by her company are not often used, which is indeed not practical.
But even the administrative staff who provide support are quite serious.
It is true that what kind of boss you have, what kind of employees you will have. Shen Baichuan was very serious outside, and looked quite intimidating.
Although no one dared to act rashly in front of the boss, they couldn't help but secretly glance at Chen Jin who was standing next to the boss, and then glance again.
It was so quiet that Chen Jin didn't even notice it. He was still marveling at the possibility of such a quiet company? ! If she were an employee of her company, she would have already started whispering with people around her and digging up all the gossip about her boss.
This annual meeting lasted less than two hours, and the distribution of bonuses and the raffle alone took nearly an hour and a half.
After receiving the bonus, the atmosphere in the meeting room became a little different.
After everyone left the meeting room, Chen Jin took a long breath and said, "It's as serious as a faculty meeting in our college. Are they afraid of you?"
She was still worried about being booed like yesterday, but later she found out that the employees in his company probably didn't dare to boo.
"No, they are not the kind of people who like to stir up trouble." Shen Baichuan refused to admit that it was his own problem, but Chen Jin had a look on his face that said "I don't believe you."
You can tell at a glance that his employees can't be lively in front of him.
"But it's also good." Chen Jin sighed and said enviously: "I wish I had your cold face, it would save me a lot of trouble. My employees dare to joke with me."
Shen Baichuan smiled, “Are you praising me or insulting me?”
"Of course I'm praising you! If you keep a straight face, you will have half the trouble. How great is that. Right?" Chen Jin said seriously, and then he couldn't help laughing.
Shen Baichuan was helpless, he knew that she was hurting him in a roundabout way.
"If you don't acquiesce, will your company employees dare to joke with you?" Shen Baichuan thought: If she doesn't take the lead in making trouble, her employees will dare to follow suit.
But if he took the lead in causing trouble, his employees might think he was possessed.
"Hey, you just introduced me as Ms. Chen Jin, my girlfriend." Chen Jinle laughed and said, "I almost laughed out loud. How come you introduced me as if you were looking for me to support you?"
“Yes, I just want to find someone to back me up.” Shen Baichuan responded very straightforwardly, and joked: “Let them know that even if I have nothing to do with the Cheng Group, I still have a backer.”
He just said it casually, but Chen Jin was very serious and said:
"Then tell me earlier next time, and I'll call my eldest brother, his wife, my second brother, and my third brother to come over to support you. There's no need for my eldest uncle to step in. Hehe, our family has plenty of backers!"
Chen Jin looks very proud.
My uncle said, don’t panic when something happens, and run home to find your parents if you can’t win.
She has a backer = Shen Baichuan has a backer.
Shen Baichuan couldn’t help but stretched out his hand to pinch her face, but Chen Jin slapped his hand away, and quickly glanced at the office outside, glaring at him and said, “It’s a glass wall, and it’s clearly visible from outside, so be careful of the impact.”
"By the way, a glass wall would be nice. When my company rebuilds the office building, I'll ask them to build one."
Chen Jin suddenly seemed to have discovered something unusual and said, "I saw someone secretly looking at us. He must be talking about us. Tsk, I thought people in your company didn't even like to gossip... I knew that there would be people who don't like to watch the fun."
Although the excitement was hers.
The people outside were indeed talking about the two of them in private.
"That girl just now is the future boss lady, right? When the boss introduced her as the boss of such and such company, I thought our company was going to have one more boss."
"No, why would such a big boss still want to find our boss?"
"Hey! You're going too far. Our boss is not bad either. He's very generous when it comes to paying! When you first came here, didn't you also want to get close to the boss? Humph, if you find a partner like the boss, I don't believe you won't be tempted."
"I am tempted. If he finds faults in my plan again, I won't be able to move on."
People will only be fooled by appearances for a while. If anyone's heart keeps pounding when encountering the boss's mouth, it is probably because of a weak heart.
"The boss lady is so gentle, isn't she?! Hey, I have the same jacket as the boss lady, both are from Parkview."
The people next to him looked at the excited man like a fool and said, "Did you just doze off? The boss said that Baiyou is one of the boss's wife's companies!"
"No wonder! The boss lady has such a good taste... Oh my god, the boss is here, hurry up and work, stop chatting."
Chen Jin was amused. "I said your employees are afraid of you. It must be because you looked past them that they stopped talking."
When they left the company, someone went to see if the elevator had really gone down. After running back to report, the office's whispers turned into normal conversation volume.
Assistant Yu looked back and shrugged, getting used to it.
The distance from the Science and Technology Park to the small Western-style building is not short.
Neither family needed to clean the house, they just had to put up the couplets and hang up the lanterns.
Chen Jin bought extra this time and distributed it to the children in the community. But the quantity is limited, so there is nothing you can do if you don’t get one.
Before school started, she didn't plan to come back here, so she took some New Year gifts to visit several professors in the community. After all, he is her teacher and lives nearby, so she has to visit him.
Professor Kong also gave her and Shen Baichuan a red envelope and said, "Run the company well. When others come to me to talk about state-owned factories in the future, I will use you as a positive example."
Chen Jin took his share with both hands, and also helped Shen Baichuan to accept it, and suggested very impolitely: "Then you should praise me more with others, I am not a proud person."
Professor Kong smiled and said, "People with thin skin can't do business well. I can't blame you for doing well in business."
Hey, this shows how thick-skinned she is.
After leaving Professor Kong's house, it's time to go back for dinner. If you don't go back, you will get a phone call to remind you.
Sure enough, just as they drove out of Wutong Road, their third uncle called.
“Third uncle, we are going back now.” Shen Baichuan answered the phone.
The third uncle swallowed the words that came to his lips and said, "Tell the third sister to drive slowly. Don't worry, the whole family is waiting for you two."
Why does this seem like a sarcastic statement?
"Today's sunset is quite beautiful."
Shen Baichuan raised his head and looked forward, then smiled and said, “Well, it looks good, so I’m in a good mood.”
"Are we chasing the sunset?"
"Calculate!"
Keep moving forward towards the bright and brilliant road ahead, and drive towards one of the thousands of lights.
"Here I am, downstairs, the elevator is here, get ready to open the door for me..."
When they entered the house, a group of people urged them to sit down and eat.
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