Chapter 388 Sister Song Comes to Dongming Island
Fortunately, the women in the family compound are all smart and hardworking. They are efficient and meticulous in their work, so not many lip balms need to be sent back for remake.
If this were a factory in later generations, who knows how many people would cut corners, slack off, and produce a bunch of substandard products.
Even so, Cen Yan was still exhausted.
Cen Yan planned to talk to Yang Xinxin and ask her to rent a room near the family compound so she could work there during the day and go back to her rented room to rest at night.
Her main job is still grinding the raw materials of Qi Bai Gao (Seven White Cream) into powder, plus the quality inspection and warehousing of another lip balm product. I'll give her a five-yuan raise.
Thinking of this, Cen Yan decided to tell Yang Mei about it when she went to work at the health center tomorrow, and ask her to pass on the message to Yang Xinxin.
If she's willing to rent a house in the city, she can ask Qi Jingchuan to help her find out if anyone has a spare room for rent.
During this busy period, the half-month period passed in the blink of an eye. In Lancheng, Sister Song took two young girls who had just started working at the department store counter and boarded a passenger ship to Dongming Island.
Cen Yan has finished the quality inspection and inventory check of the lip balms. She's letting the women in the family compound rest for a while. If they don't want to rest, they can continue making lip balms, but they'll have to wait until the next batch arrives. She needs to rest for a few days.
Before Sister Song arrived, she called Qi Jingchuan's office. When it was almost time for the passenger ship to arrive, Cen Yan led several respected women from the family compound to the dock to greet them.
This is Sister Song's first time picking up and inspecting the goods, and she also has the idea of checking out the production site, so Cen Yan will definitely accompany her throughout the process.
Firstly, she initiated the side business and negotiated the partnership, so it wouldn't be appropriate for her to be absent.
Secondly, it was Sister Song's first time visiting Dongming Island, and she was unfamiliar with the place and the people there. She only recognized her and not anyone else.
Finally, there's the issue of attitude. Her grandparents taught her that in business, one must have a long-term vision and not just focus on short-term gains, treating it as a one-off transaction.
She wanted to establish a deeper partnership with Blue Town Department Store, providing the department store with more products, and also wanted to use Blue Town's channels to contact the heads of other supply and marketing cooperatives.
In this way, the women in the family compound can increase their income, and the protection they receive from the organization can be more secure...
"Xiao Cen?" Sister Song had been on the boat for more than six hours. She didn't expect to see Cen Yan when she arrived at the shore. Judging from the snow on her shoulders, Cen Yan and the others must have arrived long ago.
Cen Yan stepped forward, her cheeks red from the cold: "Sister Song, you've finally arrived. You must be tired after a six-hour boat ride. Come on, let's go home to the family compound first. I've prepared a room for you and the two comrades. Don't leave tonight, stay at my place."
"We can stay in a guesthouse; the company will reimburse us."
"Staying in a guesthouse is nowhere near as comfortable as staying at home. You're my sister, so don't try to refuse me." Cen Yan looked unhappy, leaving her sisters-in-law dumbfounded.
As expected of Cen Yan, she actually dared to give a cold shoulder to the leaders who came to pick up goods from the department store. What if the leaders see Cen Yan with a sullen face and become unhappy?
On the contrary, Sister Song was not unhappy at all; on the contrary, she was overjoyed that Cen Yan had come to the dock to pick her up so early and had even tidied up her house.
Treating her like a sister, she felt incredibly warm and comforted, and in the end, she didn't refuse Cen Yan's kindness, and was escorted back to the family compound by the group.
Upon seeing that the lip balm was indeed produced in a military family compound, with guards carrying guns on both sides of the entrance, Sister Song breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Xiao Cen's source of goods was legitimate.
These are indeed handmade products made by military family members as a side business, not private speculation or profiteering.
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