Chapter 150
The afternoon sun was warm and there was no wind in the yard.
Chuxia sat at the table, propped up her head in the sun, smiling and watching Wu Xuemei coax the child.
There is a new life in the house, and it brings a lot more liveliness and freshness.
Under the warm sunshine, grandma holds the baby and coaxes him, creating a picture of peaceful times.
He smiled and watched for a while, then his eyes inadvertently swept across the second door, just in time to see Uncle Sun rushing in.
As soon as he came in, he called out, "Sister-in-law! Director Xiao Xia!"
Just looking at him like this, you can tell that something good is going to happen.
Wu Xuemei smiled and said to the child, "It looks like your grandpa Sun is here to announce the good news."
When Uncle Sun heard this, he panted slightly and smiled, "Indeed... I'm here to announce the good news..."
Before Chu Xia could speak, Wu Xuemei looked at him and asked, "Are the pickles selling well?"
Uncle Sun didn't have time to sit down, so he stood up and said, "It's more than just good, it's selling so well. Before, all the people in the factory were dissatisfied, and their expressions and words were always a bit weird. After the first batch of pickles were sold, they immediately obeyed. Now that the pickles in our factory are selling better and better, they are even more dissatisfied, and they work hard every day, saying that they will work together to make our factory a good one!"
Chuxia poured Uncle Sun a glass of water and asked him to sit down and talk slowly.
Uncle Sun said quickly: "You are still recovering from your illness, so don't be polite to me."
After saying that, he pulled a chair and sat down, took the cup and drank most of the warm water in one breath.
Wu Xuemei held her child and continued to talk casually: "The factory is different now. In the past, everyone ate from the same pot. No matter how much or how well you worked, you got a fixed salary. It was based on your years of service. Now you can earn more if you do well. Of course, you have to work hard. After all, who doesn't want to make more money? The more money you make, the better life will be for your family."
Isn’t that the case?
Uncle Sun put down his cup and continued, "Before, they were quite dissatisfied with Xiao Xia taking over our factory. They felt that the state-owned enterprise had become inappropriate. They lost their iron rice bowl and their status was lowered. They were unhappy and uncomfortable. But now, no one mentions these things anymore."
Wu Xuemei followed up, "In the final analysis, money is the most practical thing. With money, life can be better. Who would be against money? If the factory closed down, they would lose their jobs, not to mention their status. Now, not only do they keep their jobs, but they also earn more than before."
Uncle Sun finished talking about the recent situation in the factory with the support of Wu Xuemei.
Anyway, it's all good, it makes people excited, happy, and full of hope and motivation.
After Uncle Sun finished speaking, Chu Xia talked to him seriously about her next plans.
Basking in the warm sunshine, Chuxia said calmly: "This is just the beginning. We are just getting the factory back to normal operation. Once our pickles have gained some reputation, we will find ways to expand other sales channels, and then we can sell more."
Uncle Sun looked at Chu Xia and nodded, "You talk, I listen."
Chuxia looked at him again and said slowly: "In addition to the existing sales channels, for example, we can also talk to some breakfast shops or restaurants that need pickles and supply them with pickles for a long time. When I get better, I will change the name of the pickle factory and register a brand trademark. When the time is right, we can rent a store in Qianmen Street, Dashilan or Xidan. We can also sell it ourselves. If the sales are good, we can open a few more stores."
Uncle Sun listened and nodded seriously.
Chuxia continued, "In addition to bulk pickles, we also have to make branded packaging, both canned and bagged. In addition to pickles, we can also sell the sauces we make. Dry yellow sauce, sweet noodle sauce, soybean sauce, chili sauce... As long as we can make it, we can sell it in cans."
Uncle Sun listened more seriously, as if all his nerves were tense.
Seeing that he hadn't spoken, Chu Xia looked at him and asked again: "Uncle Sun, what do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Uncle Sun quickly responded, "Great! It's just... I can't imagine it..."
If we do it step by step like this, and it really succeeds, how big a business will it be?
Chu Xia looked at him and smiled, "We don't want to become a big man in one bite, we have to do it step by step."
Uncle Sun also smiled with relief, "Xiao Xia, you are the one who dares to think and act. Anyway, I will listen to you. You tell me how to do it. I will do whatever you say!"
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After recuperating from the confinement period in early summer, I started working in the factory again.
When she first took over, she was afraid that the workers in the factory might be too emotional, so she didn't do much.
Now that the factory is operating normally and the benefits are visible, the workers have no complaints about her and their attitudes are much better when they meet her, so she naturally feels at ease to start working.
She removed the original plaque of the pickle factory and replaced it with a new one - Tangyuan Pickle Factory.
At the same time, she also registered a food company with the same name and a brand trademark with the same name.
Two months after the plaque was replaced.
The first brand store officially opened on Qianmen Street.
Because Tangyuan pickles are unique and delicious, their reputation is getting better and better. The store’s business is good every day, and people line up in long queues to buy pickles.
So in just half a year, two more stores opened.
Because the business was doing well and making a lot of money, it expanded rapidly. Just like when his family opened the restaurant, he naturally could not escape the verbal attacks from society.
However, the attitude of the leaders above, "letting some people and some regions get rich first", meant that these remarks did not have any substantial impact.
Under the influence of such an attitude, contradictions among the people are gradually eliminated.
At the end of this year, Chaozi, who had worked in the south for another year, also returned.
He was just like Guo Gai when he came back, laughing and saying some ambiguous words, never mentioning specifically what happened in the south.
After Chaozi came back, Han Ting was left alone in the south.
Then, not long after the Chinese New Year, Han Ting wrote a letter back to report his safety. After that, he lost contact with us in the south and never wrote back again.
After Han Ting stopped replying, Han Qingtian, Wang Cuiying and Han Lei wrote many more letters, but all of them fell on deaf ears and received no response.
There was no other way, so Han Lei had to ask for leave from the factory and ask Chaozi to take some time to take him to the south to look for it.
The world out there is so big, it’s not easy to find someone like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Han Lei and Chaozi didn't find Han Ting, so they had to come back.
After Han Ting disappeared, Wang Cuiying cried all day at home.
She started to complain about Han Qingtian again, wondering why he had agreed to let Han Ting go out. What was there to do outside? Going to such a faraway place, where you wouldn't even know where you would die.
He blamed himself for not stopping Han Ting from leaving, and also blamed himself for not trying his best to stop Han Ting.
Han Ting, Guo Gai Chaozi and two others went to the south, and only two of them came back.
After returning from a trip to the south, especially after completely losing contact with Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai became different and became people no different from the uncles in the alley.
They got married, had children, and lived a stable life.
He no longer had the bad habit of gathering together with bad friends to hang out. In order to support his family, he would do any job that could make money and he was busy trying to make a living every day.
Chuxia also continues to move forward on her own life track.
After she created the brand effect of Tangyuan, she did not stop there.
On the basis of steadily expanding the scale and sales channels, he accumulated available funds and in early summer he bought a large restaurant that was on the verge of bankruptcy. He redesigned and renovated it, recruited and formed a team, developed dishes, and opened a boutique restaurant - Yipinyan.
In a blink of an eye, five years passed quickly.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei still run a restaurant in the alley, and their babies have grown from crying babies in swaddling clothes to children who are about to graduate from kindergarten and go to elementary school.
Lin Xiaohan was promoted to the rank of director and transferred to the Municipal Justice Bureau as director.
A sunny and warm afternoon.
The bare willow branches sway gently in the breeze.
There were people skating coming and going on the thick ice on the lake.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan held Yi Yi's hands on each side and pulled him to skate on the ice.
If they couldn't hold on tight, they would fall onto the ice one by one. Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan laughed together.
Play on the ice until the sun sets.
After having fun, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan took Yiyi off the ice rink and went home.
On the way to the parking lot, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan were still pulling Yi Yi on each side.
Chu Xia lowered her head and smiled and asked him, "Did you have fun today?"
Yi Yi looked up at Xiang Chu Xia and replied, "Very happy!"
Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan were naturally happy as well.
They both looked at each other with smiles on their faces.
When they arrived at the parking lot and went to the car, Chuxia took Yi Yi to the back seat.
When Lin Xiaohan opened the driver's door and was about to get in the car, he glanced around and suddenly saw a man and a woman getting out of a car that had just stopped not far away.
When the two came together, they behaved intimately and looked like a couple.
Of course, Lin Xiaohan was not interested in whether they were a couple or not. The reason why he looked at them for a little longer was because the young man who got down from the driver's seat was his younger brother Lin Haobo.
Seeing Lin Xiaohan standing outside the door and not getting in the car, Chu Xia asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Xiaohan retracted his gaze upon hearing this, got into the car and said, "I saw someone I know."
Chuxia looked outside and saw Lin Haobo.
Lin Haobo's eyes fell on their car window and he obviously saw them as well.
Lin Xiaohan drove away without saying hello to him.
Lin Haobo watched Lin Xiaohan drive away before he looked away.
The stylishly dressed girl next to him asked him, "Who is that person in the car? Do you know him?"
Since childhood, Lin Haobo would be in a bad mood whenever he saw Lin Xiaohan, and it has not changed now.
He sneered and said, "A cold-blooded freak who has been heartless and inhuman since birth, a ruthless bastard who is ungrateful and betrays his own people, and a person who is not worthy of the surname Lin at all."
The girl understood, "Is it your half brother?"
Lin Haobo looked at the girl coldly and said, "He is not my brother. I have nothing to do with him. He has nothing to do with our Lin family now."
After saying that, he walked forward and continued, "Don't be fooled by his appearance. He is actually a very dark person inside. He has been hated since he was born. My father particularly dislikes him. He hates him from the bottom of his heart and hates him. I also hate him very much. No one likes him. My father has long since disowned him, and he is no longer a member of our Lin family."
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