In 1991, Liu Bo returned to China to celebrate the Spring Festival and planned to come back in early March.
Gu Qiong's vacation was spent in China, and she did not go back to work until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
One day, I opened my mailbox and found an email inside.
When I talked to Yuanyuan on the phone that day, I told her about the email I received as a routine matter. At that time, she said with emotion that it would be great if she could get it.
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
A milk powder manufacturer, asked them if they were willing to acquire it, and if they were interested, they could discuss it.
Although Gu Qiong did not make much progress in the second half of the year, he still had some connections in the industry.
She was looking for big brands to work with, so she suffered repeated setbacks.
Later, we adjusted our strategy and sought cooperation with small brands, but there was no progress.
She had contacted this manufacturer by phone and email before, but received no response.
Gu Qiong followed up on the matter as Hua Yuanyuan asked and gave her a reply as quickly as possible about the whole story.
The plan was changed temporarily here. Hua Fangfang took people with Liu Bo and went there together. They went through the port city as usual and took away all the income from the winter greenhouse vegetables.
He rushed there as quickly as possible, landed and met up with Gu Qiong. Hua Yuanyuan also got the news.
Milk powder manufacturers are suffering from heavy losses to the point of bankruptcy. The largest company in the industry has brought them down and now wants to acquire them.
The boss was very upset and didn't want to do what they wanted.
He contacted all the connections he could to see if anyone else would acquire them.
Sending an email to Gu Qiong was just a last-ditch effort and I didn't hold out much hope.
Hua Yuanyuan immediately made a decision and asked an investigation company to do an in-depth background check on the company to find out what was going on and whether it was hiding anything so as not to annoy others.
Let our own lawyer do the work first, and at the same time arrange a meeting for a real chat.
The two sides agreed to meet in their own office on the third day.
Investigating the company takes time. Gu Qiong has been trying to gather information these days, hoping that a meeting between the two parties will give him key information.
A thin old man with gray hair shook hands with Hua Fangfang and said "hello" in a clumsy way.
The foreign language spoken by both of them was unintelligible, and the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.
It’s still the same old rule, get the other party’s consent, and Hua Yuanyuan’s phone is also online on speakerphone.
But this time it was not her who took the lead, but Hua Fangfang.
There won’t be any substantial progress in the first meeting, so just chat more.
Hua Fangfang first talked about her own situation, showing enough sincerity.
The old man, Mr. Smith, was more sincere. He took out a thick notebook with densely written numbers on it from his big bag.
The little old man wearing glasses spoke slowly, the translator said a few words, and Hua Fangfang took note of the key points.
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It's about the debt situation, how much salary is owed to employees, how much is owed to the bank, and when is it due...
There was no translator on Hua Yuanyuan's side. There was a thick dictionary next to her, and she was writing quickly on the notebook.
Hao Li was listening to the incomprehensible words on the side. Could he understand what his wife meant?
Of course Hua Yuanyuan understood a little bit. She understood the numbers, but not the other professional terms. She had been studying hard for a long time to catch up.
Listening is better than speaking.
Hua Yuanyuan was able to distract herself and explain to the curious look of the person next to her.
"I can understand a little bit, but I can't understand most of it."
"Don't worry about me, go to sleep first."
"Okay, I'll go check on them and go to sleep when I come back."
"Wait, why don't you sleep with them? Does the phone disturb your sleep?"
“It doesn’t matter.”
Hao Li waved his hand and told his wife to go about her own business. This phone call was quite hypnotic.
On the other end of the phone, old man Smith was eating donuts and drinking coffee, enjoying them slowly.
Liu Bo learned this way of entertaining people from the law firm he first visited.
That time he had nothing to do so he was just eating and drinking. When people saw that there was nothing on the table in front of him, they gave it to him.
He also prepared this for foreigners, and it turned out to be correct.
How many days has this old man not eaten?
He guessed right. Smith drove from far away, driving his old car all the way here. He was reluctant to spend money on food and drink, and saved as much as he could.
During the lunch break, Gu Qiong went out to buy some food and ate it in the office. It was a foreign pizza and hamburger.
Smith started to make a lot of shots again, leaving Hua Fangfang stunned. Why does this guy look so pitiful?
What’s even more amazing is that after Hua Fangfang and her colleagues finished their work in the evening, they met the old man who had left in the afternoon in the parking lot.
It was hard not to see the shabby car parked in the company's free parking space.
Smith is taking a nap in his seat!
Well, after waking him up, I found out that the old man had no money to stay in a hotel, so he planned to make do here and continue his work on Monday.
That wouldn't work, so Hua Fangfang took the old man back home.
He doesn't look like a bad guy. He can be knocked down with just a little effort.
Hua Fangfang and the old man sat in the back seat and chatted all the way.
My honest nature burst out and the questions were very hurtful.
Ask people why they are so poor, why their salaries are so high, it’s not enough to spend, etc.
Liu Bo can help with the translation, as their company hasn't paid wages for a long time.
Hua Fangfang still doesn’t quite understand. If the boss doesn’t have money to pay his employees, then the boss himself is also extremely poor?
As a boss himself, he felt sorry for the old man. The boss was having a miserable time.
The next day was the weekend, and Liu Bo went out shopping early in the morning.
Hua Fangfang said she wanted to treat the old man to a meal of hometown food, and he would not be picky about what he could buy in a foreign country.
Liu Bo cooks for himself here because he can’t get used to the food outside.
The meat here is cheap. You can stew a pot and put it in the refrigerator and eat it for several days.
Smith was really tired after the journey. He had a good sleep and didn't get up until the sun was shining on his butt.
The meat is stewing and everyone is making dumplings.
Smith's clumsy little hands followed Hua Fangfang in learning how to make dumplings. The scene was very funny and heartwarming, and his clumsy look made everyone laugh.
Drinking foreign wine and eating dumplings, the translation of the sentence "the more you drink the more dumplings there are" can only give a rough explanation.
Old man Smith talked a lot after drinking. He held Hua Fangfang's arm and told her about his grievances with tears in his eyes.
Translated, it means, "It's his fault that the factory went bankrupt, because he's not cut out for business, and those nasty businessmen are targeting him!"
"He only knows how to do research, and those people want his research results so they destroy his factory."
"He doesn't want to do what they want. He will sell it to others rather than to his enemies."
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Hua Fangfang said, "Uncle Shi, why are you so stupid? If someone bullies you, you have to fight back."
"We can't let the bad guys succeed. As for me, I won't give it to them even if I throw it away. I'll make them angry to death."
"Uncle Shi, I want to help you because I feel sorry for you, but I'm not smart and can't help you. Why don't you talk to my sister? My sister is very smart and she must have a solution."
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Two drunkards, one big and one small, were both drunk.
I slept till night, and when I woke up to call my sister back, she kept saying how pitiful Uncle Shi was. Sister, just think of it as a good deed. Don’t you always say that good people will be rewarded?
Hua Yuanyuan had no idea who this Uncle Shi was.
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