"Also, if you run into Li Peiqiang and Wei Daming, treat them to a meal if you can. Don't be stingy. I've already extended the room rate for your room for another 7 days."
"Okay." Jiang Hai nodded solemnly, glancing at Li Peiqiang and Wei Daming.
The two men smiled and raised their hands, exchanging glances as they greeted each other.
After explaining everything, Ye Beiping patted Jiang Hai's arm and raised his voice a few decibels: "Then we'll head back first. Manager Jiang, thank you for your hard work these next few days. Stay in Wencheng for now."
Manager Jiang?
Jiang Hai belatedly realized that he was being addressed, and nodded with a smile: "Don't worry, Manager Ye."
The two exchanged a glance and smiled.
To Li Peiqiang and Wei Daming, this whole scene made them genuinely believe that the two were colleagues at the same company, even their way of addressing each other was so formal.
Jiang Hai, Li Peiqiang, and Wei Daming then watched Ye Beiping and Jiang He get into the car and slowly disappear from their sight.
"Director Li, Director Wei, are you free today? I'd like to invite you to lunch and have some drinks together," Jiang Hai said to Li Peiqiang and Wei Daming only after the taillights of the car had disappeared from sight.
After all, even though we've received the goods, we still need to maintain the relationship.
Upon hearing this, Li Peiqiang patted his bag and shook his head, saying, "Manager Jiang, forget about dinner. I still have to go back and report. Why don't you treat Director Wei to dinner? He can hold his liquor."
"No, no, no." Wei Daming waved his hands repeatedly when he saw that Li Peiqiang was trying to trap him. "I also need to go back and report, so I thank Manager Jiang for his kindness."
After saying this, he glared at Li Peiqiang, his eyes full of confrontation.
While sitting in the passenger seat of the truck, Ye Beiping suddenly remembered something that happened on his way to Wencheng.
He instructed the driver, "Sir, we won't take the national highway directly. We'll take the side roads first, and then take the national highway after we leave Wenzhou."
"Why?" The driver asked, puzzled, and frowned. "The back road is bumpy and difficult to travel. Not to mention whether the cargo in the back can handle the bumps, it will take more than an hour to get out of Wencheng by taking the back road."
The driver never revealed the real reason.
Anyone who drives long distances knows that narrow roads are not only bumpy, but also cause a lot of damage to the car, and consume more fuel and time.
Ye Beiping understood the driver's meaning, and took out a pack of cigarettes and ten yuan from his bag and handed them to the driver.
"Master, please help me. There are a lot of bandits on the national highways these days. It's safer to take the national highway after leaving Wencheng."
"Alright, alright." The driver glanced at the cigarettes and money, and reluctantly agreed.
Jiang He tried to ask questions several times along the way, but Ye Beiping gestured for him to ask each time.
Ultimately, the driver followed Ye Beiping's instructions, first taking a side road out of Wenzhou, then getting onto the national highway. After a bumpy ride of more than seven hours, they finally arrived in Hangzhou.
It was a little after 5 p.m.
Following Ye Beiping's directions, the truck arrived at the entrance of Grandma Qiu's residential area.
However, the entrance to the residential area is too narrow for trucks to drive in.
Ye Beiping had no choice but to pull Jiang He out of the car and said to the driver, "Sir, let's unload the goods here."
"Here?" The driver looked around in frustration, then pointed to the residential area and said, "This isn't a warehouse, so why are we unloading here?"
No matter what, he was a driver for the No. 1 Leather Shoe Factory, and this was the first time he had encountered someone unloading goods in a residential area.
Ye Beiping offered a cigarette and explained with a smile, "Master, it's too late today, so I'll stay here and unload the goods here first. Our company will send another truck to pick them up later."
"I see." The driver hesitated for a moment, frowned, and then joined Ye Beiping in unloading the goods. "Then I'll help you. Let's get this done as soon as possible so I can go home earlier."
"Thank you, Master. I'll treat you to dinner when I'm done with this."
The three of them got to work.
Ye Beiping simply piled the goods up next to the corridor and didn't intend to take them home.
After all, there are still outsiders around, so he and Jiang He will have to work hard on their own later.
The noise from moving the goods attracted the attention of some elderly people in the community, who pointed and whispered about the three people.
What's going on?
"I don't know, it looks like they're moving goods."
"This is a place for people to live, why are you moving goods here?"
"There are quite a few. That young man looks familiar. Doesn't he look like he's from Grandma Qiu's family?"
...
The chatter was so intense that some of the comments even reached Ye Beiping's ears.
"Beiping, are you sure you're alright?" Jiang He overheard the discussion and asked Ye Beiping softly.
Ye Beiping glanced at the group of elderly men and women not far away and shook his head: "It's alright, just move them."
A thousand pairs of leather shoes may not seem like much, but each trip can only carry one box at most. Each box contains about 20 pairs of shoes, so it takes three people more than a dozen trips to carry them back and forth.
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