The heating table quickly found a market, and the factory workers were the first to realize its benefits, so they placed many orders.
Then, at the department store, Li Jianguo, as the head of the supply and marketing department, immediately realized the benefits and great sales prospects of the heating table after hearing a few words from Xu Ningyan.
They quickly contacted the machinery factory and secured the first batch of goods.
Gu Zhiyuan naturally helped in this.
For this reason, after the heating tables sold out, Li Jianguo took the opportunity to quickly finalize Xu Ningyan's official employment.
There were some people making sarcastic remarks at the department store. Li Jianguo simply said that the heating table was designed by Xu Ningyan's boyfriend, and that the department store was able to get first-hand supplies thanks to Xu Ningyan and his boyfriend.
Thanks to this heated table, the department store's sales soared in the last quarter.
Putting aside other things, at least this year, it has ranked among the top in the city and even the provincial supply and marketing system's internal evaluations.
Based on this alone, why shouldn't Xu Ningyan be eligible for a permanent position?
Moreover, Xu Ningyan will also be part of their supply and marketing department after she becomes a full-time employee, so she won't be taking up a spot at the counter in front of them.
That finally silenced those noises.
After Xu Ningyan was officially appointed, Li Jianguo directly assigned her the business of both the Hongxing Commune and the Hongqi Commune.
For the past two years, both communes have been applying to establish a relationship with the department store's supply and marketing department in order to sell their local specialties through the department store's channels.
However, the supply and marketing department was short-staffed before, and Sister Yang, who was in charge of business within the county, rarely went to the countryside, so it was delayed.
Now that Xu Ningyan has become a formal employee of the supply and marketing department, Li Jianguo simply let Xu Ningyan take the lead first, after all, she has experience and did very well in the Tuanjie Brigade.
Xu Ningyan was quite happy to work in the supply and marketing department, as it offered her a lot of freedom.
Moreover, once the preliminary arrangements are made, there's basically nothing to worry about afterwards.
You can also take this opportunity to resell some items and make a profit.
Otherwise, even though the salary of a regular employee has increased to twenty-four yuan and there are more welfare vouchers, for Xu Ningyan, who plans to save money to buy a courtyard house and various other houses in Beijing in the future so that she can rely on rental income for retirement, the more money the better.
The space is limited, and many things cannot be taken out.
She only makes transactions with Sun Zhou once every one or two months, and the amounts are not particularly large.
Better safe than sorry. In this day and age, if you accidentally capsize, it can be fatal!
However, although Li Jianguo assigned her to these two communes, he only told her to make plans before the end of the year and to discuss it after the new year.
After all, it was the dead of winter, and all the production brigades under the commune had finished their farm work and were now hibernating.
Lin Hong was even happier than Xu Ningyan when she was officially hired, and gave her a pair of woolen gloves as a congratulatory gift.
Needless to say, Gu Zhiyuan had already gone to Sun Zhou's place and gotten a woolen overcoat, which he then gave to Xu Ningyan.
At this time, the wool coats were made of pure wool, were heavy, had a crisp texture, and were a rare light yellow color.
It wasn't the usual large suit collar, but a rounded Peter Pan collar, with a perfectly fitted waist, like a slightly open flower bud, just reaching the knee. You couldn't find another one like it in the whole county.
It is said that someone brought it back from Shanghai.
Xu Ningyan fell in love with it at first sight.
The material, the workmanship, the style—these will never go out of fashion, even in later generations.
I tried them on, and they fit perfectly, as if they were tailor-made for me.
If you don't wear light yellow properly, it can make your skin look dark and make you look older.
Xu Ningyan was only seventeen years old after the New Year, the prime of her youth. In addition, she had been carefully recuperating for the past six months and had not done any farm work, spending her days facing the yellow earth and turning her back to the sky.
Her skin had also become much fairer, her hair was jet black and shiny, just reaching her shoulders, with a thin layer of bangs. Wearing this light yellow woolen coat, she looked like a pretty yellow plum blossom in the snow, exceptionally eye-catching.
When this outfit was worn to the department store, it caused quite a stir.
Young women and married women alike gathered around, reluctant to leave, some even asking where it was bought. But when they heard it was brought back from Shanghai by someone, they all gave up on the idea.
Lin Hong was closer to Xu Ningyan than the others, and was able to touch him.
Before touching it, she made a point of washing her hands, because such a delicate color would look unsightly if she accidentally left a black handprint.
Fortunately, Lin Hong was easygoing. After all, she was also pampered at home. Although she didn't have a light yellow wool coat, she did have one in a different color.
There were several more cotton-padded coats, so he only admired them for a moment before letting go.
Within two days, the news spread throughout the supply and marketing system that Xu Ningyan had been promoted to a permanent position and that she and her boyfriend had bought her a floral woolen coat from Shanghai.
With the weather getting colder, Xu Zhenzhu hasn't been in the mood to show off to Xu Ningyan lately. After all, riding her bike here means getting a mouthful and a face full of wind, and she doesn't know how much face cream she'll need to apply to keep her face from cracking.
With the local supply and marketing cooperative, most people fawned over her, so she naturally didn't want to come to Xu Zhenzhu's place to make a fool of herself.
Just as I was thinking about the New Year, I went back to the Tuanjie Brigade. I could finally boast about my good life now and put down Xu Ningyan.
I never expected to hear this news.
Like a bolt from the blue!
Xu Zhenzhu's face immediately darkened, and she didn't even go to work, taking a day off to go home.
When I got home, I realized that Lu Kai hadn't gotten off work yet.
She wanted to go to the machinery factory to find Lu Kai, but after thinking about it, she held back.
She knows men; if you make a scene at home and no one sees, he can soften up.
It's not good to cause a scene in public and damage a man's reputation.
So not only did he endure it, but after thinking about it, he realized that there seemed to be some freshly caught fish for sale on his way back, so he went out and grabbed one.
I stewed a pot of tofu, steaming hot, waiting for Lu Kai to come home from get off work.
Lu Kai has been unhappy these past few days. Ever since Gu Zhiyuan joined the design department of the machinery factory, his status has been declining.
The A03 project is progressing smoothly under Gu Zhiyuan's leadership, and the design is nearing completion.
Now, everyone in the higher-ups knows about Gu Zhiyuan.
According to past practice, the newly assigned tasks were to be handed over to him.
Now they've bypassed him and given it to Gu Zhiyuan.
Although his salary in the design department was one level higher than Gu Zhiyuan's, almost everyone in the design department now regarded Gu Zhiyuan as their leader.
Even Li Chao, who used to fawn over him, now calls him Boss Gu and Brother Gu.
Even his father is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with his recent performance, and he is under more and more pressure.
Fortunately, due to the smooth progress of the A03 project, the higher-ups are quite satisfied with the performance of their design department, and it is said that new tasks are coming down soon.
According to his father, if he performs well on this mission, he will be able to advance further.
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