Dongqing and his wife sat at the dining table eating. He said, "I originally wanted you to enjoy a comfortable life with me, but I've made you run around with me every day and suffer because of me. I'm thinking of hiring another driver so you can stay home and rest from now on. I really don't want you to suffer like this with me."
Li Yuzhu laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid of spoiling your wife?"
Dong Qing laughed and said, "I'm willing, it's settled then. Next time I come back, I'll find a driver to pick up the kids and bring them home to rest!"
Li Yuzhu longed to rest at home for a while. She had been exhausted every day during this period. Not to mention a woman, even a man would not be able to handle such a heavy workload.
She was different from Su Wei. Su Wei only cared about driving, eating and doing nothing, and didn't care about anything else. When the car arrived at the destination, Li Yuzhu was busy unloading the goods and doing the accounting, while she could lie down on the back bunk and sleep for a while.
On the contrary, Li Yuzhu had to worry about everything and arrange and handle everything herself. When the car arrived at the destination, she didn't have any time to rest.
The traditional division of labor, with the husband handling external affairs and the wife managing the household, is not a viable approach. Relying solely on the husband for everything will only exhaust him.
After listening to her husband's words, Li Yuzhu pondered for a moment and said, "It really can't be done if I don't go out with you. If we hire a driver, he can only help you drive, but what about unloading? Unloading with two vehicles huddled together is too slow."
What Li Yuzhu said was also true. Each truckload of goods needed to be unloaded at two different places. Each time they arrived at their destination, Li Yuzhu and Su Wei would drive one truck to unload the goods, while Dong Qing would drive the other. This way, they could save half the time. Hiring a driver was really not an option. If the two trucks were to be unloaded together, it would take two days, which was too time-consuming.
Dong Qing said, "I'm sorry you had to suffer because of me!"
Li Yuzhu said, "Before our son was born, I felt wronged being with you. To be honest, after our son was born, I felt very fulfilled. Although it's been tiring being with you for the past year, I'm very satisfied. I've never felt so satisfied before. I feel that this is what married life should be like!"
The couple has built a substantial business empire, which is nothing compared to the hardships they have endured. Only at this moment does Li Yuzhu feel that she is a happy woman and that choosing Dong Qing as her husband was the right decision.
She was most grateful to her three older sisters. Without their care and support, she probably would have divorced her husband long ago, which was the outcome Yi Xiaofan wanted. If she had divorced, her life would have been over. Every time she thought about that incident, she felt terrified.
Only at this moment did she feel a sense of belonging to a family. If things were like before, she really didn't know if her marriage with Dongqing could have lasted!
After breakfast, Li Yuzhu went into the bedroom, grabbed a few changes of clothes, and left the house with her husband.
After finishing breakfast, Dong Ermei said, "Honey, I won't go back to our hometown today. You go back and see our son. I'm going to help my brother at the pig farm."
The husband said, "Okay, go ahead."
Dong Ermei arrived at the pig farm by bicycle. It was Sunday, and her eldest sister, brother-in-law, and third sister were all there. They saw a truck loaded with half a load of brand-new desks and chairs. Her brother-in-law was a truck driver at the machinery factory, so he must have driven the truck. Dong Damei asked, "Elder sister, were these desks and chairs just bought?"
Dong Damei said, "They weren't bought. Factory director Yi Minghui gave them to us. There were a few sets of desks and chairs left over from last year when we replaced them. They've been sitting in the warehouse ever since. He got some benefits from my brother. I don't know where he heard that my brother had just started a pig farm. Yesterday before I left work, he came to my office and handed me a slip of paper, asking me to load the desks and chairs from the warehouse and deliver them to the factory today before the workers arrive."
Yi Minghui had received such a great benefit from Dong Qing, so it was normal for him to give away these desks and chairs. These desks and chairs belonged to the government, and he was just issuing a permit. That's what you call doing a favor. Dong Ermei didn't think anything of it after hearing this.
The pig farm has several empty offices; these desks and chairs will complete the setup.
The eldest sister's husband got into the car and unloaded the tables and chairs, while the three sisters, Dongxiu, and Dongchunmei carried them into the office.
After unloading the tables and chairs, Dong Damei took a bag from the driver's seat and said to her husband, "You drive back to the machine factory. I'll help out here all day and go home tonight."
The husband said it was fine, said goodbye to his two sisters-in-law, and drove back to the machinery factory.
Dong Damei walked into the accounting and cashier's office carrying a bag, placed it on the table, and said, "This bag contains office supplies and receipts that I brought from the factory. If you need any office supplies in the future, just let me know, and I'll bring them to you from the factory."
Dong Damei is now the head of the finance department of the machinery factory. Getting some office supplies is nothing to her; the finance department has plenty of these office consumables.
Dong Qing and his wife drove their tractor to the porcelain factory. Su Wei was already there. Dong Qing told the factory what goods they were loading and asked them to arrange for someone to load the truck.
A porcelain factory doesn't produce every type of porcelain. This time, we need to order a variety of items, so we need to visit several factories to get all the goods.
The way Dongqing delivers goods now is different from how it loaded goods at the beginning. It's not as simple as it was at the beginning. At first, there was no target for supply, and we could load whatever we wanted. Now, we're loading goods according to the orders that the merchants want. We load whatever goods they want.
The goods needed are of a wide variety, including coarse porcelain, fine porcelain, ceramics, Jun ware, wine cups and wine sets, tea sets, and so on...
Loading goods in this way is much more troublesome. Often, even goods worth a few hundred yuan require driving to a factory. It takes two truckloads of goods, but compared to before, the cost of loading two truckloads of goods is much higher, but the profit is also much higher. Good goods are not cheap, and the profit margin is higher.
For example, Jun ware vases are ornamental items with a certain collectible value. These valuable vases are generally sold to wealthy people, and Dongqing makes a large profit. Wholesalers and retailers make even greater profits. However, the sales volume of this type of goods is relatively small. If the sales volume were as large as that of Jun ware, Dongqing could become rich within half a year.
To prevent valuable goods from being crushed, they are always loaded onto the truck last.
Generally, the bottom of a car is fitted with coarse porcelain, so it's not a big deal if one or two pieces are damaged. The top is fitted with fine porcelain.
Ceramics are inherently fragile, and factories usually provide some consumables to prevent Dongqing from having to compensate for these losses.
The orders from customers who came out can earn more than 10,000 yuan more for two truckloads of goods compared to before. Even though it's the same truckload of goods, the profit can sometimes be really different.
With so many different kinds of goods, loading the truck is much slower than before, when it would only take three hours to fill the truck. Today, it took until 4 p.m. to finish loading all the orders for the two trucks.
This time, the five companies loaded their goods too high, and in the end, the goods were loaded onto the truck and exceeded the side rails. Fortunately, in those days, there were no checks for overweight or overheight items on the road.
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