"Okay, I'll arrange recruitment right away tomorrow!" Chen Hong paused for a moment and said, "I've already eaten. To be honest, I don't want to eat with Yi Minghui and his wife. I'll stay here a little longer and then go back."
Chen Hongren is a fairly upright person, but he can't stand the way Yi Minghui and his wife do things; to put it bluntly, they are not on the same wavelength.
People like Chen Hong also have their shortcomings. He is liked by his subordinates but ruthless to his superiors. He neither gives gifts nor tries to curry favor with his superiors. He dislikes the work style of certain leaders and finds fault with them everywhere. Can someone like him get along well with his superiors?
He was responsible for his work and took good care of the workers. He would fight for the benefits that the workers deserved from the factory leaders. However, he was particularly strict and demanding of the workers at work. Even so, the workshop workers still liked him. As a person, everyone knows right from wrong.
Everyone has their own ambitions, and Dongqing didn't force him in this regard. He said, "Okay, let's have dinner alone another day. Go back and get some sleep soon, your body can't take this."
Dong Qing trusted Chen Hong completely. Only by entrusting all the work in the machinery factory workshop to him could he feel at ease to do other things. He really couldn't do it with anyone else.
Chen Hong nodded after listening, and Dong Qing turned and walked out of the workshop.
The machinery factory is less than a kilometer away from the residential area, and we returned to the residential area in no time.
When Dong Qing arrived at Yi Minghui's house, he saw the living room light was on through the crack in the door and could clearly hear the sound of the television. The couple must not have gone to sleep.
Dong Qing raised his hand and knocked on the door. Yi Feifei, who was inside, asked, "Who is it?"
Dongqing said, "Sister Feifei, it's me, Dongqing."
The door opened with a click, and Dong Qing followed Yi Feifei into the living room. Yi Minghui, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, stood up and asked, "Oh, it's Brother Dong Qing. Is there something you need so late?"
Dong Qing said, "Something came up. Let's go out for a meal and talk about it there."
"Okay, I'll go back to my bedroom to change my clothes." Yi Feifei said and walked towards her bedroom.
She changed her clothes and walked lightly out of the bedroom. She had changed into an exquisite spring/autumn dress, which fully demonstrated her unique feminine charm and gracefully outlined her beautiful figure, making it hard for anyone to look away.
Dongqing smiled and said, "Sister looks so beautiful in this dress."
Women love to be complimented on their beauty; it's in their nature. Yi Feifei was no exception, laughing and saying, "Little brother, you really know how to compliment people. I'm already middle-aged, what's there to be beautiful about me?"
Dong Qing said, "I don't think so. I believe a woman's inner beauty lies not in her superficial age, but in the mature inner beauty that comes with age. This unique beauty can only be possessed by someone like you who has weathered many storms; you really can't find it in young girls."
Yi Feifei smiled and said, "Little brother, you really know how to compliment people. Let's go!"
Yi Minghui turned off the TV, and they walked out of the house together downstairs and towards the outside of the residential area.
The three of them walked outside the gate. Coincidentally, Li Yuzhu had just returned from her shower, carrying her clothes. Yi Feifei asked, "Sister went to take a shower, shall we go out for dinner together?"
Dong Qing is now a celebrity in the machinery factory. Everyone in the factory knows that he and Li Yuzhu divorced, including Yi Feifei and her husband.
Yi Feifei used to call Li Yuzhu "sister-in-law," otherwise she wouldn't have changed her address to "sister" tonight. These are all things that are understood without being said.
Li Yuzhu really didn't want to go out to dinner with the couple, and was about to decline when Dong Qing gave her a look that suggested she couldn't refuse.
How could Li Yuzhu, being so intelligent, not realize these things? Yi Feifei is a woman with high aspirations; it's really impossible to refuse her. In the future, she will need to ask the couple for help with many things. One cannot get too close to this kind of person, but one also cannot distance oneself from her.
Although Yi Feifei doesn't work in the machinery factory, she can get things done just by making a fuss in front of her husband. This woman is really not to be trifled with. Such a woman can sometimes make things happen, and sometimes she can ruin things, depending on her mood.
If Li Yuzhu didn't understand her ex-husband's meaning, she would have lived in vain. She smiled and said, "Of course, I've been wanting to invite you to dinner for a while but haven't had the time. Wait a moment, I'll leave the clothes with the security guard and then we'll go."
Everyone has this peculiar habit of wanting to hear pleasant things. Yi Feifei was overjoyed after hearing it, and her pretty face beamed with joy.
Li Yuzhu put the things in the guard room, and the group walked towards the restaurant together, chatting and laughing.
On the way, Dong Qing asked Li Yuzhu to take Yi Feifei and her husband to a restaurant first. He went to a liquor store and bought a case of Moutai liquor, which contained six bottles at eighteen yuan each, totaling one hundred and eighty yuan. He also bought a carton of Green Zhongyuan cigarettes, which cost fifteen yuan a carton. Not to mention the meal at the restaurant, the liquor alone cost the equivalent of three months' wages for an ordinary worker.
Dong Qing walked into the restaurant carrying cigarettes and alcohol, while Li Yuzhu had already ordered the dishes.
Yi Minghui laughed and said, "Brother, can we possibly drink all this wine?"
Dong Qing smiled and said, "If you can't finish it, please take it home. I'll come over for a drink sometime when I'm free."
These are all common sayings about gift-giving. Even if Yi Minghui invited Dong Qing, he wouldn't go to his house for drinks. Of course, Yi Minghui didn't take his words seriously either; both sides knew the truth!
Yi Minghui smiled and said, "Okay, come to my house for drinks sometime. I'll have your sister Feifei cook some of her signature dishes, and the two of us brothers can sit down and have a few drinks."
Dong Qing smiled and said, "Okay, I'll come over to your house sometime and try Fei Fei's signature dishes."
As they chatted and laughed, the restaurant waiter brought out all the food and drinks. Dongqing poured wine into all the glasses, picked up his glass, and said, "Let's all raise our glasses."
Back then, although a bottle of Moutai cost more than ten yuan, it was really unaffordable for ordinary people. They couldn't even afford meat that cost eight mao a jin (500 grams), so who would be willing to spend half a month's salary on a bottle of liquor?
Even if Yi Minghui is a factory director, he probably wouldn't be willing to buy Moutai liquor to drink. Even if he has such expensive liquor at home, it's because someone gave it to him as a gift. Generally, buyers don't drink such high-end liquor, and drinkers don't buy it.
Although Yi Feifei is a woman, she drinks and smokes just as much as a man; her slender fingers have turned a bit yellow from smoking.
She stubbed out her cigarette and picked up her glass, and Li Yuzhu did the same. They drank three glasses of wine in a row.
Li Yuzhu picked up her chopsticks and said, "Want some vegetables?"
They all picked up their chopsticks and started eating. Yi Minghui ate a few bites, put his chopsticks down, and asked, "Brother Dong, you're not exactly a free man these days. You're not just treating my wife and me to dinner tonight, are you? Just tell me what you need, and I'll do my best to help you with anything I can."
Dong Qing said, "Actually, it's not a big deal. I spent the whole day hauling materials in the factory's trucks. When I returned to the factory, I checked the workshop, and the welding workshop is too small. All the processed materials are piled up there and can't be welded. I'd appreciate it if you could apply to build another workshop. If this continues, sales and production will be out of balance!"
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