Chapter 198
When Lei Tingjun returned to the Pingdong City Transportation Team's work quarters, A-Qiang also returned.
Ah-Qiang was dejected and depressed, completely unlike the excited and thrilled person he was when he left.
Upon seeing Lei Tingjun return, A-Qiang merely raised his head and weakly called out, "Brother Lei, you're back."
Lei Tingjun could tell at a glance that something was wrong with him. He sat on the bed, changed his shoes, and threw his leather boots out to dry by the window while asking, "What's wrong with you? You look listless. You were fine when you left."
Ah Qiang was completely speechless with bitterness; he felt utterly wronged.
On the way back from Pingquan County, he was preoccupied with worries and kept them bottled up inside. Seeing Lei Tingjun now, he finally found someone he could confide in.
“That Luo Chunyan, she’s like she’s crazy!” A-Qiang complained. “She herself said she didn’t like me and told me to get lost. I listened to her and got lost, and never bothered her again. But this time when I returned to Pingquan, she inexplicably came to find me again, and even… she even caused Zhu Shuangyan to misunderstand and think that I had some kind of ambiguous relationship with her.”
Lei Tingjun listened calmly, took off the short-sleeved shirt he had been wearing all day, revealing his muscular upper body, and asked, "So which one do you like?"
"Of course I like Shuangyan!" Aqiang said seriously. "It was only after I got to know Shuangyan that I realized what it feels like to truly like someone."
"I want to marry her, I want to be with her, and I want to do so many things with her!" said A-Qiang.
Lei Tingjun picked up a large T-shirt from the bedside and put it on. He glanced at A-Qiang and said, "What if a girl better than Zhu Shuangyan appears next to you? Would you be tempted?"
"No, absolutely not!" A-Qiang said firmly, "I've made up my mind about her for life!"
“But now Shuangyan thinks that I went to Luo Chunyan because I was heartbroken after being rejected by her. She also said that I gave her the necklace that I gave to Luo Chunyan. She said that my name has the same character ‘yan’ as Luo Chunyan’s, and that I went to her as a substitute.”
"Brother Lei, you know me, A-Qiang, best. How could I do such a thing? I'm so ashamed I could never clear my name!"
Looking at A-Qiang's dejected appearance, Lei Tingjun smiled and said, "This little setback has defeated you?"
Lei Tingjun lay down on the bed and began flipping through a book: "If you really like her, let her feel your sincerity. Sometimes, misunderstandings can't be explained by words alone; concrete actions are always more convincing than empty words."
Ah Qiang thought about it and realized that made sense.
He's still a bit luckier than Lei Ge; at least he shouldn't have any parental objections.
Lei Ge and Miss Ji, just getting past Factory Director Ji alone is enough to keep him going.
Compared to this, Ah Qiang felt that he was already quite lucky.
Now that Zhu Shuangyan has misunderstood him, it's uncertain whether she will still be willing to see him if he goes to find her in the future.
After confiding in someone about his troubles, A-Qiang cheered up again.
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Lei Tingjun paid wages to his workers and drivers.
The transportation team has had a lot of business and good profits in the past two months.
With Lei Tingjun personally leading the way, everyone worked like their lives depended on it, and no other transport team could compete with Lei Ting Transport Team.
The dozen or so coworkers and drivers could each earn about four or five hundred yuan a month.
Moreover, meals and accommodation were provided on the construction site, and Lei Tingjun often treated everyone to meals. So, as long as they didn't squander their wages, they could at least send 300 yuan home.
This salary is higher than that of most state-owned enterprises.
So everyone was happy and cheerful.
Lei Tingjun never mistreats his brothers, so the drivers of the Lei Ting transport team are all willing to work themselves to the bone with him.
However, once the average salary in the team increased, the two big bosses, Lei Tingjun and A Qiang, received less of their own bonuses.
Moreover, this month, Lei Tingjun also transferred the waste recycling business of Hongxing Factory to Hongri Transportation Team.
That means at least 20,000 yuan less in net income.
This month, just from running transport, Lei Tingjun and A Qiang only earned a little over five thousand and three thousand yuan respectively.
They spent over a week transporting bricks, which was incredibly profitable and exhausting.
Although no one quite understood Lei Tingjun's actions, he was, after all, the decision-maker for the transport team. Out of trust in Lei Tingjun personally, everyone chose to believe his decision.
But it was soon confirmed that Lei Tingjun's decision was insightful.
Previously, waste packaging and recycling companies, knowing that transportation teams like Leitingjun were also competing with them for business, resorted to a method that harmed others without benefiting themselves.
Before this, the waste piles were all pollutants and required money to be paid to clean them up.
This led to the emergence of waste packaging and recycling companies. Because these companies require manpower and vehicles, they charge a service fee.
However, when it comes to construction site managers who have a good relationship with recycling companies, they just give a token amount and that's enough to get the recycling company to come.
As everyone knows, the scrap metal in the waste pile can be exchanged for some money, so neither side loses out.
However, after Lei Tingjun discovered this business opportunity, he approached Zhao Yingda and offered to do the same thing. In return, he promised to help the construction site clean up all the waste materials if Fangyuan Company would give him the waste recycling business.
In other words, it means using the labor force of one's own people to exchange for the opportunity to recycle waste.
This is certainly something that most construction sites would welcome.
When they got to the Hongxing Factory, the three transportation teams, including Lei Tingjun's, were vying for the waste recycling business. They had to bribe the project manager with red envelopes, show their sincerity, and treat him to meals.
Now, Lei Tingjun has heard the news that the original waste recycling companies outside are directly buying waste piles from the construction site.
The price per ton can be directly included in the contract, and then the construction site can sell the waste to recycling companies for processing.
As a result, the capital invested becomes higher and higher.
Initially, Lei Tingjun discovered the business opportunity because he saw that waste piles didn't require money; all he needed to do was work hard to sift through them and make money.
Now that competition has arisen, we need to spend money to buy it and then process it, which renders the profit from it worthless.
For example, right now, Lei Tingjun has a dozen or so men who eat with him. He spends a lot of money to buy a bunch of scrap materials, works hard for several days to sift out some scrap steel, and the money he makes might not even be enough to pay everyone's wages.
It was at this moment that everyone suddenly realized what a visionary decision Lei had made when he decided to hand over the waste disposal business of Hongxing Factory to Hongri Transportation Team.
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