Yuan Fangguo also did not choose to avoid this issue. After thinking about it, he told his girlfriend that it would be better to wait until they graduated from college. After all, they are still students now. As parents, they certainly would not approve of their children falling in love too early.
Lin Yumei's idea coincided with Yuan Fangguo's. She also felt that it would be best to tell her parents after graduation.
"Shall we get married after we graduate from college?" Lin Yumei suddenly asked.
Yuan Fangguo was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Do you think that time is right? As long as you are willing, I will definitely marry you."
"Not suitable." Lin Yumei chuckled. "At that time, we hadn't settled down yet. I think we should wait at least a year after graduating from university before considering marriage."
"As long as you are willing to marry me, I can marry you anytime." Yuan Fangguo stroked his girlfriend's smooth skin and said gently.
On this day, the two of them were immersed in their long-lost world of two, and neither of them returned to school at night.
The next morning, after sending his girlfriend to school, Yuan Fangguo also prepared to drive to school for class.
But just as he drove to the school gate, his cell phone suddenly rang.
I picked up the phone and saw that it was Zhong Jiulin calling.
"Master Zhong, what's the matter?" Yuan Fangguo couldn't help but ask.
"Boss Yuan, something terrible has happened. The engineering team is quitting."
Yuan Fangguo was a little surprised. "Quit? Why not?"
"They said they haven't received their New Year's wages yet, and they won't start working until they're paid," Zhong Jiulin's voice became a little anxious. In front of him were those workers with ferocious faces, almost roaring. For Zhong Jiulin, who had a strong scholarly air, it was really like "a scholar meeting a soldier, unable to explain himself clearly."
"Didn't we give them their wages before the New Year?" Yuan Fangguo was very surprised. Zhong Jiulin blurted out such a question without any context, which surprised him.
"Mr. Yuan, we haven't received any wages at all." The worker closest to Zhong Jiulin also heard Yuan Fangguo's voice, and he couldn't help but roar loudly.
"Lao Zhong, comfort them first. I'll be there soon." After hanging up the phone, Yuan Fangguo paged Yi Juntao and asked him to ask for leave.
An hour later, Yuan Fangguo appeared in the hospital.
After Zhong Jiulin and the others had just persuaded the workers, they were taken to the construction site of the sanatorium. The entire construction site was already in a state of suspension.
Yuan Fangguo parked the car in the hospital yard and then walked over with big strides.
When Zhong Jiulin saw Yuan Fangguo from afar, he hurried over and gave him a brief report on what had happened.
"Call Xiaoguan as well." In order to let the hospital manage the construction site's finances, Yuan Fangguo had specifically asked Li Hui to transfer all the bank money to the hospital's account.
Zhong Jiulin obviously had no experience in handling this kind of special situation. Logically, the finance department should have been asked to come out as soon as possible. But after Yuan Fangguo's instructions, he remembered it.
"Okay, okay, I'll call Xiaoguan right away." Zhong Jiulin said "Okay" twice, then took out his cell phone and quickly dialed the office number.
In less than five minutes, Guan Liying arrived.
"Has the project payment from the New Year been allocated?" Yuan Fangguo asked Guan Liying as soon as he saw her.
Guan Liying nodded. "Did you call already? What's going on, Mr. Yuan?"
"Hongsheng Company has stopped working and they said they haven't received their wages yet," said Yuan Fangguo.
Guan Liying was taken aback, her face full of disbelief. "No way, Mr. Yuan, their Mr. Qi came to me specifically before the New Year and asked if I could pay the workers their wages earlier, saying that it would be good for the New Year."
"Let me ask." Yuan Fangguo said as he took out his cell phone, ready to call Qi Bing, the boss of Hongsheng Construction Company, to find out what was going on.
Unexpectedly, the phone was turned off when I called.
Yuan Fangguo seemed a little unconvinced and called several times in succession, but all he heard was the sound of the phone being turned off.
"What? No one answered?" Zhong Jiulin and Guan Liying asked at the same time.
Yuan Fangguo glanced at them and said calmly, "No."
"Is there anything wrong?"
Yuan Fangguo thought for a moment, then said loudly, "Let's go to the scene and see what's going on."
At this moment, they were only fifty meters away from the site where the workers gathered. When they walked into the temporary fence of the construction site, the workers saw Yuan Fangguo coming, they quickly patted the dust off their buttocks and stood up from the ground.
A middle-aged man looked at Yuan Fangguo and said loudly, "Are you Mr. Yuan?"
Yuan Fangguo nodded, "Yes, I am Yuan Fangguo."
"When will we be paid?"
"What's your name, big brother?" Yuan Fangguo asked.
"You can just call me Lao Liu. Mr. Yuan, I'd like to ask when the wages for the fifty or so workers here will be paid? We haven't seen a cent from January to March, and only half of our wages for December last year were paid. Mr. Qi said you keep dragging your feet. We've been promised and guaranteed time and again, but we still haven't seen any money. So, I hope Mr. Yuan can come here today and give us a straight answer on when we'll be paid."
Yuan Fangguo had vaguely guessed something in his mind before, and now after hearing what Lao Liu said, he immediately understood in his heart that there must be a problem on Qi Bing's side, otherwise, such a thing would never happen.
The sanatorium and the new hospital site were originally packaged and put up for public bidding, with a total investment of RMB 4.2 million. Both parties strictly fulfilled the project contract. The current progress of the project is 60%, and Yuan Fangguo has paid about RMB 2.5 million.
"Old Liu, there is something I want to explain. Legally speaking, our company cannot pay you wages directly..." Just when he said this, the workers below refused to work and started spewing obscenities from their mouths, which made Guan Liying, a little girl, blush.
"Everyone, please be quiet and let me finish what I want to say." Yuan Fangguo saw that the workers below were very dissatisfied and all of them looked indignant. He couldn't help but raise his voice.
After several loud reminders and Lao Liu's temporary persuasion, the construction site finally quieted down.
"I hope you won't take my words out of context. Wait until I finish speaking," Yuan Fangguo said again.
"Our company has been paying you strictly according to the contract. We have already paid you approximately 2.5 million RMB, and our finance department has the proof. If you don't believe me, I can have our finance department show it to you right now."
"Then show it to us." Old Liu said loudly without hesitation.
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