"I'm young, please don't hold it against me. Now I know how good you are, could you please help me with this?" Lu Feng sighed, looking very troubled. "I really have no other way. If this succeeds, you will leave a significant mark on my country's electronics industry!"
"Come on, don't flatter me. Even if you leave behind a magnificent masterpiece, or even a Qingming Scroll, I can't help you now. I'm just a minor official. You can't expect to squeeze every last drop of value out of a toad, can you?" Huang Youwei said, looking at the clock on the wall. "I have to go buy groceries. There's nothing I can do right now. You know what I mean?"
Lu Feng sighed helplessly and said, "Then you go buy the groceries!"
"Okay, let's not contact each other unless there's something going on. And if you have something to do, then don't contact each other at all. That's all." Huang Youwei finished speaking, put down the phone, quickly packed his things, and headed towards the market.
The shortage of foreign exchange continued until the late 1990s. Some companies even sold off their unwanted foreign exchange quotas. For companies and individuals who could earn foreign exchange, the rule was that whoever could earn it first could spend it.
Jiafeng Electronics had already exceeded its quota, and Lu Feng didn't want to spend the money to buy quotas from other companies, so he was worried for a while.
There was a knock on the office door. Lu Feng said, "Come in." Wei Yandan pushed open the office door and walked in, saying, "President Lu, the annual meeting is all ready, and the employees have been heading there one after another."
"Okay, I'll change my clothes and then go." Lu Feng stood up and walked inside.
At 6:30 p.m., the car stopped downstairs at the hotel. The banquet hall on the fourth floor was already crowded with more than 300 people. Ten people were seated at each table, which was set with peanuts, melon seeds, candy, and other treats. Some people even brought their children.
Groups of children ran around, the scene was bustling with noise, and people chatted intimately. The workplace relationships now are not as cold as they would be years later; they are more like neighbors, with many people living in the same building and having very stable social relationships.
"Oh my, is this your son? He's grown so big!"
"Come on, grab a handful of candy and eat it."
"Don't give it to him, there's not enough for everyone."
"It's alright, it's public property, we'll ask for it later."
The scene resembled a grand opera performance in the village, a large-scale social event. In front was a stage, and above the stage were four large characters written in red calligraphy: "Happy Spring Festival".
A banner was then unfurled, which read: "Warmly Welcome 1994, Jiafeng Electronics Group Company Celebration Gala."
Nowadays, annual meetings are truly pure annual meetings, where a group of people gather together to chat about everyday life, and there are very few long, rambling speeches from leaders.
Before seven o'clock, Lu Feng walked in with Wei Yandan, Zhu Lidong, Liu Cheng and others. The host stood on the stage, holding a microphone, and said, "Let's welcome the group chairman, Mr. Lu Feng, and the company leaders with warm applause."
Applause and chatter erupted as many people stood up and craned their necks to see. Although Lu Feng came and went from the company every day, most ordinary employees had never seen him before.
Lu Feng sat down at the table in front and saw a row of artificial flowers in front of the stage, with large red characters in gold lettering behind them that read "Jiafeng Electronics Group Co., Ltd."
"Didn't we say we should be more generous?" Lu Feng said to Wei Yandan.
“Isn’t this grand?” Wei Yandan pointed to a row of artificial flowers in front of her and said, “Those flowers are so beautiful, and there’s even a red carpet on them. This hotel is the only one with a stage.”
"Mr. Lu, we have a program tonight," Zhu Lidong said excitedly to Lu Feng. "It's very trendy."
Looking at the stage costumes, Lu Feng wondered how trendy they could be. But then he thought about it and realized it was normal. Wei Yandan was thirty-six or thirty-seven this year, but she was born in the late 1950s. These things were already trendy enough for her.
The host walked onto the stage, announced the rules, and said into the wired microphone: "Tonight, each table will have six cold dishes and ten hot dishes. The food is being served now. Let me make it clear, no takeout and no grabbing. Next, please welcome Zhang Wensheng from the marketing department to sing the song 'Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies,' which is so trendy it'll give you rheumatism."
The audience erupted in applause. Lu Feng grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and couldn't help but laugh, saying, "So trendy it'll give you rheumatism. This host is something else."
A tall, handsome man walked up. His hair was neatly combed, and he was wearing a suit, but he didn't wear it properly. His shirt collar was open, and he wasn't tucked into his trousers.
As he stood on the stage, he put on his sunglasses as the music started.
Wow!!! So handsome!!
"Zhang Wensheng! Zhang Wensheng!"
The girls at the scene screamed, and amidst the screams, he turned up his shirt collar, looking incredibly handsome and cool.
Lu Feng couldn't help but laugh at the scene and watched with great interest.
Clearly, acting cool and singing Cantonese songs are now the mainstream ways to pick up girls. Especially if you wear sunglasses, ride a 125cc motorcycle, are good-looking, and wear a denim outfit, you can pick up whoever you want.
After the song ended, many people in the audience started eating. The host walked onto the stage and said, "Next, please welcome Zhou Tianfu from the R&D company to perform face-changing. Please give him a round of applause."
The shows went on one after another, and as the food was served, people came one after another to toast Lu Feng. There were all sorts of people, some came to flatter him and take the opportunity to say that they wanted to get an opportunity, and some were not good at speaking and were pushed over by their wives.
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