Chapter 128 Old Acquaintance

Chapter 128 Old Acquaintance

A lot of things happened during Tao Nanfeng's graduate studies.

The business to the north is getting bigger and bigger.

Taking advantage of the start of the country's large collective economy, Xiangbei opened a cigarette factory in Yuanhou Village and invited Gao Deshun to be the factory director. He encouraged villagers to grow tobacco leaves, registered new brands, continued the model of Xiufengshan Farm, and started a one-stop production and sales process.

A few technical personnel from Xiufengshan Cigarette Factory were also brought in to establish a cooperative relationship with Jiangcheng Agricultural University to develop safe, low-toxic, and new-flavor cigarettes.

The name of the new cigarette brand is very simple, it is called "North and South". Travel around and smoke a cigarette. This is a sales pitch that countless buyers often say.

Xiangbei made more and more money, but he always kept a low profile. In the eyes of outsiders, he is just an ordinary small businessman who picks up his wife from school every day, strolls around with his children, and occasionally visits the cigarette factory.

Among those who were admitted to university in the class of 1977, Hu Huanxin, Wei Min and Chen Zhilu, who had three years of junior college, have all graduated. Chen Zhilu became the sales director of the Nanbei Tobacco Factory and is doing very well. Xiao Aiyun, Ye Qin, and Li Huilan will graduate in half a year, and Qiao Yadong will continue his postgraduate studies. This group of educated youth from Jiangcheng who went to Xiufeng Mountain together in 1973 have grown up and are no longer young and naive.

Old man Ye Yintong was officially rehabilitated and returned to Jiangcheng from the northwest. He was an open-minded old man. Facing Fan Yajun's confession, he not only did not blame her, but also comforted her: "I don't blame you, I don't blame you. You are young and it is right to insist on innovation."

Fan Yajun and Ye Chu rekindled their old love, they quickly fell in love, got married and had a child, and now the child is one month old.

Tao Nanfeng, with his own efforts, caused an earthquake in the construction industry in Jiangcheng.

Even though she was unable to take on private work during her graduate studies, there was a constant stream of clients inviting her to participate in project acceptance.

Director Tian Qiang of the Jiangcheng Construction Bureau went to Jiangcheng University of Architecture and promised to give her a deputy director position in two years, hoping that she would work in the Construction Bureau after graduation.

The Kyoto University of Architecture, where Professor Liu Sen works, sent her an invitation letter, hoping that she would teach at the university after graduation and join the Kyoto University of Architecture Design Institute.

Everyone knows that she can spot construction quality problems at a glance. If she has this ability, it will be a great tool for controlling project quality if it goes to the client or the government department in charge! If you work in a scientific research institute or a design unit, won't you be overwhelmed with work?

Suddenly, Tao Shouxin felt the burden of his daughter's fame. No matter where he went, people would ask him when Tao Nanfeng would graduate, where he was going to work, and what his life plans were. He was really fed up with it.

Tao Shouxin hopes that his daughter can find a partner as soon as possible, but Tao Nanfeng has his own plan. After finishing her defense and getting her diploma, she immediately registered a small design consulting company.

——Nanfeng Architectural Design and Engineering Consulting Company.

Xiangbei bought a three-story house facing the street near the school, which was decorated in a simple and artistic way. The first floor is for reception business, and the second and third floors are for offices and design studios.

Tao Shouxin, who was used to working for the government, expressed concerns about his daughter starting her own business.

"It would be great to work in the Construction Bureau. In two years, I can become the deputy director."

"I don't want to be an official. It's too restrictive."

"Then stay in school and become a teacher? It's comfortable."

"Dad, have you forgotten the world I saw in my dream? After the reform and opening up, the country will usher in a wave of infrastructure construction. If we don't take this opportunity to build achievements, when will we? Staying in school is too comfortable and there is no fighting spirit."

"Then go to a large design institute. They undertake many projects and provide a full range of work types."

"But there are so many things in the design institute, and the standardized processes are so numerous that women are at a disadvantage there. Look at Fan Yajun, she worked so hard to become a senior engineer, I don't want to be like her."

This is not good, and that is not good either.

The units assigned to this year's graduate students in the Department of Architecture are all very good, including construction authorities, design institutes, engineering bureaus, scientific research structures... But Tao Nanfeng doesn't like any of them and insists on starting his own business.

Seeing that his father was still unwilling to give in, Tao Nanfeng spoke with a smile.

"Which of our three babies is worry-free? I'm starting my own business now, and my company is right in front of the school, so I can take care of the kids. If I go to work at the Construction Bureau or the Design Institute, leaving early and returning late every day, won't they quarrel endlessly?"

Tao Shouxin felt a headache when he thought of his granddaughter Tao Tingzhi's loud voice. He nodded repeatedly: "Yu'er and Tao Ran are both very well behaved. You should take care of Zhizhi more often and let her use up her vigorous energy."

I don’t know where Tao Tingzhi gets the energy from. She jumps up and down like a little monkey every day. Everyone in the family is almost troubled by her and they can’t cope with it at all. Only Tao Nanfeng was strong enough to swing the little guy around and toss him around, and only then could Zhizhi's excitement be relieved.

Even Liang Yinzhen found it strange: "Which one do you think Zhizhi resembles? Although Nanfeng is strong, he has a gentle temper. Although Xiangbei was naughty when he was a child, he was also easy to take care of. He didn't have a violent temper like her."

Tao Tingzhi is cute and adorable, but she is crybaby and noisy. No one can take her things away, and she has to be given priority in everything. Even her younger sister Yu'er and younger brother Tao Ran had to listen to her. If anyone went against her wishes, they would scream at the top of their lungs. Only Tao Nanfeng's hug and kiss could calm her down.

Thinking of this, Tao Shouxin nodded: "Okay, then you open it, and I'll be your consultant." Nanfeng and Xiangbei are both people with ideas. After all, this world belongs to the young, so let them go.

Like the cigarette factory and wholesale department to the north, Nanfeng Architectural Design and Engineering Consulting Company opened in a low-key manner.

There was no ribbon-cutting, no gongs and drums, and no speeches by leaders. Nanfeng and Xiangbei hung the newly made stainless steel nameplate in the office on the first floor, waiting for the arrival of the project.

The first project was brought by Fan Yajun’s husband Ye Chu.

Fan Yajun was still on maternity leave, and Ye Chu happily came to the company with a net bag containing a dozen red eggs. He placed the eggs on the tea table in the meeting room on the first floor, smiling so hard that his eyes could not be seen. His thin face had gained a lot of flesh now, probably from the leftover chicken soup he ate while accompanying his wife during her confinement.

"Tao Nanfeng, thanks to you, Yajun just gave birth to a boy. Thank you so much!"

"You're welcome. Congratulations."

"I came here this time for one more thing."

"Please go ahead."

Ye Chu became calmer as he gained weight, no longer as decadent and confused as before. He smiled and took a sip of the green tea brewed by Tao Nanfeng. After praising the tea, he got down to business.

"Ever since you helped our fertilizer factory's office building with the reinforcement and straightening project last time, many people from the factory's infrastructure department have been asking about you. Whenever there is a construction site completion inspection, they want you to take a look to ensure that there is no loss of tens of thousands of yuan. But at that time you were pregnant and had a child, and you had to study, write papers, and defend your thesis, so you didn't have time to answer them. Now that you have opened a company, do you want to start this business?"

Tao Nanfeng nodded: "Okay, take it."

Ye Chu said: "When we were working on the fertilizer plant project, we sponsored the Department of Architecture with a thousand yuan as a scholarship for you. Now that you are starting a company, the amount cannot be less than half of that. After all, you also did the reinforcement design at that time."

Tao Nanfeng had just started his company and had no experience. For items like consulting fees, if the other party felt they were worth it, then it would be worth it no matter how expensive it was; if the other party felt they were not worth it, then it would not be worth it no matter how cheap it was.

"Okay, then let's charge 500 yuan per order. If you have any additional design requirements, you can pay more."

Ye Chu saw that Tao Nanfeng had adopted his suggestion and stood up happily: "There will be a project tomorrow and I would like to ask you to take part."

This project is not difficult. It is the completion and acceptance project of the expert building in Block 17 of the steel plant located on the bank of the Yangtze River. Because this is a small family building built specifically for foreign experts, the factory attaches great importance to it and is afraid of any mistakes, so they want to ask Tao Nanfeng to take a look.

The next day, Tao Nanfeng became the representative of Party A and attended the completion acceptance of the 17th Street Expert Building with Ye Chu.

I thought it was just a formality, but I didn't expect it to really happen.

Jiangcheng Iron and Steel Plant is large in scale, with an annual output of more than 200 tons, but its scrap rate is almost 10%. This year, it has made a great determination to introduce rolling mill systems from countries D and R. Because it involves the introduction and installation of foreign equipment, the factory needs foreign experts to stay in the plant, so it has carefully built the 17th Street Expert Building.

The previous 16 neighborhoods each consist of 10 buildings, combined into a relatively closed unit.

Because Block 17 was to be used by foreign experts, only three five-story villas were built. Each villa has two units, three bedrooms and two living rooms. The landscape design of the block is very good, with rockery, flower beds, flowing water and big trees.

The Party A team for final acceptance was very large, and there were two familiar faces among them.

——Zheng Meng, deputy director of the steel plant, and Zheng Xuxing, head of the purchasing department.

At that time, Zheng Xuxing was in love with Tao You. He ordered some hooligans to tease Tao Nanfeng, but they were subdued. They went straight to Tao Nanfeng's house and took Zheng Xuxing to the police station. Zheng Meng is Zheng Xuxing's father. He and his wife rushed to the police station and begged Tao Nanfeng to drop the case. Zheng's mother was powerful and denounced Tao You and Feng Chun'e for being shameless. She forced Tao You to change his surname and was called Feng You from then on.

Zheng Xuxing saw Feng You's true face and resolutely broke up with her under his mother's strong request, but he still couldn't help but ask about her.

As soon as he saw Tao Nanfeng, the past events came to his mind vividly, and he moved closer to say hello.

"I heard them all talking about Mr. Tao, Mr. Tao. I didn't expect it was you. You are so good at... infrastructure now? The last time I saw you, you were still working as an educated youth on the farm."

Tao Nanfeng smiled and said, "That was five years ago." At that time, you were still a young man following Feng You around - but he didn't say this out loud to avoid hurting the relationship.

Zheng Meng is the deputy factory director in charge of infrastructure. He is usually busy with work and had long forgotten the incident of five years ago. But after hearing the strong recommendation from Liang Youkun, the chief of the infrastructure department, who said how amazing Tao Nanfeng was, he agreed to invite her to come and check the quality of the project.

When he saw Tao Nanfeng today, he found that she was the little girl who had asked for a huge sum of money and extorted a thousand yuan from her family. He immediately became unhappy and glanced at Liang Youkun: "What on earth are you doing in the infrastructure department now? So many engineers who graduated from professional schools are unsure, but you insist on inviting a young girl to participate in the acceptance inspection. The expert consultation fee is five hundred yuan! Are you dissatisfied that the factory has too much funds and not enough people to spend them all?"

Liang Youkun didn't expect that Director Zheng and Tao Nanfeng were old acquaintances, and obviously had some old grudges. He felt overwhelmed and hurriedly explained in a low voice with his head down.

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