Chapter 73 Chapter 73 Wedding Anniversary
After Chen Xiangyang left, he went back to find his military advisor. He was not sure whether his performance today was satisfactory.
At the same time, Li Gui and Song Guanshu were waiting for him to come back to the factory, waiting for him to convey to them what happened in today's meeting.
Li Gui was very worried about Chen Xiangyang, "Do you think he can do it?"
There was no way. The impression of Chen Xiangyang as a fool was too deeply rooted in his mind. If there was really no one else in the factory, he would not have let Chen Xiangyang represent them.
It was almost noon, and Song Guanshu was eating lunch leisurely in the office, while Li Gui was unable to sleep or eat and had no appetite.
"Why haven't you come back yet?"
"Was he discovered by Zhao Guangping and detained in the factory?"
"I should have known better than to ask Xiangyang to go. He is still a child. How can he handle such a complicated situation?"
Although Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu always said that Chen Xiangyang had intellectual disabilities, they never doubted that Chen Xiangyang was incompetent.
Finally, he saw the figure he had been thinking about day and night in front of the window. Li Gui shouted excitedly, "Guan Shu, Chen Xiangyang is back, and he is not missing any limbs."
Chen Xiangyang approached and heard this: ".......Brother Gui, why am I missing arms and legs?"
Li Gui quickly pulled him to sit down, not rushing to answer his question, "What did Zhao Guangping say? Why did he ask you to go?"
It was not difficult for Chen Xiangyang to convey the general content of what he heard. "He didn't say much. I didn't understand some of the things. He said that their factory produced a certain number of soaps a year and sold them all over the country. Leaders had all used plum blossom soap."
Asking Chen Xiangyang to just deliver polite words is somewhat unreasonable.
Li Gui often attends meetings and knows that this is an old problem for everyone. "You don't need to talk about the content you can't remember. Just talk about what you remember."
"Oh, they paid a high price to buy the formula of the Everlasting Cream." Chen Xiangyang scratched his head, "They said they paid a high price, but they didn't tell me how high the price was."
He had once sold a formula for Song Guanshu, so he had a good understanding of its value. He also wanted to wait for the other party to quote a price and compare it with the price offered by the small factory in Haicheng.
He was anxious to know the answer, but remembering what Jiang Ling had once told him to do: listen more, watch more, and talk less, he didn't dare to ask.
It was similar to what Li Gui and Song Guanshu had estimated privately. Their factory's only long-lasting facial cream was the most famous, and this was the only cream that people would remember.
Li Gui sneered, "He really dares to think that. The product formula is the foundation of our factory's production. If their factory also has the formula, how can our factory make money?"
"Then how did you respond to him?" Li Gui couldn't wait to know Chen Xiangyang's answer.
"I'm just following what you told me. I'll go back and think about it." Although he wanted to refuse, he wasn't sure what Song Guanshu and Li Gui thought. What if they agreed? It was hard to say for sure.
He didn't dare to say it definitively.
"When you face such a shameless person, you should slap him in the face."
Chen Xiangyang chuckled, "I'm not afraid of offending people."
Song Guanshu had finished his lunch. He closed the lunch box and said, "Let's eat first."
Chen Xiangyang didn't bring any food, but he didn't mind Li Gui's lunch box. "Brother Gui, are you still going to eat? I'm hungry."
He stared at Li Gui's lunch box, which he had not yet touched, as if he was going to say in the next second, "If you're not hungry, I'll eat it."
Li Gui didn't have the heart to eat. He waved his hand and said, "You eat."
He admired these two young people very much. They still had the mind to eat even after such a big thing happened.
After all, it was a negotiation, and Li Gui was also afraid that Chen Xiangyang's behavior at the table would not be appropriate, after all, he had seen the other party's most sloppy side.
Chen Xiangyang did not eat as slowly as Song Guanshu. He opened his bloody mouth wide and finished all the food in the lunch box in two or three bites.
He couldn't describe it clearly with his mouth, so after finishing his meal he pushed his lunch box aside and enthusiastically performed his performance.
He sat upright, nodded occasionally, and remained silent most of the time. Li Gui was stunned.
He muttered quietly, "Don't say it, Xiangyang is really a bit intimidating like this."
This guy was only handsome for three seconds, as if there were thorns on the chair and he jumped up immediately.
"How is it? Is it okay? I did everything according to what Jiang Ling taught me." Song Guanshu was also at the teaching site, and Chen Xiangyang asked him how he performed.
Song Guanshu gave the highest recognition. "You are very talented. I heard that the Film Academy has resumed enrollment. I will send you to study acting."
Li Gui asked, "Performing Arts Academy? We don't have one here. It must be quite far away."
Song Guanshu nodded, "In the capital."
Li Gui and Chen Xiangyan exclaimed at the same time.
"It's so far." This is what Li Gui said.
"I hate studying the most." This is Chen Xiangyang.
Li Guike couldn't bear to hear children say they didn't like studying. He was born in a poor family and changed his fate through studying, although in the end he couldn't catch up with having a good father.
At least studying gave him the opportunity to choose, otherwise he would still be digging for food in the soil like his parents, which was not only tiring but also poor.
Li Gui taught him to study hard and change his destiny just like he was teaching his own son.
Li Gui once wrote a manuscript for his leader. It was well-written and good at explaining profound principles. Chen Xiangyang felt sleepy while listening to it.
After a while, he fell asleep on the table. It was only when Li Gui heard his loud snoring that he realized that the boy had fallen asleep.
Li Gui knocked on the table angrily.
Chen Xiangyang wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "Teacher, is the get out of class over?"
It's really a rotten tree that cannot be carved.
"It's not the end of get out of class, it's the start of class."
Chen Xiangyang looked at Song Guanshu and left it to him to decide.
Song Guanshu knocked on the table in front of him politely and said, "I have to go home early today. If you have anything to say, please tell me quickly."
This is what it’s like to be your own boss: when you’re busy, you’re really busy, but when you have free time, you don’t have to come to work in the factory.
Of course, there is not much free time.
Chen Xiangyang asked pitifully, "Brother, why are you in such a hurry to go home? Can you take me with you?"
Song Guanshu looked happy, "Wedding anniversary."
Chen Xiangyang exclaimed, "Can you take me with you?"
Li Gui covered Chen Xiangyang's mouth and said, "Don't listen to the nonsense of this brat." Who would bring friends to their wedding anniversary? Even the children of a couple should not be brought to their wedding anniversary.
Chen Xiangyang hummed twice. Is it okay not to go with them?
Li Guisong opened his mouth and said, "Be sensible and stop disturbing the young couple."
As they both went through the early days of their marriage, Li Gui thought she knew Song Guanshu very well.
The couple is having their wedding party and they can't wait to stick together all the time after returning home. Why are you, a single man with no partner, getting involved?
Wait, he seemed to have discovered something. No wonder Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu wanted to introduce a girl to Chen Xiangyang. It turned out that they thought he was a nuisance.
Li Gui has a high emotional intelligence and would never directly tell Chen Xiangyang these unfounded speculations.
He thought that after returning home, he would have to urge his wife to continue introducing a girl to Chen Xiangyang. Once this silly boy has a girlfriend, he will not always follow the young couple.
Since Song Guanshu wanted to leave work early, he naturally had to control the direction of the meeting and not let it go to some strange place.
"When we went to negotiate today, besides wanting to buy the formula, what else did I tell you?"
"It's what I said before. I can't remember what they said."
Li Gui was like coaxing a child, "It doesn't matter, the things you can't remember are not important."
"He told me that he hoped I could think about it carefully. He seemed to know that the factory was affiliated with the textile factory. He told me that Beicheng Daily Chemical Factory and Hengjiu are both daily chemical factories. It would be more beneficial for us to be affiliated with the same type of factory. Beicheng Daily Chemical Factory is willing to not charge us management fees and even provide the venue for free."
Li Gui listened and shook his head. "The weasel is paying New Year's greetings to the chicken with ulterior motives. They say they don't charge management fees, but they just want to make us a part of Beicheng Daily Chemical City without spending a penny. Once we are affiliated with the daily chemical factory, they can manipulate us at will."
He had not followed Zhao Guangping for a long time, but he had seen through him and he felt that he was planning this.
"Are there any threats to intimidate you?"
"No, they are quite polite."
Li Gui couldn't understand why Zhao Guangping changed his mind. Could it be that he thought Chen Xiangyang was big and strong and not easy to mess with? It seemed that asking him to go over for negotiation was the right choice.
Song Guanshu and Li Gui were both smart people. Since they knew Zhao Guangping's plan clearly, they would definitely not agree to it and let him succeed.
But Zhao Guangping has a good father after all, and his family supports him. If this matter does not go as he wishes, there is no guarantee that trouble will arise again.
Even though it is now affiliated with a textile factory and is not completely a private enterprise, as long as the other party is determined to target it, they can find countless loopholes. Song Guanshu was in a hurry to leave, not wanting to waste time in the office on intrigues. He said, "If there is no other way, give Beicheng Textile Factory an extra 5 percentage points of profit, and ask them to compete with the daily chemical factory."
Factories related to the light industry have not been doing well recently. Although the textile factory has not been warned of bankruptcy in the newspapers, the workers are already on the verge of not being able to get their wages.
The factory even rented out some of its unused marginal warehouses, and this rented marginal warehouse is now the factory building of Hengjiu Factory.
This shows the current economic situation of textile factories.
Li Gui felt that Song Guanshu's idea was good. The leaders of the textile mill should be very eager to receive this extra profit. Five points would be enough for the cotton mill not to worry about the employees' wages.
Zhao Guangping is a relative of the other party.
The director and secretary of a textile factory have been working there for so many years, it's not like he doesn't have any connections at all.
Hengjiu Factory has a high turnover, so anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.
Li Gui praised Song Guanshu and couldn't wait to find Director Huang of the textile factory.
"Guan Shu, everything is fine here, go home and do your thing."
“Brother, I…”
"Chen Xiangyang, come with me." Li Gui was about to leave, but he did not forget to take Chen Xiangyang, the light bulb, with him.
"oh."
When Jiang Ling got home from get off work, the house was arranged very differently.
"Oh, what special day is today? The house is decorated so beautifully." After she entered the room, she couldn't help but praise it.
Song Guanshu looked at her with a smile, "Have you forgotten?"
The action of putting down the bag paused. Jiang Ling felt uneasy because of his smile. Should she remember it?
"Of course I won't forget it." Jiang Ling cleared her throat, "Today is a special day."
He looked at Jiang Ling expectantly, "What special day is it?"
After working, Jiang Ling rarely encounters situations that require quick thinking, and she feels that her brain is gradually degenerating.
She put her arm around Song Guanshu's waist and pulled him to the calendar. Jiang Ling repeated today's date, "Today is a special day for us."
When Song Guanshu heard Jiang Ling mention us, he thought she had not forgotten us.
"You still remember."
"Of course I remember." Jiang Ling didn't remember a thing. She had no impression of it at all.
Song Guanshu asked half-believingly, half-doubtingly, "What day did you say it was?"
Jiang Ling covered her face shyly, "Oh, I'm a lesbian, it's embarrassing for me to talk about this kind of thing."
Song Guanshu knew Jiang Ling too well. It was because of this that he knew she was not shy at all.
Would she be shy if I asked her to mention our wedding anniversary?
Last year, when they had just met, Jiang Ling put her hand into his clothes and he didn't seem shy.
Song Guanshu pushed away his hands that were blocking Jiang Ling's face, revealing a pair of cunning eyes.
His eyes were lonely, "You really don't remember."
At this moment, Jiang Ling felt like a sinner.
"Don't worry, you know I have a bad memory. I often forget what I did yesterday."
She was so anxious that she was spinning around. "What special day is it? Tell me, I will keep it in mind and never forget it, okay?"
The coaxing tone can be described as gentle.
Song Guanshu looked at him steadily for a long time, then took out the marriage certificate from the cabinet and showed her the date on it.
Jiang Ling just repeated what day it was today. She was naturally familiar with the date on the marriage certificate.
She actually forgot her wedding anniversary. Song Guanshu took it seriously, but she forgot it. She is such a piece of shit.
Jiang Ling held his arm and tried to use sweet words to make him forget everything that happened just now. "I was wondering why there was a magpie chirping this morning. It turns out that today is our wedding anniversary. Look at my brain. How could I forget such an important day?"
When Jiang Ling put her arm around his, Song Guanshu tried to dodge twice but failed, and was finally put on by Jiang Ling.
"Don't be angry, you are a big man and don't bear grudges." She changed the subject, "What delicious food have you prepared tonight? Let me take a look."
Song Guanshu turned aside and ignored her. "When the magpie chirped, didn't it remind you what day it was today?"
Jiang Ling held his face and kissed him twice. "In the morning, you were all I could think about. How could I notice what Xi Que said?"
The corners of Song Guanshu's mouth were about to curl up, but he suppressed it with his strong willpower. He snorted lightly, "I know you are used to saying sweet words to deceive people."
This is so unfair. Jiang Ling looked at him affectionately, "My heart, don't you know it?"
He doesn't know.
When she is happy, she says nice things to please her, but when she is in a bad mood, she treats him like a stranger.
Close yet distant.
She could have walked away without mercy, but he couldn't.
She is nice to everyone, and to her, he is the same as friends like Chen Xiangyang, Tong Wanyue and Xie Lang.
No.
How can we put him together with these people?
"You forgot what day today is." He was actually a coward and there were some questions he only dared to ask in his heart.
Song Guanshu chose the sentence that was least likely to be wrong.
Why are you talking about this again?
"How could I forget our wedding anniversary? It's such an important day. I was just teasing you." Jiang Ling looked at him with a smile, "Look at you, you are so weak and petty that you got angry already."
Song Guanshu really likes Jiang Ling, but he has not lost his basic judgment.
"I even prepared a present for our anniversary, would you like to see it?" she said mysteriously.
Song Guanshu couldn't help but turned back and looked at Jiang Ling twice, "I don't believe you prepared a gift."
Jiang Ling spread her hands and waved them in front of him. "There's nothing here now, right? I'll perform a magic trick and make the gift appear for you."
"OK?"
Song Guanshu didn't say whether it was okay or not, but just stared at her hand.
Jiang Ling laughed inwardly, this guy is really a little bit shy.
"Don't blink. Never blink and witness the moment of miracle."
Song Guanshu's eyes were indeed fixed on Jiang Ling's hand movements, carefully observing them, as if he wanted to find loopholes in the magic.
Unfortunately, he was destined not to find it.
Jiang Ling waved her hands randomly in the air twice, and finally placed them in front of Song Guanshu.
Song Guanshu leaned over to look, "There's nothing there."
He was a little annoyed, "You lied to me." There was more grievance in his tone.
Jiang Ling was surprised and asked, "How could it be?"
She brought her hand closer for Song Guanshu to take a closer look, "It's filled with love for you."
Of course Song Guanshu knew that he was being lied to. He snorted. He was not so easy to fool.
Jiang Ling turned the tables on him, "Only people who love me can see it. Comrade Song Guanshu, did you see it?"
This seems to be a difficult question to answer. If the answer is that he can see it, wouldn’t that be confessing to Jiang Ling that he loves her?
He was a coward who didn't dare to admit his love for fear of scaring Jiang Ling away.
But if he answered that he couldn't see, would Jiang Ling misunderstand him?
Song Guanshu looked at her with a half-smile and threw the question back at her, "Do you want me to see it?"
Jiang Ling answered without hesitation, "Of course I did."
His heart seemed to skip a beat, and Jiang Ling wanted him to see if it meant that she did have feelings for him.
Song Guanshu stared into her eyes, trying to see if she was lying. "Why?"
He tried to find evidence of being loved from Jiang Ling's words.
"Why? There is no reason."
Jiang Ling yawned, "I'm so hungry, aren't we going to eat yet?"
Song Guanshu was very unwilling to not get the answer he wanted, but he knew that this kind of thing could not be rushed and should be done slowly and not push Jiang Ling too hard, as this could easily backfire.
He smiled and said, "Let's eat."
For the wedding anniversary, he prepared a very sumptuous meal, all of which were Jiang Ling's favorite dishes.
Seeing his sincerity, her behavior of sending only a handful of air seemed outrageous. Decades later, when it was posted on the Internet, she would be called the Air Sister after Brother Raffia.
While eating, she kept praising the food for being delicious.
"Is it better than the International Restaurant that Ding Yan took you to?"
"Of course, that kind of place just looks high-end, but the cooking skills can't compare to yours. I can't say that to you in front of Sister Yan."
After dinner, Song Guanshu said to her, "I have a gift for you."
Before seeing the gift, Jiang Ling's guilt reached an unprecedented level.
Song Guanshu not only prepared dinner, but also gave her a gift.
Seeing a pile of books, Jiang Ling was stunned, "What is this?"
"I signed you up for the self-study exam. Here are the study materials."
Jiang Ling:? ? ? Are you speaking human language?
Who would give study materials as a gift?
"You said you wanted to study, and I thought you would like this gift."
Jiang Ling did say that during that period she always suspected that the daily chemical factory was going to go bankrupt. She thought about leaving the factory and setting up a stall to make money, or studying to improve her academic qualifications and enhance her core competitiveness.
Times have changed. She is now able to support herself with the money she earns from writing for the Beicheng Evening News, and has no intention of setting up a stall or going to school.
Song Guanshu was indeed kind-hearted. Jiang Ling flipped through the pages casually and asked, "Which month is the exam?"
"Mid-April."
It is almost March now, which means she only has one and a half months to study.
"This school is too outrageous. How can they only give students one month to study? If you don't want to study on your own, you can just say so." Jiang Ling couldn't help but complain.
Song Guanshu looked at the ground diagonally in front of him and said, "No, if you sign up in January, you actually have four months to study."
"Registration started in January, so the registration should have closed long ago. How did you get in line at the end of February and use your money power?"
"No, I signed up for the self-study exam when I saw the information in January." He looked at Jiang Ling with a smile, but his smile was full of guilt.
"I signed up in January, and you're telling me now." Jiang Ling was speechless. "Why didn't you wait until the day of the exam to hand me the admission ticket and stationery and notify me to take the exam directly?"
"I was so busy during the New Year holiday that I forgot about it." During the day, when Chen Xiangyang was asked to study at the Film Academy, he remembered this matter.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to take the exam. Just in case you want to take it one day, you'll be prepared."
Jiang Ling casually flipped through the textbook, which was about accounting and related to her current job.
"Which school did you enroll me in?"
"North City University." The place where he used to study.
Jiang Ling glared at him, "How dare you think that."
Beicheng University is the best school in the province, so there must be a lot of applicants.
"Jiang Ling is smart, it won't be difficult for you."
Smart Jiang Ling pouted, "You should be more low-key."
“How much did the registration fee cost?”
Song Guanshu quoted a number, which was not expensive.
Jiang Ling said, "Since I've spent the money, I can't waste it. It's also a token of your kindness. I'll try to learn it. You can't blame me if I don't pass the exam."
Jiang Ling looked so adorable. Song Guanshu nodded, "Of course I can't blame you. It's all my fault for having a bad memory."
Now it's Song Guanshu's turn to apologize.
Jiang Ling's decision to take the self-study exam was definitely not just talk, she was determined.
The public subjects are not difficult for her, the only thing that is difficult is the professional knowledge.
She took the excuse of learning financial expertise to better prepare for work in the factory and openly studied professional courses during work.
Colleagues didn’t notice the problem for a day or two, but after a while, they naturally realized that something was wrong.
Jiang Ling didn't look like she was studying financial knowledge in her spare time; it was clearly like she was preparing for an exam.
Everyone was kind enough not to expose her, and tried their best to provide her with a better learning environment during working hours.
Wei Ming is like a troublemaker. Ever since he left the Finance Department, Lu Jianjun has been much more obedient.
He is not like before, always thinking about doing bad things.
The Finance Department also tried its best to keep Jiang Ling away from any work so that she could focus on her studies.
Jiang Ling studies her professional courses seriously during working hours and reviews her general courses after returning home.
Although public courses are not difficult for her, she still needs to take them seriously.
The relationship between the two has eased since their wedding anniversary.
Song Guanshu lay in her bed and called her to go to bed while she was reading.
Jiang Ling didn't even raise her head. "You go to sleep first. I'll read for a while."
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