Chapter 23 Chapter 23 I'm Here
"What factory?" Han Lin looked at the group of children and quickened his pace to go home.
"I don't know, they are waiting." The children were jealous when they saw the bicycles, and were also curious about who the workers were who came to their Huangzhuang Brigade specifically and were now following the two of them in a mighty group.
"Hello." Yang Dai walked forward and greeted them, her eyes falling on the older man wearing glasses.
"You are Comrade Yang Dai from the Huangzhuang Brigade, right?" The other person stepped forward, extended his hand and greeted Yang Dai, "Comrade Yang Dai, I work at the food factory. My name is Zheng Huasheng. I'm sorry to bother you so suddenly. I hope I won't cause any trouble to you.
As Zheng Huasheng spoke, he glanced behind Yang Dai.
Behind Yang Dai followed a group of little rascals.
"Wait a minute, if there's anything, let's talk inside." Yang Dai glanced behind her, and Han Lin gave her a look, indicating that he would take care of these little rascals.
"What's the matter with you two?" Yang Dai invited them into the main room and placed two glasses of water in front of them.
"I saw Comrade Yang Dai's contribution to the newspaper a while ago," Zheng Huasheng said as he opened the newspaper. "Excuse me, was this painting painted by Comrade Yang Dai?"
Yang Dai nodded. "Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?"
Zheng Huasheng pursed his lips, as if he was embarrassed to say it.
"Do you have a draft of this painting?" The young man who had been silent next to Zheng Huasheng suddenly spoke.
Yang Dai's gaze fell on the other person's face for a moment, although the other person's tone was extremely restrained.
But the disdain in his eyes was clearly visible.
"I thought that since you came to me, you at least trust me." Yang Dai had a good impression of Zheng Huasheng.
Although the other party did not give a detailed self-introduction, it can be seen from his dress that Zheng Huasheng should have some power in the food factory and he also cares about his own face.
If these words had just been spoken by Zheng Huasheng, Yang Dai would have simply taken out her own draft composition instead of her current attitude.
"You..." The young man's tone became even worse when he heard Yang Dai's words.
But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zheng Huasheng.
"Xiao Zhao, come out and do something. We need a favor from Comrade Yang Dai. Is this the right attitude for you? Apologize!" Zheng Huasheng spoke in a stern tone. There was resentment in the eyes of the young man called Xiao Zhao.
But Zheng Huasheng had already said the word "apology" directly, so Xiao Zhao could only bow his head and apologize.
Yang Dai responded to this half-hearted apology with a forced smile, "If you don't believe in my painting skills, you can go to the brigade's propaganda wall and take a look. The propaganda posters of the five nearby brigades were all drawn by me under the supervision of the team members these days."
Xiao Zhao bit his lip, lowered his head, and said nothing more.
"Comrade Zheng, are you interested in the painting in my newspaper?" Yang Dai's attention has shifted to Zheng Huasheng.
Zheng Huasheng is a worker, and because of the content in the newspaper, he came to me on his own initiative. No matter how you look at it, it is a good thing for me.
"Our food factory would like to invite you to design packaging for us." Zheng Huasheng didn't exchange pleasantries, but went straight to the point. As he spoke, he took something out of his bag. "This is a new biscuit our factory has developed. Comrade Yang Dai, please try it."
The biscuits were packed in a rather plain package. "This one is cucumber flavored, this one is tomato flavored, and this one is a little spicy, but they all taste good."
Yang Dai reached out and opened a bag at random. Apart from the taste, the shape of the cookies was also very interesting.
"This is designed according to the shapes of our twelve zodiac animals. This one is a dragon, this one is a little tiger, and this one..." Zheng Huasheng is obviously very confident and emotional about this new product of his factory. He talks about it incessantly, and his eyes are very bright.
Through Zheng Huasheng's words, Yang Dai also understood the importance of this batch of new biscuits to the county food factory.
The food factory in the county town was established after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has only about four to five hundred employees in total, and the food it produces mainly covers the local area.
However, in the past two years, after the city's food factories upgraded their production lines and improved production efficiency, the market share of county food factories was squeezed out.
Department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives gave priority to purchasing products from the city, leaving the county's food factories in jeopardy.
The county's Commercial Bureau has held several meetings with the leaders of the county food factory, hoping to shut down the food factory. As for the food factory's employees, they will also be assigned to other units.
But the food factory was built by everyone. Not only do the leaders of the food factory not want it to go bankrupt, but the workers are also very excited. After all, a proper job is very important to everyone.
In order to save the food factory, the leaders sent several groups of people to big cities to learn technology and actively contacted higher-level departments in the hope of introducing production lines.
Zheng Huasheng was also one of the people on the business trip to study, and he was lucky enough to be directly selected to go to a big city like Jinshi. In the food factory in Jinshi, he met an excellent master craftsman, and he also worked hard and learned a lot of dim sum.
After returning from Jinshi, Zheng Huasheng continued to devote himself to researching new products, and finally developed a new biscuit flavor.
It tastes very refreshing, but it is expensive and not suitable for sale in county towns.
Zheng Huasheng had no choice but to rush to big cities like Tianjin, Beijing and Shanghai again, hoping to expand the sales of his biscuits, but it was not smooth. Just when Zheng Huasheng was about to give up, something unexpected happened. The biscuit samples he brought with him caught the eye of a foreign businessman.
At this time, foreign exchange is an extremely important matter for the country. The food factory in the county was able to negotiate business with foreigners. After the higher-level leadership department learned about it, they directly approved funds to upgrade the production line, and the equipment of the food factory was also upgraded.
Although the production of the biscuits went smoothly, the packaging was a problem.
The foreign businessman took the initiative to suggest that this batch of biscuits should be full of Chinese characteristics.
Zheng Huasheng and the people from the Propaganda Department tried to design several kinds of packaging, but they were all rejected by foreign businessmen.
The food factory also wanted to hire people from the city or province, but not only were the quotes high, the final results were not ideal.
Until the factory leader placed Yang Dai's painting on Zheng Huasheng's desk.
Zheng Huasheng didn't care at first. After all, judging from the address, Yang Dai was just a rural person and had never contributed to the newspaper before.
But as time went by, the biscuit packaging was still not decided. The foreign businessman even came to the county town specially and is now staying in the county hotel, and issued a final ultimatum.
If the packaging cannot be designed, the other party would rather terminate the contract than continue to wait for this batch of cookies.
Zheng Huasheng had no choice but to try his luck and brought people to Yang Dai's house.
"If the packaging design can satisfy foreign investors, our food factory will try its best to meet Comrade Yang Dai's requirements." Zheng Huasheng said this sincerely, but he did not hold much hope in his heart.
The reason why he chose to find Yang Dai was because he knew that the person who first discovered Yang Dai's painting was an old friend of his from his youth. Although they are now strangers, Zheng Huasheng believes in the other party's aesthetics and ability and decided to come and try his luck.
However, when I arrived at Huangzhuang Brigade and asked where Yang Dai lived, I heard about Yang Dai's reputation.
Things that were originally not sure of success become even more unlikely after knowing about fame.
But now that we’re here, what if?
Especially before Zheng Huasheng found Yang Dai's house, he went to see the paintings on the propaganda wall. He now felt like he was split into two halves.
Half told him that such a person sounded too unreliable.
His other half told him that since they were already here, what if it was good news? He couldn't just watch the foreign trade orders fail before his eyes.
"If Comrade Yang Dai is willing to agree, how about three days?"
"We can draw a sketch first. Three days later, we'll go to the guesthouse to meet the foreign businessman."
"As for remuneration, if the foreign investor disagrees, the food factory will still pay the corresponding money and invoice, but the amount will not be large."
"If we pass the foreign investor test, we can discuss the compensation."
The entire food factory is looking forward to cooperating with foreign businessmen. If it is really implemented, the food factory will naturally not treat the heroes unfairly.
"Comrade Zheng, do you have any previous packaging sketches? I'd like to take a look at them first to find some inspiration." Yang Dai was somewhat interested in the foreign businessmen that Zheng Huasheng mentioned, and naturally wanted to get involved.
"It's all here. Take a look. The foreign businessman's requirements are quite detailed and he speaks quite directly." Zheng Huasheng looked a little embarrassed when he handed the sketch in his bag to Yang Dai.
Because there were big Xs drawn on all the sketches.
Yang Dai remained silent.
"Comrade Zheng made this special trip, which shows he trusts me. So I'll give it a try first. I'll go meet this foreign businessman with the map in three days."
"Okay, okay, I'll send someone to pick you up in three days." Zheng Huasheng breathed a sigh of relief and did not stay in Yang Dai's house for long.
After all, the arrival of foreign businessmen really made him anxious, and there were still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with.
Han Lin came in from outside only after Zheng Huasheng left.
"This comrade from the food factory wants you to draw a picture?" Although Han Lin did not hear the specific details of the conversation between the two people in the yard.
But Yang Dai had many drawings at hand, so they were all clear at a glance.
Yang Dai nodded and said, "We'll be busy for the next three days." But there was a hint of joy in her tone.
"You are busy, leave the housework to me." Han Lin showed a hint of smile at the corner of his mouth, but quickly retracted it.
"I'm going to the mountain for a while. You can make dinner when I come back." Han Lin said and put the old earthenware basket into the big backpack.
Han Lin had walked the mountain road many times and had a general idea of the distribution of wild animals on the mountain.
But today the wild animals are not the focus, he has other plans.
Han Lin walked on the bumpy mountain road as if it were flat ground and soon arrived at his desired destination.
After looking at the fallen leaves and the remaining traces, Han Lin silently took out the things in the backpack, his eyes also fell on the northeast direction, and he walked over carefully.
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