Resume work after the New Year
"Aunt, you don't know, on New Year's Eve there was still a group of gamblers blocking my door... wuwuwu..." Fu Honglan became sad when she talked about this.
As soon as they got married, her father-in-law thought that his son had started a family and could start a career, so he handed over the management of the shop to his son. As a result, seeing his son like this, he had no choice but to urgently take back the power of the family.
But what’s the use of having power? He has already squandered all the family savings.
Logically speaking, he would have restrained himself if he had no money, but he had a serious gambling addiction. Within a month of restraining himself, the addiction came back again. When he lost money, he would ask people to come to his house to collect the debt.
A good family was broken up just like that.
Hu Yufeng was angry and hateful. As angry parents, Old Fu and Second Sister just wanted to keep the peace when their daughter was beaten. I hate this man for being cowardly and ignorant. He indulges in gambling without considering his own situation. He is submissive in front of gamblers when he loses money, but he hits his wife hard.
"So what are your plans?" Hu Yufeng frowned.
Of course she could work in the factory, but she didn't want to get involved in a pool of smelly mud.
Fu Honglan saw her expression and understood what she meant. She said hurriedly, "My mother-in-law asked me to go out and make a living. They farm to support two children. As for him...him, my father-in-law said that the family has no money. He doesn't care about him anymore, even if they want to chop off his hands or feet."
Having said that, Hu Yufeng gave her a firm answer: "Okay, then come to work after the New Year."
He also told her to stand firm and not be fooled by sweet words again.
Fu Honglan nodded heavily with tears on her face.
Old Fu also bent his waist and gave a flattering smile.
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In a blink of an eye, it is the 16th day of the first lunar month. The day before, Hu Yufeng, Qin Wenli and others took Yang Jianhuizi and others to clean the factory.
Today, before the start of work, two or three employees have arrived one after another. There is no need to make any arrangements when you arrive. Just pick up the rag and start washing and wiping.
Chat while working.
This one said: "Hey, we finally started working. The first month of the year was more tiring than working in the factory. I just cooked all the time..."
The other one answered, "Who says it's not true? They get paid for every day they work in the factory, and they are well fed and well served at home, yet they still complain about this and that."
"That's right. My mother-in-law even said that this is the duty of a daughter-in-law. Don't get cocky just because I can make money! Damn it! If I didn't make two bucks, my family wouldn't be able to afford New Year's goods."
"Well, my mother-in-law is pretty good. My husband got drunk and was talking nonsense, so she gave him two hammers and asked me to keep the money I earned for myself."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was envious, wondering why such a good mother-in-law was not their own.
More and more people came, and the noisy atmosphere made the factory particularly lively.
Fu Honglan arrived early on her bicycle and sat at her aunt's house for a while. When Hu Yufeng saw her, she gave her to Huizi. Fu Honglan felt a little ashamed of herself when she saw Huizi dressed neatly, and followed behind her anxiously but curiously.
Huizi took her to familiarize herself with the environment, and then called the team leader to take her to familiarize herself with the work.
Fu Honglan was a little reserved at first. She just worked hard and didn't say anything. Seeing that she was honest and dutiful, the team leader deliberately pulled her aside to talk, and by the end of the day she became a familiar face in the group.
Today we are mainly preparing to resume work.
After they had cleaned the place thoroughly inside and out and all the dough had risen, Hu Yufeng went home from work.
After the employees left, she called Qin Wenli and two other people to the office to discuss plans for the new year.
…
This time, Hu Yufeng did not mention one, two, three first, but let them speak one by one.
Three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, and she can't rely on herself to do everything.
After listening to Hu Yufeng, the three of them fell into deep thought.
They have become accustomed to following Hu Yufeng's arrangements and rarely question her decisions. When this happened suddenly, my brain went blank and I couldn't react for a while.
Hu Yufeng was not in a hurry to urge them. There was nothing to do anyway, so they could just take their time to think about it.
She knew that, apart from Huizi and Xiu'er, Wenli was enough, but she was unwilling to say more because of her influence over the past twenty years.
After a while, Qin Wenli spoke first. What should I do if I don't say anything? I have a wife and a girl, and they don't say anything except for stealing glances at him. I can't just stay like this in the awkward situation.
"Mom, let me tell you what I think first."
"According to the current situation of our factory, our products have been sold to all towns and villages in Yang County, including the county seat, and all towns and villages in Qingyuan have also been opened. I think the main focus this year is Qingyuan City. Firstly, Qingyuan District is the county closest to Yang County, and secondly, Qingyuan City also has the city's largest wholesale market - Longding Shopping Mall, where goods from other counties are basically wholesaled. As long as we can push our products to the wholesale market, it is equivalent to opening the door to other counties and districts."
After Qin Wenli finished speaking, he looked at Hu Yufeng, who nodded to him, confirming his idea.
She thought that Wenli was indeed a man of ideas and ambitions. Overall, selling the product to the wholesale market was indeed more labor-saving and efficient than running around every town and village.
However, the door of Longding Shopping Mall may be difficult to enter. It seems that it will be worn out this year.
Hu Yufeng looked at the other two people.
Yang Xiu sorted out her thoughts before speaking, "Mom, I'll mainly talk about the products. According to our current types of fried dough twists, we have all the ones that are available on the market, and we also have those that are not available on the market, so I have no idea about the development of new products. So I was thinking, why don't we try adding other products, such as oil cakes and oil cakes?"
Hu Yufeng continued to nod: "Your idea is good, let's follow this path." Products are the foundation of a factory. If it cannot innovate, it will sooner or later be eliminated by the market.
Not bad, not bad. My daughter-in-law still has a strong sense of crisis awareness.
Hearing this, Qin Wenli added: "Is there room for development in soy products? Our family made their first fortune from tofu, and it would be a pity to close down like this. I was thinking about whether we could develop some dried tofu and bean curd skin or something like that."
Hu Yufeng looked at Yang Xiu again. Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Yang Xiu said with embarrassment, "It should be possible. There are also people selling dried tofu outside, but this requires skills, and no one in my family knows how to do it!"
That’s true, technology is the core productivity, without technology all ideas are useless.
But this is also a direction, so Hu Yufeng will take note of it for the time being. I can’t do it this year, I’ll try again when the time is right.
Since the eldest brother and sister-in-law had set a good example, Huizi also expressed a few of her ideas, which was actually a supplement to Qin Wenli's proposal.
"I think we can rent a store in Longding Shopping Mall and promote it directly ourselves without going through dealers. This may be more effective than dealer promotion."
Qin Wenli's eyes lit up, this idea coincided with his own. There are many kinds of goods in wholesale stores. If you want them to promote your products, it is not enough to just give them benefits. It is better to open a specialty store and directly wholesale in large quantities with the money.
Hu Yufeng also looked at Huizi with admiration. The fact that she could think of this showed that Huizi had some business acumen.
The atmosphere became more relaxed as they talked. Yang Xiu made another suggestion: could they be organized to go out for study and visits? She now feels a little bit struggling in developing new products. If she thinks about it more deeply, she realizes that this sense of difficulty comes from her limited knowledge and vision. If she wants to make up for it, she has to go out.
This proposal was unanimously approved by everyone.
After the three had finished speaking, Hu Yufeng combined their suggestions and talked about her own views.
First, I affirmed everyone's ideas. These ideas are very valuable, many of which she had never thought of. It turns out that the development of a factory cannot rely on one person alone, and the right way is to learn from the strengths of others. Then he made several arrangements. First, Qin Wenli was asked to come up with a plan for entering the Longding Shopping Mall. Second, in terms of new product research and development, he would follow Yang Xiu's ideas and withdraw from bagged oil cakes and oil cakes. Third, everyone, including her, must improve their personal abilities. In a word, read more books. In fact, according to her, it would be best to go to adult night school, but that kind of thing is only available in the city, and she doesn't have the conditions to go there, so she can only teach herself.
At this point, he asked Qin Wenli to purchase a batch of books on business and food.
The first meeting in 2002 ended successfully. All four of them gained something and were ready to work hard.
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Needless to say, Yang Xiu racked his brains to play with dough after returning. As for Qin Wenli, he got on the Qingyuan bus the next day. Before heading to Longding Market, he first went to his second brother's bookstore.
A few days ago, my fourth brother said that he accompanied my second sister-in-law to purchase some goods. Sure enough, when Qin Wenli arrived, all kinds of teaching supplementary books were bundled and placed on the floor in the store, and there was no place to step in the store.
Qin Nian and Qin Jian were standing on the ladder stacking books on the shelves, Qin Yue and Qin Chong were handing them over from below, and Yao Yun and Qin Yao were placing stationery on the counter.
Seeing him coming over, Yao Yun smiled and said, "Wenli, how come you have time to come here today?"
Several children also affectionately called him "Uncle Five".
Qin Wenli silently touched Qin Yao's head and said with a smile: "Something happened at home, so I came to visit."
He rolled up his sleeves and started to help, which lasted for more than two hours. Wen Li looked at the time on his wrist and said that he would go to Longding Shopping Mall first and come over to help after he was done.
Yao Yun smiled and urged him to go quickly, saying that family matters were more important.
Qin Wenli went out, turned right, and walked for about ten minutes before arriving at Longding Shopping Mall.
It was his first time to visit Qingyuan's largest wholesale mall. It’s not even the beginning of the first lunar month yet, but the entrance of Longding Shopping Mall is bustling with cars, tricycles, and bicycles.
Following the flow of people, he stepped into the shopping mall.
As you enter the door, there are two vertical rows of small appliance and hardware shops on the left and right, and further in, there are horizontal alleys. They are home textiles and wedding products, stationery, hardware, etc.
It is only at the innermost side that there are four long alleys, all filled with food wholesale shops. There were shops selling wholesale snacks and nuts. Qin Wenli looked around carefully and found no shops specializing in selling fried dough twists.
This is good news.
But there is also bad news. All the shops are in operation and I didn’t see any idle or transferred shops.
Qin Wenli did not give up. He came out of here, turned left, and came to the central area of the market.
Good news, there are fried dough twists, fried cakes and biscuits for sale here.
Bad news, they are all small stalls. How small are they? It's just a bench and a small wooden cabinet, with dozens of them in a row, and each one of them would shout out its wares when someone came.
"Would you like some fried dough twist?"
"Would you like some cookies to sweeten your mouth?"
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