Chapter 169
Li Jingdang reassured everyone, saying with a smile, "It all depends on your individual constitution. I haven't felt any discomfort, either last time or this time, so there's no need to worry."
Tian Yumei and Hou Jingguo were fine last time. Apart from some unfamiliarity with the diet, everything else was fine.
Zhang Wenfeng also realized that he might have caused anxiety to everyone. He smiled sheepishly and said, "The factory director is right. Of all the people who have come here, not many have experienced the same level of acclimatization as I have."
After dinner, we decided on the time to gather and set up the venue for the next day, and then we returned to the guesthouse.
The accommodation was still a collective dormitory. This time there were many of them, especially many male comrades, and Li Jingdang had experience, so he went to find someone to adjust the accommodation issue as soon as he arrived, and tried his best to transfer them to one dormitory.
However, Zhou Jiani and Yu Wanxia still had to share a room with others, but this time Li Jingdang assigned them a four-person room.
The so-called quadruple room was originally a two-person room that was converted into two sets of bunk beds. It was still crowded, but there were fewer people, so there wasn't the suffocating feeling I had last time.
The guesthouse is not the same as the original one, and it is a little farther away than the last one, but there is a bus that goes directly to the venue, so it doesn’t have much of an impact.
I got my luggage back in the afternoon, but when I got there, my roommates on the other two beds were not there. Now both of them were in the room. When they saw Zhou Jiani and the others come in, they greeted them with a smile and introduced themselves to each other.
These two female comrades are a few years older than Zhou Jiani and the others. One is called Hao Yue and the other is called Mu Cuilan. They are employees of Nanyang Machinery Factory.
After hearing Zhou Jiani and the other girl say they worked at a knitting factory, he turned his gaze to the two knitted suitcases on the ground and the knitted briefcases and backpacks they were carrying, and said with a smile, "No wonder."
The two of them noticed the boxes on the ground when they came back just now. They thought they looked nice at the time. They didn’t expect that in addition to suitcases, there were also briefcases and ladies’ backpacks, all of which were very beautiful.
Zhou Jiani and Yu Wanxia divided the work: Yu Wanxia carried the single-shoulder bag, while Zhou Jiani carried the backpack. Of course, these two bags were mainly for publicity; the only thing that could actually hold anything, besides the suitcase that had been sent earlier, was the canvas backpack.
But it's a good way to start a conversation and quickly build relationships with new roommates.
Zhou Jiani and the others were packing their luggage while chatting with Hao Yue and the others, and the four of them quickly became familiar with each other.
I was a little surprised to see Zhou Jiani take out a set of bed sheets, towels, and pillowcases she brought with her and replace the set provided by the guesthouse.
Mu Cuilan said, "Your method is good. I will bring a set with me when I go on business trips next time."
It doesn't have to be new, just bring a set of the ones you usually use at home. It will make you feel comfortable and at ease using your own things.
Yu Wanxia brought a set after Zhou Jiani's instructions.
As for the ones that have been disassembled, wash them yourself before using them.
The four of them brought their food and agreed to line up for a shower. When they returned to the dormitory, they had endless topics to talk about. Zhou Jiani took advantage of the time when Yu Wanxia was chatting with her two new roommates to write a short letter, thinking of sending it to Qiu Zeming tomorrow.
The four of them chatted until almost ten o'clock before going to bed.
The next morning we went to set up the venue.
This time the location was adjusted, and it was slightly off from the last time, but it was still next to the Linshi Handicraft Factory. Zhou Jiani also saw two or three familiar faces. She went over to say hello and took a look at their samples. Several of the samples had the weaving style of their Qianjin Brigade.
Learning is mutual. This time their new samples also have the bold and open techniques of Linshi weaving. There are one or two handicrafts that are ugly but cute, so I brought them here to try them out.
While she was busy, someone patted her shoulder. Zhou Jiani turned around and saw Su Meiqiao smiling.
"Aunt Su!"
Su Meiqiao asked, "How many of you are here?"
"We arrived yesterday afternoon." Zhou Jiani was also very happy to see Su Meiqiao. She took her arm and said, "Why did you come so early?"
Su Meiqiao looked tired and smiled wryly, "We were drafted in to help, so we have to prepare for some of the connections in advance." She pointed at herself and said, "Look at the dark circles under my eyes. I've only slept five or six hours a day since I got here. I'm almost exhausted."
Zhou Jiani couldn't help with this, so she just said, "I brought you some pickled cucumbers and peppers, and some fried meat sauce. I'll bring them to you tomorrow."
Su Meiqiao said bluntly, "Don't wait until tomorrow. The food has been tasteless lately. I'll come to get it from you around five in the evening and have dinner together."
Zhou Jiani hurriedly said, "Then I'll go find you, so you don't have to run back and forth."
Su Meiqiao raised her hand and pinched her face, then smiled and said, "Okay, I won't be polite to you anymore."
Then he asked about Xiao Min's recent situation. As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes as he missed his daughter.
Zhou Jiani hugged her and said with a smile, "Minmin is fine, but she might have to endure some hardship during the autumn harvest. She'll be fine once this busy period is over. After the Canton Fair, if you have time, come stay in our brigade for a few days. My friend and I have rented a yard and we live comfortably there."
"That's great! I'll stay with you for a few days after I'm done with this."
Su Meiqiao also knew that it was not easy for the educated youth to come back to visit their relatives in the first year of their stay in the countryside. Since the place was not too far away and Jiani was there, it would be nice for her to go over and stay for a few days to see her daughter.
She took the opportunity to call Yu Wanxia over to introduce her, and said with a smile: "The cucumber pickles I'm going to give you were packed by Wanxia and Minmin together."
Su Meiqiao became more and more excited. She thanked him quickly and chatted for a few more minutes. She left the address and room number of the guesthouse with Zhou Jiani, made an appointment, and hurried off to get busy.
The second acquaintance I received was Meng Yan from the silk factory.
When Meng Yan met Li Jingdang at the venue the day before yesterday, she recognized him as a colleague from the last time she attended the Canton Fair with Jiani, so she came over to ask. Knowing that Zhou Jiani would come, she had been keeping an eye on her for the past two days. Just now, she saw that there were more people at their counter, so she hurried over to take a look.
"I sent you a letter before I left, but I guess you didn't receive it." Meng Yan said happily while chatting with Zhou Jiani.
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "Then it should be staggered. It's okay. It will be the same when I go back to check."
The two walked to the side and talked. Meng Yan asked her where she lived. Unfortunately, not only did they not live in the same room, they also did not live in the same guesthouse.
After chatting for a while, Meng Yan said, "Xu Mingzhu from the porcelain factory and Wu Min from the yarn and hosiery factory are here too. I asked around for the others, but they didn't come this time. Can we find some time to get together?"
"Okay!" Zhou Jiani agreed readily and said happily, "I haven't seen them for so long, I miss them a lot."
Zhou Jiani introduced Yu Wanxia to Meng Yan, and Meng Yan smiled and said, "Let's go together when the time comes. It will be more lively with more people."
They decided to have dinner together tomorrow night. Meng Yan was busy, so she quickly returned to the silk factory counter.
The dinner with Aunt Su didn't happen that evening because Aunt Su and her friends had to attend a meeting. They apologized and stuffed two national food coupons into Zhou Jiani's pocket and asked her to go eat with her sisters. They took the pickles and left in a hurry. Zhou Jiani didn't even have time to stuff the coupons back.
The next day, I was busy all day and picked up a batch of goods. In the evening, I went out for dinner with Meng Yan, Wu Min and Xu Mingzhu. Of course, we paid for everything on a AA basis. Food was tight these days, and no one wanted to take advantage of anyone else.
The Canton Fair officially opened next, and Yu Wanxia didn't even have time to visit the mall that Zhou Jiani mentioned last time. She was so busy that her eyes were staring straight ahead and her legs couldn't bend every day.
I couldn't say a word when I returned to the dormitory at night and fell asleep immediately. When I opened my eyes the next morning, I started to doubt my life.
Seeing that Zhou Jiani was in good condition, she asked in a hoarse voice, "Jiani, don't you feel tired?"
After two days, the guys like Bi Yingxiong were a little exhausted.
Before it opened, I didn’t think there would be that many people. It was only when it officially started that I realized there were so many people. Where had all those people been hiding before?
On the morning of the first day, they were still immersed in the joy of seeing foreigners, but they soon got tired of it and were left dizzy.
Zhou Jiani carefully applied the cream to her face and said, "It's not bad. First, I have experience. Second, I went to check with the various teams before coming here. I practiced going up and down the mountains and valleys for a few days."
Yu Wanxia got out of bed with a blank expression on her face to wash up, limping and whimpering as she walked.
Calf pain, heel soreness, hoarseness...
But as one deal after another was closed, the joy brought by the sense of accomplishment soothed the physical fatigue.
Li Jingdang confidently analyzed to Zhou Jiani: "This time we are fully prepared. Having spot stocks as a base makes a difference. This time we will have to start at least double the amount."
Zhou Jiani looked at the inventory at the back, which represented their strength, and then at the display counter, which had expanded several times since last time. She said, "The bonus from previous performance also played a big role."
And we also welcomed old customers.
Li Jianye and his friends had some communication barriers at the beginning. But when there were more people, they found that Zhou Jiani and Li Jingdang were unable to take care of every customer who came to ask questions, so those guys gritted their teeth and took over. It only took a few days for them to go from speaking in a low and unconfident voice at the beginning to speaking loudly and calmly, and their progress was rapid.
After adapting for a few days, everyone was able to cope with it calmly, and Li Jingdang began to arrange rotations for everyone.
This time they had enough manpower, so they arranged for two people to take turns to rest for a day, and then adjust the schedule at any time depending on the workload.
Zhou Jiani and Yu Wanxia spent a day together and finally went to a nearby shopping mall.
I left with empty hands and left with full hands.
Beautiful floral fabrics, nice hairpins, sneakers, clothes, sweaters, Yu Wanxia felt as excited as if she had found a treasure, she wished she had eight hands to carry the things, and she spent most of the money and tickets she had on this trip.
Shopping makes people's IQ rise. Her eyes sparkled as she planned, "Let's go back to the guesthouse and sort it out. I'll mail the things I bought for my family back first, then call them and ask them to send me some cloth coupons and money. Then I'll buy more."
Zhou Jiani said, "I still have money. If you don't have enough, take it from me first."
Yu Wanxia nodded: "Okay, but we don't have enough tickets."
Before coming here, Zhou Jiani exchanged some money on the black market in the city, and her parents also helped her to collect some money, but it was nothing compared to before, but she was a little richer than Yu Wanxia.
She also plans to find an opportunity to collect some more tickets from here.
"I still have a few cloth coupons. If you need them urgently, take them first."
Yu Wanxia thought: "Then if the letter from my family hasn't arrived yet next time I rest, I'll use yours first, and then return it to you when they mail it to me."
"OK!"
The two went back to pack their things, and Zhou Jiani also sent two packages, one for her family and one for her sisters-in-law Sun Ping and Zhao Mei, and mailed them back first.
When she had another chance to rest, Zhou Jiani followed the familiar territory she had explored last time, exchanging tickets and buying things on the black market, and then "purchasing goods" from the nearby supply and marketing cooperatives. She was extremely skilled in the whole process.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. After a day's work, Li Jingdang called everyone to a small meeting and happily announced that the total number of orders received in this half month had reached the total number of the whole last time.
Zhang Wenfeng's eyes lit up with excitement. It was different from the last time. He remembered that Zhang Baosheng used a loudspeaker to broadcast the order news that Zhou Jiani brought back from the south every day. At that time, he cheered with the villagers and felt happy and proud from the bottom of his heart.
But this time was different. He was personally involved in the situation. He handled several orders himself and personally led the clients to negotiate contracts. The sense of participation brought him even greater pride.
Li Jianye and Bi Yingxiong were also proud, but this pride was tinged with a bit of regret. They thought to themselves, how great it would be if their Yuezhuang/Xigou Brigade could also experience such an honor personally.
The regret was fleeting and they soon became happy again. They sincerely thanked the Qianjin Brigade for giving them this opportunity. Although their own brigade did not have such an honor, they participated. They were not only from the Qianjin Weaving Factory, but also from the Yuezhuang/Xigou Brigade.
There were also people working in the factory from other brigades, but the fact that only the two of them were chosen showed that the factory leaders recognized them and did not bring shame to their own brigade.
In between, they had two meals with Aunt Su and two meals with Meng Yan and others. Yu Wanxia received money and tickets sent by her family, and dragged Zhou Jiani to go shopping. This Autumn Canton Fair ended perfectly, and they also exceeded their targets.
This time they didn't rush back and stayed for two more days. Li Jingdang asked Zhou Jiani to take everyone to have a great time here for two days. Two days later, he still stayed to finish up and sent Zhou Jiani and her group on the return train.
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