"Have you bought a house recently?"
"Now that you know all this, you must...give me a big red envelope?"
"No, I'm going to save them all, and if I'm going to give them to you, it's for your future self."
"Little money-grubber, but how much have you saved this month? I don't know who it was last time, but I almost cried when I spent so little on a meal."
Li Zehua thought about giving him a few billion right after shopping in the evening. Anyway, he had plenty of money recently and he could walk with the wind.
If I don’t spend it, I’ll feel uncomfortable…
Although the plan was good, it was difficult to ignore Yang Zhichao, a 250-watt light bulb.
"No, what are you doing here?"
I finally got a half-day break, booked a restaurant in the evening and went straight there after get off work. I didn't have to wait for long.
Yu Li came in wearing a sun-protective jacket, a sun hat, sunglasses and a mask.
He even peeked around the door for a while, fearing that he might see anyone familiar. After all, this was the company's designated cooperative store, and he might wonder what if a big customer came here to visit.
Seeing her outfit, Li Zehua wanted to laugh, "Which celebrity is this in disguise? Isn't she afraid of getting prickly heat?"
"Huh, I'm happy to."
Yu Li waited until she was sure the surroundings were safe before removing the decorations one by one and handed him her bag, which contained all her belongings and she treasured it very much.
As they were talking, Youyou arrived, and Yang Zhichao was with her.
This surprised Li Zehua. Is it so fast?
Being despised, Yang Zhichao was even more depressed, "Why, I can't come?"
"That's not the case. I just want to ask."
Then, he took the bag from Yu Li and put it aside, "You guys came together?"
Yu Li looked at her good sister jokingly, and did not forget to give Yang Zhichao a warning look.
He also joked: "Brother Chao slipped away before he got off work, so someone drove to pick him up personally~"
"Really?"
Li Zehua stretched out his finger as if he couldn't believe it. Even though Yang Zhichao was so tall, he felt embarrassed to be stared at by him.
Youyou was still more courageous. When she was about to come out to rescue him, she heard Li Zehua withdraw his hand, spread his fingers and said:
"Let me calculate for you. I had a meeting in the afternoon and was absent-minded and perfunctory to my boss.
Sneaking away before the end of get off work and leaving early.
Driving the company car to secretly pick up girls, using public property for personal purposes..."
With every word he said, Yang Zhichao's face darkened. He knew he was joking, but what else could he do since he was caught on the spot? He had to just accept the defeat.
"Okay, we've done it, just tell me what you want to do."
Li Zehua said seriously, "Sir, you'll pay for today's meal. It's only a few tens of thousands of dollars. It shouldn't be too much of a hassle for you, right?"
"No, why?"
Before Yang Zhichao opened his mouth, Youyou, who was chatting with Yu Li nearby, could no longer sit still.
Seeing her protecting her child, Li Zehua was stunned, and then made eye contact with Yu Li: Are these two making such rapid progress?
Yu Li responded: What do you think?
She felt jealous during the past half month, but when she thought about the current scale of the company, she could only hide her grievances deep in her heart.
Because my mother once said: To be the woman behind a successful man means to support him silently...
Brother Chao was the more knowledgeable and said, "Well, he was just joking, don't take it seriously."
Friends can talk about anything when they get together in private. The two of them sat down together and soon started whispering to each other.
"How is it, is this divine assist okay?"
"Thank you very much. It's my treat today."
"Forget about treating me. I've given you this opportunity. You should seize it tonight. Strike while the iron is hot. Go shopping, watch a movie, or something like that."
Li Zehua analyzed the situation to him seriously. There was only one principle: to trick him away as much as possible, and it would be best if he could take Youyou along.
It’s better not to come back at night.
Who is Yang Zhichao? A man of integrity from Northeast China.
He promised it very well, and he just needed to pat his chest to guarantee it.
But after dinner, when the crucial moment came, she was shy like a little wife and couldn't even fart for a long time.
It was Yu Li who took the lead and asked Youyou to go shopping together.
"Well, I met a stupid teammate!"
After they left the house, Li Zehua kicked him in the ass in anger, "Useless thing, you can't even create opportunities and seize them."
The tough guy turned around, confused, "Isn't this inexperience?"
The plan failed, and someone was furious and uttered the most vicious curse, "You deserve to be single for the rest of your life!"
"That's not necessarily true, hehe"
"Then I wish you will have eight children in the future, all of them are sons!!!"
After saying this, Li Zehua closed the door angrily and got into the car.
Yang Zhichao was left standing there in a daze, grinning foolishly, "Isn't this a good thing?
With eight sons, my parents would wake up laughing in their dreams!"
Youyou couldn't help but stick her head out from the passenger seat and said, "Why are you laughing so foolishly here if you're not in the car?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Zhichao jumped into the car and said, "Here I come."
Start the Audi A6 and keep up...
Yang Dong is a college student from the Yimeng Mountains in Shandong Province. The word that impressed him most about his hometown is: poor.
The three years he spent at university in Shanghai were almost the saddest three years for the family because we lost him, our most important labor force.
No matter how poor he is at home, he can still help earn a few hundred dollars during the winter and summer vacations, and work in the fields to share the pressure.
But after going to college, not only did I have to bear the extra expenses of a big city, but my tuition and miscellaneous fees also became more expensive.
Although he was both good in character and academic performance, received scholarships every year, and received poverty subsidies, it was still difficult for him to fully cover all his expenses on campus.
But no matter how hard or tired he was, he never gave up, and never thought of asking his family for money. Although he was only 22 years old, he was extremely sensible.
Almost every month at school, he would find a part-time job, earning his living expenses through his own hard work, and occasionally giving some money to his family.
Because I have several younger brothers and sisters who need to go to school.
My parents relied on a few acres of mountain land and could not earn much money throughout the year. During the slack season, my father would always walk more than ten kilometers to the surrounding towns and counties to see if there were any odd jobs, and he would earn whatever he could.
Who made them all farmers who worked hard on the land? They have lived on this land for generations and are also deeply bound by it.
Fortunately, my parents are open-minded and deeply understand that only by going to school can one change one’s destiny!
So no matter how hard or tiring it is, they have to support their brothers and sisters in school. Going abroad has become their family's obsession.
In previous years, he would only go home during the Chinese New Year, but this year was different. During the summer vacation, he bought a ticket to go home for the first time ever.
I still remember when I first came home, my mother was working in the fields with a bucket of water. When she saw him, she was shocked and said, "Oh my god~"
He didn't even care that the bucket had been knocked over. His second sister was so overjoyed that she rushed over to hug him and asked, "Brother, why did you come back?"
In early August, half of the summer vacation was over. Yang Dong didn't care about the fatigue of the journey. He asked his second sister to turn her head away before turning up his pants.
From the side close to the thigh root, I pulled off a cloth bag, which was bulging. I tore it hard.
As the mother looked on in shock, a bundle of red bills appeared.
"Mom, this is what I earned from working for the past two months."
In front of his mother, Yang Dong was completely defenseless and handed over the bundle which was still warm.
But what he got in return was a sudden scolding from his mother, and he was even hit twice.
"Are you crazy? Your whole family has worked so hard to send you to school, hoping that you will come home to eat royal food and have a grand feast in the future!
You are such an ignorant child!
Even if you have to endure a hard and tiring life outside, it's only your last year. You can get through it if you just hold on. Graduation is just around the corner. How could you do such a thing?" He cursed but didn't forget to count the money. The more he counted, the more desperate he became. There was no other reason. Right now in southwestern Shandong, a decent job only makes a little over a thousand yuan a month.
My son hasn't even graduated yet, but he's earned more than 4,000 yuan in two months. Doesn't this mean he dropped out of school to work?
Otherwise, where can you earn so much?
I am about to cry just thinking about it. What a sin I am committing!
Yang Dong was a bit amused and embarrassed after being beaten for no reason. It took him a lot of effort to explain it clearly...
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, otherwise I wouldn't have come back until early August, and the train ticket was bought by the company."
Yang Dong seized the opportunity to explain quickly and told him about his part-time job as a food deliveryman in the past two months.
Coincidentally, the Changning Campus of East China University of Political Science and Law where he worked was the second batch to be included in the expansion plan of Chime, and he was attracted to join by the high salary from the beginning.
He was also lucky. He was transferred to a clerical job after working as a front-line runner and delivering meals for less than half a month.
A top student in the law department, isn't this the best cheap human resources review specialist?
Gu Shijie is also very cunning. The law firm he cooperates with provides a sample contract and charges legal aid on a per-person basis, so of course he has no problem recruiting formal employees.
But Hummingbird Crowdsourcing also has a group of part-time employees, including college students.
Well, that professional job is too expensive. Among these part-time workers, there are actually quite a few who study law. At 2500 a month, it is the most cost-effective.
Then find a relevant university, set up a signboard of an internship pilot cooperation unit, and naturally invite several legal bigwigs from the school to take charge.
Well, it is these small guys who do the actual work, and the big guys are only responsible for checking for omissions and drafting legal contract templates.
In addition to employee employment contracts, the university internship group also provides legal assistance in signing contracts with businesses and factory cooperation. The Qingyun Group only makes a tiny donation.
And sign a long-term contract with the law firm where the boss works. As for the wages of these part-time students, it would be fine to just give them the minimum living expenses, as Gu Shijie still feels sorry for them.
After consulting the company and obtaining its consent, the salary will be based on the minimum salary for new lawyers plus commission.
It was under these circumstances that Yang Dong saved up 4,000 yuan in two months...
"Of course I didn't come back after being expelled."
Yang Dong sat on the ridge of the field, not caring about the scorching sun above his head, and said with great joy, "The company said that this time we will go back to our hometown to conduct a survey.
If there are special fruits and vegetables, or cattle and sheep farming, we will visit the person concerned and make sure that they are very special and not common in the market.
Let's establish a preliminary connection, and the company will send someone to negotiate later. If the negotiation is successful, there will be a lot of rewards."
Yang Liu, his sister, kept her mouth shut the whole time. "Brother, don't lie. Where can you find such a good company?"
She then told me about the recent situation at home. She said that last month her father worked as a laborer for a fruit buyer from another place. His job was picking fruits in the mountains, packing them and loading them on trucks. It was very hard work.
We agreed to be paid 60 a day, and after two days of hard work to load the truck, the buyer deducted 100 from us on the pretext that two baskets of peaches were damaged. When we finally settled the bill,
Hey, it’s all in vain!
It was only after the fellow villagers who went with me argued with reason that they were able to wrest some money back from the unscrupulous merchant, and finally got 40 yuan.
Going up and down the mountain, carrying two large baskets at a time, this is not a job that ordinary people can do. Her father is an honest man and never slacks off when working.
When I got home, I saw that my feet were covered in blood from being rubbed by straw sandals, not to mention the blisters. They were almost inflamed from being exposed to the scorching sun, and my body was also scratched by peach tree branches and leaves. It was so heartbreaking that I cried.
Considering what I have heard and seen in the past, how can I believe that there are such conscientious companies in the world?
"I'm not lying. Our company now has 50,000 to 60,000 people."
Yang Dong smiled and explained to his second sister, "It's different in big cities. Our boss has a lot of money. I heard he has tens of billions. He has a conscience."
My mother had no idea what tens of billions meant, but she had a direct understanding of the number of people. "Fifty or sixty thousand people? That's not as good as our county magistrate. He manages hundreds of thousands of people in the county."
As long as her son did not drop out of school, she would feel relieved. She would spoil her son so much that she would put a straw hat on him and urge him to go home quickly.
With four or five thousand yuan in my hand, I always feel like someone is watching me. If I don't take it home and hide it, I will feel uneasy...
When his father came back from work in the evening, he was surprised why the eldest son was at home. Then he listened to Yang Dong’s brief introduction to Pinxixi’s promotion strategy.
Old Man Yang was stunned. "If you find it, you will be paid? Is there such a benefit?"
But money won't lie. The mother checked each one at least three times to make sure that each one was real.
“…Our company policy is like this. E-commerce is selling things on computers. Well, it’s like opening a new market in the county. You know what I mean?
Now no one is setting up stalls, so we need to come up with something unique to attract people, preferably something that is not available in other areas.”
Yang Dong patiently explained to his family. Even late at night, when his younger brothers and sisters came back, he did not feel tired and kept describing the prosperity of the big city over and over again.
I took the opportunity to remind my younger brothers and sisters to study hard, saying that as long as they could get into university and leave the mountains, there would be hope for the future.
These words were often said in the past, and everyone would do what they were supposed to do after listening to them. But this time was different, because he really brought back a lot of money.
Old man Yang was smoking a homemade cigarette, puffing intermittently, his cloudy eyes looked so deep under the light.
"I don't think there's anything good here. I've been collecting peaches from all over the place these days. There should be a lot of these things out there, right?"
As he said this, he asked the child's mother to take two peaches from the bucket of well water. These were local peaches that he had just brought home. They were not valuable and the fruit vendor only paid a few cents for them.
In previous years when the harvest was good, the pay was just a little more than one yuan. But the labor cost was too high, and carrying the goods down from the mountain was tiring, so not many people were willing to work.
He is not picky. With so many children in the family, farming can only ensure that they don't starve to death. If they want to go to school, they have to work hard.
Yang Dong took a careful look at it. The peach looked festive, yellow with a hint of red, and it was quite firm when he squeezed it. He decided to write it down and planned to call the company to report it tomorrow.
As they were talking, there was a noise outside.
Someone shouted at the door, "Is the eldest son of the Yang family back?"
A group of them came in the afternoon, and now another group is coming.
It is really a remote little mountain village and it is rare to have a golden phoenix. In their eyes, being able to be admitted to East China University of Political Science and Law is like a gift from the God of Literature.
Today, my younger brothers and sisters all got some good food and had plenty of snacks. Now they are staring at the big peach and drooling over it.
The person who came was the village party secretary, a man in his fifties. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "I heard that you can increase the income of the village?"
This place has poor transportation and is surrounded by mountains.
But internal information was transmitted very quickly. I just mentioned it casually in the afternoon, and before I had dinner, the village party secretary came over following the smell.
There is nothing else to say. In a small mountain village in 09, even if one could use connections to find two fruit vendors to come and take some of the fruits grown by the villagers out to sell, it would have taken some skills!
What's more, he is a top student who came back from the big city of Shanghai, and he naturally has an aura of trust.
Yang Dong did not hide anything and told everyone all the policies the company had given him.
After all, he was the village party secretary. After reading a few days of books, he quickly understood what he meant, but he still frowned.
"But in our area, it's hard to get agricultural tricycles in. Even if we find someone to collect them as you said, and sell them at a high price, we can't transport them out."
It is a small mountain village with a mountain in the east and a ditch in the west. Which family in the mountain did not respond to the call and plant fruit trees?
However, the traffic situation is like this. The road built by the state is fine to the town, but it is bumpy when entering the village.
In the past, there were occasional middlemen coming here, but they were scattered and not on a large scale. In addition, the surrounding area was full of peach trees, so soon no one came.
Now is the season when peaches mature in large quantities. Villages close to towns have begun hiring people to pick and ship the peaches, but they are the only ones not making much movement.
I can't sell them at a high price. I pick them with great effort and rely on manpower to carry them to the town. After working for several days, I can't even earn one or two hundred yuan.
The main reason is that the price has been pushed down too much, and the middlemen are also racing against time to find large-scale growers, so they don’t have the time to pay attention to individual investors.
Those who can offer to purchase are all shawl buyers who have seen the shawls pass through several hands. They also want to make money, so the price they offer is naturally very low.
So if you want to spend this time, you might as well work for large growers to harvest the crops. If you are lucky, you can earn dozens of dollars a day.
After all, there are two problems: one is transportation, and the other is information asymmetry. Ordinary farmers don’t have any contact channels to go through.
After listening to this, Yang Dong remained silent. How could he not know all this? But when he heard that the company had such a plan, he still returned without hesitation.
If nothing else, just to see if I can do something within my ability while missing home.
"Uncle, let me try to make a phone call first and see what the company says, okay?"
For the first time, Yang Dong took out his cell phone, called the company, and briefly explained the situation.
The news from the other side made him slightly excited. "It's the Southwest Shandong area, right? The company already has a working team there. You can contact them by calling this number."
"Peaches? Do you think they can withstand long-distance transportation?"
The person who answered the phone was the new Pinxixi city manager. At that moment he was at the site with the team who had been busy all day, reviewing and summarizing the experience in a meeting.
It's too difficult to escape. Even if we have the advantage in numbers, many local people don't trust us. They are not interested in people who can't come up with cash to acquire us immediately.
At this time, I heard Yang Dong's voice on the phone, and I was very happy, "Wait, we will drive over tomorrow." (End of this chapter)