Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 134 Believe in You Too, Charlie

Sitting back on his seat, Charlie also suddenly entered the state again.

Instead of wasting any other words, the remaining six house elves, who began to briefly talk and do, narrated his decisions and plans.

After all, time is ticking and Christmas is only a few short months away when the Snow Lemons and Wind-sniffing Violet Candies are supposed to be on sale.

Although it may not sound obvious, if you break it down, considering the publicity in advance, the process of recruiting new employees, and the training since then, these few months have become insufficient. up.

Therefore, he now has no choice but to compress the time as soon as possible and complete the next preparations in a quick way to ensure that more time can be spared for later arrangements to make more secure arrangements.

The meeting went smoothly. During Charlie's speech, everyone sat up involuntarily. Even Du Lu, who had been squinting his eyes as if he was about to fall asleep at any moment, had a faint flash of light in his eyes from time to time.He frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

It didn't take long for Charlie to instill all the words he said in Fudge's office into the six elves below after some expansion and more detailed changes.

After waiting for the words to close, he picked up a glass of water that had just been placed on the desk, took a sip, looked around at the crowd, and asked

"How is it? What do you think... let's talk about it, and speak freely."

As soon as these words came out, Chafcha and the others below immediately fell into a discussion. They looked at the people around them, talking in a hurry, their eyes widened, and they danced for a while.

The expression may be worried, surprised, or thoughtful, but none of them, as Dulu thought at the beginning at the door, was categorically angry and argued fiercely with Charlie.

It took Charlie less than 10 minutes to describe his thoughts.And the discussion between them just kept exchanging opinions, which lasted for more than half an hour, and it seemed that they had no intention of stopping.

However, Charlie was not in a hurry about this, nor did he interrupt them because of it.

His elbows rested on the table top of the desk, his fingers interlaced, and he leaned gently next to his chin. In his eyes, he watched the few people calmly, just silently waiting for the final result.

Regarding the reactions of Russell, Chavcha and others, Charlie couldn't be more satisfied. As excellent subordinates, what they have to do is not really ask their own questions after Charlie finished his proposal.

Instead, after everyone discusses with each other and brainstorms, delete those useless branches and leaves in the communication, and point to the most important and core issues left, and finally send them to Charlie.

We must know that a qualified and excellent subordinate is a kind of talent that can be met but not sought.This is like what Zhuge Liang is to Liu Bei, and Xun Yu is to Cao Cao.

He can often help his boss deal with most of the useless things and save scattered working hours, so as to improve the efficiency of the entire team at a high speed and make it grow by leaps and bounds.

And characters like this, in this factory, Charlie has a full six!

They cooperate with each other and are interlocking, and every detail can be handled perfectly and properly, without Charlie wasting any extra thoughts on it.

This is why Charlie can be so leisurely every day. Apart from dealing with some important documents, he can go out for more than ten days from time to time without worrying at all.

Thinking up to this point in his heart, he looked at his six former confidantes and current right-hand helpers in front of him, the corners of his mouth could not help but rise slightly, revealing a gratified and emotional smile.

Unfortunately, the six people below did not notice this scene.

Their minds were still completely focused on the heated discussion with each other, and they were never distracted in the slightest.

The pen in Russell's hand was about to leave an afterimage. While quickly recording in his notebook, he said a few words from time to time to express his opinion.

Du Lu's eyes were opened, and his speech was as unhurried as usual, but he often got to the point in every sentence.And after hearing other people's opinions, they also drooped their eyelids, subconsciously picked up the crutches beside them, stretched out their hands and rubbed the smooth body of the sticks, and only gave their own evaluations and opinions after a long time.

Although Peng Peng's name sounds harmless to humans and animals, his temper is the hottest among all elves.While speaking, he couldn't help but raise his voice and stood up from his seat.However, as the supervisor of the technical department, his thoughts are often the fastest among the six people, and he can say amazing words from time to time, opening up a new concept to think about certain issues.

Chafcha is a sensible person, and he is not very talkative.After experiencing the accident of his own child, he has been less talkative since then.

However, in this discussion meeting, he rarely participated in it, and under the established conditions proposed by Charlie, he did not allow himself to subjectively affect the current issue because of Dab's matter...

As for Kobe and Fudo, one has an out-of-the-ordinary personality, but still calm, and the other is proud, but has a sense of proportion.

In this way, six guys with distinct and completely different personalities, matched together, even in the Ministry of Magic, may not be able to find a more compatible combination than them...

Finally, just as the minute hand of the clock in the office slowly moved across the dial, it was about to make a full circle.The six people finally completed the final agreement, and gradually quieted down.

And Russell, who hadn't stopped writing from the beginning, finally put it back into his pocket quietly at this moment, and let out a deep breath of relief.

"Well, so your thoughts are..."

Seeing that everything was over, Charlie raised his elbow from the desk again and asked in a deep voice.

"Mr. Black."

Chafcha spoke.

He stood up, took two steps forward from his seat, came to the front of the desk, and said slowly
"First of all, we naturally agree on your decision to expand the factory and recruit Squibs or Muggles related to the wizarding world."

"But after agreeing, everyone has some small requirements, so as to protect the life and work of the factory employees, and will not be damaged because of the problems caused by it."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head, starting from Russell, looked around at the other elves who were still sitting in their seats, until Pumbaa finished.

Every little elf nodded to express everyone's common thoughts.

"Of course...it should be like this." Charlie nodded without any surprise, and then made a "please" gesture forward, telling Chavcha to continue talking.

Chafcha took a deep breath and said slowly

"First of all, I raised the question about salary... Due to the recent increase in the business of the factory, more money has been taken from the book for research and development, purchasing materials or adding equipment... and the salary of new employees The problem is that there is a lot of expenses. My suggestion is that the salary of new employees will be reduced by about 20.00% in the first three months, which is about [-] Galleons a month. After three months of work, the skills will gradually become proficient , raising their treatment to the same level as that of old employees."

Charlie rubbed the ring, listened carefully to Chavcha's words, and finally nodded.

"You can...continue."

"Second, Grandpa Dulu believes that before new employees enter the factory, the most basic rules and regulations in the factory, as well as the racial habits of elves must be taught to these Muggles. In order to prevent some misunderstandings and accidents occur."

After finishing speaking, Chafcha raised his head and looked at Charlie. Seeing that Charlie nodded slightly and didn't say anything more, he understood what he meant, and continued to say the following content in one breath.

"Kobe's idea is to temporarily not open the factory living area to new employees..."

"Peng Peng thinks that a period of training is needed. After they are all familiar with it, they will be allowed to officially set foot on the job and use the machines in the factory. In addition, the construction of the new factory building and the preparation of the machines will cost a lot of money. Have time………"

"Fudo thinks that the newly recruited employees in the factory can be separated from each other, not only to enter the production line, such as the sales department, but also need some Muggles with such experience to provide new ideas."

"As for Russell...well, Russell said it was fine, and he has no objections."

After taking a breath and finishing all the content of the speech, Chafcha closed his mouth and began to wait for Mr. Black's final decision.

In his mind, Charlie's thoughts circulated, considering each proposal one by one.

Obviously, he had to admit that each of the suggestions they put forward was quite in line with his wishes, and there were even a lot of content that he hadn't thought of.

In this regard, Charlie naturally has no reason to refuse.

The smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious, and he nodded.

"Okay, that's it."

After hearing Charlie's answer, not only Chavcha who was standing facing him breathed a sigh of relief, but behind Chavcha, both Fudo and Pumbaa looked slightly relaxed.

They laughed in the same tacit understanding, and the atmosphere among the six little elves, one of them, suddenly became happy.

"Well, if this is the case, then the next step is the specific implementation."

Charlie suddenly turned his head away, turned his attention away from Chafcha, and looked at Russell.

"Wait a minute, Russell, write a recruitment notice, and write it based on these things you wrote down. After you finish writing, go to the Finance Department to ask Chafcha to get some money, and go for a trip. Send the recruitment notice to the newspaper office..."

When Russell heard Charlie's order, he was taken aback for a moment, and after hesitating for a moment, he still nodded and responded.

"Okay, I see, Mr. Charlie!"

"You see, this is not very good... everything is not as difficult as imagined."

When everything was discussed properly, the atmosphere gradually calmed down, and they started talking and laughing, a rare gratified smile appeared on Du Lu's old face.

He first looked at Charlie, then at the junior beside him, and said softly.

"Since we have decided from the very beginning that we want to get rid of our past identities, then we should work hard for it. The comfort zone should not always be tender...We don't want to be isolated from the world, what we need is to be recognized, to be a A race that is subordinate to humans, but has its own independence. What we want is respect... In order to achieve this goal, we must try to reconnect with humans sooner or later.

And this time, didn't Charlie just provide us with such an opportunity?But... Even if Charlie did so much for us, if we don't want to move forward, then it's useless to say more. "

Du Lu said slowly, his slightly hoarse voice read every word clearly and gently.

"Actually, ever since that battle against Voldemort, I can somehow feel that my life is passing faster and faster.

I am old, I have lived for more than 190 years, and I have seen almost the whole world... For me, the rest of my life is just a series of numbers that I don’t know when to stop, and I have no other miss.

Only this... has always supported me and become my desire to continue living.I want to see elves get rid of slavery and become a real magical race. "

Every little elf present became serious, restrained their smiles, faced Du Lu, and listened to his teaching without saying a word.

"I don't know if I'll ever see this before I leave this world, but, because of Charlie, I've always believed, and never questioned, that it will come true..."

Du Lu didn't preach too much. After he finished speaking, he paused, as if he remembered something, and the original smile on his face became even wider.

"Fortunately, we still have little Dab... He is an amazing kid, and I am very pleased with everything he has done. Even if I leave, he will help me see this scene."

"........."

For a moment, the office was shrouded in a different kind of sadness, and because of Dulu's words, Charlie's heart became heavy again.

Charlie let out a breath, slowly stood up from his seat, walked out from behind the desk, and squatted down in front of Dulu.

Pressing his hands on the other's thin shoulders, there was a faint light in his eyes.

"Don't worry, Dulu. Live well. Believe me, that day is not far away. In a few years' time, the scene you are looking forward to will come... When the time comes, you will not be able to close your eyes again." Late, right?"

"Hahahaha..." Dulu laughed, as if he only thought that the other party was comforting him... However, when he saw Charlie's eyes that had never changed from before, he was still surprised Leng.

"Well...I look forward to this day and believe in you, Charlie."

(End of this chapter)