plum city

Chapter 17 Plum City
Meicheng is a town in Yongcheng, a suburb of Hangzhou. It is larger than ordinary towns and has a larger population.

Meicheng is located at the intersection of Xin'an River, Fuchun River and Lanjiang River. In ancient times, it was the capital of Muzhou and Yanzhou, and later it was the seat of Yongcheng Special Office and Yongcheng County.In [-], due to the construction of the Xin'an River Hydropower Station upstream, Yongcheng County moved from Meicheng to Baisha Town, where the Xin'an River Hydropower Station is located upstream.

In front of Meicheng is Xin'an River and Sanjiangkou, and behind it is Wulong Mountain. Wulong Mountain is more than 800 meters above sea level, but it is the top mountain in western Zhejiang. Whether it is the highway or the high-speed rail from Hangzhou to Huangshan, it is On the other side of Wulong Mountain, Meicheng was completely helpless.

Coupled with the interception of the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station in the upstream and the Fuchunjiang Hydropower Station in the downstream, the waterway originally connected from AH to Jinhua Lanxi in western Zhejiang, Ningbo in eastern Zhejiang, and Hangzhou and Shaoxing in central Zhejiang has become a dead end. Meicheng, which was originally located at the mouth of Sanjiang, has become a dead end. The waterway hubs and military fortresses gradually declined.

More than ten years ago, when Fang Yan first joined the company and was a foreign trade salesman, he had been to Meicheng.

Fang Guofei's company started by manufacturing clothing and textiles. As the company grew bigger, it engaged in all kinds of businesses, from machine tools, hardware tools, handicrafts, to food, clothing, and household appliances.At that time, Meicheng was one of the main production bases for universal sockets in our country. Almost every household in the town was engaged in the assembly and spare parts production of universal sockets.

Fang Yan has placed many orders here and often needs to come here.

Later, Fang Yan remembered that due to the skyrocketing price of copper, many small factories here, in order to save costs, plated iron sheets with copper to replace the copper sheets in sockets. As a result, after these products were exported, accidents occurred frequently, causing A large number of complaints from overseas customers have had a very bad impact.

Finally, after the relevant national departments came here to verify, they banned the place of origin and stipulated that all universal sockets produced here are not allowed to be exported.Almost overnight, the entire universal socket industry cluster here collapsed.Just like the fire in Wulin Square in Hangzhou that burned down the entire Wenzhou leather shoe industry.

They all ruined their jobs because of their short-sightedness, and therefore paid a heavy price. The road to recovery from the ashes will be long and arduous.

Fangyan's company also cut off business contacts with Meicheng, and Fangyan came less and less.

Up to now, there are still several companies here that produce European and American standard sockets, and they have revived. Fangyan and his company are still placing orders here.However, the business department below was in contact, and Fang Yan had no direct contact with them, so he never came to Meicheng again.All in all, he hasn't been here for at least seven or eight years.

Fang Yan didn't plan to contact the customer unit here this time.

If he gets in touch, Fang Yan knows, and he comes back to Meicheng to look for news about his biological parents. It won't take long for the entire company to know, and Noi will come to question Fang Yan, why did you do this?Have you thought about it?

Fang Yan couldn't even explain it to himself. Why did he do this? How could he explain it to Noi?Just like he couldn't explain why he didn't tell Noi such important things as Fang Guofei's illness and hospitalization and his death.

Is he cheating on Noi?Fang Yan doesn’t think so.

He just felt that as long as Noi knew these things, these things would become spectacular.For example, Fang Guofei will definitely have a very large and formal memorial service, and their suppliers from all over the country will come from any distance.There are also some customers who will probably fly in from abroad. A memorial event will soon turn into a social gathering and a business talk party.

Fang Yan felt that this was not what Fang Guofei wanted, nor what he needed.

If Noi knew Fang Yan and wanted to find her biological parents, she would definitely tell Fang Yan, I understand, you don't have to worry about this matter.

Then Noi will activate all the relationships and use all the energy to assign the search for Fang Yan's biological parents as a task, so that everyone can start looking for Fang Yan's biological parents.Fang Yan believed that no matter where his biological parents were, Noi could find them and have a serious recognition party.

That's how Noi is. When faced with a problem, she will quickly use all her strength to solve the problem in the shortest possible time without any delay.She thinks this is execution ability.

This is what Noy thinks should be done, but it is not required by dialect.

Fang Yan feels that his journey of search should be like solving an equation, step by step, and linked together. The process of searching itself is the goal, not the final answer.He felt that this was a very personal and secret exploration, and there was no need for other people to know about it.

When Fang Yan came to Meicheng for the first time, he knew that this was his birthplace. He was born in Jiande Second Hospital here, and his parents worked in Meicheng Knitting Factory at that time.He lived here for more than two months before being taken to Hangzhou by Fang Guofei. He never came here again until he became a salesman of the company and set foot here again.

When Fang Yan came to Meicheng again, the Meicheng Knitting Factory was gone, and his biological parents didn't know where they were.At that time, Fang Yan never thought about looking for them, nor did he ask why there was no Meicheng Knitting Factory.

He didn't even feel anything strange about his birthplace. He felt that it was no different from the countless other small towns he had traveled through.If there really is a difference, Fang Yan feels that the food here is delicious.

He inspected the goods at the factory until midnight, or watched them finish packing the boxes, and then put the cartons into the container one by one. The door of the box was locked and sealed, and the order was completed.At dawn the next day, Fang Yan could take the shuttle bus back to Hangzhou, and he felt relieved for a while.

At this time, the boss of the factory would come over, pat him on the shoulder, and say to him, "Let's go, Xiaofang, let's go to the cross street (gakou) for midnight snacks."

This is also the only meal that the factory can treat Fangyan to here.

Fang Guofei is very stingy on this point. He stipulates that whether salesmen go to the factory to place orders or inspect goods, they are not allowed to accept food invitations from the factory. They can only eat in the factory canteen, or go out alone. , eat out of your own pocket.When working overtime in the factory until midnight, even late-night snacks must be eaten in the factory. Whatever the workers eat, the salespeople eat in the cafeteria.

His reason is that if you eat and drink with someone else's boss, if there is something wrong with the product, how can you be embarrassed?The salesman can only go after all the goods are ready, loaded into the truck, and if someone is polite and wants to treat you to a midnight snack or something.

This rule must be followed even in dialects.He and Noy also thought it was very good and have continued this rule to this day.

Another difference between their company and other foreign trade companies is that although their company is so large, it does not have a dedicated QC (inspection), and the acceptance of products is also the responsibility of the salesperson.

Fang Guofei said, what nonsense QC? He has no contact with the customer. How does he know what the customer's requirements are?Only you, the salesperson, know your customers best. Once you take an order, you have to be responsible to the end. If something goes wrong, it is your responsibility alone, and there is no place to blame.

Fang Yan and Noi thought this was a good idea, and they have continued it to this day.

There are countless cross streets in this town, but when the locals say gakou, they are definitely referring to the cross street at the intersection of Zhengda Street, Zongfu Street and Ximen Street.

For example, although this place is located at the mouth of Sanjiang River, when the locals talk about Daxi (tuqi), they definitely refer to this section of Xin'an River, not to a certain section of Fuchun River or Lanjiang River.

When they arrived at the cross street, they sat down and ordered a bowl of wontons or dumplings. Wontons are small wontons made with lard, and the best dumplings are tofu dumplings.Sitting in front of the shop, the factory owner would raise his head, shout loudly in local dialect, and call the stall next to him to bring over you dumplings stuffed with pickled vegetables and tofu, or Bao Luo (corn) cake stuffed with stinky tofu.

That's really delicious.

Fang Yan's favorite thing to eat is to first put a large handful of chopped spinach in the dough, then crack an egg into the spinach, fold it with your fingers to make a pancake, and finally deep-fry it until golden brown. of spinach and egg cake.

When you take one bite, it's crispy and fragrant. It's really delicious. They gave this order a perfect ending with such delicious taste.

Fang Yan couldn't help but laugh as he drove the car. Thinking about it now, he actually missed those years when he followed orders.

How long has it been since you went to a factory to follow an order?
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