Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 98 I don’t want him to like me!
In rural areas, building a house is a big deal.

Comrade Lao Cao was obviously very attentive and even drew a rough plan by hand. "We need to build two floors. Every time your second uncle comes back, he always feels that it's not good to live in our house. If he wants to live over there, the house is too small to accommodate him. So let's just build two floors and add two auxiliary rooms. I thought about building a firewood room for your grandma. Make it bigger so that your grandpa can put his carpentry stuff in it. All in all, including labor and materials, it will cost more than 9,000 yuan! Your grandpa has to make all the doors and windows himself. He has been looking for wood these days. If he wants to do it himself, he can do it himself. He likes to play with wood!... Ten thousand yuan is more comfortable."

After saying this, Comrade Lao Cao looked up at his son.

Cao Yukun was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and quickly raised his hand, "I'll pay! I'll pay!"

Comrade Lao Cao then withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.

But Cao Yukun suddenly stood up, forcing Comrade Lao Cao to stop what he was about to say. After a while, he took a few stacks of money and put them on the table, "Eighty thousand yuan!"

Comrade Lao Cao looked at him and said, "80,000 yuan can build dozens of houses. 180,000 yuan can cover half a mountain! ... It doesn't take that much!"

Cao Yukun laughed.

Well, I hadn't intended to hide it from them. "Dad, I bought the garden for other purposes. It's not for showing off. I have something serious to do with it!"

Comrade Lao Cao looked at him seriously, and then put away his second page of paper, which was full of various figures, probably the details of the accounting. Now it seems that he no longer intends to continue "reporting".

He said, "You have the final say on how to spend the money you earn. I don't care."

After saying this, he picked up a stack of money from the table and put it together with his calculation papers.

Well, this is a very subtle way of expressing that he is a little unhappy.

Although he knew that his son had made a lot of money the last time he went out, he thought it was a waste of money to spend such a huge price of 180,000 yuan to buy a garden that was overgrown with weeds and no one wanted to buy it.

But Cao Yukun then pushed the remaining 70,000 yuan in front of him and said, "It's going to be built anyway, so build me a new yard too! I'll need it for my wife later!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Comrade Lao Cao raised his head suddenly, his eyes shining brightly.

"You want to find a wife? Doesn't the Song family's little girl want to go to college? Can she marry you?"

"The house has to be built first! You've been to the Song family's big villa before. Do you think I can marry her to this house? I'm not short of money, so why not build it beautifully and marry her happily?"

"Well. She lives in a good house."

"Then let's build it! It will be considered respectable if it is not worse than theirs."

"Then...level that forest. That area is not small. If we level it out, we can build a big yard! But the workload will be huge. If we want to build it to the size of their house..."

Cao Yukun suddenly stood up again, and after a moment he took out another large pile of bricks from the house - in fact, he had already counted them just now, but he didn't take them all out at once.

If you want to build a mountain villa and make it like the Song family's, 70,000 yuan is probably not enough.

And the key thing is, he also needs to use this as an excuse to give his parents some money. He doesn't want them to continue living that kind of stingy and tight life - even though they may not spend it even if he gives it to them.

Another hundred thousand dollars was piled on the table.

"I don't care who builds it, but I'll find someone to draw up the design. I'll pay for it. I'll renovate my grandfather's house. Don't use your ideas. I'll draw up the design and build a small villa. It will be my second uncle's home, and it will be beautiful!"

Comrade Lao Cao looked up at his son, hesitated, and said, "Okay!"

So everyone is happy.

However, when Cao Yukun was about to get up and leave, he said, "Don't spend money so lavishly, it will ruin the family! Your uncle Song will not like a son-in-law like you!"

Cao Yukun thought for a moment and said, "I don't want him to like me!"

Comrade Lao Cao looked up at him for a while and stopped talking.

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The next day was actually Sunday, but it didn’t matter. These days, state-owned enterprises and government offices still emphasize single-day off or something like that. Some places have even begun to promote single-day off and double-day off, but private enterprises don’t have this practice.

Except for the Chinese New Year, it is open all year round.

Of course, companies like Shimen Beverage Factory, which cannot operate at full capacity, also have weekends off. Cao Yukun arrived at the beverage factory early. He had been in the office for more than ten minutes when his assistant Huang Jiaying arrived on a motorcycle. She saw the van Cao Yukun was sitting in downstairs of the office building. When she opened the office door, she smiled and said, "You're here!"

He even asked in a fake tone: "Why didn't you stay at home and rest for one more day?"

Cao Yukun smiled, "I miss you!"

She made a "tsk" sound, glanced sideways with a smile, and went out contentedly.

A little after nine o'clock, there was a meeting at the factory.

Cao Yukun has participated in and presided over many meetings in the factory. He even gave a moving speech in the conference room to convince everyone to agree to his loan. But this time, he was not moving. He was unprecedentedly serious. He called out names one by one and gave each person a task, asking them if it is possible to do this and whether they can do it. Okay, if you can do it, then you will be responsible for this matter, and I want to see your results before a certain time!

This meeting made everyone very nervous, yet excited.

It has been a long time since the factory had a meeting like this with such emotions - we are all the backbone of the factory and we are very clear about the specific operation of the factory. We are really afraid that the factory will go bankrupt one day!
Now, although the new boss has been lazy for half a year after taking office, and after coming up with a plan, he didn't seem to have the slightest intention of implementing it, but now, he seems to have suddenly come to his senses. It is said that he has made a fortune, and it seems that he is going to run the factory seriously - everyone is very happy, even if they are tired!
"Don't talk to me about those useless things. I don't care what was done when Director Song was here. This is a matter of I give you power and you take responsibility! Then let me ask you now, in the future, I will give you the power to approve materials in production management. Can you take on this responsibility?"

"I can! Director Cao, don't worry, I will definitely..."

"Okay! Sit down!"

Cao Yukun's eyes swept across the entire room, and he spoke harshly, cruelly, and directly, "I don't need you to show your loyalty! I don't need any of you to show your loyalty! If you do a good job, I'll give you money during the New Year! I'll pay you in installments! If you don't do a good job, or make mistakes, at the very least, you'll pack up and leave, or at the worst, I'll give you a pair of bracelets! Made of steel!"

Crackling!

Production management, workshop, procurement, raw material warehouse, finished product warehouse, finance, sales...

Everyone had arrangements and tasks. They hardly listened to any clichés or roundabout talk and just dealt with their individual tasks face to face. The office meeting, which should have been a lengthy one, or at least should have been for everyone to discuss, involved many issues such as new products, new packaging, new markets, etc. However, it was all one-on-one with Cao Yukun from beginning to end. As a result, the meeting was over in less than half an hour.

Cao Yukun directly announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Office director Tao Mingqi was already fidgeting, unable to control the various positions of his buttocks on the chair. When he heard that the meeting had been adjourned, he suddenly felt hopeless.

As expected, everyone had work to do except me, who just sat there for nothing during the entire meeting.

Ever since the girl named Huang Jiaying was brought in to join the company, he knew that this day would eventually come.

He knew that the new boss didn't trust him at all. He would definitely think that he was the direct descendant of the previous boss, Song Yuhuai. Even though he had been serving the new boss carefully since his arrival...

At this moment, he could even vaguely sense the "helpless" gazes from his colleagues...

It’s nothing else, I just feel a little helpless.

It’s time to find a new job!
He was originally a cadre in the Foreign Trade Bureau and had even been a deputy team leader for two years. He was about to be promoted to team leader and had a great advantage. However, before the leaders met to discuss the candidate, he was suddenly anonymously reported for violating the family planning policy - yes, he did violate it. He was the only son in the family and his first child was a daughter. They were so scared that they did not dare to announce it to the public and sent the child to be fostered in his sister's home, saying that the child was hers. Fortunately, the second child was a son. Apart from the real relatives, not many people knew about this, but it was still exposed at the critical moment.

So he was fired directly. Coincidentally, the father and son of the Song family were going to open a new factory at that time, so he took the initiative to go to their door and recommend himself. He worked as Song Yuhuai's secretary for more than half a year - mainly because he was good at English. At that time, the factory was under construction and needed various contacts and connections with foreign countries and import of equipment. Not only was he good at English, he was also willing to take the initiative to learn a lot of professional vocabulary related to beverages and machinery. Later, he could even talk directly with foreign businessmen.

So at the beginning, Song Yuhuai admired him very much. Later, when the factory was built, he naturally became the office director and continued to assist Song Yuhuai.

Unfortunately, the moment the factory was completed was almost the most glorious moment for this beverage factory.

But the job of office director is still not bad. Song Yuhuai works very seriously and likes to do everything himself. As the office director, I am only responsible for communicating information. Although I don't have much power, I almost don't have any responsibility. As long as I sort out the things that Song Yuhuai personally instructed and serve him well, I can get a salary of nearly 300 yuan a month - which is higher than being a deputy team leader in the Foreign Trade Bureau!
However...if I were to go to the Song family now, I'm afraid I wouldn't have enough face, and they would just be taking me in reluctantly. If I were to go out and find another job, and want to earn nearly 300 yuan a month...oh, that's difficult!
"Lao Tao!"

As he was about to get up and walk out, he was stunned when he heard the boss calling him. He was nervous, but he still responded quickly and turned around. But to his surprise, the boss walked straight towards him and put his arm around his shoulders, "There is something important that you must do!"

God has mercy on me. Hearing this, Tao Mingqi was stunned for two seconds. When he came to his senses, he almost burst into tears. "You tell me! I will do it seriously!"

At this time, he didn't even need to turn his head to look, he could clearly feel that his colleagues who were walking out were turning their heads to look at him in surprise...

"I want to set up an office in Shanghai, specializing in import and export, foreign trade and other matters! Of course, I will take you to handle the key areas, and after that, you will be responsible for taking over!... The job of office director is too much of a waste of your talent!... What do you think, do you dare to take this job?"

Tao Mingqi was stunned for another two seconds, and then answered decisively: "Dare!"

"Don't worry, Director. As long as you tell me, I will do my best!"

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