Journey 1995:Non-Stop

Chapter 368 Going Home
Actually, steel trading isn't that complicated. The hardest part is always the beginning, but once you get to the point, it's pretty much straightforward. After these two deals are finalized, Wang Yongjun and Hu Fenglin can handle the rest. Take the tender documents, for example; the most crucial element is the price. Once the first draft is done well, there aren't many things that need to be changed later.

Two deals have been negotiated so far. Apart from the monthly shipping, review, payment, and collection, everything else is minor and Yan Hui doesn't need to be personally involved.

Yan Hui no longer needs to worry too much about the chemical industry. Sometimes when he's not at the factory, he can just have a conference call. Most things can be resolved over the phone, although it does incur some phone charges.

In November, December, and January, the company continued to operate smoothly, and its cash balance increased by nearly 10 million yuan.

These small, highly efficient companies are hidden cash cows; apart from a handful of internal staff, no one knows exactly how much money they can make. Yan Hui repeatedly emphasized in meetings the importance of ensuring product quality and increasing R&D investment. He stressed that since the company has money now, it shouldn't be in a rush to make quick profits.

A monthly profit of 400 million is not good; 300 million is enough.

Over the course of more than a year, Heng Hui Chemical's products have finally gained some brand value, becoming recognized as qualified and even excellent products within the industry. Heng Hui Chemical's name is already displayed on the "brand cooperation walls" of some companies.

A few months later, when Yan Hui's office building is completed, he will also set up a large room specifically for receiving guests. At that time, he will also prepare a wall specifically for showcasing his partners.

Currently, Heng Hui Chemical's development still needs two opportunities. The first is a technological breakthrough. If the company obtains patents for its special polyurethane adhesives with high temperature and high humidity resistance, based on its previous research direction, its market share will increase instantly. The second is policy. In 2008, the country's environmental protection requirements were not strict, and a series of environmental protection concepts had not yet been put forward.

If environmental regulations become stricter, more companies will need polyurethane adhesives, expanding the market and allowing for immediate capacity expansion. Of course, environmental protection is currently more of a slogan than a reality.

Building a workshop and purchasing some equipment wouldn't take a year at all. Yan Hui held a meeting to discuss the matter, and concluded that in about a year, regardless of whether there were any breakthroughs in policy or scientific research, they could allocate around 500 million yuan to build a new workshop.

For Heng Hui Chemical a year from now, a 500 million yuan workshop will be no problem at all. Moreover, it's okay if the money is spent; they can always get a loan for it.

At present, the focus should still be on stability and excellence.

This year, Yan Hui decided to let Chen Jian go home for the Spring Festival. He had to work at the company, so he planned to go back early and return after the Lunar New Year in early February.

This year, I can bring my father to Jinan to celebrate the Spring Festival.

My younger sister, Qinglan, has already bought her own house, which is a bit bigger than Yan Hui's house, about 150 square meters, so it's not crowded at all when the whole family comes to celebrate the New Year.

Qinglan originally wanted to buy a 90-square-meter apartment, but Yan Hui learned about the type and location of apartments that Qinglan liked and, on his own initiative, reserved a prime location apartment for her with a developer he knew.

As for the car, Qinglan had just learned to drive, and Yan Hui gave her an automatic Honda Fit. In those days, the Fit was a really easy-to-drive little car, and it was quite suitable for a novice like Qinglan.

Yan Hui also said that when Qinglan gets married, he will no longer send her the car, but he will still send her the dowry.

Having settled everything here, Yan Hui embarked on his journey home.

As soon as Yan Hui got off the plane, he called his dad. They had agreed that his dad would pick him up by car.

This time, Yan Hui brought his sister and driver with him when he returned.

When Qinglan heard that her brother was going home, she naturally wanted to come back to visit as well. Although her grandmother lived in Jinan, she still missed home and wanted to offer incense to her grandfather.

Li Pengfei was someone Yan Hui absolutely had to bring along, because Yan Hui couldn't live without a driver anymore. Yan Hui had informed some friends and subordinates of his flight time in advance, so as soon as he got off the plane, his phone rang non-stop. He answered four or five calls in a row before finally dealing with some routine matters.

Upon seeing his father, Yan Hui quickly walked over: "Dad, you've gotten so tanned this year! Have you been working on construction sites the whole time?"

“I’m free anyway, so I’ll go lend a hand,” the father laughed.

After not seeing him for a year, the father, who was supervising the work at home, was in exceptionally good spirits.

In this day and age, men who have the money to build their own houses are like men on a high-energy steroid, they don't even know what it means to be tired.

“You’ve worked so hard this year. Tell the driver the way and let him drive. You can rest for a bit.” After Yan Hui finished speaking, his father was about to say something when Yan Hui’s phone rang.

He answered the phone while skillfully getting into the car.

The car at home is the same model as the one in Quancheng, and Yan Hui is used to riding in it. He was on the phone, and everyone else was quiet until he hung up, at which point the car became lively.

"Dad, you've lost weight. Have you been reluctant to spend money on meat lately? I've been worried about you leaving the house alone with my brother," Qinglan said with concern.

"I've been working hard, I haven't lost weight, it's all muscle!" Although the father had gotten quite tanned, he was in a good mood.

"What kind of work are you doing?" Qinglan asked, somewhat displeased. "Didn't my brother hire a lot of workers?"

“You’ll see when you get there! Let me tell you, when it comes to work, you can’t get anything done without personally overseeing it!” The father took out a map, pointed out the way to the driver, and then turned to his children and said, “No matter what, you have to do everything yourself.”

“That depends on the job. If it’s manual labor, you should save your breath. You’re over fifty years old,” Yan Hui retorted.

“I’m just idling around anyway,” the father said, his voice slightly softer.

In the car, the family chatted, and every ten or twenty minutes, Yan Hui would answer a phone call. Whenever the phone rang, his father and sister would tacitly stop talking, giving Yan Hui some quiet space.

This is just a small matter, but it is enough to prove Yan Hui's high status in the family today. Everyone knows how hard Yan Hui works.

Time flew by, and the car soon passed through the town before turning onto a road that was mostly under repair.

When building cement roads in rural areas, especially in situations where there is only one main road, half of the road is usually built first. Because cement roads are more than 20 centimeters higher than dirt roads, there are earthen slopes every hundred meters or so to facilitate the transition between the two sides of the road.

There weren't many cars on the road, and everyone only missed one bus on their way back to the village. They mostly drove on paved roads, which Yan Hui was very satisfied with.

When the car arrived at the village entrance, Yan Hui saw the road sign, on the back of which were written the names of the donors and the amounts donated, with his father's name listed first.

(End of this chapter)