Vol. 1 - Ch. 33 - The harvest of the twelfth lunar month

In September, Shu Ping won the title of "Top Ten Youths in the Province" in 1998. At the end of the year, she won the title of "Outstanding Young Entrepreneur" again. Even the food factory was awarded the honor of "Municipal Charitable Enterprise", and its reputation was greatly improved.

In a blink of an eye, it was the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and the food factory was ready to go on holiday. In the morning, Shu Ping asked the personnel department to post a notice on the bulletin board, and started to give the New Year benefits at 1 pm.

"Director Hu, What will our factory give out for the Chinese New Year this year? "

"I heard that there will be not only the things produced by our factory, but also fish and meat?"

Hu Huiying replied with a smile, holding a small bucket of glue, "I will keep it a secret for now, but it is all good stuff. The factory director specially selected it for everyone to have a good Chinese New Year. Come early in the afternoon, and everyone will get a share."

Everyone started their day's work with beautiful visions. At nine o'clock, the leadership held a meeting, and sales director Li Yueling proposed to expand the scale of production.

"To be honest, it is too easy to be a salesperson in our factory. Sometimes when I meet colleagues from other factories, everyone is complaining about the difficulty of doing business and the difficulty of selling products. I am embarrassed to talk to them. Why? Because our market is in short supply."

At this point, she raised a confident and flamboyant smile on her face and looked at Shu Ping, "Factory Director, customers always complain to me that there are not enough goods to sell. They are sold out in just two days after they are brought back. This is just a few cities in the surrounding areas. Our Hongyuan products are fully capable of being sold nationwide. "

Shu Ping did not respond immediately, but signaled the finance department to distribute the latest quarterly report for everyone to read.

"This is the financial report for last quarter, in which the profits of bread and sausage products account for 75% of the total profit of the factory. Given the current economic situation, expanding production is a must, but the step cannot be too big. We still owe the bank a loan of more than 600,000 yuan, and the capital chain must not be broken."

According to her plan, she would buy land and build factories, complete the production of the second sausage production line in the first half of 1999, and complete the third production line in the second half of the year, and the rest would remain unchanged for the time being.

At noon, the workers went to the canteen to eat. They could smell the aroma of meat from a distance. The pots of pig-killing dishes were placed on the dining table, steaming. People lined up with their bowls. Those at the back had to stand on their feet and reach their necks, drooling.

Aunt Liu Yanfang shouted at the window, "Line up properly, no need to squeeze. Fresh pig-killing dishes, as much as you want. If one bowl is not enough, you can have more. There are steamed buns in the basket, take them yourself. Don't be greedy. Take as many as you can eat."

"Sister Liu, don't worry. We will definitely not take too many steamed buns. We will save some for the meat."

"Zhang Daqiang, is your wife not letting you eat meat or what? She came to the factory to act like Zhu Bajie. How much pork is needed to fill it up?"

There was a burst of laughter in the team. The worker named Zhang Daqiang was not angry. He talked happily about his glorious record. He ate 17 steamed buns in one meal ten years ago.

Huo Feng entered the factory director's office carrying a thermos. He went home before leaving work. His mother had been stewing pig's trotter soup for the whole morning, and she and Aunt Lan made dumplings with celery and pork.

"Tell mom not to cook for me. I eat well in the cafeteria."

After the two met each other's parents, they held an engagement banquet in October. The Shu family wanted to keep it simple, but Li Shumei insisted on following the high local engagement standards. First, she didn't want to let Shu Ping down, and second, her son had a girlfriend who was a factory director, and many people were gossiping behind her back. Whether it was for Huo Feng or Shu Ping, their family had to stand up so that people wouldn't look down on them.

With 66,000 yuan gift money, three tables of banquets, wedding rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces, the villagers only then knew that the Huo family had such a family background, and Huo Feng did not come back empty-handed from the army.

Before, they looked down on Huo Feng and were unwilling to marry their daughter to him, which made them feel very upset.

Apart from other things, Huo Feng is good-looking, filial and capable, and apart from the disadvantage of being poor, isn't he an excellent candidate for son-in-law in the village?

In short, Shu Ping changed her mind after the engagement. For her, since she had accepted Huo Feng as her future husband, she naturally accepted Li Shumei as her mother-in-law. She didn't have many relatives in this world, and Li Shumei was such a kind and pitiful elder, she respected her from the bottom of her heart.

Later, Huo Feng said that Li Shumei was so moved when she called out "Mom" for the first time that she cried for a long time after returning home. She repeatedly told him to be good to Shu Ping and that she would not recognize him as her son if he failed her in the slightest, which made Huo Feng not know whether to laugh or cry.

He asked her directly if she didn't want her son anymore because she had a daughter-in-law.

To this, Li Shumei's answer was, "Your father and I have taught you since you were young that men should be upright and not do things that let others down. When you grew up, we sent you to the army to serve the country. Although life in the army is hard, your father and I feel at ease. Why? Because we know that you are doing the right thing. It's the same now that you are not in the army. You chose your wife yourself. No matter how capable Ping Ping is, it's hard for a child to have no parents. It's the man's duty to be good to his wife, and such a good wife should be loved even more. I know my son. He will definitely be devoted to his wife and won't have any crooked ideas. If he really changes his mind and becomes a Chen Shimei one day, he will not be the Huo Feng I know."

Huo Feng conveyed these words to Shu Ping intact so that she would know how strong her backing is.

At this time, the man brought out the soup and placed it in front of the woman. After handing her the soup spoon, he helped her brush away a strand of hair on her cheek and said with a smile, "I have said these words no less than seventy or eighty times. What should I do if she is still worried? But I see that she is in a good mood. The doctor said that reasonable activities are good for physical recovery. Let her do it. Anyway, there is Sister Lan to help."

Shu Ping drank a mouthful of soup and then scooped another spoonful to his mouth. After watching him drink it, she nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, it's okay for me, the factory director, to cook a little bit occasionally, but so much meat and soup will cause excessive nutrition if you eat it all. So, you, the fiancé and bodyguard, must play a good role and eat all the rest."

Under her smiling gaze, Huo Feng couldn't say a word of refusal, even though he had already eaten a meal at home under the care of his mother.

After lunch, the workers saw a few empty tables and chairs placed on the open space in front of the warehouse. People in the warehouse were busy coming in and out. The human resources director Hu Huiying also appeared with a roster. Knowing that the New Year's benefits were to be distributed, she didn't leave and waited at the door.

"Director Hu, we are all here, why not just distribute it now? We can still send it back in time after distributing it, so as not to delay work."

"Yes, let us see what good things are distributed quickly, so that we can work more efficiently."

Hu Huiying and warehouse supervisor Ding Jiaqin checked the time and thought that no one would take a lunch break, so they decided to distribute the gifts in advance in accordance with public opinion.

"Okay, then someone will go and tell those who haven't come yet to hurry up. The gifts will be distributed according to the departments in five minutes. The leaders will come to me to sign."

"Let me make it clear first that our factory director has always been very concerned about the quality of life of employees and wants everyone to have a good New Year. Moreover, new and old employees are treated equally. Even if you just came yesterday, you will never be shortchanged. What are you waiting for? Go and call people."

At 12:15, Hongyuan Food Factory began to distribute New Year benefits, which included three pounds of sausages, five pounds of pork, five pounds of peach cakes, ten pounds of grass carp, a bag of flour, and a box of meat floss bread for each employee, so much that they couldn't carry it with both hands.

"This is too much. My bicycle doesn't have a back seat, so it can't fit all of them."

"It's okay if you can't fit them all. My bike is bigger. You can put them all on my bike and I'll take them home for you."

"Are you going to take them back to your home or to hers? You might as well just become one family. Anyway, the man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried."

"That's a good idea. The couple will both be in Hongyuan in the future. You can get as much stuff as you can throughout the year. The unmarried young people in Hongyuan are all very popular."

"Why, do you want to be a matchmaker for someone? Otherwise, you should stop being an operator and just hang a sign at the factory gate to be a matchmaker."

"Go to hell, I won't introduce you to someone even if you want me to. With the way you talk, you deserve to be unmarried at the age of 24."

"..."

Shu Ping could hear the bustling sounds coming from afar while she was sitting in the office. It was so lively that one after another. Thinking back to the time she spent in less than a year, she not only brought the food factory back to life, but also created a production value of millions and added more than a hundred jobs. She felt a sense of satisfaction and deeply understood the difficulties of the real economy.

The new year is coming. She hoped that through my own efforts, she could make Hongyuan bigger and stronger and step onto a higher level.

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