Hong Kong Island, Pok Fu Lam East.

Inside an abandoned garment factory.

The head of the engineering team said: "Boss, you mean to say, let's build a wall first and come out of the printing room, right?"

Huo Yaowen nodded: "Yes, let's come out of the printing room first, according to the previous plan, first get the printing room out, and then treat the sewage in the back tank to see if the groundwater can continue to be used." ”

"That's no problem, I just took a look at this factory, it's basically complete, it doesn't need to be reinforced, if you build a wall first, it only takes two days to solve it, and then paint the walls around it, and refill the broken parts of the ground with cement, and it is estimated that it will take two or three days. However, the sink at the back is more troublesome, not only to drain the sewage, but also to knock all the cement inside and re-cover it, which may take a little time. ”

"Is a week enough?"

Datoucheng thought about the construction period, shook his head and said: "A little nervous, the weather in Hong Kong has not been very stable in recent days, and it may rain, so in this case, the re-laying of cement in the sink will be delayed." ”

"How long will that take?"

"It's about ten days and half a month, but it still depends on the weather, although you can build a shed, but that's too troublesome, once the water enters, it's all abandoned. ”

"So long?" Huo Yaowen frowned.

Zhang Zhide next to him interjected: "Yaowen, if we don't do this, let's use bricks to build a small pool outside, go buy some large plastic paper pads inside, and then put water in, if we are afraid of dirty water, we can build a shed, and then change the water every day." We didn't need much water in the early stage, so we thought it would be enough for us to print. ”

"Is it okay?" Huo Yaowen asked.

"It should be fine. ”

"Then do what you say. Huo Yaowen turned his head to look at Datou Cheng and said, "Captain Zhang, you also heard it just now, it shouldn't be a problem to build a small pool." ”

Datoucheng promised: "As long as there are materials, these are fine." ”

"Then trouble you, Captain Zhang, we are in a hurry, so I hope your engineering team can complete the project as soon as possible. ”

"It can be done in a month at most. ”

"Good. ”

After chatting with Zhang Cheng of the engineering team, Huo Yaowen and Zhang Zhide found Huo Chengcai, who was looking at the factory environment in the back.

Huo Chengcai saw the two of them coming, and gestured towards the construction site in front of him: "This place is quite big, I feel that we can build another building here and use it for office use." ”

"No, it's still too far from the city. Huo Yaowen shook his head, earlier he also had the idea of building a building here in the factory, but the reality is often very cruel, this road is remote, and there is no special bus passing by, and he doesn't know how early he has to get up to work so as not to be late. And in the first two years, if it weren't for Zhou Xinian of the dairy company to consider producing fresh milk for his ranch, he directly contributed a sum of money to take the lead in repairing the road, and the people in the Public Works Department might not have spent money to repair this road, after all, so many pedestrians in Hong Kong have not repaired the road, so they have the energy to repair this road that no one walks.

"It's okay to build a warehouse with red bricks and cement for books, but it's too cumbersome and too expensive to build an office building, and we don't have that much money right now. At the mention of money, Huo Yaowen frowned and asked, "How much money do we have in our account, Lao Dou?"

"There is no money, except for the follow-up payment of the engineering team, there are only a few hundred yuan. Huo Chengcai felt a little uncomfortable when he thought that there were only a few hundred yuan left in the bookkeeping book in the morning.

Earlier, I spent almost 100,000 yuan to buy those printing presses, and then rented a small office space in Central, Hong Kong Island, and after negotiating the price with the engineering team yesterday, I paid an upfront fee, and although the follow-up money has not yet been paid, this money cannot be moved.

In just a few days, not only did he spend the 150,000 yuan, but even the more than 200,000 yuan with the family's savings and the money that his son had stored in his wife, and it also made Huo Chengcai experience the boldness of spending a lot of money as a rich child again, but after spending it all, he noticed that the money was so unspent.

"The next printing paper and ink also cost a lot of money. Zhang Zhide's face was solemn, Huo Chengcai had always been in charge of managing money, he basically hadn't seen it or taken care of it, and after hearing that there were only a few hundred yuan left, he also thought about it: "Where do I still have some savings, I'll let Chunfen give it to you when I go back." ”

"No need, uncle. I still have more than 10,000 yuan here, go back at night and get me old beans, it should be enough to cope with this time, and I still have a manuscript fee that I haven't taken, and when I go to collect it in the afternoon, I think there will be at least tens of thousands of yuan, which is more than enough to support the first batch of books when they are printed. ”

is the so-called brother who settles accounts, some people even think about the father and son clearly, you are yours, I am mine, and everyone is unhappy in the end, so Huo Yaowen doesn't want to have too much to do with his uncle's family in terms of money, not to say that he is born, but the relationship between relatives and friends is relatively simple, and it is okay to help each other, but the place to help is the money gang, and it is easy to let the emotions deteriorate.

The same is true for Huo Yaowen on the grandfather's side, Huo Zongming got a few relatively new printing presses from his escort door before, which can almost be said to be dead, saying that the money is not in a hurry and it is not too late to give it when he has enough money, but Huo Yaowen politely refused, saying that his side has sufficient funds and it is no problem to pay in full.

Zhang Zhide nodded and didn't say more, but talked about the topic of ink and printing paper, "I'm not very familiar with Hong Kong, so I didn't think much about ink and printing paper before, thinking that the time is still early, and I'm not in a hurry, but Yaowen said that if you want to start work as soon as possible, then you have to prepare some goods as soon as possible, and it's best to build a warehouse according to what you said before." ”

"I'm afraid it will cost 10,000 or 20,000 yuan to build a warehouse. "Just now Huo Chengcai said that he wanted to build a building, and that was just his addiction, or looking at the area of this factory is so large, and his own family has almost half of the shares in it, he is inevitably a little proud, he lived in twenty or thirty square meters of public housing in the early years, and now he can have land belonging to the Huo family in Hong Kong, which is undoubtedly the happiest thing for him.

"If you need it, you will build it, but for the time being, everything will be simple, all of them will be built with red bricks for the time being, and the inside will be scraped with white paint and covered with cement, and the outside will not be covered with cement, and then the publishing house will be profitable in the future. As for the ink and printing paper of the printing press, uncle, you make an account first, leave a part of it in the publishing house for the time being, and transfer the rest to the name of the company, when I cooperated with the University of Hong Kong, I only said that I invested 180,000 yuan, and now it is more than that, since I need to wait for the profit of the publishing house to be recovered in the future. ”

Huo Yaowen turned his head to look at Huo's father again, secretly summed it up, and also touched his nose and said: "Lao Dou, you take out the account book, leave a copy and hand it over to the recruited finance tomorrow, and then after everything is done here, let the finance hand over to the person arranged by the University of Hong Kong." ”

"I know, I write every expense in doubles, and I still know that. "Huo Chengcai is not a person who does not learn and does not know how to learn, although he did not study hard and only studied in middle school, but when he came to Hong Kong, he was deceived by the ghost guy, but he understood that he had to do things to save face, and the same is true for settling accounts.

Looking at Lao Dou's smug face, as if he was begging for praise, Huo Yaowen was not stingy at all, and gave a thumbs up and praised: "You are still old Dou, you are shrewd, and you have already talked about this." ”

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