Chapter 15: Chronicle of the Provincial City (7)
The two of them walked slowly and leisurely through the crowded street again, regardless of direction. As if the words were finished, the two began to fall silent.
"Sister, Brother Xiao'an, why are you here?" Hearing the voice, the two turned their heads to look together, only to see Lin Bingbing coming out of a building.
"Bingbing, is the class over?" asked Lin Qianqian.
"Ah, it's over! Sister, what are you doing here?"
"Let's just hang out, shall we?" said Monday.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to go shopping!" Lin Bingbing said happily.
"Let's go!" Zhou Yi responded.
The three of them came to the pedestrian street in Zhou Yi's memory, but it was not as developed as Zhou Yi had seen in his previous life. The buildings here are still very dilapidated and there are not too many shops. But coming here still made Lin Bingbing extremely excited. Lin Qianqian still looked calm, without the excitement of an ordinary woman when she saw the dazzling array of store items.
Although the commercial development in the 90s cannot be compared with the 21st century, the pedestrian street of the provincial capital is still a very prosperous place for people in this era. Lin Bingbing kept looking at all kinds of beautiful clothes in every clothing store, and sometimes happily tried on the clothes she was satisfied with and then walked out of the locker room, constantly showing them in front of Monday and Lin Qianqian. There is a saying that "people rely on clothes, and Buddha relies on gold", but Lin Bingbing is born as if she grew for clothes, and many beautiful clothes worn on her will show the beauty of different characteristics, just like Lin Bingbing's clothes set off the beauty of these clothes.
Lin Bingbing didn't fancy the same and bought the same, but Zhou Yi followed behind him, as long as Zhou Yi thought that Lin Bingbing looked very good in it, he turned around and bought it. After shopping for nearly two and a half hours, Zhou Yi spent nearly 1,000 yuan on his body and bought more than 60 sets of clothes in total. Among them, there are fifty sets that belong to Lin Bingbing, and the rest are all bought by Zhou Yi for Lin Qianqian.
"Hey, Brother Xiao'an, why are you carrying so many burdens?" Lin Bingbing, who was confused, found that Zhou Yi was holding a lot of bags in his hands. And Lin Qianqian had already found out, but he didn't say anything, just smiled at Zhou Yiwei. Although Lin Qianqian also wondered in her heart how Zhou Yi could have so much money this week, her consistent personality did not let her ask.
"Hehe, you'll know when you see it. ”
"Wow! These are all the clothes I tried on just now!Brother Xiaoan, you are amazing!" Lin Bingbing looked at the clothes in the bag and shouted at Zhou Yi excitedly.
"Alright. I've bought so many things, let's go back!" Lin Qianqian touched Lin Bingbing's hair and said lightly.
"Hmm!" Zhou Yi and Lin Bingbing responded at the same time.
After hailing a taxi, the three of them turned home. Neither Xu Li nor Lin Tai'an have returned. "Sister, Brother Xiaoan, I learned a new tune today, I'll play it for you. ”
"Okay!" Lin Qianqian said.
Lin Bingbing ran into his room, took out a guqin and put it on the coffee table in the living room, moved a low stool and sat down.
"Ding Dong", the pleasant voice began to sound, and it instantly captured Zhou Yi's heart. Lin Bingbing played a simple guzheng short song, which he hadn't heard on Monday, and Li Xunhuan didn't have such a song in his memory. However, I don't know why, Zhou Yi seems to not only understand, but also seems to know how to play such a sad tune. Of course, Xiao Li Tanhua is a big man who is very proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and this simple rhythm is not simple for Zhou Zhou, who inherited his soul? However, there are still too many contents in Li Xunhuan's soul that Zhou Yi needs to excavate.
After playing the song, Zhou Yi gently puffed up his palms and said softly: "You didn't grasp the sadness in the song. It is not our usual annoyance, but a kind of sadness that we cannot change our destiny, but we do not want to succumb to it, but we always fail every time we struggle. Come on, I'll try. ”
Zhou Yi sat in front of the guzheng, raised his hands lightly, and pressed the strings. A wave of sadness spread from the strings, and in a moment it enveloped the two Lin Qianqian sisters who were sitting on the side. Zhou Yi has never studied guzheng, let alone any knowledge about music. But as soon as he sat down in front of the zither, a familiar feeling naturally welled up in his heart. After the song, Zhou Yi seemed to feel that he had fallen into the realm described in the song.
"Brother Xiao'an, you played so well!" Lin Bingbing was the first to sober up from the atmosphere of the song and exclaimed to Zhou Yi.
"Xiao'an, have you studied before?" Lin Qianqian asked.
"No!" Zhou Yi relieved himself and said softly. Just now, when he was playing the music on Monday, pictures appeared in his mind, and these pictures flashed in Li Xunhuan's memory. The beautiful Lin Shiyin, the innocent and lovely Sun Xiaohong, the cold and arrogant A Fei, the sinister and cunning Long Xiaoyun, and the peerless first beauty in the rivers and lakes Lin Xian'er...... There is also the bloody wind and blood and grievances and hatreds on the rivers and lakes, and Li Xunhuan's sad and desolate life.
"Xiao An is a genius!" Lin Qianqian said.
"Yes, yes, Brother Xiao'an, I won't go to that musical instrument class in the future, and you will teach me, right?" Lin Bingbing walked to Zhou Yi's side and said while holding Zhou Yi's arm.
"Huh......? But I'm going home tomorrow!"
"Ah, Brother Xiao'an, do you want to go back, do you want to play for a few more days?" Lin Bingbing shook Zhou Yi's arm and said coquettishly.
"I guess not. I've been away from home for four or five days, and if I don't come home, my parents will die. Zhou Yi said distressedly. He is now worried about how to lie to his parents when he returns home.
"Well, it's time to go home! Then I'll drive you back tomorrow." Lin Qianqian said indifferently.
"I'm going too!" Lin Bingbing said.
"No, you have to go to class. ”
"Then can you not go up?sister!?" Lin Bingbing shook Lin Qianqian's arm and said coquettishly.
"No!" Lin Qianqian's tone was categorical.
In the evening, Xu Li was the first to come home from work. Hearing that Xiao An was going home, she understood the reason for Monday's statement very well, and she didn't do too much to keep it, but just went down to the kitchen to make a big table of good dishes for Zhou Yi.
The next morning, Zhou Yi and Xu Li said goodbye to Lin Tai'an, and after saying goodbye to the depressed Lin Bingbing, they went to find Liu Siyuan first. When I came to the "Xinhua Group Company", which had been renamed "Xinhua Group Company", I saw that the staff of the entire company seemed to be discussing something enthusiastically on Monday. When he came to Liu Siyuan's office, Zhou Yi heard Liu Siyuan and a man in his thirties arguing about something.
"Cousin!" shouted Monday as he pushed the door open.
"Hey. Come and sit, come and sit. Liu Siyuan saw Zhou Yi coming, and said happily: "Come, let me introduce to you, this is Zhao Zishan, my newly hired deputy general manager, who is now mainly responsible for the specific matters of the supermarket opening in the provincial capital and Sizhen County." Manager Zhao, this is my cousin Zhou Yi. ”
"Hello, Manager Zhao. ”
"Hello!"
The two smiled and shook hands, and then sat down. Zhou Yi was the first to ask, "Cousin, what were you arguing about just now?"
"Oh, it's nothing. We have different views on the opening of a supermarket in Sizhen County. Liu Siyuan smiled embarrassedly and said.
"What's wrong? Tell me about it. Zhou Yi was very curious.
"That's right. When it comes to opening a supermarket in Sizhen County, we have differences in size and staffing. Manager Zhao believes that the economy of Sizhen County is still very underdeveloped, people's purchasing power is not high, and the scale of investing 1 million to build a supermarket is too large, so it should invest about 700,000 yuan first, and it is not too late to invest in the future. Also, I would like to transfer Li Ji, the manager of the sales department, to Sizhen County as a supermarket manager. Li Ji's ability is very strong, he can stand alone, and he can rest assured in the future. However, Manager Zhao believes that after Sizhen County opens the supermarket, as long as there is a person who can stabilize the situation, there is no need to send the pillars of the company's sales department there. Liu Siyuan said the different differences between the two.
"Manager Zhao's opinion is still very reasonable. Zhou Yi said.
"Could it be that this little brother also understands this?" Manager Zhao said to Monday suspiciously, and Monday could clearly feel the contempt in Zhao Zishan's eyes.
"I don't know much, it's just a little bit of an opinion. Zhou Yi replied lightly, and then said: "Regarding the size of the company, one million is not much. Of the 1 million funds, 800,000 yuan is used for the capital construction and purchase of supermarkets, while the remaining 200,000 yuan is used for publicity and the relationship between the upper and lower levels. However, I think that with the identity of Siyuan's cousin, it shouldn't take much to make a relationship. It's the publicity that's what we're all about. As for the arrangement of the manager of Sizhen County, Manager Zhao's opinion is still okay, but it would be best if he could arrange a candidate who could stabilize the situation and open up prospects a little. After all, no matter how much Sizhen County develops, its consumption capacity cannot catch up with the provincial capital. At present, the consumer population of supermarkets in Sizhen County is still concentrated in the urban area, and it is estimated that it will take five or six years for the development of the rural market to be carried out on a large scale. Therefore, it is still possible to send a steady person for the time being. ”
"Why do you want to invest so much in publicity?" Manager Zhao asked puzzledly, and Liu Siyuan was also puzzled. Also, people in the nineties were not very conscious of advertising. Zhou Yi knows that the sales of a company's products have a very big relationship with advertising. The kind of overwhelming advertising in the previous life has created many well-known companies, regardless of whether the products of such companies are good or bad, but advertising does make many products deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
"Publicity is an important means of company development, which can make a company or its products known to more people. Although you may not necessarily buy it if you know it, the company's popularity has increased, and the company's products will naturally be favored by more people. Zhou Yi didn't know much about this knowledge, and he didn't say it too clearly, he just knew that advertising was very important.
"Okay, just listen to Xiao An. Although Liu Siyuan didn't really understand how effective advertising was, he still intuitively chose Zhou Yi's idea.
"General manager......" Zhao Zishan wanted to say something, but Liu Siyuan interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and said with certainty: "It's decided." By the way, Xiao'an, are you here for anything today?"
"Oh, yes. Cousin, I'm going home today, and I'm here to say goodbye to you. ”
"That's fine. I'll send someone over in a few days, and I'll contact you at that time. By the way, how can I contact you, Xiao'an?"
"Oh, that's a real problem. Zhou Yi was depressed, he didn't have a phone at home, let alone a mobile phone that would appear in the future. Buying a BP machine or a big brother is too ostentatious, and it's really troublesome. "In this way, my home is not much away from the county seat, so if you have something to do in the future, you can go directly to the school where I go to school to find me. ”
"That's fine.
"Oh, by the way, cousin Siyuan, although your status is very helpful for doing business, the company must pay a lot of taxes. Yes, you know?"
"Okay, listen to you. ”
Then, Zhou Yi babbled to Liu Siyuan about some trivial matters about the supermarket, and walked out of the company under the send-off of Liu Siyuan and Zhao Zishan.
"Did you change cars today?" Liu Siyuan sent Zhou Yi outside, saw Lin Qianqian driving a brand-new Santana car, and said with a smile.
"I borrowed it from a friend. Let's go!" Lin Qianqian smiled faintly at Liu Siyuan and beckoned Xiao An to get into the car.
"Goodbye!" Liu Siyuan and Zhou Yi exchanged words, and Lin Qianqian drove away.