Chapter Ninety-Eight: Visiting Customers
The night of the urban village belongs to the young people who come home from work, they gush out of the village every morning like the rising tide of the sea, melt into the turbulent traffic of Z City into all corners of the city, and in the evening like a low tide, with the traffic back to this home that belongs to them and does not belong to them, every street of the village is filled with the energetic faces of young urban dreamers.
Xiao Nan came out of the supermarket with a large plastic bag and walked on the crowded street. Most of the pedestrians who passed her on the street were young people like her, and occasionally met an older one who was 90 percent likely to be a landlord in the village who rented a house for a living.
Back in his small single room, Xiao Nan came to the kitchen with a plastic bag, first turned on the induction cooker to heat a large pot of water, and then took out ginger jujubes and a small bag of Suji sauce pork liver that had been queued for a long time to buy. When the water is lukewarm and not cold or hot, pour out half of it in a vegetable washing basin, wash the ginger jujubes, slice the ginger jujubes with a knife, and throw them into the cauldron with glutinous rice to cook - ginger jujube glutinous rice soup, and finally add brown sugar, which is what her mother Li Chunhua just taught to Xiao Nan on the phone, and it is said that Xiao Nan's grandmother passed on the ancestral secret recipe to her daughter.
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"Silly boy, you are primary, it is not a disease in the first place, so there is no way to treat it, you can only endure it, it's good in the past, dizziness and lack of strength is because you will be a little anemic these days, I have a home remedy here, although it can't be cured, it can also be relieved, this is what your grandmother taught me back then!" Li Chunhua's tone was understated, as if everything Xiao Nan said was within her expectations. "Hey, your grandma and I were like this when we were young, I thought that I would never have to suffer this sin again after giving birth to a son, but who knew that it was still ......"
"That'...... Will it be like this every month from now on?" Xiao Nan asked timidly.
"Hey...... I can't help it even if I'm a doctor myself, that's the case with girls. The mother said in a light tone: "But it's not always like this, as long as you get married and have children, you don't have to treat yourself, hehe, so, uh-huh......"
A big drop of sweat appeared on Xiao Nan's forehead, thinking that her mother might say something she didn't want to hear next. Sure enough, what Li Chunhua said later made Xiao Nan go crazy directly: "...... So, hurry up and find a good man, marry yourself early, as long as you have a child......"
"Mom―――――――――― what are you talking nonsense!" Xiao Nan protested loudly: "This is absolutely impossible......! How can you get married, just thinking about it makes me feel sick to death......"
"Okay, Mom understands, no one forces you to get married, you like to be single, and your dad and we won't say anything more. It's just that it hurts every month......"
"Mom--" Xiao Nan was speechless, is this considered a threat......?" You can't scare me...... I'd rather die of pain than disgust myself......"
"Stubborn child......" Li Chunhua sighed softly on the phone: "Forget it, you can do it yourself, you are not too young, you choose your own path, and your parents will not force you." ”
"Hmm...... I knew that my parents still loved me the most in the world......"
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To tell the truth, the actual effect of Xiao Nan's mother's secret recipe is not obvious, just like a girl drinking brown sugar water, it also plays the role of a placebo, and it hurts when it hurts. Fortunately, Xiao Nan is not really afraid of pain, and it is over with patience, but dizziness and lack of energy on her body are really annoying symptoms, and she is in a trance all day long, which greatly affects her work and mood. Although Xiao Nan bought pork liver and iron supplementation tablets, even if he ate these things, it was not obvious that they could be transformed into red blood cells through digestion in a day or two, so Xiao Nan was still uncomfortable, "It's a terminal illness that can't kill people, and it can't be cured at all", Xiao Nan's mother, who is a doctor, said.
But the company's work can not be delayed, Xiao Nan simply poured ginger jujube glutinous rice soup into the stainless steel thermos kettle, and the night before he prepared his next day's lunch into a lunch box and brought it to the company together. At this point, she is not afraid that others will know, "girls are like this anyway", or work is the most important.
The work of the past few days is still based on the product album pulled by Yang Feng, first to design two or three different styles of the overall layout, and then arrange the text, with pictures, after a few pages of samples, print out these samples and hand them to Yang Feng, and Yang Feng will take them to the customer to see the sample, and wait until the customer puts forward suggestions for improvement, Yang Feng will feedback the customer's opinions to Xiao Nan for improvement.
What Yang Feng didn't expect was that this time the customer had a new director of the promotion department, this person was very picky and liked to pick out details, Yang Feng couldn't stand it after running back and forth a few times, so he handed his laptop to Xiao Nan, asked Xiao Nan to make a copy of the manuscript, and took her directly to meet the director of the promotion department who was so tangled that Xiao Nan could modify it according to the customer's opinions at the first time.
Yang Feng drove his Elantra and ran with Xiao Nan for more than forty minutes, and found the company in the newly opened western suburbs industrial park in Z City, and led Xiao Nan to find the director of the promotion department.
"Xiao Cheng, your face is very bad these days, are you uncomfortable?"
"Hmm...... "Xiao Nanxin said that you are not talking nonsense, can I walk as comfortably as if I drank too much!"
"What's that...... Bear with me, work hard for the time being, take down this album in the next few days, brother will definitely not treat you badly, I will take 30% of my own business commission to you!"
"That'...... How much does that have to be?" Xiao Nan couldn't help but be a little curious.
"No matter how you say it, you have to have one or two thousand......" Yang Feng is worthy of being an old fox, and he will never bite the numbers very accurately. "And if you do a good job for them this time, they will come directly to you for their little work in the future, and the monthly odd business commission will add up to hundreds of ......."
Yang Feng understands very well the truth that "there must be a brave man under the heavy reward", but Xiao Nan is not a fool, she knows that if her little designer can get a business commission of one or two thousand, then Yang Feng will get at least five times as much as her - although he can get 30% of the total profit at the top of the sky, the majority of the profit must be the company, but that is not a small amount.
When I went to the promotion department of this company, I saw the supervisor, this supervisor was a middle-aged man in his forties, surnamed Wang, not tall and dry-looking, with an already long horse face that was half longer because of the straight face, but he wore a very fashionable pair of narrow-framed black-rimmed glasses, small eyes and thin mouths, and the expression on his face was like everyone owed him hundreds of dollars, so that people would have the imagination of "mean and poisonous tongue" when they saw him.
The cunning Yang Feng exchanged a few words with the director of the promotion department, and then slipped away with an inauthentic excuse, leaving Xiao Nan alone to talk to the customer about the revision. Xiao Nan shook his head helplessly, in fact, when it comes to design majors, salesmen like Yang Feng are also three-legged cats, and he can't play a big role if he stays.
"Old Yang ......" Xiao Nan hurriedly shouted to Yang Feng: "When will you come back to pick me up, you can't let me call back, it's so far, if the company doesn't report me, I'll die!"
"I went to another client to get some information and sent it back to the company, which took about an hour and a half. ”
"That'...... Excuse me, can you help me bring the thermos kettle, I forgot it on my desk......"
"Okay, I'll get it, and I'll leave it to you here, Xiao Cheng. Yang Feng turned around and walked out of the office, Xiao Nan put the laptop on the desk and opened it, took out the sleeves and half-finger gloves from the backpack and put them on, took out her radiation glasses from her pocket and put them on, moved the seat forward, and said to the director of the promotion department: "Director Wang, let's start?"
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In less than half an hour of contact, Xiao Nan understood the power of this Director Wang, this person belongs to the standard layman command insider, he himself does not understand color matching, layout beauty, he only knows that Xiao Nan blindly wants to design "more atmospheric", as for what the "atmosphere" in his mind looks like, it can't be expressed no matter what.
A simple page, it didn't take long for the effort to be changed beyond recognition under his command, the layout was disordered, and the color matching was weird, and then this old king shook his head, and in turn accused Xiao Nan of not designing blind changes to fool people. "No wonder Yang Feng slipped away early in the morning, it's really depressing to meet such a difficult customer......" Xiao Nan thought to himself. "But for the sake of business commissions, I'll put up with you for a while...... The customer abused me thousands of times, and I treated the customer like my first love......"
Originally, Xiao Nan was just holding on to the draft, not to mention that she was extremely uncomfortable, her mood in the past few days was also very bad, in the face of this almost nonsense Director Wang, she had tried her best to be patient, and she couldn't bear the fire in her heart and revised it over and over again- That's it, but after a long time, Xiao Nan found that the situation was a little wrong, this Director Wang seemed to consciously lean towards her, sometimes standing behind her and deliberately sticking very close, leaning forward when reading the manuscript on the computer screen, holding Xiao Nan's chair armrest with two arms, the posture almost wanted to hold Xiao Nan in his arms, and the faces of the two people were about to stick together, so that Xiao Nan had to turn sideways and hide to the side, so as to avoid Director Wang's long horse face.
This is nothing, what is even more excessive is that several times this guy used the excuse of pointing out the wrong place to Xiao Nan, reached out to Xiao Nan's hand to grab the mouse, and took the opportunity to touch Xiao Nan's hand and arm, and pretended to have a calm expression on his face, so that Xiao Nan was not sure whether he did it on purpose, so he had to keep guarding against him.
This Director Wang's actions made Xiao Nan feel like a thorn in his back, not only to be careful of being taken advantage of by him, but also not to offend the customer too obviously, after a long time, Xiao Nan felt that he was exhausted physically and mentally, and at this time, Yang Feng appeared at the door like a divine soldier, still holding Xiao Nan's thermos kettle in his hand.
"Why did you come!" Xiao Nan looked at Yang Feng at this time, how pleasing to the eye, pretended to pick up the cup, and quickly left Director Wang's "sphere of influence".
"Oh, I'm sorry for the traffic jam on the road, the traffic in Z City, you know ......" Yang Feng shrugged helplessly. "How's the draft changing?"
"There are still a few pages to be decided...... Director Wang switched to the upright gentleman mode at this time, with a serious and responsible look on his face. "Or I will invite everyone to have a meal at noon, and we will continue to change it in the afternoon, and strive to finalize the draft this afternoon. ”
This is not right, this Director Wang has always been detained to death, how can he take the initiative to invite dinner? This is a bit abnormal...... Yang Feng looked at Xiao Nan suspiciously, Xiao Nan turned his back to Director Wang and gave Yang Feng a look, looking at her as if she was going crazy.