Chapter 7: Returning Home
In the general manager's office, the conversation continued. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Mu Dong: "Brother Yong, I have some new ideas, let me report to you." ”
Han Yong said: "There is no need to report. Let's talk about it and discuss it together. ”
Mu Dong: "Two things, one is that I plan to rent a forklift in the early stage. Now that you trust me so much and invest so much, I think if the price allows, buy a second-hand forklift, which can reduce the cost a lot compared to renting a forklift. And, after the end of the project, we can sell it, the second-hand forklift has a high value retention rate, we use it for a year at most, and it should not lose a lot of money. ”
Han Yong said: "You can decide these things yourself, you don't need to discuss with me, I think it can be done." What about the second thing?"
Mu Dongdao: "The second thing is my resignation, I think, or I will resign recently, don't wait for layoffs, now the time is very tight, the weather will turn cold in two or three months, I want to go back to my hometown now, and prepare as soon as possible." ”
Han Yong pondered for a while and said: "That's it, don't worry about this matter, you deal with the work at hand as soon as possible, and then write an application for a business trip to Lunan, in the name of your own thoughts, the time is about 10 days, first report to the General Department and the Finance Department, I will approve it, so that you can go back and prepare for some things." Recently, I also asked the head office to see when the layoff documents will come down, and it should be soon. By the way, after you resigned, do you have the right person for the manager of the marketing department?"
Mu Dong: "There is no deputy manager in the marketing department, several regional managers, and Lin Xiangyan in the Luxi region has a good comprehensive ability, but I don't know if the headquarters can approve it." ”
Han Yong said: "Let me think about it." ”
Mu Dong had just returned to his workstation when Cheng Qiang came to him.
"Brother Dong, in order to celebrate your first recovery from a serious illness, I invite you to drink at night and call your sister-in-law. ”
Mu Dong: "You also know that I am recovering from a serious illness! I can't drink alcohol yet, but I have my heart." Your sister-in-law just started school today and is busy, so let's go in a few days. Just right, you wait a minute, give you the money to buy the bed. ”
Mu Dong counted out a wad of money, handed it to Lu Qiang, and said, "You order." ”
Lu Qiang took it casually, stuffed it into his pocket, and said, "Order something, then I'll go, and I'll make an appointment with you on the weekend." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Mu Dong sat down and began to sort out the sales materials and customer information at hand, and prepared for resignation and work handover in advance.
On the morning of the next day, Mu Dong applied for a business trip to the General Department and the Finance Department, and the reason was that Lunan Unicom Company visited the H county-level market for maintenance, which lasted from September 4 to September 12, a total of 9 days.
Because it exceeded the approval authority of the general department for a business trip of 5 days, the general department reported the application to Han Yong, the general manager. Han Yong signed and approved it in the afternoon, and the speed was much faster than the General Department expected. In fact, September 13th and 14th are weekends, and Mu Dong can report back to the company on September 15, so that Mu Dong has a total of 11 days.
On the same day, Mu Dong told Xiao Qiang about the business trip, and agreed to wait for Mu Dong to come back from the business trip and find time to get together again.
Then, on the morning of September 3, Han Yong organized a small-scale meeting and announced that Lin Xiangyan would serve as the deputy manager of the marketing department and the manager of Luxi Region.
The position of deputy manager of the marketing department does not exist in the establishment of the head office, so it does not need the approval of the head office, and the Ludong branch can decide by itself.
In other words, Lin Xiangyan's rank and salary have not changed in any way, but there is an additional title of deputy department manager. Despite this, Lin Xiangyan's face was flushed with excitement and his face was radiant.
Lin Xiangyan is 26 years old, one year older than Mu Dong. After 3 years in the company, he can be regarded as an old employee. In this order of cooperation with Unicom, she manages the Luxi area, which has fast distribution speed, high terminal retail volume, business ability and organization and coordination ability. You must know that the purchase of mobile phones by Provincial Unicom is only the first step, and it will be distributed step by step, and then sold to consumers, which can be regarded as the end of sales.
Han Yong's move is very unique. The deputy manager of the marketing department does not need to be appointed by the headquarters, but in the report of Lin Xiangyan's promotion to the marketing manager to the headquarters in the future, this false title can add a lot of points.
On the afternoon of September 3, under the pretext of a long business trip, Mu Dong instructed Lin Xiangyan to do some work, introduced the closing of the provincial Unicom order in detail, and also handed over a pile of sales reports and customer information. Lin Xiangyan was a little dazed and felt a little wrong.
This is not like an explanation of work, but like a handover of work! The information that Manager Mu took out is too comprehensive!
After sending away the dazed Lin Xiangyan, Mu Dong called Xiao Xiao and said that he would pick her up after work and eat together in the evening.
Picking up Xiao Xiao in the evening, the two went to eat Xiao Xiao's favorite boiled fish together, and then went back to Mu Dong's residence. Then, Mu Dong explained to Xiao Xiao in detail about his resignation and doing the river sand business. By the way, I also told me the real situation of tomorrow's business trip, which is called a business trip, but it is actually going back to my hometown.
Xiao Xiao was a little surprised. He knew that Mu Dong's biggest ideal was to take root in the city, so why would he suddenly return to his hometown to do business.
Mudon explained that it was just a short-term business and would be back soon. Then he laughed and said, I want to make money to support you, I want to buy you a house!
Xiao Xiao was still not at ease, and asked, "Why did you suddenly think of doing a business in river sand?"
The reason is simply not too sufficient! Mu Dong: "Our company's Mr. Han is optimistic about this business, and the two of us cooperate." ”
Xiao Xiao finally said in disbelief: "Then you should pay more attention to yourself, it is very hard to do the river sand business." ”
Mu Dong said: "Yes, I will." That one...... Don't leave tonight!"
Xiao Xiao bit his lip and said, "Okay, you're leaving tomorrow, I'll accompany you tonight, but you have to be obedient......"
Mudong: .........
The two took a bath one after another, and after a defined range of warmth, they slept separately.
Early the next morning, Xiao Xiao went to work at school. Mu Dong found his bank deposit certificate, and after the bank went to work, he took out the deposit of 50,000 yuan in full from the deposit receipt. Then I stepped on the bus to Lunan City. In fact, the train is safer, but the train from Quancheng to Lunan has only four trains throughout the day, and two are at night, so the time is really not suitable.
On the bus, Mu Dong received a call from Lin Xiangyan that the balance of the provincial Unicom had arrived. This marks that the entire order procurement work has been completed. Mu Dong's recent period of work has come to a perfect end. As for the future distribution and terminal retail, it depends on Lin Xiangyan.
Four hours later, Mu Dong arrived in the city of Lunan.
That feeling of familiarity and strangeness strikes again, and the whole city becomes what it was a few years ago. The viaduct has not yet been repaired. The ring road is not open yet. Some of the later landmarks are still in sight.
Mu Dong carefully identified, tried his best to integrate his memories with the current landscape, and finally slowly calmed his brain down, and could smoothly accept everything in front of him.
Lunan City, naturally, is in the southernmost part of Ludong Province. It is bordered by Weizhou City and Lianshui City in Suhuai Province to the south. Although these three prefectures and cities are two provinces, they are bordered by land, and many counties and townships are closely connected, and their economic ties are extremely close. Therefore, it is known as "the south of Shandong and the north of Jiangsu, and the economy is integrated".
A long Ying River runs through the city in the center of Lunan and stretches to the distant province of Suhuai before flowing into the East China Sea. Sitting in a taxi along the river, Mudong looked at the wide river sparkling in the summer sun. Every few hundred meters on the river, a sand pumping boat is bustling with activity. Mu Dong knew that at most half a year, the river would be quiet again, and these large and small sand pumping boats would be idle, abandoned, and dismembered.
Mu Dong first went to Lunan Unicom Company. The provincial Unicom company has taken care of it, Mu Dong smoothly visited several departments, and then said that in recent days, he will visit some stores in the urban area and the county town below to understand the terminal sales situation, and then leave the company.
The surface work has been done, and the next step is to go home!
In a shopping mall in the city, Mu Dong gritted his teeth and bought a silk short-sleeved T-shirt, a combed cotton short-sleeved shirt, two high-end trousers, a pair of imported leather shoes, and finally bought a cowhide belt. Approaching 10,000 oceans to spend out, Mu Dong, who has always been thrifty, felt a pain in his flesh. I chose a dress to put on, looked at myself in the mirror, and said in my heart, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, and the ancients did not deceive me.
Then Mu Dong bought some clothes and some nutritional products for his parents, chartered a taxi, and set out on the way home.
An hour later, the taxi arrived at its destination, Mu Village.
Mu Village is a small village with a population of more than 600 people. There are still about seven or eight villages densely distributed around Mu Village. Combined, there are close to 10,000 people in several villages. It's almost a small township anymore. The township is not located here, but 10 kilometers away in Tanzhuang, so it is called Tanzhuang Town.
The location of Mu Village has a river on the east and west. Mu and several nearby villages live on a narrow strip of land about 10 kilometers wide between the two rivers. The river to the east of the village, called Shuhe, comes from the direction of the county seat. The county seat is called Shuhe County, and the entire county is named after the river. The river to the west is the Ying River that crosses the Lu NS District, and Mu Village is downstream of the urban area. The local people don't care what the river is tied to the Ying River, the east is called the East River, and the west is called the West River.
According to the records of Shuhe County, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very high earthquake in the local area. In the words of the county chronicle, "The sun and the moon have no light, the sky and the earth are cracked, the mountains are shaking, the rivers are diverted, the victims are many, and the dead are tithe." "It is said that the two rivers running parallel near Mu Village were caused by the great earthquake at that time. The two rivers converge downstream after running parallel for about 20 kilometers near the village of Mu.
The two rivers bring with them an extremely rich amount of river sand. When Mudong was a child, during the dry season in winter, the sand deposited on the riverbed was three or four meters thick. At that time, if the local people needed to use sand to build houses, they would mine sand in winter and start building houses in spring. Sand mining is extremely simple, the tractor drives into the river and directly swings the shovel to load the truck. Except for some strength and a little diesel money, there is almost no cost.
In recent years, reservoirs have been built downstream, and the river is no longer visible in winter. So slowly there were sand pumping boats, sand mining in the river, and stacking on the bank.
The sand pumped up from the river is very clean washed sand, and with a little screening, it is high-quality fine yellow sand, which can be used directly.
When Mu Dong arrived home, it was already past 6 o'clock. In the summer evening, it was dark at 7 o'clock, and Mu Dong was carrying a large bag and a small bag, and when he got off the bus at the door of his house, the sky was still bright.
The landscape in the village has not changed much as a whole, but there are a few fewer small buildings than in another period of time and space, and the roads outside the village have not yet been paved with cement, and the others are basically the same.
In particular, his house and yard are exactly the same as the memories in another time and space.
Hey, Mu Dong sighed in his heart. This shows that the house has not changed for many years, and the house has not been rebuilt.
As one of the few college students in the village, especially the "capable people" who work in the provincial capital, Mu Dong is also a little famous in the village. Seeing Mu Dong get out of the car, a few people came from far and near, and greeted him warmly.
"Xiaodong is back. ”
"Xiaodong is wearing such a spirit today, and he has made a lot of money!"
"Xiaodong, what good things to buy, big bags and small bags. ”
"Hey, Xiaodong, why didn't you bring your beautiful daughter-in-law back?"
Mu Dong hurriedly took out the cigarettes prepared in his pocket, and while responding with "eldest brother, second sister-in-law, third uncle and second aunt", he quickly evened out the cigarettes for several men present, and took out a lighter one by one.
Someone found the doorway: "Ho, Su Yan, you kid is getting rich!"
Mu Dong was silent. Mucun is located in the economic belt of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, and Suyan is quite famous in this range. Therefore, by being recognized, Mu Dong's goal was achieved.
Well, the brand-new clothes, high-end Su cigarettes, and large bags of gifts are all prepared by Mu Dong. It is for a new image, to create a little atmosphere for the next river sand business, and to strive for a smoother progression.
Mu's father and mother also heard the sound and greeted him. Mu Dong had called in advance, and his parents knew that he was coming back.
Mu Dong glanced at it, feeling a little happy in his heart, his parents were younger than he remembered.
Mu's father and mother beckoned everyone to sit at home, and everyone was naturally interested, laughed for a while, and scattered.
Mu Dong believes that from this moment on, the news that "the little Dongzi of the Muhuashan family has made a fortune" will slowly spread in the village with the few people who have left.
Mu's father, named Mu Huashan, 52 years old, is the eldest of the Mu family. There are two younger brothers and two sisters under Mu Huashan, that is, Mu Dong's two uncles and two aunts. Mu Dong's grandparents have all passed away, and in this small family, Mu Dad can be said to be the current core figure.
Mu Papa has a simple personality, works as a construction worker in the slack season, and is a well-known bricklayer in the neighborhood. It's just that the bricklayer has such a job, the labor intensity is high, the working hours are long, and the fifty-year-old Mu Dad, who is exposed to the wind and sun, has a slightly rickety figure.
A family of three entered the house, and Mu's mother complained that Mu Dong shouldn't spend money and buy so many things as she walked. Mu Papa just smoked silently.
Mu Dong called home at noon, saying that he would come back in the evening, ask Mu's mother to cook more, invite the second and third uncles to drink in the evening, discuss something, and ask his sister and brother-in-law to come over.
Mu's mother has already prepared a few dishes, and she is still busy with other dishes in the stove. While talking, my sister's family came over on an electric tricycle.
My sister and brother-in-law are also much younger than I remember, which is great. Mu Dong thought to himself. It's just that the two children are also much younger, and they are just the age of naughty.
Sister Mu Xiaoxia is five years older than Mu Dong. 10 years ago, I married into Zhong Village, which is adjacent to Mu Village, and now I have two children, the eldest is a girl, named Zhong Shuna, 8 years old, and the younger is a boy, named Zhong Shujie, 5 years old. Brother-in-law Zhong Guodong, three years older than his sister, works in the town's sand turning factory. Zhong Village is very close to Mu Village, about 2 kilometers, usually Mu Dong is not at home, Mu Dad and Mu Mom have a headache and brain fever, they are all taken care of by my sister and brother-in-law.
As soon as my sister's two children entered the house, they chattered and made a fuss. The brother-in-law smoked with Mu's father. My sister went to the stove to help Mu's mother cook, and the Mu family still retains the old-fashioned stove, burning firewood and pulling bellows to help burn. Usually, Mu's father and mother are at home, and they both use the gas stove to cook. There are a lot of dishes to be done today, but I still use the old stove, and the big pot is much faster and the portion is enough.
Mu Dong said goodbye to his brother-in-law, went to the second and third uncle's house, and invited them to come over for a drink and talk.
In every house I visited, I found that all the family members had become younger and more comfortable than the image in my memory. It was an amazing and enjoyable experience, thought to Mu Dong happily.
According to the old principles in the countryside, it is very formal and face-saving for the younger generation to come to the door. Because what Mu Dong wants to say in the evening is a big event, and he must correct his posture on these details.
As the saying goes: Fight tigers and brothers, and go into battle as father and son soldiers. According to Mu Dong's idea, the matter of hoarding river sand is best operated by the family, this is a short-term business, and it is easy to manage by one's own people, and it will be very quick to get started, and it will basically be over when there is no time to have any family drawbacks.
Of course, this is a voluntary matter, and Mu Dong proposes the project, and each small family decides whether to participate or not. The situation of each family is different, and it is not good to say that there is a family that does not want to participate.
However, Mu Dong must gather everyone and talk about this matter, and he can't do it himself. In this way, you will fall into complaining in the future. Eating alone is hated wherever you are.
Family affection is very important and needs to be maintained well in order to make the family prosperous.
As for the eldest aunt and the second aunt, Mu Dong also decided to tell them, but the two of them were far away, and Mu Dong planned to come to the door alone.
Mu Dong successively invited the second and third uncles, and the second and third aunts also came over. Several cousins, who go to work and go to school, are not at home.
In a moment, the twilight is four, and the lights are on...... Ahem, there are no lights, turn on the electric lights in the house, in front of the TV, under the big fan, a large family of eleven people, big and small, lively and lively banquet.
After three rounds of drinking, Mu Dong began to talk about the river sand business.
Everyone else was a little confused. This is too common for the people around Mu Village, too common. It used to be full of rivers, and it was not worth anything at all. Although now because of the storage of water in the downstream reservoir, it is not possible to go directly to the river to dig sand. But the sand brought ashore by the sand pumping boat is not worth much. What's more, pumping sand in the river is a very hard livelihood.
Why does Xiaodong want to do this business?