517.Chapter 516: The Triumph Over Reason
Leaving the booth with the waitress almost at the same time, she put down her tools and turned around and went to another place, while I went straight downstairs to the car.
The temperature in the car made the chocolate somewhat deformed, after all, this box of chocolates has been in it for a while, which is used to deal with his hypoglycemia problem, although it is not like the very large piece bought for the witch, but compared with the medium-sized Dove chocolate, both the packaging and the taste are superior, I believe she will like it.
All that was left was to go back to the booth and wait slowly, and the two pieces of chocolate were placed on the table, a little anxious and a little worried.
Time passed minute by minute, and in the process of waiting, I began to pay attention to the furnishings here, intentionally or unintentionally, at least I didn't want to be idle, because it was very uncomfortable to have nothing to do while waiting.
In the midst of his own idleness, those past began to slowly rise from the bottom of his heart.
There is a sculpture used to decorate in the corner of the booth partition, which is an inverted mold of Italian Renaissance artwork, which should be counted as a kind of sculpture, but unfortunately he can't be named, of course, there is not much understanding of these sculpture artworks, but I remember the first time the witch came here, the witch had turned back several times to see the sculpture.
After all, the appreciation of artworks always needs an angle, and the angle we are at is just at the back and bottom of this sculpture, so it looks not only a little nondescript, but also the abstract and figurative patterns of those animals or people in the brain cannot be combined with the sculpture in front of us, and we have been guessing for a long time for this thing.
In the end, the answer is that we can only observe and examine it positively when we are leaving.
Although this is a plot that cannot be smaller, I can't help but think of it when I see the sculpture appear in front of my eyes again.
The cleaning attendant came over with a roll of posters, and it was obvious that they had been removed from the wall and piled up somewhere, some dusty, and some curly.
"That's all, see if there's anything you want?" Putting these down, the waiter also wiped his forehead exaggeratedly.
"Thank you!" When I saw the poster that had been scattered as soon as it was placed on the ground, my heart was almost half cold.
These are all movies released in the past few years, "Transformers 2", "Terminator 4", "Ip Man" and some summer movies, most of which are repeated, but there is no "Painted Skin" in them.
"Thank you for helping me find these, sorry for your trouble!" It can be said that I didn't bend down and stretch out my hand at all, because there are only a few in total, and I can see it at a glance, but I still have to do what I promised others, so I picked up the chocolate on the table and handed it to the little girl.
"Is there any?" The little girl was a little uneasy, and she didn't seem to see anything from my facial expressions.
"Looks like no!"
"Huh?" The little girl's face was also full of disappointment. "No, but that's all!"
"It's okay, forget it if you don't have it, I'll ask somewhere else!" I smiled to hide my disappointment. "This chocolate is for you! Thank you! ”
"No, there's nothing you want." She seemed a little embarrassed.
"It's okay, chocolate for you!" I stood up and shoved two chocolates into her hands.
"No, no, I don't!" The little girl blushed in a hurry.
"Take it! Send you! I shoved it into her hand.
In the end, she accepted it, but her face was red.
I also left those posters, and put them on the chair opposite, I think people took a long time to find them, although they didn't have them, but they couldn't help but let them get them back.
It didn't work for me, but at least it was better than sitting here alone.
After a while, the little girl came again.
"Sir, you haven't ordered anything yet!" Her face was still red, she gently put down the menu and leaned forward slightly.
In my brain, I carefully recalled the things that the witch had ordered here at that time, and the things she liked to eat.
"Looks like there's some kind of shrimp rice, right?" I can't remember the exact name, but I remember that the witch did order this, and the witch poured the shrimp rice from her bowl spoonful by spoon into my plate, on the grounds that she couldn't eat that much.
"This?" The little girl skillfully flipped to the page of the menu, and the photo on it showed the one she wanted.
"This should be it!"
"Do you need any drinks?" The little girl asked casually as she took a note of something.
"Orange juice!" I remember this very well, the witch likes to drink orange juice here.
"Oh!"
Something doesn't seem right.,It seems that the things ordered are basically women's.。
Forget it, no matter what, isn't that what you're looking for?
Sitting here like this, looking at the things around me in a daze, everything here seems to remind me of a certain detail at that time.
Closing your eyes is happiness, and opening your eyes is heartache.
The things I ordered came up quickly, and there was a small snack.
"This one is for you!" The little girl waiter specially reminded her.
"Thank you!" He gave her a sincere smile, maybe she felt a little uncomfortable taking the chocolate and did it.
The portion of dim sum in the small plate is not much, but it is delicate, and it can be seen that it is carefully prepared.
The cup of orange juice was made in a very tall cup, and although I forgot whether it was also used for this kind of cup at the time, the straw with a small umbrella on it was still the same.
Gently, I pushed the orange juice to the opposite side.
The cover of the lamp is movable, and I deliberately lowered it so that if there is a person sitting across from her, the light from the lamp can only shine under her chin, and the facial expression is scattered on her face through the light of the lampshade. The orange light spreads to the face, and the warm tone is very warm.
"Are you waiting for someone?" Only then did she notice that the little girl hadn't left yet, holding the menu aside.
"Ugh.!" Patronized myself to look for those, did not notice, momentarily speechless. "Nope. Yes! ”
"Oh." Probably the little girl also noticed my embarrassment, and did not continue to ask, but answered softly and left.
Under the lamp, the shrimp rice was still faintly steaming out, and the delicate spoon was wrapped in a napkin and set aside.
There was also a thin layer of foam on top of the cup with orange juice on the opposite side, and the straw with a small umbrella was lying diagonally in it, as if waiting quietly for its owner.
The backrest of the seat is of the very high type, and although it is relatively upright, it is still comfortable to half-lean on it.
I just threw myself there and stared at what was in front of me in a daze.
My mind was blank, I thought about all the details I could think of, and the clarity of the experience was as clear as if it had just happened.
I can't help but let myself start fantasizing again.
The mobile phone is on the side, the screen is quietly showing the time, it is already three o'clock in the afternoon, and there are some laughter and laughter from the next booth from time to time, there are too many people who are usually depressed at work to find a peace here during this holiday, maybe they already know each other in life, maybe they are couples, or maybe they also come here like me and the witch.
What is the witch doing at this time?
I don't know, I really don't know.
But I'd love to know, I want to know.
That number is like a stream and I can't press the dial out button, but that kind of ** keeps hitting me, just like the two of them are fighting in my heart.
As a man, I can't talk and don't count, but how desperate I want to know how she is doing!
Pressing the number over and over again, pressing the delete button again and again, his hands were trembling, and the depression in his heart tried to release it with a big breath, but it was useless.
Although I can find her casually, what is the point of finding her?
Since she decided to give up?
It's true that I'm not so good at women's psychology, all of them are based on the feelings that the other party gives them, but women are fickle, and many times what they say doesn't mean what they think in their hearts, but the worst thing is how do you know when it is in many cases?
I pressed the pager.
The sound of the little girl's footsteps hurried over.
"Excuse me, can I trouble you a little more?" I looked up.
"What's the matter, sir?"
"My phone is out of battery, can I borrow your phone to use it?" The hands are trembling, and so is the heart.
"Okay!" As he spoke, he took out his phone from his pocket and gave it to me.
"I'm making a local call, not a long distance!" When I took the phone, I explained, for fear of embarrassing others.
"It's fine!" The little girl still had a red face.
"Thanks, I'll be fine right away!"
Her mobile phone is full of cartoons, and there are many small stars on the keyboard, I believe she pasted it herself, and there is also a small crystal ornament hanging on the mobile phone chain, which looks like a little girl's mobile phone, full of pink tones.
Pressing that number, I pressed the dial button for a few seconds before I pressed the dial button, and in the end, it was impulsive and sanity.
Await.
It was only a few seconds before the normal connection, but the few seconds at this time were so long for me that I didn't even dare to gasp and wait.
Sorry, the user you are calling is temporarily unreachable.
This is a result that I didn't expect, thinking that either it would be down, which might be the greatest, or it would be on, and this might be what I hoped for the most, but what I didn't expect was that it couldn't be connected.
I replayed it once, but it still can't be connected.
There is no disappointment, and there is no emotion.
The only thing is that I know that this call is equivalent to not making a call.
"I can't get through, maybe I dialed it wrong!" Take the phone off your ear.
"yes." She didn't know what to say either.
In the interval, I flipped into the dialed phone, deleted the call log, and returned the phone to her.
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome, do you need anything else?" Below the humility reveals a professional greeting.
"No more! Thank you! Again, I put on a smile.
The shrimp rice on the table was no longer hot, and in its place was the green smoke left over from the cigarette butts rising in the ashtray.
I don't know if the witch's phone has been activated to remind you of incoming calls now, if so, then maybe the witch will be curious when she sees an unfamiliar phone number, what if she calls back?
What would that little girl say?
Maybe I should explain it to the little girl, but what should I say?
Forget it, these behaviors of oneself are weird enough in front of the little girl.
I wasn't hungry, I took the shiny spoon and poked a few mouthfuls in the bowl casually, although it was very fragrant, but I didn't have much appetite, which was different from the witch who ran for most of the day and screamed hungry, and I really couldn't eat it.
And the glass of orange juice itself didn't move, just put it there quietly, under the illumination of the table light, the cup began to have a little precipitation, like their own thoughts, after a long and noisy time, quietly immersed in the bottom of the heart of those memories, occasionally with the vortex of time to flood a little.
The music playing in the café is always those songs.,I waited for a long time and didn't hear "Meet" ring.,There's this song in the phone.,But it's a bit of that to play music on your phone.,If you're five years younger, maybe you'll do that.。
Some are repressed, so repressed that there is a certain element of restlessness.
Let's go out for a walk, the square is right in front of the door, although the afternoon sun is still a little harsh.
When I walked out of the café, I didn't forget to ask for an invoice, which is also one of the contents of my own here.
Leaves began to fall from the trees, but not all of them that fell to the ground were the kind that had dried up, and there were a few on the front windshield, still in that greenish color.
Sitting in the car, watching the leaves on it gently move with the breeze, maybe in a few minutes the leaves will drift to the ground forever with the movement brought by the breeze, scattered to a certain corner, never to see the sun again.
Opening the car door, I took a slice.
The mood is so low that I see everything I have a lot of depressing associations.
Turning to the front of the square, the street is full of traffic, bustling, and there are a lot of cars parked in front of the square, rows of cars that do not leave any space for themselves.
I don't know why I have a special attachment to the square.,I always feel that the witch is there to attract me.,Make yourself so reluctant to leave.。
But there is no place to park, and you can't park on the side of the road.
In this slow squirming, I was squeezed out of the avenue in front of the square little by little by the traffic behind.
Go back to the hotel and put the leaves in a small basket on the dashboard so you can see them at any time.
I didn't go anywhere, and I was a little tired.
Outside the hotel, the sun is slowly setting. It was getting dark, and on the street, the neon signs were already on. I felt very helpless, like a bird in captivity, I was already a bird in captivity, and I couldn't break out of the cage of this atrium. The things in this room made me feel strange, and the true belonging of my soul was the witch's home.
Witch, what about you? You'll think of me the same way, won't you? But you are not as cowardly as me, you are so strong, strong, even cruel to me, have you ever taken into account my distress, are you also like me at this time, feeling lonely and sad. Do you also think of me, when you think of me, the string in your heart will also move.
Because of a person, fall in love with a city, in that corner of this city, there is your tall and beautiful figure? I want to go to you, I want to think about it, but I'm afraid, I can't go and I don't dare to go, I saw the fence gate, I'm afraid, Lin Batian's villa is more terrifying than the prison in Guantanamo.
On the street, all kinds of sounds drifted into this quiet room with the air through the cracks in the window, I turned off all the lights, and let the neon lights on the street shine faintly in this room, quietly and peacefully sprinkled on the warm yellow bed. Outside the door, the aisle is quiet, quiet and makes people feel cold, there is no sound, I like to have a dream when I was a child, when my mother and father open the door and go out, I want to shout and go with them, they don't let me go, I keep crying, when I cry and cry, they will push the door in cold, hug me, and tell me not to cry son. Will Lin Xi be like this? No. Because. I'm not a kid. She didn't have to take care of me either.
But I've always been so stupid that I'm always used to expecting that door to be pushed open. Someone, who opened the door of my heart, stayed for a lifetime, never wanted to leave again, and couldn't get rid of it.
My mobile phone, today, there is not a single call or even a text message all day, and the usual annoying weather forecast and news morning and evening newspapers have not been sent in, why is this? But isn't that what I want? I don't like to be disturbed during the holidays, but I don't have a single phone call or even a text message a day, and I always feel like I'm wasting my days. However, no one's phone call will make me happy, I just wait for the number I am familiar with to call me, and the rest, it doesn't matter. I can't get interested.
I couldn't go on like this, I turned on the computer, opened Tencent, only to find out that it was very late. A lot of people are online, and their avatars are vibrating, working, friends, and customers.
kept flashing, and after a while, I realized that it was today's message, in fact, they were no longer online, because the avatar was dim. The avatar I was looking forward to, Lin Huaxi, didn't move. Looking at her avatar, I had mixed feelings, scratched my head, climbed into bed, stretched my legs, covered the quilt, only the quilt was warm, and I sometimes really despised myself. … All the worries and depressed sadness, it seems, have been temporarily put on this big bed, a very relaxed feeling. Forgetting the passing years, I lost weightlessness and entered another celestial body.
Exhaustion, hitting. I was about to fall asleep, after the witch ignored me, I always had so many thoughts, so many fantasies, I hope that I can be like an angel, walking in the clouds, overlooking the colorful Huping City, and watching the wonderful scene intertwined with various lights in the night sky. This city is like a night of liquor, the first taste, the throat is pierced, and then, the hot esophagus, falling into the stomach, the mellow aroma hits, that feeling, I have never known before.
Either way, this city carries so much of our feelings. I chose to get up, wanting to keep this feeling in my heart at this moment, driving through the silence of the city on the silent avenues, watching the fallen leaves fall with the wind. Wandering slowly, without direction and without purpose, because, as I walked through any of these paths with the witch, I could feel a trace of her breath here.
Crossing the small bridge, it was the witch's neighborhood, and it was late at night, and the road leading to the neighborhood was pitch black. The bright light of the xenon headlights pierced the darkness and haze far away, and all the qiē appeared in front of him.
But I didn't drive any further, I stayed at this intersection.
The place in memory is here.
Witch, I'm coming. Went to places we've been before, do you feel it?
I will not forget, and never will. Heavy, I fell asleep quietly in the car.
Let's continue to talk about the company's affairs, since the emotional things are so heavy because I can't carry the career, then, why can't I turn the pressure into motivation and let myself go on the endless career road?
Seeing the development momentum of Zhenhe, Mr. Zhen bought a high-end business car, because this month, there are many business trips and pick-up and drop-off guests, he made up his mind to buy one, and then ordered a few production equipment. Some other testing and production equipment have been ordered, and the new factory decoration has been completed, and all the equipment can be shipped in.
The contracts for the factory have all been signed, and I hurriedly stepped up the supervision of the general affairs supervisors to speed up the decoration of the new plant. It took more than a month to complete the renovation of the plant.
Managers, engineers, supervisors and other leaders planned and measured the two new factories together, moved the workshop to the first floor of the new plant, the second and third floors were used as warehouses, and the third floor of the other building was ready to be used as a canteen, so that the company's plant area was expanded to nearly 6,000 square meters.
I follow this development trend in the first half of the year, this year must exceed 30 million output value, this year the new rented plant, the plant is enough, but the plant is overly scattered, 6,000 square meters of factory building, divided into four buildings, each with three floors, the logistics cost is too high.
The 6,000-square-meter factory building could have supported an output value of 60 million, but the factory building was overly dispersed and was expected to only support an output value of about 40 million, and the output value of 40 million would be very crowded. The output value of 40 million is about 3 million per month, and I expect that by the second half of the year, the monthly output value target of more than 3.5 million yuan will be reached.
What should we do in the future? Where to develop? Zhen always has a few thoughts:? Continue to develop in Huping City.? Moved to Huzhou, a neighboring city in the northwest.
to large cities.
In the development of Huzhou City, this plan is not very feasible, Huzhou City is smaller than Huping City, the land area is limited, and the power supply is not enough, there will be two days of power outages a week, recently Huzhou City's policy has been inclined to high-tech, raising the policy threshold, so that some processing enterprises and labor-intensive enterprises have moved to the northern cities or internal provinces. We belong to the basic industry, neither high-tech, nor labor-intensive enterprises, in between, self-fending, but the rising policy threshold and profit margin reduction, it is difficult to survive in Huzhou City.
Move to large cities, large cities processing and labor-intensive enterprises are also more, and large cities exclude outsiders, so there is a lack of talents, although the rent of the factory is cheaper now, but excellent talents are usually reluctant to go to the city, the land in the northwest is cheaper, but someone goes? Lack of talent, without talent, nothing cheap is useless. I heard that a company moved to the factory, the board of directors considered the explicit costs such as plant rent, ignoring the hidden costs such as human resources, and the company did not buy a bus to pick up everyone, in an excessively remote place, talent is not retained, as expected, most of the half a year, R & D engineers went two-thirds. Therefore, many bosses say that they attach importance to talents, but in fact, they are talking about it, but they do not really attach importance to it, and only pay attention to the cost that can be seen by the eyes. So, the plan to move to a large city was rejected by me.
There are more and more manufacturers of equipment parts casting, our mold technology has certain advantages, especially the boss of a multi-piece mold technology is incomparable with other manufacturers, a multi-piece, the focus is on this "more" word, a mold out of multiple products, its weight should not be very large, therefore, the future product direction should focus on precision casting, if casting some large products, Zhenhe has no advantage at all, and large products are relatively rough, low added value, material costs account for a large proportion, like selling rodish cabbageIn the future, the price of materials will continue to rise, the cost of materials will be lower, the cost of materials is lower, the cost of materials is lower, the added value of knowledge is high, we can ensure a certain profit margin, and precision casting, do not have to buy large equipment, equipment investment can save a lot.
Therefore, I think Huping City cannot give up, Huping City should become a window, a window for marketing, R&D and small batch trial production, and large-scale, mature, and stable orders can be transferred to Huzhou. Now Huzhou is developing relatively well, and Mr. Zhen and I have both worked in Huzhou, and we are all related to Huzhou. Water power, electricity, transportation is very convenient, if the supporting supply chain problems and some customs declaration and other policy problems can be solved, Huzhou is an ideal place to invest.
Then, at the manager-level meeting, everyone is inclined to this plan: Huping City for marketing, research and development and small batch trial production base, the scale can not be too large, employees control within 200-300 people, the mass production base will be built in Huzhou in the future, according to the current development trend, this year's property output value will reach 25 million - 30 million, next year's annual output value will reach more than 40 million, at the beginning of the next year began to plan to build a new factory in Huzhou, the end of the next year can be completed and officially put into production, and, After next year, the company's funds are relatively abundant, and the cash flow is relatively abundant. Moreover, the current plant can barely support until the middle of the next year.
Once the decision is made, coupled with the Huzhou investment promotion department people repeatedly urged to buy land quickly, Zhen is always an anxious, in a hurry to see the land, I think not so urgent, now the company's strength is not very large, from the new factory is far away, I have a better understanding of the situation of investment in the mainland, an economic development zone after the completion of three links and one level, at least three or five years to recruit full manufacturers. Now the economic development zone over there has only begun, how can it be so fast, and there is no hurry to go next year.
But Mr. Zhen was in a hurry to go, and it didn't hurt to take a look, in the second half of the year, Mr. Zhen, the proprietress of the company, me, Vice President Ma, Chen Zihan, and He Ke and others drove off.
Although the strategic assumption is this, I am not in a hurry to do so. When I arrived in Huzhou, I was warmly received by the local investment promotion department, and I saw various small red flags on the map of the economic development zone, which indicated that some sites had been ordered.
The investment department hopes that Zhen will buy a piece of land, they said that by the end of this year, they can complete the three links and one level, after the completion of the three links and one level, the land payment must be on the other party's account, and the civil construction must be started within one month, and the construction will be completed within one year, and the second year will be put into production, I calculated that if you buy 50 acres of land now, you will complete the three links and one level in January next year, and nearly 2 million will be paid to the other party's account in February, and the civil construction will begin in March next year, and it will be put into production in March of the following year. Zhenhe's current cash flow is not enough to support it, and Zhenhe only has this development trend, and has not yet developed a few large customers with very stable and large orders, Zhenhe has this potential, but the potential does not mean that it is real.
Anyway, we finally signed an intentional contract, and if the other party chases at that time, we don't have such a fast progress, so we will buy the land for the second phase of the development zone instead.