After two years, Lin Zhenhua came to Guangzhou again. When he left the Guangzhou Railway Station, standing outside holding a sign to pick him up, it was still the girl named Schumann two years ago. Wearing a beige trench coat, she stood out among a group of pick-ups dressed in blue and black.

"Manager Lin, the car is in the parking lot outside, I'll help you with your luggage." Schumann said enthusiastically.

Lin Zhenhua didn't let her take the luggage, but said politely: "Miss Shu, thank you for your help this time." ”

Schumann said: "It's nothing, I'm very honored to be able to help Manager Lin do something." ”

Lin Zhenhua looked around and no one paid attention to them, so he reached out and took out an envelope from his bag, handed it to Schumann, and said, "Miss Shu, this is your labor fee, a total of 100 yuan, you can count it." ”

Schumann didn't refuse, she took the envelope, covered it with the placket of her windbreaker, pulled out half of the money, counted it quickly, and then smiled sweetly at Lin Zhenhua and said, "That's right, thank you Manager Lin." Actually, I just helped pull the strings, and I really didn't dare to charge so much labor fees. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "The role played by Miss Shu is irreplaceable by others, so this little money makes Miss Shu smile." ”

Schumann put the money away and said to Lin Zhenhua: "Let's go, let's get in the car." Lawyer Qian Yuanping may still be in Shenzhen to go through customs procedures, and it is estimated that it will be there in the afternoon. Let's go find a place to eat first. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "No problem, Miss Shu will arrange it." Everything I did in Guangzhou was arranged for me by Miss Shu. ”

Lin Zhenhua called Schumann one by one Miss Shu, but Schumann didn't mean to be disgusted at all. In Chinese mainland at that time, the title of Miss was still very rare, and ordinary girls might feel offended if they heard this title. However, Schumann is engaged in foreign affairs, and in the past two years, he has received a lot of overseas guests, and he has been to Hong Kong twice on business, so he is very accustomed to the title of miss.

Lin Zhenhua asked Schumann to help hire a lawyer, which was also the result of an inspiration.

Lin Zhenhua thought very early that if his products wanted to enter the international market, the patent application link must not be bypassed, otherwise the five-blade fan carefully designed by Liu Xianghai for him may become someone else's product.

But in Chinese mainland at that time, it was not easy to apply for overseas patents. Lin Zhenhua had the intention of going to Hong Kong in person to handle matters related to patent applications, but after careful inquiry, he found that if he wanted to go to Hong Kong as an ordinary cadre, he would have to stamp hundreds of red stamps alone, and as long as any department in charge of first-level stamps thought that he was not qualified, then all the seals stamped in front would be invalid.

After thinking about it, Lin Zhenhua finally had to settle for the next best thing, and asked a lawyer from Hong Kong to come to Guangzhou to accept the commission. Lin Zhenhua can think of only one middleman, Schumann, who is in Guangzhou. The year before last, when Lin Zhenhua came to Guangzhou to pick up the MK800 machine tool, he had dealt with Schumann for a few days, and knew that this girl was more open-minded, had more contact with overseas people, and was able to keep her mouth shut, so she was really the best candidate to be a middleman.

In this way, Lin Zhenhua wrote a letter to Schumann, asking if she knew a lawyer in Hong Kong who handled the patent application and whether she could help him invite a lawyer to Guangzhou. Schumann replied, saying that he had the resources in this area and was willing to help contact. Lin Zhenhua immediately said that after the matter was completed, he could pay Schumann 100 yuan for labor services, and if there were other things in the future, he could continue to pay according to this standard. In this way, Schumann's positive surname increased dramatically.

Schumann was a fashionable female surname, and as a foreign affairs worker, she pursued a foreign lifestyle more than anyone else. She likes beautiful clothes, imported cosmetics, and imported home appliances. But none of this is what her salary can afford. She sometimes gets some tips from clients when she is doing foreign receptions, and although these tips are required to be handed over according to the regulations, she, like other colleagues, is often able to hide some as her own extra money.

The time she helped Spischer receive the Hanhua factory, Ford gave her a lot of money, which made her happy for a long time. This time, Lin Zhenhua asked her for help, she didn't expect Lin Zhenhua to pay her labor fees, who knew that Lin Zhenhua was paid 100 yuan for a mouth, which made Schumann recognize one point, that is, Lin Zhenhua is her lucky star, follow Lin Zhenhua to do things, all kinds of extra money will be endless.

The two men arrived at an ordinary restaurant in a car hired by Schumann. Schumann simply ordered two dishes and sat down with Lin Zhenhua to eat. Lin Zhenhua had already told her in advance that all these expenses for hiring a car and eating would be borne by Lin Zhenhua.

"Manager Lin, this lawyer Qian Yuanping, originally from the mainland, fled Hong Kong, and now he is a patent agent in Hong Kong, which can be regarded as a little famous. I inquired with several different Hong Kong businessmen, and they all reported that this Qian Yuanping had a good reputation and the fees were relatively reasonable. Schumann introduced to Lin Zhenhua while eating.

"Well, that's good." Lin Zhenhua nodded and said, "I found that you have a lot of talent as an office manager. ”

"Really?" Schumann blinked a pair of pretty eyes and said to Lin Zhenhua with a slightly provocative expression: "Can I think that Manager Lin wants to hire me as the manager of the Guangzhou office?" ”

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "If Miss Shu is willing to give up her current job, I am very interested in hiring Miss Shu." ”

Schumann smiled coquettishly and said, "Not yet, if I resign now, my family will have to scold me to death." However, my work is not too busy, and if Manager Lin needs someone to do something here, just ask me to do it. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Okay, I will definitely trouble Miss Shu often in the future." By the way, I asked you to help inquire about the specific details of the patent application, what did you gain from it? ”

Schumann said: "I asked some Hong Kong businessmen, and they told me a lot, and I sorted them out. Now I'm going to tell you about each of them. ”

Next, Schumann began to tell Lin Zhenhua about patent applications, some of which Lin Zhenhua vaguely knew, and some of which he was completely unfamiliar with. He could tell that Schumann was very attentive in this matter, and the problems he learned were also very comprehensive and detailed. He was still a little apprehensive about applying for a patent, but now after listening to this, he feels that he already has a plan in his heart.

After eating, Schumann first took Lin Zhenhua to the hotel to check in, and then took him to the department store to buy a new outfit. According to Schumann, a boss who talks about international patent applications should not dress sloppily like Lin Zhenhua.

Of course, Lin Zhenhua will not admit that he is sloppy, and when he was in Jiangnan Province, he felt that he was still dressed more fashionably. However, when Schumann took him around the department store and forced him to buy a set of casual clothes to dress himself up, Lin Zhenhua had to admit that the vision of the Guangzhou girl was indeed much more foreign than that of the Fenghua girl. The clothes that Yang Xin picked for him did not look as fashionable as the ones Schumann picked.

"Why don't you help me pick out a few more sets of clothes for girls." Lin Zhenhua pleaded with Schumann.

"Okay, did you pick it for your wife?" Schumann asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "It's not a wife yet, fiancée." By the way, I'll have to pick a few sets for my sister too. ”

"Manager Lin is such a good man." Schumann said sourly.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the two of them came to the tea house in the lobby of the Liuhua Hotel, which was the place where Schumann and lawyer Qian Yuanping agreed to meet. As soon as the two of them lit the tea, they saw a thin man in a suit trotting in from the outside with a handbag. He stood in the lobby and looked left and right for a while, and then walked straight to Lin Zhenhua's table.

"Miss Shu, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I lost too much time when I passed the customs." The man said to Schumann as he wiped the sweat from his head with a handkerchief. Without waiting for Schumann to answer, he turned to Lin Zhenhua again and said, "This should be Manager Lin, contemptible Qian Yuanping, fortunately." ”

Schumann hurriedly got up and beckoned Qian Yuanping to sit down, Lin Zhenhua stretched out his hand and shook Qian Yuanping's hand, and also introduced himself: "I am Lin Zhenhua, the manager of Hanhua Industrial Company in Jiangnan Province, and I am honored to have Mr. Qian help us with patent applications. ”

"This is as it should be, as it should be." Qian Yuanping said, he looked at Lin Zhenhua, and then sighed: "Mr. Lin is really young and promising, he became the manager of such a big enterprise at such a young age, and he is really promising." ”

"It's just a coincidence." Lin Zhenhua said perfunctorily. He did not let Schumann reveal the actual situation of Hanhua Company to Qian Yuanping, in Qian Yuanping's imagination, to be able to entrust a Hong Kong lawyer to do foreign patent applications, how can it be a large-scale company, maybe there are some very hard backgrounds.

"What is the situation of the product that Manager Lin wants to entrust to the contemptible person, can you introduce it?" After a few words of greeting, Qian Yuan went straight to the point. The lawyer's appearance fee is also calculated by the hour, and he doesn't have much time to do the housework.

Lin Zhenhua said: "The product we applied for is a new type of electric fan. The main technological innovation point is that it is a five-blade fan, and the shape of the blades is designed by our country's top experts themselves, which has the characteristics of energy saving, low noise, and soft feeling. According to what we have learned, there have been no similar products on the foreign market at present. ”

Qian Yuanping shook his head and said: "Whether there are similar products, it is not enough to look at the market alone, this has to be searched for patents." Sometimes, it may be that someone else has applied for a patent for a product, but it has not yet been put on the market. In this case, your patent application will also be invalid. ”

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "Lawyer Qian, don't worry, we also have these common senses." However, it is not convenient for us to conduct patent searches in the mainland, so these things also need to be handled by you. ”

Qian Yuanping said: "No problem, our agent does this, you just need to entrust this matter to us, and you don't need to worry about the rest." By the way, Mr. Lin, I want to explain that the person who does our job is not actually a lawyer, but a patent agent, which is not the same as what a lawyer does. As for lawyer Qian or something, it's just a name that everyone is used to. ”

(To be continued)