At the end of the year, it is the busiest season for businesses. Yang Xun issued a lot of shopping coupons, many units opened invoices for the purchase of stationery tens of thousands of thousands of cash to buy shopping coupons, Yang Xun also knew how to do, although the shopping coupons are not discounted, but take the initiative to buy shopping coupons in accordance with a certain proportion of the handler a few shopping coupons as a return gift, the handler is tacitly accepted, and some soon hold cash to buy. Coupled with the booming purchase and sales at the end of the year, it is rare for the mall to have a sales peak.

At this time, Yang Xun learned from the newspaper that a large foreign supermarket had opened in Beijing, and the supermarket was from France called Carrefour. Just as Yang Xun was thinking about whether to go to Beijing to take a look at it after a while, to see if it was the same as those supermarkets in Hong Kong, he learned from the "Xinmin Evening News" that Carrefour in Shanghai had also opened. Yang Xun did not hesitate, only waited for the New Year's Day sales peak to pass, and the Spring Festival peak had not yet arrived, so he immediately went straight to Shanghai with his luggage and led the market of the joint venture supermarket.

Because of his sister Yang Kui settling in Shanghai, the Yang family finally has a foothold in Shanghai. Yang Xun went straight to the house as soon as he got off the train in the afternoon, and he had to dispose of the big bags of luggage first. In the luggage, there were two expensive cashmere sweaters and scarves that my brother bought for my little sister, two brand suits and coats that my brother agreed agreed were suitable for white-collar beauties, and of course, there were also chocolates and coffee from foreign brands. The two elder brothers decided that the little sister was only so much that the salary was only enough for food and clothing, and the extra consumption still needed the help of the two elder brothers. But because Yang Xun said it first, he didn't give cash, only in kind.

When Yang Xun opened the door at three o'clock in the afternoon, he unexpectedly found that Yang Kui was at home at this time. Yang Xun immediately saw that Yang Kui's face was very unnatural, but he still asked with concern: "What's the matter, don't go to work if you ask for leave?" Not feeling well? ”

Yang Kui hesitated for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "I resigned and quit." ”

"What's going on? When was this? ”

"Before New Year's Day, I paid my salary and left."

"Then how are you going to live these days?" Yang Xun immediately went to the kitchen to look through it, and only saw a few packets of instant noodles, "What's the matter?" Tell me about it. ”

Yang Kui was a little reluctant, but he still said with a cocked mouth: "Aren't we not allotted this year, the company will look down on us, and the people who go in are not in a good position, some do the printing first, and some do the errands first, assign me to the reception, and tell me to do it until I resign." ”

"What's that sharp?"

"Reception is reception."

"There is always a Chinese name, Liang Sishen, that half-foreigner doesn't spit out English."

"You Liang Sishen Liang Sishen, reception is reception."

"What, you graduated from a major university and went to work as a receptionist? Isn't that underestimating people? Of course, Yang Xun knows what reception is, high-grade enterprises are surrounded by a large counter at the door, and a beautiful lady stands behind the counter. Yang Kui's company actually let it be half a year. Yang Xun was very angry, but then calmed down: "Didn't the few of you who recruited together have errands and prints, and they still do that?" ”

Yang Kui didn't squeak for a while, and after a while, he avoided his eyes and said stiffly: "Of course." ”

Yang Xun immediately found out that Yang Kui was lying. must have gotten out of the sea of suffering, and Yang Kui estimated that her personality was very impulsive, unwilling to compromise, and uneasy about the reception position, and was hated by the company's managers, so she was deliberately pressed in the reception position and did not give her a nest. Yang Xun didn't expose it, thinking that Yang Kui's resignation was already sad, he didn't make a mess, and changed the topic: "Let's go, I just opened a supermarket, it's called Carrefour, let's go buy something." You come with me. Don't pull a face, isn't there a talent market every week now, and it's easy to find a job. ”

Yang Kui didn't respond, but silently followed out the door, and after getting into the taxi, he refused to speak, as if Yang Xun still owed her. Yang Xun sat in front, watching the numbers on the meter fly, and his head was also flying thinking, whether to help his sister. If you don't give it, you will pay her so much, and it is estimated that her wallet has bottomed out now. But if Shi is used, it will be Yang Kui's stinky temper, even if Yang Kui finds the next job, how can he feel at ease. Now Yang Kui is in and out of the car at home, air conditioning Simmons, even if he brings a set of clothes today, it is also a set of thousands, such a cost, Yang Kui is facing a salary that is only worth the price of a coat, how can his mentality be good. Speaking of which, Yang Kui's refusal to work in a down-to-earth manner has a lot to do with his connivance.

In fact, it's easy for him to give Yang Kui a few thousand yuan a month now, but isn't that even more indulgent to Yang Kui? Yang Xun's heart hovered between hard and soft, unable to make a decision. He knew very well that if someone else talked about his own children, he would throw out the words in the morning and let the parents teach the children who had no prospects, but when it was his little sister's turn, he couldn't do it. It wasn't until he entered the crowded Carrefour that Yang Xun stopped thinking hard and pushed a shopping cart to start his observation.

Unlike last year's visit to Hong Kong supermarkets, this time he entered Carrefour, he is already a business system practitioner and already has a systematic understanding of the goods in the department store industry. At this time, in the face of familiar goods and familiar prices that he couldn't see, his feelings were completely different. He saw that the goods here basically covered food, clothing, housing and transportation, and as long as a family did not have high requirements, they could buy all the household items here. He saw that the prices of goods here were generally cheaper than those in his department store, but the choice of similar goods was greater, and the variety of goods could be described as dazzling. He saw that the shopping environment here was as convenient as that in Hong Kong, and no one was around to talk nonsense, and he was completely free to take what he didn't take. He also saw that the lights here were bright and the air conditioning was warm, and the salesman did not have a late face in the field. He also saw that the price is also automatically calculated, which is very convenient and fast, and at the end, plastic bags are sent for customers to take away. It's all the same as in Hong Kong. Therefore, Yang Xun saw that even if today is not a rest day, even if it is still working time, there is still a long queue in front of the supermarket cashier, and there are many more people shopping in it than in Hong Kong. He consumed more than 2,000 yuan at once, and the two people in front of him also consumed a lot.

Walking out of the supermarket, the northwest wind made his fiery head sober up, and he said to Yang Kui worriedly: "If such a store is opened in our city, my mall won't drink the northwest wind?" The shock here is definitely greater than that of Hong Kong's supermarkets, because Hong Kong's supermarkets are far away from the mainland, even if he goes to learn from the experience, he is only emotional, but Carrefour in Shanghai makes him see that there are many crises behind him.

Yang Kui walked around the supermarket, and the eldest brother bought her a lot of food for the family at once, and her mood immediately improved, and when she heard the words, she reacted quickly and said: "There is only one in Shanghai, and I don't know if I can go to a second-tier city in a few years." But if you really want to open such a store next to it, at least half of the goods in the mall will be out of sales. ”

Yang Xun nodded, he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally waited for a taxi in the dark, stuffed the trunk and back seat with the things he bought, and then he said: "When Liang Sishen told me about supermarkets before, I thought that things in that kind of bright, beautiful and air-conditioned places must be expensive, and I also told her that according to the domestic economic level, there will be no need for supermarkets for at least ten years." I didn't expect it...... It's been less than five years, and I'm not prepared at all. ”

Yang Kui, who was sitting in the back, couldn't help but look at the face of the eldest brother in front of her, and in the dim light, she saw that the eldest brother's eyes were straight and he was worried. "Don't worry, didn't you say it, Shanghai has just started, you still have a few years to prepare, it's enough, it's too late to build one yourself."

"It's easy to make your own, but how can I afford to stock up on so many goods? That's a lot of liquidity. Yang Xun doesn't know what Carrefour's business model is, he estimates that it is similar to the small supermarket on the fourth floor of his shopping mall, "Only foreigners have that money, no wonder it was opened by the French." ”

Yang Xun was worried, but he also saw a glimmer of hope in his heart, "Fortunately, the general price of Carrefour is still more expensive than those stalls in my market, of course people like me go to the supermarket, but the salary is less than 1,000, and when I see a penny cheap, of course, I go to the market first." How can Carrefour's operating expenses be compared with the market, it's good, it can't be compared. "The shopping mall is in danger, but the market can be saved, and Yang Xun finally let go of a little bit of his heart.

Back in the community, the sky was already dark, and the exhaust hoods of every household spewed out a strong aroma of vegetables, which was stirred by the strong wind between the buildings, which made the Yang brothers and sisters feel even more hungry and cold. Yang Xun asked Yang Kui to guard downstairs, and he carried things up to the sixth floor one by one. Yang Kui was blown by the cold wind of January, and a one-hand-long coat couldn't keep out the cold at all, so he just hoped that the eldest brother would come and go quickly and finish packing up his things. Yang Xun ran down from the sixth floor several times, and the people were so tired that their legs and feet were shaking, and the coat on their bodies had already been thrown off. When he came down on his last trip, he simply packed up all the things on the ground into his hands, and Yang Kui didn't need to carry anything. But when Yang Kui was about to go upstairs with two hands empty, Yang Xun stopped her.

"Fourth, go make a few calls and ask Liang Sishen for the specific address of his unit. I went up to cook rice and stir-fry. Yang Xun took out a piece of fifty yuan and handed it to Yang Kui, "If the phone bill is not enough, come back and ask me to take it, if you can't use it, you will be counted if you can't use it." ”

Yang Xun thought that he could go upstairs after speaking. Unexpectedly, Yang Kui took the money and didn't put it in his pocket, but followed Yang Xun upstairs. "It's too cold, go home and use your phone, isn't it possible to roam now?"

Yang Xun walked up with everything alone, panting breathlessly: "Mobile phone call charges plus roaming charges, how much do you get in a minute, and how much is your public phone in a minute?" Go and go back. ”

"Big brother, how do you settle the account, you give me fifty yuan, even if the call plus roaming, it is enough to call for twenty or thirty minutes, what is the difference between a mobile phone call and a public phone call? The temperature is close to zero today, and you want to freeze me to death? Besides, even if I use 114 to find out Liang Sishen's unit number, it is now more than seven o'clock, and it is time to get off work, where can I find someone to ask for the address? ”

Yang Xun looked at Xiaomei with difficulty from behind the rice bag he was carrying on his shoulder, and he realized more about the root cause of Xiaomei's resignation. He walked in the door and unloaded the goods, grabbed the fifty yuan that Yang Kui was still holding in his hand as if he was laughing, and said solemnly: "Your work attitude is very problematic." I'll tell you. First, I give you fifty dollars, and you don't use all of them, although for me it is the same as fifty dollars, but for you, there is income. The same effect, but if you spend 50 yuan with your mobile phone, all the money will go into the hands of Telecom, and I still spend 50 yuan, but you can't get a dollar. Do you think money is that easy to make? Second, if you say that you have worked in a foreign-funded enterprise, then you should know that their senior management often has to talk to foreign people who have just started work at night before they can get off work, and only when can you say that you can leave work on time. It's okay if you're not in your position and don't seek politics, but you can't not know what the people above are doing, and you still think that you are saying that people have already left work at seven o'clock, and you are guilty of not understanding and self-righteousness; Third, you are ignorant and lazy. After working for half a year, I didn't even understand the most basic working methods, but I refused to try. 114 Asking the phone number is the first step, no one is waiting to answer your question behind the phone number asked, that's a matter of course, but you won't continue to call if the last two digits of the phone number change slightly? The phone number of the serial number is basically in one area, and you can basically ask for eight or nine if you call a few more; Fourth, it is a matter of your work attitude. I carry so many things upstairs and downstairs, don't you say help carry it together, you can make a phone call to help me always do it, right? I've already asked you, on such a cold day, I wouldn't ask you if I didn't have anything important, but you are still picking fat and thin, and you work in the same company? People pay more than 1,000 a month for you to let you pick fat and thin? Think about it for me, are you not using your brains when you work? Work, not home, no one is obligated to like you. I'll go down and call, and if I ask for the address, I won't come up to eat, you eat first. ”

Yang Xun said so much, and patiently analyzed Yang Kui's mistakes in detail, but Yang Kui was not convinced at all, when he opened the door and was about to go out, Yang Kui said in the back: "Even if you are in a hurry, you have to pay attention to ways and means, in case people don't go to work, all your phone bills will not be in vain." In case you ......"

Yang Xun didn't expect that he would say it in such detail, Yang Kui could come so many in case, he was too lazy to listen, and he didn't have time to listen, so he hurriedly closed the door and locked Yang Kui's 10,000 in case. Yang Xun has always boasted that as long as he is looking for something, there is nothing that he can't find. In fact, he already knew the phone number and address of Liang Sishen's office, he just wanted to test how capable Yang Kui was, and he was very dissatisfied with the test results, thinking that if a college student like Yang Kui came to him, he would fire her first without waiting for Yang Kui to resign. At this time, Yang Xun had already decided in his heart that he would go back and buy fifty catties of rice and some sausages and fruits for Yang Kui, but he would never give Yang Kui money. He had already seen that Yang Kui's problem was completely a bad mentality. He wanted to watch, if Yang Kui couldn't change it on the first anniversary of his graduation, he had to admit it and provide for his little sister in the future.

Since the new computer, Liang Sishen has received a lot more information from abroad every day, so that she no longer feels in an information vacuum. She asked her classmates and friends to send her emails often, and her own company's information transmission was much more convenient, but the network speed was very slow, and the secretary needed to collect and save the disks every day. But when she has free time, her old friends on the other side of the ocean are the busiest in the morning, and she can't always meet them in the chat room.

After reading it, clean up and get off work. At this time, she was already pot-bellied, but the domestic maternity clothes were too delicate, she had to put on a men's down jacket to pass this short period, she took the elevator straight down to the underground parking lot, the elevator door opened, but saw Yang Xun outside with a slightly dazed look. But when Yang Xun saw her, he immediately turned into a smile. It's just that this smiling face is full of surprise, and Yang Xun is surprised that Liang Sishen, who is tall and thin in his impression, will become like this, even his always beautiful face is a little puffy. He said to himself that it was no wonder that she couldn't find her big car in the parking lot, and now it was inconvenient to get on and off that big car.

Liang Sishen was very annoyed that Yang Xun's ghost was still coming to the door again, which obviously showed that she was easy to talk, but Yang Xun didn't dare to find Song Yunhui. But when she saw that Yang Xun, who was so flexible, she was stunned and couldn't speak, so she had to take the initiative to say hello: "Are you in Shanghai?" Looking for someone here? ”

Yang Xun finally retracted his surprise and hurriedly said: "I'm looking for you, Happy New Year, there is a restaurant not far from the door, I want to invite you to dinner." ”

"I'm tired and want to go home early, is there anything wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I came to see you, I haven't seen you for half a year. I'll take you home, and I'll drive for you. ”

"Thanks, I'm okay."

Yang Xun heard that Liang Sishen had been politely rejecting him, and he had to bite the bullet and say, "Let me help you open it once." I've been busy with shopping malls recently, and I haven't been free to come to Shanghai, this time I heard that there are foreign-funded supermarkets in Shanghai, so I came to take a look, and I want to find someone to say after reading a belly, so I came here to try my luck, oops, you changed cars? ”

Of course, Liang Sishen didn't give up the driver's seat, but said while opening the door: "I also heard about the supermarket, it's very good, thank you for coming to see me......"

"You can't do it wrong once." Yang Xun heard that Liang Sishen was not enthusiastic about talking, and sighed in his heart.

Liang Sishen smiled when he heard this: "I'm sorry, my physical strength doesn't allow it now, I usually go back early, please don't mention the past, it's all benevolent." ”

Yang Xun nodded, and said a little against his will: "You get in the car, it's cold outside." Goodbye, I'll go to the East China Sea in the future, and I'll be there whenever I call. ”

Liang Sishen got into the car, looked at Yang Xun outside, felt a little unbearable, reached out to open the door of the co-pilot, and let Yang Xun in. "I'll take you to the hotel."

Yang Xun jumped into the car almost happily and said happily: "I'll send you, and I'll take a taxi home when I turn around." My little sister graduated and was in Shanghai, I bought her a house in Shanghai, and now I don't have to live in a hotel in Shanghai, just live in Yang Kui. The little guy resigned last month, didn't tell me, today I went to find out that the house is clear and cold, only a few packs of instant noodles, I didn't go through her wallet, I don't know how many dollars there are in the wallet. I criticized her for her wrong work attitude, but she was a dead duck with a hard mouth, and the reasons were more than mine. Alas, four years ago, when I was about the same time as I was talking to you about Yang Kui, you told me not to give more money, but I didn't do it, I raised her, and she is now high-eyed and low-handed. Alas, what to do, I'm sorry mom. ”

Liang Sishen originally thought that Yang Xun would tell her what she thought after seeing the Carrefour supermarket, just like before, and discussed with her about building a building materials market, building a four-star hotel, building a European street and shopping mall, her eyes were full of longing, and her belly was full of ideas. I didn't expect that as soon as I came up, I was a short parent, and I was as anxious as every parent who hated iron and steel. She couldn't help but wonder: "Then what are you going to do with her?" ”

"I don't know, I'll prepare enough firewood, rice, oil, and salt for her tomorrow for two or three months, and she can't go hungry. I see, if she can get out of the room in half a year, let her continue to stay in Shanghai, and after half a year, there will still be no last meal, I don't expect her, and she will be tied up and tied home to stare at the training. When Yang Xun spoke, he looked at Liang Sishen from time to time, and saw that she had been listening and laughing, and it was estimated that she was laughing at his idea, so she had to laugh too, "No way, the fourth brother thinks I am uneducated and refuses to listen to me, and he doesn't recognize my reason." ”

Liang Sishen said that this brother is doing a good job. "You're already very good at talking, and the dead can say alive."

"Where am I, where am I, hehe. I...... I...... Anyway, I'm sorry for you, I don't talk much now, let alone a few words, hehe. ”

Liang Sishen smiled and changed the subject: "In 19951, the regulation was so tight, you did a good job. ”

"When we got together in the second half of the year, we were already discussing, that is, to give approval, we didn't dare to go on it for the time being, the interest rate is so high, but ...... I heard that there are people jumping off the building in the north and south of the sea. I'm under a lot of pressure right now, and I sleep at night thinking about the bank interest that the inventory in the mall eats every day, and my heart feels like meat. If I see a supermarket like that again today, if there is one on the edge of my mall, I will jump down from the fifth floor. You look at it, soon, the supermarket will pass in less than three years. In the past, KFC was only available in Beijing and Shanghai, and I went to Shanghai to go to KFC for a meal, and now there are two of them all over the country, and we already have two there, and one is still mine. You see, as long as it's good, it will soon bloom everywhere. I looked at the supermarket today and thought, what does it sell, from today onwards, all of it will be withdrawn from my mall, and I will never dare to repeat it with the supermarket. I'm going to have to get ready today, tweak the layout little by little, and I'll be too late if the wolf comes. I can't compare the prices with the supermarket, some of them are lower than my purchase price, and I don't know how they can sell them at this price. I don't know if I don't take over this shopping mall, but I don't know that the water is too deep when I take over. ”

Liang Sishen listened to the truth, but only smiled and said: "I am also strange that you were willing to take over the right to operate the mall last summer, it is not your usual style." ”

"I regret it, too, but even if time goes back, I still have to take it. Put it in their hands, and they create a loss for me every year. Rather than losing money in vain, it's better to lose it yourself, at least to the bottom of your heart. It's none of your business, it's all my own business. ”

Liang Sishen didn't want to mention the cause and effect of the mall, so he had to change his head again, but fortunately, Jinyunli was very close and arrived soon. "I'm here, I'm not going to invite you in for tea today."

Yang Xun looked at this unfamiliar environment and said curiously: "Aren't you living in a villa?" ”

"It's convenient here, close to work. Well, there's a reluctant request, please don't come to this place. ”

Yang Xun thought that Liang Sishen didn't like him to appear here like he appeared under her office building today, so he had to say stupidly: "Okay, I'll call you in the future, okay?" ”

Liang Sishen had to simply take out a business card and hand it to him, which was considered sincere. There is no mobile phone number on her business card, and she doesn't want to be called every day, but she doesn't make it clear, so Yang Xun doesn't talk to herself, it's actually because of Dai Jiaofeng. With Yang Xun being able to find out where she works just by the name of one of her work units, as long as Yang Xun has a heart, can he still find out where Dai Jiaofeng is going? She better not cause trouble.

Yang watched Liang Sishen drive into the big copper gate, and couldn't help but walk around the wall of such a large courtyard. Some of the walls were connected to the other houses, and he could not pinpoint the size, but there was no doubt that the yard was deep, no smaller than the courtyard of his home in the mountains. He didn't know that this house belonged to Liang Sishen's grandfather, and said that Liang Sishen would really make money. But when he thought that Liang Sishen, who was so good at making money, was now tight-lipped about him and would never help him again, he regretted it very much in his heart. However, can he force people's mouths?

Yang Xun only took a taxi to the nearest subway entrance and transferred to the subway to return to Yang Kui's house. He thought about it all the way, and when he walked out of the subway, Yang Xun basically had made up his mind, about the shopping mall, about Yang Kui. When he walked out of the supermarket, he still had nowhere to say anything, but when he met Liang Sishen, he didn't ask for anything, but it was like completing a religious ceremony, and all he needed now was action. He didn't even think about it, he didn't have to bother waiting for Liang Sishen downstairs for so long just now, there was no need to be so tortuous and troublesome, in fact, he had already made up his mind when he walked out of the supermarket, so it was okay not to say it. He may just be perpetuating the inertia of asking for advice beforehand.