Chapter 20 Negotiations
Since receiving Huo Yujue's potted plants, Xiang Wanqing's mood has returned to the state before the "Chaos Stick Tribulation", she feels that she is full of energy, and after continuing to take the medicine for two days, her body has completely healed, and she began to study medical books and learn medical skills more diligently than before.
Sometimes, when she was tired of reading, she would come to the potted plant, pick up a watering can to water it, or loosen the soil with a small shovel, and sometimes catch one or two small insects from its branches and leaves.
And this pot of hydrangea seems to have some kind of magic, as soon as Xiang Wanqing thinks of its flower language: hope and longing, she feels that her body is like being injected with vitality, a hundred times more energetic, full of motivation.
In fact, Huo Yujue's original intention of sending Wanqing Hydrangea was not to let her seize the time and devote more energy to studying medicine to treat her second brother, or that he had no hope for Huo Yujin's illness at all, although he loved him very much, he respected reality more.
And he just wanted to make Xiang Wanqing's life in the Huo family better through the vigorous vitality, vitality and vitality of flowers and plants, as well as the flower language of hydrangeas, that kind of beautiful artistic conception and wishes.
Let her still have a faint hope and longing in her heart when she guards her stupid husband and this painful and hopeless marriage every day, and it will not be so painful and uncomfortable.
Huo Yujue's idea is good, and Xiang Wanqing has indeed become much happier because of this pot of hydrangeas, maybe this is enough.
After appeasing Xiang Wanqing, Huo Yujue came to the old lady's room, he wanted to continue to "negotiate" with her, and fight for his studies and ideals that he had been taken away from because of her order.
At this time, the old lady was lying on the rocking chair in the room smoking a cigarette belt, her eyes were closed, her body was shaking with the rocking chair shaking, white smoke rings were spit out of her mouth, and Wu's mother was holding a fan to help her fan lightly.
Seeing Huo Yujue open the curtain and come in, Wu's mother didn't speak, she was afraid of waking up the old lady, so she asked Huo Yujue with her eyes what she was doing.
Huo Yujue nodded to Wu's mother, looked at her mother, and signaled that she had something to say to her.
Mother Wu leaned down at this time, approached the old lady and whispered in her ear, "Old lady, the third young master is here." ”
The old lady waved her hand at Wu's mother, and Wu's mother respectfully retreated.
There were only two people left in the room, Huo Yujue and the old lady, Huo Yujue tried his best to make his voice sound calm, and said: "Mother, I went to the factory today, and the dispute between the workers yesterday has been resolved. ”
"Oh? How did you solve it? Let's hear it. The old lady opened her eyes and took the cigarette pouch out of her mouth, she glanced at Huo Yujue, and didn't seem to believe what he said.
"I promised that as long as everyone can ensure that the monthly shipments are stable and of high quality, they will be given a salary increase, and they will also improve the food, but if they can't do it, my promise will also be canceled, and I also announced that I will dismiss some employees with poor working ability and attitude as appropriate, in short, I tell you that in the future factory, the salary of employees is directly linked to their work performance, and there are no other conditions to talk about."
Huo Yujue's attitude towards his mother was respectful, but there was only respect on his face, and there was no other expression.
"Well, that's right," the old lady nodded: "In this way, those who are lazy and stupid but just want to get paid by pulling connections through the back door have nothing to say, they are all distant relatives who don't work and want to take money for nothing, and they should have been treated like this a long time ago." ”
Huo Yujue said again:
"Two days ago, I also went to the silk village, extended the lunch break in the village by half an hour, and the afternoon work time was postponed, and it was about to be summer, so that everyone could improve their work efficiency in the afternoon after resting at noon, and I also set a bonus system, that is, at the end of each month, a certain amount of bonus was given to employees who performed well to comfort, I think, in this way, everyone will compete to work hard."
"Well, okay...... Very good. The old lady put the cigarette pouch aside and got up from the rocking chair, she walked up to Huo Yujue and looked at him intently, "Yujue, why didn't my mother find out that you had such a talent for management before?" ”
The old lady's eyes lit up, as if she had just met her son.
But Huo Yujue was not happy because of his mother's praise, he didn't even have a trace of laugh lines on his face, I saw his eyes facing down, and his tone was still very flat:
"Mom, now that the contradictions in the factory have been resolved, the business of the silk village is also running normally, and the family affairs have come to an end, the second brother and the second sister-in-law ...... It seems that they are getting along quite well, I heard that the second sister-in-law is still actively trying to find a way to treat the second brother, and the sister-in-law's side, I think she has also learned a lesson, and she should be restrained in the future. ”
At this time, he raised his eyes and looked at his mother: "Now that there is nothing to do at home and outside, I think I should also be in Beiping." ”
In fact, Huo Yujue's heart had already flown back to Beiping, flew back to the high-spirited campus, classroom, and flew to his beloved teachers and like-minded classmates.
Seeing that the smile on the old lady's face slowly dissipated, she slowly exhaled and withdrew the gaze she had poured on Huo Yujue.
Then she turned around and went back to the rocking chair and lay down, picked up the cigarette pouch and continued smoking, and the rocking chair began to shake rhythmically again.
Huo Yujue knew that his mother didn't want him to go, but he couldn't be silent any longer, he had to fight for himself.
"Mom, what the hell are you ...... What does it mean, you might as well say it to your son. ”
"Okay, when you grow up, your wings are stiff, and you dare to talk back to your mother, don't you?" The old lady sat up instantly, her face was slightly sad, and she stared at Huo Yujue and said.
"I didn't." Huo Yujue was still expressionless.
Mother Wu immediately came over, helped the old lady gently pat her chest to smooth the air, and then picked up the cigarette paste and re-lit a cigarette bubble for her, the old lady took a sharp puff, spit out a big smoke ring, and after a while, she said:
"Okay, I'll let you go when the time is right, at present, the factory and the silk village have just been restructured by you, and I don't know what the follow-up effect will be, will the workers obey? Will our earnings increase? All of this remains to be seen, so you will have to supervise it for a while, and I will not force you to keep it until it is stable. ”
After saying this, she put the cigarette pouch in Wu's mother's hand, folded her hands in front of her, closed her eyes and stopped talking.
"Third Young Master, the old lady is going to take a lunch break, please come back to the Third Young Master." Wu Ma said.
Huo Yujue exhaled and walked out.
Coming outside, Huo Yujue looked up at the sky, and at this time, there happened to be a few geese flying through the sky, and he sighed: "The geese can still fly freely, am I not even as good as a wild goose?" ”
But immediately he laughed, he knew that the situation was only temporary, and that it would not be long before he could spread his wings like this wild goose, he said to himself.
After that, Huo Yujue came to the factory, and as his mother said, the new system was formulated by him, and he also needed to supervise the implementation.
After coming to the factory again, Huo Yujue found that the workers who had made trouble before had changed their previous appearance and began to work seriously, and the workshop was in full swing to work hard.
After all, employees work to earn money, and as long as their wages can increase and their food can be improved, there is no reason why they should not work hard.
However, not all workers have such changes, Huo Yujue saw that there are still a few people who not only do not work, but run around in the factory, and some actually sleep in some corners, or sit on the ground to drink and chat.
After observing for two more days, Huo Yujue instructed Xinming to settle their wages directly and dismissed them if there was still no improvement.
The factory was arranged, Huo Yujue came to the silk village again, because the silk village increased the lunch break, the employees no longer took a nap when they went to work in the afternoon, I saw that their mental state was very good, and in order to get the month-end bonus, everyone was working hard, and the enthusiasm for work was very high.
In order to better supervise the work of the silk village, Huo Yujue simply lived there, during which he held a morning meeting for employees every morning, and would pay attention to the account books every night when he got off work, and he found that after a period of time, the production and sales of his silk had really increased significantly.
However, although the restructuring and supervision work this time are going smoothly, Huo Yujue also knows that it is not so easy to manage the two enterprises of the Huo family well, after all, he has only been in charge for so many days, and many difficulties and emergencies may not have been encountered by him, but his mother has been managing it like this for many years, and it is indeed not easy to think about her.
No matter how strong her mother is, she is still a woman after all, her father died early, she has supported this huge family business alone for so many years, and she has no other right-hand man by her side except Uncle Li, and now she is getting older and older, so it is understandable that she wants to let herself stay and help her.
Although Huo Yujue is cold-faced every time he talks to his mother, in fact, he is still very considerate of her in his heart, after all, it is his mother, although he also has grievances against her, but he often comforts himself, no mother in this world will not love her children, maybe his mother's actions back then also had her last resort.
Huo Yujue decided to run the factory and the silk village well, and then hand them over to her mother when they were more stable and perfect in all aspects, so that she could save a lot of effort, and then she could leave with more confidence.