"My dad's." Qian Zhuang said, seemingly a little surprised by Chu Xi's words, as if he hesitated, and added, "If it's convenient, let's go out and find a place to talk." ”

Colleagues came in one after another, and it was no longer suitable to talk about the next topic, not to mention that there were cameras in the public areas of the office and conference rooms, and even the recordings could be called up if they had the heart.

Chu Xi understood that her guess was correct, but in fact, she just mentioned it casually just now. I didn't expect "a word becomes a prophecy".

The two walked out of the office one after the other and took the elevator to the underground parking lot. When I got out of the elevator, someone happened to enter the elevator next to me, and the elevator door was slowly closing.

Qian Zhuang paused, glanced at it, and the figure in the elevator stood in the corner of the most button, unable to see the face. He turned his head to Chu Xi and said, "The person who went in just now feels very familiar." ”

When she passed the elevator, she smelled a crisp smell of perfume, very fresh, very feminine. Chu Xi is not sensitive to smells, and he can only distinguish a few familiar perfumes. She searched around her memory, and no colleague should have used this type of taste.

Chu Xi joked: "Could it be an ex-girlfriend of yours?" ”

Qian Zhuang shook his head, and the two got into his car, and he thought: "I'm not familiar with this neighborhood, do you think there is a place to sit?" ”

Before nine o'clock, the tea room has not yet opened, and it is not necessary to find a bubble tea shop or a star father. Chu Xi proposed: "Can you go to your father and your uncle's company for a while?" ”

If there is a real opportunity to cooperate, on-site visits are inevitable.

Qian Zhuang took out his mobile phone and was about to make a call, Chu Xi guessed that he was going to inform his father or uncle, and she signaled him not to call.

"What's wrong?" Qian Zhuang asked suspiciously.

"I haven't prepared anything now, so you should bring your classmates here for a casual visit today." In fact, Chu Xi was really curious in his heart.

Cheng Xu has introduced before that Yongjin and Yongjun are two leisure products companies operated by the two brothers, which can be regarded as the leading enterprises in this industry. The products of the two companies are basically the same, but they flow to different markets.

Their development has led to the growth of supporting enterprises, after these years of development, this region has a complete upstream and downstream industrial chain of products, forming a benign industrial cluster development model.

Driving into the factory area of Yongjin, the security guard saw that it was Qian Zhuang, shouted "Xiao Qian Zong" and let him go. Chu Xi teased: "Little ~ Mr. Qian ~"

Qian Zhuang was embarrassed, Chu Xi didn't joke with him anymore, and pressed down the window to look around. Rows of standard steel structure workshops, with reasonable layout, and the roar of machines in your ears.

The car drove around the factory area towards another door, and Qian Zhuang said: "This is the production workshop, and there is the staff dormitory and office building. ”

Chu Xi pointed to a big stone at the door, on which was engraved the word Yongjin, and asked, "This is your father's name?" ”

Qian Zhuang nodded: "Tuba, my uncle and my father started their business almost in the same year." They say that many large foreign companies use their own names, and they follow suit. ”

"But they did do it, even I, a layman, know that Yongjin and Yongjun have done a great job." Chu Xi's eyes were crooked.

They parked the car downstairs in the office area, and Qian Zhuang took her around, and began to say: "Our family started to engage in this industry in the early nineties, and it is one of the earliest enterprises in China. ”

On the way here, Chu Xi also did a little homework.

China's exports of outdoor leisure furniture account for almost one-third of the world's scale, of which the market demand in the United States is the largest, followed by Europe. Despite this, there is still a big gap between domestic enterprises and foreign high-end brands in terms of design capabilities and brand building.

Because domestic manufacturers are basically OEM production, and the market influence of most of their own brand products is not large, our country's outdoor furniture manufacturers are still at the end of the entire industry chain and do not have strong bargaining power.

Qian Zhuang said: "Outdoor furniture is also divided into three categories, basically three categories, permanently fixed, movable and portable. Before, they mainly produced the latter two, about five or six years ago, my uncle changed his thinking, invested a lot of money and equipment, and began to produce large-scale fixed outdoor furniture.

But the results of this experiment were not ideal. Plus after compensating for two companies in the past few years... The amount of financing also began to increase at that time, and after the financial pressure increased, some of it was transferred to my father's company. That's it. ”

After the two finished chatting, Chu Xi didn't ask Qian Zhuang to send her back, and took a taxi directly to the subway station and then took the car back.

The July sun was so hot that I couldn't even open my eyes.

Chu Xi paced slowly, thinking about it, like Yongjin and Yongjun are still leading enterprises in the industry, and there are countless small enterprises that are not large-scale.

Originally, there was still room for a small economy to survive in a small place. But now the economy is common, the world is one family, big fish eat small fish, small fish can only eat shrimp, and even more may not even eat shrimp.

The overall efficiency seems to induce more imbalance in the industry, because the ability of the strong will be magnified many, many times over. Probably that's why we need to enlarge large and small barriers in the tank to protect the small fry.

And every technological innovation is similar to opening a barrier, and each time a barrier is removed, it is not the fish that is happy, but the fisherman.

A large part of the reason why people feel tired is because the barriers are being removed. But what is even more paradoxical is that the people who are locked up are not very happy.

So once the zoo's cage is opened, each animal needs to find its own "ecological niche" in the ecosystem right away.

Enterprises need to find their own positioning. Human beings, too, need to find their own reason to exist in this world.

A few years ago, Chu Xi was very firm in her choice, but recently, she often had a very strange feeling, establishing beliefs over and over again, overturning and denying them over and over again.

She thoughtfully got on the subway, but she thought that she would have to change trains to go to the bank, but she could go straight home. It was almost noon, and she went straight to the station at home.

With an empty stomach, she bought vegetables, cheese and bread at the supermarket she passed on her way home. Cut the bread into small pieces and put it in the oven, wash the vegetables, tear the buffalo cheese into small pieces, mix the vinaigrette yourself, pick a few fresh basil leaves on the balcony, just mix them, and eat these in the summer is really simple and appetizing.

Anyway, she is also a person who has lived abroad for seven or eight years, and her basic life skills still can't be left behind.

Although her stomach is still Chinese, she does not reject food from other countries. She has always been in awe of food.

Although Liang Jingcheng sometimes complains jokingly, saying that she can't eat the food she cooks, she is in a good mood and is also very capable. She also cooked a whole table of French and Italian food for her husband at home.

Chu Xi gestured at lunch, took a photo and sent it to her husband, telling him to eat well. After waiting for more than ten minutes and not seeing Liang Jingcheng reply, she knew that her husband must be busy, and in the face of the dialog box between the two, she was dissatisfied with the palm of her hand and made a few mobile phone strokes left and right, and brought the bowl back to the kitchen.

The dishwasher at home is what she insists on installing, and it is also one of the most frequently used appliances in the house. She often works with her friends and colleagues Amway under the slogan of reducing family conflicts by 90 percent.

Although she didn't use many tools, she still stuffed them all, pressed the start button, and lay on the sofa with her phone to take a break.

When the word mother-in-law appeared on the phone screen, she really wanted to turn the ringtone to silent and wait until it was over. Probably this is the first time she has taken the initiative to contact herself after the last time she broke up after a discordant meal.

"Hey, Mom." She still pressed the answer button, "What's the matter?" ”

"Xiaoxi, what is the password of your house, I can't get in every time you change the lock, and I'm in trouble." Her voice sounded like a double in her ears, and Chu Xi realized that she was already at the door.

Frowning, trying to adjust her mood, she opened the door directly to let her in. "Mom, on such a hot day, I'll pour you a glass of water."

Jiang Meixian hadn't walked in yet, she had already seen the cushions on the sofa and the towel blanket spread out, and she knew that Chu Xi had the habit of taking a nap. She changed her slippers, shook her hand, and walked directly into the kitchen: "You sleep with yours, don't worry about me." ”

Chu Xi sneered, but how can I sleep like this?

The mother-in-law came leisurely: "Xiaoxi, how much time can it take to wash a few dishes, I see that your dishwasher consumes water and electricity." ”

Chu Xi didn't want to respond, closed his eyes tightly and pretended to be asleep.

The mother-in-law walked around the house, and the sound of slippers came and went, and she finally couldn't help it and got up to find her mother-in-law.

"You're just in time, give me a hand, take off the duvet covers, and I'll take them home and wash them." The mother-in-law stood in their room, busy with her hands and feet.

"Mom, I want to talk to you." Chu Xi made up his mind and said, "Actually, Jingcheng should have mentioned this before, we will arrange the hygiene and housework, every time you come to clean so hard, we don't want to go." ”

"That kid in Jingcheng, he's never done housework, how can he understand." Jiang Meixian didn't stop, folded the removed quilt cover neatly, and wanted to go into the cloakroom to get the cover clean, "Anyway, I'm retired, so it's not in the way." ”

Jingcheng has been living in school since he went to junior high school, and after graduating from college, he also rented a house by himself, and he has taken good care of himself for more than ten years. Mom, I mean, I have my own life with Jingcheng, and you should be at ease with us. ”

"It's not a conflict, you live yours, and I don't live here." The mother-in-law said, "Even if you live, it will be after you give birth." ”

Speaking of the child, the mother-in-law also came up: "Xiaoxi, you are really not young, you will be thirty years old soon, and if you don't give birth again, you will be an elderly mother, and your physical fitness is poor and the recovery is slow, you have to leave a little time for the second child." If you want to go through this trip, it's better to be born early and get rid early, and ah..."

Chu Xi felt aggrieved and helpless, her eyes were blurred, but she didn't want her mother-in-law to see it, so she turned around and went into the bathroom.