"Why don't you sleep at such a late hour?"

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, when Du Wenting woke up at night, she found that her husband Guo Tao was leaning against the bed frame and had not yet slept.

"Can't sleep...... Guo Tao sighed and said.

"Or is it a matter of loans?" Du Wenting couldn't help but ask.

Guo Tao nodded, stretched out his hand and subconsciously touched the bedside table next to the bed, but just stretched out and shrank back.

"Smoke if you want, I'm awake anyway."

Guo Tao thought about it and shook his head: "Forget it, if you don't smoke it, you won't be able to sleep if you smoke it again." ”

"Lao Guo, if the credit union doesn't work, find other banks."

"It's easier said than done." Guo Tao shook his head and said: "The factory is a private enterprise, not a state-owned enterprise or a collective factory, there is still a bit of a possibility on the credit cooperative's side, and other banks are very difficult, now that the private enterprise has no mortgage, who is willing to lend you?" Even if there is a mortgage, the credit union will not lend money for the time being, let alone other banks. ”

Du Wenting doesn't know much about these, after all, she is just a small salesperson. However, Guo Tao has been open for more than a year, and Du Wenting, as the proprietor, usually knows some information from Guo Tao. Hearing Guo Tao say this, she also felt that this matter was a bit tricky, but she couldn't help at all in this matter.

"Or, wait? Didn't you say that Mr. Cork had a good profit on his order? Make the order first, and then buy equipment to expand production when you have money later. ”

Guo Tao shook his head and said: "Some things are not so simple, logically speaking, you can operate in this way, but in fact, if you don't purchase equipment to expand production as soon as possible, if Mr. Cork's follow-up orders continue to increase, the factory will not be able to take it at all." ”

"Our factory is already small and our production capacity is limited. Retro products are different from ordinary products, which require high process requirements, plus some electroplating processes, at present, the factory can only be handed over to the cooperative factory to deal with, it doesn't matter if the order volume is not large, but the number of orders is large, and the process control over there can not be ensured, after all, it is not our own factory. ”

"In addition, there are some other links that are also like this, Cork is very strict with the requirements for products, if they can't meet their requirements, let alone cooperation in the future, there will be accidents if they don't get the next batch of orders. Once the other party refuses, according to the contract, it will have to compensate for the loss, and it will also lose the best development opportunity ....... ”

Guo Tao explained the dilemma he was facing to his wife, and Du Wenting only understood Guo Tao's difficulties after listening. Guo Tao's most important thing now is to purchase equipment and expand production, and at the same time ensure product quality on this basis, and to do this, the premise is that money is needed.

Although Guo Tao's factory makes money, because most of the previous orders are not profitable, in fact, there is not much working capital available in the factory.

Raw material procurement and other expenses require a lot of funds, plus when the factory was opened, Guo Tao had already borrowed a sum of money from the credit cooperative, the original loan was built with the second-hand equipment purchased by the family as collateral, this money has not been repaid until now, and now to take out a loan, where does Guo Tao have any collateral?

For a while, the atmosphere was a little silent, Du Wenting couldn't think of any way to comfort her husband, after a long time, Guo Tao sighed and said to Du Wenting, forget it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and it is useless to worry now, and the New Year will be in a few days, wait for the New Year to find a way, the time is not early, I have to go to work tomorrow, rest early.

When he woke up in the morning, Guo Tao had already left, his factory was in the suburbs, and it was a long distance from the city, so every time Guo Tao came back to live in the early morning, he would leave home and rush to the factory. Du Wenting's unit is close to home and she goes to work late, so Guo Tao was very careful when he left, for fear of waking Du Wenting.

When I woke up, I washed up and cleaned up, and I went downstairs to buy two fritters, and when I came back, the rice cooked in the pot was also good.

Ask the children to have breakfast together, breakfast is the most common fritters dipped in soy sauce in Huhai people, after breakfast, the child picked up the schoolbag and went to school, Du Wenting sent the child away, cleaned up at home, and went to work after finishing the time.

Because of the incident in the middle of the night last year, Du Wenting has her husband Guo Tao's frowning face in her mind all day today. My husband has been much busier and harder than before when he opened the factory. Over the past year or so, for the sake of the factory, Guo Tao has lost a lot of weight, watching the factory slowly get better, Du Wenting is both happy and distressed for her husband.

Now, her husband has encountered such a difficult thing, but Du Wenting can't help at all, and she feels very uncomfortable. Thinking of these, Du Wenting, who went to work today, was obviously not in a state, and miscalculated the amount of money twice when receiving customers, if it wasn't for the reminder of her partner's colleague, she almost made a big mistake.

"Wen Ting, are you uncomfortable? If you don't feel well, take a leave of absence and go back to rest, right? The little sister of the colleague asked with concern, Du Wenting usually works very neatly, and has never miscalculated the amount of money, but she made two mistakes in half a day from early this morning to noon, and seeing that she was obviously not in a high mood, she couldn't help but remind her.

"It's okay, I didn't sleep well last night, I'll just rest when I have lunch." Du Wenting reluctantly smiled and said to her colleagues.

"Don't be reluctant, go back and rest if you're not well."

"I'm really fine, it's the New Year soon, and the store is busy, if I leave, you won't be able to stand it alone." Du Wenting said to her colleagues.

The colleague thought about it and nodded, and then said that since I didn't sleep well, I didn't have to wait for a lunch break, or I should go and rest now, it happened that there were no customers in the store near noon, and it was no problem for her to hold it alone for a while.

Du Wenting thought about it and said thank you, and then went to the back of the store, and when she got there, Du Wenting took out her towel from the dressing room, washed her face with hot water, and obviously felt much better after washing her face.

I don't know how long it took, but there was a commotion at the back door, and then I saw a few gay men in the store carrying boxes of drinks to the warehouse.

This situation is very common in food stores, the front entrance of the food store is the façade, and the back is the warehouse, and the daily delivery car will not stop on the side of the storefront, but will come in from the back path, and then be manually unloaded and sent to the warehouse.

Usually, the delivery vehicles are tricycles, and generally speaking, there are only a few pieces of goods, and more than a dozen pieces are up to the sky. But the goods sent today seem to be much more than usual, watching a few male comrades move in one by one, and they didn't finish moving back and forth a few times, Du Wenting couldn't help but ask: "How do you buy so many goods?" ”

"Sister Du, you don't know, the company is engaged in promotional activities at the end of the year, and this drink sells very well, so the manager has bought a lot of 200 pieces this time. We'll talk later, I'll move the goods first, and half of the car hasn't been moved yet. A young gay man explained to Du Wenting, and then hurriedly ran out.

"I see...... Du Wenting thought so in her heart, she just turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly a thought crossed her mind, and her footsteps stopped subconsciously.

Her eyes fell on the goods that had been brought in, and she was stunned when she looked at the packaging and logo on the outside of the beverage crate, and after a moment she seemed to think of something, and walked quickly towards the second floor.

On the second floor, Du Wenting came directly to the manager's room and knocked on the door.

"Xiao Du, what's wrong?" Pushing open the door, the store manager who was writing something on the eucalyptus looked up and saw that it was Du Wenting, stopped his movements and asked.

"Manager, I'll borrow the phone." Du Wenting stretched out her hand to the phone on the side and said.

"You can use it." The manager nodded back, and then ignored Du Wenting and continued to write his information.

Du Wenting came to the telephone, first took out a half-palm-sized address book from her pocket, opened it and looked for it, then took off the microphone and listened, and after making sure that there was a dialing tone inside, she dialed the phone number on the address book.

After dialing, the phone was quickly connected, and the back rang three times, and the phone was picked up.

"Hello, is this Song Yuanchao's home?" It was the first time for Du Wenting to make this call, and she asked with some trepidation.

"Hello, this is Song Yuanchao's home, I am his lover, are you ......?" A nice female voice came from the phone.

"Hello, I'm Du Wenting, Song Yuanchao's classmate, I don't know if Song Yuanchao has mentioned ...... with you."

"Oh, it's Sister Du? I know you. Lin Yan said very affectionately on the other side of the phone, which made Du Wenting feel relieved.

The two chatted briefly, Lin Yan asked Du Wenting the purpose of calling today, and Du Wenting asked if Song Yuanchao was at home? She had something she wanted to discuss with Song Yuanchao, and in order to avoid Lin Yan misunderstanding, Du Wenting specially explained that it was about her husband Guo Tao.

"The aid dynasty is in Jinling now, but he will come back tomorrow, or you can come directly to our house tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? Is it appropriate? Du Wenting asked cautiously.

Lin Yan said with a smile: "It's suitable, why is it not suitable, Yuan Chao told me that I went to your house to drink tea last time, and I kept thinking about when I had time to invite you and my brother-in-law to come to the house to sit together." You and your brother-in-law will come back tomorrow morning and have a meal together at home. We haven't seen each other yet, but we'll see you tomorrow, and I don't know many people in Shanghai, so we can go out shopping together in the future. ”

"Okay, I'll come over at noon tomorrow, thank you Xiaolin, we'll see you tomorrow?"

"Okay, see ...... tomorrow."

Lin Yan told Du Wenting the address of her home on the phone, and the two ended the conversation after Du Wenting took the note.

When she hung up the phone, Du Wenting breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a lot, and then said hello to the manager and took a day off tomorrow before leaving.

The next day, after Du Wenting sent her children to school, she did housework at home for a while, and when it was about ...... time, Du Wenting washed up and changed her clothes, and went out on a bicycle.