Just when He Yuzhu and Xu Damao were secretly competing, the spring breeze of reform and opening up gradually blew.

Under Wang Chong's strong suggestion, the factory organized the first sales team, led by Wang Chong, and rushed to Shencheng to promote the range hood produced by the rolling mill.

As the forefront of reform and opening up, coupled with the cheap labor force in China at this time, and various preferential policies given by the local government, countless businessmen from Hong Kong Island and Nanyang came to Shencheng to invest and set up factories.

Once people have money in their pockets, they will naturally start to think about improving their lives and improving their quality of life, but Wang Chong's target is not these ordinary people who have taken root in Shencheng, but those Hong Kong businessmen who come to Shencheng to invest and build factories.

After half a month, with Wang Chong's incorruptible tongue and the help of the local government, the team led by Wang Chong successfully established relationships with several Hong Kong businessmen.

Nowadays, those who can invest in Shencheng are basically optimistic about the future development of China, and there are many of them who have a long-term vision.

Wang Chong's range hood is not the first generation, but under the leadership of Wang Chong, the second range hood just launched in the factory has not improved its performance too much, but it has put a lot of effort into appearance.

This trip to Shencheng took nearly a month of hard work, after seeing the prototype brought by Wang Zhong and others, several 2 interested Hong Kong businessmen followed Wang Zhong all the way to Beiping, to inspect the factory building of the rolling mill.

Although the growth line of the rolling mill is old, the production enthusiasm of the workers is very high, the technology is also very outstanding, and the things made are also very sophisticated, especially the management system of the rolling mill tends to be close to that of advanced enterprises, which made several Hong Kong businessmen who came to visit very surprised.

Although the system of the rolling mill has a plus, the old growth line and the almost obsolete machines have surprised several Hong Kong businessmen, but they are not too shocked.

What really prompted them to make a decision was the atmosphere and pursuit of the Red Star Rolling Mill, which was very different from the rest of the state-owned factories in China.

Moreover, the second-generation range hood launched by the Red Star Rolling Mill, in terms of performance, is not worse than the range hood that is prevalent on the market today, and even exceeds it in appearance.

After the visit, several Hong Kong businessmen expressed their willingness to sign a purchase contract for range hoods with the Red Star Rolling Mill.

The new director Liu was very excited, and immediately sent out the biggest weapon in his hand, Silly Zhu, and asked Silly Zhu to make a few dishes of Tan's dishes, and opened a few bottles of special Wuliangye, and directly poured a few Hong Kong businessmen down.

Director Liu led Wang Chong to personally send several manufacturers to the airport, but when he left, Wang Chong saw a person he hadn't seen for a long time at the airport gate.

"Lao Liu, I saw an old friend! Go over and say hello, you guys go back first! Wang Chong said hello to Director Liu, and walked straight towards the man.

When Director Liu saw Wang Chong walking to a middle-aged woman dressed in gorgeous and trendy clothes, he couldn't help but ask the secretary next to him curiously: "Who is that?" ”

The secretary shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"Old Nie! Do you know each other? Director Liu looked at the deputy factory chief Nie next to him.

Lao Nie squinted his eyes, looked at it for a while, frowned and said, "I don't know, but it looks a little familiar." ”

"You don't know each other?" Director Liu was a little surprised, Lao Nie was an old man in the factory, and he had been in the factory longer than Wang Chong, but he didn't even know Lao Nie.

"I guess it's not from our factory!"

"Although Deputy Director Wang is from Qilu, the university is in Beiping, and it is not uncommon for a few classmates and alumni to have it!"

"I was also surprised to see Deputy Director Wang just now, I guess it's an old friend I haven't seen for many years, and some of them have been recounted."

"Didn't Lao Wang tell us not to wait for him!"

"Let's go back first!"

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After a few conversations, they still decided to leave first, and at this time, Wang Chong, looking at Lou Xiao'e, who was already covered with powder and heavy makeup, took the initiative to say hello.

"Lou Xiao'e! No matter how you see your old neighbors, you don't say hello. ”

"Wang Zhong?" Looking at the old man who suddenly appeared in front of her, Lou Xiao'e was very surprised, and looked Wang Zhong up and down with a pair of eyes: "Why are you here?" ”

"Of course I'm giving someone here!" Wang Chongdao: "Recently, the factory has received orders from several Hong Kong businessmen, and I ····· with Lao Ren Lao Ren is the new director of our factory, and he came to see them off the plane together. ”

Lou Xiao'e nodded.

Wang Chong looked at Lou Xiao'e, who was dressed as a modern urban working woman, and asked, "You just got off the plane?" ”

Lou Xiao'e said: "I just came back from Shencheng. ”

"Just got back from the Deep City?" Wang Chongdao: "Doing business? ”

Lou Xiao'e nodded.

"This is not the place to talk, let's find a place to sit down and talk slowly?" Seeing Lou Xiao'e, Wang Chong's mind moved.

Lou Xiao'e didn't want to see the neighbors in the courtyard, but Wang Chong had always given him a good impression, hesitated, and finally didn't refuse: "It's okay!" ”

Wang Chong drove the old-fashioned military pickup truck in the factory, drove Lou Xiao'e, all the way to Quanjude, ordered a roast duck, a few vegetarian dishes, ate slowly with wine, and chatted.

Wang Zhong asked, "By the way, when did you come back from the northwest?" ”

Lou Xiao'e said: "Seven or eight years. ”

Wang Chongdao: "Why don't you go back to the courtyard to have a look?" I remember the deaf old lady thinking about you when she left! ”

Speaking of the deaf old lady, Lou Xiao'e's weather-covered face couldn't help but feel a little moved, with a little reminiscence of the past in her eyes.

"People can't be resurrected after death, what's the use of going!" Lou Xiao'e said this with emotion.

Wang Chong looked at Lou Xiao'e's face with a lot of vicissitudes, and couldn't help but sigh a little: "The years are unforgiving, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, and your changes are indeed a little big." ”

"You mean I look a lot older!" Lou Xiao'e said straight.

Wang Chongdao: "The northwest is a bitter cold place, the conditions are difficult, you are small and pampered, fine skin and tender meat, you have stayed in that place for ten years, if you still don't do anything like ten years ago, it will be a strange thing." ”

Wang Chong's tone was almost joking, which eased the atmosphere a little, and Lou Xiao'e stared at Wang Chong and said, "You haven't changed much, it's still the same as more than ten years ago." ”

Wang Chong stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Isn't this a change? ”

The atmosphere was a little more relaxed, and the awkwardness in Lou Xiao'e's heart completely disappeared.

After a few more pleasantries, Wang Chong got to the point: "By the way, I haven't asked you yet, what kind of big business are you doing in Shencheng?" ”

"What a big business, it's just that I opened a small factory with my brother to make hardware accessories."

Wang Zhong asked, "With your brother?" What about your father? ”

Lou Xiao'e's expression changed suddenly, and she lowered her head and ate: "Passed away!" Seventy-three years left, my dad was gone for less than two years, and my mom was gone! ”

Without waiting for Wang Chong to continue asking, Lou Xiao'e took the initiative to talk about family matters.

"Hey!" Wang Zhong sighed and comforted: "Mourn! ”

"It's okay, I've seen it a long time ago!" Lou Xiao'e raised her head and barely squeezed out a smile, but those eyes were a little dim.

"Don't just talk about me, talk about you!"

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "I'm okay, concentrate on technology, but avoid the limelight, a few years ago the factory had a big change, was advocated to be the deputy director, or the main technology, responsible for the factory's agricultural machinery and range hood project." ”

Lou Xiao'e was obviously not very interested in the things in the factory, and asked, "What about your daughter-in-law?" ”

"I gave birth to a son and a daughter, the eldest is a daughter, the baby you conceived when you left, the youngest son was born in seventy-seven years, as for the character, it is still the same as before, big grin, will not play tricks, and will say whatever you want in your heart."

"What are your daughters and sons called?"

"My daughter's name is Wang Xinyi, and my son's name is Wang Heng!"

"Xinyi?" Lou Xiao'e said: "It's like the name you took." ”

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When he met Lou Xiao'e, Wang Chong didn't tell anyone, his meeting with Lou Xiao'e was only limited to having a meal and catching up with the past, Wang Chong is not the kind of man whose upper body is controlled by the lower body, and he has not reached the point where he has to sleep when he sees one.

Besides, Lou Xiao'e looks average, and she has been in the northwest for more than ten years, and her skin and state can't compare with Qin Jingru, who has a leisurely and comfortable life, and she is clearly only in her thirties, but she looks like a middle-aged woman in her forties.

exchanged contact information with Lou Xiao'e, sent Lou Xiao'e home, and Wang Zhong drove back to the factory.

The encounter with Lou Xiao'e surprised Wang Chong, but for Wang Chong, it was just a small wave in his long life, and it would not roll up turbulent waves.

However, after that, there was a lot of contact between the two, and they often talked on the phone, and Wang Chong's understanding of the current situation and his excellent ability in management helped Lou Xiao'e a lot.

On this day, Wang Chong returned home, and as soon as he sat down at the dinner table, he saw Wang Xinyi coming back from outside with low spirits.

"What's going on?" Wang Zhong asked curiously.

Wang Xinyi looked lost: "Sister Huaihua is off the list!" ”

Wang Chongdao: "If you fall off the list, you will fall off the list, if you really want to go to college, you can take the exam again next year." ”

"It's that simple!" Wang Xinyi said: "It's not just about going to college, it's also about the family's house. ”

Wang Zhong asked, "House? Is it a stick or a small one? It should be the boy who is a terrier! ”

"Dad, how do you know before I say it?" Wang Xinyi looked at his father curiously.

Wang Chong smiled and rubbed Wang Xinyi's head and said, "Guess! ”

Wang Xinyi said: "Brother Stick Terrier talked about a girlfriend, I just took him to the house for a meal yesterday, and I broke up with Brother Stick Terrier today." ”

As soon as Wang Xinyi's words fell, there was a knock on the door outside, Wang Chong turned his head to look, and saw Jia Zhang standing at the door with a smile on his face.

"Aunt Jia, what's wrong with you?"

Jia Zhang squeezed out a smile and said with some apprehension: "Director Wang, can you take a step to speak?" ”

Wang Chong said to Wang Xinyi: "Do your homework!" ”

"Oh!" Wang Xinyi walked out of the hall with a flat mouth and went straight to her room in the inverted room.

"Aunt Jia, don't stand outside, come in and say something!"

Jia Zhangshi smiled again, walked into the house, walked to sit down opposite Wang Chong, and said, "Director Wang, my wife wants to ask you for something!" ”

"Say it!"

"Didn't my stick terrier talk about an object, and I brought it home yesterday, but the girl disliked our family's large population, the place was small, and the stick terrier didn't even have a proper room, and a large family was crammed into two rooms."

"Director Wang, no matter what the stick terrier says, I can call you a little uncle, can you help him!"

Wang Chongdao: "How do you want me to help?" ”

Jia Zhang said: "Isn't the room next to your Xinyi still empty!" Let's see if you can clean it up, for the time being, live in the stick terrier, and then move away when the stick terrier finds a place to stay, do you think it's okay? ”

"Fancy my storeroom?" Wang Zhong looked at Jia Zhang's with a bit of scrutiny in his eyes.

Jia Zhang's family was uncomfortable being beaten by Wang, but for the sake of his family's most beloved eldest grandson, the only male in the Jia family, he could only bite the bullet.

"Anyway, your storeroom is empty······

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wang Chong: "Aunt Jia, who told you that my storehouse is empty?" ”

"Isn't it?" Jia Zhang turned his head to look at the location of the inverted room.

Wang Chongdao: "Of course not, if you don't believe it, you can go and see for yourself!" ”

Jia Zhang walked out of the room in disbelief, walked to the window of the storeroom, covered his forehead with his hand, and looked at the situation in the room through the glass.

There are indeed a lot of things in the storeroom, but they are quite neatly arranged, and in the area against the south wall, there are a lot of things covered with oilcloth that I don't know what they are, which occupies most of the space in the room, and in the remaining small half of the space, there are also various tools such as yards for carpentry.

"I didn't think there were so many things last time?" Jia Zhang muttered to himself in confusion.

But Wang Chong's ears are notoriously sensitive, although it was just Jia Zhang's muttering, it still couldn't escape Wang Chong's ears.

"His little uncle! The stick terrier is also your nephew, so you should be kind and help him! Jia Zhang's family could only open his mouth to beg the king for weight.

Wang Zhong said: "It's okay if the stick terrier wants to live in the warehouse, but it can't live in vain!" ”

Jia Zhang was obviously stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What do you want?" ”

Wang Chong didn't do anything with Jia Zhang's family, and went straight to the point: "If you want to live, you can live, but you have to pay rent." ”

"Rent?" Jia Zhang asked reluctantly.

Wang Chongdao: "Today is different from the past, if the stick terrier is still a child, he wants to come and live, I have nothing to say, but now the stick terrier is an adult, and he has been working for several years, he has to know that there has never been a free lunch in this world." ”

Jia Zhang shook his lips and hesitated for a long time before asking, "How much rent do you want?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "Ten yuan a month, plus three pairs of cloth shoes made by your old man." ”

"Ten bucks?" Jia Zhang's face was bitter: "Can you have less?" ”

(End of chapter)