Chapter 775 Marrying a Wife and Forgetting Mother (5000/1.5W)
In the evening, after dinner, Xia Zekai played games with Yatou and Tongtong for a while to consume some of the excess calories from the dinner. They were both tired and clamored to go to bed. Only then did Luo Xiyun wash the two sisters and let them go.
They both went to bed first.
Xia Zekai cleaned up the toy room that was full of chickens and feathers after the two girls had wreaked havoc on the floor. After he finished cleaning up, Luo Xiyun also tucked them in and came out.
Xia Zekai was just thinking about going to rest. When he saw his wife coming out again, he was puzzled: "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"Zekai, sit down and let's talk." Luo Xiyun said.
"What's wrong?"
Luo Xiyun said: "Didn't you tell me when you came back in the afternoon that you wanted to buy a lot of shops? I think this is very good."
"Yeah, I thought it was something. Manager Zhang mentioned it. If he hadn't said it, I would have ignored it." Xia Zekai said.
He said: "I fell into a blind spot before and forgot about this matter. In fact, I should have started preparing for this matter long ago. It is not expensive to buy it now, but it will cost a lot more."
"Why do I feel like you're getting a little advantage by being good?" Luo Xiyun turned his head and suddenly didn't want to talk to him anymore, he was easily irritated.
Xia Zekai laughed "haha" for a while and said: "After we buy the store, we will let Capita Home Decoration work hard on the renovation. Wherever we buy it, we will open a new store."
"Jingtong Baby offline direct-operated stores need to develop rapidly so that they can quickly distribute goods in the future. Once the construction of this self-owned channel is completed, it will also play a vital role for the company."
"How much do you plan to spend exactly?"
Xia Zekai thought for a while and said: "As of last month, the company's idle funds were 1.5 billion. I plan to use 1 billion for this plan, and the remaining 500 million will be reserved as backup working capital.
There will be a lot of cash flow flowing in, so we will act accordingly when the time comes."
Speaking of this, Xia Zekai was particularly excited. He said: "Daughter-in-law, you know, a big advantage of this online sales and the company's current direct chain stores is the development of channel terminals such as supermarkets and maternity and baby stores.
It’s incomparable.”
"What's the benefit?" Luo Xiyun's curiosity was aroused, and she wanted to find out.
Then I heard Xia Zekai say: "Cash settlement!"
Xia Zekai's tone increased by three points unconsciously. He said: "Whether it is the online 'Jingtong Baby' store or the current 'Jingtong Baby' chain direct-operated store, all settlements are in cash, unlike channel terminals.
The settlement cycle there is 45 days, and the payment is too slow.”
When Luo Xiyun heard what he said, he added: "I remember you told me before that the settlement cycle at the channel terminal is two months. Why is it still half a month missing now?"
Xia Zekai smiled and said: "This is what our company strives for. After all, the products developed by Jingtong, whether it is Rongdou or Pocky, are very popular, and the channel terminals are not willing to let this go.
Interests."
One word "interest" explains everything. In the final analysis, it is all about money. When making money, everything is easy to discuss.
The couple chatted intermittently until almost eleven o'clock in the evening. It was quiet outside, and Xia Zekai said again: "It's getting late, let's go and have a rest."
"Well, okay!" Luo Xiyun stood up and walked towards the bedroom.
Xia Zekai looked at his wife in the back, wearing a suspender nightgown, and the light flickered vaguely. Suddenly, a strange feeling came over her, but his wife was not feeling well today, and she was all sick!
No matter how brainless Xia Zekai was, he still had a bottom line. He directly suppressed the throbbing in his heart.
I went to the bathroom, washed my face with cold water, drowned out the throbbing in my heart, and went to sleep.
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The next morning, during normal exercise time, Xia Zekai had not yet woken up. Tongtong could no longer wait and slapped him twice on the face: "Dad, it's time to go for a run."
"What time is it?" Xia Zekai was still rubbing his eyes. He was aroused last night, but there was no way to solve it. It was really uncomfortable to sleep.
Tongtong shouted: "I don't know what time it is, but I can't sleep anyway."
"..." Xia Zekai was extremely speechless.
Other people's girls are all warm-hearted little cotton-padded jackets, but when they came to his place, they became drafty little cotton-padded jackets, and the whooshing cold wind blew in.
With no other choice, Xia Zekai got up and took Tongtong downstairs to exercise.
He was also thinking about taking some time to go to the villa area to see how the decoration was going. Once the decoration was completed and all the furniture and appliances were in place, he would be ready to move there.
It will also be convenient to exercise at that time.
When it’s hot, run in the yard, and when it’s cold, use the equipment in your room to exercise. Perfect!
After running 10 laps with ease, Xia Zekai was not sleepy at all and was very energetic.
He said to Cui Xiaofeng behind him: "Xiao Cui, I feel that my whole body is full of strength now. With my pace of 5 minutes and 13 seconds, there is absolutely no problem for me to participate in a marathon now."
Unexpectedly, Cui Xiaofeng replied directly to him: "Haha, this is not necessarily the case."
"How do you say that?" Xia Zekai wondered.
Cui Xiaofeng said: "Don't you dare sign up."
"Haha!" Xia Zekai was choked. He thought that you really didn't want to do it anymore and you dared to tease me in front of me.
After finishing breakfast, Xia Zekai bought one for his wife, and then took over the task of sending their two daughters to kindergarten.
The office space of 'Kaiyun Investment' has almost been renovated. Luo Xiyun wants to take a look today and arrange a formal opening ceremony.
Although the company is not large in scale, it is well-equipped and has high ambitions.
Luo Xiyun is no joke, she does it seriously as her own career.
On the way to the company, Xia Zekai remembered something and dialed Yang Tiande's number.
"Brother Xia, it's not a good idea to have a drink with me at this point." Yang Tiande teased him.
Xia Zekai also laughed: "Brother Qi, I have something to tell you."
Hearing this tone, it was business, Yang Tiande said: "Tell me what it is."
"Starting from this month, I plan to buy some shops, which will be distributed in 17 cities in Jidong Province. I am thinking that it is better to leave the decoration work to our 'Capita Home Decoration'. You have to worry more." Xia Zekai told him.
said.
Yang Tiande was stunned. He then realized and asked: "Brother Xia, how many shops do you want to buy?"
"I plan to spend 1 billion to buy shops. At this stage, the prices of shops in Jidong Province, except for Jicheng and Qingcheng, are not too expensive. A shop of about 100 square meters can be purchased for less than 1 million.
Done."
"Well! If the operation is done well, the stability will exceed 1,000." Xia Zekai said in an understatement.
But Yang Tiande was frightened when he heard this.
Thousands of shops, what are you trying to do?
Yang Tiande has reason to believe that if this matter is exposed, it will even directly trigger a wave of price increases in shops in the short term.
"Brother Xia, this workload is not small. Capita Home Decoration cannot guarantee that every shop will be decorated in time." Yang Tiande told the truth.
Capita Home Decoration is very good now, but even if the decoration of shops is not complicated, they do not have the strength to decorate thousands of shops in a short period of time.
First of all, the serious shortage of personnel is a major problem.
"Well, I have also considered this. I think this is not a problem. The skilled workers from CapitaLand Home Decoration can take the lead and temporarily recruit local decoration workers according to a unified template to work together. If a few people are responsible for a city
, 17 prefectures and cities are actually easy to allocate." Xia Zekai said.
The main reason is that the decoration of the shop does not need to be so exquisite, as long as it is not very rough.
Yang Tiande said "hmm" and said, "Okay, if that's the case, then I'll have confidence again."
"Since Brother Xia has put this business on the company's side, I will definitely arrange a professional team to handle this matter beautifully for Brother Xia."
The profits of this wave of renovated single-room shops may not be that high, but the number of renovations cannot be tolerated. Even the small profits are still a very objective figure when the number is in the thousands.
"Little brother, when do you start working, please call me in advance." Yang Tiande said.
This matter is settled.
After hanging up the phone, he was almost at the company. Seeing the eight gilded characters of 'Jingtong Development Co., Ltd.' not far away shining in the sun, he felt filled with a sense of accomplishment.
After arriving at the office, I had just boiled water and made a pot of tea. Before I could drink the tea, Guo Ying came over.
This time she took the initiative to find Xia Zekai for a job transfer. She wanted to join the 'Property Asset Management Department' that Xia Zekai was just about to establish.
When Xia Zekai heard her request, he was stunned for a while and then asked: "Manager Guo, has something happened? You are doing well in the sales department, why do you suddenly need to be transferred?"
Guo Ying shook her head: "Boss, don't get me wrong, nothing happened. I also told Manager Zhang about my application for transfer. I just want to break through myself."
"Furthermore, these properties are difficult to operate and are very important to the company. They need someone to track them. I hope I can help the company solve problems at critical moments," Guo Ying said.
She said: "There is Manager Zhang in the sales department, and there are supervisors in each division. In fact, it's the same with or without me."
At this point, she paused for a moment, biting her lower lip with her teeth and thinking for a while before saying, "I want to go further as soon as possible."
"But you should be able to imagine that this department doesn't have much space. It's not like the sales department that can give you a higher ceiling."
"But it's very, very important to the company, isn't it?" Guo Ying said.
Xia Zekai had nothing to say. He finally said: "You go to the property asset management department to report. At the same time, the management of the 'Jingtong Baby' offline direct chain store will be separated from the sales department and you will continue to be responsible."
This means that online, channel and current sales are separated.
But this direct management would be better, which is also a question that Xia Zekai has been thinking about.
The previous offline Jingtong Baby direct-operated chain stores have fallen into a passive state and are dispensable.
However, if the current "Jingtong Baby" direct-operated chain store has the support of nearly a thousand stores, it will not be able to match it online or in channel terminals, and this will be a major focus of the company in the future.
If this was considered in advance, who would dare to say that Guo Ying was stupid?
Xia Zekai personally called Wang Yewei and asked him to announce the company's latest appointment.
Sales manager Zhang San even came to bless Guo Ying in person.
Guo Ying discussed this matter with him yesterday.
He has also realized this. Guo Ying has always been responsible for the work of the sales department and the daily management of offline direct chain stores.
He was initially responsible for the online store of 'Jingtong Baby'. As the 'Jingtong Baby' Taobao store became more and more successful, it gradually covered the management of offline and channel terminals. But for Zhang San, management
It was not easy. At this time, he realized the importance of 'specialization'.
His personal energy is limited and he cannot take care of these three things at all.
Zhang San is also considering developing other platforms, such as JD.com, which has recently liberalized its ‘third-party operations’.
As a senior programmer, Zhang San even considered building his own platform to get rid of the constraints of the framework and profit sharing brought by Taobao and the upcoming JD.com.
It is difficult to build a new shopping platform, but once you do it, it will be very popular in the long run. This makes Zhang San hesitate to tell his boss about his idea of building his own platform.
Just in line with that sentence, as the platform gets bigger and bigger, everyone's thoughts are no longer the atmosphere of simply twisting into a rope and working hard in one place. People will inevitably appear.
Various thoughts of 'I can do it too, how do I want to develop'.
However, after three years of verification, Guo Ying's level can still be trusted by Xia Zekai.
From this day on, Jingtong Development Co., Ltd. officially added a new 'Property Asset Management Department' based on the original department. Guo Ying served as the first department manager of this new department. This time she really
He has become a senior management talent with the same status as Wang Yewei, Zhang San, Sun Guoqiang and others, instead of attending manager-level meetings based on his "merit".
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The eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the tenth day of April in the solar calendar.
After Liu Chunhua planted peanuts during the Qingming Festival, she came to Qicheng alone, while her husband stayed at home to look after the house.
She thought that there were only ten days left for her son to get married, so why would she, a biological mother, come over to help him with some work?
She came here by long-distance bus from Yicheng.
Normally it only takes 2 hours to drive there, but taking a long-distance bus with stops and starts, it took almost 5 hours, which made the bus full of people lose their temper at all.
After finally getting off the bus at Qicheng Bus Station, Liu Chunhua called her son first and thought about staying with her son for two days to see what kind of work she could do for him.
But after she got through the phone call to her son Luo Xincheng, the boy suddenly said: "Mom, there's nothing going on here. I'm still at work at this time. There's a company-wide employee meeting this afternoon. I'm still
It’s hard to ask for leave if you want to go up to receive the award, so why don’t you go to my sister’s place first.”
Okay, just kick them out.
My son is quite busy. He earns several thousand yuan a month and has no time at all.
Liu Chunhua didn't want to go immediately. She thought about calling her daughter.
After the call was connected, Luo Xiyun heard that her mother had arrived at Qicheng Bus Station. She immediately called Liu Chunhua on her mobile phone: "Mom, you can find a chair to rest in the waiting hall of the bus station. I'll be there right away."
After putting her cell phone in her bag and putting it away, Liu Chunhua thought about her son's bearish behavior when she called her just now, and then thought about her daughter's attitude. She felt very awkward and didn't want to help her son.
"You bastard, when you have a wife, you forget about your mother. You can go do your own work." Liu Chunhua muttered with an unhappy face.
But I still can't let go.
A Porsche Paramira ran from the city towards the Qicheng Passenger Transport Center. After arriving here, it entered through the west gate.
Luo Xiyun looked around in the car for a while, but didn't see her mother, so she quickly made a phone call.
A few minutes later, Liu Chunhua came out of the waiting hall. She saw her daughter's car at a glance and walked over quickly.
Luo Xiyun drove the car forward. When she walked to her mother, she unbuckled her seat belt, leaned over and opened the car door: "Mom, come up quickly. I'll take you home first."
"Why did you come so fast?" Liu Chunhua asked her.
Luo Xiyun said: "I haven't had much to do recently, so I just set up a company and started working slowly. When you called me, I happened to be at the company. There are few cars at this time, so I came directly."
"Mom, fasten your seat belt, I'm driving." As Luo Xiyun spoke, he had already shifted into D gear, lightly stepped on the accelerator, and Paramira slowly drove forward.
"Mom, what time did you take the bus? Why did you arrive at this time?" Luo Xiyun asked her.
It's almost noon.
Luo Xiyun has not taken long-distance buses for several years, and she really doesn’t know what the situation is like with long-distance buses now.
Liu Chunhua said: "I got in the car after six o'clock. I thought I could run faster, but I didn't know that I was dragging my feet on the road. It was too slow."
"Then you haven't had breakfast yet. Oh, why are you so anxious? Okay, I'll take you to a place to have some food first." Luo Xiyun felt extremely distressed.
She thought her mother was in a hurry to come over to see her and left so early, but she didn't know that her own mother was in a hurry to come over to help her son.
Liu Chunhua looked at her daughter's anxious look, and she was embarrassed to tell her her original plan.
Liu Chunhua was not used to dishes with chili peppers, so Luo Xiyun took her to a branch of Si Si Si Xi and ordered several representative dishes of Bo Cai.
The taste is focused, but there is no chili, and the dessert is also good.
In contrast, Liu Chunhua was so moved that she almost shed tears while eating.
Luo Xiyun thought that these dishes were not to her mother's taste, so she quickly said: 'Mom, tell me which dish is not delicious, and we can order it again.'
"No, I'm fine." Liu Chunhua said.
Don’t want to say more!
Luo Xiyun was a little suspicious, as her mother's attitude was a bit wrong, but her mother didn't want to say anything, and she didn't press her. She thought about chatting with her mother more in the evening, and then making excuses.
After the couple finished eating, Luo Xiyun called her husband Xia Zekai and said, "Zekai, my mother is here."
