Liu Lingya stood aside and watched all this quietly. She found that she could not understand Ye Chen at all. Fortunately, she was too lazy to care and went back to the kitchen to start clearing the dishes.
Ye Chen hung up the phone and looked at the time. It was only after seven o'clock. He immediately picked up the newspaper and called a random newspaper office.
He had to let everyone in the city know that the Red Star Leather Factory could no longer pay wages.
"Hello?"
There was an impatient voice on the phone because it was almost time to get off work.
"Hello, I want to buy one of your layouts."
“Buying space?
Hello, may I ask where you want to buy one?"
When the other party heard that business was coming, he immediately became energetic.
"Just the front page."
"Okay, okay, did you edit the content yourself or did we edit it for you?"
"The content of your writing is probably that the Red Star Leather Factory owes workers wages and is on the verge of bankruptcy. The more exaggerated the writing style, the better."
"ah?
This...sir, this is not good. When the people from Red Star come to complain to us, it will be difficult to solve it, and we may be involved in a lawsuit."
"The author writes my name, Ye Chen. If someone from Red Star calls you, just contact me directly."
"Sir, I'm really sorry. The impact of this kind of news is too great, and it's difficult for us to..."
"I'll pay double."
"Sir, it's hard for us to say no."
When Ye Chen heard this, a dark line appeared on his face. This person had no bottom line than himself.
In the next few minutes, the two parties discussed the specifics of the article and Ye Chen's request that it must appear in tomorrow's morning paper.
After hanging up the phone, Ye Chen called several small newspapers. Using the same method, he bought the front pages of their morning newspapers, afternoon newspapers and evening newspapers. The contents were the same, and they all told the people in the city that Red Star
The leather factory is in arrears with wages and is about to go bankrupt.
Of course, these newspapers require cash payment, so Ye Chen must go out again now.
Thinking about it, Ye Chen put on his coat and shouted towards the kitchen: "Lingya, I'm going out for a while, you don't have to wait for me, I'll be back after doing some errands."
After saying that, he left without looking back.
By the time Liu Lingya came out, the door was already closed.
"Mom, where is dad going?
It’s getting dark.”
Jingjing asked curiously.
Liu Lingya grabbed her apron and responded with a complaint: "I don't know, I don't even know if that's your dad."
…
At around nine o'clock, it was already dark. There was heavy snowfall in the sky. The moisture in the air seemed to have condensed into ice. A cold wind blew by, making people shiver.
Ye Chen was walking on the road with his hands clasped in his hands. He was as cold as a grandson. He had already given away all the newspaper money, a total of more than 3,000 yuan, and he still had about 2,000 yuan in his clothes.
At this point, in a small city like this, buses and other services have long been suspended, not to mention it's snowing so heavily outside.
So Ye Chen could only walk home. When passing by a small alley, an aunt wearing a large cotton-padded jacket stood in front of the alley entrance and yelled at him: "Young man, do you want to stay in the hotel?"
Ye Chen used the weak light to look at the hotel inside. It was red and flashy, and it looked unseemly. "I don't want to stay here. I have a home."
"Look at what you said, who is homeless?
But it’s warm here!”
The aunt said, leaning towards Ye Chen's ear: "We have a little girl here to warm the bed. You can go in quietly, I guarantee you will like it!"
When Ye Chen heard this, he was immediately stunned. In this cold weather, is there anyone else doing this?
In this small city where heating is not yet widely available, why shouldn’t you freeze your butt?
"How about it?
Come in and have a look?"
The aunt looked at Ye Chen in a daze and thought it was because of her heartbeat.
"No no no!"
Ye Chen quickly refused, then turned and left.
After just two steps, he heard the aunt start shouting to another person again. The man's natural curiosity made him turn around.
A young man wearing a coat and carrying a small leather bag was quietly listening to the aunt's story. He seemed to really want to find a hotel to stay.
“Young man, come on, it’s such a cold weather, you look like an outsider?
We are the only hotel around here, where else can we stay?
We also have warm blankets here!”
The aunt said with a smile.
When the young man heard this, his heart suddenly moved.
It was his first time on a business trip to this small northern city, and as a result, he, a southerner who had never seen snow, almost froze to death.
Now that I've found a hotel and there's talk of heating, I think I might as well stay here.
"Okay, Auntie, how do you calculate the price?"
"Two dollars a night! Everything else is calculated separately!"
The aunt was overjoyed and then led the young man inside.
Standing not far away, Ye Chen's eyes turned green. The more he looked at the young man, the more familiar he felt. Only then did he realize, wasn't it Xu Hong?
The once famous general manager of Daliyuan Group!
Dali Garden Food, which later became popular in China, was founded in 1989, but it was not called Dali Garden at that time.
Although Dali Garden was founded in 1989, it really started to become popular across the country around 2000. At that time, Orion, a company from the kimchi country, launched a food called egg yolk pie in China. Its novel appearance and foreign name immediately made it popular in China.
It got heated up.
Daliyuan saw the right opportunity and imitated everything from the packaging to the interior, achieving 80% quality at one third of the price, and immediately beat Orion to the point where her own mother didn't even recognize it.
After tasting the sweetness, Dali Garden was out of control. Later, it became the king of copycats in the food industry, the light of domestic products in the copycat world, and a ruthless plagiarism machine. Dali Foods has been plagiarizing and has never been sued.
, and it all starts with that egg yolk pie.
The person who proposed the idea of egg yolk pie and later expanded the market crazily was founder Xu Shihui’s right-hand man, Xu Hong!
It's just that after this person became famous, he just chose to take the money and leave, so not many people know him.
Ye Chen didn't expect such a talent to appear in front of him like this!
The current Dali Garden has not yet been established. Maybe Xu Hong is still an unemployed vagrant?
I'm going to build a factory in the future anyway. I already have financial management, but I'm still short of a general manager. Isn't this just coming to my door?
Thinking of this, Ye Chen rubbed his hands happily, turned around and walked towards the alley, wanting to ask Xu Hong which room he lived in.
The aunt who had just led Xu Hong in came over again. Seeing Ye Chen coming back, she asked doubtfully: "What are you?"
"Find someone."
Ye Chen said honestly.
"Find someone?
Just find someone! Take a look, we have a lot of little girls here!"
With that said, the aunt was about to pull Ye Chen inside.
Ye Chen hurriedly pulled her hand away, "I'll look for you."
After hearing this, the aunt's face suddenly changed. She took two steps back and looked at Ye Chen warily, "I'm so old, please don't joke with me!"