Back to 2006

Chapter 193
"Just a little business."

Yang Xingyu is habitually modest.

But Li Yongjun insisted on asking: "Oh, oh, what specific business is it?"

Yang Xingyu laughed, "Roast duck, just selling some roast duck."

Li Yongjun: "Roast duck? Oh, yes, you studied cooking. Selling roast duck can be regarded as your professional counterpart. It's good. It's really good."

Although he said it was good, Yang Xingyu could feel that Li Yongjun's enthusiasm dropped by about a third in an instant.

He can understand that most people in this world decide their attitude based on the career height of others.

It's just that Li Yongjun's acting skills were a bit poor and he didn't hide his true emotions well.

Yang Xingyu didn't care, nor was he disappointed, because he and Li Yongjun had always been casual friends. If Li Yongjun hadn't needed Li Yongjun's help in organizing a class reunion this time, he, Yang Xingyu, might not have thought of contacting his former monitor for the rest of his life.

After that, they talked about some details of the class reunion, such as who to invite?What is the time and place of the gathering? Besides eating and singing, are there any other arrangements?etc.

……

In the afternoon of that day, Yang Xingyu drove the company's accountant Jiang Jie with a bag of cash that he had taken out from the bank in advance. Starting from branch No. 1, he paid wages and bonuses to all the salespersons who were still at their posts one by one.

Yang Xingyu personally handed over every salary and bonus to the salesperson.

By the way, I would like to express my concern for the employees’ families and say a few words of wishing them a happy new year.

This was Yang Xingyu's previous habit.

Every year before the Chinese New Year, he is used to handing out the last salary and bonus to his employees, and adding a few family-friendly words to win over people's hearts.

This kind of thing seems complicated and annoying.

But it is a very good way to win people over.

Some employees who never resign may be because the employee feels that the boss is good, and that's it.

In addition to wages and bonuses, Yang Xingyu also brought a New Year gift to each salesperson today.

It's not a valuable item either.

Just some vacuum-packed roast duck, salted duck and soy sauce beef.

In order to prepare these New Year gifts, he specially purchased two vacuum packaging machines in advance.

If these vacuum-packed roast ducks are sold, the price will not be low.

But if he uses it to give to his employees, he only needs some cost money.

When employees receive such New Year gifts, they will also find them practical and bring them home with dignity. Who wouldn’t want to have more dishes during the New Year?
They work at Yang Kee Roast Duck. When they go home during the Chinese New Year, how nice would it be to bring some Yang Kee Roast Duck products for their families to try?

By the way, it can also play a role in publicity among their relatives and friends.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. According to Yang Xingyu's plan, after get off work tonight, everyone in the company can go home for the New Year's holiday.

He considered this decision for a long time and discussed it several times with his eldest cousin Fang Jiahui, Song Xiaoqiang, Cheng Baofa and others before finally making it.

He also thought that the earth would not explode and there would be no holidays during the New Year.

However, he, Fang Jiahui and others all felt that business during the Chinese New Year would be very slow.

Because there must be very few families who do not prepare enough dishes for the Chinese New Year.

As locals, they all know the traditional customs of the locals.

One of the customs is that before the New Year's Eve dinner, you must prepare enough dishes to last for half a month, because starting from the first day of the new year, some things in the house cannot be moved.

For example: water.

Before the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, you cannot go outside to collect water, so the water tank must be filled with clean water in advance.

There are some similar customs.

Therefore, local people are accustomed to preparing all kinds of food and drinks before the Chinese New Year.

Some elderly people will even cook all the dishes before the Lantern Festival and put them at home, eat some and heat them up, and just have a leisurely time.

Although times are different now, and some people prepare less food a year ago and want to eat fresh vegetables earlier, but generally before the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, there are still very few people who go out to buy vegetables.

Based on these considerations, Yang Xingyu decided to give everyone a six-day holiday during the Chinese New Year, starting from New Year's Eve, and everyone would return to work on the sixth day of the new year.

In order to win over people's hearts and try to ensure that these employees are still willing to come back to work after the holidays, he also announced a six-day holiday for the New Year. Everyone's salary will be calculated as usual. Not only that, there will be red envelopes for everyone on the first day of work after the new year.

He has never been a stubborn boss.

Rather than making a little money, he hopes that his company's old employees can be lost slowly and slowly.

This afternoon, Yang Xingyu not only paid wages and bonuses to employees, but also paid benefits to customers.

This afternoon, red paper notices were posted at all Yang Kee Roast Duck stores - all dishes are half price.

In fact, the real reason why he is willing to give such benefits to customers is that he wants to sell all the dishes in all branches before the holidays.

If he really can't sell out, he plans to distribute the rest to his employees as benefits.

Otherwise, when everyone comes back from the six-day holiday, will these vegetables still be sold?
Instead of wasting these dishes, it is better to take this opportunity to make the customers happy.

As long as customers are happy and come to take care of business a few more times in the future, they can make back their profits.

……

At around 9 o'clock that night, almost 10 o'clock, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan slowly drove into Zhongcun.

Zhongcun is a small village with only about [-] households, and the whole village is quite poor.Therefore, when the sound of the car engine startled the native dogs in the village to bark one after another, most people opened their doors and came out to watch the fun.

Maybe you are curious about which family in the village is prosperous?Can you actually afford a car?

The black Mercedes-Benz drove to the door of Zhong Xingfei's house at the end of the village and stopped.

Yang Xingyu unbuckled his seat belt and said to Zhong Xingfei in the passenger seat: "Get out of the car! I'll pick you up on the night of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and we'll go back to the city together."

Zhong Xingfei said oh and lowered his head to unbuckle his seat belt.

When he reached out to open the door and get out of the car, Yang Xingyu shouted: "Wait a minute."

"what?"

Zhong Xingfei looked at him in confusion.

Yang Xingyu didn't answer, he opened the armrest box, took out a red envelope, and threw it into Zhong Xingfei's arms.

"Here you go, Happy New Year!"

This red envelope was very thick, and the sound of just throwing it into Zhong Xingfei's arms was dull.

Zhong Xingfei was surprised and was stunned. He reached out and picked up the thick red envelope, turned to look at Yang Xingyu, and said hesitantly: "Daguo, is your red envelope too big? You have already given me living expenses, and you still have to pay for it." Teach me my craft, I heard that other people’s apprenticeships are unpaid.”

Yang Xingyu smiled, glanced at Uncle Zhong Xingfei who was walking towards him in his yard, and said casually: "Here you go, take it! What's the relationship between us? Are you being polite to me? Get out of the car! I'll help you move it." luggage."

With that said, he opened the door and got out of the car.

Zhong Xingfei lowered his head to open the red envelope and saw a thick stack of hundred-yuan bills inside, which he estimated might be five or six thousand.

In all his life, he has never seen so much money.

Since his parents divorced, five to six thousand was already a huge amount of money for him.

outside the car.

Grandpa Zhong Xingfei also came out unsteadily to see what was going on.

Seeing Zhong Xingfei and Yang Xingyu who had just gotten out of the car, the old man was surprised and happy. He warmly invited Yang Xingyu in for a cup of hot tea, but his cloudy old eyes kept looking at Yang Xingyu's Mercedes-Benz car.

For rural elders in this era, those who can drive a car are wealthy.

Just because of this car, the old man looked at Yang Xingyu differently from last time.

But Yang Xingyu was not interested in staying here.

There was no shortage of hot water in his car. After saying a few kind words, he said goodbye and left.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. It's so late now, and he wants to go home early.

Based on his understanding of his parents, the family must have been preparing all kinds of food a few days in advance.

For example, the peanut candies and sesame candies that my father makes every year, the tofu that he makes every New Year, and especially the dried tea made by my mother, which is very chewy in the mouth, he has never eaten it elsewhere. No, even at home, my mother only makes it once a year during the Chinese New Year.

Because this thing is very troublesome to make.

Not only do you need to make tofu first, but you also need to use plant ash to absorb a lot of the water on the tofu. After that, you need to dry it in the wind and sun for a few days until all the small tofu pieces have formed a dry and hard skin before adding star anise and cinnamon to the pot. Wait until the ingredients are cooked into dried tea.

However, even after so much effort has been put into it, the final dried tea may still be less delicious because of the high heat during cooking.

Even though his mother makes dried tea every Chinese New Year, she occasionally fails.

By the way, every Chinese New Year, his family also makes coriander, fermented bean curd, bacon, cured fish, etc.

Although Yang Xingyu could still eat these traditional things every year before his rebirth, the raw materials for making these things had changed at that time, and the taste was also far different.

Don’t talk about anything else, just bacon.

It is now 2006, and people in their village still use rice bran and wild vegetables to raise pigs every year, as before, and they are all local black pigs.

During the Chinese New Year, someone in the village must kill a pig.

At that time, the whole village will go there to buy meat.

The meat from this kind of big fat pig that has been fed for at least a year is delicious no matter how you cook it.

Even if you only add a little salt and cook the meat, it will taste delicious.

He remembered that when he was a child, there was no old ginger in the cooking at home.Chicken essence?MSG?

At that time, there were only four commonly used things for cooking.

The first is salt, the second is rapeseed oil, the third is soy sauce, and the fourth is cooked lard.

Nothing else.

All the dishes are very simple to make, but the pork cooked at that time was fresh and fragrant. When cooking rice, steaming a dozen slices of bacon at that time could kill half the local dogs in the village. Attract.

The bacon is sizzling and oily when you bite it in your mouth. After one bite, your mouth is filled with aroma.

But in a few years, no one in the village may feed such native pigs using traditional methods.

By then, all the white-haired pigs sold on the market will be the kind of white-haired pigs that can be slaughtered after three months of feeding. Even if you have money, it will be difficult to buy as good pork as before.

……

Under the night, Yang Xingyu's black Mercedes-Benz sped towards Yangjiaba.

In the car, he was smiling, with a nostalgic look in his eyes.

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