Time seems to fly very fast in the first month of the year. It¡¯s the seventh day of the Lunar New Year in a blink of an eye. The Spring Festival holiday is over and all units are back to work. Dongchuan in 2009 was a slow inland city, and its pace was always a few beats slower than the calendar. When the talent market in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen is once again crowded with job seekers and the city is noisy again, it still remains in the festive atmosphere and refuses to wake up. The attendance rate of various enterprises and institutions is also pitifully low. Talking about business or getting approval documents will probably have to wait until after the Lantern Festival before we can get anything substantial. Those units where all employees arrive on time on the first day of work are outliers. For example, if you are in a distribution company specializing in Amway products in a residential building on the street, all the employees come to work at eight o'clock. They are all in good spirits, and coupled with the outer packaging of cheap suits and leather shoes sold on the street, There is also a bit of a business elite attitude. The dashing manager was lecturing on success: "Discipline and execution are the guarantee of success. Any successful company must have a person who is good at collaboration, diligent thinking, loves to learn, creative and enterprising. On the first day of work after the Spring Festival, I am very satisfied with your performance The advertising company opposite is a typical example. They usually have weekends every week and never work overtime. They can work hard until 5 p.m. It¡¯s clean, and it doesn¡¯t look like an excellent team with discipline and execution. I dare say that more than half of them will be absent this morning!¡± The employees laughed in amusement. Despite its small size, the Qilu Advertising Company opposite has quite a lot of beauties. Many people here are trying to recruit them to work together in the health industry that benefits mankind in the 21st century. Maybe they can also solve their personal problems. . It¡¯s a pity that Qilu¡¯s employees are so stubborn that no one can pull them over. One time, a manager who reached the Jade level took action in person, but the beautiful manager surnamed Cao choked him so much that he stared at her. He came back feeling sulky for a long time. No wonder he regarded her as a negative example in everything he said. Smiling, the employees sitting on the small bench in the back row, near the door, suddenly stopped smiling, and several pairs of eyes looked straight at the door. The sound of high-heeled shoes tapping could be heard in the corridor, as well as the chatter and laughter of warblers, and the figures of a group of white-collar beauties flashed past the door. All employees of Qilu Advertising came to the company on time and no one was absent from work. The Amway sales manager is really thick-skinned. Even though he used him as a bad example just now, he now actively gets close to Cao Hongxia in the corridor: "Manager Cao, you are here early! Oh, this is your brother, young man. He looks very energetic. "The boy who looked like a high school student next to Cao Hongxia kept talking to her, and he seemed to be very familiar. The manager took it for granted that he was her cousin, so he used a tone that was similar to that of a young junior. An idea to save the country through curves. Qi Ran didn¡¯t speak, and smiled harmlessly. He rarely came to the company, so it was normal for the neighbors not to recognize him. Huang Xiaoli quit, and said, "Old Zheng, what are you looking at? This is our boss, Mr. Qi! Do you think I'm a child?" Qi, Mr. Qi? ! Manager Zheng's pupils suddenly dilated, his face full of disbelief. He and his men went to Qilu several times without success. People said that Mr. Qi was young and promising and that Qilu Company had a bright future. Everyone was determined to work with him. It was in vain that you were boasting about it. It seems that people in Qilu have said that Mr. Qi is very young. I imagine he must be at least in his twenties, and he looks smart and capable. But I didn't expect that he looked like a high school student, without the cunning and cunning honed in the mall, and his eyes were very clean when he smiled. Cao Hongxia crossed her hands on her lower abdomen and introduced the two parties appropriately: "Mr. Qi, this is Manager Zheng from the company next door, and this is Mr. Qi from Qilu Advertising." "Hello!" Qi Ran smiled and extended his hand to the other party. , "If your company has any advertising business in the future, you can consider our company." The young man has already entered the role. When he seizes the opportunity, he will increase the business by the way. Employees Huang Xiaoli and Zhang Yuping pouted. The company across the street relies on two legs and words to attract customers, expecting them to spend real money on advertising, unless the sun comes out from the west. Manager Zheng calmed down and thought that he was also a manager after all, and the other party opened a small advertising company. What's so great about it? Isn¡¯t this just taking advantage of the opportunity to attract business? So he nodded reservedly and followed Qi Ran's words: "Okay, we can consider cooperation in the future. Anyway, our two families are neighbors and there are many opportunities. Mr. Qi is so young. Don't be in a hurry. You can take your time." Take your time, take your time, haha!" Qi Ran smiled and was not moved by the other party's attitude. Although he was young, he already had a calm and determined demeanor. Huang Xiaoli was targetedPeople from the company pulled her over several times, and Manager Zheng even choked her. Qi Ran could remain calm, but she couldn't help but hit back on the spot: "Being neighbors? I'm afraid it won't be long. Our company is already in Kunlun." We have rented an office in the building. We will move there in a few days after some simple cleaning. " "Kunlun Building, the rent there is very expensive!" Manager Zheng was very surprised, and the employees behind him were also shocked. Kunlun Building is one of the office buildings with the best location and the highest rent in Dongchuan. In addition to insurance companies, accounting firms and law firms, the conditions are better than the current old residential building with a small restaurant on the ground floor and fumes flowing all day long. It¡¯s really heaven and earth. "Yes," Cao Hongxia took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Two hundred square meters, the annual rent is 35,000, plus water, electricity and property management. We all think it is too expensive, but Mr. Qi insisted on it for the development of the company. "I'm renting it." "In Dongchuan in 1980, an old residential building like this was rented out as an office. The rent was only **1,000 yuan per year for a hundred square meters. Kunlun Building also had additional property management fees. , calculated to be four times more expensive. Manager Zheng took a breath, and when he looked at Qi Ran again, his eyes involuntarily lowered several dozen degrees, and suddenly he realized that the indifferent smile of the young man in front of him contained a power he didn't understand. Qilu's employees walked into the office with high eyebrows, and those who were still in the corridor were a little disappointed. Last year, this small advertising company rented an office opposite and opened its business. I thought that they would be neighbors for a long time, but unexpectedly, it just took just a short time. In half a year, people have soared into the sky, but they are still far behind on the ground. Some people secretly made up their minds to follow the guidance of the theory of success and redouble their efforts; but others looked at the vitality in Qilu, and then looked at the slightly outdated foyer of their own company, and that Manager Zheng was still slightly tired even though he was working hard. With a gloomy face, he began to have other plans. In the reception room and conference room of Qilu Company, everyone from the boss to the employees burst out laughing. Seeing Manager Zheng¡¯s astonished look, they were still able to hold back their laughter. They were considered extremely polite. "Sister Cao, I have to criticize you for this. Haven't the rental contract in Kunlun been signed yet? Isn't it too early to brag now?" Qi Ran deliberately kept a straight face, half joking and half serious. . Cao Hongxia put away her smile and reported that she learned about renting a new office from an old acquaintance during the Spring Festival. A company wanted to move to other places due to business development, so the office was sublet. Not only was the rent discounted, but basic decoration was also done. After that, you can pack it up and add some office furniture and move it there. Qi Ran nodded with satisfaction and asked Fang Jiaping about the car. "I tried the Buick commercial vehicle with my comrades. It is stable and stylish! My comrade is an auto repairman. There is no need to go to the 4S shop for maintenance or anything else. I do it myself!" Fang Jiaping rubbed his hands and said little but matter-of-factly. Qi Ran gave a thumbs up: "Sister Cao, Brother Fang, you two are really the backbone of the company! If one of you is taken away, who should I cry to? I said, you two should just find a time to settle the matter, and I will I'm so relieved." Huang Xiaoli and Zhang Yuping followed the advice, and Lei Chunxia also helped. Fang Jiaping and Cao Hongxia looked at each other without speaking. In the end, Cao Hongxia smiled and changed the subject: "Mr. Qi, don't go too far. Last year was very busy. This spring, we have to go to the talent market to recruit people. We still have business. If it goes up, our wages and bonuses will also go up, don¡¯t you think so?¡± Now the employees all followed suit, clamoring for a salary increase all at once ¨C in fact, the salary is not low, and everyone is very satisfied, but they just want to do it this way. Expressing their confidence in Chilu's prospects. Cao Hongxia also talked about several business orders that should be launched as soon as possible after the start of the new year: "The third item is the billboards on the east and west exterior walls of Dongchuan No. 1 Middle School. I talked with Principal Zhang during the Spring Festival and we funded the establishment of a billboard in No. 1 Middle School. A scholarship fund for poor students, No. 1 Middle School provides a location on the outer wall for us to set up billboards. The premise is that the content must be healthy and positive. " Qi Ran was surprised: "Sister Cao knows Principal Zhang? " "Huh, I am the same. She graduated from high school, and she is still your senior!" Cao Hongxia was very proud, and subconsciously looked at Fang Jiaping, and for a moment, memories of ten years ago came to her mind. That was not what Qi Ran was thinking about. He knocked on the table in deep thought, and his eyebrows gradually wrinkled: "The cooperation with No. 1 Middle School will be temporarily slowed down." Cao Hongxia was stunned, why these three words almost blurted out. The No. 1 Middle School project is a win-win situation for the company, the school, and the poor students being assisted. The social effects and economic returns are both very good. It was originally the number one performance of the company before it moved to the new location, but it is unacceptable to slow down like this. But when she saw the Chinese character Sichuan on Qi Ran¡¯s eyebrows, and the young man¡¯s sunny face turned into an unprecedented depression, Cao Hongxia finally didn¡¯t ask a question, but nodded silently. Qi Ran sighed in his heart, thinking of the news that Lin Yan told him the day before yesterday, his chest felt as heavy as a pebble (To be continued.)