Chapter 47 Changes
Lin Daoyuan nodded. Revolutionary work has always been equal for all. Going to university or not is not an absolute factor in judging a person. The key is to look at one's own ability and efforts.
If what Lin Yan said was true, then it was natural for her to fall in love with Song Yuanchao. Even she herself thought he was a good young man, let alone Lin Yan?
Looking at Lin Yan, Lin Daoyuan felt that his daughter had good vision. Song Yuanchao was a down-to-earth young man who was not impatient or anxious, and he had good abilities. Compared with Zhao Minglei, who was good at showing off and talking big, Lin Daoyuan was more impressed by the down-to-earth Song Yuanchao.
However, Lin Daoyuan still noticed a problem, that is, since Song Yuanchao did not get into university and did not come to the capital, but returned to Shanghai, and at the same time he and Chen Yuqin's work had not been finalized, and they had not returned or moved to their current place, then how did Lin Yan get in touch with Song Yuanchao again?
"Before I left, I left an address for Yuanchao. It's the address of Gao Da's mother's home..." Lin Yan replied. At this point, Lin Yan originally wanted to tell her mother that she had kept the letter from Song Yuanchao from her, but in the end she didn't say it out loud.
That makes sense...
Lin Daoyuan said in his heart, but at the same time he also noticed the unnatural expression on Lin Yan's face. Suddenly he remembered that Wang Dazhu, the son of Aunt Gao, had come to their house some time ago. Lin Daoyuan was busy at that time and simply said a few words to Wang Dazhu. After that, Chen Yuqin entertained him.
By the time Lin Daoyuan finished his call and work, Wang Dazhu had already left. Lin Daoyuan remembered asking his wife Wang Dazhu why he came. Chen Yuqin just said that Wang Dazhu came to visit them on behalf of Aunt Gao and that it was nothing. But now thinking about it carefully, Chen Yuqin's expression seemed a little unnatural at the time, with one hand in her pocket as if hiding something, but Lin Daoyuan didn't care about these details.
Now thinking back carefully, combined with Lin Yan's attitude towards his wife these days, Lin Daoyuan seemed to understand somewhat what happened that day.
No wonder Lin Yan is so dissatisfied with Zhao Minglei. It seems that on the one hand it is because of Song Yuanchao, and on the other hand it is also because of his wife Chen Yuqin’s private actions.
Lin Daoyuan could imagine how angry Lin Yan was about this matter, but she managed to hold back and not say it out loud. This comforted Lin Daoyuan. His daughter had finally grown up and became more sensible. They were all family. Although what Chen Yuqin did was inappropriate, once the matter was spoken out and they argued about right and wrong, it would inevitably hurt the family's feelings.
After experiencing the special period of family separation, Lin Daoyuan cherishes the current family harmony even more. He does not want his family to have conflicts because of such things.
However, his wife's behavior was inappropriate, which made Lin Daoyuan secretly angry. He never interfered in his children's marriage and was very democratic in this regard. The child was obviously wronged in this matter, and Lin Daoyuan knew it in his heart, which was why he specially talked to Lin Yan.
"Dad knows about this." Lin Daoyuan said slowly: "Since you think this way about Zhao Minglei, Dad won't force you. After all, marriage is your own business, and you have to build your future family yourself. Your parents can give you advice, but they won't force you to follow it. I support you on this point!"
"Dad..." Lin Yan's tears fell again. She gently leaned her head on her father's shoulder, just as attached to him as when she was a child.
Touching his daughter's long hair, Lin Daoyuan said softly: "My child, you have grown up. You have to walk your own path in the future. I believe my daughter will make the right choice for herself. Dad will talk to your mother on your behalf. Don't worry about anything. As long as you are happy, Dad will be happy."
"Thank you, Dad!"
Patting Lin Yan on the shoulder, Lin Daoyuan said seriously, "But Dad has something you must remember. You are still a student. The most important thing for a student is study. Song Yuanchao is a good guy, but Dad hopes that you can finish your studies first and put aside the relationship for the time being. After graduation, you can bring Song Yuanchao to Dad to see. How about that?"
Lin Yan pursed her lips and nodded vigorously, her tear-stained face full of smiles.
Let Lin Yan go back to her room to rest first, as she has to rush back to school early tomorrow morning.
After Lin Yan left, Lin Daoyuan was still sitting in the study smoking. After finishing his cigarette, Lin Daoyuan picked up the phone next to him and dialed a number. After a while, his secretary's voice came from the phone.
"Xiao Shao."
"Leader, please tell me, I am here."
"Help me check on a person... Song Yuanchao... from Shanghai..." Lin Daoyuan was talking on the phone. After he finished telling the other party's information, the secretary on the phone repeated it. Lin Daoyuan said again: "Don't alert Shanghai about this matter, and don't let the person involved know. Check quietly and carefully, and tell me directly when you have the results..."
After saying that, Lin Daoyuan hung up the phone, lit up a cigarette, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Lin Yan praised Song Yuanchao so highly that Lin Daoyuan couldn't help but become interested in him. Not only for the sake of his daughter, Lin Daoyuan also wanted to get to know Song Yuanchao better, hoping that this young man could give him a surprise.
Shanghai.
Song Yuanchao's appointment as workshop director was officially announced a few days ago. From the moment the appointment was issued, Song Yuanchao went from being a new employee to the workshop director of this school-run factory. Such a speed of promotion is astonishing.
However, just as Director Ma thought, after the original workshop director Lao Luo retired due to illness, the person who was qualified to succeed Lao Luo was indeed Song Yuanchao. Moreover, from the first day that Song Yuanchao officially took over the position of workshop director, he made adjustments to the workshop production and management, and this adjustment received the full support of Director Ma.
As for the school-run factory, everything went as smoothly as Song Yuanchao expected. As for the clothes hanger business that had been abandoned before, Zhang Bin, Wang Jianjun and other people who had gone out to work on their own were still busy.
But compared to the beginning, the clothes hanger business is not doing well now. One reason is that since Zhang Bin and his colleagues left to work on their own, many people have gone out to work on their own in the next half month, resulting in increasingly fierce competition among them.
Secondly, as large quantities of hangers appeared on the market, the initially blank market gradually became saturated.
After all, clothes hangers are neither necessities nor fast-moving consumer goods. When the market initially lacked similar clothes hangers, the hangers made by Song Yuanchao and his team were very attractive to the market due to their bright colors, solid materials and moderate prices. However, as time went by and similar products continued to appear in the market, the market consumption decline.
As a result, in order to attract business and seize the market, the price of hangers is getting lower and lower.
Song Yuanchao initially set the price at 35 cents per hanger and 1 yuan for three hangers. But when Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun lowered the price to 32 cents per hanger in order to compete with Song Yuanchao for the market, vicious competition emerged like a demon released from a bottle.
Soon after Song Yuanchao transferred the business to Gu Jie, the selling price of clothes hangers outside dropped to 30 cents each. After Gu Jie ended the business at the instruction of Song Yuanchao, the selling price of clothes hangers dropped further to 28 cents each.
After that, the price continued to fall step by step. In just over half a month, the price of similar hangers on the market had dropped to 2.3 cents.
In addition, due to the increased market demand for casing, Jiang Dongliang also significantly increased the sales price of casing. The price of eight yuan and thirty cents per roll that he and Song Yuanchao had agreed on was not only restored to eight yuan and fifty cents, but even increased to as high as twelve yuan per roll after several price increases in recent days.
The increase in costs and the decrease in sales prices have made the overall profit of clothes hanger sales much lower than before. At the beginning, the raw material cost of each clothes hanger for Song Yuanchao was about 1.1 cents, and the gross profit excluding labor costs was 2.2 cents. Excluding labor costs, Song Yuanchao's profit was about 1.5 to 1.6 cents.
Now the raw material add up to 1.5 cents, and the gross profit excluding labor is only 8 cents. Although this business is still profitable, the overall profit is not as much as when they were with Song Yuanchao. This has greatly disappointed those who intended to get rich from this business and leave the group to work on their own.
In order to gain more profits, Zhang Bin and his colleagues resorted to trickery and began to cut corners to reduce costs and make more money, such as using cheaper iron wire or shortening the length of each hanger from the original one meter to 0.9 meters or even shorter.
Although this can reduce costs and make more money at the same selling price, the quality of the goods will inevitably decline. Ordinary people are not fools. They can see the difference between the two hangers with the naked eye. How can they be fooled again after being fooled once? It didn't take long for the hanger business to go from being booming at the beginning to being depressed.
