Thousand Willows

The middle-aged man had a cropped cut, pale complexion, and was very thin. The skin on his face was slightly loose, and he was no longer young.He was wearing a maroon pullover, with the collar of a thin plaid shirt exposed, and the sleeves were pulled up, revealing a small section of forearm, on which the protruding blue veins can be seen.

"You register first." The middle-aged man held the mouse with one hand, and pushed a booklet in front of Liu Minhui with the other, "How did you know about our store?"

"It was introduced by a friend. He said he had been here before and said that your service is good." Liu Minhui made random nonsense.

"Oh, so, when did that friend of yours come? Why didn't you come with you today..." The middle-aged man seemed to see Zhao Lei behind Liu Minhui at this moment. Compared with Liu Minhui's casual attire, Zhao Lei was dressed in a suit. , wearing a black cashmere coat, looks much more mature and stable.The middle-aged man gestured with his eyes: "This is not our old customer."

"My friend went back to his hometown two days ago, so he didn't come today." Liu Minhui continued to lie.

"Are you also introduced by a friend?" The middle-aged man was not sure about the relationship between Zhao Lei and Liu Minhui, and asked tentatively.

"I'm just here to take a look with him." Zhao Lei said casually.

The middle-aged man then quit the game, took out a colorful flyer and handed it to Zhao Lei, saying, "This is our latest promotion, can you take a look?"

Zhao Lei took a look at it. Highly saturated colors, chaotic typography, terrible cutout PS... This is a leaflet full of strong inferior texture.

After the music of Doudizhu in the stereo on the desktop stopped, there were constant QQ message reminders of "Didi, Didi".

It seems that the middle-aged man also felt a little embarrassed, clicked the mouse a few times, and switched to pop music - those hip-hop music really don't fit in with the decoration of this house...

Zhao Lei put down the flyer, but asked, "Boss, why don't you have those information boards?"

"Hey, you don't know, modern people pay too much attention to privacy protection. If you post it directly, it would be embarrassing if someone else recognizes it. Don't you think so?" The feeling of smiling but not smiling, "What we mainly do now is VIP service, recommending candidates to customers one-on-one to ensure privacy and security. These candidates are selected after careful matching, and we guarantee that we can always find satisfactory ones. And now that Chinese New Year is approaching, we have discounted prices for events.”

"Boss, I've filled it out, what next?" Liu Minhui pushed the booklet to the middle-aged man.

"Oh, your name is Liu Yishen, Mr. Liu, now we have a promotion, you only need to pay 888 yuan, we promise to arrange 30 candidates to contact you in these two weeks, and arrange at least 5 people to meet. If you pay For 1888 yuan, we can arrange 80 candidates and meet 15 people." The middle-aged man said while looking at the form Liu Minhui filled out.

"But the Chinese New Year is coming soon, can it be arranged?" Liu Minhui asked suspiciously.

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "The more it is a festival, the better it is to arrange it. How about it, pay by card or by mobile phone?"

"Cash." Liu Minhui took money out of his wallet as he spoke.

The middle-aged man was about to accept the money, but Liu Minhui suddenly stopped and asked, "By the way, I want to ask, what set meal did my friend choose here?"

"What's your friend's name, what's your mobile phone number and QQ number, I'll look it up."

Liu Minhui reported Jiang Yizhong's cell phone number, but the middle-aged man searched on the computer for a long time but couldn't find it.

The middle-aged man asked, "Does he have another number, or did you make a mistake?"

"Hey, I can't find it. Did I go to the wrong place? Did he tell me the address?" Liu Minhui pretended to be surprised.

"Very likely." Zhao Lei assisted.

As soon as Liu Minhui said that, he began to stuff the money back into his wallet, and he wanted to walk out the door.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing!" The middle-aged man yelled, "What are you doing here? Are you some tabloid reporter?"

"No, no, we just went by the wrong way. The store my friend introduced has the same name as yours, and it is also nearby. I guess I went by the wrong way." Liu Minhui said repeatedly.

"Do you know what our shop does?" The middle-aged man was a little annoyed.

"To introduce someone..." Liu Minhui replied with a smile.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man put on a strange expression and asked, "You really know?"

"What? Isn't it?" Liu Minhui naturally knew it in his heart, but it was difficult to explain it at this time.

"It's okay, let's go." The middle-aged man waved his hand impatiently, signaling them to leave.

Seeing this, Liu Minhui and Zhao Lei hurriedly rubbed their feet with oil and planned to run away.

"Dong dong dong—" There was a sound of footsteps coming from behind the wall, the yellow door opened, and a person came out from inside.The man was about forty years old. He was wearing a suit and a maroon down jacket. His hair was combed back, revealing his full forehead. His face was sharp and angular, and he looked a bit vicissitudes.

"Why did you come down? There's no one there today, you just rest upstairs." The middle-aged man who was talking to Liu Minhui just now spoke to the man who came out from behind the door in a much softer tone.

Liu Minhui looked back curiously, and walked out together with Zhao Lei.

"You know that he is not a client here, so you can rest assured." Zhao Lei smiled.

"En." Liu Minhui nodded thoughtfully.

Zhao Lei felt that Liu Minhui's expression didn't seem to relax, and asked, "What? Is there anything else to worry about?"

"It's nothing, it's just that you said that you want to develop new customers, are you not your target customers at all?" Liu Minhui and Zhao Lei joked.

Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, indeed."

Liu Minhui stopped suddenly, and said to Zhao Lei: "Mr. Zhao, I suddenly remembered that I still have some things to deal with. I will treat you to dinner next time."

"Okay, bring him here next time, I invite you."

After Jiang Yizhong sent Ge Xiaofei to the underground garage, he wandered away alone. When he came back to his senses, he found himself in a familiar place, which was the place where his wallet was stolen last time—near the small park.

"Isn't this here..." Jiang Yizhong looked up and saw the familiar building, which was the place where he worked in City H before. Thinking about it, he suddenly felt a little warm.Those memories of struggling in different places are like a brand, which reminds him that he was once young and frivolous, and he also struggled for his dreams.

"Mr. Zhao?" Jiang Yizhong saw a figure passing by, felt familiar, and called out unconsciously.

"It's you?" Sure enough, it was Zhao Lei, who walked towards the company alone not long after he separated from Liu Minhui.He was quite surprised to meet Jiang Yizhong here.

It was almost lunch time, and the two went to have lunch together. Jiang Yizhong insisted on treating guests, but Zhao Lei couldn't resist, so he chose a mid-range restaurant.

Four dishes and one soup, one salad steak, one scallion pork ribs, one three-cup chicken, one stir-fried seasonal vegetables, plus one seaweed ribs soup.

"Mr. Zhao, I think it's better to add some more dishes, isn't it too little?" Jiang Yizhong was a little embarrassed. Originally, the dishes in this restaurant were not expensive, and Zhao Lei ordered these home-cooked dishes.

Zhao Lei waved his hand and said: "I usually eat very simple food, which is very good, no need to add more, so as not to waste."

"I have always remembered Mr. Zhao's kindness, but unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to repay it." Jiang Yizhong said, although these words are a bit nasty, they are also his sincere words.

Because of Liu Minhui, Zhao Lei looked at Jiang Yizhong more carefully than before. He was very curious about the attractiveness of the person Liu Minhui was looking for.When he heard Jiang Yizhong say this, he just said: "It's just fate, don't talk about repaying or not repaying, you have worked for me, and I will pay you wages, this is an equal thing, don't take it to heart."

Jiang Yizhong listened, and felt that Zhao Lei's thinking was much different from that of ordinary bosses, and said: "Mr. Zhao, other bosses think that providing employees with jobs is a gift. If they can pay wages on time and have complete benefits, they are like the employees' reborn parents. Educate employees to be grateful every day, why are you different from them?"

Zhao Lei smiled and said: "How should I put it, those people you mentioned, I'm afraid they may not think the same as what they said. They say they want employees to be grateful, but it's just a way for them to drive people. It is also very clear that employees only use money to do things, and bosses just spend money to hire people to do things. It’s just that they don’t want to say this. They are afraid that after they say it, the employees want to get more money before they are willing to do good things and increase their income. cost. If you don’t talk about it, you will continue to belittle the value and meaning of existence of employees, and increase the so-called platform value of their company, which is what you call the value of jobs. If you want to make employees feel guilty and panic, and make employees feel After leaving this position, I can no longer do a good job in other companies. In this way, I can spend less money and let employees do more work.”

Jiang Yizhong listened to Zhao Lei's words, agreed in his heart, and said, "But you are different from them."

"Me?" Zhao Lei smiled and said, "Do you know why I said what I just said?" Seeing that Jiang Yizhong didn't answer, he continued, "Because I also went through that stage, when the company's benefits were not good. Great, many employees have left, I feel that the company is about to fail, but I don't want to let go easily, because I think this market still has great potential, as long as I can survive it, I can survive it. Okay. During that time, I often held meetings to brainwash the remaining employees, telling them to be grateful, to be content, to tell them that this company and this project have unlimited prospects, and what will happen in the future... Haha, I feel funny thinking about that time , Obviously I was dying of guilt in my heart, but I wanted to pretend to be smug and have my own things in my chest, hold a meeting with those who are waiting to be paid on time, and tell them not to care about the gains and losses of a little salary... In fact, it was just because of the company's debts. I’m running out of money, and I’m worried that my salary won’t be paid on time, and these people will all abandon me, leaving me alone in the deserted office.”

Jiang Yizhong asked: "Then how did you get better?"

"Later, I went to other places to pick up a big order. By the way, I met Ah Hei at that time, and later dug him into our company. Slowly, the company improved again, and then slowly expanded the scale. Some investments have been made in other industries... Now that I think about it, it was a turning point. If I can’t get through, haha, I’m afraid I don’t know what I’m doing now.” Zhao Lei laughed.

"When I was an employee, I really didn't know that being a boss had to bear so much pressure. Now that I'm just a manager, I feel that the pressure is many times greater than before." After listening to Zhao Lei's words, Jiang Yizhong couldn't help but think about his current situation ,Sighed.

Zhao Lei said: "Speaking of which, by the way, I heard from Liu Minhui that you are doing well now, much better than he imagined."

"He told you?" Jiang Yizhong was suddenly a little embarrassed, he didn't know that Liu Minhui and Zhao Lei didn't just say this.

"Well, he also said a lot about you." Zhao Lei stopped deliberately as he spoke, wanting to see Jiang Yizhong's reaction.

At this time, the waiter brought the tray to serve.

The topic seemed to be interrupted by the steaming meal.