1999

On the second Monday after returning to Pingxiang, Wu Jiusheng officially returned to work in the workshop.As the saying goes, one day is like three autumns. His fellow workers haven't seen him for almost three weeks, and they all stare at him as if they no longer recognize him.

One of them, with burning eyes when Wu Jiusheng sat down next to the production line, gave him an impassioned thumbs up.

Only then did Wu Jiusheng realize that he was real and famous.

He should have thought about why Hu Da insisted on letting him move back to the dormitory of the factory first—on the second day after the security team handed over the entire case of counterfeiting and selling counterfeit goods in Pingxiang to the Municipal Bureau, Yan Tian personally assigned Xiao Liu to be the representative of the electronics factory The police explained the situation, and they came with Xiao Liu, and there was also a thank-you letter specially approved by the security team in the name of the Municipal Bureau, in which they thanked Wu Jiusheng for his contribution to solving the case as an enthusiastic citizen.It is said that several southern newspapers got news and wanted to come to Pingxiang for interviews, but they were all suppressed by the police.Early on Monday morning, when the factory held a staff meeting, the factory announced Wu Jiusheng’s reward decision through the radio. Because of his full cooperation with the police, the loss of property in the factory and further economic losses were avoided. He made a decision to promote him to be the team leader of the production team in his production workshop to replace Xue Jintong. At the same time, he allocated a bonus of 8000 yuan with his monthly salary to reward his advanced behavior.

When the broadcast was playing, the entire staff playground was completely silent. Everyone stretched their necks and looked around curiously. Those who knew him and those who didn’t knew him were whispering to each other, wanting to know, who was the Wu Jiusheng reported on the broadcast?Where are you from?Why such a big deal?Since the Pingxiang Electronics Factory moved to this site and started operations, it has never heard of any workshop workers being given bonuses, and they even gave out so much, 8000 yuan!Many people's eyes burst out with envious flashes.

Yes, 8000 yuan is quite a lot, which can almost cover all the wages a worker earns by working tirelessly for a month without sleep. It can also do a lot of things. The prices in Pingxiang are very low. Internet cafes cost three yuan an hour, and only night packages are required. Ten yuan, and a KTV private room is only 25. The most beautifully decorated restaurant in the living street. A meal of seventy or eighty yuan can fill the stomach of a grown man with luxury—that is, all the entertainment that costs money in the factory area is consumed Once again, the remaining money is enough to buy a few beautiful clothes on the market, and a latest Android flagship phone.

Wu Jiusheng is just a novice craftsman with no more than one year of service experience, so he will be envied for such a huge bargain at once.

The workers who lived in the same dormitory before started to tease him first: treat him, drink, sing, and then go to the customs together to watch a movie!

In the past, Wu Jiusheng might have agreed.

For money, it’s good to spend some money, spend more and more, and spend less and less, even if you make a small fortune, you won’t be able to eat for a lifetime, and if you don’t eat one or two meals, you won’t be hungry.For him, that's it. In the world of instant gratification for young people, there are no two things like saving and planning for the future.

But this time, he said no.

Several workers who were familiar with him thought he was joking, but Wu Jiusheng didn't mind, put on a stingy face, and tightly protected the award certificate in his hand.

"I'm going to go on your own, I'll keep the money for other uses!"

"Hey!" Several people gathered around him in amazement, looking at him like some rare animal, "Are you still Asheng himself? Your boy has changed his sex? You actually learned how to save money?"

"Isn't it? Who said 'I'm still young, I don't think about saving money until I'm 25 and want a wife', ouch, maybe I got it wrong."

Wu Jiusheng raised his chin, stared at the person who laughed and teased him, and didn't even bother to argue.

On the contrary, his broken attitude strengthened the conjecture of the workers. Everyone stopped talking, exchanged several meaningful glances with each other, and finally fell on the brand new armband on Wu Jiusheng's arm.As the team leader of the workshop, the monthly base salary will be 800 yuan higher than that of ordinary workers, but more importantly, it will be included in the consideration of management training positions in the structural adjustment of the factory every few years. I heard that ** There are small foremen in the T workshop who have been promoted to middle-level management cadres after passing the diploma examination.As a middle-level cadre, not only are there five social insurances and one housing fund, but also year-end bonuses, and contracts are signed every five years. The stability can be upgraded to a higher level, and there is no worker who is not envious.

They are all boys in their twenties, and they are eager to find a partner in a foreign land and start a family. Whenever there is an opportunity to establish a foothold like this, they will rush to seize it. It can be solved.

They all thought at the same time, Ah Sheng, who has never been upright in his work... I am afraid that he is really talking about a partner, right?OK, well hidden.

Wu Jiusheng didn't bother to care about their conjectures. He made a calculation in his mind and calculated that just for the bonus for helping to solve the case this time, he and Hu Da's combined would be 5000 yuan. With my monthly salary and living expenses deducted, after this month, can I make up [-] yuan?

He had seen an advertisement for a barbecue shop brand recruiting franchisees nationwide before, and there was a list of fully automatic barbecue equipment in it. The fully automatic kebab threading machine only costs less than 1000 yuan, and the one equipped with automatic tracks looks like a tank. The large automatic oven like a car is only sold in the early [-]s.He saw those two things in the pedestrian street in downtown Shenzhen, they were covered with glass covers, and they were hawked on the side of the road. They were only equipped with a small store of less than ten square meters, and there were no tables and chairs except for the cash register. , business has been very good.

Wu Jiusheng speculates that perhaps it is because the food production process is fully automated, and all the details are unreservedly displayed in front of customers, giving consumers a sense of peace of mind and hygiene, and attracting them to continue to patronize.

Wu Jiusheng only had one very simple concept in his mind, Hu Da was in business, and now people in the factory area were worried about his business, so he had to find a way to make people feel at ease.Buying some better equipment, showing all the cooking process in the back kitchen, and posting a full set of physical examination reports should also play a role?

Wu Jiusheng calculated the score anxiously.But that was just a preliminary plan. He needed to discuss with Hu Da about what he needed to invest in and which model to buy.

I just don't know how the logistics conditions in Pingxiang are.In the past, he liked personal Taobao. It was very easy to sign for the small parcels that were separated one by one. Sometimes the recipient didn’t need to be the recipient himself. When the workshop is busy, it’s okay to find a roommate to help collect it. , but I don’t know if there will be any special process for large equipment like barbecue machines.He had to go to work during the day, and Huda's arm was obviously not able to bear the heavy work of carrying. He was worried, and decided to go to the reception room to ask during the lunch break.

The communication room of the electronics factory has many tasks. In addition to recording the information of vehicles and visitors, the biggest function is to provide registration and loading and unloading services for all the logistics of the entire electronics factory.They must be the most aware of the transportation of large equipment, at least that's what Wu Jiusheng assumed.

But what surprised him was that at noon, when the reception room was supposed to be the least visited by people, it was full of people.They didn't take a break during the rare break time, and they didn't eat lunch. So many people went to the reception room and didn't know what to do.As Wu Jiusheng approached, he could hear vaguely emotional arguments coming from the room several meters away from the door.

He wanted to poke his head in and take a look, but was bumped into his chest by a tall man who rushed out the door angrily.Wu Jiusheng covered his nose, took half a step back with stars in his eyes, and saw the man in the hat clearly. He should come from the quality control workshop like He Jiajia, and he was wearing the special uniform of the quality control personnel. With a smoldering fire, it almost floated up to the table that could not be hidden.

Wu Jiusheng heard him swear, and ran away without even saying an apology. The man seemed to be holding a small cardboard box under his armpit, which was dark with sweat.

Strange, he wondered, he had taken the wrong medicine in broad daylight, what could happen in the reception room that made people so angry?

He pushed open the door that was still emitting cold air, and walked into the reception room where a row of figures surrounded the registration desk tightly.

"Even if you want to say something like this to me, there is nothing I can do to help you. I have explained everything. This is a new regulation issued by the factory. It is discipline, and there is nothing we can do about it!"

An elderly voice barely explained.Wu Jiusheng recognized the voice, it was Uncle Li who was in charge of the door in the reception room.Uncle Li’s family has a granddaughter who has just entered elementary school and lives with her parents in Longgang District. Wu Jiusheng knew that Uncle Li would visit his granddaughter once a week.In the past, he liked to buy some messy things on Taobao. Four or five parcels could be sent to his hands in a week. Taobao stores often randomly sent some small things without saying hello, either small snacks, or small braids for girls. Hair ropes, small hairpins, small round mirrors, and small dolls are things that Wu Jiusheng doesn’t need for himself, and he will give them to Uncle Li for him to use to coax the children. Because of this, the other party is familiar with him, and he can blurt out shouts when they meet. Come up with a name.

Uncle Li saw him now.When he saw Wu Jiusheng, his face turned bitter.

"Ah Sheng, I'm going to be very busy today, my saliva is dry, so don't come here and make trouble for me."

"What's the matter?" Wu Jiusheng couldn't figure it out, and squeezed away a few unhappy workers to get to Uncle Li's table.

On the table is the same as in the 80s, with a thick glass plate for easy writing. Below the glass plate is the schedule of goods entering and exiting the electronics factory at various times, and there is also a brand-new communication with the date signed today. The room discipline notice was issued by the personnel department of the electronics factory, with a big red stamp on it.

It turned out that the factory gang involved in the Simao incident was exposed. After the exposure, several companies in the factory were in danger and began to self-examine the hidden safety hazards inside the company. The electronics factory where Wu Jiusheng worked was even worse. In order to avoid the security loopholes and the lack of strict inspection of outsiders, a new factory regulation was urgently issued after the leadership meeting negotiated:

All employees employed in the factory are not allowed to sign for incoming express shipments during their working hours. All personnel outside the factory are not allowed to enter the factory area without the visitor identification certificate specially issued by the personnel office.

That is a new regulation that is overkill. After it is implemented, the management will be much easier to implement and manage, but the lives of the workers will be inconvenient.A one-size-fits-all measure to prohibit all outsiders from entering means that all workers who work and live in the factory area cannot use services provided by outsiders. It was decided that no one would be willing to give up working hours and rush all the way from the workshop to the gate to sign for those things in person during working hours.

Buying daily necessities online is indeed of good quality and cheap. Wu Jiusheng knows very well that for migrant workers like them, if there is no online shopping, the cost of living will rise by a large margin.That is unbearable for many people who are anxious to save money to go home and get married.

The workers crowded in the reception room came to protest.

The factory does not allow outsiders to enter, and the workers need the benefits provided by outsiders, so they hope that the communication room can provide signing services.But Uncle Li is getting old, and his memory and workmanship are not as good as before. There are hundreds of people in a factory, and there are sometimes thousands of express deliveries that come and go in a day. Or if you lose something, you have to find him.The factory itself does not require the communication office to implement the regulations on behalf of the signing. Once something goes wrong, the factory will definitely not help him bear this part of the loss, so he has to pay the bill alone. Although Uncle Li understands the difficulties of the workers, but In any case, this opening cannot be opened.

Wu Jiusheng figured out the reason for the stalemate in front of him. He stood next to Uncle Li, took a small book he randomly grabbed on the table, and fanned the anxious uncle, but his eyes rolled up.

He is really quick-witted and has a lot of ghost ideas. In addition, he is a serious online shopping enthusiast who buys things online all the year round. He has dealt with almost all local couriers in Pingxiang, and understands the sending and receiving modes of various courier companies. After chatting about the price, although he didn't say anything on the surface, an idea suddenly appeared in his heart.

That idea gradually became clear, and Wu Jiusheng spent the whole afternoon thinking about and polishing it carefully during his work breaks. By the time the off-work broadcast sounded, he had already drawn a clear blueprint in his mind.

He felt compelled to see Huda tonight.

Huda was sitting in the house, and it was already night when he heard the noise. There were no customers in the Jiujiu barbecue, the door was closed, and most of the storefront on the first floor was dark, except for the small table where Huda was sitting. Rudou, according to the rows of numbers on the single page in front of him.

The movement first came from above the courtyard wall at the back door.Hu Da put down the ledger and passbook at hand, and his first reaction was that troublemakers entered the backyard.After tidying up his things in a hurry, Huda walked into the kitchen, picked up a thick and long rolling pin from under the sink, and was about to open the door and rush out, when a light flashed in his mind, he took out his phone and glanced at the screen showing The time was less than 09:30, and there were still thirty minutes left before the dormitory access control at the electronics factory at ten o'clock every night.

For some reason, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.Pushing open the back door, Huda whistled, and as expected, he found a restless little head on top of the wall full of debris in the backyard.

Wu Jiusheng was standing on tiptoe, standing on top of a waste gasoline barrel, leaning against the courtyard wall and smiling at him.Hu Da threw down the rolling pin, casually tore off a piece of clean white cloth from the hook on the back of the door, stepped on the pile of wooden boxes piled up in a row, and reached Wu Jiusheng's armpit with one hand, pushing him hard. The whole person lifted up a bit, and finally climbed up the concrete wall firmly.

Wu Jiusheng was sitting astride, Hu Da was standing, just a head taller than the young man in front of him.He pulled the young man's arm covered with dust from the wall, and wiped it with a white cloth.

"Is there any boy who can't climb the wall? With your clumsy posture, how many times did you have to fall from the tree when you were a child?" He muttered while wiping the young man's hand.I thought to myself that luckily I was too lazy to do anti-theft when I was painting the wall, and I didn’t put some broken glass shards, barbed wire and other things on the top of the wall, otherwise this fool would just go to the house and remove the tiles without calling, in case there was a bump somewhere If something happens, good or bad, it has to be blamed on him again.

Hu Da put on a serious face and taught Wu Jiusheng a lesson in a calm voice:

"Why are you disobedient just after you said it?"

He didn't just talk, he even pinched his fingers and flicked Wu Jiusheng's forehead.At this time, the little guy should stay well in the dormitory, take a bath and prepare to go to bed honestly, instead of running up to his courtyard wall to laugh and make trouble, just to see him, at the risk of being discovered.What to do... Huda tapped the young man's forehead to hide his unease, playing this Romeo and Juliet game when he was old.The young man rubbed the reddened area by himself, he had no idea what Huda was thinking—it was nothing, he just wanted to lower his head and kiss that pouty mouth, it was terrible, Huda's face turned red Not to mention being seen by others, even if he was the only one, he would feel ashamed of himself.

"What's the matter?" He suppressed the impulse and asked in a low voice.

"I came up with a good idea, which can keep the store's business!" Wu Jiusheng said excitedly. He just remembered the purpose of his trip, and a bright light jumped out of his eyes, and he grabbed the dog that Hu Da had taught others just now. hand.

"A courier collection point?" After listening to Wu Jiusheng's description, the second monk Hu Dazhang repeated in confusion, "You said we want to do courier collection in the store?"

"It's not a collection in the store, but turning the entire store into a collection point. There are too many small factories in Pingxiang. The workers in one factory alone may have hundreds of packages in circulation every day. If it is not Taking out the entire storefront to install shelves is simply not enough for such a large business."

Huda was a little confused.What about the barbecue restaurant? It's closed?Moreover, if you make a sudden sharp turn instead of opening a restaurant and switch to express delivery, will anyone really patronize it?

Hu Da didn't dare to think that during his prison sentence and undergoing reformation, he had learned how to cook. After more than ten years of cooking, he still only knew how to cook. Suddenly he was asked to do something else. He had no idea.

Wu Jiusheng looked much more determined than him.

"It can be done, Uncle, you believe me! Let's start now and seize this opportunity. The sooner we get this done, the more likely it will be successful. The express delivery service in the factory area is just needed. The couriers here There are too many, too messy, and large logistics companies have not set up a separate point in Pingxiang. If there is a large-scale collection point that can take over large orders at this time, it can not only serve individual customers, but also cooperate with express companies. Two-way negotiation! The most important thing now is to stabilize the customer base, grasp everyone's needs, and let more people from the factory come to the store and have more contacts. Over time, they will trust you, and they can completely approach you at the collection point The shop opened a new store and reopened the business. Hey, I have thought about the details a lot, and I can't explain it for a while, but uncle, this is really worth a try!"

Hu Da doesn't shop online, and he doesn't have much contact with couriers and logistics. He is dizzy when he hears it, but this is the first time he has seen the confident expression on Wu Jiusheng's face. This kid is knowledgeable and has ideas. I also learned to think carefully before making a decision, and obediently come to discuss with myself, but I have a bit of seriousness in doing things.Relieved, Huda nodded at him.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

The young man's expression was overjoyed.The trust in Huda's voice made his chest bulge.Hu Da entrusted the store and the fate of the two people in the future into his own hands. This was the first time in his life. He was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, so he couldn't help but be eager to try and full of energy.

"Then what should I do, Boss Wu?" Hu Da smiled and asked respectfully, as if he was really waiting for the young man's command.

"I can't explain it just by talking about it. I'll use the computer to write it down for you. I'll come back tomorrow night and sort out the list of to-do items. Remember to leave the door open for me! Otherwise, I have to do laundry every time I climb the wall." ,troublesome!"

The young man's long-lost, lazy and complaining tone fell into his ears, and Hu Da was taken aback for a moment, then smiled.

"Also, remember to prepare a supper for me. The canteen in the factory is terrible—" Wu Jiusheng had already stepped out of the wall with one foot, and was about to jump down. As if he suddenly remembered something, he turned sideways. With half of his body, he squeezed Huda's sweaty cheek, leaving half a paw print stained with wall dust.

Huda was caught off guard, and someone bit his ear.

"Don't miss me too much."

Looking into his eyes, the skinny young man quickly finished the sentence shyly, and then jumped down the wall like a monkey, blended into the deep night, and ran away.