Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Chapter 244

"I also ask you to be careful with your wording. I can say that an elder sister-in-law is like a mother. Besides, I haven't been my mother's daughter enough, so I don't want to be someone else's mother. Don't put the burden of "elder sister-in-law is like a mother" on my shoulders in the future."

Although she has given birth to three children, Gu Nuan always feels that she is still young, still a little girl, and does not want to be morally blackmailed.

Hu Renyou frowned: "If I don't tell you, then you are not the eldest sister-in-law of this family?"

"What era is it now? And you still want to call me the eldest sister-in-law? Since you now advocate that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, do your brother and his wife respect me as their mother? I'm afraid they are just saying that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and they actually want to treat me like a nanny." Gu Nuan rolled her eyes at him and showed disdain for it.

The whole family lives together, and Gu Nuan doesn't want to quarrel with Hu Renyou at home, so as not to cause trouble for others.

Gu Nuan covered the face with the vanishing cream and left the room without looking around.

After leaving the room, Gu Nuan saw her three daughters standing guard at the kitchen door.

When she walked towards her daughters, she found that in the kitchen, Old Mrs. Hu was stuffing a piece of braised meat into her little nephew's mouth, while another nephew was chewing. Smelling the aroma of the braised meat in the air and looking at the greedy looks of her three daughters, she felt very angry.

"Mom, give Juanjuan, Lili and Zhenzhen a piece too."

Old Mrs. Hu just glanced at her three granddaughters at the door and put the bowl of meat back into the cupboard. "It's time to eat soon. Eat it when it's time."

Gu Nuan was so angry that she laughed: "Mom, just spoil them. They have no rules at all. They started eating before the meal even started. They even didn't know to let the elders eat first when there was some meat."

“…” Old Mrs. Hu felt that the word was somewhat familiar.

"Don't be stingy, come in and take the dishes out, we'll eat soon."

As soon as the food was served, the couple from the second room smelled the food and came out of the room.

"Why is there still meat tonight? It smells so good!"

The second wife and her husband quickly walked to the table and sat down, staring at the braised meat in the bowl with shining eyes.

Gu Nuan looked at the three dishes on the table, an eggplant, a string bean, and finally a bowl of braised meat, "Mom, isn't there a dried fish?"

Old Mrs. Hu knocked on the edge of the bowl of braised meat and said unhappily, "There's already a bowl of braised meat here. It's too extravagant to have two meat dishes tonight. Save them for tomorrow."

Gu Nuan took a deep breath and felt that she couldn't bear it anymore: "Mom, I bought the braised pork today to add a dish to improve my life. You cut another dish, then my original intention of buying the braised pork was wasted!"

Mrs. Hu never thought she did anything wrong. "We are not a wealthy family. We can only survive by being thrifty. If you want to eat delicious food when you have a little money, what will you eat when you have no money?"

Hu Renyou came out of the room and stopped him, saying, "After you eat, go to bed. Just one meat dish will be enough. Stop talking and eat quickly."

Gu Nuan was so angry that she laughed. She didn't even serve the rice. She just picked up a few pieces of meat for the three girls and then served more rice to cover the meat.

Finally, he served himself a bowl of rice, picked up a few pieces of meat for himself, and picked up the bowl of eggplants, picking some for his three daughters and himself, and also picked some beans.

Gu Nuan's actions stunned everyone else.

In the end, it was Hu Lao Er who reacted first, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Is it necessary for a family to eat like this?"

Gu Nuan glared at him. He dared to call her and her daughter starving ghosts. He was looking for death!

"You are the reincarnation of a starving ghost. We normally eat when we are hungry. You have the guts to not eat at night."

Old Mrs. Hu looked at the full plate of food in front of Gu Nuan, her mother and daughter, and then looked at the half-eaten dish and a few pieces of braised meat left in the bowl. She angrily said, "What are you doing, eldest brother's wife? You took away half of the food. Are we, the rest of the family, still going to eat?"

"Anyway, we go to bed after dinner. You won't starve to death if you eat less, so you should eat less." Gu Nuan motioned to the three girls to eat quickly.

The three girls were smart. They listened to their mother and glanced at the others cautiously. They were a little scared, but the children couldn't resist the aroma of the braised meat and started eating with big mouthfuls.

When she was dating Hu Renyou, others said that she was jumping from a rice jar into a chaff jar, and asked her to think it over carefully and not act rashly, otherwise she would suffer for the rest of her life.

At that time, she didn't take it seriously, thinking that drinking water was enough to satisfy her hunger.

At this moment, I felt very sad when I saw my daughters neglecting their table manners just for a bite of meat.

Because of the eldest son's wife's family background, Old Mrs. Hu didn't dare to say anything to Gu Nuan.

He just didn't dare to scold Gu Nuan directly, but he could still talk about his own son.

"Boss, you see that the wife you married is really well-educated. Even the daughter she raised is of such a good character. If she goes out in the future, it will be a disgrace to our Hu family."

Hu Renyou was just about to talk about Gu Nuan.

But Gu Nuan didn't give him a chance to speak, "Hu Renyou, I will apply for a dormitory from my company tomorrow. Once the application is approved, I will move in with my daughter."

Hu Renyou was shocked. "Why live in a dormitory? How can a dormitory be as comfortable as living at home?"

Gu Nuan pointed to the tiny house that was home to a family of ten and was filled with furniture and daily necessities. "Is this house comfortable to live in?"

Hu Renyou had seen how spacious the Gu family's house was, so he felt guilty about this question and couldn't say anything against his will.

But Gu Nuan didn't give him face and directly pointed out: "If living in this house is called comfortable, I'm afraid you are just a cheap skin and have some misunderstanding of the word comfortable."

Hu Renyou wiped the sweat from his forehead. Gu Nuan was a good woman in every way except for her hot temper, which he could not control.

Gu Nuan didn't care what Hu Renyou thought. As soon as she arrived at the unit the next day, she applied for a dormitory from her leader.

She does what she says.

Because of family ties, she believed the application would be approved quickly.

The Gu family was unaware of the conflict between Gu Nuan and her husband's family.

Lin Shu only found out that Gu Nuan was setting up a stall on that street when he passed by Lin Gang's shop.

"Sister, why are you setting up a stall here?"

Gu Nuan heard the voice and turned around to see Lin Shu riding a bicycle and stopped in front of her stall. "Hey, Shushu, why are you here? Are you here to see your third brother?"

Lin Shu shook his head and said with a smile: "I came to find you, believe it?"

"Looking for me? Are you kidding? You would come to your brother's place to look for me?" Gu Nuan obviously didn't believe it.

Lin Shu put one foot on the curb and saw that there were still a dozen or so pieces of clothing on her stall. She said to Lin Gang who came towards her, "Please help my sister look after her stall. I have something to ask her."

Gu Nuan was surprised and asked, "Are you really here to see me?"

"Why would I lie to you? Hurry up and ride your bike and accompany me to your garment factory."

There were still a dozen or so pieces of clothing left at the stall, so Gu Nuan gave them to Lin Gang to look at, then rode away on her bicycle with Lin Shu.

"You came to see me, how did you know I was setting up a stall in front of your brother's store?"

When they arrived at the garment factory, they locked their bicycles and Gu Nuan asked curiously.

Lin Shu locked his bicycle, put the key in his bag, and said with a smile, "It's just a coincidence. I wanted to come to the factory to find you, and I passed by Lin Gang's shop and saw you there."

The two walked towards the office together.

"What's the matter that brought you here to see me?"

"I came to see you because I wanted to give you a surprise." Lin Shu joked.

Gu Nuan looked at her suspiciously, waiting for her to continue.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Don't believe me? I gave you a surprise and you don't believe me."

"You work in the sales department, so you should have performance requirements every month, right?"

Gu Nuan answered truthfully: "The requirements are not high now, but starting from next month there will be a performance target of 10,000."

Lin Shu smiled and nodded, "A performance requirement of 10,000 is not too much."

Gu Nuan was speechless after hearing this: "It's not much, Shushu, do you know how hard it is to make 10,000 yuan? Don't forget that there is more than one garment factory in the provincial capital."

If it was easy to get business, she would not have found other ways to set up a stall to increase sales.

You may not know that the entire sales department’s sales revenue was just over 10,000 last month.

"You think it's hard to run, I'm here to give you a surprise."

Gu Nuan's heart skipped a beat: "What do you mean?"

"That's what you mean. Now take me to your warehouse to see the piles of fabrics."

Lin Shu pushed her and told her to stop being dazed and lead the way quickly.

As expected of the No. 1 garment factory in the province, the warehouse is filled with piles of fabrics. There are quite a few of the relatively high-priced woolen cloths on the market, such as sheepskin, Hada cloth, Dacron, corduroy, wool serge, etc., piled up on the shelves here.

"Sister, it's already May, and we're about to enter the hot summer. How come our factory still has so much fabric left for the winter?"

"Yes, when they purchased these fabrics, they did not order them according to the demand ratio, so there are so many of them piled up in the warehouse."

Lin Shu walked to the rows of shelves where Dacron was placed and checked the quality and pattern of the fabric.

"Sister, how does your factory deal with these Dacron?"

There are at least a dozen kinds of Dacron fabrics on these rows of shelves. Summer is coming soon, and only these thin fabrics can be used.

Gu Nuan looked embarrassed. "Although the leaders above said that the fabrics in the warehouse should be disposed of, I don't know the specific price yet. How much do you want? I will help you apply to our leaders for the most favorable price."

"I don't know exactly how much fabric is needed." Lin Shu briefly explained his plan.

"Now I just want you to do the processing for me. I am going to set up my own brand. Once the brand store opens, the orders will increase or decrease with the sales volume."

Gu Nuan was overjoyed when she heard this.

Having set up a stall before these two days, she naturally knew that the daily sales of a brand store was always greater than her sales at the stall.

In this way, she would be able to exceed her monthly performance target.

"Shushu, when did you come up with this idea? You are simply my God of Wealth!"

The factory had just set sales performance targets for their sales department, and Lin Shu came to bring business. If this isn’t the God of Wealth, then what is he?

Lin Shu smiled, walked around the warehouse, and got a general understanding of the clothing factory's inventory.

"Sister, take me to see your factory manager. I want to talk to him."

"Okay, let's go."

The workshops and warehouses of the garment factory are farthest from the factory gate, that is, in the back area of ​​the factory, while the office building is in the front and is closest to the factory gate.

The weather in May was not too hot, so you could still wear two layers of clothing or long sleeves, but because it was sunny, Lin Shu and Gu Nuan both sweated a lot while walking from the warehouse to the office building.

In order to be polite and leave a good impression on the leader, Gu Nuan first took Lin Shu back to the sales department, wanting to wash her face before meeting the leader.

When Old Chen saw Gu Nuan and Lin Shu coming in, both of them were sweating, "Xiao Gu, did you go out to do business today? Who is this?"

Gu Nuan introduced him: "This is my sister-in-law, Lin Shu."

"Shushu, this is my colleague, Lao Chen."

Lin Shu smiled at him and said, "Hello, Comrade Chen."

Old Chen stood up quickly and said, "So it's your sister-in-law. Hello, hello. Please sit down and have a rest for a while. I'll go get you a glass of water."

"Thank you."

Li Lina looked up from the newspaper and asked, "Sister Gu, how big of an order did you run today?"

Gu Nuan glanced at her and said with a smile, "I'm sorry to disappoint you. I haven't received any orders yet. What's the matter? Have you completed your sales for this month and you didn't go out today?"

Li Lina glanced at the chief's office and noticed that he hadn't returned yet. She snorted coldly and whispered, "Why are you running? Anyway, there are only a few days left for relaxing. Just enjoy each day. Don't expect to be so leisurely next month."

"I advise you not to think about showing off. It's not easy to get the position of deputy section chief."

Li Lina thought Gu Nuan was working so hard for the position of deputy section chief.

After hearing this, Lin Shu asked, "Can you become a deputy section chief if you have good sales performance?"

Gu Nuan explained: "Starting from next month, if you get the top sales for three consecutive months, you can be promoted to deputy director of the sales department."

Lin Shu sighed: "Your leader is really good at driving people, hanging a carrot in front of you and letting you fight for it."

Lao Chen placed the water cup in front of Lin Shu, sat down again and sighed: "It's difficult. Starting from next month, how can we achieve the goal of 10,000 yuan? I get a headache just thinking about it."

Lin Shu took a sip of water and said, "You have been in the sales department for so long, you should have regular customers. Starting from next month, if you just run more frequently, you should be able to complete the task, right?"

Li Lina snorted coldly, "That's easy for you to say. Even if I have 10,000 yuan to rob people, I have to rob 330 yuan every day. I get a headache just thinking that starting from next month, I will have to complete 330 yuan every day when I wake up."

Gu Nuan was too lazy to talk to Li Lina, as there was no point in talking to her. The girl was not bad looking, but her beautiful image was ruined as soon as she opened her mouth.

So unpleasant!

She took a towel and took Lin Shu to the bathroom to wash her face.

"That Li Lina and I don't get along. In our department, she likes to confront me whenever I speak. Just ignore her."

Lin Shu didn't care about Li Lina's attitude. She was Gu Nuan's colleague, not her colleague.

There was no need to be with her day and night. Lin Shu was too lazy to even show an expression to people with whom he had no connection.

"It doesn't matter who she is. Sister, what kind of person is your factory director?"

"He is usually very easygoing. But if you touch his bottom line, he will be very strict. He is a very decisive person."

Lin Shu nodded, feeling a little relieved.

The director of the First Garment Factory is named Ye, and I heard he is a handsome middle-aged man.

He is forty years old this year, a widower with only one daughter.

I heard that many female employees in the garment factory want to date him and want to conquer this handsome old man.

Lin Shu was very curious, how handsome was this factory director?