Chapter 424

After transfering jobs, Pei Yong had chosen an easier job to take care of his grandson, but the salary was not high either.

Part of this 6000 yuan was his savings, he had insisted Pei Shuangshuang and Wang Yue take some of it.

Pei Yong had let it go, if he didn't make them pay some price and suffer some lessons, they would never know how serious things were.

So this time, no matter how Pei Shuangshuang and Wang Yue pleaded poverty, he was very firm in making them pay.

Of course he knew they must have had more than this amount, but he also knew it would not be easy to squeeze out more.

With Pei Yong doing this, Zhi Xia felt embarrassed.

"Big brother, if you are tight on cash then take it, I don't need money for now." Even if it was her own money, in dealing with people, one should be polite.

Of course, being polite depended on the person, at least the other person should also be polite, in fact facing an impolite person, the money could be politely given away in an instant.

It was one thing that she didn't lack money, but there was no reason to not want what was hers, not to mention this whole thing was frustrating enough.

Pei Yong was not an impolite person, he passed the money forward again, "You take it, I don't have much use for money either, and I still have a salary, if I really have difficulties, I won't stand on ceremony with you."

"Alright, I'll take it first, big brother if you lack money just tell me anytime." Zhi Xia said.

"Oh, then I'll go first." Pei Yong turned around, even his back was no longer as straight as before.

In his life he had stood tall and proud, never doing anything to feel sorry for others, only with his children, he had lost face. Zhi Xia sympathized with him, but it was just sympathy.

Actually when you think about it, if he had hardened his heart and gotten a divorce early on, and kept his children with him to raise properly, it may not have turned out like this.

But the most regrettable thing in this world, was that there was no medicine for regret.

Chenye only found out that his parents had come looking for him with his sister when he came back to school from the research institute. He hurriedly called home to ask, and found out Wanqing had already gone abroad.

Eagerly getting Wanqing's contact information, Chenye also started reflecting that he had paid too little attention to his sister recently.

But nearing graduation, and recommended by his advisor to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he had been busy, that was certain.

In the future when he truly got busy, it was possible he might lose contact with family for years.

Zhi Xia also knew about her son's matters, she felt happy and proud for him, but also gained some melancholy. It was good when children excelled, but just like an eagle taking flight, it also represented leaving their parents' side.

Silver snow adorned the earth, the eye met with silver dressed ground.

Zhi Xia piled all of this year's new year's gifts for the employees in an empty factory warehouse, then closed the doors and left.

Returning home, Zhi Xia asked Sister Zhang, "Sister Zhang, these two days don't cook at home, help me find some people to do some other work, how about it?"

"Do what?" Sister Zhang was puzzled: "As long as I can do it, isn't it just a word from you, do you have to be so polite with me?"

"Not for you to do, you help find some free people, then watch over them doing it and that's it." It wasn't actually a lot of work, just splitting up those new year's gifts into batches, there were just over ten days until the new year holiday, due to influence from foreign capital, the appliance factory's performance wasn't too good this year, currently two production lines had already stopped, might as well just give everyone an early vacation.

After busy years, they had also earned some money, let the appliance factory employees enjoy a paid vacation.

"I can do this work, there are several old ladies near me with nothing to do everyday, just right to have them go over to exercise their bones and sinews, they can also earn a bit to subsidize their family expenditure." Sister Zhang happily agreed.

Zhi Xia gave her the key to the warehouse, leaving this matter to Sister Zhang.

Inside the company, Zhi Xia looked at the financial statements handed over by Jiang Tao. Although the appliance factory was still profitable this year, orders were a full half less than last year.

And several other appliance factories were in a price war, so product prices were also pressed very low.

Only products they had that others didn't made some profit for now.

There were also some small fans designed in the first half of the year, they made quite a lot relying on small and cute looks and convenient portability, but were quickly copied by others.

Although they had lost ground in home appliances, the real estate side's profits pulled very high, and the sales volume at Waoyan's side increased by a third over last year, and mostly overseas orders.

"Boss An, I still recommend considering overseas financing." Although proposed before and rejected, but the appliance factory was where they started originally, and also Jiang Tao's most reluctant to abandon emotional attachment, "Not that our products are inferior, but many people just feel foreign technology is better than ours, and there are also huge preferential policies and tax benefits..."

To persuade Zhi Xia, Jiang Tao had also prepared extensively.

Without absolute necessity, no one wanted their fruits of victory harvested by others, but the market was like this, it couldn't be helped.

Zhi Xia could guess Jiang Tao's thoughts, but some matters were not as simple as imagined.

The so-called overseas financing was just the first step for overseas capital to enter the domestic market, later there would be frequent shady operations, and many entrepreneurs who worked hard their whole lives eventually had no choice but to work for others.

She didn't want that.

"Jiang Tao, since our products are no worse than others, there's nothing to worry about. Products are just an issue of reputation, and sales are still profitable this year showing that many people still trust our products. So, we can try to start from the advertising side, you can ask President Wu from Waoyan about this, he has quite a bit of experience with advertising."

"Alright then." Jiang Tao took note of this point, "Also the second round of bidding for the real estate plot has concluded, the Construction Bureau hinted that while the heat of the last wave of real estate sales hasn't declined yet, continue building commercial districts, still in planning stages, does our side have any opinions to propose?"

"Then follow the government's plans to carry out, our side does our best to cooperate, and keep control of construction quality." Zhi Xia thought for a moment: "Right, our housing designs this time should lean towards high-end residential area, Jin City's development has been quite good recently, and many who left have returned, so the housing sales this time mainly target middle and high-end buyers, so we must pay special attention to environment and facilities construction..."

Leaving the company, it was already evening.

The snow on the ground had been cleared away, but due to weather, the ground was icy and bikes couldn't grip it at all.

Since it wasn't far anyway, she simply walked back with an umbrella.

A car stopped in front of her, the window opened, revealing a face she hadn't seen in a long time.