Confessions of a Salesman

Chapter 903
I sat in the car all the way and explained Zhuhai’s customs, geography and history knowledge with Stephen. In fact, I also have a half-knowledge, and with my half-baked English, I don’t know if he can understand. But I saw the envy of the people in the car next to me. Look, I know I installed X successfully!
Ms. Clerk also seems to admire me very much, and thinks that I am quite knowledgeable. Although I am a native English speaker, I can edit it. She really doesn’t know a lot about China’s history and geography. I don’t think it has anything to do with them for nine years. Is there any relationship between compulsory education and mother tongue teaching in English?

It’s not unusual for both of them to think that I’m amazing when you just mention a historical figure well known to ordinary Chinese people, just like when they randomly quote a foreign writer, I think it’s amazing.

Zhuhai is really small. A public car only takes about ten stops from the starting point to the ending point. It takes exactly one hour to go back and forth. When the car gets off Lovers South Road, I ask them to get off and go see the landmarks of Zhuhai. Architecture - Zhuhai Fisher Girl.I really don't know, what's so good about this Zhuhai fisher girl?

In fact, the story of the fisher girl in Zhuhai is also quite simple. It is similar to the seven fairies descending to earth and meeting Dong Yong, but the fairy met a fisherman named Haipeng, they fell in love, and the fairy became a fisher girl.Hou Haipeng listened to the villain and asked the fisher girl to take out her own bracelet as a token of love. This bracelet was made by the housekeeper of the Dragon Palace to prevent the fairy from falling in love with the mortal world. Once one is taken off, the fairy will lose her life.In the end, the fairy took off the bracelet in order to show her heart, but she also lost her life because of it.

Haipeng regretted it unceasingly. In order to revive the fairy, he listened to the advice of elder Jiuzhouhuan at Xiangluwan, and went alone to the island of Jiuzhou, where wild animals were everywhere, to look for the reviving grass. After the blood waters the grass and grows up, it resurrects the fairy, and finally the fairy wakes up.

After this incident, the fairy lost her fairy energy and became a mortal.On the day of her wedding with Haipeng, the fairies and fisher girls picked up a huge sea clam and dug out a very beautiful orb. Everyone thought that the orb should be given to Elder Jiuzhouhuan, so , The fairy held the pearl high, walked slowly to Kyushu Island, and dedicated the pearl to the elder.From then on, Fairy and Haipeng lived happily together forever.It is also called the statue of Zhuhai Fisher Girl.

When I told this story, I had no emotion and didn't add any modal particles, but the two of them were still so moved by what they heard, they almost burst into tears on the spot.

After that, I took them to the New Yuanming Palace and told them that it was all caused by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, and we could only build a smaller one. To commemorate it, I also gave them a patriotic education.

Although Stephen has repeatedly emphasized that he is of Latin descent, I always classify them as reactionaries, and warn Miss Clerk from time to time: "Always remember that you are a Chinese, a descendant of the dragon, and have nothing to do with the British!" You are provided with food and housing, and it is still your motherland! Don’t be tempted to think about how to sever the mother-child relationship with your mother! Without your mother, you are not only orphans, but also abandoned babies, and no one will care about you !"

The clerk was also taken aback when he heard it, and didn't know at all, what am I teaching her?
When eating at noon, Stephen finally came to his senses, and said dissatisfiedly: "You are trying to show me off, aren't you? Your Chinese minds are all crooked!"

I sighed twice: "Why are you still swearing? Forgetting history means betrayal. You have done so much harm to our Chinese people, why don't you let us talk about it!"

Stephen didn't argue with me either, he just shook his head and said, "We don't talk about history with you, we only look at today and the future!"

I put a green vegetable into his bowl and said, "How can a person who has forgotten the past have a future! Eat the vegetables!"

Seeing Stephen awkwardly holding the green vegetable with two chopsticks, one left and one right, I pouted and asked Miss Clerk, "Have you not taught him to use chopsticks since you have been in China for so long?"

The lady clerk smiled and said, "You can live in Hong Kong without using chopsticks. Western food is no less than Chinese food!"

I cut it and said: "Using chopsticks can promote the development of the brain, people are much more flexible! Hands move with the brain, every day there is a fork, a knife to eat, and how troublesome it is to use both hands! Look at me, I can drink tea with one hand , Picking vegetables with one hand, if you look at him again, don’t his hands be divided? Hey, hey, hey, are you knitting a sweater? Holding chopsticks in one hand!”

Miss Clerk couldn't stand it any longer, and blamed her a little displeasedly: "It's impolite for you to tease people like this!"

I smiled and said, "You have to ask him to see if he thinks of me that much? He wants to do as the Romans do. You know that if he learns to use chopsticks and returns to their country, he can show off for a year!"

Just as he was talking, Stephen finally picked up the chopsticks with one hand, picked up the vegetables, and successfully put them into his mouth, as excited as if he had won an Olympic champion, he kept saying to the clerk: "I did it, I done!"

Looking at the displeased lady clerk, I asked, "I still don't know what your name is? Are you an aborigine from Hong Kong?"

The lady clerk was still angry, and replied flatly: "Lin Shufen! A native of Hong Kong!"

I laughed and said, "How did you come up with a name that grew up under the red flag and was born in New China! Do you have a brother named Jianguo and a sister named Xiaofang in your family?"

Shufen, who was already angry, became even more angry now. She looked at me directly and said, "I think my name sounds nice! Do you often make jokes about other people's names? I don't think it's funny!"

I put away my smiling face and said solemnly: "This is the cultural difference between the mainland and Hong Kong. We joked about the name, which is a way of showing closeness to you! I am often called Chen Ersha, Chen Laoer, it's okay! People who can call you by your baby name or nickname are the people closest to you!"

Shufen thought for a while, and felt that there was some truth to it, and then asked: "Is this really the case? But I've never heard of it. Colleagues from the Mainland call others nicknames?"

I hummed and said, "This means that they can't integrate into you at all! You instinctively look at them through colored glasses. How can they get close to you?"

Shufen said with an oh: "That's really embarrassing, I misunderstood you!"

I waved my hand, looked at Stephen who was practicing chopsticks, and said, "Stop practicing, if you practice like this, you will starve to death in China!"

After dinner, I asked them if they were going to stay in a hotel?Or should I arrange a place for them to live?
Stephen didn't go out at all and asked me to help them arrange accommodation.

I took them to the restaurant, where the place is very big, the VIP building at the back is where you can live, and there is an invincible sea view room, and you can still smell the aroma of food upstairs.

They took a break, and in the afternoon began to formally discuss cooperation with me.

As soon as Stephen talked about work, he became very professional and serious: "Chen, I have seen your plan and I like it very much. I have reported it to the headquarters and they generally agree. They will send a commissioner down soon. , to review the cooperation plan, whether you can pass it or not depends on your ability!"

I groaned and said, "Feeling, what do you mean?"

Shufen shook her head and said, "Stephen has the initiative in making decisions about the project, but this also requires approval from above!"

I hummed and said: "It is best if you are sincere, but I still have to tell you that I have to approve it here. The bus company is a public welfare department affiliated to the city government, not a private one. Wait for me There is news here, I will notify you to come over and have further negotiations!"

I'm quite confident in convincing the city government. After all, they don't need to pay a penny to get so many free environmentally-friendly cars. They just have to give up part of the profits to others. It's a good deal no matter how you look at it!
In the evening, a group of people knew that a foreigner was coming, and they were unanimous in speaking out, so that Stephen drank directly under the table and refused to come out. He insisted that the Chinese are too hospitable, and everyone who knows him or not should have a drink with him.

This move once again caused Shufen's dissatisfaction, and I didn't explain too much to her. I just said that the wine culture, in the soil of China, no one can hide from it.

After sending Stephen away, I started to go through the formalities, but I'm not from the bus company at all, so why should I run?I had no choice but to call the boss and let him work with me.

The bus company is actually a very troublesome enterprise. It is not only an ordinary enterprise, but also belongs to the regular supervision and guidance of the local industry, commerce, taxation and quality supervision; Industry supervision by the Traffic Management Bureau.

If I want to achieve my ambitious hegemony, I have to pass the approval of these three departments. The boss and I almost lost our legs. Let alone whether the matter can be done, even asking which department is responsible for this There is no clear answer.

After a few days, the boss and I were discouraged, and the boss was almost desperate: "Fei, why don't we forget it? I don't know who we are working for?"

I said firmly: "I can't just give up like this. The foreign devils have agreed to such harsh conditions. In order for the citizens of ZH to get on the bus without getting angry, we must do our best!"

In the end, a few brothers were found, and the classmates gave advice, decided to hold a class reunion, and tricked Squad Leader Zheng to come over and ask him to give us advice.

Squad leader Zheng was kind enough to invite me. When I called, he readily agreed. He just said that his stomach is not feeling well recently and he should not drink too much alcohol.

When he came, we were still as enthusiastic as our former classmates, without any sense of unfamiliarity and distance, let alone giving him any special treatment and care because of his position as squad leader, as always.

Squad leader Zheng even called our boss, the boss.

It’s more convenient to talk at the wine table. Let’s talk to each other about the recent situation. When our boss talked about the bus company, Squad Leader Zheng, who hadn’t talked to him, said, “Boss, since I went to your bus company last time, I I have been paying attention to your company, but the management is still not satisfactory! You have to think of a way!"

The boss is a real person, he looked at me hurriedly, I gave him a glare, and let him speak for himself.

Squad leader Zheng gave me a meaningful look, but said nothing.

Only then did the boss make an outline of Offutt's intention to cooperate with the bus with Squad Leader Zheng.

Squad leader Zheng listened carefully, and looked at me from time to time.

Finally, after the boss finished speaking, Squad Leader Zheng thought for a while before saying: "The idea is good, visionary, and creative. However, have you thought about a basic question? Will the bus company be private or public in the future?" ?Not to mention that the car belongs to someone else, but do you think who owns the road? How are you going to pay the tax? The bus company is not only using the public resources of the car, but also the road! In order to operate the bus, the city government built a How many roads? How many platform signs? Also, you have thought that the bus fare will be increased, and a municipal hearing will be held! Do you think the common people will agree?"

After finishing speaking, he didn't look at the boss, but looked at me.

I knew that I couldn’t do anything if I didn’t talk anymore, so I replied: “You can be a public surname, but you have to contract it out and be responsible for your own profits and losses! As for tolls and so on, you can pay them normally! Roads are not only built for buses? The car should pay the fee, and the bus will naturally have to pay. But the platform has to be free for us to use. It’s all money, and the advertising fee is a lot of money a year! As for the fare increase? It depends on how you and the people I’ve said it! It’s true that most of the people who take the bus now are ordinary people, but I think they can still accept an extra one or two yuan! In addition, I plan to launch several tourist routes, double-decker tourist buses, this You can add some money, right?"

Squad leader Zheng shook his head and said, "Have you calculated the cost? Can you recover the cost in such a monkey year? Aren't you fooling foreigners?"

I quickly retorted: "Of course not. It seems that they are losing money right now, but in the long run, they have made so many environmentally friendly cars, but they can't push them out, and they can't open the Chinese market for a long time. They are more anxious than anyone else. The annual maintenance money, plus the rent, how could they lose money? More importantly, we are a live advertisement! A live advertisement that cannot be done with money! Once the Chinese market is opened through us, that is When they get rich! This is a win-win situation, why are they unwilling! What I am worried about is that our official-based thinking, sitting in the office, takes it for granted, and when we see new things, we instinctively reject it, take it for granted I don’t think it’s feasible! If you don’t try it, how do you know if it will work?”

Squad leader Zheng said with a half smile: "Oh, you seem to be criticizing me?"

I hurriedly shook my head and said: "Don't dare, dare not, I really don't mean that, just tell me how many departments we have been in recently, and I haven't said anything yet, I have already said that it is not under their control! It's all no Seek merit, but seek no faults! This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people.

(End of this chapter)