Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 102 102. Zhang Yingfang's Mood for Love
The night was getting dark, and when Zhang Yingfang walked out of the office, she saw Dong Yiqing lying in front of the computer and falling asleep.

She tiptoed to Dong Yiqing's side, reached out to pick up a notebook full of annotations on the table, and slowly flipped through it page by page.

When she put the notebook back on the table, she couldn't help but glance down at Dong Yiqing who was sleeping soundly.She thought of the countless nights in the past, in Japan, in Southeast Asia, and in Europe, she also slept in front of the computer like Dong Yiqing in front of her.At that moment, she seemed to see herself when she was young.

She suddenly reached out and took off her shawl to cover Dong Yiqing's body, with tenderness in her eyes.

Dong Yiqing, who was lying on the table, moved the corners of her mouth and said something in her sleep.

Zhang Yingfang walked back to her office and poured herself a small glass of red wine.Holding the wine glass, looking at the mottled night outside the window, I fell into the memory.

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Zhang Yingfang's father, Zhang Quanfu, was originally a stonemason in a small mountain village in Fujian Province, and he has a good craft handed down from his ancestors.There is a stone shop in the family, whether it is big or small.

There are four brothers and sisters.During the day, Zhang Quanfu went out to work, and his mother took the four children with him.

At the earliest time, the business of the stone shop was not ideal, because there were many mouths to eat, so the Zhang family's family situation was not very good.Fortunately, there are a few distant relatives who help them from time to time, and they can barely maintain their life.

There are not a few people in the village who have been masons for generations, and many masons have their own unique skills.Some are good at figures, some are good at animals, insects and birds, and some are good at depicting buildings, but Zhang Quanfu's ability is different, and his best place is in carving different kinds of flowers and plants.

This craft is very unpopular, because most people don't need this kind of stone decorations, so Zhang Quanfu's business has always been relatively deserted.Although he also went out to help others carve stone lions and steles, but he earned much less and spent much more, and there has been no improvement.

Because of work, Zhang Quanfu often needs to deal with stone merchants. After a long time of contact, the two sides have trust. Some stone merchants will put some product samples in his shop for consignment sales. After the sale, the two parties will share in proportion.Later, he found that the selection of materials sent by the stone merchants was poor, and he started to make stone materials and stonemasons again and again.

Time flies and the children are growing up.

The eldest Zhang Yingwang, Zhang Shuo's father, did not like the work of masonry, so he signed up to join the army at the age of 17 and went to the army to receive training.

Although the second son, Zhang Yinghua, was also a boy, after graduating from high school, he neither joined the army like his elder brother nor learned skills from his father, a mason. I like this eloquent son.

The third child, Zhang Yingfang, is the only daughter in the family. In addition to studying well, she also shows a keen interest in stonemasonry, which neither of her older brothers is interested in.But Zhang Quanfu had no education, so he didn't have much culture. The remaining feudal thought of patriarchy and family business should be passed on to men and not to women made him not want to train Zhang Yingfang as his successor.

Although the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, it is obvious that Zhang Yingfang is just rough and thick meat on the back of the hands, which is only suitable for exposure to wind, sun and rain.

The age difference between the above three children is no more than three years, but the third boy in the family, the fourth eldest Zhang Yingfei, is about six or seven years behind the above brothers and sisters.Due to the hard life, the parents feel more guilt towards the youngest, and it is inevitable that they will be somewhat partial and spoiled on weekdays.Although his study is also good, there is still a big gap compared with his third sister Zhang Yingfang.

Although the business of the stone shop is bleak, it is still in operation, but the boss is not at home, and the second child is not in tune, so on weekdays, it mainly relies on the third child Zhang Yingfang and the fourth child Zhang Yingfei to help Zhang Quanfu and so on.

But after school, there will be various activities in school or in the society from time to time. The young Zhang Yingfei has no intention of staying at home, and often runs out of the house with excuses to socialize and entertain with his friends.It was the back of his hand that Zhang Quanfu didn't want to cultivate the most to stay with his father in doing things and learning skills.

Entering the 80s, Japanese people suddenly began to appear in the village.With a lot of money in their hands, these Japanese businessmen purchase traditional stone craft products with Chinese characteristics everywhere.

To the surprise of all the stonemasons in the village, the most popular items in the village turned out to be Zhang Quanfu's stuff.

The unremarkable stone carvings of flowers and plants were packed one by one by the shrewd Japanese into the car, and then thrown into the ferry to Fusang.

A lot of bills flew into Zhang Quanfu's pocket.A small business becomes a small business, and a small business becomes a big business.

There was a thunder on the ground, and it was rich suddenly.

Zhang Quanfu and his stone shop immediately became popular.Those who come to recommend stone materials, and those who ask him to help sell stone carvings will trample on the threshold of his home and shop.

Seeing their father making money, the second child and the fourth child seemed to have suddenly changed their minds, and they surrounded Zhang Quanfu every day to show diligence and study.

Not long after such days, the boss who heard the news was demobilized and returned home, and started to take care of the carving and stone business with his father.

As the business is getting better and better, the family needs someone to go to Japan and Southeast Asian countries to help sell products.This was a good opportunity for exercise. Zhang Quanfu originally wanted his eldest son Zhang Yingwang to go overseas to see the world, broaden his horizons, increase his experience, and come back after a few years of exercise to take over his position in a legitimate way.

But to his surprise, Zhang Yingwang directly rejected his proposal on the grounds that his parents were old and he needed to stay with the elders to take care of them, and he was willing to give this opportunity to younger brothers or sisters.

Zhang Quanfu saw that what Zhang Yingwang was really worried about was that his younger brothers took advantage of his absence to gain control of the family company.

He turned his head in disappointment, and cast his eyes on the second and fourth children, but as he expected, the two refused more simply than the eldest, and the reasons were also old sayings such as "the parents are here, don't travel far away". Zhang Quanfu choked half to death, and almost spat out a mouthful of old blood on the carved stone.

Zhang Quanfu fell into deep confusion, not understanding why his sons were so lacking in courage and responsibility.

At this moment, Zhang Yingfang, who had been neglected by her father, walked in front of Zhang Quanfu.As she grows older and has been exposed to it for many years, she has more experience and understanding of what her father did.She volunteered to go to Japan to develop her father's business.She knew very well in her heart that no matter how good she was, she could not easily change her father's deep-rooted ideas.Instead of this, it is better to hang overseas alone and fight hard.

Wide sea diving, sky high the birds to fly.

Seeing that the Zhang family has made money, more masons in this village and neighboring villages have also entered the mode of flower carving.The emergence of competition makes the price war brutally torture all practitioners in the market in the most primitive way.

As the saying goes, ideals are full, but reality is skinny and cruel.

In the late 80s, the Japanese economy declined rapidly at an unexpected speed. Zhang's purchase orders dropped rapidly from several hundred per quarter to dozens per quarter, and then dropped to more than a dozen per year until finally there was no order.

The boss, the second child and the fourth child have also set up their own companies in the past few years. Seeing that the big tree of their father has withered and withered, the three brothers have shown their talents and set up clever schemes to transfer the income of the family company to themselves. In the account of the company under the name.

The three brothers, who are full of conflicts with each other, have reached an unprecedented consensus at this time: the father is dead and the mother is married, so let's take care of each other.

When the flower masons in this village and neighboring villages transformed into other carving fields, Zhang Yingfang, who had seen it before, persuaded Zhang Quanfu to let her take the products and the rest of the funds, from Japan to Southeast Asia, and then into Europe, to participate in the Professional exhibitions held in countries such as Germany, France and Luxembourg.

In the eyes of the three brothers, Zhang Yingfang's approach was purely futile, but Zhang Yingfang firmly believed that the European market at that time was a new world, and she was worth giving it a go.

Unexpectedly, it was this last fight that allowed her to break into a new sky.

At that time, there were not many domestic stone manufacturers in the German market.Relying on exquisite craftsmanship, excellent stone materials, and low prices, Zhang Yingfang's products have won orders from Germans and Luxembourgers in one fell swoop.Although the number and amount of orders cannot be compared with those received by the Japanese during the peak period of the company, Zhang Yingfang can be regarded as the person who turned the tide when the traditional business of the family company was in jeopardy.

Zhang Quanfu never imagined that before he was 70 years old, he could see with his own eyes that his small business turned into a big business of transnational trade later on.

Seeing the dead trees come back to spring again, and the old trees grow new branches, the three brothers reluctantly transferred the money back to the family company's account one after another secretly.

From 1999 to 2000, Zhang Yingfang came into contact with a German company. The other party was very aggressive, demanding and cumbersome, but the number of orders was not very high.

According to the views of the three brothers and even Zhang Quanfu, there is no need to do this kind of small fish and shrimp, and it is king to go all out to serve other big customers well.

However, Zhang Yingfang insisted that "customers have no size", and still negotiated with the Germans according to the rules and procedures, and even brought Zhang Quanfu into the negotiation later.

But what surprised the three brothers was still to come. The Germans agreed with Zhang Quanfu's ideas and products very much. After the negotiation, they not only increased the total purchase amount, but also introduced another German company to Zhang Quanfu.

This time the three brothers couldn't sit still any longer, and wanted to reach out their hands to join in.

But because the boss is in charge of domestic business and his own private affairs all the year round, there are so many and complicated things that he can't get away at all.

Because the fourth child was young and full of energy, he immediately followed him.

The situation with the second child is a little more complicated.After all, the eldest brother still knows some business, while the second child knows nothing about business because he has been idle for many years, but he is unwilling to stay out of it, so he set up a translation agency.Translation agencies usually have no business at all and have been losing money.But Zhang Yinghua thinks more: every time Zhang Quanfu goes abroad, he personally selects a male translator from the translation agency to accompany him, and even the translator and his life secretary get it done together, in the name of taking care of the elderly.

The other brothers and sisters didn't think much about it at first, but during a spot check of the contract, Zhang Yingfang accidentally discovered that the German purchase price on the contract was much lower than the previous quotation, and no one in the company raised any objections to this.

Feeling that something was wrong, Zhang Yingfang made a phone call to the Nuremberg headquarters of the German company to inquire about the situation, but she got an unexpected answer: the purchase price has never changed.

After some investigation, everyone found out that the translator sent by the second child made a fake contract to deceive the company by taking advantage of the fact that everyone did not understand foreign languages ​​and the company's seal management was lax. One addition makes five points.

Zhang Yingfang immediately called the police. Seeing the male translator and the company's finances go to jail, the second child also felt ashamed.Although everyone said that this matter had nothing to do with him, and he still asked him to find an interpreter every time he went abroad, but he knew very well in his heart that he would not have a place to speak at home in the future.

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This time, Zhang Quanfu went to Germany to discuss business in person at the age of more than 70 years, and the whole family attached great importance to it.Not to mention, the fourth child is naturally the most caring.

Zhang Yingfang sighed and extinguished the cigarette in her hand.She curled up on the sofa, trying to make herself more comfortable, and soon fell asleep.

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At 8:30 the next morning, Lu Wei began to call the labor agencies who were optimistic about last night and provided job information. Most of them rejected her outright, but the last agency agreed to recommend her for a try first. Ask her to go to the agency to register first with the materials.

Lu Wei casually grabbed two bites of rice, jumped on the city light rail, and went straight to the agency.

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At nine o'clock sharp, Dong Qiangqiang arrived at the driving school on time.With the embarrassing experience of actually driving for the first time, sitting in the classroom, he listened more seriously than the first time.

After all, he paid real money for this knowledge.More importantly, whether he studies well is directly related to how much money he will make in the future, and he doesn't want to hang around like before.

Maybe this is the beginning of growth.

(End of this chapter)