A trip starting from the courtyard

Chapter 701 I'm Useless
After a while, a middle-aged man with a round face entered the VIP room. He introduced himself as the account manager, and after a few pleasantries, he took the watch for a free appraisal, "Mr. Xu, your Patek Philippe 5970 is indeed genuine, and it is still The rare models of Patek Philippe watches are also very well maintained, 8% of them are new, but there are three wear and tear on the crown that are completely within our recycling range."

Wang Lidong said, "What price can you give?"

The account manager said, "Mr. Xu, did you bring the watch's invoice, packing box, manual, and warranty card?"

"Yes." Wang Lidong opened the briefcase and took out a small red wooden box. The account manager took the wooden box, opened it and checked it, and found that everything was there. He said with a smile, "Mr. Xu, the original price of your watch is 92 yuan. 65 can be given.”

Without further ado, Wang Lidong took back the watch and watch box.

The account manager was stunned, and immediately asked, "Mr. Xu, are you dissatisfied with the price? I gave 7% off the original price, and the normal watch recycling price will not exceed 5% off. You can go outside to inquire about this. The price is absolutely fair.”

Wang Lidong put the watch on his wrist and said, "This watch of mine is the first watch launched by the current head of the Patek Philippe family after taking over the company. Because the craftsmanship is very complicated, a series has produced a total of 2800 watches. And my gold style is even rarer, only produced more than 200 pieces, and now the market price is around 110 million to 120 million.

I heard from a friend that the price you offered was quite reasonable, but I didn't expect you to be worse than those people on Jinpu Road. "

"Mr. Xu, you are not satisfied with the price, we can talk again." The account manager smiled and pulled Wang Lidong back.At the beginning of last year, the second-hand watch market was favored by capital, and the transactions became more and more popular. In the first two months of this year, the prices of several famous watches such as Patek Philippe and Coolidge were obviously rising, so second-hand watch dealers were actively hoarding goods, and Wang The watch in Lidong's hands is one of the top ten most popular Patek Philippe watches in the current second-hand trading market. The current market price is about 30 million.
Half an hour later, Wang Lidong saw an extra 95 in his bank account, and shook hands with the account manager.

"Mr. Xu, go slowly."

"Goodbye."

He walked briskly out of the business, and he was very satisfied with the price he could sell. Although it should be possible to get an extra 30 to [-] yuan in the auction, it was too time-consuming, and it would take more than a week at the shortest. It's not worth it if there are some small accidents in the middle.

Camry Fireworks Company
"Xiao Sun, I heard that the company is going to change locations." Xu Heng from the design department walked into the office, sat in his seat, and said to the colleague opposite.

Sun Hao raised his head and asked, "Where do you want to move? Isn't this place pretty good?"

A colleague at a station not far away asked, "Xiao Xu, who did you hear that from?"

Xu Hengdao, "What the administrator Xiaowang said... is still nearby. The company's major customer Wanzong can't sign the order. I heard that there is only one month's salary left in the financial account. The boss wants to reduce costs."

Someone said, "I also heard about the new office, which is half the size of the current one."

"Shrink it in half? Isn't it going to be squeezed together in the future?"

"Such a small area? There is no place to put the camp bed, so how can you take a nap?"

"Mr. Xu, good." Xu Qin at the front desk greeted the boss with a smile.

"Hello." Wang Lidong nodded and walked into the office.Before he could sit still, the driver Chen Xu opened the door and entered, "Brother, you're back."

"Gu Jia is home?"

"My sister is already home. Brother, there are rumors in the company that the company is going to change venues?"

"Yeah." Wang Lidong took a sip from his teacup and said, "Words have spread about the company, what's everyone's reaction?"

Chen Xu explained the reactions of his colleagues in a low voice, "Everyone knows the company's situation. Most of them just complained, worried that there would be no place to take a nap."

Wang Lidong said, "The new office space is half smaller than this one, but everyone's work area is not much smaller.

The current front desk area plus the reception area has an area of ​​more than 50 square meters, which is actually not that much.It is enough to reserve one conference room, and it can save more than 20 square meters.In addition, all the offices have shrunk by half, and an area of ​​[-] square meters has been saved. "

Chen Xu thought for a while, if he removes some fancy and unnecessary decorations, maybe everyone's work area will be two to three square meters at most, "Brother, if there is nothing else, I'll go out first."

After Chen Xu went out, Wang Lidong picked up the phone and called Xu Sheng, the accountant, and asked him to issue a loan contract, the lender was himself, the borrower was the company, and the amount was 90.

Xu Sheng on the other end of the phone was very surprised. He didn't expect the boss to get the money so quickly, so he hurriedly said, "Alright Mr. Xu, I'll draft it right away."

After a while, Xu Sheng, the company's finance manager, entered the office and put the loan contract on his desk. Wang Lidong picked it up, looked at it, and then picked up his mobile phone to operate, "Xu Sheng, I have already transferred the money. The company and my card are the same card. Bank, the money will arrive today."

Xu Sheng smiled and nodded, "Okay, Mr. Xu. If there is nothing else, I'll go out first."

"it is good."

After Xu Sheng left the room, Wang Lidong picked up the phone again and called the sales manager, "Manager Zhao, come to my office."

After a while, Zhao Zhisheng from the sales department entered the office, and Wang Lidong cut to the chase, "Manager Zhao, it's already June. In the past six months, how many new customers have the sales department brought to the company? How much is the company's sales from January to May?" "

Zhao Zhisheng said awkwardly, "Mr. Xu, a new customer was added in the first half of the year. The sales from January to May were 489 million."

Wang Lidong's face turned cold.

The sales department has the largest number of people in the entire company. There are 8 people in total, but [-]% to [-]% of the company's business comes from him and Gu Jiala. They spent a lot of money, but they raised a group of uncles who fished.

"Manager Zhao, the company is not a nursing home, nor is it a welfare home. If the company's sales do not reach 1400 million by the end of the year, you will not be able to use it next year."

Looking at Zhao Zhisheng with an ugly face, he continued, "If the quota is fulfilled at the end of the year, 0.7% of the total sales will be counted as your bonus. And the sales commission for salespersons will be increased to 1.5%."

Zhao Zhisheng cheered up, and calculated in his mind that if he fulfilled the quota, he would get a bonus of about [-] yuan. Suddenly, he thought of a question and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Xu, the total sales package you mentioned does not include you and Mr. Gu. customer of?"

Wang Lidong nodded and said, "Including."

Grand Hyatt Binjiang

"A group of children played the role of an eagle and catching chickens. One of them played the role of an eagle, and the other played the role of an old wood chicken. May I ask how many children there are in three more groups?" After Gu Jia finished reading the exam questions, she looked at her son, and Xu Ziyan scratched his little head. Gua, adding and subtracting with a pencil, said, "Mom, there are 40 children in total, right?"

Gu Jia smiled and kissed her son, "Ziyan is so smart. Let's move on to the next question. There are two glasses of juice, the baby drank it"

"Dingling" Gu Jia put down her book, picked up her phone, and the caller showed 'Finance Xu Sheng', "Hello, Manager Xu."

Xu Sheng said on the other end of the phone, "Mr. Gu, I have something to report to you."

"what's up?"

"Mr. Xu borrowed 90 yuan to the company for emergency, and it has already been credited to the company's account."

Gu Jia was taken aback, but said, "I see." After hanging up the phone, she turned to the number of 'Xu Huanshan', clicked to dial, and after three rings, the other end of the phone rang Familiar voice, "Hi, wife, what's the matter?"

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Jia said, "Husband, you go home early today, I have prepared a lot of dishes to celebrate our moving to a new house."

Wang Lidong looked at the time, it was almost four o'clock, and said, "Okay, I'll get off work later." After hanging up the phone, he thought for a while, almost forgot something, picked up the phone again, and dialed his friend Shen Jay's phone.
"Hello, Huanshan."

Wang Lidong said, "When are you free this week?"

Shen Jie said, "What's the matter?"

"It's been a long time since I played football."

"Play football? How about Sunday?"

"Okay, then it's settled, Sunday, old time, old place."

"Okay. I'm busy, so I won't tell you. See you then."

He hung up the phone, turned off the computer, took his briefcase, left the office, asked the driver Chen Xu to drive, and delivered it to a supermarket near the gate of the community.

Half an hour later, the car arrived near the river beach. After the car stopped, Chen Xu looked at the rearview mirror on the right, "Brother, you can get out of the car."

Wang Lidong pushed open the car door, "Don't go back to the company, just get off work."

"Okay, brother, go slowly."

After Wang Lidong got out of the car, he looked around the surrounding shops and found the 'Huang Di Boutique Supermarket'. After walking around inside, he took half a dozen towels and paid the bill.

After leaving the supermarket, he walked along Xidaming Road for more than 200 meters, and a somewhat familiar sign came into his eyes, 'mishil',
"Thank you for coming, please go slowly." Salesman Zoe bowed and sent away her old customers. When she got up, she found a man in his 30s standing not far away, looking at their store.

Looking at the man's attire and shoes, it is estimated that the total cost of the outfit is four to five thousand. He is carrying a briefcase and a vest bag in his hand. The words 'Huangdi Boutique Supermarket' are printed on the bag. It should be filled with Towels, then eighty to ninety percent of them should be residents living nearby, who greeted him politely, "Hello, sir."

"Hello." Wang Lidong greeted, and by the way, looked at the girl. She has short hair, big eyes, and a good figure, but she is a little short, about 160cm.

"Sir, we are a Misia specialty store. You can go into the store and have a look."

Wang Lidong nodded, raised his legs and entered Misia, looked around, and found Wang Manni, one of the heroines, who was selling something with a female customer, who looked like Jiang Shuying.
"Sir, men's clothing is on the second floor, please follow me." Sales Zoe made a gesture of invitation.

"Are there casual ones?" Wang Lidong walked up the steps to the second floor.

"This way please." Zoe led him to the casual men's clothing area, pointing to seven or eight hangers and said, "Sir, here are all casual styles. You can look at them as you like."

Wang Lidong took a blue T-shirt casually and touched the fabric.
"Sir, this is the new product of this season. This color sells very well, and its fabric is very comfortable to wear."

Wang Lidong looked at the label, 13800 yuan. It's not cheap!

With the balance in his card, he was able to buy five or six pieces of clothes. After he casually looked at two more clothes, he left the Misia store.

"Thank you for coming, please go slowly." The salesman Zoe bowed, and the salesman Masi stepped forward and said, "Zoe, this person's outfits add up to a sky-high 5000 yuan, and he will definitely not buy clothes from our store. You are so enthusiastic, you are wasting time wasting expression."

Zoe glanced at Ma Si and snorted, "The vest bag this man is carrying is from a nearby supermarket, which means he lives here." While speaking, she saw Wang Lidong turn right, "Did you see that? People live in the Grand Hyatt Mansion”

Ma Si insisted, "You don't necessarily have to live in the Grand Hyatt Mansion. Maybe it's the security guards who work in the Grand Hyatt Mansion."

Zooey rolled her eyes, too lazy to argue with this sissy
"Honey, you're back." Gu Jia heard the sound of the door opening, walked out of the kitchen, saw Wang Lidong open the door and entered the house, and saw him holding a plastic bag, "What did you buy?"

"towel."

"Husband, what do you buy towels for?"

"Wash your face." He changed his shoes, put on slippers, first put the briefcase in the study, and then removed a towel and went to the bathroom. Gu Jia followed him in, "Husband, don't we always wash our faces with soft cotton towels?"

"I'm not used to small pieces of cloth." Wang Lidong curled his lips, saying that towels have a lot of bacteria, and disposable ones are the safest and most reliable.

If it was placed 20 years ago, he might have been recruited.Just like the scam of chicken essence, in order to seize the huge market of monosodium glutamate, chicken essence has been promoting itself as authentic, more nutritious and healthier.

There are also various negative news about MSG in the market at the same time, such as eating too much will lower your IQ, cause cancer, etc., how scary it is.

The other family didn't dare to use MSG, and switched to chicken essence. After the development of the Internet, they realized that half of the ingredients in chicken essence, which are all deceitful, are MSG.

He washed a new towel with sulfur soap, thinking that his predecessor could last for a few years, and every time he used a cotton towel the size of a glasses cloth to wash his face, he would have exploded long ago.

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Gu Jia frowned and said, "Husband, the bathroom is full of water vapor, it's bacteria and mites." She'Balabala' and Wang Lidong spent several minutes popularizing science on the disadvantages of washing your face with a towel
"According to scientific statistics, a person needs to breathe more than 20 cubic meters of air a day. In the office buildings, residential buildings, hotels and other rooms in the city, the bacteria content in the air is as high as 1.5 per cubic meter. According to this calculation, each of us 30 bacteria are inhaled every day. According to your thinking, we all stop breathing!"

After rinsing the towel, he washed his face with the towel. It felt thick and cotton. This is called face washing, so comfortable! "As long as you hang the towel in the sun for 6 hours, you can achieve the disinfection effect. From now on, let Sister Chen take it to the balcony to dry for half a day every day."

There was a burnt smell coming from the tip of his nose, he said, "Honey, what is burning in the kitchen?"

"Oh, my broccoli." Gu Jia hurriedly ran back to the kitchen and turned off the fire, turned on the exhaust, and after the smoke dissipated, opened the lid of the pot, and it was dark.
At night, a family of three sat at the dining table, Gu Jia raised the wine glass in front of her, "Come on, let's have a drink."

"Cheers, let's celebrate moving into a new home." Wang Lidong drank the red wine and smacked his lips. It tasted weird, and he had never been used to it.I picked up the chopsticks and picked up the pan-fried beef. The taste was okay, but it was a bit old.
Gu Jia saw that Wang Lidong's left wrist was empty, "Honey, where is your watch?"

"It's done."

Sure enough, Gu Jia said with an unwavering expression, "Husband is such a big matter, why didn't you tell me in advance?"

Wang Lidong rubbed Xu Ziyan's child, "Let's not talk about this now, let's have a good meal."

Gu Jia glanced at her son and nodded.

"Son, let's toast to your mother, thank her for preparing such a delicious meal." Wang Lidong raised his glass, Xu Ziyan hurriedly picked up the juice glass, "Thank you, Mom."

"Cheers." Gu Jia smiled and clinked glasses with her husband and son, took a sip and said, "Husband, don't forget about the interview tomorrow."

"Remember." Wang Lidong suddenly remembered a plot in the TV series, looked at cheap son and said, "Ziyan, tell Dad, where is the capital?"

Xu Ziyan blurted out, "On the arm."

Gu Jia thought her son hadn't heard clearly, so she repeated, "Ziyan, Dad asked where the capital is."

The kid glanced at his mother, hesitated and said, "It's on the arm."

Gu Jia frowned and said, "Ziyan, what mother is talking about is where is the capital of our country?"

Seeing his son looking at him with an aggrieved face, Wang Lidong patted the little guy's head, "Ziyan, Dad said the capital, not the hand," he said, spreading out his palm, "This is called a hand." He took out his mobile phone, found a map of the four seas, and popularized the geographical knowledge of the four seas to his son.
Five minutes later, Gu Jia asked, "Ziyan, which city are we in now?"

The child Xu Ziyan looked at the map on the phone, pointed to Mingzhu and said, "Here."

"Exactly. Ziyan is awesome, so tell mom, where is the capital?"

The child Xu Ziyan pointed to the capital road, "Here."

Gu Jia picked up her son, kissed her twice, and said with a smile, "Ziyan is so smart."

After dinner and letting their son play on the slide, Wang Lidong and Gu Jia entered the study.

Seeing Gu Jia staring at him, he said, "How much are the bank cards of the two of us together?"

Gu Jia calculated, "It should be more than 20 yuan."

Wang Lidong said, "I'll settle the score with you.

There are still ten days until July, and the mortgage is 7 yuan. If my son passes the interview, he will have to pay 106000 tuition fees immediately, and the company’s three-month rent is 12 yuan. Just add one yuan to these and it will cost 3 yuan. The money in the company’s account now I don’t want to pawn the watch if it’s only enough to pay next month’s salary if I can move around. "

Gu Jia's face froze, she walked to his side, took his arm and said, "Husband, I didn't think carefully, I shouldn't be in such a hurry to change the house, I should wait until the company's business reaches a higher level before changing, but my son immediately I'm going to kindergarten, I just want to give him the best education I'm sorry!"

Wang Lidong said insincerely, "Honey, the two of us decided to change the house together. I should be the one to apologize. If the company can earn 300 million a year, then everything will be solved. Wife, I will discuss something with you."

Gu Jia said, "What's the matter?"

After hesitating for a while, Wang Lidong said, "The company's annual profit has been around 200 million for the past few years, but by the end of the year, we didn't have any money saved on the card.

After Mr. Wan's list is gone, our company's annual profit will be about 100 million.

After the company changed the location, it can save about 100 million rents a year. Originally, I wanted to fill the pit of the mortgage, so that the quality of life of our family would not decline, but in the current situation, the family's expenses have to be halved."

Gu Jia took two deep breaths, glanced at Wang Lidong's left wrist and nodded.

Wang Lidong said, "In the afternoon, I roughly calculated our family's expenses in the past few years.

My monthly expenses average around 1.5 yuan, Ziyan 2.5 yuan a month, you 7 yuan a month, sister Chen 1.5 yuan a month, food, water, electricity, entertainment and other miscellaneous expenses at home add about 4 yuan.

My plan is, my living expenses will be halved, Ziyan will go to kindergarten soon, and all kinds of interest classes will be stopped, which can save 1 yuan. My wife, your flower arrangement, appreciation and other courses have all been stopped. You can save 2.5 yuan a month, and there is no way to reduce Sister Chen's salary. The family's expenses" He pointed to the various decorative lights in the study to set off the atmosphere, "These are usually turned off, and there are various entertainments, which are not important to us. None of them will participate, and the semi-annual tour will be changed to once a year.”

He used the computer to add, subtract, and subtract, and the annual expenses would be about 140 million. Gu Jia looked at the calculation results and said, "My husband, let's halve my living expenses too."

After waiting for a long time, you finally spoke!

Wang Lidong hugged Gu Jia, and said with shame, "My wife, I'm sorry, I'm useless, and let you suffer with me. But don't worry, this is only temporary. After the company's business resumes, our family's life will It will be back to normal.”

"Honey, I believe you can do it." Gu Jia raised her right fist as she spoke, "Come on!"

Wang Lidong raised his fist and said, "Let's work together!"

The next day, in the morning, Wang Lidong's family went to the kindergarten for an interview, and the process went very smoothly.After leaving the school, he hailed a taxi, "Honey, then I'll go to the company."

"Goodbye, Dad." Gu Jia waved goodbye to his son, and after the car drove away, the two got into the car, "Chen Xu, please, take us home."

"Okay, sister. Sit still." Chen Xu turned on the turn signal, lightly stepped on the accelerator, and the car started slowly, "Sister, did the interview go well today?"

"It went well and passed. Ziyan will be able to go to school next Monday." Gu Jia asked, "Chen Xu, do colleagues have any opinions about the company changing the venue?"

Chen Xu looked in the rearview mirror and said, "I understand everything. Without Mr. Wan's list, the company is also quite difficult.

And this time the new venue is near the company, so most of them just complain. "

After 5 minutes, the car entered the community. Gu Jia saw her friend Zhong Xiaoqin through the car window, and hurriedly ordered Chen Xu to stop, and closed the car window, "Xiaoqin."

Zhong Xiaoqin stopped, followed the sound, saw that it was her best friend, walked to the car, and said happily, "Gu Gu. Didn't you bring Ziyan to the interview today?" She also greeted her uncle Chen Xu by the way.

Gu Jia opened the car door and took her son out of the car, "I have passed the interview. Are you free now?"

Zhong Xiaoqin picked up her godson, kissed her, and said, "I'm not busy, what's the matter?"

Gu Jia said, "Go, go to my house, I have something to ask you."

(End of this chapter)