Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 49 049 Cicada Chirping
"Uncle Hao, I've kept you waiting for a long time." After making the call, Tang Zhitong's attitude changed ninety degrees. There was no more alienation, only intimacy.

"It seems Jingwen talks better than me." Hao Ren teased Tang Zhitong with a smile.

Tang Zhitong smiled and acquiesced.

"Let's go, you find a place, and we'll go have dinner. If I don't declare my identity, are you not going to take care of me?" Hao Ren still teased Tang Zhitong.

"How can you do that? Do you have any preferences or taboos? I'll take you to a restaurant." Although Tang Zhitong planned this, he definitely couldn't admit it.

"It's a cold day, let's go have some mutton soup." Hao Ren suggested, stamping his feet.

"Okay, I know there is a joint venture store with old craftsmanship passed down from ancestors. Can I take you to try it?" Tang Zhitong walked around alleys all day long. Although he had never eaten it himself, he had heard about it from the people.

Joint stores are a historical product, and there are still many of them, but they disappeared completely until the wind blew up.

"Lead the way." Hao Ren patted the snow off the car seat and said.

"Then let's walk." Tang Zhitong got on the car and rushed to the mutton soup shop.

After a while, the two came to the door of the mutton soup shop, locked the car, and helped each other sweep the snow off their bodies before entering.

Since it’s not yet dinner time, there are still empty seats in the restaurant.

"Uncle Hao, do you want mutton or haggis?" Tang Zhitong glanced at the small blackboard in the store, which read the dishes and prices: mutton soup 0.22 yuan/bowl, haggis soup 0.18 yuan/bowl, and sesame seed cakes 0.05 yuan/piece.

"Haggis." Hao Ren rubbed his hands and stamped his feet. He had been out for a long time and his leather shoes were not very warm.

"Would you like chopped green onions and coriander?" Tang Zhitong asked smoothly.

"Where's the coriander coming from now? I don't want any chopped green onions." Hao Ren felt that Tang Zhitong was both careful and careless. The careful one asked if he should add more, but the careless one didn't even know that there was no coriander at this time. How did he know that this was where Tang Zhitong used to live? What kind of society is one with great material abundance?
"Hey, I haven't eaten for a long time and I forgot about this." Tang Zhitong took the responsibility on himself and turned towards the front desk.

"Excuse me, two bowls of haggis, no chopped green onions, eight sesame cakes. If there's not enough, I'll add more." Tang Zhitong finished his report and took out the money to pay the bill.

Before the joint venture, there was basically no rule about giving money first and eating later. In the old capital, it was considered a curse to give money first and eat later. Therefore, in "Tea House", shopkeeper Wang was said to be "shameful" when he was old and collected legal tender.

"A total of seventy-six cents." The girl at the front desk wrote the invoice, collected the money, and then shouted to the kitchen: "Eight sesame seed cakes, two bowls of mutton soup, no green onions!"

The chef confirmed and repeated loudly: "Okay, eight sesame seed cakes, two bowls of mutton soup, no green onions!"

The mutton soup is cooked in advance and is easy to make. After a while, the chef put the things on the serving plate and shouted to the front desk: "Eight sesame seed cakes and two bowls of mutton soup are ready!"

The girl at the front desk put the dish in front of Hao Ren and Tang Zhitong and asked the customers to leave on their own. Her attitude was not bad, but it was definitely not good.

Not all industries have experienced a decline in service attitude after the joint venture, but the catering industry has suffered the most. Serving food and removing tables was originally the job of waiters, but in the later stage, they wished they could only be responsible for removing tables...

Drinking mutton soup on a snowy day is a kind of enjoyment, which warms you from the inside out.The two of them ate sesame seed cakes and drank mutton soup, and had a great time.

Tang Zhitong added soup once in the middle. Well, he took it to the kitchen window and added it. Fortunately, there was no extra charge.

There was no way to chat in the mutton soup restaurant. Before the two of them finished eating, there were already customers waiting for a table.

After drinking a bowl of mutton soup, the two returned to the branch office and sat in Zheng Suo's office chatting. Zheng Suo went to the business hall on the pretext of having something to do. At this time, no one opened their eyes to disturb them.

"Xiao Tang, do you have any difficulties at work?" Hao Ren sat down and did not talk about personal matters.

"I personally don't have any difficulties. I can overcome even a little bit, but I have some ideas on how to improve and improve work efficiency." Now that Hao Ren's identity has been confirmed with Wang Jingwen, Tang Zhitong has no intention of hiding it. He got the house number a while ago. It was for his own convenience, but there were still many letters that made it inconvenient for him, so he had to solve it from the root.

"Oh? Tell me." Hao Ren took out a small notebook from his jacket pocket, then took out a pen from his jacket pocket, opened it and prepared to record.

"Although I have only been here for two months, I have come across many letters that were sorted incorrectly. They were not in the Hujialou area at all. They were sent here and I had to go back and sort them again. I have carefully read and received these letters. We can’t blame the sorting personnel for not being careful about the recipient’s information. There are either typos, bad spelling, or the names of alleys have the same name, which indeed brings certain difficulties to sorting.” Tang Zhitong recalled while sorting it out in his mind. Express it in appropriate language.

"anything else?"

"I once encountered an envelope that went in a big circle before it arrived. My dear, the front and back of the envelope were almost full of postmarks. I analyzed from the sender's address and postmark that it was sent from Jin Province to Sijiu City. It should have been sorted and sent to Sichuan Province first, and then returned to Sijiu City. The letter was supposed to be received in three to five days, but it took almost a month to reach the recipient. The recipient was not satisfied and asked me what happened. That's what happened." Tang Zhitong thought of a representative example and was so impressed that the postmarks almost overlapped.

"How did you explain it?" Hao Ren refined the key points and recorded them in his notebook and asked smoothly.

"I said that you wrote this letter because you wanted to visit other places to visit the great places of the motherland. It is very memorable." Tang Zhitong said helplessly: "What else can I say? I can't apologize, can I? Then I also It’s so unfair.”

"Good boy, you are quite tactful." Hao Ren was happy and nodded in approval.

"I was thinking about how to avoid similar mistakes, but I didn't think of a good solution for a moment. When I called today, someone asked me where I wanted to go, and I suddenly had an idea. You said that every place has an area code, right? ? Can the letters also be added with a code similar to the area code? It would be better if it could be specific to the branch. It would be much easier to sort the letters based on the code, right?" Tang Zhitong did not dare to directly say the zip code, which is how it is called overseas.

"Your idea is very good!" Hao Ren acknowledged the problem Tang Zhitong found. He had a deep understanding of post and telecommunications and asked, "It is a bit difficult to implement. Have you ever thought about how the writer knows the recipient's code? ? How should coding be divided according to regions?"

"I don't know the situation, so I don't dare to make any conclusions. But there are many ways to know the code. You see, the envelopes we are selling now at Postal and Telecommunications are blank on both front and back. When we print the envelopes, Print a few more words, such as: recipient address code, recipient detailed address, recipient name, sender address code, sender address and other prompt information, so you know what information to fill in, right? "

"When the coding is discussed above, each branch office in each region will mark the local code on the mailbox or at the door. Then we will know the local code, right? If each branch office has two manuals for querying the code, the sender will be able to know Is the recipient coded?”

"Coupled with newspaper publicity, school publicity and other methods, the letter writer can take the initiative to inform the recipient of his or her code. Over time, I believe this situation will improve soon."

Tang Zhitong said that Hao Ren was making notes in his notebook, and after finishing his notes, he said meaningfully: "I'm afraid you didn't just think of this, right? Why didn't you report it to the higher authorities earlier?"

"It's not to borrow the autumn wind to speak loudly and stay far away. Uncle Hao, the same words have different weights when spoken from different people's mouths."

(End of this chapter)