Back to 90s small fishing village

While Xu Caimei and the others were moving towards happiness, the millennium had quietly come to them unknowingly.

Before dawn that day, Xu Pingli moved something into the office one after another, tinkered with it, and then left quietly, but he did not go far and hid in the guard room to watch.

The first people to enter the office were Xu Caimei and Li Meiyan.

The two were talking and laughing when suddenly, Li Meiyan asked in surprise: "What is this?"

"Maybe it's the TV?" Xu Caimei asked, "Didn't the old TV break two days ago? Ping Li said to buy a new one."

"Ahem." Xu Pingli appeared out of nowhere and walked over pretentiously, "This is not a TV, this is a computer."

"Computer?" Li Meiyan looked at this unfamiliar machine, "With such a small screen, it's not as good as a TV."

Xu Caimei squatted down. She noticed a button similar to a power button on the console and pressed it.

The host started running, and Xu Pingli took the opportunity to open the display screen. Some small characters appeared on the black computer screen, line by line, and then disappeared quickly.

Then, the screen lit up blue and the sound of startup music came from the speakers.

There are only a few icons on the empty desktop, with text labels such as "My Computer", "My Documents", "Network Connection" and "Recycle Bin" written on them.

Xu Pingli sat down, held the mouse, and the white arrows on the desktop started to move.

"Yeah, there's a place to put discs here." Xu Caimei, who was exploring on her own, looked at the pop-up optical drive and was very happy. "The school sent us CDs for the courses before. Although my family also bought a disc player, it still didn't work. You have to watch it at home, but now you can watch it here, so you don’t have to worry about being bored on duty.”

"I also went to apply to join the network. Buying computers and surfing the Internet are very popular recently. There are so many people applying, and I have to wait in line for a long time, almost half a month." Xu Pingli said, "When the time comes, We can obtain information more conveniently, and we can also advertise on major websites to let more people know about our brand.”

"Are you okay? From what you said, it's just like a scam. It's extremely mysterious..." Li Meiyan glanced at Xu Pingli half-jokingly and said with a smile.

"Look what you said," Xu Pingli stood up, walked to his desk, opened the cabinet, took out several large magazines, and confidently slapped them on the table in front of Li Meiyan.

"I have been studying computers and networks since 98. I hired someone to install this computer myself. I have learned almost all the basic software."

"That's great," Xu Caimei said. "This way we can save money on hiring new employees who are computer literate."

The three of them sat in the office and chatted for a while before they noticed why the farm was still deserted today.

"What's going on? It's almost eleven o'clock, why is no one checking in?"

Although they didn't know what happened, they still packed up the work that had to be done every day, and then Xu Caimei and Li Meiyan went out to look for someone.

Strangely enough, after searching several houses in a row, the family members all said that the person had left for work early.

Several young people are missing?
Xu Caimei's back felt cold.

After searching half of the village, I finally learned from a young man that his brother had gone to Yao Village to take a stock trading course. "Yao Zhihua did it, for sure." Li Meiyan said angrily, "I listened to what they said the past two days. Yao Zhihua made one hundred thousand in five days. This doesn't sound like a good thing. They just said Follow along."

Xu Caimei didn't say anything, but just took Li Meiyan back with her.

"Ping Li, you and Ping Yi should work hard these two days. Do an employee survey and remove those who want to resign. By the way, we would like to emphasize our rules again. If you are absent from work three times, you will be counted as dismissed. You will not be able to come back to work in the future."

"Ok."

"Meiyan, please inform Ping An and He Cai to prepare for the possibility of absenteeism during the evening shift and prepare them for the evening shift."

"Ok."

As soon as the two left, Xu Caimei immediately called the Yaocun Breeding Farm.

"Hello, I'm Xu Caimei. Is Zhihua here? I have something to ask him about. Please answer the phone."

"Hello, Director Zhihua is not here. He has been on leave for the past few days. What do you have to do with him? Let me see if I can help you solve it." The person who answered the phone was a girl with a sweet voice. I think she is their new manager. Xu Caimei didn't know the employee she hired. She just chatted briefly and asked him when he would start work, then hung up the phone.

Early the next morning, in addition to Xu Pingyi and Xu Pingli who were on duty, Xu Caimei and Li Meiyan, who were supposed to be taking turns, also entered the office.

I don't know if they had a premonition that something was wrong, but even Xu Pingcai and Xu Ping'an, who often worked late shifts, were already sitting in the office early.

Xu Pingli handed the employee survey results to Xu Caimei with a sullen face.

Looking at the row of resigned names on the list, Xu Caimei was not too surprised.

"We can't stop people from going to higher places." Xu Caimei said, "Since everyone is here, let's have a small meeting."

"Have these sons of bitches forgotten how they begged us to enter the breeding farm?" Xu Pingcai gritted his teeth and growled, "When they see money, they are like dogs seeing shit. They can't even poop. return!"

"It's not bad. There are nearly ten people. They haven't left, and they haven't participated in stock trading - basically all of them are women, or they are little girls who are not very good at stock trading, or they are sisters-in-law who don't want to worry about having a family." Li Meiyan added, "If nothing else, fortunately this year's 'big project' has been completed. Until the harvest season, we don't have anything particularly big that requires a lot of manpower. It's enough to just do it."

"It's not them who are the most evil, it's Yao Zhihua!" Xu Pingcai continued, "You come here to poach people in an honest and fair manner! I heard those guys say that Yao Zhihua helps people trade stocks and teaches classes, but he only has his own breeding farm, Talents from my own village are free, but if we want to listen, we need money, and those people went to him to take classes for free."

"It's no wonder. Isn't he still invited to the city? It is said that the TV station has a special program asking him to teach the secrets of stock trading." Xu Ping'an said.

"It seems so. My dad seems to have seen him on TV." Xu Pingli said.

"When we were famous, we helped promote them. Now that they have money, they don't even think about us..." Xu Pingcai muttered.

"Well, when we helped them publicize it, it was to repay them for their help when our farm was first established. We were not seeking any reward." Xu Caimei said, "Now that things have come to this, we should think about it carefully. What should we do?" (End of Chapter)