1994: Starting with unpaid leave

Didi

The next day, Dong Jianguo was awakened from his sleep by the sound of car horns outside the courtyard gate.

He first gave Xiuyun a light kiss on the cheek before trying to pull his arm out from under her.

Unfortunately, the moment he started moving, he accidentally woke his wife up.

"Huh? What time is it? Oh dear, it's almost nine o'clock!"

Upon seeing the hands of the clock on the wall, Xiuyun let out a gasp of surprise.

"What's the rush? Just get some more sleep. You're not going to work today anyway."

Hearing Dong Jianguo's words, Xiuyun remembered that she was on leave today.

But she still rolled over and got out of bed.

Dong Jianguo, who was getting dressed, was taken aback: "Wait, what are you doing? Lie down a little longer!"

"Is the egg delivery truck here? I want to go help!"

Hearing this, Dong Jianguo felt a headache coming on:

"Wife, stop fooling around!"

"A carton of eggs weighs forty pounds. Carrying it up and down is hard work for grown men. What can a pregnant woman like you do to help?! What if you hurt the baby? I'd be heartbroken!"

Hearing Dong Jianguo's private words, Xiuyun blushed slightly, but she still insisted on getting up to help:

"Even if I can't do heavy lifting, I can at least serve you and Wu Qianzhu some tea and water, right? If that's not possible, I can help with the counting!"

"Alright, but you'd better stay far away and don't go near the egg crates."

"Okay, okay, I'm not a child anymore!"

Xiuyun pouted at Dong Jianguo, then smiled sweetly.

After Dong Jianguo got dressed and left the yard, he found that Erzhuzi had already arrived and was unloading eggs from the truck bed with the delivery driver.

Upon seeing Dong Jianguo, the driver greeted him with a smile, "Young Master Dong, business is booming!"

Seeing his expectant look, Dong Jianguo understood immediately. He grabbed the handrail and climbed into the truck bed. When he stood next to the driver, he already had two ten-yuan bills in his hand as usual.

The driver smiled and took the money, slipping it smoothly into his pocket.

"Boss Dong really knows how to do business! This is only the second delivery, and several farms have already increased their orders!"

"This time, the four farms delivered a total of 2400 jin (1,200 catties) of eggs. The two secretaries from Hongqi Farm and Hongyun Farm even told me that if I can sell all this stock within two days, they can allocate more to me next time!"

"I think if they add more goods next time, I'll have to request an extra unloader!"

Dong Jianguo chuckled and nodded: "Judging from this situation, we'll need to hire two more workers in the future..."

The effects of sending out eight cartons of cigarettes have already begun to show, and the farm's supply has doubled.

Now the pressure is on my side.

However, he wasn't worried.

As long as we don't lose our mindset, there are always more solutions than problems.

It's just selling some eggs, no big deal.

Xiuyun, who followed him out, stared wide-eyed at the sight of the train filled with boxes of eggs.

"Wow, how many boxes of eggs is that?! How long will it take to sell them all?!"

Wu Qianzhu, who had already unloaded seven or eight boxes of eggs, wiped away her sweat:

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. I spent a long time running around Jianhua District yesterday, and quite a few restaurants have verbally agreed to buy our eggs! Even if it's three or four thousand catties, Brother Jianguo can sell them all with me!"

These past few days, Wu Qianzhu has been learning how to do business from Dong Jianguo. Although he handles the execution, Dong Jianguo makes the key decisions.

Along the way, Wu Qianzhu naturally came to admire Dong Jianguo wholeheartedly and had long since become his little fanboy.

Xiuyun felt proud that her husband was being praised. She smiled and nodded, then stood aside and took out a notebook and pen, ready to help record the number of egg cartons that had been unloaded on the ground.

Before she could even begin to write, the door to the next room opened, and a man's voice rang out:

"Oh my god! I finally get a day off to sleep in, and all I get is car horns and people making a ruckus. What's going on?! Can't a person have a moment's peace?!"

The group looked in the direction of the sound and saw a middle-aged man with a stubble beard, wearing a vest and shorts, standing at the door of Wang Cuiqing's house, glaring at them with a face full of resentment.

The man was not short, nearly 1.8 meters tall, and his arms, exposed outside his vest, were full of strong muscles.

After taking a second look, Dong Jianguo remembered that this man was Wang Cuiqing's husband, Zhou Tong, a loader at the textile factory.

Dong Jianguo doesn't think there's anything wrong with how a person makes a living.

Leaving aside all the things I saw in Shenzhen in my previous life, even the source of eggs I sell after this rebirth was obtained through connections and back channels.

But everyone should have some bottom line.

It was bad enough that Zhou Tong and his wife opened a hair salon together, but what he couldn't get over was that the couple also slandered Xiu Yun behind her back.

Therefore, Dong Jianguo didn't give Wang Cuiqing or Zhou Tong a friendly look.

Because of Wang Cuiqing's previous affair with Jianguo, Xiuyun also harbored resentment towards this neighbor, and didn't even greet him when they met.

Seeing the couple like this, Wu Qianzhu, who had recently become Dong Jianguo's number one fan, decisively chose to remain silent and continued to diligently move the egg boxes.

Although no one paid any attention to him, Zhou Tong didn't feel embarrassed at all.

To be precise, when Zhou Tong saw the truck full of eggs, even though he was still half asleep, his eyes widened in surprise!

He had previously heard from his colleagues at the factory that Dong Jianguo was selling eggs at the morning market.

I didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that this handsome neighbor was just making a fuss over nothing.

I only found out today that Dong Jianguo had quietly built such a large company right under my nose!

"Jianguo, you're amazing! You managed to get so many eggs all at once! Make me a couple of sweet and sour poached eggs later, consider it compensation for disturbing the peace!"

Upon hearing this, Dong Jianguo couldn't help but sneer, thinking to himself, "Birds of a feather flock together."

This week, he and his wife Wang Cuiqing were both so shameless that they would open their mouths and ask others for things whenever they met.

He pretended not to hear and started working with Erzhuzi to unload the goods from the truck.

Seeing that Dong Jianguo still ignored him, Zhou Tong frowned and walked to the truck bed:

"Hey, Jianguo, I'm talking to you, aren't you listening?!"

The driver who helped move the goods glanced at them and quickly guessed the general relationship between the group.

Seeing Dong Jianguo remain silent, and considering the immediate benefit of 20 yuan, he decisively stepped forward:

"Who do you think you are?! You just ask for this and that. Do you want my car? I might as well just drive it right into your yard!"

Zhou Tong never expected to be confronted by a stranger, and immediately lost face, glaring at him:

"Who am I?! I'm Xiao Dong's neighbor! What's wrong with the neighbors asking him for some eggs?! I'm doing him a favor by asking for his eggs!"

"They haven't said anything, so what the hell are you, an outsider, yelling about?"

"Who forgot to pull up their pants and exposed you?! Damn it!"