Chapter 166: The convoy enters the city [3000]

"Loading the car."

"That's great. Our boss is so famous."

"Okay, stop wasting time and load the truck quickly. After the truck is loaded, those whose names I call will go over there and take the minibus. Those whose names are not called will directly get on the truck and follow the team to the county town."

"We're going to have a pre-sale rehearsal this afternoon."

"Everyone, take the number plates I've distributed to you and find the booth that belongs to our factory and corresponds to your number plate. Whoever arrives first will get one point. If anyone hasn't found their spot after I enter the market, one point will be deducted."

"When unloading, the clothes should be piled under the chopping board of the stall, sorted by color and size, from large to small, and stacked in order. Don't confuse me. The stall that finishes first will get 20 points, and then everyone will get 2 points each, and then the points will be reduced in order. The last stall to finish will be eliminated."

"Also, those who are assigned to sell men's clothing, please remember that your stalls can only be used to store men's clothing. The same goes for those who are assigned to sell women's clothing. Your stalls will have the most work. If you perform well, you will get extra points. But don't confuse me. After all the stalls are put into storage, if I find that men's clothing and women's clothing are mixed during my inspection, everyone in the stall will be eliminated."

"Finally, I will select the 21 best people from your performance today to serve as temporary captains of your booths. The rest of you must obey my orders."

"Of course, being the temporary captain of the booth does not mean that you will be directly hired as a salesperson by the factory in three days. It just means that the chances are greater. The rest of you don't need to be discouraged. You still have a chance. The final decision is not in my hands, Lu Laoliu, but in the hands of the boss. In three days, I will draw up a list and score you based on your performance, so don't even think about bribing me. The list will be presented to the boss at that time. The factory will make a public announcement about who stays and who leaves. Okay, get in the car and set off now."

Meisite Garment Factory in Shanghuai Village.

Today is particularly busy. Four large trucks are parked in front of the factory, lined up in a row, loaded with packaged clothes.

Three of them belonged to the factory.

The other one was borrowed by Lu Yang from his father-in-law.

In addition, there were five minibuses behind the large truck. They were all hired by Lu Yang from the county bus company. He paid double the price and used a lot of connections to get them.

Not just today.

It will be the same for the next three days, pick me up in the morning and send me back in the afternoon.

Three hundred seamstresses.

It's not just three people. It's very troublesome to manage so many people. Moreover, in this era, going back and forth to the county town is not as convenient as in later generations. Some people have never been to the county town a few times in their lives. Chartering the county bus to pick them up is for their safety considerations, and it is also what Lu Yang must do as the boss.

So today, the workers in the factory went to the market to get familiar with their workstations in preparation for the opening of the market tomorrow morning.

Make a pre-sale.

To avoid any chaos, you may not even be able to find your workstation.

Secondly, it is also to let the bus drivers familiarize themselves with the area so that they will not lose the way to Shanghuai Village from tomorrow morning and miss the time when the workers go into the city.

Missed something big.

Here, Lu Yang was only responsible for communicating with the leaders of the county investment promotion office and negotiating with the county bus company to charter the five minibuses parked at the factory gate.

It can't be called a bag.

Except for one pick-up trip in the morning and one drop-off trip in the afternoon, these minibuses can still operate as usual on the county bus routes at other times.

There is some impact, but it is definitely not significant.

After Lu Yang finished these two most important tasks, he handed over the rest of the miscellaneous matters to the sixth boy, Lu Youzhi.

This kid has high emotional intelligence and IQ, and is a good material for doing business and being a leader.

As his business is currently limited to Zhao County and the garment factory is still small, Lu Yang plans to give him more responsibilities and train him well to see if he can stand on his own in the future.

At this time, almost half of the villagers of Shanghuai Village had come to the factory gate, on both sides of the road, and on the wasteland slopes.

They all come to watch the fun.

Or you could send it to your wife or sister to cheer them up.

"Work hard, wife, and try to become a salesperson. Boss Lu said that if you do well, you will get a sales salary and commission. Maybe in the future we can live in the city and become city dwellers."

"Mom, you have to listen to Dad. Niu Niu wants to be a city dweller. I heard that city dwellers have candy to eat every day. Niu Niu wants to eat candy, not sweet potato chips covered in chicken shit. Chicken shit smells bad."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Third girl, you must be chosen. Your eldest sister married Li Guaizi from the next village. Her life is so hard that she doesn't even have clothes to wear. After all these years of marriage, she still has the few sets of clothes she brought from her mother's home. Her life is so hard that she can't stop complaining. Although your second sister is better off than your eldest sister, and they live in the same village, your father is watching over her, and your second brother-in-law is also honest, but he has been raising two children in three years, and now she is pregnant again. Her legs are swollen like steamed buns, and her evil mother-in-law insists that she work in the fields. Such a family can't even afford the fine. Last time I met the village women's director, she said that if they didn't pay the fine, they would wait for people from the town to come and lift all the tiles on the roof of the house, and she couldn't stop them. By then, the whole family would be cold and hungry.

You are luckier than your elder and second sisters. The sewing machine in our family was originally bought for you as a dowry. But it happened that our village had the current garment factory at that time. You can work in the village without going out and earn more than your father, your mother and our family combined. That's why your father agreed to keep you for a few more years so that you can earn more money for the family and help your brother get married.

Third girl, your mother is useless. Your elder sister and second sister did not marry well. That is their fate. You have a chance to change your fate, so you must seize it. Going to the city to be a salesperson is better than staying in the countryside. Maybe you can even marry a city person in the future..."

"Mother, I know."

"Okay, okay, hurry up and get on the bus. It's not like we'll be separated forever. You'll have to come back every day. Those who are not selected will continue to do their original jobs. Congratulations to those who are selected. You can indeed live in the city. The boss has already rented a house outside the market. You don't have to pay for accommodation. It will be used as a dormitory for the female sales workers in the factory."

"Did you hear that? Did you hear that? If you're selected, you'll be a city dweller. Our boss is generous. In the future, you'll be a salesperson in the factory. Maybe you'll be more prestigious than those iron rice bowl workers in the county."

Whether they were coming to see off relatives and friends, or the sewing workers queuing up to get on the minibus one by one, all had happy faces and were looking forward to a better life in the future.

They all wore the same clothes.

Moreover, they were all sewn by themselves, so they were clean, tidy, and decent. In recent months, they basically did not go to the fields to do farm work like before, and they had less sun exposure. They stayed at home all day, sitting in front of the sewing machine to sew clothes, revealing their arms in short sleeves. Their arms were all white and tender, and they did not look like the women in the countryside who often did hard work in the fields.

The whole thing is a beautiful landscape.

Even the drivers were secretly surprised. It turned out that country women could be so beautiful when they dressed up. They were not like the rural women they imagined, with shabby clothes and hair, carrying sacks, smelling of sweat, and squeezing onto the bus while cursing.

"gone."

"Drivers, follow me in this big truck."

Amid the noisy situation, Lu Yang's father-in-law, Old Man Yin, also came to help today, and was happily getting on his own truck.

The convoy is already setting off.

The front truck was led by Lu Yang's sixth cousin Lu Youzhi, followed closely by his eldest cousin in the second truck, then Da Jun's truck, and finally his father-in-law's truck. The remaining five minibuses followed behind his truck. From a distance, it looked like a long dragon, slowly driving out of Shanghuai Village and onto the road leading to the county town.

Countless villagers rushed forward, waved and said goodbye, feeling happier than during the Chinese New Year.

No reason?
It's festive.

Who asked Lu Yang to be generous?

In their hands, they all have a flyer promoting the opening of the market tomorrow.

The village committee originally had a stack of these things, but only each household could get one.

What they have in their hands are not issued by the village committee.

Instead, the county investment promotion department printed them out and sent some to the factory.

Lu Yang went there specifically to negotiate.

There are several thousand of them. In addition to satisfying the folks in Shanghuai Village, even the workers in the factory, including the two hundred seamstresses who came today, can take a few back if they need them. In the next three days, it would be a good idea to let your family go shopping in the newly opened small commodity wholesale market in the county and buy some discounted clothes or other cheap discounted goods.

This time, all in all, Lu Yang didn't spend a penny and won the favor of a lot of fellow villagers.

It's a pity that there is no system.

It is impossible to put a quantifier on this wave of goodwill, otherwise Lu Yang’s mind would probably be going “Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding Dong… Reputation increased by 1+1+1+1+1+1…”

Mixed in the crowd were Lu Yang's wife and Lu Yang's mother-in-law.

After all, it was such a good day that even the villagers came out to see them off. It was as lively as the New Year. How could they just sit at home?

"Yue'er, did you see that? Your father was so majestic just now, directing those drivers of the big minibuses."

My mother-in-law was in high spirits the whole time, she laughed so hard that her mouth started to itch.

"Well, Daddy is very impressive."

Yin Mingyue's eyes were big and watery. She didn't look at her mother, but stretched her neck to look at the convoy that had left the village entrance and got on the national highway into the city in the distance.

I don’t know if he was looking at the car, or at the thing that had entered the city in the morning and was dominating all this?
(End of this chapter)