Wu Xiaotao plucked up the courage to bargain: "If I take all the moves, will you let me go?"
Lin Mai glanced at her: "Of course."
Wu Xiaotao rolled his eyes and looked honest. He stuttered and confessed.
She said she hired gangsters to splash red paint and write big letters on the door of her factory, all at the instigation of her distant uncle.
Lin Mai asked: "Who is your uncle?"
Wu Xiaotao hesitated and said: "Just... the man who was the cleaning worker Wu Sufen who was sentenced to jail for stealing supplies from your factory."
Lin Mai did not have much contact with relatives of the Wu family in her previous life, and Wu Xiaoyu would not tell her which distant relatives she had. She only knew a few close relatives of his family.
Therefore, she was quite surprised to hear that Wu Sufen was Wu Xiaotao's distant aunt.
She sneered and sarcastically said, "It's really not like one family doesn't belong to the same family. Your family's genes must be bad, so there won't be any good ones."
Wu Xiaotao was scolded, but was not angry at all.
As long as Lin Mai believes that everything is ordered by her distant uncle, Lin Mai will definitely deal with her distant uncle based on her personality.
Her distant uncle would not just sit back and wait for death, the two of them would fight each other, and she would achieve her goal of killing two birds with one stone.
While she was secretly rejoicing, Lin Mai ordered Ding Haifeng: "Bring this bitch to her uncle and tell her uncle that she betrayed him."
Wu Xiaotao was suddenly frightened beyond recognition: "Didn't you promise me that as long as I confess, you would let me go?"
Lin Mai smiled disdainfully: "You alone are worthy of me keeping my word?"
Ding Haifeng and his two younger brothers escorted Wu Xiaotao to Wu Sufen's house and told all Wu Sufen's family members about Wu Xiaotao's betrayal of her uncle.
Wu Xiaotao's uncle was so angry that he almost exploded and told Ding Haifeng that he did not instruct Wu Xiaotao to hire someone to splash red paint and write big characters on the entrance of Jinxiu Garment Factory, causing Wu Xiaotao to bite him randomly.
Ding Haifeng smiled and said, "That's between you and your niece, it has nothing to do with us." After that, he walked away.
Lin Mai asked him to send Wu Xiaotao to her uncle, wasn't it just to make them dog bite dog, then he would not prevent them from biting each other.
Ding Haifeng and others left, but Wu Xiaotao's uncle closed the door and beat the dog. He gave Wu Xiaotao a good beating and threw all her luggage out.
Even so, he didn't give up and spread rumors that Wu Xiaotao had unclean hands and feet and was seducing men.
These rumors soon reached the ears of Wu Xiaotao's employer and his wife.
The man was fine, but the woman was like a powerful enemy and immediately told Wu Xiaotao to get out.
Wu Xiaotao became a homeless dog and wandered on the street for a long time.
In the end, I ran out of ammunition and food and had to return to the countryside. This is all a story for another day.
The day before New Year's Day, Lin Mai held a year-end meeting.
Zhou Caiyun and Li Mingcheng were specially invited to this meeting.
Zhou Caiyun and Li Mingcheng sat together and whispered. They were not qualified to participate in this kind of meeting. How could Lin Mai call them?
As soon as the meeting time came, Lin Mai walked in.
The first thing he said was to Chen Feng, telling him not to leave in a hurry today.
Next, everyone reports on their work.
Chen Feng reported the progress of each project in a few words.
Lin Mai asked: "Are the demolished households in Shangquan Village satisfied with moving into new houses?"
"Of course they are satisfied. They can choose the floor, and we are also responsible for moving them. What else can they find fault with?"
Lin Mai asked again: "Has any leader gone to inspect it?"
"Of course there is. Just yesterday, the leaders of the municipal party committee went to inspect it and they were all full of praise."
Lin Mai nodded with confidence. As long as the municipal party committee leaders are satisfied, they can still receive government projects in the future.
In the Qingnian Road Community, not only the one or two buildings where the relocated households live, many of the buildings will be sold as commercial housing.
Lin Mai asked about the sales situation of the house.
Chen Feng shook his head: "There are people who look at the house, but there are no people who want to buy the house."
Lin Mai tapped his fingers on the table a few times: "Is it not publicized enough?"
She turned to Sun Yunhong and said, "You cooperate with Mr. Chen in promoting this."
Sun Yunhong nodded, and then said: "I think even if we do publicity, I'm afraid it won't have much effect."
"Why?" Lin Mai asked.
"Think about it, which state-owned unit doesn't allocate houses? The units allocate houses for free.
Everyone is waiting for welfare housing in their workplace, who is willing to spend money to buy it?
Besides, our smallest one-bedroom, one-living house costs about 3,000 yuan. How many families can afford 3,000 yuan to buy a house?"
As soon as she spoke, many cadres nodded, indicating that what she said made sense.
Lin Mai also nodded: "Your analysis is correct.
But you haven't considered that there are several units in the city where housing is not in short supply.
You can go to statistics and find that more than 80% of state-owned employees only have one room.
There is a whole family living in this room, and it is difficult to move around in the house.
Don’t these people want to buy a house to improve their housing conditions?
Although the work unit allocates houses, is it so easy to get the houses?
In terms of seniority, there are many people over 30 who have not been allocated even a room. Don’t these people have any demand for houses?"
Then, she talked about a very classic marketing case from her previous life.
Two salesmen from the same company went to a tropical island to sell shoes at the same time.
A salesman took one look at the local situation and came back dejected.
His immediate boss asked him why he came back so soon.
The salesman said that the locals were all barefoot, without shoes, and there was no market.
Another salesman sent a telegram to his immediate boss and told him ecstatically that all local residents did not wear shoes and there was a huge market.
Within half a year, almost all local residents were wearing the shoes sold by the salesman.
After telling this story, Lin Mai looked around at everyone: "What does this marketing case mean?"
Everyone replied in a hurry: "You must have a pair of discerning eyes to discover the market."
Lin Mai nodded approvingly: "The answer is correct."
Sun Yunhong made a different sound: "But buying a house is not buying shoes. To buy a house, you have to spend a lot of money."
Lin Mai looked at her with a smile: "Don't forget people's needs.
No matter how expensive the house is, those who have urgent needs will still resort to borrowing money to buy a house.
Although there are not many such people, there must be some.
As long as the publicity is done well, citizens who are eager to improve their homes will definitely come to buy our houses.
And since the reform and opening up, a number of self-employed people have emerged.
These self-employed people have money, and they are also our potential customers.
So don’t worry about not selling the house, worry about not selling enough.”
Sun Yunhong didn't agree with Lin Mai's words in her heart, but she nodded obediently and said she would do a good job in publicity.
When Lin Mai asked her to promote the house, she must highlight that buying a house now is the most cost-effective and the price is reasonable.
If you wait a few years to buy a house, it will definitely not have an advantage of more than a hundred dollars per square meter.
Sun Yunhong cursed in her heart, if the price of the house increased, no one would buy it.
When it was Zhao Liang's turn to speak, he reported a major event to Lin Mai.
Many villages in Simei Town that are not employed by Linmai grow their own greenhouse vegetables.
Zhao Liang was worried that if others also planted greenhouse vegetables, it would affect the sales of Linmai's greenhouse vegetables.
Lin Mai didn't mind at all: "If people want to grow vegetables in greenhouses, then just do it."
Growing greenhouse vegetables in Hu Province does not require much technical content.
You can build a greenhouse at a glance, and it's easier than building a thatched house.
Unlike in the north, where the climate is cold, growing vegetables in greenhouses requires digging and heating the ground. Not only is the cost high, it also requires technical support.
So there is nothing stopping other villages from growing vegetables in greenhouses.
Since you can't stop it, then turn bad things into good things.
Currently, there is a big gap in the greenhouse vegetables she grows to supply two vegetable farms.
This just allows Zhao Liang's buyers to purchase self-grown greenhouse vegetables to plug this gap.
Lin Mai asked Zhao Liang again about the trouble caused by the laid-off workers at the Daxing Road market.
Zhao Liang frowned and said: "Oh! Forget it, those people don't look like laid-off workers, they are clearly unruly people.
That day, when those people saw that you didn't show up for a long time, they really smashed up the market, scaring the customers and running away.
The laid-off workers we recruited were not happy because they were afraid that the market would be smashed by the gang and they would lose their jobs again, so they had to fight with the gang.
Even my brothers and I couldn't stop him.
Fortunately, the police arrived in time and arrested all the troublemakers.
I originally thought that the matter would be over, but I didn't expect that the family members of the laid-off workers from the former Daxingha Market would come to make trouble again in the afternoon.
They said that we caused their men to be arrested and their family to lose their source of income, so we had to support them."
Tao Zhiyun snorted disdainfully: "Those laid-off workers don't even have jobs. Where do they get their source of income? Isn't this obviously blackmail?"
Zhao Liang said: "Whether he's extorting money or not, call the police here and arrest them all. It's over."
Lin Mai asked: "Did they come to cause trouble later?"
"We have all been detained in the detention center for a few days and received a few days of education. Who dares to make trouble again?"
After talking about work matters, Lin Mai kept Chen Feng, Tao Zhiyun, Hou Xinyi, Ren Baozhu, Zheng Xudong, Zhou Caiyun and Li Mingcheng behind.
He took out a small box that only one hand could fit into and placed it on the conference table.
He told everyone: "There are seven house keys here, and each house key corresponds to a small two-bedroom and one-living house in three buildings in Qingnian Road Community."
There are accommodations on the first to fifth floors.
You blindly touch it yourself, and whichever key you touch, the corresponding house will be yours."
Everyone cheered and thanked Lin Mai for generously donating the house.
Lin Mai waved his hand: "It's not a free house, it's a reward.
Thank you for your dedication to the company, you deserve it.
I originally wanted to reward you before the New Year, but considering the decoration issues, I will reward you in advance.
You can take advantage of this period to decorate your house, move in before the end of the year, and have a happy New Year."
When we started to touch the keys, several people showed humility to each other.
Ladies first at the end.
Tao Zhiyun, the three women finished touching the key, and then the man touched it.
No matter whether they touch a good floor or a bad floor, everyone is happy.
Many cadres in state-owned factories cannot get housing with two bedrooms and one living room, so why should they be picky?