Chapter 261

Qi Dali had a cigarette in his mouth, shaking his head as he sized up the three of them: "F***, still using Zhao Jianlong to scare me. He's worth a fart. You call him over, and I'll break his legs and..."

At this moment, Gao Yong's hand had already gripped the stool under his butt. As long as Wu Cheng gave him a look, he guaranteed that the stool would land on Qi Dali's head in the first instance.

Wu Cheng didn't look at Gao Yong, but pointed: "His name is Zhou Anbei, we are all winery employees."

"I f***ing care what your name is, Anbei, Anxi, Andong..." Qi Dali shuddered, his speech becoming a bit slurred, "Andong... Dong... Dong... Zhou Andong!"

Wu Cheng nodded with a smile: "Right, his big brother is Zhou Andong, who is also our director. We just got off the train from a business trip, were hungry, so we came to your place for a bite."

"Oh my!" Qi Dali slapped his thigh, grabbing Zhou Anbei's hand and shaking it vigorously, "I even had breakfast with Director Zhou this morning. I didn't expect Brother Bei to be eating in my little shop. It's really like the water from the Great River washing over the Dragon King Temple; we're all family and didn't recognize each other."

His words instantly eased the tense atmosphere. Gao Yong let go of the stool, and Zhou Anbei said very awkwardly.

"It's fine, it's fine, as long as the misunderstanding is cleared up."

Wu Cheng hooked the corner of his mouth into a mocking smile, but he didn't say anything, watching Qi Dali perform.

"Right, right, right!" Qi Dali nodded vigorously, "This is just a misunderstanding. To express my apology, this meal is on me today."

Wu Cheng said without being polite: "Then thank you."

Qi Dali said with a face full of smiles: "Why thank me, we're brothers. Besides, this doesn't cost much."

Wu Cheng stood up and said: "Then we're leaving."

"I'll see you out!" Qi Dali personally saw them to the door. Even after Wu Cheng and the others had walked a long way, he was still waving.

"Little b******!" The fat woman kicked Qi Dali in the butt.

Qi Dali lost his footing and almost rolled down the steps: "Mom, what are you doing?"

"What am I doing?" The flesh on the fat woman's face trembled twice, "Didn't you say you were very well-connected outside? Mentioning your name, Brother Dali, is useful. Why was it of no use at all? And you even had to pay for the meal."

Qi Dali said with a mournful face: "Mom, it depends on who it is. If you dare to stab Zhou Andong's younger brother with a knife, the Qi family will really have no descendants."

The fat woman snorted: "Is this Zhou Andong very powerful?"

"Powerful?" Qi Dali looked at the fat woman speechlessly, "Don't you know Zhao Jianlong was sentenced to death?"

The fat woman was stunned: "I don't know."

Qi Dali shook his head: "Zhao Jianlong being arrested and sentenced to death yesterday were all Zhou Andong's doing. You tell me, how many heads do I have to provoke his younger brother?"

The fat woman's heart also shuddered, and she turned and went into the house.

Qi Dali patted his butt and muttered as he entered the door: "Damn it, why am I so unlucky today? I have to go burn incense for Lord Guan."...

Zhou Anbei sighed: "Didn't expect to meet my brother's friend while eating."

Wu Cheng tilted his head and looked at Zhou Anbei: "You believe that too."

Zhou Anbei was stunned: "Isn't it?"

Wu Cheng smiled: "That guy looks like a low-class thug at first glance. How could the director eat with him, and breakfast at that?"

Zhou Anbei said: "If he didn't know my brother, why wouldn't he even take the money for the meal?"

Wu Cheng explained helplessly: "He tried to rip us off, and he was afraid the director would settle the score with him. Not taking the meal money was just to sell us a favor and give himself a way out."

As he spoke, he put his arm around Zhou Anbei's shoulder: "Xiao Bei, you're still young and don't understand the sinister nature of the human heart. But remember, never believe the words of strangers, especially those who try to climb relationships and are particularly enthusiastic; their motives are usually impure."

Zhou Anbei nodded thoughtfully: "I've noted it down."............

It wasn't until 3:00 PM that the meeting ended. Zhou Andong, Gu Bing, and Du Chunlai ate at the guesthouse. By the time they finished eating and returned to the winery, it was already late.

"Brother!" As soon as Zhou Andong got out of the car, he saw Zhou Anbei, Wu Cheng, and Gao Yong sitting on the steps at the entrance of the factory office.

"When did you get back?"

Wu Cheng said: "Got off the train at noon."

Zhou Andong nodded: "Have you eaten?"

"Yes!" Wu Cheng said: "We just finished eating, had some shaomai across the street."

"Let's go, let's talk in my office." Zhou Andong stepped up the stairs.

Du Chunlai said: "Director, I'm going back if there's nothing else."

"Go back!" Zhou Andong waved his hand, "Notify everyone that a cadre meeting will be held tomorrow morning at 9:00, including the directors of each branch factory."

"Alright!" Du Chunlai agreed.

Gu Bing had nothing to do, so he followed Zhou Andong to the office.

Zhou Andong sat down and lit a cigarette: "Tell me, where did you go, and how was the inspection?"

At the mention of this, Wu Cheng became a bit excited: "We went to Yangcheng and Zhuhai. The furniture city is so big, and the modular furniture inside is all very beautiful. It really opened my eyes."

Zhou Andong asked: "What about the equipment?"

At the mention of equipment, Wu Cheng was like a deflated ball: "Those machines are all too expensive. I calculated it; to open a furniture factory, the factory buildings and equipment together would cost over a million."

Zhou Andong raised his eyebrows: "What machines are so expensive?"

Zhou Anbei took over the conversation, speaking with great excitement: "They are all imported high-tech equipment, fully automatic. As long as you set the parameters, the machine will do the work itself. The dealer even took us to visit a furniture factory, and it really was like that; the machines were all automatically cutting wood boards."

Zhou Andong's face was full of black lines. In this era, as long as it was imported, as long as it was touched by so-called high technology, it was expensive beyond measure. The foreigners' knives were sharpened very sharply; originally a one-yuan item, if it didn't sell for a hundred when it reached China, they would think they were losing money.

"Are there no domestic ones?"

"Yes!" Zhou Anbei said: "But in that... what was it called?"..

"Intelligence!" Wu Cheng said.

"Right!" Zhou Anbei continued: "In terms of intelligence, they can't compare to the imported ones, and the quality isn't good either."

Zhou Andong said irritably: "Imported equipment, why don't you fly to the sky? These few days, you guys first set up the framework, find factory buildings and storefronts. Ask Uncle Gao if he's willing to come over and help, and let him help find a few experienced master craftsmen.

As for equipment, just use domestic ones, and you don't have to buy every machine. For example, board cutting machines and edge banding machines, which are essential, can be bought first. As for those other machines that are optional, as the factory develops, it won't be too late to buy them when needed."

As he spoke, he looked at Wu Cheng, "Hand in your resignation letter to the factory office tomorrow. As for letting your sister take over, that's no problem. Let her come with you to handle the procedures tomorrow."

"Thank you, Director!" Wu Cheng stood up excitedly and bowed to Zhou Andong.

Zhou Andong asked with a smile: "Where do you want your sister to go?"