Chapter 1605: Daily Life

Lin Guang arrived early the morning after making the phone call, before the finance staff had even started work.

Fortunately, the factory operated on 24-hour shifts with people around all day, so he headed straight for the dormitory building.

He didn't just arrive in person; he also brought the list of the next batch of veterans to be sent over.

Ye Yaodong had been sleeping in the room, but hearing the knock and the shout of "Uncle-in-law," he knew it was Lin Guang, instantly woke up, and hurried to open the door.

"Why are you here so early?" he said while rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"I came over after morning exercise; it's almost 8 o'clock. Why are you still sleeping?"

"Is it 8 o'clock? 8 is still early; the factory doesn't even change shifts until 8."

I didn't get back to sleep until 1 o'clock last night; 8 is very early, okay? I haven't even had eight hours of sleep.

Lin Guang handed him a list from his hand; just like last time, it included personal resumes and family backgrounds, detailing whether the discharge was normal and the reasons for it.

Ye Yaodong took it, glanced at it, and immediately understood; these were all people who really needed this job.

"Quite efficient; it's only been about ten days and they've all been sent over."

"Of course it has to be efficient; jobs are hard to come by, everyone is struggling, and there aren't enough to go around. When the Political Commissar gave me the list yesterday, he even tactfully said it would be better if more could be provided."

"That depends on the factory's performance improving, getting more business, and expanding smoothly. When the workload is high, the manpower needed will naturally increase. Soon, by the end of the year, we'll apply for another batch; at that time, we might need at least a hundred people or more."

"Awesome. When I get back, I'll tell the Political Commissar exactly that. Later, I'll also tactfully ask him to say a few words to the local government, urging them to focus on your processing plant. Good for you, good for everyone."

"You don't need to say that; they'll definitely have their own understanding. To get me to accept more people, they'll definitely take care of it."

"Oh, okay..."

"Come in and sit for a while; it's not time for work yet, and everyone is still asleep."

"Too lazy, they're all too lazy; we got up at 5."

Ye Yaodong chuckled, "Then it seems I still need to learn from the army; do I have to shout for people to get up for work at 5?"

"Hehe, hey? Why are you sleeping alone? Didn't you say the three younger cousins came up?"

"The little one went to sleep with his female cousin, and the other two moved over to Ajiang and your two younger brothers' room a couple of days ago, saying they wanted to be in the same room as them."

"All six are together? Won't that cause a lot of noise?"

"No noise; Chenghu and Yangyang have started working at the factory now, so they should be up at this hour. The other four have to go to the dock to load cargo around sunset and won't return until dawn, perfectly avoiding each other."

"That's good; I'll go take a look."

Ye Yaodong waved his hand, telling him to make himself at home.

Since the list had already been handed over, he would let Lin Guang go back later to confirm and have people arrive within a week.

Anyway, the dorms were ready-made, with empty rooms available.

He basically lived here now, which made managing the factory convenient, and since his mother, sister, and children were here, he only occasionally went to the main base.

The workers still lived over there; without him, it might have been relatively better, as that place was purely used as a dormitory building and was a bit closer to the dock.

The two brothers of the Lin family were very happy to see Lin Guang arrive early in the morning and started chatting while sitting in the room.

After finishing breakfast, Ye Yaodong went to the finance office to check on Lin Lin Dongxue and only then learned she didn't know Lin Guang had arrived; they were all still in the dorms.

He also approved half a day off for Lin Lin Dongxue, telling her to temporarily hand over urgent tasks to another girl, leave non-urgent matters for the afternoon, and go find her brothers first.

Lin Lin Dongxue happily finished her handover and rushed off.

Ye Yaodong also handed the materials Lin Guang had just given him to Supervisor Yan, telling him that the people on the list would arrive for registration in succession and to arrange things as he saw fit.

Such small matters were now handed over to others; he didn't want to get involved. If he could hand it over, he would, to save himself some trouble. He had too many things to be busy with and needed to reduce his burden a bit.

Next, he still had to continue busy work regarding the cargo on his family's side; he had only run two trips, the route wasn't stable yet, he needed to keep a closer eye on it, and he had to contact business partners personally.

Now communication wasn't developed, transportation wasn't developed either, relying on just one landline phone; he could only make calls to contact them himself, otherwise, if someone else changed, who would know the other party, and they wouldn't buy into it.

Now he had to personally make calls to maintain relationships and get orders; when necessary, he also had to go back to deliver a trip or two of cargo, then treat people to meals to maintain relationships.

Now the state supported individual businesses; it had just started, and business was exceptionally easy to do. He wasn't any better than others, knew little, and apart from his mouth, he just owed it to the policy, catching the east wind.

Then, with the things buried in the family's land as a safety net, and knowing the development of the era from his past life, whatever he did was bolder than ordinary people, so naturally, it was easier to succeed.

But relationships, that kind of thing, definitely require frequent contact; only with give and take can they be maintained long-term.

Once everything is on the right track in the future, the trivial and major matters of the factory and fishing boats can be handed over, but he will still have to maintain relationships himself as usual; these are long-term relationships.

Now he had already handed over everything that should be handed over, but the things he needed to be busy with every day were still fully scheduled.

Getting up in the morning meant reconciling accounts with finance to know the total revenue from selling goods the previous day.

Then it was checking the orders for goods to be delivered today, handling some trivial matters in the factory, making decisions where needed, and signing where needed.

In the afternoon, he would go out to collect payments from house to house in rotation.

Sometimes, if he didn't go out every day, he would go to the dock to receive fresh fish boats and arrange the cargo to be delivered that night.

He rarely delivered goods personally anymore; anyway, over this period, a slightly more mature process had been established.

Those driving to deliver goods were either his nephew or Aqing's nephew; the cargo manifests had records, with clear details on how much cargo and how much money.

Deliver goods, collect money, then sign and hand it over to finance to verify the received payment.

The process was clear; whether he went to deliver the goods or not didn't matter much; without him, everyone could still do the job well, and there was no difference in the work done.

Actually, the people assigned to deliver were those he trusted, and his father would occasionally go over to supervise, so the young people wouldn't be looked down upon.

And with the delivery work having a fixed set of rules, he could free up his hands to do other things, such as collecting payments, or having time at night to maintain client relationships, treating people to meals, singing, and getting massages.

The few young men could now only watch him enjoy himself with their eyes wide open; they wanted to follow but had no time, as business volume was high and deliveries had to be arranged every day.

With him maintaining client relationships every few days, the sales volume of fish goods increased visibly; it wasn't just fish goods, the factory's sales volume also skyrocketed.

It was already a 24-hour shift operation, and now they were struggling to keep up, unable to deliver goods; he even had to be careful about taking orders, and even after taking them, he had to try to postpone the dates.

In this situation, he naturally kept calling the machinery factory, urging them to arrange things for him as quickly as possible.

But he also knew that urging could only urge so much; it was hard to get results.

The money earned in the past half year, the trip to Shanghai a while ago had already spent half of it on reserving machines, paying the balance for the fishing boats, and reserving two new thousand-ton fresh fish boats.

The money earned this year is estimated to be mostly spent on this, as well as on the expansion of the processing plant.

This counts as an investment too; it won't be lost anyway, it has all become fixed assets.

He was busy here in an orderly manner, Ye Chenghu and Ye Ye Chengyang had grown quite accustomed to their jobs, but the happiest of all was Ye Ye Xiaoxi.

Every day she was only responsible for eating then sleeping, playing after waking up, eating when tired from playing; every day carefree, and occasionally taken out to play.

But after staying long, she couldn't bear to stay; staying for a while could be called novel, but after staying long, she wanted to go home.

Here she couldn't run out, nor run to the workshop, the weather was hot, there wasn't much to play with, no bunch of little friends, and she couldn't do this or that; having just stayed for a month, she no longer wanted to stay.

And not only did she not want to stay, she also urged Pei Yu to go home with her, pulling Pei Yu to find Ye Yaodong together, saying she wanted to go home.

"When you came, you even packed sweaters and cotton shoes, they haven't even been worn yet, and you want to go back already?"

Ye Ye Xiaoxi pouted, "Where is that? Mom took out the sweaters and cotton shoes, but wouldn't let me bring them."

"Why suddenly want to go home?"

"There's nothing to play with here, no bunch of little friends, so boring, can only play with little sister and cousin; I don't want to play with cousin at all, cousin is silly and dull."

"A typhoon is coming soon, you can't go back now, wait until later."

Ye Ye Xiaoxi's eyes lit up, "Ah, is there a typhoon coming? Great, typhoons are so fun, so cool."

Pei Yu was happy too, "With a typhoon we can be blown along by the wind, typhoon days are so cool, unlike now."

"Then Dad, let's wait until after the typhoon passes before going back."

Ye Yaodong nodded; sending her back early was fine too; since she didn't want to stay, send her back for Ah Qing to watch; anyway, running around at home didn't require watching and was safe.

As for the two boys, let them decide whether to go back together or continue staying until school was about to start.

The route home had already been run four times in succession; now wanting to go home was quite convenient, with their own ship delivering goods back roughly once every week.

This was much more convenient than taking cargo ships before; if workers had any urgent matters, they could return faster, and it cost nothing, delivering directly to the town at their doorstep.

After the two little girls left happily, he went to the factory to ask Ye Chenghu and Ye Chenghu, the two brothers.

The next ship back was originally estimated for three days later, around August 10th, but recently the tail of a small typhoon had swept through, the waves were a bit high, so it might need to be delayed by a day or two.

The two brothers heard this and immediately shook their heads.

"I don't want to..."

"I don't want to either..."

Ye Chenghu said excitedly, "It's still early, there are still 20 days until school starts, what's the rush? I still want to work here."

"Yeah, we'll just go home a few days before school starts."

"Your sister wants to go back, are you sure you don't want to go back?"

"Then let her go back on her own; we don't want to go back, we can still earn half a month's wages."

Ye Ye Chengyang nodded along vigorously.

On the last day of last month, they had collected a huge sum of wages together with the factory workers; they were overjoyed and had long decided they must work until the very last day, and if they couldn't make it to the last day, they would work as long as possible.

A month's wages was a full 80 yuan; working another half month meant another 40 yuan!

To them, this sum of wages was simply incredible.

If not for their father definitely disagreeing and likely giving them a beating, they would have wanted to stop studying altogether and come to the factory to work and earn money.

"Alright then, we'll send your sister back first; you two stay here for now, and we'll send you back when school is about to start."

The two nodded vigorously.

"Wait, have you done your homework?"

The two felt a tightening in their hearts; Ye Ye Chengyang was too guilty to speak.

Ye Chenghu said with righteous confidence, "We do a bit every day after work, we've already done a lot, almost done."

"Let's hope so; before you return, I will check your homework; if it's not finished, the wages will be deducted."

"Ah..."

PS: Too sleepy, will make it up tomorrow daytime; stayed up all night and have no energy all day, and today my period started.

(End of this chapter)