Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

Chapter 386 Change of Office Working Hours

When talking about the Jia family, everyone sighed and lamented that the world is unpredictable.

As they chatted, Xu Damao and Li Dabao turned the topic to the daily operations of the office. They felt that the business hours needed to be changed, and it would be best if they could be open all day.

Now the office has more and more complete supplies, including ham, canned fruit, canned beef and mutton, cooked beef and mutton, and of course soda, as well as the newly launched hawthorn juice.

The goods are of good quality and low price, and more and more people are coming to buy things. There are too many people queuing at noon and in the afternoon, and the queues even extend into the alley. The office originally existed to facilitate the people, but now it has inadvertently caused some troubles. Many people come to queue early, wasting a lot of time and energy.

It also indirectly increased the workload of the salesperson.

After a brief thought, Liu Guozheng agreed to the proposal of Xu Damao and Li Dabao and changed the business hours to all day, from 8:00 to 12:00 in the morning and from 2:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon in summer and autumn.

In spring and winter, the morning hours are from 9:00 to 12:00 and the afternoon hours are from 1:00 to 6:00.

Working eight hours a day, the two-day weekend work system officially began, with Tuesday and Wednesday being fixed days off.

Since then, it seemed that there were not enough people, so Liu Guozheng asked Huang Qiuxia to recommend one or two real people.

Huang Qiuxia did not shy away from recommending her husband Zheng Jiandong directly.

In Huang Qiuxia's words, it was not a good idea for Zheng Jiandong to stay in the scrap warehouse. He felt that there was no future for him, he did not make much money, and his time was not free as it was occupied every day.

Besides, ever since Zheng Jiandong’s leg was broken last time, he didn’t really want to work in the scrap warehouse anymore. However, he had no skills, was not young anymore, and had no one to support him, so he couldn’t find a way out.

Liu Guozheng had met Zheng Jiandong before. He was a nice person, just like most Xia people, honest and hardworking.

Liu Guozheng did not refuse either, as he felt more at ease using the product when he knew the product well.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the delivery truck arrived on time. After unloading the goods, Liu Guangtian found Liu Guozheng and said that he was going to get married at the end of the month, and wanted Liu Guozheng to take him to talk to Liu Haizhong about the wedding banquet.

Naturally, Liu Guozheng would not refuse. Getting married means having ties in the world. He would not do anything according to his own preferences as before. Things would be different after marriage. There would be more things to consider, and he would mature slowly until he grew into a real man and became the backbone of the entire family.

After the steel rolling mill got off work, Liu Guozheng took Liu Guangtian to the backyard of the courtyard.

After meeting Liu Haizhong, Liu Guozheng went straight to the point and said that Liu Guangtian was going to get married at the end of the month and asked where to hold the wedding banquet.

After hearing that his second son was going to get married, Liu Haizhong was obviously stunned for a moment, and he didn't know what to feel. He didn't expect that this so-called free-range child had also reached the time to get married and start a family.

To be honest, Liu Guangtian has done a really good job in the past two years. No matter what Liu Haizhong's attitude towards him was, he always gave him gifts during festivals. On August 15th, he gave him moon cakes, during the Spring Festival, he gave him meat and fish, and boxes of good wine. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he gave him Yuanxiao, and he also gave him pension money every month. No one could find fault with him.

Thinking about his eldest son Liu Guangqi, whom he had high hopes for, Liu Haizhong felt mixed emotions. He did not ask Liu Guangqi to come to see him every holiday like Liu Guangtian did. He only asked his eldest son to send him a letter once a month, no, once a year, and he would be satisfied.

Sometimes, he couldn't help but doubt whether his choice was right or wrong.

However, when she thought of her eldest son who graduated from a technical secondary school and was the most educated person in the Liu family, she strengthened her confidence and often comforted herself that Liu Guangqi was very busy with work and was on the rise in his career, and she could not hold her child back, so she buried her longing for him deep in her heart.

Liu Haizhong came to his senses and asked directly whether it was a bit early to get married. After all, Liu Guangtian was only 19 years old this year, which was not the legal age for marriage.

Liu Guangtian said that it was because his girlfriend's family was urging him to get married. In rural areas, many people get married at the age of 16. Considering that Liu Guangtian had a good job and his salary was higher than many people working in large state-owned factories, his girlfriend's parents were worried that Liu Guangtian would fall in love with someone else over time, and their girl's youth would be wasted.

Every time they go to their partner's house, their future father-in-law and mother-in-law urge them to get married as soon as possible.

Besides, if you are not old enough, you can wait and apply for a marriage certificate later when you are old enough. This is also the current situation of most rural people.

Many people of that era, especially those in rural areas, never got a marriage certificate in their entire lives, but the couples still supported each other throughout their lives.

Unlike the young people of the new century, who celebrate festivals all day long, even hold blind date banquets, engagement banquets, and wedding banquets for blind dates, all of which are extremely luxurious, what is the result? Too many people get married and divorced quickly, anyway, there are all kinds of situations, and few are truly happy to the end.

The richness of material life cannot cover up the poverty of spirit.

In later generations, thanks to the development of the Internet and the rise of video accounts, toxic chicken soup became prevalent, which also polluted the minds of young men and women.

Since Liu Guangtian said so, Liu Haizhong didn't say anything else. He also came from the countryside, so he naturally knew some of the conditions in the countryside.

Liu Haizhong immediately said that the wedding would be held in the Siheyuan and that he would fulfill his responsibilities. He also said that he would pay for all the money for the wedding, as this was what he should do as a father.

To be honest, Liu Haizhong has both obvious strengths and weaknesses, and they are both extreme.

The most obvious manifestations are beating children and wanting to become an official.

In this era, children are basically educated with corporal punishment, but Liu Haizhong couldn't control himself when beating his children. He would beat them to death. Others would be scared when watching, let alone his own son.

As a power-obsessed man, he acted in a pretentious manner all day long and was extremely profit-driven. He also had low emotional intelligence and no one gave him any advice. When the wind started to blow, he flattered Li Huaide and became a team leader, doing a lot of evil things.

If these two points could be changed, Liu Haizhong's ending would definitely be better than Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui.

Unfortunately, the reason why beasts are called beasts is that they insist on their own way.

After the matter was settled, Liu Haizhong was in good spirits and insisted on dragging Liu Guozheng home for a drink.

In the end, there was really no other way, so Liu Guangtian was asked to go to the office to cut a pound of beef and weigh a pound of pork liver. The ham sausage, which has been very popular on the dinner table recently, was also not left out.

Liu Haizhong took out the good wine that he was reluctant to drink from the cabinet and showed it off to Liu Guozheng.

Liu Guozheng took a look and laughed. This was the wine distributed as a welfare benefit during the Spring Festival. The ham sausage was also taken out of the cabinet. It was pure meat sausage. There was no doubt that it was brought back by Liu Guangtian during the Spring Festival.

After drinking, they returned to the office and after sorting out some matters, Liu Guozheng and Lou Xiao'e returned to the village.