[Rebirth] Medical Family
Work related
Look, it's nine o'clock in the evening.
Ou Zixi sat at the end of the bed with his back to him and was watching TV. The lights in the room were not turned on, and the noon news was still broadcast on the TV screen.
News reporters chattered about their skin care products being sent to the relevant departments for inspection, which showed that the content of heavy metals, lead and mercury, exceeded the standard, which was completely inconsistent with the natural and no additives in the previous advertisement. The woman who was interviewed at noon said with certainty that she wanted to sue the pharmaceutical factory. When the camera turned again, passers-by interviewed on the street said that they were deceived and dared not buy their things again.
Lu Jingnian took the remote control and directly turned off the TV screen, and turned on the bedside lamp.
Ou Zixi turned his head: "Are you awake? Are you hungry?"
Lu Jingnian shook his head, feeling drowsy, but now the more he sleeps, the more uncomfortable he is, and his stomach is really growling with hunger.
"I'm so hungry."
"Go take a shower, I'll reheat the meal, and it'll be ready in a while."
After Ou Zixi finished speaking, seeing him still dumbfounded, thinking that he was unhappy after watching the TV news, he climbed onto the bed, kissed him on the face, and then patted his face: "Go take a bath, I'll heat the meal .” Then he got up and went out the door first.
Lu Jingnian became foolishly happy, and suddenly felt that he really found a virtuous and good "wife".
When he washed his mind and appeared in the living room much clearer, Ou Zixi had already put all the food on the table, and the stewed chicken soup was fragrant, Lu Jingnian's appetite was whetted immediately, and he sat in front of the table.
First, he brought some food for Ou Zixi. Looking at his smiling face, Ou Zixi hesitated to speak: "...that's enough, I can't eat that much."
"It's so late, why don't you know that you ate first, does it feel better to be hungry?" Lu Jingnian complained while feeling sorry for him.
"..."
Lu Jingnian looked up at him, "What's wrong?"
"Are you really not worried about what happened in the news just now?"
"It's very similar to his style," Lu Jingnian pouted, "It's strange that he doesn't cause trouble."
Seeing Ou Zixi's worried face, Lu Jingnian smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry too much, the things produced in our factory are fine, we can't let him splash dirty water casually, I will take our things tomorrow Find someone to issue a professional and authoritative test report, and just clarify.”
Can it be that simple?
After dinner, Lu Jingnian helped Ou Zixi clean up the table, when the phone rang, it was a call from the factory: "Director, something went wrong, just now several merchants in the store called to say that there is a problem with our products and they are going to be removed from the shelves return the goods……"
"I see," Lu Jingnian interrupted, "I'll deal with it tomorrow."
After speaking, he hung up the phone directly.
Facing Ou Zixi's worried eyes, Lu Jingnian smiled and comforted him: "It's okay, I can handle it."
Ou Zixi stepped forward and touched his forehead, he didn't have a fever, he was relieved, Lu Jingnian grabbed his hand on his forehead, and asked him with a smile: "What should I do if I can't fall asleep after sleeping? Would you like to go outside with me?"
"It's so late..." Ou Zixi couldn't say anything, seeing Lu Jingnian looking at him with a gentle smile in his eyes, he couldn't say a word of refusal for a while, so he nodded his head in a strange way.
Before going out, Ou Zixi thought about it, and still wrapped a big scarf around him: "Wear it, if you don't fall ill again, I won't serve you."
Of course Lu Jingnian didn't expose that he was clearly concerned about himself when he said this, and watched him enjoyably wrapping the big scarf around his neck.
The place the two of them went was by the river, not far from where they lived, and it took more than ten minutes to walk there.
On the opposite side of the river is the bustling downtown area. There are several ferries on the river.
Ou Zixi felt that it was strange that he and Lu Jingnian came to this kind of place, and it was even more embarrassing to see those young couples hugging and laughing as they passed by.
Lu Jingnian was smiling all over his face, and asked him to wait by the river, then ran to the convenience store across the road to buy a large bag of snacks.
There is also beer, Ou Zixi frowned when he saw him turn out the wine: "You are still sick, you can't drink this."
As he said, he reached out to snatch it, Lu Jingnian seemed to have expected this kind of reaction from him, and switched the bottle to the other hand in a flash: "It doesn't matter if you drink a little, you can drink it too."
"I don't drink this." Ou Zixi was annoyed.
"Little doctor, don't be angry, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you happy to see you back?" Lu Jingnian leaned against his flushed face with the cold beer bottle in his hand: "Don't pout and keep a straight face."
Ou Zixi patted his hand away: "Be serious."
"Don't always dislike me for being unscrupulous." Lu Jingnian leaned on the guardrail by the river, looked at Ou Zixi with a cynical smile in the corner of his mouth, "You obviously like me, why are you saying that I am not serious?"
"You're not serious," Ou Zixi sensed that something was wrong with Lu Jingnian's mood. Although he had a smile on his face, he must still feel uncomfortable, so let it go, took the beer in his hand, opened it He poured a big gulp into his mouth, and the cold and bitter liquid slipped into his mouth. He really didn't like the taste of this kind of thing, so he frowned, and put the bottle back into Lu Jingnian's hand: "It's so horrible to drink. , and only you will buy this kind of thing to drink away your worries."
Lu Jingnian took a sip of the place where he drank, and looked directly at Ou Zixi with a pair of eyes, which also darkened a bit.
Ou Zixi turned his eyes away, but he felt a little embarrassed by him.
"Little doctor, do you think I'm trying to drink away my sorrow?"
"Isn't it?" Ou Zixi raised his eyebrows and asked him back.
Lu Jingnian shook his head: "It's not to the point of worry..." It's just that I feel a little uncomfortable.
"Are you in a bad mood because of the accident in the pharmaceutical factory, or because you saw your former fiancée and that person today?"
"Do you want to ask me if it's because of business or personal business?"
"What do you say?"
Lu Jingnian smiled: "I said, are you jealous, little doctor?"
Ou Zixi disagreed: "Why should I be jealous?"
"Is not it?"
"Could it be?"
This kind of meaningless verbal dispute is meaningless to continue, Ou Zixi gave up first: "I'm not jealous, I know you don't like her, I'm just afraid that you won't be happy when you think about the past."
"Little doctor, do you really don't understand my insistence on going back to take back the property?"
Ou Zixi didn't expect him to mention this suddenly, he opened his eyes slightly in surprise, and then said: "No, I know it's your grandfather's property, you don't want to leave others alone."
"It's fine if he's really doing it for the good of the company, but what he's doing now is too eager for quick success. I'm afraid he'll ruin the company." Lu Jingnian said and handed him the wine again, Ou Zixi However, he could only forcefully take another sip, his brows wrinkled again in bitterness, the smile in Lu Jingnian's eyes grew stronger, and he continued: "If it's possible, I'd rather have a simpler life with you in the countryside. day."
Ou Zixi was surprised to hear him say this: "Didn't you say that there are many troublesome people in the countryside?"
"We can go somewhere that doesn't have those troublesome people."
Ou Zixi pursed his lips: "Aren't you a young lady? Are you willing to live in the city?" Who encouraged him to move to the city all the time before?
"Do you think I have gone out to have fun after I was with you?" Lu Jingnian felt wronged: "Apart from going out to do business, I am not always with you. I am such a good man at home, but you still call me a big spendthrift I am so wronged, little doctor..."
Ou Zixi felt that his goosebumps were about to fall off, so he threw the beer bottle that he had already drank into the trash can beside him: "You said you wanted to go out for a walk, but we've gone, let's go back, it's getting late, you're sick It's not good, go back to bed early."
Lu Jingnian jumped on him, "Little doctor, I'm a patient, you carry me back."
"I can't move my back." Ou Zixi pushed him away, and ran forward without looking back.
Lu Jingnian smiled helplessly, and strode after him.
☆、The partner breaks the contract
The next morning, Lu Jingnian woke up and said he was going out. Ou Zixi made him breakfast, but he didn't have time to clean up. Seeing that he was about to go out, he quickly followed, met the slightly puzzled look in his eyes, and smiled, He said, "I'll go with you."
"You go too,"
"Yes, I'm the legal person of the pharmaceutical factory, I can't ignore this matter."
In fact, he also wanted to help Lu Jingnian share some burden, even if he didn't know anything about these things, it would be good to go with him.
Since Ou Zixi insisted, Lu Jingnian didn't have much to say, so he took him with him.
After getting into the car, Ou Zixi asked him, "Where shall we go first?"
"Go to the pharmaceutical factory to see the situation first."
Lu Jingnian felt much better after sleeping all night, and he didn't look very worried. Ou Zixi felt a little more at ease when he looked confident, and asked him casually: "Where are you going to find someone to do the test?" Report?"
"Actually, we had to apply for a sanitation license before, and there was already a product quality inspection report issued by a provincial inspection agency, but last night I called my uncle, Oscar's father, and asked him to find a trustee to help us in Europe. The authoritative testing agency over there will make an international test report, with that, not only can the name be rectified, but also the brand value of our products can be improved.”
"Then why didn't you do it before?"
"It takes time and money to do that." Lu Jingnian rubbed Ou Zixi's head with a smile, "I wanted to do it before, but I've been waiting. Yesterday I called my uncle Jianghu for emergency, urging there to speed up the progress."
Ou Zixi was very dissatisfied with his behavior of teasing himself like a puppy, so he slapped his hand away: "Then you didn't say it before?"
"Did I say you can worry less?"
Ou Zixi thought about it, and was really worried: "But the news is broadcast, how much will it be affected?"
"Just keep the impact to a minimum."
When they arrived at the pharmaceutical factory, the director of the pharmaceutical factory came out to pick them up. Since they bought the factory, the director still stayed to manage the factory for them. I invested in the production of medicated cream skin care products. The momentum of the original product was very good after it was launched. This time, such a thing happened suddenly, which really caught people off guard.
The director explained to Lu Jingnian sweating profusely: "The people from the health supervision department came just now and said that someone reported that our product quality was not up to standard and heavy metals exceeded the standard. They took samples for inspection and asked us to temporarily suspend production until the inspection results come out. What's more, from yesterday to today, we have received calls from more than a dozen stores, saying that there is a problem with our products, and they want to take them off the shelves and return them."
Lu Jingnian curled his lips when he heard this: "They reacted really fast. They called to return the goods just after the news came out yesterday? Could it be that they haven't confirmed that our items are really faulty?"
The director also looked puzzled: "I also find it strange, and those people are very firm, and they don't want to listen to our explanation at all. They just say that they must return the product."
"What else?"
"Yes, and the tone is particularly bad, saying that it's really unlucky to cooperate with us, and it's something like a plague god." The more the director said, the more he got angry, his face turned red.
Lu Jingnian nodded and signaled him to be calm: "Which merchants have called and want to return the goods, you can give me the list, and I will go to them to find out."
Half an hour later, Lu Jingnian got the list in his hands, and pouted at Ou Zixi, and the two of them left the pharmaceutical factory, boarded the car again and went back to the city center.
Lu Jingnian looked at the list with his brows slightly frowned, thoughtful, Ou Zixi also went over to look at it, and asked him, "What's the problem?"
Lu Jing let out a young breath: "It's probably his fault again."
Of course Ou Zixi knew who the 'he' Lu Jingnian was talking about. Seeing that the little doctor was worried about him again, Lu Jingnian smiled at him: "He can't cover the sky with his hands anymore, there is always a way."
Then they went to the largest department store in the city. The counters on the first floor here sell top-grade cosmetics from abroad. Their products can only be rented at the supermarket on the first basement floor, but the counters have also been withdrawn now. Yes, the counter that was busy two days ago has become deserted and empty.
Lu Jingnian and Ou Zixi took a look, then went directly to the manager of the mall, who told them to go to the office to talk.
After entering the door and sitting down, the chubby middle-aged manager kept staring at Lu Jingnian with mung bean eyes. After seeing that even Ou Zixi felt unhappy, the other party opened his mouth first and asked Lu Jingnian: "Boss Ou, actually I I've always wanted to ask you before, do you know someone from the Lu family?"
Lu Jingnian pretended not to know: "The Lu family? What Lu family?"
"It's the Ruiling Group..." He said, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I've always thought that you look a lot like the former group chairman of their company."
Lu Jingnian was running a business outside, and many people recognized him, but he always regarded himself as Ou Zixi's cousin, and called himself Ou to the outside world, and now he followed suit no matter how he dressed or how he dealt with people. He is very different from before, so even if most people have doubts about him, they will not ask more questions, just treat him as a similar person.
Of course, there is obviously a reason for the mall manager to ask this question this time.
Lu Jingnian smiled, but asked him back: "Are you admitting that your sudden request to withdraw the goods is related to Ruiling Group?"
When he said this, the other side's face froze, and then he realized that he had slipped the tongue, and then saw Lu Jingnian smiling at him so bluntly, and said in a slightly embarrassing way: "To be honest, your things are very easy to sell. Yes, it was completely beyond our expectations. Originally, we wanted to expand our cooperation with you and move your counter to the first floor, but now your products have been exposed to have quality problems..."
"There are rumors like this, but even if the news is broadcast, we can't be sure. Maybe someone is jealous of our products just coming out and selling well?" Lu Jingnian took out the previously signed contract and moved it to the In front of the manager: "It says that you can unilaterally terminate the contract only if there are clear quality problems, or you have to pay liquidated damages. Before the investigation results of the relevant departments come out, you seem to have no reason to just withdraw our things. gone."
Being blocked by him like this, the other party's face became more ugly, and then lost his temper: "Compensation is just compensation, we are willing to compensate, in short, our mall will not sell your things anymore."
Lu Jingnian was not surprised that he would say that, and he just shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, Ou Zixi frowned and asked the manager: "Why? Why would you rather lose money than sell our things?"
Seeing the other party looking at him with doubts on his face, Ou Zixi reported himself: "I am the director of a pharmaceutical factory. If you don't want our things, you have to give a reason?"
"It's inconvenient to disclose this. Anyway, let's just wait until the inspection results of your products come out. If there is no problem, we will directly pay you liquidated damages. Even if we breach the contract, if there is a problem, then there is nothing you can do. You have to compensate us for our losses."
At this moment, even Ou Zixi understood the meaning of his words: "The people from Ruiling put pressure on you to stop cooperating with us? You dare not offend them, so you would rather pay us to break the contract?"
Seeing that he was right, the other party hesitated for a moment, and he readily admitted it. He glanced at Lu Jingnian and said helplessly, "I don't know how you offended them, but we have a long-term cooperative relationship with them. They It is also our big customer, and it is impossible for us to lose such a big customer because of you."
"Is there really no room for turning around at all? We are very sincere to continue to cooperate with you..."
Before Ou Zixi finished speaking, he was interrupted by the other party: "Sorry, we really can't cooperate with you anymore, you should find someone else."
"We understand." Lu Jingnian stood up, put away the contract, and said to the manager, "Within a week, we will know whether we will compensate you for your losses or you will compensate us for our breach of contract." gold."
Then he signaled to Ou Zixi who was still about to talk, Ou Zixi saw that he was determined, so forget it, got up and followed him.
After leaving the mall, Ou Zixi complained dissatisfiedly: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry, you should tell him more to persuade him to change his mind..."
Lu Jingnian couldn't stop laughing: "Little doctor, do you have a good tongue?"
"..."
"Don't you think you can persuade them to change their minds?"
"Then you have to try..."
"Forget it. You don't know Ruiling's influence in this city. It's normal for them not to cooperate with us."
Ou Zixi was even more worried after hearing this: "If all the merchants refuse to cooperate with us, how can we sell our products?"
"It's enough to rent a shop and open a specialty store," Lu Jingnian said disapprovingly, "I said before, he can't cover the sky with his hands, there will always be a way."
"Then go to another house?"
"No," Lu Jingnian thought that the answer would be the same anyway, and it would be meaningless to go: "I'll call the factory later and ask them to tell those who want to return the goods that they can just pay liquidated damages, and they will all be satisfied. , let's go back and go to the store."
Ou Zixi wanted to say more, but Lu Jingnian held his shoulders, stopped the car and pushed him into the car.
☆, strange guests
After hanging up the phone, Lu Jingnian happily raised his eyebrows at Ou Zixi, "It's done."
Ou Zixi didn't react for a while, "What?"
"Product Test Report."
With Oscar’s father entrusting the help of foreign friends, things went much smoother. The product inspection report from the European authority, which had not been received for several months, was finally sent, and there was also a product standard certification. Lu Jingnian read it After experiencing it, I let out a sigh of relief. With this thing, at least trying to slander them for having quality problems is not going to work.
The investigation and test results of the health supervision department also came out in due course, confirming that the ingredients of their products are indeed in line with the national standards, and indeed, as they said, they are natural and free of additives.
As for the woman who cried on the TV news and said that she was allergic and disfigured after using their products, she has long since disappeared. However, even though the final investigation results and product test reports were released to the public, there was a lot of noise on the TV news in those days. The explosive reports still had a very bad impact, especially now that basically all major shopping malls in the city have completely taken off their products, and there are very few merchants who are willing to continue to cooperate with them, and the sales of course have plummeted.
So on the one hand, Oscar was in charge of finding a lawyer to sue several TV stations and media for deliberately misinterpreting and misleading consumers to damage their product brand image;
In fact, it is not beyond Lu Jingnian's expectations that so many merchants broke the contract at the same time. He knows the influence of Ruiling in the province and even the whole country better than anyone else. It is absolutely impossible for those people to offend such a small brand like them. For big companies and big customers, someone wants to take down them with one blow, but this time, he won't admit defeat no matter what.
After finishing the busiest period, their first specialty store finally opened. It is not far from the store jointly opened by Ou Zixi and Oscar. The store is not big, but because it is a downtown area, the flow of people is still there Can.
The shadow of the product quality being criticized gradually faded away, and Lu Jingnian was busier than before. Even though their products are really useful, and there are many international certifications that have not been obtained by big brands, there are many people who follow them. However, it is still difficult for a large group like Ruiling, which is well-known in China, and Lu Jingcheng seems to be serious about not giving them a chance. Their business in the local area has been severely suppressed, so they can only ask for help. For external development, Lu Jingnian traveled all over the country to find a channel provider willing to cooperate with them, but it was not easy. The resistance was really great, and the speed of capital return was much slower than he had previously estimated.
In the blink of an eye, December came, and Lu Jingnian went out to run business again, and Ou Zixi went back to the village alone. Two days later was his grandma's memorial day, so he had to pay homage to grandma, and he also went to see the medicine fields.
Almost all of the village was evacuated, and there were only two or three households that refused to leave. Of course, the third uncle's family was one of them.
However, regarding the acquisition of this village, Oscar later went to help them find out the exact news. Now that the first phase of the project in the village next door has not been completed, it is estimated that it will be this time next year if it is to be dismantled to them, so, So far, except for the time he went back to the village, no one has come to pester him about the demolition of the house.
Of course, it might be that those people are thinking about other ideas, but after the incident in the pharmaceutical factory, Ou Zixi is more determined, and he will go to the end of this nail business.
After going to the third uncle's house to say hello, Ou Zixi took the sacrifice and went up the mountain.
Two days before this season, there was heavy snow again, and the road up the mountain was not easy to walk. It was not the winter solstice, and no one would choose to go to the grave at this time, so it was very deserted all the way up the mountain. Ou Zixi slowed down his pace and walked up slowly. , and finally stopped. What surprised him was that there were other people on the mountain, and they were standing in front of his grandma's grave, and they came to pay homage to his grandma.
Before Ou Zixi walked over to the grave, he was blocked by two burly men in suits, who looked at him warily. Ou Zixi asked them with some displeasure: "Who are you?"
The woman standing in front of his grandmother's grave turned around, looked at him, saw that he was carrying a basket full of fruits and pastries, and asked him tentatively, "Are you also here to pay homage to Mrs. Ou?"
Little Mrs. Ou?Ou Zixi thought it should be his grandma, so he nodded: "I'm here to pay homage to my grandma."
The woman's eyes lit up when she heard him say this: "Are you the grandson of Mrs. Ou?"
Ou Zixi nodded again.
The woman in front of her seemed to be in her sixties, but she had a good temperament. Ou Zixi saw that she looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her before.
The two men who stopped him had already stepped aside, Ou Zixi stepped forward, laid out all the things he had brought, and went to grandma's grave.
The woman opened her mouth first: "More than 40 years ago, I was sent here to live in Xiao Ou's house. Thanks to Xiao Ou's care, after I went back to the city, we hadn't seen each other for more than 30 years. I didn't expect ..."
At the end she sighed softly.
Ou Zixi looked at her and asked, "What's your name?"
The other party laughed: "My surname is Chen, you can just call me Grandma Chen."
Ou Zixi thanked her very politely: "Thank you for visiting my grandma."
"It should be, it should be..." the other party said, his eyes fell on the grave, and his eyes slowly turned red.
Ou Zixi was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, his grandma mentioned to him the most difficult period of life decades ago. I think this grandma Chen came here at that time, and the friendship established at that time must be It is indeed memorable, so even after so many years, the other party still misses seeing his grandma, but it is a pity that it has been separated forever.
Coming down from the mountain, Ou Zixi saw that it was snowing again, and asked her: "How did you get here? It's snowing now, and it may be inconvenient to go out of the mountain. My house is in a village not far ahead. Would you like to come to my village?" Sit at home for a while and wait until the snow stops in the afternoon before leaving?"
The other party hesitated for a moment, then nodded happily.
After returning to the village, Ou Zixi saw that it was already noon, so he greeted the three of them home, went to the third uncle's house to ask for some ingredients, and made a few home-cooked dishes for the guests.
The grandma surnamed Chen was a little surprised at the dishes he served, and then praised him with a smile: "The young man is young, so I can't tell that he can cook well."
Ou Zixi smiled shyly: "If you get used to it, it will be easy."
The other party asked him again: "I see that your house is deserted, do you live alone?"
"Well, I used to live here alone, but now... I moved to the provincial capital to live with my friends."
"Alone? What about your family?"
"My father and mother divorced, my mother remarried, and my father passed away a few years ago, leaving me alone."
Although they just met, Ou Zixi has a good impression of the person in front of him, so he basically answered her questions seriously.
The other party was a little embarrassed when he heard him say this, and looked at him with more affection: "I think you should be in your early twenties, right? Are you still in college?"
Ou Zixi smiled: "No, I haven't studied for a few years. I have been learning Chinese medicine from my father before, and I even learned some superficial aspects of Chinese medicine."
"It's good to learn Chinese medicine. There are fewer people who are willing to learn Chinese medicine these days. I remember that when there was a plague here, the people in the village survived only after eating the herbs given by Xiaoou's sister-in-law. It is also thanks to her." The other party said. As if recalling the past, he sighed softly.
Ou Zixi remained silent, because he didn't know what to say.
After recovering, the other party asked him again: "Then what are you doing now? What are you doing now?"
"Now I'm in town with my friends doing business."
"Business?" The other party was a little surprised when he heard that, seeing Ou Zixi's white and clean appearance, he really didn't look like a businessman, so he was curious for a moment: "What kind of business do you do?"
"I opened a factory with my friend, selling skin care cosmeceuticals." Ou Zixi said, and casually reported the brands of the products they sold.
But the other party was even more surprised when he heard it: "So you sold it?"
She took out a small bottle of face cream from her bag, which was their product. The other party smiled and said to Ou Zixi, "Is it this? This thing is really good. Such a cheap thing can have such a good effect." It is indeed rare, my granddaughter bought it for me, she also said it is very useful, but it is very difficult to buy, it seems that there are few for sale in the market."
"Yes, that's it," Ou Zixi said honestly, "We encountered a little trouble, we couldn't find a big distributor to cooperate with, so we shipped less."
"So..." The other party listened thoughtfully, thought for a while, and smiled again: "I'll go back and see if I can find a way to help you."
Ou Zixi only thought she was saying polite words, but didn't take it to heart, and thanked her as before.
Not long after dinner, Xue also heard, Ou Zixi sent them out of the village, where their car was parked, before getting into the car, the other party hugged him: "Good boy, I'm sorry."
Seeing that her eyes were red again, Ou Zixi felt uncomfortable for a moment: "Grandma Chen, if you have time, please visit my grandma more often, she is lonely here by herself, I think she will be very happy if you come to see her of."
"Okay, okay..." The other party nodded repeatedly: "I will come again in the future."
Ou Zixi watched her get into the car and go away, then stood there for a while, then turned and went back home.
☆, the nobleman who descended from heaven
After living in the village for two days, Ou Zixi figured that Lu Jingnian had gone to other places and should be back today, so he took the earliest bus early in the morning and went back to the city.
It was almost nine o'clock when we got home, and the elevator was climbing up one floor at a time. Ou Zixi thought casually to make a meal quickly when Lu Jingnian came back at noon, just in time to eat. When he got out of the elevator, he found that the person he was talking about was sitting in front of the house , lying on the huge suitcase and dozing off.
Ou Zixi froze for three seconds before striding forward, squatting and pushing him, "Hey, wake up,"
Lu Jingnian woke up in a daze, and after seeing clearly who was in front of him, he smiled at him, "You're back."
Ou Zixi frowned, "What's wrong with you? Why are you sitting at the door? Don't you know where to go?"
"Oh, I forgot the key."
Lu Jingnian got up, dragged the suitcase, followed Ou Zixi who had already opened the door, and went in, threw the things away and collapsed on the sofa.
Ou Zixi couldn't understand him like this, so he stretched out his foot and kicked him: "Didn't you say you came back at noon today?"
Lu Jingnian said helplessly, "I arrived a day early last night in the middle of the night, and then found that I didn't bring the key with me, so I had to sit outside."
"You won't call me without the key?"
"You're in the village, and you won't come back even if I call in the middle of the night."
Ou Zixi said angrily: "What about Oscar, doesn't he have a spare key for our house?"
"I'm too lazy to bother him in the middle of the night, forget it, anyway, I know you will be back this morning."
Ou Zixi got angry and kicked him again: "Go take a shower."
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you."
Lu Jingnian slowly got up and went into the bathroom.
When he came out of the shower, Ou Zixi was packing his luggage. Lu Jingnian squatted down in front of him wrapped in a bathrobe, and looked at him with a smile: "Little doctor, are you too diligent?"
"I just can't see you being so sloppy."
Clean clothes and dirty clothes are all stuffed together without folding. I really don't know how he packs them up.
"No time to tidy up..."
Lu Jingnian said casually, Ou Zixi glanced at him: "Have you been out for almost a week? How is the business going?"
Lu Jingnian shook his head: "Small distributors have managed a few, but the others... still refuse to let go."
"Take your time." Ou Zixi didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only hold back his words.
Just as Lu Jingnian was about to say something, there was a ring in his hand. He saw that it was an unfamiliar number, but he still picked it up. The people over there were very polite, and they first reported their family name. It turned out to be the largest department store chain in the country, and it was The head office in Beijing called. After confirming his identity with Lu Jingnian, he directly proposed a cooperation intention, and then said that if there is no problem, they should go to Beijing for an interview to sign a contract.
Lu Jingnian was very surprised, and made an appointment with the other party first, and hung up the phone after solemnly thanking her.
After hearing what he said, Ou Zixi was also a little stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses: "Isn't it a liar?"
"..."
So Lu Jingnian made a few more phone calls to confirm that he was indeed not a liar, and he was completely confused for a while: "I have contacted them a few times before, let alone the head office, all the branches in this province reported to me as soon as they heard about it." Why did you suddenly change your attitude so quickly when you offered a brand name and refused without giving any room for negotiation?”
Ou Zixi thought of the grandma Chen he met in the village, could it be her?
But the problem is that he only knows that his surname is Chen, and that he is a friend of his grandma. He doesn't know anything else, and he didn't leave a contact information. It's not like the kind of person who knows famous people. Even if that grandma Chen said that she would find a way to help him, he only took it as a polite remark at the time, so the idea was fleeting, and Ou Zixi quickly denied it. up.
"Maybe they think our products are good, and word of mouth is something that can make money, so they want to cooperate with us."
When Ou Zixi said this, Lu Jingnian temporarily thought so after thinking about it. Apart from this, he really couldn't think of any other reasons for them to suddenly change their minds.
That's why he came back from the outside, and before he had time to catch his breath, Lu Jingnian packed up in the afternoon and prepared to go to Beijing again.
After sending Lu Jingnian to the airport, Ou Zixi went back to the store. The manager Liu whom Ou Zixi had met in Rui'an Hall had resigned from Ruiling, and now he was helping them manage the cosmeceuticals store.
Ou Zixi sat at the end of the bed with his back to him and was watching TV. The lights in the room were not turned on, and the noon news was still broadcast on the TV screen.
News reporters chattered about their skin care products being sent to the relevant departments for inspection, which showed that the content of heavy metals, lead and mercury, exceeded the standard, which was completely inconsistent with the natural and no additives in the previous advertisement. The woman who was interviewed at noon said with certainty that she wanted to sue the pharmaceutical factory. When the camera turned again, passers-by interviewed on the street said that they were deceived and dared not buy their things again.
Lu Jingnian took the remote control and directly turned off the TV screen, and turned on the bedside lamp.
Ou Zixi turned his head: "Are you awake? Are you hungry?"
Lu Jingnian shook his head, feeling drowsy, but now the more he sleeps, the more uncomfortable he is, and his stomach is really growling with hunger.
"I'm so hungry."
"Go take a shower, I'll reheat the meal, and it'll be ready in a while."
After Ou Zixi finished speaking, seeing him still dumbfounded, thinking that he was unhappy after watching the TV news, he climbed onto the bed, kissed him on the face, and then patted his face: "Go take a bath, I'll heat the meal .” Then he got up and went out the door first.
Lu Jingnian became foolishly happy, and suddenly felt that he really found a virtuous and good "wife".
When he washed his mind and appeared in the living room much clearer, Ou Zixi had already put all the food on the table, and the stewed chicken soup was fragrant, Lu Jingnian's appetite was whetted immediately, and he sat in front of the table.
First, he brought some food for Ou Zixi. Looking at his smiling face, Ou Zixi hesitated to speak: "...that's enough, I can't eat that much."
"It's so late, why don't you know that you ate first, does it feel better to be hungry?" Lu Jingnian complained while feeling sorry for him.
"..."
Lu Jingnian looked up at him, "What's wrong?"
"Are you really not worried about what happened in the news just now?"
"It's very similar to his style," Lu Jingnian pouted, "It's strange that he doesn't cause trouble."
Seeing Ou Zixi's worried face, Lu Jingnian smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry too much, the things produced in our factory are fine, we can't let him splash dirty water casually, I will take our things tomorrow Find someone to issue a professional and authoritative test report, and just clarify.”
Can it be that simple?
After dinner, Lu Jingnian helped Ou Zixi clean up the table, when the phone rang, it was a call from the factory: "Director, something went wrong, just now several merchants in the store called to say that there is a problem with our products and they are going to be removed from the shelves return the goods……"
"I see," Lu Jingnian interrupted, "I'll deal with it tomorrow."
After speaking, he hung up the phone directly.
Facing Ou Zixi's worried eyes, Lu Jingnian smiled and comforted him: "It's okay, I can handle it."
Ou Zixi stepped forward and touched his forehead, he didn't have a fever, he was relieved, Lu Jingnian grabbed his hand on his forehead, and asked him with a smile: "What should I do if I can't fall asleep after sleeping? Would you like to go outside with me?"
"It's so late..." Ou Zixi couldn't say anything, seeing Lu Jingnian looking at him with a gentle smile in his eyes, he couldn't say a word of refusal for a while, so he nodded his head in a strange way.
Before going out, Ou Zixi thought about it, and still wrapped a big scarf around him: "Wear it, if you don't fall ill again, I won't serve you."
Of course Lu Jingnian didn't expose that he was clearly concerned about himself when he said this, and watched him enjoyably wrapping the big scarf around his neck.
The place the two of them went was by the river, not far from where they lived, and it took more than ten minutes to walk there.
On the opposite side of the river is the bustling downtown area. There are several ferries on the river.
Ou Zixi felt that it was strange that he and Lu Jingnian came to this kind of place, and it was even more embarrassing to see those young couples hugging and laughing as they passed by.
Lu Jingnian was smiling all over his face, and asked him to wait by the river, then ran to the convenience store across the road to buy a large bag of snacks.
There is also beer, Ou Zixi frowned when he saw him turn out the wine: "You are still sick, you can't drink this."
As he said, he reached out to snatch it, Lu Jingnian seemed to have expected this kind of reaction from him, and switched the bottle to the other hand in a flash: "It doesn't matter if you drink a little, you can drink it too."
"I don't drink this." Ou Zixi was annoyed.
"Little doctor, don't be angry, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you happy to see you back?" Lu Jingnian leaned against his flushed face with the cold beer bottle in his hand: "Don't pout and keep a straight face."
Ou Zixi patted his hand away: "Be serious."
"Don't always dislike me for being unscrupulous." Lu Jingnian leaned on the guardrail by the river, looked at Ou Zixi with a cynical smile in the corner of his mouth, "You obviously like me, why are you saying that I am not serious?"
"You're not serious," Ou Zixi sensed that something was wrong with Lu Jingnian's mood. Although he had a smile on his face, he must still feel uncomfortable, so let it go, took the beer in his hand, opened it He poured a big gulp into his mouth, and the cold and bitter liquid slipped into his mouth. He really didn't like the taste of this kind of thing, so he frowned, and put the bottle back into Lu Jingnian's hand: "It's so horrible to drink. , and only you will buy this kind of thing to drink away your worries."
Lu Jingnian took a sip of the place where he drank, and looked directly at Ou Zixi with a pair of eyes, which also darkened a bit.
Ou Zixi turned his eyes away, but he felt a little embarrassed by him.
"Little doctor, do you think I'm trying to drink away my sorrow?"
"Isn't it?" Ou Zixi raised his eyebrows and asked him back.
Lu Jingnian shook his head: "It's not to the point of worry..." It's just that I feel a little uncomfortable.
"Are you in a bad mood because of the accident in the pharmaceutical factory, or because you saw your former fiancée and that person today?"
"Do you want to ask me if it's because of business or personal business?"
"What do you say?"
Lu Jingnian smiled: "I said, are you jealous, little doctor?"
Ou Zixi disagreed: "Why should I be jealous?"
"Is not it?"
"Could it be?"
This kind of meaningless verbal dispute is meaningless to continue, Ou Zixi gave up first: "I'm not jealous, I know you don't like her, I'm just afraid that you won't be happy when you think about the past."
"Little doctor, do you really don't understand my insistence on going back to take back the property?"
Ou Zixi didn't expect him to mention this suddenly, he opened his eyes slightly in surprise, and then said: "No, I know it's your grandfather's property, you don't want to leave others alone."
"It's fine if he's really doing it for the good of the company, but what he's doing now is too eager for quick success. I'm afraid he'll ruin the company." Lu Jingnian said and handed him the wine again, Ou Zixi However, he could only forcefully take another sip, his brows wrinkled again in bitterness, the smile in Lu Jingnian's eyes grew stronger, and he continued: "If it's possible, I'd rather have a simpler life with you in the countryside. day."
Ou Zixi was surprised to hear him say this: "Didn't you say that there are many troublesome people in the countryside?"
"We can go somewhere that doesn't have those troublesome people."
Ou Zixi pursed his lips: "Aren't you a young lady? Are you willing to live in the city?" Who encouraged him to move to the city all the time before?
"Do you think I have gone out to have fun after I was with you?" Lu Jingnian felt wronged: "Apart from going out to do business, I am not always with you. I am such a good man at home, but you still call me a big spendthrift I am so wronged, little doctor..."
Ou Zixi felt that his goosebumps were about to fall off, so he threw the beer bottle that he had already drank into the trash can beside him: "You said you wanted to go out for a walk, but we've gone, let's go back, it's getting late, you're sick It's not good, go back to bed early."
Lu Jingnian jumped on him, "Little doctor, I'm a patient, you carry me back."
"I can't move my back." Ou Zixi pushed him away, and ran forward without looking back.
Lu Jingnian smiled helplessly, and strode after him.
☆、The partner breaks the contract
The next morning, Lu Jingnian woke up and said he was going out. Ou Zixi made him breakfast, but he didn't have time to clean up. Seeing that he was about to go out, he quickly followed, met the slightly puzzled look in his eyes, and smiled, He said, "I'll go with you."
"You go too,"
"Yes, I'm the legal person of the pharmaceutical factory, I can't ignore this matter."
In fact, he also wanted to help Lu Jingnian share some burden, even if he didn't know anything about these things, it would be good to go with him.
Since Ou Zixi insisted, Lu Jingnian didn't have much to say, so he took him with him.
After getting into the car, Ou Zixi asked him, "Where shall we go first?"
"Go to the pharmaceutical factory to see the situation first."
Lu Jingnian felt much better after sleeping all night, and he didn't look very worried. Ou Zixi felt a little more at ease when he looked confident, and asked him casually: "Where are you going to find someone to do the test?" Report?"
"Actually, we had to apply for a sanitation license before, and there was already a product quality inspection report issued by a provincial inspection agency, but last night I called my uncle, Oscar's father, and asked him to find a trustee to help us in Europe. The authoritative testing agency over there will make an international test report, with that, not only can the name be rectified, but also the brand value of our products can be improved.”
"Then why didn't you do it before?"
"It takes time and money to do that." Lu Jingnian rubbed Ou Zixi's head with a smile, "I wanted to do it before, but I've been waiting. Yesterday I called my uncle Jianghu for emergency, urging there to speed up the progress."
Ou Zixi was very dissatisfied with his behavior of teasing himself like a puppy, so he slapped his hand away: "Then you didn't say it before?"
"Did I say you can worry less?"
Ou Zixi thought about it, and was really worried: "But the news is broadcast, how much will it be affected?"
"Just keep the impact to a minimum."
When they arrived at the pharmaceutical factory, the director of the pharmaceutical factory came out to pick them up. Since they bought the factory, the director still stayed to manage the factory for them. I invested in the production of medicated cream skin care products. The momentum of the original product was very good after it was launched. This time, such a thing happened suddenly, which really caught people off guard.
The director explained to Lu Jingnian sweating profusely: "The people from the health supervision department came just now and said that someone reported that our product quality was not up to standard and heavy metals exceeded the standard. They took samples for inspection and asked us to temporarily suspend production until the inspection results come out. What's more, from yesterday to today, we have received calls from more than a dozen stores, saying that there is a problem with our products, and they want to take them off the shelves and return them."
Lu Jingnian curled his lips when he heard this: "They reacted really fast. They called to return the goods just after the news came out yesterday? Could it be that they haven't confirmed that our items are really faulty?"
The director also looked puzzled: "I also find it strange, and those people are very firm, and they don't want to listen to our explanation at all. They just say that they must return the product."
"What else?"
"Yes, and the tone is particularly bad, saying that it's really unlucky to cooperate with us, and it's something like a plague god." The more the director said, the more he got angry, his face turned red.
Lu Jingnian nodded and signaled him to be calm: "Which merchants have called and want to return the goods, you can give me the list, and I will go to them to find out."
Half an hour later, Lu Jingnian got the list in his hands, and pouted at Ou Zixi, and the two of them left the pharmaceutical factory, boarded the car again and went back to the city center.
Lu Jingnian looked at the list with his brows slightly frowned, thoughtful, Ou Zixi also went over to look at it, and asked him, "What's the problem?"
Lu Jing let out a young breath: "It's probably his fault again."
Of course Ou Zixi knew who the 'he' Lu Jingnian was talking about. Seeing that the little doctor was worried about him again, Lu Jingnian smiled at him: "He can't cover the sky with his hands anymore, there is always a way."
Then they went to the largest department store in the city. The counters on the first floor here sell top-grade cosmetics from abroad. Their products can only be rented at the supermarket on the first basement floor, but the counters have also been withdrawn now. Yes, the counter that was busy two days ago has become deserted and empty.
Lu Jingnian and Ou Zixi took a look, then went directly to the manager of the mall, who told them to go to the office to talk.
After entering the door and sitting down, the chubby middle-aged manager kept staring at Lu Jingnian with mung bean eyes. After seeing that even Ou Zixi felt unhappy, the other party opened his mouth first and asked Lu Jingnian: "Boss Ou, actually I I've always wanted to ask you before, do you know someone from the Lu family?"
Lu Jingnian pretended not to know: "The Lu family? What Lu family?"
"It's the Ruiling Group..." He said, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I've always thought that you look a lot like the former group chairman of their company."
Lu Jingnian was running a business outside, and many people recognized him, but he always regarded himself as Ou Zixi's cousin, and called himself Ou to the outside world, and now he followed suit no matter how he dressed or how he dealt with people. He is very different from before, so even if most people have doubts about him, they will not ask more questions, just treat him as a similar person.
Of course, there is obviously a reason for the mall manager to ask this question this time.
Lu Jingnian smiled, but asked him back: "Are you admitting that your sudden request to withdraw the goods is related to Ruiling Group?"
When he said this, the other side's face froze, and then he realized that he had slipped the tongue, and then saw Lu Jingnian smiling at him so bluntly, and said in a slightly embarrassing way: "To be honest, your things are very easy to sell. Yes, it was completely beyond our expectations. Originally, we wanted to expand our cooperation with you and move your counter to the first floor, but now your products have been exposed to have quality problems..."
"There are rumors like this, but even if the news is broadcast, we can't be sure. Maybe someone is jealous of our products just coming out and selling well?" Lu Jingnian took out the previously signed contract and moved it to the In front of the manager: "It says that you can unilaterally terminate the contract only if there are clear quality problems, or you have to pay liquidated damages. Before the investigation results of the relevant departments come out, you seem to have no reason to just withdraw our things. gone."
Being blocked by him like this, the other party's face became more ugly, and then lost his temper: "Compensation is just compensation, we are willing to compensate, in short, our mall will not sell your things anymore."
Lu Jingnian was not surprised that he would say that, and he just shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, Ou Zixi frowned and asked the manager: "Why? Why would you rather lose money than sell our things?"
Seeing the other party looking at him with doubts on his face, Ou Zixi reported himself: "I am the director of a pharmaceutical factory. If you don't want our things, you have to give a reason?"
"It's inconvenient to disclose this. Anyway, let's just wait until the inspection results of your products come out. If there is no problem, we will directly pay you liquidated damages. Even if we breach the contract, if there is a problem, then there is nothing you can do. You have to compensate us for our losses."
At this moment, even Ou Zixi understood the meaning of his words: "The people from Ruiling put pressure on you to stop cooperating with us? You dare not offend them, so you would rather pay us to break the contract?"
Seeing that he was right, the other party hesitated for a moment, and he readily admitted it. He glanced at Lu Jingnian and said helplessly, "I don't know how you offended them, but we have a long-term cooperative relationship with them. They It is also our big customer, and it is impossible for us to lose such a big customer because of you."
"Is there really no room for turning around at all? We are very sincere to continue to cooperate with you..."
Before Ou Zixi finished speaking, he was interrupted by the other party: "Sorry, we really can't cooperate with you anymore, you should find someone else."
"We understand." Lu Jingnian stood up, put away the contract, and said to the manager, "Within a week, we will know whether we will compensate you for your losses or you will compensate us for our breach of contract." gold."
Then he signaled to Ou Zixi who was still about to talk, Ou Zixi saw that he was determined, so forget it, got up and followed him.
After leaving the mall, Ou Zixi complained dissatisfiedly: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry, you should tell him more to persuade him to change his mind..."
Lu Jingnian couldn't stop laughing: "Little doctor, do you have a good tongue?"
"..."
"Don't you think you can persuade them to change their minds?"
"Then you have to try..."
"Forget it. You don't know Ruiling's influence in this city. It's normal for them not to cooperate with us."
Ou Zixi was even more worried after hearing this: "If all the merchants refuse to cooperate with us, how can we sell our products?"
"It's enough to rent a shop and open a specialty store," Lu Jingnian said disapprovingly, "I said before, he can't cover the sky with his hands, there will always be a way."
"Then go to another house?"
"No," Lu Jingnian thought that the answer would be the same anyway, and it would be meaningless to go: "I'll call the factory later and ask them to tell those who want to return the goods that they can just pay liquidated damages, and they will all be satisfied. , let's go back and go to the store."
Ou Zixi wanted to say more, but Lu Jingnian held his shoulders, stopped the car and pushed him into the car.
☆, strange guests
After hanging up the phone, Lu Jingnian happily raised his eyebrows at Ou Zixi, "It's done."
Ou Zixi didn't react for a while, "What?"
"Product Test Report."
With Oscar’s father entrusting the help of foreign friends, things went much smoother. The product inspection report from the European authority, which had not been received for several months, was finally sent, and there was also a product standard certification. Lu Jingnian read it After experiencing it, I let out a sigh of relief. With this thing, at least trying to slander them for having quality problems is not going to work.
The investigation and test results of the health supervision department also came out in due course, confirming that the ingredients of their products are indeed in line with the national standards, and indeed, as they said, they are natural and free of additives.
As for the woman who cried on the TV news and said that she was allergic and disfigured after using their products, she has long since disappeared. However, even though the final investigation results and product test reports were released to the public, there was a lot of noise on the TV news in those days. The explosive reports still had a very bad impact, especially now that basically all major shopping malls in the city have completely taken off their products, and there are very few merchants who are willing to continue to cooperate with them, and the sales of course have plummeted.
So on the one hand, Oscar was in charge of finding a lawyer to sue several TV stations and media for deliberately misinterpreting and misleading consumers to damage their product brand image;
In fact, it is not beyond Lu Jingnian's expectations that so many merchants broke the contract at the same time. He knows the influence of Ruiling in the province and even the whole country better than anyone else. It is absolutely impossible for those people to offend such a small brand like them. For big companies and big customers, someone wants to take down them with one blow, but this time, he won't admit defeat no matter what.
After finishing the busiest period, their first specialty store finally opened. It is not far from the store jointly opened by Ou Zixi and Oscar. The store is not big, but because it is a downtown area, the flow of people is still there Can.
The shadow of the product quality being criticized gradually faded away, and Lu Jingnian was busier than before. Even though their products are really useful, and there are many international certifications that have not been obtained by big brands, there are many people who follow them. However, it is still difficult for a large group like Ruiling, which is well-known in China, and Lu Jingcheng seems to be serious about not giving them a chance. Their business in the local area has been severely suppressed, so they can only ask for help. For external development, Lu Jingnian traveled all over the country to find a channel provider willing to cooperate with them, but it was not easy. The resistance was really great, and the speed of capital return was much slower than he had previously estimated.
In the blink of an eye, December came, and Lu Jingnian went out to run business again, and Ou Zixi went back to the village alone. Two days later was his grandma's memorial day, so he had to pay homage to grandma, and he also went to see the medicine fields.
Almost all of the village was evacuated, and there were only two or three households that refused to leave. Of course, the third uncle's family was one of them.
However, regarding the acquisition of this village, Oscar later went to help them find out the exact news. Now that the first phase of the project in the village next door has not been completed, it is estimated that it will be this time next year if it is to be dismantled to them, so, So far, except for the time he went back to the village, no one has come to pester him about the demolition of the house.
Of course, it might be that those people are thinking about other ideas, but after the incident in the pharmaceutical factory, Ou Zixi is more determined, and he will go to the end of this nail business.
After going to the third uncle's house to say hello, Ou Zixi took the sacrifice and went up the mountain.
Two days before this season, there was heavy snow again, and the road up the mountain was not easy to walk. It was not the winter solstice, and no one would choose to go to the grave at this time, so it was very deserted all the way up the mountain. Ou Zixi slowed down his pace and walked up slowly. , and finally stopped. What surprised him was that there were other people on the mountain, and they were standing in front of his grandma's grave, and they came to pay homage to his grandma.
Before Ou Zixi walked over to the grave, he was blocked by two burly men in suits, who looked at him warily. Ou Zixi asked them with some displeasure: "Who are you?"
The woman standing in front of his grandmother's grave turned around, looked at him, saw that he was carrying a basket full of fruits and pastries, and asked him tentatively, "Are you also here to pay homage to Mrs. Ou?"
Little Mrs. Ou?Ou Zixi thought it should be his grandma, so he nodded: "I'm here to pay homage to my grandma."
The woman's eyes lit up when she heard him say this: "Are you the grandson of Mrs. Ou?"
Ou Zixi nodded again.
The woman in front of her seemed to be in her sixties, but she had a good temperament. Ou Zixi saw that she looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her before.
The two men who stopped him had already stepped aside, Ou Zixi stepped forward, laid out all the things he had brought, and went to grandma's grave.
The woman opened her mouth first: "More than 40 years ago, I was sent here to live in Xiao Ou's house. Thanks to Xiao Ou's care, after I went back to the city, we hadn't seen each other for more than 30 years. I didn't expect ..."
At the end she sighed softly.
Ou Zixi looked at her and asked, "What's your name?"
The other party laughed: "My surname is Chen, you can just call me Grandma Chen."
Ou Zixi thanked her very politely: "Thank you for visiting my grandma."
"It should be, it should be..." the other party said, his eyes fell on the grave, and his eyes slowly turned red.
Ou Zixi was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, his grandma mentioned to him the most difficult period of life decades ago. I think this grandma Chen came here at that time, and the friendship established at that time must be It is indeed memorable, so even after so many years, the other party still misses seeing his grandma, but it is a pity that it has been separated forever.
Coming down from the mountain, Ou Zixi saw that it was snowing again, and asked her: "How did you get here? It's snowing now, and it may be inconvenient to go out of the mountain. My house is in a village not far ahead. Would you like to come to my village?" Sit at home for a while and wait until the snow stops in the afternoon before leaving?"
The other party hesitated for a moment, then nodded happily.
After returning to the village, Ou Zixi saw that it was already noon, so he greeted the three of them home, went to the third uncle's house to ask for some ingredients, and made a few home-cooked dishes for the guests.
The grandma surnamed Chen was a little surprised at the dishes he served, and then praised him with a smile: "The young man is young, so I can't tell that he can cook well."
Ou Zixi smiled shyly: "If you get used to it, it will be easy."
The other party asked him again: "I see that your house is deserted, do you live alone?"
"Well, I used to live here alone, but now... I moved to the provincial capital to live with my friends."
"Alone? What about your family?"
"My father and mother divorced, my mother remarried, and my father passed away a few years ago, leaving me alone."
Although they just met, Ou Zixi has a good impression of the person in front of him, so he basically answered her questions seriously.
The other party was a little embarrassed when he heard him say this, and looked at him with more affection: "I think you should be in your early twenties, right? Are you still in college?"
Ou Zixi smiled: "No, I haven't studied for a few years. I have been learning Chinese medicine from my father before, and I even learned some superficial aspects of Chinese medicine."
"It's good to learn Chinese medicine. There are fewer people who are willing to learn Chinese medicine these days. I remember that when there was a plague here, the people in the village survived only after eating the herbs given by Xiaoou's sister-in-law. It is also thanks to her." The other party said. As if recalling the past, he sighed softly.
Ou Zixi remained silent, because he didn't know what to say.
After recovering, the other party asked him again: "Then what are you doing now? What are you doing now?"
"Now I'm in town with my friends doing business."
"Business?" The other party was a little surprised when he heard that, seeing Ou Zixi's white and clean appearance, he really didn't look like a businessman, so he was curious for a moment: "What kind of business do you do?"
"I opened a factory with my friend, selling skin care cosmeceuticals." Ou Zixi said, and casually reported the brands of the products they sold.
But the other party was even more surprised when he heard it: "So you sold it?"
She took out a small bottle of face cream from her bag, which was their product. The other party smiled and said to Ou Zixi, "Is it this? This thing is really good. Such a cheap thing can have such a good effect." It is indeed rare, my granddaughter bought it for me, she also said it is very useful, but it is very difficult to buy, it seems that there are few for sale in the market."
"Yes, that's it," Ou Zixi said honestly, "We encountered a little trouble, we couldn't find a big distributor to cooperate with, so we shipped less."
"So..." The other party listened thoughtfully, thought for a while, and smiled again: "I'll go back and see if I can find a way to help you."
Ou Zixi only thought she was saying polite words, but didn't take it to heart, and thanked her as before.
Not long after dinner, Xue also heard, Ou Zixi sent them out of the village, where their car was parked, before getting into the car, the other party hugged him: "Good boy, I'm sorry."
Seeing that her eyes were red again, Ou Zixi felt uncomfortable for a moment: "Grandma Chen, if you have time, please visit my grandma more often, she is lonely here by herself, I think she will be very happy if you come to see her of."
"Okay, okay..." The other party nodded repeatedly: "I will come again in the future."
Ou Zixi watched her get into the car and go away, then stood there for a while, then turned and went back home.
☆, the nobleman who descended from heaven
After living in the village for two days, Ou Zixi figured that Lu Jingnian had gone to other places and should be back today, so he took the earliest bus early in the morning and went back to the city.
It was almost nine o'clock when we got home, and the elevator was climbing up one floor at a time. Ou Zixi thought casually to make a meal quickly when Lu Jingnian came back at noon, just in time to eat. When he got out of the elevator, he found that the person he was talking about was sitting in front of the house , lying on the huge suitcase and dozing off.
Ou Zixi froze for three seconds before striding forward, squatting and pushing him, "Hey, wake up,"
Lu Jingnian woke up in a daze, and after seeing clearly who was in front of him, he smiled at him, "You're back."
Ou Zixi frowned, "What's wrong with you? Why are you sitting at the door? Don't you know where to go?"
"Oh, I forgot the key."
Lu Jingnian got up, dragged the suitcase, followed Ou Zixi who had already opened the door, and went in, threw the things away and collapsed on the sofa.
Ou Zixi couldn't understand him like this, so he stretched out his foot and kicked him: "Didn't you say you came back at noon today?"
Lu Jingnian said helplessly, "I arrived a day early last night in the middle of the night, and then found that I didn't bring the key with me, so I had to sit outside."
"You won't call me without the key?"
"You're in the village, and you won't come back even if I call in the middle of the night."
Ou Zixi said angrily: "What about Oscar, doesn't he have a spare key for our house?"
"I'm too lazy to bother him in the middle of the night, forget it, anyway, I know you will be back this morning."
Ou Zixi got angry and kicked him again: "Go take a shower."
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you."
Lu Jingnian slowly got up and went into the bathroom.
When he came out of the shower, Ou Zixi was packing his luggage. Lu Jingnian squatted down in front of him wrapped in a bathrobe, and looked at him with a smile: "Little doctor, are you too diligent?"
"I just can't see you being so sloppy."
Clean clothes and dirty clothes are all stuffed together without folding. I really don't know how he packs them up.
"No time to tidy up..."
Lu Jingnian said casually, Ou Zixi glanced at him: "Have you been out for almost a week? How is the business going?"
Lu Jingnian shook his head: "Small distributors have managed a few, but the others... still refuse to let go."
"Take your time." Ou Zixi didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only hold back his words.
Just as Lu Jingnian was about to say something, there was a ring in his hand. He saw that it was an unfamiliar number, but he still picked it up. The people over there were very polite, and they first reported their family name. It turned out to be the largest department store chain in the country, and it was The head office in Beijing called. After confirming his identity with Lu Jingnian, he directly proposed a cooperation intention, and then said that if there is no problem, they should go to Beijing for an interview to sign a contract.
Lu Jingnian was very surprised, and made an appointment with the other party first, and hung up the phone after solemnly thanking her.
After hearing what he said, Ou Zixi was also a little stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses: "Isn't it a liar?"
"..."
So Lu Jingnian made a few more phone calls to confirm that he was indeed not a liar, and he was completely confused for a while: "I have contacted them a few times before, let alone the head office, all the branches in this province reported to me as soon as they heard about it." Why did you suddenly change your attitude so quickly when you offered a brand name and refused without giving any room for negotiation?”
Ou Zixi thought of the grandma Chen he met in the village, could it be her?
But the problem is that he only knows that his surname is Chen, and that he is a friend of his grandma. He doesn't know anything else, and he didn't leave a contact information. It's not like the kind of person who knows famous people. Even if that grandma Chen said that she would find a way to help him, he only took it as a polite remark at the time, so the idea was fleeting, and Ou Zixi quickly denied it. up.
"Maybe they think our products are good, and word of mouth is something that can make money, so they want to cooperate with us."
When Ou Zixi said this, Lu Jingnian temporarily thought so after thinking about it. Apart from this, he really couldn't think of any other reasons for them to suddenly change their minds.
That's why he came back from the outside, and before he had time to catch his breath, Lu Jingnian packed up in the afternoon and prepared to go to Beijing again.
After sending Lu Jingnian to the airport, Ou Zixi went back to the store. The manager Liu whom Ou Zixi had met in Rui'an Hall had resigned from Ruiling, and now he was helping them manage the cosmeceuticals store.
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