Chapter 193: Chapter 193: Suspension of studies
Jia Sheng Decoration, which pursues reasonable profits and insists on doing things with a clear conscience, has also developed quite well recently. Since its establishment, it has never seriously distributed dividends. After the New Year, it increased the registered capital to 550,000 yuan.
At the same time, all departments have been strengthened, and a new engineering budget department has been added, responsible for quotations and profit budgets.
The engineering department has expanded to ten teams, but as more and more new homes are being built, the already well-known Jiasheng Company is receiving more and more orders, and there are always homeowners waiting in line.
Not only has the engineering department expanded, the design department has also increased to five people, with Chen Xuefeng still as the design director.
In addition, a two-person marketing department was set up, which did not actually need to go out and market the company, but mainly received customers who came to the door.
Mei Yiliang still couldn't sit still in the office, always thinking about going outside. Apart from going to various construction sites for spot checks, he would ask someone from the marketing department to go with him to visit the completed owners' homes.
The experience since the company was established had taught him that follow-up visits and after-sales service would greatly improve the company's reputation. Those satisfied owners were the supernumerary staff of Jiasheng's free and powerful marketing department.
Feng Zhenchang has opened a total of 13 noodle shops in the provincial capital. There is no need for expansion for the time being, so the profit level is very stable. After many negotiations, the noodle shop on Xueyuan Road, which was their first noodle shop, the two-storey building, was finally bought by them. Although there was some premium when buying, in the long run, it is definitely still very profitable.
Moreover, this restaurant has a special commemorative significance for them.
The rest of the village has opened a total of 25 noodle shops in various places. They are all considered lucky. Although some make more money than others, none have yet lost money.
At this rate, there will definitely be more than 30 noodle shops by the end of the year.
With more than 40 noodle shops, the village can actually implement contract farming. However, in a village like this, there must always be someone in charge. The current team of the village committee and the two-party leadership cannot be trusted at all.
After listening to his son, Feng Zhenchang had spoken to his fourth younger brother several times, asking him to simply not work as a private teacher at the village primary school and prepare to run for the position of village chief.
Fourth Uncle was still a bit hesitant, but Feng Yiping thought he would definitely come around. It would not be easy for a private teacher to become a public teacher, and it could be said that the hope was slim.
In addition, as family planning is being tightened, more and more people are going out to do business, and fewer and fewer children are going to the village primary school. It seems that in the next few years, there will be even fewer children, and sooner or later the school will be closed.
Of course, after listening to Feng Yiping's analysis, Feng Zhenchang also felt that, just because he has helped so many people from the village to settle in the city and become rich, if the fourth brother stands up and runs for the position of village chief, there is no reason why he will not be elected.
Xiao Zhijie and Wang Changning have been working even harder this semester. As June draws near, Xiao Zhijie is getting thinner and thinner. He has many motivations for working so hard, one of which is to at least go to the county seat, so that he can be closer to Zhang Qiuling. The other, of course, is to catch up to Feng Yiping. freewebnσvel.cѳm
As for Wang Changning, he has been working even harder, neglecting sleep and meals. Xiao Zhijie is at least outstanding in mathematics, while he is more average, but not outstanding in any subject. Although his parents are already preparing to open a second store and the family's financial situation has improved greatly, if he fails to get into the top high school again this time, he will be too ashamed to ask to repeat the year.
In order to give the two of them more time to study and ensure that they get the nutrition they need, Xiao Jianping asked his third daughter, who has not yet married, to come home and help them with the cooking and housework.
Fortunately, hard work always pays off. In the last few mock exams, they both did quite well, scoring above 500 points every time.
In early June, Feng Yiping drove his brother-in-law's car back to give them moral support.
On the eve of the exam, Wang Changning's parents asked him to come back especially. Since Feng Yiping had been accepted into the city's high school, the families had secretly been rooting for their children to also get into high school and go to university in the future.
In 1996, the city's middle school entrance exam questions were quite normal, and the teachers who set the questions did not have any problems. After three days of intense exams, they did not rest, and rushed to the school early the next morning to estimate their scores. In the end, both of them scored above 515 points, so there was no reason why they would not be admitted to County No. 1 High School.
When the final results came out, Xiao Zhijie scored 519, and Wang Changning actually scored two points higher than him. In early July, the admission score for County No. 1 High School was announced, and it was exactly 515 points. Both of them were admitted.
Xiao Jianping saw the changes in Feng Jiacong over the past few years. Not to mention Feng Yiping's family, even Wang Changning's family, who had just moved out, were now at least as well off as his family. His son had been accepted into high school, and would definitely go to university in the future. Later, he would find work and settle down in the city, and that would not be cheap.
He also had second thoughts, and went to the provincial capital to talk to Feng Zhenchang. He wanted to find a suitable place to open a noodle restaurant.
Xiao Zhijie and Wang Changning, who had received their admission notices, were ready to relieve the pressure they had felt for the past two years. They first went to the city together, staying at Feng Yiping's home, and then went to the province and Wang Changning's parents' home, where they had a good time for ten days or so.
After the first season of The Amazing Race, which had been meticulously produced by Columbia, was broadcast, it achieved unprecedented success, stealing the limelight from Big Brother, the first mature form of reality show produced by the Netherlands two years later.
Afterwards, the Shanghai office of the American law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell transferred the rights to various European countries, making Feng Yiping's wallet a lot fuller.
With money in his pocket, Feng Yiping took advantage of the low point in Apple's stock price this year to buy some. He would love to invest all the money he has in hand, but unfortunately, while this investment is certainly a good one, to really see a return, it is really the case with Warren Buffett's saying that you have to hold it for the long term, and it will be at least another decade or so before the benefits are maximised.
Of course, one should not be too greedy. As the movie Forrest Gump says, just from the Apple stock he has bought, as long as he does not spend money like a fool like some rich people do, he basically does not have to worry about money in the future.
A large group of people have been working for most of the year, and the Zhitong company, into which Feng Yiping has poured a lot of money, has finally produced results. A trial version of a set of management software with financial software as its core has been released and is being tried out in the noodle shop. The very important related interfaces have also been developed.
Hong Haoran is patching the loopholes that have appeared in actual operation while also starting the research and development of the inventory module as requested by Feng Yiping.
As for Feng Yiping, he is now facing a very serious problem, which is how to convince his parents and school to let him take a year off from school.
He first approached his brother and sister-in-law without going into detail about the specific reasons, only explaining that he must spend most of next year outside the mainland, which of course is actually Hong Kong, which is very crucial for him.
Auntie, who was approaching the due date, took on the task of persuading his parents. Several times, she went to help him persuade his parents, despite being heavily pregnant. After the baby's first month, Auntie, who had just given birth, returned to her parents' home with the baby, and then went to see Feng Zhenchang and his wife again to persuade them. Moreover, Feng Yiping also said that taking a year off would give him a better chance of getting into a top university in China. So after several months of hard work, Feng Zhenchang and Mei Qiuping finally reluctantly agreed.
With the parents' consent, the matter was not difficult to handle. Taking a leave of absence due to injury or illness was obviously not a realistic option. Feng Yiping had never taken a single day off, let alone sick leave, so he could only use visiting relatives abroad as an excuse. He already had a passport, and it was now easy to get a US visa.
You have to know that CBS had reaped fame and fortune in the first season alone, and Davis Polk & Wardwell's Shanghai office had also broken ground by representing Feng Yiping's copyright.
Finally, Feng Zhenchang and Mei Yiliang had several in-depth exchanges with Feng Yiping's class teacher, opened up the school's connections, and invited the relevant person in charge of the municipal education bureau to entertain them several times. Finally, in early 1997, they completed the suspension of studies procedures.