Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Claim as one's own
'Why so suddenly? I thought we weren't coming back until after the Lantern Festival?' Feng Yiping took the luggage trolley being pushed by Jin Ling as the travellers reached the exit.
'Everything that needed to be done in the provincial capital has been taken care of, but I'm still not too confident about this side.' Jin Ling was wearing a bright red windbreaker. From the side, her face, lightly made up, looked slightly tired.
'What are you looking at? I didn't gain any weight over the New Year,' Jin Ling said with certainty, but she still touched her face and asked, 'Am I getting fat?' She even leaned against the glass wall to take a look.
Feng Yiping coughed, 'Class, pay attention to your image!'
This really worked, and she immediately returned to her strutting manner.
As soon as she got in the car, she pulled out the vanity mirror to check again, 'I haven't gained any weight!'
'Yes, you haven't. Did you like every one of those you saw?' Feng Yiping asked a random question very naturally.
'There was no one I could talk to,' Jin Ling answered off the cuff, but she immediately felt that this was not right, and her face changed. 'Hey, how did you know?'
'It's just a trivial matter. A mountain man can tell by counting on his fingers.'
'Count your fingers, my foot,' Jin Ling looked as if she was going to give him a good scolding if he didn't behave.
Sure enough, every goddess is probably a tomboy in private.
'It's easy. When you go home at the end of the year, there are only two things your parents care about: fortune tellers setting up shop on the street and monks in temples interpreting fortunes.
They get asked about those two things most often. One is career, the other is marriage. With my help, you're doing well in your career, so they must be worried about your marriage, especially since it's around Valentine's Day. It's strange if they don't pressure you to go on a blind date.
I guess you came early because you were fed up with it!'
Sure enough, Jinling's reaction showed that Feng Yiping had guessed correctly. 'Hmph, as if you've been through it too. You don't know, in the past two days, I've met with two on average every day.' She leaned lazily back in her seat with her eyes closed.
It seems that being forced to go on a blind date is really not an easy thing to do.
'Sigh, just try to be more open-minded. Your parents are only looking out for your best interests. Forced marriage, forced blind dates, which older young people haven't encountered when they go home for the New Year?'
Jin Ling didn't say anything.
'That's how I see it too. You have to work hard at both your career and your marriage.' Feng Yiping didn't want to tell her about Huang Jingping and her plans to have a baby, as it might upset her.
Jin Ling still didn't say anything.
'I think you're usually too busy to think about personal matters. How about this: for the next few years, I'll give you a month's holiday every summer, so you can go on a holiday, either at home or abroad, to find your other half.
Feng Yiping is good at regulating emotions.
Sure enough, Jin Ling immediately became excited, 'You said it, so it's a happy decision! Haha, let me think, where should we go this year? Provence in France, not only is the lavender colour the most charming in the summer, but you can also go to Marseille. Whenever I hear the French national anthem, I want to go and see Marseille.'
'Hey, hey,' Feng Yiping waved one hand in front of her face to interrupt her reverie, 'going to France is like going to Lijiang in China. I'm asking you to find a marriage partner, not a fling.'
As everyone knows, France is a very romantic country. How romantic is it? It's so romantic that children are married while their parents are still single. This concept obviously differs greatly from the mainstream consciousness in our country.
'What's that got to do with anything? I'm just going there to relax. Remember, you can't go back on your word. I'll start planning the trip right away.'
Perhaps influenced by Feng Yiping's post-dated cheque, Jin Ling didn't even go home, but rushed to the office as soon as possible. After dropping off her luggage, she held a summary meeting for the Valentine's Day sales campaign.
'Judging from the figures, the sales campaign was a success. The average daily sales in all the stores exceeded 3,000 yuan, and the profits were much higher than usual. However, there were also many problems,'
This was Jin Ling's style: before the smile on your face had faded, she would throw out a topic that made you unable to smile.
'Everyone's summary report hasn't been submitted yet, but I'm well aware of the problems. For example, in each store, the staff deployment is not in place. In some stores with many customers, there is still only one person working that day. Not to mention the long queues at the checkout, in the provincial capital, while the store was busy, there were more than one incident of people taking advantage of the situation.
There is also the marketing department, which is not effective enough in publicity and promotion, the purchasing department, which is not effective enough in ensuring the supply of goods, and even after the sales have ended, there are still flowers being delivered by air. The logistics department is also lagging behind in delivery...'
As she spoke, not many people looked up from their seats around the table, and there was only the sound of pens scratching against notebooks as they took notes.
'These problems must be thoroughly analysed and reviewed in everyone's summary report, and a comprehensive solution proposed. I won't go into detail today.
What I want to focus on is the main point: no one has paid enough attention to holiday sales.
Attitude determines everything. Since we didn't attach enough importance to it from the beginning, the final results naturally couldn't have been what we expected.
Here, I must first do some self-reflection. As general manager, I personally didn't attach much importance to it either.
So I've already sent an email to everyone on how to leverage each holiday to do a good job of sales. I hope everyone will put forward their own opinions and suggestions based on the functions of their own departments, and finally form a document similar to a code of conduct, so that in the future, whether it's Valentine's Day or April Fools' Day, we can follow these steps to prepare for it.
These two reports must be completed quickly. Most importantly, the Lantern Festival is in three days' time. Everyone must propose a sound and feasible plan today on how to do a good job of sales for the Lantern Festival. Due to time constraints, I don't expect it to be perfect, but it must be an improvement on the previous Valentine's Day. That's all. Meeting adjourned.'
Without asking if Feng Yiping had anything to say, she announced the meeting adjourned cleanly.
However, this is precisely what Feng Yiping appreciates about her: highly efficient, completely free of nonsense, and never dragging her feet.
'You go home and rest for a while. I'll approve the documents that need to be approved today. Come to my place for dinner tonight. Call Jingping and let her know what you want to eat and she'll go prepare it.'
'Okay, you're busy, and I have things to do too. I have to find tips and plan my itinerary,'
Jin Ling didn't intend to go home. She happily slumped in front of the computer and got to work, making Feng Yiping feel a little embarrassed. Had he been too hard on her that she was so happy to hear about a holiday?
In terms of attendance, Gao Heng is definitely a model student. Although his exam results last semester were not as good as Feng Yiping's, who often missed classes – Feng Yiping was depressed for a long time after the final exam results came out, and Feng Yiping's results were fifth in his first year of finance.
These past two days he has been even more diligent, not missing a single class. However, these days, it seems that he is not mainly here for the classes, but to catch his classmates to promote his new club plan. What club is it? It's the crowdfunding business that Feng Yiping mentioned.
He is a man of vision. After listening to Feng Yiping's idea, he immediately felt that it was a good direction and something that would be easy to excel at. So he didn't hesitate to take the idea for himself and take the lead. As for Chen, who knows the cause and effect of this matter, he is confident that he can do a good job explaining and persuading.
'Just think about it. Each person doesn't have to pay much, but the investment of dozens of people added together can also do something. And there are so many people that it doesn't take up too much of their after-school time. The key is that this kind of activity can directly identify our own shortcomings, which no other club can do. And if it's done well, it will not only help build our confidence, but also make money. Why wouldn't we do it?'
He encouraged a group of classmates, but the results were not very satisfactory. None of them were interested. Most of them said, 'Lao Gao, let's think about it again,'
Many of the students at the school are giants in words but dwarves in action. Besides, they have all been admitted to the best departments of the best universities in the country, and yet they are going into those small, unremarkable businesses. If they succeed, it is only natural, right? Can this help build confidence?
Besides, with such a small business, and doing everything yourself, it's too demeaning. In the future, we're going to work for a first-class foreign company, or a first-class state-owned or private enterprise.
'Class monitor, what do we do next?' Gao Heng was now surrounded only by his friends.
'I don't believe it. Let's go to the dormitory,'
After a while, the three returned dejectedly. Gao Heng was undeterred. 'Let's go to the playground,' and they returned disappointed again.
'Lao Gao, why don't we go find some pretty senior and junior students first, so that when we recruit people, we'll be more attractive,'
'We rely on the club's main purpose to attract knowledgeable people among our classmates to participate, not on these unscrupulous means,' Gao Heng said. "However, what you said also makes some sense. It is difficult to recruit male students, so we can consider starting with the female students. I know the class flower well. Do you have a relationship with the department flower?'
'Lao Gao, I think it may be mainly because none of us has entrepreneurial experience, and our classmates don't believe in our abilities, so we can't recruit people," said the other.