sbdcsierra Chapter 1439 The 2nd Shareholders Meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce
Chapter 1439 The 2nd Shareholders Meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce
Chapter 1439 The Second Shareholders Meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce
Today is the beginning of spring, and the Zhao family follows custom by eating spring pancakes and nibbling radishes.
There are two kinds of cakes: single cakes and fried cakes.
A wrap must have shredded potatoes, and the Zhao family even prepared two kinds of shredded potatoes: fried shredded potatoes and fried shredded potatoes with sauerkraut.
Spread the pancake on a plate and put a row of smoked wild boar meat slices on it. The wild boar meat is first braised and then smoked, and it has a rich meaty flavor.
The wild boar meat was cut very evenly, each slice was the size of a mahjong piece and the thickness of a dime, placed along the center line of the pancake from one end to the other.
Then, add a layer of shredded potatoes.
If you are stir-frying shredded potatoes, add egg sauce, shredded green onions and stir-fried green bean sprouts with meat.
If you add sauerkraut and stir-fried potato shreds, pour some chili oil on the sauerkraut and potato shreds, then add onions and stir-fried bean sprouts.
No matter what is put in it, the pancake must be rolled as thick as a child’s arm, and you must open your mouth as wide as possible when biting it.
Take a bite of the pancake, puff up your cheeks and chew slowly, savoring the aroma of flour, meat and vegetables brought out by the spiciness of green onions or chili oil.
After chewing the bread and vegetables in your mouth, pick up the bowl next to you and drink a sip of the soup made from radish and potato strips to help digest the food and relieve gas.
After eating and drinking, the women quickly cleaned up the dishes and then gathered in the east room of the Zhao family to prepare to attend the second shareholders' meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce.
At 8:55, Lin Xiangshun put the tape that he had asked Zhou Jianjun to get from the forest farm radio room into the tape recorder.
The Zhao family's tape recorder cost more than 1,000 yuan and was used for both recording and playback. Not only could it play tapes, but it could also insert tapes on both sides.
As Lin Xiangshun pressed the play button, the Athletes' March sounded in Zhao's home.
Representatives from various companies entered the venue one after another, clapping gently.
This sense of ritual is what we want.
There were two benches on both sides of the kang. The men sat on the benches, while the women sat along the edge of the kang.
Wang Meilan sat in the middle, with Jin Xiaomei on her left and Xie Sun on her right.
Seeing Wang Meilan opening the account book, Lin Xiangshun quickly turned around and turned off the radio.
"That..." Wang Meilan held the account book in her hand, looked around, then looked at the people sitting on the benches, and then said with a smile: "We held the preparatory meeting in this room on the 12th of last month, right?"
"Yes!" Li Ruhai was the first to respond, standing up and saying, "January 1th!"
"Yes." Wang Meilan pressed her hand, motioning Li Ruhai to sit down, and then said, "More than half a month has passed. Xiaojun, Baoyu and Xiaochen have also returned from Hebei. Let's sit here today and check the accounts."
"Sister-in-law, what can I do about it?" Jin Xiaomei said with a smile, "It's good enough that you know how to make money and your work is not in vain. You can invest whatever you earn, and we'll continue to earn money after that."
"That's right, how can we not trust you?" Xie Sun also agreed, but Wang Meilan held Xie Sun back and said, "Sister Sun, we are not like that. When we do business together, we have to behave properly."
At this point, Wang Meilan smiled and continued, "We are not just checking the accounts, we also want to see how much money we have earned, so that everyone can be happy."
"Yes!" Wang Meilan finished speaking, and Li Ruhai followed up, "This is called sharing the joy of victory!"
"Ruhai, what you said is good." Wang Meilan praised Li Ruhai and then said, "Let's get back to the point. We have sold all the hides we got from Hebei. The total amount was 144,718 yuan."
When they heard this number, everyone was overjoyed.
One hundred and fourteen thousand, that's a huge amount of money.
It makes people happy just by listening to it!
"How much profit can we make from this?" At this time, Wang Meilan raised a question that everyone was concerned about, that is, a large part of the more than 140,000 yuan was the capital pooled by several of them.
"Here are 123,000 yuan, which is our capital." Wang Meilan did not keep everyone waiting for too long and reported the accounts: "The remaining 21,685 yuan is what we earned."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she heard Li Ruhai say, "That's all you earn!"
As soon as Li Ruhai said this, he was grabbed by Li Dazhi next to him.
"What is this kid talking about?" Li Dazhi said, "Twenty thousand is not enough? We have earned more than twenty thousand in just half a month. How much money is that?"
Li Dazhi's family did not invest much money and owns about 5% of the shares of Zhao's Chamber of Commerce.
Although his shares are not much, but just with this 5% of the shares, Li Dazhi's family can get more than one thousand yuan from the total profit of the hides.
Including the dividends from bear bile, Li Dazhi's family made a profit of one thousand five hundred to six hundred yuan in the past half month.
As the director of the forestry station in Yong'an Forest District, Li Dazhi's monthly salary is 182.56 yuan. This 1,500 to 1,600 yuan is more than half a year's salary for him.
Wang Qiang and Li Dazhi had been quarreling with each other since they were young. At this time, Wang Qiang pulled Li Dazhi down and said, "I told you to throw more in, but you refused."
"How can I invest?" Li Dazhi pushed Wang Qiang's hand away and said, "All the money my family used to buy a TV was spent on me."
"No." Wang Qiang tilted his head and looked at Li Dazhi, saying, "You two both have jobs and have worked for more than ten years, and you have only saved this much money?"
Hearing this, Li Dazhi twitched his lips, raised his hand and gestured to Li Tongyun, saying, "I gave it all to my daughter."
"Ah?" Wang Qiang was startled and muttered in surprise, "Does it cost that much to go to a technical secondary school?"
At this time, everyone else also looked at Li Tongyun, but saw that the girl lowered her head, and Lin Xue next to her had a bitter smile on her face.
These days, going to school doesn’t cost much, and if you get beaten up by a classmate… it usually doesn’t cost much. But if you get beaten up too badly, you’ll definitely have to pay for medical treatment or something.
If you want to keep your studies, you must go back to school and make arrangements.
Seeing that everyone was going off topic, Wang Meilan quickly brought the topic back and said, "Ruhai said that he earned less this time, but in fact, he earned more this time. Why is that?"
Wang Meilan held the account book in one hand and raised her other hand to make a scissors sign, saying, "This time we bought two large white hides for 7,500 yuan, and then sold them for 18,000 yuan. We made 10,500 yuan from these two large white hides."
Wang Meilan was right. If it weren't for these two large white hides, their profit from dealing in hides would have been just over ten thousand.
"That's okay, sister." Xie Sun said to Wang Meilan confidently, "Wouldn't it be fine if we just collect a few more of the white ones next time?"
Wang Meilan smiled bitterly when she heard this. Before she could explain, she heard Xie Chen calling out to Xie Sun: "Mom, you don't understand. Don't do that. That white skin is rare."
"Don't be afraid of anything." Jin Xiaomei pointed at Li Ruhai and said, "We have Ruhai."
As soon as Jin Xiaomei said this, Li Ruhai's face flushed with excitement. From Jin Xiaomei's words, Li Ruhai heard a mother's pride. Although he had always been excellent since he was a child, this was the first time he became his mother's pride.
"Ruhai!" Jin Xiaomei called Li Ruhai and said, "You should spread the news about Bai Dapi to every corner of our forest area and collect ten or eight copies of his advertisement."
"Yes, Mom!" Li Ruhai was so excited that he agreed without hesitation, regardless of how difficult the task was.
"Ruhai, control the price." Zhao Jun said, "Try to get it at 2,500 or 3,000."
"Got it, big brother." Li Ruhai responded, "I'll try to get it for fifteen or twenty thousand."
Seeing Li Ruhai full of confidence, Zhao Jun didn't want to discourage him. At this time, Wang Meilan raised her hand to signal Li Ruhai to sit down, and then continued to say to everyone: "After talking about the skins, let's talk about the bear gall. This time we took the bear gall, and sold it for a total of 38,040."
On that day, bear gall was sold for more than 50,000 yuan in Huichuntang. But Wang Meilan did not make false reports. Many of the bear galls were made by Zhao Jun and his men, not collected by the Chamber of Commerce.
"Of this, 31,590 yuan is our capital." Wang Meilan continued, "The remaining profit is 6,450 yuan."
"Aunt Zhao." Li Tongyun, who studied accounting, said after hearing what Wang Meilan said, "Bear bile still has the highest profit."
Yes, if we don't count the two large white hides, the investment is equivalent to a profit of just over 10,000 out of 120,000.
The investment in bear bile was 30,000 and a profit of 6,400 was made.
"Xiao Yun is absolutely right." Wang Meilan continued, "So, tomorrow, Xiao Jun, you guys will go to Yongxing and Xiaohongshan to collect bear skins and bear gallbladders, which are the two most profitable.
We don’t have that much money now, and this is all we have here. When we go out, we have to look for big profits, otherwise we won’t have enough money again.”
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, everyone nodded in agreement.
At this moment, Li Ruhai spoke again, "Madam, there is also the matter of the white fox fur. That one is valuable!"
When Li Ruhai said this, Li Baoyu suddenly looked up and stared at Li Ruhai.
When Li Baoyu came back from Hebei, he took out all the incomplete copies of the Dream of the Red Chamber comic book in his house, and found the sentences describing white fox fur. He planned to talk to this group of people about the preciousness of white fox fur during the meeting.
Although he didn't know the significance of his doing this, Zhao Jun, who couldn't read, would never stop Li Baoyu.
But what Li Baoyu didn't expect was that the content he had prepared with great effort was ripped off by Li Ruhai, and he did it so rudely.
"Yes, yes." Wang Meilan glanced at Li Baoyu and saw that he looked unhappy. Wang Meilan quickly changed the subject and said, "We can't raise anything at this time. Let's wait until spring comes and see."
"Auntie, wait for me to come back." Li Ruhai, who was eager to make a contribution, volunteered: "I will go to Xishantun and encourage them there."
"Look at this kid." Xie Sun pointed at Li Ruhai and said to Xu Chunyan beside him, "How positive he is."
"Not bad at all." Xu Chunyan also laughed and said, "Ruhai is really a promising kid."
Led by Xie Sun and Xu Chunyan, everyone started praising Li Ruhai.
And Li Ruhai really deserves this praise, because most of the business transactions completed by the Zhaojia Chamber of Commerce in the past half month were made by Li Ruhai.
The Chamber of Commerce had only two salesmen, Li Ruhai and Xing San. Xing San did solicit business, but he didn't close a single deal.
Hearing everyone praising Li Ruhai, Wang Meilan smiled, closed the notebook in her hand, and asked everyone: "Does anyone need money at home? We can share some of the profits."
The representatives of each company said no, so Wang Meilan said, "Then all the dividends from our companies will continue to be invested in our business."
After saying this, Wang Meilan looked at Li Tongyun and said, "Xiaoyun, you should collect the accounts tomorrow and give us a number for how much money each company has invested."
"Okay, Aunt Zhao." Li Tongyun responded with a smile, and then Wang Meilan took out two big unity notes from the left pocket of her cotton-padded jacket and said to her, "Xiaoyun, you've been working hard recently. Auntie said before that I can't treat you unfairly..."
"Aunt Zhao, don't say anything." Before her mother could say anything, Li Tongyun said, "Take the money back quickly. Even if you give me the money, I can't take it."
"This is a personal reward from me." Wang Meilan said this, not because of how much work Li Tongyun did at home or in the Chamber of Commerce, but because she took care of those children every day.
At the end of each semester, when the school was on vacation, the children would play around. But since Li Tongyun came, the families no longer had to worry about taking care of their children.
"Aunt Zhao, I can't accept that either." Li Tongyun said, "We are all like one family. The aunts, aunts, and sisters-in-law in each family work very hard every day. In our family, my parents are both employees. They work every day and can't help you with the work. I am the only one who can help a little. Isn't that right?"
This girl may be violent, but she has good character.
At this time, Lin Xue stood up and held Wang Meilan's hand, saying, "Sister, quickly put the money away. What are you doing? What is this?"
Li Dazhi, who was sitting on the bench, pushed Wang Qiang and said with a smile: "Look at my daughter!"
"Okay, okay, then I won't give it to Xiaoyun." Wang Meilan put the money away with a smile. At this moment, Wang Meilan was very happy, not because she saved twenty yuan, but because Li Tongyun was a very sensible girl.
"Ru Hai." At this time, Wang Meilan took out five more big unity banknotes from the right pocket of her cotton-padded jacket.
Li Ruhai played an indispensable role in the rapid growth of Zhao's Chamber of Commerce.
"Auntie, I don't want it either!" Li Ruhai stood up, waved his hand decisively, and said, "I quit my easy job at the forest farm and came back to work with you guys, definitely not for the money!"
"Then why are you doing this?" Li Baoyu asked unhappily, and then Li Ruhai raised his head and said, "I...I do this because our aunt can lead us to a good life."
Li Baoyu: “…”
The money was not given away, but Wang Meilan was very happy. Seeing that it was past 9:30, she announced that the second shareholders' meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce had been successfully concluded.
Lin Xiangshun played the Athletes' March again. Xie Chen stood up and opened the door. Representatives from each family came out of the house one after another. They went to the west room and took their children and dogs home.
The dogs were the five little puppies that Zhao Jun brought back.
If you promise Wei Lai to help him get half of the money, you can't use this to fool him.
Zhao Youcai wanted to keep all five little dogs and named them Dahua, Erhua, Wuhua respectively, but Wang Meilan stopped him in time.
Wang Meilan said that there were already many dogs at home and she couldn’t bring more.
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, everyone happily divided the five little puppies.
Li Dazhi's family wanted one, Wang Qiang's family wanted one, and the old lady also wanted one. Zhang Yuanmin and Lin Xiangshun already had dogs, so they didn't want any.
There were two left, one for Ma Ling and one for Liu Mei. But the little lynx from the Zhao family always pounced on the puppies, so Li Baoyu took the remaining two away.
Today the two puppies will temporarily stay in the outer room of the Li family. Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu will send them away early tomorrow morning.
After the diners had left, Wang Meilan came to the west room carrying a thermos in one hand and money in the other.
After entering the house, Wang Meilan handed the money to Xing San and said, "Brother, this is the money for your share of the bear gall."
Those two little bears were too timid, so they only sold for three hundred dollars together.
According to the proportion, Xing got three-thirds and one-quarter, which is seventy-five yuan.
Wang Meilan paid a hundred yuan out of her own pocket for the old man.
"No, no." Xing San waved his hand. Wang Meilan said, "Brother, you take it. Keep it for the pocket."
"Where can I spend the money?" Xing San asked, which made Wang Meilan stunned. Then she heard Xing San say, "Sister-in-law, you keep it. I will ask you for it when I need to spend it."
After hearing what Xing San said, Wang Meilan didn't force it.
But when Wang Meilan returned to the east room, closed the door and prepared to go to bed to rest, she heard Zhao Youcai muttering: "I have worked like a donkey for you all day, and you didn't even bother to pay me."
Wang Meilan: “…”
(End of this chapter)