The Era of Hard Work

Tomb-sweeping Day is approaching, and the weather at noon is a bit hot. Many female students who came out to hang out on Sundays put up umbrellas to avoid direct sunlight. In this era when white is the beauty, no one wants their skin to turn dark.

In the Warm Warehouse, Song Na's new sun umbrellas are selling well, and many female students come to buy them.

Exquisitely shaped sun umbrellas are just like beautiful accessories. In this sunny day, they bloom like spring flowers and always attract girls to stop.

From ten o'clock to nearly twelve o'clock, the store sold more than twenty.

Hanging on the shelf by the door, almost sold out.

Song Na made up a batch of goods, and saw her father come down from the second floor to replace her mother after eating, and said, Dad, I'll go to the store on the south side to have a look.

Old Song knew that he couldn't stop him, and said, Go ahead, I just went out and took a look, and there are people coming in and out there, it seems to be quite busy.

The sun at noon in April was a bit poisonous. Song Na picked up a sun umbrella, put it up first when she went out, hid herself under the umbrella, and walked south.

When I was in high school, I didn’t care about it at all, and I didn’t care. I got tanned when I got tanned. Except for a few art students, everyone was sloppy, and their makeup was different.

Going to college is different, Song Na is now very careful to avoid direct sunlight as much as possible.

In Daquannan, spring does not exist. It feels very hot as soon as it is not cold, and summer will come at any time.

Frozen to death in winter, hot to death in summer, spring is too short to exist, and autumn is better.

Going south, there was a truck parked at the door of No. 4 shop. Song Na went over to take a look. Du Xiaobing was supervising the unloading.

Some of the wires, stainless steel, and electronic equipment ordered arrived without supervision, and someone might take them and sell them for scrap.

Old Du, isn't Lu Dong here? Song Na asked.

Du Xiaobing hid in the shade under the carriage, and said, The Malatang shop is full of people, Xiaofu at the cashier asked for leave, I guess Lu Dong is helping at the cashier.

Song Na walked south: I'm going to help, just like yesterday, I guess I'm busy.

It's over here, I'll go there too. Du Xiaobing said: The advertisements in the newspapers are quite effective.

Song Na knew what Lao Du was talking about. The advertisement of Lu's Mala Tang appeared in the evening newspaper for two consecutive days. The store was already popular, and with the promotion of the newspaper, it started to explode at noon yesterday.

Before coming to the store, Song Na stopped for a while. There were many small advertisements on the wall at the door.

Unlock and change locks...

Look at the bulletin board next to it, there is also a certificate.

It looks like it's newly posted.

It is estimated that the store is too busy today, and there is no time to clean it up yet.

Looking in through the glass door, it was full of people. Song Na put away the sun umbrella, went into the store and went directly to the small dressing room, put on an apron, hat and mask, and went out to work.

Seeing the short Xu Man coming with two big trays of garbage, Song Na was ready to pick it up.

Xu Man said: I can do it! Go and collect tables 4 and 5, eight people are waiting there.

Song Na hurried over to pack her things.

There were too many people, and there were obviously not enough seats in the store. Six stools were temporarily added to the side of the long dining table. Even so, there were still quite a few people waiting for seats.

For the first time, Song Na felt that the store seemed a bit small.

While he was busy, a man in police uniform came in at the door of the shop, he was still an acquaintance.

Song Na hurried over and greeted, Brother.

Lu Chun smiled and said, Xiao Song, are you so busy today?

Song Na led Lu Chun to open the door, and said, Sister Fang's application is very effective. There are already many people in the store, and more people have come here in the past two days.

Lu Chun looked around, and all the places he saw were people. From his work perspective, he said: People like to join in the fun, and the more crowded the place, the easier it is to attract people.

Song Na thought about it, isn't that the case? She asked, Brother, are you looking for Lu Dong? He's at the cash register. Do you want me to call him?

No, you guys are busy first. Lu Chun said simply: On weekends, there are a lot of people out shopping, I'll look around, I have nothing else to do, I'll come back when I'm not busy.

Lu Chun opened the glass door, ready to leave.

Song Na looked outside the glass door and saw that there were two guards waiting. She opened the refrigerator next to her, took out three bottles of mineral water, and chased them out.

Seeing that Lu Chun nodded, the defender took the water.

Lu Chun said, Xiao Song, go get busy.

Song Na went back to the store, took down the notebook on the freezer, recorded the three bottles of water in her account, and continued to work.

After a short meeting, Du Xiaobing also came over.

Originally, there were enough staff in the store. Zhou Lili, the oldest, asked for leave for something, Grandma Fu Zhaoxia passed away and asked for leave, and Gao Ming's older sister asked for leave for marriage, so things all came together.

Six full-time employees, less than three people, will inevitably be stretched.

On weekends, there is no free time in the store, and after two o'clock, people still come here intermittently.

Seeing Lu Dong leave the cash register, Song Na went over and said, Your elder brother came here just now, and he said he's fine and will come back later.

Lu Dong nodded, saw the sweat on Song Na's forehead, and took out two pieces of paper to her: Wipe the sweat.

Song Na smiled sweetly, wiped off the sweat from her face, and said, Did you see yesterday's account? Yesterday's turnover exceeded 10,000 for the first time!

Lu Dong said: Look, I checked it this morning when I came here, 12315, this number is auspicious, adding advertisements on weekends, the effect is quite obvious.

There were still people after ten o'clock last night. Song Na glanced at the busy shop assistants: Do you want to give them some extra wages? The working hours are longer than agreed.

Lu Dong has considered this issue a long time ago. As the weather gets warmer, the business hours will inevitably become longer: In the future, after nine o'clock in the evening, every hour will add 1 yuan and 5 wages. If it is less than an hour, it will be counted as one hour. Just let me know.

When the weather gets hotter, there will be more students going out for a stroll at night, and there may be some who stay out at night.

It seems that the front room outside Huayuan District in the south is already being renovated by a hotel.

Song Na continued: Brother said just now that the more people there are, the more people will be attracted. I think it makes sense. In our restaurant, there is often a wait for a seat at noon and night. Why don't we add more tables?

Lu Dong shook his head: There are 140 seats, and it's already crowded. The aisle can barely accommodate two people who are side-by-side, and adding more will affect people's movements.

He tapped on the table lightly: At first I thought I could add a few tables outside the store, but I asked Brother Wang, and Brother Wang disagreed. Shougui didn't let us use the pool table. Brother Wang has always taken care of us. We Don’t make trouble for others, let’s do this for now, and when the new store opens, the situation may be better.”

Yang Liewen has very strict requirements on all aspects of the university town, and the pressure on the people who actually do the work below is naturally high. The above requires five points, and they will implement it with a standard of ten.

Song Na turned to ask, How was your brother yesterday?

Lu Dong smiled: It's going very well, I think we will be able to drink wedding wine this year.

The two were talking, when Lu Chun came back, Lu Dong went over, and asked the people brought by Lu Chun to sit down and rest.

Did you eat? Lu Dong asked.

have eaten.

Lu Chun and Lu Dong found a quiet place to talk.

The matter of food oil you mentioned is not easy to deal with here, and it is not in the jurisdiction of the institute. Lu Chun said simply: It involves the powers of multiple departments, and there is no strong leader to take the lead. It is too difficult to take joint action.

Lu Dong said: I understand, sometimes we can't control what other people do, we should take care of ourselves first.

No matter how big the profit is, he will never use it.

Lu Chun leaned on the chair: I told Fang Yan that she was very interested. She reacted to the leader above and wanted to report in depth, but the leader temporarily suppressed it, saying that this matter involved too much and needed to wait for an opportunity. Fang Yan didn't It’s easy to say, put it on hold for now.”

He explained: It's not that she doesn't want to take care of it. Even if she investigates this matter, if the higher-ups don't approve it, it won't spread. She has to be put on. She will sit on the bench, and there is no one to push her behind.

Lu Dong was not stupefied, so he naturally understood that in this social environment, failure to abide by organizational discipline would have serious consequences.

In many cases, it is not a good way to stick your head up.

Lu Chun said: She will find another time to raise it with the leader.

Lu Dong still cared more about his family: Let Sister Fang pay more attention, some people are very careless about things.

Lu Chun smiled: I know, I equipped her with some self-defense equipment.

Lu Dong remembered another thing and said, Recently, I have received several fraudulent calls and text messages.

Let me see. Lu Chun stretched out his hand.

Lu Dong gave him the phone, and Lu Chun flipped through it, and said, Recently, the bureau has mentioned about mobile phone fraud. The text messages should be mass-sent by computers. Both Lu Suo and I have received them. They cast a wide net to catch more fish. If you get one, you can make a lot of money, this is an emerging fraud industry, and you need to communicate and cooperate with the telecommunications department, there is no way for the time being, you should pay more attention to yourself, don’t really let people cheat you.”

Hearing this, Lu Dong almost laughed out loud. The scammer sent a fraudulent text message to the police.

When will you go to Sister Fang next week? Lu Dong asked, I'll go shopping at the wholesale market tomorrow.

Lu Chun said: Next weekend, let's see which day I will take a rest.

Lu Dong nodded: Okay.

After staying in the shop for less than ten minutes, after a short rest, Lu Chun led the people away.

Although customers keep coming in, such as people who buy milk tea in an endless stream, they are much more relaxed than meals. Lu Dong went to the dressing room to change his apron and hat, took a book borrowed from the provincial university library, and went to the second floor to find reading in a corner.

Not long after, Song Na came up, also holding a book in her hand, and sat opposite him.

Lu Dong put down the book, looked at the cover of Song Na's book, and found that it was about yoga.

Song Na smiled: Didn't you say that you can't read the book? I will read the book with you, we will study together and make progress together.

Lu Dong also smiled: Okay, let's make progress together.

He picked up the book and continued to read. After reading for a while, the book was quietly moved away, and he looked at Song Na, who had fair skin on her face and felt unscientific.

What's wrong? Song Na looked up at him.

Lu Dong put down the book and said, At this time in previous years, you would have started to get tanned, but this year it hasn't changed much.

Song Na said: I'm very careful. I open an umbrella when I go out in the sun. If you don't directly expose yourself to the sun, the tan will not be obvious. She thought for a while, and then added: The main thing is that you don't need to train or work outdoors. Being indoors part of the time works.

Lu Dong nodded: Yes.

I understand why you can't study, you can't concentrate on reading! Song Na took the book and patted Lu Dong's hand lightly: Read carefully, and concentrate for half an hour first.

Lu Dong picked up the book: Okay, I'll try.

The two stopped talking, and took their respective books and read them carefully.