Chapter 17 – The wind rises at Yellow Mud Hillock

The recruitment was halfway through when suddenly it started snowing.

The howling cold north wind, carrying heavy snowflakes, felt like a stepmother's hand, slapping the face with pain.

Xu Fei hurriedly increased his speed.

This recruitment was for 80 people.

Including 40 packaging workers, 10 porters, 10 warehouse managers, 5 sanitation workers, 5 cooks...

After finishing the busy work, the items ordered by Half Blind Huang in the morning were also delivered one after another.

Ten Boda 818 mobile phones, priced at 4,500 each, along with the installation of five landline phones, fifteen dial-up internet phones, including annual rent and mobile phone cards, cost a total of 40,000 yuan after discounts.

Ten Seven-Up computers, with keyboards, desks, chairs, webcams, headsets, and a bunch of office software CDs, exactly 100,000 yuan.

There was also a fax machine, a printer, a copier, and many office supplies, as well as a batch of packaging boxes.

The total was 200,000 yuan.

After unloading the goods, they were moved into the office building, which used to be the Electric Fan Factory's guesthouse.

A three-story red brick building, all large rooms.

No need to knock down the partitions, just draw a line for the tables and arrange the computers in a row.

"It's much more atmospheric than our village's computer room!"

After the computer service personnel finished installing, the telecommunications staff also finished installing the telephone lines.

The Electric Fan Factory and Yellow Mud Hillock did not use the same power supply line. Now that the Electric Fan Factory had a power outage, Yellow Mud Hillock did not.

The old electricians had nothing to do in the morning, so they brought a power line from the Yellow Mud Hillock substation to connect to the office building's distribution box.

Open the gate, debug, turn on the computers, install the system, install the software...

Xu Fei listed the work arrangements for the new employees in a form, tried the printer, made a few copies, and had them posted at the workshop door.

When things are convenient to use, we naturally have to settle the bill.

He got up and went to the post office...

...

The east gate of Yellow Mud Hillock.

In the heavy snow, seven or eight tall and strong young men were squatting under the eaves of the computer room, idle and chatting.

When they saw three people coming out of the Tin Toy Factory, one of the young men spoke up:

"Big brother, the one in the middle is Xu Fei, Long Ge's cousin."

"What Long Ge? He's already inside, let's call him Xiao Long from now on."

Black Tiger neither confirmed nor denied the information provided by his subordinates.

His gaze then turned to outside the gate of the Tin Toy Factory.

Even though the recruitment was over and it was snowing heavily, there were still five men who refused to leave.

He observed for a long time and found that the other party was very persistent.

They stood all day without eating lunch.

"Remember them, they should be the new security guards recruited by the Tin Toy Factory, being assessed."

"Yes!" The other young men nodded one after another.

Black Tiger tightened his military cotton coat, put his hands in his sleeves, casually glanced at Xu Fei, and then withdrew his gaze.

After experiencing two crackdowns, anyone with a bit of insight would understand that fighting and killing were just small-time gangsters and couldn't make a big impact. Maybe one day, they would become stepping stones for others' promotion for no reason.

So, he consolidated his subordinates and got into the earthwork business.

A few days ago, he heard from the town that the Small Lake Town Toy Factory had obtained investment from the richest man in the county and planned to build a new factory, covering a thousand mu, and even wanted to establish an industrial park.

It was impossible not to be tempted.

Therefore, when he received the "small matter" revealed by the deputy factory director of the Small Lake Town Toy Factory, he rushed over to take a look that day.

Never did he expect it to be a foreign enterprise!

In this day and age, if you smash an ordinary factory and hide in the nearby city for a few days, it might pass. But if you smash a foreign enterprise factory, even if you run to the northwest desert, it would be in vain.

After pondering for a moment, Black Tiger turned his head to look at the computer room, took out 500 yuan from his pocket, and handed it to one of his subordinates.

"Go inside and find a few small gangsters, let them teach Xu Fei a lesson, and then go to the factory to cause some trouble. When it's done, you go back to Small Lake Town immediately and show up less in the future. When the construction site starts, go there and work."

"Okay, big brother."

Another subordinate asked in confusion, "Is that all we need to do?"

"What else can we do?"

"How about smashing and burning the factory?"

"Are you stupid? I'm a legitimate contractor now!"

Black Tiger didn't want to mention that he was afraid of being investigated. But even with this arrangement, he still felt a bit uneasy.

After all, he was quite famous in the surrounding area. Since he appeared in Yellow Mud Hillock, he must have had a purpose. If someone with ill intentions saw him...

Especially those five security guards, they had looked over more than once.

'Something has to happen.'

'If worse comes to worst, just say that the other party provoked first!'

Black Tiger gritted his teeth and walked towards the five security guards.

Seeing this, his subordinates instantly became alert.

They picked up bricks, revealed steel pipes, rolled up their sleeves...

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"Attack, be quick!"

...

At the entrance of the Tin Toy Factory.

"Do you think we can still get hired?"

"I doubt it. The recruitment is already over."

"Yeah, either they are from Xu's village or they know someone surnamed Xu. We don't have much chance."

"What should we do then? Director Hu gave us so much, we have to complete the task."

One of the younger old employees from Small Lake Town raised his head and looked at the heavy snowflakes falling from the sky. "Persistence is victory. It happens to be snowing. Let's stand straight and stay spirited. Maybe the person surnamed Xu will be moved by our perseverance if he sees us standing here all day."

"That makes sense!""Eh? Isn't that Black Tiger from Small Lake Town?"

"Yeah, why is he here?"

"Don't look at him. He likes to beat up anyone who stares at him."

"I've looked at him several times before, he won't beat me up, will he?"

"Then you better stop looking."

"He's coming over."

"Eh? I remember when we left, Factory Director Hu asked the Deputy Director to find Black Tiger."

"Yeah, looking at this situation, is he going to smash the factory?"

"Should we hide?"

"My legs are frozen stiff."

"My legs are frozen stiff too!"

……………

After sending the money, Xu Fei trudged through the ankle-deep snow, returning to the toy factory.

Before he even reached the main gate, he saw a dozen people having a snowball fight from afar.

It was intense!

A punch here, a kick there...

Especially one tall, dark figure, his movements were clean and efficient.

Worried about getting involved, Xu Fei took a big detour, quickly unlocked the small iron gate of the factory, rushed in, and locked it again.

Yellow Mud Hillock, what a mess!

Sighing, he arrived at the office building.

All twenty salespeople were there, ten fiddling with their phones, and the other ten with their computers.

These two new things, some young people couldn't even handle, let alone the old men over fifty.

Xu Fei was just about to teach everyone how to use them.

But he saw a salesperson sitting with his back to him, flipping through the area codes in his notebook while entering a few local landline numbers on his phone.

In the end, he pressed three 6s in a row.

Unexpectedly, the call went through!

"Hello, this is the sales department of TEP Company, a large multinational corporation, based in China."

"Hello, what can I do for you?"

"Do you need toys?"

"Uh... Sorry, I'm in the fertilizer business."

"I know, we're all in business, it wouldn't hurt to sell some toys on the side. Mainly, our branch factory is newly established, and with subsidies from the headquarters, our current external quotation is very low. All tin toys are only one and a half yuan per piece, you can make a profit of fifty cents per piece."

"......"

Beep beep beep......

The call was hung up, but this salesperson was not discouraged, he changed the landline prefix and continued to press three 6s.

And the other salespeople, the landline prefixes were all changing, but the last three digits were three 7s, three 8s, three 5s, three 3s...

Moreover, on the small blackboard next to them, it was written: four consecutive numbers tomorrow, two combinations the day after tomorrow.

"What did you do before, bro?"

"I was a salesperson at the Electric Fan Factory!"

"......"

This was also a person who had been on the 'battlefield'.

Back in the day, when the Electric Fan Factory was driven to a dead end, the salespeople pulled out all the stops.

Although they couldn't turn the tide in the end, they were still battle-hardened.

Now they're here selling toys......

"I used to think that the market was hard to break into, but now it seems that the supply can't keep up!"

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