245: Chapter 241: The Phone Call 245: Chapter 241: The Phone Call “Brother Hou, it’s me, Chen Hai!”
“You kid, how come you have time to call me?
What’s up?
Are you planning to invite me to your wedding feast?”
“Brother Hou is truly insightful.
I’m currently in Yang City.
On December 22nd, at the Black Swan Hotel, Qingqing and I are getting engaged.
You definitely must grace us with your presence!”
“Don’t worry, little brother, I’ll definitely be there!”
“Right!
By the way, Brother Hou, how is your recovery from your injuries?”
“My life is not in danger, my injuries have basically healed, but my Five Ghosts Transportation Technique has been completely ruined, and there’s no way to train them back!”
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Whenever the topic of his lost abilities came up, Hou Donggui felt a deep melancholy in his heart.
Unfortunately, Chen Hai couldn’t help him with that.
The only thing he could do was ensure he lived a worry-free life, with a comfortable old age.
After chatting idly with Hou Donggui and consoling him a few times, Chen Hai finally hung up the phone.
Holding the engagement party here in Yang City, where all the guests were from the bride’s side, made Chen Hai feel rather embarrassed about not having any guests of his own to boast.
After finishing the call with Hou Donggui, he flipped through his phone book and called Li Dajiang.
Li Dajiang was a bit utilitarian.
If it weren’t for the fact that he had no one else to invite from Yuedong, and he was quite familiar with him.
Plus, being somewhat of a boss himself, Li Dajiang was barely acceptable as an invitee, otherwise, Chen Hai wouldn’t have bothered calling him.
Upon receiving Chen Hai’s call and learning about his engagement to Ye Qingqing and the invitation to the celebration, Li Dajiang was ecstatic.
Judging by the tone of his speech, Chen Hai guessed that the guy was probably jumping with excitement.
After exchanging pleasantries with Li Dajiang and hanging up the phone, Chen Hai frowned, as he really didn’t know who else to invite!
In Yuedong, in Haizhu City, there was Zhu Fang, who was quite familiar with him.
But Zhu Fang and Qingqing were good friends, and he met her through Qingqing!
Inviting her as a guest from his side clearly wasn’t appropriate.
Frowning and pondering for a moment, not knowing who else to call, Chen Hai decided to page Sun Jinzhong.
At the entrance of No.1 High School, Chen Hai had given him several thousand.
When he went to Yuedong, he didn’t bring much money with him, leaving most of it at home.
Chen Hai’s pager had always been coveted by him, and right after returning from Yuedong, he got a pager for himself.
He had already told Chen Hai his pager number a couple of days ago at the Happy Dance Hall.
“Dinglingling… Dinglingling…” After paging Sun Jinzhong, it took five or six minutes before his phone finally rang back.
“Hello, who just paged me?” Sun Jinzhong’s voice was rough and aggressive like he had eaten gunpowder, his tone very brash.
“Brother Zhong, it’s me, Chen Hai.
How’s the distillery situation?
Did you find someone to take charge?” Chen Hai asked casually with a laugh.
“Don’t mention it, those old geezers, every one of them is rotten to the core!”
“Brother Qiang and I used a lot of connections just to reach some section chief at SASAC.”
“Talking to him, he was all bureaucratic, saying, the distillery isn’t unsellable, but it has to be sold to a foreign enterprise, locals can’t buy it even with money!”
“I’m not ignorant; the cotton mill and the rice noodle factory in our county were both sold to locals.”
“That bastard clearly looks down on Brother Qiang and me, thinking we don’t have enough connections or influence!”
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Sun Jinzhong’s complaints went on and on.
He had probably suffered a lot of frustration over the distillery recently.
In recent years, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises was in full swing.
It wasn’t strange anymore for unprofitable state enterprises to be contracted out or sold to private entities.
Now it was 1994, and after the Company Law was officially passed at the end of last year, private enterprises began to flourish, becoming an important part of Yanhuang Country’s economic development.
Currently, Yanhuang Country was severely lacking in foreign exchange.
If foreign enterprises were willing to enter the domestic market, they could enjoy various reductions and the treatment given to foreign enterprises in various places was extremely generous.
As for local private enterprises, if they had connections or influence, it was somewhat better; otherwise, they were decidedly underprivileged.
“Brother Zhong, are you saying that the person in charge said the distillery is only being sold to foreign enterprises?”
“Doesn’t a Xiangjiang enterprise count as a foreign enterprise?”
“I’ll have someone register a company in Xiangjiang, then bring someone from Xiangjiang to buy the distillery under this enterprise’s name.”
“I’ll leave you in charge of this, do you think you can handle it?” Chen Hai responded after a moment of thoughtful frowning.
Truth be told, if it came down to finding connections and influence, it wasn’t that he couldn’t find any.
Although Xiangnan wasn’t Yuedong, the Ye family’s network could potentially provide some influence in the city or the province despite having no footing in Liuyuan County!
However, Chen Hai simply didn’t want to bother Ye Qingqing unless absolutely necessary.
“Cousin, are you pulling my leg?
You can actually set up a Xiangjiang business to buy out our county’s distillery?” Sun Jinzhong on the other end clearly hesitated.
From Chen Hai’s perspective, his plan was merely a roundabout way, nothing difficult at all.
But to Sun Jinzhong, with his perspective and knowledge, the idea of setting up a Xiangjiang business to buy a factory in the county seemed somewhat preposterous.
“Why would I tease you?
I’m currently in Yuedong!”
“I’ll make a trip to Xiangjiang when I find the time, or I’ll ask a friend there to help me register a business,” Chen Hai replied with a light chuckle.
“You’re in Yuedong?
Getting engaged to Qingqing?
Why don’t you come back to Liuyuan County for this?”
“These past few days, Brother Qiang and I have been feeling pretty frustrated.”
“How about we also head over to Haizhu City, enjoy your wedding feast, and lend you a hand?”
“We don’t need you to handle the banquet or drinks at the hotel, but managing cigarettes and greeting guests, you’ll need some help from your people, right?”
On the phone, Sun Jinzhong chuckled and tentatively suggested.
“I’ll be at the Black Swan Hotel, planning to have the engagement banquet on the 22nd!”
“If you and Brother Qiang want to come, just come, see what works for you!” Chen Hai paused briefly before responding with a smile, feeling that Sun Jinzhong’s suggestion indeed made some sense.