Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

Chapter 378 The first day of the explosion

At this time, the translator spoke up: "He said thank you and said you are very beautiful."

Yu Li looked at the translator in surprise, her face turned even redder, and she looked at a loss.

"It's okay, Sister Yu Li, all the foreigners do this. Take another silver one out of the box and put it on."

He Lai came over and interrupted.

"Oh, I understand." Yu Li turned quickly to get the lighter.

He Lai said to the Eagle countryman: "You're welcome. I thank you for your compliment on behalf of my colleague."

"OK. My name is Charlie, what's your name?" said the Eagle man.

"My name is He Lai."

"Hey, nice to meet you."

"me too."

After chatting, Charlie started playing with the lighter, and the foreign businessmen next to him followed suit and took the lighter to look at it.

Li Huaide and Jiang Ling stood nearby, watching He Lai moving among the foreign businessmen with ease!

……

After a while, Charlie spoke up.

"He, how much do you want to sell this lighter for?"

"How much do you think is appropriate?"

"No, no, no, let's talk business. I think you should state the price first."

"Mr. Charlie, actually the lighters here are all made by each master in our factory. To be honest, we don't have an accurate price, so we hope to get a price from you. If the price is right, we will definitely sell it to you!"

He Lai explained with a smile.

"Oh, He, you're really putting me in a difficult position. Okay, let me think about it."

Charlie didn't refuse and thought about it for a while.

"OK, two hundred Hong Kong dollars, how about that? This is the highest price I can offer!"

"Mr. Charlie, it's like this. When we sell lighters, we also sell some things, such as this fuel. If you smell it, it doesn't have any irritating smell, it's very light, and has a little fragrance."

He Lai took a fuel bottle, opened it and let Charlie smell it.

"Well, it's really great!" Charlie smelled it and gave an affirmative answer.

"We also provide some small accessories, such as flint, cotton core, etc., as well as some small tools, so that you can replace the parts yourself. Take a look."

He Lai took another small bag and showed it to Charlie.

"God, He, you have so many things. OK, I'll add another 100 Hong Kong dollars, okay?"

Charlie looked happily at the various parts in the small bag and added another hundred.

"Deal! But I don't know how much you want?" He said.

"OK, let me think about it. I want 500 silver ones, 300 black ones, and 200 each of the other styles. How about it?" Charlie said after thinking for a while.

"No problem, but I have to wait half a month before delivery, is that okay?"

He Lai calculated that there were a total of 2400 units of ten styles, and they could definitely be completed in half a month.

"OK, happy working together."

"Pleasant to work with."

As Charlie and He Lai finished shaking hands, He Lai gave Charlie the lighter in his hand as a gift.

Finally, He Lai told Li Huaide the quantity Charlie wanted and asked him to take Charlie to sign the contract.

After that, foreign businessmen like Charlie also placed orders, some for two thousand units and some for five hundred units. Soon the lighters were sold out!

There were also gains in the flour mill. After all, there was a sharp contrast between cornmeal and corn flour. Several foreign businessmen from Southeast Asia were very interested in this flour mill and placed orders for more than 300 units.

Soon after a day's work, the orders for lighters and grinders have exceeded expectations. The orders for lighters alone have now exceeded 100,000.

Everyone was dumbfounded. They didn't expect that these foreign businessmen liked lighters so much. They kept He Lai and his colleagues very busy.

Even the Ministry of Machinery Industry and the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry in Sijiu City were alarmed. All leaders attached great importance to it and required all factories in Sijiu City to support the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill and complete the order with guaranteed quality and quantity.

The first day ended successfully. Jiang Ling also stood next to He Lai for the whole day. Several people were so busy that they didn't even have time to eat lunch. They were busy taking people to see things and taking people to sign contracts.

Li Huaide's face was twitching with laughter, and his hands were almost numb from signing. He was so happy that he had made a great achievement this time! He didn't know if he could go one step further.

"He Lai, you are really great. Go to your aunt's place today and she will congratulate you. Don't refuse!"

Jiang Ling said with a smile.

"Uh... okay, thank you Aunt Jiang!" He Lai had no choice but to agree.

"Okay, let's go with auntie." After Jiang Ling said that, she took He Lai's hand and walked out.

This made He Lai very embarrassed, and he turned around to look at Li Huaide and the others.

Li Huaide just waved his hand, indicating that you can go your way.

……

Soon He Lai arrived at Jiang Ling's house.

Jiang Ling immediately called Mr. Zhou and after a few pleasantries, she asked He Lai to take the call.

"Grandpa Zhou."

"Hey, you're great, little brat! You've achieved great results. I'm going to make you a lighter!"

"Grandpa Zhou, you're making fun of me again!"

"Who is laughing at you? We have discussed it and decided to build a factory to produce lighters. You will be the factory director!"

"No, Grandpa Zhou, if you want me to be the boss, I will ignore you. Go find someone else!"

"You kid, what's wrong with being a factory manager? You're always making excuses. That's not like me at all!"

"Yes, yes, Grandpa Zhou, why don't you take the position? I won't take it anyway!"

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore, you naughty monkey, is Guangcheng hot?"

"It's OK. I didn't go out much. It's not too hot."

"Yes, stay out of the house less. Don't get too tanned. I won't recognize you anymore."

"Hey, Grandpa Zhou, no matter how dark I am, I can never be darker than you. I don't know what Grandma Zhou saw in you in the first place!"

"Hey... don't grab it... Hey, is that Xiao Laizi? I'm your Grandma Zhou."

"Grandma Zhou, I'm Xiao Laizi!"

"Okay, okay, good kid, don't be busy working all the time. Remember to eat, okay?"

"Okay, Grandma Zhou."

……

He Lai chatted with Old Mrs. Zhou for a long time before hanging up the phone.

When He Lai turned around, there were already several more people in the living room.

"He Lai, come here quickly, let me introduce myself to you." Jiang Ling waved to He Lai and said.

He Lai had no choice but to walk over.

"This is Comrade Wei Youwei, also a soldier under the old commander."

"Hello, Uncle Wei." He Lai quickly greeted him.

"Hello, Comrade He Lai, you are very good. The old leader also asked me to take care of you. It should be you who takes care of our Guangcheng City. You are young and promising!"

Wei Youwei stood up, took He Lai's hand, and said with a smile.

"Don't dare, don't dare."

He Lai said awkwardly.

"This is my wife." Wei Youwei pulled up a woman next to him and said.

"Hello, Mrs. Wei."

"Don't call me Madam, just call me Aunt Wei." Mrs. Wei said with a smile.

"Okay, Aunt Wei."

"This is my husband, Guo Dakai," Jiang Ling continued.

"Hello, Uncle Guo."

"Hello. You are very good, young man. Keep up the good work." Guo Dakai also said with a smile.

"These two are my children, Guo Xiaoming and Guo Xiaochun. Stand up and call your brother."

Jiang Ling said.

When the two children, who were about twelve or thirteen years old, heard Jiang Ling's words, they immediately stood up and called him "Brother".

"Hello, brother and sister. I didn't prepare anything for you. I only have some White Rabbit candies on me. I'll give them all to you."

He Lai took out a handful of candies from his pocket and gave them to them.

"Thank you, brother." The two little ones immediately took the candy and expressed their gratitude sincerely.

Because they are still young or something, they are still happy to see candy.

"Don't eat it now, we'll have dinner soon!" Jiang Ling immediately stopped the two children from stuffing the candies into their mouths!

In this way, He Lai carefully ate a meal at Jiang Ling's house. After all, they were elders he didn't know, so he naturally couldn't do whatever he wanted.