Chapter 38 Some fruits

In the evening, the sun gradually sets, and the afterglow pours weakly on the side of Guangzhou City.

Wu Shaoting climbed the city tower and looked at the sky, took out his pocket watch and right the time. It was already 6:30 pm. He turned around and said to Wang Yun behind him, "Close the city gate in another fifteen minutes, and let the people entering the city hurry up."

Wang Yun took the order and ran down the city tower. Soon his shout came from the city gate below.

The speed of pedestrians entering and leaving the city gates increased consciously, and they walked briskly, as if they were pressing the fast forward key when watching a movie.

At this time, a burst of dust rose on the road outside the city, and then the sound of a roar of a car came.

Wu Shaoting stood on the city tower and took a look. It was Zhang Xiaoya's car that was leaving the city at noon. He muttered in his heart that Zhang Xiaoya came back late today. He closed the city gate after a while and would not open it again until dawn tomorrow. However, he was a little hesitant. If Zhang Xiaoya was really locked out of the city, if she begged her to open the door, would she give her convenience?

Of course it is impossible. With Zhang Xiaoya's personality, he might beg me? He made a joke on himself.

The car passed through the city gate hole and then drove along the street. However, after driving for a while, he suddenly stopped again and slowly retreated towards the city gate. The car came to the city gate. Zhang Xiaoya poked half of her body out of the car window and shouted to Wang Yun who was urging pedestrians: "Hey, hey, where is Wu Shaoting?"

"Who the hell dares to call my master's name... Oh, it turns out that Miss Zhang, hehe, the little one should be damn." Wang Yun planned to protect his superior's dignity at first, but when he turned around and found that it was Zhang Xiaoya, he immediately didn't even want his own dignity.

"Where is Wu Shaoting?" Zhang Xiaoya asked again.

"Mr. Wu is on the city tower, I'll call you here." After Wang Yun said that, he ran up the city tower with a mercy.

Wu Shaoting followed Wang Yun and came to the front of the car, greeted Zhang Xiaoya with a smile: "Miss Zhang is lucky to be back now, I will order the city gate to be closed later."

He suddenly found that there was some dust on Zhang Xiaoya's pretty face and several spots on her sleeveless dress. He couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Miss Zhang, you are..."

Zhang Xiaoya sighed and said with a bad face: "I'm done, I'm going to go bankrupt."

Wu Shaoting laughed and said, "You joke, how could the Zhang family go bankrupt if they are rich and powerful?"

Zhang Xiaoya glared at Wu Shaoting, and raised her tone and said in a stressful tone: "What I said is that I am going to go bankrupt, not that my family is going to go bankrupt. Forget it, it's useless to tell you this. Wait, I'll give you something." After she said that, she retracted her into the car, and after a while, she held a fruit basket full of fruits in her hands and poked it out again.

Wu Shaoting asked strangely: "This is..."

Zhang Xiaoya stuffed the fruit basket into Wu Shaoting's hand and sighed: "The fruits in my farm have rotted, and only these fruits are left. It's very hard to stand guard and bask in the sun every day, so I'll give it to you for food."

Wu Shaoting took the fruit basket and saw that there were mangoes, lychees, longans, and tomatoes in the basket. Although these fruits also rot in part, most of them were still intact. He was a little moved. He and Zhang Xiaoya were only two-faced, and Zhang Xiaoya was so kind to give him fruit.

"Thank you so much. Wang Yun, take it over and put it in. This is what Miss Zhang rewards us, remember it well." He said loudly.

Zhang Xiaoya giggled and said, "Reward? You are really good at speaking. I am just afraid of wasting my hard work, so I gave it to you for food. Originally, I was going to find a beggar on the street to send it."

Wu Shaoting smiled and said, "That's it, but at least I'm more blessed than beggars."

The smile on Zhang Xiaoya's pretty face calmed down, and her expression seemed a little sad. She sighed and said, "It's a pity that it will be gone in the future. The bottled juice made from the fruit cannot be kept for a long time, otherwise it will break, but it can't be sold so many bottles a day. If you make a little, the fruit will not be stored for a long time. The fruit has rotted in the past few days. I'm bankrupt, alas!"

When Wu Shaoting heard this, he immediately understood. He saw that Miss Zhang Xiaoya was a career-oriented girl, but obviously the other party only knew how to achieve success, but had no business experience. He sighed in line with Zhang Xiaoya's emotions and said, "Ms. Zhang, failure is nothing, at least you have accumulated experience in failure."

"If I fail this time, I will lose everything. My father will not give me money to make me make a comeback. I have made a bet with him. Alas!" Zhang Xiaoya sat in the car playing with her fingers, and her mood seemed very depressed.

Wu Shaoting looked at Zhang Xiaoya's disappointed look and was vaguely touched. After thinking for a while, he said, "Miss Zhang, I don't think your manor will be over. As long as you just said, the problem should be in the business method. As long as you sort out the operation routines and sort out the complete production, logistics and sales models, there should be hope."

When he was in college in the 21st century, he read books on marketing. Although he later joined the army, he still had an impression on him.

Zhang Xiaoya said "Huh", looked at Wu Shaoting in surprise, and said, "How do you know so many professional terms? I know production and sales, but what does logistics mean?"

Wu Shaoting was slightly stunned. Then he remembered that the word "logistics" seemed to appear in World War II. He smiled and said, "Logistics, as the name suggests, is the flow of objects, and you can also understand it as reasonable transportation of goods."

Zhang Xiaoya didn't understand what it meant, but she thought it would be enough as long as Wu Shaoting understood. She leaned over to the car window again and said with a smile: "Since you are so good, why don't you join me."

Wu Shaoting laughed for a while and said, "Miss Zhang, I am a soldier, where can I have the capital to do business."

Zhang Xiaoya said: "It doesn't matter. I'll invest. It's better for you to work for me. I'll hire you as the deputy general manager."

Wu Shaoting was very funny. He was always ready to make a revolution, but Zhang Xiaoya suddenly pulled herself to do business. This was really a funny thing. He said, "Forget it, I don't have this talent. However, once I have free time, I can help you Miss Zhang."

Zhang Xiaoya was a little disappointed, but since Wu Shaoting was willing to help her, she still had some hope. She sighed and said, "Okay. Oh, it's too late now. I've been tired for an afternoon, so I'll go back first. If you have time, you must help me, and I must make a comeback!"

When she said "a come back", she strengthened her tone and subconsciously pinched her two small fists and made "work hard" moves.

Wu Shaoting nodded and said, "Well, Miss Zhang, go back quickly, I'm going to close the city gate, too."

After the car drove away, Wang Yun came over with a smile, holding the fruit basket in his hand.

"Mr. Wu, you're so tall." He said with his eyebrows jumping.

"Why are you tall?" Wu Shaoting glanced at Wang Yun, feeling that Wang Yun's eyes were very strange.

"Mr. Wu has been so familiar with Miss Zhang's family in just a few days. Hehe, if Mr. Wu can win the favor of the Zhang family, he will definitely rise to the top in the future." Wang Yun said with a smile.

"How can I favor me, a sentry officer guarding the city gate?" Wu Shaoting smiled mockingly.

"It doesn't matter, as long as Lord Wu tries to establish a good relationship with Miss Zhang's family. With Lord Wu's current speed, I'm afraid it's no problem to become the Zhang family's son-in-law." Wang Yun said hehe.

Wu Shaoting slapped Wang Yun in the head and cursed with a smile: "You really dare to say this? Miss Zhang's teenage girl, you really dare to think about it. Go and go, let's talk nonsense and see how I deal with you. Hurry up and wash the fruits and send them to your brothers."

Three days later, Zhang Xiaoya came to the city gate again in her father's car.

When Wu Shaoting saw the figure of the car from a distance, he thought that Zhang Xiaoya came to ask her for marketing. But in the end, the car did not stop in front of the city gate and went straight through the city gate hole and left the city. This made him a little strange. Didn’t Zhang Xiaoya’s farm go bankrupt? Then where are she going now?

As the car passed by him, he subconsciously glanced inside the car. Zhang Xiaoya was indeed sitting in the back seat, but the little girl had a serious expression and looked at the front without any squinting eyes.

Wang Yun ran out of the city gate hole and came to Wu Shaoting. He asked with a puzzled expression: "Sir, why didn't Miss Zhang come to you?"

Wu Shaoting glared at Wang Yun and said, "You guy can't remember or what?"

Wang Yun was stunned, then laughed for a while, not saying anything more.

But after a while, Wang Yun looked up at the sky and said another sentence: "Sir, it's getting late. Miss Zhang is out of the city now. Can she come back before closing the door?"

Wu Shaoting asked with a smile: "You are quite concerned about Miss Zhang. They are riding in a rickshaw. If the Taiping Gate is closed, she won't change the way across the river and enter the city from the sand garden."

Wang Yun nodded suddenly and said, "That's right. Bei Zhi was just wondering what Miss Zhang hurriedly left the city to do."

Wu Shaoting looked at the city gate, but in fact he had some doubts in his heart. However, this doubt was not strong for him. Anyway, he had a chance relationship with Miss Zhang, or even a chance relationship. He was just a casual relationship. He could control whatever he liked.

However, Wu Shaoting did not expect that today is destined to be a turbulent time.

When the city gate was closed in the evening, Wu Shaoting noticed that Zhang Xiaoya had not come back yet, so of course he would not miss a person with a car. At this time, he did not hesitate. The city gate had to be closed if it should be closed. Could it be that Zhang Xiaoya and opened the city gate alone until she came back? Immediately, he ordered the city gate to close and the soldiers were ready to have supper.

He still has some money in his hand, all of which were the benefits he received from helping the revolutionary party transport goods into the city last time. Although he asked his subordinates to add food that night, he still had some balance after that. It is now the end of the month, and the boring task of guarding the city gate has finally come to an end. He should go to the township patrol next month, so he simply added food tonight to celebrate.
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