Back to the 1970s: Building My Fortune Through Time Trading-Chapter 341: Orders

"Xiao Chen, this is Director Zhou from our city’s shoe factory. He wants to order a batch of enamel mugs as year-end employee gifts this time."

There’s no need to guess; the arrogant tone is surely from Liu Changjiang.

He’s not even a manager anymore but still calls Director Chen ’Little Chen’. He really thinks he’s something.

Su Xiaoxiao stopped and wanted to listen to the situation inside. As the saying goes: know yourself and know your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.

She wasn’t in a hurry, but someone else was.

Chen Tieshan went straight up and knocked on the office door with a loud thud.

Since he was going to help Comrade Su, he absolutely couldn’t let the other party get the upper hand.

Unexpectedly, he knocked directly, which startled Su Xiaoxiao.

This isn’t right; they’re chatting inside the room, and it always feels a bit inappropriate to knock and go in now.

Before she could stop him, Chen Meilan’s voice quickly came from inside: "Come in."

"Comrade Su, come on, let’s go in and talk about cooperation."

Before Su Xiaoxiao could speak, Chen Tieshan had already boldly pushed open the office door.

Liu Changjiang immediately saw Su Xiaoxiao following behind him, unable to hide the look of disdain in his eyes.

Facing the three pairs of eyes staring straight at her, Su Xiaoxiao felt a bit awkward. Why didn’t the person understand her signals? Her eyes were practically cramping from squinting, but he paid no attention.

Since she was already in, she could only bite the bullet and greet: "Director Chen, this is my friend who wants to buy a batch of thermoses from our department store."

Liu Changjiang sized up Chen Tieshan’s attire. This person was dressed plainly, and his face carried a certain rogue vibe, not looking like someone of high status, but more like someone aimlessly wandering the streets.

He immediately got a sense: "Xiao Su, I need to speak to you properly. You shouldn’t bring just anyone to Director Chen. If he wants to buy thermoses, just let him queue at the counter. Are three or five thermoses worth approaching Director Chen for?"

His tone was quite rude, clearly not getting along with Comrade Su.

Chen Tieshan was quite righteous, and besides, Su Xiaoxiao was currently his God of Wealth, so he had to perform well.

"Who said I wanted three or five? I want to order a hundred aluminum thermoses, three hundred enamel basins, fifty bolts of printed fabric, two hundred kilos of white flour. As long as the price is right, I might add more."

Chen Tieshan mainly did the business of flipping items for profit. As long as the department store’s prices were right, he would need plenty of goods.

Su Xiaoxiao didn’t expect him to want so many things all at once. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Didn’t he just say he wanted dozens of thermoses? This guy sure was generous!

After speaking, Chen Tieshan turned to look at Director Zhou standing silently on the side and curiously inquired: "Well, isn’t this Director Zhou? Are you here to place an order as well? How many have you placed?"

Director Zhou had dealt with him before, so they could be considered old acquaintances.

The shoe factory had previously produced a batch of defective shoes, struggling to find a market, nearly getting stuck with them until they appealed to Chen Tieshan, who bought them at a very low price.

Director Zhou hadn’t noticed earlier, but upon seeing him now, his expression immediately turned genial: "Well, well, Brother Tieshan, long time no see. I’m just here to buy a few gifts for the unit’s year-end activities, not too much, nothing as grand as yours."

"Oh, by the way, we’ve accumulated some defective shoe inventory lately. It’s still at our previous price. Are you interested, Brother?"

Chen Tieshan thought for a moment: "Fine, I’ll find time to take a look later. We’ll talk in detail then; I have other matters to handle today, which is inconvenient."

"Alright, alright, let’s get in touch later."

After reminiscing, they finally remembered the main business.

Liu Changjiang was dumbfounded. He couldn’t believe that Director Zhou would be so respectful towards the person Su Xiaoxiao brought.

Moreover, the two of them seemed quite familiar with each other. Could this person be someone impressive?

Thinking about this made him increasingly uneasy. He initially thought he could outshine Su Xiaoxiao, but unexpectedly, she got lucky and associated with someone influential.

If that’s the case, his position as sales manager might be snatched by this damn girl?

The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became; Director Zhou did place an order.

But he only wanted thirty notebooks and thirty enamel mugs, nothing valuable, far less than what Su Xiaoxiao’s contact ordered.

At this time, Chen Meilan spoke: "Since Director Zhou and this comrade are acquainted, if it’s convenient, why don’t I host lunch, and we can eat while discussing things?"

Liu Changjiang wasn’t in the mood for lunch. With just this one order, Su Xiaoxiao had already left him far behind.

He needed to quickly find new orders; otherwise, the manager position he was about to secure would be snatched by this damn girl.

Director Zhou wanted to find an opportunity to discuss the defective shoes in more detail, which was his real concern over the factory’s gift order.

He instinctively prepared to nod when he heard about lunch, but Liu Changjiang grabbed his wrist, whispered urgently: "Brother-in-law, doesn’t your factory have something important to do? Let’s skip the lunch."

Speaking, Liu Changjiang turned to Chen Meilan: "Director Chen, lunch isn’t necessary. I and Director Zhou still have matters to attend to, so we’ll leave first." He needed to hurry back and plan for finding new orders, so his soon-to-be-secured manager position wouldn’t fall through.

As the wife’s servant, Director Zhou reluctantly nodded under pressure from his brother-in-law.

If it weren’t for his wife’s sake, he really wouldn’t want to engage with this brother-in-law.

Useless in work, and leaving nothing in food.

He looked apologetically at Chen Meilan: "Director Chen, I just remembered I’ve business at the factory this afternoon. Let’s schedule lunch for another day."

The two quickly left together.

The office suddenly had only Chen Meilan and two others remaining.

Chen Tieshan looked at Su Xiaoxiao, then at Chen Meilan: "Director Chen, Comrade Su, I have to handle something now; we’ll meet at the state restaurant at noon, my treat."

With that, he left.

Su Xiaoxiao needed to get back to work, so she said a quick word to Chen Meilan before rushing back to her counter.

At this time, there weren’t many people, and Zhang Yulan and Qin Shuang were leaning idly against the counter, noticing Su Xiaoxiao coming down alone.

Zhang Yulan immediately approached gossipingly: "Xiaoxiao, who was that fellow just now? He looks quite formidable; is he from some street gang?"

"And... does he have a thing for you?"

Zhang Yulan subconsciously thought that Chen Tieshan was here to pursue Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao was attractive, and typically several men at the department store showed interest in her.

The guy just now seemed intimidating, but he appeared to be decent. It’s just unclear what he does for a living.