"Huh? Why are you here?"

Seeing Jin Xiuying's surprised look, Cao Zhiqiang said with a tired look: "Why, can't I come?"

"No, it's just, um..." Jin Xiuying frowned, "Didn't you say a few days ago that you were very busy recently, so you didn't have time to come?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded and walked into the house, minding his own business, and said softly: "Yeah, I've been busy for a while, so I came here to take a rest. Why, you're not welcome?"

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang went directly to the sofa, sat down, and Ge You lay down comfortably.

"Ah, it feels so comfortable!" Cao Zhiqiang, who was lying on Ge You's side, let out a pleasant moan.

Jin Xiuying had already closed the door at this time, came to Cao Zhiqiang with her hands in her pockets and said, "Why, are you tired?"

"Yeah, I'm not as tired as usual." Cao Zhiqiang casually unbuttoned and loosened the collar of Ge You's body.

"Aren't you already a leader?" Jin Xiuying asked doubtfully, "What's so tiring about being a leader?"

"Just because I am the leader, I am very tired!"

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang directly closed his eyes and said: "When you are a leader, especially a leader in the entrepreneurial stage, you have to do everything personally and work hard. It's tiring, too tiring, so damn tiring!"

Cao Zhiqiang's words are not words against his will, but a true portrayal.

Because today is really tiring for him.

He read novels all morning and recorded music all morning. Near noon, he had to receive his sister's family and Qinghong's mother who suddenly came to visit.

After receiving repeated interrogations from my sister and Qinghong's mother, I had to join Qinghong again at noon, carefully accompanying my sister and Qinghong's mother to have dinner together.

If these situations are just a matter of mental fatigue and mental fatigue, then what happens after lunch means that the body is tired.

After lunch, Cao Zhiqiang took the leftovers to the Xinhua Bookstore on Wangfujing Street for a routine inspection.

As a result, he discovered many problems.

The essence of many of these problems is that the two books he published were too popular, and his publishing team was too young and inexperienced.

Although Cao Zhiqiang discovered the problem in time and introduced purchase restriction policies and new wholesale policies in a timely manner, new problems still arose.

The new problem is that the employees at Xinhua Bookstore are too lazy and don't like to work.

You know, as early as this morning, the series of books "Journey to Jianghu" had been sold out at Xinhua Bookstore in Wangfujing.

Sold out events were a normal thing in Xinhua Bookstore, but the group of adults and aunts outside who had been queuing all morning but had nothing to gain stopped doing so and started making a scene.

So, in order to avoid problems, the people at Xinhua Bookstore first called the police and asked the police to come over to help maintain order. At the same time, they also made an exception and mobilized employees to have the logistics staff replenish the goods immediately.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he came to this bookstore while the other party was replenishing supplies.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang thought that as soon as his purchase restriction policy was announced and 100,000 sets of new products were put on the shelves, the situation here would definitely be settled.

But who knew, an accident occurred to an employee of Xinhua Bookstore who went to replenish supplies?

It turns out that the driver of the Xinhua Bookstore's car was drunk at noon.

Originally, this was nothing. After all, under normal circumstances, the truck drivers at Xinhua Bookstore were out of work in the afternoon, and they all worked in the morning.

So it's normal to have a little drink at noon, and they are used to it.

But because of the special circumstances this time, the leaders of Xinhua Bookstore issued an order asking them to replenish the stock, and they had to carry it out even if they were not happy.

Then, the drunk driver accidentally got into a traffic accident and hit a telephone pole on the side of the road while driving to pick up goods.

Fortunately, the driver braked in time and no one was injured. However, the front of the truck was slightly damaged and a headlight was damaged.

That's all. The key point is that these people were involved in a car accident and did not report it in time. Instead, they were afraid of taking responsibility and simply hit and run.

Although it was 1983, our country's traffic laws still do not allow drunk driving.

For example, alcohol testers had already appeared in Beijing during this period, but they were not yet common.

But that’s not the problem. The real problem is that the traffic police’s punishment for drunk driving is too light.

During this period, although driving under the influence is not allowed, as long as you don't get caught and don't get into trouble, then there is no problem.

If you are caught by the traffic police, as long as nothing happens, you will be fined up to 20 yuan and have to write an inspection to clear things up.

There are no points deductions or license revocations!

Precisely because the punishment is too light, although drunk driving cannot be said to be common in Beijing at this time, it is definitely very common. As long as nothing happens, it doesn't matter.

Especially if you know someone from the traffic police team, you may not even get a fine. If you are caught, you will just hand over a cigarette.

However, once something happens to a drunk driver, such as killing someone, injuring someone, or hitting a telephone pole on the side of the road, the problem becomes big.

Usually when this happens, the driver's license is usually revoked first, and penalties are imposed based on the seriousness of the case.

Killing someone is the most serious, injuring someone is the second most serious, and damaging public property is the least serious.

For example, if you hit a telephone pole, this is considered damage to public property. If you are caught, you will be fined a large amount of money, and the company, that is, Xinhua Bookstore will never pay this money.

Once a driver gets into a car accident, unless you have a big connection, the employer will not only not issue a fine, but may even take the opportunity to fire the driver.

This is equivalent to saying that once you get into a car accident while driving drunk and are caught by the police, you will lose your driver's license and your job.

In other words, during this period, it was common for drivers to hit and run.

Generally speaking, as long as no one is killed or injured, and no criminal charges are issued, the driver will run away immediately.

(Author's note: This is not nonsense by the author. This is indeed the case. If you are born in the 1990s and do not understand the situation back then, you can search for the video "How were drivers punished for drunk driving in the 1980s" to learn about the penalties for drunk driving back then.

How light.)

Just kidding, being a truck driver is a bad job these days. If your driver's license is revoked because of a traffic accident, it's like losing your job.

Especially the drivers of Xinhua Bookstore, they are the iron rice bowl among the iron rice bowls, and their treatment is extremely good.

Most people are reluctant to lose their jobs.

So, after the truck driver hit the telephone pole, he drove away immediately and then went to the repair shop to repair the car.

But in this case, they will not be able to continue to collect goods and come back to replenish the goods.

The result was that Liu Donghai, the person in charge of the bookstore, waited and waited until 2:30 in the afternoon, but the driver who came to replenish the goods still did not arrive.

With no other choice, Liu Donghai could only keep calling the printing office of Hongguang Machinery Factory. As a result, no one answered the phone after he called several times.

After many failed calls, Liu Donghai simply rode his bicycle and went to the printing office of Hongguang Machinery Factory in person.

After arriving, I discovered that the printing office and warehouse doors were locked, and there was no one there except an old man guarding the door.

When I asked the man who looked at the gate again, he was told that no one had been here since noon, let alone any vehicles transporting goods.

As for the staff in the printing office, after lunch in the cafeteria, they all went home together.

This frightened Liu Donghai, and he quickly called various Xinhua Bookstore branches, trying to contact Cao Zhiqiang and report the situation on his side.

Because at that time, Cao Zhiqiang was indeed no longer in Wangfujing Bookstore, but had taken Shen Zhenhua to inspect other bookstores early.

After inspection, Cao Zhiqiang found that other bookstores were also selling very well.

It's just that the traffic flow of other bookstores is not high, so there won't be long queues like Wangfujing Bookstore, but it was basically sold out that morning.

In fact, the reason for the long queues at Wangfujing Bookstore is also related to the fact that other bookstores sold out early.

At this time, ordinary people were still very simple. Once they couldn't buy a book in the bookstore near their home and found that the book was sold out, they usually would not yell and go to a larger bookstore to buy it.

In other words, people have a high tolerance for small Xinhua Bookstores. Even if your service attitude is not good and the books you want to buy are quickly sold out, people will not complain and will consciously go to big stores to buy them.

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It was precisely because other branches of Xinhua Bookstore had sold out the "Journey to Jianghu" set early that people who couldn't buy the book went to Wangfujing Bookstore and queued up to buy it.

Because in this era, Xinhua Bookstore in Wangfujing is one of the largest bookstores in Beijing.

Its status is similar to that of the Peking Department Store at this time.

Therefore, ordinary people will not complain if they cannot buy books in other small Xinhua bookstores.

This is the same as if you go to a canteen and can't buy cigarettes, but say they are sold out, you won't complain to the canteen owner.

But if you can't buy it at Xinhua Bookstore here in Wangfujing, there will definitely be complaints.

After all, the psychological expectations are different.

Because in the hearts of old Beijing people, they will not complain if they cannot buy a book in other branches of Xinhua Bookstore.

But if you can’t buy it at Wangfujing Bookstore, which is known as the first store of Xinhua Bookstore, then you are derelict in your duty!

This is why Cao Zhiqiang’s first stop was Wangfujing Bookstore.

But no matter what, after the books in other branches were sold out, Xinhua Bookstore people could ignore it, but the person in charge assigned by Cao Zhiqiang was indifferent, which made Cao Zhiqiang very angry.

Ever since, when Cao Zhiqiang inspected the sales of other branches, it was actually a training trip.

But just when Cao Zhiqiang was happily cursing at a branch of Xinhua Bookstore, Liu Donghai suddenly called, explaining that Wangfujing Bookstore had not yet replenished the goods, and the people in line had begun to make noises.

This frightened Cao Zhiqiang, so he immediately headed back to Wangfujing Bookstore.

By the time Cao Zhiqiang returned to Wangfujing Bookstore, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

After discovering that the driver to replenish the goods had not arrived yet, and that he had been unable to be contacted, Cao Zhiqiang could not care about anything else.

Immediately, Cao Zhiqiang called his mother-in-law, Director Li of Hongguang Machinery Factory, and asked him to help.
To be continued...