Chen Dan was afraid that Shen Huan would entangle and propose more requirements, so she tidied up her clothes to get off the bus and go back home. At this moment, the rear of the car shook slightly, Chen Dan was startled, turned her head to look back, and found someone sitting on the tail of the car with their buttocks.

  Chen Dan was still wondering who would be out so late and wandering around in the alley when he heard Chen Tong's voice coming from inside.

  "This is Secretary Shen's car; another day I'll borrow Secretary Shen's car and take you for a spin."

  "Can Secretary Shen lend you the car?" A girl's voice came over, blocking Chen Tong's body from view, and although Shen Hua and Chen Dan couldn't see her face clearly in the car, they recognized the sound of her voice.

  Shen Huai squeezed his eyes at Chen Dan in the morning, and it turned out that Chen Tong had made an appointment with a girl to ride on horseback at midnight.

  Chen Dan pressed her finger to her lips, signaling Shen Huai not to make any noise, not wanting her brother to know that she and Shen Huai were hiding in the car at midnight.

  Chen Dan knelt down and leaned on the chair, Shen Hua also curiously approached him. Chen Dan leaned into his ear and whispered: "It's Qian Yun from the reception station..."

  Shen Huai wanted Chen Dan to take over the reception station, and Chen Dan also had the intention to try it out. He seriously considered the details of running the reception station, which staff members could stay and which ones should be dismissed, all of which he carefully discussed with Shen Huai.

  Shen Huai knew that this girl named "Qian Yun" was the one Chen Dan had planned to keep as an accountant, and he had some impression of her as a slender and delicate girl, but he didn't expect Chen Tong to have already set his sights on her and even boldly asked her out on a date.

  Under the moonlight, Shen Hua saw the girl wearing a beige windbreaker and tight-fitting jeans standing side by side with Chen Tong at the back of the car. The girl's hands were propped up on the trunk, but she didn't even turn her head to look at Chen Tong; Chen Tong's hands were also propped up on the trunk, only his hands kept moving back and forth for half a day, just not daring to hold the girl's hand.

  "You say Chen Tong is useless, but the girl almost wrote 'touch me quickly' on her face, making people anxious for him!" Shen Huai whispered in Chen Dan's ear, secretly laughing at Chen Tong.

  Chen Dan gave Shen Huai a sideways glance and said in a low voice: "You're all the same, the whole street is full of hoodlums..."

  She saw that she still remembered the grudge of his blind touch, stretched out her hand and wrapped her in his arms. Chen Dan didn't struggle for fear of startling her brother, but instead she knelt down, her heel kicked against the dashboard with a "clang" sound. She and Shen Huai were startled by the sudden movement, and Chen Tong and Qian Yun, who were standing at the back of the car, also jumped in fright.

  "Sister, what are you doing in the car with Secretary Shen!" Chen Tong only just saw his sister and Shen Huai sitting in the car.

  "You're really something," Shen Huai said with a thick skin, seeing Chen Tong's astonished face, he preempted, "I saw you guys walking over from afar and thought you were going to do something shady. Didn't expect that after listening to your conversation for half the night, it was all just nonsense. This beautiful moonlit night can't withstand your blasphemy..." He spoke as if he and Chen Dan were hiding in the car specifically to "catch adulterers".

  "Secretary Shen, it's not what you think..." Qian Yun was a girl who had just graduated from the finance and trade school last year and started working at the reception station. Hearing Shen Hua's words, her face turned red with embarrassment, and she felt a bit uncomfortable facing Chen Dan and Shen Hua.

  "Didn't you say we were going to sign the contract in town today? I waited for you at the reception station after work, but I didn't see you and Secretary Shen come. It's also gotten late for Qian Yun, who was waiting with me, and I was just about to send him back first." Chen Tong really had a thick face and wasn't that embarrassed.

  "Alright, you send Qianyun back first, it's getting late. Be careful driving, there are no streetlights..." Shen Huai and Chen Dan got out of the car to let Chen Tong drive Qianyun back.

  "Alright." Chen Tong had learned to drive a car in the army, and after returning home, he just needed to take a driving test. He excitedly took the car keys, invited Qian Yun, who was as shy as a peach blossom, into the car, and drove away quickly.

  "Qian Yun's home is just ahead, it's just a few steps away, why take a car?" Chen Dan said.

  "This is where you don't understand, Chen Tong just walked away and sent the little girl back home, her parents insisted on investigating your family's ancestors for eight generations; driving to send the little girl back home, her parents said that they couldn't bear it tonight and kept Chen Tong as their son-in-law." Shen Huai said with a sly smile.

  "You're full of evil intentions, let Chen Tong stay away from you!" Chen Dan gave Shen Huai a sideways glance, her eyes gleaming with anger.

  Chen Dan leaned against Shen Hua's shoulder, watching the sedan disappear into the black night, and had to admit that Shen Hua's words made a lot of sense. Although her brother was a good-looking man who could make young girls fall in love with him, parents were always worldly, and young girls would eventually grow up and become realistic and worldly when faced with difficult life.

  Those purely flawless and unrealistic love stories that girls dream of can only exist in fairy tales - Chen Dan thought to herself that she shouldn't ask for too much.

  Shen Huai thought Chen Dan was thinking about her brother, and smiled: "Chen Tong is silly, you said earlier that he was worried about him? Qian Yun this little girl is lively, if we don't help him a bit, he may not be able to capture the heart of this little girl..."

  "Alright, you're not stupid." Chen Danjiao said with a pout, thinking of her brother's hesitant expression earlier when he wanted to grab Money Cloud's hand but didn't dare to, and she couldn't help but laugh again, hugging Shen Huai's arm as they walked into the alley, intimate and inseparable.

  Xian Jin went into the house and told Xiao Li to rest early. Chen Dan turned around and followed Shen Huai to his room to discuss the reception station matters.

  After a while, Chen Tong drove back, and the excitement on his face had not dissipated.

  "Sister, has the contract been signed?" Chen Tong hadn't let love get to his head yet and was still thinking about business.

  "Signed, Zhao Dong treated everyone to dinner for this matter and forgot to invite you, making you wait at the reception station for half a day," said Chen Dan.

  "At night, He Yue's face seemed okay, but I thought something was wrong?" Chen Tong put down his worries and asked Shen Huai, "Director Shen, do you think I should continue staying in the workshop?"

  Shen Hua knew that Chen Tong was eager to leave the steel plant and help his sister at the reception station, so he said: "You should go study. After the Spring Festival, I plan to select a batch of people from the steel plant to send to the Workers' College for further study, you can sign up to try..."

  "...Chen Tong had previously heard that Shen Hui was supporting his sister to take over the reception station, and with a heart full of enthusiasm, he jumped out from the steel factory to help. But now, Shen Hui was suggesting that he go read books instead, which left him somewhat perplexed."

  "The reception station will be renamed to Chuxi Hotel next month, focusing on catering, and the staff will not change much; He Yuelian will also cooperate with the handover. The lobby, front desk, and kitchen are the three main areas, what can you help with? Shen Huai saw that Chen Tong was a bit unhappy, so he directly told him, "You may be able to help your sister keep an eye on things in the store, not letting others have the opportunity to do anything; if there's anything, you can run errands, no need for your sister to be busy running around non-stop. But your future development shouldn't stop at this..."

  "Oh." Chen Tong responded somewhat dejectedly, after all, this situation was quite different from what he had been eagerly expecting.

  "Stop thinking about doing odd jobs for your sister, if you want to do catering management, you have to learn it properly. However, this steel factory can't pay for your tuition, you'll have to get your sister to help you with that..."

  Chen Dan's eyes shone brightly as she looked at Shen Hua's face, with an indescribable tenderness. Shen Hua always managed to consider things that she had overlooked.

  She had thought about letting Chen Tong quit the steel plant to help herself, but Shen Huai's opinion made her more convinced: using the right person in a key position can achieve twice the result with half the effort, and it won't be particularly hard; if she always thinks about using people to supervise others at key positions, then the future of Zhuxi Hotel will also stop there; besides, she doesn't want Chen Tong's life development to stop there either.

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  The next day, Shen Hua instructed Guo Quan to assist Chen Dan in handling the loan.

  He Ruilian also came to understand, especially after signing the agreement, and extinguished the idea of arguing about what to do next. She couldn't help but think about how she would go on living in Meixi Town from now on.

  At the time of handover, He Yuelian also had the intention of deliberately making concessions, not only wiping out the contract fee for the remaining half month, but also paying the wages of more than 30 employees until the end of the month.

  Hei Molian operates the reception station, and the kitchen and bathroom equipment that has been added, as well as a batch of cigarettes and wine that are left over, are sold to Chen Dan at a discounted price. He also agrees to delay payment of nearly 40,000 yuan for several months.

  In this way, Chen Dan only needs to borrow 50,000 yuan from the credit union, and it will be almost enough to maintain the operation of the reception station.

  In 1993, due to the constraints of local financial difficulties, not only Meixi Town, but also ordinary public servants in the entire Donghua City had very low incomes.

  Meixi Town's public employment quota is fiercely competitive for rural-urban migrants, but some people still prefer to work in profitable enterprises rather than stay in the less lucrative government sector.

  The town reception station's contract reform this time, including Chen Dan and He Yuelian, cleared out four personnel at once; two people couldn't bear to give up their iron rice bowls and returned to the town, working in the town government canteen.

  Zhu Xi Hotel is the name discussed by Shen Hua and Chen Dan, Mei Xi River was formerly known as Mei Zhu; The town where the hotel is located has records dating back to the early Ming Dynasty, when it was called Zhu Xi Wa. They specially went to the city to ask an advertising company to design and produce a new signboard, which will be replaced before the end of December.

  The name change is for two reasons: one is to remove the official color, so that ordinary people can't see the four words "Town Reception Station" and naturally associate it with a place where town officials eat and drink; another reason is that as the only catering enterprise in Meixi Town that can hold its own, under the support of the town government, it is only possible to develop on the right track.

  Chen Dan and He Yuelian completed the handover in mid-July. Although the store name has not been changed, the reception banquet of the town government and the gathering activities of the town officials that cannot be avoided have also returned to normal.

  Of course, the financial management is more stringent. Except for Du Jian, He Qing and Shen Huai, who have the authority to sign and hang orders in the town, others must pay first and then reimburse with receipts. For people of different levels, the party government also imposed restrictions on dining and wine standards.

  On the steel mill side, Shen Hua naturally wouldn't cut off all normal hospitality and banquets.

  Shen Hua instructed Qian Wenhui to formulate stricter financial control standards based on the average cost of food and drink for steel plants over the past two years, and to break down the entertainment expenses quota into individual departments.

  In the past, the management of the steel plant would eat and drink at will, while ordinary workers couldn't even get a drop of soup. From now on, first, reception and banquet activities should be carried out normally, second, more than half of the department's entertainment expenses should be used for internal employee gatherings.

  There are banquets for the town government and steel mills, and the annual contract fee of 2.4 million can almost make up for it. How much profit the Zhuxi Hotel can make depends on two factors: one is the hotel's own management, and the other is the economic development of Meixi Town.