On Monday, Li Ye received a call from his former partner, Lu Zhizhang.
"Hello, Li Ye. Did you recently give the people in the Southwest some kind of reassurance pill? Those old colleagues who used to hound me every day, begging to come back, suddenly all said they were going to wait and see."
"Wait and see?"
The phrase sounded familiar to Li Ye, and he recalled what he had said to Yue Lingshan a couple of days ago. Could it be that old gossip Yue Lingshan, with her megaphone mouth, had passed his "instructions" on to those old colleagues aiding the Southwest?
Li Ye thought it over and said with a smile, "I only spoke with Yue Lingshan on the phone a few days ago. She was crying her eyes out, so I casually told her to wait and see. I never thought it would have any effect. What, have they been driving you crazy lately too?"
"Tell me about it!"
Lu Zhizhang said with some schadenfreude, "When Dong Shan was selecting people to go to the Southwest, I made it crystal clear that everyone had to bear the consequences of their own choices. Wasn't that clear enough?
Yet some people still lost their heads. Didn't they stop to think? In the entire industry, only we have the best profits. How could Southwest Heavy Truck Company, an old enterprise that had achieved nothing for decades, possibly outdo us?"
Li Ye smiled. "Everyone wants to make progress! Maybe they just don't care about money? Heh-heh~"
They did not know how blessed they were. Those who could follow Dong Shan to Southwest Heavy Truck Company either felt that their talents had gone unrecognized at their original workplace, or they were obsessed with official rank. They had had enough of earning three