Director He found Chen Zhaodi, who was about to start working, and tried to sow discord: "Chen Zhaodi, you and Zhou Hongyu are both married to the Chang family's brothers. People are just different. Look how impressive Zhou Hongyu is, and look at you!"

She looked Chen Zhaodi up and down in her ill-fitting work clothes, clicking her tongue in disapproval.

Seeing this, Chen Zhaodi straightened her clothes.

She's not sloppy, so these clothes shouldn't smell!

Director He's behavior is really strange.

Director He got angry when he saw that Chen Zhaodi wouldn't fall for his tricks, and he clearly said that she was not as good as Zhou Hongyu, which caused an uproar!

Director He persisted: "Chen Zhaodi, I think you have a lot to learn from Zhou Hongyu. In terms of age, you are older than her. In terms of work, she is now accompanying the leaders in and out, while you are still tightening screws in the workshop!"

Chen Zhaodi did not feel that tightening screws was a job inferior to others.

However, Director He is right about one thing: she should learn from Zhou Hongyu!

Last night, Zhou Hongyu worked overtime and stayed at a hotel with her boss. She had never encountered such good treatment while tightening screws in the workshop.

After getting off work, Chen Zhaodi told Chang Hongbing her thoughts and sought his advice on how to help her improve.

Chang Hongbing shook his head: "You're not very bright. You're okay at tightening screws in the workshop, but if you want to improve, forget it. You get sleepy as soon as you start reading!"

Although they have been married for decades, their career plans are quite different.

Chang Hongbing consistently adhered to the principle of learning while working, moving forward step by step and overcoming difficulties with gritted teeth.

Chen Zhaodi just went through the motions. As long as she was willing to put in the effort to tighten screws in the workshop, she was paid well. She never thought about improving herself.

Chen Zhaodi slammed her hand on the bed in anger: "We've slept in the same bed for decades, and you still underestimate me? Just wait and see if I can concentrate on my studies!"

Chang Hongbing tossed today's newspaper over: "Here, don't take too big a step. Read this newspaper fluently this week, and I'll check it later."

It's not that we look down on people, it's just that the Chen family doesn't have that gene!

The Chen family is a disgrace to compulsory education. Chen Zhaodi's younger brother repeated a grade for several years before finally getting his primary school diploma. This was not an isolated case in the Chen family; it was a common phenomenon.

That night, Chen Zhaodi made a bold statement, but the next day when she picked up the newspaper to read it, she was completely disappointed.

Back when she took the job recruitment exam, she was someone who had only a primary school diploma.

Nowadays, when reading a newspaper, you can only read two or three out of ten sentences smoothly at most.

Chen Zhaodi: "..."

It seems she oversimplified things!

This is absolutely incomprehensible!

Chen Zhaodi instantly felt deep remorse for her eldest son, who had repeatedly failed the college entrance examination. She couldn't blame him; it was just too difficult for him to do well in his studies!

On the other side, Zhou Hongyu finished hosting the leaders from out of town.

Chairman Lin is causing her trouble again!

Chairman Lin, taking advantage of his previous success, managed to secure the job of organizing the social gathering from the factory leaders.

What's infuriating is that after getting the job, he said he was too busy and dumped it on Zhou Hongyu, the deputy director of the office, while he went off to do his own thing.

He was busy socializing, busy expanding his network, and busy drinking and chatting with young women!

Zhou Hongyu: You son of a bitch—

Although organizing social gatherings could bring in a lot of money, the machinery factory's social gatherings were notoriously disliked, creating a vicious cycle that led to each gathering being worse than the last, until finally, the number of participants was pitifully small.

Zhou Hongyu clarified the current problems that need to be solved.

That is, how to make the social gathering more lively.

Zhou Hongyu returned to her office with a frown, and Sister Sun immediately grabbed her sleeve.

Want to hear the latest gossip?

"What's up!"

"Let me tell you, although Qi Fenglian was transferred to the warehouse, Zuo Tiantian has become arrogant after getting close to Chairman Lin. She keeps chasing after Qi Fenglian and causing trouble at the warehouse all the time, like yesterday..."

After listening to Sister Sun recount the latest gossip, Zhou Hongyu drank a few sips of hot water, and her anger at Chairman Lin subsided somewhat.

What can relieve worries? Only eating melon seeds!

Zhou Hongyu and Sister Sun complained that Chairman Lin was a bad person, and in the end she had to take over the mess and be in charge of organizing the social gathering.

Sister Sun: "Our factory's social gatherings are notoriously disliked. Anyone who wants to find a good partner doesn't want to participate. How about I find you more people to increase the popularity!"

“Okay!” Zhou Hongyu nodded in agreement: “Sister Sun, thank you so much. Just let them come and have fun. I’ll make sure the social gathering is a lot of fun!”

In order to make the social gathering more lively, Zhou Hongyu went around looking for people to participate.

Sister Sun had connections throughout the factory, and she took Zhou Hongyu with her to recruit people.

Out of respect for Sister Sun, most people verbally agreed.

During this time, I also visited Chang Huaying's department. Chang Huaying heard from her second sister-in-law that the social event would be a lot of fun, so she pulled several young and pretty female colleagues in her department to agree.

Zhou Hongyu was very pleased.

The female colleagues in Chang Huaying's department are very popular, and I'm sure many male colleagues will rush to participate once the news gets out.

Finally, to add fuel to the fire, Zhou Hongyu wrote a draft of about a hundred words and submitted it to the broadcasting room, asking them to help promote the upcoming social event at the factory during the three prime time slots of work, lunch break, and after get off work.

Hearing the description of the social gathering on the radio, everyone couldn't help but start to feel interested.

"It's better for couples than for singles; it's easier for them to share rooms!"

"Female colleagues from XXX department are participating! Don't hesitate, take action now!"

...

The get-together quickly became a hot topic of conversation, and when the factory workers went back and told their families, even more people found out about it.

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