"You're here! I've been looking for you. Zheng Xuyang, what's wrong?" The first sentence was addressed to Chen Liang and Zheng Xuyang, while the second sentence was addressed to Zheng Xuyang. However, seeing him rubbing his head, she assumed he was feeling unwell.

"I'm fine. What do you need us for?" They had heard that he had led a team out for some kind of field training. Now that they saw him, he must have just returned. If he came to see them as soon as he got back, what else could it be but something important?

"Oh, it's good that you're alright. Ruan Ruan asked me to ask if you're free tomorrow. If you're free, come with us to the charity. Uncle Kun and the others are here; let me introduce you." Of course, he wouldn't say that she wanted him to go so she could be a hands-off manager. However, there was a hint of pity in her eyes as she looked at him.

"Tomorrow? I'm free tomorrow, we can go together, what's wrong?" He didn't understand what Huo Haocheng meant by looking at him like that. Why was he looking at him so pitifully for no reason? It was so cheesy.

"It's nothing, as long as you're alright. We'll pick you up at the factory at 9 a.m. tomorrow. You guys go ahead with your work, I'll head back now." Having finished asking about the matter, and knowing they were quite busy, I didn't want to bother them any longer, so I turned to leave.

"Hey, wait a minute, Huo Haocheng, we'll go back with you." Seeing that he was about to leave, Chen Liang immediately grabbed him.

"Huh? Why are you coming back with me?" The thought of his wife lying in the rocking chair made him not want them to see her at all.

"What kind of question is that? Of course we went to see your wife because we had something to discuss with her. Otherwise, why would we go to see you? Honestly." Faced with Huo Haocheng's accusatory tone, Chen Liang wasn't going to let him get away with it and retorted directly.

Huo Haocheng realized that his tone had been a bit harsh, and he didn't care whether Chen Liang retorted or not. He lowered his tone and asked, "I'm asking, what do you want with my wife? What's wrong? Tell me and see if I can help you solve it, so you don't have to make an extra trip."

Hearing this, Chen Liang felt a little better. After thinking about it, he felt that Huo Haocheng's words made sense. Perhaps his sister-in-law had really talked to him about this when she was at home. So he spread out the blueprints in front of him and pointed to the supermarket planning map, asking, "Do you know how to build the interior of this supermarket? Sister-in-law, you haven't drawn anything on this. We've built the exterior of the supermarket, but we don't know how to build the interior."

Huo Haocheng looked at the place he was pointing to, and then seriously recalled what Ruan Ruan had described to him about the supermarket. "It's like this. There's nothing inside. This is a large warehouse used to store things, and this is a duty room and a rest room used for employees to take turns resting. That's all."

He looked at the drawing and thought it was very detailed, so he didn't understand what else they had to ask.

Listening to Huo Haocheng's words was no different from saying nothing at all. Did they not understand the markings on the blueprints?

"We're asking, is this all there is to this supermarket? Look at the supply and marketing cooperatives, many of them have counters and sections, right? Should we build those in here as well, or what?"

Chen Liang now deeply regrets believing Huo Haocheng's lies. If they had left in the first place, they might already be at the family compound by now.

"Oh, forget it, I must have been out of my mind to believe your nonsense. Come on, lead the way, let's go back to your house." With that, she put away the blueprints in her hand and pushed Huo Haocheng to walk out.

"Hey, don't push it away yet. What I'm telling you is right. That supermarket is like this. Ruan Ruan explained the internal structure. She'll find a craftsman to make shelves for all the goods according to the dimensions. These shelves will be used to separate the space, so you don't need to do anything. This is fine."

While pushing and shoving Chen Liang, Huo Haocheng earnestly explained the design of the back of the supermarket to him.

Hearing his words, Chen Liang stopped what he was doing and looked at him questioningly, "Really?"

"Really, would I need to lie to you?" Huo Haocheng was speechless when he saw that his wife still didn't believe him. Now he finally understood why his wife often had that expression.

Using shelves to divide the space was something he had never heard of before. But looking at Huo Haocheng, he figured he couldn't have come up with such an idea himself, so it must have been his wife's. Once he understood that, he felt relieved.

“Alright, since your sister-in-law has plans for the future, we’ll get back to work. You… you can go back by yourself, we won’t see you off.” After understanding Ruan Ruan’s plans for the supermarket, the two of them stopped worrying about the question. However, when Chen Liang was speaking, he looked at the handprint left on Huo Haocheng’s clothes, then looked at his own hands, and only now did he remember that when Zheng Xuyang came to find him, he was helping to move cement, and then he was talking to Zheng Xuyang. When the two of them came out and saw Huo Haocheng, they were pushing and shoving each other. Throughout the whole process, he didn’t have time to wash his hands.

"Heh, heh, this, this, the cement on your clothes, pat it off, it should be..." As she spoke, she reached out to pat Huo Haocheng's clothes again, but he nimbly dodged her.

"How childish! I've already taken the pictures, so what, are you going to take more pictures of me?" As he spoke, Huo Haocheng took several steps back, brushing off the cement dust as he did so.

No matter how he patted it, he couldn't get the clothes clean. After patting it a few times and seeing that it didn't come off, he gave up. Oh well, he'll just go back and continue washing clothes tonight. He realized that he hadn't even washed the clothes from last night yet. Luckily, his wife had prepared a lot of clothes for him. Otherwise, like before, he would only have two sets of military uniforms and no clothes to change into.

"I don't know if I'm childish or not, but you are pretty childish." He was quite embarrassed and awkward just now, but hearing him say that, he knew that he didn't mind, and his mood relaxed. After retorting, he went to do his own thing, leaving Huo Haocheng and Zheng Xuyang behind.

The two of them watched him leave, pretty nonchalant, huh?!

"Alright, I'll head back now. Remember we'll pick you up tomorrow morning, but don't come too early. We'll have breakfast before we come out." He left Zheng Xuyang with these words and turned his back on him.

As for why he shouldn't come too early, it's mainly because he's worried that his wife might oversleep, and if he tries to keep an eye on her, they'll be late. If they don't arrive at the agreed time, others will have to wait. In Ruan Ruan's words, "If you don't like waiting for others, why should others wait for you?" So, although he said he would pick him up at 9 o'clock, it's not certain that he'll arrive at 9 o'clock. The time can't be so strictly adhered to.

Standing in the middle, looking at the backs of the two people on either side, Zheng Xuyang had no idea why he was there. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was getting late, so he decided to go back to the factory first.

After figuring it out, he followed Huo Haocheng into the factory.