In the conference room, Wu Qiaoqiao sat at the head of the table, looking at the people she had carefully selected over the past two years. Among them were He Jianfeng, the factory manager who was in charge of managing the factory; Gui Rongrong, the accountant; Hu Youlin, the head of the food research and development department; Li Tiening, the head of the security department; and Yang Tian, ​​the head of the transportation department.

I know that although her factory is not big, with only about a hundred workers, it is small but complete, and has everything it needs.

That way, if any ideas suddenly come to mind, she won't be flustered. For example, at the beginning of this year, she had already sent Li Tiening, the head of the security department, to run back and forth with his team to arrange what she needed in Beijing. Now, the meeting is just to divide up the follow-up matters.

"I called everyone here for a meeting today to discuss a few things. As you all know, I started preparing to go with the military in the first half of this year. Now they've sent word that we can go, so let's arrange the follow-up matters first."

"First of all, Sister Gui, where is the construction of our new factory currently located? Is the funding sufficient?"

When accountant Gui Rongrong heard Wu Qiaoqiao's question, she opened her notebook and answered Wu Qiaoqiao's question by looking at what she had written.

"Boss, when we were building the factory, according to your plan, we prioritized building the factory buildings, office buildings, and canteen. Those are all finished and just need to air out a bit before we can move in. As for the employee dormitories, we've only just started. We have plenty of funds; our revenue in the first half of this year is almost enough to cover our expenses over there."

Upon hearing this, Wu Qiaoqiao nodded and looked at Li Tiening.

Since it had already been agreed that Li Tiening would go to Beijing with Wu Qiaoqiao, his successor needed to be found. Wu Qiaoqiao asked Li Tieting if a successor had been found yet. Li Tieting said that he had, but the person was currently overseeing things at the new factory. Wu Qiaoqiao said it didn't matter, and that he should just keep an eye on things.

Wu Qiaoqiao held a meeting at the company until after lunch. After a short break, the meeting lasted for another two hours. By 4 p.m., everything was almost settled. During this time, Wu Qiaoqiao instructed someone to check with the train station to see if there were enough sleeper tickets available for the next few days. Not only were seven members of her family going, but Li Tiening and his four subordinates were also going to Beijing. Wu Qiaoqiao was not stingy in this regard, so she had someone buy tickets for two adjacent sleeper carriages, a total of 12 beds.

Because they needed it urgently, they didn't know when there would be enough, so they went to the train station in advance to find out.

After the meeting ended in the afternoon, the person who inquired at the train station also told Wu Qiaoqiao that there would be plenty of tickets available in two days, and they had already been booked so she could just leave. Wu Qiaoqiao nodded to indicate that she understood.

As Wu Qiaoqiao was preparing to leave, Yang Tian asked if she wanted a ride and if he would pick her up in two days. Wu Qiaoqiao waved her hand, saying no, she could drive. So she drove a car back from the factory, which was filled with several boxes containing food from the factory, such as drinks, instant noodles, and various snacks like potato chips. Although Wu Qiaoqiao didn't pay for these, she kept track of the expenses.

When no one noticed her halfway down the road, Wu Qiaoqiao stopped the car and took two boxes from the back into her space. Since the factory started, Wu Qiaoqiao had been doing this most of the time. Her space now had quite a lot of food, including what the factory produced, as well as rice, flour, and cooking oil that she had bought over the past two years.

After packing everything away, Wu Qiaoqiao started the car again and drove towards the town. Once there, she drove directly to Liu Mingxin's shop. By then, their shop was almost half-closed, because Liu Mingxin was in the business of breakfast and lunch, but she didn't cook dinner. After all, the evenings weren't as lively as in later years, and cooking dinner wouldn't make much money.

When they arrived at Liu Mingmo's shop, they went through the half-closed roller shutter door. They saw them preparing things for tomorrow, and when they saw Qiaoqiao come in, they knew she had come to call Liu Xiangdong and Liu Qian back.

Liu Mingxin also learned from Wu Qiaoqiao that they were preparing to leave for Beijing in two days, and after finishing some things there, they planned to go to her brother's place. He was happy for her brother. After all, since Wu Qiaoqiao and her brother got married, they had been separated for long periods of time, and their two nephews were no longer close to their father.

Wu Qiaoqiao picked up Liu Qian, while Liu Xiangdong was told to ride the tricycle back, since it was meant to be ridden. So Liu Xiangdong could only ride the tricycle and watch his aunt drive Liu Qian further and further away.

After arriving home, Wu Qiaoqiao dropped Liu Qian off at her doorstep, then took a box full of snacks from the car and handed it to Liu Qian. She then drove back to Liu Qian's house. Because Wu Qiaoqiao had been driving back frequently over the past two years, her house gate had been properly repaired, making it large enough to park a car in the yard.

So Wu Qiaoqiao drove directly into Zhao Xiuxiang's yard. When she arrived, she saw Zhao Xiuxiang grinding something at the small stone mill. After parking, Wu Qiaoqiao got out of the car, and the five children playing inside heard the noise and ran out, obediently standing at the door waiting for her to park. This was a rule Wu Qiaoqiao had made with them when she first started driving home: if they didn't follow it, they wouldn't get any of the food she brought back. That's why the children stood there patiently waiting.

Seeing Wu Qiaoqiao come down, the five people surrounded her. They knew that Wu Qiaoqiao always brought food back from the county town. When Wu Qiaoqiao saw the five people like this, especially the three younger ones with ink spots on their faces and hands, she knew they had been practicing writing calligraphy inside. She just smiled and took the remaining two boxes off the car.

Liu Xiangjun and Liu Xiangqin, the two older siblings, took the two boxes from Wu Qiaoqiao and led their three younger siblings to the main room to distribute the items. When Zhao Xiuxiang saw that Wu Qiaoqiao had returned with more things, she quickly called out to the two older siblings, telling them to eat less because dinner was about to be prepared. The two older siblings agreed and then led the three younger siblings into the house.