Song Yan was puzzled by Yueyue's obvious pause. "Yueyue, why do you pause when you speak?"

Yueyue buried her head in her mother's arms and said, "Mom, he doesn't like me."

He came to our house and took some candy.

"Mom, I bought a set of fine porcelain teaware. The other day, my brothers secretly took it out to play with it and broke a teacup for me..."

Song Yan: These spendthrift kids!

I ignored them all day.

My great-grandfather told my second brother to divide the candy, and my brothers gave me all the candy to please me, which made my great-grandfather unhappy.

"You say I'm the oldest, but I'm still just a little girl, and I still want all the candy..."

Song Yan could hear the disappointment in her daughter's voice, and she tenderly patted her daughter's head: "And then?"

Yueyue's voice suddenly rose, becoming firm and stubborn. "It's not like I didn't have any candy to eat, so I gave all the candy back to him."

Great-grandfather then asked my second brother to distribute the candy...

The third brother got angry and kicked all the candy away!

Great-grandfather was very angry and was about to scold his third brother. Grandpa called out his third brother's full name, Zeng Yi, and told him to stand aside!

These boys in the family don't usually call each other by their real names. Old Zeng was calling them that for Old Master Shen to hear.

Zeng Yi, he had no right to educate the descendants of his family.

Yueyue: "My great-grandfather suddenly stopped talking for some reason. Then he left!"

Later, my great-grandfather came again, this time with cookies. I didn't want his cookies. My brothers didn't want them either, and he got very angry..."

This old man, Mr. Shen, is as annoying as ever.

The next day, Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was on holiday, arrived.

"I missed you so much! I never imagined you'd stay in Zhejiang Province for so long!" Jiang Xiaoxiao gave Song Yan a hug.

"I didn't expect it to take so long. If it had taken any longer, you would have been married off!" Song Yan teased Jiang Xiaoxiao.

Jiang Xiaoxiao wasn't embarrassed at all. "I'm not getting any younger, and I think he's a pretty reliable person, so I'll give it a try!"

So far, I think it's alright!

Song Yan only met Leng Zhaojiang once, and his impression of him was neither good nor bad.

This person comes from an excellent family and probably has a bit of arrogance about him.

When talking about Leng Zhaojiang's family, Song Yan had to consider a reality.

Their family has a high threshold.

Song Yan: "Did Leng Zhaojiang take you to meet his parents?"

“No! He was going to take me there, but I thought… you should see him first!” Jiang Xiaoxiao said.

Song Yan: "I've seen him before! You've forgotten! It was that time..."

“That’s different! I didn’t know him back then.” Jiang Xiaoxiao probably wanted Leng Zhaojiang to meet her family first. Song Yan was her most important family member.

"What if I don't think he's good?" Song Yan said jokingly.

"Then I'll just end the relationship with him and break up!" Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't hesitate at all.

Song Yan shoved Jiang Xiaoxiao, "Are you crazy? How can you say something like that?"

I'm telling the truth.

You have strong opinions and a clear understanding of things. If you think he's not good, it's because you've discovered something wrong with him.

Why shouldn't I listen to you? You won't hurt me! Jiang Xiaoxiao was happy and didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said.

"I hope Leng Zhaojiang is perceptive and won't offend me."

Otherwise, I'll kidnap his wife and make him a bachelor forever!

Then came the sounds of Song Yan and Jiang Xiaoxiao playfully teasing each other; both of them were very happy.

"...The Leng family is no ordinary family. I wonder what their attitude is towards your situation." Song Yan inquired about it, and when she needed her support, she wouldn't hesitate to help.

"I'm worried about that too, and my family... is worse off than the average family. And my mother, she's completely unreasonable now, how can I expect her to change for the better?"

But he said that his mother is obsessed with him wanting him to date and get married.

His mother would agree as long as he brought a female colleague home.

I am a college graduate and a teacher.

It would be strange if his mother wasn't happy!

What Leng Zhaojiang said is probably true. But you can only believe it for a while, not forever.

When her son hadn't found a partner or a wife, the mother-in-law wished he were any woman.

Once the daughter-in-law is married and brought home, she will again be sharing her son with her mother-in-law...

It's hard to say whether a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can get along well.

That's just how reality is.

Life is full of trivialities; who knows what the future holds!

Jiang Xiaoxiao probably can't live with her mother-in-law and the others yet.

"If you get married, you can't live with your in-laws, right?" Song Yan asked.

"Of course not!"

I can't just leave Grandma and Niu Niu behind!

"I'll find a bigger place to rent then." Jiang Xiaoxiao had a faint smile on her face, clearly full of anticipation for the future.

Sigh! That's the problem.

Hopefully they can resolve this matter.

...

Song Yan felt that he was not a person who was suited to do big business.

Because my mind wasn't on that at all.

She only has some understanding of policies and general directions, so she can only offer occasional advice to businesses.

But Chang Xiaohu and others didn't think that way. They only felt at ease with Song Yan's affirmation and guidance when they wanted to do something.

After Song Yan rested for a day, Chang Xiaohu, Cheng Youfu, Pan Lanlan, and Du Yu arrived.

They wanted to tell everyone about everything that had happened at the factory recently.

Liang Hui, the former director of the state-owned food factory, has been placed under investigation.

Relevant departments have inspected the food factory's accounts. Specific details have not been released, but it is certain that Liang Hui embezzled funds.

Whether he'll get shot or not is unknown, but he's definitely not coming out.

The entire state-owned food factory is now completely paralyzed.

A new factory manager has not yet been appointed.

Nobody wants to take over this mess.

The factory is poorly managed and has many employees who are paid by connections. There are more than a dozen people who receive wages but don't actually work.

The workers stole everything they could take home.

If the machinery hadn't been so large and impossible to move, there probably wouldn't be much left.

Moreover, they are currently suffering huge losses and are heavily indebted.

Even with a new factory manager, things just wouldn't get running again.

Song Yan was puzzled: how did he know so much?

Chang Xiaohu chuckled, "The state of their factory is worse than a sieve with exposed bottom."

If we want to know something, we can just ask. And Sister Pan is keeping a close eye on things, so we can find out whatever we want to know.

Pan Lanlan: "There are already precedents of loss-making manufacturers contracting out or selling themselves to others."

Song Yan had previously said that it would be best to buy the factory, and now it seems that it's not impossible.

Pan Lanlan: "But I heard that they want to sell the factory and take the debt with them."

"They not only suffered operating losses, but also owed a lot of raw materials on credit."

I still owe a lot of money to the bank!

These debts alone are almost worth the price of this factory!

They really dared to think that selling the factory would leave them with debts.

"Is this factory going to be sold twice?" Xiao Hu said dismissively.