Ji Wanmei went over and turned on the television.

The television in my home was black and white. There were no color televisions in 1988. Families that could afford a television were all middle-class families.

The TV programs were pitifully few; it was mostly news at certain times, followed by daily dramas after the news.

Ji Wanmei still remembers that back then, her favorite shows to watch were the 1988 TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" produced in Hong Kong, and the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber" from the same year.

But back then, the one that truly swept the nation was "Journey to the West".

These days, very few families own a television. When these TV series are airing, the homes of those who do usually get crowded with relatives and friends.

Ji Wanmei turned on the TV and saw that "Journey to the West" was on again. She didn't change the channel, since there wasn't anything else worth watching anyway.

Ji Wanmei is someone who has been reborn once. In her previous life, she lived until 2008, witnessing the Beijing Olympics and the twenty years of rapid economic development in the country.

Finally, it wasn't until she was driving to Pingquan County Prison that she was transported back to 1988 due to a car accident.

Therefore, Ji Wanmei knew which industries would take off due to national policies in the next twenty years, which industries would be gradually eliminated, which technologies would develop rapidly, and which cities would become key development targets.

She also knew that in the next twenty years, the entertainment and film industry would experience an explosive growth.

Now, even the technologically advanced works like "Journey to the West" and "Dream of the Red Chamber," and even "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," will be remade one after another in the next ten or twenty years.

Times are progressing, society is changing, and the economy is taking off.

Ji Wanmei sometimes feels excited when she thinks about it.

She returned to 1988 with knowledge and ideas that were twenty years ahead of people in this era. It was as if Heaven saw that her fate in her previous life was too bumpy and gave her a chance to start over!

Hearing the television, Ji Xingguo put down his newspaper and looked up.

He added, "The TV station is broadcasting Journey to the West again. They've been showing it for dozens of episodes now, haven't they?"

Ji Wanmei smiled and said, "Yes, it's quite long. The four of them had to go through eighty-one tribulations on their journey to the West to obtain the scriptures. If it were filmed, it would have to be at least eighty episodes."

Ji Xingguo continued flipping through his newspaper: "Isn't it all about fighting monsters?"

“That’s different.” Ji Wanmei thought of a famous writer’s commentary on Journey to the West that she had read before, and said to Ji Xingguo, “Tang Sanzang and his disciples would encounter different monsters each time, and those monsters would have different origins and backgrounds each time.”

"Just like our factory, it seems like different things happen every day, but when you look at all these things together, you have to look at the backgrounds of the people behind them."

Ji Wanmei wanted to subtly point out that the person behind Zuo Quangui and his son was Yang Changhua.

"With no powerful background or influential connections, would he dare to act arrogantly in front of the Monkey King? If he dares, it must be because he has a powerful deity backing him up, either in the heavens or elsewhere."

Ji Xingguo was taken aback by his daughter's sudden remark.

He carefully considered his daughter's words and found them quite insightful. Although they seemed like a fallacy at first glance, upon closer examination, he discovered that the hidden truth was indeed very real.

In fact, Ji Xingguo had already called a friend at the hospital this afternoon to find out about Zuo Quangui's injuries.

My old friend is the chief surgeon at the hospital, so naturally I wouldn't hide it from him.

He said that Zuo Quangui's injury would have healed by now if he had stayed in the hospital for a few more days, but he insisted on having the doctor perform surgery on him.

The head of surgery had never heard of such an unreasonable request before!

Other patients come to the hospital fearing they'll be prescribed too much medication or hospitalized too long. But this Zuo Quangui, who clearly had no injuries, voluntarily requested surgery. He's truly an oddball.

An old friend jokingly teased Ji Xingguo over the phone, and Ji Xingguo immediately understood.

It turns out that Zuo Quangui wasn't injured at all. Lei Tingjun and the others were right. It was probably just a simple verbal argument that escalated into a punch in the heat of the moment.

However, under the influence of Deputy Director Zuo and Deputy Factory Director Yang, this incident was portrayed as an extremely egregious social brawl.

Why are they so eager to make a big fuss?

Ji Xingguo fell into deep thought.