Miao Tianai looked at her mother who had already run in with a pitiful look on her face as if she had fallen out of favor.

"It seems that I will be out of favor for a while." After saying this, her eyes lit up again, as if she had been injected with chicken blood.

Seeing her rapidly changing expression, Lin Qingqing asked with amusement, "Are you happy or sad?"

"You don't understand. I'm just happy. If my mom doesn't care about me anymore, I can live freely again."

Seeing that she looked like she hadn't grown up yet, Lin Qingqing smiled helplessly.

"By the way, how is our factory doing? Is there anything I can help you with?" She quickly got down to business.

"It's almost done. Now that I've found a factory, the only thing is that the equipment is a bit difficult to get. I'm stuck on this now." When talking about this, Miao Tianai suddenly felt that his head was a bit overwhelming again.

Seeing that she was constantly pulling at her hair, Lin Qingqing was really worried that she would pull out all her hair, so she quickly grabbed her hand.

"Stop scratching! If you keep scratching, you'll tear out all the hair on your head."

Miao Tianai lowered her head with a look of guilt, "I'm sorry, Sister Qingqing, you entrusted me with such an important task, and I haven't completed it yet. I'm sorry."

"What are you talking about? You've been doing this all by yourself. You've accomplished this so far, which is really impressive. You haven't let me down."

The two were silent for a while, and then Lin Qingqing asked, "Where is the problem with this equipment now?"

When talking about this, Miao Tianai suddenly became a little angry. "There is only one company that can help us get this equipment, but the boss of that company is an overseas Chinese and doesn't come here very often. But I heard that he came back recently, and I have been trying to contact him, but he is so arrogant. I asked someone to arrange with him several times, but he just refused to agree to meet with me. It makes me so angry."

This was the first time she had been rejected so badly. Whenever she thought about it, she felt so angry that her chest ached.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry. Let's solve this problem together. I don't have to go to school these two days, so let's go meet that overseas Chinese together."

As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. Although they are not three, they are not two either.

After half a day of asking around, the two finally found out that the overseas Chinese lived in a courtyard house in Beijing.

"No wonder we can't make an appointment with him. He's hiding here." Standing at the gate of the courtyard, Miao Tianai was still gritting his teeth.

"When we meet them later, we should control our temper. After all, we are looking for help, so we should not offend them." Before knocking on the door, Lin Qingqing reminded her again and again.

Miao Tianai took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, I won't do anything rash. I just know which is more important and which is less important."

Seeing that she was in a better mood after receiving it, Lin Qingqing patted her shoulder and then went to knock on the door.

A middle-aged woman opened the door.

"Who are you?"

"Hello, auntie. I'm here to look for Comrade Qiao. I wonder if he is at home?" Lin Qingqing asked with a polite smile.

The middle-aged woman looked at the two of them and then replied, "She's not home, you can go."

Before Lin Qingqing could ask, the door had already been closed.

Seeing this, Miao Tianai was so angry that she wanted to rush forward and bang the door.

"What are you doing?" Lin Qingqing quickly stopped her.

"Of course we went to knock on the door. It was obvious that the old woman was trying to trick us."

Lin Qingqing pulled her back with force. "Even if they lied to us, that's their reason. This is their territory. What can we do to them?"

"What should we do? Are we coming here for nothing today?"

"Of course not. Let's just sit back and wait." Lin Qingqing curled her lips at her and pulled her to a shady corner not far away and squatted down.

At ten o'clock in the direction of the courtyard, there was a small alley, and at this moment, the two of them were hiding there.

Seeing that the sun above their heads was getting more and more scorching, their foreheads were covered with sweat, but the person they wanted to see did not show up.

"Qingqing, do we really have to wait here forever? I'm about to get sunburned. How about we come back here another day and wait for the opportunity? Okay?"

At this time, the sweat on Lin Qingqing's forehead fell to the ground like water dripping from a faucet.

"Be patient for a while, wait a little longer. If he really doesn't show up, we'll go back."

Less than a minute after she finished saying this, the door in front of her, which had been closed, suddenly opened.

A man wearing a black fisherman's hat walked out of the courtyard.

"Qingqing, you guessed it right. He is really here." Seeing that someone really came out, Miao Tianai shouted in admiration.

Lin Qingqing immediately stood up and ran over, stopping the figure who was about to leave.

"Excuse me, is this Comrade Qiao Yan?"

The figure that just walked out stopped, and after a while, a hand that was a little too white gently took off the fisherman's hat on his head, revealing the face hidden under the hat.

It's a woman.

"You..." Lin Qingqing was surprised to see it was a woman.

The name Qiao Yan made her think that the person with this name was a man. Now that she saw his true face, she realized that she seemed to have been wrong all along.

"I'm Qiao Yan. If you're here to talk to me about business, I'm sorry, I don't have time. You'd better stop wasting your breath. I'm not back to talk about business this time. I'm back to handle personal matters." As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately covered her mouth and started coughing violently.

"How can you be like this? We've been waiting for you here for a long time, and you refused without even listening to us. This is too inhumane." Miao Tianai shouted loudly with suppressed anger on her face.

Qiao Yan looked at the two of them and sneered, "I didn't ask you to wait for me here. You waiting for me here is your own choice. It has nothing to do with me."

After saying this, she walked past them and left without looking back.

Seeing this, Miao Tianai was so angry that she wanted to rush forward and continue arguing with the other person.

She had just taken two steps with her right foot when Lin Qingqing stopped her.

"Qingqing, why are you stopping me? I want to go up and argue with her. Don't think that just because she is an overseas Chinese, we have to accommodate her. We are all Chinese and we are all equal." Miao Tianai shouted angrily.

Lin Qingqing frowned slightly as she watched the figure disappearing. "Don't be angry. She's seriously ill. If you make her sicker, I'll see how you'll end up!"

Miao Tianai, who was furious, immediately calmed down after hearing her words, "Are you serious? She is really seriously ill, don't scare me."