Li Xiangdong and his three companions took more than a dozen cans of food to Dongfang City. The journey of four hundred miles was made on the same shaky bus that kept stopping and starting.

Li Xiangdong's face was sallow, and he didn't say a word the whole way, for fear that he would vomit if he opened his mouth.

I forgot to take my motion sickness medicine!

Unfortunately, one of the passengers on this bus was the one Li Xiangdong had helped to retrieve the money from before. Upon seeing Li Xiangdong, the passenger warmly stepped forward to express his gratitude.

Seeing Li Xiangdong's condition, I knew he was carsick, so I quickly took out a small bottle of motion sickness medicine from my bag and gave it to him.

After taking a motion sickness pill, Li Xiangdong finally had the strength to speak.

Only then did Li Jin realize that Li Xiangdong had caught a thief before. While saying it was all in the best interest of him, he privately gave Li Xiangdong a good talking-to: "Do you know that these habitual thieves have someone to help them? And you still dared to jump out of the car and chase after them! What if that thief had a knife and stabbed you?"

Li Xiangdong nodded in agreement, commenting on Li Jin, "He's two-faced!"

Li Jin was so angry that if they weren't out in the dark, he would have definitely given him a beating.

Although Li Xiangdong said this to Li Jin, he knew in his heart that his father was concerned about him. Although his father was not good to his sisters in his previous life, he was very good to him and his two brothers.

His father favored sons over daughters and had all sorts of problems, but his father was genuinely good to him. This is why he didn't urge his parents to divorce and start their own family after his rebirth.

As a famous crosstalk master once said, no matter how bad a person is to others, as long as they are good to you, you have to acknowledge that kindness!

He hoped his father could change, instead of condemning him outright.

After a bumpy six or seven-hour journey, we finally arrived at Dongfang City Bus Station!

The group first marveled at the prosperity of Dongfang City, and then followed Li Xiangdong to the hotel where he had stayed last time and booked a room.

At the insistence of Li Jin and his companions, they booked a regular room with a large heated brick bed.

The group washed their faces and changed into clean clothes before urging Li Xiangdong to hurry up and find the glass manufacturer. They needed to present themselves properly to avoid being looked down upon when negotiating business with a state-owned factory.

Since his rebirth, Li Xiangdong's memory has become exceptionally good. He reviewed the route he had taken back then in his mind and effortlessly led everyone to the Dongfang City State-owned Glass Products Factory.

When they arrived, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. Workers were gradually coming out of the factory on bicycles.

Looking at their radiant faces, Liu Changhai said enviously, "That's why people say workers are number one and farmers are number two. Look at their lives! The sun is still high in the sky, and they don't have to work."

"Do they really go to the movies or stroll in the park right after work?"

The others also looked on with envy.

Only Li Xiangdong knew the trajectory of future social development: "If we work hard, we won't earn less than the workers."

A few of us coughed, straightened our backs, and said, "If we can build up this cannery, we'll be workers too!"

Seeing the group of people walking inside with their heads covered, the gatekeeper leaned out of the window and shouted, "Hey, you guys, what are you doing? Stop!"

Wang Zhenbo and others rarely left the village, but as soon as they heard someone calling out, they immediately stopped in their tracks.

Li Xiangdong was much more familiar with this process. Now, if he wanted to do business, the first step was to please the gatekeeper. And there wasn't a single gatekeeper who couldn't be won over with a cigarette; if there was, then two would do.

Li Jin, Wang Zhenbo, and Liu Changhai watched as Li Xiangdong casually walked up to the gatekeeper, took out a pack of filtered cigarettes from his pocket, pulled out two, put them behind the gatekeeper's ear, and then lit one for him.

I don't know what the two of them said, but the gatekeeper pointed to the southeast direction inside with a big smile.

Li Xiangdong ran back and said to the three of them, "Let's go, the manager's office is in that two-story red building in the southeast corner."

Liu Changhai said, "Xiang Dong, what did you say to the gatekeeper?"

The other two people also looked at Li Xiangdong, they also wanted to know.

"Just say it directly, that we're here to buy glass jars. Oh, and before you say it, you should usually offer the old man a cigarette. In the future, when you come out to do business on your own, you should also get along well with the security guard."

Li Xiangdong said as he walked inside.

"That's what they call 'It's easier to see the King of Hell than to deal with his underlings'!" Li Jin said with a laugh.

Li Jin also secretly wondered if, when he was the factory director a few years ago, people had to offer tributes to the gatekeeper before meeting him!

The group chatted and laughed, and soon arrived at the manager's office.

Li Jin knocked on the door a few times, and after a while, a voice said to come in.

Li Xiangdong deliberately lagged behind by two steps, letting Li Jin take the lead.

This is a fairly spacious room. Apart from the desks and chairs placed against the south wall, the rest of the room is filled with all kinds of glass products, including glass tubes that are over a meter tall and have been carved, as well as various glass bottles, glass bowls, glass plates and glass crafts.

Li Jin had also been a winery manager. Although he had worked the land for several years, he still remembered the procedures he needed to know.

"Hello, manager! I am Li Jin, the captain of the Lijiapo Brigade, and I also serve as the factory manager of the Lijiapo Cannery."

Li Jin took a few steps ahead and extended his hand to the manager.

The manager was about to leave work, but upon seeing the visitor, he quickly extended his hand to shake it, saying, "Hello!"

He then invited a few more people to sit down, asking, "May I ask what brings you all here?"

"Manager, we need a batch of canning jars with a capacity of about one pound each. Do you have any here?"

Li Jin got straight to the point.

"What shape do you want? What pattern do you need? What kind of lid do you need?" The manager was very professional.

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