Several excellent workers at Anbao Textile Factory and Underwear Factory resigned without cause, only to be found working in other private garment factories.

After Zhao Huanhuan paid off her loan at the end of the year, she was unable to obtain another loan in the spring.

Someone deliberately blocked me!

Even two of the people who had followed Zhao Huanhuan in the office betrayed her because others offered higher prices, selling a lot of private information about her factory.

Adding to the stress, Zhao Huanhuan fell ill after her father was hit by a car driven by the son of a high-ranking official while riding his bicycle to buy groceries in the autumn of 1989. He was then falsely accused and extorted.

Huanhuan developed insomnia, couldn't sleep, was anxious, and sometimes had heart palpitations, which terrified Lin Yuan.

Zhao Huanhuan's condition, if described today, would definitely be considered latent depression, but she wasn't quite at the level of depression; she was just experiencing anxiety due to excessive psychological pressure.

What angered Zhao Huanhuan the most was that it was fine for others to compete with her or steal her business, but it was wrong for them to target the elderly in her family. That was too insidious.

Lin Yuan, who originally intended to retire from the military and go home to help his wife with her business, gave up his early retirement after encountering his father's situation and Huanhuan's illness. He began to thoroughly investigate the things targeting Huanhuan from above, and at the same time, he spent more time with Zhao Huanhuan and helped her recover.

He knew that if the loan couldn't be issued, it must be because someone higher up was pulling strings and was deliberately blocking Huanhuan.

Originally, the new factory had just opened, and all the funds were used to pay off the 200,000 yuan loan before the new year. After the new year, another 100,000 yuan would definitely be needed for working capital, and at least the workers' wages could not be delayed for even a day.

This loan was designed to force Anbao into bankruptcy. It was Huanhuan's hard work, and he couldn't resist taking action.

Originally, it was just a business matter, and he didn't want to use his connections.

The investigation uncovered several major corrupt officials, alarming the authorities in Kyoto, who sent a task force to handle the matter.

The working group arrived, and those officials with problems no longer dared to obstruct Zhao Huanhuan's loan.

After all, Zhao Huanhuan's factory was quite well-known in the area, so these people were scared and quickly released the money.

Supporting the development of private and privately-owned enterprises and providing loan support is a national slogan, and it's not a joke.

The problem is even bigger when it's discovered that they're blocking legitimate business loans.

Zhao Huanhuan breathed a sigh of relief after her loan was approved, the money arrived, and the workers' wages were paid on time.

By the summer of 1990, the ice age was completely over, the previous problems were resolved one by one, Zhao Huanhuan's health improved, and she became even busier.

Having survived this ordeal, Zhao Huanhuan has become more mature and composed.

In September 1990, Anbao Textile Factory celebrated its fifth anniversary.

At the fifth anniversary celebration, Zhao Huanhuan gave a speech, thanking all the employees who have been with her all the way.

Thank you for not being tempted by external influences and for choosing to believe in yourselves.

She promised to provide retirement care for the first batch of long-serving employees who had worked diligently at the company since the beginning of this month and had never resigned and returned before retirement.

Zhao Huanhuan also wants to establish a nursing home for her retired employees, but she won't say it until she can actually do it, lest it become just empty talk.

It's not too late to tell her when she starts planning.

Hearing that her company would provide them with a pension after retirement, the long-time employees who had followed her for so long were overjoyed. In fact, they had their concerns when they joined the private factory, but now they were relieved.

The new employees were also envious, thinking that if they worked hard, they might be able to have the same treatment in the future.

Zhao Huanhuan was also very grateful to Hu Zhan and Wang Ling for their perseverance and dedication during the year or so that the factory was able to maintain normal production despite the difficulties they faced.

In the future, Anbao Textile Factory will give the couple 8% of the shares each, as a way of thanking them for their contributions to the factory.

The couple never expected that Zhao Huanhuan would give them shares, which meant that the better the factory did in the future, the more money they would make.

Without investing a single penny, the couple received 16% of the shares, making them happy and excited.

Hu Keke was also happy. Zhao Huanhuan had given her 20% of the shares in Anbao Underwear Factory when she joined the factory.

She didn't invest a single penny; she contributed her expertise as an equity investor. As the deputy factory director, she managed the factory and oversaw production, while Zhao Huanhuan was in charge of external sales and investment, guiding the factory's overall development.

Hu Keke accepted this cooperation arrangement and was very happy that Huanhuan trusted her. She received a salary regularly and stock dividends at the end of the year, something she never dared to dream of in her previous factory job.

The two women worked together very well. Although the new factory encountered a freeze shortly after it opened, their sales in department stores in other provinces were getting better and better, so the factory didn't lose money.

Today, Anbao Textile Factory has a stable customer base for its yarn. Many private factories come to purchase its yarn, not for any other reason than that it offers a wide variety of colors, high quality, and colorfastness.

The fabric they weave is not for sale, but only for their own factory. As a result, her elastic underwear fabric is still unique to her Anbao brand, and she can still hold onto this market for a while.

But Zhao Huanhuan knew that soon, others would follow suit, and she would need to research new fabrics and develop other new products.

Time is the best proof. More than a year later, people learned that Zhao Huanhuan had been framed behind her back after she opened her own factory and stopped cooperating with the Second Garment Factory.

At the time, because of their stable performance, most people, apart from some people in the industry and those involved, did not know that Anbao had gone through such a difficult time.

After this incident, the factory managers of those private factories were summoned for a talk by their superiors. Fortunately, they were not imprisoned; they were only warned and given a lecture.

The son of the man who hit the person with the big head was also sentenced.

Few people know that these things were all things Lin Yuan negotiated with his superiors to protect his wife.

The message above is simple: they don't want him to retire early and leave the military.

Lin Yuan agreed.

However, it was after this incident that Lin Yuan was transferred to the Kyoto Military Intelligence Bureau.

Now An'an is also studying at university in Kyoto, and the father and son are together and can see each other often. The couple is living apart again, and Zhao Huanhuan is here to take care of the four elderly people.

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In the winter of 1990, Lin Yuan was transferred to Kyoto.

In the spring of 1991, Aunt Chu followed her son's advice and sold the small shop, and she and Mr. Lin decided to enjoy a leisurely retirement at home.

But the two of them were restless by nature, so they often went to Zhao Huanhuan's two factories to help out with whatever they could.