After buying the house, the family's savings were depleted again. A complete renovation of the house would be too expensive, and with money stretched thin, the major renovation plan had to be put on hold for the time being. They tidied up the main room first, and Fang Qiao planned to wait until after the New Year when they had more money to spare before undertaking a major renovation.

The lease on the shop in front still had more than half a year left. Since the sale does not break the lease, Fang Qiao simply informed them in advance that the property had changed hands, so that they could find another storefront before the lease expired, to avoid being caught off guard at the last minute.

The old professor did not change his original nanny, Fang Qiao, and continued to use her at the original salary.

The nanny, Sister Liang, is in her forties. She lives in the suburbs of Beijing and her husband died a few years ago. She works very hard to support her children's schooling.

The elderly professor and his wife were getting on in years and their energy was waning, so she took care of the fruit trees and vegetable garden in their yard. She was very skilled at growing vegetables; if she couldn't finish all the eggplants, cucumbers, peppers, and green beans she grew, she would take them to the market to sell and exchange them for rice, flour, and cooking oil. The professor and his wife spoke highly of her, saying that since they hired her as their housekeeper, they rarely spent money on these things. Although these vegetables and fruits may not seem valuable, they could be exchanged for dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of rice, flour, and cooking oil, resulting in significant savings over the course of a year.

Fang Qiao only decided to keep Sister Liang as her nanny after hearing the old professor and his wife speak highly of her.

At the end of the year, Fang Qiao received a bonus of over 50,000 yuan from the garment factory, and the factory's business improved further that year.

The spring breeze of reform and opening up blew quickly and fiercely. In just two years, the market expanded several times over. People had more spare money and were no longer stingy with their spending, making business easier than ever before. Formula's clothes were of good quality and affordable; anything from their store sold out easily in the market.

Fang Qiao saw a business opportunity and hired several salespeople to expand her market in other places. The results were excellent; she opened up sales channels in neighboring Tianjin and the surrounding Hebei province, bringing her over 20,000 yuan in profit from those two places alone. Seeing the potential for profit, Fang Qiao planned to hire more salespeople after the New Year to sell the Formula One clothing to even more distant areas.

After the New Year, Fang Qiao had some spare money and free time, so she hired a construction team to renovate the new house inside and out. She replaced the roof with new tiles, removed the old paint and repainted the walls, laid floor tiles, installed new doors and windows, and bought new furniture.

Only a small vegetable garden was kept in the yard, and a small playground was set up with rocking chairs, swings, and a ping-pong table.

An'an became obsessed with table tennis at school and dreamed of becoming an athlete and competing in the Olympics one day. Her daughter wanted to build a table tennis table at home, and as a doting father, Cheng Baidong helped her realize her wish without hesitation.

Chuan Chuan and Yue Yue's wish to have a basketball court was ruthlessly suppressed. The reason was readily available: a basketball court requires too much space, and their yard isn't big enough.

As soon as summer vacation arrived, the whole family moved from Heshan to their new home.

Cheng Baidong and Fang Qiao, a married couple, lived in the main hall, which had three rooms: the middle one was the living room, the room on the left was Cheng Baidong's study, and the room on the right was the bedroom.

There are three rooms in the east wing. One room is for Tian Tian, ​​one room is for An An, and the other room is reserved for Xiao Jing.

There are three rooms in the west wing. Chuan Chuan and Yue Yue each have one room, and the other room is used as a guest room.

The rooms were simply rearranged. One room was for the nanny, Sister Liang, and the other two rooms were used as a storage room and a garage with doors installed on both sides.

Although the family doesn't have a car yet, Fang Qiao believes that it won't be long before they can afford one.

Moving to a new house requires hiring people to cook at the house. Fang Qiao only invited a few close friends. From her parents' side, she only invited her elder brother Fang Hai and his wife Dong Ping. As for Fang Xue and Fang Lu, Fang Qiao had long since cut ties with them, and they would go their separate ways from now on. There was no need to inform them about moving to a new house.

Her mother, Yang Fengxia, and her father, Fang Yaozu, favored her eldest sister, Fang Xue, and her youngest son, Fang Lu. Naturally, they had to make their stance clear and distance themselves from Fang Qiao at this time.

In the past two years, as Fang Qiao made a fortune by opening a clothing factory, the elderly couple seemed to be bowing down to Fang Qiao, but Fang Qiao didn't bother with them.

Since Fang Yaozu turned sixty last March, Fang Qiao has been giving the couple twenty yuan alimony every month to keep them quiet and prevent them from having any reason to cause trouble for her.

Of course the couple was unwilling. You, Fang Qiao, make so much money running a factory, yet you only give them twenty yuan a month. Is that how you treat beggars?

Fang Qiao didn't tolerate their bad habits and bluntly said that they could sue her in court, and she would pay whatever the court ordered her to pay.

The couple certainly didn't want to sue; it would be time-consuming, laborious, and thankless.

Her eldest daughter told them that even if they took it to court, the most they would get was for her second daughter to pay each of them ten yuan a month.

Twenty yuan for the two of them is quite a lot; his eldest daughter's monthly salary is less than forty yuan.