Neither of them had a good temper to begin with, and they started fighting as they were talking. Luckily, no supervisor came to inspect that day, otherwise he would have gotten a scolding.

Later, he made a special inquiry and found out that the other party was not the kind of small factory he had imagined, located in a village. When he saw the introduction of the Rose Soap Factory in the newspaper, he knew he was wrong.

But as a purchasing director, he was too ashamed to go to their door and just hoped that this was a passing fad.

But his wish did not come true. The storm not only did not pass, but it intensified, making the news a second time, and even with an exclusive interview.

People who saw the newspaper came to their door asking, but they really had nothing.

Do you have their contact information?

Thinking back to his own heartless rejection, he really didn't want to contact them himself.

Hearing this, the receptionist rolled her eyes inwardly. This old man! He caused the trouble himself and now he wants others to clean up his mess. But thinking of the people who would ask questions, she still spoke up, "There's a phone number in the newspaper. You can contact them by calling that number. Director, you'd better hurry up, otherwise we'll be wasting our days on this kind of thing."

After saying that, she started to get busy with her own work. She did her own job, otherwise she would have to sort the goods after get off work. She wasn't crazy to leave her own job to do something that was hard and thankless.

The purchasing director, who had been humiliated, looked rather unpleasant. But the girl in front of him was not one to be trifled with. He turned his gaze to the woman beside him and said, "Xiao Cheng, you were the one who caused that incident. Now, I'll leave the task of contacting the other party to you. Let's ask for two thousand, no, three thousand yuan, half soap and half bar soap."

The woman, who had been pretending to be busy with her head down, looked up in disbelief upon hearing this. "Director, I'm not in the purchasing department, am I?"

"What? You're not even willing to do this little thing? If you hadn't said those things to me back then, would I have refused? What's wrong with asking you to contact them now?"

Feeling the schadenfreude of her colleagues and customers, the woman was annoyed but dared not say anything more and could only bite the bullet and make the contact.

"Hello, Rose Soap Factory, where are you located?"

Hearing the unfamiliar voice on the other end of the line, the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief and announced the name of the supply and marketing cooperative. Just as she was about to arrogantly state the quantity she wanted, a voice came from the other end of the line, "Oh, it's you guys."

Upon hearing this, the woman's anger deflated. Sure enough, that woman was no good. It was just a small conflict, yet she went back and spread it around. Just as she was mentally preparing her response, the other woman spoke again, "How much do you want? What quantity and type? I'll place the order for you. However, our factory has too many orders right now, so you'll have to wait in line for four days. You'll settle the full payment after the goods are delivered. If you're okay with that, I'll register your order."

Although what Aunt Zhang said was true, in the woman's eyes it was just deliberately causing trouble. If it were her, she would have hung up the phone immediately. But with the director watching, she could only agree at the other party's prompting.

After hanging up the phone, she couldn't help but say, "They're doing this on purpose. They say there are too many orders and we have to wait in line. I think they're just using their position to settle personal scores. Director, maybe we shouldn't order from them anymore?"

"If you don't place an order, are you going to stand there explaining to people all day? Once you've finished your business, go back to work and stop standing around here."

No matter how frustrated they were, Mrs. Zhang felt refreshed after finishing the phone call.

When Ma Jianbin returned and learned about this, he went to Gu An'an and grumbled, "That felt good! That felt really good! Now it's their turn to be angry."

"Therefore, when doing things, we should not act rashly, but try to make the other party take the initiative to ask us for help."

Ma Jianbin nodded vigorously. He felt that he had learned more in the past few months than in the previous ten years, and all of this was thanks to Gu An'an.

"Sister Gu, I've started reviewing my second-year high school textbooks. Things I never wanted to learn in school before, I now find quite interesting when I calm down. I even went to the recycling center and found a few books to read together. The more I read, the more I realize that marketing is a very complex subject. If I have the opportunity in the future, I really want to study it systematically."

Before, he only felt that things were chaotic at school, but after running around outside for a few months recently, Ma Jianbin keenly sensed that the atmosphere outside was beginning to change.

"Sister Gu, have you heard? Some of those who went to the countryside a few years ago have been exonerated and returned to the city. I went out for a while the other day and found that the big cities outside aren't as tense as they used to be. Don't you think things are getting better and better for us?"

Gu An'an quite admired Ma Jianbin. At first, he was fearless like a newborn calf, but now he knows how to look at the world with his heart.

"The country will definitely get better and better, and we will have more and more opportunities, so we must be ready at all times so that we can step forward when the opportunity comes and contribute our share to the country's rise."

Ma Jianbin carefully considered the sentence, then nodded emphatically, "I will study more diligently from now on."

Although he can't predict when the college entrance examination will be reinstated, he will learn and believes that as long as he continues to learn from Sister Gu, he will definitely get better and better.

Ma's mother was overjoyed to see her son study after finishing his meal.

"Old Ma, Xiao Gu should have finished the seafood from last time. My sister-in-law sent me some more a few days ago, so I'll send some to Xiao Gu when it arrives."

Old Ma had no objections at all. His son had changed so much, and Xiao Gu's wife was their family's benefactor. What was a little seafood compared to that?

The next day, Gu An'an received another envelope containing royalties for her writings for the garment factory and Xiaowang Village, especially the one about Xiaowang Village, which took up a large portion of the page.

"Hey sis, are you home?"

Ma's mother had a loud voice and came in carrying her things.

"Sister-in-law, come quickly."

Thanks to Ma Jianbin, the relationship between the Ma family and the Xiao family quickly warmed up.

“My sister-in-law sent me some seafood. I know you like it, so I brought some over for you.”

She said she brought some things, but actually Ma's mother just brought a whole package.

The seafood from the Ma family is carefully selected and of better quality than that from the supply and marketing cooperative. As soon as Gu An'an heard that there was seafood, she felt her mouth watering. She didn't think about returning it, but she did take some nuts and dried meat for the other party to take back. "Sister-in-law, if you don't want it, I don't want the seafood either."

What could Ma's mother say but accept it? Her eyes fell on the newspaper, where she saw the report on Xiaowang Village. She slapped her forehead and exclaimed, "Hey? Isn't Xiaowang Village my sister's hometown?"