When Chen Wenbin heard about Xia Baozhu's plan, his eyes lit up, and he suggested that Li Dapao and Qi Mufei come over to help him.

Involve them in employee training; they are experienced and eloquent, and can fully leverage their successful experience to give newcomers more confidence in the street vending industry.

Xia Baozhu told him to communicate with Li Dapao and Qi Mufei, and if they were unwilling, they could ask other people.

"Honey, your idea is brilliant! It achieves multiple goals at once."

Sun Xingyan was very supportive of Xia Baozhu's plan and bought two adjacent courtyard houses, each 500 square meters, in a village near the city center, totaling 1,000 square meters.

"Find a construction team to demolish the old building, then find an architecture school to draw up blueprints and build a six-story building here to serve as an office building."

Building a house nowadays has very simple procedures, but you still need to find connections to get the paperwork done.

Xia Baozhu found Guan Xingfeng and invited him out with Sun Xingyan. She talked about her idea of ​​building an office building in the provincial capital and asked him to help introduce her to someone in charge of this.

The reason for specifically seeking out Guan Xingfeng is that Guan Xingfeng has a powerful and influential background in Mingcheng, and anyone who wants to do business in Mingcheng must cultivate a good relationship with him.

Xia Baozhu placed a thin envelope on the table. It was the bank card that Guan Xingfeng had given her before, and now she was returning it.

Guan Xingfeng opened the envelope, glanced at it, and then pushed it to Xia Baozhu. He smiled and said, "It's nothing, Miss Xia, you don't need to be so polite with me. I hope Miss Xia's business in Mingcheng will get better and better."

After learning that Sun Xingyan was engaged in trade abroad, he inquired about it with interest and expressed his hope that they could cooperate in the future.

After seeing Guan Xingfeng off, Sun Xingyan turned to Xia Baozhu and said, "Wife, is there something I don't know about here?"

Xia Baozhu recounted how Ye Xiaobo had pursued her, but she omitted a lot of details to avoid upsetting Sun Xingyan.

"So I should thank Nannan. I'll buy her a big doll when I get back," Sun Xingyan said with a forced smile, trying to hide his jealousy.

Thanks to Guan Xingfeng's connections, the building permits were quickly processed, and through him, a construction company with all the necessary permits was found.

After finishing all that, with only a few days left until the Lunar New Year, the two returned to Taicheng.

Having not seen each other for nearly ten months, Sun's mother wanted to persuade her son and daughter-in-law to stay at her home, but Sun Xingyan refused, saying he was too tired from work and needed to rest.

"Wife, home is the best!" Sun Xingyan, still damp from his shower, rushed to his new bed.

He called his mother before he came and asked her to tidy up the house so he could move in as soon as he arrived.

"Mom asked me when I plan to have children. What are your thoughts?" Xia Baozhu hung the clothes she had changed out of on the hanger.

"Let's wait another year," Sun Xingyan said with a troubled expression. "Wife, do you really like children?"

"I like them." Xia Baozhu thought the little babies were adorable, and she enjoyed playing with them.

“I haven’t had enough of our life as a couple yet, and we don’t want children for the time being. We agreed before that we would have children in two years, but it hasn’t even been a year yet.”

Sun Xingyan lay down on the bed and watched Xia Baozhu change her clothes and go to take a shower, then turned the air conditioner temperature up a bit.

"Then tell Mom tomorrow." Xia Baozhu wouldn't say anything to her mother-in-law that would offend her. Let Sun Xingyan say those things; after all, mother and son don't hold grudges overnight.

"Don't worry, honey, I'll take full responsibility. Let me check if the water's running." Sun Xingyan got up and went to the bathroom to test the water temperature.

Xia Baozhu stayed at the store and factory for two days, paid the employees and gave them a holiday, but the principle of voluntary overtime was still in effect, and the overtime pay was three times higher than usual.

Xia Laidi did not return to her husband's family home this year, but stayed in Taicheng with her child. She, her child, and the Sun family all spent the New Year in Xia Baozhu and Sun Xingyan's new home.

Because this place is spacious, children can play freely, and it also brings more people to the area.

Sun Xingyan's New Year's gift to his family was two property certificates for another building, and he also gave his mother 100,000 yuan to decorate the house according to her own preferences.

Sun's mother and eldest daughter-in-law were all smiles as they held the property certificate. Although they came from intellectual families and had a certain air of superiority, who wouldn't want a bigger and more comfortable space?

Besides, it was a gift from my son/brother-in-law.

That night, Sun's mother held the property certificate so tightly that she couldn't put it down and kept turning it over and over, unable to sleep. She didn't even notice the constant sounds of fireworks and firecrackers outside.

"Don't let Xingyan's harsh words fool you, he's incredibly filial. He hasn't forgotten his mother after getting married," Sun's mother said happily to Professor Sun, who was pretending to be asleep with his eyes closed.

"Alright, stop talking so loudly. Which of your two sons is not filial to you? It's because I've raised them well."

Professor Sun was also happy, but he rarely showed it. He was afraid that his wife's voice would be too loud and reach his eldest son's ears, making his son uncomfortable.

"If the child has shortcomings, it's because I spoiled him; if he has achievements, it's because of your education, humph!" Sun's mother lost interest in speaking, turned over, put the property certificate under her pillow, and went to sleep.

She plans to subtly show off when others come to pay their New Year's visits tomorrow.

After the New Year, Liu Guangjun did not return. Xia Baozhu asked Xia Laidi to call the village and urge him to come back to work.

“The time is almost right, we can get a divorce now,” Xia Baozhu said to Xia Laidi.

"What if he doesn't want to?" Xia Laidi didn't think Liu Guangjun would take the initiative to divorce.

Liu Guangjun suffered a lot during that year, lost weight, and became more ingratiating, even occasionally buying clothes and toys for Nannan.

"Don't worry, there are plenty of ways. He'll bring it up himself," Xia Baozhu smiled.

Xia Baozhu asked Chen Zhigao to find someone to resolve Liu Guangjun's matter, while she and Sun Xingyan went to a neighboring city to buy a shop and continue operating.

The food truck market in Taicheng is now saturated, so she has to expand outwards to give new employees more opportunities.

The store now operates under a store manager contract responsibility system, which is an intermediate form between directly operated stores and franchised stores.

This contracting system allows store managers to be dedicated and responsible, and also reduces Xia Baozhu's mental and physical burden.

There are three accountants in the factory office. Their daily task is to record the sales and transaction details of the previous day, which are faxed from each store.

Xia Baozhu bought two computers and a printer so that they could learn to use the office software on the computers, so that they could save documents on the computers and print out paper documents.

She now has six stores in operation, and six more under renovation that will soon be put into use. She has forty food trucks and a total of 128 employees, including those in training.

Overall, the business is in a state of break-even, neither making a profit nor incurring a loss.

After all, she invested a lot in the renovation and kitchenware. If you include the cost of purchasing the shop, she lost money.

But you can't calculate it that way. A shop is a type of investment; once you buy it, you've already made a profit.