Chapter 68: Accident "Someone tampered with the development team's raw materials...
The next day, Wang Ying rode her bicycle to work for the first time, arriving a little earlier than usual. She swept the floor, wiped her desk, and fetched some water before her colleagues arrived.
Luo Wenshu and Wang Ying greeted each other: "Good morning, Team Leader."
"Good morning to you too." Wang Ying has already started writing today's daily plan.
The team members arrived at work one after another and submitted their work reports from the previous day. Wang Ying compiled their reports in a general table. After a brief morning meeting, Wang Ying and Wu Haiyang continued to go to the workshop.
After reviewing our failed experience yesterday, everyone worked hard today. The first batch of products was a big improvement over the day before!
After working on it for a whole day, although it still failed, the taste was getting closer and closer to what Wang Ying wanted.
"Is this not enough? I think it's delicious!" said Wu Haiyang.
"It's not crispy enough, and the texture is still a little hard," Wang Ying said. "It should be easy to bite down with one bite, and taste firm but not hard. Let's continue tomorrow. You've made great progress today. Thank you all for your hard work!"
"We are not tired!" Yang Jianshe didn't know why, but when working with Team Leader Wang, he seemed to have endless energy.
Wang Ying and his colleagues gathered the ingredients and placed them on the shelves. While no one was looking, Wang Ying secretly marked them. Marking was easy; just a little flour was applied to the opening. Since there was plenty of flour in the workshop, it wouldn't attract attention.
Wang Ying and her colleagues left the workshop first and returned to the group office to hold a meeting. When it was time to get off work, Wang Ying left on time. She had to go to the Wujiaohua Store to pick up Chen Xiuqin today.
"Team leader is riding a bike today too?" Wu Haiyang was a little surprised to see Wang Ying going to the carport with him.
"Well, ride faster." Wang Ying said.
"Your wife is not coming to pick you up?" Wu Haiyang's heart beat faster when he asked this question. He thought to himself, could it be that although Team Leader Wang seemed not to care about her husband and Song Yin, she had actually had a fight with her husband after returning home?
"He doesn't get off work early every day. Let's go. See you tomorrow." Wang Ying got on his bicycle and went to the Wujiaohua store.
Wu Haiyang looked at Wang Ying's back until Wang Ying turned the corner, then he got into the car and left. He didn't notice that there was a young man standing at the factory gate, staring at him.
When Wang Ying arrived at the entrance of Wujiaohua Store, she saw Chen Xiuqin sitting on a small stool and Lu Yanfen standing beside her and talking to her.
"Mom, how are you today?" Wang Ying asked. "Do your feet hurt?"
"It's okay." Chen Xiuqin stood up, her tone a little awkward, and it was obvious that she was different from her usual sharp and straightforward self.
"Yingzi is here." Lu Yanfen greeted Wang Ying.
"Sister-in-law Yanfen." Wang Ying replied, "You haven't gone home yet?"
"Well, I'm here to accompany my aunt. I said I would send her back on the way, but she said she didn't want to say anything, saying she was afraid you would be disappointed." Lu Yanfen said gently.
"Thank you, sister-in-law. Your home is far away, so I won't trouble you. You'd better go back quickly. We will go back too." Wang Ying said.
"It's not a big deal. How about I give my aunt a ride home tomorrow? It's just a matter of taking a detour, and it saves you from making an extra trip." Lu Yanfen said.
"No, no." Chen Xiuqin said quickly.
"Alas, my aunt is really being distant with me now. Okay, I won't meddle in other people's business." Lu Yanfen turned and left with a tone of being betrayed by her kindness.
Chen Xiuqin felt even more embarrassed. Yanfen had helped her a lot throughout the day, and her classmates were all seeing it.
"Let's go, Mom." Wang Ying said.
Chen Xiuqin got on the back of the bicycle, Wang Ying rode steadily, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went home.
When Wang Ying and the others got home, Zhao Yunsheng had almost prepared dinner, but Director Zhao had not yet returned home.
Hearing the noise outside, Zhao Yunsheng came out of the kitchen wearing a scarf and asked Chen Xiuqin, "Mom, Yingzi, you're back. How was Mom at work today?"
"It's pretty good." said Chen Xiuqin.
Zhao Yunsheng felt something was not right when he saw Chen Xiuqin's expression, but he didn't say anything at the moment and went back to the kitchen.
"Mom, please go back to your room and lie down for a while." Wang Ying said.
"Okay." Chen Xiuqin nodded and went back to her room.
Wang Ying put her bag on the sofa in the main room and went to the kitchen to find Zhao Yunsheng. She remembered that some time ago, Zhao Yunsheng always came to the kitchen to find her after get off work, but now it was the other way around.
"What delicious food have you cooked?" Wang Ying asked at the kitchen door.
"Soybean paste stewed with tofu." Zhao Yunsheng said, "What's wrong with Mom? She seems a little strange. Did she tell you?"
Wang Ying walked over to Zhao Yunsheng and said, "No, Mom was with Sister-in-law Yanfen when I arrived."
"Her." Zhao Yunsheng got angry when he mentioned Yanfen.
"She said she wanted to send her mother back, but she refused," said Wang Ying.
Now Zhao Yunsheng knew why his mother looked abnormal. It must be a problem with her relationship with Lu Yanfen.
Zhao Yunsheng was pushing the tofu in the pot with a spatula to prevent it from burning to the bottom when he suddenly stopped. Why did this kind of woman with a mental disorder always want to provoke him? What sin had he committed?
"What's wrong?" Wang Ying asked with a smile when he saw Zhao Yunsheng suddenly froze.
Zhao Yunsheng continued to push the tofu and said, "It's nothing. I just feel a little unlucky. I didn't do anything wrong, but some crazy woman wanted to mess with me."
"Oh~~ Are you thinking that you are too outstanding and are pursued by many women?" Wang Ying narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhao Yunsheng.
Zhao Yunsheng looked at Wang Ying speechlessly: "Do you still have the heart to tease me? You are not afraid at all that I will be seduced by these women."
Wang Ying said, "I don't care about those who can be seduced away; but I have no reason to be afraid of those who cannot be seduced away."
Zhao Yunsheng snorted, "It's not as simple as you think."
"So, you can be seduced away?" Wang Ying actually knew what Zhao Yunsheng meant and said this on purpose.
"I can't get rid of it!" Zhao Yunsheng said unhappily. He picked up a small piece of tofu from the pot with the tip of his spatula and handed it to Wang Ying: "Try it."
Wang Ying carefully ate the tofu with a spatula. The tofu was hot, so she nodded and said incoherently, "It's delicious." Then she turned around and took out a large bowl from the cupboard and handed it to Zhao Yunsheng.
Wang Ying smiled as he watched Zhao Yunsheng pour tofu into the large bowl and said, "Luckily, they can't see you like this, otherwise, they would have been chasing you even more."
Zhao Yunsheng chuckled softly: "You are praising me, so you better hold me tighter."
Wang Ying actually somewhat understood why Zhao Yunsheng appealed to women, particularly those with "unusual" characteristics. Wang Ying saw them as not abnormal, but perfectly normal. They weren't materially destitute, hadn't suffered much hardship, and likely read extensively. Their families weren't pressuring them to marry, which allowed them to pursue higher spiritual pursuits, and love itself was a high-level spiritual pursuit. Therefore, a man like Zhao Yunsheng, handsome, scholarly, and unconventional, easily attracted them. However, they were prone to prioritizing love, often to the detriment of themselves and others.
Wang Ying found it a bit strange that Zhao Yunsheng didn't like women with that kind of temperament. It didn't fit her stereotype of a talented man.
"Why aren't you talking? You don't want to hold me tight?" Zhao Yunsheng said.
"Grab it, grab it, grab it tightly." Wang Ying said as he took the small bowl and chopsticks to the main room.
"Perfunctory!" Zhao Yunsheng followed her with tofu in his hand.
After dinner, Wang Ying went to wash the dishes. Zhao Yunsheng did not follow her, but went to find Chen Xiuqin.
Mother and son are connected by heart. When Chen Xiuqin saw Zhao Yunsheng coming, she knew what he wanted to say and said unhappily, "Don't worry, I know my limits!"
"You know what's bothering you?" Zhao Yunsheng said.
Chen Xiuqin sighed, "After all, we've known each other for so many years, we work in the same unit, and our families have a good relationship. I really don't want to make things too awkward with her. Mainly, she didn't say anything or do anything. She just asked me... Sigh!"
"If she really didn't say or do anything, why do you have to make things difficult for her?" Zhao Yunsheng said.
Chen Xiuqin was speechless. It seemed to be the same...
"Mom, have you ever thought about what Yingzi would think if you were in such a difficult situation?" Zhao Yunsheng said.
"Ah? Did Yingzi say anything?" Chen Xiuqin asked hurriedly.
"With her personality, how could she possibly say it? But just because she doesn't say it doesn't mean she doesn't care. Mom, don't be confused and confuse the relationship between close friends and distant relatives." Zhao Yunsheng said seriously.
"I'm not in the situation you said!" Chen Xiuqin said, "If she didn't work in the same unit as me, I wouldn't have this worry at all! Okay, okay, go help Yingzi wash the dishes and stop lecturing your mother here." Chen Xiuqin waved her hand impatiently to drive Zhao Yunsheng away.
When Zhao Yunsheng returned to the kitchen, Wang Ying had already washed the dishes and was arranging the kitchen utensils.
Zhao Yunsheng lifted the two teapots and checked the water temperature. When he felt that the temperature was okay, he poured hot water into the thermos, refilled the two teapots with water, replaced the coal balls, and sealed the stove.
The two of them were doing their own things without saying a word. Only the sound of water splashing into the thermos, the sound of sweeping the floor, the chirping of autumn insects hiding in the dark, and the sound of storytelling from the radio in the main room intertwined into the most everyday melody.
After Zhao Yunsheng sealed the stove, Wang Ying also cleaned the kitchen.
"Let's go upstairs." Zhao Yunsheng said.
The couple went upstairs. Zhao Yunsheng was going to continue writing his novel today, so Wang Ying went to bed first. He wrote until after ten o'clock. After washing up and getting into bed, he found the quilt a little cold. Wang Ying curled up on her side and fell asleep. Zhao Yunsheng felt a little guilty. He had only caused trouble and frustration for her, and had not even given her the most basic warmth in time. He quickly pulled her into his arms...
Wednesday was the third day of Wang Ying's team's new product testing. As usual, Wang Ying went to the office first, held a morning meeting with the team, and then went to the workshop with Wu Haiyang.
Wang Ying went to where they kept the raw materials and glanced at the shelves. She immediately noticed that the leavening agent had been tampered with. It was so obvious, even without looking at the hidden signs she had left, that the leavening agent was in a brown paper bag, and the folds on the bag had been altered.
The raw materials here are kept separate from other materials in the fourth workshop, so it is unlikely to be an accidental operation.
"Team leader, what's wrong?" Tian Yulan stood beside Wang Ying and asked quietly when she saw Wang Ying looking at the shelves without saying anything.
Wang Ying didn't answer, walked forward, picked up the bag of leavening agent, turned around and left.
"What's going on?" Wu Haiyang also asked.
Wang Ying still didn't say anything. He walked past the employees of the fourth workshop and went straight out of the workshop.
Wu Haiyang chased after him, and the two temporary team members thought about it and followed suit.
Wang Ying, holding a brown paper bag, ignored everyone along the way and went straight to the office of the factory director Qian Tongsheng.
The leaders had just finished a morning meeting in the conference room and saw Wang Ying standing in front of the factory director's office holding a brown paper bag, with three employees standing beside him.
"Comrade Wang Ying, is there anything wrong? What are you holding?" Qian Tongsheng asked.
"It was supposed to contain leavening agent, but we don't know what it was now," Wang Ying said coldly.
Qian Tongsheng's expression changed after hearing this. He said, "Let's talk about it in the office."
Deputy Factory Director Zheng Liancheng and Director Zhao also heard Wang Ying's words and followed him into the office. Wu Haiyang and the other three also went in.
"What's going on?" Qian Tongsheng said seriously.
"This bag of fluffing agent has been moved," Wang Ying said. "I don't know who accidentally moved it, or what happened, but the way it's folded is different from when I left the workshop last night."
Director Zhao remembered what Wang Yingcai had said the day before, that she had marked the bag. He hadn't expected it to come in handy right now! He was just hesitating whether to speak when Zheng Liancheng spoke first: "What's going on? Are you sure it's been touched?"
"I'm not sure, so I would like to ask the quality control personnel to do some testing for me," said Wang Ying.
"Okay, take this bag to the quality inspection team." Qian Tongsheng said.
"I'll go and take a look," said Zheng Liancheng.
Director Zhao also said, "I'll go too."
Wang Ying went to the Quality Control Team again, carrying the brown paper bag. The team leader took her words very seriously when he saw Wang Ying coming with two senior leaders.
"Let me take a sample for testing," said the quality control team leader. "It should be a leavening agent."
"Yes." Wang Ying handed the brown paper bag to the quality inspection team leader.
The quality control team leader opened the brown paper and took samples of powder from the top, middle, and bottom layers for testing. The chemical reagents quickly revealed that the color of the top layer of powder in the measuring cup was different from that of the other two layers.
The faces of everyone in the laboratory changed.
Zheng Liancheng asked hurriedly, "Can you tell what it is?"
"Let me try." said the quality control team leader.
Ten minutes later, the quality inspection team leader said, "It must be cornstarch."
"That's good..." Zheng Liancheng said.
Director Zhao glanced at Zheng Liancheng and said, "What do you mean it's okay? Do you have to put rat poison in it to say it's bad?"
Zheng Liancheng said quickly, "Oh, that's not what I meant. At least it's not toxic or harmful. The leavening agent below can still be used."
Wang Ying said seriously, "I hope the factory can thoroughly investigate this matter."
"That's for sure. We will investigate it without you saying anything." Director Zhao said that if there were any problems in production, the higher-ups would hold him accountable, and he would definitely be involved.
Wu Haiyang and the others who followed Wang Ying were dumbfounded. How could anyone touch their raw materials? Who could be so cruel?
Wang Ying took the test report and followed the two leaders back to Director Qian's office.
"What do you mean?" Qian Tongsheng knew something was wrong when he saw the expressions on the three people's faces.
"Someone really tampered with it. The top layer is cornstarch," said Zheng Liancheng.
Qian Tongsheng's face turned pale: "Go find Fang Hongjun and the head of the security department."
"Director, the follow-up matters will be left to you and the factory leaders. I want to take all our opened raw materials for testing, and then go to the warehouse to get new materials to continue testing new products." Wang Ying said.
Seeing that Wang Ying was still concerned about the birth, Qian Tongsheng softened his tone and said, "Go ahead. Don't worry, we will get to the bottom of this matter."
With Director Zhao here, Wang Ying doesn't have to worry about what happens next. She can guess who is behind this with just a few clicks, and she can even predict how the situation will develop next.
Wang Ying walked out of the factory director's office and left with Wu Haiyang and others.
"Team leader, what's going on? How could someone tamper with the raw materials?" Yang Jianshe was a little scared. If something poisonous was put in there, they would all taste it. Wouldn't he be the first one to be poisoned to death?
Wu Haiyang snorted coldly: "Someone doesn't want our new product development to go too smoothly."
"This is too much! If our production is not going smoothly, what good will it do him? We are from the same workshop!" Tian Yulan was filled with righteous indignation, and her voice was several degrees higher than usual.
Wang Ying had experienced something similar in her previous life: someone tampered with her sewing machine. There was no way around it; wherever there were people, there were conflicts.
Wu Haiyang sighed and said, "Fortunately, you are smart, team leader. I really didn't notice it at all." The more Wu Haiyang stayed with Wang Ying, the more outstanding she seemed to him. Now he felt that he was too immature in front of her.
"You should learn from me too," said Wang Ying.
"Yeah!" Tian Yulan nodded repeatedly.
Wang Ying and his team went to the warehouse to get materials. The lame warehouse manager asked, "Have you used up all the materials? Have you tried out the new product yet?"
"It's almost there." Wang Ying said.
The warehouse manager did not stop Wang Ying and let her take the raw materials away.
Wang Ying and his team returned to the fourth workshop. Wang Ying had previously left with the kraft paper, and many people had seen it. They all suspected that something had happened, but they didn't know who did it.
Wang Ying and his team unloaded the materials from the cart and piled them aside.
"Move all the opened raw materials on the shelves to the laboratory." said Wang Ying.
"Okay, I'll go." Wu Haiyang said.
The workers in the workshop looked at each other, and they all knew that something big had happened. Someone had tampered with the raw materials and was caught by Team Leader Wang.
I'm afraid he's going to be shot!
"Let's continue!" Wang Ying said to Tian Yulan and Yang Jianshe.
Fang Hongjun and the security chief were both called into the factory director's office. Fang Hongjun's face looked uglier than ever.
"There was a production accident in your workshop. How can you be the workshop director?" Qian Tongsheng said in a stern tone.
"What's wrong?" Fang Hongjun said, "I haven't returned to the workshop yet. I don't know what happened."
"Someone tampered with the development team's raw materials!" said Qian Tongsheng.
"What kind of tampering? This shouldn't happen in our workshop!" Fang Hongjun said, "Could there be some mistake?"
"We have the test reports, how could it be wrong?" said Qian Tongsheng.
"This is a big deal!" said the security chief. "We have to find the bad apples!"
"We really need to find it!" Fang Hongjun said, "Did the development team find it? How did they find it?"
"Team Leader Wang made secret marks on every bag of flour that had been opened," said Zheng Liancheng.
Fang Hongjun secretly groaned in his heart, this damn girl is too cunning.
"Then...what kind of tricks were done?" Fang Hongjun asked again.
"The leavening agent was replaced with cornstarch." Qian Tongsheng said.
"Hiss, it could be just carelessness, and cornstarch is not poisonous," said Fang Hongjun.
"Is this a question of poison or not?" Director Zhao said, "Besides, if he doesn't poison her today, who knows if he will poison her tomorrow? We have to find the culprit and bring him to justice!"
Fang Hongjun knew it was over. He hadn't expected that he would be caught in a trap and fall into the hands of a petty thief. He had no choice but to make a bold move and let Tian Yong take the blame.
"Director Zhao is right. I think other people generally can't enter our workshop. I'm afraid it was someone in the workshop who did it. The people in the development team left early, so they should be ruled out. Then it must be among the remaining people. I'll go back and check who was the last one to leave yesterday and who was the first to arrive this morning..." said Fang Hongjun.
Fang Hongjun adopted an attitude of self-examination and self-correction. Qian Tongsheng said, "You are the workshop director. No matter who did this, you have an unshirkable responsibility."
"Yes, I know." Fang Hongjun said, "Once this matter is resolved, I will accept any punishment!"
Director Zhao, Fang Hongjun and the workshop director came to the fourth workshop together and began to check for people who might have tampered with the work.
While they were investigating, Wang Ying's team was still diligently preparing Shaqima! Even Fang Hongjun had to admire her; this girl was so determined!
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