Chen Jing turned around and saw a thin girl wearing thin and worn clothes. Fortunately, October in the south was not cold, and those with a good constitution could wear short sleeves without any problem.
However, the girl was petite and thin, with a pale face, but unusually large eyes. She didn't look well and was wearing a thin short-sleeved summer top.
Especially since she works in a garment factory, her shabby clothes make her look rather uncomfortable.
Female workers in garment factories would always collect any suitable scraps of cloth or stained fabric to make themselves a well-fitting garment.
He felt the face looked familiar and couldn't help but frown: "Who are you?"
Ahua looked at him cautiously: "Third Brother, don't you recognize me? Chen Yi is my sister-in-law."
Chen Jing finally remembered why the girl looked familiar; it turned out he had seen her three years ago when he saw his second sister, Chen Yi, off to her wedding.
However, my second sister hadn't been back to her parents' home for a long time. Even when he got married, she only sent a two-yuan red envelope through someone else.
How come her sister-in-law came here and even went into his workshop as soon as he left?
He frowned suspiciously: "You're Chen Yi's sister-in-law? Where's my sister? What are you doing here?"
Chen Song whispered, "Third brother, second sister is back too, with two children. The oldest is only two years old, and the youngest is only six months old. They went back to their parents' home and are now helping out at sister-in-law's fast food restaurant."
When Chen Jing heard that Chen Yi had returned with the child and even went to work at his sister-in-law's shop, he knew there must be a reason.
He suppressed his desire to ask further questions and said in a low voice, "Let's take care of business first. Someone will probably come to inspect the workshop in the next day or two. You should clean up the workshop properly today, including hygiene, displays, accounts, reports, and so on."
"Inspection? Why are you inspecting? What's going on?"
Ah Hu's expression changed upon hearing this; he had followed Chen Jing to the black market.
Chen Jing waved his hand: "Don't worry, it's not a bad thing, but we must be prepared."
He turned and instructed Du Yulian to arrange for people to keep the workshop clean and prepare reports and accounts. He also put Ah Hu and Chen Song in charge of the warehouse, while the kitchen and yard were left to the gatekeeper couple.
Du Yulian responded and was about to return to the workshop when Chen Jing called her back: "Yulian, if some people are not suitable to be lathe operators, arrange other positions for them and try to let them stay in the most suitable place."
Du Yulian nodded vigorously, then turned around and assigned Ahua to be responsible for cleaning the windows, sweeping the floor, and other chores.
"Is my second sister staying with my eldest sister-in-law? Where is she living now?"
“She will live in your house and take the children to work at her sister-in-law’s place during the day. Her sister-in-law will pay her 25 yuan a month.”
"Okay, you guys go ahead with your work, I'll go back and talk to you later."
He pushed his bicycle out of the yard's bicycle shed, tied the two suitcases he had brought back from the capital and a case of wine given to him by Song Wu to the bicycle's crossbar and back seat, and rode slowly back to the brigade.
Along the way, he reviewed his plans and figured there shouldn't be any major problems.
Back in Huacheng, Brother Song and Liu Xiaogang should have received the inspection team from Haishi. Hopefully, everything goes smoothly.
However, even if the inspection didn't go smoothly, Chen Jing still planned to expand the workshop and set up a garment factory.
The wholesale markets in the south attract merchants and vendors from all over the country to purchase goods; these markets are much larger than those in the north.
We can get the license on New Year's Day. We can start building the factory now. After we get the license on New Year's Day, the factory will be completed by the end of the year. We can start recruiting more workers and expanding production next spring.
If the construction schedule is expedited, and the factory is expanded and workers are hired to work overtime after New Year's Day, it is still possible to catch the peak sales season before the Spring Festival.
At this point, he needed to discuss it with Brother Song; they needed to hurry.
If he could get the Lin family to come up with a large sum of money, he wouldn't be short of cash, which would be even better.
After reviewing my plans, I realized the bicycles had almost arrived at the production brigade.
At the end of October, the production team had just finished the autumn harvest. A group of people were following Secretary Ji and Captain Chen to catch turtles and divide the land. The fields were noisy and noisy, with people shouting and yelling at each other, like a market fair.
Chen Jing rode his bicycle along the path, and no one noticed him.
He rode his bicycle slowly past the edge of a field, then with a push of his long legs, he brought the bicycle to a steady stop.
"Second Uncle, Aunt Liu, what are you two arguing about?"
"What's all the fuss about? What else could there be? This division is completely unfair. How many people are in his family? They already have two acres of paddy fields. It's just not fair to give him any more of these paddy fields..."
Aunt Liu chattered on and on, then suddenly turned around and screamed with a mixture of surprise and joy: "Chen Jing, you're back? Are you alone? Xia didn't come back?"
"What? Chen Jing and A Xia are back too? Could it be that Ji Xia has also been expelled from school?"
"What nonsense are you spouting? With such a foul mouth, how many pounds of excrement have you eaten?"
Upon hearing this, Chen's mother flew into a rage, yelling at the old woman from before and silencing the surrounding women, who could only offer sheepish apologies.
Captain Chen turned around suspiciously: "Ah Jing, why are you back? Who came back with you?"
"It's just me. They're all busy; they don't have time to come back."
Chen Jing waved his hand: "You guys go ahead with your work, I'll take my luggage back first."
As Chen Jing spoke, he rode away on his bicycle. Liu Xiaogang's father, carrying a hoe, chuckled and stared at the back of Chen Jing's bicycle: "Ah Jing brought back a case of wine. Looks like he's doing quite well out there."
"Of course, with Ji Xiawang as his husband, he's bound to do well."
The group of commune members started discussing among themselves, which dissipated much of the tension and hostility that had been building up earlier.
Only Granny Lin stared unhappily behind Chen Jing. Why was only one person back? Why wasn't the other one fired?
Chen Jing returned home, unloaded the things from the car, and took out the gifts and roast duck from the box.
He divided the gifts into several portions and then quickly unwrapped the roast duck to check if it had spoiled.
The roast duck was specially vacuum-packed to be airtight, but it took three days and three nights on the train, plus a day spent in Guangzhou yesterday, so I don't know if it has spoiled.
Just then, Chen's mother rushed back: "Ah Jing, didn't you say you wouldn't be back until the New Year? Why are you back now? Is something wrong?"
"I have some business to attend to and have to come back, which is a good thing."
As Chen Jing spoke, he handed the roast duck to his mother: "Mom? Smell it and see if it's spoiled. If it's not, cook it for dinner right away before it goes bad."
Four roast ducks were prepared. One was left in the workshop, one for our family, one for the Ji family, and one for my second uncle.
There were also gifts that Ji Xia bought for her parents, her brother and sister-in-law, and her two nephews.
Seeing him constantly dividing things up, Chen's mother remained silent for a while: "Your second brother-in-law had an accident, and your second sister came back with two children. Do you think we should leave a portion for them too?"
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