Chapter 58 You came to my mom just to help you and Manager Zhang...
Seeing Cheng Yuntian's genuine confusion, Jiang Lili explained, "For toys like this that require oral use, of course we need to have someone try them out first, and have parents record the pros and cons. That way, we can do better."
"I understand. Leave this matter to me." Cheng Yuntian felt that what she said made sense.
"What do you think about that voice doll?" Jiang Lili asked casually. She actually liked this one very much. If the factory wanted to produce it, she planned to buy one for Jiang Qitong.
"It's still in the experimental stage, so we have to control costs. There's no rush. The things in the warehouse were sold in the blind box format you mentioned, and everyone liked them very much. I decided to continue producing some." Cheng Yuntian did not expect the sales volume of the blind boxes.
"Are you still producing those pull-back cars?" Jiang Lili looked a little confused.
"Of course not. There is a box outside anyway. What people like is uncertain surprises, so everything can be a blind box." This is Cheng Yuntian's point of view.
"You have a point, but be careful of those who follow suit," Jiang Lili reminded.
"Well, precisely because of this consideration, we need to think more carefully about the contents of the blind box." Cheng Yuntian has been thinking about this for a long time, but still has no clue.
“Characters from cartoons, the kind made of plastic and glow-in-the-dark material.” These kinds of toys will never go out of style.
"That's a good idea. It seems that it was right to discuss it with you." Cheng Yuntian was really relieved now.
"The next step is to try it out on a child to see if there are any changes that need to be made." Jiang Lili said and glanced at the time. If she didn't go back, she wouldn't be able to take a nap today.
Cheng Yuntian caught a glimpse of her movements and said, "Why don't you go to Sister Jiang's warehouse to rest? There's a rest room there. Wouldn't it be better for you to ride your bike to school later instead of going back?"
"Why do you have a lounge?" Jiang Lili was a little curious.
"What if that position needs to work night shifts in the future? I can take a break when there is less work, and renovate the workshop at the same time to avoid trouble in the future." Even if the night shift is not needed, there is a cafeteria in the factory, and Jiang Yulan can choose to take a lunch break in the factory at noon in the future.
"Okay, then I'll rest here." Jiang Lili said and yawned. Her body was already used to taking naps.
"Go ahead, don't delay your studies." Cheng Yuntian said as he began to calculate the cost of the teether. The cost of the small teether was more expensive than she had imagined. As for what Jiang Lili said about finding children for the experiment, two of her relatives had children, basically four or five months old, but two samples were too few, so she had to continue looking.
The lounge in the warehouse wasn't big, and there was basically no room for anything except the bed. Jiang Yulan knew her obsession with cleanliness, so she had explained to her before urging her to go, "I've washed everything in there, so go to sleep."
"Yeah." Jiang Lili wanted to say that her mysophobia was not that serious. When her eyelids were almost unable to open, she could fall asleep on the table.
Although she hadn't set an alarm, her biological clock woke Jiang Lili up on time. When she got up to make the quilt on the bed, Jiang Yulan pushed the door open and came in. She was a little surprised to see her up. "I said I'd call you. Now that you're up, go wash your face and wake yourself up. You must have forgotten your bicycle keys. Here."
Taking the bicycle key she handed over, Jiang Lili glanced at Jiang Yulan, a little surprised at her good condition and the fact that she looked younger than when she was in the cotton mill.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Jiang Yulan was a little confused.
"Mom, I think you look younger. Doesn't it feel easier to work here?" Jiang Lili asked as she tied her ponytail.
"It's indeed a little easier." Jiang Yulan really felt the impact of mood on the body. During that period, she lived in fear every day, afraid that she would be on the list of laid-offs. Not only was she in a bad mood, but she also felt uncomfortable all over. After coming here, without all these pressures, she became more motivated.
"That's good. I'll go to school first. What will you do after get off work?" Jiang Lili asked, holding the car keys.
"Walking or taking the bus is fine, don't worry." Jiang Yulan waved her off, telling her to hurry to school. What she hadn't told Jiang Lili was that today was also the day she had to go to the hospital for a follow-up checkup. She and Cheng Yuntian had already asked for leave yesterday. After Jiang Lili left, she went to the factory gate. Thanks to the former Second Factory, there was a bus stop right outside.
Jiang Yulan went to Yuncheng Hospital for a follow-up examination. After all, it was not good to change doctors at the last minute, so she was prepared to meet Lin Wenkang in the hospital. When she came out with the payment slip, she happened to meet Lin Wenkang. Lin Wenkang didn't seem surprised to see her, as if he knew she would come today. Thinking of this, Jiang Yulan couldn't help but frown.
"Why did you come to the hospital alone? Is there no one at home to accompany you?" Lin Wenkang said in a normal tone, as if their previous disagreement did not exist.
"It has nothing to do with you. Wasn't I clear enough last time?" Jiang Yulan was really puzzled. According to Lin Wenkang's current conditions, even if he was a widower with children, there should be many people willing to marry him.
"Yulan, we grew up together after all. Even if we can't be husband and wife, we can at least be friends. I just care about you." Lin Wenkang knew that she had nephritis a long time ago. To be honest, with his current conditions, he could have found a first marriage, but he didn't. Jiang Yulan was his obsession. After he and his mother went to Jincheng, he even thought that if Yulan came to Jincheng to find him, he would be willing to fight with his mother for her once. Unfortunately, she didn't.
"Thank you for your concern. Can you please move aside now?" Jiang Yulan looked around while speaking, searching for the security guard.
"Okay, then go ahead and get busy. I won't give up." This sentence was not only said to Jiang Yulan, but also to himself. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a joke for him to come to Yuncheng for a year?
Jiang Yulan didn't bother to argue with him and went to the payment counter. After paying, she ran into Qiu Shaoli again. She asked with concern, "How was the follow-up examination?"
"That's good. Maybe I can stop taking the medicine soon." Jiang Yulan was very happy with the news.
"That's great. Jiaze has troubled you. He got second place in the monthly exam this time. Old Lu and I are very surprised. This must be Lili's credit. I must thank her when I have time." Lu Liangjun and Qiu Shaoli were really happy. Lu Jiaze's grades used to be only above average. They had been using Lili's grades to motivate him. They didn't expect that he would give them such a big surprise this time.
"Isn't this all the child's own efforts? What does it have to do with Lili? You are busy at work. Let's get together and chat when we have time." Jiang Yulan didn't want to disturb her at work.
"Ji Yushu brought that woman to the hospital for a check-up yesterday. During the B-ultrasound, he gave money to someone and wanted to find out the gender of the baby. As a result, he was reported by the patient behind him. Doctor Qiao also suffered an unprovoked disaster." Qiu Shaoli's tone was full of sympathy. Doctor Qiao had already refused, but he didn't expect that the patient behind him would report it directly after seeing it. Now he really can't explain himself even if he is right.
"He just wants to have a son. In his opinion, his life is incomplete without a son. He doesn't even consider whether he has the destiny." Jiang Yulan sneered. She only blames women for not being able to give birth to sons. Anyone with a little bit of common sense knows that it is not the woman who decides whether to have a boy or a girl.
"I didn't find out the answer yesterday. I guess next time I'll have to go to a private clinic for the check-up. Their child will be really unlucky." Qiu Shaoli's tone was full of disgust.
"That's right, you are busy, I'll leave first." When she heard someone calling Qiu Shaoli's name, she took the opportunity to leave.
Nephritis began to improve and work became easier. Jiang Yulan felt more and more hopeful about the future.
*
Ji Mingyue returned home to find no one home. Ever since they'd gone to the hospital the previous day and failed to find out the baby's sex, the atmosphere at home had been tense. At first, seeing Ji Yushu's confident tone, she'd actually assumed he had connections at the hospital and that someone would quietly tell him. She'd never imagined his supposed solution was to pay the doctor, only to be reported by someone behind them. Ji Mingyue couldn't help but wonder again: could someone like Ji Yushu really become the richest man in Yuncheng?
The sound of the door opening interrupted her thoughts. The two people who came back had obvious joy on their faces. Ye Qiuju said directly: "Mingyue, you have a younger brother now."
"You found out. Which hospital did you go to?" As far as she knew, hospitals these days were strictly prohibited from revealing the sex of the fetus.
"I didn't go to the hospital. I went to a clinic. The examination fee was ten yuan more expensive than at the hospital." Ye Qiuju said with a complaining tone.
"Clinic?" Ji Mingyue couldn't help but raise her voice.
"That's right. There are quite a lot of people there. The hospital doesn't want to tell us, so we can only figure it out on our own!" Ye Qiuju also told her about other pregnant women she met in the clinic today.
"We're tired after a day's work, so hurry up and cook." Ji Yushu still had a faint smile on his face. He was going to have a son soon, and he wanted to see who would dare to mock him again.
"I have to go to self-study later, so I'll just cook some noodles." Ji Mingyue really didn't want to make a big fuss, making rice and cooking. She looked at Ye Qiuju with some resentment. Didn't she say that she brought her to the city to live a good life? But what's the difference between her current life and her previous life in the countryside? She was serving the whole family. Her eyes fell on Ye Qiuju's bulging belly. Now she was serving them both, so would she have to serve this little one in the future? Ji Mingyue had the urge to run away.
"Just noodles." Ji Yushu's tone was a little reluctant.
Ji Mingyue glanced at him. He used to cook often at the cotton mill, but since moving back, she had never seen him cook again.
Ji Mingyue was cooking noodles in the kitchen. Ji Yushu touched Ye Qiuju's belly with a happy look on his face. "The most important thing for you now is to give birth to this child safely. I have to make more money quickly. Now that we have a son, we can't keep renting a house."
"Brother Ji, do you mean to buy a house?" Ye Qiuju suppressed her excitement. He finally mentioned buying a house.
"Of course I have to buy one. My son will get married in the future, so it's right to buy a house early." Ji Yushu has already started planning for the son in her belly.
Ye Qiuju lowered her eyes to look at her belly and spoke softly, "I was just about to talk to Brother Ji about this these days. I had another dream. In the dream, many houses in Yuncheng will be demolished in a few years. Not only will they have to compensate with new buildings, but they will also be given a lot of money for the demolition."
Ji Yushu had been to Guangzhou several times since setting up his stall and had learned a term, which was "relocated households." Upon hearing this, he couldn't help but look at Ye Qiuju, his eyes full of eagerness: "Then do you know where the relocation will take place?"
"Many places have been demolished, covering a large area. It shouldn't be difficult for us to analyze it carefully, right?" When Ye Qiuju came to the city, the demolition trend in Yuncheng had long passed. Moreover, she didn't care about those things at that time, so she didn't know which places would be demolished.
"You make sense. It seems that the purchase of the house can't be delayed any longer, but I promised them that I would redeem the property certificate from them by the end of the year." Ji Yushu was in a dilemma. He could only choose one of the two options.
"As long as the interest is paid back every month, the bank won't take the house away, but good houses are hard to come by. I heard my neighbor say yesterday that the price seems to have gone up again recently." The neighbor next door also plans to buy a house.
Ji Yushu made a decision quickly: "You make sense, let's buy a house first. Yao Yan, the troublemaker, has divorced the third child anyway, just a year late, they won't mind." Even if they minded, it didn't matter, because the initiative was in his hands now.
People always make selfish decisions. The couple had clearly made the decision to redeem the property certificate a year later, but no one mentioned informing the ironworks. In their opinion, it was only a matter of time and there was no need to make a special trip.
Ji Yushu's recent business has completely fallen short of what it once was. More and more people are setting up stalls, and they've become more sophisticated. Before buying goods, they'll quietly visit your stall to find out what's selling well, then buy the same items themselves. Some even deliberately undercut you. Furthermore, there are now more middlemen, bringing goods from Guangzhou and selling them wholesale at a lower price. As a result, his advantage is gradually disappearing.
Ji Yushu had originally wanted to do this, but someone else had gotten there first. He had also wanted to contact Zhao Dacheng, but the number he had given him was no longer reachable. It was as if he had simply vanished from the face of the earth. Zhao Dacheng's disappearance made Ji Yushu even more certain that he was involved in the theft of his money in Guangzhou, but it was too late.
Business was not good, and there was pressure to buy a house. Ji Yushu became a little irritable. Ye Qiuju was pregnant with his beloved son, and he couldn't vent his anger on her and hurt the child, so he vented all his dissatisfaction on Ji Mingyue. If she hadn't insisted on continuing to study, he wouldn't have taken her to the cotton mill. Then the Jiang family wouldn't have found out. Not only could he and Ye Qiuju continue to have sons, but he wouldn't have divorced Jiang Yulan. If he hadn't divorced Jiang Yulan, his business would have been successful long ago. Whenever he thought of this, he became more and more dissatisfied with Ji Mingyue.
Ji Mingyue felt like she was going through a rough patch lately. Not only did she have to maintain her Attack Points with Wu Juyue and Zheng Gaoyang at school, but Ji Yushu was acting crazy at home, constantly taking his anger out on her. Her Attack Points were plummeting. She wasn't stupid. The recent situation at home, as well as Ji Yushu's attitude, told her that he regretted his divorce and was blaming her for it.
Only those who have wronged you know how wronged you are. Ji Mingyue didn't want the two of them to divorce at all in the beginning. She already knew the importance of the Jiang family's connections at that time. It was because he couldn't save face and was pointed at by others that he agreed to the divorce. Now he blames her, but it's just that he has no place to vent his anger. Thinking of this, Ji Mingyue could only curse in her heart. His strategy value dropped sharply. She has been extremely unlucky these days. Either she has a flat tire while riding a bike, or she is hit while doing exercises in the playground, and sometimes she is hit by people who are taking out garbage and covered with garbage. Although these are all minor problems, the key is that every time she makes a fool of herself, she is seen by Lu Jiaze and Jiang Lili. It was the first time she felt so desperate.
Ye Qiuju had never thought highly of Ji Mingyue, and she had ignored Ji Yushu's outbursts over the past few days. Her mind was now preoccupied with the house. She had envied the villas she had seen in the newspapers in her previous life, and now she could finally live in one. She had even been a little jealous of the third brother's plan to start a business for Song Zhenzhen, but she hadn't expected the business to go wrong before it even took off. She couldn't help but touch her belly, realizing that not everyone had such luck.
*
Ever since Jiang Yulan became a shareholder of Tongqu Players, she had stopped cooperating with Factory 1. Her life had basically become a straight line between home, school, and the factory. Cheng Yuntian even built a lounge for her in the warehouse. She couldn't help but jokingly said, "No way, Mr. Cheng, do you want me to work overtime so badly?"
"Yes, the test of the teether will be over soon. The cost of the voice puppet is too high at the moment, so we will postpone it for now. So please continue to design new models." As a manufacturer, of course the more styles the better.
"Okay, I understand." Jiang Lili began to seriously think about what design to come up with next. After a while, she came up with an idea: "Then let's make a book that can be torn."
"Books that can be torn must be from the publishing house," Cheng Yuntian reminded.
"I'm talking about cloth books. Tearing them apart means using Velcro. Children like brightly colored books. For example, if the theme of the first page is picking strawberries, then you can first take off the basket on the book, and then pick the strawberries on the second page. When you are done playing, just stick them back on. The content in the book must also be attractive, the kind that parents and children can interact with together. After all, our main products are educational toys." Yes, Tongqu Players has now launched a sign for educational toys, and the word "educational" can attract many young parents who are willing to give their children the best.
"That's interesting. You're right. The content of the book really needs to be well designed." Cheng Yuntian nodded in agreement with her opinion.
"The colors must be bright and eye-catching, and the fabric material must be well chosen." In fact, these are very simple to say, but when it comes to the final execution, several versions usually have to be made. So compared to Cheng Yuntian, Jiang Lili is indeed much more relaxed, but after all, she is still a student.
"Okay, I understand. We can start working on cloth books after the teether enters the market, and you can continue to think of new ones." Cheng Yuntian continued to "press" with a smile.
"Let's wait for the market feedback on the toothbrush first." If the feedback is good, she will shamelessly bother Qiu Shaoli again and ask her to help introduce Manager Zhang from Jincheng. At this time, Jiang Lili regretted that she didn't follow Director Yang to Manager Zhang's place last time to make him familiar with her. Alas, she still suffered from lack of experience. She should keep the connections introduced in this way in her own hands.
"Well, I have contacted the sales outlets in Yuncheng. I'm thinking about whether we should open a store ourselves." Cheng Yuntian currently has this plan, but she needs support.
"I think it's a good idea. This way, every time the factory releases a new style, my store can stock it first without having to talk to other people." Jiang Lili thought this was a good idea. It would be even better if they could produce and sell their own products. Of course, she also knew that this was just a beautiful wish of hers.
"Well, this matter cannot be rushed. We have to choose a good location. OK, today's meeting ends here, you should hurry up and study." The factory is not very large now, and there are only two of them in each meeting. It is better to say that it is a discussion with each other than a meeting.
Jiang Lili guessed that she always urged her to study because she knew about the agreement with Jiang Yulan. If her grades dropped, many things would be put on hold. As they were leaving, she suggested, "If you can't think of anything to write about in the book, I think we could solicit submissions from the public. After all, we can't just focus on one theme."
The content of the book must be suitable for young children. Jiang Lili feels that she cannot write those childlike stories, so soliciting manuscripts should be the best way.
"Okay, I'll consider it." Cheng Yuntian nodded. Soliciting papers was indeed a good idea. She took the notebook next to her and wrote it down. However, before that, it was more important to put the dental gum on the market.
Teethers are inexpensive, and when they were first introduced, some people didn't take them seriously. They thought it was normal for children to like chewing during their oral and teething stages. Many older generations even made their own peppercorn sticks for their children to chew on, but some younger parents were also willing to give it a try.
Based on this feedback, Jiang Lili felt that Jincheng might be more suitable for selling these things than Yuncheng, and Jincheng had a higher acceptance rate. After much hesitation, she finally made up her mind to find Qiu Shaoli.
She had to attend classes on weekdays, and her only time was on weekends. She asked Lu Jiaze in advance that Qiu Shaoli did not have to go to the hospital this Saturday, so she went to the house early in the morning with the fruits that Jiang Yulan had prepared for her yesterday. Jiang Yulan didn't know what she was thinking and thought she was just visiting the Lu family, so she didn't go with her.
Lu Jiaze, who came to open the door, looked at the fruit in her hand and frowned: "What are you doing?"
"I'm here to see Aunt Qiu." Jiang Lili explained.
"Come in, my mother is in the kitchen." Lu Jiaze moved aside to let her in. So when she asked so many questions yesterday, she was actually asking whether his mother was at home?
"Jia Ze, who's here?" Qiu Shaoli's voice came from the kitchen.
"Aunt Qiu, it's me." Jiang Lili responded directly.
"It's Lili. Are you here to play with Jiaze?" Qiu Shaoli asked casually.
"No, Aunt Qiu, I'm here to see you." Jiang Lili said as she stood up.
"Looking for me? Did something happen at home?" Qiu Shaoli suddenly became nervous.
"No, no, I just want to ask Aunt Qiu for a favor." Jiang Lili waved her hands quickly.
At this moment, Lu Jiaze, who was sitting next to her, suddenly understood and asked her, "Are you looking for my mom to set you up with Manager Zhang?"
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