After the groundbreaking ceremony, there was a press interview. Dong Qing and Li Yuzhu were interviewed, and Dong Qing told the reporters about the company's future development.
It took a long time to get rid of the reporters. After they left, Dongqing said, "Yuzhu, shall we go and take a look at the bean product factory?"
Li Yuzhu nodded and walked towards the bean product factory with her ex-husband.
On their way to the bean product factory, they suddenly heard someone behind them say, "Hey girl, stop right there."
The voice was so familiar that Li Yuzhu knew it was her mother without even turning around.
She turned to look at her mother, who stood behind her, holding her grandson with a furious expression. Li Yuzhu asked, "Mom, why are you here?"
How my mother came to be is a story that begins yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, my third aunt went to my house to tell my mother that Sun Hao's father had gone to my house yesterday morning to cancel the marriage between Li Yuzhu and Sun Hao.
When her mother received the news, she was so angry she almost died; she had known this would happen.
She wasn't stupid; she had seen through her daughter long ago. Her daughter was playing hide-and-seek with herself, delaying her engagement to Sun Hao in order to remarry Dong Qing. Could her daughter keep dragging things out like this?
Third Aunt said, "Eldest Sister, not to criticize you, but you can't let your daughter have her way too much. Sun Hao is such a good young man, he's handsome and has a good job. What's so good about Dong Qing? I really don't know why your girl is so stubborn. Is this a good thing? She's gone. If she continues like this, she'll find someone else who will also leave. Nobody wants to waste their time with her like this."
"How could I have given birth to such a reckless daughter!" The mother paused for a moment and said, "I've calculated that she should be back by now. I'm going to town to settle accounts with her."
My aunt said, "Eldest sister, they've already called off the engagement. What good will it do you to go today? It's too late. Go tomorrow. When you see your daughter, try to reason with her. She's all grown up now; arguing with her won't get you anywhere."
After breakfast this morning, my mother took my grandson and drove to the city. When she arrived at our door, she knocked but no one answered.
Later, I heard from the neighbors downstairs that Dong Qing and Li Yuzhu went to Su Village to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the project.
She arrived at the Su Village construction site with her child in her arms and saw her daughter and Dong Qing standing on the stage cutting the ribbon. After inquiring, she learned that the construction project was built by Dong Qing with a loan of 15 million yuan. Hearing this almost scared her to death.
Only then did she realize why her daughter had divorced Dongqing a few months ago; it was probably because of this investment project. She muttered to herself, "Has that son of a bitch gone mad?"
With tears in her eyes, the mother said, "How did I get here? If I hadn't come today, you could have exposed the whole mess and I probably wouldn't even know. Dongqing, let me tell you, you can do whatever you want with the 15 million loan, just don't drag my daughter into it. You two should have divorced long ago. Give her half of my daughter's assets immediately. After that, you can do whatever you want with her. I can't and don't want to, and I have no obligation to. I can't let my daughter take such a risk with you."
"Mom, stop making a scene, okay? Don't you know what kind of occasion this is? Are you only satisfied when you've attracted reporters?" Li Yuzhu paused for a moment and said, "Dongqing, go check on the bean product factory. Mom and I will go home first."
Dongqing knew he couldn't reason with the old lady, so he said "okay" and turned to walk towards the bean product factory.
Just as her mother was about to step forward to stop her, Li Yuzhu said tearfully, "My dear mother, look around you! There are leaders and reporters everywhere, and the TV station staff haven't left yet. If you don't want your daughter to become famous, please stop making a scene!"
After hearing this, the mother looked around, but finally suppressed her anger and said nothing more. Li Yuzhu took her son and pulled her mother's arm with one hand, walking towards the city.
Dong Qing walked into the bean product factory and looked around several processing workshops, where workers were busy in an orderly manner.
Finally, we entered the packaging workshop, where the last step was for the female workers to bag, seal, and pack the produced dried bean curd sticks into boxes.
He suddenly heard someone behind him say, "Big boss, do you still recognize me?"
Dong Qing turned around and saw that it was none other than Su Guifang, Li Yuzhu's neighbor, the widow Su he had seen at Li Yuzhu's door last autumn.
Dong Qing asked, "When did you start working?"
Su Guifang said, "I need to find a job to earn money to support my family and myself. I've been working at the factory for half a month now."
Dong Qing didn't have much to talk about with her, and given his current relationship with Li Yuzhu, there was even less need to chat with her. After a few casual words, he said, "You're busy, I'll go look around elsewhere."
Dong Qing was the last to enter the general manager's office. Zhou Hui was sitting at her desk working. When she saw Dong Qing come in, she said, "The general manager is here. Please have a seat."
Dong Qing walked to the sofa and sat down. He asked, "How are the sales of dried bean curd sticks lately?"
"Our dried bean curd sticks fully meet the standards and are sold all over the country. Sales are excellent; we basically have no stock in our warehouse—they're shipped out as soon as they're produced!" Zhou Hui paused for a moment before saying, "Our production volume is so large that we can't even use half of the soybean residue and by-products at our pig farm. Lately, we've had so much soybean residue piling up that we don't know where to put it."
Dong Qing knew about this matter early on, and it was a headache for him. Drying soybean residue involved too many steps, and even if it was dried, it wouldn't be good enough to feed pigs. Not only would no one want to sell it, but most importantly, it wasn't worth much money. Only when it was stuffed into pigs' stomachs could it become highly profitable.
During this period, merchants in Sucun Village are not willing to accept any price per kilogram for tofu dregs, even if it's given away for free. They can't even finish feeding the soybean dregs produced in their own factories, so why would they need that stuff?
He said, "It seems we need to buy piglets, otherwise we won't be able to deal with the soybean residue. I'll figure out a way to do that."
Dongqing returned to the county town, went into the post office and made a long-distance call to Donghui, asking him to go to the pig farm and ask if he could buy 2,000 piglets and send them over.
Donghui said, "Buying 2,000 piglets shouldn't be a problem. I'll go to the pig farm this afternoon to make some contact for you. After I confirm, I'll call your older sister and have her notify you immediately. Call me back as soon as you get the notification."
Dongqing gave Donghui the phone number for her older sister's office, then said thank you and ended the call.
Li Yuzhu and her mother returned home from Sucun. Her mother said, "I really didn't expect Dongqing to be such a worry. Is such a huge investment a joke? Why didn't you tell me sooner? You should have divided the assets immediately. There was no room for discussion. I can't watch my daughter go to jail with him in the future. That's a 15 million loan! Do you understand, my silly daughter? If the investment fails, you'll be spending your life in jail with him!"
Li Yuzhu said, "Mom, I haven't dared to tell you for months, but things have come to this point, can you please not make things worse?"
With tears in her eyes, the mother said, "Am I just making things worse? I'm trying to save you. No one but your parents would care for you."
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