"Contracting a third company?" Li Chu's intuition told him that there must be something wrong here, but he couldn't quite figure out where the problem lay.
Not hearing her husband's reply, Ding Qiunan turned around and saw him frowning as he seemed to be thinking about something. She asked, "What's wrong, darling? Is there a problem?"
"Don't rush, let me think about it. I feel like something's not right." Li Chu shook his head, closed his eyes, and leaned back on the sofa.
Seeing this, Ding Qiunan didn't bother him anymore and turned back to continue feeding the dogs.
There is definitely a problem. It's only 1981, how could so many factory leaders be willing to contract out the canteen? These people should be the ones obstructing it.
So these people are setting a trap for the Lou family; they definitely have a backup plan waiting for them.
The specifics of his backup plan are currently unknown, but we need to find a way to remind Lou Xiao'e's father.
He got a little carried away; he might have made some money at the steel mill, but he'd forgotten who he was.
If this money were really that easy to earn, would you even have a chance? It would have been snapped up by someone else long ago.
As he was leaning back on the sofa thinking, a pair of cool little hands suddenly placed on his head and gently massaged his temples.
Li Chu opened his eyes and saw his wife standing behind the sofa. He asked, "Honey, do you know whether Lou Xiao'e's father contracted the canteen at the textile factory because someone approached him or he negotiated it himself?"
Ding Qiunan thought for a moment before saying, "I remember that during that time, when Xiao'e was with me here, she mentioned that it seemed to be the logistics director of the textile factory who took the initiative to contact her father. It's the same with the towel factory this time."
"You mean the third one is a towel factory?"
"If I remember correctly, that's right. What's wrong, Li Chu? I've noticed you've been thinking about something since just now."
"I feel like something's not right, but I can't quite put my finger on it. This matter is probably not that simple."
"I didn't quite understand what you meant," Ding Qiunan said, shaking her head as she massaged her husband's temples.
"Actually, I don't really understand either. My intuition tells me something's wrong, but I can't quite put my finger on it, and I don't know what to do."
"Then take your time thinking about it." She patted her husband's shoulder. "Should I go to Xiao'e's house now?"
"No need, no need, it's not that urgent." With that, he pulled Ding Qiunan from behind the sofa to the front.
Then I picked her up and let her sit on my lap.
“This is all Xiao’e’s father’s own problem. I told him that he must be extremely careful in doing this, and take it one step at a time. If something really goes wrong this time, it’s all his own fault.”
"What could happen?"
"There are many. In short, there are too many conservative people, and they will try every means to set up obstacles."
"Sigh," Li Chu sighed and continued, "I just hope I'm wrong this time, otherwise..."
He shook his head and didn't continue.
Ding Qiunan nestled in her husband's arms, her arms wrapped around his strong waist, her head resting on his chest.
"Xiao'e also tried to persuade her father. She didn't think about anything else, but she felt that they were too busy. Now Da Mao is so busy every day that he spends less time at home."
That must be busy. The procurement for one canteen is not the same as that for two canteens, not to mention the possibility of a third canteen in the future.
Procurement now is different from the future. Now supplies are planned and supplied. If their canteen wants to get something outside the plan, they have to go out and search for it.
Oh right, he realized that if the Lou family's canteen wanted to make money, they would need to acquire more unplanned supplies, which would involve other things, and if they weren't careful, they might be accused of that crime.
"I understand, honey!"
"What do you know?" Ding Qiunan sat up straight from her man's arms.
"I can imagine how those people are going to mess with them; they're going to kill them!"
He then told his wife what he had just thought of.
"What... what should we do then?"
Ding Qiunan was stunned after hearing this; she hadn't expected it to have such serious consequences.
"The only way is to stop contracting the canteen at the textile factory. Even if it means losing money for the factory, we can't continue contracting it. Otherwise, it won't just be about losing money; it'll be about going to jail."
"I... I'll go to Xiao'e's house right now, okay? I'll go and tell her."
Lou Xiao'e is Ding Qiunan's best friend. During the time when Ding Qiunan was feeling down, Lou Xiao'e didn't hesitate to leave her child behind and come to comfort her. Now that something might happen to Lou Xiao'e's family, she has to go and inform them.
"Okay, go ahead! Don't rush, be careful on the road."
"It's only a few minutes' walk, what's the big deal!"
As she spoke, Ding Qiunan stood up and walked to the clothes rack by the door to start getting dressed.
After seeing her out, Li Chu locked the door, returned to the living room, sat on the sofa, stroked the head of the furry dog lying in front of him with one hand, and pondered carefully in his mind!
Lou's father and Xu Damao will definitely come over tonight, or at the latest tomorrow.
Xu Damao dared not say, but Lou's father was definitely on fire right now, ready to go all out.
We must make Lou's father realize the seriousness of the problem; otherwise, people might think he's just jealous of others making money.
Sure enough, around 8 p.m. that evening, the entire Lou family arrived.
When they arrived, they also gave us some braised pork offal.
I don't know who made it, but it smells pretty good.
Li Chu didn't waste any words and immediately explained the seriousness of the problem to them.
...
"Uncle Lou, this is what I've thought of. Of course, no one can say for sure whether this will actually happen. So, you need to think carefully about what to do, since if we really withdraw from the textile factory, we'll have to pay a lot of money in compensation."
After he finished speaking, it was impossible to tell what Lou's father was thinking, but Xu Damao was so frightened that his face turned pale and his voice trembled.
"Brother Chu...is it really...is it really that serious?"
"What do you think?" Li Chu shrugged. "Or you could ask a friend in the police force."
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"Sigh..." Lou's father sighed with a sense of vicissitude.
"No need to ask anymore. If it really comes to that, the consequences will be even more serious than this."
It seems that Lou's father has figured it out.
"This is my fault. I was too greedy. I thought it was a pie falling from the sky, but I didn't expect that the pie contained arsenic."
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