Chapter 111: Enemies Meet Again
Gao Meifeng and Su Houli have not yet obtained their marriage certificate.
The two families were stuck over the issue of bride price.
Xu Yuxiang was a person who would take advantage of others. She had already discussed with Su Xiumei that there was no need to give a betrothal gift. Xu Yuxiang also did not allow Su Xiumei to lend money to Su Houli because she knew that Su Houli had no money.
Of course, she was not trying to make things difficult for Su Houli, but was deliberately trying to take advantage of Gao Meifeng.
It's your second marriage, why do you still want a dowry? Do you really think you're a virgin?
Gao Meifeng's family was very satisfied with Su Houli. He was handsome, a backbone of the factory, and was really good to Gao Meifeng.
But when they heard that his family's house and land were left to his ex-wife's daughter, they were unhappy.
Gao Meifeng's mother, Gao Guoshi, was a thin, petite old woman with bound feet, but she was very shrewd. She told Su Houli, "Although my daughter is remarrying, so are you. This makes us even. If you want to marry my daughter, you must show sincerity. You can't just get something for nothing. Since you don't have a house, you must give a betrothal gift. I can't give my daughter away for nothing. And you can't miss any of the necessary procedures for marriage."
This made Su Houli very embarrassed.
But it's hard to refute.
He originally thought that they had been together for such a long time, and once he divorced, they could get the marriage certificate and live a happy life together.
But because he didn't have a house, so many problems arose. Gao Meifeng also complained to him: "If the house in the village was ours, we wouldn't have to stay at your sister-in-law's house when we went home for the New Year. Your sister-in-law's character clearly can't tolerate us, mother and daughter. I will never go to your village again."
"Don't worry, Meifeng. I will work hard and we will try to buy a house in the city." Su Houli was in a dilemma and could only comfort Gao Meifeng, "I heard that our factory still has a batch of quotas for buying houses this year. It will definitely be our turn this time. I asked Mr. Kang, and he said that as long as you meet the requirements, there will be one."
The housing allocation policy of Qimei Garment Factory is to give priority to dual-income families and middle-level and above cadres with urban household registration.
He is a middle-level cadre, but he did not have a city hukou before and did not meet the requirements for buying a house.
Now that he has a city hukou, he is eligible to buy a house in the factory, but this means that he has to pay more than 100 yuan in mortgage payments every month and also has to prepare a down payment of 20,000 yuan.
If he and Gao Meifeng bought the house as a couple, they would only need to pay a down payment of 10,000 yuan, and the remaining mortgage payment would be deducted from their wages. This way, the pressure would be much less.
But the problem now is that he has no house, and Gao Meifeng refuses to get a marriage certificate with him. He can only buy a house with his personal identity. Not to mention a mortgage, he has no place to borrow even the 20,000 yuan down payment.
"Then let's wait until this matter is settled!" Gao Meifeng also wanted to persuade Su Houli. In fact, what she wanted was Su Houli's attitude towards her, not entirely the house. It was because the people in their family were so difficult to deal with. Gao Meifeng got angry when she thought of Xu Yuxiang. That old woman wished she would give herself to her son.
Even without getting a marriage certificate, she can still be in the active position.
Once she got the certificate, she became passive.
By then, they will be at the mercy of their family members.
She's not stupid.
Gao Meifeng actually wanted to ask Chen Guilan how much dowry Su Houli gave her before he married her.
Of course, she couldn't ask that question.
After all, Su Houli and Chen Guilan divorced because of her.
If it weren't for work, she would never have had any contact with Chen Guilan in her life.
With Qin Shuang around, although Chen Guilan felt embarrassed, she still followed the process to coordinate with Gao Meifeng. She asked her to copy a production process sheet, took her to the cutting workshop to get 100 pieces of cut material, and then went to the sewing workshop to get samples. The two signed the delivery note, and finally went to the warehouse to get the auxiliary materials and signed again to confirm.
Chen Guilan knew how to make clothes before she got married. After arriving at the Jiali Garment Factory, she quickly became familiar with the processes on the assembly line.
She also spent half a month getting familiar with the electric sewing machines in the factory. Even though she is not a merchandiser now, she can be responsible for a process on the assembly line.
The only secret to doing a good job on the assembly line is practice.
Qin Shuang knew that Chen Guilan didn't want to face Gao Meifeng and Su Houli, so she naturally wouldn't make things difficult for her. Whenever there was a need to go to Qimei Garment Factory, she would usually go. But Qin Shuang was the sales manager of Jiali Garment Factory after all. She was not only responsible for the orders of Jiahe Group, but all the delivery orders of the packaging workshop needed her confirmation. Once she got busy, she didn't even have time to eat.
Chen Guilan saw this and consciously took over the follow-up business at Qimei Garment Factory, allowing Qin Shuang to focus on her work at Jiali Garment Factory.
When she arrived at the Qimei Garment Factory, Chen Guilan's heart was no longer as calm as before when she thought about the person she was about to meet. She mustered up the courage to find Mr. Kang from the Qimei Garment Factory and told him that she wanted Su Cuicui to be her quality inspector.
Mrs. Kang was a forthright woman in her fifties. She readily called Su Cuicui into her office and told her to cooperate with Chen Guilan. "Su Cuicui, Section Chief Chen will be in charge of our orders from now on. You must assist Section Chief Chen and make sure you don't make any mistakes."
Qin Shuang had already greeted Mr. Kang long before Chen Guilan arrived.
It is said that Chen Guilan is the head of the Quality Inspection Department.
"Don't worry, Mr. Kang, I will work hard." Su Cuicui didn't expect that the head of the quality inspection department of Jiali Garment Factory was Chen Guilan. She almost called Er Niang on the spot. She knew that Chen Guilan worked in Jiali Garment Factory and thought she was just an assembly line worker, but she didn't know that she was such a high-ranking official.
After coming out of the office, Su Cuicui quietly asked Chen Guilan, "Second Mother, why is it you?"
"I work at the Jiali Garment Factory and happened to be working on this order, so I came here." Chen Guilan was very friendly when she saw Su Cuicui. "From now on, don't call me Second Mother in the factory. You can call me anything you want. Our goal is to do our job well."
She understood what Qin Shuang meant.
Giving her the title of section chief and asking her to supervise quality is also to facilitate her work better.
"Okay, I'll call you Section Chief Chen from now on." Su Cuicui was flattered. She had been working at the Qimei Garment Factory for over half a year as a quality inspector in the packaging workshop. She was so excited to have been promoted so unexpectedly that she didn't know what to say. She immediately took Chen Guilan to Gao Meifeng's workshop to inspect the goods. "Director Gao is very strict with the workers. You can rest assured about the quality."
Coincidentally, Su Houli was there too. He was standing by the window telling Gao Meifeng that he would treat her to dinner that evening. It was no use for the two of them to drag on like this. Gao Meifeng refused to go: "If you have this idea, you might as well go to my house and make my mother happy."
Everyone in her family kept saying that she was remarried.
She just wanted to show them that it was not easy to marry a divorced woman.
"I will definitely go when I'm free." Before Su Houli divorced, although rumors were flying everywhere, the two of them were somewhat secretive, especially him as a man. When he met her in the factory in broad daylight, he also acted in a businesslike manner.
Now he no longer hides it and runs to her whenever he has time. People in the workshop have long been accustomed to it and are too lazy to say anything to them.
As soon as Chen Guilan entered the door, she saw the two of them chatting affectionately. If she had done so before, she would have turned around and walked away.
But today she came to discuss work, not to cause trouble for the two of them, nor to make herself unhappy. Since they are already divorced, Su Houli can talk to whoever he wants.
Thinking of this, she walked straight up to Gao Meifeng, without even looking at Su Houli, and said expressionlessly: "Director Gao, Su Cuicui will be my assistant from now on. If you have any questions, just ask her to come to me."
Su Houli was stunned.
Why is Chen Guilan here? What is going on?
She was wearing a gray work suit from the Jiali Garment Factory, blue jeans, and her hair was simply tied up behind her head. She looked like a professional woman, and her expression was no longer the timid one from before, but rather a cold and distant one.
This kind of dress and this kind of Chen Guilan made him feel unfamiliar and curious.
Especially her skin color, which suddenly became white and translucent, no longer the dark rural woman in his memory.
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