Chapter 873: Poaching
"Go back and wait for me..."
His voice was hoarse, and something was rolling in his eyes:
"It's a rare day off, don't be so busy all the time."
Lu Miao swallowed with his throat sliding.
Understanding his hint, her ears turned red, her eyes glared at him, and she muttered softly:
"If you don't bother me, it's better than anything else!"
"That won't do."
Fu Jingyou chuckled softly and patted her buttocks which were slightly tightened by the black skirt:
"I send you."
"Need not."
Lu Miao didn't let Fu Jingyou send him off.
She knew the way now and could just stroll back.
After repeatedly telling Fu Jingyou to go home at night and getting the answer he wanted, Lu Miao went home with an empty lunch box.
When they got home, Tang Mei asked about the situation at the factory, and Lu Miao complained truthfully:
"The sleeping place is just two broken wooden boards. It's hard for Shi An to lie down on them. I don't know how he has been able to endure all this time."
"Oh, that won't work. Did you tell him to leave the door open for him at night and ask him to come back and stay?"
"I said it, and he said he knew."
"That's good... I'll leave some food on the stove later. When he comes back in the evening, you can tell him that you want to eat it when you're hungry."
Tang Mei began to nag and give instructions.
Lu Miao heard it and responded with "I understand".
After washing the lunch box and putting it back in the kitchen, she pocketed some change and walked out:
"I'm going to buy some fruit and visit Gu Ying. If you need anything, just go to the factory. I should be there."
There are obviously more varieties of fruits on the market stalls this year than in the past.
Lu Miao picked and chose and bought a big watermelon weighing eight kilograms.
This month is the time when Pinggu peaches are on the market, so she picked out some hard peaches and bought two kilograms.
They first went to the factory yard, cut the watermelon and let everyone eat it. Lu Miao took a quarter of it and carried it to Maomao Hutong together with the peaches.
It was summer vacation, and Xie Fei and Gu Ying were both at home.
Gu Ying has now finished her postpartum confinement and the house is almost tidied up.
When Lu Miao went over, the couple was working in the yard, and it seemed that they were planning to start a vegetable garden.
"Do you have any vegetable seeds here? If you haven't bought them yet, you don't have to. I still have plenty left."
"Lu Miao."
Gu Ying looked up and saw that it was her. She quickly got up and washed her hands by the well, then took her arm and walked into the house.
"You live so close, and you're here right now, but why are you carrying things?"
Lu Miao blinked, put the things on the table, and said flatteringly:
"I'm sharing this, not being polite. The watermelons were cut in the yard over there before I brought them here."
Gu Ying smiled and didn't argue with her.
She took a kitchen knife and cut half of the watermelon into pieces. Gu Ying sat with her and ate the watermelon together.
Seeing that she looked good, Lu Miao asked, "How are you?"
Gu Ying took a small bite of the watermelon, her smile sweet and gentle:
"I can finally enjoy my life."
Lu Miao also laughed when he heard it.
I don’t know if I’m really enjoying myself, but I’m definitely living a more comfortable life than before.
"The yard has been cleaned up in the past two days. I think I have nothing else to do during the summer vacation, so I will go to the small yard over there to help out tomorrow."
"Sure, I can give them a break. I can't recruit enough people, and they've been working non-stop. I feel bad for them."
Gu Ying's health had almost recovered, so Lu Miao had no worries anymore, since she had a share in the industry anyway.
But thinking of something, Lu Miao lowered his voice and raised his chin towards Xie Fei who was swinging a hoe outside the house:
"Have you told Xie Fei about this?"
"Not yet... I was planning to tell you, but I just couldn't find the right opportunity."
"Um……"
Lu Miao nodded thoughtfully and asked another question:
"You took more than half a month off last time. Did your school work get affected?"
"The school leaders must be a little unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it."
Gu Ying sighed slightly, then smiled and said:
"Luckily, the teaching staff hasn't caught up yet, so I didn't lose my job. I can make up for it by performing well in the future."
"That'll do."
After talking about Gu Ying, Gu Ying asked how Lu Miao was doing recently.
Lu Miao pouted and shook his head: "I'll take these two days off. I guess it will be like the death squad again when I go to work tomorrow."
“It’s quite hard.”
Gu Ying nodded, and comforted her from a different angle:
"But it's a respectable job, and the people you meet there are not ordinary people. If anything happens in the future, it will be easier to talk to them."
Lu Miao shook his head and said disapprovingly:
"It's better not to mention it. It's all about relationships that are good to use but not nice to hear, or nice to hear but not good to use."
It seems like a great reputation, but if you really entrust someone with something and leak some information, you might be accused.
If you rely on mountains, they will fall; if you rely on people, they will run away.
Either you have power or you have money, but you still have to work hard and rely on yourself.
This is the most realistic thing.
After sitting with Gu Ying for a while, Lu Miao stood up and asked to leave.
Gu Ying sent her to the courtyard, and Xie Fei stopped her and asked:
"Xiaobao, does your family have a fishing rod?"
Lu Miao glared at him, "Who is it?"
“…”
Xie Fei's mouth seemed to be tied up, and he hesitated for a long time before saying "Xiao Liu".
"You've known each other for so many years, yet you're still like strangers, not even knowing how to address each other or what to call each other."
Lu Miao read Xie Fei's words and returned to the main topic:
"I have a fishing rod. Why, you want to fish? Do you know how to fish?"
Xie Fei nodded truthfully:
"It shouldn't be difficult... I see he's usually busy. If you don't need it recently, you can lend it to me and try."
Fu Jingyou has no time to go fishing at work, so he happens to be free these days.
Lu Miao thought that there weren't many fishermen these days, and the area near the moat was indeed quite easy to catch, so he didn't think much about it.
She nodded and asked Xie Fei to go home with her to get the fishing rod.
In the afternoon, when Lu Miao was stationed in the factory yard and studying beading in the office cabin, Mei Zi came over and told her something.
It is said that one of the two sisters-in-law who were originally in charge of crocheting took a day off a few days ago.
Lu Miao had heard her talk about this when she came over yesterday.
She was originally skeptical, but Mei Zi's next words made her think briefly.
"Brother Xiangdong came this morning and said that a factory similar to ours had been opened in the Ma family compound. One of his men saw the sister-in-law who had taken leave go there a few days ago."
Lu Miao glanced outside the door and asked in a soft voice:
"Does she live in that area?"
Mei Zi shook her head: "No, except for Sister Chunxiang who lives a little further away, on the other side of the market, the other sisters-in-law all live near the front and back doors."
Lu Miao had a rough idea in his mind.
The poaching that I had anticipated was probably really going to happen.
She thought about it for a moment and said:
"Other operations in the courtyard continue as usual. Let her string the beads. As for other new designs, I'll find a random excuse to temporarily stop them from taking over."
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