A few days after returning to Xujia Village, the county announced that a work conference would be held.
Leaders from more than a dozen communes and provincial cadres were all going to attend, and Chen Yunyun, as the director of the raw material factory, naturally had to go as well.
He Guoqiang sat with Chen Yunyun. He knew some of the inside story. "Don't worry, this is just an awards ceremony."
"Your revenue last year was excellent." He Guoqiang didn't tell Chen Yunyun much, so Chen Yunyun didn't know that the raw material plant's net income last year was higher than that of many established large factories.
It's not just the county level, but the province level also attaches great importance to it.
As expected, Chen Yunyun's raw material factory was cited as an example many times at the conference.
The cadres below looked at Chen Yunyun with envy.
After the meeting, a group of people surrounded the people from Xiyun Commune, asking, "Comrade Chen Yunyun, can you tell everyone how you did it?"
"The county requires each commune to set up a factory. Could you give us some suggestions?"
The hype surrounding the Shanghai garment factory from last year hasn't died down yet, and factories are springing up everywhere.
This year, the county also issued a strict regulation requiring all communes to make progress and innovate, so a bunch of cadres were thinking about setting up factories and sought advice from Chen Yunyun.
She was the youngest in the group, and she dared not presume to be arrogant, so she declined, saying that she had only gotten lucky.
They wouldn't listen to a word she said, and kept asking Chen Yunyun questions until she had no choice but to give her some advice.
"Although raising rabbits is easy and they reproduce quickly, you must be careful that they get sick. You must find an experienced person to raise them, and don't do it haphazardly."
Chen Yunyun gave plenty of warnings, but she didn't expect that someone would still take half of it and run away, turning around and blaming her. But that's another story.
As soon as the meeting ended, Chen Yunyun was pulled away by Zhang Qiang.
Zhang Qiang is Zhang Xiao's father, and he worked in a furniture factory his whole life.
If he hadn't received inside information and seen the income of Chen Yunyun's raw material factory, he wouldn't have imagined that a newly established small factory could make so much money.
Moreover, all the factory employees spoke highly of Chen Yunyun and showed great enthusiasm for their work.
So Zhang Qiang shamelessly came to learn from their experience.
Since Chen Yunyun had some free time, the two headed towards the furniture factory. The employees they encountered along the way greeted them.
Zhang Qiang showed Chen Yunyun around the production workshop and explained the general process.
The workers, who were working, appeared to be sitting upright, but in reality, the little flames of gossip were burning brightly in their hearts.
The workshop became lively as soon as Chen Yunyun left.
"Who was that woman? She looked unfamiliar, I don't recognize her."
"Why is the factory manager personally accompanying him? Is he someone of such high status?"
"Could it be a relative of the leader?"
A group of people were talking amongst themselves, unable to concentrate on their work.
After touring the workshop, Chen Yunyun asked, "What about the warehouse?"
Zhang Qiang led Chen Yunyun to an office. "Wait here for me for a moment, I'll go get the inventory purchase summary sheet."
Chen Yunyun looked around the small office, which was the warehouse management room. A large stack of documents was piled up in the solid wood bookcase next to it; these were all inventory lists from previous years.
Before Chen Yunyun could pick it up and examine it closely, a sharp voice rang out from the doorway.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"They're stealing right under my nose?"
"I'm sorry, you've misunderstood. I'm Chen..."
Before Chen Yunyun could finish speaking, Liu Hong interrupted her, snatched the documents from Chen Yunyun's hand, and shoved her.
The woman glared at her and snapped, "Get out, you thief!"
This push sent Chen Yunyun sprawling to the ground, where she remained unable to get up for a long time.
Chen Yunyun felt a sharp pain in her ankle. Her health was not as good as before. She had just fallen to the ground and even fractured her ankle. It was both funny and frustrating.
Seeing that Chen Yunyun hadn't gotten up for a long time, Liu Hong suspected that Chen Yunyun was faking illness to extort money, and spoke to her with unusual rudeness.
"You little slut, you're stealing and still pretending?!"
Chen Yunyun finally stood up on one leg, but she was too weak to stand up and sat down on the chair next to her.
The woman got even angrier when she saw this.
"Someone come quick, grab this thief and take him out!" she yelled, using every filthy word to slander Chen Yunyun.
Chen Yunyun was almost amused by this woman who didn't know the facts. She smiled and asked Liu Hong, "Guess why I'm here? Your factory manager brought me in."
Liu Hong scoffed, looking Chen Yunyun up and down. "You? What are you bragging about? You're making me laugh my head off."
Indeed, because she was in the county town for a meeting, Chen Yunyun dressed very simply, which led Liu Hong to mistakenly believe that Chen Yunyun was a poor relative of some ordinary worker, and she mocked her even more.
"Do you know who my backer is? The deputy factory director!"
The woman lowered her voice, "I'm not afraid to tell you, that old geezer factory manager will retire in a few years, and then the deputy factory manager will be in charge of the entire furniture factory."
Chen Yunyun gave a cold laugh. "Is that so?"
"Director Zhang, did you hear that clearly?" Chen Yunyun said to the figure outside the door.
Zhang Qiang, who had gone to pick up the purchase order, walked in, exuding an air of authority without being angry.
When Liu Hong saw that it really was the factory director, she was so frightened that her legs went weak and she knelt on the ground, babbling incoherently, "No, no, no, factory director, I was just saying it in anger."
"She forced me to say it!"
Zhang Qiang served as a factory director his entire life, and he could still distinguish right from wrong.
"Since you're so good at abusing your power, you shouldn't be working in the warehouse. Go be a watchdog at the deputy factory director's gate."
These words completely humiliated Liu Hong.
She often abused her position in the factory by taking advantage of her connection with the deputy factory director, and everyone in the factory fawned over her. But when Zhang Qiang spoke so rudely, Liu Hong lost her temper.
"You old geezer, don't you have any respect for me? I'm the deputy factory director's man! You dare touch me?!"
"Why wouldn't I dare to move!"
Zhang Qiang is no ordinary person when he gets angry. He slammed the documents in his hand onto the table, and the sound startled people in several surrounding workshops.
"Go and call Zhai Zhigang over!"
Zhai Zhigang was the deputy factory director, in his early forties. On the way here, he learned the whole story.
He deeply resented Liu Hong, that foolish woman, for dragging him into this mess, and naturally distanced himself completely.
"Factory manager, this woman is crazy. Don't listen to her nonsense. I don't know her at all, and I'm not familiar with her!"
Zhai Zhigang bowed and scraped to Zhang Qiang, afraid that Zhang Qiang would hold a grudge and cause him trouble.
Liu Hong was used as cannon fodder.
People at the door were whispering among themselves.
"So the deputy factory director didn't even know her? Then what's with all this arrogance and pretense?"
"That woman is disgusting, she should go home."
"Crazy woman, she bites anyone she sees."
Enraged, Liu Hong immediately abandoned all pretense and turned her anger towards the deputy factory director, saying, "You said you weren't familiar with me, but when you slept with me, why didn't you say you weren't familiar with me then?"
This revelation shocked everyone.
The deputy factory director has a wife!
Marital infidelity?
The people looked at the deputy factory director with disdain.
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