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Chapter 422: The Indifferent Book

Chapter 422: Chapter 422: The Indifferent Book

Guardians always wish they could predict every risk, to provide a pain-free growth experience for their children.

But fate has already anticipated our anticipations. If one risk is avoided, an even bigger one will likely be encountered unexpectedly.

"A family is an entity, but the members are different individuals. Respecting each other’s choices might be the adhesive between individuals. He took this step, and I’m not only witnessing it but accompanying him. Together, we look forward to what comes next."

Zhang Yue’e didn’t quite understand, but she was deeply moved. She quickly took out a small notebook from her pocket and jotted down these words, muttering to herself:

"Thank god I was prepared..."

Since Suizi gave birth, she has frequently come up with profound sayings. Zhang Yue’e believes that it is always better to write these down for future reference than to rely strictly on memory.

Yue’e, a newcomer to the workplace, could sense the risks. And certainly, Suizi and Yu Jingting were also aware of them.

Suizi knew that Jingting might offend many people, but she clearly understood that when confronted with a choice between survival and extinction, there isn’t much choice left.

The beer factory as it currently stands would have to close indefinitely if it didn’t upset people.

Suizi’s family had the financial resources to provide support. Yu Shuisheng returned from the border with three bags full of money which was enough to revitalize the factory.

However, the problem was that there was no room for financing at this point in time, and the Yu Family was not allowed to solve the problem privately.

When all life gates are blocked, the death gate may be the only way to life.

This is the first shot that Jingting took when he assumed his post, placing himself in a ’do-or-die’ situation.

His way of auctioning off items when no money was given was somewhat shameless, but it was incredibly effective.

All the units that owed them debt did not want to lose their faces. Because the movement in the beer factory was too big, everyone was watching. The items auctioned would have tags to indicate where they were taken from.

They would rather sell everything to pay off their debts than lose their faces.

A large chunk of debts was suddenly cleared from Jingting’s hands —provided enough start-up funds. A few households still refused to pay and the negotiation was ongoing.

First, he gave the workers who hadn’t seen any salary for a year their wages which won him popular support, this followed by resuming production.

Out of the two production lines, one was broken. Jingting had inadvertently connected with a foreign expert who put forward a repair proposal. The repair was not particularly difficult and only required a little funding.

The factory was in high spirits. Most of the upper levels thought that they should seize the opportunity to fix the machine, increase production, and have a big fight.

Jingting, however, opposed everyone else, decided to only keep one production line, refused the workers to work in three shifts, only used the current product value and produced a batch of wines for the market.

This was only meant to inform the people of the city that their factory hadn’t closed and they still had products.

Many people didn’t understand this.

In an era where everyone rolled up their sleeves and has to work hard under the principle "there is only a cow that dies from exhaustion, not a field that is tilled bad", his thoughts didn’t make sense.

Those who were waiting to see how he would exert his abilities were also puzzled by his conservative operation.

Only Suizi highly praised Jingting’s judgment.

As Jiaojiao said, her sister-in-law looked at her brother’s eyes, which were so hot that they seemed to be sparking.

It was easy to feel sick when spending time around these two.

Suizi was especially fond of Jingting because she felt he could see clearly the market supply-demand relationship, distinguish the primary from the secondary, and maintain a sober mind even while everyone else was drunk. These are qualities that are beyond most in this era.

Entering winter was already a slack season for the beer industry.

Having offended so many people, it was impossible to take the welfare path via the company.

Even several state-run restaurants in the city had almost been offended by Jingting, so they wouldn’t use their factory’s products on a large scale in the short term.

Maximizing productivity is currently the mainstream value of factory directors. Most factory directors focus on increasing the output value and building relationships. Jingting, however, was already thinking about the market.

Suizi admired Jingting so much for this advanced consciousness that she could love him for a thousand years.

In the eyes of outsiders, Jingting had a noisy start but soon settled down, making a sharp turn and becoming quiet, giving the illusion that he wasn’t doing anything.

Rumours began to spread again, saying that those who rose from the bottom lacked management skills and didn’t leverage on the available productivity but decided to retreat and lack fighting spirit.

The workers of the beer factory resumed production, but the output value was very low, just enough to maintain expenses. The factory was still technically in operation but at a loss.

The debt Jingting wanted to recover was enough to support the factory for half a year.

During this time, he had some free time. So the people in the night school once again saw the anomaly of the director’s husband using the director’s office as his working area, reporting punctually every afternoon.

However, according to witnesses, Jingting was reading a comic version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in Suizi’s office and wasn’t actually working.

Suizi seemed to intentionally indulge him in this "learning enthusiasm", not only buying him a full set of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" comic but also other comic classics like "Water Margin", "Journey to the West"....

The size of the comic at the time was just the size of a hand, hard-shelled and rolled up, ten volumes in a roll, hard and square, like a block of tofu.

So colleagues who came to Suizi to sign papers often saw Jingting sitting on Suizi’s chair comfortably, her legs perched on the table, the tofu-like comic put in front of him like a fortress.

Suizi stayed by his side, taking care of him.

If one didn’t know any better, they’d think he was on vacation.

The opposition group, headed by Wang Mengmeng and the principal, privately discussing that the beer factory was almost done, they had a leader who loved watching comics and didn’t work seriously, didn’t focus on production, what good would come of it?

Wang Cuihua posed this question to Suizi, watching comics in the eyes of the elderly was an act of idleness.

Jingting wouldn’t just read it, he even got Jiaojiao into reading it.

Even Yu Shuisheng had recently taken an interest and would passionately discuss it during meals, Suizi would chip in occasionally with her opinions.

Because the discussion was so heated, the two children who were just learning to speak began to mutter words like "beat" and "kill".

Wang Cuihua was very worried.

Was this the routine of an entire family engrossed in comics?

So one day, while Jingting and Shuisheng were out, Wang Cuihua secretly asked Suizi.

"Suizi, aren’t you planning on doing anything about Tiegen and Jiaojiao reading these idle books?"

"Kill kill~~~" Luoluo, sitting on the soft cushion on the floor, waves her little hand.

Wang Cuihua pointed at her granddaughter, see what they’ve become!

"A book is a book, doesn’t matter if it’s idle or not, as long as they can get into it, it’s a good thing. Jiaojiao has developed an interest in history now. Jingting has also been studying strategies during this period."

"...." Wang Cuihua was speechless, she couldn’t see it at all?

"Beat beat~~~" Luoluo continued to wave her chubby hand towards her brother.

Bobo wobbly bumped into her sister, and the two children fell together on the soft cushion.

"Look, preemptive strikes do not necessarily yield good results, winning the situation is the real victory."

Suizi picked up her son who won the battle relying on his body weight and kissed him.

"Mother, Jingting will act no later than the Spring Festival, we just need to wait and watch."

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