"Mom, we are back."

At around three or four in the afternoon, the four men came back. Peng Kang ran into the yard first and started shouting as soon as he came in, "Aunt Ji Luo, Uncle Rong Yan has repaired the car and is back."

"Ah? The car is back?" Ji Luo just finished talking to Chen Zhifeng on the phone and immediately stood up and came out, "Kangzi, did you guys just go to fix the car?"

"Yes, Dad and Uncle Rong Yan helped the master to repair the car. They replaced all the broken parts and drove back after it was repaired."

Tuantuan came in a step slower than him, following behind with his short legs clacking. When he saw Ji Luo behind, he jumped up happily: "Mom, Mom..."

"Hey, sweet baby."

Ji Luo bent down and picked him up, kissed him twice, and asked, "Kangzi, did you have lunch?"

"I have eaten at a car repair shop. I had steamed buns and pickled cabbage and tofu soup."

Ren Rongyan and Peng Jinsong helped repair the car in the morning, while their two children were playing nearby. There were all kinds of strange things in the repair area, and they treated the discarded screws as toys, playing so much that they were reluctant to go back home.

Ji Luo came out holding his son. Seeing the jeep that looked almost new parked at the door, he walked around the car and asked with a smile, "Brother Yan, how do you feel?"

"It's OK. It's similar to the cars I used to drive in the Sand City Army. If I take it for maintenance and repairs every year, it won't be a problem to drive it for another three to five years."

The car they bought was originally a discarded one, and it would be great if they could drive it for another three to five years. Ji Luo did not plan to test drive the car. Seeing that both of them were covered in dirty engine oil, he hurriedly said, "You have been busy all day, come into the house and have a rest, and change your clothes and wash them."

Peng Jinsong went into the house to change his clothes. Seeing that his wife was not at home, he came over and asked, "Ji Luo, where is Minfang?"

"She went to the farmer's market with her mom to buy vegetables. Guanglei called half an hour ago and said that the couple would come over for dinner tonight and specifically asked for hotpot. They just went to buy mutton."

Ji Luo made tea for them and brought over the hot food on the kitchen stove. "You only had buns for lunch, so you must be hungry. Eat something to fill your stomach. We can have dinner later."

She filled a small bowl of rice for Tuantuan, scooped a few spoonfuls of egg custard, mixed it with the rice and fed it to him, saying to them, "I just finished talking to Brother Chen on the phone. Everything is ready for the Yangcheng branch. It will open on time on Monday."

"The first batch of employees consisted of 300 to 400 people. We arranged jobs for over 30 unemployed wives of soldiers in the Yangcheng Military Region, and resettled over 60 retired soldiers. We also recruited 50 to 60 graduates from textile technical secondary schools, and more than 200 workers from the society."

"We have been training and conducting trial operations this week. The operations of each workshop are better than expected. I will not be there on the opening day. Lin Shizong will fly there tomorrow and he will be the representative to attend the opening ceremony."

When the Yangcheng branch opened, Ji Luo invited Captain Wang and his family members to attend in advance, but they all declined on the grounds of going to work. They unconditionally trusted her arrangements and were happily waiting to share the profits and make a lot of money at the end of the year.

Peng Jinsong and Zeng Minfang were also unable to spare the time to attend. All arrangements and plans in the factory were decided by her. They did not comment and just followed her steps firmly.

Ren Rongyan also firmly supports and believes in his wife. When it comes to business, he admits that his ability is limited, but she is extremely talented. He cannot help with management expansion, but can only silently provide help in terms of personal connections.

"Ji Luo, has Lin Shizong's woolen yarn factory opened?" Peng Jinsong asked.

"It opened on the eighth day of the first lunar month. The Lin family is relatively low-key. Only Lin Shizong himself came out to preside over the opening of the woolen yarn factory. No other members of his family and investment shareholders showed up. The woolen yarn factory was opened quietly."

"The wool yarn sold in the two department stores in Kyoto is produced and supplied by his factory. The quality and supply price are the same as those of the Shacheng Woolen Yarn Factory."

Ji Luo is the third largest shareholder of the woolen yarn factory. Lin Shizong had made an appointment to meet with her before the New Year. He had discussed with her in private about what should and should not be said.

The first batch of goods produced by the wool factory was also supplied to her store. At that time, she announced a three-day wool promotion in the store. The price was more than one yuan per pound cheaper than that in state-owned stores, and gifts such as towels and socks were given away. The business was so booming that she could not handle it, so she temporarily called five or six classmates to help part-time.

They had just finished their meal when Ruan Danqiong and Zeng Minfang came back and bought four or five pounds of mutton and some various dishes for hot pot. They asked about the car and went to the kitchen to get busy.

"Mom, is this all the sweet potato flour you have?"

Ji Luo also came over to help with the preparations. Sweet potato vermicelli is a must-have dish for hot pot. Everyone loves it, and half a pot of it must be cooked every time hot pot is made.

"Well, that's all. Tuantuan really likes sweet potato vermicelli. When you were not at home, I cooked it for him a few times. Minced meat and cabbage stewed with vermicelli, he would eat a big bowl every time."

Ji Luo soaked all the remaining sweet potato flour and said, "I'll call Aunt Juan and ask her to mail some more for me."

"Okay, the sweet potato noodles in your hometown taste good. If you have some at home, ask her to buy some. Your grandparents like it, and so does Lin Wei. She even got two kilograms from us. And Miss Sun next door also got two kilograms. Her little kid likes it, and she asked me if I had any at home a few days ago."

The sweet potato flour made by Li Hongjuan is purely handmade. It does not add a lot of alum and other things like those in later generations. It looks ordinary, but tastes very good and is suitable for all ages.

"I'm going to make a phone call now."

Ji Sanlin called her a few days ago and told her that all the goods they brought back from Shacheng during the Spring Festival were sold out. Even the defective ones were snatched away at low prices by their neighbors in the team, and all were converted into money.

Of the two hundred blankets they brought back, Wang Yaping bought about ten at the hospital, her two brothers from her mother's side helped sell twenty, Ji Shengli's colleagues at work bought more than twenty, Li Jiaojiao's family helped sell about twenty, and the rest were all wholesaled to neighbors in the team.

Farming has already started in my hometown. The team leader has organized the team members to plow the fields and weed. When Ji Luo called, Li Hongjuan was working in the fields.

When she learned that she wanted to buy sweet potato noodles, Li Hongjuan smiled and said, "Ji Luo, we still have about 20 kilograms at home. Your father specially saved it for you. Your second aunt made fermented bean curd for you, and your eldest aunt pickled Laba beans and black bean sauce. We have agreed before that we will go to the county town to send it to you when it rains."

"Aunt Juan, thank you. Please also say thank you to my two aunts for me. I really like these. I will send the money and living expenses here later. Please give them to them for me."

"Ji Luo, you don't need to pay me. You have helped our family enough. We have all taken advantage of you."

"The goods we selected at the factory last time were said to be defective, but they were actually good goods. You didn't ask us for a penny. Except for the ones we kept for ourselves, we sold the others for six or seven hundred yuan."

"These dried vegetables and pickles made by your two aunts and I are not worth anything and we didn't spend any money on them. They are all grown in the fields. It just takes a little effort."

"Please don't give us any money. We won't accept it. I'll mail it to you in two days."

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