Eighties Sweetheart Wife-Chapter 651: The People of the Second Factory

In the provincial city, Old Mr. Hu and Old Master Lin’s health had been on the decline over the past few years.

They had handed over their work duties to the younger generation.

It was a complete retirement.

Then, both of them came to Beidu together.

They certainly had to attend Little Nuan’s wedding.

The wedding was attended by Ai Ruifeng and his wife from Xiangjiang, the family of four from Sixth Master, as well as the old man from the Lew family with his son and daughter-in-law.

The wedding was not extravagant, but it was indeed valuable.

Old Mr. Xie was the officiant.

The couple standing in front of everyone truly looked like celestial beings descended to earth.

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Song Yunuan didn’t have a formal job, so naturally, there was no such thing as a wedding leave for her.

But Gu Huai’an had one.

This time, his immediate superior had granted Gu Huai’an a month off directly.

The newlyweds were naturally in utter bliss.

Song Yunuan was also very satisfied with Gu Huai’an.

Not bad at all, the taste was indeed delightful.

Gu Huai’an was a bit surprised that he could no longer hear Little Nuan’s thoughts.

Lying in bed, the two faced each other.

Watching her clear eyes whirl, Gu Huai’an knew she was pondering something, but he couldn’t hear it anymore.

But in fact, he had rarely been able to hear Little Nuan’s thoughts in recent years, and after closely observing the reactions of his family members around him, it seemed they too could hear them less and less.

So had everything fallen into place?

Gu Huai’an thought that must be the case.

His fingers gently rested on Song Yunuan’s cheek, as if she were still the same young girl he had first met.

With eyes clear as water, he felt one could see right to the bottom.

If he couldn’t hear her thoughts, then so be it.

This was quite fine.

When the weather began to warm up, workers from another factory headed to Zhilan Garment Factory.

A few hundred of them went there.

It was all quite bizarre.

Song Liang, facing the crowd blocking the entrance, patiently asked what they were there for.

The crowd was mostly women.

Soon, Xia Guilan and Han Yanfei also stood before the crowd.

Then a middle-aged woman called out to Han Yanfei, "Yanfei! I am your Fifth Aunt Zheng. This matter has nothing to do with you. Stand aside to avoid getting involved if a conflict starts."

Han Yanfei’s eyebrows immediately furrowed.

She didn’t recognize this so-called Fifth Aunt Zheng at all. What was the meaning of her words? Was she trying to create discord?

She was the deputy director of the factory. Now, with people gathering and causing a disturbance at the gate without clear reasons, she couldn’t just sidestep and enjoy her leisure.

How would that look to the factory director and his wife?

Fortunately, this family was generous. If it had been someone more narrow-minded, wouldn’t they now suspect her of betrayal?

This person was not here to help her but to harm her.

Han kept wondering if she had offended this person before.

But what she could be sure of was that this person knew her.

Han Yanfei decisively said, "It’s working hours now, and I am the deputy director of Zhilan Garment Factory. What are all of you doing blocking the main gate? If it’s to discuss matters with the factory director, then send a representative.

The office of Zhilan Garment Factory is large, but it cannot accommodate hundreds of you.

Whoever is the representative, please step forward. This matter cannot be resolved by one person addressing hundreds; it needs to be one-on-one or two-on-two discussions."

After these words were spoken, Song Liang and Xia Guilan both breathed a sigh of relief.

Song Liang then said in a good-natured manner, "That’s exactly the point. Did you come to me for something? Today’s weather is so hot, and it’s easy for everyone gathered at the door to get heatstroke. How about this, you choose representatives and we’ll go to the office to talk, and everyone else can find a shady place to rest for a while."

Whether it was a trivial issue or a serious concern, it was crucial to soothe the people now.

The current state of Beidu was actually far from calm.

More and more businesses were going bankrupt, and some were even merging.

In any case, it involved a problem with personnel.

More and more people were being laid off.

But their own factory had nothing to do with these troubles.

If it were a matter of competition among peers, the workers from this old-established factory wouldn’t normally lack quality.

The people looked at each other, and finally, three of them stepped forward.

Right, indeed, there must be representatives and organizers.

One of them, a middle-aged man in his forties, said loudly, "Today, we are here to demand an explanation from you. Zhilan Garment Factory is indeed becoming very large, continuously expanding, and even earning foreign exchange for the country, this we acknowledge and admire.

"Your workers have high salaries and good benefits, we know this too.

"But Factory Two was built from scratch by our predecessors with hard work. You outsiders, nouveau riches, do you know what they went through?

"You don’t know, you will never know, and you won’t even try to understand.

"All you care about is money. You think having money lets you do whatever you want, but let me tell you, that’s not possible. This society isn’t ruled by the likes of you nouveau riches and capitalists."

"Today, I represent eight thousand workers to warn you, give up your thoughts of acquiring Factory Two."

"Otherwise, the flesh and blood of our eight thousand workers can build a Great Wall of flesh and blood.

"If you want to enter the gates of Factory Two, you’ll have to step over our dead bodies!"

The man started calmly, but his words grew increasingly angry, finally, he even began to roar.

Hearing this, Song Liang’s expression drastically changed.

How should he begin to explain?

Even before Little Nuan got married, they had already notified the higher-ups that they were not interested in Factory Two, and they did not have the resources or the capital for it.

This was stated at a meeting by Xia Bowen.

The team leader was from their own family, no one was deceiving them.

Song Liang thought the issue had passed.

Why was it being brought up again all of a sudden?

This had nothing to do with their own affairs at all.

But before he could refute, those hundreds of workers started waving their fists, shouting loudly: "Swear to defend our factory, swear to defend our assets, nouveau riches and outsiders, get out of Beidu..."

Although their shouts were not in unison, they were loud enough.

Even Song Yunuan, who was driving over to this side, could hear the noise at the front gate from the road not far away.

Today was the weekend.

It was the afternoon, and she had gone out to run some errands and then realized she wasn’t far from Zhilan Garment Factory, so she decided to stop by.

She had not expected to walk into a disturbance.

After parking the car, Song Yunuan walked quickly toward the chaos.

At that moment, Song Liang fell silent, without a loudspeaker his voice was too weak to overpower the crowd. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

Then the factory security staff also arrived.

These men were ex-servicemen.

Some had been assigned undesirable jobs, some came from underprivileged homes, and some were rejected by units due to physical issues, and then Song Yunuan arranged for them to be placed directly in the security department.

The head of the security department, Section Chief Zhou, and Old Ho from Nanshan County Town were war buddies.

The former Director Ho had now been transferred to the provincial department.

Because of this connection, Section Chief Zhou was considered one of their own.

He arrived as quickly as he could with his subordinates, but he did not approach the crowd, as it was absolutely not the time to get too close to these people.

He had already called the police by then, and there was a police station nearby.

Whether it was something Zhilan Garment Factory had caused or something these people were up to, it was certainly right to involve the police station.

Seeing the situation, Song Liang said to Xia Guilan, "You and Han should hurry back to the factory."