20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3495 The Smelter's Dilemma
"Close your eyes and relax."

Zhao Chang'an took off his cumbersome short jacket and, like a butcher before slaughtering a pig, rolled up the sleeves of his thermal underwear twice around his arms.

"Pfft~"

Ke Yaqing couldn't help but laugh when she saw Zhao Chang'an's serious expression. She looked up at him with a raised eyebrow and said, "Your actions don't feel like a miraculous cure, but rather like you're sharpening your knife to slaughter pigs and sheep."

"Where in the world can you find such beautiful and adorable pigs and sheep? I'm turning my body to the side; I'm going to use my technique."

Upon hearing this, Ke Yaqing obediently turned her body, placed one thigh on the sofa with her legs together, supported her lower leg at a 90-degree angle on the cabin floor, and pressed her other thigh tightly against the first thigh, with about a third of her buttocks dangling off the sofa.

Zhao Chang'an looked down at her high ponytail, with some loose strands of hair on her fair neck, adding to her allure.

It was only then that Ke Yaqing realized that she had been verbally flirted with by Zhao Chang'an, who was old enough to be her son. Although it was a compliment, the flirtatious tone of the compliment was very strong.

Speechless, she rolled her eyes as she looked out the azure sky through the plane window. Now she was even more certain that the rascal standing behind her was just trying to take advantage of her like a calf trying to eat its mother's grass.

She felt strange inside. She didn't dare to think that she was so beautiful that she could charm people of all ages, especially at her age.

In this day and age, a young man like Zhao Chang'an possesses wealth, power, talent, and good looks. Any one of these qualities alone would be a game-changer, let alone all four.

As for those young and beautiful girls, he could easily win them over and date as many as he wanted.

Take the example of myself and my daughter boarding the plane; each of us paid $10,000, which is nearly 170,000 RMB.

As someone in this profession, Ke Yaqing naturally knows some of the things that happen behind the neon lights and in the shadows. For example, if you go to a high-end place for a hair wash or a massage, a thousand yuan can make the girls there treat you like royalty.

This 170,000 yuan would allow Zhao Chang'an to be pampered by different girls every day for 170 days in different places.

If you include the cost of chartering a plane every day, how long would it take for Zhao Chang'an to finish the cost of chartering a plane in one day?
"Pfft~"

Ke Yaqing's pretty face flushed slightly, realizing how immoral her thoughts were.

As she was smiling, two warm fingers gently touched her temples.

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This massage lasted a full eight minutes longer than scheduled. Zhao Chang'an started with Ke Yaqing's temples, then moved to Shenting, Baihui, Fengchi, Dicang, Yingxiang, Jiache, Tianzhu, Jianjing, Dazhui, Jugu, and her entire head, face, and delicate, white shoulders and collarbones. He carefully and gently touched them all.

Especially when massaging her shoulders, because Ke Yaqing was still wearing a padded jacket, thermal underwear, and undershirt, he had to reach inside with his hands, and sometimes he even had to use his fingers to lift up the straps of Ke Yaqing's purple undershirt on her shoulders.

Many times, his fingers moved downwards with the movement of his palms as they were massaged.

However, he was a gentleman. Although it could be said that the very tip of his finger once reached the mountainside, he was absolutely a humble gentleman like Liu Xiahui, and did not make any move to climb to the top of the mountains.

As the massage ended, Ke Yaqing slowly opened her eyes, still half asleep. Looking at the azure sky outside the plane window, she was a little confused about where she was.

It took him a long time to come to his senses.

Ke Yaqing turned to Zhao Chang'an in surprise: "I fell asleep? How long have you been asleep?" Over the years, she could only fall asleep for half a day if she was extremely exhausted or if she took a hot bath with rose petals and drank enough red wine. She needed medication to sleep for most of the year.

But she actually fell asleep!
"Soon after, when I pressed your Fengchi acupoint in the third minute, I heard you snoring very softly."

Ke Yaqing blushed and retorted, "I never snore when I sleep, you must have misheard!"

"I must have misheard. I must have mistaken the noise of the plane passing by for this sound."

Zhao Chang'an said to Ke Yaqing, "How are you feeling? Does your head hurt anymore?"

Ke Yaqing then realized what was happening, calmed down and felt it for a while, then looked up at Zhao Chang'an in shock: "How did you do that?"

"Without him, only hands are familiar."

Zhao Chang installed a brothel.

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The Chu Daofeng family of four drove from Wenjia Village to Zhengzhou yesterday and stayed at Chu Guangying's place.

Originally, after his trip to Wenjia Village, Chu Daofeng planned to revisit the smelter to see if he could offer any assistance.

Although the labor export of Chongqing has been quite good in the past two or three years, it is still in its initial stage. Excluding the counties below, the three districts in the city alone have a population of about two million, of which 300,000 are in the city proper.

The agricultural population accounts for 85%, while the urban population accounts for 15%.

Of the 300,000 people in the city, about 180,000 are of working age, and no fewer than 100,000 of them have been affected by layoffs and re-employment in recent years.

Among these people, many have found new jobs or become wealthy through their own efforts in recent years. Of course, there are also a very small number who are used to the factory providing everything, or who are slow to adapt to new things, or who have not yet adapted for other reasons.

Ten thousand people went to work in other places through labor dispatch, creating a magnificent chapter in their youth.

However, tens of thousands of people remain in the factories that have ceased operations, living off the meager two or three hundred yuan they receive each month, yet they lack the courage to seek innovation and change, to shed their long robes and don short-sleeved clothes.

Smelters are clearly a place where this problem is particularly prominent, as these workers engage in specialized physical labor, and the smelting industry is inherently a heavy metal and high-dust industry.

The best solution would be for the Tie Dong Factory to merge with it. The two factories were located just across the road from each other, and half of the electricity used by the smelter was supplied by the Tie Dong Factory's thermal power plant.

However, the smelter is under the jurisdiction of the district, while the Tiedong plant is jointly managed by the city and provincial industrial authorities. From the perspective of the Tiedong plant, the plant has been struggling in recent years. If it weren't for the large-scale development of Luyuan Mountain City, the plant would have almost had to shut down.

Then, taking advantage of the explosive growth of the domestic real estate industry in the past two years, houses are being built everywhere, even in rural areas. The steel plant's profits are not great, but at least it can maintain normal reduced production, so the workers have work and can earn wages to support their families.

The smelter has more than 600 employees, and nearly 200 retired employees with occupational diseases. The annual wages, pensions and medical expenses of these 800 people are not a small amount.

Furthermore, the company owes substantial sums to the water company, the power company, hospitals, and upstream suppliers. Even if they sold off the land, which was worthless due to its location, and the decades-old equipment inside, as scrap, they would still be insolvent.