That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1188: Unworthy of reuse
Thanks to Xin Yanchun's cooperation, the relevant departments only took two days to verify the information of several abducted women and also obtained important clues about several abductors.
As a result, this originally minor case quickly escalated into a "major case". The city urgently set up a special task force and began a secret and intense cross-provincial investigation.

Originally, the task force had some doubts about Xia Yue's situation, but under the dual interference of Jonina's "protecting women" and awards for meritorious service, Xia Yue's not very rigorous confession was closed into a circle.

You say you are a weak woman, yet you dare to go deep into the tiger's den. Well, well, you are the modern female Wu Song, and we admire you very much.

In addition, women's protection departments also came forward and expressed great concern for Xia Yue, and arranged for the news department to interview her, as if to make her a representative of brave women in the new era.

"Women hold up half the sky, so we should shoulder half the responsibilities and gain half the rights. Work can make women independent individuals and no longer rely on men to survive."

Seeing Xia Yue's interview on the county TV station, Grandma Wu Juying angrily scolded Li Ye: "I think you are destined to be a wedding dress for others. You are busy all the time, but you only praise others."

Li Ye said helplessly: "Grandma, how could I have thought it would turn out like this! But didn't she agree to go back to visit Siguo? At least you got something."

"It's better to have nothing than this little gain!"

Wu Juying said coldly: "Do you think Xia Yue is an honest person? If you give her three points of confidence, she will be able to put on eight points of airs for you.

I think you should either knock her down, or let Aiguo find a stepmother for Siguo."

"This matter has nothing to do with me! I reported it to you and asked you to make the decision. How to decide is your business. Don't drag me into it anymore."

Li Ye quickly said that he would no longer care.

When Xia Yue was abducted, Li Ye believed that he must report this to Wu Juying, and Wu Juying immediately came to mediate, hoping that Xiao Siguo could have a complete family. This is also the normal way of thinking for the elderly.

But looking at Xia Yue's current "struggling" appearance, Wu Juying couldn't help but wonder if it would be better to find a new wife for Cui Aiguo.

Having a stepmother will certainly affect the child's growth, but if the biological mother is not at peace, does it make any difference whether she has a stepmother or not?

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In the blink of an eye, it was the day for the groundbreaking ceremony of the new factory of the first branch in the city. To Li Ye's surprise, Lu Jingyao, Qiao Nina and Xia Yue were also invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony.

Li Ye asked Wang Jinyu in surprise: "Did you invite them here?"

Wang Jinyu shook his head and said, "It's the county's arrangement. I can't just refuse. Our factory plans to recruit 1,000 female employees. The county thinks we should let Ms. Jonina see how we respect and value women."

When a branch factory recruits new employees, it usually recruits a certain number of female employees according to the proportion. Otherwise, a large factory with thousands or even tens of thousands of people would become a temple for the poor.

So Li Ye understood the county's approach and let Jonina, an international figure, see that the new factory had recruited so many female employees, hoping to resolve Jonina's prejudice against gender inequality in the mainland.

But Li Ye still sighed and said: "We already attach great importance to women, but let's not attach too much importance to them."

Wang Jinyu was stunned: "Too much emphasis? No way? There are still people buying wives now! It's just like the old society."

[Alas, you simply do not understand how quickly power can expand once it starts to expand.]

Today's groundbreaking ceremony was very grand, with people from the province, city, and capital all coming. An ordinary little Karami couldn't even squeeze to the front, but because of Jonina, Xia Yue, Lu Jingyao, and Jonina all stood in the front.

Lu Jingyao must have gotten used to this kind of thing, and performed her duties as a translator and assistant with dignity, while Xia Yue was clearly a little overwhelmed.

She saw that many people who usually had great authority were far behind her, and she couldn't hide the pride in her heart. She even couldn't help but raise her chin when she saw that Li Ye's position was similar to hers.

Li Ye couldn't help laughing.

[People value Jonina, you are just a freeloader, don’t you have any idea? ]

However, Xia Yue soon realized that the gap between herself and Li Ye was much greater than she had expected.

First, Li Zhongfa said something to the people in the county, and then the bigwigs from the city quickly came over to shake hands with Li Zhongfa, and then they started to talk enthusiastically hand in hand.

Xia Yue quietly moved closer and heard a few words.

"Qingshuihe Instant Noodle Factory does have plans to build processing bases across the country. The processing base in Beijing has been in operation for a year, and bases in Henan Province and Shanghai have started construction this year."

"Hey, old comrade, Dongshan is such a big place, how many production bases can we build? Why go to other provinces to build them?"

"Haha, I'm just a consultant. I don't have much influence on the specific development of the company. In fact, I am also benefiting from my grandson's help.

Li Ye is more familiar with Mr. Pei from Hong Kong, and I have worked in the food department for half my life, so I am reluctant to make use of my remaining energy."

"Old comrade, you are too modest, too modest, hahahaha~"

Although the big boss in the city said "be humble" to Li Zhongfa, his subordinates with good insight knew what to do and soon came to find Li Ye.

Because Li Ye will be returning to the capital soon after the ceremony, we can't waste time now and have to catch him to talk about work.

"Director Li, we never thought that you were related to Qingshuihe Company. We are acquaintances. We will not beat around the bush. We hope you can help make some connections so that Qingshuihe will consider building a factory here."

Li Ye said with some embarrassment: "I can indeed say a few words, but the transportation conditions in the city are average. Instant noodles are a product that pays great attention to cost. Both transportation costs and production costs need to be strictly controlled."

"We have already applied for road widening, and we can also provide sufficient preferential policies in terms of other costs."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Sufficient preferential policies? How sufficient? How preferential?"

"Hahahaha, we can offer any discount you want. As long as they ask, we will agree."

Normally, such words should not come from the mouth of official personnel, but Li Ye is about to leave, and if you don’t throw out enough chips, Li Ye won’t even bat an eyelid!
The Zhucheng Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Plant was merged into the Light Automobile Company. Li Ye was the director of a branch and was the beneficiary. However, Qingshuihe instant noodles were settled in Zhucheng. Was Li Ye meddling in his own business?

However, Li Ye laughed and said, "Then I'm serious! I'll contact a few more large companies to discuss with you later, so don't go back on your word."

"I promise to keep my word, Director Li. Which Lenovo companies are they? Please don't think I'm greedy. I have to report to the city leaders."

Li Ye said calmly: "I think our southern mountainous area is rich in fruits. Now Pengcheng Red Bull has plans to develop fruit drinks.

I can also get in touch with Fenghua Clothing, but they like to set up factories along the railway, so the specific situation needs to be discussed in detail."

".""really?"

"Then there is still a holiday?"

"Hey, Director Li, you can't leave recently. No matter what, you can't leave. Look, you've been here for such a long time, and we've only met a few times."

Xia Yue, who was watching not far away, saw Li Ye being surrounded by a group of people. They held his hands as if they were afraid that he would run away.

She totally didn't understand why Li Ye would act as a matchmaker to get companies like Qingshuihe Instant Noodles, Pengcheng Red Bull and Fenghua Clothing to set up factories in this backward part of the city.

But she didn't understand the principle that big stores bully customers, and big customers bully merchants. The relationship between enterprises and local areas has always been interdependent and mutually competitive. Now the backward areas are in urgent need of external enterprises to invest. Once they develop, this relationship will quietly change.

But if several major local pillar industries are all owned by one person behind the scenes, and more than half of the GDP is influenced by one person, then in which direction will the balance of the game tilt?
[You must have a good grandfather, otherwise you would have been in jail for fighting.]

Seeing Li Ye surrounded by people's enthusiasm, Xia Yue, who didn't understand the truth, felt very jealous. She was jealous that Li Ye had a good grandfather, and that everything Li Ye had now was thanks to his grandfather.

After all, when Li Ye was in school, he broke people's heads more than once.

"Xia Yue, we are leaving. Are you going back to Pengcheng with us, or to Qingshui County?"

Lu Jingyao's voice pulled Xia Yue out of her jealousy.

Xia Yue didn't think much about it and said directly: "I won't go back to Qingshui County. If possible, I hope to follow Ms. Jonina to live in Hong Kong Island."

Lu Jingyao's brows furrowed slightly.

Last winter, after Xia Yue went south to join her, she expressed her desire to follow and work with Qiao Nina, but Lu Jingyao did not agree, so she arranged for her to teach at Hope Primary School.

Now that this has happened, does Xia Yue think that just because Jonina came to help her, her relationship with Jonina has become closer?

Lu Jingyao sighed and asked again: "Xia Yue, are you sure you don't want to go back to Qingshui County to see the child?"

Xia Yue was stunned for a moment, then said, "I have already told Li Ye that I will go back to see the child this summer. After all, my current state will scare him."

Lu Jingyao looked at Xia Yue's haggard face and nodded helplessly: "Then you can go to Pengcheng with us first!"

In fact, Lu Jingyao really didn't want to take Xia Yue south. It wasn't because of the trouble, but because she felt that Xia Yue's best way out was still in Qingshui County.

After Xia Yue got into trouble, Wu Juying immediately flew here from Beijing. What does this mean?
This means that although what Xia Yue did was very outrageous, Wu Juying still had some feelings for her for the sake of the child.

Xia Yue simply couldn't understand how important this old relationship was.

Did she think that by following Jonina, she could be proud of herself? Didn't she know that Jonina relied on Li Ye to "make a fortune"?
Lu Jingyao didn't know all of Li Ye's background, but just looking at what she knew now, she knew that he had grown to the point where she could only look up to him. After all, Wu Juying was Li Ye's grandmother, and as long as Xia Yue could have even the slightest connection with Li Ye, she would have an immeasurable future.

Unfortunately, she is blind.

The three of them took a car back to the island city and prepared to take a flight south to Pengcheng.

Xia Yue took advantage of the opportunity that the three of them were riding in the same car to try to get close to Jonina.

Jonina was not good at communicating, but as they chatted, she suddenly asked about Li Ye.

The first time that Jonina met Li Ye was at the Talang Literary Publishing House in Hong Kong Island, but this time when she met Li Ye, Wen Leyu was by his side.

So when she asked about Li Ye, she was actually asking about Wen Leyu.

But Xia Yue didn't know all this, and when she talked about Li Ye, she brought up her own personal opinions.

"That Li Ye is a lucky man. He married a lady from an official family, and then he gained power that he should not have had."

Qiao Nina listened to Xia Yue's story patiently, and then said softly: "Power will not fall on a person for no reason."

"Why do you think he got to where he is today because of power, rather than him working hard first and then power finding him?"

Xia Yue was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said: "I have known Li Ye for a long time. He was really nothing special before, and was even very stupid.
But after he met his current wife, his achievements and his fortunes became miraculous."

Xia Yue said a lot in one breath, and the key point of Li Ye's drastic change in personality almost coincided with Wen Leyu's transfer to the County No. 2 Middle School, so it sounded really seamless.

Therefore, Xia Yue believed that everything Li Ye had now was brought to him by Wen Leyu, and even some unspeakable means were used in the process.

But Jonina shook her head in disappointment.

"Oh, Xia, I must advise you that the fact that he was able to marry a powerful wife is proof of his own excellence, just like if Cinderella wanted to marry a prince, she had to have a father who was a count first."

"It's a pity that the world only saw the scene where Cinderella was abused by her stepmother, but ignored her own bloodline."

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Xia Yue was stunned for a long time before she said stubbornly, "Ms. Jonina, we in the mainland are different from the West. We believe more in 'emperors and generals are all born with different bloodlines' rather than the difference in bloodline."

"Lu told me this sentence before, and I like it too."

Qiao Nina looked at Xia Yue and suddenly asked with a smile: "So, when do you think you will surpass Mr. Li Ye?"

Xia Yue: “.”

When will I surpass Li Ye?
Xia Yue couldn't give a deadline at all.

Even though she spoke so badly of Li Ye, she had no intention of surpassing Li Ye at all.

It would be good enough to surpass Lu Jingyao.

But when the three of them arrived at the island city, Qiao Nina quietly told Lu Jingyao: "This Ms. Xia Yue is too arrogant and jealous, and she is not worthy of being promoted."

(End of this chapter)