When the female supporting role has a beauty system

Chapter 1217

Guo Jiantao turned away dejectedly, brushing past a teenager as he left the alley. The teenager was about thirteen or fourteen years old, roughly the same age as Guo Wenshan, but much thinner, and his eyes had a sinister look about him.

The two walked a few steps when the boy suddenly stopped and turned to look at Guo Jiantao. He paused for a moment, then continued walking, and after entering the food factory's residential compound, he began to call out, "Grandma Wang, good afternoon."

"Aunt Wu, are you preparing vegetables for cooking?"

"Aunt Zhang, you've become even more beautiful since I last saw you!"

"Xiaofeng is here?" The old woman fanning herself smiled. "You're here to see Team Leader Qiao? Team Leader Qiao specifically asked me to tell you that she went to Guangzhou to attend the Canton Fair and won't be back for more than a week."

"She asked me to tell you to take good care of yourself, and to wait until she gets back to talk to you about anything else."

Zhang Yifeng nodded: "I see. What about Wenting?"

“Wen Ting is on summer vacation. Team Leader Qiao will definitely take Wen Ting with her. Wen Ting is so lucky to be able to travel around with her mother at such a young age.”

"By the way, I heard your dad's case was overturned, is that true?"

The gloom on Zhang Yifeng's face dissipated considerably: "It's true, my father was wronged, and he's back now."

The women washing vegetables and clothes all perked up their ears, and Grandma Wang stopped fanning herself and pressed, "What's going on? What about your father's job and your family's house?"

Thinking of the twists and turns, Zhang Yifeng clenched his fist: "That night, my dad was working overtime in the workshop. When he got off work, he found Wang Zhuzi and Li Er stealing steel from the factory. My dad immediately wanted to expose them."

“I never expected that Jiao Dachun was hiding in the shadows that day. He insisted that my dad stole the steel, and that Wang Zhuzi and Li Er were just protecting the factory’s assets. Suddenly, the thieves became heroes, and my dad was wronged.”

Grandma Wang sighed, "Isn't this disheartening?"

"What about your dad's house..."

“We can’t get our old house back,” Zhang Yifeng forced a smile. “My dad’s case was overturned, and the factory even let him go back to work.”

“Besides, people have already moved into the old houses and don’t want to move. As for housing allocation…” He shook his head as he spoke: “Everyone is short of housing these days.”

Everyone understood, but one auntie gossiped, "Didn't the Li family, the Wang family, and the Jiao family pay compensation?"

“I don’t know,” Zhang Yifeng gritted his teeth. “Their verdict hasn’t been handed down yet. My poor mother, she’s gone just like that.”

Everyone sighed in unison, feeling that the Zhang family was truly unlucky. Zhang Dacheng was clearly doing a good deed, but unfortunately, the good person was falsely accused, resulting in him being imprisoned, losing his job and house, and his wife passing away.

The two children were forced to drop out of school and were forced to live a difficult life in a shack.

Thinking about all this makes my mouth taste bitter. I feel like life is just so hard.
"Mom, is this Guangzhou? It's so different from where we live." Guo Wenting held Tan You's hand, a little timidly. Because she wasn't valued in the Guo family and was always suppressed by her parents, Guo Wenting was somewhat timid.

Tan You responded softly, "Yes, this is a big city, so it's naturally different from our small county town. Let's go, let's find a place to stay first."

Even Director Hong, at this moment, had to follow Tan You's lead. He was just a food factory director, and the farthest he'd ever traveled was to the provincial capital. This was a journey across most of China, and he was a little nervous. But Tan You didn't have that fear. She acted as if she were at home, easily bypassing the touts. After asking for directions along the way, she smoothly checked into the guesthouse with her letter of introduction.

Factory Director Hong and his entourage became mere bag carriers, carrying only their glasses the entire way.

"The Canton Fair doesn't start until tomorrow. Shall we go check it out first? And then set up the venue?" Tan You and Guo Wenting washed their faces and changed their clothes before going out to gather people.

Factory Director Hong was sitting on the bed trying to wake up. No matter how motivated he was, he was almost fifty years old, and after two days of train travel, he was starting to feel the strain.

"Huh? It's just a display, how do I need to set it up?"

Tan You thought to herself, "You guys haven't seen the booths of each company. They put a lot of effort into them. Unlike now, when everyone's thoughts are still very simple and they don't have so many ulterior motives."

“Let’s go and familiarize ourselves with the venue first, so we can have a clear understanding of what’s going on.” Tan You pulled Guo Wenting along, “And our milk tea and instant noodles both need boiling water, so we need to figure out how to get that.”

"We can't just give a dry introduction to people, can we?"

Factory Director Hong was stunned by Tan You's eloquent explanation. Finally, he wiped his face and said, "Alright, let's go take a look together. Qiao Mai, I think you're wasting your talents as a technician. You should be good at whatever you want to do."

"You've even been learning foreign languages ​​from professors along the way, how are you so capable?"

Tan You smiled but remained silent. It must be tiring for a veteran to pretend to be a newbie. She was fluent in foreign languages, but the original owner, Qiao Mai, only had a junior high school education, so Tan You had to pretend to be a novice and learn from the old professor whenever she could along the way.

The Canton Fair at that time was far from the bustling event it would become in later years. The booth setup was also very rudimentary. When Tan You found the booth of the Five Star Food Factory, she frowned as she looked around.

To be fair, the booth I got by lottery was pretty good, but it's isolated on all sides. If I wanted to get water, I'd have to cross half the exhibition area, which is really inconvenient.

Factory Director Hong chuckled, “Our location is great; people can walk here in just a few steps.”

Tan You frowned: "The location is good, but it's not suitable for us. The most important thing for our booth is to have water. Without water, our milk tea and instant noodles won't be able to perform their full potential."

Factory Director Hong's excited mind gradually cooled down: "Then what should we do? Change the booth? The place with the water tap is too out of the way, how many people will come?"

"That's alright, we have a strong smell." Tan You said meaningfully, "Just tell me, who doesn't say our instant noodles smell delicious?"

Not to mention now, even in future generations, the smell of someone making instant noodles will be able to be smelled downstairs.

Factory Director Hong was persuaded: "Then let's switch? With whom?"

Tan You lifted her foot and walked away: "I'll go."

Twenty minutes later, Director Hong and the porcelain factory swapped booths. Both sides were eager to end the exchange and felt they had gotten a great deal.

Tan You glanced at booth number 278 in front of her, then looked around the space before waving her hand and saying, "Let's get to work."

The two workers who accompanied him smiled, rolled up their sleeves, and got to work. After pasting colored paper on the cement wall behind the booth, the older man opened his paint box and began painting on the spot.