Reborn in 1977, I will no longer be my brother's blood bag.

Besides the director and Engineer Sun, there were two strangers sitting in the conference room.

One was a man in his fifties, wearing a dark gray Zhongshan suit, with a thick meeting minutes book beside him. The other was younger, with a work badge pinned to his chest, and was flipping through project materials sent back from Linzhou.

As Lin Xiuhe entered, the director pointed to an empty seat.

"sit."

As soon as she sat down, the older man asked:

"You're Lin Xiuhe?"

"Yes."

"You were involved in the Linzhou Daily Necessities Factory project, weren't you?"

"I went there once before, and then the factory did it itself."

The man nodded.

"The first batch of 53 units has been delivered, and then another 100 units were added."

"Donghe also accepted it."

"The price wasn't pushed down in the end."

"Did you suggest all of these?"

Lin Xiuhe thought for a moment.

"I'm not alone."

"I proposed the phased delivery first, and the factory calculated the subsequent quantities themselves."

"Regarding the price, I simply told them to ask the buyers what they thought first."

The man looked up.

Why did you think of asking the person who bought it?

"The factory itself doesn't know whether it should lower the price or not."

"Since Nanhua is cheap, they're eager to follow suit."

"But the items are different."

"Then we have to ask first what the people who spend the money actually value."

Engineer Sun smiled to himself.

"She's been going down to the grassroots level a lot lately, and the questions she asks when she comes back have changed."

The older man asked:

"What should we ask first?"

Lin Xiuhe also smiled.

"First ask what's wrong."

"And now?"

"First, see what their most urgent needs are."

The man closed the document.

"I didn't come here today specifically to hear you talk about Linzhou."

He pushed the three documents next to him over.

"The province has received many applications from local small factories in the past two years."

"Some cases do indeed require personnel from research institutes."

"Some things are already possible, but we're stuck on something else."

"We have limited manpower, so it's impossible to send a project team to every company."

Lin Xiuhe opened the first document.

I looked at the second and third copies.

One of the products had many technical issues, but no clear delivery time was provided.

One item has already been ordered, and the first batch will be ready within half a month.

There's one more order, but we still have plenty of time.

She took out the second one.

"I'd like to see this first."

The older man asked:

Why?

"I need the goods in two weeks."

"The items have already been purchased."

"If the problem isn't serious, one trip there should be enough to get the local authorities to proceed on their own; there's no need to delay."

"What about the other two?"

"Let them complete the necessary information first."

Lin Xiuhe pointed to the first one.

"The other one is still over a month away, so we can schedule it later."

The director asked:

"When you're choosing a project now, do you prioritize the delivery date?"

"We can't just look at this."

Lin Xiuhe refolded the three documents.

"But if I could do both things, and one might be gone if I waited a few more days, while the other would still be available later, I would definitely do the first one."

After listening, the older man took a pen and wrote a line down in his notebook.

Then he looked at the director.

"Then let her try first."

The director nodded.

The man looked at Lin Xiuhe again.

"From now on, I'll go through these kinds of small projects transferred from the province first."

The materials in Lin Xiuhe's hand stopped on the table.

"Shall I look first?"

"right."

"I'm not telling you to accept all of them."

"First, determine which tasks are truly urgent, which you can handle yourself, and which require personnel from the research institute."

"It is necessary to send more people down to the lower levels."

The director asked:

"Is there a problem?"

"Should I continue with the provincial projects I'm currently working on?"

Do as instructed.

"Let's review the materials here first, and only run if necessary."

Lin Xiuhe nodded.

"OK."

The man pushed the three documents back.

"Let's start with these three."

"When are you planning to go to the second one you just picked?"

Lin Xiuhe glanced at the date on the document.

"tomorrow."

The man smiled.

"So fast?"

"Half a month may seem like a long time, but if something goes wrong, it won't last long at all."

"OK."

"Then we'll wait for your judgment when you get back."

The meeting ended quickly.

Lin Xiuhe carried three documents back to her office.

Her colleagues saw her enter and immediately came over.

"What does the province want with you?"

"Several projects were assigned."

"Going out again?"

"Let's take a look first."

"What are you looking at?"

Lin Xiuhe placed the three documents on the table.

"See which one is worth doing first."

My colleague stopped what he was doing.

"Didn't Engineer Sun and his team look at this first?"

"Let me try now."

The other person stared at her for two seconds and then laughed.

"Engineer Lin, you've taken another step forward."

"Let's not talk about that now."

Lin Xiuhe had already opened the second document.

"I have to go out again tomorrow."

The item in the photo is a very ordinary daily necessity.

The price is not high.

The order size wasn't very large.

However, there is a line of red pen in the bottom right corner:

First delivery: 15 days.

She circled the line with a pencil.

The phone on the table just rang.

A colleague answered it casually.

After listening for only two sentences, I handed the receiver to her.

"Looking for you."

Lin Xiuhe took it.

"Feed?"

The person on the other end of the phone was a strange man.

He speaks very fast.

"Is this Engineer Lin?"

"I am."

"Did the province transfer our factory's materials to you?"

"Just received it."

Have you seen it?

"Watching it now."

The other party visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good."

"We received another order today."

Lin Xiuhe picked up her pen.

Has time changed?

"It's changed."

"So there are still two weeks left."

"Now they're saying that if we don't get the first batch in ten days, we'll switch to another company."

Lin Xiuhe looked down at the line she had just circled.

fifteen days.

She wrote a new number next to it.

Ten days.

The person on the other end of the phone continued to ask:

"Forest worker."

"Are you really able to come tomorrow?"

"able."

She closed the document.

"I'll arrive tomorrow morning."