A life of success begins with being a landlord.

Bobo waved his hands impatiently, "What are you looking at me for? Get lost, go get lost with Wang Yaozu!"

"Thank you so much, Sister Bobo!"

Afang bowed to Bobo again, took out a small box from the inner room, and stood next to me.

"Let's go, let's go."

I scratched my head, feeling like an idiot.

He was just showing off for no reason and ended up getting himself into trouble by bringing Afang back with him. How is he going to explain this to Chunyan?

I took Afang to Fatty Sister's fried rice noodle shop and said with an awkward smile, "Afang, you wait here for me. I'm going to find my girlfriend. She's going to work too, so you two... can go together."

Afang nodded and smiled, "Thank you, Brother Wang. But my name isn't Afang... I'm Liu Haomei."

"understood."

I waved and turned to go upstairs to find Chunyan.

Chunyan was watching a DVD at home when she came across some funny scene and started laughing like a grinning wolf.

"Old Wang, you're back."

Chunyan stood up, pausing the disc: "How's it going? Is the leak fixed?"

"no."

I chuckled and said, "However, I've already arranged your work."

"Really?" Chunyan hugged my waist and kissed me on the cheek. "You're not lying to me."

"I'm not lying to you. It was Dao Zixiong who introduced us to Sihai Printing Factory. Their boss called me and asked us to go and take a look."

I boasted for a while, then stammered, "Oh, right, there's a girl at Bobo's place, named Afang... no, no, Liu Haomei, she's also going to work, and Bobo asked me to help her..."

"The girl from Bobo's shop? Working with me?" Chunyan didn't seem to mind: "Sure, it'll keep me company."

I remembered Chunyan's ID card, so I quickly took it out and handed it to Chunyan.

Chunyan was delighted and took it to look at it, but suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap, how did they make me a year older? I'm only seventeen, and this shows eighteen..."

I waved my hand: "Don't 'holy crap,' Bobo did it on purpose. Bobo said it's easier to get a job if you're a year older, and harder to find one if you're seventeen. Anyway, this is fake; you'll have to get the real one when you get back."

"Oh, I see."

Chunyan nodded and then asked me, "When should we apply for the residence permit?"

I thought for a moment and said, "The residence permit is easy to get. I'll take you to Sihai Printing Factory first."

"Okay, I'll wash my face first!"

"etc!"

I grabbed Chunyan: "You can go to work, but you have to promise me one thing."

Chunyan blinked: "What is it?"

"There are a lot of young people in the factory. I'm afraid you'll throw your money away and get kidnapped." I said seriously.

I got this job through Daozai Xiong.

If Chunyan falls for someone else, I'll have lost both my wife and my army!

Chunyan chuckled and started punching my chest with her little fists: "My little dumpling, I'll beat you up, you dog!"

As we were fooling around, I had another wicked thought and hugged Chunyan.

"Let's go, your arm isn't healed yet, and you're already hitting me."

Chunyan pushed me away and went to wash her face.

Ten minutes later, I took Chunyan downstairs to meet Liu Haomei and introduced them to each other.

The two girls hit it off immediately and started chatting warmly, leaving me standing there.

I shook my head and went to hail a taxi.

A few minutes later, the taxi arrived, and we got in together.

The driver took us east out of Sanlichuan Street, circled around a few times, and finally arrived at the gate of Sihai Printing Factory.

It doesn't feel very far, maybe three or four miles.

After getting off the bus, I stood in front of the gate and looked around. The factory was neither too big nor too small. There were several signs hanging in front of the gate: one was Sihai Printing Factory, another was something like Culture GG Company, and the other was Packaging Factory.

The factory must be newly built; the buildings don't look old.

There is another building under construction.

But there was a sign hanging on the factory fence, and the contents of the sign made me break out in a cold sweat—"Bringing guns and gunpowder into the factory area is prohibited!"

Is this place littered with guns and gunpowder?

Chunyan peered through the fence and exclaimed, "My goodness, what a beautiful factory..."

I took out my phone and called General Manager Wu.

General Manager Wu was very polite. He had the security guard open the door and led us to his office on the second floor.

As soon as we went upstairs, we saw a middle-aged man, who looked very refined, standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting.

"Are you Mr. Wang? I am Wu Guoxiang, the person in charge of Sihai Printing Factory."

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand, and the gold watch on his wrist gleamed.

"Hello, Mr. Wu." I quickly extended my hand.

People call me Mr. Wang, which makes me feel flattered and respectable!

General Manager Wu was very courteous. He shook my hand and then nodded and smiled at Chunyan and Liu Haomei: "Let's talk in my office."

The spacious office was filled with the aroma of books.

A capable young woman poured us tea and quietly slipped out, closing the door behind her.

I offered General Wu a cigarette: "Thank you for your consideration, General Wu. This is my friend Xia Chunyan, and this is... Liu Haomei."

"You can smoke, I don't smoke."

General Wu, who didn't smoke, waved his hand and looked Chunyan and Liu Haomei up and down: "What level of education did you two reach? Did you graduate from high school?"

Chunyan answered timidly, "I only graduated from junior high school, is that alright?"

"Okay, no problem." General Manager Wu nodded and smiled.

Liu Haomei stammered, "I attended high school for a year..."

"That means you've graduated from high school and are a highly educated person."

After thinking for a moment, General Wu asked Liu Haomei, "How were your Chinese grades when you were in school?"

Liu Haomei's eyes lit up: "My Chinese grades are good, but my math and physics are not."

"That's fine then."

General Manager Wu tapped the table lightly with his finger: "There are some proofreading and typesetting jobs in the printing factory, office work, very easy, not much overtime. Monthly salary... I'll give you the same as the long-term employees, 950. You'll have all the other benefits for long-term employees."

"Nine hundred and fifty?"

Liu Haomei blushed with excitement, nodded repeatedly, and then hesitated, saying, "Does this job require a computer? I don't know how to use a computer."

I was also surprised. Nine hundred and fifty is definitely a high salary!

I want to come and work here!

"You will need to use a computer, but this job is just text editing. You just open a document and move the mouse; it's very simple, and you can learn it in three days. You can learn a lot by working here, and it's a promising job."

"Thank you, General Manager Wu, I'm happy to do it!"

Liu Haomei was so happy she almost cried, and she bowed repeatedly.

Chunyan watched from the side, her expression anxious and uneasy.

General Wu then looked at Chunyan and asked, "What kind of job do you want to do?"

Chunyan gave an awkward laugh: "I don't know, this is my first time working outside..."

"Our packaging factory mainly produces small packaging, such as affixing labels, which anyone can do."

General Manager Wu pondered for a moment: "Go to the packaging workshop and work as a piece-rate quality inspector. It'll be easy. You'll have to work overtime during peak season. I'll still give you a salary of nine hundred, but once you're in the workshop, you can't tell anyone."

I understood somewhat; this was because of Dao Zai Xiong's influence!

Normal packaging factory workers wouldn't receive this money at all.

Chunyan immediately nodded: "Okay, I'm willing."

General Manager Wu thought for a moment, then suddenly pointed to the building under construction outside the window: "By the way, we don't provide accommodation here for the time being; the dormitory building won't be finished until autumn. Do you have a place to stay?"

There is a building not far away, about five or six stories high, which has just been topped out.

Chunyan and Liu Haomei were both dumbfounded and stared at me.