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Chapter 84: Let Me Fall for His Handsome Man?

After getting his food at the cafeteria, Su Yang carried two lunchboxes back to the office building.

As he went up the stairs, he saw Zhou Zheng coming down and smiled, saying, "Factory Manager, are you going to lunch?"

Zhou Zheng looked at him, opened his mouth but hesitated for a few seconds before nodding, "Okay, let's go eat."

Su Yang keenly sensed his hesitation and couldn't help but ask, "Is there something you want to tell me?"

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Zhou Zheng was silent for a moment, then pointed to the lunchbox in Su Yang's arms and said, "You eat first, and remember to come to my office after you finish eating."

After saying that, he waved his hand and continued downstairs.

Su Yang stared at Zhou Zheng's retreating figure, completely bewildered, wondering what was so important that couldn't be said directly.

Suppressing my doubts, I went to the broadcasting room.

Su Yang quietly lifted the curtain and went in. Wu Xinxue was still writing furiously at her desk. As the only broadcaster at Limin Flour Factory, she had to broadcast more than twenty times a day during this special period.

Aside from the broadcast documents sent by higher authorities, other matters concerning publicity within the factory were usually just given a general outline by the leaders, with Wu Xinxue having to write the rest herself.

Perhaps drawn by the aroma of food, Wu Xinxue looked up, saw Su Yang and the lunchbox, immediately dropped her pen, and smiled broadly.

"Dinner's finally served! Come and see! What good dishes do you have today?"

"Slow down, don't spill it!"

Su Yang smiled and dodged her hand, placing the two lunchboxes on the table and opening them.

Wow! There are actually two pieces of meat!

When Wu Xinxue saw the fatty meat on the stewed cabbage, her eyes lit up.

Since the start of the war, all supplies have been prioritized for the front lines, and she hasn't tasted pork for over a month.

However, after Su Yang returned, Xiao Yu caught some pheasants and rabbits to improve the family's diet.

But wild game meat is tough and not as satisfying as fatty meat.

Su Yang looked at her with a smile. Xin Xue had been working for a year and was already a capable announcer.

Even he often overlooked the fact that she was only 14 years old. You should know that in later generations, 14-year-old girls are still in junior high school and most of them are the apple of their parents' eyes.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little sorry for himself, so he took out the two pieces of meat from his own lunchbox, saying, "Hey, you can have mine too."

"I don't want it! You have to eat it too!"

After lunch, according to the normal schedule, Su Yang should take advantage of the lunch break to search the workshop for rats, and then he would have other plans for the afternoon.

However, because of Zhou Zheng's instructions, he stayed with Wu Xinxue in the broadcasting room for a while, figuring that Zhou Zheng had probably finished eating, and then went downstairs to the factory director's office.

After knocking on the door and hearing a "Come in," I pushed the door open and entered.

Su Yang went in and glanced at Zhou Zheng, who was sitting behind his desk smoking. He noticed that Zhou Zheng had only eaten half of his lunchbox, indicating that he was preoccupied and had little appetite.

"Factory manager, what are your instructions?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit dull, Su Yang didn't stand on ceremony. He poured himself a cup of hot tea as if it were second nature, and then asked Zhou Zheng with a smile.

Zhou Zheng stared at Su Yang's face for a few seconds, then sighed deeply. "A couple of days ago, the factory sent a truckload of 'Defend the Country' noodles, produced recently, to Andong. The logistics leaders all praised them highly."

"That's a good thing!"

Su Yang was a little puzzled, thinking to himself, "Doesn't this just prove that you, the factory manager, are doing an outstanding job? Why are you still looking so gloomy?"

Zhou Zheng smiled wryly and said, "It is indeed a good thing, but we have talked to the Big Brother several times, and they still won't budge."

Su Yang nodded.

Ten days have passed since the "Defend the Country Noodles" experiment was successfully completed, but the finished product produced in the workshop is only a few thousand kilograms.

The main problem is that doing it all manually is just too slow.

If it cannot be mass-produced industrially, its effect may be even less than that of fried noodles.

Natalia had already spent a week at the Limin Flour Factory, and she had actually made a difference by providing the workshop with a lot of constructive suggestions.

The equipment needed for the production of "Defend the Country Noodles," such as tunnel baking machines, automatic noodle pressing machines, and vacuum packaging machines, is available from Big Brother.

After Natalia made the list, our relevant departments contacted Big Brother multiple times, but they kept making excuses.

"This is such an important matter, I'm just a kid, I can't possibly get involved, can I? It's no use you telling me!" Su Yang's doubts deepened.

He thought to himself, "You think too highly of me. What right do I, a mere Karami, have to speak on matters between nations?"

"Ahem!"

Zhou Zheng cleared his throat, no longer keeping him in suspense.

"The expert who came to our factory, Natalia, whose full name is Natalia Ivanovna Sokolova, and whose father is Ivan Vasilyevich Sokolov..."

"He's the second-in-command at the Grain and Oil Processing Machinery Bureau of the Ministry of Food Industry, on the older brother's side!"

"Wow! Miss Guan!" Su Yang exclaimed in surprise. He really hadn't expected Natalia to have such a background.

Zhou Zheng frowned and said, "Don't talk nonsense!"

"You've always been popular, everyone in the factory likes you. You should use your strengths to get along well with Natalia and see if you can put in a good word for Ivan through her." He stared at Su Yang's handsome face and said.

Su Yang certainly knew why most people in the factory had a good relationship with him.

Leaving aside the issue of lending bicycles, the entire factory benefits from the simple act of catching rats. People no longer need to clean up so much rat droppings every day, and their clothes and bedding in the dormitories are chewed by rats less often.

He pursed his lips and said, "But factory manager, I'm not familiar with Natalia, and we even have a bit of a grudge."

"What kind of grudge do you have?" Zhou Zheng rolled his eyes at him.

He also knew that Xiaoyu had been throwing dead rats in front of Natalia these past few days, and he was looking for an opportunity to talk to Su Yang about it.

But now is the time to coax this kid into doing things, not to criticize him.

Zhou Zheng sighed, then changed to a more earnest tone and continued, "Su Yang, I won't hide it from you. The front lines could launch another offensive at any time; you know the situation there."

With tears in his eyes, he said, "It's almost the twelfth lunar month, and the front lines will soon be experiencing the coldest time. The soldiers might not even have a peaceful New Year celebration, going hungry and cold over there. If we finalize the mass production process for 'Defending Our Homes and Country' noodles as soon as possible, other units can follow suit. Maybe then the soldiers will be able to have a hot meal during the New Year..."

Su Yang avoided his eyes, feeling inexplicably ashamed, and didn't respond immediately.

After a while, he suddenly slapped his thigh: "Factory manager, you've got me completely stumped. This sounds a lot like a honey trap! I can't pull this off."

Zhou Zheng thought to himself, "Don't underestimate yourself. With your pretty face, you'd be a match for Pan An or Song Yu in ancient times. What woman could resist your persistent pleading? Do you think those loud and boisterous women in the factory are really that easy to get along with?"

However, he couldn't say that directly. Seeing that softening his approach wasn't working, he simply glared at him and said, "Enough with the nonsense! This is an order!"

Su Yang roughly guessed what the factory manager was thinking and couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "After all that talk, he's just using his position to bully people."

Zhou Zheng, seemingly unsure if he had heard clearly, muttered, "I was desperate and grasping at straws. If you don't want to, then forget it."

"Hey! I didn't say I was unwilling. For the sake of the revolutionary work, some sacrifices are necessary."

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Su Yang knew he couldn't avoid this challenge, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Good! I knew I hadn't misjudged you! Here you go! Here's 100 million for the event!" Zhou Zheng immediately pulled out a wad of cash with a smile.

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