The Ex-Wife of the Educated Youth is Reborn

After sending the old man home to rest, Qin Mu prepared dinner. She was so upset that she had no appetite at all. She ate a bite, put down her chopsticks, and left.

The technicians in the factory also ate a bite of food and continued to tinker with the TV. The production line had stopped, and they couldn’t continue working because they couldn’t find the problem.

Li Xia sat in the laboratory until after 1 a.m., then she was too sleepy to sleep and lay down on a chair for a while. The next morning, the problem was still not found. Several technicians were yawning from exhaustion, so she waved her hand and asked them to go back and rest.

Han Jun got up from the table. He also didn’t get much sleep the whole night. “What should we do now?”

“Keep looking; you never know what the problem is. The smaller the problem, the harder it is to find, but once you find it, it’s easy to fix.”

“I find that sometimes you like to prepare for the worst, and sometimes you are quite optimistic.”

“When something happens, you have to think about the worst so that you can deal with it adequately. Things are already on the edge of a cliff, and if you take a step back, you will be crushed to pieces. I can only think positively; otherwise, I will be crushed to death.”

Li Xia stood up and stretched. “Okay, you look after the workshop. I’ll go to the office to take a nap. We’ll continue to wait for the results in the afternoon.”

There were problems with production, so she and Han Jun stayed in the factory and didn’t go home. Just as she was about to set up her bed in the office, Shen Haiyang knocked on the door and came in. It was the weekend, and he didn’t work, so he came to look for her because he didn’t wait for her all night.

“Why are you here? Didn’t you say that you ran into some trouble and might not go home? Why are you still worried?” Li Xia asked him to sit down on the chair and turned to pour him a glass of water.

“Anyway, I have nothing to do today, so I came to take a look. The three kids wanted to come, but I stopped them.”

“Don’t let them come, especially Shen Ruyi.”

“Yiyi has been very well behaved recently.”

“I just think he’s noisy.”

“You didn’t sleep last night; are you planning to take a nap?”

“Um.”

“Then go to sleep and stop talking.”

“And you?”

“I’ll read a book here.”

“Okay, whatever you want.”

One of the couples sat quietly reading a book, while the other fell asleep quickly on the simple bed. After resting for about an hour, they heard someone break in.

“Boss, we found the reason.” Han Jun shouted loudly, and his roar could be heard within a radius of hundreds of meters.

“Hush, keep your voice down. She just fell asleep.”

“Oh. Man…”

“Have you found the cause? Are you sure?”

Li Xia had already stood up, and Han Jun quickly turned back to report the situation to her. “It’s confirmed. The sample has produced images and sounds, and everything is normal. It’s playing a Hong Kong movie now. The image and sound are clear. You’ll know when you go over and take a look.”

“Let’s go.”

The two of them walked out of the door one after the other. Li Xia was so excited that she forgot her husband in the office and talked to her friend as they walked. “What was the problem?”

“Solder paste. There was no image or sound before, so we kept looking for it in the circuits and parts. Fang Long suddenly thought of this after leaving the inspection room and then went to the warehouse to look for solder paste again. This time, the image and sound appeared immediately after it was re-fixed.”

“Isn’t this solder paste from a batch?”

“It was given to us all at once, but the production date was not for a batch.”

This thing was ordered from China. I don’t know if it’s a quality issue or a date issue. Anyway, it’s good to find the cause. As for this thing, if it doesn’t work, find a suitable manufacturer.

“Director, look, our TV is so good.”

The 14-inch black-and-white TV was playing The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Brother Jing’s honest eyes were clear and distinct, and the Mandarin version of the voice-over coming from the TV made Li Xia want to cry with such familiarity.

She really assembled all these bits and pieces, and the televisions coming off her production line are no different from those displayed in department stores. After passing quality inspection, they can enter the market.

“Director, let’s start production next, shall we?”

“Production, notify the workers to start work.”

The quiet factory was bustling with activity. Workers took their positions, and the production line started to operate. Li Xia went home and told the old man the good news. The old man relaxed and rocked back and forth in his rocking chair.

“Let’s make something delicious tonight to celebrate. The kids are worried about you not being home these few days.”

“Okay, let’s make something delicious to celebrate.”

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“I have money now. I have money now.”

At night, she was humming happily, and Shen Haiyang discussed it with her. “Wife, the two technicians have returned to China. If the sales go well, shall we take the elderly and children out to play on the 11th?”

Li Xia nodded when she heard it. “Where are we going? Do you have a destination?”

“Suzhou and Hangzhou. Huihua said last time that she saw a proverb in her textbook that there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below, and she longed for these two places.”

“Okay, let’s make a travel plan in advance and take the kids out to have some fun. The old man has gotten much better these days, and he said he wanted to go to Hanshan Temple. Is it far?”

“Hanshan Temple is in Suzhou. Let’s take them there.”

“Okay, the factory is going to hold a sales meeting soon; let me see if it goes well. If it does, we’ll go.”

The product was sent to the national unit for quality inspection. Han Jun ran around and got the certificate of quality inspection in the shortest time. With this, the product can be put on the market, and he immediately invited distributors. If you like it, you can place an order, and you can come to pick it up when it is due, or the factory will deliver it.

Li Xia attends night school on weekends and works in the factory during the day. The product passes a quality inspection, and a sales meeting is held a week later. Han Jun prepares the venue, and Li Xia asks if she should treat these people to a meal.

Sales became very difficult after the 1990s. If you didn’t drink until you vomited blood at the table, you couldn’t get any orders. She heard all this from others, and she wasn’t sure what the situation was now.

“Why treat them to a meal? Just use the factory cafeteria for meals. Our products are in great demand right now, and all the buyers are saying good things about them.”

“Really? Well, you’ve had a great time. In a few years, when the product is saturated, you’ll have to beg them to place an order.”

“So I have to build a good relationship with them; it will be useful in the future.”

“Well, buy them a drink, and the factory will reimburse them.”

“That would be great.”

The sales meeting was held on the afternoon of the 16th. After looking at the products and quality inspection reports, a group of people began to rush to place orders. In the end, Li Xia held the pile of orders and smiled silently.

The production line is fully operational, and these orders must be completed within half a year. Each buyer only took a few units, and the order of taking the rest will be determined by the amount of deposit paid.

The order she had signed with the foreign factory was for 60,000 units, and she had already ordered more than half of it. Next, Xiao Liu would oversee production, while Fang Long would lead a team to set up a research and development department to research small household appliances.

As soon as the money came in, she was ready to spend it. The R&D department had to invest a lot. But her face was full of smiles, and her eyes were full of hope.

Li Xia had a clear goal: to develop small household appliances independently. From the late 1980s to the 1990s, large household appliances were basically Japanese-funded. It was impossible for her to break through the technology of a color TV, refrigerator, air conditioner, etc. in a short period of time. She was not happy to let foreign capital control the company. It was better to develop small household appliances that people had great demand for.

When she went back to the office from the factory, she ran into her third brother outside. The third brother was carrying goods with the workers. The man learned to drive and did this job in the factory. He was responsible and strong, so Li Xia didn’t have to worry about this. The brother and sister ran into each other, and the third brother put down the goods and stood there talking to his sister.

“Are you used to living in the dormitory?”

“Very good.” The third brother smiled naively and wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve. “I’m so happy for you. I was so worried about you before that I couldn’t sleep. I wanted to ask you about it but was afraid of causing trouble for you. Now it seems that everything is fine, right?”

“It’s going well. Find a chance to come home for dinner. Your brother-in-law was talking about treating you guys.”

“Okay, let’s get together this weekend.”

Li Xia smiled and nodded. The brother and sister chatted for a while before the third brother pushed the cart to work. She walked back to the office and asked someone to discuss the situation of solder paste. In the afternoon, she looked at the material report again.

The children knew that their mother had overcome the difficulties and that the product was selling well. At dinner, the children happily clinked their Coke glasses. Li Xia’s cheeks were also flushed with excitement. She thought that what she might have been able to do in the 1990s was actually accomplished now.

No matter how much foreign debt she borrowed, no matter that this product is now basically imported, the fact is that she opened the factory in the 1980s.

“Mom, are you going to be a boss?” Huihua heard the latest term and thought her mother would be suitable too.

“Mom, did you really make a TV? It’s as high-tech as the one we have. Some of our neighbors don’t even buy them. How come you made it?” Shen Hui’s focus was different from his sister’s. He was not shocked by the opening of the factory, but by the factory’s products.

“Mom is so awesome; she’s the big boss.” Yiyi danced with joy, taking the results very seriously.

Li Xia smiled and said truthfully, “Your grandfather owns the factory, and your mother is just managing it on his behalf. We don’t produce the televisions ourselves; we just assemble them now. But we can put our own brand on it, and we will definitely be able to produce our own products in the future.”

“That’s amazing too.”

“Mom is the best.”

The children were all full of pride and honor, and the old man also picked up his teacup and drank tea instead of wine. “Daughter-in-law, let me toast you. If it weren’t for you, this factory would be gone, and my life’s hard work would have gone to waste.”

As a junior, Li Xia stood up and clinked glasses with her father-in-law. “I’m the lucky one to have you.”

The two drank it all in one gulp, and the old man shook his head and said, “Don’t belittle yourself. You have courage and determination; otherwise, you can’t do this.”

Li Xia smiled but said nothing, her heart filled with satisfaction. The sense of urgency she had felt since her rebirth had faded. She now had a successful factory, and her family was by her side. Shen Haiyang was very supportive of her, and he took care of the children while she was busy with work. This allowed her to not have to deal with everything and adjust herself in time. Although she was busy, she did not feel as exhausted as she did in her previous life.