Chapter 361: 361 Feelings do not matter, love is interest

Chapter 361

Pei Jing was using a stick to clear the snow accumulated on the roof. He originally wanted to pull the snow he had brushed off outside, but Xiao Liu kept shouting that he wanted to play with it, so Pei Jing could only pile the snow up to let the kids play with it.

Peaceful days always go by quickly. This time when Pei Jing came back, he couldn't stay home for the New Year since he still had to be busy with things at the factory. He had wanted to pick up Zhi Xia and the kids to spend New Year's together at the army camp, but because Zhi Xia couldn't go due to still having to take care of business at the factory, he could only take the kids.

In the days before New Year's, Zhou Nan came by for a visit.

"I heard from your third brother that you've been busy with that factory lately. How's that going? Do you need any help?"

"It's just about done. We're waiting to start production after New Year's, so there's not much to be busy with right now. Why did you suddenly ask about this, mom? Is something going on?"

She had set up factories and shops before, so Zhou Nan had asked about it in the past too, telling Zhi Xia that if she encountered any difficulties to discuss it with the family. Later, seeing that she was doing pretty well on her own, Zhou Nan didn't ask anymore.

Zhi Xia figured she wouldn't come ask about this for no reason.

"It's like this..."

Zhou Nan hadn't come for herself, but rather to ask on behalf of her maiden family if Zhi Xia would allow her cousins to come work at the factory, if there were no restrictions.

Of course, afraid that Zhi Xia would be averse to the idea, Zhou Nan asked quite apprehensively, and even said not to feel obligated if it would be difficult, that it was fine if Zhi Xia said no.

She had just come to ask and hadn't even brought it up yet with her family back home. If Zhi Xia said no, Zhou Nan could simply not mention it at all.

In terms of hiring workers, it didn't matter who, and Zhou Nan knew her two cousins were honest, decent people.

However, there were some things that still needed explaining. Her factory wasn't state-owned - state-owned factories could directly change rural residence permits to urban ones, but she didn't have the ability to do that here.

Another thing was the housing issue. Dorms had been built at the factory right next door, and there were rooms for couples, but it wasn't like at state-owned factories where whoever was assigned a room it belonged to them indefinitely. Here, the dorms were only provided during the period of employment, so if they decided to find another path and stop working at the factory, naturally the housing would be reclaimed as well.

After thinking through this matter, Zhi Xia called Wu Lei again and asked him to try recruiting talent in this area from abroad, but attracting foreign talent would surely require no small expense.

Money was no object for the wealthy Zhi Xia - what she lacked was people and technology. She promised that as long as the technology was sound, she could pay based on the R&D results.

As long as the benefits were attractive enough, she wasn't worried people wouldn't be willing to come. Wu Lei immediately started looking for candidates.

With the export of Jiao Yan abroad, they were now an influential company in Shen City, and received a lot of government support.

Wu Lei had also risen with the tide - he was no longer the decadent figure from his Jin City days. Whether connections or relationships, he now held quite a bit in his hands.

The Gao family - Gao Dalin was discussing matters with Gao Second Sister.

"Second sister, it seems Pei JianGuo is somewhat out of control now. What do you think we should do about it? Should we abandon this piece on the game board?"

"We can't yet. Pei JianGuo being suddenly transferred to the Construction Bureau and valued greatly by higher leadership, we'll inevitably have dealings with the Construction Bureau as we move into real estate next. And we still need Pei JianGuo as a piece before we obtain Zhi Xia's appliance factory, otherwise it will be troublesome if we want to develop in Jin City in the future."

Unless they had even harder connections in the Construction Bureau, but clearly they didn't.

This also surprised Gao Second Sister quite a bit - according to the records of those objects, Pei JianGuo should have just been an insignificant secretary in the government before resigning to go into business in the 90s, even losing all his family assets in the process. If not for Pei Jing salvaging the situation, he probably couldn't even afford meals in his later years.

But he was suddenly transferred to work at the Construction Bureau, and with Jin City as one of the real estate pilot cities, the powers of that position, if utilized well, were no worse than what they had struggled for all these years.

"So what should we do? He's becoming less and less patient with you, doesn't come around as often recently, and his attitude is much poorer than before. Seems to me you might as well just agree to marry him - with his current position, even if he amounts to nothing more, we won't be at a loss." Gao Dalin calculated. "It's just that he has a son, which would be unfair to you."

This time, Gao Second Sister didn't stubbornly reject the idea like before, but seriously considered the feasibility of this matter.

She had never cared about feelings or lack thereof. What she valued more was benefit - the benefit Pei JianGuo could currently bring her.