Chapter 598
After the three of them finished chatting, they happily ate some snacks.
Tao Junlan and Qian Siyu then accompanied Su Xiaoxiao back home.
Su Xiaoxiao had originally thought they were treating her like a fragile porcelain doll, but on the way back, they ran into people from the old Jiang family.
The Jiang family members had planned to stop Su Xiaoxiao and say something, but Tao Junlan and Qian Siyu wasted no time discussing it and immediately drove them away.
When they got home, Su Xiaoxiao told Aunt Guo about the incident.
Aunt Guo, both angry and grateful, pulled them in and insisted they stay for dinner.
Jiang Yexun didn’t return in time for dinner, so Su Xiaoxiao continued working on the machine tool designs she hadn’t finished earlier.
She stayed up until past ten, and only when exhaustion took over did she finally fall into a deep sleep.
The next morning, as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Jiang Yexun, who had returned sometime during the night. He was propped up on his elbow, gazing at her with a gentle and affectionate look.
When he saw his little wife awake, the corners of his mouth curled into a loving smile.
“Good morning,” Jiang Yexun lowered his head and gently kissed her lips.
Wrapped in that familiar cold scent, Su Xiaoxiao, who had been like a lazy little kitten, buried her head in Jiang Yexun’s chest, nuzzling against him like a clingy cat.
“When did you come back last night?” Su Xiaoxiao asked softly, her voice sweet and drowsy.
“At 11:30. Big Gao helped me contact the marriage registration office staff. I’ve already arranged everything with them. From now on, I just need to go there once a week to keep in touch so they don’t forget,” Jiang Yexun said, lowering his head to kiss her fluffy hair.
Then, he adjusted her into a particularly comfortable position and, with some curiosity, asked, “How did your friends decide?”
Su Xiaoxiao immediately shared the outcome of their discussion from yesterday.
Jiang Yexun thought Tao Junlan and Qian Siyu were good friends, and he was quite impressed with how clear-headed they were. He had no objections to their plan of borrowing money to find jobs in Shanghai.
“Alright, I’ll make a call later and ask someone to find two suitable jobs for them,” Jiang Yexun said with a smile.
During his time in Shanghai, he had made a few connections that could be helpful. They were all very capable people, so finding a job wasn’t a difficult task.
The two of them snuggled for a little while longer before getting out of bed to have breakfast.
After breakfast, Jiang Yexun made the call as planned.
In the next few days, the news of Kong Liye and Qian Siyu breaking up spread like wildfire throughout the village.
It overshadowed the news about Su Xiaoxiao refusing to adopt someone else’s child.
Kong Dongfeng, as the village chief, couldn’t make a move himself, but his wife went to the Educated Youth Office every day.
She used both harsh and soft words in an attempt to persuade Qian Siyu, but Qian Siyu remained unmoved.
Before work even began, the Kong family tried to sabotage her, but Qian Siyu called the staff of the Educated Youth Office to the village to set things straight.
The staff from the Educated Youth Office gave the Kong family a severe scolding, including reprimanding two town leaders.
Afterward, when the people left, Kong Dongfeng was publicly humiliated, and his family finally quieted down.
But it was clear that this calm wouldn’t last long. Once the thawed soil allowed work to begin, the hardest and most grueling tasks would likely fall to Qian Siyu.
However, Su Xiaoxiao didn’t have time to deal with the drama in the village at the moment.
She and Jiang Yexun spent their days sleeping, and by nine or ten o’clock at night, they would head up the mountain.
They had dug out all of the Qiao family’s hidden boxes.
There were ten boxes of gold bars and thirty-six boxes of antiques and paintings.
Though they weren’t priceless, in a few decades, even the cheapest could be worth several million, and the expensive ones could fetch billions.
In addition to this, every day before they went into the mountains to dig, they would also visit the cow shed to ask the old professors about CNC machine tool-related questions.
In her previous life, Su Xiaoxiao had only memorized updated versions of the machine tool blueprints, but the principles behind them were a bit hazy.
She needed to use the knowledge she had learned in her current life to guide the old professors, who in turn would provide her with more detailed professional knowledge.
This was even harder for Su Xiaoxiao than preparing for the college entrance exams.
Fortunately, she was quick-witted. Although the material was complex, as long as the old professors explained things to her once, she was able to understand and then reframe it in her own way.
Su Xiaoxiao only needed a bit of guidance, and in just one week, she successfully prepared all the materials for the dual-axis dual-drive CNC machine tool.
However, she wasn’t in a hurry to send the results back to Shanghai. She planned to wait until they returned to examine the situation at both factories carefully.
After all, one had to be on-site to better negotiate for benefits. She couldn’t afford to be easily deceived with a few simple words.
Besides, this type of machine tool had been blocked by foreign countries for twenty years.
Su Xiaoxiao believed that since her father was already the factory director, if things went smoothly, he could take the opportunity to move the factory to the city.
But just as Su Xiaoxiao finished dealing with the CNC machine tool, without even resting for a day, the old Jiang family next door started causing trouble again.