Chapter 122: I want them all

While Qin Hengzhi was talking, he had already taken the watch out of the box. He looked at Lu Qiao with burning eyes, but his voice was very gentle: "I'll put it on for you, okay?"

Lu Qiao didn't act coy. She put down the comic book and stretched her left hand toward Qin Hengzhi.

Qin Hengzhi held the watch in his hand. At this moment, he was stunned for a moment.

Lu Qiao's wrist was incredibly slender; Qin Hengzhi felt his thumb and index finger could circle it.

Her skin was fair to the point of being almost transparent. Is this what the "white wrists" in ancient books were like?

And her fingers were slender and elegant, her nails trimmed round and neat, showing a faint pink color.

"Raise your hand." Qin Hengzhi's voice was a few degrees lower than just now.

Lu Qiao glanced at him and smiled, raising her hand.

Qin Hengzhi calmed down and seriously put the watch on Lu Qiao.

His fingertips accidentally touched Lu Qiao's wrist. At that moment, he felt like he was touching the finest silk, warm and delicate.

He also smelled the faint fragrance on Lu Qiao, as fresh as morning dew.

"Done." His voice was a bit hoarse.

Lu Qiao raised her wrist, the golden watch chain looking especially striking against her fair skin.

"It's very beautiful, thank you Representative Qin!" she said with a smile, her eyes curving into crescent moons.

Qin Hengzhi looked at it, very satisfied, and didn't correct her form of address either.

Instead, he felt this form of address was quite good.

Lu Qiao, however, thought, what gift should she give him?

Give him a big gold chain?

Qin Hengzhi and Lu Qiao left the military representative office together.

He had called Uncle Lin in advance. He didn't expect him to be at the Swan Hotel. He and Uncle Lin agreed on a time, then sent Lu Qiao to the neighborhood office. Before the car stopped, Lu Qiao saw Su Hongmei talking to Huang Juan at the door through the car window.

Lu Qiao said "Oh?"

Qin Hengzhi's voice was gentle: "What's wrong?"

Lu Qiao: "That's Sister Su from the District Government."

Qin Hengzhi knew this was someone she knew.

Lu Qiao opened the car door. Qin Hengzhi said: "I'll tell you if there's any news from Uncle Lin's side."

Lu Qiao nodded. After getting out of the car, she headed straight for Su Hongmei.

Qin Hengzhi also had things to do, and didn't want to be teased. At the moment he started the car, he saw that Comrade Su Hongmei beaming with joy when she saw Lu Qiao.

It seems she came to find Qiao.

This girl is starting to expand her territory!

Qin Hengzhi smiled slightly and drove away.

And at this time, at the Swan Hotel, Lin Lao and Deputy Factory Director Lin were talking.

Lin Lao frowned, his expression not very good.

Deputy Factory Director Lin looked at him worriedly and said: "Dad, why don't I take you to the hospital."

Lin Lao looked blankly out the window, and then he saw a swallow fly over, landing on the windowsill, seemingly not afraid of people at all, looking at him.

He didn't move, worried about startling the swallow, just said in a low voice to Deputy Factory Director Lin: "Junan, don't worry about me, go do your work."

Junan frowned. His father almost didn't sleep last night, and didn't eat in the morning, just drank some water. How could that work?

Junan said again: "Dad, you are just thinking about it during the day and dreaming about it at night. I think... Little Brother must be fine. After all, he is a boy. No matter whose family he is in, he can be valued. Who knows, maybe he is already married and has children and is living very happily."

Lin Lao's expression was gloomy, muttering: "Yes, it's a new society. Whether in the countryside or the city, he should be living well. But I dreamed about him last night..."

Lin Lao paused here, his voice carrying a hint of choking: "I dreamed of his childhood, maybe four or five years old, being beaten with a willow branch by a woman, his back covered in blood, not given food, and made to kneel on the ground to be a horse for a three or four-year-old child. He..."

Lin Lao couldn't go on. He hammered his chest hard, tears streaming down his face: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault. Back then, if I had gone to pick up your mother, your little brother wouldn't have been taken away. I harmed your little brother and also harmed your mother. It's my fault, it's all my fault..."

Junan's eyes also turned red, and he held Lin Lao to comfort him: "Dad, this is a dream. Don't people say dreams are the opposite? I think Little Brother must be living quite well."

And just then, someone knocked on the door. Tao Tao, who was listening intently on the windowsill, saw that the person who came in was Qin Hengzhi, and flew away with a *whoosh*.

Qin Hengzhi, who came in, didn't see the flying Tao Tao, because Uncle Lin was sitting on a chair covering his face, his shoulders shaking; one could tell he was crying silently.

Tao Tao flapped its wings, flew over high buildings, flew over large bridges, and soon flew over the military factory.

And at this time, Lu Qiao and Su Hongmei were walking toward the food factory while chatting happily.

Su Hongmei: "I also didn't expect you to have a manual weaving group. The District Government also issued a new document, mainly advocating for side businesses to increase income.

The countryside is currently facing limited income from collective labor and low living standards for commune members, while the city is facing the problem of employment difficulties due to the increase in returning youths and unemployed youths.

Factories don't expand production, so it's impossible to recruit workers from outside, which is why this document exists."

She paused and continued: "Actually, I came to find you today for two things. First, to see if we can cooperate, and second, we have a policy now, which is that there will be rewards for creating foreign exchange.

Let me give you an example. If you can persuade the returning Chairman Zhen to invest or purchase our products, 10,000 foreign exchange will be rewarded with 100 yuan, and so on. Reaching 100,000 will be 1,000 yuan, issued by the local finance department."

Lu Qiao's eyes lit up.

Military factories are different from local factories; they don't have sales problems, and all factory enterprises serve the military.

So there won't be sales difficulties, and naturally there won't be such rewards.

Lu Qiao knew Su Hongmei was thanking her for the help that day, because she knew she worked at the neighborhood office and faced grassroots masses, so naturally she had these difficulties.

Lu Qiao said with a smile: "Sister Su, thank you so much, but you should still take a look at our manual weaving and hope you can give some guidance."

This is for sure.

When Su Hongmei saw the various items woven from willow branches, reeds, wheat straw, and corn husks, she was truly stunned.

They couldn't be called handicrafts, because most of them were highly practical, such as straw hats woven from wheat straw, candy jars and shoe insoles woven from corn leaves, etc.

After Chang An joined, Lu Qiao let them take the boutique route.

Except for the willow baskets which were rough items, the others were very exquisite.

Su Hongmei was an old hand in this regard; at a glance, she knew the value of these things.

She picked up a straw hat, looked at it again and again, and simply said to Lu Qiao: "I want all the straw hats."

Meng Qingshan, standing at the door, clenched his hands and excitedly turned to look at his partners.

Zhou Li, Du Shuang, Hu Ze, and others standing outside the utility room door also heard this and excitedly widened their eyes.

But they didn't make a sound, all waiting for Lu Qiao to speak... ===== CHAPTER 123 =====