Chapter 767

Xia Yinghe did not want to walk with Lu Qiaoge anymore.

She felt that this woman was too bizarre.

Moreover, she needed to sort things out properly. She had clearly gone to find Lu Qiaoge to question her purpose in doing this, and to teach her that doing things in Beidu was different from doing things in Jiangcheng.

She had taken the methods from Jiangcheng and brought them to Beidu—especially in a Beidu university, and targeting a fellow student at that—the consequences and the way of resolving those neighborhood disputes were different.

But why, in the end, did she herself end up going with her to Uncle Liu's place?

And then applied for a special-grade scholarship for Luo Geng Xinghua.

This was the highest amount of scholarship available.

With this scholarship, Luo Geng Xinghua would not only be able to finish her studies smoothly but would also have some money left over.

If she continued to work while studying, her income should be quite good.

So, was Lu Qiaoge using her?

Yet she couldn't say a word about it, nor could she even mention a single syllable.

When Luo Geng Xinghua thanked her, she also had to put on a smiling face.

How childish and ridiculous her behavior of blocking Lu Qiaoge today had been.

As she walked, Xia Yinghe thought to herself that when her grandmother asked about her affairs at school, she wouldn't know how to bring this matter up.

She would just have to skip over the part where she blocked Lu Qiaoge.

Even if she didn't say it, her family would find out anyway.

Lu Qiaoge glanced at the back of Xia Yinghe, who was hurrying away as if fleeing in a panic, and withdrew her gaze indifferently.

In a while, she still had to go to the General Administration of Foreign Trade's main canteen; today was her day to work.

She remembered what Little Cangcang had told her: there were several production brigades under the Shigang Commune, fifty miles away, that had a large backlog of radishes.

This was also an opportunity.

It wasn't huge, but it wasn't small either.

She had to find Feng Zihan first to see if she had any resources she could leverage—in other words, Lu Qiaoge also had to see if Feng Zihan had this capability.

As for the factory that produced pickled vegetables, Lu Qiaoge planned to find Old Min, the director of the Xiang Yang branch factory.

Nowadays, Old Min was the director of the Beidu branch of the Xiang Yang brand instant noodle factory. The deputy director was Old Chu, and the person in charge of production was Sister Gu, who had initially been the director of Workshop One and was later promoted to deputy director due to her outstanding work performance.

That was also not long ago.

Of course, these people all knew that Lu Qiaoge had come to Beidu to attend university.

They had already been in contact by phone before Lu Qiaoge left Jiangcheng.

After arriving in Beidu, Lu Qiaoge had only taken the time to visit once.

But she knew that the BJ First Food Factory had a small pickle factory.

Regarding efficiency, domestic factories now were not like before, and their management was also quietly changing.

Let's put it this way: when it was purely a planned economy, the higher-ups would assign tasks—for example, how much pickled vegetables the factory should produce that year. As long as they completed the task while ensuring quality and quantity, there was nothing to worry about.

But now, the higher-ups also demanded efficiency from enterprises.

However, this small pickle factory attached to the food factory was now overstaffed, with over five hundred workers. It wasn't to the point where they couldn't pay wages, but the higher-ups couldn't bear it either.

This was different from the beginning.

And among these five hundred-plus workers, you couldn't dare to streamline anyone... you couldn't touch anyone; if you did, they would cause trouble.

According to Old Min, the leaders of the main factory were currently extremely worried.

But such a situation certainly wouldn't continue forever.

Reform seemed to have already begun silently, and Lu Qiaoge knew that the current reform was still somewhat different from the reform in her memories.

Lu Qiaoge could even proudly think that this change was brought about by her.

Avoid detours, reduce losses!

Don't look at it as just eight characters; the significance they represented was different.

And now, this pickle factory was barely operating.

Without production tasks and unable to create foreign exchange, the workers either played cards or knitted sweaters while at work.

But it must be said that in a certain specific era, the workers in some factories were very happy.

They were truly not beasts of burden.

They were truly the "Big Brother" of the working class.

But that was only a special stage.

How could it continue like this forever?

Because the country couldn't afford it.

It was like an ordinary family that raised several children and then had many grandchildren; they had nothing to do and spent their days at home idling away.

Then the head of the household would work themselves to death and still not be able to feed them.

Lu Qiaoge was pondering whether she could merge this pickle factory into the instant noodle branch factory.

Improving the production process and being able to produce pickled mustard greens to go with the instant noodles in the future would also be good.

Of course, Beidu was not a good place to produce pickled mustard greens.

But first, she had to make the start.

Now that the packaging technology for instant noodles had been solved, this pickled vegetable packaging shouldn't be a problem.

Thinking of this, Lu Qiaoge couldn't help but think of the instant noodle companion: ham sausage.

Unfortunately, according to current technology, they couldn't produce such ham sausage.

But this should also be put on the agenda.

Lu Qiaoge had a work permit that Feng Zihan had applied for her separately; holding this permit, she could go to the apartment complex where Feng Zihan currently lived.

After meeting Feng Zihan, Lu Qiaoge stated her thoughts directly.

"... But I don't know what your current situation is, whether you have relevant connections and thoughts in this regard?"

If Feng Zihan wasn't willing to do it, then she would go find Zhen Xi or Chu He.

Unexpectedly, Feng Zihan looked at Lu Qiaoge with sparkling eyes.

She had never participated in the family business, but not participating didn't mean she didn't understand it.

She understood many business dealings.

If the pickled vegetables could really be sold to Hong Kong, it would definitely be profitable.

Because people in Hong Kong still highly recognized pickled vegetables from Beidu.

And for this side, it would also create foreign exchange.

Most importantly, her so-called father would definitely not look down upon this kind of pickle business.

So even if she used the family's connections, her father wouldn't take it to heart.

The Feng family might even mock her for being small-minded.

But that didn't matter; she was a girl, after all. From birth, she was destined to have no qualifications to inherit the Feng family's assets.

As long as she didn't have any thoughts of meddling in the Feng family's industries, getting involved in this pickle business shouldn't be a big problem.

Thus, Feng Zihan nodded vigorously and told Lu Qiaoge, "I will call my father right now and ask him to help me see if this is possible."

As a special area and a special student, the place where Feng Zihan lived had complete facilities, and all good things were supplied to her on a priority basis.

So, this call was made to Feng Dong.

Feng Dong didn't directly judge how this business was, but instead asked Feng Zihan, "If there are orders, what do you plan to do on your end?"

Feng Zihan immediately said, "I will cooperate with Lu Qiaoge."

Subsequently, Feng Zihan specifically emphasized, "The pickled radishes from the Beidu Pickle Factory are really delicious. Especially when paired with Xiang Yang brand beef instant noodles, the taste is simply superb!"

Feng Dong narrowed his eyes.

Having Lu Qiaoge cooperate with his daughter.

Come to think of it, this was truly a good idea.

He didn't think much of his own daughter, but he did indeed look at Lu Qiaoge in a different light.