Chapter 434: The Partial Grandmother (Extra Chapter 1)

"Give me the recipes for the food you want to make later; I need to apply for a patent first, and once the patent is approved, we can start looking at what machinery is needed."

"It's better to ask Sun Jun's side first; after all, they are our own people. If we can resolve it internally, there's no need to trouble the people on your side."

After all, favors are something that diminish with every use.

"Okay!" An Yinan finished auditing the accounts for all the shops.

She had a clear idea in her mind now; she had to get the Food Factory set up first before she could consider future matters.

"By the way, the Military Department contacted me and asked me to tell you something—did you forget about your own medicinal prescriptions?"

"You haven't gone to collect the dividends from all these years!"

An Yinan thought for a moment and patted her forehead.

"I really did forget about that."

Actually, at the very beginning, it was for use by the national Military, and when it came to the public, they deliberately reduced some of the medicinal efficacy for fear of spies.

But it was still enough for common knife wounds and bruises.

"Remember to keep it in mind later; it's said that they've been saving that money for several years now."

Guo Tiexiong felt a bit helpless; she was truly carefree.

Doesn't she even check the accounts?

If it were anywhere else, he could help her go, but for this matter, only she could go herself.

An Yinan had a meal at Guo Ge's house and then took a copy of the account books that Guo Ge had prepared in advance.

The account books were basically in duplicate; Guo Ge kept one for the archives, and An Yinan kept one for auditing.

She came to Nanyuan Xiuhua again and looked at the endless stream of people and the busy figures.

"What are you daydreaming about at the door?"

Zhao Qiu Hua finally couldn't hold back and walked out of the shop.

An Yinan smiled, "I was just seeing how busy you all are."

"Hurry up and come help check the accounts; Li Xiu'e is starting to get a headache just looking at the books!"

These were two years' worth of accounts, not just a day or two, not a month or two.

Although the accounts had been reconciled before, as the Accountant, she still needed to straighten them out so that there wouldn't be a two-year gap where she couldn't answer any questions, which would be too irresponsible.

"It's not easy!" An Yinan shook her head with a smile.

You have to know, Li Xiu'e had once said that there were two things in life she never got tired of: doing accounts and counting money.

Now, it seemed she was a little tired of both.

"What's the progress?" An Yinan asked.

Li Xiu'e looked up from her busy work, "Take a look yourself; I haven't even finished half of one shop yet."

Looking at that huge pile of accounts, it seemed that having good business was also quite tiring.

The shop couldn't store that much money, so the money was basically all deposited in the bank by Guo Ge.

Now, looking at the deposit slips, she really breathed a sigh of relief; at least she didn't have to keep counting.

"Take your time sorting them out. Let's see how everyone is doing tomorrow. It's been two years; the bonuses that should be issued can't be left out, along with our dividends and future arrangements. Let's meet at that little room at the school tomorrow."

An Yinan had already let go of much of the shop management.

"By the way, I'm planning to raise Zhou Ruoran's design fees."

"Since the shop's business has been so good for the past two years, a large part of it is because her designs kept up."

When she was at the Frontline, let alone designing for the shop, she would have been begging heaven and earth just to get a little more sleep.

How could she have spared any attention for the shop's designs?

The fact that the shop's sales could be maintained now was all thanks to Ruo Ran.

"Right, this matter does need to be brought up; we can't keep paying the old fixed salary." Zhao Qiu Hua nodded in agreement.

"I'll ponder it some more." An Yinan mentioning it now was just to give them a heads-up.

When they held the meeting tomorrow, they would arrange this matter specifically.

"I won't stay; I have to go back to the Dayuan in a while. I'm a bit worried about Grandma," An Yinan said to her partners.

Everyone was stunned for a moment; they only just remembered that Nan Nan's home was in Beijing, but she seemed to have no time to go back at all.

"You go quickly."

"I'll finish auditing these accounts today!"

Li Xiu'e didn't even lift her head and waved her hand directly.

Zhao Qiu Hua walked An Yinan to the door, "These are clothes Ruo Ran designed before, but because they didn't fit our shop's target age range, they weren't put on the shelves."

"I specifically had the workshop make a few sets; take them back for Liu Jiumu and Grandma to try on."

In Zhao Qiu Hua's hands were two paper bags containing three sets of clothes.

Actually, there had been another set before, which had already been given to Liu Jiumu.

An Yinan nodded and left with the items.

To others, she would say thank you; to her partners, she wouldn't.

Because it wasn't necessary.

"Mom, Nan Nan went straight to school this morning. She must be very busy today and probably won't be back," Liu Xicai said, looking at the old lady sitting at the door, comforting her helplessly.

"Xicai, what time is it? Is she still not back?" Grandma asked.

Liu Xicai looked at the clock and then at the sky outside.

It was already getting dark.

"Let's eat later; let's wait a bit!" Grandma was afraid that if Liu Xicai called for dinner, what would happen if Nan Nan came back hungry?

An old person is like a child; she was just feeling sorry for her granddaughter.

"Fine, we'll wait!"

On Liu Xicai's stove, chicken soup had been simmering the whole time, and she had two large pots of it simmering at that.

"Grandma, why aren't you going inside?" Yun Qi had returned.

Today he received a call from his aunt, saying that Nan Nan might come back, and she asked him to come back as well.

However, his aunt also said she was more afraid that Nan Nan would be too busy to return, and that Grandma would be sad when the time came.

"You go inside; I'm not tired, I'll sit for a while longer."

The old lady sat stubbornly, looking as if she didn't want to pay any attention to Yun Qi.

Yun Qi exchanged a glance with his aunt; what could he do?

At home, he had always been the one who was looked down upon!

"Grandma! You're not taking care of your health again; it's quite cold out, you can't just sit like this."

At this moment, An Xiangbei rode his bike back.

He saw Grandma in the courtyard at a glance, and he knew what was going on in his heart; furthermore, he had seen his sister's name on the visitor list.

He had a guess in his heart.

"Beibei!" Grandma stood up with a cheerful smile and pulled on Beibei's hand. "Beibei has grown up; from now on, you must protect your sister well, okay!"

An Xiangbei nodded quickly. "Don't worry, Grandma, I will protect my sister and protect Grandma."

Grandma watched him with a cheerful smile. "No need to protect Grandma; Grandma is old. From now on, you must protect your sister well. Nan Nan works too hard; make sure she eats well and sleeps well. You keep an eye on her!"

"I'll keep an eye on her. If she doesn't sleep well or eat well, I'll lecture her and make her eat properly," An Xiangbei replied.

But Grandma wasn't happy about that, her face full of disapproval.

"You can't lecture her; speak to her nicely."

"Fine, I'll speak to her nicely!" An Xiangbei was caught between laughter and tears; in Grandma's heart, nothing he did was ever right.