To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Lin Qingping then began to seriously examine them.

After circling around them, he looked surprised and asked, "You mean...you're coming to work?"

"Uh-huh!"

The group of people were nodding their heads like a flock of chickens pecking at rice.

"Is it... a proper, serious job? Or is it like you guys used to, just clocking in and showing up?"

The group nodded in agreement, "Let's get to work properly!"

"Work as hard as they do!" he said, pointing to the temporary workers.

Lin Qingping nodded. "I understand."

The crowd's faces lit up with joy. Did this mean they agreed?

As a result, Lin Qingping said "but".

“However, I am not a formal employee of your factory. I am just a temporary worker. I do not hold any official position and cannot make any decisions. You are even less under my jurisdiction. Whether you can come to work, what kind of work you do, and how you work are all not up to me. I cannot make these decisions.” Lin Qingping spoke in a gentle and clear manner, but her words were clearly barbed and sharp.

The group of people were stunned again.

This means...?

Some reacted quickly and immediately said, "I'll go find someone who can make the decision!"

After saying that, he ran outside.

In an instant, everyone seemed to understand and ran out.

The once packed workshop now feels spacious again.

Gu Youlian quietly moved closer to Lin Qingping. "Wasn't this the moment you were waiting for? Why did you send him away again?"

Lin Qingping laughed and said softly, "My little shabby boat, battered by wind and rain, is not something they can just get on or off as they please."

Not long after, the group returned in great force, this time with a leader, Section Chief Fu.

They were clever enough to know that the person who could make decisions in the factory and had a good relationship with Lin Qingping was Section Chief Fu.

After pleading for a long time at the door of Section Chief Fu's office, Section Chief Fu finally sighed and reluctantly swallowed his pride to say a few good words for them.

And so this happened.

Section Chief Fu, his chubby face beaming with smiles, approached Lin Qingping and, like the other temporary workers, began calling this young girl "Master Lin."

"Master Lin, it's like this, the workers in our factory know they were wrong before, so they want to come back and work with us again. You're so magnanimous, what do you think?"

Lin Qingping looked even more troubled.

"Master Lin, look, our workers are all experienced, and they made these clothes themselves. They know the structure of clothes better than anyone. They can easily modify them, and they'll be very quick!"

“That’s why I’m worried…” Lin Qingping glanced at the people behind Section Chief Fu and frowned. “I’m afraid that the revised version will be the same as before and won’t follow my version.”

There was no need for Section Chief Fu to even make a statement; the workers all patted their chests and guaranteed, "Absolutely not! Since we're back, we're here to make the changes according to your instructions!"

“But…” Lin Qingping was still frowning, “but everyone didn’t approve of my design before, and I’m really worried that it will turn out differently if I make changes…”

"No, no! I didn't think your design was bad!" Meizi stepped forward. "I said that before because... because... never mind, just pretend I said it was nonsense! Once it's over, it'll be gone!"

A crude analogy made everyone burst into laughter.

“Well… I still have more than twenty workers coming tomorrow, that’s going to be a lot of people…” Lin Qingping looked at Section Chief Fu with a worried expression.

Section Chief Fu pleaded again, "Master Lin, I can only ask you to ask them to go back for now and not come back! I will reimburse their losses, travel expenses, and meal expenses. The factory can't afford it, so I'll pay for it out of my own pocket! I'll compensate them! Please, for the sake of my reputation, let our workers go back to work. I'll have done right by the brotherhood I've built with them over the years."

Section Chief Fu was almost in tears as he spoke.

From this perspective, it would be unreasonable for Lin Qingping to refuse again.

"Well... fine then. It was originally up to Section Chief Fu and your factory to make the decisions. I'm just a temporary worker." In the end, he had to add one last sarcastic remark.

Section Chief Fu breathed a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat from his chubby face. "Master Lin, please stop mentioning the word 'temporary worker.' Director Hu and I would like to invite you to join the factory permanently! But we need your permission first!"

After saying that, he turned around and bowed to the workers. "Brothers and sisters, I beg you, I've risked my life for this, so you have to save face for me and stop making trouble, okay?"

"Alright, don't worry, Lao Fu!"

One by one, they walked past Section Chief Fu and went to their workstations in high spirits.

Some people asked about the benefits, whispering, "Old Fu, we agreed at the beginning that there would be a subsidy?"

Section Chief Fu nodded, "Our factory will still issue the subsidies as originally agreed. As for the people that Master Lin hired, Master Lin paid for them himself. Don't be jealous, it's useless!"

Well, a subsidy is good enough! Who doesn't want money? It's all that scoundrel Feng Debao's fault; why did I listen to his nonsense in the first place?

Thus, the "vigorous" campaign to resist the misguided instructions of the outsider came to an end. Except for Feng Debao, all the other workers were back at their posts, and the workshop operations instantly became well-organized.

When they returned, it wasn't that some workers didn't realize what was happening: it's possible that Master Lin didn't actually have 20 workers left, and that Lao Fu had planned it all out with Master Lin, cooperating to put on a show for them!

But, so what?

We received our overtime pay, and the goods sold out immediately after they were shipped out, so everyone got another bonus.

That's fine! As for what the truth is, what does it matter anymore?

But that's a story for another time.

After the workshop started operating, everything seemed to be going well for Gu Youlian. Little did she know that this was just the beginning, and even worse things were yet to come.

At that time, for those who didn't have water heaters at home, showering at the factory meant either washing in a large basin or bucket at home or going to a public bathhouse.

Even so, Gu Youlian began to miss Gu Family Village.

"My brother treats the bottle better!" Gu Youlian washed the shower room that Gu Juncheng had built for Lin Qingping a few times and felt incredibly comfortable.

But now, while I'm at the factory, I can only go to the public bathhouse with everyone else.

Moreover, in addition to the workers, family members and relatives could also go to the bathhouse as long as they had tickets, and many people from outside the factory also came to bathe there.

Fortunately, the garment factory's bathhouse has individual cubicles, one person per cubicle, with a plastic curtain to ensure privacy.

However, Lin Qingping discovered that someone would always lift her curtain while she was taking a bath.