Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

Eating barbecue during the Mid-Autumn Festival is actually a Taiwanese tradition. In most parts of mainland China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is just a regular meal. However, Qin Chuan wanted to do something different and suddenly wanted to barbecue himself, and Qin Jianguo certainly didn't stop him.

This is also an effective way to improve the relationship between leaders and employees. The leader personally grills meat skewers for the employees, which shows how approachable and kind he is.

After grilling the meat, we grilled vegetables and steamed buns. Once we were almost done eating, it was time for the important activity: distributing the mooncakes.

This is a traditional custom across the country. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for family reunion. A large mooncake is divided into many pieces, one for each person. Even if family members are not home, a piece must be cut out and kept!

A normal mooncake weighs half a pound, or even less, while reunion mooncakes vary in size depending on the number of people in the family.

A typical large family of a dozen or so people would need a two-pound reunion cake, about the size of a plate. But Qin Chuan specially ordered a ten-pound reunion cake, about the size of a round table, so that everyone could have a bite!

Even so, if divided into fifty portions, each portion would only weigh two ounces.

Qin Chuan used a sharp knife to cut the mooncakes into pieces. The others lined up, waiting to get their mooncakes.

"Come, Mr. Raimov, you are a guest, here's a big piece for you. Being a stranger in a strange land, you miss your family even more during the holidays. You must feel the warmth of home at our Laiyang Factory!"

"Come, Grandpa Wang, this is yours. From now on, you can treat this place as your home! I, Qin Chuan, will take care of you in your old age and see you off in your final days!"

"Good, good, good!"

"Xiao Hui, what's the rush? Get in line at the back!"

Wang Hui looked at Qin Chuan's knife: "Engineer Qin, you...you promised me you'd forge one for me..."

"No time, we'll talk about it later." Qin Chuan waved his hand and continued to brandish Wang Hui's Type 87 military knife, which had several nicks, as he cut mooncakes for everyone.

The mooncake in my hand got smaller and smaller until finally, I got the last one.

"Alright! You guys eat mooncakes, I..." Qin Chuan looked at the remaining crumbs on the table and thought, I'll just eat these crumbs! They just fell off the reunion cakes anyway.

Qin Chuan rolled up the edge of the oil paper that was laid out below, and the scraps gathered together, piling up into a small mountain.

"Engineer Qin, where are my mooncakes?"

Qin Chuan was stunned. Right after the barbecue, Yang Xue ran to wash the large basin of marinated meat. By the time she came out, the mooncakes were gone!

This……

"Engineer Qin, are we out of mooncakes?"

“Um, um… we do have mooncakes, but…” Qin Chuan looked at the oil paper package in his hand: “They’re all broken.”

"It's good that it's broken. Here, give it to me."

"I haven't eaten yet..."

“Let’s eat together!” Yang Xue picked up the oilcloth bag, sat down on the steps, and spread it out in her left hand: “Come on, let’s eat together.”

As Yang Xue spoke, she grabbed a handful with her right hand and put it in her mouth.

"That's right, the five-nut filling from Dongshan Province tastes very good, even better than Daoxiangcun's."

"Different regions have different styles. In the south, there are lotus seed paste, coconut paste, and so on..."

"Qin Gong, it seems you have some knowledge of the customs of different places."

"Well, the more places you go, the more naturally you become... By the way, Translator Yang, don't take my dad's words to heart. He's just playing matchmaker..."

Yang Xue's hand was reaching for mooncake crumbs when she heard Qin Chuan's words and paused for a moment. Then, she felt another hand grab her hand and squeeze it.

Qin Chuan hadn't noticed either. Who would have thought that grabbing mooncake crumbs would result in grabbing something else entirely? It's not like those lowbrow comedy sketches from later generations where someone grabs potato chips and ends up grabbing something else entirely...

He touched it and felt that it was soft, so he even squeezed it...

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Qin Chuan realized what was happening and quickly apologized.

"It's alright, Engineer Qin. I know you like foreign women."

Qin Chuan quickly shook his head: "Of course not, what's so great about foreign women? They're all hairy, and if they don't shave for three days, they look like gorillas. They also smell, and they have to rely on perfume to cover it up..."

These were all basic common sense to Qin Chuan, so he just said them casually. But before he could finish speaking, he felt Yang Xue's meaningful gaze scrutinizing him.

How do you know someone has a lot of body hair, that it gets thick if they don't shave for three days, and that they smell? You...

"Translator Yang, I swear to God, I, Qin Chuan, am still a virgin..." Qin Chuan immediately tried to salvage the situation when he saw that Yang Xue had clearly misunderstood.

Pfft! Yang Xue burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Qin Chuan asked curiously. It was only the 1990s, and it was perfectly normal for men to be virgins back then.

"It's nothing, it's nothing," Yang Xue said. "Let's keep eating. There's fruit after we finish the mooncakes."

Yang Xue was initially a little upset, but now, seeing Qin Chuan's eagerness to prove himself, she felt inexplicably pleased.

Not far away, Qin Jianguo was eating mooncakes and watching Qin Chuan and Yang Xue chatting and laughing together. He muttered to himself, "You won't let me say anything? What can't I say? You two are a couple!"

You used to ride your motorcycle and flirted with all the girls in the neighborhood, now what are you pretending to be innocent for!

A full moon hangs high in the sky, its gentle light bathing the earth. This Mid-Autumn Festival is lively and unforgettable for everyone.

A seed is slowly sprouting.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qin Chuan got busy.

The construction of the rolling mill is crucial to the future development of Laiyang Plant. He once boasted that it would be completed in three months, but he absolutely cannot break his promise.

We also need to build a gas turbine test stand. Shougang's future will no longer be about steel. Our Laiyang Steel Plant will also diversify its development!

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed. On this day, Li Jianshe excitedly ran over.

"Brother Chuan, Brother Chuan! He's back, he's back!"

"What? You're back?"

"We've brought back the things we bought from Ermao! Antonina is back too."

"So fast?"

Generally speaking, it takes 25 days to ship from Ermao to China by sea, but that's for normal cargo ships. My ship is a decommissioned vessel, loaded with so much scrap metal, so it should be slowly rocking along the way.

It's only been a month or so, and it's already here?

"I don't know. The news from the capital should arrive by tomorrow morning, so we should be prepared."

"Okay, clear out the beach and wait for the landing. Oh, and notify Raimov to come and pick up the boat."

Should we really notify him?

"Of course, he's our best friend. He's been waiting for us with bated breath! Now that the ship is back, how can we not let him know? But we don't need to tell him too early. Unloading those scrap metals will take half a day. We can call him in the afternoon."

Yang Xue walked by without stopping, but looked up at the sea.