A stunning beauty arrived on the island; she invented everything from childcare to babysitting.

After dinner, Anning and Zhao Xuemei sat in front of the house, shelling peanuts and chatting.

“I would rather work in a cannery than a toy factory,” Zhao Xuemei said. “My son would be thrilled if I went to a toy factory, but those toys can’t be worn or eaten, and he can only play with them. It’s better to go to a cannery. I heard that the cannery workers in the county don’t lack canned food at home.”

"Actually, it's pretty much the same. If the cannery opens smoothly, there will definitely be an extra box of canned food in the gifts given to the troops during holidays."

"That's true, but the food we can eat on ordinary days is not as good as the food we can eat during holidays. I'm just a bit short-sighted and like to focus on what's in front of me."

Anning corrected her: "This is not called being short-sighted, this is called being pragmatic."

The two of them were talking about the hottest topic in the family quarters recently: the newly built factory by the military.

Not only them, but many people in the army are watching.

Although the cannery and toy factory started operations at the same time, the cannery's facilities were more complete than the toy factory's. They didn't need to set up water and electricity separately, so the cannery had already started trial operation. The machines in Anning had just been debugged, and the power lines were temporarily brought over from the cannery, so they had to start rewiring.

Of course, these are all superficial appearances.

The main reason is that the arsenal below is still under construction, with frequent personnel coming and going. Even if An Ning doesn't know the situation down there, she can roughly guess that a lot of infrastructure has not been completed.

The reason we were in such a hurry to bring in the toy factory's machines was mainly because we were worried that if there were too many people at the cannery, they would notice something was amiss. So we figured we could do it all at once and no one would suspect anything.

Others didn't know the specifics, but they felt that workers in the toy factory didn't receive as much benefit as those in the cannery factory, and the cannery factory was recruiting workers after the cannery factory, so everyone was scrambling to get into the cannery factory.

Elsewhere, no one would think they had two factories where they could choose their own worker positions.

But this is a factory built by the military. If they don't benefit the families, are they going to benefit outsiders?

The factory needs so many employees, and there must be people to do the work inside; they will always have a chance to be assigned some.

Zhao Xuemei thought so too, and she even went to inquire about the recruitment requirements of the county cannery. Generally, regular employees needed at least a junior high school education, while technicians needed at least a high school or vocational school education, but that wasn't always the case.

In fact, as long as you finish primary school, you will have the opportunity to become an apprentice.

If the military is recruiting from within the unit, the requirements should be more relaxed. Since Zhao Xuemei's husband is a battalion commander, she still has a good chance of getting in.

An Ning and Zhao Xuemei originally didn't want to get involved in Aunt Wu's business next door, but Aunt Wu's burning gaze almost burned them to the core.

She saw Anning and Zhao Xuemei peeling peanuts at the door, so she also brought out a plate of soybeans to pick through them, making a rustling sound as she pulled them, but she couldn't find many bad ones after a long time. She just kept her eyes on them.

“Aunt Wu, aren’t you going to stop the water from boiling?” Zhao Xuemei spoke first, taking advantage of the sound of the kettle boiling in Aunt Wu’s room.

Anning has been targeted by Aunt Wu so many times that their relationship has been completely broken. How could she possibly get along with her?

He chimed in sarcastically, "Sister-in-law, Aunt Wu has plenty of strength. She's not worried about running out of firewood. Maybe she just enjoys the noise."

Zhao Xuemei laughed: "Yes, yes, yes, you've misunderstood, sister-in-law. Everyone has different ideas. Maybe Aunt Wu just likes this kind of thing!"

This time, however, Aunt Wu didn't get angry. Instead, she smiled sinisterly and said, "I won't argue with you two little kids. It's just a pity that some people's good days won't last long!"

After she finished speaking, she hunched over and limped into the house carrying the soybeans.

Aunt Wu wasn't very tall, only about 1.5 meters, but after she became hunchbacked, she was probably only 1.4 meters tall. Her hair was gray, and her clothes looked dirty, and it was hard to tell if they had been washed. Combined with her current mental state, it gave An Ning the feeling that a horror movie had come to life.

This time, Aunt Wu didn't argue with them, which made Zhao Xuemei feel a little uncomfortable.

After a long while, she asked Anning, "Who is she talking about?"

"It's not that she's talking about me, but she's probably talking about me. After all, she's been watching me for a while now. You're here every day, and Battalion Commander Xu hasn't had any problems at work. What could possibly happen to him?" An Ning said nonchalantly.

"So you're alright too, what did she mean by that?"

"Who knows? Some people, even if nothing's wrong, will still cause trouble." An Ning shrugged. "But I'm not really afraid of her causing trouble; I'm more afraid of her not causing trouble!"

Aunt Wu doesn't cause trouble; she just argues a bit, and there's really nothing she can do about it.

But if she makes a move against her, wouldn't that give her leverage?

Just like last time I climbed over her wall.

For the next few days, Anning went to get off work as usual, waiting for the person Li Bowen had found to help her transfer her household registration to return.

Although she successfully probed some things from Xue Man, she did not confront Chen Hai directly because, apart from knowing that he had problems, she did not know the specifics of his problems, nor did she have any evidence.

Therefore, instead of taking the initiative, it's better to wait for him to show his weakness.

Just as An Ning had predicted, Song Wenyuan suffered from insomnia for several nights in a row, spending each day simulating how he should answer his wife's questions.

Should you answer truthfully, or continue lying?

However, after waiting for several days, his wife's interactions with him during her commute to and from get off work were perfectly normal. She neither distanced herself nor tried to trick him into revealing information, which made him doubt whether what Xue Man said was true.

In these situations, those who are at a disadvantage are always more anxious.

Finally, Song Wenyuan couldn't hold back any longer, so he went to find Xue Man.

Yes, he couldn't help but confront An Ning directly afterward, and instead went to Xue Man.

"What do you think she means by this? Pretending not to know, and continuing to look for my weaknesses? She's already guessed the relationship between you and me, doesn't she expect that after contacting you, you would tell me?"

Xue Man had just finished a day of training, his face full of pain, and he went along with what his company commander had said.

"I do not know either."

"It's possible!"

"I think so too."

Song Wenyuan: "...Since you think so too, then go and ask her."

"No way! Didn't you tell us before that we shouldn't rush things and that the best approach is to remain calm and wait for the right opportunity? You're just being too close to the situation to see things clearly!"

"You little two-headed devil! Are you going or not?"

"Go, go! I'll go, okay?"

Xue Man sighed.

His usually brilliant and capable company commander, isn't he just walking into a trap?