A domineering country girl flirts with her son, and Commander Huo can't resist.

"You mean, they did it on purpose?" Zhao Zhengang immediately understood what Qiao An meant.

"I can't think of any other reason besides doing it on purpose."

At this moment, the workers, led by Sun Xiwang, also gathered around.

As they were highly skilled workers, everyone immediately noticed the problem with the bearing sleeve.

"This comrade is right, those foreigners are really taking advantage of us!"

"That's right. If it breaks, we'll have to ask experts from Country D to repair it. It's just replacing a bearing sleeve, but they might charge us tens of thousands."

"Damn it, these foreigners are real scum!"

"So what do we do now? The bearing sleeve is definitely unusable. Even if we buy parts from country D, by the time they arrive, our construction schedule will be delayed."

Everyone chimed in with their own comments, but Sun Xiwang remained silent.

He looked at Qiao An with resentment, never expecting that she would actually stumble upon it by sheer luck.

"No need to replace it, just solder it again."

Joanne doesn't know how to weld, but in her previous life she learned from a senior engineer in the shelter and knows a little about welding.

"You make it sound so easy. It's broken like this, how can you solder it?" Sun Xiwang's tone was still as annoying as ever.

"How to weld is a problem for you, the highest-level eighth-grade worker. I'm just here to check where the problem is."

"Don't tell me you can't even solder high-precision components?"

Sun Xiwang choked, his face instantly falling. "That's the aviation field..."

"If you don't know, you don't know. No need to make excuses." Joan took off her gloves.

"Chief Engineer Zhao, the problem has been found. As long as it is welded properly and put back together, there will be no problem."

Zhao Zhengang stood up excitedly, still holding the bearing sleeve in his hand.

"Comrade Xiao Qiao, thank you so much today. If it weren't for you, this production line would have been finished. You saved our machine tool factory."

"It's too early to say that now. I think even the most skilled workers in your factory are just so-so. Whether they can even weld the bearing sleeve properly is another matter." Qiao An glanced at Sun Xiwang.

His face was ashen, but he couldn't utter a single word.

The younger workers looked at Qiao An with new respect, and no one echoed Sun Xiwang's words.

"I'll go to the provincial capital overnight. The workers there will be able to weld the high-precision components you mentioned. I'll bring them back before dawn tomorrow."

Zhao Zhengang held the bearing sleeve as if it were some rare treasure.

"Comrade Xiao Qiao, why don't you stay at our factory's guesthouse tonight? I'll be back tomorrow, and I'll need your help to put these parts back in."

Qiao An looked at Aunt Liu.

She couldn't stay behind alone; otherwise, when she returned to the village, the old women would probably spread dozens of versions of gossip.

When Aunt Liu saw how capable Qiao An was, even the chief engineer of the machine tool factory begged her to stay.

A strange sense of pride welled up inside her, as if Qiao An were her own daughter.

"Sir, please don't worry, I'll stay at the guesthouse with Qiao An."

She was unaware of the gossipy people in the village.

If Qiao An doesn't go back today, who knows what she'll say tomorrow.

Having her as a witness makes all the difference.

She'd be the first to object to anyone who dared to speak ill of Qiao An behind her back.

Qiao Anke was a key figure in solving a major problem for the machine tool factory.

"Okay, thank you very much, Auntie."

Zhao Zhengang arranged for a standard room to be booked at the guesthouse and also sent over two bowls of fresh meat wontons.

Then, he took his assistant and drove to the provincial capital.

Aunt Liu held the wontons and carefully drank a sip of soup along the rim of the bowl.

"Wow, the wontons from the machine tool factory are really something else! Even the soup is delicious."

Joan ate a very large meal that night, and because she wanted to maintain her current figure, she couldn't eat too much at night.

She pushed her own bowl over as well, saying, "Aunt Liu, you can have this bowl. I'm not hungry."

"Really?" Aunt Liu licked her lips.

"I'm really not hungry. I ate too much tonight. If you don't eat this bowl, it will be left over, which is such a waste."

"Yes, yes! We can't waste food; wasting food is shameful." Aunt Liu took another bowl of wontons with her.

"But speaking of which, Joan, when did you learn how to fix machines?"

Qiao An brought up the story about hitting her head again.

Aunt Liu had no idea what it meant for a specific ability to be developed after being injured by an external force.

She summed it up in one sentence: "She's finally figured it out!"

As the two were talking, Qiao An suddenly realized that Aunt Liu was a kind-hearted and warm-hearted person, just like her chosen worker.

Joanne brought up the matter of supplying steamed buns to the machine tool factory, and the two started chatting.

At this time, most households in Lianchi Village had already turned off their lights.

The entire village fell silent, with only the occasional bird call.

After the Mu family's recent renovation, the cowshed in the south of the village is at least no longer drafty.

If you wrap yourself up warmly at night, you can fall asleep.

At this moment, a figure walked out of the cowshed and slowly came to the back mountain.

Mu Yu wandered aimlessly, not knowing how much time had passed.

When she came to her senses, she found herself walking into the back of the mountain.

It was eerily dark all around, and a few wolf howls could be heard in the distance.

Mu Yu was so frightened that she trembled, but after a while her emotions gradually calmed down.

Actually, dying here wouldn't be so bad.

Mu Yu gave a wry smile and continued forward.

She was once the apple of the Mu family's eye, and even Qiao An, her biological daughter, could not shake her position in the Mu family.

But she never expected that the Mu family could share the good times but not the bad.

They've only been sent down to the countryside for a few days, and they've already started treating themselves as tools for transactions.

Keep in mind that she's not married yet.

Even if she returns to Shenzhou in the future, what good family can she find with her broken body?

Moreover, by then, Mu Linjiang and Fang Hui will probably regard her as the greatest disgrace to the Mu family.

Mu Yu grew increasingly resentful as she thought about it.

Why should she ruin her body for the Mu family?

She's not Mu Linjiang and Fang Hui's biological daughter, is she?

But what else could she do?

Qiao An was arrogant and domineering, and slippery, so it was impossible to catch her out.

She couldn't defeat the four members of the Mu family.

Mu Yu fell into despair.

wrong!

There is another way.

Once she dies, the four members of the Mu family will have no choice but to remain in Lianchi Village for reform.

If we push them too far, they might try to frame Joann.

Anyone who has bullied her will not get away with it.

Unbeknownst to her, Mu Yu had reached the edge of the cliff.

There is no road here.

Ahead lay a bottomless cliff, and behind her lay a sea of ​​suffering she did not want to face.

Mu Yu stood there motionless, like a statue.

Unbeknownst to her, a group of fully armed soldiers were standing thirty or forty meters away from her.

"Commander Huo, what's going on?" Zhang Tiezhu asked, looking at the figure in the distance. "Is he trying to commit suicide?"

The armed forces department received information that spies had infiltrated Jinshui Town and were suspected of hiding in Leishan.

Leishan is what the people of Lianchi Village call the back mountain.

Huo Jiyun had extensive combat experience in the Northwest and had captured enemy agents several times.

Therefore, the Minister of Armed Forces specifically asked him to lead a reconnaissance platoon into the mountains to lie in ambush and capture spies.

But unexpectedly, after only one day in the mountains, instead of catching the spies, they saw a woman who wanted to commit suicide.