Siheyuan: A warm home with wife and children

Hank's arrogance and hubris caused such a great loss.

He didn't want to be punished along with them!

To put it more seriously, this could lead to expulsion...

Losing your job for someone else? Are you kidding me?

Jobs are hard to find these days. Here, they can be superior to others, but back home, they're just low-level wage slaves.

"Lou, help me." Hank asked Lou's father for help.

Here, the only person who can help him, or might be able to help him, is Lou's father.

As for his colleagues, after the situation became serious...

He became the most unreliable person.

"Mr. Hank, it's not that I don't want to help you, but... your company can't possibly listen to me, can it?"

The translator relayed this to Hank, whose face instantly turned deathly pale.

This time, we're really doomed.

Hank left first, wanting to report the situation to headquarters before his colleagues.

But people aren't stupid. No sooner had Hank stepped out than someone approached Lou's father: "Boss Lou, I'd like to borrow your phone."

“No problem, take him to the office.” Mr. Lou readily agreed.

After everyone left, Lou's father handed the signed acceptance documents to his subordinates.

He accompanied Yang Jianguo, walking around the machines being inspected, stopping and starting, asking, "Master Yang, is there any problem?"

"No." Yang Jianguo smiled and continued looking at the equipment, saying, "The foreigners' technology is indeed excellent!"

"You can't deny it, you can't deny it." Mr. Lou sighed helplessly.

Those who have access to the truth are more aware of and understand the technological gap between each other.

It's going to be tough to catch up!

"Pressure is what motivates us!" Yang Jianguo appeared cheerful and confident.

It was as if they already had a plan in mind and weren't affected by the 'truth' at all.

I've memorized the data from the three instruments, and that concludes today's work.

Yang Jianguo doesn't plan to memorize it all at once, as that would be too mentally taxing.

Since the equipment is already in my hands, I can just come back in the next few days. It'll just mean using two more cards.

The cards he's accumulated are going to 'go moldy' if he doesn't use them soon.

Using two extra sheets won't hurt!

"Let's stop here for today and continue tomorrow." Since Yang Jianguo had made his decision, Lou's father didn't urge him any further.

This is a delicate job, involving acceptance testing, debugging, and explaining the operating procedures and precautions to the workers.

The foreigner also said they were given a thick 'operating instructions' booklet.

Honestly: Even a ghost wouldn't understand it!

A few times before, Lou's father even specially found a translator to translate the entire 'operating instructions' for him.

Let the workers take it and study it carefully.

In the end, it turned out that what was written there was complete rubbish.

It only covers the basics, without any in-depth explanations whatsoever.

This "instruction manual" is simply the pinnacle of nonsensical literature.

Apart from the outline at the beginning, there isn't a single useful sentence in it.

Enraged, Lou's father cursed and took the dictionary to burn.

"Damn it, I was so angry at the time that I smashed my favorite teapot."

Lou's father's lips twitched; he still felt a tightness in his chest when he thought about it.

That teapot was an antique from the Ming Dynasty, and when he calmed down, Lou's father was heartbroken.

I searched the market for many years, but I couldn't find a second one.

"You like this?" Yang Jianguo thought for a moment and said, "I'll have someone send you a nice item tomorrow, a pottery bowl from the Hongzhou kiln of the Tang Dynasty."

Upon hearing Yang Jianguo mention this, Lou's father became interested.

But when he offered Dongxi, Lou's father refused to accept it, saying, "What would I do with that!"

"I was used to that teapot, and besides, I smashed it myself. It's a real shame, and I can't get over it."

“I have no use for that ceramic bowl, and I certainly can’t accept it as a collectible. There’s no reason for you to give it to me; I should be the one giving it to you.”

Yang Jianguo didn't press the matter, and smiled, saying, "Alright then, when you return to Beijing, I'll accompany you to Panjiayuan for a good stroll."

"Recently, the prices of these old items have gone up again."

Gold is valued in times of chaos, antiques are valued in times of prosperity.

Now that the situation is becoming more stable, antique prices are showing signs of recovery.

Those who have the capital to dabble in the past year or two, and who know a little about the market and are knowledgeable, are guaranteed to make a lot of money if they don't get too caught up in the details.

If your mind is too heavy, then you need to be extremely knowledgeable and thoroughly understand it.

With this wave of support, three generations of a family will have nothing to worry about.

Once the situation stabilizes, how many people will bring out their old items to sell!

It's not an exaggeration to say that you can't buy anything at a good price right now, so you can only pick up bargains at every step.

Lou's father felt itchy to go right away, wishing he could head straight to Panjiayuan in Beijing.

However, the thought of what had happened to his old friends made his legs tremble.

Forget it, let's wait a bit longer!

We'll go back once the situation has truly stabilized and we receive official notification from above.

He had been keeping his daughter awake for several nights because she wanted to go back home.

If we go back together, they'll take everything back with us.

With such a large business empire belonging to the Lou family, won't it all end up benefiting outsiders?!

Chapter 334 A Change of Mindset, Making Everything with Bare Hands

The feeling of having a knife to your neck, where life and death are not in your own hands.

If you haven't experienced it yourself, don't say "I understand." Anyone trying to gain something from you is just trying to elicit empathy from you.

Therefore, Yang Jianguo did not comment on Lou's father's concerns and respected his cautious assessment.

Whether or not he goes back is his own choice.

Furthermore, that would constitute coercion!

For several days in a row, I would go to the factory every morning to inspect and debug the equipment, and then teach the workers how to operate it.

Back at the villa at night, he would bury himself in books, meticulously recording data and information into volumes.

Lou Xiao'e had thought that with his arrival, they would have more time to spend together and communicate.

Even if nothing comes of it in the end, at least it will leave a deep impression.

But now she understands that it was all just wishful thinking on her part.

People don't care about her at all; they don't care about her in the slightest.

This deeply hurt Lou Xiao'e, but it also brought a sense of clarity after her initial despair.

She's not young anymore; she's almost forty.

If this continues, let alone now...

If we push forward another thirty or forty years, they will also be considered "leftover women" (women who are over 30 and still single).

Even immense wealth cannot change this fact.

It simply gave her more leverage, but the responsibilities she had to bear were also considerable.

The Lou family must have an heir.

With such a large family business, someone has to take over it all.

Don't mention freedom of marriage or freedom of reproduction.

It's never truly free. We encourage you to date freely, not to avoid marriage.

Marriage and procreation are natural rights for any biological species.

As for the preference for sons over daughters, it's a matter of needs, not a matter of one side trying to suppress the other.

Beyond the instinct for racial reproduction, those that can provide greater value will naturally be more favored.

To give a simple example, if your family only has girls, then everyone in the village will bully your family.

If there were four or five boys, no one in the village would dare mess with them; they'd beat you up.

The competitive nature of organisms dictates that the stronger ones are more needed.

In the hunting era, the tribe was protected and its survival depended on hunting wild animals for food and ensuring the safety of women and children so they could reproduce.

These tasks should all be done by men because they have greater strength and speed.

In the agricultural era, men were still the main force, not to mention fighting.

Those who think they can beat men should thank the rule of law.

Survival selection led to men gaining dominance, which in turn determined the ownership of naming rights and sovereignty.

Therefore, the decision was made to have a son, as this was believed to ensure the continuation of the family line.

Lou's father kept urging her to get married as soon as possible.

Regardless of gender, as long as a child bears the surname Lou, they will inherit the Lou family's property and wealth in the future.

Lou's father was extremely open-minded in this regard.

This also proves the truth of the law of the jungle: the Lou family's business is their source of confidence, even if they are daughters.

They should also have the right to name the child so that the family bloodline can continue.

Not everyone has that kind of confidence and strength.

If it weren't for Yang Jianguo being in the middle, and Lou's father's excessive doting on his daughter, Lou Xiao'e would have been a mother long ago.

But after all these years, there is still no hope of meeting again.

Without anyone urging her, Lou Xiao'e herself felt it was time to give up.

Perhaps she really needs to seriously consider making another choice.

Howinkle is a good match!

Yang Jianguo was unaware of Lou Xiao'e's changing mindset.

Visualizing the world is not like reading a mind.

Even if he did find out, he would only be happy for Lou Xiao'e.

I wish her a happy marriage and a long and happy life together.

From the very beginning, he never imagined that anything would happen between the two of them.

Naturally, there wouldn't be any feelings other than 'blessing'.

Who knows, in the future, the younger generation might be able to continue the bond between this generation and become family friends, creating a beautiful story.

Yang Jianguo did not follow up on the outcome of Hank's case.

All he knew was that he hadn't seen the foreigner since the first day.

On the contrary, his colleague stayed at the factory to take charge of the follow-up work.