Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 416 - 415: Just Afraid Xiao Lin Won’t Call Me Uncle

Chapter 416: Chapter 415: Just Afraid Xiao Lin Won’t Call Me Uncle

The Provincial City Supply and Marketing Cooperative has always been proud; their goods are never worried about selling, and factories that supply goods late still have to look to them for favor. As the director of the Cooperative Society, Zhai Huayuan is more prestigious than most factory directors in the provincial city.

Yet he is a cautious person.

He once wrote a letter to a teacher, a mere ordinary letter of greeting, and after stuffing it in the mailbox, he suddenly remembered making a punctuation mistake. He insisted on going back home to get a stack of identification documents, and waited by the mailbox until the post office opened it. With his documents, he proved his identity and successfully retrieved the letter to rewrite it.

He manages such a large Cooperative Society, and even if an account is off by one penny, he would stay up with the accountant for three days and three nights until that single penny is found.

Now there are people saying he treats comrades differently, that he hoards the new Head Flower goods to sell only to leaders’ families... He can’t dare to carry this huge slander!

Therefore, Zhai Huayuan began to inquire about the source of the new Head Flowers everywhere, wanting to prove his innocence.

He is acquainted with the factory directors of many factories; it wasn’t long before he found out the source of this batch of Head Flowers—it was a gift from Zheng Lirong.

Without hesitating, Zhai Huayuan directly asked for Zheng Lirong’s phone number and called her.

At this very moment, Zheng Lirong herself was arranging for her younger brothers to spread the news of the Head Flower’s origin. She had just started when Zhai Huayuan came to her on his own initiative.

Zheng Lirong did not recognize Zhai Huayuan. After hearing him introduce himself, she hesitated for a moment and then said with a smile: "Director Zhai, to be honest, I’m not very clear on which factory produced these Head Flowers. It was a gift from an educated youth sister of mine. I am too old for such fancy stuff, so I gave it to a few nieces in my uncle’s and brothers’ families."

Zhai Huayuan was immediately disheartened.

Was the information he finally got hold of coming to an end just like that?

That wouldn’t do!

He had no choice but to ask with a thick face: "Comrade Zheng, may I ask where your sister went to the countryside?"

"It’s not far. Lan County, Ten Miles Team. Her name is Lin Nianhe. If you want to..."

"Alright, thank you!"

The phone call ended.

Holding the phone receiver, Zheng Lirong sighed helplessly: "Wouldn’t Director Zhai ask for the phone number?"

She chuckled and shook her head as she dialed the number for Ten Miles Team.

The phone was answered by Li Dahe. Without waiting much longer, Lin Nianhe arrived.

"Hello, Sister Lirong?"

"It’s me, sister." Zheng Lirong said with a smile, "Just now, Director Zhai from the Cooperative Society called me, I told him where you went to the countryside, and I suspect he’s going to send someone to find you and ask."

Lin Nianhe was puzzled: "Didn’t he ask for the phone number for the brigade?"

"No, he hurriedly hung up the phone as soon as he got the address."

"Jeez... he’s impatient, huh." Lin Nianhe blinked her eyes with a laugh.

Impatient people are good, especially good.

"Do I need to fuel the fire more for you? Everyone has gathered here."

"Better not, let’s not make a big fuss over a Head Flower, this is good enough."

"Okay then. Are Shanshan and Xiao Jun behaving? They haven’t caused you too much trouble, have they?"

"No, the two of them are especially well-behaved. Oh, by the way, I have to tell you, there was a celebration in our village the other day, and Xiao Jun..."

Lin Nianhe picked out amusing incidents involving the two children to tell Zheng Lirong, and after chatting for a few moments, she hung up the phone.

Putting down the receiver, she faced Li Dahe’s burning gaze.

Consciously, Lin Nianhe admitted: "About the Head Flower, the order has found its way here."

Li Dahe rubbed his hands together nervously, "Just that little trinket, something that can’t be eaten or drunk, can it really be sold?"

"You not liking it doesn’t mean others won’t like it," Lin Nianhe said, "If it really can’t be sold, would I dare to have the textile factory stop the duvet cover production line to make Head Flowers? You just watch, you never know, our Head Flowers might even be exported to earn foreign exchange!"

"Pure nonsense, it would be good enough if they could be sold in the provincial city!"

Li Dahe did not believe for a second that a little Head Flower could be exported to earn foreign exchange.

Lin Nianhe didn’t argue with him and picked up the phone to dial Wong Xiao’s number.

"Hello, I am Wong Xiao." Wong Xiao’s voice was very serious.

"Good afternoon Uncle Wong, this is Lin Nianhe."

Upon hearing this, Wong Xiao’s tone immediately took a 180-degree turn: "Oh! Xiao Lin, it’s been several days since you last visited, is it because the weather is getting cold so you don’t want to go out? I was thinking of coming to see you in a few days when I have a break!"

"Thank you for your concern, Uncle Wong, I am fine, just been busy with some festivities in the village and couldn’t get away for a moment."

"Congratulations to you all!" Wong Xiao didn’t even ask what the occasion was and went straight to congratulations, he laughed twice, and couldn’t help but clear his throat before saying, "Xiao Lin, so many days have passed, why hasn’t there been any news?"

He wished he could be a leader who remained unflustered even if Mount Tai were collapsing in front of him, but his heart was like it was being scratched by a cat, unable to stay calm at all.

Lin Nianhe chuckled and said, "I’m calling you about this matter. The Cooperative Society from the provincial city should be sending someone over in the next few days. If they come to our textile factory, you just..."

"Xiao Lin! Wait for me! I’m coming over to see you right away!"

The phone hung up again.

Lin Nianhe looked at the handset, then at Li Dahe, let out a resigned sigh, "It’s not that I’m talking behind his back, but Uncle Wong really gets excited too easily, unlike Uncle Team Leader who is so calm."

Li Dahe rolled his eyes at her, "Don’t try to butter me up here!" Though he said that, the corners of his mouth curved up.

Of course, Wong Xiao couldn’t compare to him, that’s even more obvious than finding lice on a bald head!

When Wong Xiao arrived at Ten Miles Team, Lin Nianhe was teaching a Chinese class.

He didn’t think much and just pushed the door and went straight into the first-grade classroom.

"Xiao Lin, you first..."

As soon as Wong Xiao met Lin Nianhe’s icy gaze, he quickly swallowed what he was about to say and changed his words, "You teach first, teach first... I’ll wait in the back."

Wong Xiao went to sit down on an empty seat at the back, looking pitiful.

Lin Nianhe withdrew her gaze and continued the lesson.

Wong Xiao waited and waited, feeling as if a century had passed before he heard the bell ring.

He shot out like the most mischievous student in class as soon as the recess bell rang, but unlike the bad students, his destination was not the playground but rather Lin Nianhe.

Lin Nianhe saw his eager look, pretended to be helpless and shook her head, sighed, and said to the children, "You can be dismissed now, we will continue the rest of the content tomorrow."

"Goodbye teacher—"

The children closed their books one by one, put on their hats, and ran out of the classroom.

Only then did Lin Nianhe say to Wong Xiao, "Actually, the remaining content could be finished in two minutes."

Wong Xiao rubbed his hands, grinning sheepishly: "My bad, my bad. If the negotiation with the Provincial City Supply and Marketing Cooperative goes well this time, I’ll donate ten more tons of coal to our village’s school!"

Could there be such good things coming to one’s doorstep?

Lin Nianhe kept her expression unchanged and blew away the chalk dust on her hands, curling her lips, "I get it, so the leader’s meaning is, if our village school wants to live a bit better, it all depends on the textile factory’s performance... Tsk, those who don’t know might think our village school is the textile factory’s affiliated school."

What Wong Xiaokou feared most now was not his daughter throwing tantrums at him, but Lin Nianhe not calling him "Uncle".

His smile froze at the corners of his mouth, he slapped his thigh and quickly corrected himself: "Look at me, I’m so happy I don’t even know how to speak properly! I mean, after we elders finish discussing that little matter with the Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative today, I’ll go back and send another ten tons of coal to our village school... We can’t let the children suffer no matter how hard times are!"