The next day was not only the day when Tao Zhiyun's employer paid wages, but also the day when Fang Zhuoran helped Lin Mai deliver the goods he ordered from various state-owned textile factories.
It is not easy to accept all the goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the quality must be checked.
If there are quality problems, you have to return them immediately and then return them later. Those state-owned textile factories may not necessarily admit their fault.
Why do you think this is a state-owned enterprise? It is so arrogant!
Lin Mai went to the clothing factory early in the morning, and Tao Zhiyun also came early.
Lin Mai asked: "I sent Doudou to Aunt Ding's house this morning, but why didn't I see your Qiqi?"
Tao Zhiyun said: "Yesterday, my parents came to my house to pick up Qiqi. They helped me take care of Qiqi."
Lin Mai asked in surprise: "Your parents actually went to your house? Are they no longer preventing you from divorcing Ma Tao?"
It was because Tao Zhiyun's parents strongly opposed her divorce from Ma Tao that Tao Zhiyun moved out.
Tao Zhiyun explained: "As soon as my two brothers and sister-in-law came forward, they would not stop me."
Lin Mai smiled: "There are no parents in the world who can resist their children."
Tao Zhiyun also smiled: "My parents would like to invite you to take Doudou to our house for a meal on National Day."
Lin Mai was startled for a moment: "It's so good, why do you want to invite me and Doudou to dinner?"
Tao Zhiyun patted her shoulder: "Of course it's to thank you for taking care of my mother and son."
Lin Mai hesitated and said: "I'm engaged on National Day and I can't go to my uncle and aunt's house for dinner. Can I change the day?"
"Ouch! I forgot about such a big thing."
Tao Zhiyun slapped his head hard, "I'll tell my parents later and ask them to treat your mother and daughter to dinner on October 3rd instead."
While the two were talking, a delivery truck from the No. 1 Textile Factory drove in.
I was busy from the morning until about four o'clock in the afternoon. I finally checked all the goods, and there was no problem with any piece of cloth.
Although state-owned textile factories have shortcomings of one kind or another, they are still remarkable in terms of quality control.
Lin Mai and Tao Zhiyun were both exhausted, so tired that they could not even straighten their waists.
Tao Zhiyun looked at the cloths with some worry: "Didn't you say that the soaring price of fabrics along the coast will soon affect the mainland?
It's been almost half a month, why is there no movement at all?
I'm really worried that the drop in fabric prices along the coast will lead to a drop in fabric prices in the mainland. How much will you lose if you buy so much fabric?"
Since getting a phone at home, Lin Mai has contacted Ke Ziqing on the phone every once in a while.
I know that the price of clothing in coastal cities continues to increase slightly, which means that the price of fabrics continues to increase.
Since it's still rising, there's nothing to worry about.
She smiled confidently at Tao Zhiyun: "Don't worry, I won't lose, I will only make money."
She raised her hand and looked at her watch: "It's already time to get off work. You should go first and go back and take a hot bath to relieve your fatigue."
"Let's go together. The goods have all been put into the warehouse. You have nothing to do if you stay."
Lin Mai waved his hand: "I still have to contact Chen Feng and ask him to send me at least ten security guards to guard the warehouse.
There are hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fabric inside, and if it were burned down by a crazy person, I wouldn't even have a place to cry."
Although this possibility is unlikely, she still wants to take precautions before it happens.
Tao Zhiyun then left first.
Lin Mai went to the office to call Chen Feng and explained his request in a few words.
Chen Feng asked her to wait for half an hour, and he would send people over immediately.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Mai had nothing to do, so he went to hang out in the workshop.
The workers are all off work, and only a few cleaners are cleaning up the rags that fell on the floor during cutting.
Some rags are really rags, only a little bigger than a palm, but some are about a foot long.
The cleaning staff swept all the cloth ends together, then squatted together, picked out large pieces of cloth, and put them into the sacks beside them.
In a few minutes, everyone had filled most of the sacks.
Even if you take it back and stitch it to make clothes for your children, you can do a lot.
Wu Sufen was stuffing cloth into her sack, and out of the corner of her eye she saw someone standing at the door.
She turned around and saw Lin Mai, jumped up from the ground, and greeted with a smile: "Mr. Lin, you haven't left yet?"
Several other cleaning staff also saw Lin Mai at this time, and they all stood up and greeted her respectfully.
Lin Mai responded one by one, and then said to Wu Sufen: "I haven't finished dealing with some things, so I'm not in a hurry to leave."
"Mr. Lin, you have worked really hard. You must pay attention to your rest."
Wu Sufen expressed concern, then changed the topic and pointed to the sacks they used to hold the cloth heads and said, "These cloth heads are all unnecessary. The director asked us to take them."
The other cleaning staff all nodded vigorously, indicating that it was not their own initiative to take the cloth head.
Lin Maihe said: "The company is not using these cloths now, so it doesn't matter if you take them away.
After two days, these pieces of cloth will be used and they will no longer be waste, so you can't take them away."
Several cleaners hurriedly said hello, but they were wondering how useful these cloth ends could be.
Lin Mai had already planned in his mind that he could open a small headdress workshop and use these rags to make headdresses.
As for larger pieces of cloth, they are sold by the pound.
Those housewives who are capable but poor can buy them back and piece them together to make clothes for their families.
In this day and age, many people still wear patched clothes, and no one would laugh at patchwork clothes.
If the splicing is done well, not only will no one laugh at you, but the effect of wearing it will not be bad.
At this moment, the factory guard uncle ran in in a panic.
When he saw Lin Mai, he patted his thigh and said with a worried expression: "Mr. Lin, why did you come here? Let me find you easily!"
Lin Mai asked: "Is something wrong?"
"Well, it's still a big deal!" said the uncle guard, "a pair of people claiming to be the ceramic designer's mother-in-law and a man stopped the ceramic designer at the factory gate and refused to let her leave.
That old woman who claims to be the ceramic designer’s mother-in-law even beats up the ceramic designer, go and see!”
Lin Mai immediately ran to the factory gate.
I saw Tao Zhiyun with disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, and a very embarrassed look.
A young man was protecting her behind him and was reasoning with the horse mother.
But Ma Mu didn't listen to a word and said arrogantly: "It's none of your business for me to beat my own daughter-in-law. I want you to protect her!"
Oh~ I understand, you must be my daughter-in-law’s mistress!”
Many passers-by who were watching immediately pointed at the young man and Tao Zhiyun.
Tao Zhiyun stood up from behind the young man and said to Ma Mu angrily: "I don't know this comrade, so don't slander me here!"
"I'm so slanderous?" Ma Mu sneered, "You better stop telling lies!
A stranger will stand up for you? How come no strangers stand up for me!"
Lin Mai walked over and said to her with a cold face: "Because you are so bad, no stranger will stand up for you!
As for good Samaritans, it is normal for strangers to stand up for her.
When Sister Tao and her son were bullied on the train, it was me, a stranger, who stood up for her!
The police station also has a record of me helping Sister Tao. You can check it.
Don’t think that you are bad and no one can help you, just think that everyone in the world is just like you and no one can help you!”
The mother was so shocked that she was speechless.
The young man who was protecting Tao Zhiyun clapped his hands as soon as Lin Mai finished speaking and praised sincerely: "Sister-in-law, what you said is so good!"
Lin Mai looked back and saw that the young man was Fang Zhuoyue. He was surprised and said, "Why are you here?"
Fang Zhuoyue curled his lips: "My mother said she missed me and called me home for dinner. I passed by here."
Lin Mai pointed at the mother's nose and said: "You are finished. If you dare to slander my future brother-in-law, just wait to be sued!"
Ma Tao, who had been standing by and supporting the mother, became anxious and hurriedly said to Lin Mai: "Don't argue with my mother. She is old and loves to talk nonsense!"
"I'm going to argue!" Fang Zhuoyue said fiercely, "What? When you are older, you can hit and slander us casually?
Do you think I’m easy to mess with? My grandfather is a retired official from Beijing, and my dad is not a simple person either!”
Fang Zhuoyue never bothered to use his status as an elder to suppress anyone, but he really couldn't stand Ma Mu's unreasonable face.
She is not afraid of this kind of person, but she is afraid of power, so use power to scare her out of courage.
When Ma Mu heard this, she was dumbfounded and explained incoherently: "I...I never thought of offending you.
I... just asked my daughter-in-law to go back to work and not to do anything about furloughing her without pay.
If we continue to implement furloughs, our whole family will be in dire straits."
Tao Zhiyun laughed: "What does it have to do with me if your family drinks the northwest wind? I have no obligation to support your family!"
When Ma's mother faced Tao Zhiyun, her attitude was still arrogant and domineering: "Who said you have no obligation to support our family? You are our daughter-in-law, so you must support our family named Ma!"
Lin Mai said disdainfully: "You don't understand the law so much. Not to mention that your daughter-in-law has no obligation to support her husband's family, she even has no obligation to support her parents-in-law!"
The horse mother said angrily: "You are talking nonsense!"