“If it’s an important guest, please have Director Lei receive them. If it’s a general guest, just have other leaders in the factory handle it!”
The secretary looked troubled and said, “Little boss, this Director Lü said he’s an old acquaintance of yours and heard you were at the factory, so he asked to see you!”
Hearing the name Director Lü, Su Xiaotian guessed it might be Lü Ruyai.
“Xiaotian is indeed a boss now, you have quite the presence!” A hearty laugh came, and it was indeed Lü Ruyai’s voice.
The little secretary, hearing that the person had arrived, quickly cast her eyes towards Su Xiaotian.
The guest came uninvited, would the little boss be angry?
What should be done if the little boss got angry?
He didn’t think that someone so young could manage such a large factory to be a simple person.
It had to be said that as Su Xiaotian spent more time at the factory, the people there gained a new understanding of her.
They no longer thought, as they initially did, that Su Xiaotian’s rapid development was solely due to the legacy and protection of her ancestors.
They now knew that Su Xiaotian’s current achievements were entirely the result of her own hard work.
The factory workers, seeing that the factory was developing better and better under Su Xiaotian’s planning, respected her even more.
“You can go out now,” Su Xiaotian said with a smile to the little secretary before stepping forward to shake hands with Lü Ruyai.
The little secretary was finally relieved, realizing that this Director Lü of the silk factory was indeed very familiar with the little boss.
His respect for Su Xiaotian grew even more.
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This showed that he considered the little boss an equal, not just the boss of a small private factory.
Su Xiaotian and Lü Ruyai were unaware of the little secretary’s thoughts.
Su Xiaotian invited Lü Ruyai into her office.
After looking around, Lü Ruyai couldn’t help but sigh, “Xiaotian, you’re as diligent and studious as ever! Even your office has so many books.”
“There’s no other way, I have to study. I’m young and don’t understand many things, so I can only draw knowledge from books.”
Su Xiaotian said this with a calm smile while taking out a thermos to make tea for Lü Ruyai.
However, to Lü Ruyai, these words sounded like showing off.
“You girl, you’re getting better and better at talking. Are you boasting about your young age and broad knowledge?”
Lü Ruyai said playfully.
Su Xiaotian quickly feigned grievance, “Director Lü, look at what you’re saying. It’s just the truth, why does it sound so twisted to your ears?”
Lü Ruyai burst into laughter after hearing Su Xiaotian’s words.
In the past two years, Su Xiaotian had taken on fewer translation jobs, but she had maintained good relationships with the electronics factory and the silk factory.
After all, someone with genuine talent and the ability to gain favor with higher-ups would not be underestimated, even by leaders of large state-owned factories.
“A few years ago, I said I would seriously read books, but eventually, my age caught up, and I couldn’t settle down to read.” Lü Ruyai lamented.
Seeing Su Xiaotian now, he actually felt regret.
The young girl had grown to this point, while they, clinging to old ways, had not kept up with the times!
“The little girl from back then has grown into a young woman. I originally thought it was just a small factory, but seeing it today, I realize it’s much better than ours.”
Lü Ruyai’s words were sincere. The first time he met Su Xiaotian, she was still a young girl in a high school uniform.
In the blink of an eye, that little girl had grown into a young woman.
Moreover, she had, through her own abilities, established such a thriving and vibrant factory.
He had heard from people in the factory earlier that the New Year welfare distributed by the food processing plant, in addition to the Lu Xiangxiang New Year gift packages produced by the factory, also included a large box of fruit for each person.
It was impossible not to be shocked.
Business hadn’t been good in the past two years, and their factory’s performance was also declining.
If it weren’t for the continuous cooperation with Auguste, their factory would likely be operating at a loss now.
In fact, it wasn’t just the silk factory facing such problems; many factories were now in difficulty. If they weren’t backed by the state, they would struggle to survive.
But the food processing plant was different; everyone here was full of spirit.
As a deputy director for many years, Lü Ruyai could tell from the faces of these workers that the food processing plant was doing very well.
Su Xiaotian sat down opposite Lü Ruyai.
“Director Lü is joking. We’re just dabbling, we can’t compare to your silk factory!”
Compared to the silk factory, which had thousands of workers, Su Xiaotian’s food processing plant was indeed small-scale.
However, a factory, like a person, had to grow from small to large. No one was an adult from birth.
Su Xiaotian believed that one day, the food processing plant would also become a factory with thousands, or even tens of thousands, of employees.
After a few pleasantries, Su Xiaotian learned that Lü Ruyai was there to purchase New Year welfare for the factory workers.
“For such a small matter, you had to come all this way yourself? You could have just sent someone!” Su Xiaotian’s face was beaming.
Thousands of New Year gift packages were not a small order for their small factory.
But for the silk factory, it was just the procurement of New Year welfare, and it certainly didn’t require a deputy director like Lü Ruyai to personally make the trip.
Lü Ruyai glared at Su Xiaotian and said, “I came because I knew you were the boss here, so I wanted to see for myself.”
While it was true that he came because he knew Su Xiaotian was the boss, it wasn’t entirely the reason.
As the New Year gift packages became popular in the capital, the name Lu Xiangxiang Food Processing Plant seemed to be known by many people overnight.
Many also learned that this food processing plant called Lu Xiangxiang, though a small private factory, had surpassed many large state-owned factories, even overshadowing the Beijing Meat Processing Plant.
Lü Ruyai wanted to visit personally to see how Su Xiaotian had developed a small factory so rapidly.
“When friends come from afar, I should offer my hospitality. Director Lü, would I have the honor of showing you around our little factory and asking for your guidance, as a director of a large factory?”
Su Xiaotian invited with a smile.
She also hoped to increase the factory’s visibility. With someone visiting, Su Xiaotian had no reason to refuse.
After all, the factory’s development relied on its recipes, and others couldn’t learn them just by taking a glance at the process.
Besides, Lü Ruyai was the director of the silk factory, not the meat processing plant. The processes and recipes in their factory were worthless to Lü Ruyai.