When Li Ye and Wang Jianqiang returned to the capital, it was already past four in the afternoon.
Wang Jianqiang went straight to his post for work, while Huang Suwen would go home to pick up a few things before bringing the child over to keep him company. The family of three spending New Year's Eve at his post had been their habit for several years running.
As for Li Ye, with Lu Zhizhang covering for him these past years, he had never had to work the New Year's Eve night shift. At most, he would go over in the latter half of the night to switch with Lu Zhizhang.
But this year was different. More than half of Jingnan Heavy Industries' senior management team would be heading back southwest for the New Year, leaving only Li Ye, Ma Zhaoxian, Old Meng, and Weng Keming to take shifts.
But Weng Keming had gone back southwest early and would not return until the third day of the New Year. So from New Year's Eve through the second day of the New Year, Li Ye and Ma Zhaoxian could only let the capable do more work!
Thus, Li Ye planned to hurry home, shovel down a couple of bites, then rush to the Jingnan Group building and relieve Ma Zhaoxian from today's shift.
By the time Li Ye drove home, the food was already prepared by his old mother Fu Guiru and stepmother Han Chunmei.
The two of them had only returned together from Hong Kong on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. Fu Guiru had hurried over after wrapping up matters in Japan to explain things to Pei Wencong, while Han Chunmei had spent the past half year in Hong Kong with Xiao Youan.
Han Chunmei had originally planned