They needed to personally travel to some coastal machinery factories to make contact, negotiate, and sign contracts for the various machines and components.
But for now, they couldn't leave, because they had promised Wang Hai they would open up the gold mine within a month.
*
Early the next morning, Su Qiao had just gotten up and was preparing to get ready to accompany Dad Xiao up the mountain to find Wang Hai and the others in the mine.
Unexpectedly, Old Lady Su and Liu Hong came to the door supporting Su Baozhu, whose face was swollen and bruised from being beaten.
"Erya, you heartless little wretch! Get out here!"
Tian Guihua rolled her eyes as she opened the courtyard gate. "What are you yelling for? Do you think this is the Su family's home?"
"You're wailing like ghosts and howling like wolves. You don't look like elders at all."
Old Lady Su had been holding in a bellyful of resentment these past few days, and now she had finally found an excuse to make trouble.
"Good, you're all here. Call that wretched girl out and question her properly. Ask her why she bullied our Baozhu."
"Our Baozhu is such a sweet, well-behaved child. Look at her—just look what you've done to her!"
"She's so young, yet already so vicious. She can even treat her own older sister so cruelly. What will happen when she grows up? Won't she end up killing people?"
Tian Guihua was no pushover. "Go spout that crap somewhere else! My Qiao'er has been home the whole time and hasn't gone anywhere. Who knows where Su Baozhu got herself covered in these injuries?"
"You're trying to pin this on our Qiao'er with nothing but lies? No chance."
Xiao Aimin was rather fed up with the Su