"Yes! Absolutely! We'll go together tomorrow!"
"Wonderful! This is the sample contract the subdistrict office gave me. They told us to look over the terms first. Song Wang and I have gone through them several times, clause by clause. Take another look for us..."
Watching the two women pore over the contract, Song Wang smiled and slipped out of the living room into the kitchen.
Life just kept looking brighter, he thought.
Han Xiao went along to help when he saw him leave.
Song Ning always seemed to be the busiest person in this household.
Getting another chance to eat her cooking... would probably be difficult.
When the call came from the kitchen that dinner was ready, Song Ning and Zheng Chunzhi had just finished checking the contract.
Looking a little embarrassed, Zheng Chunzhi said, "Oh dear! I'm freeloading at your table again!"
"Listen to you!" Song Ning said with a smile. "We're comrades in the same trenches now! Just treat us like family!"
That brought a question to Song Ning's mind. "Chunzhi, I've never really asked about your family! Are they all happy with you continuing to manage the Distillery?"
Zheng Chunzhi smiled and lowered her head. "It's just me at home. I make my own decisions!"
Song Ning was a little surprised. She knew Zheng Chunzhi's father had been the Distillery's former director. Small though it was, a factory director's family should still have been better off than an ordinary household. Even if her father had passed away, surely a woman of Zheng Chunzhi's age should have had a whole family of her own.
Before Song Ning could ask, Zheng Chunzhi continued, "My mother died young, so it was always just my father and me! In my early twenties, I got engaged to someone from the Steel Plant.