After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Qiang and the others were sent by their school to pick cotton for the Corps. This was an emergency assignment, a temporary job lasting only fifteen days.
Li Long had his own business to attend to. He gathered all the trucks from the Purchasing Station and the Canned Food Factory and went to Wang Mingjun's place to collect all the remaining big brooms.
On this visit, Wang Mingjun told Li Long outright that he had to stay at the company for lunch, no matter what.
Wang Mingjun was actually quite busy. Cotton picking had already begun at the company. The students they had arranged to bring in had arrived and moved into the old office building.
Although Wang Mingjun did not need to supervise the students picking cotton, as company commander, he had to coordinate everything.
Li Long also felt that Wang Mingjun should focus on that as his main task, but Wang Mingjun said he could spare this little bit of time.
Considering how Li Long secured this broom-making work for him every year, allowing them to earn money, treating him to a good meal was nothing. He could entertain him for a month without a problem.
Since they had spoken on the phone beforehand, Wang Mingjun had Big Old Chen prepare everything early. As plate after plate of hearty dishes-big plate chicken, hand-pulled meat, and spicy lamb trotters-was brought out, Li Long said half-jokingly, "For these dishes alone, if there's another big broom order next year, I'll definitely have to give it to you."
Wang Mingjun looked very pleased with himself.
Since they still had to visit Zhao Zongming's company, they did not drink at lunch, much to Wang Mingjun's regret.
By the time they had loaded the big brooms from both companies