Chapter Sixteen Hard to Express

  Beiyangkou is located at the northernmost end of Dayong City, far from the city center. The Tangtang River flows to this place and turns a bend, depositing a fertile alluvial plain. Weilong Group was established here, facing the Tangtang River and backed by Yulong Mountain.

  The factory is extremely large, with complete supporting facilities, including a kindergarten, primary school, middle school, hospital, health and entertainment venues for the factory's homes, commercial districts, and it looks like an independent small kingdom.

  After the explosion, this place became a high-risk area. After the large-scale evacuation, it fell into various compensation disputes and was basically in a state of shutdown.

  In less than two years, the Weilong Group was acquired by the little-known Dahua Real Estate. This state-owned enterprise, which had dominated the northern part of Dayong City since its founding, collapsed with the death of Su Luohe. In its place rose a high-end community developed by Dahua Real Estate, complete with luxurious entertainment facilities and international connections, making a big splash in the city.

  If the explosion was caused by the installation of new pipelines, the damaged area after the explosion should be extremely limited and it is impossible for the entire factory to become a high-risk area and be evacuated into an empty city.

  Who is the operator of Dahua Real Estate and who is behind it? Without the manipulation of a powerful figure, it would be impossible to complete the acquisition of Weilong Group, let alone its subsequent development.

  Su Mei's fingers pressed against her temples, rubbing the small head that ached from thinking. She arrived at the factory area and understood some basic situation before making plans.

  Weidong Group was founded on textile manufacturing, although it experienced the pain of economic system reform, but struggled to survive, coincidentally catching up with China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Foreign large enterprises were eager to try, but in the short term, they could not set up camps in China, so the suddenly expanded foreign trade brought a spring-like vitality to Weidong Group, such a large state-owned enterprise.

  Especially under the strong promotion of Su Luo River, several large orders from abroad were completed in succession, bringing huge economic benefits to the enterprise.

  Su Mei Liang remembered that before the incident, her mother, who worked in the finance department, had mentioned that the economic situation was clearly improving.

  When the bus arrived at the station, because it was not rush hour or shift change time, only Su Mengliang was left.

  She got off the bus and walked all the way, feeling a mix of emotions as memories flooded her mind.

  In her past life, she had dreamed of this place countless times, where she had carefree childhood memories. Only back then, she knew clearly that this place no longer existed.

  Nowadays, seeing many familiar faces, the dusty memories are revived. Along the way, she meets familiar faces who greet her, and her heart is filled with gratitude and sorrow. Those calm and gentle smiles of adults, once they lose the shelter of the factory, many people will be old and desolate.

  She must find out the cause of the accident, if the explosion is inevitable, she will risk her life to save her father, because his body is tied to the fate of thousands of people, and also the happiness of her mother's second half.

  When she arrived at the office and saw her dad, he was slumped in exhaustion on the boss chair behind his desk, but upon seeing her, he quickly perked up: "Liang Liang, have you gone to see mom?"

  "Mom is always at her desk, you can find her anytime, but you are always running around and nowhere to be found. You have to join me and mom for lunch today!"

  Su Mei Liang threw her backpack onto the sofa and quickly walked behind her father, raising her hand to help massage his shoulders.

  Su Luo was startled by Su Ming's thoughtful actions, and immediately relaxed her body, enjoying it with relish: "Ming, why are you suddenly so considerate?"

  "I thought that if I got into university, I wouldn't be able to see you guys often, so after filling out the application, my heart felt a little sad."

  "Silly girl, people need to grow up. Apart from family ties, you have to go out and see different lives, meet different people, in order to understand the diversity of life. Especially when you go to college and start a new life, make new friends, I reckon by then you won't even want to come back."

  "I won't!" Su Miling's heart felt a pang of awkwardness, as in the past she had indeed been preoccupied with her own little thoughts and rarely spent time with her parents.

  Su Luo suddenly remembered Fang Tian's phone call and said in a roundabout way, "Liang Liang, have you ever thought of changing your personality type and state? Dad always thinks you're too weak."

  "Fragile?" Su Mie's eyes dimmed, she used to be delicate and weak, indecisive.

  "As a matter of fact, Dad thought about it later, have you ever thought about applying to a military academy?" Su Luo Chuan spoke with some hesitation, he was worried that his daughter couldn't handle the hardships of being a soldier and would end up crying miserably.

  Su Mei's mind flashed back to the man with a strong and iron-like face she saw in school, who could throw an iron sheet over ten meters away and hit her book with such speed and accuracy that it made her gasp in admiration.

  If she had that kind of skill, wouldn't Zhou Jinyu be handled by her very easily?

  Stop it, stop it, this isn't the time for daydreaming: "How did you suddenly think of military school?"

  "I just hope that during the critical period of your character development, you can be more resilient. In life, not everything can be solved with money; some things must be resolved by yourself."

  Su Luo had already done her ideological work and made some preparations, so that when the time came, she would be able to find a way out.

  Su Mei nodded repeatedly, thinking it was reasonable, and then said indifferently:

  "The military academy is a special recruitment, with very few female students. It's said that only those with connections in the army can get in. Our family doesn't have any relatives like that, so it's impossible for me to get in. I'd better apply to Nanjiang University instead."

  "It's not impossible to get into a military school." Su Luo heard that there was hope and quickly followed up.

  "Dad, there are other ways to cultivate a strong personality and flexible body, don't worry about me too much. By the way, when I just came in, you seemed to be having a headache, what's wrong?"

  Su Luo glanced at her daughter and changed the subject, so he didn't continue to nag, just a hint, although he knew that Fang Tian wouldn't say anything without confidence, but his character was always steady, and such an uncertain matter, it's better to wait until the dust settles before bringing it up.

  He immediately laughed and said: "Dad's difficult problem, you little kid listening to it will only increase your worries."

  "Come on, haven't you heard of the saying 'onlookers see most clearly'?" Su Mie Liang coquettishly persisted.

  Su Luo heard this and suddenly smiled, the tension in his shoulders that had been pressing down on him for days, making it hard to breathe, was relieved a lot under Su Ming's massage. Thinking of his daughter's cleverness, he casually said:

  "The factory is going to launch a new production line, but this one is different from the one we agreed on at first."

  "Then it's asking for an exchange!"

  "Swap? How easy is that! The import contract has my name on it, but someone else actually signed it. This production line and the contract are consistent, now Dad has a hard time speaking."