Chapter 436: Phone Call

Fu Mingxue went to work after breakfast.

Qin Wenhao had actually wanted to take his wife to work. He wanted to spend a little more time with her.

After all, his wife was leaving tomorrow.

Besides, she was sure to come home late tonight.

But his wife refused, saying she would ride her own bike to the factory.

She told him to go buy the train tickets first.

So, he had no choice but to take a military vehicle and head to the train station to buy the tickets.

Meanwhile, as Mrs. Fu was packing, her next-door neighbor, Wang Xiang, dropped by.

"Mrs. Fu, are you washing the quilts again? I seem to remember you just washed them the day before yesterday."

Wang Xiang didn’t understand. ’Is it really necessary to wash the quilts so often?’

Mrs. Fu explained, "We’re heading back to Beijing tomorrow and won’t be back until after the New Year, so I figured I’d wash all the quilts and everything now."

Wang Xiang was shocked. "What? You’re going back to Beijing? Why so early?"

"If we go back early, the trains won’t be as crowded. The closer it gets to the New Year, the more packed they become. Besides, my daughter has a business trip in Beijing, so we decided to all go back together."

As Mrs. Fu spoke, she didn’t stop working.

Wang Xiang was at a loss for words.

’She was actually quite envious of how capable Fu Mingxue was.’

’Being constantly entrusted with important responsibilities and sent on business trips... it meant she was a key figure at the factory.’

’She’d heard Fu Mingxue’s salary was probably pretty high, too—maybe even sixty or seventy yuan a month.’

’If that was true, that was enough to make anyone green with envy.’

’If only she could have a fraction of what Fu Mingxue had.’

’If she had a proper job, wouldn’t she have more of a say with her in-laws?’

...

Qin Wenhao bought the train tickets quickly.

After a moment’s thought, he decided to go to the post office to call home.

The call went through, but the voice on the other end was a young woman’s, not his mother’s.

"Hello? Who is this?"

Qin Wenhao recognized the voice instantly.

And immediately lost all desire to speak.

He hung up without a word.

Then he had the post office clerk dial another number.

This time, it was Mr. Qin who answered.

Qin Wenhao had called his father’s office.

"Who is this?"

"It’s me. Mingxue, my mother-in-law, and the two kids are on a train at eight tomorrow morning. It gets in at nine-thirty in the morning the day after tomorrow. Have Qin Wenshu pick them up from the station."

Mr. Qin was thrilled to hear that his daughter-in-law, her mother, and the two children were coming to Beijing.

"Of course, we’ll be there to get them. By the way, aren’t you coming with them?"

"I have matters at the base and can’t get away." Qin Wenhao felt a wave of frustration just thinking about it.

The thought of his wife and mother-in-law traveling by train with two young children was enough to make him incredibly worried.

His wife had claimed she could take on three people at once, but that wouldn’t mean much if they ran into human traffickers on the train.

After all, those people almost always worked in gangs.

Mr. Qin frowned, worried as well. "Did you get sleeper car tickets for Mingxue and her mother?"

"Of course I did. Anyway, that’s all. I’m hanging up."

Qin Wenhao hung up.

When he got back to the base, he gave the train tickets to his mother-in-law.

"Mom, here are the two train tickets. I’m heading to the training grounds."

"Alright." Mrs. Fu took the tickets and glanced at the departure time.

She then put the tickets away in a safe place.

And went back to her packing.

Meanwhile, Fu Mingxue was busy at the factory. As the team leader, she had a lot of work to hand over.

Fortunately, she had Chang Qingze, her deputy team leader, who could handle just about everything.

Besides, the project was still in the blueprint and development stage, so it wasn’t a problem for her to be away for a while.