After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

As soon as Song Chunping and her younger siblings arrived at the entrance of the Hongxing Food Factory, they immediately went into the mailroom.

At that moment, two old men were on duty inside. As soon as they saw Song Chunping, they immediately asked her the purpose of her visit.

When Song Chunping told one of the old men that she was looking for her husband, the old man, who had been stern-faced, immediately smiled when he heard that she was a family member of a staff member in the purchasing department of his unit.

At that time, the whole country was in the era of planned economy. Everywhere there was a shortage of supply compared to demand. For all factories and units, in order to maintain normal operation, the means of production used for production absolutely could not be cut off.

The task of scrambling for materials and controlling the quality of production materials all fell to the unit's purchasing department.

Therefore, the purchasing department not only offers good benefits but also allows frequent business trips across the country, with opportunities to travel and enjoy sightseeing. It is a department that everyone in every factory and unit wants to join.

Of course, their power is also much greater than that of other departments.

At Hongxing Food Factory, the purchasing department is a highly coveted department that everyone envies.

Hongxing Food Factory was originally a key unit in the entire county, and the purchasing department was the most important of all departments.

Therefore, after Song Chunping revealed her identity, the old gatekeeper had to treat her differently.

After signing the registration form, Song Chunping was able to successfully bring her younger siblings into the factory.

After they parked their bicycles in the bike shed at the main entrance, Song Chunping led Chunsheng and Chunmiao straight to the office building directly opposite.

Chunsheng looked at the five-story, earthen-yellow building in front of him, but his heart remained unmoved.

But Chunmiao was different. It was her first time visiting such a large state-owned enterprise. Looking at the magnificent building directly opposite, she couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.

In fact, any country kid who hasn't seen much of the world would feel uncomfortable in this situation, just like her.

When Song Chunping and the other two arrived at the second floor, at a red wooden door with a sign that read "Purchasing Department 1" hanging above it, she gently tapped it twice with her knuckles.

A girl's voice came from inside, "Please come in!"

After Song Chunping pushed open the door, there were seven or eight people sitting around a desk in the room. The moment she opened the door, everyone immediately turned to look at her.

Song Chunping spotted her husband, Gao Xiaocheng, at a glance. When Gao Xiaocheng saw that the visitors were his wife and two younger siblings, he immediately stood up and greeted them with a smile.

"Did you just come from home, or have you already been to the hospital?"

"I've already gone to the hospital for a checkup!"

"So fast!"

As Gao Xiaocheng spoke, he began to scrutinize Chunsheng, his eyes revealing a hint of doubt and worry.

Chunsheng instantly caught the doubts and worries in Gao Xiaocheng's heart.

Chunsheng immediately smiled and said to Gao Xiaocheng, "The checkup is over, and the doctor said I'm fine!"

"Really! That's great!"

As Gao Xiaocheng spoke, he led Song Chunping and her two siblings to a table at the very back of the office. "You can sit here for a while. It's almost lunchtime. Once the lunch break bell rings, we'll go to the cafeteria for lunch."

Song Chunping immediately asked, "If you're too busy, should I take them home?"

Gao Xiaocheng shook his head. "It's okay, you guys sit and wait for me!"

After Gao Xiaocheng turned and left, he returned to his discussion with his colleagues.

Chunsheng and his sister Chunmiao immediately widened their eyes and scanned the office in front of them.

The office in front of us can't compare to the large open-plan offices in high-end office buildings decades later.

But for people of this era, the area is already large enough, and the equipment is advanced enough.

The office was filled with about twenty desks, each with a large decorative glass panel on it.

After scanning the area, Chunsheng discovered that almost every tabletop had its glass underside densely covered with various photos and postcards.

Next to the chairs they were sitting on was the desk of Gao Xiaocheng, the third brother-in-law, and the area under the glass of Gao Xiaocheng's desk was also covered with photos.

Chunsheng and Chunmiao looked closely and saw that, apart from two or three photos of their brother-in-law's family, almost all the rest were photos of him and his third sister, Chunping.

Chunsheng glanced at Gao Xiaocheng in the crowd across the street and thought to himself, "This third brother-in-law and sister have such a good relationship!"

Gao Xiaocheng, like Chunsheng, is an only child in his family.

The difference is that Chunsheng's family has a total of 8 children, and he is the youngest.

Gao Xiaocheng's family consists of only two people: himself and his younger sister, who is a little over a decade younger than him.

Just as Chunsheng and Chunmiao were admiring the photos of their sister and brother-in-law, two English words suddenly popped out from the group of people opposite them.

Chunsheng was immediately startled, thinking to himself, how could the purchasing department of a county-level food factory be associated with English?

At that time, China had not yet opened up to the outside world, and there were very few matters involving foreign businesses.

Out of curiosity, Chunsheng immediately perked up his ears, wanting to hear what they were talking about.

He quickly understood.

It turns out that Hongxing Food Factory had recently purchased a batch of food processing equipment from the south in order to expand its production scale.

But yesterday, when the factory received the machinery, they were shocked to find that almost all the instruction manuals and promotional materials that came with the machines were in English.

Nobody could understand those documents, let alone how to use them; even installing the equipment was a problem.

It was only after contacting the middleman that they learned that during the negotiations for purchasing the equipment, Hongxing Food Factory had tried its best to lower the price in order to save costs, which led to a significant decrease in the middleman's profits.

According to the usual practice of intermediaries, they will not only pay out of their own pockets to translate all the foreign language manuals of the new equipment into Chinese and submit them to the buyer, but they will also send people to provide training services free of charge.

However, the profit margin was too low this time, so this additional service, which essentially cost the customer money, was abruptly canceled.

According to the information Chunsheng heard, an additional 2 yuan is required to obtain the complete Chinese introductory materials.

If you want someone to come to your home for training, add another 3 yuan.

The factory definitely won't pay the 3 yuan for sending someone to provide on-site service, because as long as they can understand the instruction manual, they can install and operate it themselves.

Whether or not an additional 2 yuan will be charged for Chinese materials has not yet been decided.

According to the factory leaders, it would be best if the problem could be solved by their own employees.

Therefore, among the seven or eight people in the opposite office, apart from her brother-in-law Gao Xiaocheng and two colleagues who were purchasing department employees, the rest were all college graduates recruited from other departments.

The leaders felt that it would be great if their own people could translate those English documents into Chinese.

This saves on extra expenses and prevents the middleman from manipulating the business and demanding exorbitant prices in future collaborations.

They then recruited several highly educated employees from various departments, hoping to resolve the matter through their efforts.

However, judging from how things are progressing, things don't seem to be going very well.

Because there were many words in the materials that they didn't know, it was fortunate that they could look them up in an English dictionary.

However, what embarrassed those college graduates was that they knew each word in some English sentences individually, but when put together, they had no idea what they meant!