"I was about to ask you the same thing. What are you up to!"

Uncle He’s expression soured. He looked like he was getting angry.

Seeing Uncle He get angry, Aunt He quieted down a bit. She opened her mouth to defend herself. "What could I possibly be up to? I’m just concerned about my own niece-in-law."

"A single woman managing so many factories, isn’t that exhausting? If she really can’t handle it all, I think it would be better to split up the factories for others to manage..."

"Shut your mouth!"

Before she could finish, Uncle He cut her off with a low shout. "You think I don’t know what you’re scheming? Didn’t you hear what my older brother said? Xie Changning is a top student from a prestigious university. And your nephew? What is he?"

"Besides, those factories belong to the state. Even without Xie Changning, it would never be your nephew’s turn. Get that idea out of your head right now. If you dare suggest your son should take over Xie Changning’s factories, you and I are through!"

He could tolerate her meddling with her own family’s affairs, but for her to have the nerve to ask Xie Changning for something like this... even he was embarrassed for her.

’Doesn’t she remember how she treated Yue Yihan when he was a child?’

Just thinking about it made Uncle He feel like he had lost all face.

Aunt He, intimidated by her husband, quieted down considerably. Her earlier eagerness completely vanished.

She didn’t want a divorce.

The people of the He Family were too successful, and that was what gave her such high status in front of her own family.

The moment she considered losing this special treatment, Aunt He instantly behaved. However, her gaze toward Xie Changning remained just as intense.

This was all capital she could use to brag when she went back home.

Xie Changning could tell that Aunt He wasn’t a bad person at heart, just simple-minded and tactless. But since she didn’t say anything out of line directly to her, Xie Changning couldn’t be bothered to deal with her.

Everyone was in a good mood during the meal.

After dinner, Uncle He invited them to stay, but they declined and drove directly back to the military compound.

Xie Changning and Yue Yihan drove He Liuzhang and his wife back to the compound. Since it would be difficult to care for the children if they left, they ended up staying the night at He Liuzhang’s home as well.

This made He Liuzhang ecstatic.

As soon as he got back, he started parading around the doorway with one of the babies in his arms. He didn’t go into the courtyard, just made sure everyone in the courtyard could see him.

"Well now, Old He, what are you doing? Whose baby are you holding there?" someone asked, their curiosity piqued upon seeing him with a child.

The moment someone asked, He Liuzhang perked up. He gave a happy little cough. "Ah, it’s Yihan’s child! They brought the kids back to see me today, you know? They’re staying the night, so I’m just helping out a bit."

"Honey, you watch our grandson! I’m taking our granddaughter downstairs for a little walk!"

He turned his head back with exaggerated casualness, calling out to Liu Changyou inside, as if terrified that people wouldn’t know he had two grandchildren.

Everyone knew that Yue Yihan had children.

They also knew he had twins, but they had never seen them before.

So now that He Liuzhang was downstairs with one of them, people couldn’t help but gather around to get a look at Yue Yihan’s child.

Seeing Zhenbao, everyone cooed in admiration.

"This child is just beautiful, like a little doll!"

"I’ve seen Yihan’s wife, and she’s gorgeous. You can tell at a glance that the baby takes after her."

"That’s right, Yihan is a lucky man!"

Everyone was praising Yue Yihan, saying how lucky he was to marry such a wonderful wife. Not only did she give him twins, but she was also beautiful and educated!

He Liuzhang was so proud!

When he came back, it was as if his tail was wagging high enough to touch the sky.

Xie Changning stood up to take the baby from He Liuzhang’s arms. "Uncle He, you must be tired."

"I’m not tired!"

He felt particularly energetic right now. ’Look at my granddaughter, bringing me so much glory!’

Now the entire compound knew he had a grandson and a granddaughter!

Xie Changning looked at Yue Yihan, who shook his head and whispered, "If he wants to hold her, just let him. He won’t get the chance tomorrow, anyway."

"I can hear you!"

He Liuzhang interjected grumpily, clearly displeased with his son’s comment.

Yue Yihan cleared his throat and said no more.

That night, Yue Yihan and Xie Changning were the ones who took care of the two children and put them to bed.

When they got up the next morning, both of them had dark circles under their eyes, which earned them a round of laughter from He Liuzhang.

However, knowing that Xie Changning was busy with work, he didn’t keep them for long. He had a jeep pick them up, and the couple returned to Anong County with their children.

Back home, Xie Changning handed the children over to the two aunts and went to catch up on her sleep.

The two aunts were overjoyed to see the babies.

They turned and saw that both Yue Yihan and Xie Changning had already crashed on the kang and fallen asleep.

Aunt Wang chuckled and shook her head. "They’re not used to putting the babies to sleep, so of course they didn’t get a good night’s rest."

"Sigh, if we’d known, we should have gone with them yesterday. It felt strange not having the children here last night, I wasn’t used to it."

"Me too."

Xie Changning woke up at noon. After lunch, she went to the factories to supervise the work.

The Spring Trade Fair was in two months, and Xie Changning was planning to make a big splash. Because of this, she was keeping a very tight grip on all three of her factories.

The chemical plant’s R&D was already underway, handled by Sheng Jiaojiao and two other master chemists.

As for the wood products factory, they could build anything as long as Xie Changning provided the blueprints. They were incredibly skilled artisans.

Once Xie Changning had more or less settled matters at those two factories, she turned her attention to the production of water heaters.

She wanted to install two shower rooms in the factory!

That way, it would be convenient and hygienic for the workers to wash up!

To develop a water heater, you first needed a model to study. Xie Changning rummaged through her personal dimension and actually found something that looked like one. She waited until no one was around, placed the water heater in her workshop, and then had people carry it to the factory.

Xie Changning was so resourceful that the workers at the machinery factory thought she was some kind of goddess.

Whenever the factory needed something, she could magically make it appear.

Xie Changning, meanwhile, was sighing to herself. ’The Xie Family really is ridiculously wealthy!’

’They have everything you could ever want!’

When the water heater appeared at the machinery factory, everyone’s gaze on Xie Changning became feverish.

’How is our factory director so incredible!’

’She can get her hands on anything!’

’Where does she find it all?’

’The label on it is a foreign brand. How on earth does our director manage it?’

Xie Changning felt their gazes on her and her eyes curved into a smile. "No need to look at me like that. I know how to assemble things, and this is just something I put together. If you want to thank someone, you should thank the leadership."

’She could hardly tell them that she’d plucked all her things from the capitalists’ stashes.’

’It was definitely assembled from the various scrap metal and junk the leadership provided, of course.’

Everyone shook their heads. "That’s not right. Even if the leadership brought back a pile of junk, it would take you to turn it into something like this. It looks brand new. You could tell anyone it was, and they’d believe you."