Chapter 48

"Are you...?"

"Wait, don't say anything yet." Xia Muqing made a shushing gesture, as if she had just thought of something.

"Are you our client?" Xia Muqing pinched her crescent-shaped brow, as if she could guess his appearance: "Are you Zhang Liudong?"

Ye Qing was originally very excited waiting for her to say his name, but when she said it, his expression immediately became stiff.

"My name is Ye Qing!" Ye Qing rolled his eyes at her.

"I'm sorry~ I'm sorry." Xia Muqing covered her round-necked floral blouse and bowed repeatedly to apologize.

If there was anyone to blame, it could only be Ye Qing, whose voice had no distinctive features, and also Xia Muqing, who was too carefree. She had signed a ten million yuan order for curbstones with Ye Qing but didn't take it to heart.

"It's okay~ I forgive you." Ye Qing pouted.

This action made Xia Muqing "puh" and couldn't help but laugh, losing her composure.

"You are very young and full of vitality." Xia Muqing circled around Ye Qing: "From you, I see the confidence that successful people must have, and the spirit of hard work unique to your age for great aspirations."

"Looking at you, you don't seem older than me." Ye Qing gestured to the yacht driver, who was acting as an NPC: "Alright, let's not stand here. Since we're old acquaintances, let's go to my factory for a cup of hot water."

"I'm definitely older." Xia Muqing laughed smugly, walking behind Ye Qing like a cute deer.

The monsters in the factory had already been put away by Ye Qing. The courtyard was piled with curbstones, and the ones that had been cut and carved were placed in the metal workshop.

When Ye Qing led them to the simple office, he considered whether to show Xia Muqing the power of the rapid metal engraving machine.

He wanted to dazzle her so much that she would impulsively sign a big contract with him.

But the machine he used was too advanced. If Xia Muqing saw it, she would probably think he was an alien.

The simplified version wasn't ready yet, so he would have to wait until it was assembled tomorrow to contact her.

Entering the simple office, Ye Qing invited the two to sit on ordinary wooden chairs, turned on the water dispenser, and poured them each a cup of hot water.

Ye Qing didn't have any tea, so he could only serve them with boiling water.

Xia Muqing and her driver weren't there to visit specifically, so they didn't mind.

The driver said "thank you" and then took the paper cup to make a phone call, contacting someone to come and repair the yacht.

"Mr. Ye, what a coincidence." Xia Muqing sat in the chair, gently blowing on the hot water, her eyelashes fluttering: "Yesterday, our company just arrived in Zhongyun and signed a cooperation agreement with Huaxing Heavy Industry."

"Today, I specially borrowed the chairman of Huaxing Heavy Industry's yacht for a cruise. As you know, our province is full of mountains, and it's rare to have the chance to cruise the sea."

"It is quite a coincidence. When I saw you, I thought you were a big star." Ye Qing's peripheral vision was always on her snow-white long legs, but his expression didn't show anything.

"Thank you for your compliment, I am honored." Xia Muqing smiled: "How is the quality of those curbstones? I see there aren't many in the yard. Have they all been sold?"

"The quality is very good; I can't find any faults."

"By the way, Mr. Ye, since your factory is by the sea, you must be familiar with sea fishing?" Xia Muqing asked with some anticipation: "There are many fishing rods on the yacht. Are there many fish in these waters?"

"There aren't any fish; the water quality in these waters is very poor."

"But the sea water looks very blue, and there's no strange smell."

"The blue color is due to chemical pollution. As for the smell, I don't know much about it."

"There seems to be a chemical plant discharging pollutants here. Even if you catch fish, you probably shouldn't eat them."

"Then I'll try somewhere else. I've never fished in the sea before!" It was a rare chance for a holiday, and Xia Muqing didn't want to miss it.

At this moment, the yacht driver also walked in, handing Xia Muqing a very elegant handbag.

"Miss, I've contacted a shipyard. They will send someone over immediately."

"Thank you, Mr. Wang." Xia Muqing nodded at him.

Taking the handbag, Xia Muqing took out a small jade ruyi from it, placed it in her palm, and played with it while chatting with Ye Qing.

The jade ruyi, as white as congealed fat, was very cute and looked very old, giving a plump feeling.

It was probably made of white jade and looked very expensive.

Time always flies when you're with a beautiful woman.

Ye Qing felt it had been twenty minutes, but it was actually almost an hour. A truck drove to the factory wall, and seven or eight young men in [Red Star Shipyard] work uniforms, carrying long ropes and toolboxes, came to the seaside dock under the guidance of the yacht driver.

Ye Qing and Xia Muqing also went over to watch. The seven or eight young men immediately shifted their fiery gazes from the yacht to Xia Muqing.

"Get to work!" The middle-aged man in charge kicked the worker beside him.

Coincidentally, this man was the one who had gone to cut the blast door at the Silver Palace Club last time. But since they hadn't shown their faces, Ye Qing had taken the spotlight.

It was early summer, cold in the morning and evening but not in the afternoon. One of the young men, in front of Xia Muqing, took off his outer clothes, revealing his swimming trunks, put on diving goggles, and a waterproof camera, and plunged into the sea with a splash.

With the beauty by his side, this guy showed off his diving skills, staying underwater for a minute and a half before surfacing at the back of the yacht.

Xia Muqing smiled and praised him, saying he was great!

The other young men couldn't help but start unbuttoning their work clothes.

The foreman took the underwater camera, looked at the photos against the light, and selected the clearest one to show the yacht driver.

At the back of the yacht, there were two propellers. They seemed to have hit a large, flat rock, and now both propellers were twisted like pretzels.

"Your boat is made by the Sunbird Yacht Factory. The propellers are German-imported large-surface high-speed propellers with seven blades. I need to ask the factory if they have similar models in stock."

The foreman called the factory, reporting the yacht model and the approximate size of the propellers in front of Xia Muqing and the others.

After about five minutes, the call came back.

"I'm sorry, sir, we don't have this type of propeller in stock. We don't have similar sizes either. We've contacted the Sunbird Yacht Factory, and they don't have any in stock either. Yachts are only made after an order is placed, so we need to get a pair from Germany."

"International shipping might take a week?"

"A week?" The driver was a bit anxious. Since he had damaged the boat, the longer it took, the less happy his boss would be.

Xia Muqing was a bit disappointed; she had to leave the next afternoon.

Ye Qing also looked at the propeller photos. The workers used a tape measure to measure the size, and the propellers were about seventy centimeters long.

"Why don't you mill a pair?"

Ye Qing couldn't bear the thought of the yacht being docked for a week, with outsiders coming in and out of his factory.

"I've seen the propellers; they have a simple structure and aren't very large."

Ye Qing crossed his arms: "Your shipyard must have a CNC machining center. Why not mill a pair of propellers?"

"What did you say?" Last time, Ye Qing waited until they left before starting work.

The foreman naturally didn't recognize Ye Qing.

Hearing the suggestion to mill a pair of propellers, the foreman and the young workers couldn't help but laugh loudly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear clearly." The foreman cleared his ears: "You mean milling a pair of seven-blade, large-surface high-speed propellers?"