The temperature in Gan Province dropped unexpectedly at the end of the tenth lunar month. One could smell winter in the air along with the biting cold northwestern wind. The white ash trees on the hill behind the manufacturing bureau had lost their leaves. The hill looked bare from afar, left with merely the white ash tree trunks standing like sentinels of the forest.
The temperature was gradually turning cold. However, things were burning intensely in the manufacturing bureau…
In just the blink of an eye, it had been eight full days since Yan Liqiang arrived in the manufacturing bureau.