1855 United States Tycoon

According to Western customs, after getting married, the bride and groom should go to Wu You for a carefree honeymoon for a month. But Carol didn't have such a good blessing. Only two days after the wedding, Scrooge brought the Carols over.

"Carol, I'm sorry to disturb you at this time." Scrooge said, "According to the general rules, it should be for you to go out for your honeymoon. Only now, there are a lot of things in the family. So, I miss you. Can the honeymoon be delayed a little bit later. Catherine—I’m okay to call you that? I’m afraid you’ll be busy for a while. Carol, I’m going to put things in the steel plant, including mines, coking plants, docks, and ships. The team’s series of things will be handled by you. If you can’t take care of it alone, well, Catherine can help you. Follow me these days and get familiar with the factory. Well, Catherine, it’s true I'm sorry. But you also know that the biggest problem in our family right now is the shortage of manpower, but the opportunity to make a fortune cannot be let go. So for the time being, we can only use women as men and men as cattle."

Carol and Catherine looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes. In fact, they were mentally prepared for such an arrangement. However, just like any newly married couple, they are now at a time when they want to get tired of being together for 24 hours a day. Originally, they still had the illusion of "no honeymoon, there can always be a honey week". However, in just two days, Scrooge ruthlessly broke their fantasies.

However, both people also understand that this kind of thing is not easy to refuse. So he nodded and agreed.

"Well, that's it. I'll take you to the steel plant early tomorrow morning, eh." Scrooge looked at his pocket watch and said with a bad smile, "I have 18 hours left, I won't bother you. Hurry up and enjoy Life."

Early the next morning, it was only six o'clock, and the sky was still dark. Carol and Catherine were called. They are going to the factory today. The factory is in the suburbs, and as managers, it is necessary for them to understand the handover of the workers in the first shift in the morning. Therefore, they must get up early.

"Scrooge is really a vampire!" Carol muttered angrily, got up reluctantly, and began to dress. Catherine also began to wear lighter clothes specially prepared for today's affairs. (Ancient aristocratic women are actually very sad. The weight of those aristocratic costumes that look complicated and gorgeous is often very touching. It is said that some dresses and the like are as heavy as a level 4 bulletproof vest. )

It took a while, and both of them had finished freshening up and went to the table for breakfast. They discovered that Scrooge had been sitting there and eating.

"It's really an upstart in United States. My family doesn't wait for food." Catherine thought to herself, "I saw Scrooge before and thought he knew more manners than Carol. But it turned out to be the same."

Carol was used to this situation. He sat down directly at the table, grabbed a piece of bread, and began to nibble. Only Catherine sat down seriously and asked Carol quietly: "Don't wait for old Mr. MacDonald?"

"Ah, they have eaten it a long time ago." Scrooge tried to swallow the bread in his mouth, and replied in a vague accent, "They wake up early when they are old. Recently, the old man has fallen in love with fishing. They are early in the morning. I went fishing in the lake."

"Then we can eat?" Catherine asked. She remembered that when she was eating, she always had to recite prayers.

"Of course, if the old man is here, we will first say the prayer together, but now we don't have to." Scrooge said.

"Yeah." Catherine replied in a low voice. It seemed that it was not easy to get used to this family thoroughly. As for changing it, maybe it will be the next generation.

Carol had finished his loaf of bread, and he opened his mouth and yawned as he reached out to grab another loaf.

Yawning is a contagious thing. So when Carol yawned, Catherine couldn't help but yawned. It was about going to bed late last night.

After eating, the three got into the carriage and drove towards the steel factory on the outskirts of the city.

"This is Mr. McCarthy, the director of the First Steel Plant." Scrooge introduced to Carroll.

"Mr. Carol McDonald, hello!" Director McCarthy bent slightly to greet Carol.

"You can ask Plant Manager McCarthy about the operation of the steel storage." Scrooge said, "This is... well, this is the Stern engineer you know."

"It's nice to see you again, Mr. Carol McDonald."

"This is..." Scrooge first brought the main middle and high-level cadres in the factory to meet with Kroll. As for Kroll's replacement of Scrooge's direct responsibility for the factory, in fact, everyone has already prepared. So when Scrooge told them that Kroll would be directly in charge of the metallurgical system in the future, no one was surprised.

All morning, Scrooge kept Carol and Catherine busy. First, I met with the managers of each department and asked them to introduce the work content and work situation of each department to Kroll. Then it is to inspect in various important workshops of the factory.

Going to inspect in the workshop of a steel company is not like going out for an outing. The workshop was full of high temperatures and loud noises everywhere, so even Scrooge suggested that Catherine didn't have to go, she could take a good rest in the office.

However, Catherine said that she really wanted to see how steel is made. But Catherine knew that she just didn't want to be alone in this office. Catherine had always felt that she was the bolder among women, but suddenly she came to such a strange place. If there is no one familiar with her, it would be terrible. Therefore, she can only choose to follow Carol closely without leaving a single step.

However, when she really walked into the workshop, Catherine realized that she might really have to follow Scrooge's advice and stay in the office instead of running here. Because here is really terrible beyond his imagination. The first thing they came to was the ore crushing workshop. The loud rumbling here made Catherine feel her scalp numb. Here, you can’t speak at all, even if you face to face yelling like later generations of Taiwanese actors in a romantic drama, the person on the other side can’t hear anything.

"No wonder he didn't bring the female secretary who had been with him." Catherine thought so. "He would feel sorry for his female secretary, but he treated me as an animal."

In this environment, even an authentic animal like Scrooge couldn't stay for long. He just took Carol around in a hurry and left.

After going so far, everyone regained their ability to speak.

"Oh my God, this noise is terrible. I still feel dizzy." Catherine said palely. "The workers are working there all day. How can they stand it?"

"Most of the workers here have very bad hearing." Scrooge said, "This is no way. In fact, we have adopted some measures to protect workers' hearing, such as shortening working hours, and Provide earplugs for workers. However, under the limitations of technology, the effect is actually very limited." Scrooge replied.

"Catherine, do you want to go back and have a rest?" Kroll said with concern.

"No, no need!" Catherine said, "If you can bear it, so can I."

Scrooge took a surprised look at Catherine, who was making a determined look, and thought to himself: "It seems that this woman has the potential to be used as an animal."

Then they visited the blast furnace and converter steelmaking, and the day passed.

When the sun set, Scrooge and his party finally returned home.

When eating dinner, Catherine, who was tired and hungry, felt that Own's waist was about to break. She had to hold on hard to ensure that she would not slide directly from the chair to the floor. However, the old Joseph was present at the dinner, so she had to cheer up to maintain the grace of the noble Miss.

After the old Joseph took the lead and finished the prayer, the dinner began. In the tutors of the British nobles, it was not allowed to talk casually during dinner. But MacDonald’s family didn’t seem to care very much about this rule. For example, Scrooge ate while inquiring about his fishing situation. Old Joseph completely forgot about the rule when others mentioned his hobbies, father and son. The two actually started chatting at the dinner table.

"It's also... after a day of running, this guy is still so energetic, what a brute!" Catherine thought in her heart as she continued to maintain her elegant eating movement.

Soon the dinner was over, and the waiters came up and packed the tableware. Everyone also returned to their rooms.

If it was yesterday or the day before yesterday, as soon as you return to the room, close the door, and close the curtains, Kroll will eagerly take Catherine into his arms, and then start to do things that are so shameful. . Catherine would also be interested in these things. Then today, after entering the room, Catherine collapsed on the bed without even kicking off her shoes. As for his husband, he also fell straight beside her like a corpse, and then snored like thunder.

"I have to go to the mine and the pier tomorrow, what should I do tomorrow!" Catherine wept helplessly.

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