Aunt Guo brewed two cups of osmanthus oolong tea, and then took out some cookies, nuts, dried fruits, osmanthus cakes, mung bean cakes and other snacks to make a platter of tea snacks. She placed it in front of the two of them and left.

"Sister." Xu Mingjing had no appetite. "Zhengwen went home early just now. He said he was fired by his brother-in-law."

"Yes, I know about this." Xu Mingzhen took a sip of tea, "Wenci discussed it with me last night."

"Sister, you agree too?" Xu Mingjing was shocked.

She always thought that Xu Mingzhen should be helping her.

"Take a look at these." Xu Mingzhen didn't say much, but just took out two account books.

It was the same as what Tan Wenci showed Yuan Zhengwen that morning.

Xu Mingzhen expected that Xu Mingjing would come to see her, and today, but she couldn't tell the exact time.

So Xu Mingzhen asked Tan Wenci to leave two copies for her.

Nothing is more convincing than facts.

Xu Mingjing took the account book handed to her by Xu Mingzhen with a puzzled look on her face. She listened to Xu Mingzhen say, "The one on the left is the real account record, and the one on the right is the one Yuan Zhengwen made to report to the company."

Xu Mingjing majored in accounting in college and saw the problem immediately.

"This... is such a big difference?" Xu Mingjing looked up at Xu Mingzhen in shock.

"We didn't do anything to wrong him." Xu Mingzhen sighed. "When we originally assigned him this position, we anticipated he would take some benefits from it. Wenci also acquiesced to this. It was like helping his brother-in-law. But he can't go so far. He's not just taking a little benefit, he's sucking the life out of our family. If things go wrong, the company's finances will be in trouble, and the entire company will be implicated."

"He's using our kindness towards you to harm us. Our family can't be like Mr. Dongguo," Xu Mingzhen said. "Besides, this company isn't ours; it's Wenci's hard work. I'm already very grateful that he's helping you because of me. But after something like this happened, I can hardly hold my head up in front of him."

Xu Mingjing felt a chill in her heart and her lips trembled uncontrollably.

"Sister, this is the fault of the main text. But you can't use the story of Mr. Dongguo and the wolf as an analogy. We... our family is not wolves." Xu Mingjing's heart was hurt by Xu Mingzhen's analogy.

Xu Mingzhen thought to himself that Xu Mingjing might not be the one, but Yuan Zhengwen and Yuan Keqing definitely were.

"Sister, Zhengwen was really wrong about this. Can you give him another chance? I promise he won't do it again." Xu Mingjing twisted her fingers and pleaded, "He's been fired now, I'm unemployed, and Qing still has to go to school. It's like our family has lost all source of income."

"Zhengwen was really frightened by this sudden incident. He will definitely remember and learn from this lesson in the future." Xu Mingjing pleaded.

Faced with his own sister acting like this, Xu Mingzhen felt soft-hearted for a moment, but immediately became firm.

"Mingjing, Zhengwen is too careless. You probably don't know a lot about him." Xu Mingzhen took a breath and spoke slowly and deeply.

She picked up the cup and took a sip of tea. She hesitated for a moment, but decided to speak out: "Before, by chance, I was invited by Wei Zhiqian to attend Madam Wei's birthday party."

"I know that." But Xu Mingjing couldn't understand. Wasn't this a discussion about Yuan Zhengwen's work? How did it get here?

"Because Wei Zhiqian only gave us an invitation and did not invite Keqing, I didn't dare to take Keqing with me on my own initiative. I was afraid that it would upset the host family. The Wei family may be tolerant and generous, but we still have to be careful and respectful in our actions." Xu Mingzhen said.

"I understand that." Xu Mingjing didn't understand why Xu Mingzhen suddenly brought this up, but she still forced a half-hearted smile with anxiety. "After all, that's the Wei family. We all have to be careful. If we make a mistake and upset them, it will only bring trouble to ourselves."

"Keqing mentioned to me before that she wanted to go, and I explained to her that I couldn't take her with me," Xu Mingzhen added.

"Did she actually mention this to you?" Xu Mingjing frowned and sighed, "How could this child be so willful!"

"Sister, to be honest, she mentioned it to me when she got home, saying she wanted to go, but I refused," Xu Mingjing said. "I said the same thing as you. I told her that this is the Wei family's birthday party, and we don't get to decide who to bring or who can go. If you could bring someone, you would definitely have brought them."

"I'm glad you understand." Xu Mingzhen pursed her lips. Seeing Xu Mingjing smile, Xu Mingzhen continued, "But Yuan Zhengwen and Keqing don't seem to understand. They might even think I deliberately didn't bring Keqing with me. Yuan Zhengwen doesn't seem satisfied with just serving in Tan Yue and wants to make a big difference."

"Sister, what do you mean?" Xu Mingjing heard that Xu Mingzhen's tone was not right.

"He took Keqing there secretly without telling us. Keqing went to the entrance of Shengyue and waited, blocking Wei Keli's way and forcing him to take her in." Xu Mingzhen's mind flashed back to Yuan Keqing's behavior, and his hands on his lap tightened. "Wei Keli, it was I who took her to the Wei family and introduced her to him. And now, at such a young age, Keqing was able to create such a problem for me."

"It would seem to others that I, as her aunt, was being mean to her and deliberately not bringing her along. She actually shrank back when she saw me in front of so many people, looking terrified of me. I'm just not good enough to support her, so why would she treat me like some vicious woman?"

"It also makes people think I don't know etiquette. I only took the invitation to the Tan family and brought people in at random. Then can other families also take an invitation and bring relatives and friends? At that birthday party, there was not even a seat or nameplate arranged for Keqing. It was added at the last minute. This shows that the Wei family did not invite Keqing from the beginning. I did not misunderstand the Wei family's intentions."

"I didn't know, but Ke Qing actually went!" Xu Mingjing's shock was genuine. "She didn't tell me a word."

"Let's not talk about Keqing for now. Keqing couldn't go by herself. Yuan Zhengwen took her. If I say he didn't want Keqing to meet more people and do something big, even you wouldn't believe it." Xu Mingzhen let out a long breath. "Let's not talk about that. Every man has some ambition. But when he betrayed our family like this, did he ever think about all the things we did for him?"

"They're stabbing us in the back." Xu Mingzhen took a deep breath, calmed down, and took another sip of hot tea. "So we thought, since Yuan Zhengwen has such ambitions and doesn't want to waste his talent in Tan Yue, let's let him go out and show his strengths."