Chapter 63

"Last time when we held an event, I said why Secretary Huang looked so haggard. You see, she has become thinner and thinner in the past two years, and her face is very pale. I didn't expect that she suffered so much at home." Zhao Mei said, thinking of more details about how Secretary Huang looked haggard because of her marriage.

Bi Chunliu nodded in agreement, "Indeed. Secretary Huang has had it really hard! I heard from the aunt in our compound last night that Secretary Huang's brothers beat up her ex-husband. That's great, at least it can let Secretary Huang vent his anger."

Although the ex-husband was beaten and suffered some physical pain, and it seemed that a tooth was lost, Director Huang was mentally tortured for several years. The tooth can be replaced, but the emotional trauma cannot be healed in a short time!

"Isn't it!" Zhao Mei responded and opened the office door.

Bi Chunliu put away his backpack. Wang Xiaojun happened to come and greeted Zhao Mei and Bi Chunliu warmly. Then he called Bi Chunliu to fetch some water.

As soon as the two of them arrived near the bathroom, they heard someone talking.

"Oh, this little Huang is going to have a hard time in the future, right?"

"You have to live on even if it's not easy. In fact, I don't think you have to get a divorce. If a man can't have children, it's just a good opportunity to control the two people in the husband's family. Wait two years and bring a child over. It won't be easy to find another wife after the divorce."

"She has high standards. How can she be the same as us junior high school graduates?! Now is not the time for her to be so aggressive..."

Bi Chunliu frowned. This guy was really sarcastic in his words. Not only was he sarcastic, but he was also a master at being sarcastic.

"Ouch, why is there such a sour smell so early in the morning? Who goes out without brushing their teeth this morning?"

Wang Xiaojun said loudly.

Bi Chunliu nodded seriously, "Really? I smelled it too. The washroom is quite far from the toilet, what's going on?"

Wang Xiaojun: "..." He suppressed his laughter and said in a muffled voice: "Who knows..."

The two people who were drawing water quickly put the lid on the pot and walked away in shame.

Wang Xiaojun put the kettle away and snorted, "Let them talk nonsense again! But what are they talking about? Secretary Huang is getting divorced? Secretary Huang is getting divorced?"

Bi Chunliu looked at her in confusion, "Why are you standing up for Secretary Huang without even knowing what's going on?" Bi Chunliu told Wang Xiaojun about Secretary Huang's situation.

Wang Xiaojun clenched her fists. "Humph, a man like that deserves his legs broken!" She seemed to have thought of something else and turned to ask, "Chunliu, my sister also married far away. Isn't she suffering too?"

Bi Chunliu knew that Wang Xiaojun's ideas jumped a lot, but she didn't expect her to be so jumpy!

"That shouldn't be the case, right? Sister Xiaoman doesn't seem like that kind of person..."

Wang Xiaojun picked up the kettle and hurried back to the office with Bi Chunliu. "I'm going to write a letter to my sister and remind her that if Wei Dongzheng dares to bully her, she should pack up and come back immediately!"

Bi Chunliu: "Okay!"

"Hey, two diligent little girls are back?" Wang Hongxia handed each of them a piece of candy. "Here, this is your reward."

Wang Xiaojun: "Wow, thank you, auntie!"

Bi Chunliu: "Thank you, Sister Hongxia!"

Wang Hongxia waved her hand. "Why thank me? This is from Nie Xuesong, Chunliu. He lives in the same courtyard as you, right?"

Bi Chunliu put the candy in her mouth and nodded, "Well, what's wrong, Sister Hongxia?"

"It's okay. He said his daughter is getting engaged. This is some wedding candy."

Bi Chunliu: ??? Nie Xiangnan is getting engaged?

"So fast?!" Bi Chunliu was shocked. Wasn't this too fast? Didn't He Majin just come to the compound this morning to distribute candy? So it was engagement candy?!

Wang Hongxia: "Yes! He said his father-in-law works for a transportation company, and his mother-in-law works for a bus company."

Zhao Mei chimed in, "I didn't expect Nie Xuesong to be so lucky. Is his second son's partner also from a capable family?"

Bi Chunliu nodded, "Yes!" Nie Xiangxi's partner should still be Lou Cuicui, whose father is the deputy director of a furniture factory.

"Hey? Look, isn't that Director Huang?" Zhao Mei glanced outside and saw two tall and strong men following Director Huang and accompanying her into the factory office.

Wang Hongxia: "I don't know if Director Huang is still working at the factory after his divorce..."

"Someone in our compound was saying yesterday that Secretary Huang's parents' family is not from our Nanshan. If they get divorced, there is no need for them to stay in this unfamiliar place." Bi Chunliu felt that in this less convenient era, marrying far away was a particularly testing thing.

"Yes, for a woman, getting married is like being reborn for the second time. If she meets a bad man like Director Huang, she will suffer a lot..." Wang Hongxia sighed.

Ren Qianjin walked in from outside. "Hurry, the factory director is calling everyone for a meeting. Pack up, everyone's going to attend this meeting."

A factory-wide meeting? How bizarre!

Several people rushed to a large open space near the factory gate. They saw the factory director and deputy director talking seriously. All the other people from the factory office had also arrived, and every one of them was maintaining order at the scene.

Bi Chunliu and Wang Xiaojun looked at each other. Why were the people from the factory office so active today?

One after another, people from the entire factory came.

The deputy factory director picked up the loudspeaker and called out "Hello" twice, signaling everyone to be quiet. Then the factory director, Comrade Dong Mingde, walked out of the leadership team in a stylish manner.

"Dear fellow workers, excuse me for interrupting your work for a moment. Today, we will hold a brief factory-wide meeting to convey the directives from the provincial and municipal leaders and strengthen..."

Listening to the factory director's worried and indignant speech, Bi Chunliu really didn't expect that this gang of thieves would have such a big impact on their province. Those thieves were so bold!

Even factories are starting to require anti-theft measures now! They must have stolen things from the factory! Also, the supplies in the factory must be much richer than those of ordinary families.

Although their Nanshan hadn't been robbed yet, a third city had already been hit, and even two employees from that factory had been hurt, though luckily not seriously. They were truly a gang of heinous robbers.

Bi Chunliu hated these lawless thieves! You know, her father died because he was protecting the materials in the factory. If he hadn't met that damn thief with a knife, her father would not be gone!

Because of the thieves, the factory has increased patrols, and security personnel come around every once in a while during the day.

"Ah, those two injured people were too careless. If I had met those damn thieves, I could have smashed them to pieces with just one punch!"

"Just your two moves? Just bragging. Humph, unlike me, meeting me is truly their misfortune! I can knock them over with just two kicks!"

"You're the one bragging without limit. Look how weak you are, and you even kicked him over!"

"Are you done yet? I'm leaving now. If we don't leave soon, someone will come and call us."

"It's over, it's over, wait for me!"

After the two voices disappeared, Bi Chunliu came out of the toilet, "......"

That's it? Someone who can't even go to the bathroom alone says something like that?

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As soon as the bell rang, few people in the factory chatted and everyone hurried home.

Bi Chunliu also hurried home, not because she was afraid of the thieves. She planned to go home and hide the money at home. She used to put it in the closet, but now she felt that if a thief really broke into her house, the closet would definitely be their first choice.

After entering the courtyard, Bi Chunliu saw Aunt Liu and Aunt Zhang talking to each other.

Aunt Zhang: "Hey, Lao Liu, are you really going to go on patrol? Can you do it?"

Aunt Liu: "Why not? I'm in better shape now than when I was younger. Besides, Xiaoyue and her husband have to go to work, and Anqing and his family have arranged for them to be on duty for a few hours at night. Why can't I do that? At most, I can just sleep a little longer during the day."

Aunt Wang also nodded. "I'm the one patrolling my house. My son has been on night shift for the past two weeks, so he can't join us. The kids still have to go to work, and we, as the elders, have nothing to do. It just so happens that I haven't been around much at night."

Aunt Zhang: "..." These two people acted as if they were not considerate elders. "Chunliu, who patrols your house?" Aunt Zhang's eyes lit up when she saw Bi Chunliu.

Bi Chunliu: "Weiguo and I will take turns. Aunt Liu, you just said the patrol will only take a few hours. We will split it into the first and second half of the night, right?"

"Yes." Aunt Liu explained the patrol arrangements to Bi Chunliu, and it was pretty much what Bi Chunliu had in mind. Their area was divided into two parts, and every night, two compounds would patrol simultaneously. Compounds in the same area were also split up, with one compound patrolling in the first half of the night and the other in the second. This meant that they had four compounds patrolling that night.

Bi Chunliu felt much more relieved. This way, if something really happened, he would not be without help.

"Aunties, you guys chat first. I'm going home to cook." After Bi Chunliu understood the situation, she went home. She needed to think carefully about where to hide the money.

"Okay, I have to prepare dinner too. My husband Anqing is on duty tonight." Aunt Liu said something to the others and turned to go into the house.

Bi Chunliu dug out the family's money and counted it; it totaled eight hundred and forty yuan. Before his death, Bi's father had been a fifth-grade worker. While the family wasn't wealthy, his monthly salary was enough to support them. After the accident, the factory provided compensation, plus funeral expenses, totaling one thousand yuan. Later, her mother fell ill, and some of that was spent. Bi Chunliu planned not to touch the eight hundred yuan unless something serious happened.

After searching in the cabinet and under the bed, Bi Chunliu even found three yuan and forty cents of private money saved by one of his younger brothers and sisters, but he had no idea where to put the money.

Fortunately, she found a loose half brick at the back of the cabinet, and realized that there was actually a small gap in the half brick where she could hide the money. Bi Chunliu put the money in and examined it carefully for a long time. She was relieved when she didn't see any flaws.

After everything was restored to its original state, Bi Chunliu finally had time to think about what was hidden behind the half brick. She didn't know if it was her father's private money or her mother's private money...

"Big sister, we are back."

Bi Chunliu came out of the kitchen. "Just in time, put down your schoolbag and get ready for dinner!"

After dinner, Bi Qiuguo started chattering and sharing his experiences of the day with Bi Chunliu.

"Sister, I heard from Hao Xiaohu in our class that our grandma's house was robbed!"

Bi Chunliu: My grandma's house was robbed? That's impossible, right?