Chapter 134 Do You Still Want to Quibble?

"I just heard there was a problem in the workshop here, so we came over to see if we could help." Li Jingcheng said with a straight face, "Who knew that before we even entered the door, we would hear someone talking nonsense."

While he was speaking, he glared at Li Xinghua.

Li Xinghua was not afraid at all. He held his neck high and looked very confident.

"I'm not talking nonsense. You're college students, how can you be worse than a woman who hasn't even finished elementary school? I'm doing this for your own good. If you're outdone by her, how will you survive in the factory in the future?"

"Are college students necessarily better than others?" Li Jingcheng asked back, his eyes full of disdain.

"Of course!" Li Xinghua remained stubborn. "Having read so many books is better than being uneducated."

“Education is never the only criterion for measuring a person’s ability.”

"No, you're wrong," Li Jingcheng said firmly. "Knowledge and ability are never measured by academic qualifications. Although Engineer Jiang doesn't have a high degree, her abilities are obvious to all. Over the past few months, Engineer Jiang has solved countless difficulties for the factory. You can't deny her lack of education by saying she's uneducated."

Li Xinghua's eyes widened as he stared at Li Jingcheng in disbelief, as if he were standing before a fool. "You're so ungrateful and useless. A grown man, are you willing to be dominated by a country girl? Don't you want to earn an eighteenth-grade salary?"

Li Jingcheng laughed sarcastically: "It's not difficult to admit that a person is better than you, and it's not difficult to admit that a woman is better than you!"

"You may be just a textile worker, but if you were better than me, I would have the courage to admit it. But you? You just sit here envying and slandering others. If you have this time, you'd better learn more skills."

Li Xinghua was choked so hard that his face turned red. He was shaking with anger and couldn't speak for a long time.

As for the other people in the workshop, some applauded Li Jingcheng's words, while others showed expressions of sudden enlightenment, and their previous suspicions towards Jiang Haitang also dissipated a lot.

Duan Changhe also stood up and looked at Li Xinghua firmly. "Jingcheng is right. We want to make achievements and get the salary of Level 18, but that should be achieved through personal ability, not by accusing others of crimes or suppressing them."

"You..." Li Xinghua wanted to argue.

"You don't have to continue to provoke us. We will report your bad behavior to the security department." Li Jingcheng interrupted her without any hesitation.

Li Xinghua's face instantly turned red like a monkey's butt. He was angry and anxious, but couldn't say a word.

At this time, Jiang Haitang nodded to Li Jingcheng and Duan Changhe to express his gratitude, and then returned his gaze to the faulty machine.

She took a deep breath, forced herself to put aside the previous dispute, and devoted herself to analyzing the mechanical structure.

Jiang Haitang's fingertips groped along the gear pattern inch by inch, his expression focused and serious.

Suddenly, she felt a very thin bulge on the edge of the transmission belt of the twisting device.

Her eyes lit up instantly and she immediately shouted, "Who has a flashlight? Lend it to me."

When the workers in the workshop heard this, they knew there might be a clue and started to move excitedly.

Zhang Qiaohong quickly asked, "Who has it? Hurry and bring it over."

Soon, two female workers came running over with flashlights.

Jiang Haitang didn't care that the ground was dirty and messy, and just lay down, using a flashlight to carefully observe the bulge she had just touched.

In the dim light, she discovered that there was a thin needle on the transmission belt, firmly glued to it with glue.

It is this small protrusion that gets stuck in the cashmere thread as the machine runs, and then the thread is cut by the rapidly running machine.

"Found it!" Jiang Haitang's voice rose unconsciously, "The transmission belt was damaged."

Zhang Qiaohong quickly said, "Mr. Jiang, can you please help me check if these machines are all broken for the same reason?"

Jiang Haitang immediately walked to the other machines with problems and checked them one by one.

Sure enough, every machine failed for the same reason.

"Let the maintenance team come and clean the needle in this position."

She turned around and told Zhang Qiaohong to arrange someone to find the maintenance team.

At this moment, Jiang Haitang caught a glimpse of Li Xinghua quietly moving towards the workshop door.

Her eyes flashed, and she quickly stepped forward to block the way, her voice icy cold: "Comrade Li Xinghua, please stay."

"I need to go to the bathroom!" Li Xinghua shouted in panic. Instead of stopping, he turned around and ran.

But she had just taken a few steps when she was caught by two other quick-eyed and quick-handed female workers on the left and right.

"Li Xinghua, you're such a good fellow! No wonder you keep finding trouble for Engineer Jiang. It turns out you're afraid that he'll find something wrong."

"How abhorrent! How dare you destroy the machine? Send her to the security department."

"Just now she was stirring up trouble, saying that the continuous accidents at the factory were because of Director Lu. It turns out she was just the thief crying 'stop thief'."

Everyone was talking at once, with angry accusations rising one after another, not giving Li Xinghua any chance to defend himself.

Li Xinghua, however, was still forcing himself to remain calm, his voice trembling as he said, "Don't spit bloody words at me. I, I don't know what you're talking about."

"I don't know. I don't know why you are running?" Zhang Qiaohong said gritting her teeth.

She treated these twenty jacquard machines as her own eyes, but she never expected that someone would dare to destroy them.

Zhang Qiaohong wished she could eat Li Xinghua alive.

"I said, I just want to go to the bathroom, you can't arrest me without permission."

"Don't waste time talking to her, just take her to the security department." Zhang Qiaohong gave an order, and several female workers hurriedly grabbed Li Xinghua and walked towards the security department.

Li Jingcheng and Duan Changhe watched this scene and couldn't help but sigh: "Only Engineer Jiang could find such details. I wouldn't be so meticulous."

"In the future, we must learn more from Engineer Jiang." Duan Changhe agreed.

Li Jingcheng thought of Li Xinghua's provocation today and said with lingering fear, "Mr. Jiang, we absolutely have no intention of replacing you. If anyone tries to stir up trouble again in the future, you must give us a chance to prove our innocence."

Jiang Haitang smiled faintly and said, "We've been together for a few months now. How could I not know who you are?"

"How about, Mr. Jiang, how about we two be your students?" Li Jingcheng and Duan Changhe looked at each other and suddenly spoke.

Jiang Haitang waved her hands quickly: "No, I'm not qualified to be your teacher with my level. Let's work hard together and cooperate with each other in the future." The three of them smiled at each other and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Zhang Qiaohong came over with a guilty look on her face: "I didn't expect there would be such a person in my group, trying to sow discord between you two."

Fortunately, this kind of thing happened right under her nose and did not lead to serious consequences, otherwise, she would really be a sinner.

"Li Xinghua made a mistake, it has nothing to do with you, it's her own problem." Jiang Haitang comforted softly.

In her heart, she vaguely felt that Li Xinghua might just be being used as a gun.

No matter how hard Zhang Qiaohong tried, there was no way to avoid it.

As he was speaking, the maintenance team arrived. Jiang Haitang explained the cause of the machine malfunction in detail and then turned and left.

Seeing this, Li Jingcheng and Duan Changhe immediately followed.

On the other side, after Li Xinghua was taken to the security department, several female workers talked to each other and told the details of what had happened.

Zhao Kai, head of the Security Department, immediately arranged for people to conduct investigations and interrogations.

At first, Li Xinghua was still trying hard to argue, insisting that he knew nothing.

But in the face of Zhao Kai's harsh questioning and evidence, she gradually couldn't bear the pressure and cried and told the truth.

"Since four days ago, I have been receiving letters made of newspaper clippings asking me to destroy the jacquard loom. They threatened to have my family taken care of if I didn't cooperate."

"I have no choice. It wasn't easy for my parents to raise me. I can't just stand by and watch them get into danger."

As she spoke, she also revealed the hidden places.

Zhao Kai arranged for someone to get the letters, and sure enough, three letters were found at the place Li Xinghua said.

These letters were made by cutting out words from newspapers and pasting them together one by one. There was no handwriting, making the investigation extremely difficult.

Li Xinghua was locked up, but the security department's investigation was carried out in full swing.

Although the other party acted very carefully and adopted a cut-and-paste method, anything that was done would eventually leave clues.

After a thorough investigation, Zhao Kai finally found out the whole story.

By this point, the matter was no longer something the Security Department could handle.

Lu Liangchen made a prompt decision and handed the matter over to the Industrial Bureau.

The next morning, the factory leadership team held an emergency meeting.

The atmosphere in the conference room was solemn. Lu Liangchen glanced around seriously and then solemnly pointed out: "After investigation, Deputy Director Qin coerced and bribed the factory workers to disrupt production, causing huge losses to the factory."

Deputy Director Qin stood up suddenly, threw the teacup, and was furious.

"Lu Liangchen, you're just fabricating charges. Are you planning to use the confessions of two workers to target me, the deputy director? You're trying to exclude dissidents. I'm going to report you to the office!"

Lu Liangchen sneered: "If you didn't do it, why would I openly point out that it was you? Of course, I already have solid evidence."

"Impossible, this is impossible." Deputy Director Qin was still stubborn.

"Nothing is impossible." Lu Liangchen took out a stack of documents. "This is the inferior salting agent used to destroy boiler pipes. Although you got it by twisting your fingers, we have thoroughly investigated every step. We have both witnesses and physical evidence."

"You also swapped parts, causing the machine to malfunction. You mixed scraps of worn parts into the lubricating oil, nearly causing a production accident. Furthermore, you instructed someone to sabotage the dye that had been painstakingly prepared."

"As for the issue of the jacquard machine being vandalized today, we've already investigated it thoroughly. Do you want to take a look? Or, Qin Yongliang, do you want to continue to quibble?"

Qin Yongliang suddenly burst into laughter: "Young man, do you know what I did back then..."

At this moment, the door to the conference room was flung open, and several men in Mao suits walked in quickly. Their eyes were stern.