Chapter 013 Reaping the Bitter Fruit

Old Su broke out in a cold sweat.

It felt like countless ants were scurrying around in his heart, making him feel nauseous, vomiting, and wanting to gag.

He found it especially unbearable to be surrounded by scrutinizing or disdainful gazes.

"Li Banxia, ​​you..."

Old Su dared not speak, but Li Banxia did.

"Speak up, why did you stop? Can't keep up the story?"

Li Banxia pointed at Old Man Su, her voice filled with anger, "Su Youfu, I really didn't expect that you would not only disregard me, but also... slander and defame the reputations of our children?! Do you hate us, mother and children, that much?!"

The onlookers at the factory began to look at Old Man Su with even more curiosity.

Some people whispered among themselves, "What's going on here?"

"Officer Su said that his second son and his wife set up a scheme to blackmail his eldest son's wife into keeping her job by threatening suicide?!"

"My goodness, did they send his second son to hell?"

"..."

Old Su's mind was filled with Li Banxia's accusations against him. His ears were ringing, and he didn't hear the other comments at all. He jumped up and down, retorting, "I didn't make it up. I told the truth. She and the second son conspired to threaten the eldest son's wife with suicide to get her job..."

"Smack!"

Li Banxia slapped him hard across the face, so hard that Old Man Su's face turned to the side.

"Li Banxia!"

Old Man Su covered his face, panting heavily, and glared at her angrily.

"Su Youfu, are you even human?! What did your second son and his fiancée do to offend you? Why can't you stand to see them doing well?!" Li Banxia glared at him coldly.

Old Su was stunned. When she scolded her second son yesterday, she didn't hold back at all. He was just telling the truth. What... happened?

After thinking it over, I suddenly realized something was wrong.

He opened his mouth, wanting to explain, but Li Banxia cut him off.

"If his future in-laws hear what you've said, will they still let their daughter marry him? And what will his boss think of him? Su Youfu, is this how you act as a father?!"

Li Banxia could tell that Old Man Su had realized something; she was doing it on purpose.

In her past life, because she loved him, she lowered herself, humbled herself to the dust, lived and died for him, and endured all kinds of hardships for him. What did she get in return?

Li Banxia admitted that she was petty and that the other woman was just using the situation as an excuse to make a fuss!

She wanted Su Youfu to experience what it was like to be publicly judged like this!

The resentment she was suppressing was driving her crazy!

Many of the onlookers were parents, and they whispered among themselves after hearing Li Banxia's words.

"...Even if one's own son has a thousand faults, one would deal with them behind closed doors, not say them in public. What is Su Youfu doing?"

"What are you doing? You can't win an argument with your wife, so you start attacking her by bringing up the child she cares about most!"

"Huh?! That's such a... malicious thought!"

"His own father publicly said he had a bad character. Comrade Li is right. If this gets back to his son's boss, his son's future will be ruined..."

The way the group of people looked at Old Man Su became even more strange.

Old Man Su was speechless with anger, his face turning pale and then red. He glared at Li Banxia with a warning in his eyes, telling Li Banxia to stop.

Li Banxia met his gaze without backing down in the slightest.

"Officer Su, you were indeed in the wrong. You started by making things up about your wife, and when you couldn't win the argument, you used your son to blackmail her..."

"You used your salary to support a widow, and when your wife overheard, she only argued with you. Today, she came to take you out to eat to apologize. A few kind words would have solved the problem, but you had to make a scene like this..."

Old Man Su's eyes reddened with anger at these words. He explained, "It's all a misunderstanding! I just said the wrong thing in the heat of the moment. I didn't mean to harm my son. He's still my son. How could I harm him..."

"You didn't intend to harm him? Or did you deliberately make up those lies for us to misunderstand your wife?"

"Isn't this approach even more unacceptable?"

That's not the case at all.

He was provoked by Li Banxia; she kept saying he was using his money to support widows, and every word she said was meant to ruin his reputation. Besides…

He was telling the truth!

How did it become a choreography?!

But now, he could no longer explain to people that he was telling the truth. If he dared to explain, everyone would think that he was preventing his son from getting married and hindering his son's career.

Old Man Su didn't know where things started, but things turned out this way, and now it's such a difficult situation.

He originally wanted to portray Li Banxia as a mean and harsh daughter-in-law, but now, Li Banxia is unharmed, while he has been exposed for not bringing his salary home and has been accused of having an affair with a widow.

There is also a negative example of a mother who uses her son to threaten her, which is detrimental to her son.

Seriously...enough already!

Old Su wanted to tell Li Banxia to shut up, but his glare was no longer effective. He looked around the crowd with a blank and helpless expression and his eyes met those of a young man in the crowd.

The young man looked at him, sighed softly, and turned to leave.

The light in Old Man Su's eyes vanished instantly.

A moment later, someone strode over and shouted at the crowd that had gathered three or four deep, "What are you doing?"

Someone turned around, saw the person approaching, and called out, "Director Xie is here."

The crowd parted to make way for a middle-aged man who walked in.

Seeing Old Man Su's disheveled appearance, he frowned, glanced at Li Banxia, ​​sighed, and raised his hand to disperse the crowd, "Alright, it's just a couple arguing, why are you all making a fuss? Quickly disperse, those who need to go home should go home, and those who need to do something else should go do something else!"

The crowd greeted Director Xie and left, chatting and laughing.

Once everyone had mostly left, Director Xie glared at Old Man Su and cursed, "You're such a grown man, yet you still talk like an old woman! What are you doing spouting all that nonsense in the office?! Feeling better now?!"

"Comrade Li, Su Youfu was in the wrong in this matter. You can handle it however you want at home. This is a matter between you and your husband, right?"

Director Xie turned to look at Li Banxia, ​​a smile on his face but nothing in his eyes.

Li Banxia remained noncommittal.

Director Xie frowned slightly. "I'm a few years older than you. Let me be frank, no matter what Su Youfu has done wrong, he's still your man, the father of your children. You... you've acted too inconsiderately. You shouldn't have made such a big deal out of it. Now that you've made such a scene, Su Youfu's reputation in the factory will definitely be affected. You should let him..."

"Director Xie."

Li Banxia interrupted him, "You should ask him why he's making up stories about me? It's become the talk of the town in your factory, and even the workers in the workshop know how mean and how harsh I, Li Banxia, ​​am to my daughter-in-law."

Director Xie choked.

"What, his face is a face, but mine isn't?"