When Fang Qiao said he would report it to the factory, Sun Shuyi panicked instantly. Her eyes darted around nervously, and she stammered as she corrected herself, "I... I remembered wrong. It wasn't ten o'clock, it was a little after eleven."

"You keep changing your mind, saying 10 o'clock one minute and 11 o'clock the next. You really are a liar, not a word of truth comes out of your mouth. I think we should report you to the factory and let the leaders investigate!"

Fang Qiao handed An'an to Xiao Jing to hold, then grabbed Sun Shuyi's arm tightly, "Come on, let's go find the factory leaders!"

"No, I'm not going."

Sun Shuyi struggled desperately, but Fang Qiao seemed to have grown up on something incredible; her grip on Sun Shuyi's hand felt like it was made of steel, incredibly strong. Sun Shuyi's wrist ached terribly from the pull, and she couldn't break free even an inch.

She looked to her two friends for help.

But her two friends looked at the sky, the ground, and the backs of her feet, but never at her eyes.

What a joke! We're all just casual colleagues. It's fine if we argue and take each other's sides or twist the truth, but today this is going to escalate to the factory management!

Going to the leaders to spread rumors? They must think they're living too comfortably!

Seeing that she couldn't get help from her two friends, Sun Shuyi immediately panicked. Forgetting about the plan she had made with Li Dan, she stretched out her other hand to Li Dan, who was standing in the crowd: "Sister Dan, Sister Dan, please come out and say something for me!"

After being called out by name by Sun Shuyi, Li Dan could no longer stand in the crowd and watch the commotion.

She forced a slightly unnatural smile and awkwardly tried to smooth things over for Sun Shuyi, saying, "Xiao Qiao, we're all colleagues in the same factory. It's best to resolve these little things privately. Bringing them to the leaders all the time is not a good thing."

“A small matter? This is no small matter.” Fang Qiao shook her head: “She accused me of hitting the child. If it were my own child, no one could interfere, but you know, Tian Tian is just my niece. I’m raising her as a temporary guardian. It’s not a big deal if she says a few bad things, but my reputation will be completely ruined. What if the Women’s Federation hears about my bad reputation and comes after me, and won’t let me raise the child anymore?”

Li Dan's expression froze, her lips twitched slightly unnaturally, and after a long while she chuckled dryly twice, saying, "You young people always overthink things. A few words of gossip, it's not that serious, it's not as bad as you make it out to be. If you're worried about the impact, I'll have Shuyi apologize to you right now. Anyway, everyone's listening, and everyone knows you've been wronged."

"Don't try to persuade me. I'm not going to let this go. I have to have a serious talk with the factory leaders about this! Otherwise, if someone else does the same thing, I'll be in big trouble!"

Fang Qiao's words were pointed, and Li Dan's face turned pale and then red, as if she was lost in thought.

Ignoring what Sun Shuyi was thinking, Fang Qiao grabbed Sun Shuyi's hand and said coldly, "Let's go find the factory leaders."

As she spoke, she called out to Tian Tian and Xiao Jing, "Let's go, let's go together."

Chen Guizhi quickly followed.

Not only Chen Guizhi went, but the people involved also followed her to find the factory leaders.

Since it's Sunday anyway, and I don't have to go to work, I might as well go and see what's going on.

"Wait a minute, I'm going to pick something up." Xiaojing ran back about ten meters with the child in her arms, picked up a piece of light pink cloth covered in mud from the ground, and then quickly ran back: "Okay, let's go."

"What is this?" Fang Qiao asked.

Xiao Jing lowered her head and said somewhat disappointedly, "I originally wanted to embroider some patterns on it and make it into a scarf as a birthday gift for you, but now I can't do that anymore, the fabric has been scratched by the pebbles."

When she came to the capital, her mother gave her some grain coupons and the last three feet of cloth in the house, as well as two yuan to keep her safe.

A few days ago, when she heard at home that her sister-in-law's birthday was in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, she started thinking about what to give her as a birthday gift.

After thinking about it for several days, I noticed that my sister-in-law always wore a red square scarf that was neither new nor old. I finally decided to give her a thin scarf so that she could wear it when it got hot, and it could also block the wind and sand and provide shade from the sun.

After finally managing to go out, having carefully selected the prettiest pink fabric, it fell to the ground and was scratched by pebbles during a fight with Sun Shuyi.

Fang Qiao was deeply touched that Xiao Jing had remembered to give her a birthday present.

Not wanting to disappoint Xiaojing, he asked, "How much did you pay for it?"

Xiao Jing said sullenly, "One yuan and eighty cents."

"Does the supply and marketing cooperative still have this type of fabric?"

Xiao Jing nodded: "Yes."

But what good was that? She had spent all her money, and only had two cents left, which wasn't enough to buy anything!

Gifts given to others should be made with one's own money to show sincerity.

Fang Qiao: "If we have it, we'll buy more."

"But I have no money left," Xiaojing said, biting her lip, somewhat embarrassed.

Fang Qiao: "Make that guy surnamed Sun compensate you!"

Sun Shuyi was already unhappy about being dragged away by Fang Qiao, and hearing this made her even angrier: "Why should I pay for it? I didn't touch her cloth, she dropped it herself because she didn't hold it properly."

"If you don't pay, who will!" Fang Qiao glared at her. "If you hadn't spread rumors, why would my Xiao Jing have gotten into a fight with you? If she hadn't fought with you, that piece of cloth would still be intact! You're the culprit, it's all your fault! You should pay!"

"Nonsense! I won't pay." Sun Shuyi gritted her teeth.

Li Dan quickly grabbed her arm and advised, "It's just a piece of cloth, it's not much money, just pay for it and it'll be over."

Sun Shuyi lowered her eyes and remained silent.

As they drew closer to the office building where the leaders were, Li Dan became increasingly anxious. She stopped Fang Qiao and carefully said, "Qiao, it's Sunday today. Leaders need to rest on Sundays too. If we go up there rashly, what if the leaders think we're being nosy and it will affect their work?"

"This whole thing was Shuyi's fault. She went outside and gossiped without understanding the situation. She knows she was wrong, she's admitting her mistake. Why don't we just let it go and settle this privately? Why bother the leaders? Don't you think so?"

Fang Qiao refused to settle the matter privately.

"Sister Dan, you know I'm not one to hold grudges. I'm fine with everything else, but this is different! She crossed my line!" Fang Qiao refused to settle privately: "She crossed my line. If I don't talk to the leaders about this and teach her a lesson, who knows if she'll repent? Or if she'll still talk about me behind my back?"

"I have to teach her a lesson she won't forget! I'll show her I'm not someone to mess with!"