When Wang Xinbo heard Manager Wang preparing to call the police, he felt a little flustered, but he still spoke with a firm voice.
"Hmph! Go ahead and call the police if you want! You've been colluding with people in our brigade, and I haven't even asked the police to arrest you yet!"
Manager Wang was completely bewildered by what he was saying. What had he done to deserve this arrest? He looked at the unreasonable woman and was speechless for a moment.
Manager Wang called over a waitress and spoke to her.
"Go to the police station and find a police officer to handle this. Tell them there are people causing trouble here."
Wang Xinbo was also frightened when he heard what Manager Wang said. After thinking for a moment, he ran out.
Several salesmen tried to stop him, but Wang Xinbo had already run out, abandoning the oxcart and running towards the village!
Manager Wang was clearly furious, but then he remembered what Li Dazhuang had just said.
These are the troublemakers in the village, and he doesn't mind teaching them a lesson.
The team leader watched as Wang Xinbo ran out, then hurriedly went into the supply and marketing cooperative to check the situation. He saw that Manager Wang's face was ashen.
He was a little embarrassed, so he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, which he had always treasured, and handed one to Manager Wang, repeatedly apologizing to him.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Manager Wang, it's all our village's fault, please don't take it to heart."
Seeing the captain's sincere apology, Manager Wang's anger subsided considerably, and he said...
“No matter what she knits next time, I won’t accept it.”
The captain nodded quickly, his attitude very sincere, and then continued speaking to Manager Wang.
"Okay, okay, I'll have them disperse when we get back. Please calm down."
Manager Wang was disgusted, and the brigade leader was even more aggrieved, having to apologize to Manager Wang since the village's development depended on him.
Wang Xinbo and Li Ping, who were not in good condition, did not say a word. They watched as the brigade leader got on the oxcart and headed towards the village. The two of them hurriedly got on the oxcart as well.
As for Wang Xinbo, he ran a long way, all the way out of the town, before finally waiting by the main road. At the same time, he couldn't help but worry that the police might come to arrest him.
Not long after, upon seeing the brigade leader, the oxcart arrived. Without a word, he jumped directly onto the oxcart, which drew questions from his younger sister Wang Xinhong and his best friend Li Ping.
"What's going on? Didn't you say you could sell it? How am I supposed to live if I go back like this?"
The two kept questioning him, and Wang Xinbo said impatiently.
"We agreed that you could all finish the weaving, but you've turned it into this mess. What am I supposed to do? If you want to continue, then continue; if you don't, go back to your regular job."
Upon hearing Wang Xinbo's words, the battalion commander turned around and said,
"Your second group is to be disbanded right now. Stop hogging the job and not doing anything. Get out of here as soon as possible."
"I apologize to you today. I'm telling you, if you anger Manager Wang..."
"Stop buying all the fish from the village, or I'll skin you men alive when I get back!"
"If you have any objections, go ahead and sue. Don't you know what you've done?"
The three men didn't dare utter a word after the captain's reprimand, and the oxcart quietly returned to the village.
Some members of the second organizational unit were waiting for the oxcart to return, and they rushed to greet it when they saw it coming back.
Seeing that the cart full of Ula straw sandals had been brought back, he stepped forward and questioned Wang Xinbo.
"How did they all end up being pulled back?"
"Team leader, what's going on?"
Wang Xinbo, still angry after being reprimanded by the captain, shouted...
"What else could it be? It's all this rubbish you guys made up. They simply won't accept it. What am I supposed to do?"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the captain secretly hid to the side. If these old women really started fighting, they wouldn't care if you were a captain or not, they would scratch your face all over.
After the captain quietly withdrew, the group of women became angry and surrounded him.
"Was this the standard you were referring to back then? We all worked it out perfectly, what do you mean by saying this?"
"Of course we'll listen to you. I don't care, you have to give me these work points. If you don't, how will our family survive?"
"How many work points did I miss out on? You said I was qualified back then."
"That's right! You said it was qualified, and you have to give us an explanation today!"
A group of women surrounded Wang Xinbo, shouting angrily. This was their food ration; if they couldn't exchange these things for work points, their families would be short of food.
In this day and age, how can we survive without food? Food is life itself!
As the argument escalated, Wang Xinhong stopped siding with Wang Xinbo and spoke to her sister as well.
"That's right, that's what you said back then. Today when I get home, I'll make sure your brother-in-law beats me to death!"
Even the sisters argued about the timing, and the others pushed and shoved Wang Xinbo, who kept roaring angrily.
"You've done such a disastrous job, and you blame me? You blame me!"
Then she started crying, but crying didn't solve anything. The group of old women gradually started hitting her, tearing Wang Xinbo's hair to shreds and leaving several scratches on his face.
Wang Xinbo cried and screamed there, but no one came to help her. As time passed, the women finally felt relieved, but what could they do?
You'd better go back to work honestly! Wanting Wang Xinbo to produce work points? That's impossible.
And so the crowd gradually dispersed, because it was something they had decided to form themselves, and there was no way they could contact the brigade anyway, nor would the brigade care.
It's their own fault for not doing the job well, who else can they blame?
After everyone left, the brigade leader unloaded the Ula straw sandals at Wang Xinbo's house and drove the oxcart back to the cowshed.
The matter spread like wildfire throughout the village and soon reached Wei Mo's home. Wei Mo did not gloat; they had only themselves to blame.
However, this also makes the envious people in the village much more obedient.
Originally, it was thought that the matter was over, but who knew that Wang Xinbo would cause trouble again the next day, and went directly to Wang Zhenhua's house, cursing and swearing at the gate of the yard.
The disturbance woke up Wang Zhenhua's family early in the morning, and nearby villagers also came to check on the situation. It was impossible for Wang Xinbo to take on so many work points for making straw sandals, so they could only cause a commotion.
Now, those who are on good terms with me are unwilling to let me go, so I have no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.
Outside the courtyard gate, Wang Xinbo was hurling very offensive insults, causing those who heard him to frown.
"Isn't it all because of your connections? You've got ties with the brigade leader and the manager of the supply and marketing cooperative. Otherwise, why would you take ours instead of ours?"
"Hmph! I'm going to sue you!"
Upon hearing this, the old man almost grabbed a large broom and went to hit Wang Xinbo, but was stopped by the villagers who came to watch.
After all, the old man still had the highest prestige in the village, and it wasn't worth hitting him for such a shrew.
As more and more people gathered, Wang Zhenhua and others also arrived at the courtyard gate, and Wei Mo was naturally among them.
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