Chapter 115: New Ways to Relationship
"Yu Peilan, get out here!"
"And your nephews and nieces, all get out here."
"If you don't apologize to my son today, I will destroy your He family."
The people outside the door were banging on the door harder and harder, as if they were going to tear down the house.
Yu Peilan and He Youan looked at each other, and both recognized the voice of the person coming. It was Xia Jian's mother.
She was the workshop director under Deputy Director Wang. She and Yu Peilan kept to themselves and seldom interacted with each other.
Yu Zhile also knew her and was about to get up and open the door, but was stopped by Yu Peilan.
"He Youan, I know you are at home, open the door for me!" Director Xia continued to raise his voice.
At the same time, she gathered all her strength and prepared to kick the door.
Unexpectedly, Yu Peilan opened the door the moment she kicked out, causing her to stagger and almost fall to the ground.
Director Xia was embarrassed and became even more furious. He asked, "Yu Peilan, how do you manage your nephews and nieces? They beat up my son."
As she spoke, she walked to the outermost layer of the crowd, pulled Xia Jian into the center of the event, and then turned his face to look at the onlookers.
Xia Jian's face swelled up like a pig's head, causing an uproar.
"Perrin, although Xiaojian is usually a bit naughty, this beating is too severe."
"Yes, I saw that his eyes were so swollen that he could hardly open them. He really should apologize."
Public opinion was in one direction, and neighbors spoke out in support of Director Xia.
"Mom, they didn't beat me." Xia Jian felt uneasy and tried his best to pull Director Xia's clothes to stop him.
Director Xia thought he was a coward, so he pointed at Yu Zhile and his brother and said, "You, apologize to my son."
"What happened?" A voice split the crowd.
Then, the tall and burly man walked into the center of everyone's vision.
The Red Star Shipyard was not far from the Progressive Cannery. When Director Xia led his men back to the compound from the cannery, someone ran to the shipyard to look for him.
"Old Xia, look, our Xiaojian has a bruised face and nose. It's because of those two siblings who beat him up." The man's appearance made Director Xia more confident.
Her husband was the director of the Red Star Shipyard, and he easily drove He Youan to the cannery, so he naturally didn't have to consider Yu Peilan's face.
Director Xia frowned slightly, looked at Xia Jian, and said in a serious tone: "Xia Jian, you speak."
"What's wrong with you? It's fine if you don't support your son, but why are you interrogating him like a criminal?" Director Xia protected his trembling son behind him. "They beat Xiaojian at the north gate of the park. And before that, they had people beat Xiaojian in Haidong Town."
At this time, Yu Zhile stood up and said, "Aunt Xia, we didn't hit him, don't wrongly accuse us."
"How have I wronged you? Could it be that the injury on Xiaojian's face was caused by himself falling?" Director Xia retorted.
Xia Jian replied in a repetitive voice: "Yes, the wounds on my face were caused by me falling, and have nothing to do with anyone else."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone had strange expressions on their faces.
"Son, did you hit your head? I'll take you to the hospital." Director Xia looked horrified as she held Xia Jian's head and examined it from side to side. "Where did you hit it? Let me take a look."
"Mom, I'm fine. I really fell." Xia Jian tried his best to ignore the gaze of his dark-faced father.
Director Xia shouted, "How is that possible? Shuyi saw it with his own eyes."
Yu Zhile chuckled, attracting everyone's attention.
"A month ago, Xia Jian and his friends used the excuse of going to the countryside to collect folk songs to make a scene at my house and mock the country folk."
"This morning, Xia Jian and his friends broke into Fang's house, tied up the disabled veteran with a rope and took him to the north gate of the park. They kicked his wheelchair over, leaving his hands bruised."
"My sister and I tried to stop their inappropriate behavior. He didn't have a single wound on his face before he left. Everyone who was present at the time can testify for us."
Yu Zhile's every word was sonorous and powerful, making everyone breathe easier.
Upon hearing this, Director Xia's face turned pale and he clenched his teeth.
"Dad, I, we just wanted to play a joke on Fang Zhuo and make him look bad. We didn't mean to hurt him." Xia Jian looked pale and knelt on the ground begging for mercy. "Dad, I really didn't mean it. Please believe me."
"It's not a joke. The old man selling ice cream had a broken leg, but they didn't let him go. He was in his forties crawling on the ground with broken hands and feet. It was pitiful to see him." Someone in the crowd spoke up.
Xia Jian shouted, "You are lying. We just touched Fang Zhuo lightly. Old man Fang's leg has nothing to do with us! What nonsense are you talking about? I will ask my mother to fire you!"
"Pa." Director Xia slapped him hard.
Xia Jian was shocked, covering his face, and muttered, "Mom, why did you hit me?"
"Old Xia, report to the police." Director Xia held back his tears and looked away.
Xia Jian screamed, "Mom, why are you doing this to me! It was just a joke! He's fine!"
The onlookers had complicated expressions and left silently. One of the figures ran away very quickly.
"Mom, I'm your only son, you can't send me to jail." Xia Jian's face was covered with snot and tears.
Director Xia brushed off his hand and bowed deeply to Yu Zhile and others.
"I'm sorry, we don't know how to teach our children." Director Xia looked solemn and bent down to apologize.
Xia Jian still didn't repent: "Dad, you are the director of the shipyard, why should you apologize to them? Why?"
Director Xia slapped him again.
The atmosphere was tense, and Yu Zhile and Yu Yue remained silent.
"Just consider it as a favor you owe Lele." He Youan stepped in to mediate. "The oppression of veterans cannot be taken lightly. I will follow up on it."
Director Xia nodded, and the couple took Xia Jian away.
The farce was over and the family went back to the house to continue eating.
"Le Le, Xiao Yue, don't blame your uncle for acting on his own." He Youan looked apologetic.
In fact, his relationship with Xia Liang is not as tense as it seems.
The two men joined the army in the same year. Although they were assigned to different military regions, their childhood friendship remained, and their previous breakup was just a show for the enemy spies in the dark.
Yu Zhile smiled and said, "I didn't intend to pursue it in the first place."
In her impression, Director Xia rarely interacted with Yu Peilan due to work reasons, but he was a kind person. It was just that he was sometimes too doting on his children and was easily convinced by slander.
"I'll listen to my sister." Yu Yue agreed.
Everyone continued to eat happily, and Yu Zhile thought of Liu Shuyi and narrowed his eyes slightly.
After lunch, Yu Peilan and He Youan returned to the factory to work, while Yu Zhile and others listened to the radio to digest their food.
They were listening to the opera channel, and Yu Chi's little head swayed left and right along with the babbling sounds.
Gradually, he felt sleepy and started nodding his head up and down, with the frequency of his nodding rising and falling.
Yu Zhile found it funny and suddenly an idea came to him.
Perhaps, she could use Morse code to contact Zhou Yuesheng.
"Xiao Yue, take your brother to bed." Yu Wanqin turned off the radio.
Yu Yue nodded and carried Yu Chi back to the house.
Yu Zhile also went into the room to take a nap. He turned sideways with his back to Wanqin, called up the control panel, and immediately used his consciousness to ask Xiaoyun.
[Xiaoyun, can the robot housekeeper detect the operation of the platform? ]
Xiaoyun answered quickly.
[Yes, the robot housekeeper has a self-protection program. If the platform account is not running properly, it will save energy in advance and terminate the relationship with the host before the platform account completely collapses. ]
Yu Zhile breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she could find a way to change the account's operating status, she would have a chance to contact Zhou Yuesheng successfully.
She continued to question Xiaoyun.
[What situations will cause the account operation status to fluctuate? 】
[Host, since the launch of Cloud Live, only a few anchors’ account status has fluctuated, and the platform has not found out the real reason. ]
After a few seconds, an article appeared in the center of the screen with the title: The relationship between the threat to the host's own security and the fluctuation of the account's operating status.
The article records the experiences of those anchors and puts forward several conjectures.
The so-called conjecture is just a simple enumeration of what they did before their accounts fluctuated, such as being accidentally hit by a laser or being attacked by bugs in an interstellar war.
After reading it, Yu Zhile was confused and could only put the question aside temporarily to let his brain get a good rest.
Since the beginning of July, the weather in the afternoon has become increasingly hot and humid.
The cannery's family compound is mostly populated by dual-income families, and all have electric fans at home, but the older generation is used to being frugal and likes to sit in the shade of the trees and chat.
So, every afternoon at three o'clock, the compound is filled with children's laughter.
Yu Zhile slept very lightly today. He woke up as soon as he heard the sound and suddenly remembered the agreement with Sheng Lanyue.
She left a note and went out.
Sheng Lanyue's parents worked at a newspaper, and he lived in a two-story building two blocks away from the cannery's staff quarters.
Yu Zhile followed the address he remembered and when he passed by the supply and marketing cooperative, he went in and bought two cans of orange soda.
She sipped her soda and observed the street scene. Nothing had changed much.
When she arrived at the door of the Sheng family, she saw Sheng Lanyue and Liu Shuyi talking in the garden through the gap in the iron gate, and put down her hand that was about to knock on the door.
"I heard that you were transferred to the Beijing Art Troupe. Congratulations, you are moving to a bigger stage." Liu Shuyi said.
Sheng Lanyue said coldly: "Thank you, what can I do for you?"
"You, last time." Liu Shuyi seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Sheng Lanyue did not respond, letting the atmosphere become tense.
Liu Shuyi frowned slightly, her face showing worry: "How many times do I have to explain to you before you believe it? The last incident was the idea of Xia Jian and Gu Rong. I didn't know about it beforehand. I really-"
"Comrade Liu, you don't need to explain anything to me. You should apologize to the victim." Sheng Lanyue interrupted her.
Liu Shuyi was choked by him and was stunned for a few seconds, with tears in her eyes.
"I know I've let Yu Zhile down. I'll apologize to her next time I see her." Liu Shuyi was about to cry. "I, do you know how the people in the art troupe have excluded me since you left?"
"I'm not interested." Sheng Lanyue's expression was cold.
Yu Zhile touched the iron door with his soda and said with a smile, "I'm interested."
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