Chapter 34 Resignation

The cold sweat on Chen Meijuan's forehead suddenly dripped down.

It was a late autumn night, but she couldn't stop sweating on her forehead and her face was as red as fire.

She looked at Xie Minyun in front of her.

This man who was a few years younger than her and looked like a fool was now staring at her so hard with his eyes, as if he had done the most wrong thing in the world.

But what's wrong with her? Don't other people do the same? Why do you look at her like that?

Chen Meijuan thought of what Liang Yanfang had said to her before, and secretly raised a breath of anger:

"What... take it out..."

"You came so late, why don't you just work hard? Why are you staring at me?"

Having said that, he was about to close the wooden box.

But unexpectedly, Xie Minyun did not let go at all, and her weak white hands were still tightly holding Chen Meijuan's, determined to argue with her.

At this time, Xia Tang and Ma Dafeng also came over from the yard, preparing to clean up the dishes together.

However, as soon as they entered the room and saw the two people in a stalemate, they all realized that something was wrong.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Xia Tang walked over swiftly, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were on Chen Meijuan and Chen Minyun.

Chen Meijuan spoke first:

"It's nothing... Xiaoyun was just joking with me!"

After saying this, he smiled at Chen Minyun in a friendly manner, trying to get her to let go of her hand.

However, Chen Minyun still did not move.

Perhaps because there were too many people, she looked a little nervous, and her expression returned to its original dull look. However, she raised her head and said to Xia Tang word by word:

"Xia Tang, she... hid money."

Chen Meijuan exploded:

"I hid money? What evidence do you have that I hid money? You little dumb boy, what do you know?"

After saying this, he exerted force and tried to pull the sleeve out of Chen Minyun's hand.

Chen Minyun was dragged so hard that she could hardly stand. Her face turned pale, but her voice became strangely steady:

"She hid the money. She took six dollars and eight dollars from the man and only kept five dollars. The rest was in her pocket!"

After saying this, he moved his chest up and down vigorously and said:

"I'm not lying!"

"You did! You were a little dumb before, and now you're a little liar! I was very nice to you, but you actually bit me back! How do you know that the money in my pocket was swallowed, not mine?"

When speaking, Chen Meijuan gritted her teeth and blurted out the words that Liang Yanfang had made up about Chen Minyun:

"You have such a bad heart, you deserved the abuse you received before! You deserved it!"

"Stop making noise!"

Xia Tang's expression also became serious at this time, and he looked at the two people calmly.

The sound was not loud, but the two people stopped at the same time.

Xia Tang walked over and put one hand on Xie Minyun's hand.

That hand was still tightly holding Chen Meijuan's hand.

Xia Tang used his fingers to pry Chen Minyun's hands open little by little.

It was not until she pulled Chen Minyun close to her that she was surprised to find that the girl in front of her was shaking.

His whole body was shaking, and even his teeth were clenched tightly, as if he had received some huge stimulation.

Xia Tang felt uncomfortable again.

She gently took Chen Minyun's hand and said to Chen Meijuan in a calm voice:

"Meijuan, no matter what the conflict between you and Minyun is, you shouldn't say those words to her."

Chen Meijuan stopped talking.

"As for the stealing of money..."

Xia Tang paused for a moment:

"Just do the math and you'll know."

Chen Meijuan still felt a little lucky.

After all, there are so many people coming and going every day, and there are a lot of Mao bills and a lot of points bills. Who can remember them all?

However, when she saw Xia Tang take out a notebook from under the drawer, she could no longer laugh.

Xia Tang opened the notebook, which recorded all his income in beautiful handwriting.

It happens every day and in every transaction.

Chen Meijuan's face turned pale instantly.

Xia Tang was also watching her reaction. As soon as he saw the look on her face, he understood what was going on.

But she didn't say it directly, she just slowly spread out the book:

"Well, I'll just count today's numbers and compare them with the numbers in the box."

"Sister Dafeng, please help me watch over it."

Ma Dafeng responded, but Chen Meijuan's eyes couldn't help but wander left and right.

She grabbed it with both hands, and suddenly threw an eighty-cent dollar from her pocket onto the table:

"It's just a small amount of money, isn't it? I... never stole it, but why are you investigating it so loudly?"

She was stubborn and threw her apron to the ground with force.

She took a deep breath and wanted to turn around and leave, but she heard Xia Tang say indifferently behind her:

"Meijuan, I'll pay you your wages for the past few days."

"You don't have to come anymore."

Chen Meijuan turned around in surprise, but found that Xia Tang was no longer looking at her.

She gave the seven days' wages to Chen Meijuan, then turned around, hugged Chen Minyun in her arms, and comforted her in a low voice.

Ma Dafeng silently picked up the money and apron, sighed and moved to Chen Meijuan's side:

"You said your child..."

"Why don't you go and apologize, maybe everything will be fine."

"Apologize……"

Only then did Chen Meijuan start to panic.

When people have something, they can't help but find fault with it.

She always thinks she is the best among people and everyone has wronged her.

But only when we lose it do we realize that what we once had is already precious enough.

"Xia Tang...I..."

Chen Meijuan moved her lips, trying to piece together a few words from her confused thoughts.

But Xia Tang no longer looked at her.

Not only that, even the way Ma Dafeng looked at her was as if she was a sinner.

And Chen Minyun avoided her as much as possible.

She... or her cousin... she said so...

The cool air from the surrounding seeps into the body little by little.

It was not until the blood and energy in my head completely faded that I realized how cold my body was.

Just as the coldest wind blew in from the door, Chen Meijuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran out with her head down.

*

Chen Minzhi didn't know what had happened until the next day.

"Meijuan can no longer be used. Stealing money is a big deal no matter where you are."

Xia Tangyan said this in a crisp voice, with a rare hint of seriousness in his voice.

In fact, she has always been very tolerant towards people and things.

But even if you are tolerant, there must be a limit.

She now has a shop and has slowly gained some experience.

She couldn't monitor every move of her employees at all times, nor did she feel it was necessary to manage every detail.

But the problem in principle is that we cannot tolerate it.

To be fair, Chen Meijuan is not an unforgivable bad person.

But she stole money and said those things to Minyun, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Chen Minzhi felt very sorry:

"Xia Tang, I'm so sorry. I never thought she would become like this."

Xia Tang pursed her lips:

"It's okay, I didn't expect that."

"It's just...she scolded Minyun. It's also my fault for not protecting her well."

Chen Minzhi shook her head quickly.

After she knew about it, she immediately went to see her sister.

But she was quietly cleaning the table. When she saw her sister, she actually said:

"Sister, I'm fine."

Chen Minzhi suddenly felt that perhaps her sister had grown up in a place she couldn't see.

She said:

"Minyun's situation is special. It's not easy for her to be here with you."

"I think it's a bother for you. She can't help you much. It's better to let her go back..."

"That's not necessary."

Xia Tang looked back at Chen Minyun, who was concentrating, and then turned back again.

"She's pretty good. More capable than I thought."

She even thought about letting Chen Minyun try to work as the front desk clerk in the future.

Although Chen Meijuan was able to communicate with customers before, she was not good at math and was easily distracted, so it was inevitable that she would make mistakes in the calculation.

Chen Minyun is much more careful than her.

Chen Minzhi actually hadn't decided whether to let Chen Minyun go back. In fact, she felt that if Chen Minyun went home now, she would quarrel with Wang Kaiyun and the others.

We have already quarreled many times.

This morning, Wang Kaiyun actually told her that Chen Meijuan no longer worked for Xia Tang, and asked her to make some connections. She had introduced Chen Meijuan to Xia Tang out of good intentions, but she didn't expect that such a big mess would arise.

Chen Minzhi immediately became unhappy and argued with Wang Kaiyun for a few words.

The noise was so loud that even the husband, who was on a shift change, was woken up and Wang Kaiyun pulled him over to seek justice.

Chen Minzhi felt even more upset after being reprimanded by her husband in a neither soft nor harsh manner.

Thinking of the mess at home, Chen Minzhi's head began to hurt.

However, she couldn't tell Xia Tang, let alone Chen Minyun, about these things.

I could only pretend to be cheerful and ask Xia Tang:

"If you don't mind, let her do it first. If it really doesn't work, I'll take her back."

"But now there's only one person left during the day, will you be too busy?"

"Not bad."

Xia Tang closed today's account book and said with a smile.

In the past few days, she has found suppliers of pork, potatoes and vegetables for the snack bar.

The term "supplier" is a term used in later generations. In fact, it refers to the stall owners selling vegetables, potatoes and meat in the morning market. She paid deposits to them respectively and asked them to deliver the goods on time and in sufficient quantity in the morning.

Every day, decide what ingredients and how much to buy for the next day. This way, you don't have to go to the morning market early the next day, and you don't have to carry so much food with both hands.

Chen Minzhi thought it was a good idea.

She suddenly thought of another scenario and asked:

"Xia Tang, do you know about Xia Dong and Li Meifeng?"

"You know? You said you were going to get engaged before, are you engaged now?"

Xia Tang asked casually, but deep down, she didn't want the two of them to get engaged.

Coming from the Xia family, she knew better than anyone that it was a bottomless abyss.

A normal woman wouldn't get any skin peeling off after entering that kind of place.

Li Meifeng is not a lazy girl. She doesn't like to let Xia Dong torture her alone.

"Didn't they move away at the beginning? Li Meifeng's father, Li Laoer, just said to push it away, without saying it was good or bad, and just kept it hanging there."

"Later, after the incident between Xia Lulu and Xie Minghui, didn't Xia Dashan have a cerebral congestion? We all thought that it would not work out."

Chen Minzhi took a sip of water from the large teacup:

"But I heard in the past few days that the Li family is going to give in."

Xia Tang was surprised:

"Why are you letting it go again?"

Now anyone can see that the Xia family is in trouble.

Xia Dashan recovered from his cerebral hemorrhage and Xia Lulu lost her job, so the whole family was squeezed into such a small house.

Under such conditions, with Li Laoer's vanity, how could it succeed?

Chen Minzhi sighed:

"I heard that Xia Dashan has a retirement settlement fund from the factory, and Li Laoer wants to use it to help Meifeng's younger brother get married!"