inside the house.
"Ptooey! Ptooey! Ptooey!"
The kang (heated brick bed) was on fire, and people were laughing. Jia Zhangshi, her face contorted in despair, screamed, "Lin Yang, you bastard! You actually made this old lady drink your foot bath water!!"
As she spoke, she noticed that Lin Yang's trouser legs were all rolled up, clearly indicating that he had just washed his feet.
Looking at Lin Yang's feet, and then at the basin of water with ginger floating in it, Jia Zhangshi subconsciously gagged.
Standing to the side, Qin Huairu wanted to laugh but dared not.
She could only glance helplessly at Lin Yang before lowering her head to suppress the laughter in her heart.
After vomiting for a while, Jia Zhangshi realized she hadn't come up with anything, so she could only stand up and look at Lin Yang with a cold face:
"Lin Yang, did you do this on purpose?! You deliberately put a foot-washing puddle here for an old woman like me!"
"Who do you think you are?" Lin Yang, tired of seeing Jia Zhangshi's fat face, reprimanded her directly, "What value do you have that I would bother to cheat you? Besides, you think you're in the right to drink my things? I haven't even held you accountable for drinking my foot bath water yet."
"I!!!" Jia Zhangshi stammered for a long time, but couldn't come up with a coherent explanation.
After all, she did steal the foot bath water herself, so she was indeed in the wrong.
In the end, she could only swallow her pride and forcefully turn the page, bringing the topic back on track.
"Lin Yang, you just said you'd show me something? I'd like to see what you have to show me!"
Upon hearing this, a hint of curiosity flashed in Qin Huairu's eyes.
Seeing Jia Zhangshi's arrogant appearance, Lin Yang sneered.
He walked up to Jia Zhangshi and showed her the bicycle part that Jia Dongxu had.
"I found this under Jia Dongxu's lathe!" Lin Yang said slowly and deliberately. "Don't you know why I showed you this part?"
Jia Zhangshi looked at the blood-stained parts with a puzzled expression.
She frowned and said, "Lin Yang, what exactly are you trying to say, and what is this thing you're showing me?"
"Then I'll give you a brief explanation!" Lin Yang placed the parts under the light and said slowly:
“This is a bicycle part, and the steel mill is not producing this part recently.”
"So Jia Dongxu made this part on his own!"
What does this mean?
"This means that Jia Dongxu violated factory regulations by processing his own things on the lathe outside of working hours!"
Lin Yang stopped there and looked at Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu with amusement, their expressions gradually hardening.
This news was clearly unexpected by Jia Zhangshi.
As a family member of someone working at a steel rolling mill, how could Jia Zhangshi not understand the significance of this matter?
Once this is made public.
The compensation from the steel rolling mill will definitely be much less.
She didn't even have any reason or excuse to cause trouble at the steel mill.
After a moment of stunned silence, she bared her teeth and claws, trying to snatch the parts back from Lin Yang's hands.
Unfortunately, how could an old lady like her possibly be faster than Lin Yang?
Lin Yang took a step back and dodged Jia Zhangshi's move.
Then, in an unfriendly tone, she said, "Jia Zhangshi, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to destroy the evidence?"
"What evidence!" Madam Jia retorted stubbornly, "This is a frame-up! How could my son take on private work! How can you prove that my son did it!"
"That's easy!" Lin Yang waved the parts in his hand and said, "See the dark red stains on it? That's Jia Dongxu's blood. We'll know once we get it verified at the hospital!"
Before Jia Zhangshi could say anything more, Qin Huairu grabbed her arm and then looked at Lin Yang in a pleading tone:
"Yangzi, I'm begging you, you absolutely mustn't tell anyone about this!"
In fact, Qin Huairu had been secretly delighted ever since she learned that Jia Dongxu had been admitted to the hospital.
She had already inquired and found out that Jia Dongxu's job was one that could be taken over!
Now that Jia Dongxu is paralyzed and Banggeng will take a long time to grow up, isn't he the only one in the Jia family who can take over the steel mill?
Once she takes over Jia Dongxu's job at the steel rolling mill, she will become a true member of the working class!
At that time, I'll be earning a salary from the steel rolling mill, and I won't even be able to fill my stomach.
At least her status in the Jia family will rise considerably!
But the parts in Lin Yang's hands completely shattered her expectations for the future.
She didn't understand the rules and regulations of the steel rolling mill.
However, in her imagination, once it was revealed that Jia Dongxu was injured because he was doing side jobs, it would be a disaster.
The steel rolling mill is very likely not going to give her the opportunity to take over the job.
How could she not panic?
"Sister Qin, I can't be soft-hearted about this!" Lin Yang shook his head expressionlessly.
"You know, your mother-in-law was trying to get rid of my job!"
"I was injured by Sha Zhu before, and I was hoping to use my salary to buy more things to make up for it!"
"If I lose my job, how will I make up for it?"
"We might all starve to death at home by then!"
Hearing Lin Yang's increasingly exaggerated claims, Jia Zhangshi had no choice but to speak up: "Yangzi, you're exaggerating! Even if you don't have a job, you can still collect rent, right?"
"Ha, collecting rent?" Lin Yang curled his lip and said, "What's the use of money now that we don't have any tickets?"
"Mom, stop talking!" Qin Huairu said helplessly, tugging at Jia Zhangshi. "If Yangzi really makes this known to the whole world, I won't be able to take over Dongxu's job, and the factory's compensation will be less. Are we going to starve?"
Madam Jia Zhang knew the seriousness of the matter, so she could only shut up and stop talking.
Lin Yang, who held the Jia family's lifeline in his hands, remained utterly calm at this moment.
He looked at Jia Zhangshi with a smile and said, "Aunt Jia, are you still going to report me?"
"I'm not going, I'm not going!" Madam Jia quickly shook her head.
"So, do you still want me to pay back five hundred yuan?" Lin Yang walked leisurely to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and sat down, crossing his legs as he looked at Jia Zhangshi.
"No, I don't want it!" Madam Jia continued to shake her head.
"Good!" Lin Yang leaned back on the kang (a heated brick bed) and said with satisfaction, "This is how business should be conducted."
"Yangzi, since my mom doesn't want your money or complain, please don't tell anyone about this..." Qin Huairu looked at Lin Yang with a hopeful tone.
"I heard the factory's compensation was quite substantial?" Lin Yang rubbed his hands together, looking down. "Plus the donations from Uncle Yi and Sha Zhu, you should be doing pretty well, right?"
"Lin Yang, what are you trying to do!" Jia Zhangshi immediately understood. She glared at him and said, "Let me tell you, there's no way I'm going to give you any money!"
"Aunt Jia, what's the rush?" Lin Yang casually shook the parts in his hand.
Jia Zhangshi immediately quieted down.
"Right, hear my conditions first before you get excited!" Lin Yang nodded in satisfaction: "After all, you don't want others to know about Jia Dongxu's affairs, right?"
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