Chapter 32 Qin Qiaorou Summons Her Courage After Getting the Job…
Qin Qiaorou mustered her courage and told the story of how she was beaten by the Jia family and how she was driven away by them when she went home to get her things.
As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves, revealing the wounds on her body and the scar on her forehead to Director Wang. Director Wang's expression gradually darkened as Qin Qiaorou moved.
Unexpected!
I never imagined that such a terrible thing would happen within her jurisdiction!
Thankfully, Qin Qiaorou is unharmed. If anything had happened to her, and the higher-ups investigated, she would have faced severe consequences for negligence in supervision. She had a chance for promotion recently, and it would have been a real shame to lose that opportunity because of this!
Director Wang, with a stern face, instructed the junior staff member beside him: "Xiao Liu, go now and call the Jia family over here!"
"Director, I'll be right there." Junior Officer Liu replied and jogged out the door.
Director Wang turned to comfort Qin Qiaorou: "Comrade Qin, don't worry. I didn't know about this before, but now that I know, I won't pretend nothing happened. I will definitely get you an explanation."
"I just don't know what your demands are?"
Qin Qiaorou: "I need to work!"
Her eyes unconsciously drifted to Mingxi, and after receiving an encouraging look from Mingxi, she spoke up: "I also have a share of Jia Jianshe's work. I want a job, and I want my money. I don't want Jia Jianshe's money, I just want my share. The money I earned from the manual labor I did before was all taken by Jia Jianshe. I only need that share of money and the job. I don't want anything else."
"Yes, I understand."
After thinking about it, Director Wang realized that Qin Qiaorou's request was not unreasonable.
Logically speaking, Qin Qiaorou should have a share in everything belonging to the Jia family, not only their jobs and money, but also the house that Jia Jianshe built.
But Qin Qiaorou didn't mention the house at all, which was a clear concession.
The problem is that finding a job is not easy.
While Director Wang was thinking, Xiao Liu arrived with Jia's parents and Jia Jianxin, whose face was covered.
Director Wang was at a time when he had a problem with the Jia family. When he saw Jia Jianxin with his face covered, he said irritably, "Jia Jianxin, what's with this outfit? Why are you covering your face in broad daylight? You don't look like a respectable person."
Jia Jianxin said, looking aggrieved, "No, Director Wang, my face..."
"What do you mean, 'you'? Take off that rag covering your face right now!"
Jia Jianxin had no choice but to obediently remove the cloth, revealing his face covered in bloody scratches to Director Wang.
A day later, the scratches from Aunt He's scratches had scabbed over, but the dark red scabs covering her face made her look even more terrifying and gruesome.
Even though Mingxi had prepared herself mentally, she was still taken aback, let alone someone like Director Wang who was completely unprepared.
"My God!"
Director Wang looked away and said, "Jia Jianxin, who did this to your face? It's so scary!"
Hearing this, Aunt He, who was hiding behind Mingxi, looked up at the sky guiltily.
Jia Jianxin spotted Aunt He early in the morning. He pointed at her, about to complain, but just then, Director Wang waved his hand and said, "Never mind, let's talk about this later. Let's get down to business first."
Jia Jianxin: ? ? ?
How could he say "we'll talk about it later"? He felt wronged!
Director Wang didn't care how aggrieved Jia Jianxin was: "Jia Youzhong, Zhuang Yonghong, what were you thinking? I'm asking you two what you were thinking! If Xiao Qin hadn't come to me today, I wouldn't have known that you were secretly using Jia Jianshe as a pretext to commit violence against Comrade Xiao Qin! This is a crime!"
"Have I told you about Jia Jianshe's cause of death? Come on, answer me, have I or not!"
Director Wang roared so loudly that the windows of the street office seemed to shake three times.
Father and Mother Jia shuddered: "We did say that."
Director Wang: "Then why do you say that Comrade Qin killed Jia Jianshe? Why!"
After stammering for a long time, it was finally Grandmother Jia who shrank her neck and said, "It was Qin Qiaorou's fault to begin with. If she had gone out to find Jianshe in the middle of the night, Jianshe wouldn't have died."
Director Wang: "Then why don't you say that if Jia Jianshe hadn't gone out drinking, none of this would have happened!"
“That’s different. How many men don’t go out drinking…” Grandmother Jia tried to argue, but Director Wang was too lazy to waste words with her.
Director Wang waved his hand: "Jia Youzhong, I can't reason with your wife. Take her back and talk to her yourself."
"Yes, yes, I'll go back and tell my wife." Old Jia nodded and bowed in agreement.
Director Wang glanced at Old Man Jia expressionlessly, also harboring suspicion towards him.
Her expression was so cold it could freeze ice, and she said sternly, "Jia Youzhong, I don't care what you tell your wife when you get back, and I don't care if you and your wife really know you were wrong. Anyway, I'm telling you right now, your actions of beating Comrade Qin have violated the law. If Comrade Qin reports it to the police, your whole family will go to jail."
Old Jia wiped the sweat from his brow and said repeatedly, "I know, I know. The police station already criticized and educated us yesterday."
Director Wang's vision went black.
How come the police station is involved here?
And since it involves the police station, why hasn't anyone notified her yet?
She gritted her teeth and secretly made a mental note of it, planning to discuss it after Qin Qiaorou and her group left.
Director Wang: "Alright, since the police station has already educated you, I won't talk about that today. Let's talk about the matter of Jia Jianshe's workstation."
“Workstation? What’s there to talk about with a workstation? The construction worker is gone, so of course the workstation will be passed on to my brother Jianxin. They are brothers, and even if the construction worker were still alive, he would definitely agree.”
Director Wang waved his hand: "Don't give me this nonsense. It's one thing for Jia Jianshe to be alive, and another for him to be gone. Jia Jianshe and Qin Qiaorou were husband and wife. According to the law, since Jia Jianshe is gone, Qin Qiaorou is entitled to inherit his position."
"no!"
Grandmother Jia suddenly rushed forward: "Director Wang, please be reasonable. The construction site belongs to our Jia family. Qin Qiaorou is not even a member of our Jia family. Why should she have the site?"
Although Old Man Jia wasn't as agitated as his mother, he clicked his tongue and said, "Director Wang, isn't this inappropriate? This work position was earned by my family's Jianshe through sheer hard work, as you know. Now that he's gone, you're going to give his work position to this outsider? Isn't that deliberately making it impossible for Jianshe to leave in peace?"
Jia Jianxin: "That's right, that's right. And Qin Qiaorou is restless. My brother just passed away, and she's already flirting with other men. If she takes our family's job and remarries someone else, wouldn't our family suffer a huge loss?"
Director Wang was so angry he almost laughed.
"Qin Qiaorou has her own workstation, that's stipulated by law, and it complies with laws and regulations. What good is it if you say it's inappropriate? What, do you think your words are bigger than national laws, and that the country has to listen to you?"
The Jia family did not dare to respond to this.
Director Wang: "Furthermore, the allocation of workstations has nothing to do with whether Comrade Qin remarries or not. Even if she remarries today, she will still have a workstation!"
When Grandmother Jia heard what Director Wang said, she knew that the matter couldn't be changed, so she simply sat down on the ground and started throwing a tantrum.
"This is outrageous! God, if you have a spirit in heaven, open your eyes and see how unreasonable this world is! The leaders of the neighborhood committee are colluding with that little prostitute to steal our work station!"
"Jianshe, it's my fault, I can't protect your job anymore. There's nothing I can do, that little slut is too capable. She can flirt with other men outside, and she can also collude with the leaders of the neighborhood committee. The leaders all said that I should give up my job, what can I do? I can only give up your job, it's a pity you lost a leg to get it back! Jianshe, if you're still here and can still hear what I'm saying, come up and ask that little slut to give your job back! Jianshe, come back and ask for it yourself!"
After a series of singing, recitations, and acting performances, Grandmother Jia successfully turned Director Wang's face as black as the bottom of a pot.
That Zhuang Yonghong! He's all talk nonsense!
If others heard her say this, they would probably misunderstand her as a scoundrel who abuses his power, bends the law for personal gain, and oppresses the people!
"Xiao Liu, tie Zhuang Yonghong's hands and gag him!"
Director Wang was genuinely angry and directly instructed the junior staff member next to him. The junior staff member, Xiao Liu, dared not speak and quickly did as Director Wang instructed.
Soon, Grandmother Jia's mouth was gagged, and she struggled by biting the rag, making "mmm" sounds.
Mingxi couldn't help but wonder, could it be that Grandmother Jia used to sing drum ballads?
Judging from her strong voice, she's no less powerful than Aunt He.
Old Jia, seeing his wife's mouth gagged, couldn't help but stand up and say, "Director Wang, this isn't appropriate. My wife didn't do anything. She only said a couple of words."
Director Wang didn't tolerate him at all and retorted directly: "She's promoting feudal superstition, isn't that enough?"
"Based on this alone, I could detain her on the spot!"
Old Jia was speechless.
Indeed, the two sentences that Grandmother Jia just shouted had the suspicion of promoting feudal superstition.
Director Wang couldn't reason with the two elders of the Jia family, so he turned his attention to Jia Jianxin: "Jia Jianxin, your parents didn't have much education and don't understand things. You're different; you've been to school. You should know that Comrade Qin and your brother are legal partners and are entitled to inherit your brother's job, right?"
Jia Jianxin kept his head down and remained silent.
Director Wang's patience was almost exhausted: "Jia Jianxin, say something! Did you hear what I said?"
Jia Jianxin said gruffly, "Director Wang, I heard what you said. I know that's what the law stipulates, but what the law stipulates is one thing, and how it's actually handled is another. Don't think I don't know anything. Who inherits the work position is up to your superiors, isn't that?"
Director Wang was truly speechless. She turned to Qin Qiaorou and said, "Comrade Qin, as you can see, I've said everything I can, but I just can't convince them. Now that the Jia family doesn't agree to give you their workstation, there's nothing I can do."
After all, she was just a street office director, not a real factory manager, so she didn't have the final say in this matter.
Upon hearing this, Qin Qiaorou subconsciously looked at Mingxi.
Mingxi opened her mouth and mouthed "Women's Federation and Trade Union".
After receiving the hint, Qin Qiaorou said to Director Wang, "Okay, Director Wang, I understand. I won't bother you anymore. I'll go to the Women's Federation and the Trade Union. I believe they can solve my problem."
Director Wang gritted his teeth.
She thought the Jia family was not easy to talk to, but she didn't expect that Qin Qiaorou, this young wife, was not easy to talk to either.
If she doesn't solve Qin Qiaorou's problem, she'll make a big fuss and take it to the Women's Federation and the Trade Union, right?
Then go ahead, she can't control this anyway!
Director Wang was feeling hopeless, but when Qin Qiaorou and Mingxi and their group actually walked out of the street office, she angrily slammed her hand on the table.
"Xiao Liu, let's go!"
The junior clerk, Xiao Liu, asked, "Huh? Director, where are we going?"
Director Wang: "Where do you think we should go? Where else can we go? Of course, we should go to the Women's Federation!"
She lifted the curtain and rushed out the door. Xiao Liu, the clerk, was stunned for a moment, then quickly followed Director Wang out as well.
Soon, only the Jia family remained in the neighborhood office.
Jia Jianxin asked worriedly, "Dad, what should we do? That little slut Qin Qiaorou really went to the Women's Federation. What if they really make us give up our jobs to her?"
Old Jia frowned and glared fiercely: "No way, the workstation absolutely cannot be given up. No matter what, your brother's workstation absolutely cannot be given up!"
Jia Jianxin: "But..."
Old Man Jia: "Let's go, let's go to the Women's Federation!"
Qin Qiaorou will complain, and so will they!
Jia Jianxin: "Okay."
Seeing that the Jia father and son were about to leave, the bound-hands and feet of the matriarch Jia quickly cried out, "Waaah, waaah, waaah."
Old man, don't forget to take me with you.
It was only thanks to Grandmother Jia's intervention that the Jia father and son remembered her. Old Man Jia said, "Yes, and your mother too. Jianxin, quickly untie your mother and take her with you."
In a little while, Grandmother Jia will have to make a scene, playing the victim and throwing a tantrum.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have done something so shameful and disgraceful.
And so, the Jia family rushed to the Women's Federation. By the time they arrived at the Women's Federation office, Qin Qiaorou had already told the staff about what had happened and her demands.
The Women's Federation office was staffed entirely by women, and upon hearing this, they were all furious. When the Jia family entered the office, they were met with the Women's Federation staff slamming their fists on the table and glaring at them.
Old Man Jia gave his mother a look, and she immediately stepped forward and started acting pitifully, using the same old trick of calling back the soul.
Unfortunately, no matter how pitiful Grandmother Jia's cries were, no one present softened.
Even the most pitiful cries from Grandmother Jia couldn't compare to the persuasive power of Qin Qiaorou's injuries.
Seeing that the three culprits from the Jia family still dared to cry foul and play the victim, the junior staff member of the Women's Federation became even angrier.
The leader of the Women's Federation was a capable woman in her fifties with some gray hair. She glanced at the three emotional Jia family members and looked at Director Wang: "Xiao Wang, the quality of the residents in your street needs to be improved. Also, your street's legal education and domestic violence prevention work is not very good."
Director Wang's expression changed several times, and in the end he could only lower his head: "Yes, Director Shen, you are right."
Director Wang didn't want to bow down to Director Shen of the Women's Federation, since in terms of rank, the two were at the same level, both being division-level leaders.
But Director Shen is a veteran comrade who participated in the revolution. Not to mention, Director Shen's husband is the top leader in the district, her direct superior. How could she not bow her head and listen to his instructions?
Fortunately, Director Shen was just saying it casually and didn't pay attention to Director Wang.
Director Shen looked at the Jia family members who were still throwing a tantrum on the ground, and whispered an instruction to a female comrade next to him. Mingxi watched as the woman ran out quickly. After a while, the woman came in with several people who looked like leaders and two police officers wearing peaked caps.
As expected of a leader, he was decisive and efficient. Before the Jia family could even react, Director Shen gave the order for the police to handcuff the three members of the Jia family.
The moment the cold handcuffs touched their skin, the three members of the Jia family snapped back to reality. When they realized what was happening, they were horrified.
Old Jia, with a bitter face, said, "Leaders, what are you doing? We didn't do anything! Why are you handcuffing us? We're innocent!"
Director Shen pointed at Old Man Jia: "You deliberately injured someone."
Pointing to Grandmother Jia: "She promotes feudal superstition."
Pointing at Jia Jianxin: "He is guilty of provoking trouble."
Old Man Jia: "We, we..."
Director Shen ignored him and turned to a man in the crowd who had been called over, saying, "Director Yang, didn't Xiao Yu already explain the situation to you on the way here?"
Factory Director Yang: "I've already introduced it. Director Shen, this is a dereliction of duty on our part. When a factory employee passes away, we should be concerned about the subsequent resettlement of the employee's family."
"It's not your fault. As the factory director, it's inevitable that you can't be in charge of everything, big or small." Director Shen said something fair.
Factory Director Yang turned to Qin Qiaorou and said, "I'm sorry, Comrade Qin. We didn't do our job well before. So, I'll make the decision that you will take over Jia Jianshe's position. You should report to the logistics department of the cannery this afternoon, and I will notify them to process your onboarding."
"No, this is not fair! The workstation belongs to the Jia family, why should it be given to Qin Qiaorou!"
Grandmother Jia roared, while Old Man Jia and Jia Jianxin also looked unconvinced.
Factory Director Shen didn't even glance at the three of them. Instead, a young man wearing glasses, who looked like a secretary, walked up to the three members of the Jia family.
He stared at Old Man Jia and Jia Jianxin's faces for a while and said, "On the way here, the Women's Federation staff told me that you are both employees of the cannery? One of you is a permanent employee, and the other is a temporary worker, right? Jia Youzhong, Jia Jianxin?"
Old Man Jia and Jia Jianxin felt no joy at hearing the other person accurately state their names. They were not naive enough to believe that the leader calling out their names meant they were about to be rewarded.
Old Jia panicked and smiled ingratiatingly, "Leader, leader, you..."
"You should know that the factory values the character and conduct of its employees very much, right? According to the factory's regulations, whether it's malicious assault or causing trouble, it will result in dismissal."
Old Man Jia panicked completely. Giving his workstation to Qin Qiaorou was one thing, but if he and Jia Jianxin were fired, that would be the end of them.
He quickly begged and pleaded, tears streaming down his face, but unfortunately, no one could change the decision made by the factory leaders.
Jia Jianxin was right about one thing: who gets to work is ultimately decided by the leader.
According to the law, Jia Jianshe's workstation should belong to both of Jia's elders. However, the cannery leaders are only focused on appeasing Qin Qiaorou. After all, the fate of a workstation is a minor issue; the real problem is if Qin Qiaorou continues to cause trouble, damaging the cannery's reputation and the reputation of its leaders. This matter can only escalate to the Women's Federation at most; it cannot be allowed to spread further! At the same time, they have absolutely no goodwill towards the source of all this trouble—the ruthless Jia family. Especially Director Yang, who hates the Jia family to death. Why did they have to cause trouble at the Women's Federation? Don't they know that Director Shen's wife is the top official in the district? The district is about to hold a major meeting; what if Director Shen's wife has a problem with him at this crucial juncture?
For various reasons, Qin Qiaorou's succession to the job was happily settled with the unanimous consent of the leaders.
After the matter was settled, the factory leaders left first, followed by the police who took the Jia family away. Previously, the police had taken a conciliatory approach and didn't take the Jia family's situation seriously, but now that it had escalated to the Women's Federation, they certainly couldn't handle it the same way as before.
So the entire Jia family is really going to be taken to jail this time.
Mingxi and her group were the last to leave the Women's Federation.
When Qin Qiaorou walked out of the Women's Federation gate, she was in a daze and didn't even notice the threshold under her feet. She almost fell, but Mingxi helped her up.
Mingxi: "Hey, be careful."
Qin Qiaorou looked at Ming Xi and said in disbelief, "Comrade Ming, I... I have a job! I really have a job."
Mingxi nodded: "Yes, you have a job now."
"I have a job, it's real, am I dreaming?" This matter went too smoothly, so smoothly that Qin Qiaorou felt like she was having a beautiful dream, and she was afraid that the dream would be shattered when she woke up in the blink of an eye.
Mingxi: "...Twist your own arm, and the pain will be real."
Qin Qiaorou immediately grabbed her own arm and twisted it hard.
The force of the blow was so strong that even Mingxi felt pain watching it: "Ouch, why did you actually twist it like that!"
But Qin Qiaorou laughed: "The pain is real, it's not a dream."
As she smiled, tears welled up in her eyes.
Qin Qiaorou wiped away her tears: "Comrade Ming, thank you, thank you so much."
Aunt He poked her head out: "What about mine? Aren't you going to thank me?"
She also contributed today.
Qin Qiaorou smiled and said, "Thank you too, Aunt He."
Aunt He gave a light snort: "That's more like it."
Ming Xi laughed.
Just then, a quarrel suddenly broke out not far away.
"Give me back my daughter!"
"Pah! You should give me back my son!"
"You surnamed Zheng, have you no shame? It was clearly your son who abducted my daughter, and you still have the nerve to yell at me?"
"Hey Fu, don't talk nonsense. My son is very well-behaved; he would never run away from home. It's only after he met your daughter that he started disobeying people. If you ask me, it was your daughter who started this whole 'running away from home' thing!"
"You're talking nonsense!"
"You're the one talking nonsense!"
Shouts rang out, instantly piquing Mingxi's curiosity. She rushed forward in a few quick steps, followed closely by Aunt He, and the two of them rushed to the front line to watch the drama unfold.
In the middle of the road stood two middle-aged women, one fat and one thin, arguing fiercely.
The fat one shouted, "Hey Zheng, I'm not kidding you. You better give my daughter back right now, or I'll go to the Women's Federation and report your son for trafficking women!"
The thinner one raised his head and retorted, "Go ahead and sue me if you dare! It's clearly written on the note your daughter left you that she ran off with my son willingly. Let's see if the Women's Federation will care!"
"That, that was also your son deceiving my daughter!"
The thinner one: "Then I'd say your daughter doesn't cherish or love herself!"
The fat woman was so angry that she felt dizzy, and in a fit of rage, she strode into the Women's Federation.
Mingxi: Wow, there's a juicy gossip out there, want to try some?
She turned her head and exchanged a glance with Aunt He.
Aunt He: Follow them!
Mingxi nodded: Okay, let's follow them!
The two reached an agreement and turned around to walk back into the Women's Federation.
Mingxi was kind-hearted; when she left, she didn't forget to take Qin Qiaorou with her.
Qin Qiaorou: ? ? ?
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Author's Note: Xiao Ming: Let's share this juicy gossip! [Sunglasses][Sunglasses][Sunglasses]
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