Chapter 58 Black-Hearted Stepmother
Cheng Hui's father, Cheng Jianming, is indeed a designer, but not a mechanical designer. He is an architectural designer and works in an architectural design institute.
He is in his early forties and has worked here for more than 20 years, climbing step by step to the position of senior architect.
I was the leader of a design team, with seven or eight people sharing one office.
His table is the biggest.
At around eight or nine in the morning, the people in the message room began to distribute the mail one by one.
"Mr. Cheng, your daughter has sent you a letter!" The guard put down the letter and left.
Several colleagues in the room were extremely surprised.
Isn’t Mr. Cheng’s daughter at home? Still need to write a letter?
The new apprentice sitting next to Cheng Jianming had sharp eyes and saw the address on the envelope: Hongqi Commune, A County, Heilongjiang Province.
He immediately exclaimed, "Master, your daughter went to the countryside? The eldest daughter or the youngest daughter? When did it happen?"
The others immediately gave him a look, saying that he was really bringing up something that was not relevant. Mr. Cheng really didn't like people mentioning his family, especially his children!
The young man in his 20s who had just graduated from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University didn't understand what was going on, but he could read the expressions on the faces of the people and didn't dare to ask.
Cheng Jianming ignored everyone else. He just looked at the letter in his hand in surprise.
His eldest daughter had been in the countryside for almost a year and finally wrote to him.
Are you coming back? It's not impossible...
He really wanted to watch it right now, but he held back because it was work time!
He went back to work.
......
At the Third Garment Factory in Beijing, the security guard received the letter delivered by the postman at 8 o'clock in the morning.
They sorted them one by one and delivered them to each office.
As they were dividing the money, Cheng Hui's was the one that came to them.
People who touch envelopes every day feel something is wrong as soon as they hold it in their hands; it is too thin.
He looked towards the sun and found that it was indeed empty.
"Hahaha, this guy is so careless. He traveled thousands of miles to write a letter, but he left the letter paper behind and only mailed the envelope!" a guard laughed.
"Who is this? There is such a thing? It's so funny!"
Several people looked over.
"Written to Pan Li? There are several Pan Lis in our factory. My aunt's name is Pan Li."
"No, there are words on the back." said the person who was looking at the letter towards the sun.
He turned the envelope over.
Everyone saw the beautiful small characters, which clearly read:
"Auntie Pan, I am in financial difficulty now..."
"You promised me that if I gave my job to my sister and went to the countryside for her, you would give me 10 yuan a month. But I have been in the countryside for nine months and have not seen a penny. Now I don't even have money to buy stationery!"
"The winter in Northeast China is too cold, about 40 degrees below zero, and I am still wearing autumn clothes. You said that the luggage was too heavy, and you immediately mailed my clothes and bedding to me, but I didn't receive them!
"Hope for quick mail, hope for help! January 3, 1973."
Everyone...
"Who is it? Your aunt?" Everyone looked at the person who spoke before.
The expression was both gossipy and contemptuous.
Look at what Pan Li did. It's obvious that she was deceiving the young girl, stealing her job, not paying her, and even refusing to mail her luggage. She really wanted her to freeze to death!
Black-hearted stepmother!
"No, no, no! My aunt gave birth to three sons and no daughters!" The man denied it desperately and hated Pan Li, who had the same name as him!
"Which Pan Li is that?"
Most of the workers in their garment factory are women, many of whom are named Pan, and even more named Li.
As Cheng Hui expected, the security guard took the letter and went to each office to ask.
By the way, show off this letter to every office to make Pan Li famous.
The security guard has a simple heart and cannot let the evil stepmother go!
It was not until noon that the letter went around the entire factory and finally reached the owner.
The guard held the letter and looked at "Pan Li" with a stunned expression.
He knew this "Pan Li", who was the vice chairman of their factory's labor union!
He usually has a very good reputation, is particularly enthusiastic towards employees, and actively handles all kinds of big and small matters.
Everyone affectionately calls her "Sister Pan" and "Auntie Pan".
As time went by, it seemed like everyone had forgotten her real name.
Pan Li held the letter, her face dark and her hands shaking. She had to explain to everyone desperately: "I really sent her money! I also sent her luggage!
"She didn't receive it, it must have been lost in the post office!"
A colleague helped her out: "Yes, the post office is really bad nowadays. I mailed something to my aunt last month, but she wrote to me saying she didn't receive it!"
"Yes, yes, my relative has also lost something through the mail."
"Our goods have been lost in the mail before!"
Pan Li's face looked a little better.
But the seeds of doubt were planted.
Things can be lost in the mail, but what about work?
Her stepdaughter found a job and gave it to her biological daughter? Going to the countryside to replace your sister?
How precious is work nowadays? That is a person's destiny!
With a job, this person can stay in the capital, get a salary every month and live a good life.
If you don't have a job, you can go to the countryside in Northeast China, facing the loess and working the fields every day, and you'll be freezing to death!
Her stepdaughter is very conscious and she gave up the throne to her younger sister on her own initiative?
Such a conscious and good stepdaughter has been in the countryside for nine months. Shouldn’t she write a letter to show her concern and greeting?
She only found out until the other person was freezing to death and had no money to buy writing paper and came to ask her?
If it wasn't given up voluntarily...
The more you think about it, the more flaws you find!
Gradually, everyone stopped talking.
Pan Li's face turned ugly again. She stood up and said hurriedly, "I'll buy her some more things and mail them to her!"
No one can please everyone, and some people in the office dislike Pan Li.
He immediately shouted loudly: “You have to buy something nice, tut tut tut, why don’t I have such a good stepdaughter who is willing to go to the countryside for my daughter?
"If I had it, I would mail her goodies every day! She wouldn't let anyone go hungry or cold and write to me asking about it!"
Pan Li pretended not to hear and quickly left the office.
As soon as she left, the woman who had spoken before said to everyone, "I told you she was just pretending before! You still didn't believe me!"
......
Cheng Jianming didn't open the envelope carefully until he got off work at noon.
This is the first time his daughter has written to him. He doesn't know how she is doing over there, and whether she misses him...
What did he see in the end?
"Dad, I had just been in the countryside for two months when I nearly drowned while trying to save Su Xiao from falling into the water. Then I was saved by a passing soldier, and I married him.
"I'm now seven months pregnant and everything is fine."
It’s gone. It’s gone now.
Cheng Jianming jumped up from the chair, and the chair fell down and smashed to the ground.
Everyone was startled and immediately asked, "What's wrong, Master?"
Cheng Jianming's face turned dark and ugly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay."
After saying that, he paused for two seconds and rushed out of the office like the wind.
Leaving behind a group of stunned people.
They had never seen the process worker look so unhappy and his emotions so exposed!
Did something happen to his daughter?
Not daring to ask directly, everyone began to use their connections to find out.
If you don't dare ask the person himself, just ask his family.
......
Cheng Jianming returned home and started packing his luggage as soon as he entered the house.
Pan Li also returned home and sorted out the luggage that originally belonged to Cheng Hui in her daughter's bedroom!
She came out when she heard the noise, straightened her face and asked gently, "Are you going on a business trip? Where are you going? How many days?"
Good business trip! Go quickly! Come back after the storm has passed!
Cheng Jianming said with an unpleasant expression: "Cheng Hui is actually married! She is now seven months pregnant! I'm going to go take a look!"
"What?!" Pan Li covered her mouth and exclaimed, afraid that Cheng Jianming would see her uncontrollably grinning!
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