Yang's mother sneered, "Captain, are you out of your mind? Qiao Wanyue didn't even graduate from elementary school, how could she be the brigade's communications officer? Captain, you haven't been bribed by her, have you?" Yang's mother mocked.
The captain's face immediately darkened.
Everyone remained skeptical, muttering under their breath.
The captain was suddenly humiliated and looked toward the source of the voice.
It's Zhong Qingqing again.
He looked at Zhong Qingqing with a stern face and a grim expression. In the past, he had been quite lenient with Zhong Qingqing because of the early death of Boss Yang.
Old Yang was swept away by the river while saving children in the village. When he was found, his body was already swollen from being submerged in water.
The child's family consisted only of his elderly parents, who gave the Yang family 100 catties of grain every year as a way of repaying Yang Laoda's life-saving grace. They supported the Yang family for ten years.
As the village's head, he turned a blind eye to many things, especially since the second son of the Yang family had married into the family. The Yang family consisted of both the old and the young. Zhong Qingqing and Lu Rong were at odds, and even Yang Lin favored the Yang family.
He genuinely believed that Yang Lin cared for his sister-in-law and repeatedly reprimanded Lu Rong for not caring for the Yang family.
In recent days, Zhong Qingqing has become increasingly arrogant, and he has begun to reflect on whether Zhong Qingqing really did nothing wrong.
And the child who was rescued before, this year he stopped receiving 100 jin of grain every year. It's time for that child to get married and have children. Yang Huaiyuan has grown up and can take on the responsibilities of the Yang family, so he no longer gives him grain.
But Yang's mother made a scene at that family's house, saying that Yang's eldest son had died to save her, and that the family had to support her for the rest of their lives.
He felt uneasy, but then he thought that Yang Laoda had died to save him. He used his authority as the brigade leader to make the family continue to send 100 catties of grain every year. But looking at Zhong Qingqing's annoying face and recalling the events of the past few days, he felt regret for the first time.
"Zhong Qingqing, what nonsense are you talking about?" the captain said sternly.
Yang's mother didn't care at all. "Captain, you can't lead everyone into a fire pit for such a small gain. Who knows if Qiao Wanyue is reliable or not? What state-owned factory? Could she be a fraud?"
"Who is Qiao Wanyue? How could she possibly know people from a state-owned factory? Are you just saying this on purpose, Captain, to make her look good?"
"Or perhaps the state-owned factory was a fake all along, and you were just trying to scam everyone out of dried vegetables?" The more Yang's mother talked, the more she felt she made sense.
When everyone heard that they had been deceived, their expressions changed.
They are just ordinary people whose biggest dream is to eat more meat during the Chinese New Year. The vegetables at home are life-saving. What will they do if they are cheated?
The way everyone looked at Qiao Wanyue and the captain changed.
The captain cursed under his breath.
Zhong Qingqing is such a troublemaker.
Qiao Wanyue coldly watched Zhong Qingqing court death.
The document was signed by the county government and town leaders, and confirmed by the brigade leader and secretary, yet she still raised questions. Isn't that courting death?
Their team leader outwardly showed extra care for Yang's mother, but in reality, she had long harbored resentment.
At the beginning of the year, she forced the child that Yang Laoda had saved to provide 100 jin of grain every year, but in fact, the child had been supporting the Yang family for ten years, and rice, flour and cooking oil were delivered to the Yang family as soon as possible every year.
When Yang Huaiyuan was eighteen, that family subtly mentioned that their family was also struggling financially. Now that the child had grown up, the two families stopped exchanging grain and ration coupons during the annual holidays.
Yang's mother immediately objected. She took the wooden plaque of her eldest son and some soil dug from the grave, dressed in mourning clothes, and led her three daughters to the family's door. She cried for three days and three nights, almost scaring the old man to death.
To quell Yang's mother's anger, the brigade leader forcefully ordered the family to continue supporting her until her death.
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