"Hey, Lao Liu, let me tell you, you better watch out. That Hu Yuan, I don't know what he's done with your family's treasury bonds, otherwise where would he get so much money? And that Wang Man, you should stay away from her in the future..."
After leaving Hu Yuan's house, Lao Cai kept nagging Liu Jie.
Sister Liu, whose face was already pale, became even more impatient with Lao Cai's nagging.
Finally, unable to hold back any longer, Sister Liu whispered to Old Cai, "Enough! Old Cai, you're going to keep babbling on and on, just shut up!"
"Old Liu, what do you mean by this? How am I rambling on? Every word I said is true, and it's all for your own good..." Seeing that Sister Liu's expression had changed, Old Cai also felt indignant and immediately retorted.
"For my own good? What do you mean by 'for my own good'? If it weren't for you, they would have given me an extra hundred today!" Sister Liu said angrily.
"Liu Xueyan, do you have any conscience! If I hadn't come with you to ask for the money today, they might have kept rigging you out of your money indefinitely!" Old Cai couldn't help but shout back.
"Trying to renege on the payment?! They never intended to renege on the payment. If it weren't for you, they would definitely have brought the money to me these past two days!" Sister Liu said unhappily.
"Liu Xueyan, are you dreaming? You think you can get the money in a couple of days? What a joke! Don't you know who Hu Yuan is? You won't get a penny, let alone any money!" Old Cai's angry voice drew the attention of passersby.
Ignoring all that, Sister Liu retorted directly, "Who is Hu Yuan? I think Hu Yuan is a fine person! You didn't even know him before, and you're spreading rumors just because you heard a few words from others! Cai Liming, you're really going to keep stirring up trouble!"
"Me, spreading rumors? Liu Xueyan, you've lost your mind!" Old Cai cursed angrily.
"Cai Liming, it's all your fault that I lost a hundred yuan, and you still dare to call me brain-dead? Get out of here..."
Wang Man and Hu Yuan were unaware that, because of this one hundred yuan, people who were originally very close had fallen out.
At this moment, Wang Man was telling Hu Yuan about what had happened in the past two days.
"You did a great job! Whether you have money or not, you can't back down on these things, or you'll be in trouble later." Hu Yuan nodded and praised Wang Man.
"I don't know if what I did was right or wrong. Sister Zhou's family isn't rich. If she hadn't run into trouble, I don't think she would have come to me..."
Wang Man looked worried and was clearly not happy about Hu Yuan's words.
Seeing her like this, Hu Yuan shook his head helplessly, then took out three hundred-yuan bills from his bag and said softly, "Alright, stop looking so distressed. Seeing you like this makes me feel guilty. Take this money to Sister Zhou!"
Wang Man's expression improved after hearing Hu Yuan's words.
"What about the other people's money?"
"Don't worry, do you think I'm that unreliable?" Hu Yuan shook his head and said with a wry smile.
"But you don't have that much money in your bag, do you..." Wang Man still couldn't quite believe it.
"Am I supposed to keep all that money in this little bag? What if someone robs me?"
After saying this, seeing that Wang Man was about to say something, Hu Yuan quickly waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, they're all in the bank! Do you want me to show you the passbook?"
Seeing that Hu Yuan looked somewhat unhappy, Wang Man didn't dare to press him any further.
"Oh, right, there's something else I need to tell you..." Wang Man suddenly said, looking down.
"What?"
"Our factory's sales manager would like to meet you."
"Your factory's sales manager wants to see me? What does he want?"
Wang Man shook her head. "I don't know either. She just told me she wanted to see you and talk to you or something, but I don't know the specifics..."
Frowning, Hu Yuan continued, "Do you know who this sales manager is?"
"No... I don't know. I only know that she was transferred from the county's Economic and Trade Commission. I heard she has some connections?" Wang Man said after thinking for a while.
"The Economic and Trade Commission?" Hu Yuan thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out what was going on.
"Oh, right, she's a woman." After thinking for a moment, Wang Man added.
"woman?"
Hu Yuan shook his head, indicating that he really didn't understand what the other party meant.
"Forget about her, let's just leave her be. Things will work themselves out. We'll deal with whatever she wants when the time comes!"
"All right……"
...
"Wang Man, thank you so much! I really didn't expect you to bring me the money so late!"
At Zhou Jie's doorstep, she was clutching three hundred yuan in one hand and tightly holding Wang Man's arm with the other, expressing her gratitude through tears.
"Sister Zhou, please don't be like this. It was rightfully yours, but my husband just got back, so the money is a little late..."
"It's not too late, it's not too late, that's perfect! If my child hadn't been sick at home, I wouldn't have come to see you this afternoon. I heard... I caused you some trouble this afternoon because of this, I'm so sorry!"
Sister Zhou apologized to Wang Man, somewhat embarrassed.
"It's alright, it's all in the past now, Sister Zhou, you don't need to take it to heart." Wang Man smiled and shook her head, as if she didn't care about what happened yesterday at all.
After she finished speaking, Sister Zhou's face changed color, as if she had something else to say but was too embarrassed to say it.
"Sister Zhou, is there something else? Is it because you don't have enough money?" Wang Man asked with concern.
"No, no, no!" Sister Zhou quickly waved her hand.
"Wang Man, you're making me even more embarrassed..."
"What's wrong, Sister Zhou? Just tell me what's wrong, and I'll do my best to help."
"No...it wasn't you, it was someone else..."
"Others?"
"What you did today makes me even more embarrassed, but I have to tell you these things... After get off work today, several of my colleagues in the workshop who gave you the treasury bonds were very unhappy, so they decided to go to the factory manager together tomorrow..."
When Wang Man returned home, Hu Yuan noticed that her expression was off, and she seemed absent-minded and forgetful.
"What's wrong with you? Did delivering money make you feel down?" Hu Yuan joked with Wang Man as soon as he put the sleeping Tuantuan down.
"Hu Yuan, something's happened..."
"Something happened? What happened? What's wrong?" Upon hearing Wang Man's words, Hu Yuan frowned, and his expression turned serious.
“I just went to give Sister Zhou money, and she told me that several colleagues who asked me for money this afternoon are planning to go to the factory manager tomorrow because they didn’t get their money and intend to sue me…” Wang Man said to Hu Yuan with a pale face and a worried expression.
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