Her voice was cold yet firm. Despite having a beautiful, delicate face that could easily win someone's heart, she spoke with an inexplicable air of authority that made her impossible to ignore.
Today, Yu Jiu dealt with more than a dozen lazy people, deducting half of their work points. As for those lazy uncles who didn't even show up, Yu Jiu deducted three days' worth of their work points as a warning to others.
"I hope we can harvest all the corn by tomorrow. Can everyone do that?"
After Yu Jiu finished her cold warning, her tone softened considerably, sounding questioning. No one dared to underestimate her now; she could deduct work points without hesitation, even more so than Xu Zijiang. Who would dare to cause trouble again? Those who were dissatisfied could only hold back for now, afraid that Yu Jiu would get even angrier.
Therefore, as soon as she finished speaking, Aunt Qi and the others who had their work points deducted wanted to make amends and immediately echoed her.
"Yes, don't worry, Yu Zhiqing! We won't go back to eat or sleep until we finish harvesting the corn tomorrow!"
"That's right! We'll sleep in the fields if we have to finish harvesting the corn! Don't worry, Yu Zhiqing!"
With a few of them stirring things up, the others also nodded in agreement.
"Yes, our team didn't plant much corn to begin with, two days is enough. In the past, the team leader would lead everyone to finish the harvest in two days! Even though the team leader isn't here this time, it won't be delayed!"
"That's good. Thank you all for your hard work. As long as you work hard, the deducted work points can be added back. I just hope that you will work seriously and not be perfunctory. When the team leader comes back, I will put in a good word for you and ask the team leader to reward you."
Yu Jiu would slap someone and then offer a sweet treat; after punishing someone, she would then suggest ways to make amends. Those who were already angry became even more hesitant to act rashly, fearing that everyone else would have made up for their lost work points, leaving them the only ones left.
So Yu Jiu's move was undeniably brilliant; it effectively neutralized most people, except for those three lazybones who refused to work and were grumbling angrily below.
"I haven't earned many work points to begin with, and now they're deducting three days' worth! I can't even earn three days' worth of work points in a whole month! What's the point of working here? I quit!"
"Exactly! She's just a bitch. Does she think she can fly just because the captain's not here? We're not going to stand for her! Let her come begging to us later!"
"Let's go home and sleep. Let's see if she cries if she can't finish harvesting the corn, hmph!"
The three men were notorious for their laziness, and more importantly, they were family: Sun Dage, Sun Xiaojun, and Liu Shuiquan. Sun Dage and Sun Xiaojun were cousins, and Liu Shuiquan was their brother-in-law. As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together," and this family produced three lazybones—poor women of the Sun family!
The three of them, with an audacity that seems almost superhuman, actually ignored the words spoken above and went home to sleep. They didn't come to work the next day either, while everyone else was working hard, only the three members of the Sun family were absent.
The dog spat in dissatisfaction.
“These three lazybones! They only come to do any work when the team leader urges them on. Now that the team leader isn't home, they don't care about us at all! The team leader requires them to come to work every day! Yu Zhiqing, should I go find them?”
The team allows you not to go to work, as long as you don't want work points and aren't afraid of starving to death, then you don't have to come. However, Xu Zijiang specifically named these three lazybones from the Sun family, and they had to come to work at least twenty days a month. The reason was simply that Xu Zijiang also felt that the women in the Sun family were particularly pitiful, and he wanted these lazybones to do as much work as possible, so that they could at least slightly reduce the burden on their families.
However, none of the Sun family members were able to stand firm, and each one of them was soft-hearted. Xu Zijiang wanted to take drastic measures to intimidate the three of them and make them stop being so lazy in the future, but the Sun family protected them and softened their hearts at crucial moments. So, over time, Xu Zijiang became too lazy to bother with them anymore.
But attendance is still mandatory; his team won't tolerate someone who's so lazy and good-for-nothing!
After listening to Gouzi's explanation of the background, Yu Jiu shrugged indifferently.
"Come or don't come, we don't need to look for them. Our goal is to harvest the corn first, and then we'll teach these three a lesson."
"Alright."
Although Gouzi was furious, he obeyed Yu Jiu's orders and patrolled with her to supervise the harvesting of corn. While many slacked off on the first day, resulting in a small harvest, everyone worked with great enthusiasm on the second day, significantly increasing efficiency.
So around 7 p.m., all the corn was harvested. Yu Jiu checked the harvest in the field, nodded in satisfaction, and a smile appeared on her porcelain-white face.
"Everyone has worked hard today. Go back and eat and sleep. You can get an extra work point today."
"What! Really? I usually earn a full set of work points! Does that mean I can get eleven work points today?"
"That's right, it's eleven work points."
Yu Jiu said decisively that everyone who came to work would receive an extra work point, even those who already had a full work point would receive an extra one.
"Wow!!! This is the first time I've ever gotten more than the maximum number of work points! Eleven work points! That's incredible!"
"Of course! Yu Zhiqing is so generous!"
With just one action, she won the hearts of many people. Although adding one work point to each person might be a little small, it adds up to a lot when everyone does it! Only the dozen or so people who had their points deducted were dissatisfied. Zhou Lan and the other two hurriedly went to find Yu Jiu.
“Yu, why are you giving everyone extra work points? What about us? We had several work points deducted yesterday, and you're only giving us one extra point? That's not enough to make up for it!”
"Yes, Yu, we've lost so many work points this way!"
Aunt Qi and Li Hongying were in a panic. Yesterday they only got one work point, but today everyone else got extra work points as a bonus. That meant they got nothing, and they even lost several work points yesterday! They were scolded by their husbands and mothers-in-law when they got home yesterday. If they couldn't make up for the lost work points today, they would probably get scolded again!
“What work points? A reward is a reward, and a punishment is a punishment. You were lazy yesterday, so you should have been punished, right? Today everyone worked hard, so haven’t I already rewarded you? I’ve given you extra work points.”
"But···"
"But what? You have to take responsibility for your mistakes. Even a child understands that. Why are you bothering Yu Zhiqing? Yu Zhiqing has already been kind enough by not telling the team leader about yesterday's events, considering how hard you worked today. What more do you want? If you keep bothering Yu Zhiqing, I'll go and complain to the team leader when he gets back."
Let's see if you're scared!
Gouzi, speaking for Yu Jiu, said what she couldn't say. He stood arrogantly with his hands on his hips, glaring at everyone with a fierce look. Gouzi wasn't ugly, just too thin and not tall enough, but he was quite imposing when he was bullying others. Zhou Lan and the others didn't dare cause any more trouble, so they could only stomp their feet angrily and go home.
"Tch, serves him right!"
The dog didn't feel sorry for the three of them at all; it was their fault for deliberately slacking off!
"Let's go, stop talking."
Yu Jiu was in a great mood. With a wave of her hand, she prepared to go home. This tactic of making an example of someone was quite effective. She would rather give everyone extra points than add back the points they had lost, because that would only make everyone think she was easy to bully.
As for those three lazybones from the Sun family, when they learned that Yu Jiu had given everyone extra points except for them, they still had the nerve to get angry and went to settle accounts with Yu Jiu in a menacing manner!
"Yu Zhiqing, didn't you say everyone would get extra points today? Why didn't you give us any?"
"Ouch!"
He had barely finished speaking when he tripped over the threshold, fell heavily to the ground with a cry of pain, kicking up a cloud of dust. When he looked up, he saw that his chin was bleeding.
Serves him right, evildoers will get their just desserts!
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