After seeing off the aggressive "guest", Guifangzhai suddenly became quiet and everyone relaxed as if their muscles had been pulled.
Li Guifang was holding an enamel pot and gulping down warm boiled water. Her throat was almost smoking from the quarrel just now.
At this moment, the door curtain of the back kitchen was lifted up with a "rustle", and Xie Dazui stuck half of his body out, with flour on the tip of his nose.
"Oh my god... Why do I see Wu Qiuhe again? This office has a different style. Look at how beautiful her coat is!
Xie Dazui muttered to himself for a while before finally asking, "Fang, what's going on? Did our family really miss out on the textile factory's cake?"
Before Li Guifang could say anything, Li Mingyuan, who was tidying up the counter, interrupted, "What do you mean by missing an order? That lady had a fake order! The stamp on it wasn't even right!"
Xie Dazui was stunned. "Oh, that's impossible!" He immediately changed his tone, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect that a textile factory director would come to blackmail us for cakes. I was just behind him and heard a familiar voice, so I stole a glance - isn't that Deputy Director Wu from the textile factory union?
I was so scared that I dared not show my head or say a word! I didn't expect her to be so shameless!
These words were like a bomb, exploding in the store.
"What? The union?" Li Mingyuan dropped the rag in his hand to the ground with a "clatter". "Mom! Didn't we offend someone?"
"Sister Fang..." Zhao Xiaomian's face was also full of worry!
Li Guifang's head was buzzing and her temples were throbbing because of the constant noise from these people.
She glared at Li Mingyuan fiercely: "You're such a grown-up, and you're still so irritable!"
She and Xie Dazui just retired from the textile factory last year. How could she not know that the woman was the director of the trade union!
It's just that they are front-line female workers in the workshop, dealing with spindles and machines all day long; Deputy Director Wu sits in the office, drinking tea and reading newspapers, and has nothing to do with them on a daily basis.
That's why people don't recognize these "old workhorses".
Also, she is Xu Minxing's mother. If it weren't for these two relationships, Li Guifang would have kicked her out as soon as she was sure that the order in her hand was fake!
Why bother looking for orders with a smile? Her face is frozen from smiling!
"Mom, what should we do?" Li Mingyuan said with a sad face, "If she tries to make trouble for us at the factory..."
"What the hell!" Li Guifang slammed the enamel pot onto the counter with a loud bang. "We're not working for the textile factory now! No matter how high a position Wu Qiuhe holds, can she control us self-employed individuals?
She was trying to trip me up just to buy me fewer loaves of bread!
She was cheated and came to me to make a fuss. I didn't hold it against her and even helped her out of her urgent need!
This person can't be so ungrateful! "
Li Mingyuan shrank his neck and dared not say a word, but Xie Dazui nodded thoughtfully.
Looking at Director Wu's attitude, how could she not be in a hurry? As a director, she came to pick up the cake, and Li Guifang was not worried. This was a losing deal!
There is no point in saying more. She won’t say another word until Dong Dongdong comes back!
Li Guifang glanced at the wall clock - it has been delayed for half a day, and the order from the agricultural machinery factory has not yet started!
"Alright, alright, stop standing there!" She clapped her hands. "Hurry up, get the dough mixer going and beat the eggs! The big cake from the farm machinery factory needs to be delivered before six o'clock!"
The kitchen suddenly became busy again. Xie Dazui's egg-beating arm was equipped with an electric motor!
When everyone was busy, the shop door creaked open.
Everyone looked up and saw Dong Dongdong rushing in.
Dong Dongdong looked in a mess, with a few icicles hanging on his forehead. He was running in such a cold weather that his head was covered in white steam!
"I got it back, I got it back!" he said breathlessly.
Before he could finish his words, he sneezed, causing his glasses to slide down to his mouth.
Li Guifang quickly handed over a towel: "Speak slower! Take a deep breath first!"
A towel was thrown over Dong Dongdong's head, and the ice chips fell to the ground with a "patter".
Xie Dazui quickly poured a cup of hot tea and shoved it over: "Warm yourself up first. Look at you running like there's a wolf chasing you!"
Dong Dongdong took a sip of hot tea and finally felt better.
He took off his glasses, wiped them, and said in a low voice, "Our cake was not given away in vain!"
As he spoke, he pulled out a handkerchief from his bosom and carefully unfolded it. "The final payment is twenty-eight, not a cent less!"
Li Guifang took the money, pointed with her fingers, and raised her eyebrows: "Wow, you even count the change so clearly?"
"Of course not!" Dong Dongdong pushed up his glasses, the lenses still fogged up, "Director Wu knew there was a problem in their factory.
She specifically asked me to tell her that once the investigation is complete, she will return the deposit intact and personally apologize to Sister Fang!
Hearing this, Xie Dazui uttered a sound of "Oh my! The sun is rising from the west? Director Wu is such a face-conscious person..."
"That's right!" Dong Dongdong rubbed his red, frozen hands. "Before I left, she even stuffed two kilograms of New Year's candy the factory had given me, saying it was just to sweeten my mouth."
Li Guifang stuffed the money into her apron pocket and couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth: "Okay, get to work! The order from the agricultural machinery factory is still waiting." After that, she turned and walked towards the kitchen.
Li Mingyuan nudged Dong Dongdong: "Hey, did Director Wu really say he wanted to apologize?"
Dong Dongdong leaned over mysteriously and said, "It's absolutely true! You didn't see it. After someone said something to her, that face—"
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