Qin Xiaoyu sat there in a daze for a while, sorting out the feedback everyone had just given in her mind, before finally leaving the meeting room.
When she came out of the building, the courtyard was deserted. Because all the workers who worked overtime and stayed overnight were female, Qin Xiaoyu had set a curfew for the evenings.
It's hot, so the windows upstairs are all open for ventilation. Only the machines on the second floor are still running; that's people working overtime until midnight before they can go back to their dorms to sleep.
Summer nights are long, making them perfect for working overtime.
There are two security guards on duty, and the gate must be locked at all times when entering or leaving.
When the security guard saw her get into the car, he went over to open the door. Qin Xiaoyu didn't rush to leave. She watched him lock the door before starting the car.
Suddenly, a ladder perched on the wall by the door caught her attention. She knew the guardhouse leaked a bit and was repaired during the day, but the ladder's placement there seemed unsafe. Losing it was a minor issue; what if someone climbed over the wall?
Just then, a scream suddenly came from upstairs, and then the machines stopped one after another. Shouts and pleas for mercy came from inside the building.
Qin Xiaoyu knew something was wrong, so she jumped out of the car and pounded on the door. One of the security guards went upstairs with a flashlight, while another came over to open the door for Qin Xiaoyu.
They ran all the way up to the fourth floor.
The sounds were coming from upstairs, screams one after another, and they didn't sound like a woman's voice anymore.
Qin Xiaoyu, panting heavily, saw a horrifying scene in the passageway between the dormitory and the dyeing workshop.
A group of female workers were surrounding a man and beating him up.
The man's screams rang out, sending chills down one's spine.
"Help!"
"Hurry up and get on it!" Qin Xiaoyu couldn't stand it anymore; her legs were weak, and she couldn't help even if she wanted to.
The two guards, following orders, joined the attack and unleashed a flurry of punches...
"I told you to drag him out, or you'll kill him!" Qin Xiaoyu stamped her feet in frustration. The two guards then realized that they weren't asking for help beating someone, but rather for rescuing him.
At her behest, the two guards finally managed to rescue the man.
Qin Xiaoyu almost vomited when she saw his face. It was scratched so badly that it was practically shredded. Even if it healed, it would probably be disfigured.
"Call the police! Call the police!" the man pleaded all the way. Only with Qin Xiaoyu and the two security guards' desperate cover were the man brought downstairs barely alive.
The man was taken to the police station and quickly confessed that he had come because he had heard that the girls in the modeling team were beautiful and seductive, and that they didn't wear clothes at night.
So he climbed over the wall using a ladder, hoping to get in and take advantage of the situation. But he went to the wrong door and ended up in the female workers' dormitory.
Who were those female workers? They were all tough women who could kill chickens with their bare hands, handle two tons of coal a day, and carry a hundred pounds of flour on their backs. Each one of them was incredibly brave.
Life has already mythologized them.
They have lost their gender; they are no longer women, but towering gods.
Let alone just a sleazy man with his pants half down, even if ten knife-wielding thugs came, he'd have to crawl out.
Qin Xiaoyu was quite naive; when she arrived at work the next day, she was still pale. Instead of going straight into the office, she led Captain Chen on a tour of the building.
“If we were to reinforce all the windows with iron bars, it would be a considerable investment,” Captain Chen calculated for her.
"We have to install it no matter how much it costs. If another man sneaks in, it'll be a disaster. We were lucky this time, but we won't always be so lucky." Qin Xiaoyu was terrified.
"Yeah, I heard he was almost killed. He was lucky to survive." Captain Chen muttered as he walked out.
While calculating the dimensions he had just measured and checking things, he was a little distracted and bumped into a female worker.
"Are you blind?!" the female worker shouted, and Captain Chen's legs went weak.
"What are you looking at?" The female worker was even angrier when she saw him staring blankly at her.
"I didn't look, I didn't look, I'm blind!" Captain Chen took off running.
Qin Xiaoyu suddenly realized that she seemed to have done something wrong.
"Xiaoyu, I think you've wasted that money." Seeing Qin Xiaoyu spread the budget on the table, Factory Director Xie walked over with a large tea mug and said earnestly.
"Aunt Xie, there are many young girls living in this building, so we have to protect them well and make sure nothing happens to them."
Qin Xiaoyu felt a chill run down her spine when she thought about what happened that night. She had gone to the wrong room. If she had really entered the model team, those girls probably wouldn't know what to do except scream.
The parents were already worried; if something really happened, the modeling team would have to be disbanded.
"Do you think anyone else would dare to come?" Factory Director Xie smiled.
"You don't dare to come?" Qin Xiaoyu thought of the man's face and shuddered.
“There are all sorts of rumors circulating outside. Some say the man was beaten to a pulp, some say he had dozens of sewing needles stuck in his face, and some say he was castrated by the women at the garment factory with big iron shears used for cutting fabric, snip, hahahaha.” Factory Director Xie couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
"That's mild, some people say..." Director Fei glanced at Qin Xiaoyu, hesitated, and didn't finish his sentence. Although Qin Xiaoyu was a young widow, she never made suggestive jokes, so they were wary of her.
"Sister, just tell me, don't keep me in suspense," Qin Xiaoyu said anxiously.
"He said he was taken care of by over thirty old women, ****..."
"..."
Qin Xiaoyu was relieved. Thinking back to how Captain Chen had run faster than a rabbit, she figured that she could save her money, and no one would dare to come.
Surprisingly, the security around the garment factory improved after that incident. Previously, because female factory workers often worked night shifts, the surrounding roads weren't very safe.
Some men, wanting to take advantage, would ambush one or two lone female workers.
But now, not only is no one blocking the road, but if you occasionally encounter a female worker, the men on their bicycles pedal incredibly fast. They're not to be trifled with, for fear of getting into trouble if they even glance at her.
The women in the family would often say to their husbands, "If you keep flirting with other women, I'll send you to the garment factory." The Riyue Garment Factory, many years later, became a legend in the city.
Qin Xiaoyu discovered that some things really do have both advantages and disadvantages. Take this matter for example; it looks quite scary, but she benefited greatly from it.
Since she returned from Shanghai, the post office staff have been delivering mail to the gymnastics team every day, and A Lei sends her gifts every day. She has rediscovered the joy of unpacking express deliveries in the 21st century.
There were quite a few packages this time, so we asked Hanhan's grandpa to help carry them into Building 1.
Qin Xiaoyu sat on the sofa on the first floor and began to unpack the package. A copy of "The Lover"—this was strange. Didn't A Lei leave one copy? Why send another? Has this guy developed dementia?
She casually flipped through the book and found a few bookmarks tucked inside. She glanced at the page with the bookmarks and her face immediately turned red. This guy was up to no good.
The bookmarks are all unspeakable passages from the book, which make people blush and their hearts race.
There are words on the back of the bookmark, in A Lei's handwriting: "Study it."
There was another one that said: "Pay attention, it will be on the test."
"Pah!" Qin Xiaoyu spat, her face turning even redder.
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