Chapter 244
The fierce aura surrounding Lei Tingjun suddenly dissipated and softened.
Ji Wanmei sensed his emotions and aura. Confused, she turned around and found him smiling gently at her.
Although she didn't know what he was laughing at, Ji Wanmei pulled his hand and said very seriously, "Don't worry, I won't let anyone wrong you."
"Okay, sure," Lei Tingjun responded softly.
Ji Wanmei turned her head and coldly glared at Lao Zhang: "A relative like you, taking the living expenses given by Grandma Lei, still being stingy with Lei Tingjun's food, going around framing him for stealing, and still has the nerve to call yourself an elder. If I were you, I wouldn't even have the face to do that."
Ji Wanmei questioned expressionlessly, "I'd like to ask you, how dare you, with such a thick skin, use those old, trivial matters to portray your mistreatment and abuse of Lei Tingjun as if you had done him a great favor?"
"You..." Old Zhang's face turned red from Ji Wanmei's retort, and he pointed at her with a trembling finger, unable to say a word.
Lei Xiangshun stood to the side with his head down, not daring to utter a sound.
Ji Wanmei glanced at Lei Xiangshun and said, "Also, isn't Grandma Lei a close relative of both of you?"
“Uncle Zhang, Grandma Lei is your aunt, Uncle Xiang Shun, Grandma Lei is your mother! When Grandma Lei died, Lei Tingjun handled all her funeral arrangements by himself. He was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time. Did you offer him any help?”
"If you're so cold-blooded and indifferent to your own aunt and uncle, disregarding family ties and only caring about petty gains, as if you're afraid that the Lei family's debts will implicate you, then at that time, you two probably couldn't wait to sever ties with Lei Tingjun, right?"
Ji Wanmei became increasingly angry as she spoke. How could there be such snobbish relatives in this world?
"Now, Lei Tingjun has finally managed to acquire some assets through his own hard work. And you two, relatives who haven't been in contact for ten years, are now coming over like dogs smelling a bone?"
"You still want to use some old favors to get Lei Tingjun to arrange jobs for you?"
"Lei Tingjun is magnanimous and won't hold a grudge against you for things that happened more than ten years ago. He arranged for you to work in dredging sand and mud. And what happened to you two?"
"He's lazy and gluttonous, always complaining about this and that, illiterate, and knows nothing. Yet he wants to oust Old Cui and take his place in the management position."
"You think being a manager is lucrative and you can make money off it, right?"
Ji Wanmei sneered without any politeness, crossing her arms: "What? He bought a brick factory for you guys?"
“Let me tell you, I paid for the bulk of this brick factory. I am the owner of this brick factory. I, Ji Wanmei, have the final say in this brick factory.”
Ji Wanmei spoke with such force that everyone in the brick factory heard her.
That's how we found out what really happened back then.
Old Zhang always boasts outside, saying that he did Lei Tingjun a favor back then, but it turns out that this is what he meant by "favor".
Haha, you really have the nerve to do that.
Old Cui gave Old Zhang a mocking look and rolled his eyes.
The other people from the surrounding villages who came to recruit workers also looked at Old Zhang with strange, scrutinizing eyes, and whispered among themselves.
Old Zhang's face turned pale and then red, feeling utterly ashamed and unable to stay any longer.
He sheepishly turned and left, but before he left, he said to Lei Tingjun with a show of bravado: "You don't need your own relatives, so you find a woman to manage the factory. Humph, sooner or later you'll drain our family's savings!"
Ji Wanmei glanced at him indifferently and said, "Take care, don't bother seeing me out."
Ji Wanmei walked to the long table and sat down. She said to the workers behind her who were stunned by her imposing manner, "We're all here to recruit workers, so don't say I, Ji Wanmei, am treating you differently. Anyway, I'll have an experienced worker give us ten common sense questions. Those who answer correctly will be hired. In addition, based on the job and seniority, the skilled workers in the brick factory will get a 5% raise in wages."
"If you can't answer, I'm sorry, I don't care if you're my uncle or maternal uncle, I'll treat you the same way and won't hire you."
Lei Xiangshun remained silent in the corner from beginning to end.
When Lao Zhang left just now, he hesitated for a moment.
His status was, after all, closer than that of Lao Zhang, who was a distant cousin three generations removed. He, on the other hand, was a true member of the Lei family by blood. No matter how ruthless Lei Tingjun was, he wouldn't have driven away his own uncle.
However, Lei Tingjun didn't expect that the person he found was so sharp-tongued that he could scold Old Zhang so badly that Old Zhang couldn't even retaliate and had to slink away with his tail between his legs.
Now she wants everyone who comes to recruit to answer questions to apply, which has stumped Lei Xiangshun.
"Xiao Jun, could you... could you do me a favor for your uncle? You know I'm not very educated." Lei Xiangshun went to Lei Tingjun to plead for him.
Lei Tingjun remained unmoved this time: "Meimei has already set the rules, and everyone must follow them."
Ji Wanmei sat at the long table, handing out paper and pens to the workers who came to apply for jobs.
Knowing that many of these people might be illiterate, Ji Wanmei said she would read the questions aloud, and everyone would choose the correct answer from the four options below.
The questions Ji Wanmei asked the master craftsmen were all common-sense issues that are frequently encountered in brick kilns. If they didn't even know these, it meant that some of them were just spouting nonsense when they claimed to have experience working in the field before.
Without experience, they would go directly into the brick kiln, which would inevitably lead to increased raw material loss and defective products.
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