"Why? I want a raise too."
Su Yu said, "You have me and your older brother, so you can rest and recover for now." Laborers under the age of eighteen cannot be exploited indiscriminately. It's easy to cause problems through such exploitation. She wants to pursue a path of sustainable development.
"Sister..." Su Zhi bit his lip, looking at his eldest sister like a wife. His eldest sister was so good, always sheltering him from the wind and rain like a big tree.
"Alright, alright, you've all worked hard lately. I've decided that starting next month, we'll improve the quality of our meals so you can eat a little more."
"Sister, you're so kind, so incredibly kind!" Su Zhigao exclaimed happily.
Just as Su Dazhi was about to cheer, Su Yu glanced at him and said, "Don't be so happy yet. At least Zhi worked hard to move the goods. You should also do something. Save some fabric for me. I'll need it later. If you do a good job, the whole family will eat dumplings three times a month."
Su Dazhi: "..."
Su Zhi excitedly hugged his brother, "Brother, for the sake of our three meals of dumplings, you'd better do something!"
"...Okay!" Su Dazhi straightened his back. He was still of some use after all.
...
The whole family ate noodles for dinner. They ate them with gusto and great relish.
After finishing their meal, Su Lin started clearing away the dishes, while Su Zhi and Su Dazhi were ushered to the bathroom to take a shower.
Only Su Yu and Liu Mei remained in the room.
Su Yu took a sip of water from her enamel mug and asked Liu Mei, "How's the task I gave you going?"
Liu Mei hurriedly ran over to report her work, "Sister, through asking around and even secretly conducting my own investigations, I've discovered that Wu Guozhi has ulterior motives!"
She looked furious.
Su Yu said, "Speak politely, without personal feelings."
Liu Mei's anger vanished instantly. "Oh, it's just that I've noticed Wu Guozhi has been getting very close to a worker lately, a female apprentice named Sun Min. She's been playing hard to get with Wu Guozhi, stringing him along. And sister, I've discovered a big problem: everyone in the machine factory thinks you're a bad person—lazy, gluttonous, and with a bad temper. Wu Guozhi has already broken up with you. It's clearly Wu Guozhi talking nonsense; he broke up with you after he started seeing Sun Min. He's obviously trying to smear you."
"..."
Su Yu swallowed hard and narrowed her eyes. It seemed Wu Guozhi was quite clever. This way, even if he really didn't continue dating her, it would be her side that lost face. After all, the entire textile factory knew Su Yu was dating, and had been for many years. Moreover, the original owner of this body was very protective of Wu Guozhi, always praising him.
This guy's a master at shifting blame.
"Sis, you shouldn't give this kind of person any face. If it were me, I would have someone beat him up and shown him what he's made of!"
Who pays compensation if someone is injured?
"..."
Su Yu tapped her head. "You need to use your brain. Violence won't solve anything. How can I trust you to manage the Su family in the future if you're like this?"
Liu Mei blushed and lowered her head. She had been taken advantage of by her sister-in-law last time; how could she have given her sister-in-law such an idea? She must have been out of her mind.
"Sis, what should we do?"
"It's easy. Go find Sun Min and explain the situation to her. I'm going to make a scene. She'll be the one who loses face. If she cooperates, we can at least save her reputation. If she cooperates, we can give her some benefits later."
How do we cooperate?
"First, go to her and write a letter of complaint, clearly stating when, where, and how Wu Guozhi pursued her. Make it clear that she rejected him, and that it was all Wu Guozhi's harassment. Just write it clearly. Then bring it back to me."
"Sis, that's a great idea, really great. We'll just take the whistleblower's letter out and let that bastard get cursed to death."
Su Yu rolled her eyes at her. "How could it be that simple? After you get the whistleblower letter from Sun Min, go find Wu Guozhi. You'll find out about this by accident. If he doesn't want things to escalate, he'll pay him hush money."
"...What is hush money?"
Oh my, people are so naive these days.
"It means that after you take the bribe, you don't tell anyone. Remember, ask for more, twenty yuan is never too much, thirty yuan is even better."
Liu Mei swallowed hard. "Sister, are they willing to give it to me?"
"Then we'll see how much his face and his job are worth."
"So how will you split it then, sister? You're not planning to stay with that Wu Guozhi, are you?" Liu Mei thought with utter disgust. Honestly, if her sister-in-law married someone like Wu Guozhi, wouldn't he be able to manage the household? She was absolutely not happy about that.
"After you get the hush money, go find that woman and have her publicly expose Wu Guozhi for pursuing her while he already has a girlfriend. If she's unwilling, tell her that if she doesn't do as you say, I'll personally take the letter she wrote to the factory and make a scene. She'll be the one who loses face. If she does make a scene, you can shift the blame onto Wu Guozhi, and it won't affect her much. We can even split some of the money with her then."
"Sis, we already have a complaint letter, why are we making a scene with her?" It's better to keep the money for ourselves.
“You took their hush money, and you still dare to report them? We're moral people too. That letter was just in case.”
"..."
Liu Mei suddenly realized that her sister-in-law had actually gone easy on her. If she had tried that trick at her workplace, she would have lost her job. Luckily, luckily she backed down and didn't cause a scene with her sister-in-law, otherwise, who knows what would have happened.
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