Chapter 21 You Asked for This
When Tian Xin saw the text message, she was asking Li Baiwan about Liu Bo.
As soon as I saw the text message, I was so angry that I wanted to throw my phone away.
But then she thought, she had bought the phone herself, it was quite expensive. It wasn't worth spending money on such a person, so she opened it and read it again.
I didn't expect to be so angry when I saw the last sentence.
"Director, who hired this person?" she asked Li Baiwan angrily.
"What's wrong? Did he provoke you?" Li Baiwan was sitting in the office drinking tea, and he looked up and asked.
"No, I just want to ask. I heard from my coworkers that this guy is not doing his job well. Can we fire him?"
"Didn't I tell you? The factory is short of staff everywhere right now. It's hard to find a skilled worker like him!"
What's so hard to find? They're all excuses!
"Oh, is that so? Never mind, just ignore what I said! Let's go!"
She rolled her eyes angrily.
This Li Baiwan, he spoke so nicely when he was doing things for him.
"But Boss Li, if he does something that gets you into trouble in the future, don't blame me for not reminding you!" Tian Xin had already stepped out of the door, turned around and said to Li Baiwan.
"What do you mean? What did he do wrong?" Li Baiwan shouted at the door.
Tian Xin had already left without answering him.
If she hadn't met him in this life, she would have lived her life peacefully, forgotten everything from her previous life, and never touched it again.
But he appeared again. If she continued to pester him, how could she live a peaceful life? She couldn't imagine what would happen if Liu Bo continued to pester her.
Return to the horrible nightmare again? That was definitely not what she wanted.
Therefore, he must leave and we must never have any contact with each other again.
But if she let him leave for no reason, Li Baiwan would be upset. She couldn't just stop going to the stone factory because of this person. That was impossible.
What should I do?
More than ten days passed, and she still hadn't figured out a solution. During that time, she ran into Liu Bo at the factory several times, and he would reach out and pull her, which made her so angry that she never went to the factory again.
That day, she was busy working in the fields when Zhang Shuai came to see her. The two of them planted trees together and chatted casually.
"You mean he goes out every night?" Tian Xin asked.
Zhang Shuai filled the tree pit with soil and stood with the shovel in hand. "Yeah, he comes home every day reeking of alcohol. I wonder where he's been hanging out?"
fool around?
Humph, a dog will always eat shit!
At this time in his previous life, he went out to gamble with others and did not come back all day and all night.
It seems the time has come. We must get rid of him this time to avoid unnecessary trouble!
"Zhang Shuai, keep an eye on Liu Bo for me these few days. If he goes out, follow him secretly and see what he's doing. Don't let him find out!"
"Oh!" Zhang Shuai responded, and began to murmur in his heart.
The boss is always fearless, but this time he didn't even go to the factory because of Liu Bo! It's really strange.
What on earth is going on?
Never seen her like this before?
Zhang Shuai had many questions in his mind, but he didn't dare ask them. Tian Xin's two emotional outbursts had made him hesitant to ask more questions, fearing that she would be upset.
When he saw her sitting on the ground alone and shivering from the cold that day, he felt really distressed and wanted to protect her well!
He had nothing. The only thing he could offer his eldest daughter was to stay by her side and protect her from being bullied. If he couldn't even do that, then he was no different from a loser!
"Boss, if he comes to harass you again, call me! I'll kill him!"
"Don't think about fighting all the time. How many times have I told you? Even if you want to beat him up, use your brain, okay?" Tian Xin patted Zhang Shuai on the back of his head.
This guy is such a reckless man, all he does is fight and fight, with only one thing on his mind. If she doesn't intervene, he's going to get into so much trouble!
"I'll listen to you, I'll do whatever you say!"
A few days later, Zhang Shuai replied to her.
Liu Bo is gambling!
In this life, he hasn't changed!
In that case, there is a way!
That afternoon, Tian Xin called Zhang Shuai and followed Liu Bo all the way until he entered a chess and card room.
The weather was gradually warming, and it was getting darker. The cicadas in the trees were chirping noisily, and it felt a bit hot. Tian Xin gathered her hair and leaned against the wall of a factory with Zhang Shuai, waiting for something to happen.
"Boss, why are we following him?" Zhang Shuai slapped a mosquito with his hand and turned to ask.
"Zhang Shuai, remember, never gamble in your life." Tian Xin murmured while leaning against the wall.
Zhang Shuai kept swatting mosquitoes. There were too many weeds in this place, and Tian Xin, wearing a skirt, had her legs covered with bites.
"Ah! I don't gamble!" he said casually.
"Look into my eyes and say it again!" Tian Xin turned her head and looked at Zhang Shuai.
Her eyes were red and her look was lonely. She seemed to have a lot to say, but she just looked at him quietly, waiting for his response.
This look was too scary. Zhang Shuai had never seen her like this before. He was suddenly at a loss and his tongue was tied as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Boss, what's wrong with you?"
"I want you to promise me that you will never gamble again in your life. Look into my eyes and say that." Her voice was choked with tears.
"I swear!" Zhang Shuai was frightened. He immediately raised his right hand, held up three fingers, and looked at Tian Xin firmly:
"I swear, I will never gamble in my life. Boss, I mean what I say! I listen to everything you say!"
“…”
"I'll listen to everything you say! I swear, I'll never gamble in my life! I'll listen to you!" Zhang Shuai said again!
Tian Xin turned her head away, tears streaming down her face. She bit her lips, trying hard not to cry out loud.
"I'll listen to you, don't cry, I, I, I... I will never gamble! I swear, boss, please believe me!" Zhang Shuai was at a loss and kept expressing his determination. He didn't know why Tian Xin suddenly became like this.
The sound of mahjong tiles rang out from inside the factory. Tian Xin took out her cell phone and dialed three numbers.
"Boss, what are you doing?" Zhang Shuai hung up the phone and looked at Tian Xin in horror.
"Call the police! I want to report him!" She dialed the number again with trembling hands.
"What happened between you and him?" Zhang Shuai grabbed Tian Xin's shoulders, his face full of worry. "Boss, tell me honestly, what did he do to you?"
"Hello, I want to report, there is someone here..."
"What are you doing?"
Before she could finish her words, Zhang Shuai snatched the phone away and hung up again.
"What happened between you two? After this phone call, you two are completely enemies! Boss, what's going on?"
"Don't ask me anymore. I don't want to tell you! I have to make this call today. I have to get him out of here, out of my sight. I don't want to see him again! If you stop me, you want me dead!"
Tian Xin finished speaking in a trembling voice and stretched out her hand to Zhang Shuai, her hand shaking violently.
"If you stop me, you want me to die!" This sentence scared Zhang Shuai!
Seeing the stubbornness in her eyes, he sighed and dialed the number himself.
"Hey, I want to report that there's a group of people gambling here! Yes, here... come here quickly!"
After hanging up the phone, he hugged Tian Xin and murmured in her ear: "I listen to everything you say! I will listen to you! I won't ask you again, do whatever you want! I will listen to you!"
"Don't touch me!" Tian Xin pushed Zhang Shuai away and squatted on the ground crying.
"I... I'm not... Oops..." Zhang Shuai looked at his hands and slapped himself helplessly.
What happened just now that I couldn't help myself? The eldest daughter always hates others touching her. What should I do now?
He panicked!
"Or... you can beat me up, and I definitely won't fight back. Boss... I just... I don't know what happened... I..."
"Shut up!"
Zhang Shuai squatted in front of Tian Xin and talked incoherently for a long time. She stopped crying.
She raised her head, wiped away her tears, looked at Zhang Shuai and said, "Remember what you promised me today! If you dare to gamble, I will call the police and arrest you!"
Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her voice was twitching. When she looked at Zhang Shuai, her eyes were fierce, as if he had really done something wrong!
Zhang Shuaigang was explaining to her helplessly, but when he saw her like this, he couldn't help laughing out loud.
"What are you laughing at? I'm serious!" She reached out and hit Zhang Shuai on the shoulder.
"What I said is true!" Zhang Shuai stopped laughing, his expression returned to seriousness, and his eyes were extremely determined: "I swear, if I bet, I will get hit by a car when I go out..."
“Snap—”
Before he could finish his oath, he was suddenly slapped in the face.
"I believe you, don't talk nonsense!" Tian Xin stood up and scratched the mosquito bite on her leg.
"Now then..."
"Don't talk, the police car is coming!"
“Woo woo—”
The sound of sirens came from far away and a police car stopped at the factory door.
The room suddenly fell silent!
After a while, someone tried to escape over the wall, but was caught by the police guarding outside the wall.
When Liu Bo was taken into the police car, he looked back and Zhang Shuai quickly pulled Tian Xin over to hide against the wall.
"He didn't see you just now, did he?" Zhang Shuai asked.
"Don't know? Never mind, later..."
Finally I can get rid of him!
She didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Watching the police car drive away, she breathed a sigh of relief!
"Let's go, let's go back! There are too many mosquitoes, it's so itchy!" She turned her head and said with a smile.
Is that... done? Zhang Shuai scratched his head!
Tian Xin walked forward with a cheerful pace. As dusk fell, the chirping of katydids could be heard all around.
"Boss, wait for me..."
When the two returned to the village, it was completely dark. Zhang Shuai sent Tian Xin home. On the way, her cell phone kept ringing!
“Ding ding ding!”
She took out her cell phone, glanced at the screen, and put it back in her pocket.
"Someone sent a text message, Boss!" Zhang Shuai asked.
"ah…"
"Don't you want to see it?"
The text message was sent by Lin Zhou...
“I don’t really want to see it!”
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I just don't want to see it!"
"oh!"
When she reached the door of her house, Zhang Shuai had left. She took out her cell phone and opened the text message.
[Are you okay? How are you doing lately? Why aren't you replying to my messages?]
Since returning from the hospital, there have been dozens of missed calls from Lin Zhou and more than a dozen messages on her mobile phone.
They all sent the same message: "Are you okay? Why don't you reply to my message?"
She didn't reply.
She has decided not to see him again and let time dilute that little bit of heartbeat.
From now on, live an ordinary and simple life!
[I'm fine, please don't contact me again.]
She typed a line of text on her phone and replied to him.
The phone rang soon after, but she didn't answer.
But he kept calling, so she turned off the phone.
The next day, Tian Xin went to the factory to send someone to Li Baiwan. Before she even entered, she heard him yelling in his office: "Why was he arrested? What did you tell me when you sent him here? Huh? Where can I find him now?"
She knocked on the door.
Li Baiwan was on the phone when he heard the knock on the door. He turned around and lowered his voice: "Hurry up, hang up!"
"Director, why are you so angry?" Tian Xin pulled a chair for the person she brought over to sit down.
"Oh, this supply and marketing section chief is such a headache! He's always using this trick on everyone. I don't need to tell you how important the people on the production line are! He hired a gambler, and he's been detained just a few days after he arrived! The factory is in an uproar now. How can we continue like this? Oh..."
Li Baiwan took a sip of tea in annoyance, but spat it out as it was burned: "Pooh, pooh, pooh! What a crappy tea!" He then slammed the cup on the table and sighed.
Tian Xin almost laughed out loud at his action. She turned her head, covered her mouth and gritted her teeth, making sure that the laughter was suppressed before turning her head back.
"You just mentioned a gambler. Who is that? What made you so angry? What kind of job does he do?"
"The grinder from the kiln! His name is Liu Bo..." Li Baiwan was talking when he suddenly stopped and turned around to look Tian Xin up and down with a suspicious look on his face: "Hey, why do I remember you told me last time that he would get into trouble? Did you know this a long time ago?"
"Yes! Director, you didn't listen to me at that time! You should have fired him earlier. Is it necessary to make so many troubles?" Tian Xin poured a glass of water for the person next to her and nodded.
"How do you know?" Li Baiwan asked.
"Hey, Director, you just said that Liu Bo was... detained?" Tian Xin quickly changed the subject.
"I heard they were caught gambling in a group and are being detained for five days!"
"Five days? How will the factory handle this? Will they let him come after the detention?"
"Bullshit? Such a person can be recruited. Is Liu Shengli's brain kicked by a donkey? If he is not fired, what will happen during the New Year?" Li Baiwan became angrier and angrier as he spoke. He was about to drink tea but then he remembered that it was too hot. He took a cup of cold water and drank it in one gulp.
"What are you doing here today? Is there something wrong?" Li Baiwan finished drinking the water, glanced at Tian Xin and the person sitting next to her, and then he remembered to ask her the purpose of coming here.
"Oh, that's right. This is Uncle Guo Zhenmin from our village's team one. He used to work in the stone quarry in the county town, but now he has an old mother to take care of at home, so he came back! I was thinking about whether there is a suitable job and would like to arrange one for him." Tian Xin said and winked at Guo Zhenmin.
Guo Zhenmin quickly stood up: "Hello, Director. I am Guo Zhenmin. This is the wine I brewed myself. I brought some for you to try! Lao Baigan!" He put the two jars of liquor in his hands on Li Baiwan's table and smiled ingratiatingly.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Take it back!" Li Baiwan declined and glanced at the wine jar: "You can make wine yourself?"
"Ah! Yes! It was passed down from my family many years ago!"
"Sit down, sit down. You just said that you used to work in a stone factory. What kind of job did you do? How long did you work there?" Li Baiwan raised his chin and motioned Guo Zhenmin to sit down and talk.
"I've been working as a grinder for seven or eight years!"
"Grinding worker?" Li Baiwan turned to look at Tian Xin and said with a smile, "Are you sending someone here for me?"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't think too much. I don't know anything about Liu Bo! It's pure coincidence! Uncle Guo was well-known for his ability in the previous factory. He came back specially because he heard that our factory treats employees well, has high welfare benefits and humane management. When I heard about it, I quickly brought him here! You see..." Tian Xin first suppressed and then praised, and talked nonsense, leaving Li Baiwan in the air.
"Xiao Tian!" Li Baiwan pointed at Tian Xin and said with a smile: "You have such a big mouth! Hahahaha——"
Tian Xin smiled and raised her chin: "How is it? Give me an answer!"
"What else is there to say! Take Master Guo to complete the employment procedures. You can handle the rest!" Li Baiwan said to Tian Xin with a smile, his hand inadvertently resting on the wine jar.
"Okay, let's go first." The two stood up and walked towards the door. After leaving the door, Tian Xin turned back and stuck her head out of the door and said, "This wine is very strong. You must try it!" After that, she closed the office door for Li Baiwan and turned to leave.
"This girl... is not bad!" Li Baiwan exclaimed with a smile and turned his attention to the wine.
He opened a jar and sniffed it: "Hmm, it smells good!"
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