\u0003\u000eJiang Xun dodged quickly, and the thermos fell to the ground with a bang, splashing a burst of scalding water.
Ye Li was stunned, but soon she reacted and came to Aunt Mu's door in two steps. She raised her hand and knocked on the door: "Aunt Mu, open the door!"
After a few seconds, there was a sound of footsteps coming from the house. Aunt Mu slowly opened the door and saw Ye Li standing at the door. She smiled and asked, "Hey, Ye Li is back! What's the matter with you knocking on the door to see me?"
"Aren't you asking even though you already know the answer? Just now, a thermos filled with hot water flew out of the window and almost hit Jiang Xun! If we hadn't dodged quickly, the hot water would have spilled all over us, and we would have been seriously burned, right?" Ye Li asked angrily.
"I'm really sorry about what you said just now. It wasn't intentional. Don't take it to heart!" Aunt Mu explained.
"You didn't mean to? Ha..." Ye Li sneered, "Listen to what you are saying. What's going on? You have nothing to do in the middle of the night, so you throw a thermos bottle out of the window? You didn't throw it out earlier or later, but when we walked right up to you, you threw the thermos bottle out! What do you mean?"
Aunt Mu smiled and said, "I didn't lose the thermos bottle. Yueqin lost it. She lost her job recently and is in a bad mood. Please bear with me!"
"Throwing the thermos bottle outside when you're in a bad mood?"
"Yeah, you said she had to lose her job, so there was nothing I could do. It's not easy to find a job these days by relying on connections, and what if she lost her job just like that? You said we are all neighbors in the same yard, and we wouldn't say anything if you scolded her or even hit her when she did something wrong. But you guys always destroy people's jobs, and don't let people vent their anger?" Aunt Mu rolled her eyes and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
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"Who can she blame for losing her job? Who told her to fabricate things behind the scenes to report Jiang Xun? You guys are not going to say anything after they destroyed someone else's job, right? You are so hypocritical! Aunt Mu, your Yuan Yueqin destroyed her job entirely by herself, you can't blame anyone else at all! In my opinion, if she wanted to throw the thermos, she should have thrown it at her own head!" After Ye Li finished speaking, he snorted coldly and turned to walk into the yard.
"Hey, you little..." Before she could finish the last two dirty words, she saw Jiang Xun standing in the middle of the yard staring at her coldly. Aunt Mu immediately swallowed the two words back.
"Let's go home!" Ye Li stepped forward, put his arm around Jiang Xun, and went back to his room.
After entering the house, Jiang Xun put down the sack, untied the rope, and took a look at the contents of the sack - a head of juicy cabbage with lush green leaves that looked very fresh.
Ye Li grinned: "This is great, we will have vegetables to eat this winter!"
"These sweet potatoes are best when roasted!" Jiang Xun said, "They are also good if boiled in a pot."
"Bring some to the office tomorrow, and roast the sweet potatoes on the stove in the office at noon! By the way, there are a lot of sweet potatoes. Give some to mom tomorrow, give some to Master Qin, and give some to Daman and Xiaoman." Ye Li made arrangements again.
"Okay, I'll remember that!" Jiang Xun carried the sack to the back of the door and asked, "Aren't you going to give some to Nie Fan?"
"No need, he's not the type to live that way! Even if I gave it to him, he wouldn't have the patience to make it himself! Later we can roast a few sweet potatoes, put them in a bag and give them directly to Nie Fan when they're cooked!"
Jiang Xun said: "Okay."
Because he had to deliver sweet potatoes to Daman and Xiaoman, Jiang Xun left early the next day and rode to the factory before dawn. Ye Li waited for the bus to go to work alone on the street.
She struggled to squeeze onto the bus, holding onto the handrail and standing close to the back door.
Yuan Yueqin also boarded this bus, and she was squeezed near the front door.
Along the way, she was listening to people in the car gossiping about things in the factory.
"Have you heard about it? Jiang Gong from our factory has become a favorite of Director Han. I heard from people in the factory office that Director Han thinks highly of him now! Look at him, he is so young and yet he has won the favor of the director. Is he going to climb up the career ladder in the future?"
"That's right! The girls in our workshop are all fascinated by him when they mention him. They all dream of marrying him! But he's already married. I heard his wife is pretty and sensible. She's so cute!"
"I heard about it, too. I also heard that the girl named Yueqin and Jiang Xun were from the same compound, and she liked Jiang Xun so she had evil intentions to seduce him! But in the end, Jiang Xun didn't even bother to look at her! Previously, they staged a drama in the workshop, as if Jiang Xun was secretly trying to have an affair with her, but in the end, Jiang Xun's wife found out! Jiang Xun didn't treat her well either! Later, she teamed up with that deputy director Zhang to frame Jiang Xun, causing him to be suspended for inspection! After all the fuss, Jiang Xun didn't have any problems and was even praised by the factory. She and the deputy director were miserable. One went to work to burn the boiler, and she was fired!"
"Do you know what her job is?"
"I don't know! How did she get here? I heard that her mother slept with Deputy Director Zhang!"
The more Yuan Yueqin listened, the angrier she became. She suppressed her anger, clenched her back teeth tightly, and tried hard to control her emotions.
She coughed and reminded those people: "Why don't you talk about people behind their backs? You just heard it from others, it's not true at all!"
"Not good? What's wrong with that? You don't know, her reputation is ruined! Now everyone in the machinery factory is scolding her behind her back, saying she is not authentic! What we said is just the good part, there are worse things to say!"
"Yes, yes, yes, there's something even worse! Everyone in the factory said that Deputy Director Zhang looked down on her mother and originally didn't intend to help. But she and her mother took the initiative to accompany Deputy Director Zhang for a few nights, and then he agreed!"
"Tell me how despicable this woman is!"
"Her mother is not a good person either! She was a womanizer in the factory when she was young! Who knows how many men she slept with! Otherwise, with her mother's Dexing, how could she become a small leader in the factory office? She's dreaming!"
Yuan Yueqin could no longer bear it, and she yelled and slapped the middle-aged woman who had just spoken: "You are shameless! Your whole family is shameless! I will beat you to death!"
"You hit me! What the hell does it have to do with you when we talk about Yuan Yueqin? You can't be Yuan Yue, right?"
"Yes, I am Yuan Yueqin! You are all like dogs that can't spit out ivory. You are eating shit and stinking to death. You are spreading rumors! I will fight you!"
Yuan Yueqin glared with her red eyes and beat people in the carriage like a madman.
After she made such a fuss, the other people immediately became annoyed. They crowded in front of Yuan Yueqin and surrounded her. Some pulled her hair, some punched her, and there was a woman with great fighting power waving her five-pronged steel fork at her face, scratching Yuan Yueqin's face like a big cat, with bright red blood marks one after another.
“Ahhhhh——” Yuan Yueqin screamed like crazy.
The bus stopped and the driver and the conductor came over to separate them. It took a lot of effort to separate them.
"If you keep making trouble, I'll throw you all out!"
Under the driver's threat, the few people calmed down and arrived at the gate of the machinery factory. Half of the people got off the car, including the women who had fought with Yuan Yueqin.
There was an empty seat in the car, so Yuan Yueqin sat down. She covered her face with her hands, and tears dripped from between her fingers.
Ye Li sat not far from her, looking at her expressionlessly.
She didn't know whether what those people said was true, but she knew that Yuan Yueqin had brought this upon herself.
Yuan Yueqin cried for a while and then raised her hand to wipe her face. When she turned around, she saw Ye Li looking at her with cold eyes. At that moment, her heart was filled with hatred.
She also stared at Ye Li. The two looked at each other for a while, and then Ye Li looked away.
Soon, the weaving factory stop arrived. Ye Li got off the bus with his bag on his back and walked slowly towards the factory gate following the crowd.
Suddenly, she heard the sound of jogging footsteps and was about to stop.
A huge force came from behind, pushing her out fiercely. Ye Li fell forward violently. The moment she landed on the ground, she heard an angry voice: "Ye Li, go to hell!"
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