Wu Xueliang was terrified. How dare his mother?
Didn't you see how Ruan Xianxian was so resentful and indignant, even kicking a dog if it passed by? When she was asked to plant rice seedlings, she didn't dare to damage a single seedling?
You can do anything in this village, except damage to collective property!
“The wire broke, we’ll buy a new one.” He instinctively said, shielding the beautiful woman behind him.
Suddenly, a small hand patted Wu Xueliang's shoulder. He turned around and met Ruan Xianxian's reassuring smile. The heart that had been in his throat settled back down.
"Don't worry, Jing Si bit the thread, it has nothing to do with Auntie."
Upon hearing this, Wu Xueliang breathed a sigh of relief, looked up and smiled at her, then said to Hu Heshuo, "Captain, I'll take the men to the city to settle them down first."
Hu Heshuo nodded, and only after leading the beautiful woman out of the brigade office did the mountain-like pressure dissipate, and he turned back with a helpless expression.
What brings you here?
The beautiful woman glared at him after she recovered from her daze. "It's all because you're such a troublemaker. You testified and got the Jing family girl locked up in the police station. The Jing family came knocking on our door, and your father was worried, so he asked me to come along and check on things."
She patted her chest, pulled her son over to examine him from head to toe, and muttered, "Do all the men in Heilongjiang Province grow up eating iron? How come he's so tall and big?"
Then she burst into laughter through her tears, saying, "I've gotten darker and thinner."
She took Wu Xueliang's hand and said, "This time, come back to Beijing with Mom. I'm worried about leaving you alone in this poor and remote place."
Given their family background, it wouldn't be difficult for them to find a job in Beijing and leave their son there. It was only because he insisted on coming to the countryside to be with his cousin as soon as he graduated that he made a fuss.
"Mom..." Wu Xueliang had only uttered one word when Ruan Xianxian, who walked slowly, caught up and greeted him politely. "Hello, Auntie!"
The auntie gave a forced smile; she could clearly see that the girl had ripped the phone line off, but this was not a place for reason.
She was powerless against circumstances, and although she saw it, she said nothing.
But I'm even more determined not to let my son continue hanging out with these people, or they'll corrupt him.
"Are you going back to the city to inform the Jing family?" Ruan Xianxian asked with a smile.
Wu Ma maintained her composure, her chin slightly raised, neither confirming nor denying.
Jing Si was effectively imprisoned by peasants. Regardless of the kinship between the two families, as an attendant and an elder, it was only right and proper for him to inform the Jing family.
Ruan Xianxian glanced at Wu Xueliang, then shifted her gaze to the beautiful woman's face. "Auntie, to be frank, there's no point in you making this call."
The brigade will not release the person without compensation.
You don't know the newly appointed captain. He still has an unresolved murder case on his hands, the kind of person who can squeeze a ton of dirt out of a toad.
Leaving aside whether it would be useful for the city to pressure the county and the county to pressure the village to release the person, don't you think about yourself or Comrade Wu?
He's going to stay with the brigade.
Wu Xueliang pursed his lips. In the past, she would call him Lao Wu or Liangzi, and if she was in a hurry, she would call him by his full name. Now she called him Comrade Wu. Was she trying to completely sever ties with him?
The beautiful woman narrowed her eyes, then laughed angrily: "Are you threatening me?"
“That’s one way to understand it.” Ruan Xianxian’s smile was perfect, and Wu Xueliang tightened his grip on his mother’s arm.
"Mom, this is a reminder that it's none of our business, so don't get involved."
Now, all the anger that had been building up since receiving the phone call about his son becoming a peasant, and then the Jing family coming to his door to come and send him to the countryside, was unleashed on Wu Xueliang.
"None of our business? Your fiancée is in jail. Is this how your father taught you to be so faithless? You've disappointed me greatly."
Wu Xueliang's temper flared up immediately. "What fiancée? You arranged it without my consent. If you like her so much, let my father marry her!"
However, after he finished speaking in anger, he regretted it and looked up to see that his mother's eyes were red.
Those red eyes were looking at him with an extremely disappointed gaze, so unfamiliar. "How did you become like this?"
Do you know how difficult it is for your father to walk in the Ministry of Education now? Do you know how much worry he has caused by the repeated rejections of his proposal to reinstate the college entrance examination?
We raised you all these years, and now you're graduating and just going to the countryside? Fine, your parents are still young, they can hold on for a few more years.
Can't you see that your father's Ministry of Education needs the support of Jingpai literati? Is all you can think about is romance and love?
Wu Xueliang gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. "But, but, but I don't like Jingxuan. I hate her." How can I spend the rest of my life with someone I don't like or even hate?
The beautiful woman finally smiled and softened her voice, "No one will make you like her, and no one will make you spend the rest of your life with her."
"All your father wants is the Jing family's support. Once the policy is implemented, there will be marital discord and even divorce..." she coaxed patiently.
Seeing the glint in Wu Xueliang's eyes, Ruan Xianxian turned and left.
Writers!
It is both the most affectionate and the most heartless!
Back at the brigade office, Li Dazui greeted him with great enthusiasm, "How did I do? Did that rumor spread like wildfire, becoming known throughout the city?"
Will you deliver on your promise to me?
Ruan Xianxian handed over the steel mill matter to Li Dazui. She told him the basic requirements but didn't teach him the specifics of how to do it.
Unexpectedly, Li Dazui gave her a surprise, saying he would rather work at the steel mill without a salary. It was a bit of an exaggeration, but people with no entertainment life loved to hear such things.
Moreover, Li Dazui did exactly as she instructed, keeping the breeding farm out of the picture and letting the steel mill take the lead.
"Great, report to the new factory tomorrow and be responsible for cleaning the livestock sheds."
Li Dazui is a talent who should be placed in the publicity department, but we can't tell her now, she's too easily emboldened. Let her go to the factory first to temper her temperament!
"That's great! From now on, I'll be the first woman in the village to earn a wage. When I get home at night, I'll make my husband kneel down and wash my feet! Hahahaha!"
Watching Li Dazui, hands on hips, laughing heartily, then running off with a mouthful of teeth flying everywhere, Ruan Xianxian sighed. He'd really gotten too cocky; he needed to be disciplined.
"The village has produced a notorious female scoundrel who's been abandoned by even the dogs. How did you decide to hire her?" Hu Heshuo, who had somehow appeared next to Ruan Xianxian, asked.
Ruan Xianxian smiled and said, "Egoism is fine."
Hu Heshuo raised his eyebrows.
"Which woman in this village doesn't have elderly parents to support and young children to raise? If I hire someone else, I'll worry that they'll line their own pockets or misuse public resources."
Li Dazui wouldn't, wouldn't steal chickens or eggs just to give her children and in-laws an extra bite to eat. If anyone tried to harm her and risk losing their job, she'd kill them first.
"You're quite good at using people." Hu Heshuo changed the subject, gesturing towards the woodshed where Jing Si was imprisoned, "What about the person inside?"
At first, they were locked in a small, dark room and made a ruckus, but then, I don't know if they've come to their senses, but there's been no sound from inside.
"A natural spineless coward, all that skin and no flesh, he's soft inside too." Ruan Xianxian sneered, a wicked idea forming in her mind as she curled her lips into a smile.
"Let him go hungry, give him no water or food, let him think you've forgotten about him. In less than two days, he'll have a mental breakdown."
"At least this amount can be compensated..."
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