Buling heard it too and nodded to Sister Ma.
Sister Ma understood immediately and made way for her: "Comrade, please come in."
Qi Gong smiled, walked past Sister Ma into the house, and stopped in front of Bu Ling. "Comrade Bu Ling!"
Bu Ling put on a polite smile: "Mr. Qi, please have a seat. Is there something you need?"
Instead of sitting down, Qi Gong said, "Comrade Bu Ling, can I talk to you alone?"
Buling put on a polite smile: "This isn't appropriate. We're a man and a woman alone together. You can just say what's on your mind here."
Qi Gong was clearly not good with words, and after Bu Ling's words, he didn't know how to refute them. He glanced at the three women sitting not far away, mumbled a few words, and after a long while, finally made up his mind:
"Comrade Buling, could you...could you please talk to Director Sang about my mother-in-law getting old..."
“No!” Bu Ling refused decisively, no longer bothering to maintain a polite smile. She bluntly said, “Engineer Qi, you’ve come to the wrong person. I’m just a restaurant waitress. I can’t help you, and I don’t have that much power.”
Qi Gong blushed deeply after what Bu Ling said, "Then... what about Director Sang..."
Bu Ling kindly suggested, "Why don't you go find Director Sang and ask him to plead for leniency?"
Qi Gong stood there helplessly, pushing up his glasses: "Comrade Bu Ling, what requests do you have?"
Bu Ling raised his head and looked directly at Qi Gong: "My request is that you don't make demands of me, otherwise I can't do it!"
Qi Gong was embarrassed by Bu Ling's blunt words. Seeing the impatience on Bu Ling's face, he paused, then said nothing more, "Sorry to bother you." After saying that, he turned and left in a hurry.
After he left, Wu Yuanyuan said, "Engineer Qi has it tough too~" It was obvious that Aunt Qi had forced him to do that.
Bling chuckled, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
Admittedly, Qi Gong's prioritization of the nation is admirable, but this is not the reason for his neglect of his family.
If Qi Gong had paid more attention to his family, Qi Yuhuai wouldn't have gone astray so much, and Aunt Qi wouldn't have been able to act so arrogantly in the Qi family for so long.
Furthermore, to put it bluntly, Aunt Qi's behavior is entirely due to the spoiling of Qi Gong and the Qi family. If Qi Gong didn't have to clean up Aunt Qi's messes after something happened, Aunt Qi wouldn't be so brazen.
If Grandpa Qi and Grandma Qi could be a little more assertive, they could have allowed Grandma Shi, a relative by marriage, to control the whole family.
"Is this person here to ask Sister Buling for help?" Zhu Zhizhi suddenly spoke up, interrupting Buling's thoughts.
Bu Ling suddenly came to his senses, "Yes, he's the son-in-law of that old lady we were just talking about."
"So he came to ask Xiaobu for help because of his mother-in-law?" Sister Ma chimed in.
Buling nodded, reiterating his stance once again: "I'm just an ordinary person, how could I have such great power? He's asked the wrong person."
Sister Ma felt that Bu Ling was implying something, but she didn't say anything.
"Oh, right, Sister Yuanyuan, wait for me after get off work tonight, I'll go back to the compound with you," Buling said with a smile.
Wu Yuanyuan was immediately asked, "Didn't your in-laws' grandfather come over? Why are you still living in the compound?"
Bling smiled at her: "What do you think?"
Wu Yuanyuan looked at the smile on Bu Ling's face and immediately understood: "Okay, then let's go together tonight, but your Sangshen isn't coming to pick you up?"
Buling gulped down her water: "No, let's go home together tonight and have a good talk, shall we?"
Wu Yuanyuan gave a haughty snort, "That's more like it!"
After chatting and laughing for a while, Grandpa Tan and today's supplies arrived together, and the four gossipy people dispersed to go about their own business.
The restaurant was bustling as usual today, with the conversation revolving around the May-December romance between a woman in her sixties and a man in his thirties.
Bling sat behind the counter listening with amusement. Although rumors are always exaggerated, as long as they bring him joy, what more could he ask for?
In the evening, Bu Ling and Wu Yuanyuan walked home hand in hand, gossiping while also catching up on their sisterly bond.
"Ling, you have to admit, this old lady Shi is quite something, still able to have a twilight romance at such an old age." Wu Yuanyuan's expression was one of utter disbelief.
"So what? People of all ages have the right to pursue happiness!" Bu Ling said dismissively.
"What's wrong with this? Even in later generations, there are relationships between grandfathers and granddaughters." She patted Wu Yuanyuan's shoulder earnestly: "Little Wu, age is not a problem, gender is not a problem, you still underestimate love!"
Xiao Wu was speechless: "What are you doing?"
Bu Ling didn't give Xiao Wu a chance to speak at all: "Xiao Wu, you still need more experience!"
Xiao Wu shut his mouth.
"Oh, right, Ling, do you know who led those kids who smashed windows and threw firecrackers yesterday?" Wu Yuanyuan suddenly asked again.
Bling genuinely didn't know; she had only heard it was a group of children, so she cooperatively asked, "Who are they?"
Wu Yuanyuan looked around, then leaned close to Bu Ling and whispered, "It's Wang Aiguo."
"Grandma Lan's lifeline?" Bu Ling lowered his voice in response.
Wu Yuanyuan nodded and said mysteriously, "It was him. I didn't know him at first, but on my way home from get off work yesterday, I ran into Wang Aiguo with a group of kids in a corner, doing something."
“I vaguely heard things like ‘glass’ and ‘firecrackers,’ but I didn’t pay much attention to them at first. But when I got back to the yard and heard my mom say it, I understood everything.”
"And another thing, you'd never guess who was with Wang Aiguo," Wu Yuanyuan said, raising an eyebrow with a smug look on her face.
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