She's a businesswoman, not a philanthropist. So even though she pays Lin Yang a high salary, it's because he's capable of handling the job.
Otherwise, she would never have paid that much.
Her payment has been made; now it's up to Lin Yang to see if he can afford it.
After explaining everything, Lu Huaijiao went to the tram station with Niu Fangfang to take the tram home. As they passed the gate, she smiled and greeted Grandpa Niu, who was standing there.
"Sir, we'll be relying on you for the factory in the future. As for your salary, you can rest assured it won't be less than it is now."
The meaning behind those words was clear to Grandpa Niu without Lu Huaijiao needing to explain. Moreover, Niu Fangfang was also there; she would definitely tell her grandpa if she heard them.
"Grandpa, Jiaojiao means you can continue working here. Don't worry, Jiaojiao is very capable and will definitely lead you all to make a lot of money."
Lu Huaijiao hadn't even officially started yet, but Niu Fangfang already had complete confidence in her.
I wonder where this inexplicable self-confidence comes from?
However, Lu Huaijiao felt that it might be okay to be superstitious for a while, since she herself believed that she could make money, right?
She smiled and put her hand on Niu Fangfang's shoulder: "You're right. If you work with me, we might make a lot of money, but we'll definitely make money."
After all, she had experience in her past life, didn't she?
Grandpa Niu was extremely grateful that Lu Huaijiao continued to employ him, and he expressed that he would continue to perform his duties diligently in the future.
Lu Huaijiao naturally believed it.
After returning from the suburbs, Lu Huaijiao planned to go back to the school to pick up her things first, and then take the tram home.
The two walked to the school chatting and laughing. When they went to the classroom to get their things, they heard people around them discussing a robbery.
She wasn't someone who enjoyed watching irrelevant people make a scene, so she didn't listen attentively.
Robberies and the like are common now. After all, it's only recently opened up, and many systems aren't perfect yet. If you encounter one, you can only accept your bad luck.
Speaking of this robbery, she recalled her past life, where Gu Changzheng was also killed while driving a long-distance truck. That incident happened next year…
"Jiaojiao..."
Niu Fangfang had already walked back from the crowd: "Did you hear that? The one who was robbed said he's Zhao Lei from our school."
"Um?"
Lu Huaijiao was thinking about her past life when she heard this. She frowned and looked up: "Was he also robbed in the city?"
The areas with poor public security these days are probably long-distance roads, right? It's in those remote, inaccessible places that robberies are more likely to happen.
How come Zhao Lei would encounter something like this even in the city?
Niu Fangfang sighed.
"Where is the city? I heard he went to Hongqi County yesterday, and when they came back last night, they were robbed on the road. I heard someone even died."
"Well……"
Zhao Lei went to Hongqi County.
The robbery that happened on the way back from Hongqi County?
Lu Huaijiao had taken the bus from Hongqi County to the provincial capital twice. Although there were indeed many sparsely populated woodlands along the way, it shouldn't have been enough to lead to being robbed.
What's going on?
She didn't understand.
Having found out the gossip, Niu Fangfang naturally wouldn't let Lu Huaijiao keep guessing. She told Lu Huaijiao everything she had found out in one go.
It turns out that the bus that was robbed yesterday was the last bus from Hongqi County to the provincial capital. There were more than ten people on the bus at the time, plus the driver, making a total of about twenty people.
Their car came out of Hongqi County and traveled for about an hour before entering the territory of another county when their tire blew out.
The driver told the passengers to wait in the car while he got out to check the vehicle's condition.
Instead of the driver, a group of masked, menacing robbers carrying knives got on the bus.
They made everyone in the car hand over all their money, but that wasn't enough. They reportedly also grabbed a woman, dragged her to a nearby grove, and raped her…
"Who are those people? Robbing them is one thing, but why treat a woman like that?"
Niu Fangfang was a little angry.
The main problem is that we're all women, and she just doesn't understand why, in a world that talks about gender equality, it's always women who suffer more harm.
Lu Huaijiao nodded, agreeing with Niu Fangfang's point.
However, those robbers were vicious and ruthless people, and their thought processes were naturally incomparable to those of normal people.
"Perhaps there weren't many women on the bus at the time, or perhaps that woman was particularly pretty, or perhaps those robbers were just scum."
Lu Huaijiao offered her own hypothesis.
Niu Fangfang sighed and said, "Zhao Lei is really in a bad situation this time. As his older brother, he can't even protect his own sister."
"Hmm? Zhao Lei's sister?"
"Yes, it's that woman who was taken into the woods. I heard she's Zhao Lei's younger sister." Niu Fangfang looked at Lu Huaijiao, a little confused, after saying that: "What's wrong? Jiaojiao, do you know his sister?"
Lu Huaijiao hummed in agreement.
"If it really is Zhao Rui, she was my son's teacher before."
"Oh... she's a teacher? What will she do now? I heard that many people saw her disheveled and that her family took her out of the police station."
Niu Fangfang is a master at gathering gossip. She hears a lot of news and then naturally pieces it together to form a complete story.
After she finished speaking, she added, "That's not right. If she's a teacher, why isn't she teaching today, Monday? What's she doing in Hongqi County?"
Don't let Niu Fangfang's seemingly naive and innocent appearance fool you; she's actually quite clever.
Lu Huaijiao smiled and said, "She was before, but not anymore. She's been suspended from her job recently!" She didn't directly mention that Zhao Rui had tried to seduce Gu Changzheng.
Although Niu Fangfang would definitely side with her if she told her about it, the matter had already been resolved, so Lu Huaijiao wouldn't keep bringing it up.
There's no need to waste your breath talking about someone like Zhao Rui.
"Well……"
Niu Fangfang couldn't guess the connection between them.
However, after thinking about it for a moment, she came up with a bold guess: "If a teacher in a top-performing class can be suspended, it proves that she herself has some problems, right?"
"I wonder if she angered those thugs while she was in the car?"
Niu Fangfang's argument is not based on victim blaming.
Instead, it is a result derived from inference based on the actual situation.
Lu Huaijiao shook her head: "Who knows?"
She said she had already packed her textbooks and left the classroom with Niu Fangfang: "There are more and more migrant workers in the city these days, so you have to be careful when you're alone."
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