Chapter 1575 Don't be silly and end up empty-handed
After meeting Wu Yan, Tang Xiangui did not go to Li Ye again, but instead directly showed his "sincerity".
He summoned all members of the evaluation team, first removing more than twenty testers from the team, then gave a serious self-criticism, and announced his decision to resign as the head of the evaluation team.
The dozen or so testers who were removed from the team were initially furious, but when they saw Tang Xianggui resign from his position as team leader in a self-disciplined manner, they were momentarily at a loss.
"Hey Lao Tang, what are you doing? We just dozed off for a bit while working and made a small mistake, why did it have to come to this?"
Do you know what people will say about us if we say things like that? We uncouth people don't care about our reputation, but you, Tang Xiangui, don't care about yours either?
Tang Xiangui frowned, hesitated for a long time, and then said with great frustration, "I also want to save face! But they won't give it to me!"
Old Zhou and the others became agitated: "Who's not giving you face? Who are you talking about? Isn't it that Li Ye?"
Yesterday, Director Hou came over and gave everyone a scolding. Old Zhou and the others were already feeling resentful, but since there are always tall people to hold up the sky, Tang Xiangui went to apologize, the prototype testing will continue, and everyone's good days are yet to come.
As a result, after one night, not only were they stripped of their qualification to test the prototype vehicle, but Tang Xiangui was also forced to resign from his position as team leader. They were utterly humiliated, let alone going to Honglangman again.
"Everyone, stop speculating and go back to your posts. Let's just pretend this never happened."
"Old Tang, what are you saying? What exactly happened? How could things have changed so much in just one night?"
"No change in the regime. The main responsibility lies with me. You won't be affected. Don't ask any more questions. Just save face for me, Old Tang, okay?"
"No, regardless of right or wrong, Lao Tang, you have to give us an explanation."
Tang Xiangui and Lao Zhou and others started arguing, but the more Lao Zhou and the others wanted to understand something, the more Tang Xiangui acted aggrieved and evasive, making it seem as if he had suffered a great injustice.
"Since you can't say it, Lao Tang, then let's go ask that Li Ye. I want to see just how capable these outsiders are."
"Don't go, don't go! Hey, what are you doing?"
After making a fuss for quite a while, Lao Zhou and the others finally lost their patience and went to the guesthouse to find Li Ye.
Tang Xiangui was jumping up and down trying to stop Lao Zhou and the others, but Lao Zhou and his group of more than twenty people were all hot-tempered and bold, so how could they possibly be stopped?
When Xiao Zhan saw Lao Zhou and the others go to find Li Ye, he felt a little panicked and scared, and nervously tugged at Tang Xiangui's sleeve.
"Uncle Tang, if this causes trouble, won't it affect your future?"
"Heh~"
Tang Xiangui chuckled self-deprecatingly, then said to Xiao Zhan, "Xiao Zhan, sometimes you can't have both face and substance. When you lose face, you have to hold on to what you have left, and don't end up with nothing."
Xiao Zhan was a bit dumbfounded, not understanding what Tang Xiangui meant, but the final "empty hands" made him understand a little. Even if Tang Xiangui resigned from his position as the head of the evaluation team, he didn't want to return the benefits he had received a few days ago.
But Xiao Zhan couldn't understand why Tang Xiangui couldn't bend down and try to persuade Tang Xiangui when things hadn't reached the point of complete misunderstanding.
Actually, Tang Xiangui had a good colleague who was also a technician but later moved to a management position and was promoted.
Later, the other party gave Tang Xiangui a piece of advice: "If you are given an important position, it must be because you meet the other party's expectations. If you no longer meet the other party's expectations, then you will be eliminated immediately."
Tang Xiangui realized that even if he knelt down and apologized to Li Ye, he couldn't change the higher-ups' opinion of him. Continuing to be the team leader would only bring him no benefits other than taking the blame.
Then why are you still clinging to your position? You might as well stir up trouble and complicate the conflict!
The workers' dissatisfaction with Li Ye has nothing to do with me, Tang Xianggui. I'm over fifty years old, what can you do to me?
The key point is that after the workers made a fuss, the benefits that Honglangman had given everyone a few days ago became compensation for them, so Tang Xiangui's share didn't need to be returned!
If you take someone's money to do something for them, and you can't do it, you should be able to refund the money. If you don't want to refund the money, you have to have a reason, right?
A month's salary is only a few hundred yuan. Ten years' salary is already in my pocket, why should I take it out again?
However, Tang Xiangui successfully provoked Lao Zhou and others, and Lao Zhou and others went to the guesthouse to block Li Ye. But man proposes, God disposes, and in the end, the waters were not muddied.
Because Lao Zhou and the others couldn't get into Li Ye's room at all. Qu Qingyou and Jiang Shiqi were standing at the door, pushing and shoving for five or six minutes, and the twenty-odd people still couldn't get in.
Old Zhou clutched his aching wrist and glared angrily at his coworkers.
Everyone came together to ask Li Ye for face, but they were always the ones pushed to the front. During the shoving, they suffered several times in silence, while the twenty or so people behind them did nothing to help except make a lot of noise.
This is actually the downside of the communal dining system: there are always some particularly clever people who can get a share of the soup by following behind. Although they may eat a few less bites of meat, they will never bear any responsibility whatsoever.
After things had escalated to this point, Lao Zhou was in a bind; he couldn't leave, and he couldn't fight back.
However, at that moment, a police car arrived at the entrance of the guesthouse, giving Lao Zhou and the others a chance to go downhill.
"Hey Li, we just wanted to ask you something, and you called the police? What, are you afraid we'll bully you?"
"Exactly, if you don't have the guts, don't do something shady. You withdrew from this test yourselves, so why are you putting the blame on us?"
The group of people were making a lot of noise, as if Li Ye wasn't being open and honest enough.
These days, if you're the first to call Lei Zi in a fight, you're considered a coward.
However, when the police arrived, they completely ignored Lao Zhou and the others, and instead excitedly went to find Li Ye.
"Comrade Li, we've caught those robbers you mentioned who were blocking the road. Now, come with us to identify them, okay?"
"They caught them? So fast?"
Li Ye was very surprised. After all, there was no Sky Eye system in this day and age. Even if the portrait he helped draw was very realistic, it would still be a huge project to check it by manpower alone.
"We did catch them, and a whole group of them at that, but they're being a bit stubborn. Do you think you could..."
"Okay, okay, I'll go with you."
Li Ye, who had remained motionless inside the house, finally came out, casually pushed aside Lao Zhou and the others gathered in front of the door, and easily followed the police officers away.
Old Zhou and the others stood there dumbfounded for a long time. After asking around at the guesthouse, they finally learned some things in a vague way.
"That Li Ye actually helped the police solve a case? He caught those ruthless people who used adzes to beat people?"
"It sounds like that. The people at the guesthouse said that police officers have been coming to see Li Ye a lot these past few days."
"Then we don't need to deal with him, right? Those heroes will handle Li Ye. Catching one only makes them intimidate a whole bunch. They'll probably have his head smashed open one night."
"Yes, yes, we don't need to get involved. Li Ye will suffer the consequences on his own; even God can't stand by and watch."
"That's right, this little brat doesn't know his place. He'll be in trouble in a few days."
When the enemy is too powerful, hoping that he will soon suffer misfortune is a very effective psychological coping method that can quickly resolve the frustration in one's heart.
Old Zhou and the others were all experts in this field, and they immediately sensed that Li Ye was in for trouble. They decided they had to have a drink to celebrate.
An apology failed, so they tried to shift the blame, and as a result, the police came to present them with a banner.
(End of this chapter)
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