The two sisters were both quite shrewd. It's said that Zhou Fangchun understood Zhou Huilan, but Zhou Huilan didn't understand her younger sister at all.
Zhou Fangchun went from being an official's wife to working as an assistant to a swindler nun. After the nun absconded with the money, she was cornered in her home by an agitated member and raped, almost dying on her own.
Most women would be devastated and unable to cope with such a blow.
But Zhou Fangchun was different. Her husband fell from grace, betrayed her, and had a son with someone else. Although she was upset, she didn't feel like she couldn't go on living.
In her view, as long as there were benefits, as long as Mao Guangyu could give her advantages, she could keep that family going.
Being raped is a serious humiliation for a woman, but Zhou Fangchun treated it like being bitten by a dog. Her only thought was to abscond with the money. As long as she could transfer the money out, she was willing to endure any amount of suffering.
Zhou Huilan wanted Zhou Fangchun's company and money, but Zhou Fangchun wanted her life. The two sisters maintained a balance in this strange yet harmonious way.
Zhou Huilan was a rural woman with limited experience; how could she know what it meant to be a legal representative? She treated herself like a company boss, and on her very first day at the company, she set rules for her employees:
“Zhou Fangchun doesn’t care about you, but I won’t let you get away with it. Some of you are just too lazy. From now on, you’ll be fined 50 cents for every minute you’re late, and if you’re more than half an hour late, you’ll lose your entire day’s wages. Always remember, the company hired you not to enjoy yourselves, but to make money for the company. You’re getting such high salaries, and you still want to hire cleaners to do all the cleaning? Starting tomorrow, I’ll create a duty roster. Whoever’s on duty will be responsible for sweeping, wiping tables, cleaning windows, and cleaning toilets. Do you understand?”
Ai Fang initially felt sorry for Zhou Huilan, this sitting duck. She figured that since she also had the surname Zhou, she was most likely related to the Zhou siblings, and possibly even the older sister. To drag her sister into this mess and send her to her death, Zhou Fangchun was quite inhumane.
She wanted to remind Zhou Huilan of something, but Zhou Huilan just frowned when she saw her, as if Ai Fang had dug up her ancestral grave.
"Hey, did you hear me? Don't wear such revealing clothes, don't wear high heels, and don't wear lipstick. You're here to work, not to sell your body!" Zhou Huilan said sarcastically.
Ai Fang ignored her and waved her hand, intending to leave.
Zhou Huilan, however, wouldn't let her go. She grabbed her collar and said angrily:
"What kind of attitude is that? The boss speaks to you, and you don't even greet him respectfully? You don't even have basic manners! With an attitude like that, you think you can stay in this company? I'll fire you in a heartbeat!"
Ai Fang took a deep breath. Has Zhou Huilan lost her mind this week?
She may dress up nicely and think about getting money from the old man every day, but she earns money through her own abilities. She doesn't sell her body or try to seduce Bao Liu, so why should Zhou Huilan boss her around?
Ai Fang had always been quite vigilant; she knew early on that the mutual aid association would abscond, and according to Chu Yu, it should happen around the end of the year.
Chinese people need money during the Lunar New Year, and many people get married before the New Year. The older folks will definitely want to bring out money so they can show off during the New Year. If so many people bring out money at the same time, the mutual aid society will definitely collapse.
Ai Fang earned 20,000 to 30,000 yuan from the mutual aid association. She was short of money and never spent it recklessly. She had long wanted to quit.
If she hadn't taken Chu Yu's money to keep an eye on the Zhou siblings, she would have been waiting for Zhou Huilan to scold her!
Ai Fang completely ignored her.
Zhou Huilan was so angry that she went to find Zhou Fangchun, but Zhou Fangchun stopped her.
"Big sister, you can cause trouble for whoever you want, just don't mess with these top employees. Ai Fang and Qiao Xiaomai are our company's star performers. They can generate hundreds of thousands in revenue a month. If you drive them away, how am I supposed to make money? If I don't make money, how will you get a share?"
Zhou Huilan's eyes widened. How could that vixen in high heels, swaying her hips, earn so much money? What makes her so special?
"So I can't yell at her? Didn't you see how she treated me? I'm the company boss, after all. It's only natural for a boss to yell at his employees."
"Hey, sister, you should stop yelling! If you drive your employees away, who will make money for you? If you have nothing better to do, go play chess and drink tea with the old man at the door, or keep an eye on your Bao Liu. He keeps pestering Qiao Xiaomai to ask her about her birth date."
"What!!"
Zhou Fangchun rolled her eyes. This couple was such a headache. If she didn't want them to talk back, she would never have hired such idiots into the company.
Fortunately, there are advantages to being stupid.
With Zhou Huilan as the company's legal representative, Zhou Fangchun no longer needs to live in fear.
"You're saying Zhou Huilan became the company's legal representative and is still the boss?" Chu Yu frowned.
Ai Fang leaned back on the sofa, took out a thin Marlboro, took a deep drag, and then nodded.
"That's right. She's in charge of the company now, and the couple has made a mess of it. They're also incredibly stingy. I've made so much money for the company, and yesterday I spilled some tea on a photocopy that cost less than a penny, and they actually made me pay for it."
Ai Fang was truly impressed.
She utterly despised Zhou Huilan, that idiot.
Chu Yu knew that Zhou Fangchun and Zhou Jian'an were heartless and treacherous, but she didn't know that the two of them would even betray their own sister.
However, when Zhou Jian'an got divorced, Zhou Huilan tormented Shu Hui quite a bit. Zhou Huilan was betrayed by her own family, so she deserved it. Chu Yu wouldn't sympathize with such a person. Whether Zhou Huilan lives or dies is none of her business.
But she didn't want to see only Zhou Huilan, the small fry, fall into the net, while the big fish, Zhou Fangchun and Zhou Jian'an, went unpunished.
Who has the ledger?
"The mutual aid association has an account book, but the real account book is in Zhou Fangchun's hands. Zhou Fangchun has always kept the account book locked in a cabinet, and only she has the key to that room."
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