Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Report

After Xia Junshan returned, he told Meng Yufei about Lu Yannan coming to his house for dinner in the future. Meng Yufei nodded and said:

"Then I can pick him up when I pick him up from school. It's not easy for a little kid like him to come all the way to the island."

Although Master Li had a close relationship with the Lu family, to Lu Yannan, he was, after all, an elder whom Lu Yannan had never met.

In the next few days, Meng Yufei would pick up her two children from kindergarten after get off work at noon every day, and they would go to the cafeteria to get their meals together. After eating, she would let the two children take a nap at home.

After waking up, he would send them to kindergarten and pick them up after get off work in the afternoon. After dinner, Lu Yannan would play at home for a while, sometimes playing Huarong Road with Xia Qinqin, and sometimes playing chess with Xia Junshan.

In the evening, I sent Lu Yannan back to Teacher Li's home.

After a few days, I don’t know what Lu Yannan was thinking, but Xia Qinqin was very happy.

She is an only child and has always been the only child in the family. Now she has a little brother who goes to school and eats with her, which she feels very fresh.

At noon that day, after lunch, Meng Yufei urged the two children to take a nap, but Xia Qinqin pulled Lu Yannan and said, "Brother Yannan, come and sleep with us at noon."

She heard from Fangfang that she slept with her sister at home. Xia Qinqin didn't have a sister, but now she had a brother at home.

"I can cover you with my little quilt, and the bed in our room is bigger than yours."

Lu Yannan said seriously with a straight face: "No. Boys and girls cannot sleep together after the age of seven."

"But we haven't even reached seven years old yet." Xia Qinqin said with her head tilted.

Lu Yannan said: "This is just a general statement. Only children sleep together. Older children sleep separately."

"But my mom and dad are adults too, how can they sleep together?" Then she turned around and asked, "Dad, can't grown-up children sleep with others?"

Xia Junshan paused, coughed and said, "What Yannan said makes sense. When we grow up, boys should sleep with boys, and girls with girls."

"Then why do you sleep with your mother?"

"Uh... because, because your mother and I are husband and wife, we can sleep together after we get married." Xia Junshan explained with a shake of his head.

Meng Yufei came over at this time, patted Xia Qinqin's head, and said with a smile: "You are still a child now, so sleep with your parents first."

Xia Qinqin asked again: "Then why doesn't Brother Yannan have to sleep with Mom and Dad? Isn't he the same age as me?"

When Lu Yannan heard this, the corners of his mouth drooped and he said sullenly: "Uncle and aunt, I'm going to take a nap first." Then he turned and went into the room.

Xia Qinqin looked at his back and noticed that he seemed unhappy. "Mom, is Brother Yannan angry?"

Meng Yufei squatted down and explained to her daughter: "He is a little sad. Qinqin, Brother Yannan's parents are very busy at work and have gone to a far place and can't accompany him. In the future, let's not ask about his parents in front of him, okay?"

Xia Qinqin nodded: "Okay." Brother Yannan is so pitiful, his parents are not around.

"Mom, please don't go to work far away, okay? Well, if you want to go, remember to take me with you!" Xia Qinqin grabbed Meng Yufei's hand and said.

Meng Yufei touched her face and said seriously: "Okay, Mom will always be by your side."

Xia Qinqin smiled, then turned to Xia Junshan and said, "Dad is with us too."

Xia Junshan nodded: "Okay."

On the way to the kindergarten in the afternoon, Xia Qinqin held Meng Yufei with one hand and Lu Yannan with the other. She said sincerely, "Brother Yannan, I'm sorry. I didn't know that your parents went to work far away. Are you still sad?"

Lu Yannan awkwardly tried to gently open his hand, but Xia Qinqin held it tightly and didn't let go. He whispered, "I'm not sad."

Xia Qinqin smiled at him and said, "You can live in our house from now on. My parents will treat you very well."

Lu Yannan turned to look at her, raised his eyebrows and said, "After I live in your house, you will have no place to live."

Xia Qinqin said: "You live in the small room, and my parents and I live in the big room."

"Do you want to stay a child and live with your parents forever?"

"...I'm not a child anymore. I'm already in the senior class."

Lu Yannan chuckled twice and said, "Well, you are a big kid now."

This was the first time in Xia Qinqin's life that she heard a denial in someone's affirmative tone. She felt inexplicably unhappy, let go of Lu Yannan's hand, and turned her head away.

Humph, Student Lu is such a strange kid!

Meng Yufei looked at the two of them with amusement, and took one of them by the hand to the kindergarten.

After entering the classroom, Xia Qinqin sat down and asked Fangfang next to her, "Sister Fangfang, when will you sleep alone?"

Fangfang said, "We don't have enough rooms at home. My second sister said that when she leaves home, I will sleep alone."

"Oh, then when did you not sleep with mom and dad?" Xia Qinqin asked again.

"Well, I don't remember either. It seemed like I always slept with my second sister." Fangfang recalled.

Yang Yongming heard the topic they were discussing and interrupted, "I'm sleeping alone this year. My mom said that brave children sleep alone. Those who sleep with their parents are either immature children or cowards."

"Ah..." Xia Qinqin said dejectedly, "You guys don't sleep with your parents."

Lu Yannan, who was sitting next to her, looked at her thoughtfully.

When Meng Yufei returned to the office after sending her child, she saw Xiao Zhang peeking at the office door. She walked over with amusement and was about to ask her, but she saw her putting her finger in front of her mouth.

"Tsk..."

Xiao Zhang pointed to the personnel department next door, then turned back and pointed to the office behind him, and said silently: Come in and talk.

Meng Yufei nodded and followed him into the office. Xiao Zhang quickly closed the door.

"What's going on?" Meng Yufei asked curiously.

Xiao Zhang came up to her and whispered, "Someone reported to Section Chief Chen!"

Meng Yufei's eyes moved, and she asked in a surprised tone: "Really?"

Xiao Zhang nodded, "It's absolutely true. You didn't see it. Just now, the director's face was so dark that ink was about to drip. He went to the personnel department in a rage. I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw it. I quietly listened at the door. It turned out that someone anonymously reported to Section Chief Chen. Guess what the report was about?"

Meng Yufei knew it in her heart, but she pretended not to know. She shook her head and asked, "What did you report?"

Xiao Zhang said in an excited tone: "Report that she accepted a bribe from Wei Shufang! The report said that Wei Shufang was selected as a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative's recruitment a few days ago by cheating with Section Chief Chen."

Meng Yufei said, "So that's what happened. It seems someone is dissatisfied with Wei Shufang being a salesperson. I just don't know who reported it."

"How could anyone know? There are so many people who signed up this time." Xiao Zhang frowned and said worriedly, "I don't know if this will affect our entire logistics department. Will the army send people from the Supervision Department to investigate like last time?"

Meng Yufei said: "We are not afraid of any slander. We have not accepted any bribes, so it is nothing to investigate. Moreover, we did not participate in the registration and selection of interviewers this time."

Xiao Zhang thought about it and nodded, "Yes, this matter has nothing to do with us. Sister Meng, you only participated in the final interview stage. It would be cheating if you chose one of the three people and did not choose Wei Shufang."

"Okay, there's no point in thinking so much. Let's wait and see how things develop next." Meng Yufei walked to her seat and sat down, taking out the draft May Day activity plan and reading it.

Xiao Zhang also returned to his seat, "Yes, I'd better finish the work at hand first."

When Director Fu was taking a nap in his office at noon, he received a call from the army, who called him over in a serious tone.

Director Fu went to the Supervisory Office nervously and came back with a letter of complaint with a gloomy face.

Due to the recent busy work, Director Fu gave full authority to Section Chief Chen to be responsible for the first round of selection, which is to select three people for the interview.

He originally thought that the final interview was the most important, so he only participated in the interview stage.

"Tell me, what happened?" Director Fu asked with a serious face.

Section Chief Chen picked up the letter and read it carefully. The handwriting was very neat, but the content made her frown deepen the more she read.

After reading it, Section Chief Chen immediately said, "Director, this must be a misunderstanding. Wei Shufang was elected by all of us. The performance of the three people that day, not only us, but also the staff of the supply and marketing cooperative knew who to choose."

Director Fu's eyes darkened, and he pointed at the letter and said, "Take a good look at what the letter reports! He suspects that we are unfair in selecting the candidates for the interview. These three people, Li Shuini, Tong Caifeng, and Wei Shufang, were selected by your personnel department. What criteria did you use to select them? Did you have any selfish motives when selecting them?"

Before Section Chief Chen could speak, Director Fu reminded him, "Think it over before you answer. The Supervisory Office gave me this letter to give us face. They want us to investigate internally and deal with any problems ourselves. If I reply tomorrow that there are no problems, the Supervisory Office will definitely send someone to investigate."

"Of course, we have been investigated by them before. If it is like the last time with the dim sum chef in the cafeteria, we are not afraid of their investigation because we are innocent. But if there is a problem, as the letter says, then the consequences will be much more serious than if we confess voluntarily!"

Section Chief Chen lowered her head and thought for a moment, then said, "Director, actually..."

Meng Yufei finished reading the plan in her hand. The current program is a stage play by the Women's Committee, a chorus by the kindergarten, a solo by the General Affairs Department of the Logistics Department, and a dance by the Publicity Department.

There are four programs in total, is it possible that it is a little short?

By the way, there is also the supply and marketing cooperative. There are quite a few people there, and now they have been assigned to the army and receive their salaries from here. It is only right for them to produce a program.

After thinking for a while, Meng Yufei turned around and said, "Xiao Zhang, weren't you also in the cultural troupe before? You see the broadcaster from the publicity department is going to perform a dance program, why don't you perform a dance as well?"

The announcer in the Propaganda Department used to be from the Art Troupe.

Xiao Zhang shook his head, "I can't do that. I haven't practiced dancing since I left the group. Hmm...how about I recite a poem? I've performed it at the army party before."

"Okay, it just so happens that we haven't recited it yet in our program." Meng Yufei said happily, and added Xiao Zhang's name.

Meng Yufei looked at the program list and nodded with satisfaction. "Very good. Including the supply and marketing cooperative, there are six programs now, which is about right."

As for the host, just do it yourself.

"Director Meng, please come to the director's office." Someone called at the door.

Meng Yufei looked up and saw the head of the General Affairs Department standing at the door.

"Chief Qian, what's the matter?" Meng Yufei asked, guessing in her heart that it was probably related to the report letter.

Section Chief Qian didn't say much, just said: "Let's go to the director's office first."

"Okay, I'll come right over." Meng Yufei stood up.

As soon as she entered the director's office, Meng Yufei noticed that Section Chief Chen was standing there with his head lowered, and next to him was Xiao Wu from the Personnel Department, with red eyes.

Director Fu said, "Director Meng, you came at the right time. Please go with Section Chief Sun and the others to Xiao Wu's house."

Meng Yufei asked in confusion: "Go to Xiao Wu's house?"

Director Fu said, "She confessed herself that she had received some of Wei Shufang's things. I asked Section Chief Qian and a few others to go to her house and take the things back. You are from the Finance Department, so come along as well."

Meng Yufei looked at Xiao Wu in surprise. It turned out to be her.

"Okay." Meng Yufei agreed.

Section Chief Qian led the team and several people followed to Xiao Wu's home. She cried all the way. Section Chief Qian said impatiently: "Why are you crying? When you collected the things, didn't you think about today? If you don't want more people to know about this, just keep quiet."

As they walked from the logistics department to Xiao Wu's home, they attracted a lot of curious looks. Fortunately, it was not time to get off work or get out of school, so there were not so many people.

After hearing what Section Chief Qian said, Xiao Wu sniffed and whispered, "I, I just couldn't help it." In the end, he stopped crying.

When she arrived at Xiao Wu's house, she took down an iron box from the closet and took out two cigarette coupons and a sewn airline ticket.

Section Chief Qian gestured to Meng Yufei to accept it, and Meng Yufei nodded and took it.

"That's all, is there anything else?" Section Chief Qian said sternly, "Please think carefully. The director has sent someone to call Wei Shufang to the logistics department for questioning. If what she says is different from what you say, you will bear the consequences yourself."

Meeting Section Chief Qian's gaze, Xiao Wu lowered his head guiltily and avoided him. He then opened the closet and took out five industrial coupons and five cloth coupons from the innermost pocket of his clothes.

Section Chief Qian's face darkened, and he asked fiercely, "If I don't tell you, you won't take it, right? What else?"

Xiao Wu shook her head. "No, really. The industrial coupons and cloth coupons were not given to her this time. In the past few months, she often came to me and said that she couldn't use up her own industrial coupons and cloth coupons, so she gave them to me."

"Humph, is there anyone who can't spend his cloth coupons these days?" Section Chief Qian said coldly.

Xiao Wu said: "That's what she told me, and she didn't ask me to do anything when she gave it to me before. It was only this time because of the recruitment of workers for the supply and marketing cooperative that she gave me the cigarettes and the sewing tickets."

Section Chief Qian said, "Okay, since you said that's all, let's go back. If Wei Shufang's next words are different from yours, then it won't be me who came here."

Xiao Wu lowered his head and said, "It's really gone."

Section Chief Qian gave all the tickets to Meng Yufei, and then they left Xiao Wu's house and returned to the logistics department.

Meng Yufei said nothing the whole time. She held the ticket she found at Xiao Wu's house and thought: I'm afraid that when I first came to the island, Wei Shufang must have known my academic qualifications from Xiao Wu in advance, and thought that I would compete with her for the primary school teacher, so she released the snake to harm Qinqin, hoping that I would not have the heart to become a teacher.

In fact, it was pretty much as Meng Yufei guessed. At that time, Xiao Wu accidentally heard Director Wang asking Section Chief Chen about Meng Yufei's academic qualifications. He also vaguely heard Director Wang say that Meng Yufei was very suitable for this job.

In order to get the position of elementary school teacher, Wei Shufang had been trying to maintain a good relationship with Xiao Wu, and would give him one or two tickets every few days. Xiao Wu naturally told her the news.

Although she did not get the job of elementary school teacher, Wei Shufang still tried to curry favor with Xiao Wu from time to time. After all, she was from the personnel department, and if there was a new job position in the family home, she would definitely know about it before others.

Xiao Wu did not accept the coupons Wei Shufang gave her right away. But Wei Shufang was really good at currying favor with people. She first went to Xiao Wu's house every now and then to talk to her. When the two of them got to know each other well, she said that she had one or two cloth coupons left and could not waste them, so she gave them to Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu felt that the relationship between the two was pretty good, so asking for one or two cloth coupons was nothing, and Wei Shufang didn't ask her to do anything, so she accepted them.

After the elementary school teacher’s reminder, Xiao Wu received industrial coupons from Wei Shufang. These were more difficult to obtain than cloth coupons. Xiao Wu thought that he had already received the cloth coupons, so he did not refuse.

Later, during the kindergarten visit, Wei Shufang did not ask Xiao Wu to help her with anything. Xiao Wu had a high school education and there were many people recruited, so she was confident that she would be selected.

Of course, Xiao Wu, who had benefited from Wei Shufang, still spoke a lot of good things about Wei Shufang in front of Section Chief Chen. So when the judging panel was selecting candidates, Section Chief Chen was quite fond of Wei Shufang.

This time, the supply and marketing cooperative recruited many people, but only one person was hired. Although Wei Shufang had a high school degree, she was still working in a kindergarten. What if the personnel department did not approve her application?

So Wei Shufang gave him a valuable gift.

Two cigarettes and a sewn plane ticket are both rare items on the market. If ordinary people want to buy them from others, the price is not cheap. For example, the price of this sewing machine is about 150 yuan, while the price of this sewn plane ticket is not less than 100 yuan on the market.

Back at the Logistics Department, Chief Qian reported his work to Director Fu, and Meng Yufei also handed over the tickets she had brought back from Xiao Wu's house.

The more Director Fu listened, the uglier his face became. He took the ticket and looked at it, then slammed it on the table in anger: "Just because of these things, you violated your principles and beliefs! Accepting bribes and abusing your power..."

Suppressing his anger, he asked, "Where's Wei Shufang? Has she come?"

Section Chief Qian said: "It has been brought over from the supply and marketing cooperative and is now in the conference room."

Director Fu said, "Come with me to question them." He then said to Meng Yufei, "Director Meng, these receipts will be placed in your finance department. You go back to the office first. After we have questioned Wei Shufang, the heads of the various departments in our logistics department will hold a meeting to discuss how to deal with this matter."

Meng Yufei nodded: "Okay."

Meng Yufei returned to the office and locked the tickets in the drawer. Xiao Zhang came to ask about it out of curiosity, and Meng Yufei told her about what happened between Xiao Wu and Wei Shufang.

Xiao Zhang sighed after hearing this and said, "It's so easy to corrupt a person. Although Xiao Wu is annoying in her words and deeds, I didn't expect her to be so courageous. It's really hard to accept. And Wei Shufang is too capable. What is this? Boiling a frog in warm water."

Meng Yufei said: "I can only say that Xiao Wu is not strong-willed. It is normal for good friends to give gifts to each other, and it is okay to give some tickets occasionally, but she must know why she keeps giving gifts unilaterally like this."

Xiao Zhang nodded and said, "I still can't resist the temptation. I wonder how the director will handle this matter this time?"

Meng Yufei thought for a moment and said, "Fortunately, there are only a few tickets and no money is involved. This matter is handled by our logistics department, so it will definitely be less serious than if the military sent the Supervision Department to handle it."

"Xiao Wu is lucky to have some brains. If he had accepted money or valuables, he might have gone to jail!" Xiao Zhang shook his head. "Didn't the newspaper report report last year that a town mayor embezzled three thousand yuan and was shot to death?"

In this era, corruption is severely dealt with.

Meng Yufei looked at her watch. It was almost time to get off work. She said, "Xiao Zhang, you should get off work first. The director wants several of us department heads to hold a meeting to discuss how to deal with this matter."

Xiao Zhang said, "Ah, then Sister Meng, you have to work overtime today. These people are really something. They make mistakes themselves and make others work harder to clean up the mess. By the way, you can't go to pick up Qinqin, so why don't I help you?"

Meng Yufei said, "No need. I'll go to the publicity department and make a call to ask her father to pick her up."

After school, Xia Qinqin saw Xia Junshan standing at the entrance of the kindergarten. She ran over with a smile, looked around but couldn't find Meng Yufei. She asked in confusion, "Dad, where's Mom?"

Xia Junshan said: "Mom is working overtime today, Dad is here to pick you up from school."

"Ah...Mom also has to work overtime, so when will she be back?" Xia Qinqin was feeling a little depressed.

Xia Junshan squatted down and said, "Dad doesn't know either. Can we go back and wait for her?"

Xia Qinqin nodded and said, "Oh, okay."

Xia Junshan patted her head comfortingly, then turned to the boy behind him and said, "Yannan, let's go home together. We'll go to the cafeteria to get food first."

Lu Yannan nodded gently, "Okay."

Xia Junshan took Xia Qinqin's hand and tried to hold Lu Yannan with his other hand, but he saw that he put his hand away and was unwilling to hold it. Xia Junshan smiled and did not force him.

Lu Yannan pursed her lips, followed behind Xia Junshan, looked up at the tall Xia Junshan, and then lowered her head again.

When Meng Yufei came back in the evening, Xia Junshan and Xia Qinqin had just sent Lu Yannan back home and were sitting on the sofa reading.

When Xia Qinqin saw Meng Yufei coming back, she excitedly slid down from the sofa, and Xia Junshan quickly reached out to support her.

"Mom, you're finally back. I missed you so much." Xia Qinqin threw herself into Meng Yufei's arms and acted coquettishly.

Meng Yufei touched her face and smiled: "I'm sorry, I didn't pick you up today. Have you eaten?"

Xia Qinqin hugged Meng Yufei's waist and said, "It's okay, dad is here to pick me up. My dad, brother Yannan, and I were playing chess at home and waiting for mom. Then my stomach growled, and dad took us to have dinner together."

Xia Junshan came over and said, "The food is being heated in the pot, you can eat first." Then he turned and went to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

Xia Qinqin took Meng Yufei's hand and walked to the dining table, "Mom, sit down." She also reached out and took Meng Yufei's shoulder bag and put it on the sofa.

Meng Yufei smiled and said, "Thank you, Qinqin."

Xia Qinqin tilted her head back and smiled, "You're welcome."

After dinner, Meng Yufei took Xia Qinqin to take a bath. Xia Qinqin ran to the master bedroom, came out holding her little pillow, and said to Meng Yufei: "Mom, I want to sleep alone today!"

"Ah? Why do you suddenly want to sleep alone?" Meng Yufei asked curiously.

Xia Qinqin said seriously: "Because I am already a big kid, I am brave and can sleep by myself."

Meng Yufei smiled and said, "Wow, Qinqin has really grown up. She is now worthy of being a senior class kid. She can sleep alone now."

Xia Junshan also nodded and praised: "Yes, Qinqin is really brave. When Dad was your age, he didn't dare to sleep alone."

Xia Qinqin smiled happily.

"Then mommy will go to the small room and tell you a story. Mommy won't leave until you fall asleep, okay?" Meng Yufei took her to the small room.

"Okay, I want to listen to Calabash Brothers."

"no problem."

Xia Junshan went to the master bedroom and took Xia Qinqin's small quilt to the next room.

There was also a mosquito net installed over the bed in this room. Xia Qinqin lay on the bed, resting her head on a small pillow, listening to Meng Yufei telling stories while playing with the hanging mosquito net with her hands.

"Dad, come here too, let's listen to mommy's stories together." Xia Qinqin smiled and waved to Xia Junshan.

"good."

Xia Junshan walked over with a smile and wanted to cover Xia Qinqin with the small quilt. Xia Qinqin felt too hot and didn't want to cover herself with it, so Xia Junshan covered her belly with the corner of the quilt.

Xia Qinqin fell asleep before she finished the story.

Xia Junshan and Meng Yufei turned off the lights and tiptoed out of the room.

After closing the door, Xia Junshan whispered, "Why does our Qinqin suddenly want to sleep alone?"

Meng Yufei thought about what happened at noon and said with a smile: "The child has grown up."

The two returned to the room. Meng Yufei held Xia Junshan's hand. Xia Junshan looked down at her with a deep gaze and a smile on his face.

"I have something to tell you." Meng Yufei said seriously.

"...Ah, what is it?"