"So, Aunt Chu, when I couldn't find the parts anywhere in the city last time, was it you who was behind it?"
Ling Huanwu stared at Chu Mei's evasive eyes, a deep sense of powerlessness washing over her. "So you're just trying to make me cook at home so we can't meet our orders? You're harming the collective interest, you know that?"
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Chu Mei panicked. She was terrified that she would be arrested and held accountable for harming the collective interests.
She heard that the purge in the city was getting worse, and since her Chu family used to be landlords, she was afraid of causing trouble for Zhao Tingguo, so she insisted on staying on the island.
In order to cultivate a relationship with his youngest son, and also for his own safety.
She firmly denied it, saying, "If you have evidence, then produce it. Don't make false accusations."
“Look at all the daughters-in-law these days. You don’t cook or do laundry. Why did my Jiuzhen marry you?”
Chu Mei spoke louder and louder, as if she had caught Ling Huanwu in a compromising situation.
Ling Huanwu ignored her shouts and turned around to inspect the finished clothes made by the aunties at each workstation.
While checking, she casually responded to Chu Mei, explaining a fact to her, "But Aunt Chu, the marriage between your son Er Gou and me was not something I asked for. It was Er Gou's grandfather who sent him to our Ling family as a child groom to repay a debt of gratitude. Do you understand what a child groom means?"
Ling Huanwu finally understood that Chu Mei was trying to act like a mother-in-law to her, so she ruthlessly shattered Chu Mei's dream of being a mother-in-law, "Since Jiu Zhen is my childhood sweetheart, he has been a member of the Ling family for a long time, and has nothing to do with you!"
"Child adopter?"
Chu Mei's face turned deathly pale as she remembered that her precious son had been sold by his grandfather.
The treatment of a child groom was naturally similar to that of a child bride.
In the past, it would have been used to serve the young lady's needs in terms of food, clothing, shelter, and even to warm her bed.
"You...you have outdated ideas. There's no such thing as a child...child husband these days. Anyway, if you marry my Er Gou, you'll be a member of the Zhao family!"
Chu Mei stammered in her rebuttal, but feeling guilty about tampering with the parts, she immediately slipped away after uttering those harsh words.
Seeing that the person had walked away, Lin Xiaoqin quickly came over and said, "Comrade Xiaozi, are you just going to let her off like that? I have a feeling that she was the one who did it, she ran away so fast."
Ling Huanwu patted her shoulder to comfort her, "Let's finish this batch of goods first."
She needs to immediately accelerate the expansion of the cooperative so that all the residents of the island can have jobs.
Even if no treasure is found on the island, the villagers will have enough reason to return to the island after the storm surge to protect what they cherish and desire.
The neighboring village.
Song Yaoyao was extremely busy. In just a few days, her cooperative had not produced a single decent piece of workwear out of the five thousand pieces they were supposed to produce.
However, they produced about a thousand defective garments.
Zhao Jingxiang arranged for a supervisor from a municipal garment factory to assist her.
But now the foreman was slumped in a pile of discarded clothes, too angry to utter a single word.
"Supervisor, what should we do? I didn't know they were so clumsy, wasting so much fabric in such a short time..."
Seeing the murderous look on the foreman's face, Song Yaoyao obediently shut her mouth.
The foreman had previously asked her whether the female workers were well-trained in their craft.
In order to surpass Ling Huanwu, she lied and claimed that she had been training for a period of time.
Who would have thought that these country bumpkins would be so stupid as to sew the clothes into a mess?
The supervisor was devastated. He wiped the sweat from his brow and looked at Song Yaoyao. "I don't care anymore. This is all your own fault. If you can't deliver the orders by the end of the month, it's a small matter if your cooperative goes bankrupt. If you can't pay back these cloth coupons, you'll be arrested and taken to the police station!"
Song Yaoyao was so frightened that she sat down on the ground with her mouth agape, completely stunned.
A large group of aunties who had been eavesdropping nearby suddenly turned pale and rushed over to surround Song Yaoyao, demanding, "What do you mean by this? Is your cooperative going to go bankrupt before it even starts? Who was it that said it would defeat that capitalist's cooperative? You're just a big talker..."
"That's right, after all, they've run factories before. Unlike you, who can't even operate a sewing machine or read sizes, and you're trying to run a cooperative. You've really ruined us."
“We don’t care, you have to pay us according to the work points book…”
The crowd started chattering, surrounding Song Yaoyao and demanding that she give them the money immediately.
Song Yaoyao was furious. She stood up abruptly and shouted at the group of aunties, "How dare you ask me for money? You've ruined so much fabric, who am I supposed to ask for compensation?"
"I don't care, you need to hand over your cloth coupons. This month's work points won't count. I won't hold it against you for wasting so much of my cloth, and I'll let you stay here..."
Before Song Yaoyao could finish speaking, she was suddenly punched in the nose, followed by a barrage of punches to her face and chest, instantly knocking her to the ground and silencing her arrogant words.
The foreman was so frightened that he immediately grabbed his bag and ran away.
The only sound echoing throughout the cooperative was Song Yaoyao's screams.
At the entrance, Zhou Shuyao brought his triplets to the cooperative to get money from Song Yaoyao.
As soon as I entered, I saw a group of aunties surrounding and beating someone.
Upon seeing him enter, the group of women scattered and took away the remaining fabric from the cooperative.
Zhou Shuyao rushed over to stop them, but was knocked to the ground by the group of fierce aunties.
Seeing the cooperative in a mess after everyone had left, Zhou Shuyao grabbed Song Yaoyao, who was lying motionless on the ground after being beaten, and angrily questioned her by the neck, "What's wrong with you? Didn't you say you wanted to open a cooperative to help Huanwu solve the productivity problem on the island? Is this how you run a cooperative?"
Song Yaoyao's face turned a deep purplish-red from his pinching. She struggled wildly, flailing her arms and legs, her eyes pleading with her triplets standing there, begging them to go out and call for help or to save her.
But the triplets just watched indifferently as their father choked her, nearly killing her.
Although they are still young, other children would have cried their hearts out and beaten their mothers for being such bad guys.
At this moment, Song Yaoyao finally understood why Ling Huanwu had allowed her to steal the elixir that could produce multiple offspring.
How heartbreaking it is to discover, after loving your children for most of your life, that they don't love you back.
A tear slid down her cheek.
She looked at her three children: the eldest, who would one day stand on the award stage with great enthusiasm; the second, who would speak eloquently in court; and the youngest, who would be adored by millions on television… At that moment, the image shattered completely!
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