What are you doing?
Ling Huanwu's wrist was gripped so tightly it hurt. She struggled to raise her other hand to hit him, but her other hand was also gripped tightly and pressed against the stone wall.
Today she was wearing the girls' school uniform, which was a white shirt and trousers. The style was very conservative, and apart from her exposed arms, there was no part of her body that shouldn't be exposed.
However, due to Zhou Shuyao's domineering actions, the moment her hands were raised and pressed against the wall, her white top was also lifted up, revealing her slender and fair waist.
This youthful and beautiful outfit already made her look charming and lovely, but now that the top and hem are missing, Zhou Shuyao is completely mesmerized.
Ling Huanwu felt insulted.
Although she thought Zhou Shuyao was temperamental, lazy, and greedy in her previous life, she never thought there was anything wrong with his character.
But now it seems that this man's habit of cheating on his wife had been present for quite some time.
His wife was still working while heavily pregnant, but he pinned his sister-in-law against the wall and threw a tantrum.
Unable to move her hands, Ling Huanwu could no longer bear it and kicked him in the stomach.
To her surprise, this man dodged her attacks with the same agility she displayed every time she tried to hit him in her previous life. He even grabbed her ankle with his other hand, and when he raised an eyebrow and stared at her, his peach blossom eyes seemed to be churning with some kind of obscure and strange emotion.
Ling Huanwu felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
The man's eyes were exactly the same as the way he looked at her after he became successful in her previous life.
Her heart skipped a beat. Could it be that he had also been reborn?
But what he said the next second completely dispelled her suspicions.
Zhou Shuyao grabbed her ankle with one hand and pointed at the office with the other, angrily asking her, "What were you doing in there with that bespectacled, refined scoundrel?"
"Let me tell you, Ling Huanwu, you're not allowed to mess around and flirt with men. Otherwise, I'll tell your brother about your affair with Qin Jinshen, and then you can forget about getting a marriage certificate with him, understand?"
Ling Huanwu forcefully pulled her foot back and let out a long sigh.
If Zhou Shuyao were to be reborn, he certainly wouldn't say that.
Because in his previous life, he knew best how much she hated and feared Qin Jinshen, and he would never have misunderstood that she and Qin Jinshen were having an affair.
Ling Huanwu rubbed her aching ankle and warned sternly, "Zhou Shuyao, if you do this again, I'll tell your brother too. Tell him that you actually broke into my house last night and wanted to sleep with me. What do you take your brother for?"
"What nonsense are you spouting?"
Zhou Shuyao's face flushed red, and his arrogant expression vanished instantly. He stammered, "Last night... last night I came to you because I wanted you to take me... to the clinic. Yes, that's all. Who knew you were so narcissistic, actually thinking I wanted to... you... you're so disgusting!"
After he finished speaking, he ran away as if fleeing.
Ling Huanwu stood frozen in place, suddenly realizing that she might have indeed misunderstood last night, and had even slapped him.
Even if Zhou Shuyao was reckless and unruly in his youth, he would never have done such an immoral thing.
Ling Huanwu was rubbing her feet when she turned around and bumped into Qiao Hui, who happened to be walking out of the house. She was so embarrassed that she scratched her shoes with her toes.
A horn sounded from the dock.
Then I saw a group of people who had come by boat from the neighboring island. They got off the boat at the dock and walked straight toward the aquaculture farm.
The villagers who had just been digging for oysters all threw down their chisels and ran over to greet the big boss from the city who was coming to buy them, all in the hopes of getting their wages smoothly later.
Qiao Hui hurriedly went to greet them and explained to the seafood merchants from the city that the oysters could not be delivered this year and whether they could be delivered next year.
Upon hearing this, the portly seafood merchant's face immediately darkened.
He turned and winked at the workers behind him, signaling them to move the oysters that were still stored in the warehouse and on the mudflats.
After giving his instructions, he casually glanced at Qiao Hui and the villagers behind him, who were filled with anticipation.
"Do you take us for philanthropists? Since you can't deliver the goods this year, you must compensate us five times the cost of the goods, plus the two thousand yuan I gave you for the seedlings. You must compensate us one hundred and two thousand yuan!"
"What? One hundred and twenty thousand yuan?"
On the mudflats, all the villagers waiting to receive their wages gasped in shock.
The original 20,000 yuan payment was the wages for about 50 people at their farm for a whole year.
Each person can receive about three hundred yuan a year.
You should know that they save every penny and work hard from dawn till dusk every day, all for the wages they receive once a year.
Now, not only is the money gone, but they're also expected to pay over 100,000 yuan in compensation?
Qiao Hui panicked. He had wanted to delay the delivery for a year, but the buyer didn't even ask him anything and directly asked them to compensate him five times the price of the goods.
"Boss Lai, you can't do this! Even if you're unwilling to wait until next year for us to deliver the goods, you can't make us pay five times the compensation!"
“Yes, yes,” the surrounding aunties and grandmas exclaimed, loudly rebuking the dishonest boss, “Why should we pay you five times the amount? We don’t care, since you had people take away our oysters, you have to pay us our wages!”
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Everyone agreed.
People who live near mountains live off the mountains; people who live near the sea live off the sea.
They couldn't understand why, despite their hard work, they hadn't earned a single penny at the end of the year.
Boss Lai seemed to have known all along that they would renege on their debts, and gestured to the accountant next to him to bring out the contract that Qiao Hui had signed.
"Your production team signed a contract with us back then!"
He flipped open the contract and pointed to a line of small print, "Look, it clearly states that if the goods cannot be delivered, there will be a fivefold compensation penalty. Engineer Qiao, you're not going to renege on your promise, are you?"
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