Chapter 14 I’m not worthy, are you?
"Why are you just going to let it go with just a simple 'I'm sorry'? Did my partner suffer in vain?"
"I'm sorry, I don't accept this apology."
Before Jiang Tao could say anything, Jiang Xiu exploded.
She had already lowered her face to bow to Xie Jiaojiao in front of so many people. What else did Xie Jiaojiao want? Did she want her to kneel down and kowtow to apologize?
"Why don't you accept it?"
Jiang Xiu looked indignant, as if she had suffered a great humiliation.
"I almost lost my life because of it."
"Because my partner is injured."
"Just because you're so arrogant, your apology isn't sincere."
Xie Jiaojiao asked three questions in a row with great momentum, successfully stumping Jiang Xiu.
If nothing else, her apology was indeed perfunctory.
Jiang Xiu looked a little guilty, but when she thought about what Xie Jiaojiao had said about almost dying and Jiang Ye getting injured, which she had never done, she straightened her back immediately.
"You're talking nonsense." She put her hands on her hips and argued proudly, "I just assigned you to work at the west end of the village. Don't try to throw dirty water on me just by talking."
"Didn't you pick this hoe for me on purpose this afternoon?"
Xie Jiaojiao pointed at the hoe with its head and body separated on the ground and questioned it with reason and evidence.
Looking at the bloodstains on the hoe, Jiang Xiu thought to herself, "Oh no!" She denied it, "You say it is? I distribute so many farm tools every day, how would I know?"
Xie Jiaojiao was very angry at Jiang Xiu's behavior of acting like a deadbeat, and her pretty face was puffed up.
Really, how could the captain, who is such a "proper and upright" man, have such a daughter?
At this moment, a simple and honest man walked out of the crowd. He touched the wooden stick, looked at the blood-stained hoe, and asked in confusion: "Xiu, isn't this the hoe I used this morning?"
Jiang Laiwang suddenly interrupted, and Jiang Xiu's face showed a little panic. She said stubbornly: "Uncle Laiwang, you are wrong."
"Didn't you tell me specifically this morning that the hoe was dull and loose and needed to be fixed? How could I dare to use a hoe that could kill someone?"
He has been digging the land for half his life, how could he not recognize the old "friend" in his hand?
"No, how could I be wrong?" Jiang Laiwang shook his head firmly and said, "Look, I remember it clearly. There is a trap here."
Everyone looked in the direction Jiang Laiwang pointed, and sure enough, they saw a pothole the size of a thumb.
"Oh, there is."
"Will there be both?"
Jiang Xiu heard this, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, and immediately responded, "A hoe has been used for a long time, so how can it not have bumps and bruises? What's the big deal about some dents? It's normal."
Jiang Xiu tried to fool people, but she forgot that the villagers had nothing to do for entertainment except working. Now that they finally had something exciting to watch, they naturally would not let the matter go so easily.
They all took up the hoes in their hands and started to check.
"No, I don't have this one."
"Neither have I."
"I have a pit, but it's not in this location."
......
Listening to everyone talking one after another, Jiang Xiu suddenly felt something was wrong and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Pop.
Jiang Tao watched Jiang Xiu making excuses again and again and refusing to admit her mistakes. He was so angry that his liver was rising. He tried to hold it back but couldn't and slapped Jiang Xiu in the face again.
Compared to the previous slap that used only two or three points of strength, Jiang Tao used all his strength in this slap.
Jiang Xiu really disappointed him.
Just like that, after one slap, Jiang Xiu's ears started buzzing, her vision became blurry, and blood oozed from the corners of her mouth.
"father!"
Jiang Xiu felt hurt, angry and aggrieved.
"Shut up!"
"Go back, I'll deal with you again."
Jiang Tao glanced over and Jiang Xiu became obedient, but his resentful eyes were fixed on Xie Jiaojiao who was looking for trouble.
Xie Jiaojiao was not afraid at all, and even stuck out her tongue at Jiang Xiu provocatively from an angle where Jiang Tao couldn't see.
Ahhhh!
Jiang Xiu now wanted to kill Xie Jiaojiao, but due to Jiang Tao's long-accumulated power, she could only stand by and rage helplessly.
After dealing with Jiang Xiu, Jiang Tao turned to look at Xie Jiaojiao.
Before Jiang Tao could speak, Xie Jiaojiao pulled Jiang Ye's injured hand forward and said pitifully, "Captain, look at the size of the wound on my boyfriend's hand and how much blood he's bleeding. If he hadn't blocked it, my neck would have been cut this big."
As she spoke, Xie Jiaojiao gestured to her own neck and said, "Then, I would be dead. So, Captain, you must punish Jiang Xiu severely for me."
Jiang Tao's eyes fell on Jiang Ye's hand, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He was older, but not blind.
Judging from the depth of the cut, one could tell it wasn't caused by a hoe, and the blood on his hands was probably not shed, but smeared.
However, after Xie Jiaojiao made such a fuss, Jiang Tao could no longer guess what she was going to do, and all these years as the team leader had been in vain.
She wanted to remove Jiang Xiu from his position as a scorekeeper.
Xie Jiaojiao had met Jiang Tao twice before and had a rough idea of her personality. With her intelligence, she would not have expected this and she probably stopped after he slapped her twice.
Thinking of this, Jiang Tao's gaze fell on the tall figure next to Xie Jiaojiao, his eyes full of complicated expression.
His second young master!
"What? The captain wants to protect his own daughter?"
Jiang Ye's brows were unruly and his tone was aggressive.
"Or, the captain thinks that since my wife almost lost her life, two slaps on the face of Jiang Xiu, the culprit, are enough?"
Jiang Tao sighed barely audibly, ignoring the thorny Jiang Ye, and turned to ask Xie Jiaojiao, "Xie Zhiqing, what do you want?"
"I feel that Comrade Jiang Xiu fails to distinguish between public and private matters and is no longer qualified to be a scorekeeper."
When Jiang Xiu heard that Xie Jiaojiao was targeting her job, she quit and, regardless of her fear of Jiang Tao, jumped out and taunted, "I'm not worthy, are you?"
Xie Jiaojiao ignored Jiang Xiu's defense and listed Jiang Xiu's three major crimes in a clear and orderly manner.
"First: Comrade Jiang Xiu, as a scorekeeper, took personal revenge. Because I once had a crush on Su Zhiqing, he deliberately targeted me without considering the actual situation and assigned me to the west end of the village, where only men worked."
"Second: Comrade Jiang Xiu, as the scorekeeper, deliberately gave me a broken hoe with the intention of murdering me."
"Three: As a scorekeeper, Jiang Xiu was partial. Because he liked Su Zhiqing, he always assigned Su Zhiqing to the shady area at the east end of the village and repeatedly gave Su Zhiqing false credits."
"What?"
Centimeters were everyone's lifeblood in those days. Su Zhiqing had more centimeters, so he would get more food at the end of the year. This was equivalent to robbing everyone's food, so how could everyone be willing to accept that?
So they surrounded Xie Jiaojiao and started asking questions.
"Xie Zhiqing, you can't talk nonsense like that."
She was not lying. This was what Jiang Xiu told her after she repented in her dream.
Today, let her suffer the consequences of her actions.
Xie Jiaojiao was confident and said, "To tell whether it's true or not, just ask Comrade Jiang Xiu to take out the scorebook and we'll know for sure."
At this moment, Jiang Xiu was dumbfounded when Xie Jiaojiao revealed this big news that was enough to make everyone spit at her to death.
When everyone saw Jiang Xiu's expression, they all spoke to Jiang Tao, wondering what they didn't understand.
"Captain, I also don't agree with Jiang Xiu being the scorekeeper."
"I also."
......
Jiang Tao: "Enough!"
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