“Li Dan and Gao Ping are active-duty military personnel under the command of the military. As Director Cheng’s bodyguard, he is on a parallel secondment. In terms of rank, he is higher than Liu Dongliang.”
After Yang Xiu finished speaking, he gave Li Dan a deep look, a look that made Li Dan's heart tremble.
Li Dan finally realized that she had made a mistake.
She shouldn't have come this time.
At the same time, she felt wronged. He was called a bodyguard, but he was just a little follower! How could she have imagined that a little follower would be an active-duty soldier!
Who exactly is Cheng Baidong, this rough-around-the-edges country bumpkin? How come he has a soldier as his follower?
But now that things have come to this, there's nothing to blame but myself for being blind and making a mistake.
Reality finally taught her to bow her head.
Li Dan lowered her eyes, knowingly bowed her head, and said softly, "So that's how it is. I... I didn't know."
"You think a simple misunderstanding is all it takes?" Fang Qiao pressed her advantage: "Aren't you going to apologize?"
Li Dan glanced at Yang Xiu and met her cold expression. Startled, she quickly said, "I apologize, I apologize."
She turned to face Wang Yun, bowed her head and apologized: "Comrade Wang Yun, this was my fault. I misunderstood you. I'm sorry."
Wang Yun gave a curt "hmm," indicating that he accepted her apology.
Li Dan let out a long sigh of relief, but before she could even catch her breath, Fang Qiao asked, "By the way, Director Yang, has Comrade Liu Dongliang's job transfer been arranged? When is he leaving?"
Yang Xiu waved the file bag in her hand and said to Fang Qiao, "I just finished a meeting and will be leaving soon."
Fang Qiao was satisfied.
Li Dan was stunned: "What transfer? My husband's job has been transferred? How come I didn't know?"
"Regarding Liu Dongliang's job transfer, you can ask him directly when you get home. It's not convenient for me to go over the details with you here."
Although Yang Xiu wasn't afraid of Li Dan going crazy here, it was troublesome. If things got out of hand, it would attract other employees to come and laugh at them. It was better to let the couple resolve it behind closed doors.
"Alright, if there's nothing else, you can go back now."
Yang Xiu dismissed him. Then, she put on her glasses, opened the notebook beside her, and clearly began to get busy.
"Okay, Director Yang, you're busy, we won't bother you any longer."
Fang Qiao, arm in arm with Wang Yun, left Yang Xiu's office with satisfaction.
Li Dan was bursting with questions. What were Fang Qiao and Yang Xiu talking about?
She chased after him angrily: "Fang Qiao, stop right there!"
Fang Qiao turned around and glanced at her leisurely: "What is it?"
Li Dan questioned, "What's going on with Lao Liu's transfer? Do you know anything about it?"
Fang Qiao raised an eyebrow, a slight smile playing on her lips, and nodded: "I know."
Li Dan suddenly realized what was going on and flew into a rage: "Was it you who did this?"
"How can you say I'm the one who did this? It was clearly your own evil deeds. This is retribution!" Fang Qiao's face turned cold, and a chilling aura emanated from her eyes and brows.
She sneered, her tone icy: "Li Dan, you don't think you can just move house and it'll all be over, do you? You want to switch my child? You're not worthy!"
Li Dan was jolted awake, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her from head to toe, extinguishing all her anger.
"Are you getting revenge on me?"
Fang Qiao sneered, said nothing, turned around, and left with Wang Yun's arm in hers.
Li Dan stood there, dejected. After a while, she suddenly exploded and charged at Fang Qiao: "You bitch! You're taking revenge on me! I'll fight you to the death!"
Fang Qiao is at the Great Perfection of the Second Level of Qi Refining. Although his cultivation level is not high, he is more than capable of dealing with an ordinary person.
In her eyes, Li Dan's actions were like slow motion, with limited deterrent effect.
As the wind whistled past, she pulled Wang Yun aside, dodging the attack, and at the same time kicked Li Dan in the hip: "Get out of the way!"
Li Dan was kicked away and fell heavily to the ground.
She struggled to her feet, wanting to fight again, but Liu Dongliang, who had rushed over after receiving the news, slapped her to the ground.
Li Dan stared wide-eyed in disbelief: "Liu Dongliang, you hit me?"
Veins bulged on Liu Dongliang's forehead as he suppressed his anger and said, "That's exactly what I wanted to do! Just shut up! Haven't you hurt me enough already? You'll be happy when you get my job, won't you?"
When Liu Dongliang's work was mentioned, Li Dan lowered her head guiltily: "I, I didn't..."
"You have it!" Liu Dongliang roughly dragged her up from the ground: "Go home! You're not allowed to come out again without my permission!"
Fang Qiao watched coldly as Li Dan was dragged away, thinking to herself: Serves her right!
The transfer order for Liu Dongliang was quickly posted on the bulletin board, along with the official notice about the establishment of the new factory.
Liu Dongliang took his family to the construction site that very day. When he left, Li Dan cried and sobbed, while Liu Lai'er happily carried her little sister in a tricycle.
She gave her shuttlecock to Tiantian, promising to remain good friends when they grow up.
Chen Guizhi visited Fang Qiao and they chatted about the address of the new factory.
"Xiao Qiao, what are our factory leaders thinking? It's one thing not to move the new factory to the city, but why are they moving it to more and more remote places? I looked at the map, and those places are practically the countryside."
Fang Qiao said, "Where in the city can we find a place to accommodate such a large factory? The city won't approve any land, so we have to move it down to the city center."
Chen Guizhi thought about it and agreed: "The city is cramped, and the factory areas are built very crampedly, not to mention the staff housing. Many employees have been waiting for more than ten years without being allocated housing. It's better to be in the suburbs, where there is more space and more houses. The staff housing is big and spacious enough that the workers don't have to worry about where to live."
"I don't know what the new factory's plan is. Will they move all the workers here, or will they hire more workers?" Chen Guizhi said with some worry. "We've gotten used to living here, and it's really hard to leave all at once."
Fang Qiao didn't reply, only saying, "That's not something we can worry about. Just wait for the factory's notification. Don't rush, it takes time for the new factory to be built, at least a year."
"A year isn't a long time. Time flies by these days, it's over in the blink of an eye."
Chen Guizhi sighed and said sadly, "The older you get, the faster time seems to pass. Even though I have four children now, sometimes I still feel like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. The days of my youth seem so far away, yet so close to yesterday. Those were the good old days, carefree, unlike now, when everything is so trivial."
Fang Qiao, however, did not share such sentiments or feelings.
Her youth is too far away, a lifetime away.
She couldn't remember anything from her childhood; when she closed her eyes, all she could recall were her past lives. She searched for her relatives year after year, each day feeling like she was soaking in bitter water, nothing but suffering.
She still feels that the present is the best time.
My husband has been reborn and returned, my daughter is by my side, and we've had two more big, healthy boys.
With a loving and harmonious family, and both a son and a daughter, there could never be a better life than this.
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