Chapter 95 Cold Violence

Today is the summary meeting of the core staff of the steel rolling mill. The meeting will commend the advanced elements of this quarter and announce the appointment of the deputy director of the second workshop and several other team leaders.

At that time, Qian Lisheng sat upright, waiting for the director to say his name. During this period, everyone had a high voice for him, and he was definitely more suitable to be the director than Tong Guoqiang.

As a result, the candidates were announced, and neither he nor Tong Guoqiang was selected. Instead, it was a person no one expected - Gu Changming, the production team leader who was labeled a gangster a few years ago.

Gu Changming is 35 years old this year, a sixth-level clamper. A few years ago, he was reported by the widow Zhao in the family compound for being a gangster. He refused to admit it, but was labeled a gangster by Tong's father and others who led the fight.

From then on, he was transferred from the workshop to clean the toilet.

As a retired soldier, Jiang Weidong is not the kind of person who follows the crowd. In the past four years, he has done a lot of practical things, one of which is to visit and investigate on the spot to redress some wrongly accused employees.

He wants those employees who are truly skilled and capable to return to production positions, one of whom is Gu Changming.

Under his investigation and insistence, Gu Changming no longer cleans the toilet but returns to the workshop to continue his work as a clamp operator.

Jiang Weidong has been trying to clear Gu Changming of all charges. He has visited and investigated the site. People who knew Gu Changming in the family courtyard thought he was a nerd who was obsessed with technology. He was not enthusiastic about the people he was introduced to. It was impossible for him to be a hooligan to Zhao Gudi.

Zhao Gudi herself did not have any substantial evidence to prove that the person who was a hooligan to her was Gu Changming.

At that time, it was purely Tong's father and others who led the commotion. The factory management was also a mess. The factory reform committee had no choice but to approve Gu Changming.

Since the conviction of Gu Changming was hasty and the evidence was insufficient, he should be cleared of all charges now and allowed to concentrate on technical production.

Jiang Weidong reported to the Municipal Bureau of Industry and received instructions for a realistic investigation. He also visited some old colleagues in the family hospital and finally persuaded the factory reform committee to restore Gu Changming's reputation.

Although Gu Changming has been suppressed in the past few years, he has been devoted to technology and has not done anything frivolous. The factory director and others have also seen it.

Although the director of the factory office still has some objections, the factory reform committee finally passed this decision and let Gu Changming serve as the deputy director of the second workshop!

In addition, several new team leaders were announced.

Lin Xia, an electrician, usually works hard and performs well. In the second half of the year, she passed the third-level electrician examination. The factory committee appointed her as the leader of the newly established electrician team three.

Except for two old comrades, all the other electricians in the steel rolling mill are young people, and Lin Xia is undoubtedly the best among them!

It is very difficult to pass the third-level electrician exam. Not only do you need skills, but you also need to be bold and careful.

Lin Xia passed the exam in one try, and the factory leaders were surprised and happy, and were willing to promote her.

The deputy director and team leader who were selected had to speak on stage.

Lin Xia didn't expect the factory to choose her. This was too unexpected and too surprising!

She went on stage and said a few simple words, saying that she would fulfill her duties and devote herself to production with full enthusiasm.

Jiang Weidong smiled and said, "Comrade Lin Xia, this is the organization's recognition of you and the trust placed in you by the entire factory."

Lin Xia expressed her attitude seriously, "Thank you comrades for your trust. I will definitely work hard and live up to your trust!"

Applause broke out in the auditorium.

Lin Xia looked at Qian Lisheng in the audience, hoping to get his encouragement, but he avoided her sight and his face was not very good.

Qian Lisheng was not only not happy about his wife's promotion, but was very tormented.

He could hear the people around him whispering.

"Hey, didn't they say Qian Lisheng was going to be the deputy director? Why didn't he become the deputy director?" "

Of course, let Gu Changming become the deputy director, but he is a bad element."

"Then Qian Lisheng didn't become the deputy director. Is there...something wrong?"

He felt uneasy.

"Lin Xia is amazing. She is the only female electrician in our factory."

"That's great. She brings honor to our female compatriots."

"I heard that she lied. Is that true?"

"She had surgery and the hospital has the record. What's wrong with lying? Don't talk nonsense! If Director Jiang hears it, he will definitely criticize you."

"Didn't her mother-in-law say that? We don't know."

"Hey, why do you think Director Jiang is so good to Lin Xia? Every time he talks about Lin Xia, he praises her."

...

"Hehe, you said that Qian Lisheng didn't become deputy director, and his wife Lin Xia became the team leader. How embarrassed he is."

"A grown man is amazing without a wife."

Qian Lisheng felt upset. He thought he had concealed it well, but in fact his face was as dark as thunder and rain.

He always felt superior to Lin Xia. She came from the countryside and married him. She was smart and capable. He liked her and loved her and didn't despise her.

Now she was better than him, more glorious than him, and more confident than him as a leader.

He suddenly felt a panic that his superiority in front of her was shattered, accompanied by shame.

Especially since his sister-in-law came, he felt that Lin Xia was becoming more and more... strange. She would occasionally say a few words that he had never heard of. Not only did she have a good relationship with Old Lady Jiang, she was also very close to Jiang Weidong.

Every time he saw her talking to Jiang Weidong, Qian Lisheng felt uncomfortable as if there was a big ant biting him. He asked her to keep a distance from Jiang Weidong, but she said that they were only talking about work and asked him not to be petty.

Just now, seeing the look Jiang Weidong gave Lin Xia on the stage, Qian Lisheng swore that it would be strange if they didn't have anything.

As a man, he was too familiar with the look Jiang Weidong gave Lin Xia, the kind of appreciation a man has for a woman, the kind of... Humph! As soon as

the meeting was over, he turned around and walked out without waiting for Lin Xia.

Tong Guoqiang was still making a fuss over there, regardless of Gu Changming being right in front of him, he rushed to the front and complained to the factory director and others, "I and many employees are not very convinced of this election. In my opinion, Qian Lisheng is better than Gu Changming in character and skills. He is more suitable than Gu Changming!"

He can't brag about himself, but he can brag about Qian Lisheng.

The factory director said: "The workshop director is selected for his skills."

Gu Changming is a level 6 clamper, better than them.

Lin Xia walked out quickly. A group of colleagues surrounded her and congratulated her. She responded with a few words and walked out.

After leaving the auditorium, Qian Lisheng was nowhere to be seen.

Tong Ailian said sourly, "Lin Xia, you are really good. You became a team leader without making any noise." I

didn't realize that you are so good at currying favor with the factory director and Director Jiang.

The factory director and Jiang Weidong have a lot of decision-making power in the appointment of production team leaders.

Lin Xia: "Isn't it because I didn't have children before and was devoted to work?"

She ignored Tong Ailian and hurried home. She saw Qian Lisheng lying on the small bed with his clothes on. She hurried forward and pulled him, "How can you lie on the bed with your clothes from the workshop? It's so dirty."

Qian Lisheng turned over, hugged himself, and ignored her.

Lin Xia: "Why, are you unhappy because you didn't get elected as deputy director? Actually, Gu Changming should have been the director a long time ago. He was the head of the Tong family..."

"Why didn't I know that you had such a good relationship with Gu Changming?" Qian Lisheng couldn't help but get angry.

Lin Xia: "I'll just talk about the facts. Get up quickly and don't dirty the bedding."

Qian Lisheng: "How come you have such a good relationship with Jiang Weidong? He comes to our house every day to bring canned meat?"

Lin Xia: "When did I have a good relationship with him? He didn't bring canned meat to me. Before, it was Aunt Jiang who brought it to my third sister and the children, and later it was Director Jiang who brought it to my brother-in-law. They are both soldiers, so it's normal for them to be warm to each other when they meet."

Qian Lisheng: "Is he related to you? " What did he say? "

Lin Xia was puzzled: "I said you took the wrong medicine? If there is something wrong with the work, he will tell me, but what does he say if there is nothing wrong?"

Qian Lisheng pulled a face, "I think this person is not honest, and he is playing dirty behind my back."

Seeing him like that, Lin Xia smiled and said, "You are just angry that they chose Gu Changming. It's okay, won't the director of the first workshop retire in two years? You still have a chance then."

Qian Lisheng has never felt her bright eyes as much as he did today. His smile was so dazzling, and he said sourly: "Now that your salary has increased by six yuan, it's not too much to give our mother a few yuan?"

Lin Xia was about to say that it was not too much, but when the words came to her lips, she felt something was wrong, "Then we won't save money to raise children?" Qian

Lisheng: "Raising children and raising the elderly are not contradictory."

Lin Xia: "Then let's sit down and discuss how to support them in the future. Both elderly people will have pensions in the future. How much money should we and the second family give to the elderly? Make it clear. We can't just give the money to the old man and then the old man will give all his pension and the money we give to the second son, right?"

Qian Lisheng sat up and looked at Lin Xia in disbelief, "Why...are you like this? You weren't so fussy before."

Lin Xia frowned, "Why am I the one who is fussy? Didn't you say you'd appeased your mother? Now you're blaming me? After all, you're still fussing about the job your mother gave me. Is this the case..."

"I didn't say that!" Qian Lisheng suddenly raised his voice, "Don't say angry words again."

After that, he got up and walked out.

Lin Xia: "It's time to eat, where are you going?"

Qian Lisheng: "I'm eating in the cafeteria and going to work."

Lin Xia looked at his back with a frown, he was using cold violence against her again!

Ever since he came back from the training, he has become surly and weird. He got mad at her even though he failed the Level 6 clamp test. She had to coax him for a long time and repeatedly assure him that she would not abandon him before he would be nice again.

Now that he failed to become the deputy director, he started to behave like this again.

She was really tired.

The excitement of the promotion had cooled down.

She felt a little sad in her heart and her eyes were sore, so she sat down on the chair.

On the wall were the paintings and recipes posted by Tiantian and Panpan, and she immediately wiped away her tears.

Tiantian drew a big little face and several big heads of little babies, saying that this was the second aunt's baby and this was the father and mother's baby.

She instantly missed her third sister. Her third sister was very knowledgeable now and would definitely be able to solve her confusion.

When her mother-in-law questioned her, the third sister said, "Sister, no matter who it is, if he is not happy for you to get better, then it is useless to say nice things. He is not really doing good for you and does not treat you as his own family. You don't have to feel sad for him."

The third sister said that some people are easy to show sympathy to strangers, but mean to those around them, such as her mother-in-law, who pities this and that all day long, but finds fault with her daughter-in-law.

Thinking of this, Lin Xia couldn't help but put this on

Qian Lisheng. Is it really like this for a couple who are the closest to each other? If

he has a little good thing, she will be happy together. If she has a good thing, why is he not happy?

She feels that Qian Lisheng is the same as her mother-in-law. It seems that there is an opaque glass inserted between them, and it is increasingly difficult to see through his mind.

On the surface, he was still as clingy and playful as before, but he gave her a very discordant feeling. He was cold and violent from time to time, upset, and spoke in a weird tone. He was jealous of her good relationship with her sister, and her good relationship with Gu Changming and Director Jiang.

What went wrong?

She suddenly became very irritable. The fact that her mother-in-law gave her a job was like a tight ring around her head, allowing them to control her at any time. If

she didn't listen to her mother-in-law, she would be an

ungrateful person. She had opinions about Qian Lisheng, and she looked down on him because of his success.

He could even give her the cold shoulder when she got promoted.

Because they were not of the same social class?

If she married a farmer and worked on the land at home, would her mother-in-law and her husband dare to say that she was a bloodsucker? Would they dare to say that she relied on her husband's family?

No, it's not like that. Not everyone is like that. The third sister married Lu Shaotang, which was obviously to take advantage of the Lu family. But since the Lu family accepted it, they didn't feel at a loss. The parents-in-law, Lu Shaotang, Lu's sister-in-law and others were all very good to the third sister and

treated her as one of their own. Lin Xia was not the kind of person who liked to keep things to herself and sulk. If she had a conflict with someone she cared about, she would ask them face

to face and solve the problem as soon as possible. She was only too lazy to ask people she didn't care about, such as Tong Ailian. Whether it was with her mother-in-law or Qian Lisheng, she always solved problems immediately.

Her mother-in-law didn't treat her as one of her own, so she... stopped caring. Now Qian Lisheng... doesn't treat her as one of his own either?

He loved her on the surface, but in his heart he might have the same idea as his mother.

She wanted to go find Qian Lisheng and make things clear. If he really didn't treat her as his own like his mother did, then...

Third Sister said that people who don't solve problems and only get emotional, lose their temper and use cold violence are not worth loving, regardless of whether they are men or women.

She picked up her lunch box and went to find Qian Lisheng.

She went to the cafeteria but didn't see Qian Lisheng. Instead, she saw his apprentice Chen He. She asked him and found out that Qian Lisheng had already gone back to the workshop.

Chen He said, "Master's wife, my master...is in a bad mood. Please persuade him and don't get angry with him."

He felt that a man who was usually easy-going suddenly looked upset and must be really unhappy. As a daughter-in-law, she should be considerate of him.

Lin Xia went to the workshop in a hurry.

Qian Lisheng was hiding in the office in the workshop, squatting there feeling uncomfortable.

He felt that it was not that he could not happily congratulate his wife on her promotion, but... if he could congratulate her in any way when he was in high spirits, now that his dignity as a man was gone, he failed to get promoted, failed the exam, and all kinds of unsatisfactory blows, it was really hard for him to smile and congratulate his wife. Not

only did he not want to congratulate her on her promotion, he even felt that she should stand by him, understand his pain, and draw a clear line with Jiang Weidong and Gu Changming from now on!

Lin Xia found him, "Why are you hiding here?"

Qian Lisheng wailed in his heart, what the hell is this, are you going to force him to death?

Can't you give him some space, let him stay alone for a while, and calm down?

He was really suffocating.

He held his head with his hands: "Can you please let me be alone for a while? Don't bother me."

Although Lin Xia was angry, she said patiently: "Can you please stop being angry? It's useless to get emotional. If you have a problem, just say it out and solve it."

Qian Lisheng: "I don't have a problem, and I'm not angry.

I just want to be alone for a while." Lin Xia: "Do you call this staying for a while? This is called cold violence against me. If you want to stay for a while, why couldn't you stay for a while by yourself earlier? You talked to me about nonsense at home, made me angry enough, and then said you want to stay for a while?"

Qian Lisheng stared at her. What the hell? What cold violence? "Lin Xia, you are... quite educated now. Who did you learn from?"

Her third sister had never read a book before. She just took a few pictures because of her beauty. She doesn't have that ability, right? Did

Jiang Weidong teach her?

Thinking of this, his face darkened instantly.

And she said she was not familiar with Jiang Weidong!

Soon Chen He and others came back. Seeing that Lin Xia and Qian Lisheng were a bit confrontational, they hurried to persuade them to stop.

Chen He: "Master's wife, Master is in a bad mood, please be more considerate."

A female clamp worker who has always had a good relationship with Qian Lisheng said: "Yes, Master Qian works very hard every day, you as a daughter-in-law should be more considerate, don't always nag the masters."

Lin Xia frowned and turned her head and said: "Fu Xiumei, I'm talking to my husband, what are you interfering with?"

Fu Xiumei pouted and glanced at Qian Lisheng, "Hey, Master Qian is too pitiful."

Not only did his wife not comfort him for not being elected as the deputy director, but she also forced him so fiercely.

After she said this, others also came to persuade Lin Xia not to be serious with Master Qian.

Master Qian is usually such a good man, and he is in a bad mood today, so he can't be angry?

Several people who followed Qian Lisheng in the workshop thought it was a pity that he was not elected as deputy director, and that he was deliberately suppressed.

Especially those who were prejudiced against Gu Changming and hoped that Qian Lisheng would be promoted to deputy director to promote them, blamed Lin Xia.

At this time, several employees from the electrician team came over, "Team leader, why haven't you gone back to the meeting yet?"

The electrician team is basically composed of young men. Lin Xia is the only woman in the technical category. The other two female comrades are in charge of tools and file sorting.

They all knew that Qian Lisheng was upset because he was not promoted to deputy director, but they didn't expect that he would take his wife out on her because he was unhappy about her promotion to team leader.

The young men in the electrician team also felt sorry for Lin Xia, but the older and more experienced ones couldn't say it to her face, because wouldn't that irritate the couple's relationship?

The impulsive and low-EQ guy couldn't help but say, "Master Qian, you are not jealous of Master Lin's promotion to team leader because you didn't become the director, right?"

This remark directly hit Qian Lisheng's heart, making him feel angry.

He stood up and cursed, "What are you talking about? Hurry up and get to work!"

He ignored Lin Xia, turned around and pushed Fu Xiumei and the others away.

Fu Xiumei twisted her shoulders, "It's not time to go to work yet."

The director of the second workshop and Gu Changming came with Jiang Weidong to say hello to the team leaders of the second workshop and asked them to cooperate with Gu Changming.

Seeing the tense atmosphere in the office, the workshop director asked what was going on.

Someone immediately ran over and whispered.

Jiang Weidong frowned instantly. This Qian Lisheng... is really useless. He

is not much better than Tong Guoqiang.

Hearing that Jiang Weidong was coming, Qian Lisheng's heart skipped a beat. He turned to look at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia had already gone back to the meeting with her team members.

Qian Lisheng looked at the tall and handsome Jiang Weidong. He was talking with the director and Gu Changming. His temper quickly calmed down.

He subconsciously suspected that Jiang Weidong knew that he and Lin Xia had quarreled, and came here deliberately to make things difficult for him and warn him. Who knows, Jiang Weidong and Lin Xia... really have something going on.

No, Lin Xia shouldn't have that. She is a woman who is not good at lying or covering up. She says what she thinks and can't hide anything.

Jiang Weidong might have something against her. He always felt that Jiang Weidong looked at Lin Xia in a strange way.

He was also worried that Jiang Weidong would expose his affairs and embarrass him in front of all the employees in the factory.

When Jiang Weidong spoke to the team leader, his eyes swept over Qian Lisheng, his eyes were heavy, but he didn't say anything.

After he finished speaking, he said: "Everyone should cooperate with the work of the two directors and strive to take production capacity to a new level."

The director led the applause.

Jiang Weidong asked them to be busy, and he left first.

When he left, he passed by the electrician group, who had already finished the meeting and started working.

He saw Lin Xia and two colleagues going to repair the lines, so he didn't disturb them.

After Lin Xia was busy for a while, she ran to the Propaganda Department to call the Fendou Commune Post Office, thinking that someone would send a message to her third sister, and she would call her tomorrow. Unexpectedly, she got a call right after she finished calling her third sister.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xia felt heavy in her heart.

She felt that she and Qian Lisheng were really drifting apart.

Thinking of Qian Lisheng's weirdness, suspicion, and cold violence towards her during this period, and thinking of Qian Lisheng's performance today, Lin Xia felt that what the third sister said was really right.

This person's true nature is really hard to tell until it comes to interests.

He simply can't accept that she is getting better and better.

Maybe she and Qian Lisheng have really come to the end.