At this moment, Di Sheng truly wished that Factory Director Li had never woken up, so that he wouldn't be so heart-wrenching. He looked at Hai Fugui, who stood silently to the side, and said softly, "Old Hai, Old Li is just talking nonsense. There's no evidence to prove it..."
He trailed off, unsure what to say next. The whole thing was the fault of someone else, but who could he blame? He couldn't remember.
Click, click, click...
Factory Director Li was unconvinced. How could someone who never talks nonsense lie? Ignoring Di Sheng's warning look, he opened his mouth to continue speaking. Di Sheng sensed something was wrong and quickly stepped forward to try and shut him up.
Xu Qingqing spat out the sunflower seed shells and, just as Di Sheng was about to cover Director Li's mouth with his hand, she grabbed his shoulder tightly and smiled, "Old comrade, this is not a good thing to do. Our Director Li has just woken up and is still a weak old baby, very fragile. If you touch him with your germ-filled hands, aren't you going to harm him?"
What? Di Sheng thought he had misheard, his face darkening: "What are you saying? I've known Old Li for decades, how could I harm him!"
"Don't rush." Xu Qingqing glanced at his hand. Di Sheng followed her gaze and looked at his own hand. His face darkened even more. Although he was teaching people now, he would still operate the machine from time to time, so the black dirt on his fingernails would still get there.
"Young comrade, are you mocking the hands of a working person?"
"Old comrade, you've misunderstood." Facing Di Sheng's angry glare, Xu Qingqing shook her index finger. "The bacteria I'm talking about isn't what you think. You just came from the restroom. Putting aside whether you washed your hands or not, you used the hand you touched to cover our Factory Director Li's mouth..."
Holy shit!
"Old Di, how disgusting!" Director Li quickly covered his mouth with the blanket, looking at him warily. If he moved even slightly, even if he was injured, he would get out of bed and stay far away from this guy. He actually tried to cover his mouth with his hand.
Xu Qingqing reminded her, "How can you have the nerve to look down on others? You're the same way."
Director Li couldn't refute that. Who would have thought that you had to wash your hands after using the toilet? Isn't it just like that... and then everyone goes about their own business? Thinking about it that way, wouldn't he be...
I can't think about it, I can't think about it.
Di Sheng clearly knew he hadn't washed his hands, and immediately withdrew them awkwardly, giving Factory Director Li a warning look not to speak, especially not anything that would hurt Hai Fugui.
Xu Qingqing wanted to continue listening, but didn't want this person to disturb her, so she dragged him towards the door, opened it, lifted him out, and slammed the door shut. Now she could finally listen to the juicy gossip.
Outside the door, Di Sheng realized he had been kicked out. He immediately glared and pounded on the door, shouting inside, "Hey, young comrade, why did you lock me out? Let me in right now, or you won't be able to stop what's going to happen next! Open the door!"
At this moment, a nurse on duty noticed the shouting. His voice filled the entire corridor, and even the patients who were already asleep were jolted awake by the shouts. They got up one by one, opened the door, and crowded around the doorway to watch the commotion.
Di Sheng didn't notice that the doors to both wards had been opened, and heads were looking in his direction.
"Hey! Comrade over there, this is a hospital, and it's late at night. Shouting is prohibited in hospitals, you know that?!" The nurse arrived and sternly reprimanded Di Sheng. After speaking to him, she glanced around at the patients who were peeking out and not sleeping.
Everyone who met her stern gaze obediently closed the door and went back to sleep.
After the nurse saw that the people had obediently gone back, she turned to him and said, "Old comrade, it's getting late, please control your behavior."
Di Sheng nodded quickly, and after watching the nurse leave, he exhaled the stale air from the first floor. Then he thought about the situation inside and Hai Fugui's emotions. He looked out the window and saw Hai Fugui, who was still silent, as before, and Director Li sitting on the hospital bed, with Xu Qingqing standing to the side.
Because Xu Qingqing was blocking the view of Director Li's upper body, Di Sheng couldn't see the other person's mouth and felt anxious. He then pressed his ear against the door to listen to the sounds inside.
After dealing with Di Sheng, Xu Qingqing clapped her hands and returned to her seat. She patted Director Li on the shoulder and gestured for him to continue, indicating that she wanted to hear more and not to stop.
Factory Director Li glanced at the door, hesitating whether to continue. Only then did he realize how hurtful his words had been. Who would know that his wife was promiscuous and had affairs with more than one man? If it were him, he would have gone mad long ago.
If he hadn't been so eager to prove his innocence, he wouldn't have blurted out all of this in a moment of panic—or rather, less than half of it.
His family and Hai Fugui used to be neighbors, and the two were very close. He also knew that Hai Fugui liked the woman from the next team, and eventually married her. Hai Fugui kept it a secret and didn't know who she was before. When he saw the bride enter the door, his mind went blank.
Hai Fugui married a woman named Hua Gu, who had lived with her widow mother since childhood. Although the widow had a bad reputation, she was definitely good-looking and had always relied on her body to exchange for things. How did he know this? It was because his maternal grandmother was from that team, and his uncle was also one of the people who were on good terms with the widow.
When I was little, I would go to my maternal grandparents' house to play with my uncle. My uncle would often take me to the widow's house and tell me to go play by myself. One summer day, I was bitten by mosquitoes so badly that I couldn't stand it anymore. I ran back to my maternal grandparents to complain. As a result, my uncle was beaten by both my maternal grandparents and my maternal grandparents. Later, they even found a fierce wife to discipline my uncle.
It's a case of what goes around comes around. Director Li wiped away a tear of bitterness. His wife was also introduced to him by his aunt, and she had the same temper as him. He still couldn't beat his wife. Although his wife's strength wasn't as terrifying as that little madwoman Xu Qingqing, she could still slap him away.
As for that Hua Gu, she was a pitiful person. She was subtly influenced by her widowed mother, and her personality was different from that of a conservative girl. She was very bold and her behavior was much more unrestrained, which led to her being targeted by some ill-intentioned people.
Perhaps because of that incident, Hua Gu was quite traumatized. He encountered her and her childhood sweetheart more than once on the mountain...
I thought that was the end of it, until I saw her with another person again...
So when he found out that his best friend liked Hua Gu, he felt a headache coming on. As Hai Fugui's best friend, he should tell him about Hua Gu. But every time he went to Hai Fugui to tell him the truth, Hai Fugui would smile and say how happy he was. He hesitated.
Then one day, he came to him and said that his wife was cheating on him, and what followed was a falling out between the brothers.
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