Luo Shicheng hadn't noticed until Hua Li mentioned it; only then did he realize that Liu Jingqiu often affectionately called him Shicheng.
Luo Shicheng immediately corrected Liu Jingqiu, "Comrade Liu Jingqiu, please address me as Comrade Luo Shicheng from now on."
Liu Jingqiu's little scheme was exposed, so she quickly pretended to be obedient and apologized.
"I'm sorry, Comrade Luo Shicheng. When Anguo was alive, he often called you Shicheng, so I sometimes didn't notice, and... sigh, if only Anguo were alive."
Liu Jingqiu covered her face with her hands and sobbed.
Hua Li knew perfectly well that Liu Jingqiu was faking her tears and deliberately brought up Anguo to soften Luo Shicheng's heart.
Sure enough, Luo Shicheng's cold and hard attitude cracked. "I'm sorry, I wasn't yelling at you..."
Hua Li gave a cold laugh, grabbed the thermos, put on her shoes, got out of bed, opened the door, and stood at the doorway holding up the thermos.
"Luo Shicheng, how can you be so disgusting as to flirt with other women right in front of me?"
Luo Shicheng blushed at Hua Li's words and scolded, "Hua Li, let's talk behind closed doors..."
Hua Li will no longer listen to Luo Shicheng.
"Before, I was concerned about your future and chose to endure everything. Even when Liu Jingqiu bullied me and tried to sabotage my job search, I didn't say a word."
But now, I've had enough. My children came to me naked, not to starve or be bullied with me.
Luo Shicheng looked at Liu Jingqiu in astonishment, and Liu Jingqiu quickly denied it.
"What does it have to do with me that you got fired for misconduct..."
Hua Li didn't waste any more words with Liu Jingqiu and interrupted him.
“Luo Shicheng, calculate how much your salary is for the past five years and six months, then have Liu Jingqiu write an IOU, and you and she sign and affix your fingerprints together.”
Luo Shicheng felt that Hua Li was simply unreasonable.
"Can't you calm down? It's not like Liu Jingqiu isn't refusing to pay back the money, why are you making such a scene..."
Snap!
Hua Li smashed the thermos on the ground, the loud noise attracting the attention of patients and medical staff in other wards who all craned their necks to look in her direction.
Seeing this, Luo Shicheng walked over and pulled Hua Li into the ward, closing the door to prevent outsiders from entering.
Hua Li glared coldly at Luo Shicheng, "I'm just asking you, are you going to write it or not?"
Seeing that Hua Li was truly determined to fight to the death, Luo Shicheng said to Liu Jingqiu with a stern face.
"You can calculate your own salary, and I'll sign the IOU after you've written it."
How could Liu Jingqiu possibly write an IOU? "It's been too long, I can't remember it."
Hua Li felt weak all over, so he simply sat on the bed and said.
"Then you two can kill my mother and me right here today."
Otherwise, once I leave this room, firstly, I will report to the military that Luo Shicheng and you are having an affair. Don't tell me you two have no relationship. If you had no relationship, who would give their allowance to someone else's wife? If you had no relationship, who would give their wife's job to someone else's wife when the other person already has a job?
Second, I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative. If you don't pay me my salary, I won't take this job either. I will report the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative for favoritism and corruption, and for colluding with the two of you to seize my job, including that mother and daughter who were threatening to jump off a building. If I don't have a good time, none of us will have a good time either.
If Liu Jingqiu hadn't pressed her so hard, even resorting to violence against Luo Yan, Hua Li, with her cowardly nature, wouldn't have said a word, let alone made a scene. But today, she was truly determined to die, vowing to fight for a way out for herself and her child.
Luo Shicheng grew increasingly alarmed as he listened. He wasn't alarmed that Hua Li was going to report him, because he and Liu Jingqiu truly had no connection whatsoever. What alarmed him was that he had no way to refute what Hua Li was saying.
It's like having soybean paste fall into your pocket; even if it's not shit, it's still shit. Without saying a word, Luo Shicheng took out paper and pen and handed them to Liu Jingqiu.
Liu Jingqiu knew that if Hua Li really did that, not only would he lose his job, but he would also lose the subsidies for families of martyrs and soldiers.
Liu Jingqiu took the paper and pen, roughly estimated the salary amount, and was about to write it down.
"Wait a minute, tell me exactly how much it costs," Hua Li said.
Liu Jingqiu gripped the pen tightly. "I don't remember exactly, but it was 200 a year for five years, so let's just say 1,000."
Hua Li sneered, "A monthly salary of about twenty yuan, plus bonuses and subsidies, and the wages I didn't get because of your sabotage, let's say four hundred and eighty yuan a year, five years and six months, rounded up, should be two thousand seven hundred yuan."
Liu Jingqiu tried to argue, but Hua Li spoke first.
"Shut up. I think this is too little. If you think it's too much, we'll go to the Discipline Inspection Commission to settle this."
“But I really don’t have that much money…” Liu Jingqiu wanted to try again.
Hua Li, expressionless, exposed him, "Liu Jingqiu, do you dare tell me that the people listed in the ledger are really people you've sponsored?"
Hua Li didn't believe that the person who had repeatedly harmed her and her mother would actually give away money for charity.
Liu Jingqiu gritted his teeth, silently wrote down the IOU, signed and stamped it himself, and handed it to Luo Shicheng. Luo Shicheng also signed and stamped it. Hua Li took it, carefully confirmed that the debt was correct, and then put it in his pocket.
"Liu Jingqiu, don't blame me for not telling you, if I don't get the money by 10 a.m. tomorrow, you and Luo Shicheng should be prepared to be investigated."
After saying that, Hua Li looked at Luo Shicheng again.
"Write the divorce report immediately, get it signed, and submit it today."
Luo Shicheng only brought a pen; the paper was torn from the diagnosis report. It was fine for writing IOUs, but writing a divorce report was too frivolous.
Luo Shicheng went out to buy stationery. When he opened the door, there were still many people gathered outside, waiting to see what was going on.
Never before had he felt so humiliated. Luo Shicheng's face was frighteningly cold. After buying the stationery, he immediately wrote a divorce report and sent it to Hua Li.
Seeing that Luo Shicheng wrote that the reason for the divorce was irreconcilable differences, Hua Li signed it without objection.
Luo Shicheng was going to submit his divorce papers, and Liu Jingqiu wanted to stay, but Luo Shicheng forcibly took her away.
The thought of giving Hua Li so much money was like the death of Liu Jingqiu. She followed Luo Shicheng out of the hospital and called out to him.
"Shicheng..."
Luo Shicheng said coldly, "I've already said, please call me Comrade Luo Shicheng."
A flash of hatred crossed Liu Jingqiu's eyes, but tears streamed down her face.
"Comrade Luo Shicheng, I really have no money. Two thousand seven hundred yuan, isn't this trying to kill me?"
Luo Shicheng had no idea that helping Liu Jingqiu would cause such serious harm to Hua Li. But when he heard Hua Li say that Liu Jingqiu had caused her to lose her job, although he didn't believe it completely, he became wary of Liu Jingqiu.
Hearing Liu Jingqiu, wearing an imported Omega watch, repeatedly say she had no money, I felt incredibly foolish of myself before.
“I used to support you because Anguo saved me, but that’s not a reason for you to keep demanding more.”
I won't advance you this time. If you really can't come up with the money, I'll check with each household using the ledger. If it's confirmed that you sponsored them, I'll compensate you according to the amount you sponsored them, and you can then use that money to repay Hua Li.
But before that, I advise you to repay Hua Li the money first, even if you have to borrow it. Otherwise, I won't be able to handle her if she makes a scene."
It wasn't that he was trying to shirk responsibility at the last minute, but rather that he was simply too ashamed to stop Hua Li any longer...
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