"Xiao Lan, is there anything you want to say to me?"
Finally, the old man on the sofa stared at her for a long time before slowly asking the question. Wei Lan was still in shock and doubt, wondering if her father knew something.
"What's wrong? I..."
He opened and closed his mouth several times, neither daring to deny it nor truly admit it.
Wei Hui had already left, leaving only her father, brother, and Liu Cheng in the room. Unable to get any answers from them, Wei Lan turned her gaze to her husband.
"Dad, are you misunderstanding something? You can ask Liu Cheng."
With his wife having passed away early and his daughter being young, Wei Fumin did not have high expectations for his daughter compared to his son.
His daughter is also obedient. Over the years, she has often come over to have dinner with him. Even when she is busy, she remembers to come over every few days.
In Wei Fumin's heart, his daughter, even though she was a bit spoiled, was not a bad person and sometimes liked to show off.
With the connections he had built up over the years, plus his son's high-ranking official position, Wei Lan could be said to have had everything go smoothly under the protection of the Wei family.
She had been working in a machinery factory all these years, but then she heard from somewhere that the city was going to build a textile factory, and she insisted on going there to be the deputy director.
It was far from where they lived, and besides, it was a newly started business with many things to do, so Wei Fumin was unwilling to let his daughter go there no matter what.
But Wei Lan insisted that the only way to get this done was to call her.
When his son-in-law came to tell him about this this morning, he even suspected that his son-in-law had drunk too much. How could Xiaolan be that kind of person?
"Dad, it's true that I'm not capable enough, and my salary isn't enough to support the family's current lifestyle, but Xiaolan shouldn't have done this."
"Spending money that shouldn't be spent makes me uneasy. My older brother has been unusually diligent lately; if someone exposes this, the consequences could be dire."
Liu Cheng had already planned to tell his father-in-law what Wei Lan had done during this period of time.
But at this moment, seeing that old man who, even though he was nearly eighty, was still energetic and refused to admit that he was old, I asked him a few questions repeatedly.
She simply couldn't believe that her daughter had become someone who was only interested in profit and disregarded the interests of the collective.
Are you telling the truth?
"Dad, I'm not lying to you. Only you can control Weilan. She doesn't listen to me."
Wei Fumin has used his crutches little over the years. Even when medics come to take care of him, he is unwilling to rely on others and insists on doing many things himself.
Now, however, he was like an ordinary eighty-year-old man, with poor hearing and eyesight, and he couldn't hear Liu Cheng's words clearly.
"When did it start?"
After a long silence, Wei Fumin bent down and groped around for a while before finally sitting down in the chair. He sighed deeply and then took out his reading glasses.
Behind the glasses, a menacing gaze was fixed on Liu Cheng.
"..."
"to be honest."
Wei Fumin had traversed the grasslands and infiltrated enemy-occupied base areas in his early years. Once he began to unleash his pressure, the people opposite him would go weak in the knees, and few could withstand his gaze.
Liu Cheng was no exception; he licked his lips and chose to tell the truth.
Wei Fumin was very principled and would never allow his family members to touch upon or harm the collective interests. Wei Song was just like his father; some people couldn't even find a way to get things done from them.
Later, these people gradually set their sights on Wei Lan.
She may have initially refused, but in the end she couldn't resist the sweet talk. Liu Cheng first discovered this a few years ago.
The two children in the family are twins, a boy and a girl. They were both very small when they were born, and they struggled to raise them until they were over a year old, but their health was still not good.
Even though the family tried to find milk powder coupons for them, they couldn't take care of the two children.
Liu Cheng had no choice but to buy it on the black market.
"Why don't we stop giving them formula? They're already a year old. We should raise them more carefully from now on."
Wei Lan was naturally unwilling, but later someone found out and sent them a whole package of milk powder at once.
What the person asked for was very easy to do; she didn't even need to go home and ask her family.
"We don't need to do anything, so why can't we take it?"
Despite Liu Cheng's objections, Wei Lan kept the package of milk powder.
Later, the house had many more things: imported snacks and toys, and pretty dresses from department stores. Of course, Liu Cheng tried to dissuade her more than once.
"No one will know about this unless you tell them."
Having tasted the benefits of exchanging power for personal gain, Wei Lan began to climb the ranks with all her might, using the connections of the Wei family to quickly become a leader in the machinery factory.
Over the years, she has found increasing enjoyment in exchanging favors with people through her connections at the machinery factory.
However, the only position available at the machinery factory was deputy director, so Wei Lan set her sights on the newly opened textile factory.
She wanted to completely control a factory, ensuring it was constantly generating revenue so she could reap increasing benefits.
"So no matter how much I tried to persuade him, he was determined to go there."
Over the years, Liu Cheng had become quite familiar with the Wei family's interpersonal relationships and knew that many people had reached agreements with Wei Lan and sent a lot of things to the family.
Wei Fumin called one of them. At first, the man hesitated and refused to admit it, but later he couldn't withstand the old leader's interrogation.
They could only admit that they had indeed given Wei Lan money to help her find jobs for her children.
"She made promises to quite a few people this time."
"The recruitment exams for such large state-owned factories can't be decided by her alone. How can she arrange for these people to be hired?"
As expected, experience matters. Wei Fumin knew after a moment's thought that Wei Lan had only just arrived at the textile factory, which was under the control of the military region, so she simply couldn't possibly have that much power.
The military region isn't to be trifled with.
"This time, the military region cooperated with the No. 1 High School. The school was responsible for the test questions and the subsequent marking of the papers. She initially approached me, wanting me to find a way to interfere with the marking of the papers, but I refused."
Liu Cheng composed himself, glanced at his father-in-law, and decided to finish speaking.
"Have someone steal the exam papers from the textile factory."
After listening, Wei Fuming's breathing became rapid for a while, and he finally calmed down before slamming his hand on the desk.
"outrageous!"
Liu Cheng originally thought that after rejecting Wei Lan, she would give up and return the money she received, but he did not expect her to be so bold.
That night, Liu Cheng got up in the middle of the night and found the light still on in the study. As soon as he went over, he heard Wei Lan talking on the phone with someone.
She assured the person on the phone that she had a way to get the exam papers.
Liu Cheng had no way to stop her, so he could only switch the test papers that were to be sent to the textile factory, pretending to have made a mistake. Even if she really succeeded, it wouldn't cause too much damage.
If she didn't succeed, then it was all a misunderstanding, and the textile factory would only take the exam papers more seriously.
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