Seeing Xiao Hongmei's face getting darker and darker, Peng Yuni frowned and said, "Sister Hongmei, Xiaohang's situation has had a huge impact. We really can't do anything. But don't worry, the Peng family won't watch your family get into trouble and fall into poverty. We will definitely provide some help in your life and finances."
Hearing her words, Xiao Hongmei smiled, a particularly cold smile, her voice small but unusually clear: "Yuni, if people knew that you were collaborating with your in-laws to resell fabrics and taking kickbacks from them, and the amount involved was no less than 130,000, what do you think would happen to you?"
"call out!"
Peng Yuni jumped up suddenly, and the porridge in her hand spilled onto the ground, and the enamel bowl made a crisp sound.
"Sister Hongmei, do you know what nonsense you are talking about?"
Peng Yuni appeared calm on the surface, but she was actually extremely panicked, and her hands were clenched into fists under her sleeves.
"You know whether I am talking nonsense or not."
Looking at the obviously changed expressions of the mother and daughter, Xiao Hongmei sneered in her heart.
Having said this, the relationship was already broken. She didn't want to say any more nonsense. Her tone was very cold: "Aunt, Yuni, my son is my life. He did something wrong because I didn't educate him well. I don't expect him to get away with it. My only wish is to save his life and let him spend as little time in jail as possible."
"Aunt, Yuni, I know the Peng family doesn't want to be involved in any scandal. I understand that, but I don't want to cause any trouble for you unless it's absolutely necessary."
"I think the Peng family has also investigated this matter, but they probably haven't found out who actually attacked the Meng family."
"The Peng family's head family is in Kyoto, and my cousin's husband and second brother are high-ranking officials in the capital. You should understand the current situation better than I do. Now is the most serious moment of factional fighting. Suddenly, someone in Seoul attacked the Meng family. Do you think it was really the Meng family who offended someone?"
Peng Yuni narrowed her eyes: "Sister Hongmei, what do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is that we are all in the same boat. If the Meng family falls, you may be the next target."
Xiao Hongmei made her words very clear. Seeing that they understood, she repeated her request: "Yuni, as long as you save Xiaohang's life and try to make him suffer as little as possible, I promise to take what I said before to my grave. I will never let you and the Xue family fall into the situation the Meng family is in today."
This was a blatant threat from her. Peng Yuni gnashed her teeth in anger, her expression colder than ever: "Sister Hongmei, you're great."
"Yuni, don't blame me for not caring about family ties. I am a mother, and everything I do is to protect my son." Xiao Hongmei said and left.
As soon as she left, Old Lady Peng cursed in a low voice: "We were so kind to her before, and now she's an ungrateful person again."
After that, he scolded his daughter in a low voice: "Yuni, you are no different. You were so careless in your actions. She has the evidence in her hands, and now she is blackmailing you."
"Mom, she probably doesn't have any evidence." Peng Yuni's face looked particularly ugly.
"As long as someone investigates, evidence can be easily obtained."
Madam Peng was a little dissatisfied with her naiveté and said with a sullen face, "Do you think they didn't know what Meng Xiaohang did? Maybe they were behind the scenes helping him. Given their shrewdness, how could they not have destroyed the evidence in time?"
Peng Yuni understood what she meant and quickly stood up: "Mom, I'll go back and deal with this first."
"You should discuss this matter with Hailin. After all, it involves his third brother and his wife. He won't stay out of it. It would be better to let him arrange someone to handle Meng Xiaohang's matter." Old Lady Peng gave her advice.
"Mom, I understand."
Peng Yuni was a little flustered at first, but now she calmed down, stood up, got a broom, and swept the porridge on the ground before leaving.
As soon as she reached the door, she met Bai Shuixian. Bai Shuixian simply nodded in acknowledgement, then took the cupping tools and went to work in the next room.
Seeing Bai Shuixian's quiet and beautiful face, Peng Yuni was instinctively jealous, but she did not lose her temper and go up to her to pick a fight. She picked up her bag and hurried back to the unit to find Xue Hailin.
At noon, Gong Linglong got off work and was about to go to the cafeteria for lunch. When she came out with her lunch box, she saw her mother outside.
"Mom, when did you come?"
"I arrived five minutes ago."
Bai Shuixian didn't knock on the door to disturb her work. Seeing her pick up her lunch box and go eat, she smiled and said, "I just went to the post office to help an old boss receive a package. I thought you should be off work soon, so I came to your place to eat."
"Come on, I'll take you to the cafeteria."
Gong Linglong handed her the lunch box and picked up the heavy package on the ground. "Mom, this package is quite heavy. Put it in my office first. Come back and get it after dinner."
"Okay, these are some special products from Northeast China that our old leader's comrades mailed to him. They're very warm and generous, always sending him a big bag full. He hurt his back doing morning exercises a couple of days ago, so I came over to pick up the stuff for him."
After she put her things away, the mother and daughter walked to the company cafeteria for lunch. On the way, Bai Shuixian whispered to her, "Linglong, Meng Xiaoying's mother went to the nursing home this morning. I heard from other colleagues that she has been visiting Xue Hailin's mother-in-law frequently recently, hoping that the Peng family can help save Meng Xiaohang."
"She left crying every time in the past few days, but she didn't cry when she left today. Not long after she left, Peng Yuni left in a hurry. I suspect the Peng family will intervene."
Gong Linglong raised her eyebrows slightly: "You didn't help before, but now you want to help. This is very strange."
"Go back and talk to Jingchuan about it tonight."
Bai Shuixian knew that it was her son-in-law who was behind Meng Xiaohang's arrest. Now that the Peng family wanted to intervene, it would be better to give her son-in-law a warning.
Gong Linglong nodded in response, a strange light flashed in her eyes, and she was actually looking forward to their intervention.
The food in the canteen of the government agency is pretty good, and there are a lot of people eating there. It was my mother's first time to eat here, and today they happened to have braised chicken, so Gong Linglong bought her one portion. She also ordered two vegetarian dishes and chose one meat and one vegetable for herself.
The two of them did not eat in the cafeteria after getting their lunch. Instead, they took their lunch boxes back to the small warehouse behind the office building and ate while sitting on the small bed for their lunch break.
Since there were no outsiders around, Bai Shuixian whispered another piece of good news to her, "Linglong, my last translation trial manuscript passed. The Compilation Bureau mailed me my work permit and medical books. The translation fee is quite high."
"How much?" Gong Linglong asked hurriedly.
"Three yuan for a thousand words." Bai Shuixian smiled slightly.
Gong Linglong: "...this high?"
"Actually, when I was in college in the 1950s and 1960s, translation royalties were much higher than they are now. For example, for a book on engineering or medicine, I could earn at least 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, and as much as 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. But things have changed in recent years. Not only has translation been interrupted, but royalties for poetry and literature have also dropped significantly. Three yuan per thousand words is already a relatively high standard now."
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