Chapter 169: Lu Qiao Ge’s Bonus
However, Qin Hengzhi said: “We don’t need to hold a commendation meeting, but the bonus is what you deserve. The factory has relevant reward provisions.”
Lu Qiaoge asked: “How much?”
“At least one hundred yuan.”
Lu Qiaoge said happily: “Team Leader Zhong from the scrap workshop said he submitted my wheelchair design drawing. This is technological innovation, and there’s a bonus for it too.”
Qin Hengzhi: “The innovation award bonus starts at a minimum of fifty.”
He then introduced Lu Qiaoge to the other bonuses set up at the factory.
It had to be said that the treatment at 516 was indeed good.
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The banquet was held meticulously, strictly following the procedures.
Even the vicinity was full of plainclothes officers and guards.
The theme was to safely send the guests away.
Lu Qiaoge had originally wanted to think about the grain issue, but seeing the tense atmosphere, she dropped the idea.
No wonder Comrade Old Hu resolutely didn’t come.
It was after nine o’clock at night when Qin Hengzhi sent Lu Qiaoge back.
At this time, many households had turned off their lights and gone to sleep.
The Lu family kept the lights on in the house because Lu Qiaoge hadn’t returned.
Qin Hengzhi sent her to the main door, but Lu Qiaoge didn’t go in. She and Qin Hengzhi stood together looking at the base of the wall not far away.
Lu Qiaoge was stunned. Wasn’t that Ding Jianshe’s wife Chen Ying? Why was she here?
No need to ask, she must have come looking for her.
Qin Hengzhi asked in a low voice. After knowing who the person was, he was no longer worried and turned and left with big strides.
Lu Qiaoge vaguely guessed in her heart that Ding Jianshe must have confessed to her.
The facts were indeed so.
Lu Qiaoge was sympathetic in her heart, but she didn’t show it on her face.
She patiently explained to Chen Ying: “Aunt Chen, I was the one who answered the phone at the time. That person knew I was the neighborhood committee mediator and quickly said a bunch of words without waiting for me to ask, then hung up. I took it upon myself not to report to our leader. Even now, both directors don’t know.”
Chen Ying said in a hoarse voice: “I don’t mean anything else. I just want to help him ask… He can’t ask himself…”
Lu Qiaoge reached out and held her hand, saying: “Aunt Chen, it’s really hard on you.”
Chen Ying was an elder, but facing this junior Lu Qiaoge, she couldn’t help but feel grievance surging in her heart.
But she still held it back.
Things had come to this point, there was no way to retreat. Since she hadn’t chosen divorce back then, now that the child was grown, she had to be even more cautious.
She would do her best.
“Qiao Ge, this matter… I mean, if this matter can’t be kept secret, will you get implicated?”
Lu Qiaoge pondered for a moment: “I will definitely be criticized.”
“Will it affect your job?” Chen Ying asked worriedly.
Lu Qiaoge shook her head to reassure her: “Aunt Chen, what does Uncle Ding mean?”
Chen Ying: “He plans to go to the mine tomorrow. If… if that child is really being abused, he can’t ignore it. And if someone dies, Old Chen will still get implicated. It’s better to face it head-on. A quick death is better than a slow one. I’ve thought it through. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll divorce him. That way, the non-parliamentary committee will be a bit less harsh on him.”
Lu Qiaoge didn’t want to judge Ding Jianshe’s behavior, but still said: “From the other party’s attitude, they want this child to provide elderly care until the end. So this child coming probably isn’t that simple. But men have knots in their hearts, and women do too. As the child grows up, this knot gets bigger and bigger. My opinion is to simply uncover what happened back then. Otherwise, if someone holds the handle, it might affect your pair of children in the future.”
Chen Ying’s face immediately turned pale.
Yes, all these years she had been bossing Ding Jianshe around for exactly this reason.
Because he had a handle in her hands.
Whenever she was unhappy, she would use it to trouble Ding Jianshe.
What about that woman?
What if her pair of children prospered in the future and got entangled?
Chen Ying made up her mind to let Ding Jianshe go and leave a way out for the child.
Ge Rong, that woman, was really too terrifying.
She thanked Lu Qiaoge, then went to the corner and took a package of things and handed it to Lu Qiaoge, insisting: “Nothing good, just a little token from us. Qiao Ge, you must accept it, otherwise my heart will feel uncomfortable…”
Lu Qiaoge was a bit troubled.
Chen Ying said: “Nothing valuable, really, just pastries, canned food, and a piece of printed cloth.”
Fine, pushing back and forth late at night was too time-consuming.
Lu Qiaoge accepted it.
Seeing Chen Ying about to leave, she asked: “Aunt Chen, did you come alone?”
Chen Ying curved the corners of her mouth and pointed to the distance: “Your Uncle Ding has no face to come, he’s waiting over there.”
With that, Chen Ying told Lu Qiaoge to quickly go into the courtyard, and she left quickly.
Meng Xia turned off the light in the room only after hearing her second daughter finish washing up and enter the house.
Meng Xia quietly said to Lu Da, who wasn’t asleep: “I listened carefully just now. Our second daughter seems to have been talking to a woman.”
Lu Da was stunned for a moment, then said: “At this time, coming to talk to your daughter, it must be something they don’t want others to know. Good thing you didn’t go out.”
Meng Xia gave him a white look: “Am I that stupid? Xiao Qin sent Qiao Ge back, he would definitely send her to the main door. If there was something, he wouldn’t leave.”
Just didn’t know who that person was.
What could it be, coming to her second daughter so late at night?
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Lu Qiaoge slept until one o’clock in the morning. She yawned, then quietly got up, slung the canvas bag containing a bundle of rope over her back, climbed out the back window, and with the excited Hua Hua, quickly ran toward the lakeside.
Hua Hua’s speed was fast, but Lu Qiaoge’s was faster.
The old turtle had Hua Hua bring a message that there would be heavy rain tomorrow. Although not as severe as last time, there would be heavy to moderate rain every day for a week.
If it were before, it wouldn’t matter.
Wherever it wanted to rush, the big pike wouldn’t care.
But now they had met Lu Qiaoge.
The big pike and the old turtle felt that these things should all belong to Lu Qiaoge.
It would be too bad if they were washed away.
So Lu Qiaoge had to act ahead of time.
But there was also a benefit: there would be heavy rain in the early morning, which would wash away all traces.
Lu Qiaoge disliked Hua Hua running too slowly and picked up Hua Hua to run wildly.
While running, she couldn’t help but think of the bloody and windy days in the apocalypse.
One really had to stay vigilant at all times and be ready to erupt at any moment.
The current days were really too leisurely.
Lu Qiaoge curved the corners of her mouth and nimbly dodged the patrol team’s flashlight and also avoided the lights from the guard tower.
She almost perfectly melted into the darkness.
In just a few minutes, Lu Qiaoge was squatting at the shore, holding the excited but tight-lipped Hua Hua.
The big pike and the old turtle had been waiting for a long time.
They didn’t expect the little fairy to really come.
Lu Qiaoge took off her outerwear. Without a swimsuit now, she could only make do and get in.
The Hongxing Lake at night was dark and somber, filled with heart-palpitating terror.
Lu Qiaoge was quite at ease.
Because escorting her were the big pike and the old turtle, followed by the big carp and grass carp.
These were all king-level figures in Hongxing Lake.
Lu Qiaoge didn’t go to the center of the lake. She changed air a few times. Several big pikes bit the rope and, as Lu Qiaoge instructed, passed the rope through the handle of the iron box, then handed it to Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge pulled the rope and dragged the dark iron box from the lake bottom…
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