Chapter 271: Serves Him Right!
The quiet general office became even quieter.
Several people all looked intently at Wei Sixin.
Sister Qiao and Sister Hua exchanged a glance, both smiling inwardly.
Wei Sixin, such a smart person, had handled this matter so poorly today.
In the end, wasn’t it just that she hadn’t taken Lu Qiaoge seriously?
She really deserved it.
The gentle expression Wei Sixin usually had was gone; she looked coldly at Lu Qiaoge.
“You little comrade, I was merely expressing gratitude for your help in finding my husband’s younger brother, and then kindly inviting you to my home for a meal. Go if you want, don’t go if you don’t, but you went on and on with all this irrelevant nonsense. Your temper is quite something. If I’d known you were like this, I really wouldn’t have come.”
Lu Qiaoge’s gaze was clear, her voice straightforward: “You indeed shouldn’t have come. It’s work time now. You coming to invite me for a meal is clearly personal matters. If I went with you, I’d violate the work unit’s various rules and regulations. If I didn’t go, it would cause your dissatisfaction. You know how difficult you’ve made it for me, when I should be writing a work report?”
Wei Sixin only felt a chill rise from the soles of her feet, her body instantly stiffening. Ever since climbing up with Lin Junfeng, when had she ever suffered such a loss in public?
Even that highly self-regarding professor mother-in-law couldn’t gain half a point of advantage in front of her!
But this little girl who was only nineteen years old had, in just a few words, put her on the fire of publicly violating the work unit’s rules and regulations!
The smile on Wei Sixin’s face could no longer hold; she lost her gentleness, pointing furiously at Lu Qiaoge: “Ungrateful wretch, inviting you to eat is looking up to you!”
Lu Qiaoge immediately shot back: “You’re clearly harboring ill intentions and taking out your anger on me for helping the Lin family find Lin Jun’an. Don’t think that just because I’m young I don’t understand. We’re not relatives, haven’t even met, equivalent to strangers.
If you really wanted to invite me for a meal, you should at least contact me three days in advance to see if I have time three days later. If I do, I’d agree, then you’d tell me the meal location, whether noon or evening, what time it starts, and who will be there. That’s the most basic politeness and rules for hosting. Deputy Director Wei, you launched a sudden attack and then say I’m ungrateful. You’re bullying people too much!”
Lu Qiaoge’s eyes reddened, tears on the verge of falling, a sight that made Huang Juan feel heartbroken.
Sister Hua frowned: “Inviting someone for a meal is a good thing, but you, a deputy director of the cultural palace, how can you handle things like this, and speak so harshly too? Inviting our Comrade Lu for a meal is looking up to her? What, are you from some remarkable family? Is your family’s meal that fancy?”
Sister Qiao walked over: “It’s work time now. Personal matters shouldn’t be discussed at all. Could it be that those who follow the rules and regulations are the ones in the wrong? If that’s really the case, I should write a letter to the factory department reporting the situation.”
Huang Juan said warmly to Lu Qiaoge: “Little Lu, you did very well. What you said is not wrong. It’s Deputy Director Wei who was too abrupt. You go back to work.”
Then, looking at the ashen-faced Wei Sixin, she said coldly: “Wei Sixin, this is the neighborhood committee, not the cultural palace. What was that you just said? What do you mean inviting her to eat is looking up to her, and she’s ungrateful? What kind of thinking and style is that? Do you even know who you are and what you do?
Don’t you know everyone is equal?
Don’t glare at me. Are we going to my office now, or to the factory department to find the leader, to properly discuss your thought problems?”
Wei Sixin hadn’t expected this to be the result.
Ever since getting to know Lin Junfeng, really no one had dared speak to her like this.
Last year she came to the military factory with Lin Junfeng. Though demoted a level, here because of her father-in-law’s connections, she was still a person above others.
Huang Juan, a deputy director of the neighborhood committee, an old woman on the verge of retirement, actually dared to speak to her like this?
Wei Sixin was so angry she nearly fainted.
No longer like her elegant and composed gentle demeanor from moments ago.
At this moment, Wei Sixin was glaring her eyeballs like a madwoman, tremblingly saying: “Fine, fine, fine, you… you’re all something else.”
Then Wei Sixin turned and left.
Lu Qiaoge slightly hooked the corner of her mouth, watching her staggering back as she left the neighborhood committee.
Huang Juan didn’t go to see her off.
She was also very angry inside. Wei Sixin had completely not taken the neighborhood committee, her, Old Hu, and Lu Qiaoge seriously.
She and Wei Sixin had no intersection, but many people’s evaluations of her were very good.
Today it seemed those good words were just from flatterers.
Huang Juan comforted Lu Qiaoge: “It’s fine. She can’t do anything to you. Go do what you should.”
Lu Qiaoge frowned slightly, then said to Huang Juan: “I heard from Older Sister Zhou Li that her mother-in-law is a truly gentle person by nature, who suffered stimulation from her son’s disappearance and isn’t in good health. Inviting me to her home for a meal must definitely be this woman Wei Sixin’s own idea, because even if Aunt Lin wanted to invite me for a meal, she wouldn’t do it at her second son’s home. This I’m certain of, so I need to call Uncle Lin.”
Huang Juan nodded in agreement. She should make a call.
Lu Qiaoge called the Swan Hotel.
Manager Wang of the Swan Hotel took the call, and upon hearing it was Lu Qiaoge, he was all smiles with pleasantries: “Oh, it’s Qiao Ge. Haven’t seen you in a long time.”
Though Lu Qiaoge was a girl, she was exceptionally capable and efficient. Who knew when she might be useful in the future, so the relationship naturally needed good maintenance.
Lu Qiaoge also smiled and said: “Hello, Manager Wang. Sorry to trouble you. I’d like to ask if Old Lin is at the hotel?”
“He’s here, he’s here. I’ll transfer you to his room.”
Then Lu Qiaoge connected with Old Lin.
Lu Qiaoge said directly: “Uncle Lin, I suggest you bring Aunt Lin back now. Just now, Wei Sixin came to my work unit, and in front of leaders and colleagues, she sarcastically invited me to her home for a meal, thanking me for helping find Lin Jun’an, and saying Aunt Lin prepared a big table of food.
If that’s true, it proves that Aunt Lin, who isn’t in good health, will have to prepare a big table of food tonight. That would be too taxing. Can Aunt Lin’s body bear it?
If it’s fake, since Wei Sixin didn’t get what she wanted here, she’ll definitely take it out on Aunt Lin when she goes back. I’m worried about Aunt Lin’s health…”
Old Lin, hearing this, was already trembling with anger.
Lu Qiaoge added: “If you’re afraid Wei Sixin will come make a scene at the hotel, go stay at Older Sister Zhou Li’s home. I believe Older Sister Zhou Li and Older Brother Lin will definitely be happy.”
Old Lin on the other end felt ashamed inside, thanking Lu Qiaoge in a hoarse voice.
But at the same time, he felt this little Director Lu really wasn’t an ordinary young woman.
No wonder even Uncle Qin, who had never met her, had a good impression of her.
Even the usually picky Old Bai was the same.
She spoke straightforwardly and decisively, acted methodically. Who wouldn’t like her?
Lu Qiaoge hung up the phone.
Huang Juan said to her: “Go to the food factory. Tell Zhou Li to go right now to Deputy Director Lin’s home—no, Lin Junfeng’s home—and bring her mother-in-law back to her place.”
Don’t let her wield a chicken feather as an arrow and use the old lady as a raft.
