Chapter 273: I Want To Fight!
Today’s Zhou Li is equivalent to the food factory’s workshop director.
Su Hui has a pregnancy, so she’s not suitable for doing too much management work.
So among these people, Zhou Li is the most suitable.
Lu Qiaoge is also purposefully cultivating her. Today’s Zhou Li is different from the Zhou Li who had almost no way out and didn’t want to live when she first returned to the family courtyard.
She remembered Lu Qiaoge’s words: family matter, this is a family matter. So without waiting for the ashen-faced Wei Sixin to retort, she looked at Wei Sixin and said straightforwardly: “Although you’re Second Sister-in-law, the parents are still here. There’s no need for you to go express gratitude to Lu Qiaoge. Besides, this is a matter between us and Lu Qiaoge. What are you getting involved in?”
Wei Sixin was so angry that her lips trembled. One after another, they spoke so directly—it infuriated her to death!
Without waiting for Wei Sixin to speak, Zhou Li said: “Second Sister-in-law, I don’t have your level of education or insight. I’m just an educated youth who returned from being sent down, fortunate enough to work at the food factory. Now I’m just an ordinary worker. My husband and I have no other ideas right now—we just hope everyone is doing well.
But reclaiming ancestry is definite. My husband never had a single good day from childhood to adulthood. Now that he’s found his biological parents, he must recognize them. But aside from that, we have no other ideas.
My husband and I now have jobs and get salary every month. Our lives are getting more and more stable—this is already the good days we didn’t even dare to dream of before, so we’re content. We’ve never coveted anything from the parents, but actually the parents have only saved up some salary, so we certainly won’t miss it.
Today I’ll state it again: you and Second Brother can rest assured. It’s the same as before. Of course, supporting the parents is what the children should do—we definitely won’t shirk responsibility. Second Sister-in-law, please rest assured on that.”
After Zhou Li finished speaking, Lin Jun’an gave her a thumbs up.
Then he gestured there nonstop, his mouth dryly emitting “yes, yes, yes” syllables.
Sister Tang, the wife of Director Hao who came to watch the excitement, narrowed her eyes. What’s going on? What kind of talk is this from Little Wei’s sister-in-law?
Lin Junfeng is the older brother, so he should be very happy about finding Lin Jun’an, right?
Moreover, the old folks are still around, yet they’re talking about family assets?
But this is the Lin family’s family matter. Although she’s a neighbor and gets along okay with Wei Sixin, her husband said Lin Junfeng has flaws in private morality. His divorce from his ex-wife almost destroyed her. From this, Wei Sixin is absolutely no good thing.
However, she and Wei Sixin are neighbors who see each other all the time. Moreover, although she sympathizes with Haiyun, she actually doesn’t know Haiyun at all. On the contrary, neighbor Wei Sixin treats her with great respect, speaks smilingly, calling her Sister Tang one after another. Moreover, this family of three is indeed doing very well—the couple never quarrels.
Life is always full of helplessness everywhere.
Sister Tang originally wanted to persuade, but still shut her mouth.
At this time, Wei Sixin’s face was ashen. Today at the neighborhood committee, Lu Qiaoge had torn her apart completely, just like being skinned alive in front of everyone.
Since getting married, the people she met all spoke mildly, friendly, tactfully, even flatteringly. Today was the first time she encountered someone like Lu Qiaoge who was utterly unconcerned and charged straight ahead.
She really says whatever she wants.
In the end, she even acted aggrieved!
Wei Sixin didn’t even know how she got back.
When she got home, that dead old woman wasn’t in the room, just sitting outside talking with Aunt Zhu.
She couldn’t vent her anger and could only go upstairs hatefully.
Then the mute and Zhou Li came.
Zhou Li spoke even more so.
At this time, Wei Sixin tried hard to calm herself. So many people watching, she couldn’t lose composure.
Tears streamed down her face. First she went to pull her ashen-faced husband, then accused: “Zhou Li, you’ve gone too far. How can you talk nonsense and distort facts? I thanked Lu Qiaoge for helping find my little brother-in-law, but since Mom is at my house, I wanted to treat her to a meal. How did you turn it into so many ugly words? What do you mean by this? And what family assets—why is your mind full of that? Second Brother and I have never thought that way. Zhou Li, your ideas are too backward and terrifying, full of stinking money thoughts, completely abandoning the style of hardship and simplicity. Is this how your work unit’s leaders educate you? This is clearly a typical manifestation of bourgeois decadent style!”
As expected of Wei Sixin—she was very skilled at veiled barbs, slapping on big hats one after another. The onlookers’ faces changed.
Zhou Li looked toward the doorway. Old Lin had also come, standing at the doorway, his face gloomy and silent.
The old lady, her body very weak, seemed even worse off than when she first arrived.
And Lin Junfeng, glaring angrily at his husband, seemed to still be holding back his temper.
Zhou Li sneered inwardly. Actually, Wei Sixin’s arrogance was indirectly enabled by her father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Wei Sixin had a not-low status in the Lin family—you see, no one could stop her from doing whatever she wanted.
To be honest, wasn’t it just because of their second son?
That saying goes: afraid of breaking the jade vase while hitting the rat.
Pah, the least human here is Lin Junfeng.
So Zhou Li had figured it out on the way: as long as her husband was a Lin family member, as long as Wei Sixin and Lin Junfeng didn’t divorce, then to avoid reliving the tragedy of being swept out when the stepmother entered the door back then, she had to suppress Wei Sixin from the start.
Otherwise, she’d have to retreat again and again like Haiyun, for everyone’s sake.
Retreat what?
Qiao Ge taught her not only management knowledge, but also that when intolerable, no need to tolerate anymore—just go straight at it.
The so-called one force defeats ten skills.
Moreover, her husband had three older sisters—now unknown what kind of character they had. She thought it over carefully at noon; Wei Sixin’s move was too insidious.
If Lu Qiaoge were petty-minded, wouldn’t she transfer her anger today?
That damned woman, scheming quite well, aiming for one arrow three birds.
Anyway, Wei Sixin didn’t take her and her husband seriously at all.
Especially her, Zhou Li.
Now still with that look of looking down upon.
Zhou Li no longer mentioned Lu Qiaoge.
It was enough that everyone knew Wei Sixin inviting Lu Qiaoge to dinner had no good intentions.
Next was the family matter, unrelated to others, and conveniently shift Wei Sixin’s attention to herself.
Zhou Li immediately clapped her hands and smiled: “I’ve just been waiting for Second Sister-in-law to say that. Great! You and Second Brother treat money like dirt, not caring about family assets. I can’t—I want to fight for it. Lin Jun’an and I have suffered too much. Before returning to 516, we never had a full meal.
Those old things from the Chang family didn’t treat us as humans, split us out, but when dividing grain, took almost all our family’s grain. If not given to her, she’d roll on the ground crying and howling to die, cursing Jun’an as an ungrateful wolf, an unwanted bastard. Better to raise a dog than him…”
