At the Mechanical Factory, the drama of the Qiu Family finally concluded with the third son of the Qiu Family taking over Qiu Jouxuan’s position, turning the temporary position over to Qiu Qingmei.
Wang Sulan, the second daughter-in-law of the Qiu Family, originally wanted to fight for her husband. Although he was fired from the factory, he did not commit any crime; it was merely neglect at work. Now that the permanent position is gone, a temporary one should be possible.
But the personnel department refused to agree, even when she took it to the factory leadership; the outcome was still the same. Eventually, Huang Yufeng made a decision to give the temporary position directly to Qiu Qingmei as compensation for her daughter.
However, Qiu Qingmei was very unhappy with this result and kept throwing tantrums at home with Huang Yufeng.
This left Huang Yufeng somewhat exhausted: "Qingmei, can you grow up a little? Now your father is still in the hospital, and your two sisters-in-law have been eyeing this position too."
Qiu Qingmei was so angry that she spoke without thinking: "Then you give it to them. I don’t care for it anyway."
This almost made Huang Yufeng pass out from anger.
Perhaps disappointed in her daughter, she brought breakfast to the hospital: "Old man, maybe we should not have sent that child away back then. Had we raised her, regardless of whether we treated her well, with the kindness we showed, she could have helped resolve such big family issues with a word. Our eldest would not have ended up in jail, and our second would not have lost his job."
Qiu Jouxuan can no longer speak properly, and Huang Yufeng listened to his ’ah, ah, ah,’ feeling a pang of irritation: "Alright, don’t ’ah, ah’ anymore, I can’t understand what you’re saying. But don’t worry, I was just feeling stifled and wanted to talk to you.
Rest assured, the third one went to complete the procedures today. He’s now formalized, so the family’s situation should improve. As for Qingmei, if she truly doesn’t want that job, let the two daughters-in-law draw lots. Whoever draws it gets it."
She came to realize that ever since her daughter returned from the Capital, her resentment towards them has grown day by day. But things have reached this point, what can they do? She doesn’t consider her parents’ difficulties at all, making the home a place of chaos.
Let her be. They truly don’t have the ability to find her a decent job now.
Listening to his wife’s nagging, Qiu Jouxuan seemed to understand as well. The eldest and the second indeed made mistakes, but it shouldn’t have cost them their jobs entirely. Surely there was some force working behind the scenes; this is truly karma.
Then he thought of his own father, Qiu Shaocheng, feeling more hatred towards him.
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Meanwhile, back at the Yu Family, Yu Shuosheng had not been idle in town, trying to dig up information, but he hadn’t found much useful news. It was only when he went to the guesthouse where Han Jingchen and his group were staying that he learned they had already checked out and left.
He rushed home energetically and saw his mother in the yard drying string beans: "Mom, I’m back."
Yu’s mother lit up at the sight of her returning son, and quietly asked: "So, did you find out anything?"
Yu Shuosheng didn’t reply, instead he asked back: "Where’s Dad?"
Yu’s mother pointed to the house: "He’s inside, come on, let’s talk inside."
When Yu’s father saw his second son enter, he sat up from the kang bed: "Shuosheng, what’s the situation?"
Yu Shuosheng poured himself a cup of water and drank before saying: "I asked around and basically got the same news I brought back before. I thought if I couldn’t find out anything, I’d just tail those looking for people, surely I’d find out. But today, when I went to inquire, I found out they had already checked out and left."
Yu’s father took a puff from the tobacco he had just lit: "Could it be we guessed wrong, that they’re not looking for Xinyan, or maybe they’ve already found her?"
Yu’s mother had thought out a plan, but the people had left, so hasn’t she been daydreaming?
She felt very upset.
Just then, Yu Erlili ran into the yard: "Mom, Mom, are you there?"
Yu’s mother was in a foul mood, so she shouted loudly: "Speak if you have something to say, or just fart, why are you yelling?"
This shout not only startled Yu Erlili; once she recovered, she said: "Mom, I have something to tell you."