Old Sir Song furrowed his brows.
This is getting out of hand.
Who gave this Director Jin so much power?
He treats the educated youth like his personal subjects, doing as he pleases. Isn’t this turning into a local tyrant?
Li Dahu hurriedly signaled Jiang Xiaoxiao with a glance, "Child, why aren’t you quickly apologizing to Director Jin? Director Jin is magnanimous, he wouldn’t bother holding it against a young girl like you."
He genuinely wanted to protect Jiang Xiaoxiao and ease the tension.
Jiang Xiaoxiao laughed, "So, this is Director Jin? I misspoke earlier, I shouldn’t have said you were presumptuous and talked nonsense while mistaking people. I apologize to you. Our leadership always says, recognizing your mistakes and correcting them is what’s important.
Please forgive me, this weak and helpless young person. It’s my fault I can’t afford to provoke you. I understand you hold my fate in your hands, and I beg you not to decide my future with just a word. I was wrong.
I didn’t realize you could single-handedly block out the sky. I’m truly sorry."
Li Dahu was so anxious he almost jumped up and slapped Jiang Xiaoxiao. This wretched girl, he was trying hard to mediate for her, and she was more aggressive than Director Jin. No matter what, he’s still a superior. How can you speak to him like that?
Isn’t this offending someone to death?
Clearly, this is just causing more trouble for him.
"Director Jin, she’s just a kid. Please don’t hold it against her. Let’s leave. Tonight, I’ll treat you to a drink. My second son is serving in the military and sent back some canned meat. They’re all good beef and luncheon meat cans. Just the two of us tonight."
Li Dahu signaled to the two staff members beside him, hurry up, your director is angry, don’t you know to come up and persuade him?
He alone couldn’t get this Director Jin to leave.
The two staff members honestly didn’t like Director Jin either and were eager to watch the drama unfold.
People should act responsibly in their positions, but this Director Jin was only interested in taking advantage.
Following Director Jin, they’ve been to more than three to five farms, every time enjoying good food and drinks. Because of the quota submitted in the end, he occasionally called it exchanging ideas with the educated youth.
The male educated youth often brought him cigarettes and alcohol.
Invitations to meals were never-ending.
During meals, he always demanded the company of female educated youth, picking those who were pretty to accompany him. Touching was a common occurrence.
They were already dissatisfied with this superior leader, but dissatisfaction doesn’t mean they could speak up, as they were lower than him.
Working under someone requires obeying their authority.
Now encountering a fearless young firecracker, they were naturally delighted to watch the spectacle.
Hopefully, this would blow up, and let’s see how Director Jin would resolve this.
The two staff members were watching coldly from the sidelines.
Director Jin was so frustrated by Jiang Xiaoxiao’s words that he almost spat blood.
This damn girl in front of him was truly cunning. Looking fair and clean, Jiang, but the words she spoke couldn’t be called human words.
She was criticizing without using vulgar language, overtly apologizing but covertly tearing him apart.
He wished he could point at his nose and curse him, saying he covered the sky with one hand, trying to make things difficult for people.
Though he wasn’t afraid of people talking, since they were all ordinary folks here, saying things wouldn’t harm him, he wouldn’t lose a chunk of flesh?
But saying such things didn’t look good on his face, especially with two subordinates by his side.
These two had long disagreed with him, deliberately contradicting him along the way.
Now, after hearing this they had a mocking expression on their faces.
They were honestly enjoying his embarrassment.
If he didn’t give this young girl a lesson today,
how could he expect these two to listen to him in the future!
Director Jin gritted his teeth, pointing at Jiang Xiaoxiao, he spoke to Li Dahu.
"Captain Li, such an educated youth is defiant and lawless. She has no respect for leaders, nor the collective, and her mouth is so sharp. I’m telling you, she must be put through labor reform. I’ll mark her name when I return today.
People like her must be sent to the frontier for proper labor reform, so she knows how to serve the people."
The educated youth office could manage the list of those sent to the frontier. Frankly, his power came from dealing with numerous issues concerning the educated youth.
With the educated youth spread across several farms, he was overseeing tens of thousands of them.
Frankly speaking, he took kickbacks and took advantage of the educated youth precisely because of the high numbers and few spots.
This time, it was blatant favoritism.
Li Dahu was anxious, "Director Jin, she’s just a child, why would you hold it against her? You’re such an important figure, always occupied with numerous affairs. If you get upset over a little girl, doesn’t that give her too much credit?
Please, be generous and don’t hold it against her, let’s not bother with her, let’s go quickly, aid the frontier, she’d be exhausted over there with her small limbs."
A hard glare was cast at Jiang Xiaoxiao.
You damned girl, you should restrain yourself a bit.
Jiang Xiaoxiao glanced at Director Jin; it would be false to say she wasn’t doing it on purpose, she was indeed planning this. Compared to backing, she also had someone backing her.
Speaking plainly, daring to be so unscrupulous, wasn’t there an official named Mr. Wang backing her?
With her relationship with Mr. Wang combined with her ancestral secret recipe, which recently saved Mr. Wang’s father’s leg, pressing her case would not trap her.
Besides, in this situation, she didn’t commit any crime or cause trouble deliberately. Frankly, she was the victim.
Merely standing up for justice with a word, moreover, what was Director Jin saying?
He was talking about Old Sir Song, about Song Moting’s grandparents. With the friendship between Mr. Wang and Old Sir Song, if they weren’t standing by her side, who else could they support but Director Jin?
She was determined to deal with Director Jin, forcing him to mistreat her so she could seize his weakness.
Otherwise, those educated youth would absolutely not report Director Jin, and his two subordinates wouldn’t dare openly offend Director Jin either,
but there’s someone to fix Director Jin.
The wall crumbles when everyone pushes.
She would be the first brick to fall.
"Did you not hear the nonsensical things this little girl just uttered? She actually said I cover the sky with one hand. I am a leader of socialist people, serving the people, and she dares to say that about me.
If others hear, they might think I’ve committed some heinous act. I’m telling you, Captain Li, she must formally apologize to me today, or else. Don’t blame me for any consequences.
Everyone could see this little girl’s attitude. Just because of this attitude, she’ll face big trouble in the future."
Director Jin could only take the opportunity to save face, especially with his two subordinates watching.