Chapter 57: Do Not Flout Your Antics in Front of Comrade Huang Guixiang!
Huang Guixiang rushed to the hospital.
Lin Wan was lying on the sickbed, thoroughly engrossed in listening to the auntie in the next bed dish out gossip.
“Mom? Why are you here?”
Huang Guixiang’s eyes were red. She flung herself to the bedside, inspecting Lin Wan meticulously. Seeing her cheek swollen and bearing a clear handprint, her tears spilled over in torrents from pure heartache.
“My baby… does it still hurt?”
“Where do you feel unwell? Tell Mom!”
Lin Wan set down her apple, glanced at the patients in the other beds, and said to Huang Guixiang, who was hugging her and calling her “heart and flesh”: “Mom, you came at the perfect time. I need to use the restroom, help me up and walk me there!”
Huang Guixiang hurriedly supported her out of bed.
Once out of the ward, Lin Wan leaned in close to Huang Guixiang’s ear and whispered, “Mom, don’t shout and don’t say a word. I threw myself down and slapped my own face. I’m extorting them…”
She prattled on to Huang Guixiang with a smug expression. When she finished, she looked at Huang Guixiang with expectant eyes, her face practically writing: Praise me, hurry up and praise me!
Praise her, my foot! Huang Guixiang wanted to thrash her!
“You brat, you nearly scared your mother to death, do you know that! No matter what, you shouldn’t strike your own face! Your face might not hurt, but my heart aches!”
Lin Wan linked arms with her, smiling beams as she acted spoiled. “Mom… I won’t do it next time! You still haven’t said, how did you get here?”
The mother and daughter found a deserted spot to sit down and exchange intelligence.
Lin Wan sneered, “She ran to your unit to find the leadership to suppress you? Then report it to the police! Mom, go file a police report.”
Lin Wan instructed Huang Guixiang in a precise manner, then handed her the bicycle keys. “Go to the police station near our bureau to report it, and then ride the bicycle back.”
Huang Guixiang nodded and hurriedly rushed toward the Huacheng Post Office block.
Lin Wan had originally intended to fake illness for a few days just to make a point and leave it at that. But since these people had dared to flout their antics right in front of Comrade Huang Guixiang, they couldn’t blame her for being malicious and underhanded! Besides, it was Xu Hui who had provoked and started the trouble first!
She went to the restroom, endured the foul odor, and used the cosmetics in the system space to give herself a thoroughly sickly, weak makeup look.
When she came out, she held onto the wall as she walked back toward the ward. After taking just two steps, she was spotted by a nurse, who supported her back to the room.
Lin Wan looked entirely grateful. Grasping the nurse’s hand, she pointed toward the fruits and malted milk extract at the bedside. “Comrade, I can’t eat these things. You guys take them and divide them up!”
The nurse sister was stunned. What the hell? “No, no, no, we can’t accept this!”
Lin Wan said weakly, “Then help me throw them away.”
The nurse: “…”
Understood! This young comrade genuinely wanted to give them these items! Then… “You child! You’re hospitalized alone with no one to look after you. Leaving these things here indeed isn’t safe. I’ll help keep them in the nurses’ station, and you can collect them when you’re discharged later!”
Lin Wan stated once more, “I truly don’t want them anymore! I don’t want their things!”
Hearing this, the nurse realized there was a story behind it. She couldn’t resist asking, “Young comrade, have you run into some severe trouble? Tell this big sister. Three heads are better than one, maybe I can help you figure out a way!”
The patients in the other beds and the accompanying family members all cast their gazes over.
Lin Wan shed tears, choking with immense vulnerability: “The niece of our unit’s office director took the recruitment exam with me. I didn’t know she was the office director’s niece, so during the exam, I exerted all my strength and didn’t hold back. I ended up scoring first place, while she scored second…”
“It’s bad enough that she beat me until I was hospitalized… I never expected her mother to actually run to my mom’s unit to cause a scene, finding my mom’s unit leadership to force my mom…” At this point, she broke into uncontrollable sobs.
The people in the ward found her incredibly pitiful seeing her like this. They all spoke up to console her and helped her curse the Xu mother-and-daughter pair.
“I knew those few people didn’t look like they were here to visit a patient—their eyes were practically fixed on the ceiling!”
“Exactly! The moment she entered the ward, her eyes were darting around like a rat’s. She even covered her nose in pure disgust!” An auntie stood up and imitated Wang Sufen, drawing a burst of laughter from everyone. Lin Wan nearly failed to hold back her own laughter.
The nurse sister returned to the nurses’ station, divided up the items Lin Wan had given, and related Lin Wan’s situation to the other nurses in the office, adding a bit of her own interpretation. The nurses drifted to other wards and related it to the patients there. When they went to see the doctors for business, they offhandedly related it to the doctors too…
Various versions spread, turning more and more outrageous as they circulated. By the time it reached the old uncle guarding the bicycles at the front gate, it had already transformed into: “The Post Office Director’s niece used her influence to tyrannize others, beating the worker Lin Wan into a vegetative state!” There were also rumors that Director Xu manipulated the recruitment exam for personal gain… It was a total, chaotic mess.
When Director Xu and the others accompanied the public security comrades to the hospital to investigate, they overheard the contents of the gatekeeper uncle’s chat with the crowd, and they very nearly ascended straight to heaven from sheer shock.
My god! The matter had blown up to the absolute extreme!
Lin Wan’s mother had reported Xu Hui to the police. The public security had gone to the Security Section, and then found the bureau chief. After getting a handle on the situation, they came to the hospital. Because the negative impact was severe, both Bureau Chief Zhao and Deputy Bureau Chief Su had arrived as well.
The public security comrades approached Lin Wan to understand the situation. Seeing the pale-faced girl lying on the sickbed, they thought to themselves: Could someone genuinely strike themselves this ferociously to turn themselves into this ghost-like state? Furthermore, hearing the people in the ward report to them how arrogant Xu Hui’s mother had been, they basically verified the criminal facts.
There were eyewitnesses! And more than one! Only Xu Hui herself bit down with a death grip and refused to admit it.
Moreover, they had also investigated and confirmed that this Comrade Lin Wan was indeed a military dependent, and her husband was a heroic ace fighter pilot! The facts were crystal clear.
Xu Hui was detained. The post office handled her with immediate dismissal.
Director Xu felt completely out of sorts.
The moment Wang Sufen stepped through the front door upon returning home, she was slapped right across the face.
Xu Hui’s father pointed a finger at her nose and cursed, “We told you to go apologize! We told you to make amends! We told you to have a proper talk with Lin Wan and compensate her with some money so she would step forward to settle Xu Hui’s matter! As it turns out, what the hell did you do?!”
Wang Sufen was completely dazed by the slap. She cupped her face and stared at her husband in sheer disbelief. Her gaze landed on the Old Third couple sitting on the sofa, meeting her sister-in-law’s highly sarcastic eyes.
Just as she was about to fly into a raging fit, she heard Director Xu say, “Eldest Sister-in-law, are you happy now? Xu Hui has been detained. And she has been dismissed!” He truly found it beyond words. Now he finally knew who Xu Hui inherited her absolute stupidity from—she took exactly after her biological mother, Wang Sufen!
“!!!!” Wang Sufen gasped. How could things turn out like this?
But now wasn’t the time to shift blame onto each other. Wang Sufen immediately brought her husband to look for the Guo family. Her friend in the commercial bureau had helped her check: Huang Guixiang’s job had been arranged by the Guo family, and they shared the relationship of being in-laws. She had a decent relationship with Zhu Xianju as well.
Who knew, they received a piece of news that drove them to absolute despair.
Zhu Xianju patted her hand and said, “Do you know why I had to help her secure a job at the supply and marketing cooperative?”
Wang Sufen: “Why?”
Zhu Xianju: “Naturally because I offended her! Without giving her a respectable job, this matter simply couldn’t be resolved!” Of course she couldn’t mention her son. “Old Wang, Lin Wan has a backing. She isn’t afraid of trouble!”
Wang Sufen was completely dumbfounded. To appease the fury of that pair of vixen mother and daughter, the Guo family had actually given away a supply and marketing cooperative job???
How ridiculous that she had still fantasized about using authority to suppress them! What kind of absolute stupidity had that troublesome Xu Hui committed after all???
At a certain military airfield.
Several fighter jets touched down smoothly. Huo Xiao stepped down from the lead aircraft.
Someone trotted over to him and said, “Regiment Commander Huo, the Huacheng Police Station is placing a call to look for you.”
