Chapter 56: If You Can’t Handle the Daughter, Go Find Her Mother!
“Old Third!”
“Who does she think she is?”
“She’s just a newly arrived worker, and you can’t even suppress her!”
“How on earth are you running your office as director?”
The moment they stepped out of the hospital, Wang Sufen lashed out at Director Xu in a fit of rage.
Director Xu was practically driven to a sarcastic laugh.
Li Aihua couldn’t stand Wang Sufen’s arrogant display either. She interjected with heavy sarcasm, “The post office isn’t run by our family’s Old Xu. You’re talking as if we’re still living in the old society…”
“Who in the new society dares to flagrantly oppress the workers?”
“You failed to raise and teach the girl you spawned yourself, and she causes trouble every single day at the unit. When an issue crops up, instead of looking for the root cause within yourself, you turn around and blame our family’s Old Xu!”
“In my eyes, Xu Hui was completely ruined by being thoroughly spoiled by a mother like you!”
Wang Sufen’s face flushed crimson from her sister-in-law’s rebuttal. “You!”
Director Xu stepped in to smooth things over, “Alright! Both of you say less.”
“Eldest Sister-in-law, Aihua isn’t wrong either. Huihui truly has been spoiled rotten by you and Eldest Brother!”
“If she doesn’t change her ways now, she is bound to stir up an even greater disaster in the future.”
Wang Sufen pointed a finger at him in pure fury. “Old Third, what do you mean by that?”
“You know perfectly well she is blackmailling you, yet you refuse to manage it?”
Director Xu threw his hands flat open. “Eldest Sister-in-law, how do you expect me to manage it?”
“The people from the Personnel Section saw the whole thing with their own eyes. They saw Xu Hui push her and strike her. The matter won’t just vanish simply because Xu Hui claims she didn’t do it!”
“Furthermore, that guy surnamed Tang from the Personnel Section has never seen eye to eye with me. Now that he caught a handle on this matter, he is actively using it to drop heavy complaints against me to Bureau Chief Zhao!”
“I am being thoroughly dragged down to death by Xu Hui!”
“Right now, seeking Little Lin’s forgiveness is the only path left to walk!”
Li Aihua let out a cold sneer, reminding Wang Sufen, “Eldest Sister-in-law, this Lin Wan is a military dependent.”
“If she genuinely refuses to let this matter drop, Xu Hui will face detention!”
With that, she dragged Director Xu along as she strode rapidly away. “You surnamed Xu, let me warn you: helping Xu Hui must have a strict limit. You still have a whole family of your own to feed!”
“Don’t let her drag you down until you lose your own job!”
Wang Sufen stamped her feet in pure rage upon hearing those words. But she lacked any choice; she had to continue figuring out a way. Pondering over what Old Third had mentioned, Lin Wan’s mother worked at the Waixi Street Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
She cast a glare back at the inpatient ward, took a deep breath, and headed straight to the nearest post office to place a call to a friend of hers in the commercial sector.
“…That’s exactly how the situation stands. My daughter didn’t mean it either, but who could have guessed she would be this relentless.”
“Yes, yes, yes… Look for Director Jiang?”
“Are you placing a call to him right this instant?”
“Alright, alright, I’ll go look for him right away. Thank you so much!”
Hanging up the phone, Wang Sufen rode her bicycle straight toward the Waixi Street Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
Huang Guixiang was currently wiping the counter with absolute vigor using a rag. The veteran workers from the surrounding counters were pointing here and there, instructing Huang Guixiang to wipe.
At one moment they pointed here; at the next, they pointed there. They even pointed at the floor beneath the counter base, making her kneel down and stretch her arm deep inside to wipe it.
Huang Guixiang possessed absolutely no temper whatsoever, wiping exactly wherever she was told. Several veteran workers exchanged conspiratorial looks, whispering and making fun of her.
Right as she was working with absolute fervor, she suddenly heard someone call out to her, “Comrade Huang Guixiang, Director Jiang is looking for you!”
“You got it, I’m coming right away!” She tossed the rag straight into the basin, wiped her hands on her clothes, and strode right out from behind the counter.
Her mentor, Big Sister Song, asked her, “Guixiang, what is Director Jiang looking for you for?”
Huang Guixiang shook her head. “I don’t know either. I’ll go take a look first before saying anything else.”
Entering the private office, she greeted the glass-wearing man sitting behind the office desk, “Director Jiang, do you have business with me?”
Director Jiang stood up, pointing at the sullen-faced woman sitting on the sofa, and said to Huang Guixiang, “This is Comrade Wang Sufen, a comrade from the municipal compound.”
“She came to find you explicitly to dissolve a misunderstanding!”
Huang Guixiang was completely bewildered. She didn’t recognize a single comrade from the municipal compound, so where on earth could a misunderstanding possibly stem from? Ever since she got married, she stopped keeping fish, alright! And this woman couldn’t possibly be looking for her over a male comrade either!
“Wait, I don’t recognize this comrade at all. What kind of misunderstanding could there be?”
Wang Sufen stood up, lifting her chin with an exceptionally arrogant posture. “Comrade Huang Guixiang, it goes like this…”
She did her best to downplay the matter, even describing it as if Lin Wan was being petty and small-minded. Wang Sufen firmly believed her own daughter. It was that little vixen named Lin Wan who had set a trap to frame her, slapping her own face and throwing her own body down.
But what solution was there? Who told the other comrades to all help that little vixen Lin Wan!
Wang Sufen harbored a venomous hatred for Lin Wan in her heart. Naturally, she harbored a venomous hatred for Lin Wan’s mother as well. The young one possessed the face of a vixen, and the old one was exactly the same. A little vixen raised by an old vixen!
Consequently, the more she spoke, the more enraged she became, the more derisive her tone grew, and the worse her attitude turned!
“…Our family’s Huihui simply wasn’t careful, and she already offered an apology to Comrade Lin Wan, yet Comrade Lin Wan remains relentless, even faking a concussion!”
“This is a severe failure to unite with comrades!”
“A person who has just stepped into the workplace and hasn’t even been confirmed as a permanent employee is already acting this arrogant. If this ends up affecting her confirmation or even gets her dismissed, you can’t blame me for not warning you in advance…”
The hint of threat was absolute!
She didn’t believe a single word of the nonsense Old Third had spouted. Huihui had explicitly told her that Lin Wan was just a fatherless girl from a blended family. She possessed absolutely zero identity or background! Wang Sufen severely suspected that Old Third wanted to use Huihui to establish his own image as an upright, incorruptible leader, which was why he refused to help Huihui and even opened his mouth to lie to her.
Huang Guixiang’s face turned colder and colder as she listened.
“Slap!” Huang Guixiang delivered a ferocious backhand right across her face. “I advise your dead father!”
“Ah!”
The lofty Wang Sufen was forcefully knocked flat onto the sofa by Huang Guixiang’s slap. Before she could even register what was happening, Huang Guixiang pounced forward, grabbed her hair in a death grip, raised her hand, and delivered several blistering slaps left and right with explosive smack, smack, smack sounds!
“Hey, hey, hey! Why are you striking someone?!” Director Jiang hurriedly rushed forward to grab Huang Guixiang, trying to separate her from Wang Sufen.
Hearing the commotion inside, only one person remained to keep an eye on the counters outside, while all the other workers ran inside to cram themselves at the doorway to watch the spectacle. One look gave them a massive fright.
My goodness! Was this Huang Guixiang truly this fierce? Oh boy, they had spent the entire day ordering her around to do hard labor! They had either told her to haul goods or ordered her to wipe the counters, and she had always maintained a beaming smile without a single word of complaint. They had actually assumed she was a weak, easily bullied character!
Truly, a person cannot be judged by their appearance!
“I’m striking exactly her!” Huang Guixiang stared viciously at Wang Sufen.
“Striking my daughter!”
“This old woman tells you, this matter is far from over!”
“My daughter is a military dependent!”
“You physically assaulted a military dependent—just wait to rot in a prison cell!”
After thoroughly blasting the wildly wailing Wang Sufen, Huang Guixiang turned her raging fury to bellow at Director Jiang, “Director Jiang, you want to help your friend abuse authority for personal gain to oppress an ordinary worker?”
“Let me tell you, no way!”
“Her daughter physically assaulted a military dependent. If you help her give me a rough time to force me, I will sue you along with her—suing you straight to the public security and straight to the military!”
The bystanders watching the spectacle outside: “????”
Holy crap! Comrade Huang Guixiang was far too courageous! She actually dared to bark at Director Jiang!
Whimper whimper… They were wrong! Where on earth was this a soft persimmon? This was a literal hand grenade! If you riled her up, she would blow up whoever crossed her path!
Director Jiang felt exceptionally helpless. When the city gates catch fire, the fish in the moat suffer—he was that exact fish!
“Comrade Huang Guixiang, you cannot be this unreasonable. This Comrade Wang Sufen is not my friend, she belongs to the Bureau of Commerce…”
Before his words could finish, he heard Huang Guixiang bark, “This old woman doesn’t care about your nonsense! Regardless of who it’s for, you are the one who brought her here to bully people!”
“This old woman is heading to the hospital right now. When I return, I will settle the score with you one by one!” With that, she strode away in a raging fit.
After walking two steps, she trotted straight back. “Don’t you dare count this as requested leave or absenteeism for this old woman, otherwise I will march straight to your wife’s unit and hang myself there!”
Everyone sucked in a sharp breath of cold air! Going to someone’s partner’s unit to hang herself! Who the hell could possibly withstand this kind of outrageous operation?
Director Jiang was driven completely mad with rage, his lungs practically bursting.
“What are you looking at? What’s so good to look at? Hurry the hell back to work!” Chasing the crowd away from the doorway, he immediately placed a call to Wang Sufen’s connection to relate this exact disaster.
