Chapter 222 She is Director Deng’s Daughter
After chatting with Liu Qing for more than half an hour, Tong Yao made up an excuse to return to her room while Liu Qing also went to her mother-in-law’s place to fetch her child. She and Guo Zhi had a son, who was just over a year old. The child was usually looked after by the grandmother and Liu Qing would take over during her days off.
Originally, she was going there just to pick up her son, but she stayed a little longer after she bumped into Tong Yao.
Although Tong Yao wasn’t particularly keen on Liu Qing’s family affairs, she knew that a better understanding of one’s neighbors was rather beneficial. Therefore, as Liu Qing chatted, Tong Yao listened attentively with a smile, despite being indifferent.
While idling at home, Tong Yao spotted a pear flower cat in the hallway and deliberately lured it to her home with food. Surprisingly, it turned out to be Deng Wenwen’s cat. Tong Yao learned quite a bit about the Deng family from it.
Every time Wenwen was mentioned, the cat appeared resentful. Wenwen had a bad temper and often lashed out at the cat due to trivial frustrations. The director Deng and his wife spoiled their daughter rotten and wouldn’t reprimand her, much less for a cat, so one can imagine how the cat was treated.
The cat also shared some stories about other doctor’s families. Tong Yao wasn’t interested in those she didn’t know, but she did get a sense of the current situation of the residential quarters from it.
In one word, chaotic.
The situation was really chaotic. In the residential quarters, Liu Qing was the one with the lowest living standards among the doctors’ families. She had a low salary and wasn’t a formal employee, which meant she could be laid off at any time. As a result, many of the families in the residential quarters looked down upon Liu Qing and tried to ignore her whenever possible, rarely greeting her voluntarily.