Chapter 756 - 752: A Group Attack
Li Hongmei was scared.
Her greatest wish right now was to return to the city.
’Just to get back to the city, I even accepted Hu Ziqiang, a man I’d previously looked down on. I’ve made such a huge sacrifice, how can anything go wrong now!’
As Li Hongmei, her face pale, rapidly weighed the pros and cons, the team leader approached.
He, too, was getting fed up with Li Hongmei.
’You’re one of the educated youth sent to the countryside, can’t you just do your work properly? All you do all day is run your mouth, badmouthing Gu Jiaojiao.’
’To put it bluntly, that girl has contributed so much to the team. Can you even compare?’
’You can’t hold a candle to her, yet you’re still here consumed by petty jealousy. Who could put up with that?’
"Li Zhiqing, we’ve just started work and you’re already here stirring up trouble. What are you gossiping about Gu Zhiqing for now?"
Aunt Leng was scared.
When Leng Qiushou had threatened to split the family yesterday, he hadn’t been bluffing in the slightest.
’Her son was demanding to split the family while she was still alive. If word of this got out, how could she ever show her face again?’
But she didn’t dare say a word.
First, she had cost her eldest son his job. Now, she had lost him the spot to learn pig-rearing techniques as well. Only now did she realize that as long as Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao were in the Qingshan Team, she would never be a match for them.
Because of the incident with Leng Qiushou, Aunt Leng had secretly cried into her blankets all night, unable to sleep.
She was on edge as it was.
And now Li Hongmei had come over to badmouth Gu Jiaojiao again.
Aunt Leng instinctively threw Li Hongmei under the bus.
Now, seeing the team leader approaching, she immediately repeated what Li Hongmei had said.
Li Hongmei was scared to death.
’She desperately wished she could turn back time. She would have just quietly done her work and never said a word.’
But the words were already out. Li Hongmei, however, reacted quickly. She immediately started playing the victim, begging for forgiveness.
"Team Leader, I was wrong! I was just angry that Gu Jiaojiao wouldn’t let me use the machine. I know I was wrong now. Please, I’m begging you, give me one more chance! I promise I’ll never badmouth Gu Zhiqing again."
"Please, Team Leader!"
Afraid the team leader would hold her accountable, Li Hongmei threw herself on the ground, clung to his leg, and burst into tears.
The team leader was startled.
’If she weren’t a woman, he would have kicked her away in an instant.’
With a woman now clinging to his leg, he froze, not daring to move a muscle.
"Li Zhiqing, get up! What kind of behavior is this?"
Li Hongmei wouldn’t get up.
She was truly terrified.
It was only then that she realized just how formidable Gu Jiaojiao was.
Finally, annoyed by all the racket, the team leader had no choice but to agree to give Li Hongmei one last chance.
Only then did Li Hongmei get to her feet, wiping away her tears.
At that moment, she didn’t even dare to harbor a single thought of resentment.
’She knew that if she went against Gu Jiaojiao again, she would face utter ruin.’
For a while, the atmosphere in the Qingshan Team was better than it had ever been.
Those gossipy old hens, who normally spent their days mocking one person or another, no longer dared to speak out of turn.
The fight at the Leng family had been kept behind closed doors and hadn’t spread.
The Sun family, for their part, still had no idea.
Several days passed in the blink of an eye. There was no word from Gu Jiaojiao and no news from the Leng family. Sun Yeshu, however, remained oblivious, doing little more than eating and sleeping.
Every day, she demanded the best food and the finest clothes. All the best things the Sun family had were given to Sun Yeshu to eat.
Of course, this only included items from her own household’s pantry. Mrs. Sun had no say over what belonged to her eldest son’s family.
But the eldest son’s wife was no pushover. She toiled every day to earn work points, yet her own children couldn’t even eat their fill while her sister-in-law was being raised plump and fair-skinned.
The eldest daughter-in-law finally had enough. After a huge argument with Sun Yeshu, she packed up, took her children, and went straight back to her maiden home.