mtlumby2d Chapter 261
Chapter 261
Before the Lunar New Year, several couples in their compound were getting married.
Grandma Wang's eldest son is getting married, and her younger son has also found a partner.
News also came from Grandma Yin's son that he is dating someone.
Grandma Xia's family also has two children, but their marriages are a bit more troublesome compared to the other two families.
According to Grandma Xia, her second son's girlfriend was really brainless. Logically speaking, a nurse should be a smart girl, but when she was with her second son, she was like a lost soul. She wouldn't listen to reason, and she wasn't afraid of being beaten. In the end, she went on a hunger strike just like Wang Dahai.
Most parents in the world can't resist their children's demands, and after she lost a lot of weight, Tang's father finally agreed. The two families discussed the wedding arrangements and set it for the end of the year, half a month after Wang Dahai's wedding.
As for Chen Xianghong, Grandma Xia was already anxious and upset after receiving the letter when she called Chen Xianghong's factory to say that everything was fine there.
Originally, the letter only mentioned a disagreement with Yu's parents, but later on the phone, she said she was being unfairly treated at work, and finally said she had resolved it herself. Grandma Xia didn't know how she resolved it, nor did she know the details of the Yu family's situation. After writing several letters to her, Chen Xianghong replied that Yu's parents would also be attending her second son's wedding.
What on earth is going on? Old Mrs. Xia doesn't know anything about Chen Xianghong's boyfriend, nor does she know anything about what's been happening with Chen Xianghong. She wants to go to Haishi to find out the truth, but with the end of the year approaching, she's too busy at the factory to get time off.
Even if she, as his biological mother, was unwilling to let him get married, there were some things she had to take care of for him. Besides, her second son knew her personality and even gave her money. A wedding is a big event, and the whole family was extremely busy.
It won't be long, so we can only wait for Xiang Hong to come back and ask her for clarification.
Chen Xianghong has really put in the work recently. After doing physical labor for over a month, her arms have gotten noticeably thicker and she's even developed muscles. At first, she was really frustrated. Not only was she slow at working, but her supervisor would occasionally dump the heaviest tasks on her, especially when the director of the supply and marketing cooperative came over, at which point the supervisor's attitude towards her would suddenly become very bad.
Later, Chen Xianghong noticed that at other times, although the supervisor spoke gruffly, the tasks assigned to her became lighter and lighter, and sometimes other colleagues would come to help her. Only when the director came would he yell at her very loudly.
One day, when Sister Sun was leaving get off work with her, she realized that everyone in the supply and marketing cooperative, except for the leadership, sympathized with her. However, they were also afraid of being retaliated against, so they could only try their best to protect themselves while taking care of her a little.
This relieved a lot of pressure for Chen Xianghong. Although she was also doing unloading work, she could handle it.
In the army, Yu Hongzhen reported his father for abusing his power. Yu's father immediately claimed that he only used his power to treat Yu Qingqing's illness, and denied everything about Chen Xianghong, saying that he was not familiar with anyone in the supply and marketing cooperative and that Chen Xianghong's transfer had nothing to do with him.
The director of the supply and marketing cooperative was taken away for investigation after being anonymously reported by many people. However, he refused to say that it was Yu's father's doing, only saying that Chen Xianghong's transfer was because she was not suitable for the sales clerk position, and that she was transferred to a lateral position with no change in salary, which was a normal job transfer.
Although some people questioned whether it was appropriate for a woman to do manual labor, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative argued that women could hold up half the sky and that they should not look down on Chen Xianghong just because she was a woman, or think that she was not capable of unloading goods.
Ultimately, the matter was dropped, and no one knows who was behind it.
After leaving the inspection team's office, Yu's father returned home with a dark expression. After thinking about it all night, he took Yu Qingqing to the military hospital the next day to prove that he had only resorted to this desperate measure because he was too anxious about his daughter's illness.
Just as the inspection team and his superiors were about to understand his actions and indicate that they could only give him the least severe punishment, Yu Qingqing suddenly began to systematically and clearly betray his parents in the army.
She first said that she was so abused that she couldn't even get enough to eat, and then said that they looked down on her brother's girlfriend's family and insulted them with very offensive language.
Yu's father said she had gone mad again, that she had developed paranoia ever since she was brought back, and that Yu Hongzhen had misunderstood them because he saw that his sister was thin. He wanted to forcibly take Yu Qingqing away.
But Yu Qingqing refused and actually went berserk in the office.
Some people believed her words, and some didn't, but aside from slightly damaging Yu's father's reputation, this incident had no other effect. Because Yu Qingqing is a mental patient, there was no evidence to prove whether her malnutrition due to not eating was caused by abuse or by Yu Qingqing's own refusal to eat.
As for Chen Xianghong's matter, there's no way to prove that Yu Qingqing's words are true. And even if they were true, it's not a crime; how can looking down on someone be considered a crime?
This whistleblowing was all bark and no bite; Yu's father only suffered a minor loss of reputation. Fortunately, they haven't dared to take any targeted actions recently.
Unfortunately, Yu Hongzhen proposed in front of all the leaders that Yu Qingqing stay with him so that he could take care of her. This suggestion was rejected by Yu's father, who said that he had to go on a mission and would not have time to take care of her.
In an effort to salvage their reputation, Mr. and Mrs. Yu immediately set out to repair their relationship with Chen Xianghong. They believed that even if they did not agree to Chen Xianghong becoming their daughter-in-law, they should not let them say such things. Ideally, they should make her parents disagree.
They didn't know what kind of personalities the people in Chen Xianghong's family had, but in their minds, people from working-class families were the most honest.
Just in case, Mr. Yu sent someone to investigate. Half a month later...
The investigation revealed that Chen Xianghong's father was an honest, skilled worker with a high rank but little real power—the kind of person who was easy to deal with. Chen Xianghong's mother was a level-six worker, but not a leader either; she was a devoted and virtuous woman who devoted herself entirely to her family—also easy to manage. As for Chen Xianghong's brothers, they were all relatively incompetent, making them even easier to deal with.
Seeing this result, Mr. Yu was very satisfied. He figured all they needed to do was act arrogantly and make them back down. His only worry was that if they tried to exploit him, that would be troublesome.
After thinking for a long time, Yu's father felt that this possibility was relatively low, because the family had several members who could become workers, and their lives were relatively hopeful, so they would rarely do such a shameless thing.
He was relieved! He wanted Chen Xianghong to know that it wasn't him who was stopping her and his son, but her parents.