Chapter 2002 The Cruel Truth:
Brother Zhou only gave Mrs. Meng three days of leave during the divorce. Mrs. Meng returned to the small village on the 2nd, went there for a day on the 3rd, and went to the county town for an inspection on the 4th. Another day passed, and she was supposed to start work on the 5th. .
Mrs. Meng had no energy. However, after she divorced Zhou Xialong, she had no one to rely on. She had to make money to raise her children. She also had to keep her spirits up. She got up early on the morning of the 5th and rode her bicycle to report at the construction site of Jiudao Primary School.
The supervisors and foremen of the construction company all knew that Zhou Xialong and Meng's wife had broken up, and had heard some rumors about the reason for the divorce. Although they felt that they knew people but not their hearts, they did not make things difficult for Meng's wife as a woman, nor did they embarrass her or deliberately find her. Ballast.
People who worked in the same group as Mrs. Meng knew that Zhou Xialong and her were separated from each other, and they were no longer as enthusiastic about her as before. Sometimes Mrs. Meng fell behind at work due to being distracted, and they no longer helped her share the workload.
Mrs. Meng also felt the changes in her co-workers. She endured the discomfort while working and went to the cafeteria to eat at noon. She smelled the smell of oil and felt nauseated. She ran to the trash can to vomit.
Brother Zhou was also in the canteen at the construction site. Someone saw Meng's wife vomiting and ran to find Brother Zhou and asked him: "Do you think Meng Lili is pregnant? You found out she was pregnant just after you divorced her. She must be yours." , don’t you have to remarry?”
“It’s impossible, Meng Lili can’t be pregnant,” Brother Zhou categorically denied: “I’m not planning to have another child. I’ve been taking birth control pills since I got married. If she really gets pregnant, Then the problem is big."
He explained the reason, and then said the reason again: "What's more, Xiao Lele also saw Meng Lili on the 2nd. How could Lele not tell whether she was pregnant? If Meng Lili was pregnant, My child, let alone she was still my mother-in-law at that time. Even if she were another woman, Lele would not touch a hair on her head." "
Oh, that's it." The worker understood and didn't ask Brother Zhou why he didn't want another one. child.
Brother Zhou didn't care whether Mrs. Meng would hear what he said about taking birth control pills, but he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of some workers, so during the lunch break, he told Mrs. Meng what he said.
Meng's wife heard from others that Brother Zhou had been taking birth control pills, and she felt aggrieved. Zhou Xialong had never thought of having a child with her? !
Her mother-in-law has been secretly urging her and Zhou Xialong to have another child. Especially after Xiaoyan made the Le family dislike her, she urged her even more urgently, saying that only by having a child in the Zhou family can she truly establish herself. She was also moved and proposed to Zhou Xialong. The idea of having another child.
She remembered that Zhou Xialong said that the pressure was too great and he didn't want to do it for the time being.
She thought that Zhou Xialong actually wanted to have a child because both Zhou Tianming and Xiaoyan were studying, and the expenses were high, so she was worried about the pressure of having a child. However, she did not expect that Zhou Xialong had no idea of having another child.
Feeling extremely uncomfortable, Mrs. Meng found a place to hide and cried all day long to vent her grievances and frustration.
After crying bitterly, she washed her face and went to the foreman with red eyes, saying that she wanted to be transferred to work at No. 3 Middle School in the county and hoped to live in a dormitory on the construction site.
The foreman didn't give an answer, so he took Mrs. Meng to the project department of the construction company's supervisors and supervisors and asked her to talk to the superiors.
The supervisors and supervisors would not deliberately make things difficult for a woman. However, when they heard that she wanted to live on the construction site, they were silent and their expressions clearly showed rejection.
The supervisor was silent for a while and asked: "You live on the construction site. After your daughter starts school, will she come to the work shed dormitory to live with you on weekends?"
Meng's wife didn't understand what the supervisor meant, so she answered honestly: "Maybe, county. It's too far away from home. My daughter has to go home several times during the weekends and it's a waste of fares. If you go and squeeze in with me on the weekends, you can save some money." "This," the
supervisor looked at the colleagues in the project department, looking embarrassed . : "If you want to be transferred to work in the county's No. 3 Middle School, you have to rent a room. The work shed dormitories on our construction site have seven or eight people living in one room. If your daughter goes to live with you in the work shed dormitory on weekends, what if? It will be hard to tell if any of the construction workers loses their valuables."
Although the supervisor did not explicitly say that he was afraid that Xiaoyan would go to the work shed and commit another thief, the meaning was very clear. As if Mrs. Meng was struck by lightning, her brain was buzzing and her face was numb. All of a sudden he turned pale.
Everyone on the construction site knows that Xiaoyan... stole the Le family's things, and they all regard Xiaoyan as a thief?
She stood and looked at her supervisor and the people in the project department, feeling that everyone was looking at her defensively.
"My daughter...is not a thief." Mrs. Meng cried out and burst into tears.
"We're not sure if your daughter would be a thief if she went to the dormitory at the construction site, but it's true that she stole the Le family's things, and it's also true that she smashed millions of jade, right?" The supervisor didn't hide it either
. , put it bluntly: "Your daughter knew that jade was worth millions, but she dared to snatch it from you and smash it. What can't she do?
Your daughter went to the work shed dormitory. What if someone makes a mistake? Listen, what should she do if she steals someone's things to retaliate, or smashes the equipment on the construction site?
Let's not talk about the compensation issue. If the equipment breaks down, delays the progress of the project, and cannot be completed as scheduled, how can our company report to No. 3 Middle School? How to explain to the leaders of various departments, and how to explain to Miss Le?"
The supervisor's words were like a hammer, hitting her heart one after another. Mrs. Meng's heart was riddled with holes, and she was so painful that she couldn't breathe.
She couldn't refute it, because it was a fact that Xiaoyan took things from the Le family, and it was also a fact that she smashed millions of jade. No matter what she said, others would think she was quibbling.
Xiaoyan made a mistake once, and she may never be able to get rid of the stain of stealing.
Thinking that Xiaoyan would be criticized by others and bear the name of a thief in the future, Sister Meng's tears rolled down in clusters like broken beads.
"I only said a few words, but now you feel you can't bear it?" The supervisor looked at Mrs. Meng's tears bursting like dams, and frowned: "I can tell you clearly that what I said is minor, and you will be there in the future. You deserve it.
You don’t know what your daughter has done in school. Your daughter has gained a lot of prestige in No. 2 Middle School through the name of her cousin Le’s cousin. How arrogant and proud she was before will be how miserable she will be in the future.
You In the past, if you allowed your daughter to misbehave in school, you as a parent will naturally have to bear the consequences in the future. When others scold you and your daughter, the words they will use to scold you will only be ten times and a hundred times more severe than what I said today.
At the No. 3 Middle School construction site and the construction site here in Jiudao, there are also several people whose children are studying in the No. 2 Middle School. One of the children used to be very good with your daughter and took good care of your daughter. When she was a freshman in high school, because the school was far away from your home, she had to go to the No. 2 Middle School on weekends. They all asked your daughter to live in her house. Your daughter repaid kindness with hatred and even stole other people's things. "
No, my daughter has never stolen anything from others..." Mrs. Meng firmly refused to admit it, nor did she want to admit that her daughter had been a thief before. The
supervisor didn't say anything more, and one of his colleagues interrupted: "You are covering up your daughter? Of course you won’t admit it. No one here knows whether your daughter is a thief better than our Director Wu. Director Wu is the father of your daughter’s best classmate in her first year of high school. When your daughter didn’t go home on weekends during the first half of her first year of high school, she basically didn’t go home. They are all at the head of the military affairs department. "
A heavy blow struck Mrs. Meng so hard that she could hardly stand, her calves were trembling. She looked at the supervisor in disbelief, her mouth opened, but no sound came out. She had
previously I couldn't stop the tears. At this moment, the tears were gone, and I couldn't stop the cold sweat. Big cold sweat covered my face.
There were beads of sweat flowing into my mouth, and it was salty.
I tasted the salty taste, Mrs. Meng's empty brain was slowly filled with memories and reality. She almost wanted to run away, but her feet felt like they were taking root and she couldn't move. Her
heart seemed to be grabbed by a hand, making it difficult to breathe. She stood She stood there, exhaling urgently and loudly like a drowning person who has just been able to breathe. She took dozens of breaths in a row before she managed to recover.
She could no longer say that Xiaoyan was not a thief, and her face turned pale. , lowered his head and said in a dumb voice: "I'm sorry..."
"My daughter's hurt and the heartache of being trampled on because of your daughter cannot be erased by a word of apology. My daughter and your daughter are no longer good friends. Friends, we have stopped interacting with each other a long time ago, and we will never interact with each other again in the future. You and your daughter can take care of themselves. "
Supervisor Wu glanced at Mrs. Meng with a complicated expression and stopped looking at her. In the past, because the family conditions were better, he supported his children and helped his daughter. Even though Li Xiaoyan stole a lot of things from their family, He didn't blame the child for not being able to recognize people.
People, they always have to suffer losses before they realize that society is complex and people's hearts are sinister.
His children have learned a lesson from Li Xiaoyan and gained knowledge. They no longer blindly think that others are in trouble, but will show their heart to others when their own conditions are better. Now they know that before helping others, they must distinguish between true and false.
Li Xiaoyan's incident taught his own children a lesson and considered it a form of growth. Therefore, he knew that Meng Meng's mother was Li Xiaoyan's mother, and he did not seek fault because he was the director of the company, nor did he prevent the foreman from accepting Meng's temporary wife. work.
The little foreman who led Meng's wife into the project department's office found that he had accidentally heard a secret. He felt bad and wanted to leave quickly. Supervisor Wu asked Meng's wife to take care of herself, so he hurriedly took the first step.
Mrs. Meng had a pale face, and she couldn't tell whether it was sourness or bitterness. She walked out of the project department with her head lowered. When she was outside, the sun was shining on her, and she still felt a chill on her back.
She lowered her head and shed tears as she walked. After walking for a while, she suddenly realized that she had passed by. She turned back and walked towards the direction of the construction site.
Outside the construction site, Mrs. Meng looked at the empty surroundings. She lowered her head and went to the foreman's office. She once again found the foreman who managed her own work and told him that she wanted to rest for a few days and settle the previous accounts first. one time.
The foreman also guessed that Mrs. Meng felt that she had no face to see people and was not going to do part-time work at the construction site. Naturally, he did not ask the reason, nor did he say anything to persuade her to stay, and asked her to come and get her wages when she got off work.
In fact, Mrs. Meng's salary has been paid monthly since she married Zhou Xialong, and the settlement is only for the previous month, because the construction company settles the accounts in the first ten days of each month, and usually pays wages from the 12th to the 15th.
The wages for July have been calculated, and the account statement has not yet been sent to the bank. There is no need to calculate it again. All that needs to be calculated is the wages of two days of temporary workers in August.
Mrs. Meng talked about the settlement with the foreman, and worked hard in the afternoon. When the work was finished in the evening, she went to the foreman to get her wages, and then rode her bicycle back to the small village in silence.
(End of chapter)