roccoschili Chapter 198 What really bothers me is not the Zhou family's poverty.
Chapter 198 What really bothers me is not the Zhou family's poverty.
The deputy section chief was caught off guard by the question, and a look of embarrassment and annoyance followed.
Is she highly educated?
How dare she claim to be highly educated when she hasn't had much formal education?
If she hadn't attended night school for a few years, she probably wouldn't have been able to read even a newspaper.
Now that he'd been called out like that, the deputy section chief was embarrassed and angrily said, "What? You can't stand it? Ha, Comrade Song is beautiful and comes from a good family, so do you think that because she broke up with Zhou Guoqiang, you two have a chance? Tsk tsk, don't you even think about why two young people who have just started dating should break up!"
"I see you all just don't understand how treacherous people can be! Even someone as honest as Xiao Zhou isn't interested in Xiao Song, so why would she possibly look at you? Humph! No, wait, how many of your families can compare to Xiao Song's? Don't you even consider whether Xiao Song would even give you a second glance!"
Upon hearing this, Song Huili was both angry and ashamed, and tears streamed down her face.
"You've gone too far!"
Song Huili has a temper that is not gentle.
In front of a room full of colleagues, she slammed the manuscript on the table, slung her bag over her shoulder, and left.
The deputy section chief never expected to be rebuked by a young woman, and the way she acted just now clearly showed that she didn't give her any face at all.
When the section chief saw that things had escalated to this point, he was extremely anxious and had a headache.
He cursed the deputy section chief in his heart for being so meddlesome. "Why can't you just do your own job? Why do you have to involve this female colleague's personal issues?"
Now that things have escalated to this point, is Song Huili really that easy to bully?
Even setting aside the fact that his cousin's wife is the one who provides prescriptions to our pharmaceutical factory, just considering that cousin, they can't afford to offend him!
The section chief told everyone to focus on their work first, and then sent a female colleague to check on Song Huili to prevent things from getting out of hand.
After thinking it over, the section chief decided to report the matter to Director Chen.
After hearing this, Director Chen thought to himself, "Is this deputy section chief out of his mind?"
What does it have to do with her what young people do when they're dating?
We're not related, why are you meddling so much?
"The responsibility for this matter lies with your deputy section chief. Suspend her from her duties. Have her write a 3,000-word self-criticism, and we'll discuss the follow-up matters later."
Upon hearing this, the section chief was startled: "Director Chen, is it that serious?"
Factory Director Chen glared at him irritably: "What do you know? You think this is the only thing? Look at these letters, they're all accusing you of spreading rumors. If you ask me, she's the one who started this!"
The section chief's expression changed after reading it.
They're the publicity department, not the gossip department!
This is a mess.
That's good, let's just fire them.
This is like walking right into the line of fire.
Zhou Guoqiang was also summoned for questioning.
The head of the publicity department also went over, and several leaders came to talk to Zhou Guoqiang, which startled him.
I thought I had made a huge mistake at work.
"That's how it is. When she asked me, I told her the truth, but I absolutely never said that Comrade Song's brother and sister-in-law were materialistic or snobbish. Besides, they even cooked a feast for me that day and gave me fruit to take home afterwards. This matter really has nothing to do with their brother and sister-in-law."
My cousin-in-law was very direct that day. They wouldn't interfere in Xiao Song's private affairs, but because Xiao Song's parents weren't around, they needed to observe the situation for a while longer on behalf of the elders. If they didn't agree, they could have kicked me out on the spot!
Once the matter was clarified, Song Huili was finally less angry.
The gossip about Song Huili's family was completely wiped out before it even left the propaganda department's office.
Zhou Guoqiang then realized that his casual remark had almost caused Song Huili a lot of trouble.
The next day, Zhou Guoqiang went to see Song Huili during lunch, but Song Huili wanted to leave as soon as she saw him.
"Huili, shall we talk?"
Song Huili was actually a little angry. It was clearly a private matter between the two of them, so why did this person have to tell everyone?
If he hadn't said so much to the deputy section chief, he wouldn't have been targeted, and his cousin and his wife wouldn't have been misunderstood.
Song Huili harbored some resentment towards Zhou Guoqiang.
Actually, when she first broke up with him, she felt a little guilty towards him. She felt that Zhou Guoqiang himself was not the problem; the key issue was that she couldn't accept that kind of family.
But to my surprise, things are getting worse now.
"Huili, I'm sorry, I didn't expect things to turn out like this, I didn't mean to."
"It's okay, everything's been resolved. Let's just treat each other as ordinary colleagues from now on."
"Huili, may I ask you a question? Is it because you saw my mother robbing things at the supply and marketing cooperative that you think we're not a good match?"
Song Huili stared at him wide-eyed, her face filled with disbelief: "What?"
Zhou Guoqiang smiled bitterly: "Actually, my mother only saw you later that day, but she wasn't sure it was you at the time, so she didn't mention it to me. Later, when she found out that we had broken up, she remembered this. My mother is the kind of person who loves to blame herself, so she thought it was her fault, which is why she thought of having me come over to explain to you."
Song Huili shook her head: "There's nothing to explain."
"No, this matter must be made clear."
Zhou Guoqiang felt that Song Huili's attitude showed that what happened that day had indeed affected her.
“Huili, my mom isn’t usually like this. She’s mainly thinking that my younger brother just started working and she wanted to get him some things, but we don’t have any ration coupons, so she insisted on going to the front of the line.”
Song Huili felt that she and Zhou Guoqiang were not on the same page.
Zhou Guoqiang tried his best to explain the reason for this to her, hoping that Song Huili would understand his mother and also to make his mother's behavior reasonable, or rather, justifiable.
However, Song Huili felt that people should have a bottom line, and it was perfectly reasonable for Zhou's mother to want to buy things for her son and save some expenses for the family.
Even if he later squeezed to the front under some pretext, it's not incomprehensible.
What Song Huili found truly unacceptable was Zhou's mother's dramatic and theatrical performance.
Why don't you humble yourself and say a few nice words to someone who is clearly in the wrong?
But he insists on taking advantage of his age to get all the benefits for free, and he can't let anyone say anything. So he gets all the good things, but what about everyone else?
Song Huili didn't actually mind that the Zhou family was poor. What she minded was that the two of them were not in sync. Even if they forced themselves to stay together, they would argue endlessly in the future. Wouldn't such a life be chaotic and messy?
Moreover, she really couldn't imagine whether she would be influenced by Zhou's mother in the future; it was too terrifying.