Reborn as a Tough Army Wife Chapter 38 Apology

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Actually, Fang Pingying also knows that the supply and marketing cooperative is no longer as dominant as it used to be in the past years.

Due to the increasing number of individual vendors, the business of the supply and marketing cooperative isn't as good as before. They have also begun to think of ways to boost their business, and the leaders in the cooperative would definitely not be satisfied with such attitudes from the sales staff.

Moreover, this is in a small town, and it's market day. There really isn't a strict regulation on working hours.

In principle, as long as there are custors present, if staff are there, they must sell goods.

Sure enough, as soon as the saleswoman heard Fang Pingying ntion calling for the person in charge, her expression slightly changed.

But she didn't believe that an ordinary-looking rural person could do much. She shouted loudly, slapped the table, pointed at Fang Pingying, trying to scare her, "I'm telling you, don't make trouble here, otherwise, I'll call for soone."

Fang Pingying was not at all intimidated. She snorted coldly and looked at the saleswoman, counter-questioning, "Who is causing trouble here, you or ?"

"I ca here to buy goods. I started with polite words, yet despite you not being busy, sitting there knitting, you just refuse to sell. This might be a state-run supply and marketing cooperative, and you might be paid to work here, but you're supposed to do your job. I don't believe your leaders would support your attitude towards selling."

Fang Pingying was arguing with the saleswoman when many people gathered around to watch the commotion.

Many had suffered from this saleswoman's attitude before, and seeing soone standing up today, they imdiately started shouting, "Yes, call their leaders down, the people in this cooperative have a bad attitude. We bring money to buy things yet they treat us as if we're begging them."

"That's right, so things can't be bought elsewhere, otherwise I'd rather go other places to buy stuff and avoid having to face such attitudes." Several others also joined the shouting, extrely upset with the saleswoman's attitude.

"Alright, alright, comrades, go back, don't crowd around to watch the commotion." A middle-aged woman at another counter saw the fuss and hurried over to smooth things over.

She first smiled and greeted the onlookers, then turned to Fang Pingying with a smile, "Comrade, what do you want to buy? I'll get it for you."

Fang Pingying saw that this elder sister's attitude was still quite good and thought of settling the matter peacefully.

Just as she was about to order several oil papers, the saleswoman she had been arguing with didn't wait for her to speak, grabbed the woman's hand, then looked at Fang Pingying with disdain and said, "Get what? It's not nine o'clock yet, we aren't selling anything today."

Fang Pingying had already shown a great deal of patience with this saleswoman. Originally, she intended to do her business without getting into disputes today.

But seeing this person's attitude still the sa, she got angry and decided to stand her ground.

She first smiled faintly and thanked the kind middle-aged woman, "Elder sister, thank you."

Then she looked coldly at the saleswoman, "But since she said so, I insist on her fetching my items today. I want to see if she really must wait until nine o'clock to start work. If she insists on starting work at nine, then call your person in charge."

Pausing, Fang Pingying continued, "In any case, everyone has clear eyes. When your leader cos down later, both of us won't speak. Let everyone present judge. If it's really my fault, I'll apologize to her in front of all these people. Conversely, if she's the one in error, she's got to own up to her mistake today."

Hearing that Fang Pingying was really intent on taking the matter to their leader, the middle-aged woman looked sowhat embarrassed.

She laughed while looking at Fang Pingying, then whispered to the saleswoman, "Quick, get it for her. If this really goes to the leader, it won't end well for you. Haven't you noticed that fewer people are coming to the cooperative these days, and the leaders are already anxious?"

"Let her scream all she wants. She really thinks I'm afraid of so country bumpkin? The worst they can do is deduct my salary. I'm paid by the state, and even the leadership can't fire ." The sales clerk was initially frightened, but seeing the situation escalate, she beca fearless.

It might have been because of her arrogant attitude that many of the onlookers began to shout loudly, and so even started to make a racket about going upstairs to find their leaders to reason with them.

Perhaps the noise was too loud, it truly brought down two leaders from the cooperative office upstairs.

Two n, one middle-aged, seed to be in his forties, short and chubby.

The other, probably under thirty, looked quite young, wearing a pair of gold-rimd glasses and a gray suit, not much like the locals of this town.

As soon as the middle-aged man arrived, he impatiently asked Fang Pingying and others standing outside the counter, "What exactly happened."

When the sales clerk saw the middle-aged man, she ran towards him like he was a lifeline and pointed at Fang Pingying, saying, "Director, this woman is making a scene here."

The middle-aged man, without discerning right from wrong, glowered and yelled at Fang Pingying, "Who is causing trouble? Go file a complaint with the public security."

Fang Pingying's expression darkened, no wonder the sales clerk was so arrogant; it must be because the leadership here is incompetent.

But the younger man who ca down with the middle-aged man looked at Fang Pingying, glanced at the crowd outside watching the excitent, and then stopped the middle-aged man, saying, "Wait, let's first find out what actually happened. Why call public security? Let's first ask what the matter is."

The middle-aged man imdiately nodded and bowed to the young man, "Yes, yes, Director Liu is right."

The young man approached Fang Pingying, asked her very politely, "Comrade, could you please tell us what exactly happened just now?"

Fang Pingying succinctly recapped what had transpired, and with the surrounding crowd of onlookers adding their condemnations of the cooperative's people and system, Director Liu imdiately understood the situation.

He glanced over at the sales clerk and the middle-aged man, who had already started sweating, and then politely said to Fang Pingying, "Comrade, the wrongdoing today is on our cooperative's part, I apologize to you for that. Please be generous and forgive us, and I will ensure that our system is strictly enforced to prevent such incidents from happening in the future."

He paused, noticing Fang Pingying looking at the sales clerk and not imdiately responding, he instantly understood Fang Pingying's reservations.

He continued, "The sales clerk today will also be disciplined, please rest assured."

Fang Pingying felt that such sales clerks and such cooperatives needed to be rectified, she nodded, signaling the resolution of today's issue.

Later, she purchased several sheets of oiled paper, each costing ten cents. Initially, Director Liu insisted on not charging her these several cents as compensation, but Fang Pingying insisted on paying.

She made her reasoning very clear, poor attitudes here is one thing, and paying for goods is another; she didn't start the argunt over several cents.

Having said that, Fang Pingying returned to her own stall.

Watching Fang Pingying's departing figure, Director Liu was slightly surprised.

He thought that people here lived hard lives and that people in the countryside mostly liked to take small advantages. Many tis, they argue over money and could be appeased with a bit of compensation, but to think that there were still people who held onto their principles.