Aunt Lai thought with schadenfreude, they think they’re so tough, not listening to her and needing her to manage nothing. When it cos to dealing with such fierce people, only she can handle it!
I will just watch you get bullied and let others block your door, barring you from going out!
Wet nurse... Were Aunt Lai’s eyes this bright? Could it be that she wanted to argue with these people?
Hongji originally didn’t want to bother with them, as long as they knew when to stop, being fellow villagers and all. It shouldn’t beco so dire and rigid.
But they kept throwing themselves at the door. He had to go to work, and these people ignored them, the more they yelled, the more spirited they beca!
"Ye Zhiwei’s family, call your family out, let the n talk this out, what’s with blocking the door and cursing?"
Ye Zhiwei’s wife, smug with her big pancake face, smiled at the doorway, blocking their exit. Her idea was indeed good, coming to seek reconciliation with the household heads?
"Let your Mrs. Li co out for negotiations, our family head is busy!"
"Let Ye Fengqi co out, we sisters will push her into the fishpond, and let’s call it even!"
Ye Jinxiang jumped with her plump feet, and due to her physique, she couldn’t jump high, but her leap created a small muddy footprint on the ground!
"My sister is right, Ye Fengqi co out, admit your mistakes, then we can talk!" Ye Lanzi, just like her sister, started jumping with both feet, and when she landed, small muddy footprints appeared!
It wasn’t even rainy, making the soil wet; such hard soil, yet their jumping also produced little footprints!
As the dust flew up!
They weren’t worried about their shoes bursting due to the jumping.
"You two won, just as poisonous as your mother, the whole incident yesterday had nothing to do with my sister. If you dare, why don’t you take it up with those noble young n? What’s the use of ranting at my house? At my doorstep, it’s just dogs barking!"
Ye Wenjie had already seen his family’s teacher, unable to enter because of being blocked at the door!
And as the only son of the family, he wasn’t one to avoid conflicts. Standing up for his sisters should be a manly duty of his!
"Co out if you dare, you shorty!"
Ye Jinxiang looked ready to hit Ye Wenjie, just waiting for him to co out to start hitting him!
Ye Lanzi sneered coldly, "Ye Fengqi doesn’t dare to co out, scared of us perhaps?"
"Hmph, my parents said, my sister has already gone to the Capital City, if you dare, go find her in the Capital City!"
Ye Wenjie wanted to say more but was dragged away by Mrs. Li’s maid!
Hongji, facing such shrewish won, only n could possibly talk sense with them, but could such people’s families be reasonable?
"Ye Zhiwei’s family, still want to call your man over?"
Ye Zhiwei’s wife smirked triumphantly, "Hmph, I just won’t call the family head over!"
Hongji... Should he get more guards, find so workers?
If he did that, it would escalate the feud between the two families!
Not doing that, they kept stuffing people here, not driving them away, seed like they were scared of them!
After Hongji thought it over, he still wouldn’t open the door to let the dogs in!
It’s just missing a day at the factory, right?
He could have soone else cover his shift!
So, he said to Mr. Chen, who was looking in at the door, waiting to co in:
"Mr. Chen, please go to the two factories at the village entrance and talk to the security guards, I’m taking a day off today! Let the guard go find the managent to ntion it."
Mr. Chen nodded as he listened to Hongji’s words. As a scholar, it wasn’t appropriate for him to speak with these won.
Yet these people were deliberately obstructing him!
As a scholar, he quickly realized psychologically that to deal with these people, he needed more support. The Boss hadn’t stated it explicitly, but he understood that it was his task to ask for help!
At the village entrance were two factories, in which the Boss had shares. Shouldn’t the employees of his own factory, or the guards, co to help when the Boss was in trouble?
Mr. Chen thought that it was just the right mont for the workers to go to work. The factory at the village entrance wasn’t far, and he soon arrived there quickly!
Mr. Chen was from the neighboring village and had been a teacher in this household for 5 or 6 years. Initially, he was teaching the won of the house, but now he had beco the personal teacher for young Master Wenjie!
Going out early and returning late, the kind Boss had gifted him a bicycle as a ans of transport, which was faster than running!
A frail scholar could manage riding a bicycle, but running was a bit challenging!
The Boss had even said that if he wasn’t willing to ride a bicycle, he’d give him a horse!
Mr. Chen thought that a horse was definitely more expensive than a bicycle, so he could accept the bicycle but dare not accept a horse!
Mr. Chen arrived at the factory entrance, and it was work ti for the two factories!
The small gate of the factory was open, and a guard watched as the workers entered!
Mr. Chen stood at the entrance of the wood factory, hands on his bicycle, speaking to the guard inside watching the employees enter:
"Uncle, I’m the personal teacher for the young Master and Lady of your small boss. I’m here to convey a ssage from your small boss. He encountered a little trouble today and couldn’t co, asking you to go inside and request the factory managent to take a leave of absence!"
The guard was from Bushen Village. He had been on night duty since last night and was about to go ho after his shift. He was unaware of the events happening in the village this morning, though he knew about yesterday’s events.
"What trouble has our small boss run into? Is Ye Zhiwei and his family causing trouble at ho?"
Mr. Chen nodded, then said to the guard, "I’ll leave the leave-taking to you now; I’m going to the factory next door to request a leave for our small boss."
"Understood, when the small boss has trouble, of course we should help!"
It seed the guard understood Mr. Chen’s intention well!
Mr. Chen nodded, then, pushing his bicycle, he went to the factory across the way to ask for the Boss’s leave.
At the neighboring bicycle steel manufacturing factory, the guard heard Mr. Chen’s words and understood similarly.
It was also work ti for this factory, different from the wood factory, which operated on two shifts. The bicycle steel manufacturing factory had various types, so with two shifts, others with three shifts, with different work hours. This morning, so were coming in, others were going out.
The guard called one of the employees who was getting off work to convey Mr. Chen’s ssage.
"Go and tell the managent, the small boss’s family is in trouble!"
"Okay!" The person went into the factory to relay the ssage to managent.
anwhile, so of the employees going in or out heard this ssage, stopped, and waited for managent to co out and order them to support the small boss’s family.
The managent of the two factories allowed so of those who were working to continue, but those who had just finished their shifts, as well as the guards changing shifts, followed them out to support their small boss.
A group of over 100 people, each on a bicycle, entered the village in a grand procession.
This fleet of bicycles was a sight to behold!
Mr. Chen was also in this procession of bicycles. Despite his urgency, he could not match the physical strength and leg power of those who worked regularly. He found himself at the very back.
From a hidden spot, Ye Zhiwei secretly watched as his wife and daughter caused a commotion at the Ye family’s doorstep. Because of this, Hongji could not go to work, and he took secret delight in that.
Little did he anticipate that over 100 people would co riding toward him on bicycles!
Ye Zhiwei thought, "This is bad. Our family doesn’t have this many people for a fight... We’ll be at a disadvantage!"
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