Chapter 1272: The Job Gained by Empty-Handed Trickery

Watching Fu Yan Cheng walk away and recalling what his wife had mentioned to him yesterday, there was nothing left to misunderstand.

He quickened his pace toward home.

Upon entering, he found his wife and pulled her aside: "Did your cousin go and provoke Fu Yan Wang?"

Because of Fu Yan Cheng's extreme strictness on the training ground and his decisive ruthlessness during missions, many privately called him the 'Living Yan Wang'.

Seeing her husband's grim expression and recalling what her cousin had said earlier, Ding Runping's heart gave a thud: "Why would you ask that?"

Although Sun Gangzhu belonged to the Transport Company, he knew Fu Yan Cheng's temperament; since he dared to threaten him like that, it certainly wasn't just empty talk: "I ran into Battalion Commander Fu. He said if anyone made his life uncomfortable, then how you got the job at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative probably couldn't be kept hidden."

Hearing this, Ding Runping's face turned white with fright: "How did he find out about that?"

Sun Gangzhu cared deeply about face; he had only learned later about what his wife had done and had been living in constant dread, fearing the girl's parents would come knocking and make the whole family compound know about it. But three months had passed with no one showing up, so he had assumed the matter was over.

He never expected that Battalion Commander Fu would know about this.

It was quite a coincidence: a few days ago, after returning from a mission and waiting for the bus back to the barracks, he happened to spot Ding Runping being dragged by a man into a nearby alley. Thinking it might be trouble, he could not stand idly by, whether as a soldier or as a former neighbor, so he followed them.

Instead, he overheard their argument: "Are you never going to stop? I already gave you one hundred yuan before and said this matter ends here. How can you go back on your word?"

"How much is a job worth these days? You think one hundred yuan is enough to dismiss me?"

"You have no money; even if you force me to death, you can't get anything."

"Then I'll go find Cui Pingping's parents and tell them how you persuaded their daughter to give up her job and go to the countryside to chase that poor young man. Tell me, will they forgive you?"

"Stop slandering me with blood in your mouth! The job was given to me by Pingping; she just asked me to cover for her temporarily, and we even wrote an agreement."

"Your tongue is truly skilled. If it were just covering, why did you trick Cui Pingping into transferring her job? And do you dare show that agreement to everyone and read what it says?"

Ding Runping felt somewhat guilty, after all, she had indeed obtained the job by empty-handed trickery.

If Cui Pingping's parents had not been working out of town and her grandfather, who had lived with her, had not died of illness, no matter how much she tried to deceive, the job would never have reached her hands.

Hearing their conversation, although he did not know who the Cui Pingping they mentioned was, he learned that Ding Runping's job had been obtained improperly. He simply did not expect that this overheard information would prove useful just a few days later.

Although threatening someone was somewhat beneath dignity, as long as it worked, that was enough.

Ding Runping was truly afraid Fu Yan Cheng would expose this matter, after all, he was a soldier, and she feared his sense of justice was too strong: "Brother Gangzhu, what should we do now? I worked so hard to get this job. If Pingping's family takes it back, I, I..."

To tell the truth, she was also a person who cared about face and could not bring herself to say such shameless words as "I just wasted my efforts."

Sun Gangzhu's face looked very grim. His wife's actions had been disgraceful to begin with, but the fact that Fu Yan Cheng had found out made the matter hang over them like a sharp sword: "Perhaps we should just return the job, so we don't have to live in constant dread every day."