Chapter 1250: Principal Gao plays mahjong

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After the banquet ended, Cao Weiguo returned to his office reeking of alcohol. He steeped a cup of goji berries when Zhao Meihong rushed into the office, sobbing: "Leader! Leader! You must help me! My husband is in trouble!"

Cao Weiguo gently consoled her: "Comrade Zhao Meihong, don't get excited. Speak slowly. What exactly happened?"

Zhao Meihong wiped the corners of her eyes: "Leader! My husband is useless; he went to play mahjong with a few of his drinking buddies..."

From Zhao Meihong's account, Cao Weiguo roughly understood what trouble Principal Gao Yi had gotten himself into.

Because of his family background, Gao Yi had been removed from his post and sent down to the neighborhood for labor education. In a bad mood, he had gathered with a few drinking buddies to drink, and afterwards, they started playing mahjong together.

But these people were bold enough to "play mahjong" right under the noses of the Chaoyang masses; the result was predictable.

Before they had played even a few rounds, they were raided and arrested by the police and detained at the Sanlitun Police Station.

When one of Gao Yi's drinking buddies ran over to deliver the news, Zhao Meihong was still washing dishes in the back kitchen.

This sudden bad news scared Zhao Meihong out of her wits.

Now that her backer had fallen, both she and her husband had lost their positions, and relatives and friends were all avoiding them.

With nowhere else to turn, Zhao Meihong bit the bullet and came to Cao Weiguo for help.

Back when she was the cafeteria director, she had been obedient to Cao Weiguo and had supported his work quite a bit.

"Comrade Zhao Meihong, sit down and drink some tea to calm yourself."

"I'll make a call to find out the situation."

"Leader! I've caused you trouble!"

Zhao Meihong bowed deeply, and Cao Weiguo called a friend.

Ding Jiandong, the eldest son of Section Chief Guo's old "regimental commander."

After that wedding banquet, because of Section Chief Guo, Cao Weiguo and the Ding brothers had become friends through their interactions.

Cao Weiguo: "Brother Jiandong, I need a favor."

Ding Jiandong: "Brother Weiguo, just say whatever you need. Why be formal between us brothers? As long as I can help, I won't hesitate."

Cao Weiguo said with a smile: "It's like this: I have an older sister whose husband used to be the principal of the Third Elementary School in your jurisdiction. Today, he was drinking with some friends and playing mahjong for amusement afterwards. Who would have thought..."

"... they would be caught red-handed by the police. Now he's in the Sanlitun detention center..."

"That's suspected gambling."

Ding Jiandong thought for a moment and said in a low voice: "How about this: I'll head over to Sanlitun now to see the specific situation. If it's not serious, I'll try my best to get him out."

Cao Weiguo: "Then I'll trouble you, Brother Jiandong. I'll wait for your news."

After hanging up the receiver, Cao Weiguo looked at the anxious Zhao Meihong: "Don't be too worried. Gambling is neither a small matter nor a big one. If your husband was just playing mahjong with friends for amusement..."

"... the matter shouldn't be hard to resolve."

"Leader! Thank you! I'm really sorry for causing you trouble."

"Sigh! It's all my husband's fault for being useless. Playing mahjong at a time like this—isn't that just adding fuel to the fire!"

Gao Yi's parents were university professors and experts in the field of finance who had published many articles and were somewhat famous both at home and abroad.

But experts shouldn't talk nonsense or speak blindly... otherwise, they will be educated!

These two experts were "trouble coming from the mouth"; detached from reality, drinking red wine, eating steak, and spouting nonsense, they provoked public anger...

According to Zhao Meihong, these two "experts" were currently shoveling manure in the neighborhood.

Not only were they educated themselves, but they also let their children "share the glory."

In the evening, Cao Weiguo and Zhao Meihong arrived at Sanlitun together.

Led by Ding Jiandong, the two met Gao Yi at the detention center.

After Zhao Meihong paid the fine, Gao Yi was led out of the detention center, looking wilted.

To show her gratitude, Zhao Meihong invited Cao Weiguo and Ding Jiandong to Quanjude.

A thin camel is still bigger than a horse; even though the Gao family had gone downhill, they still had some family assets.

After the meal, Zhao Meihong slipped an envelope to both Cao Weiguo and Ding Jiandong.

She had specifically retrieved these envelopes from home before going to the detention center.

Gao Yi returned home dejected, and Zhao Meihong backhanded him with a loud slap.

"Are you crazy!"

Gao Yi, having received a loud slap, covered his face and glared at Zhao Meihong with an angry face.

"I'm crazy? Am I crazy or are you crazy!"

"Don't you have any idea what the situation is at home right now?"

"Your parents are shoveling manure!"

"You are sweeping floors at school!"

"I am washing pots and dishes at the factory!"

"How many pairs of eyes are staring at our family!"

"And you! You don't know how to keep your tail tucked, and you're out drinking and gambling with drinking buddies!"

"Are you not satisfied unless our life is miserable enough!"

"Do you have to eat a peanut bullet before you can be satisfied!"

Facing Zhao Meihong's rapid-fire scolding, Gao Yi wilted like an eggplant hit by frost.

"I! I didn't mean to!"

"I just couldn't help myself for a moment. I didn't think I'd be caught playing mahjong."

"I really wasn't gambling; we were just playing around."

"I'm sorry! I won't touch mahjong ever again."

Gao Yi knew he had made a mistake and apologized dejectedly.

Zhao Meihong looked at Gao Yi's cowardly appearance, and the fire in her heart couldn't be suppressed: "Look at your wilted, cowardly appearance now. Why was I so blind to have fallen for you! If it weren't for you! Because your parents spouted nonsense! Would I have ended up so miserable! Everyone is poking my spine behind my back! I can only keep my head down to live now!"

Gao Yi muttered: "If it weren't for my parents back then, you wouldn't have been able to enter the city, and you wouldn't have been able to become a section chief."

Zhao Meihong had a rural household registration from out of town and only met Gao Yi through a relative's introduction.

At the time, Zhao Meihong was just a country girl. If it weren't for the relative connection and her pretty looks, Gao Yi and his parents wouldn't have looked twice at a country girl like her.

It was precisely because she married Gao Yi that Zhao Meihong was able to enter the city and the factory through the Gao family's connections.

As for the rumors that she was a relative of Factory Director Yang, that was also because Factory Director Yang had once been a student of Gao Yi's parents.

Without the Gao family's connections, Zhao Meihong probably wouldn't even have been able to become an ordinary worker.

However, times are different now.

The Gao family now is a plucked phoenix that is not as good as a chicken.

Zhao Meihong no longer had her former submissiveness; instead, she was full of resentment.

"Yes! I relied on your parents to enter the city!"

"But I also bore children and worked like a horse for your Gao family. I don't owe your Gao family anything!"

"Gao Yi! I'm warning you! If something like today happens again, then you can fend for yourself. I'm just a miscellaneous worker in the cafeteria now; I don't have the ability to clean up your mess again!"

Looking at his furious wife, Gao Yi sat on the bed, feeling stifled: "I know. I'll just be a turtle with its head tucked in from now on, okay!" ===== CHAPTER 1252 =====