Chapter 839

The storm of the First Branch Factory suspending housing allocation did not end because of Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang's guarantee; after going to work the next day, all kinds of gossip began to circulate among the workers.

Zhang Jing excitedly said to Ge Qian: "You know what! Last night, several people on the General Factory side were beaten..."

"Oh~"

"And there's more! This morning, the front doors of two families were smeared with feces, and a bunch of people were surrounding them to watch!"

"Oh~"

Seeing her best friend answering her absentmindedly, Zhang Jing was unhappy: "What are you 'oh-ing' about? Are you not curious at all? Is someone venting for our worker brothers?"

Seeing her best friend unhappy, Ge Qian had to stop the work in her hands and perfunctorily said: "Oh, then tell me who did it?"

Zhang Jing narrowed her eyes and said sneakily: "How would I know? It was dark and I couldn't see clearly; they put a sack over their heads and gave them a good beating, it was really satisfying."

"You call this not knowing?"

Seeing Zhang Jing's appearance, Ge Qian knew that she actually knew.

In such a matter of putting a sack over someone's head, the victim would definitely feel ashamed and not say a word, so how do you know?

Ge Qian sighed and said seriously: "Xiao Jing, don't discuss this matter with others anymore; this is not a small matter, the consequences are very serious."

Zhang Jing stared and said stubbornly: "What does it have to do with me! I didn't hit anyone, I didn't smash anyone's glass; you're just timid, talking about consequences all day long, it's boring."

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Ge Qian was stunned and finally couldn't help but say: "But... if you make such a fuss, you might drag Deputy Factory Director Li down. Workers made such a big fuss in previous years, and the higher-ups hate this kind of gathering to make trouble the most. What if Deputy Factory Director Li is transferred..."

"Deputy Factory Director Li won't be transferred," Zhang Jing interrupted her best friend and said confidently: "We all support Deputy Factory Director Li; if the higher-ups want to deal with Deputy Factory Director Li, all three thousand of us will go to petition..."

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Ge Qian looked at her best friend who was radiating righteousness and finally stopped wasting her breath, instead lowering her head to continue the work in her hands.

Although she and Zhang Jing are of similar age, their life experiences are completely different.

Zhang Jing is a standard pampered girl; although her family is not rich, her parents, brothers, and sisters all treat her as a treasure, and she grew up happily, basically never experiencing what setbacks are.

And Ge Qian is just the opposite; she lost her father and mother in her childhood and grew up relying on her sister, and her sense of happiness is not just a little bit worse than Zhang Jing's.

So Ge Qian's understanding of this society is more than one level higher than Zhang Li's.

Just like what Zhang Li said about "the masses supporting Deputy Factory Director Li," Ge Qian felt it didn't have much effect.

When the masses are hot-blooded, their energy is great, just like yesterday when everyone went to the General Factory office building together, which scared everyone.

But the hot blood of these workers is also short-lived; as long as that energy passes, they are divided and wooed, suppressed and coerced by the boss, and dragged down by their families, and in the end, they are still a plate of loose sand.

The first time you go to the boss to petition, they tell you to go back and wait for news,

The second time you go to the boss to apply pressure, they pay wages to a part of the people first, and then fire a few people with the greatest family pressure,

By the third time, it is estimated that only one-fifth of the people will go; once the energy is exhausted, it will be difficult to succeed.

By the time it was almost lunch, new news came over.

"Do you know? This morning, people from the technical testing department went to test our newly built staff building. Factory Director Lu and Factory Director Li really kept their word, not delaying at all..."

"Buddha bless, Bodhisattva manifest, the test must not have any problems! I'm waiting for the new house to get married!"

"Oh my, what are you praying for there? Can there be problems with the building? The problem is people, bad people; what's the use of you praying to the gods?"

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Ge Qian worked silently on her own work and also began to pray in her heart.

【Deputy Factory Director Li is a good person, I hope he really has a background, please don't be transferred!】

Although Ge Qian knows that the factory's new apartment building has nothing to do with her, she still sincerely hopes that Li Ye can "hold on" and not be transferred or demoted to a marginal department.

Not to mention anything else, Ge Qian's monthly salary is now 140 or 150; if Li Ye is transferred, she feels that it will likely be lowered.

After all, many old masters in the General Factory who have worked for more than ten years still can't get a salary of 140 or 150!

And on the matter of high or low wages, some leaders' "sense of fairness" is terrifyingly strong and absolutely does not allow unfair phenomena to exist.

"Ding-a-ling~"

The lunch bell rang, and Ge Qian still dragged her feet and delayed for ten minutes before going to the canteen.

Workers eat very quickly, and in ten minutes, more than half of the people had finished eating; there was no need to squeeze, and it was quiet, which just suited Ge Qian's wishes.

It's just that when she reached the entrance of the canteen, she found two small figures, a boy and a girl, crouching timidly in a corner in the distance, looking at her eagerly.

Ge Qian was startled and hurriedly walked over to ask: "Xiaohong, why are you two here? What happened?"

The girl named Xiaohong said with tears: "Auntie... there was no one at home at noon today, Xiaokai was starving, so we found our way here..."

Ge Qian asked in surprise: "No one at home? Didn't Jiang Chunyan go home to cook for you?"

Xiaohong shook her head aggrievedly: "No, she didn't cook for us this morning either, otherwise... we wouldn't have come to find you..."

"Didn't eat this morning either?"

Ge Qian hurriedly pulled the two children to the canteen, complaining as she walked: "If she doesn't cook for you, don't you know how to buy food with your brother? Did you spend the ten yuan I gave you last time so quickly?"

Xiaohong's tears flowed down immediately: "Last night, my stepmother rummaged through my schoolbag and took the money... and left us hungry for a meal..."

"Didn't eat last night either?"

Ge Qian's tears also flowed down.

The two children had been hungry for three meals and were so hungry that they had to come to find her, their aunt.

"Don't cry, you are the big sister, if you cry, what will your brother do?"

Ge Qian wiped her tears with her hand, took out a handkerchief to wipe the children's faces, then borrowed a bowl from the canteen master, and got three portions of meat dishes for her nephew and niece in one go.

Watching the two half-grown children wolfing down their food, Ge Qian felt so uncomfortable that she couldn't describe it.

After her parents passed away, Ge Qian and her sister relied on each other to grow up, but fortunately, Ge Qian's sister took over her father's job and also took her younger sister with her when she got married, supporting her until she finished high school and became an unemployed youth. Even if it wasn't easy to get assigned a job in the past few years, her sister didn't skimp on Ge Qian's food and clothing.

Although life wasn't so satisfactory, her sister was optimistic; in her sister's words, "the bitterness of a lifetime is numbered, everything will get better."

But Ge Qian didn't get a job opportunity until her sister passed away.

During those years, she relied on her brother-in-law's house, deeply experiencing what it meant to be lonely and helpless, and also seeing countless dark maliciousness in the world.

Later, her brother-in-law married another wife, and Ge Qian began to bear double the maliciousness. If it weren't for the social recruitment later, Ge Qian fought to get into the First Branch Factory and moved into the factory's single dormitory, she didn't know if she could have survived.

But Ge Qian really couldn't figure out why, after she left, that double maliciousness didn't disappear but entangled the two children left by her sister.

Her stepmother Jiang Chunyan brought a daughter over, being partial in every way and scolding and starving them at every turn, but their biological father, Liao Minjie, remained indifferent.

Ge Qian argued with them several times, and each time it was "if you want to manage, manage to the end, and take the two children away," but Ge Qian was a young girl and had no house, so how could she live with two children?

After the two children were full, Ge Qian took out another ten yuan and handed it to her niece Liao Xiaohong: "Hide this money under the shoe insole, if there is no food at home, eat outside, don't worry about the money, come find your aunt to get more when you spend it."

But Liao Xiaohong shook her head and said: "No, Auntie, our shoe insoles were rummaged through yesterday, but my dad will only be angry for a day or two, we'll go back and admit our mistake and it will be fine..."

Her nephew Liao Xiaokai also nodded repeatedly: "It's fine, Auntie, my dad won't starve us to death..."

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Watching the backs of the two children leaving in a hurry, Ge Qian really couldn't hold it anymore.

She saw the shadow of her sister in Liao Xiaohong.

When her parents died, the two sisters were also like this, bowing their heads to everyone they saw and carefully admitting their mistakes to everyone.

But back then, her sister was a young girl, didn't she also bring her younger sister through it?

Ge Qian wiped her nose and turned to walk to the First Branch Factory's office.