When She Stops Being Dramatic novel Chapter 358

Chapter 358: Chapter 133: The Green Tea Supporting Female Character in a Period Novel (20)

"There’s a saying in books: ’A scholar is utterly useless.’ That describes people like us."

With that, he poured Old Zhang a glass of liquor and downed three glasses himself as a penalty.

Old Zhang was pleased by his words and laughed heartily. "Well, at least you have some self-awareness. But I have to admit, when you cultured folks decide to flatter someone, it’s really something else. You can say the same simple thing and make it sound like poetry."

"However," his expression turned cold, "you city folk are full of petty schemes. Taking us for fools and playing your games... that’s not right, is it?"

Jiang Zishi said hurriedly, "Director Zhang, please, if you have something to say, just say it directly."

"We’re completely in the dark here; we don’t know how we’ve displeased you. We were sincere when we asked for your help before, but... but what did Comrade Chi Yun’er do today when she reported in that made you so unhappy?"

"That little girl has been spoiled rotten, so I hope you’ll take the trouble to teach her a thing or two. The real world isn’t like being at home. No one will unconditionally put up with her arrogance."

"Besides, how much harm can a young girl do? Just give her a little scare, use the old carrot-and-stick approach, and let the matter drop. She’s smart and eager to learn, so she’s sure to get on your good side quickly."

Jiang Zishi rattled this all off in a vague and roundabout way, but his intention was simply to have the conflict resolved internally at the brick factory.

Having spent the better part of a decade with her, almost day in and day out, Jiang Zishi subconsciously still saw Chi Yun’er as the same foolish, empty-headed beauty he used to have wrapped around his little finger.

In his mind, she was just a paper tiger, all bluff and bluster, with the courage of a mouse. ’After leaving me,’ he thought, ’she’ll do nothing but cry her eyes out every day.’

’Heh. I wonder if she regrets rejecting me now?’

Old Zhang let out a dry laugh. "That little brat is more capable than you think. You went to all that trouble to find her a job, and she just turned around and got into the farm, swapping posts with someone else."

"I thought I was going to solve a bachelor problem for the factory, but instead I recruited a new dean of discipline. She’d barely arrived and was already lecturing us, raising everything to a matter of political principle."

"And now my wife is stuck over at the Reorganization and Reform Committee!"

The moment he spoke, the courtyard filled with the sound of sharp, indrawn breaths.

The Reorganization and Reform Committee was a tiger’s den. It didn’t matter if you had done anything wrong; just passing through was enough to get a layer of your skin peeled off!

Everyone in that committee, from top to bottom, had been transferred from elsewhere. They all supervised one another and couldn’t be swayed by either threats or pleas. One could say that with the director’s wife taken in, the entire brick factory was facing a catastrophe.

Jiang Zishi’s focus, however, was on the fact that not only had Chi Yun’er failed to enter the brick factory, but she had used his "good intentions" to secure a position at the farm!

’Heh. If her feelings for me hadn’t been so weak, I wouldn’t have ended up choosing the harshest place for my assignment.’

’Now she’s off to the farm to polish her credentials, while I have to stay here and marry a village girl...’

"My wife would never implicate others for the sake of our family. But she was implicated because of you, so you need to give me an accounting for this!"

Old Zhang said, his eyes still lowered.

Anyone with half a brain knew this "accounting" was no ordinary one. It meant money and ration coupons, and it also had to include the person who had been promised to him before.

With a single look from the village chief, his wife immediately had everyone pick up their bowls and go back to their rooms.

"Old Zhang, this is the first we’re hearing of this ourselves. Who knew that girl could be so thoughtless!"

Old Zhang sneered. "Let’s speak plainly. Don’t you try to shift the blame. If you want to save face and keep this matter quiet, you’ll have to give me a satisfactory resolution."

"Otherwise, believe it or not, by tomorrow everyone for miles around will know that you two, father-in-law and son-in-law, have been unscrupulously matchmaking for the educated youths."

"In the end, my comrades at the factory got nothing out of it and ended up in a whole lot of trouble. When that happens, tell me, what will everyone think of you two?"

Seeing their troubled expressions, Old Zhang continued to eat leisurely. "The way I see it, you two are just overthinking things. You dared to do it once, so why are you getting squeamish the second time around?"

"Don’t we have a saying? If you strike a snake but don’t kill it, you’ll suffer the consequences."

"That Chi girl is no fool. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have skipped reporting to the factory and just swapped her post with someone else."

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