"Then call the police! Don’t recognize her but you’ve been talking for half a day, do you think I don’t need to pay wages or won’t check attendance?" she said as she took out her phone and unapologetically dialed 110 and gave the address.
"Hey hey hey, we are her elders, just ca to have a look, why are you calling the cops?" Cong Xin pointed at Huang Yueran and said. She didn’t recognize the mobile phone, but she also heard the voice coming from the other side. Back in her hotown, she had never even used a telephone, let alone a mobile phone.
"Right, this is their rented apartnt, why can’t we co?" Sun Ailing said with her neck tilted, pointing at Huang Yueran.
"Who says this is a rented place? It’s purchased, okay? Who says it’s theirs? It belongs to their child. Who told you that you can just barge into soone’s ho?"
"With the ’For Rent’ sign outside, if it’s not for rent then is it for sale?" Sun Ailing looked at the young man in front of her, trying to overwhelm him with her presence.
"Exactly, it’s bought." He looked at An Zilan with a light smile, surprised, and continued: "I bought it. These two are hired to help clean up the shop. Why should I report to an irrelevant person when I buy a property?"
Luo Qianqian and the other two hurried over in a taxi after hearing Bai Yixian’s call, intending to enter but heard sothing inside that wasn’t quite what they expected. They hid among the crowd outside the door to watch the drama unfold quietly.
"On what grounds did you hire them? How much do you pay them? Give their wages to !" Cong Xin, having watched for a while and seeing no action, began to make reckless demands based on her seniority, thinking Bai Yixian would not dare to do anything.
"On what grounds? Because I feel like it." Bai Yixian laughed angrily; if Luo Qianqian found out he couldn’t even protect their mother, how could he continue to get by? "The amount of their wages is between and them, whether or not to give it to you is between them and you. What right do you have to tell what to do?"
Right then, a police car stopped at the front door, and the flashing red and blue lights hurt the eyes: "What’s going on? Who called the police?"
"Officer." Bai Yixian hurriedly approached and handed over a pack of cigarettes: "I am the boss here." He wasn’t wrong, as long as Luo Qianqian didn’t deny it, he indeed was: "These people took advantage of my absence, when only two staff mbers were here, they barged in, demanding money from them. This is robbery, isn’t it? Plain and bold, and it involves an old person you can’t drive away or curse at. Mine is a small business; I can’t withstand being harassed every few days."
The police officer who arrived had been an intern during Luo Qianqian’s kidnapping case and had seen this wealthy boss Bai Yixian before; he twitched his lips and said: "Is that so? Then take them away." The orders from above were to give extra care, things are easy to handle with connections above.
"You can’t take away!" Cong Xin, upon seeing that things had gotten serious, quickly pointed at Huang Yueran and said: "This is my daughter-in-law, what’s wrong with coming to ask her for money?"
"Officer, I really don’t have any money." Huang Yueran knelt on the ground, looking pitiable: "I was forced by them to the point where my daughter and I couldn’t return ho, I lost my original job, and when I found a new job, they ca asking for money. My husband’s salary for the month was taken too. If it weren’t for this friend, I wouldn’t know how to survive with my daughter as a single mother."
Luo’s Mom quickly knelt down to comfort her: "It’s okay, you can stay at my place."
"I have a ho but can’t go back. As soon as Granny and Uncle co over, not only do we have to give up the place, but we also have to give them money, and we are constantly poked in the spine and called a financial loss." Huang Yueran had initially planned to just pretend, but as she talked, she felt more aggrieved and started crying: "The money we borrowed for the bride price was taken away, and when we married, it along with my dowry and the money brought as wedding presents was taken to build a house. We are supposed to pay back the borrowed bride price. Can you believe that once the house was built, it was given to the eldest son? They didn’t leave us a penny from the wedding and even the feast was funded in debt, which we had to repay, and we don’t even get a share of the house. They said they would give it to us when we had a son."
"Then I gave birth to a daughter, and they started calling us both financial losses. We couldn’t offend them, could we? So, we moved to another city, we were doing just fine, but they just had to co after us again. What kind of karma is this that I have such in-laws?" After saying that, Huang Yueran buried her face in her hands and sobbed.
The onlookers outside the door were also discussing among themselves:
"With in-laws like that, this poor wife is really unlucky."
"Favoring sons over daughters, where did they crawl out from?"
"So excessive, and they even followed her here, it’s really evil."
The endless discussions entered Cong Xin’s ears, but she wasn’t irritated, instead, she also sat on the ground and began wailing: "What kind of bad karma have I brought upon myself, to have such a daughter-in-law? Not filial, and even framing her mother-in-law for wrongdoing, she doesn’t even give us a di for the New Year!"
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