She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Chapter 387

Jiang Wenhua seemed a little confused. "No, Lao Xia and I were behaving ourselves. Why would we go to the police station? We can't exactly fight with her, can we?"

Grandma Xia nodded: "Yes, we are very well-behaved."

The factory manager tapped the lunchbox a few times with his chopsticks and said, "You still want to hide it from me? The police have already told me, and they even broke someone's head."

Grandma Xia: "Ah, you mean that time? That time had nothing to do with the factory. It was a family matter. It's normal for families to have some conflicts."

Jiang Wenhua nodded: "Yes, it's our family matter."

The factory manager frowned: "What does Comrade Xia's family affairs have to do with you?"

Jiang Wenhua: "Factory Director, you really are... How could I, a kind and friendly neighbor, not help Old Xia? What if she, a mere old lady, gets pushed down and injured by her nephew? That would be terrible. As the saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative, I..."

Before she could finish speaking, Grandma Xia saw Qiao Yi rushing toward them.

She stood up abruptly, remembering the wages she had just received that day, and immediately thought of Fang Yingdi. At this moment, the only thing that could make Qiao Yi so panicked was Fang Yingdi's unreliable parents.

Her parents were even worse than Dong Chunmiao's parents. At least they knew not to feed the cows pickled vegetables and would occasionally give them some good food, keeping them completely under their thumb.

Fang Yingdi's parents were both unmistakably greedy and unmistakably stupid.

Jiang Wenhua was still arguing with the factory manager when he was suddenly slapped by Old Lady Xia. He looked up and started packing his lunchbox, putting the lid back on Old Lady Xia and handing it to her. Then he grabbed her and started running.

The factory manager blinked, and the two grown men vanished from his sight.

broken.

As Qiao Yi walked and talked, when she got near their dormitory, she yelled and called Fang Yingdi out.

Fang Yingdi had calmed down by now. Seeing them coming over, she said, "Send them away. I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

Jiang Wenhua pressed his advantage, "May I drink some alcohol?"

Fang Yingdi patted his arm and shouted, "Drink! Go buy some more. You're not allowed to leave until you finish it all."

The four men walked aggressively toward the gate, and everyone who saw them thought they were about to pull off something big, just like the rumors suggested.

Soon, the news spread like wildfire throughout the factory.

Fang Yingdi's hands were a little cold, and when she saw two people peeking in from outside the door, her heart started to pound again.

When Fang's mother saw her come out, she immediately raised her hand and waved. As she got closer, she began to complain, "Sanya, you're finally out! I haven't seen you for almost a month. It's been so long since I've seen you. Siya and I have been doing all the housework, and Siya is such a lazybones. I almost couldn't come to see you. Sanya, why haven't you been coming home lately?"

Fang Yingdi forced a smile. "Mom, I'm a little tired, so I won't go back."

Fang's mother: "You're tired? Are you, a factory worker, more tired than us farmers who have to work in the fields? Sanya, you're the only capable person in the family. You can't let your mother down. You know, you're the one I value most."

Fang Yingdi heard those familiar words again. She used to hear them once a week, but after not visiting for the past two weeks, hearing them again made her feel itchy all over. "Mom, you don't even earn full work points when you work in the fields. Aren't you still relying on the money I give you? What's so tiring about it? Aren't I the one supporting the family now?"

Hearing this, Mr. Fang felt as if someone was scrutinizing him, and he was displeased. As the head of the family, how could he let a little girl support him? He was the one who was supporting the family. Shouldn't Sanya contribute to the household expenses? If he hadn't raised her, would she have had the opportunity to become a worker?

Many girls in the village are killed before they even see the sun. How come Fang Yingdi has grown up healthy and doesn't know how to be grateful? The main reason she has achieved what she has is because he, the head of the family, raised her well. So shouldn't she pay money?

In the village, which children who haven't separated from their families don't contribute to household expenses after earning money? Why is she the only ungrateful one?

Fang's father seemed to have already heard people whispering and laughing at him. He immediately felt his self-esteem was hurt and started cursing, "Sanya, you can't be so heartless. Think about it yourself. You've lived this long because I, your father, raised you. You became a worker because I, your father, paid for your education."

If it weren't for me, you would have been married off like your two older sisters long ago, or at the very least, engaged like Siya. Your mother and I could have even received a dowry. Now you're saying such heartless things. What do you mean you're the breadwinner? How many times a month do you even come home? How much housework can you do? Don't talk like we do nothing and you're the only one earning money.

"We've wasted our time raising you! Even a dog wags its tail at us, but you're such a piece of trash. Now that you've become a successful worker, you want to kick your parents and siblings, who've been raising fish for you, to the curb."

Fang's father slapped her hard, and Fang Yingdi covered her face, a tear falling down her cheek.

More and more people gathered around, and they began to whisper among themselves.

“What this uncle said makes sense. If my daughter, whom I raised with so much effort, said such a thing, I would be heartbroken. She won’t even contribute a little bit of household expenses. Wouldn’t that be a waste of my time raising her?”

“My family also pays wages, but all my children are workers and we all pay the same wages, which is normal.”

"Yes, it's easy to squander your salary if you keep it yourself. I also give it to my mom. When I get married, my mom will deduct the household expenses and then give me this money as my dowry. It's a win-win situation."

"It's best for the whole family to work together. If one person is selfish, the family will have big conflicts, and it will be difficult to resolve them. That's why my family also follows this rule."

"Is this Comrade Fang Yingdi? I think it's her. If it is, then that's a different story."

"What do you mean? What do you mean by saying she's a different story?"

“I heard that she is the only worker in her family, and she gives all her monthly salary to her parents’ family as soon as she gets it, and she eats only pickled vegetables and rice.”

"I think I've heard about it before. At the time, I thought any man who married a woman like that was really unlucky. She was so devoted to her family and didn't care about her own health at all."

"Is she one of them? If so, I'm going to memorize the faces of those two old geezers so I can tell others about it. That would be shameless."

Everyone has different opinions.

"I...I..." Fang Yingdi wanted to say that they didn't get many work points even when they worked in the fields, and they spent more time slacking off than working in the fields. She also wanted to say that few of the men in the family did any work, and even things like papering the walls and repairing the roof were done by her and her sister. What she wanted to say even more was that most of the money she earned for school came from picking medicinal herbs on the mountain and selling them in the city without her family knowing. She even paid for her high school tuition with scholarships.

However, she couldn't organize her thoughts properly. She kept babbling "I" for a long time, but couldn't utter a single useful word.