Seeing Xiao Hongmei's face getting darker and darker, Peng Yuni frowned and said: "Sister Hongmei, the impact of Xiaohang's incident is too great. There is really nothing we can do, but don't worry, the Peng family will not just watch something happen to your whole family. If you are down and out, we will definitely provide you with some help in terms of living and finance."
Listening to her words, Xiao Hongmei smiled, with a particularly cold smile, and her voice was small but very clear: "Yuni, if people know that you cooperated with your husband's siblings to resell fabrics, and also took kickbacks from them, the amount involved is no more than 13 Wan Shao, what do you think will happen to you?"
"call out!"
Peng Yuni jumped up suddenly, spilling all the porridge in her hand on the ground, and the enamel bowl made a crisp sound.
"Sister Hongmei, do you know what nonsense you are talking about?"
Peng Yuni looked calm on the surface, but in fact she was extremely panicked, and her hands under her sleeves were tightly clenched into fists.
"Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you know it yourself."
Seeing the obvious change in the eyes of mother and daughter, Xiao Hongmei snorted in her heart.
Having said this, it was equivalent to breaking her face. She didn't want to say any more nonsense, and her tone was very cold: "Cousin, Yu Ni, my son is my lifeblood. He did something wrong because I didn't educate him." Well, I don’t expect him to escape from this incident unscathed. My only wish is to save his life and avoid as much jail time as possible.”
"Cousin, Yuni, I know that the Peng family doesn't want to be exposed to sluts, and I can understand that. I don't want to cause you any trouble unless it's absolutely necessary."
"I think the Peng family has also investigated this incident, and they probably haven't found out who really attacked the Meng family."
"The head of the Peng family lives in Kyoto, and my cousin-in-law's second brother is a high-ranking official in the capital. You should know the current situation better than me. Now is the most serious moment of factional fighting. Suddenly someone here in Seoul takes action against the Meng family. You Do you think it’s really the Meng family that has offended someone?”
Peng Yuni narrowed her eyes: "Sister Hongmei, what do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is that we are both prosperous and humiliated. We are actually grasshoppers on the same rope. If the Meng family falls, maybe you will be the next target."
Xiao Hongmei spoke clearly. Seeing that they had listened, she made her request again: "Yuni, as long as you save Xiaohang's life and try to make him suffer as little as possible, I promise to carry what I said before into the coffin." , I will never let you and the Xue family fall into the situation that the Meng family is in today."
This was a clear threat. Peng Yuni was so angry that she gritted her teeth and her face was colder than ever: "Sister Hongmei, you are doing well."
"Yuni, don't blame me for not caring about family ties. I am a mother, and everything I do is to keep my son." Xiao Hongmei left after saying that.
As soon as she left, Mrs. Peng cursed in a low voice: "Thankfully we were so good to her before, she is another white-eyed wolf."
After saying that, he scolded his daughter in a low voice: "Yuni, you are the same. You were so careless in doing things, and the handle fell into her hands, and now you are being blackmailed in return."
"Mom, she shouldn't have any evidence in her hand." Peng Yuni looked particularly ugly.
"Evidence is something that can be obtained easily as long as someone starts investigating."
Mrs. Peng was a little dissatisfied with her naivety and said with a face: "You think they don't know what Meng Xiaohang did. Maybe they were pulling strings to help behind the scenes. With their shrewdness, they would not have destroyed the evidence in time." Dispose of it?”
Peng Yuni understood what she meant and stood up quickly: "Mom, I'll go back and deal with this first."
"You discuss this matter with Hailin. After all, it involves his third brother and his wife. He will not stay out of it. It would be better for him to arrange someone to handle Meng Xiaohang's matter." Mrs. Peng gave her some advice.
"Mom, I understand."
Peng Yuni was a little flustered at first, but now she calmed down, got up, got a broom, and swept up the porridge on the floor before leaving.
She just walked to the door and met Bai Narcissus. Bai Narcissus simply nodded and then went to work in the next room with the cupping tools.
Seeing Bai Shuixian's demure and beautiful face, Peng Yuni was instinctively jealous, but she didn't lose her sense of control and stepped forward to find trouble for no reason. She hurried back to the unit to find Xue Hailin with her bag in hand.
At noon, Gong Linglong got off work and was going to the canteen to eat. When he came out with his lunch box, he saw his mother outside.
"Mom, when did you come?"
"I arrived five minutes ago."
Bai Narcissus did not knock on the door to disturb her work. Seeing that she had taken her lunch box to eat, she smiled and said: "I just went to the post office to help an old leader collect a package. I thought you should get off work too, so I came to your place." A meal to eat.”
"Come on, I'll take you to the cafeteria to eat."
Gong Linglong handed her the lunch box and picked up the heavy package on the ground. "Mom, this package is quite heavy. Put it in my office first and pick it up after you eat."
"Okay, the old leader's comrade mailed him Northeastern specialties. His comrade is very enthusiastic and generous. He always sends a big bag full. His waist was flashing during morning exercises two days ago. I came over to help him get the stuff."
After she put her things away, the mother and daughter walked to the unit canteen to eat together. Bai Narcissus whispered to her on the way: "Linglong, Meng Xiaoying's mother went to the nursing home this morning. I heard from other colleagues that she often went there during this time. Find Xue Hailin’s mother-in-law and ask the Peng family to help save Meng Xiaohang.”
"She left crying every time in the past few days, but she didn't cry when she left today. Not long after she left, Peng Yuni left in a hurry. I doubt that the Peng family will deal with it."
Gong Linglong raised his eyebrows slightly: "I didn't help before, but now I want to help. This is very strange."
"You can go back and talk to Jingchuan tonight."
Bai Shuixian knew that her son-in-law was behind Meng Xiaohang's arrest. Now that the Peng family was going to intervene, it would be better to give her son-in-law a warning.
Gong Linglong nodded in response, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and he was actually quite expecting them to intervene.
The food in the canteen of the government agency is pretty good, and there are a lot of people coming here to eat. It’s the first time for my mother to come here to eat, and there happened to be braised chicken today. Gong Linglong bought one for her, and also ordered two vegetarian dishes, which she also chose. One meat and one vegetarian.
The two of them took lunch instead of sitting in the cafeteria to eat. They took their lunch boxes back to the small warehouse behind the office building and sat on the small bed where they took their lunch break to eat.
There were no outsiders here, and Bai Narcissus softly told her another good thing, "Linglong, my last translation draft passed. The Compilation and Translation Bureau mailed me a work permit and medical books. The translation fee is quite high."
"How much?" Gong Linglong asked hurriedly.
"Thousand words for three yuan." Bai Narcissus smiled slightly.
Gong Linglong: "...so tall?"
"Actually, when I was in college in the 1950s and 1960s, the remuneration for translations was much higher than it is now. For example, for engineering and medical books, I could earn as little as 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, and as much as 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. These years, the situation is special. Speaking of the interruption of translation, the price of royalties for poetry and literary works has dropped a lot, and three yuan per thousand words is now a relatively high standard."
