70's Raising a Child: I'm done with cannon fodder female supporting roles

Chapter 25: The Damned Little Bitch

Su Qian walked to the bedside, glanced at Xiuyu's fingers, her face not looking good, and said, "Shen Nanqiao has proven his innocence."

"What?"

When Xiuyu heard this, her eyes widened.
"Then I have been hurting my finger in vain? Not only did I fail to drive Shen Nanqiao out of the steel mill, but I also let her clear herself from the matter!"

"It's impossible. She's just a stupid thing. How could she possibly..."

As she was talking, the factory director came in from outside. Xiuyu quickly closed her mouth, licked her lips, and said with a thick crying voice:
"Director, you have to help me. It's that bitch Shen Nanqiao who's trying to harm me!"

The factory manager narrowed his eyes, which showed calculation and shrewdness, and said:

"Xiuyu, just tell me the truth, did you break your finger yourself?
Shen Nanqiao has proven that he can repair the machine. This is your own personal injury, and our factory cannot compensate you."

When she heard that there would be no compensation, Xiuyu's face changed immediately and she said anxiously:

"Director, didn't we agree that if you get injured in the factory, the factory will have to pay for it?
I won't be able to work with my fingers anymore, my wife will beat me to death!"

"I want to help you vent your anger, but everyone saw Shen Nanqiao repairing the machine. It's clear that you broke your finger yourself. What do you think we should do?
Unless you can insist that you had an argument with Shen Nanqiao and ask Shen Nanqiao's family to compensate you with some money.

Her parents-in-law are both easy to talk to. You can ask your mother-in-law to make a fuss and maybe you can extort some money from her.

Anyway, you can blackmail anyone, but don’t blackmail me, I don’t want to pay! "

Xiuyu's face was extremely ugly, and she said:
"Director, you know Shen Nanqiao's personality, so you believe everything she says?

What kind of machine can she repair? She was the one who cut off my finger. I will firmly believe that it was her who did it. No one dares to say that I am wrong!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xiuyu's mother-in-law rushing in from outside.

The mother-in-law was still working in the fields with her tools in her hands. When she saw Xiuyu leaning against the head of the bed, she immediately started to curse at the top of her voice:
"You spendthrift woman, what are you doing to cause trouble to the family?

You even came to the health center. We don't have the money to treat you! Tell me, what happened to you?"

When Xiuyu heard this, she quickly hid her injured hand behind her back. But the more she hid, the more excited the old woman became. She came forward and pulled Xiuyu's hand out, pointing at her nose and scolding her:

"Why are you hiding? I asked you what hurt you, why are you hiding?

Don’t think that if you hide, this matter will be over. I want to see…”

The old woman exerted force and Xiuyu screamed, and the finger that had just been connected was pulled off in an instant.

The finger was bloody, and the mother-in-law felt the stickiness on her hand. She was so scared that she screamed and quickly threw the finger away, shouting:

"What the hell is this? It's so scary!"

When the mother-in-law screamed, Xiuyu rolled off the bed in pain. Without caring about anything else, she quickly lay on the ground to pick up her finger.

When I had my finger grafted before, it was so painful that I was dying. I hadn't even had anesthesia yet. Now, the nightmare was about to happen again. Xiuyu wanted to die, and her disgust for Shen Nanqiao increased.

It’s all this damn little bitch’s fault!
After the mother-in-law finished shouting, she came to her senses. Her unfortunate daughter-in-law had lost three fingers. How was she going to do laundry, cook, feed pigs and cows from now on?
Ouch!

She had married a worthless woman who couldn't give birth to a boy, and now she couldn't even do her job. The old woman sat down on the ground, slapped her thigh and started crying:
"What sin has our Wang family committed? We married such a daughter-in-law, who not only cannot give birth to a son, but now she has lost three fingers!"

While wiping away the tears that she had forced out, the old woman's eyes rolled around and her gaze immediately fell on the factory director.

She quickly got up from the ground and rushed towards the factory director.

"How can your steel mill still harm people! My daughter-in-law lost her fingers, how is she going to find a job in the future?
I don't care, you must compensate me and find a job for my daughter-in-law!"

The factory manager felt very bitter. He didn't want to be the one who got sucked in and had to pay money for nothing!
"Sister Li, your Xiuyu works as a clerk in our factory and doesn't have to touch these machines at all.

She has been working here for several months and never touched the machines. But today she insisted on tinkering with them and ended up having her fingers cut off. This has nothing to do with our factory."

When the old woman heard this, the wrinkles on her face deepened and she shouted at the top of her voice:

"How come it's okay? Was she injured in your factory? Was it the machine in your factory that cut off my wife's finger? If you don't pay, who will?"

The factory director's tone was a little weak, and he said:
"This has nothing to do with our factory. She had an argument with Shen Nanqiao, and the person involved was Shen Nanqiao. Our factory only compensates for accidental work injuries. In a case like hers where she committed suicide, the factory cannot compensate her."

When the mother-in-law heard this, her face became even uglier. She was so angry that she almost bit her yellow teeth to pieces and cursed:
"What? Shen Nanqiao? Is she the evil woman who was causing trouble in the tube building? She had an argument with my Xiuyu?
Well, last time she stole the vegetables I wanted to buy, I haven’t even settled the score with her yet, and now she’s cut off my daughter-in-law’s finger, I have to go after her!”

Seeing that the disaster was directed at Shen Nanqiao, the factory director finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as he doesn't have to pay, anything is fine!
Su Qian was watching this from the side.

She knew in her heart that the factory director was a stingy and mean person.

But if Shen Nanqiao proved his innocence and stayed in the factory as a maintenance worker, he would earn more money than her this month.

Su Qian lowered her eyes. She had long been accustomed to the fact that Shen Nanqiao was inferior to her in every way. Deep down, she was not happy to see Shen Nanqiao become successful.

She stepped forward and said in a gentle manner:

"Director, I haven't heard when Shen Nanqiao learned to repair the machines, and those machines were broken in the first place. Since she can repair them, she must have known that the machine could cut off Xiuyu's fingers. Could it be that she watched Xiuyu get cut on purpose?"

When the factory manager heard this, his expression changed immediately and he said:

"That's a conflict between the two of them, if there's any compensation to be paid, it should be paid by the Jiang family!
I'm also wondering, Shen Nanqiao used to be a person who didn't know anything, how come he can repair machines now! "

A thought flashed through Su Qian's mind.

(End of this chapter)