The deputy factory director sighed, "Why does Comrade Xu need to know? As the saying goes, when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. Given the current situation of the Zhang family, Comrade Xu can't help Zhang Weide even if he knows who reported it. So, what's the point of you knowing it? In my opinion, you might as well let Zhang Weide hand over the bribe money and spend a few more years in jail, and then the matter will be over."
Xu Mei said, "The deputy director looks down on our Zhang family because we are in a bad state. Although the Zhang family is in a bad state, our Zhang family's network of relationships is still there. The deputy director just needs to tell me who reported my son, and I will go and talk to him. I will not tell him that it was the deputy director who told me. Deputy director, you have had dealings with our Zhang family in the past."
The deputy director did have a relationship with the Zhang family, otherwise he would not have given the worker quota to Zhang Wei De. Zhang Wei De had poor grades and was uneducated. But because of the current situation, he had to be demoted, so Zhang Wei De needed a job. The deputy director gave the worker quota to Zhang Wei De to prevent him from being demoted.
The deputy factory director thought about it and said, "It was Lv Wen, a worker in the workshop, who reported it under his real name. Lv Wen said that he was the one who bribed Zhang Wei De."
This... Xu Mei was also surprised. The person who bribed Wei De reported it with his real name? If this is slander, the person who reported it will also go to jail. If this is true, the person who reported it will also go to jail. What is the other party asking for
"Lv Wen has now been taken away by the comrades from the police station, so if you want to find Lv Wen, Comrade Xu, you have to go to the police station." The deputy factory director shook his head.
After Xu Mei left the deputy director's office, she naturally did not dare to go to the police station to look for Lv Wen. What could she say in front of the police? However, she went to look for Lv Wen's family.
Lv Wen's family was still in the factory's staff quarters. They knew that Lv Wen had gone to report Zhang Wei De, so they were not surprised at all by Xu Mei's arrival. However, no matter what Xu Mei said, they remained indifferent. It was not that they did not want to help Lv Wen, nor that they did not stop Lv Wen from reporting Zhang Wei De, but that they had no other choice.
Because before Lv Wen went to report, he had already told them the matter, and someone knew about his bribery of Zhang Wei De. If he did not report it himself, the other party would directly hand him over to the police for handling. But if he reported it himself, it would be equivalent to surrendering himself and could reduce his punishment.
That's why Lu Wen reported it.
"Just say something. As long as Lu Wen admits that this was a prank, he will be punished, but it will definitely be lighter than the current punishment. Do you want to have a son, a husband, and a father in jail?" Xu Mei really didn't understand what Lu Wen's family was thinking. It could have been a win-win situation, but they insisted on making both sides suffer.
Father Lu said sullenly, "Shut up and leave. If you say something like this again, we will call the police and say you tried to bribe us. I wonder if we can reduce Awen's punishment if we call the police."
"You..." Xu Mei was so angry. She didn't expect that Father Lu could say such a thing. However, she didn't dare to say anything else, because she was really afraid that the Lu family would call the police. In desperation, Xu Mei went to find a friend of the Zhang family. There was no other way. As a lesbian, she didn't know who to find. However, she only had one son, Zhang Wei De, and she couldn't just watch him get into trouble.
Being able to become friends with the Zhang family, they must be powerful. However, the next day, the other party gave Xu Mei the result. There was no room for reversal in the case of Zhang Wei De. The briber reported it personally. More importantly, the reporter was unwilling to change his testimony. No matter what the Zhang family friend said, the other party insisted that it would not change. Later, the Zhang family friend also felt strange. The reporter was too persistent. How could ordinary people be so persistent? So, the other party conducted an in-depth investigation and found that the Yu family and the Lu family were behind this matter. This made the Zhang family friend even more puzzled. Why did the Yu family intervene in this matter
The Yu family was indeed powerful in the capital, or in other words, before the Zhang family fell, the Yu family and the Zhang family were evenly matched. However, the reason why the Zhang family fell was that there were many families in the Zhang family, and each family wanted to get a piece of the pie, and even the Lu family contributed the most.
The Lu family and the Zhang family were once in-laws, and not many people in the capital knew about it, after all, it happened 25 years ago. But the Lu family has always been a peaceful family, so why would they interfere in the affairs of the Zhang family? After a friend of the Zhang family got to know more about it, they found out what happened 25 years ago.
And now, the one targeting the Zhang family is the current Lu family, that is, Lu Cheng’s uncle.
Zhang's friend told Xu Mei the results of the investigation: "I can't do anything about this matter. Not only is there irrefutable evidence about your son, but the Lu and Yu families have joined forces, and the informant will not change his testimony. You should know why the Lu family is targeting you. Zhang Shilin's first wife was the daughter of the Lu family. As for the Yu family, I have also investigated. The eldest son of the Yu family and Lu Cheng graduated from the same military academy. It must be because of Lu Cheng's relationship."
Upon hearing this, Xu Mei shook her whole body a few times: "It's Lu Cheng... It's Lu Cheng... He knows?"
Zhang's friend heard her muttering and frowned and asked, "What does Lu Cheng know?"
"Nothing, nothing." Xu Mei said quickly, "I know. Thank you for this."
Zhang's friend said this and left.
After the other party left, Xu Mei was completely paralyzed. Now Zhang Wei De has been arrested, and she and her daughter are the only ones left in the family. What should she do
25 years ago, after Zhang Shilin and Lu Yan divorced, the Lu family did not take any action and she had already forgotten about the Lu family. However, she did not expect that the Lu family would take action at this time.
And Lu Cheng, he is really promising... Military school classmates, military school classmates, they are really amazing. Thinking back to her son... She thought she had won over Lu Yan and snatched the man from her, but in the end, all the consequences fell on her son.
Xu Mei wanted to go to the Lu family to make trouble, but she didn't dare to do so without the support of the Zhang family.
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"What did Yu Xin's letter say?" Lin Qingqing asked curiously.
Lu Cheng gave her the letter, but he still told her the contents of the letter even though he had already read it: "Zhang Wei De was sent to a labor camp. There has been no movement from Xu Mei, but Yu Xin has sent people to monitor her."
"Only ten years of re-education through labor? The punishment for bribery is not severe." Lin Qingqing just said it casually. If you were sent to re-education through labor in these days, life there would definitely be difficult, especially for a criminal like Zhang Wei De.
Lu Cheng: "The amount of bribes he received was not much, and he has done a lot of evil over the years. If the Yu family and the Lu family had not worked together, he would not have been sentenced to ten years in prison."
Lin Qingqing finished reading the letter and was a little surprised: "I have never heard you mention your uncle. I didn't expect that your uncle also contributed to this matter. Speaking of which, why did mother give you to your aunt instead of your uncle?"
Speaking of this, Lu Cheng didn't know either. After all, he couldn't guess what a female comrade was thinking. "My uncle was actually very good to me. When I was young, although I lived with my aunt, my uncle would send things to me every year. As for why my mother entrusted me to my aunt, I don't know. It might be because the Lu family is in the capital, and the Zhang family is also in the capital. If I grew up in the Lu family, I would inevitably run into the Zhang family, and my mother didn't want me to be laughed at."
Lin Qingqing felt that this made sense. After all, there were only these people in this circle. If Lu Cheng grew up in the Lu family, the Lu family and Zhang family circles would inevitably meet each other. At that time, Lu Cheng would be in trouble.
In fact, Lu Yan made such an arrangement not only for this reason. If Lu Cheng is entrusted to Lu Cheng's uncle, the man will be the main person outside, and it is Lu Cheng's aunt who will take care of Lu Cheng. It's not that Lu Yan doesn't trust Lu Cheng's aunt, but between her sister-in-law and her younger sister, she trusts her younger sister more. Her younger sister is a person with strong opinions and a strong personality. The people in her husband's family can't control her, so if the son is handed over to her younger sister, she doesn't have to look at people's faces. But if the son is handed over to the sister-in-law, she must look at her sister-in-law's face, and also look at the face of her sister-in-law's family. Because the sister-in-law's family also has a background, while the sister's husband's family has no background.
Lu Yan grew up in the most prosperous circle. She understood better than anyone what a child without a father and mother would experience when growing up in this circle. Therefore, she entrusted her son to her sister and let him live in a remote county town. Even for the sake of money, her sister's in-laws would not do anything to her son. As a result, the eldest brother felt more guilty about his son and took better care of him.
"Sometimes I feel that your mother is the time traveler." Lin Qingqing said, "You see, if she hadn't published an announcement in the newspaper 25 years ago to sever ties with the Zhang family, the matter of you being reported this time would not have been resolved so quickly. Moreover, she dares to let go even when she loves. This kind of character is something that female comrades should learn from no matter what era." Moreover, Lin Qingqing felt a little narcissistically that the character of this mother-in-law, whom she had never met, was very similar to her own.
Lu Cheng followed her words and joked, "Maybe, my mother really did travel through time." What's more, after Lin Qingqing's travel through the book and Xu Huijuan's rebirth, even if his mother came to him and said that she faked her death, he would believe it.
Lin laughed out loud.
In the blink of an eye, it is the end of the year.
On this day, the three members of the Lu family all got up very early, including Lu Haici who was on winter vacation. Modern people would clean every few days, and even those with better conditions would call for housekeeping every month, but this was not the case in this era. In this era, ordinary people would only clean their homes during the whole year and around the New Year.
So the three members of the Lu family got up so early today just to clean the house.
The three of them moved out everything that could be moved out of the house and started cleaning every corner of the house.
However, Lu Haici felt a little aggrieved: "Mom, you and Dad clean the room, and I clean the room alone. I am so slow."
Lin smiled gently and said, "You can find external help."
Lu Haici felt that what his mother said made sense, so he ran out like a flash to look for help.