Chapter 14: The Conscienceless Liar

“You are… Shen Anan’s mother?”

The leader was stunned.

“Wait, you mean Shen Xiuxiu and Shen Anan are both your daughters?”

“That’s right!”

Liu Cailan nodded.

“Leader, Shen Anan initially agreed to give the job to my Xiuxiu. Now that she’s going to the countryside, she’s jealous of my Xiuxiu!

She’s always been scheming! She even stole Xiuxiu’s chance to go to school. How could she get a job without an education? She owes Xiuxiu!

It was agreed that this job would compensate Xiuxiu, and she agreed. Now she’s going back on her word.

Leader, please don’t believe her. My Xiuxiu is a poor child. She finally got a job at the supply and marketing cooperative. How can she lose it?!”

After speaking, Liu Cailan sat on the ground and wailed loudly.

Shen Xiuxiu quickly pretended to wipe away tears.

“Yes, leader, although Shen Anan got the job, she promised to give it to me. Now she’s saying I’m usurping her position. Is that fair to me?”

In the city, jobs could even be bought and sold, so jobs could be given to others.

If Shen Anan had truly voluntarily given up the job and then regretted it out of jealousy, it wouldn’t be right…

The leader looked at Shen Anan, frowning.

Shen Anan took a deep breath.

Her mother’s words, “Shen Anan is full of lies,” echoed in her mind…

When had she ever lied?

Where did these lies come from?

“You forced me to give the job to Shen Xiuxiu, just because she’s your biological daughter, so I should give her the job?

You said that if I didn’t give up the job, I would be kicked out of the house. Was it really my own choice to give up the job?”

She felt wronged!

But she couldn’t cry.

For eighteen years, she had cared for her mother, taking on all the housework because of her poor health. And this is how it ends?

Upon hearing this, everyone looked bewildered.

Wow!

This… this gossip is getting bigger and bigger!

One biological daughter, one adopted? The biological daughter is trying to steal the adopted daughter’s job?

Hearing Shen Anan’s words, Liu Cailan showed no reflection, instead gritting her teeth.

“Leader, look, she’s lying again.

How have I wronged her in these eighteen years? She’s not even my biological daughter, and I paid for her education and provided for her.

And my biological daughter? She suffered for eighteen years in the countryside!

Tell me, how have I wronged Shen Anan?

I spoke to her nicely, she owed Xiuxiu so much, so she should give the job to Xiuxiu as compensation. She agreed, and now she’s causing trouble!

She’s an ungrateful wretch!”

She wailed loudly.

“This…”

The leader was also at a loss.

So Shen Anan was this kind of person?

She seemed honest and diligent.

“Shen Anan, you’ve enjoyed so many good things thanks to Xiuxiu, isn’t that enough? Why do you have to drive Xiuxiu back to the countryside?”

Liu Cailan questioned Shen Anan, her face flushed with excitement.

“My health is already poor, as you know, and you’re causing me so much trouble!

Why am I even alive? I raised you for eighteen years, and you don’t care about me at all!

Now you’re making me sick, and you’re trying to harm my daughter. How can someone be so cruel…”

Liu Cailan’s cries grew louder.

Many onlookers were mothers themselves, and some were moved.

They all looked at Shen Anan.

“Comrade, that’s not right. You’ve lived in the city for eighteen years, you’ve had an education, and you’ve lived comfortably.

Her biological daughter finally came to the city, and since you voluntarily gave her the job, why are you making such a fuss?”

“Yes, your mother’s health is poor, don’t upset her…”

“You should have a conscience! Give the job to her biological daughter, don’t make a fuss. You’ve enjoyed eighteen years of good life, giving up a job as compensation is enough!

Your parents have been good to you. How many girls in the city, let alone the village, can go to high school?”

Voices filled the air.

The kindness of raising someone is greater than the kindness of giving birth!

What’s wrong with giving up a job?

Besides, she had volunteered!

Shen Anan remained silent.

Good life?

Good life again?

She hadn’t eaten meat or a full meal in the apartment building. She wore hand-me-down clothes from relatives and neighbors, or clothes her mother couldn’t wear anymore…

The clothes she was wearing today were made by Aunt Yang, who couldn’t bear to see her in rags.

Her mother? Never once thought of making her a new outfit!

So this is what a good life is?

As for her education?

From elementary school to middle school, and then high school, the tuition fees were paid by her grandmother or earned by herself!

What support did she receive?

She spoke.

Everyone was stunned.

If that’s the case, the child has suffered a lot…

But Liu Cailan immediately wailed again: “Look, she’s lying again!

Aren’t her clothes good? I had them made for her! And is her face that thin from hunger?

Besides, her grandmother, a country woman, where would she get the money to pay for her education? And she says she earned it herself, how could a child earn money?”

Every word was strong and forceful.

Yes…

Her face was plump, not exactly round, but not like someone who was starving. And her clothes were so nice, clearly new.

And she said she earned money for her education, no child could earn money.

It seemed that Shen Anan was indeed a liar.

It was thought she was a poor, good child, but she turned out to be a conscienceless liar!

Shame!

Even the leader’s gaze towards Shen Anan was filled with disappointment.

“Comrade Shen Anan, forget about the job introduction.

If your mother hadn’t come today, I wouldn’t have known you were lying!

When you took the exam, I admired you, but now…”

The leader shook her head, looking at Shen Xiuxiu.

“I’m sorry, Xiuxiu. I apologize for believing others. You can continue working here.”

Shen Xiuxiu’s eyes lit up.

The corners of her mouth couldn’t help but turn up!

Sure enough, her own mother had to step in, otherwise, her job would have been lost.

Shen Anan, Shen Anan, you should blame yourself for not being her biological daughter. What kind of mother wouldn’t help her biological daughter?

Go be your conscienceless liar!

Who would believe you?

Shen Anan left.

She left the supply and marketing cooperative.

She thought she wouldn’t be sad about her mother anymore.

But her heart ached, as if it would tear her apart.

Why wouldn’t anyone believe her?

Every word she said was true.

Why would her mother twist the truth to protect Shen Xiuxiu’s job?

She walked down the street, distraught.

Could Shen Xiuxiu, who forced her to give up her job and go to the countryside, live a peaceful life in Hecheng?

And Shen Anan, bearing a false accusation, would be scorned and sent to the countryside?

Was fate really so unfair?