Chapter 429: Standing Up for Justice (Part 1)

Marina didn’t know if President Cao would agree to Zhao Qingfeng’s betting agreement.

After all, it was too fantastical, a ‘loss’ of 20 million!

But she forgot that President Cao was a friend of Li Jianjun and knew that under Zhao Qingfeng’s control, Erlunsi had been put back on the right track.

Now, Erlunsi was no longer the disheartened youngster from six months ago.

It had become a star group that caught the attention of entrepreneurs throughout the province and even the whole country.

“Wait for it, he’ll come. Prepare the 20 million and the agreement, Yaoyao and I are going to Qingshui County,” Zhao Qingfeng instructed on the specifics before heading out with Shen Lingyao.

Li Zhi and Cai Shuwen marveled at the deal to buy the coal mine building for 20 million.

“Nothing to say, following Boss Zhao is exhilarating!”

“With courage, knowledge, strategy, and ideas, I swear to follow him for a lifetime!”

The employees were overjoyed, finally about to leave the ‘cramped’ space.

The company’s relocation was imminent. Marina, smiling, teased everyone before getting busy again.

…

On the other side.

Zhao Qingfeng got into the car and opened LeXin.

The heat from the front-page headline hadn’t dissipated yet; it was a self-reported news story about ‘Mr. Dongguo.’

The topic was created by a 22-year-old girl named Wang Mingyue from Qinghe County.

The incident’s cause was simple, perhaps not noteworthy in twenty years due to frequent encounters with ingratitude, but it caused a huge uproar in current society.

It was a case where a kind-hearted person who helped an old lady was falsely accused of being the perpetrator, turning the good Samaritan into the family’s scapegoat.

A month ago.

Wang Mingyue, working in the county town and just having collected her 700 yuan salary, was happily cycling home.

To support a family of five, she worked two jobs, as a waitress during the day and a tutor in the afternoon and evening, living a hard life.

When she reached the village road on the outskirts.

Liu Laotai from the same village, using a walking stick, was walking in the middle of the road.

Just then, a garbage truck sped by, startling the old lady, who fell into a deep ditch by the road.

Wang Mingyue, being kind-hearted, instinctively stopped her bike and helped the old lady up, intending to take her home. But unexpectedly, Liu Laotai, holding her buttocks with one hand and gripping her tightly with the other, accused Wang Mingyue of being the perpetrator who hit her.

Wang Mingyue was helpless.

Thinking the old lady was just confused, she didn’t take it seriously.

After all, neighbors had seen it happen, and she believed explaining to the family would suffice.

But Liu Laotai insisted on going to the hospital.

Unable to argue, Wang Mingyue reluctantly took her for a thorough check-up, spending over 300 yuan on medical expenses alone. This act of ‘advancing’ the cost became the leverage Liu’s family needed to fully blame her!

The Liu family unanimously accused Wang Mingyue of causing the accident.

Despite neighbors testifying on her behalf, they remained unyielding. If she wasn’t responsible, why pay the medical bills?

The family was unreasonable, quickly threatening and intimidating Wang Mingyue, leading her to give them the remaining 400-plus yuan she had as compensation.

But that wasn’t enough.

They demanded a check-up in the provincial city hospital, believing the county hospital was too small.

Wang Mingyue, feeling pressured, had to call her father, a simple and honest man.

Wang’s father, thinking it best to avoid further trouble and believing in “losing money to avoid disaster,” scrambled to borrow 1000 yuan, handing it over to the Liu family.

He thought that would settle the matter.

However.

The phrase “give them an inch, and they’ll take a mile” couldn’t be more fitting for the Liu family.

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