Chapter 1665 - 1080: Heroine of the Republic 54 (5000+)_2

Chapter 1665: Chapter 1080: Heroine of the Republic 54 (5000+)_2

The middle-aged woman who’d come along with her heard this and immediately got pissed.

"Aunt Liu, what kind of thing are you saying? She donated US$ 40, US$ 40, is that not enough? Aren’t you the one who didn’t donate even one cent? And you didn’t vacate space for the disaster victims either. What she said makes sense. There are so many students at home, if you cram in dozens more people, how are they supposed to study? Besides, didn’t Teacher An say she wasn’t refusing to vacate the rooms? If you’re just laying low for the winter, what’s the difference where you lay low? Does it only count if you lay low in the county? Are country houses not livable or what? I know one of those four families is your mother’s side of the family, but you still can’t treat Teacher An, who’s showing some love, like this, can you?"

The middle-aged woman’s surname was Niu, she was the union director of that disaster-hit factory area. This time she’d come along with the street office. To be honest, ten out of ten households had refused, but only Teacher An had donated US$ 40, so she was deeply moved.

But Aunt Liu just said with utter disdain, "If she can pull out US$ 40, that proves she’s got more than US$ 40 in her hand. That US$ 40 to her is probably just a bit of fly meat. Don’t go making her out to be some great saint. Why doesn’t she get married, have kids? Isn’t it because she was a slut back in the day? She..."

"Comrade Liu Zhaodi, shut up and watch your language. This is the new society now, your kind of talk isn’t acceptable anymore. Teacher An is a pitiful person who came through the war years, same with the two girls and one boy she adopted, the two little sisters, they’re all pitiful people. How can you mock them with such vicious words? Doesn’t your conscience hurt? What’s a ’slut’? Were they willing back then? If they didn’t die out there, you people wouldn’t stop cursing them with the nastiest words, is that it? They shouldn’t even be allowed to live? You’re a woman too, how can you be so cruel?"

Liu Zhaodi was only a temp worker at the street office. The only reason she’d been brought along with Niu Yu today was because she was familiar with the situation around here. No one expected her to say something like that, and Niu Yu was so furious she just turned on her heel and left.

"Someone like you doesn’t deserve to stay in the street office at all. I’m going to tell Granny Zhao. Not only is there a problem with your thinking, you’ll bring endless trouble down on the street office. If you’d spoken a bit more politely, Teacher An’s attitude wouldn’t have been so hard."

Niu Yu glared back at Liu Zhaodi, then stomped off through the snow in a huff. Liu Zhaodi was stunned. She hadn’t expected that running her mouth for a moment would cause such trouble, so she hurried after Niu Yu, shouting.

"Oh come on, Director Niu, let me explain, that’s not what I meant. Hey, I just got anxious, didn’t I? Look how many people are waiting for a place to stay. If they don’t get settled tonight, they’ll suffer for another whole day, right?"

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Once it was completely quiet outside the door, An Hu ran back home, panting, to report what had happened. Anna and Angel were still fretting over that US$ 40.

"Sis, you work your guts out for a month and it’s just for nothing like this? Why donate at all? So many people won’t donate, and we’re the ones who do? This house... this house..."

An Yi glanced at them and nodded. "At the beginning it really was rented. Before winter set in, the landlord contacted me, said he wanted to sell. I figured we were used to living here, so I bought it. I just never thought that right after closing, before the place even warmed up properly, this would happen. Let’s just call it paying to avoid trouble. If outsiders really moved in, even I’d want to move out. If US$ 40 can buy us a quiet environment, it’s not that bad a deal. We’re occupying such a big place, of course it makes people jealous. You heard that Liu Zhaodi just now, every word out of her mouth was dripping with sarcasm, just listening to her is annoying. If she’s like that, how decent do you think her relatives are going to be?"

That being said, the sisters still felt bad for An Yi. Handing over a whole month’s wages for nothing was really hard, and all for their sake. When they did the math, it seemed they owed her even more.

But An Yi felt that if you can block trouble with money, it’s more straightforward to just spend the money. US$ 40 to ward off future harassment, killing several birds with one stone, not a loss.

After all these years of scrambling, she no longer lacked money, nor supplies. Once the housing issue was solved, her life basically had no major regrets. But with this and that coming up, it made occupying this big house feel like some kind of sin. She had to find a way to resolve this situation; otherwise this would be the first round, and later people would keep coming, one after another, trying to get their hands on her place. If it really came to that, hell, she’d just go out and pick up a few more kids to raise.