After breakfast the next morning, I sent Doudou to Aunt Ding's house, and Lin Mai went to the new factory.
Many applicants have gathered at the factory gate waiting to see the admission list.
Everyone saw Lin Mai and greeted her one after another.
Lin Mai replied kindly.
Someone shyly asked: "Comrade Lin, have I... been admitted?"
Lin Mai turned around and looked over. He was a disabled person who could use a cane by himself.
She smiled and said: "I will post the admission list soon, you can see it yourself."
When Lin Mai entered the factory, Master Zhang was already working with the masons he hired.
Lin Mai wrote the admission list at home and asked Master Zhang to post it at the factory gate.
She went home to study on her own, and came back at two o'clock in the afternoon when the admitted students came to register.
When Master Zhang posted the admission list at the factory gate, many applicants or family members gathered around, looking for their own names or their family members' names in the admission list.
In this era, there are not many people with a junior high school degree or above, but most people can still recognize and write their own names.
Literacy classes are often held up there.
Those applicants who came to apply for kindergarten positions and were not selected just sighed and left.
They are able-bodied people, and no matter how hard it is to find a job, they can still find it.
But some of the disabled people who were unsuccessful cried on the spot.
They really want to have a job, support themselves, and live with dignity, but the reality is so cruel.
Lin Mai couldn't face the pain of those disabled people, so he walked as fast as if he could escape.
When passing by the Unico Garment Factory, I saw Ma Tao with a white gauze bandage on the back of his head, poking his head at the factory entrance.
Lin Mai frowned. Was this scumbag slapped on the back of the head by Tao Zhiyun and seeking revenge?
She walked over quietly and shouted: "What are you doing sneakily?"
Ma Tao was staring at the inside of the garment factory, fascinated, when he suddenly heard Lin Mai's voice and almost jumped up in fright.
He turned around and saw Lin Mai, pointed at his head and asked fiercely: "You hit my head with a brick, right?"
The reason why he thought Lin Mai was behind it was because she was fierce.
In his eyes, there was nothing she dared not do.
But Tao Zhiyun was different, she was not so bold.
If Lin Mai didn't do it, she would definitely not take the blame.
She did it, and she still wants to pass the blame.
Lin Mai said sternly: "You can eat shit randomly, but don't talk nonsense.
I didn’t hit you with a board. If you accuse me unjustly again, I’ll drag you to the police station!
You have so many romantic partners, maybe one of them is behind your back, but you want me to take the blame.
How do I look like a scapegoat? How do I look like one!"
Lin Maiyong yelled the last few words, scaring Ma Tao like a chicken.
He didn't dare to be tough with Lin Mai.
If he really goes to the police station and is implicated in having affairs with several women, the police will not treat him as a gangster and sentence him to eight to ten years in prison, or even the death penalty.
When Lin Mai saw that he was timid, she became even more domineering.
"Have you asked your mother to move out of Sister Tao's house? If you don't want to move out by yourself, I don't mind finding someone to help your mother move out!"
"I came...to talk to Zhiyun about this matter."
Ma Tao looked constipated and embarrassed: "I...I can't return the house to Zhiyun now."
Lin Mai's face suddenly turned cold: "You still want to occupy Sister Tao's house?
You must force Sister Tao to reveal your shameful things to the husbands of other wives.
Are you satisfied with letting those men beat you until you become paralyzed?"
Lin Mai nodded: "Okay, it will be as you wish!"
Ma Tao was so frightened that he was beyond recognition. He shook his hands in panic and said, "No, don't!"
Lin Mai squinted at him: "Since you don't want it, then return the house to Sister Tao obediently and don't play any tricks."
Ma Tao rubbed his hands and said hesitantly: "Can you return the house to Zhiyun after a while?"
Lin Mai looked cold: "Are you doing Tai Chi with me?
Okay, you just wait to be beaten by men who are wives." After that, he left.
Ma Tao followed her and begged: "I'm not doing Tai Chi with you.
Please, just let me stay here for another half year, and I will definitely return the house to Zhiyun after half a year."
Lin Mai stopped and asked curiously: "Why did it take half a year to delay returning the house to Sister Tao?"
Ma Tao looked embarrassed: "Can you not ask?"
Lin Mai resolutely said: "No! If you don't tell me the reason, I will find someone to take the house back immediately!"
Ma Tao could only stutter: "I...I want to borrow that house to marry Hongmei."
Lin Mai was confused and asked: "Who is Hongmei?"
Ma Tao said timidly: "It's just...that's my first love."
"So it's her." Lin Mai snorted disdainfully, "She won't marry you until half a year later, so you have to return the house after half a year?
But how do I know this is not your delaying strategy?
What if you use this as an excuse to say that your first love changed his mind and insisted on marrying you a year later, then don’t you have to wait until a year later to return the house?
One year later, you said that your first love had changed your mind again, and I would marry you two years later. If you keep delaying like this, I might as well not return this house!"
Ma Tao shook his head and said: "There is no need to delay for half a year, I will marry Hongmei in ten days."
Lin Mai said angrily: "You are marrying your first love, why do you want to occupy Sister Tao's house? Aren't you bullying others?"
Ma Tao said with a bitter face: "If there is no house in Zhiyun, Hongmei will not marry me~"
"She won't marry you?" Lin Mai looked suspicious, "Didn't she ruin the relationship between you and your wife because she wanted to marry you?
I still believe you when you say that the sun rises in the west, but if you say that your first love doesn’t want to marry you, I won’t believe it even to death!”
She looked Ma Tao up and down: "You and your first love are digging a hole and waiting for Sister Tao to jump.
Let me tell you, as long as I'm here to look after Sister Tao, you two bitches can never succeed!"
Ma Tao looked incomprehensible: "I can swear to God that I didn't dig a hole for him to jump into.
It was Hongmei who said that she wanted a decent and unforgettable wedding, she would not marry without a house, and she wanted me to compensate for her losses.
Otherwise, she would go to my work unit and sue me for being a gangster to her. I...I had no choice but to do so.
When I marry her into my family and move out of Zhiyun's house in half a year, she won't be able to sue me.
Just take pity on me." At this point, the scumbag put his hands together and kept bowing to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai noticed a hint of calculation flashing in his eyes, thought about it in his mind, and said, "I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to ask Sister Tao what she wants."
Ma Tao sneered: "If you can't make the decision, who else can? Isn't Zhiyun the one who listens to you the most?"
He waved his hand: "This is settled, I will return the house to Zhiyun in half a year.
I won’t tell Zhiyun personally, I’ll leave everything to you.” After that, he ran away.
Lin Mai entered the clothing factory and came to Tao Zhiyun's office.
Tao Zhiyun was designing clothes. When he saw her coming in, he asked, "Has the recruitment for the newly purchased factory been completed?"
"Not yet." Lin Mai glanced at the two workshop directors who were in the same office as Tao Zhiyun, "Please come to my office."
Tao Zhiyun followed Lin Mai to her office: "What's the matter?"
Lin Mai told her exactly what happened when he met Ma Tao just now.
Tao Zhiyun said in confusion: "Why did you agree to that beast?
He doesn't have a house to marry his first love and he deserves it!
I just wanted to see with my own eyes how his first love sued him to the factory and how the two of them were biting each other.
I don’t know what that beast was thinking at that time!”
"You really think Ma Tao's first love will sue Ma Tao to the factory, don't be naive."
Lin Mai rolled his eyes at Tao Zhiyun with disgust, "That beast just said that it was a misfortune.
Let us sympathize with him and agree to lend him the house for another half year.
When the half-year period is up, if that beast continues to make excuses and continues to live shamelessly, there will be no chance of returning this house to you."
Tao Zhiyun became more and more puzzled: "Then you still agree to him~"
Lin Mai patted her shoulder: "I promised him for a purpose.
I want to wait until the day when that beast and his first love are happy and find someone to repossess the house. That would be exciting!
Didn’t that beast’s first love always want an unforgettable wedding? Let’s make it happen for her!”
Tao Zhiyun imagined the scene in his mind and said with a smile: "It's really exciting.
But when that beast gets married, you don’t need to find someone to take back the house. I’ll ask my brother and the factory’s security department to drive them away.”