Chapter 1210
Chapter 1210
Chapter 1210
“He definitely won’t go,” Tan You said, pedaling her bicycle. “But this is a matter of politeness first, then force. If peaceful means don’t work, then don’t blame me for taking drastic measures.”
Back at the food factory's residential compound, Tan You found Guo Jiantao's toolbox and started working at the dining table.
Guo Wenting sat opposite her: "Mom, what are you doing?"
Tan You: "I'm making a megaphone, a little loudspeaker. Tomorrow I'm going to take the loudspeaker to fight monsters."
Why bother ruining Guo Jiantao's job? If you really do, she'll still have to support Guo Jiantao and Guo Wenshan. If you're going to do something, target the person Guo Jiantao and Guo Wenshan cherish most—Guo Jianwang. If you scare Guo Jianwang, Guo Jiantao will pressure Guo Jiantao to divorce her.
Tan You understood perfectly well that the key to her wanting a divorce wasn't Guo Jiantao, but rather the Guo family elders. After all, Guo Jiantao didn't really want a divorce; if they did, where would he find someone as hardworking and patient as the original owner of this body?
In the Guo family, the only truly happy members of the middle generation are Guo Jianwang and his wife Wang Mei.
As for others, from Guo Jiantao, the original owner Qiao Mai to his sister Guo Xiaoyu and brother-in-law Xia Gang, who among them wasn't suffering?
The root of all this lies in the favoritism of Old Man Guo and Old Woman Guo. Given this, Tan You will definitely try to manipulate the people who are most beloved by Old Man Guo.
The next morning, Tan You went to the marriage registration office. She waited until nine o'clock, but Guo Jiantao was nowhere to be seen. Tan You lowered her eyes and chuckled softly, even saying goodbye to the clerk with a smile, before heading straight to the factory where Guo Jiantao worked.
As expected, Tan You was stopped at the factory gate. Tan You wasn't annoyed. She just stood there at the gate of Guo Jianwang's factory, under the watchful eye of the gatekeeper... and turned on the small megaphone in her hand.
"Hello, hello..." After testing the sound twice, Tan You started to unleash her ultimate move: "Guo Jianwang, I know you're in the factory. You have the guts to get your parents to seize your older brother Guo Jiantao's house and scheme to steal his wages, but you don't have the guts to come out and see me?"
"Guo Jianwang, you're a bloodsucker! Your older brother has been married for seventeen years and hasn't brought home a single penny of his salary. While his own children are crying from hunger, your two kids are fat and bloated!"
"Guo Jianwang, Guo Jiantao is truly a new generation of filial son. Not only do you have to support your parents, but you also have to support your entire family of four. Have you no shame?"
It was called a small loudspeaker, but its volume was actually very loud. The entire machine factory heard it the very first time it sounded, because Guo Jianwang also worked there.
Not only Guo Jianwang, but Guo Jiantao from Workshop 1 also heard it. Especially when Guo Jianwang was called out by name in the very first sentence, Guo Jianwang from Workshop 4 was completely stunned.
Upon hearing further talk about plotting to buy a house and scheming to steal Guo Jiantao's salary, Guo Jianwang panicked, grabbed a wrench, and ran towards the gate.
Coincidentally, just as he left Workshop 4, he ran into Guo Jiantao, who was coming out of Workshop 1. Behind them were a large group of fellow workers; these days, entertainment options were limited, and gossip was everyone's greatest source of amusement.
The old gatekeeper's eardrums were about to burst. Although he wanted to hear it too, he had to consider the impact: "Um... comrade, could you move a little further away? You're affecting my work."
“Okay, I’ll stay away.” Tan You took three steps back as instructed and left the factory gate. Then she raised the megaphone again: “Guo Jianwang, if you hide in the factory like a coward today, I’ll go to the city’s radio station.”
"I'm going to make sure you, Guo Jianwang, never hold your head high again in this lifetime. You don't work hard and strive for progress; all you do is rely on others. You used to sponge off your parents, and now you're sponging off Guo Jiantao."
"What right do you have to be a worker? You're lazy, good-for-nothing, unambitious, and unjust person."
As Tan You was getting carried away with her rant, a large group of people poured out of the factory, like a zombie apocalypse. Leading the way were the brothers Guo Jiantao and Guo Jianwang, their faces alternating between red and white.
Tan You, holding up a small megaphone, asked, "You're here?" Guo Jianwang's face turned purple. "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Can't you talk things out?"
“I talked to you all properly last night, but you all ignored me.” Tan You even laughed: “I said I would divorce your older brother Guo Jiantao today, but I waited at the registration office until nine o’clock, and Guo Jiantao didn’t even show up.”
"For divorce? Why? Isn't Da Guo's family doing quite well?"
"These days, divorce doesn't sound good either."
Aside from the factory workers, the surrounding area was filled with onlookers. Upon hearing that Tan You's commotion was due to a divorce, everyone started gossiping.
Tan You turned down the volume of the loudspeaker: "Everyone, please be the judge. If Guo Jiantao were a decent human being, he could have endured this situation."
“But now we really have no way to make a living. Guo Jiantao and I have been married for more than ten years, and this year he only took half of his salary home. All these years his salary has been held by his parents, and every month half of his allowance is sent to his parents without fail.”
“His parents live in the house allocated by the machinery factory. Guo Jiantao eats my ration, spends my money, and lives in my house. Even so, when I go back to take care of his parents, I can’t even sit at the table to eat. Everyone, please judge, is this the kind of pillar of support we have?”
"Have you been living with the woman's family all these years?"
"You give all your salary to your parents?"
"Haven't you heard? He's supporting his brother's whole family."
"You don't even have the right to sit at the table for dinner when you get home?"
Those who initially thought Tan You was too rigid had nothing to say; this was pushing honest people to their limits.
Tan You continued, "This life is so meaningless. I won't stop you, Guo Jiantao, from being filial. But have you ever taken responsibility for your family? Why should I support your whole family?"
Old Man Guo and Old Woman Guo also arrived. The two of them were usually very concerned about their image and couldn't stand others criticizing their actions. But now, Tan You had exposed their true colors in public, and the old couple's expressions changed drastically.
"Qiao Mai! What are you doing?"
"No matter what you say, Guo Jiantao must get a divorce today." Tan You sneered, "If you can't get a divorce today, I will expose everything you and Guo Jianwang have done over the years, and let everyone see what kind of people the Guo family are!"
"We've been liberating our minds for a long time now, yet your Guo family still favors sons over daughters. I'd like to ask you two why you were the only ones left out when we were liberating our minds back then?"
Once the label of favoring sons over daughters was slapped on them, the elderly couple could barely stand. They looked around in fear, terrified of being dragged out and paraded through the streets.
Guo Jiantao hurriedly helped up Grandma Guo, while glaring at Tan You: "What nonsense are you talking about? Are you trying to anger your parents to death?"
“If you had gone to the registry office today, none of this would have happened.” Tan You wasn’t falling for the scumbag’s manipulative tactics. “Guo Jiantao, instead of blaming me here, you should just get a clean divorce.”
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