Three Women in the Cage

Yang Ming said calmly: "It's okay, come on! Don't worry about this..."

After hanging up the phone, Yang Yu asked Yaya what she thought, and Yaya agreed in person.

You have to know that my uncle's high school is the best high school in the city. If you can go there to repeat your studies, your chances of getting admitted will be much greater.

So, she had no reason not to go.

Summer vacation was coming soon, which meant they had to go back. As for Yaya, the boss lady valued her, so when she said she wanted to go back to study, although she was reluctant, she finally let her go.

In her opinion, Yaya’s future should not stop here. Studying is a good thing, and of course she hopes that she will get better and better.

When it was time to pay her wages, the boss's wife paid her every penny, and before she left, she reminded her: "Come and work anytime during the summer vacation in the future. You are always welcome..."

Yaya was very grateful for the boss's kindness to her. After thanking her repeatedly, she walked out of the factory.

Everything went well for her, and she returned to her small rental house with a thick stack of wages in her hand.

But it's not so easy for Xinxin, because the factory is in the peak production season and there is a severe shortage of manpower. At this time, the boss is reluctant to let people go.

Xinxin had no choice but to say that she wanted to go back to school. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the boss was immediately furious: "Since you are still studying, why are you doing this summer job? Aren't you here to cause trouble? You come and go as you please, do you think I'm a vegetable market? I'm telling you, you can leave, but you won't get paid..."

"Also, you scrapped so much, it's good enough that I didn't fine you. Now you have the nerve to ask me for wages? Go away now, I don't want to talk to you..."

How could Xinxin leave? She had endured so hard until now, wasn't it just for a few wages?

Considering that it is the height of summer now, with temperatures reaching nearly 40 degrees Celsius every day, people's scalps are already numb from the heat, and they still have to endure the heat from the machines and the scorching hot wind, their bodies soaked in sweat, and the feeling of being baked. They are so uncomfortable that they can't even eat a mouthful of porridge, and they still have to insist on sitting for twelve hours, repeating the work endlessly like a machine.

This tiring and difficult work made her want to give up countless times. Every day when she came home and lay in bed, she felt like her body was not her own.

Whenever she tentatively said "I'm too tired", her mother would scold her sternly: "What's not tiring? Everyone does it this way? Everyone can do it, why can't you?"

After facing her mother's teachings, she no longer dared to talk about resigning. She didn't even know how she had managed to survive until now.

She only knew that her mother was urging her on from behind, not allowing her to retreat. She could only force herself to move forward without hesitation, and even if she was exhausted, she had to grit her teeth and move forward.

Now, I finally made it through, but he said he had no wages. What was the point of my previous persistence? Wasn't it just for this little bit of wages that my mother forced me to persevere?

So, no matter how bad she was at speaking or how scared she was, she mustered up the courage and said to her boss: "No, I've worked for two months, you have to pay me the wages I'm owed. You can deduct the money for any waste, but no matter what, I won't be left with nothing, you have to pay me..."

When the boss heard this, he flew into a rage and asked, "You lied to me about being a summer intern. Why didn't you tell me? If I had known you were a summer intern, why would I have hired you? Now you've quit, and I didn't ask you for compensation for the losses you caused me, but you're asking for your salary? I'm telling you, I don't have any."

"Besides, I don't even like the parts you made. They're so poorly made and clumsy. Anyway, I have to bear the loss."

After saying that, he walked out of the office alone, leaving Xinxin standing there at a loss.

She didn't want the boss who had been so easy to talk to when she was recruiting to suddenly turn hostile and so heartless. For a moment, she had an illusion that the person she had been with was not the person she was now.

She stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

In the end, she didn't know how she walked out of the factory and walked home in a daze. She didn't know how to tell her mother and sister.

But she was unwilling to give up her wages so easily. That was her first hard-earned money, and she couldn't let others get it for free.

Feeling helpless and unwilling, I unknowingly arrived at the doorstep of my home.

Yaya was already waiting in the room. Seeing Xinxin's dejected face, she asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Did you get your wages?"

Xinxin's eyes were red and she was about to cry out of grievance. Yaya stepped forward to comfort her: "Why are you crying? Didn't you get your wages? Why didn't he take it? Come in and talk to me, I'll go find him..."

Yaya pulled Xinxin in, asked her to sit down, and waited until she calmed down before letting her speak slowly.

Xinxin said sadly: "He said I tricked him into doing a summer job, and that I scrapped a lot of parts and couldn't pay me."

After hearing this, Yaya said angrily: "Why didn't he tell us when we were recruiting? Now that he's gone, he brings this up! Besides, what's wrong with summer vacation jobs? Did you not do any work? Since you did the work, why shouldn't you pay? There are so many scrapped parts, so they shouldn't all be deducted! This is really too much. Come on, take me to find him..."

As they were talking, Yang Yu came back from outside. Seeing the two sisters, he asked about their wages. When he learned that Xinxin had not received her wages, Yang Yu was furious.

Yang Yu thought that it would be difficult to find the boss now that he was off work, so he asked Yaya to go to the factory early tomorrow morning to block the boss and demand an explanation.

Early the next morning, Yaya asked Xinxin to lead the way and went straight to the factory gate.

After entering the factory, they walked towards the office and found the boss there, smoking and puffing away.

Seeing the two sisters coming in, he narrowed his eyes, lay back in the chair, and said indifferently: "Why are you here again? Didn't I say that I won't pay you?"

Xinxin stood at the back without saying a word. Yaya stepped forward first and angrily said to the boss, "What do you mean by no money? Did you not work? Since you worked, you should be paid. How dare you bully the weak? If others do the work for you, you should pay them! I'm telling you, I won't leave unless I get paid today."

The boss said gloomily, "Who are you? What qualifications do you have to give orders here? You're not from our factory, so please get out. Not everyone can come into our factory. Get out now, or I'll call security. Let her talk about her situation herself. This is none of your business. Get out!"

Yaya sneered: "I won't go out. She is my sister. I came here specifically to seek justice for her. You have no right to ask me to go out. If you have the ability, give me money. If you give us money, we will leave immediately. Otherwise, if you don't give me money, I tell you, I will go to the Labor Bureau to sue you, saying that you are oppressing the labor force..."

The boss sneered, "If that's the case, why are you still standing there? Go ahead and sue me. Who was it your sister who cheated first, or was it me who didn't pay you first? Isn't your sister to blame for this mess?"

Yaya retorted, "What's wrong with summer jobs? You didn't say you didn't want summer jobs, and now you're shirking responsibility. Why didn't you make it clear at the beginning? Besides, you only pay her according to how much work she does, and you haven't lost anything. How can you be so cruel to deduct my hard-earned money? She insisted on working on the hot machine in such high temperatures, and her palms are worn out. And you're so cruel not to pay her. Do you have any conscience?"