The middle-aged woman was so startled by Aunt Hu's shout that she choked, her tears stopped instantly, and she straightened her chest and returned to normal.

Aunt Zhao glared at her and waved to the other colleagues from other departments who were watching the commotion outside the door, "Go back, it's not like we haven't seen it before, what's there to be curious about?"

At this moment, Feng Qianqian from the publicity department walked out with her pregnant belly, smiling at Aunt Zhao.

"Aunt Zhao, we were drawn here by the crying, so we came to see what was going on. Why is this lady crying so hard? From what she's saying, it sounds like someone's bullying you?"

Luo Yu glanced at her slightly protruding belly and sighed helplessly.

"Xiao Feng, you're already showing your pregnancy, so just stay put and don't touch yourself anymore."

Feng Qianqian smiled and looked at Luo Yu, "Sister Luo, I'm just bored. You know, I'm pregnant, and my colleagues in the department won't let me do anything. I'm so bored."

Are you so bored that you came to our Women's Federation to watch the fun?

Luo Yu rolled her eyes at her, but still reached out to help her up and sit her down in her chair before turning around and closing the door.

Before closing the door, Luo Yu saw Xiao Cheng and noticed that Xiao Cheng also looked curious, so she reached out and pulled her inside.

Xiao Cheng looked at Luo Yu with a blank expression.

Luo Yu rolled her eyes. "Stop looking, sit down."

Xiao Cheng happily ran over to Aunt Hu and pulled up a chair to sit down.

Aunt Hu smiled and took Xiao Cheng's hand, asking her something in a low voice. Luo Yu was too far away to hear, but judging from Xiao Cheng's shy expression, she was probably being urged to have a baby.

Aunt Liu poured water for the middle-aged woman and comforted her softly. After a while, the woman's breathing stabilized, showing that her crying and fussing had taken a lot of effort.

"Tell me, what happened?"

The middle-aged woman quickly put down the water and wiped away her tears.

"Comrades, I was wrong just now. I misspoke in my haste. Please don't take it to heart. I'm uneducated, just a rural woman who just came to the city. I just blurted it out in my anxiety."

The older women quickly said, "No, no, we understand..."

Regardless, they apologized, so they can't keep holding onto it.

Luo Yu sat down next to Aunt Zhang and asked, "Auntie, what's all this about today?"

The woman immediately looked at Luo Yu and said, "Young comrade, I'll tell you now. My name is Liu Chunhua. I come from the countryside, which is right on the outskirts of our city. I just came to the city a few days ago."

My son works at our mine. He said his job title is electrician, and he repairs electrical systems.

Luo Yu and the others nodded.

Oh, her son is the electrician at their mine. No wonder, she would come to their Women's Federation if she was wronged.

Liu Chunhua continued, "The house my son lives in now was allocated by the mine. It's just a small room, and the rent is two yuan a month."

She knew this; the rent was the same as before.

Aunt Zhao said, "Isn't that great? You'll have a place to stay as soon as you arrive. Although you have to pay rent, it's not much. Over the course of a year, the mine will only charge you for maintenance."

Liu Chunhua nodded, wiping away her tears, and said gratefully, "It's not much, but I think it's quite good. Our mine is really humane; they even arrange accommodations for the workers. Even if they don't care, what can we do? Can we just quit?"

The older women's lips twitched, but they remained silent.

They were talking perfectly fine just now, but now the more I listen, the more something seems off!

Luo Yu figured it out: this woman wasn't a bad person, she just had a sharp tongue and didn't know how to speak properly. She would say whatever came to mind, regardless of whether it was taboo or not. To put it bluntly, she was just quick-witted and thoughtless, without much guile.

Luo Yu asked with a smile, "Then, Aunt Liu, has your son treated you badly? Is that why you came here to ask us to stand up for you?"

Don't worry, if he really is unfilial, we will definitely give him a good talking-to.

Upon hearing Luo Yu's words, Liu Chunhua panicked and quickly waved her hands, "No, no, my son is very filial to me, please don't talk about him."

Luo Yu felt relieved after hearing Liu Chunhua's words.

As long as it's not that her son is unfilial, it's fine. Otherwise, it's because they didn't do their job properly and the ideological education of the employees was not up to par. If things really get out of hand, the mine will be held responsible.

Liu Chunhua sighed, "It's not my son, it's the young widow who lives across the street from me."

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that when Aunt Liu came over earlier, she had been shouting that the young widow was bullying people. If she hadn't mentioned it, they would have all forgotten about it.

As Liu Chunhua recounted the events with resentment, she wiped away her tears.

After listening to Liu Chunhua's story, everyone summarized it as follows: it was a story about a young widow who had taken a liking to the young man living across the hall and wanted him to help her find a partner.

Liu Chunhua said bitterly, "I'm not stopping my son from getting married, but he can't marry a young widow with two children."

My son has a proper job, earning forty or fifty yuan a month, which is not bad. He can find any kind of girl, why would he choose a widow?

Although I am also a widow and know the difficulties of being one, you can't just throw my son away out of pity, can you?

Everyone nodded after hearing this.

That's the thing, you can't marry someone just because you feel sorry for them.

Luo Yu blinked. "Your son disagrees, so why are you in such a hurry?"

Liu Chunhua slapped her thigh angrily, "My son and I disagree, but that young widow is always trying to seduce him while wearing thin clothes."

You didn't see it! The neckline of that dress was almost up to her belly button, and her neck was completely exposed. Good heavens, there was a whole expanse of white under the dress. It made me dizzy just looking at it.

The weather had gotten quite cool, but she didn't seem to mind the cold.

"Shameless wretch, let her freeze to death."

Luo Yu and the other women exchanged glances, their eyes turning cold.

No one is stopping you from remarrying, and it's fine for you to find a young, unmarried man, as long as he agrees. They have no objections. But now he doesn't agree, and his mother doesn't agree either. It's unreasonable for you to flirt with him again.

And what are you trying to do dressed like that? Don't you know it's indecent?

She's actively flirting with gay men in broad daylight; if she gets arrested for that... (Some things can't be written here, it won't pass censorship)

"And what frustrates me the most is that the woman is no good. She cries as soon as I speak, she cries all the time, as if I have bullied her."

Tell me, who can stand this?

Can't you speak properly? Do you have to cry to get anything out of your mouth?

I've seen this kind of behavior in wealthy households before; it's something only concubines do—trying to win a man's affection.

Liu Chunhua rolled her eyes dismissively, her disdain undisguised.

Unfortunately, the young widow wasn't there, so her eye roll was for nothing.

Luo Yu and the others exchanged glances, and at the same time, they all thought of the same person.

My former colleague from the publicity department, Mingzhu... her mother.

That's an old white lotus!

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