Dragon Blood Divine Son-in-law
Chapter 452: Really a Pit

Chapter 452: Chapter 452: Really a Pit

Twenty minutes later, Chen Xuan and Han Jingting followed Ding Lijuan and arrived at Tianhui Construction Company.

As soon as they reached the entrance, they saw a large crowd noisily gathered at the door.

The moment these people saw Ding Lijuan, they pounced forward like starved wolves.

"It’s Ding Lijuan! Stop her, don’t let her get away!"

"Boss Ding, when will you finally pay us our wages?"

"And what about the project funds we advanced? Settle that quickly, too!"

The crowd, one after another, surrounded Ding Lijuan, constantly shoving her.

Chen Xuan and Han Jingting exchanged glances, both somewhat bewildered by the scene before them.

What was going on? How had Ding Lijuan managed to owe so many people money in just over half a month?

Ding Lijuan, cornered by these workers and foremen, was equally frantic.

She hurriedly pointed at Chen Xuan and shouted, "I’m officially notifying you all, I have sold this company to this man. Your contracts were signed with Tianhui Company, so if you want your money from now on, just go directly to him!"

The crowd was initially taken aback but then, the next second, they immediately turned their weapons on Chen Xuan, surrounding him in a highly agitated state.

"Pay up! Give us our money now!"

"Even trying to scam us out of our hard-earned money, do you bosses have no conscience at all?!"

"If you don’t pay us, do you believe we will smash up your company?!"

Chen Xuan was extremely frustrated, he hadn’t expected that a mere visit to the company would result in him being used as a human shield by Ding Lijuan!

He finally understood why Ding Lijuan had been so eager to sell to him, she had wanted him to take on these debts, to be the fall guy!

Han Jingting had also grasped everything by this point, and was extremely annoyed.

"Mom, what’s going on? Didn’t you say the company was fine, why has it come to this?"

"Besides, it’s your debt, so why should Chen Xuan bear the responsibility?"

"You’ve messed up the company and still want to sell it to Chen Xuan, aren’t you just setting him up?!"

Ding Lijuan, knowing she was in the wrong, still put on a bold front, arrogantly retorting, "He’s your husband, my son-in-law, isn’t it natural for a son-in-law to repay debts for me?"

"Besides, talking about setting someone up, it was he who set us up first!"

"If he had just given us the money directly, none of these problems would have arisen!"

"He had to give us a company to manage instead, I think he never had good intentions!"

Han Jingting was almost livid with anger at Ding Lijuan’s words.

At the time, it was her mother who insisted on using the money to start a company. Chen Xuan directly gave them a fully matured company, saving them so much hassle.

And now, they were actually accusing Chen Xuan of having bad intentions, which was totally unreasonable!

Always talking about how a son-in-law is half a son, yet when it came to good times, they never remembered once, only when trouble arose and someone was needed to take the fall, that’s when they recalled this ’half-son’!

Even Han Jingting, as a daughter, couldn’t stand by this attitude!

"Dad, Mom, you need to have a conscience! Chen Xuan was good to you, gave you the company."

"Yet you repay kindness with ingratitude, can you really be at peace with yourselves?!"

Han Bowwen was rendered speechless and hung his head low.

Ding Lijuan, on the other hand, felt no guilt, "Jingting, now you just keep turning your elbow out more and more! Have you forgotten you’re our daughter? All you do is take your man’s side! You even say we’re heartless, I think you’re the heartless one!"

Han Jingting was at her wits’ end, "This isn’t about who I’m helping, it’s about who’s right and who’s wrong!"

"If you were really talking sense, I would definitely stand on your side!"

Ding Lijuan waved her hand dismissively, "Stand wherever you want, I can’t be bothered with you!"

"Anyway, Chen Xuan has already said he wants to buy the company, he should be the one dealing with the company’s business now!"

Then, Ding Lijuan pointed at Chen Xuan and shouted to the workers, "His family owns a listed company, they have plenty of money. If you want money, go to him. This has nothing to do with me anymore!"

The workers became agitated once again and swarmed towards Chen Xuan as if they were about to tear him to pieces.

Ding Lijuan and Ding Liang took this opportunity to quickly slip away from the crowd.

For a moment, Chen Xuan became the target of everyone’s criticism.

In such a situation, Chen Xuan found it impossible to leave even if he wanted to.

With no other choice, Chen Xuan opened his mouth, "Everybody stop shouting, who’s the foreman? Step forward and let’s talk!"

The crowd finally quieted down, and a dark-skinned man stepped forward, the foreman of these workers.

From the foreman’s mouth, Chen Xuan finally learned the full story.

After Ding Lijuan took over the company, she had squandered nearly all the money in the company’s accounts, even failing to pay these workers’ wages for the previous month.

Not only that, Ding Lijuan had already invested in the Jinxiu City project, and these workers had been working at Jinxiu City for half a month, only to not receive a single penny.

In the last couple of days, a collapse incident had occurred at Jinxiu City, and the project was declared indefinitely halted. Tianhui Company couldn’t receive any payment, and the entire company fell into complete disarray.

These workers, with one and a half months’ wages unpaid and now jobless, had no choice but to come to Ding Lijuan to settle accounts.

After hearing the foreman’s story, Chen Xuan and Han Jingting were greatly shocked.

They had originally thought that after Ding Lijuan and Han Bowwen took over the company, they would become more restrained, but to their surprise, they had squandered even the company’s operating capital, leaving no contingency at all!

In just over half a month, they had brought a perfectly good company to ruin, which was quite a feat!

At the same time, Chen Xuan and Han Jingting shared a common doubt: they had already blocked all of Ding Lijuan’s loan channels through Wong Jian’an.

Without money, how did she acquire the Jinxiu City project?

However, at the moment, they didn’t have the time to think about these questions.

"Boss, this is all our hard-earned money. Our families are waiting for these wages to get by, and we can barely afford our children’s school fees. You must not ignore us!"

It seemed that the foreman and the workers also sensed Chen Xuan and Han Jingting were not bad people, their attitudes noticeably softened.

Chen Xuan sighed helplessly.

Having come from a poor background himself, he knew all too well what a month and a half’s wages meant to an ordinary family.

The workers were now jobless and had their wages owed to them; indeed, their situation was pitiable.

Han Jingting felt sympathetic towards these workers as well, especially since all this had been caused by her mother, Ding Lijuan; naturally, she could not stand by and watch.

With no alternatives, Han Jingting eventually had to allocate more than ten million from Jiaren Corporation to settle the workers’ wages.

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