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Chapter 207: How Silly It Is to Believe in Such Thing

Chapter 207: Chapter 207: How Silly It Is to Believe in Such Thing

In every organization, there is always one or two people who never pay for the items they take, and Wang Mengmeng is such a bad apple at the night school.

Shaking her head, Suizi thought this person is beyond reform when it comes to her penchant for petty advantages.

"Director, I’ll be stepping out for a bit, will be back soon." Wang Mengmeng requested Suizi for leave.

"We’ve got to prepare the bulletin board later, are you planning to let Yue’e finish it on her own?"

"Oh, come on, don’t be so heartless. I’m just stepping out for a little while, a very short while." Wang Mengmeng pleaded with her hands clasped together, putting on an adorable expression.

But inside, she was cussing at Suizi.

This big-bellied hag!

Such a busybody!

"Last time when we received the teaching materials, you disappeared out of the blue, leaving Yue’e and two other colleagues with all the heavy work. If this time, you dump your work on others as well, you might as well share this month’s salary with everyone."

"Alright, alright, I won’t go." Wang Mengmeng sulked, rolled her eyes exaggeratedly, and cussed at Suizi inwardly once again.

Suizi gave a dismissive wave and indicated her to close the door behind her.

The principle in managing lazy subordinates like her is to make things clear upfront.

After she left Suizi’s office, Wang Mengmeng kicked at a tree in the yard.

Quietly swearing to herself,

"What a pompous ass, all because she is a director, one rank above me. So bloody high and mighty, making life difficult for others just because she could."

She kicked vehemently at the tree, pushing a hole into the snow beneath it.

The object in the snow drew Wang Mengmeng’s surprise, what, what is this?

Wang Mengmeng looked around swiftly and made sure no one was around before quickly pocketing the stack of money she found buried in the snow.

It was a stack of money rolled in a paper, all small change, but quite a lot of them inside.

Wang Mengmeng was overjoyed, humming a happy tune on her way back to the office, feeling exceptionally delighted for the windfall. Even the sky looked bluer than usual.

Just as Suizi was planning to make herself a bag of milk powder to drink and stood up, she heard loud crying from the adjacent office.

Wang Mengmeng was sobbing uncontrollably on her desk, Zhang Yue’e and another male colleague were standing helplessly by her side, not knowing how to console her.

"What happened?" Suizi asked as she came in.

"Wang Mengmeng found a letter from the Queen Mother." Zhang Yue’e handed the note to Suizi.

Suizi was at a loss, what on earth was a letter from the Queen Mother?

The note was rolled in with the money.

It was left there to be found by someone greedy for small advantages.

The note was filled with densely packed words, demanding the person who found the letter to make ten copies and distribute them to different locations, or else they would be cursed.

For someone like Wang Mengmeng who loved petty advantages, making ten copies of the letter was tolerable, but if she had to provide ten separate amounts of money to put in, it was far too excruciating.

Skipping the letter would risk being cursed, copying it and putting in the money would hurt so bad.

So she was crying as if she had lost her mother.

Upon hearing the whole story, Suizi could not decide whether to cry or laugh.

She vaguely remembered such a thing becoming quite popular about ten years from now. But it wasn’t called the letter from the Queen Mother, she forgot its exact name, but it was mostly the same, just a different wrapping.

Ten years from now, people would be more financially comfortable, so such a letter circulated pretty fast.

However, in the present time when people just managed to get by, such a trend would be hard to set off. Nonetheless, it certainly was quite a nuisance to come across it.

"Director, what should we do?" Zhang Yue’e asked Suizi. Seeing Wang Mengmeng crying so heartbrokenly, she was also getting a little scared.

"It’s not a big deal. Copy it if you’d like, if not — go finish the bulletin board."

As Suizi’s pragmatism kicked in, Wang Mengmeng’s sobs grew even louder.

This really was a misfortune-inducing letter! The big-bellied hag was singling her out again! Wang Mengmeng always felt Suizi was picking on her.

Suizi sighed.

"If you think having you complete your own work is being unfair, then I have nothing to say. Before the class starts, I want to see the finished bulletin board."

"I’ll go and do it right now!" Zhang Yue’e tried to break the tension, but Suizi shot her a look, stopping her in the tracks.

"Yue’e, have you collected all the student files?" The implication was that she should not take on unnecessary tasks.

Wang Mengmeng cried as if she had lost her entire world.

When Yu Jingting came to pick up Suizi, he felt a deep gaze following his wife, impossible to ignore.

"Did you offend a hanged ghost?" Yu Jingting asked.

"Who?" Suizi got goosebumps all over her body from his words, oh my god, he was scaring her.

"That Wang Mengmeng, with her droopy eyelids and high cheekbones, doesn’t she look like a hanged ghost?"

"...she is a girl after all, can’t you stop using such horrible nicknames?"

Although Suizi didn’t like Wang Mengmeng, it was a bit too much to give her such an unpleasant nickname.

"If you didn’t offend her, why would she look at you with that kind of gaze?"

Wang Mengmeng cried all afternoon, her eyes were all swollen. With her drooping eyelids swollen, she looked more like a hanged ghost.

"She found a letter from the Heavenly Queen, she was quite emotional."

"This stuff?" Yu Jingting took out a stack of papers from his pocket.

By eyeballing, it was more than twenty pieces.

Suizi: ???

"I noticed there’s this kind of good stuff on the road today, so I started looking."

Yu Jingting took out a stack of money, grinning ear to ear.

Since there was no work today, he had too much free time.

The stuff he picked up totaled up to two yuan, which was wonderful.

"Honey, let’s continue looking, I guess there’s more." He himself was not satisfied with picking up a few, he wanted to involve Suizi as well.

Although Suizi didn’t believe in such stuff to the extent of trembling in terror like Wang Mengmeng after finding such a thing, she was not as wild as Yu Jingting...

Deliberately searching for letters to collect money, that’s quite a ploy!

"Aren’t you afraid of the curse in the letters?" Despite Suizi not believing in such stuff, she wouldn’t purposely search for it, there’s a bit of a twinge in her heart.

"What’s there to be afraid of? Any curse would be useless against me, it would all bounce back. Besides, no one would believe such nonsense, not even idiots. How could the Heavenly Queen’s letters be so cheap, a dime per letter?"

"Take a look, the letters seem to be written by the same person, their handwriting is very similar, the handwriting is pretty good, but why is the person so stupid?"

After Yu Jingting pointed it out, Suizi noticed that they indeed could’ve been written by the same person.

The handwriting was indeed pretty good.

"You’ve been pushing me to study, but what’s the point? I bet the person who wrote these letters is well-educated, but isn’t it stupid to believe in such things?"

Suizi was left speechless by Yu Jingting’s words.

Perhaps he was right.

Superstitions like this have nothing to do with education or wealth.

When people’s abilities fall short of resolving their current dilemmas, they seek solace in unorthodox methods.

The workshop manager who sought out Teacher Wang wanted to borrow some lifespan, as the person sending the Heavenly Queen’s letters feared bad luck.

Essentially, they were the same.

"Let’s go, let’s see whether we are lucky enough to find a few more~ If we have more fools like this who drop money, our financial crisis will soon be over."

Yu Jingting was rubbing his hands together excitedly, while Suizi was resigned.

Interpreting an unfortunate letter as a fortune, this guy was really something.

Suizi decided to write an article for the Newspaper Agency once she got back, not for any particular reason, just to educate the public about the Heavenly Queen’s letters, and of course, for the payment.

She would also treat the street kid to a bowl of Egg Soup, to replenish the energy he lost in his excitement to collect money.

The two were on their back home, with Yu Jingting deliberately looking under the electric poles, he indeed found another letter, happiness was unexpectedly simple.

Yu Jingting was hoping to find more, but instead of more letters, he found the person sneakily placing the letters.

And it was someone they knew.