My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 426: Return to the Village

Chapter 426: Chapter 426: Return to the Village

Including Yuehaolai Supermarket where Hu Xingwei worked.

The person in charge of Yuehaolai Supermarket hastily convened a meeting to discuss how to suppress the incident and to give Hu Xingwei an appropriate punishment.

Up to that point, the Yuehaolai Supermarket hadn’t grasped the severity of the situation.

It wasn’t until the head office called, insisting that they must punish Hu Xingwei severely.

The most basic step was to fire Hu Xingwei at once.

Reluctantly, Yuehaolai Supermarket did as they were told.

They sent out an email throughout the whole company, explaining Hu Xingwei’s actions and the reasons for his dismissal.

But what Yuehaolai Supermarket and Jing University, including Lu Youxi, hadn’t expected was that someone would post about the incident on Haijiao Forum.

By the time Lu Youxi saw it, the thread had already built up to a substantial height.

Lu Youxi took a look and guessed that the person who had posted was likely an employee of Yuehaolai Supermarket.

That’s because the original poster hadn’t shared the content from Jing University’s forum post; they only mentioned the dismissal of their supermarket’s general manager, the procurement manager, and the assistant general manager.

They also indignantly exposed the sordid track records of Hu Xingwei and Manager Wu.

Claiming that they had never expected Hu Xingwei and Manager Wu to be such people, they now felt retrospectively frightened.

From the wording, it appeared to be a female employee.

As it happened, a Jing University student saw the post and immediately linked it to the morning’s thread on Jing University’s forum.

They then brought up the details from the Jing University forum post.

The matter spread more and more widely online, eventually catching the attention of the media.

Journalists got in touch with Jing University for confirmation.

Naturally, Jing University praised Lu Youxi, calling her young and capable, standing tall against these unjust practices.

At the same time, they stated they would thoroughly investigate the issue and vindicate Lu Youxi.

Some journalists even managed to obtain the village chief’s contact information and directly got through to his mobile phone.

Only then did the village chief learn of the slander Lu Youxi had suffered at school because of this incident.

The village chief was furious and, after talking to the journalists, called home to inform the village chief’s wife about the situation.

The village chief’s wife, who was currently with Aunt Lin, was a master at keeping up with the village gossip.

Upon hearing what the village chief said, she burst into rage, "Are those people full of hot air? Can’t they just mind their business? If they’re not satisfied with their own lives, why go and sling mud at Youxi? What has Youxi ever done to them?"

"Now, the school and Youxi are investigating who exactly is behind this malicious spread of rumors, but to be honest, I’m quite suspicious of Lu Youbang," the village chief confided to his wife. "During my time in the Imperial Capital, I’ve come to understand a bit. Youxi is quite popular at school, and especially after she led her classmates to make money from the stock market, her relationships with them have been quite good."

"The only one who has a bad relationship with Youxi is probably Lu Youbang," the village chief continued. "As soon as Youxi arrived at school, she exposed everything that Lu Youbang had done, leaving him with no one to talk to at school, even his girlfriend broke up with him. He definitely holds a grudge against Youxi."

"After all, apart from him, I can’t think of anyone else who would bear a grudge against Youxi. She’s been kind to others at school and hasn’t offended anyone else," the village chief said.

"Whether it’s him or not, we should treat him as our prime suspect," replied the village chief’s wife. "What matters is that this deed was done in such despicable fashion! Whoever did it is a scoundrel!"

"Is Youxi negotiating business for herself? No, she’s doing this for the wealth of our village," the village chief’s wife fumed. "Like you said before, she has her own company and can make money. Why would she go through so much trouble to sell our village’s rice if not for our village’s sake? She wouldn’t have to bother with this at all."

"That’s right," the village chief nodded. "What I mean is, Youxi’s efforts were for the sake of helping our village, and now she’s being denigrated. Although the school has issued a statement and provided evidence to clear Youxi’s name, it’s still hard to ensure that nobody will believe the rumors."

"Youxi is trying to help us, yet she’s being defamed like this. We can’t just stand by and do nothing."

"Right!" the village chief’s wife nodded. "But what can we do?"

"I’ve already bought a ticket to go back. I’ll tell you about it when I get there," the village chief said. "Now that the journalists have even come to interview me, it’s a good opportunity to show them the situation of Hexing Village and let them understand how difficult it is for Youxi to help us."

"Ah, okay," the village chief’s wife complied. "By the way, how are the business negotiations going?"

"This time it didn’t work out, but Youxi has contacted two more companies, and we’ll go talk to them later," said the village chief. "When it comes to business deals, they can’t always be successful on the first try."

"Mhm, no need to rush. It’s good as long as there’s progress."

The village chief requested time off from Lu Youxi, simply saying that he needed to go home for a bit and would return before the business negotiations with the clients.

Lu Youxi thought there was some family matter the village chief had to attend to and said, "Uncle Fang, business matters can wait. If something’s come up at home, you should go back right away. Take care of it and then come back. I’m still here."

"By the way, is there anything I can help with?" Lu Youxi asked once more.

"It’s nothing serious, just mundane matters. I’m going back to oversee something," the village chief said cheerfully. "And to make sure no one gets persuaded by the factory again."

"Alright," Lu Youxi nodded. "If anything comes up, just tell me. Don’t keep it to yourself, okay?"

"Don’t worry about it."

The village chief was in a hurry to leave and bought the nearest available ticket. He also went to the wholesale market to buy some local specialties to take back with him.

When he arrived in Fengnan City, the village chief didn’t go straight to the bus terminal.

Instead, he made a trip to a small shop selling electronic products.

They had video cameras for rent there.

These days, cameras were too expensive.

Not to mention the professional ones, even small household cameras cost thousands.

Ordinary families couldn’t afford such expensive items.

Fortunately, the shop had cameras available for rent, alleviating the village chief’s urgent need.

The village chief rented a camera for three days, left a deposit, and carefully carried the camera all the way back to Hexing Village, fearing he might bump it or damage it on the way.

As soon as he entered the village, someone spotted the village chief.

"Village chief, why have you come back all of a sudden? Did the business talks not go well?"

"No, we’re still in negotiations," the village chief, knowing their concerns about Hexing Rice. "This time I came back because there’s something very important I need to discuss with everyone."

"What’s the issue? Does it concern our Hexing Rice?" someone asked, their eyes instantly lighting up.

"It is somewhat related," the village chief thought it over. Advertising for Hexing Rice would cost quite a lot.

But now, with journalists approaching because of Lu Youxi’s ordeal, it was also a good chance to promote Hexing Rice while clearing her name.

Whether the journalists wrote articles or used his footage, they would have to clarify the whole story, right?

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