Chapter 450: Guarding – Daily Melon Eating at the Sickly Aunt’s Compound

Chapter 450: Guarding Against—The Sickly Young Aunt’s Drama-Filled Days in the Compound

Once inside the hospital room, Mother Jiang and Zhang Mei shrieked, making it impossible for the Women's Federation Director to get a word in!

Finally, someone suddenly remarked, "Um... I heard Lin Shu is also in this hospital, seems like..."

The Women's Federation Director happened to overhear this. Looking at these two troublemakers before her, she decided it would be best to get to the root of the problem!

She immediately put her foot down and marched off to find Lin Shu.

......

As soon as Lin Qing got off work, she hurried over to her mother and asked, "Mom! I heard Zhang Mei and Mother Jiang got into a fight?" She had heard about it from others while at work.

Cen Xi followed her inside, obediently taking over the chores from Lin Qing's mother while listening to her gossip.

His movements were smooth and practiced—Lin Qing's mother had almost grown accustomed to it!

"They really did fight. I pretty much saw the whole thing."

Lin Qing couldn’t help but feel envious inside. Her mom really had it good!

She always got front-row seats to the drama, unlike Lin Qing, who could only hear about it secondhand.

"Mom! Ugh, sometimes I really don’t want to work anymore!" Lin Qing clung to her mom’s arm, whining playfully.

"You!" Her mother booped her nose fondly.

This job was something others would kill for—hadn’t Mother Jiang and Zhang Mei come to blows over a job, after all?

And it was just a short-term gig that would last a few months!

"Mom! Hurry up and tell me what happened next!"

"Alright, alright!"

The Women's Federation Director acted swiftly. Once she decided on her course of action, she immediately went to find Lin Shu in another ward.

When Lin Shu saw the Women's Federation Director leading a group of people into her room, she felt a bad feeling and sat up in alarm.

"Director?"

"Lin Shu, how are you feeling?"

"Not bad. Just a bit of unstable pregnancy symptoms, so I need to stay a few more days," Lin Shu answered honestly.

"Oh, I see! You don’t have anyone accompanying you? Ditching a pregnant woman at the hospital isn’t very convenient!"

Lin Shu gave a bitter laugh. "Well... there’s nothing I can do. My mother-in-law... she..." She lowered her head sadly. "Doesn’t like me very much."

Thinking the director had come to offer sympathy after hearing some news, Lin Shu couldn’t resist throwing shade. "If it weren’t for my husband, my mother-in-law wouldn’t even have paid my medical bills!"

The Women's Federation Director hadn’t expected things to be like this. Now that she thought about it, Lin Shu’s relationship with her mother-in-law really wasn’t good—no wonder she had turned to her birth mother first when looking for someone to cover her shift.

"I see. Well, we came here for another matter."

Lin Shu’s eyebrow gave a nervous twitch. A sense of unease crept over her. "Go ahead, Director."

"Here’s the thing. Your mother went to work in your neighborhood today and happened to cross paths with your mother-in-law. Then... the two of them got into a fight!"

Lin Shu's tightly clenched hands suddenly loosened, and a weight lifted off her chest!

"They... they..." Lin Shu's voice trembled with tears, her words fragmented, yet somehow making her seem pitiful.

The Women's Federation Director felt a pang of sympathy for her and softened her tone. "And from what we heard in their argument, their fight started because you had your mother cover your shift."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! I had no choice... wailed..." Lin Shu immediately launched into her performance!

Well... at least, that’s how Mother Lin saw it.

She couldn’t help but sigh in front of Lin Qing, "You should’ve seen it—I had no idea she could act like that! If we didn’t live nearby and know the real situation, we might’ve been completely fooled!"

Lin Qing—Lin Qing really wanted to witness it herself!

Too bad she was at work at the time!

"Her words were all about how badly her mother-in-law treated her, and then there was her sister-in-law trying to steal her job—she made herself sound so pitiful."

"Ugh, of course I was stuck at work!"

"But what about her job?" Lin Qing remembered Mother Lin mentioning that both Mother Jiang and Zhang Mei were injured.

"You hit the nail on the head! That’s exactly it! All that buildup from Lin Shu earlier was leading to this!"

"Wait, really?" Lin Qing hadn’t expected that!

Cen Xi chimed in, "She’s keeping Jiang Da Sao from swooping in."

It was actually quite obvious—with both Mother Jiang and Zhang Mei injured, neither could make a move for the job anytime soon. Only Jiang Da Sao was free.

But she was the one Lin Shu clashed with the most. With how petty Lin Shu is, she’d never willingly let Jiang Da Sao benefit.

Mother Lin nodded in agreement with Cen Xi. "Cen Xi’s right. She complained so the Director would rule out her sister-in-law, so she wouldn’t even consider letting her cover the shift."

Lin Qing was still confused. "Then who does she want to cover it?" There wasn’t anyone else left!

Mother Lin chuckled. "Get this—she finally outsmarted them!"

"Huh?"

"Zhang Mei’s incident makes the Women’s Federation look bad, and the Director had to step in to handle it. She’s definitely not in the best mood. In the end, Lin Shu let the Director pick the replacement—just as long as she got half her monthly wages." Mother Lin felt Lin Shu had finally used her head.

"Mother Jiang and Zhang Mei must be livid!" Especially Zhang Mei—she’d only worked a few days, got hurt and lost her pay.

"Hahaha! Exactly, they’re probably fuming."

After getting Lin Shu’s confirmation, the Women's Federation Director went back to inform Zhang Mei and Mother Jiang. Neither of them had expected things to turn out this way!

Mother Jiang shrugged it off—she hadn’t held much hope of getting the job anyway and just didn’t want to get shortchanged.

Zhang Mei, however, was a different story. She had been doing well, and now everything was gone!

In an instant, she saw red, especially when she saw Mother Jiang’s smug grin. Her self-control vanished.

"Zhang Mei snapped—right in front of the whole room, she rushed to Mother Jiang’s bedside and went straight for Mother Jiang’s throat!"

"Holy—" That’s insane!

Mother Lin felt grateful she had a good daughter and son-in-law, so she’d never need Zhang Mei’s help. Otherwise, she’d be doomed.

"But nothing serious happened; someone pulled them apart before it got worse!"

"Ohhh, got it!"

"However, they later argued over the medical expenses, both trying to stick the other with the bill!"

Lin Qing understood this well—Mother Jiang was never one willing to spend money on others. Even spending on her daughter-in-law would take some arm-twisting, let alone on Zhang Mei!

"By the way, didn’t Jiang Da Sao go?"

"Her? She didn’t go at all!" Mother Lin wasn't too fond of Jiang Da Sao either. This woman was always scheming behind people's backs, which Mother Lin didn't like.

"That sounds about right. Probably afraid of spending money!"

Mother Lin had a hunch there was more going on!