1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 565 I think you have a misunderstanding of your master's wife
"Master, we are all family after all. Even if you don't like your father-in-law, you still have to take care of him."

"The key is... if you do this, aren't you afraid that Master's Wife will quarrel with you?"

Outside a physiotherapy room at Dezhou People's Hospital, Bai Mengmeng lifted a corner of the food box that Yang Mo brought over and took a look. A look of disgust appeared on her face, and then she tilted her little head and asked the question she was most curious about.

Seeing his cooking skills being looked down upon, Yang Mo angrily gave his little apprentice a slap on the face, then glanced at the empty corridor and curled his lips: "Your master's wife will never quarrel with me. On the contrary, she is very happy... But you, if you still can't see the truth behind this matter, I am very worried that after you are transferred back to Tongren, you will not only fail to be a help to your father, but become a burden to him!"

After receiving a long-awaited knock at the door, Bai Mengmeng covered his head with a grin. He was about to protest, but when he heard his master's words, he was stunned: "Master, are you trying to fool me again? What kind of tricks are there? Isn't the situation obvious... And why do you always bring up the matter of my return to Tongren?"

It was already mid-June and the time for her to be transferred back to Tongren was getting closer, so she was particularly annoyed when anyone mentioned this matter.

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly realized something was wrong: "Wait a minute, Master, you said that Master's Wife... would be very happy?"

As Yang Mo's apprentice, she was also involved in the coordination of the scientific research institutions of the three oil units: the drilling company, Linpan Oil Production Plant, and Linyi Oil Refinery. The sudden change in the equipment plan for the Solitary Island No. 2 project was naturally no secret to her;
In her opinion, Mu Siyuan's action this time was perfectly normal. As the saying goes, when one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit. Her master's father-in-law had waited for such a big project with great difficulty, and he was just trying to gain some benefits for his relatives and friends from it. To Bai Mengmeng, who grew up in the Tongren compound, this was absolutely natural. The only unexpected thing was that her master ruined the matter because of his own plan.

In fact, from Bai Mengmeng's point of view, his master was in the wrong in this matter... We are family, so we should not have different opinions. Even if those strong village companies that his master planned to incubate are beneficial, they are just a group of outsiders after all. Even if they are grateful at the moment, once something unexpected happens, they will not be as safe as blood relatives.

Therefore, she thought that no matter how much her mistress loved and admired the master, what the master did was wrong and even hurt the feelings of the Mu family relatives, which seriously shook the foundation of the Mu family. The eldest lady should be very angry and have a big quarrel with her master... But in the end, you tell me that her mistress will not only not be angry, but will be very happy?

Please, don't say that my master's wife doesn't look like a love-crazy person. Even if she is, she shouldn't be completely without principles in such matters, right?
Looking at the silly expression on his little disciple's face, Yang Mo couldn't help laughing: "I know that although you are respectful in words, you are actually not very close to your master's wife, so you don't understand some situations very well. I don't blame you."

As he spoke, Yang Mo snatched the lunch box and sealed the lid. “I never married your master’s wife for the Mu family’s resources, so after I decided to correct the trajectory of the Solitary Island II project, I called your master’s wife as soon as possible.”

"After all, we are all family. I have to fully consider your master's wife's feelings. Her attitude will also determine my next move to a certain extent."

"But what happened? Guess what your mistress said on the phone?"

Bai Mengmeng blinked her eyes: "Mu... no, it's Master's wife... what did she tell you, Master?"

According to normal logic, Muliya would definitely strongly object on the phone, but looking at her master's tone and expression, it doesn't seem to be the case?
As expected, Yang Mo looked at her with a smile: "Your master's wife only said one sentence on the phone."

Bai Mengmeng's interest was immediately piqued: "Master, what are you talking about?"

Yang Mo smiled: "Your master's wife said: Dad is old after all, and he has never had the opportunity to go out. He always feels that the world is still the same as when he was young... So, as long as she and I are fine, the Mu family will not fall."

! ! ! ? ? ?
Bai Mengmeng's eyes almost popped out of their heads. The implication of her master's wife's words couldn't be more obvious, and was full of heresy.

What does it mean that after all, I am old and never have the opportunity to go out for a walk?
This is clearly a complaint that his father's thinking is too old-fashioned and cannot keep up with the times, and that the old ways of doing things are no longer acceptable.

What does it mean that as long as she and the master are around, the Mu family will never fall?
This was clearly a hint to the Master that he could just go ahead and do it, without having to worry about her thoughts or the large number of relatives in the Mu family.

No wonder my master acted so ruthlessly, leaving no room for the old father-in-law to fight back. He changed the situation. It seems that this small family of two has reached a consensus!

hiss~
Bai Mengmeng stuck out his tongue as if he had a toothache.

I just don't know how my father-in-law will react when he finds out about this.

If this happened in some areas of Guizhou, if there was such an unfilial daughter in the family, she would probably be beaten to death, right?

Yang Mo glanced at his young apprentice and said, "Your master's wife may look like a lady from a wealthy family, but she took the initiative to request to be transferred to the drilling company, and wanted to be self-reliant and focus on the tertiary industry. Naturally, she has some rebellious nature in her."

Rebellious?
Bai Mengmeng glanced at his master with a strange expression.

Are you sure it's rebellion and not utilitarianism?
How did our mistress climb up step by step, how did she shine step by step, and finally develop and control the huge overseas market worth hundreds of billions of yen? Others may not know it, but you, Master, don't you know it?

An overseas market worth tens of billions of yen!
Moreover, this market has been developed in the form of an independent brand. You can imagine the value and energy contained in it just by thinking about it, right?

Just for this reason, not to mention that you, Master, are young and promising, and you are not bad looking either, even if you were an old man in your seventies or eighties, you would definitely be worthy of your master's wife to marry you!
In the eyes of many people, especially Bai Mengmeng, the combination of their master and Miss Mu is, to put it nicely, a match made in heaven, and to put it bluntly, an exchange of interests... and Miss Mu got a big bargain.

Generally speaking, when your macho husband has serious disagreements with his parents.

A normal woman would stand on the side of her parents without hesitation out of kinship.
Only those women with a strong utilitarianism will repeatedly weigh the pros and cons, stand firmly by their macho husbands, and then ruthlessly cut ties with their parents.

and so……

Do you attribute this reason simply to rebellion?
Master, I'm afraid you've been bewitched by the beauty of your mistress's wife, and you can't even see through such a simple green tea trick?

Thinking of this, Bai Mengmeng sucked his teeth and his little brain started working rapidly.

No, my master is very capable in other aspects, but too immature when it comes to dealing with women. This will be a big disadvantage for him.

Should I encourage my master to find a few more women in private?

The more women you have sex with, the more experience you will gain, so you won't be fooled by the master's wife's green tea tricks.

Ok……

Who should start the matchmaking?
The little waiter at Linpan Hotel?

That old woman, Zhuomali?
The little secretary who looked at her master with a vague look in her eyes in private?
Or just find some new faces from the drilling company?
or……

His eyelids twitched and his head subconsciously turned to the therapy room behind him.

………………

Seeing his little disciple's sneaky attitude, Yang Mo slapped him again in annoyance: "Stop thinking about nonsense all day long... Don't think that I don't know what's going on in your head!"

Feeling guilty, Bai Mengmeng first rubbed his head with his hands and grimaced, then he said "oh" very obediently. His two black and white eyeballs rolled around, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

Facing his eccentric little disciple, Yang Mo pinched his brows with a headache. After thinking for a while, he finally explained: "I know how you view your master's wife. In fact, not only you, but also many outsiders, some of your master's wife's behaviors seem a little utilitarian... So, you don't believe what your master said just now, right?"

Bai Mengmeng smiled awkwardly, but scratched his little head and finally said nothing.

Seeing this, Yang Mo sighed softly: "Xiao Bai, you don't understand... You were assigned to Qilu as soon as you graduated, and you didn't stay in Tongren. In addition, you are young, and you have your master and your uncle Zhang to protect you, so some things are not your turn for the time being. It's normal that you don't have any feelings."

"But when you return to Tongren, you may soon have similar troubles."

After a pause, Yang Mo shook his head gently: "I admit that some of your master's wife's actions give you a feeling of being too utilitarian, and I don't refute this point. After all, if you say that your master's wife has no selfish motives at all, that is absolutely nonsense;"

"But selfishness is selfishness, and utilitarianism is utilitarianism. The scale of the two is very different;"

"Ever since I met your master's wife, she has been doing her best to fight for opportunities for herself. That's true, but if you think she is a utilitarian person just because of this, you are totally wrong... In other words, before the brand's overseas expansion plan was a great success, her utilitarian behavior was forced!"

At this point, Yang Mo tilted his head and looked at his little apprentice: "Meng Meng, your master's wife's family background determines that a woman as beautiful as her will not only have to sacrifice her marriage when her family needs it, but once her family loses power, her fate will be ten times more miserable than that of an ordinary woman!"

"So, it's normal for someone like your wife to have complaints about her strong-willed parents.

"Growing up in a family environment that is as strict as a prison, it is normal to have rebellious emotions deep down in your heart;"

"It is also normal to do everything you can to preserve the last bit of dignity for yourself in an uncertain future and to fight for a chance to be independent and self-sufficient."

"A phoenix without its feathers plucked is no better than a chicken. This world is sometimes far more cruel than you think... Mengmeng, I hope you remember this."

Yang Mo's words were not meant to excuse his wife, but were rather a reflection of his feelings.

When I helped Zhuomali in Dongying during the Chinese New Year last year, although I had known some of the circumstances before, it was not until I saw the scene in person that I realized how unbearable some things could be, and that people who appeared to be dressed so glamorously on the surface could live so without dignity.

You know, Zhuo Mali is already a second-generation person close to the first-class level in Dongying. If we only talk about the level, Zhuo's father is even half a level higher than Mu Siyuan.

Besides, Zhuo's father could not be considered to have truly lost his power at that time, yet so many people unscrupulously set their sights on Zhuo Mali, which shows how chaotic the jungle was.

what?
You said that a family like Miss Mu's, even if it has lost power, is still much richer than ordinary people. As long as you are not greedy and attached to wealth and glory, you can just leave in a carefree manner... Those who are forced to become neither human nor ghost are, after all, too greedy and it's their own fault.

Ok……

This statement seems to make sense, but the actual situation is quite different.

Indeed, if you are a man, or a woman of mediocre appearance, after your family falls from power, the worst that can happen is that you go into business and run a small business, you will not starve to death anyway... In later generations, a considerable number of small individual bosses came from the imperial capital compounds. Although they are no longer prosperous, they still live relatively freely.

But for beautiful women like Zhuo Mali and Miss Mu, do you think you can just leave if you want once your family loses its ability to protect you?
What a joke! ?
If this world could really follow one's heart, there wouldn't be so many gossip scandals among the South Korean chaebols in later generations... Do you really think that all those cats and dogs in South Korea are only after money?
In a word, now is not the future, and this world has never been completely covered in sunlight; even the lawless criminal Zhang San said that it is not illegal for people to eat giant pandas in times of crisis; if a woman behaves a little more utilitarian out of self-protection, as long as she does not hurt others, what is there to blame?

But Bai Mengmeng obviously didn't believe it: "Master, I think sometimes you think too darkly of human nature; but sometimes you think too beautifully of human nature;"

"I won't argue with you about anything else. I'll just say one thing I shouldn't say... Whether it's for self-protection or utilitarianism, if Master's wife can stand against her parents today out of consideration for the benefit, then can she also stand against you, Master, tomorrow out of consideration for the benefit?"

At this point, the little disciple wrinkled his nose: "Heaven, Earth, Emperor, Parents, and Master, I don't think a person who doesn't even help his parents is trustworthy... Master, no matter how important you are in the eyes of Master's Wife, I'm afraid you are not as important as my parents, right?"

Logically speaking, Bai Mengmeng should never say such words that were almost equivalent to sowing discord in front of her master, but she really didn't want her master to suffer a big setback at the hands of that beautiful mistress in the future.

If her dislike for Miss Mu before was due to personality differences and women's natural rejection of beautiful people of the same sex, then after this incident, her rejection of Miss Mu was more out of fear and disgust - a teacher is like a half-father, and the environment of the Ten Thousand Mountains in Guizhou determines that people who grow up on this land value clan blood and human relations much more than people in other places. Yang Mo glanced at his little apprentice and sighed helplessly: "You are looking at this matter from the perspective of a child. In fact, the reason why your master's wife stands on my side is not because of utilitarian considerations to oppose her parents... In fact, it's the opposite. She is doing it for the good of her parents, which is why she firmly supports me in completely strangling the opportunity for those dozens of Yangxin companies to participate in the Solitary Island No. 2 project."

Bai Mengmeng was stunned: "Eh? For the sake of her parents?"

Yang Mo curled his lips: "So I said I'm worried that you won't be able to help your father after you return to Tongren, but will probably cause trouble for him...You have such a narrow vision that you haven't figured out anything until now. How can I let you go back at ease?"

Bai Mengmeng looked aggrieved: "Master, even if I said something bad about Master's wife, it was for your sake. You don't have to do this, right?"

Obviously, after serving as the acting director of the General Office for several months, Bai Mengmeng felt that even though there was a huge gap in ability between himself and his master, he would not be described as having "narrow vision"... In the mouth of his master, this was already the harshest insult, and its degree of heartbreakingness was not much different from the saying "people and dogs have nothing in common."

Yang Mo snorted: "Do you think I wronged you?"

Bai Mengmeng looked even more aggrieved, and replied in a low voice: "I dare not."

Don't dare?

Do you think you were wronged?

Yang Mo curled his lips: "Let me ask you,

So, is this normal?
The incident itself was actually quite normal, but Mu Siyuan's handling of it was extremely rough and abnormal!
Yang Mo glanced at her and said, "When something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy. I have repeatedly emphasized this before. Once something that has happened cannot form a logical consistency in your eyes, then there must be some key link of evidence missing... or there must be some driving factor that you are not aware of hidden under the surface."

Bai Mengmeng straightened up immediately, thought for a moment, and then said hesitantly, "Master, what you mean is that the sudden change in the construction and equipment plans for the Solitary Island II project was a sudden event and was not in the plan; and your old father-in-law had to use this crude method for some reason to grab this piece of fat meat before everyone else?"

Yang Mo nodded, with a strange smile on his face: "In fact, the cultural environment of most areas in Qilu is different from that in Guizhou, and it does not have much reference value; but only a few counties including Yangxin have a highly similar cultural environment to that in Guizhou... So I would say that if you can't figure out something from this incident, then even if you go back to Tongren, you can't help your father much; the reality in Guizhou is much more complicated than in Yangxin."

Yangxin?

Is it highly consistent with the cultural environment in Guizhou?

Bai Mengmeng seemed to have thought of something all of a sudden, and exclaimed slightly: "Master, what do you mean...?"

Yang Mo nodded: "You have been with me for quite some time before, you should know that from the beginning, when I established my relationship with your master's wife, my attitude towards the Song family, the Lin family, and the Zhuo family was obviously different."

"Nothing else, because I know very well that for the Mu family, the Song family is different from others... This has nothing to do with the closeness of my old father-in-law's past relationship with other families, but simply because the relationship between the Song family and the Mu family is naturally different."

Bai Mengmeng reacted: "Because... the Song family is the same clan as the Mu family?"

Yang Mo hummed softly: "You graduated from Guizhou University for Nationalities, you should know the reason... In fact, for Yangxin, clan relatives are equivalent to blood relatives, and in many cases, they are more reliable than blood relatives."

Bai Mengmeng nodded again, silently equating this clan relationship with the clan relationship in certain areas of Guizhou.

He nodded heavily again.

Yang Mo hummed softly: "Since those relatives have been supporting my old father-in-law with all their might over the past decade, and now that my father-in-law is becoming more and more popular, we should at least give him some hope, right?"

Bai Mengmeng nodded again. This was perfectly normal.

Yang Mo chuckled, "It's just that Yangxin doesn't have any oil resources or any decent chemical projects. Even if my father-in-law wants to give back to his family, there is no better way. He can only invest in local tertiary industry enterprises through assistance, or use local tertiary industry enterprises as hubs to carry out cross-system capital circulation in a small range... There is no other way. Everyone knows what the operating conditions of the tertiary industry enterprises under the headquarters have been like over the years. I can't blame others for my own failure."

"Unfortunately, even though we have invested in a lot of tertiary industry projects in Yangxin over the years, through various forms of capital circulation, those clan members have also gained tangible benefits... At the very least, compared to ordinary people in the area, their lives are already good enough."

"People always yearn for a better life. Although the lives of the Mu family members are actually very good, it is now the era of market economy. Yangxin is one of the first inland cities in Qi and Lu to carry out foreign economic exchanges. After seeing the prosperity of the world, how can the Mu family members be content with the current ordinary life?"

"so what……"

The young disciple immediately interjected, "So when they heard that the civil engineering and equipment plans were going to be adjusted, those clan members immediately put pressure on your father-in-law, asking for a share of the fat meat; and your father-in-law had no choice but to agree, and then because it happened suddenly, in order to seize the initiative, he could only use such a crude method to surround the cake... The circumstances of those clan members of the Mu family are somewhat special, and there are many of them. Even if your father-in-law directly surrounded the cake, even if others were dissatisfied, they couldn't make a fuss about it."

As I said, those who understand will understand.

Some things would be nothing but fairy tales in later generations, but in this era, they are very common. Moreover, students from the three provinces in the Central Plains and the three provinces in the Northwest should feel more deeply about this kind of thing.

"

"Haha, your master's wife is in Tokyo now, and I've never been a good person to talk to. If you have the guts, let those people come to Texas to find me!"

At this point, Yang Mo showed a sly smile on his face: "If my guess is correct, after my father-in-law finds out that something is wrong today, he will probably call your mistress and ask her to be the lobbyist;"

"And if my guess is still correct, your mistress will most likely pretend to be a good girl and agree to it, and then come up with other compensation plans within her authority, and then... in the subsequent operation process, she will do everything she can to make those clan members feel frustrated and disheartened."

"Hehe, since the Mu family members are so obsessed with their own interests, then can't we just cut off their unrealistic thoughts in this regard?"

"You know, it's very difficult for them to get involved in the main business of the oil system directly. If they want to get a piece of the pie, they can only go through the tertiary industry system and the trade system. And these two areas are all in the hands of me and your master's wife. It's impossible for them to bypass us!"

"When they realize that they can't get anything out of the Mu family, they will take the initiative to untie themselves from the Mu family without my father-in-law having to think about it... By then, I think my father-in-law and mother-in-law will thank us!"

At the end, Yang Mo turned his head and looked at his little apprentice with a meaningful expression: "So, considering the actual situation in Guizhou or Tongren, do you know where you are lacking now?"

Bai Mengmeng's back became wet after being asked this question.

Yang Mo spoke so eloquently. On the one hand, he was making excuses for his wife, but on the other hand, he was repeatedly emphasizing the content of "ecological governance."

This is the most daunting and difficult problem to solve when carrying out work in many areas of Guizhou.

If Bai Mengmeng went back to Tongren to carry out her work with the mentality of "creating profits can solve the problem", due to some subtle chain reactions, she and her father would not even know how they died!

Just as Bai Mengmeng was thinking about something with sweat on his forehead...

Deng Deng stare~
A hurried sound of leather shoes came from far away.

Huhu~
Zhuo Junyue, who had been waiting downstairs in the hospital, ran over breathlessly.

"Mr. Yang, your call...is from Tokyo."

As if she was running too fast, Zhuo Junyue bent over with one hand on her knee and handed the extremely heavy mobile phone to Yang Mo with the other hand. Yang Mo could not see her face at all.

"Okay! Speak of the devil and he'll show up. Your master's wife called."

Yang Mo tilted his head and teased his little apprentice, then took the mobile phone that no one would care about in the future...

"And if my guess is still correct, your mistress will most likely pretend to be a good girl and agree to it, and then come up with other compensation plans within her authority, and then... in the subsequent operation process, she will do everything she can to make those clan members feel frustrated and disheartened."

"Hehe, since the Mu family members are so obsessed with their own interests, then can't we just cut off their unrealistic thoughts in this regard?"

"You know, it's very difficult for them to get involved in the main business of the oil system directly. If they want to get a piece of the pie, they can only go through the tertiary industry system and the trade system. And these two areas are all in the hands of me and your master's wife. It's impossible for them to bypass us!"

"When they realize that they can't get anything out of the Mu family, they will take the initiative to untie themselves from the Mu family without my father-in-law having to think about it... By then, I think my father-in-law and mother-in-law will thank us!"

At the end, Yang Mo turned his head and looked at his little apprentice with a meaningful expression: "So, considering the actual situation in Guizhou or Tongren, do you know where you are lacking now?"

Bai Mengmeng's back became wet after being asked this question.

Yang Mo spoke so eloquently. On the one hand, he was making excuses for his wife, but on the other hand, he was repeatedly emphasizing the content of "ecological governance."

This is the most daunting and difficult problem to solve when carrying out work in many areas of Guizhou.

If Bai Mengmeng went back to Tongren to carry out her work with the mentality of "creating profits can solve the problem", due to some subtle chain reactions, she and her father would not even know how they died!

Just as Bai Mengmeng was thinking about something with sweat on his forehead...

Deng Deng stare~
A hurried sound of leather shoes came from far away.

Huhu~
Zhuo Junyue, who had been waiting downstairs in the hospital, ran over breathlessly.

"Mr. Yang, your call...is from Tokyo."

As if she was running too fast, Zhuo Junyue bent over with one hand on her knee and handed the extremely heavy mobile phone to Yang Mo with the other hand. Yang Mo could not see her face at all.

"Okay! Speak of the devil and he'll show up. Your master's wife called."

Yang Mo tilted his head and teased his little apprentice, then took the mobile phone that no one would care about in the future...

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PS: This chapter has been heavily edited, so it may not read smoothly, please forgive me.

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