Chapter 11 - Never Insult Anothers Family! (1/2)

Qin Fen arrived at the same small alley as yesterday. He looked at how peaceful it was, ultimately taking a deep breath and deciding to take a detour.

He hurried the entire way to construction site, where the buzzing activity had already died off. Qin Fen quickly ran toward the center of the site where a temporary white building was constructed.

“Manager. Yesterday, I….”

“Who are you?” In the past, there would be an old uncle by the side of the office table. Now it was a fair-skinned middle aged man whose aquiline nose carried a pair of gold glasses.

“I’m….” Qin Fen froze for a second, “I’m a part-time worker here.”

“Really?” The middle-aged man leaned back in his chair. He sized up Qin Fen with reproach and disdain, “How come I didn’t meet you yesterday? Oh…. You must have been the one who skipped work.”

“Yes.” Qin Fen responded with a serious nod, “Manager. Yesterday, I….”

“There’s nothing to say.” The middle aged man sitting in front of the dilapidated table pushed up the gold glasses atop his nose with a dark expression. He said in a very code tone, “I don’t want to hear your reason for skipping work. There isn’t a reason that can cover the fact that you skipped work yesterday. Therefore, you’re fired.”

“Fired….” Qin Fen felt as if someone had poured a bucket of ice-cold water over his head to flow to his toes. There weren’t many people willing to do the heavy physical labor of construction work, so it was one of the highest paying labor jobs out there. He had fought hard for this job; he didn’t want to lose this job that was so hard to get.

“Manager, I will work for free this one time today. To make up for it, is that okay?” Qin Fen looked at the manager and his small beer belly with utter seriousness. This work and its income was one of his important economic pillars in attending university in the future.

“There’s no need.” The manager lifted his cup of tea, which had begun to foam a bit, as he slowly said, “One must have the correct attitude when acknowledging fault. If you’re sincere in your regret, then you can kneel on the ground and apologize to me. I’m a magnanimous man. I can still give you the job.”

The atmosphere of the room suddenly dropped below freezing. Qin Fen looked coldly at the man drinking tea. He really did need this job, but it didn’t mean that he would bend and scrape before the man and throw away his dignity.

“What’s wrong? Is this your sincerity?” He disdained to even glance at Qin Fen. He looked at the tea in his hand as he said, “It’s all this bastard’s Old Liu’s fault, accepting even trash like this. That’s why progress has been so slow, demoting me down to this wretched place to take over his work! You’re still here? Didn’t your mother teach you anything? Oh, you must not have a mom….”

Crack, crack …. The bones of Qin Fen’s hands rang out endlessly like the sounds of beans bursting. A chilling killing intent for battle flooded the entire room. Being fired and being insulted didn’t matter, but a person should never insult someone else’s mother!

The middle-aged man sitting in the chair gave a disdainful sidelong glance at Qin Fen. “What’s this? You want to fight? Just yourself?”

“Manager Zhang, we’re very sorry. Young people aren’t sensible these days. Please forgive him. Please….”

Two middle-aged construction workers came rushing in. They held Qin Fen’s arms tight from behind, dragging him out the room.

“Little Qin, what’s up with you today….” One of the middle-aged men who dragged Qin Fen out spoke with good intentions. “You can’t beat him! He’s a retired soldier from the military.”

“He insulted my mother.” Qin Fen stared coldly at the small white building, “Never insult another’s family….”