Chapter 747 - 743: Announcing the List

Everyone exchanged glances, then shuffled to the side.

Just like that, Aunt Leng and her group were left exposed.

Seeing this, the few of them also quickly moved to the side.

The crowd was speechless.

A blunt auntie standing to the side pushed Aunt Leng forward.

"What are you doing over here? Weren’t you lot just talking about going to the brigade leader for an explanation? Well, everyone’s here today, so if you’ve got a grievance, spit it out."

Gu Jiaojiao regarded Aunt Leng’s group with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile. There were seven or eight of them. She recognized most, but a few were unfamiliar, though she had often seen them hanging around with Aunt Leng.

The women squirmed, unsettled by the blatant stares from all around.

They never expected the others to play so dirty and sell them out just like that.

Li Hongmei was the first to speak up.

"So what if it was us? You haven’t been showing up for work these past few days. We were just voicing a reasonable concern. We haven’t even done anything yet, so do you really need to act like this?"

With Li Hongmei taking the lead, the others also started to feel that Gu Jiaojiao was making a mountain out of a molehill. They might have been planning to go to the brigade leader for an explanation, but they hadn’t actually gone yet, had they?

Since nothing had actually happened, for Gu Jiaojiao to cause such a fuss meant that she was the one in the wrong.

Gu Jiaojiao was completely unfazed by Li Hongmei’s outburst. Her expression remained placid as she even affirmed her words.

"You’re right. I haven’t been reporting for work."

"Brigade Leader, I’m the one who designed these things. I should have the right to decide what happens to them."

The brigade leader had a feeling Gu Jiaojiao was about to stir up trouble, but since she had indeed created these things, he couldn’t refuse her.

"You can decide what to do with them."

Gu Jiaojiao nodded. "Good. I know that over the past few days, many people have had a problem with me, saying quite a few nasty things behind my back. I won’t mince words. The entire families of the people on this list are forbidden from using the things I developed."

Aunt Leng’s eye twitched.

Li Hongmei’s expression turned sour as well.

The faces of the women standing with Aunt Leng darkened in turn.

Gu Jiaojiao, showing no mercy, held up the list and began to read.

The list contained over thirty names.

Some of them had tried to blend back into the crowd after Gu Jiaojiao had started talking.

When these people heard their own names, they immediately flew into an uproar.

"Gu Zhiqing, what’s the meaning of this? We haven’t done anything to you! What gives you the right to stop us from using them?"

The brigade leader didn’t believe Gu Jiaojiao would target these people for no reason. Besides, he figured the list in her hand wasn’t just put together randomly.

He reasonably suspected that these people must have done something to anger her, which was why she was now pulling this stunt.

’Such troublesome people.’

He was furious, but he didn’t speak up to help them.

The couple had contributed so much to the brigade. Even setting aside his good relationship with Leng Yuan, he wouldn’t have the nerve to plead on behalf of these people.

’You have to take responsibility for your own actions.’

Gu Jiaojiao looked at the indignant faces of those who had stepped forward to protest and began reading directly from her notes.

"June twenty-seventh, ten in the morning, in the fields by the river embankment. Lin Chunhua and Chen Meifen were gossiping about me. They said I was a vixen and wondered if I’d seduced the brigade leader to get special permission not to work."

"The Lin Family and the Chen Family are forbidden from using anything I’ve developed. Next. June twenty-seventh, in the fields at the foot of South Mountain..."

It was a mystery where Gu Jiaojiao got her information, but she read out everything: who was there, what time it was, and exactly what nasty things they had said about her.

The crowd was speechless.