Chapter 519: How About Driving Jiang Huaiyu Away
Chapter 519: Should Jiang Huaiyu Be Driven Away?
Jiang Huaiyu panicked. Her mother had already passed away; now her father was dead too. Only she and her brother were left at home. What would they do in the future? Was she supposed to live with the stigma of being the child of a dead human trafficker?
She went again to find the small courtyard where she had arranged to meet the mysterious person, but there was no message left by any mysterious person to be found.
She didn’t know that the mysterious person was Lao San, and Lao San had been killed by Gu Dongxing and Jiang Mengyu.
In a state of utter confusion, she decided to first seek justice for her father and clear his name.
She didn’t know whom to turn to, but having heard that there was an Anti-human trafficking office in the county, she immediately went there. She happened to run into Shi Renxin, who was waiting to be invited to the Anti-human trafficking victory banquet.
Shi Renxin was worried about missing the opportunity to attend the banquet. Upon hearing Jiang Huaiyu’s plea to vindicate her father, despite not knowing if the story was true, he took her along to the banquet.
There she saw Jiang Mengyu, which was surprising to her. Didn’t she hear that her friend Wang Huilan had already alighted from the vehicle at the county?
Why was Jiang Mengyu here?
Director Shi, hearing Jiang Mengyu not immediately yielding her seat and instead answering back with a surprised expression, felt bold.
He dared to ask her to give up her seat, not only because the seat was by the door but also because he had never seen her before. Even if she was someone from within the system, she certainly wasn’t an official.
He said impatiently in a low voice, "Just leave when I ask you to. Why all the talk?"
Mengyu looked at Director Shi with a half-smile, "I could give up this seat, but are you sure you want the lady you brought to sit here?"
Jiang Mengyu sneered inwardly, this seat by the door wasn’t just for serving the entire table, but also for settling the bill.
Director Shi was taken aback, recalling the implication of this seat. But having spoken, how could he retract his words?
Furthermore, he assumed that Mengyu was just a cashier from the unit paying for today’s meal, invited by the leader to freeload, so he said, "We have matters to discuss, please step aside for now. You can come back after we finish our discussion."
Meaning, please come back and settle the bill after we’ve finished eating.
"I’m really sorry, but I really can’t give up this seat because, you see, I’m the one hosting today. Wouldn’t it be inappropriate for the host not to accompany the guests?" she said.
Director Shi was a bit stunned. This event was personally overseen by Vice County Magistrate Wen, and on the same night, a colleague from the government office notified him to join the operation, but he had excused himself due to family matters and therefore was not informed of the banquet.
Thus, as the director of the Anti-human trafficking office, aside from the official matters, he was kept in the dark about everything else.
He didn’t even know that Jiang Mengyu had funded the anti-trafficking operation and that it was she who was hosting the dinner that evening to thank those who participated in the operation.
Even the banquet was a result of her casually mentioning to Vice Town Chief Jing that she would like to invite him for a meal, deciding to invite all who were involved in the operation that day, and eventually, Vice County Magistrate Wen turned it into a celebration banquet.
"Furthermore, I do not welcome this lady to the event I am hosting, so please take her away," Mengyu added.
Upon hearing that Jiang Mengyu was actually the host, Director Shi was shocked; he had assumed she was a minor character, but it turned out she was the host of the banquet.
And she intended to drive away the host?
Hearing that Jiang Mengyu wanted to drive both him and his companion away also made him feel embarrassed. The position of the director of the Anti-human trafficking office was not an official one, and it was rare for him to have the chance to dine with leaders to foster relationships. How could he just leave after arriving?
He looked at the Chairwoman of the Women’s Federation and the Committee Secretary, both of whom were part of the Anti-human trafficking office; they were just chatting among themselves, ignoring the fact that their director was being driven away. Why weren’t they speaking up?
He glanced at Jiang Huaiyu. Maybe he should just drive her away?