Because Li Ye had a lot on his plate during the New Year holiday, his duty shifts were basically all at night. Anyone who had stood duty knew that what they feared most was a sudden phone call at night—someone with a weak heart could be scared into developing a condition.
That night, while on duty, Li Ye received a call from Lu Zhizhang.
"Li Ye, a district safety inspection team suddenly came to our factory just now. They said they were conducting spot checks on safety issues during the Spring Festival. Our safety is definitely fine! I managed to deal with them, but something felt off. Lai Jiayi's husband was among them."
"Lai Jiayi's husband? When did he change work units?"
Li Ye was quite surprised. Lai Jiayi had never gotten along with him, so he had looked into her background. Her husband, Yuan Jianbo, worked for a district-affiliated government office, but it was a fairly peripheral department.
Back then, Yuan Jianbo had already reached the limit of his ability and connections by getting Lai Jiayi placed in the First Branch Factory to handle Labor Union work. Later, Li Ye and Lai Jiayi had fought so fiercely that they had practically torn off all pretense, yet he had not made a single move.
And now that Lai Jiayi had gone to the Southwest Heavy Truck Company and no longer had any conflict of interest with Li Ye, could it be that her husband still wanted to tangle with him just to vent a little anger?
People who mixed in government offices were not street thugs who would burn through their own health bar fighting over a single "What are you looking at?" Without enough benefit driving them, they rarely made enemies.
Fighting back and forth just to vent a