At noon, Chen Tianji Teahouse in the outer city.

"Ever since that bastard with the surname Ting left, my waist doesn't ache, my legs don't hurt, and I feel strong when working!"

"Haha, the same in our place, one dog of the factory manager left, and our old captain took over managing us, even paying off the wages owed to us before, everyone has been working with great energy these days!"

"Don't insult dogs, dogs can understand human language, but humans can't understand dog language, those idiot factory managers neither understand human language nor speak dog language themselves, yet insist on talking, dogs are much smarter than them!"

"Right, well said! Haha! You should submit this to the 'Youth Daily', maybe you can earn some manuscript fees!"

"You're out of date, this is the latest content from the 'Youth Daily', I copied it, hehe."

Mu Qingmei was eating cold fish skin salad and noodles with fried sauce while listening to the workers' chat beside her, feeling secretly proud.

Both the 'Youth Daily' and the 'Worker Reform' plan are closely related to her, she naturally has the qualification to be proud.

Although there is no actual alliance, and they haven't even met each other, Jing Zhengwei and Yin Yin Yin have already started deep cooperation with White Night, and Yin Minghong is the bridge and executor between the two parties.

Inside White Night, the plan to 'promote worker representatives to replace business association leaders' is called 'Worker Reform'.

Initially, many people believed Jing Zhengwei was simply using White Night to achieve his own goals, not actually improving the workers' environment, even possibly discarding White Night like a rag after exploiting its value.

But seeing Jing Zhengwei truly relinquishing all control to Yin Minghong, even willing to clear the workers' debt—even if using other business associations' assets—they gradually developed respect for Jing Zhengwei.

There's no other way, Xuanzhu White Night has been too bitter these years. They're like fertile soil living in mud, even if they exhaust themselves, they just barely slow down the pollution from the mud, while evil flowers absorbing nutrients grow everywhere in the mud.

These clean soils have no way to nurture flowers belonging to White Night.

At this time, the outsider Chenfeng's evil land 'Yin Yin Yin' appeared.

Actually, not everyone approves of Yin Minghong's cooperation with 'Yin Yin Yin', but as time went on, Xuanzhu White Night found 'Yin Yin Yin' accomplished many things they couldn't.

The most successful was 'Yin Yin Yin' successfully nurturing Jing Zhengwei into the number one white lotus of Xuanzhu!

With the backing of Jing Zhengwei, White Night also ushered in their era of doing as they please. Among the worker supervisors of 156 factory stores, one-fifth are White Night people, and one-third showed interest in White Night's ideology after testing.

In just a few months, Xuanzhu White Night experienced unprecedented expansion!

The most obvious change is that at White Night's small gatherings in recent days, the White Night Walkers' usual worried, bitter expressions were replaced with hope, passionately discussing the details of the 'Worker Reform' plan and subsequent response plans.

The seniors who used to urge Mu Qingmei to train diligently, now no one paid attention to Mu Qingmei at that gathering!

They previously had such expectations for Mu Qingmei because they had lost hope, and Mu Qingmei represented the hope of the next generation; but now, they found they could rejuvenate themselves, naturally no longer having any demand for Mu Qingmei!

Just like when a large gaming account is messed up, people rely on the small account; now a reset service is suddenly offered, everyone naturally picks up the large account to continue playing while the small account develops on its own!

Mu Qingmei was very satisfied, even feeling less guilty when slacking off during training.

At this moment, a team from the Linhai Army passed by outside the shop, and the voices inside the teahouse lowered until the Linhai Army left and the noise resumed.

Suddenly someone asked, "…How much money do you think they took?"

'They' wasn't specified, but everyone understood what he was asking about.

"Surely a lot, you see those big bosses, none of them are willing to give, but had to let Jing Zhengwei lead the army to seize it from Lord Wang Hai and his little daughter before they'd obediently hand over money," another well-informed tea guest sneered, "Surely an amount large enough they'd rather be cut off from descendents than give it up."

"They've taken so much, can the bosses still pay us wages in the future?"

"What are you afraid of, now it's not the bosses paying wages, but the supervisors."

"Is Lord Wang Hai's daughter pretty?"

"Surely she's pretty, otherwise why would Jing Zhengwei seize her? In my opinion, Jing Zhengwei surely wouldn't just take Lord Wang Hai's daughter, other old gentlemen's beautiful daughters, they've probably all been sent to his house to be ruined."

"Becoming the groom every night!"

"Isn't that right!"

"Can he handle it?"

"You don't get it, rich people can use medicine. I heard from my uncle's friend's coworker's relative that there's a kind of medicine in Xiangxue Sea, taking it makes one as durable and strong as the machines in the factories, rumbling away for days and nights nonstop!"

Everyone sighed, "I'm green with envy!"

"In my opinion, this Jing Zhengwei isn't a good thing," a tea guest said excitedly, "Look, he took the Linhai Army to rob Xuanzhu County's rich people's money. But don't interrupt me, do you think rich people's money has nothing to do with ourselves? Wrong!"

"Rich people also need to spend money, if they don't, what's the difference with feces? Rich people need money to employ workers, servants, buy delicacies, now Jing Zhengwei took people to rob their money, what should the rich do? They will definitely spend less."

"If they spend less, it definitely means someone loses their job because of it, isn't that right?"

"You've been watching with glee these days, but the Linhai Army didn't just rob the rich people's money, it also robbed Xuanzhu County's money, which means they robbed ours!"

Other things they might not understand, but with the 'rob our money' as the finishing touch, everyone immediately had a quick brain shift.

"Right!"

"The Linhai Army is no good, Jing Zhengwei isn't either!"

"How can there be good people among the rich?"

"Don't forget, speaking of cannibalism, the Jing Family used to be the worst!"

"My neighbor's daughter was sold to the Jing Family by her gambler dad, a few years ago she suddenly died…"

"I heard Jing Zhengwei was particularly lustful in the past…"

Mu Qingmei listened angrily, wanting to speak loudly to clear Jing Zhengwei's name, but the words stopped at the lips, unsure how to continue.

Because despite the workers' guests adding many fabricated elements in their words, the general theme was right.

Jing Zhengwei helping the Linhai Army seize money, indeed seized Xuanzhu County's assets. Even if those assets only had equivalent value and not practical use value, they would severely damage Xuanzhu County's economic situation.

And the evil reputation of the Jing Family and Jing Zhengwei, it's completely irrefutable, even not needing anyone to slander.

These small common people can't imagine the overwhelming crimes of the Jing Family and the criminal record of Jing Zhengwei himself.

What they said about those trivial rumors, it's already considered whitewashing the Jing Family.

"Hmph, if it wasn't for Jing Zhengwei, how would you have money and time to come out and drink tea and eat?" Mu Qingmei thought fiercely.

How could the lower-level workers have money to come out for lunch at a restaurant? Isn't it because the debts were settled a while ago, and many workers received a windfall, spending money lavishly.

The worker debt problem in Xuanzhu County is quite serious. Which factory head doesn't line their pockets? The workers hate the factory owners for a reason; they simply had no ability before to bargain, and had to plead with all might for the factory heads' pity, yet even so, the lower-level workers were just barely getting by.

Thus, Mu Qingmei was angry for a while, and with a glance at those workers' shabby appearance, rough skin, and tattered clothes, her anger vanished entirely.

What replaced it was infinite fighting spirit—

After labor reform, comes the establishment of Xuanzhu Labor Union;

Then, disband the patrol team, reorganize the Patrol Execution Guard, and set up a Workers' Guard;

Next, abolish the servant system, prohibit putting the "Grace Lock" on others, and restrict it to use in animal husbandry;

Also, public trials for slave owners and capitalists, and old officials and old nobility;

Plus, there are many things to do, many.

She will work with other White Night Walkers to transform their hometown into their dream.

She wants everyone to know that Jing Zhengwei is a bad person, but not just a bad person.

Mu Qingmei glanced at the people in the teahouse, threw down the meal money imposingly, and left.

You doubters of Jing Zhengwei, just wait!

In a few months, it'll slap your faces so hard!

Hmph!

Mu Qingmei returned to the newspaper office, hurried to the editor-in-chief's office on the third floor, pushed the door open, and said, "Qing Lan, let's write a report on Chairman Jing!"

No way!

The more she thought, the angrier she became!

If slapping faces takes months, what's the point?

It'd be meaningful to slap their faces tomorrow!

"Ah?" Qing Lan looked up at Mu Qingmei, "Why?"

Mu Qingmei sat down and said, "Chairman Jing has done a lot of good things recently. I think we should write a report for him to give everyone a correct understanding."

Huyan Siluo, who was writing nearby, curiously asked, "What kind of correct understanding? A great demon?"

"No!" Mu Qingmei glanced at her, "I clearly said good things!"

"I thought you were speaking sarcastically…"

"I'm not!"

Days ago, Qing Lan would bring this pure and charming girl to work; people at the newspaper only knew her name as Silo, and that she was the editor's assistant, usually never leaving the editor-in-chief's office.

But when she and the editor pass or leave, the whole second-floor editorial office falls silent, and everyone's gaze, regardless of gender, moves with them until they disappear into the stairwell.

Mu Qingmei initially thought this beautiful girl was from the Jing Family, until she mentioned it to Yin Minghong at home and found out this quiet and lovely girl is the little daughter of the Duke of Wanghai, truly a noble lady.

As to why Qing Lan brought her to work...

Relating to the fact that Jing Zhengwei no longer comes to the newspaper office and seemingly stays home all the time...

Mu Qingmei knows nothing and doesn't dare to ask.

"What misunderstandings do outsiders have about Chairman Jing?" Qing Lan asked.

Mu Qingmei said, "It's just, they still think Chairman Jing is the same as before, a heinous villain, it sounds very uncomfortable. We all know Chairman Jing has changed a lot!"

"So you're angry because of outsiders' misunderstanding about Chairman Jing, wanting to clarify for him?"

"That's right, exactly!"

"Qing Mei, you really care about Chairman Jing's reputation, do you respect him?"

"This…" Mu Qingmei thought for a moment, shook her head, "I can't say I respect him, but compared to before, he doesn't seem so bad to me now."

"What impression do you have of Chairman Jing now?"

"My impression of Chairman Jing? I think Chairman Jing is smart, rational, has a big-picture vision, great perseverance, dreams, his ability is good, although he doesn't speak well, he's quite easy to get along with, and pretty cute—"

Just as Mu Qingmei endlessly talked about her impression of Jing Zhengwei, she glanced at Qing Lan, seeing the latter staring at her with a smile.

Suddenly, a chill struck her heart.

As a genius Martial Artist, her instinct impulsively told her to say:

"—And just a perfect match with Qing Lan, such a nice couple!"

Qing Lan's face turned red, "Hey? What are you talking about…"

"Really, I think you truly suit each other. When writing the report, you should include Qing Lan too; without Qing Lan, Chairman Jing wouldn't have achieved what he has now."

"It's not that exaggerated..."

"Yes, absolutely, if Qing Lan doesn't let me write, I'll eat fish skin until I die!"

Seeing Qing Lan shyly lower her head, Mu Qingmei seized the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief.

Almost lost it.

She finally realized that being a spy is indeed very dangerous.