Chapter 352 Nothing Belongs to Me Anymore
Liu Wangxue asked Xu Qingsong in a low voice in Chinese: "What he just said means that he wants me to introduce him to a girlfriend, right?"
Richard spoke too fast, and Liu Wangxue was afraid that she had heard it wrong, so she checked with Xu Qingsong again.
Xu Qingsong smiled and nodded: "You heard it right, that's what I meant."
Liu Wangxue asked again: "He also said he would 'officially settle in Country Z'. Is he not leaving?"
Xu Qingsong just remembered that he had not told Liu Wangxue about this matter yet: "It is not convenient for me to tell you now. You can ask him yourself later if he is willing to tell you."
As they were talking, the traffic police came over and asked Du Yunkai and Richard to show their IDs: "It is common sense to wear seat belts when riding in a car, but you, the passenger not only didn't wear one, but also left the seat while driving and tried to go to the back. This can easily lead to danger, don't you know?"
Richard was confused and turned to ask Du Yunkai: "What did he mean?"
"Foreigners in Country Z must also abide by the law." Without waiting for Du Yunkai to help translate, the traffic policeman started speaking English and gave Richard a lecture.
Richard nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I understand, thank you sir, I was just too excited just now."
The traffic policeman returned the documents to them, turned around, and saw that Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong in the back seat were not wearing seat belts either. He asked for their ID cards and said something to them.
"If your car ever gets into an accident, the injuries will be the most serious." The traffic police returned their ID cards to the two of them and said, "Okay, considering that this is your first offense, I'll give you a verbal warning. If you do it again next time, you'll get a ticket."
The three passengers fastened their seat belts obediently.
The car was back on the road. Du Yunkai wanted to joke, but his tone was serious: "Very good, Richard, congratulations again. You have a criminal record since you came here, and you have dragged the three of us into it. What if this brings a lot of inconvenience to your life in the future?"
Richard didn't believe it: "Kai, I don't understand the laws here, but I'm not an idiot."
Du Yunkai pointed back with one hand: "If you don't believe me, ask them?"
Richard immediately became nervous, remembering the small thing similar to a POS machine in the traffic police's hand. With a swipe, he didn't know whether it was entering or checking their identity information. He immediately turned to look at the two people in the back seat.
But the seat belt restrained him again. He didn't want to be caught again, so he looked in the rearview mirror and asked, "Xue, Song, is what he said true?"
Liu Wangxue was amused.
Xu Qingsong also laughed and comforted Richard: "He was joking, don't listen to his nonsense."
Richard was relieved, and turned to look at Du Yunkai, saying in a sad tone, "Kai, you have changed. You are no longer friendly and bully foreigners. I have to reconsider the possibility of settling in Country Z."
Du Yunkai laughed: "Are you threatening me? Who just said that he wanted to settle down officially? Who asked the beautiful woman in the back seat to introduce him to a girlfriend? Sure, if you want to leave, I will turn around right now and take you to the airport."
"Just kidding," Richard waved his hand and looked at the rearview mirror again, "Xue, would you like to introduce me to a girlfriend?"
Liu Wangxue glanced at Xu Qingsong and couldn't help laughing: "Of course I'm willing, but I don't have many friends around me. If you don't mind, I'll ask my other friends to keep an eye out for you and introduce you to someone suitable. What do you think?"
"Sure, sure!" Richard said, "I'll be working in Kai's studio from now on, so I'm not in a hurry. I also know that fate won't come to you in a hurry."
As he spoke, he praised Liu Wangxue: "Xue, you are such a kind and good-hearted beautiful lady. Song, I envy you even more now."
Liu Wangxue then asked him, "Richard, can I ask you something? What do you mean by 'settling down'? Do you mean that your future career plan, including your life, will be here? You won't be going back to Country M?"
"I'm not going back," Richard leaned back in his seat, looking at the clean and flat road ahead with cars coming and going, the pedestrians hurrying on both sides of the road, and the green and lush trees on the roadside. There was no trace of nostalgia in his tone, "There is nothing that belongs to me there anymore."
Last month, the elite team of D&L Game came to visit. After the cooperation with Jingshan Technology broke down, Richard was unable to participate in the following trip. On the day when the negotiations broke down, the senior management of D&L ordered him to return to China immediately, so he bought a ticket for that night and flew back.
After the plane landed, Richard didn't even have time to rest, and rushed to the company. After arriving at the company, before he even had time to sit down, he was called in by the senior management for a talk, and received a notice of "suspension pending investigation".
Richard thought it was ridiculous that the reason he was suspended pending investigation was actually because of the cooperation negotiations with Jingshan Technology. The senior management believed that the cooperation failed to be concluded because of him.
Richard was very unconvinced: "Kai is my friend, and I was the one who facilitated the cooperation intention. Why should I interfere?"
The investigator said, "That's the point, Richard. Because he's your friend, your position is biased. You're not really thinking about the company, and what you're doing is damaging to the company's interests."
"What did I do?" Richard demanded.
The investigator looked at him scrutinizingly. “You openly questioned the terms of cooperation proposed by Edwin at the negotiation table.”
"Can't I question it?" Richard asked back, "The cooperation terms he proposed were not what we had planned in advance. It was him! He was the one who changed the cooperation terms temporarily and caused the negotiations to break down! You should investigate him! Instead of questioning me here!"
The investigator said, "Richard, you should know that Edwin represents the company and his wishes are the company's wishes. You openly question him and you are slandering the company. Therefore, we have reason to suspect that you are trying hard to promote cooperation with Jingshan Technology because you have reached some kind of agreement with them and have ulterior motives, and want to take advantage of the opportunity to reap the company's interests for yourself."
"Huh?" Richard almost laughed, thinking that he was a genius of logic. "Do you want to listen to what you are saying?"
The investigator said angrily: "Richard, please cooperate with the investigation."
"Cooperate, of course I will." Richard said with sarcasm in his tone, "I want to ask a question, Mr. Investigator. Before the team set off, Edwin was parachuted in to replace me. This shouldn't be a spur-of-the-moment decision of the company, right?"
The investigator said calmly: "You have no right to ask, you just need to state the facts."
After this conversation, Richard had nothing to do in the company, so he stayed at home for a week. During this time, he was invited to a party by a colleague from his former company, where he accidentally heard that his current situation was caused by Edwin, and that this idiot immediately reported him to the company after the negotiation.
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