"He's young?" Jiang Si sat in her chair and scoffed. "He's young? Is he even an adult?"
Director Jing, bending over, was taken aback: "He's twenty-six this year, he's already an adult!"
“Oh, I thought he was a baby who hadn’t been weaned yet, but he’s already an adult.” Jiang Si raised an eyebrow: “It’s easier now that he’s an adult. Come on, Mr. Jingran, didn’t you want to call me? Here I am, just say what you have to say, I’m listening.”
Jingran's face was half red and swollen, and she forced a smile: "Jiang Jiang baby... no... Miss Jiang Jiang, please let me explain, things are not as you see them."
"Yes, things aren't as you see them. It's Liu Yuntao, and all these ordinary people without superpowers, who are lazy and unwilling to do any extra work."
"As a planter, I can't tolerate others being lazy, so I spoke a bit harshly and threatened them a little. My main purpose was to make them stop being lazy, cherish their hard-earned jobs, create value for you, make more money for you, and benefit all mankind."
Yes, he did all this so that Jiang Jiang could earn more money and grow more things. Jiang Jiang will definitely understand someone as selfless as him.
Everyone: "!!!!"
gab.
gab.
He's talking nonsense.
He just wants others to work for him for free; he wants to exploit others.
He doesn't even consider ordinary people without superpowers as human beings.
They made them work for him, often until the early hours of the morning.
Jiang Si chuckled and said, "They all slacked off for my sake, to create value for me, so I wronged you. What I heard and saw with my own eyes was all fake?"
"No, no, I wouldn't dare... I mainly wanted to..."
"Pah!" Liu Yuntao spat directly at Jing Ran, interrupting him: "Jing Ran, you are the grower in the broccoli planting area, the cucumber planting area, the tomato planting area, the green bean planting area, and the dozen or so planting areas next to you. For the past two months, you have been relying on your status as a grower to find people to work for you everywhere. When others refuse, you threaten them, saying that you know Jiang Jiang, and that firing them, firing us, is a matter of minutes."
“We are paid for working here during the day and for working overtime at night, but you never pay the people who work on your plantation. You make them work for free.”
"Wait a minute!" Xia Pu suddenly interrupted, "Liu Yuntao, you just said that Mr. Jingran made others do his work, and made them work overtime at night for free without paying them wages?"
Liu Yuntao nodded heavily: "Yes, Mr. Jingran asked the workers from the dozen or so plantations around him to work for him at night, and they didn't even ask for money."
Jing Ran was horrified and kept looking at Director Jing for help.
Xia Pu immediately opened the personal terminal and tapped on it with his finger. A few minutes later, he frowned and said, "In the past two months, the overtime wages for the cucumber plantation, tomato plantation, green bean and potato plantation, and more than a dozen other plantations near the broccoli plantation have been paid. The broccoli plantation collected the wages on their behalf."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Si sighed, "Oh my, on my planet, people are taking my salary and making my employees work for free? Tsk tsk, Director Jing, who do you think is getting paid?"
Director Jing: "!!!!!!!"
Was the overtime pay collected on behalf of the broccoli grower?
Who received it?
Is it orderly?
He's incredibly audacious.
Director Jing broke out in a cold sweat: "I...I don't know."
"You don't know?" Jiang Si asked slowly and deliberately, "You're the manager of the broccoli plantation, how could you not know?"
"Okay, do you know all the people with superpowers at the broccoli plantation?"
The other people with superpowers at the broccoli plantation answered in unison without hesitation: "We don't know, we don't know anything!"
Unbeknownst to them, their efforts in cultivating seedlings, recording data, and working tirelessly day and night, just like the large-scale cultivation of broccoli, would make their resumes look better when they leave Rebirth Star.
"You don't know? Then it can only be Mr. Jingran!" Jiang Si's sharp gaze fell on Jingran: "Come on, Mr. Jingran, tell me, how much salary did you embezzle by using my employees' overtime hours?"
Jingran's legs trembled and his teeth chattered: "I...I..."
"If you're hesitating, then don't say anything more." Jiang Si interrupted him directly, shouting, "Xia Pu, call the police and hand him over to the police station, along with his second uncle, Director Jing..."
Director Jing's heart skipped a beat: "Jiang Jiang..."
"Shh!" Jiang Si made a shushing gesture: "As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked too. As his second uncle, you brought him to Rebirth Star, so it's impossible that you don't know what he's done."
"Don't tell me he's young and doesn't know any better, and ask me to let him go. If that's the case, I'm young and don't know any better either. Does that mean I can kill people at will?"
Director Jing dared not utter another word.
His future was over; his position as head of the Plant Science Department at the Second Military Academy was gone.
Xia Pu was about to make a call for help when suddenly, Jing Ran, whose legs were trembling, slapped Xia Pu's personal terminal: "Don't call the police!"
Xia Pu's arm, which was carrying the quantum computer, was hit, and his arm went numb.
Jingran turned his head to look at Jiang Si: "Jiang Jiang, my darling, I am the chief graduate student of the Planting Department of the Second Military Academy. Broccoli grown by me grows strong and lush."
Jing Ran pointed at Liu Yuntao and the others as he spoke: "These useless people, useless people without any spiritual power. I'm doing them a favor by making them work. What's wrong with me taking a little salary from them? I'm working here for you, researching broccoli for you, and I haven't taken a single star coin. What's wrong with me taking a little salary from them?"
"Shut up," Director Jing snapped. "Apologize to Miss Jiang Jiang right now."
Jingran raised her head and retorted stubbornly, "I did nothing wrong, why should I apologize?"
“Yes, you did nothing wrong, you just committed a crime, and crimes are punishable by law.” Jiang Si put her hands on the armrests of the chair, stood up, and walked to Jing Ran: “As for you saying you’re working for me here, let me remind you, I didn’t invite you here, you begged me to come.”
"Moreover, working for me means you'll get priority access to the seeds I provide, priority access to all the data, priority access to purchasing mature fruits and vegetables, and most importantly, you'll receive guidance from Lord Gongming."
"You're telling me now that you've been researching broccoli for me without getting a single star coin and have suffered all sorts of injustices? Fine, Jingran, next, I'll let you taste what real injustice is like."
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