Chapter 118 Jinjiang Debut
Bai Mian: "The surveillance camera in your room secretly recorded everything about you, including the footage of the team leader copying the materials from your computer. This is strong evidence for you to identify the team leader. If something happens in the future, you can use this video to prove that it was the team leader who did it."
Xia Yu was in a dilemma: "Now I have the evidence, but the question is how can I get it? Do I have to confront the landlord face to face? Ugh..."
When Xia Yu thought of the landlord, she wanted to vomit again: "I don't want to see this man anymore. I feel sick just thinking about him!"
Seeing that his owner was sad, Daju jumped into Xia Yu's arms sensibly and swept her cheek with his big furry tail. Xia Yu buried her face in Daju's belly and shed a few tears. At this moment, she suddenly felt very tired. She missed her parents and her little bedroom in her hometown.
Bai Mian: "I understand your feelings. You are wandering alone in a big city, bearing huge work pressure, and being spied on by the landlord. No one can stand it. But it has already happened, so you can only face it. The most important thing right now is to come up with a solution."
Xia Yu nodded and sat up straight. "Then I will go back to Beijing now. I will find a new place to live and move my family there. Then I will go find the landlord and get the video from him. Once I get the video, I will send it to the company's HR and they will deal with the team leader."
"After this storm has calmed down, I will go and fight with the landlord. I want him to refund my rent, delete all the videos, and compensate me for my mental damages. If he doesn't, I will sue him!"
"This plan is good, but why would the landlord give you the video?" Bai Mian asked.
Xia Yu was stumped by the question: "This... I don't know either. Master, please give me some advice!"
Bai Mian said softly: "Don't bother so much, just call the police now and everything will be solved."
Xia Yu asked hurriedly: "Why did you call the police?"
Bai Mian: "Let the police search your residence in the name of discovering a camera, and then let them go directly to the next room to arrest your landlord."
Xia Yu was very confused: "In this case, the secret filming problem is solved, but the original film is still in the hands of the team leader, what should I do?"
Bai Mian smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, you don't have to think of other ways, just call the police and these two troubles can be solved at once."
Xia Yu had no choice but to do as Bai Mian said. She called the police in Beijing and claimed that she had found a hidden camera in her rental house. She then gave the police the detailed address of the rental house. The police promised to arrive quickly. Xia Yu hung up the phone, anxiously waiting for the result.
The police did not disappoint Xia Yu. Only after more than ten minutes, Xia Yu received a call back from the police. The police had entered her rental house and indeed found a lot of cameras in the house. Now the police have arrested the landlord. However, unexpectedly, there was another person in the landlord's room. That person was holding a large amount of cash and was about to trade with the landlord, but was caught by the police.
After the police said the man's name, Xia Yu exclaimed: "Team leader? Why is he there?"
The police still needed to investigate the details and didn't have time to talk to Xia Yu much. They just asked her to explain in detail when she arrived at the police station.
Xia Yu hung up the phone, and Bai Mian answered her doubts: "Your team leader showed up at the landlord's house to pay hush money. In fact, he has been threatened by the landlord for a long time."
Xia Yu was confused: "What's going on? Do they know each other?"
Bai Mian: "They were strangers originally, but they got to know each other because of you. That day, the team leader entered your room while you were away and copied the materials. The landlord saw this through the surveillance camera and immediately became nervous. After all, this is his house, and he was afraid that thieves would come in."
"Seeing the team leader's sneaky behavior, the landlord decided that he was up to no good. When the team leader came out of the house, the landlord stopped him, showed him the surveillance video, and told him to either call the police or pay a hush money."
"What the team leader did was shameful, so of course he didn't agree to call the police. If he called the police and made a big fuss, he would definitely lose his job. His child was just one month old, and his family was still waiting for him to earn money to support the family, so he had no choice but to compromise with the landlord and agreed to pay him hush money."
Xia Yu couldn't help but ask, "How much hush money does he want?"
Bai Mian raised his finger: "Three hundred thousand."
"Hiss..." Xia Yu shook his head. "It hurts just thinking about it, but there's nothing I can do. After all, they have something on us. Besides, our jobs are high-paying jobs, and we all have savings. He should be able to afford the three hundred thousand. He really deserves it. Who told him to do this?"
Bai Mian: "Before this happened, your team leader had just bought a new car with his savings. Now he was facing blackmail from the landlord, so he had no choice but to sell the new car to barely scrape together 300,000 yuan. So during the time he disappeared, he was not resting at home, but taking annual leave to scrape together money."
"After collecting enough money, the landlord invited the team leader to his home to trade. They were afraid of being discovered by you, so they chose today, the day you were away from home, to trade. However, they didn't expect that they would be caught by the police. Now the landlord's secret filming and blackmail were all exposed, and the same thing happened to the team leader copying the footage."
Xia Yu finally showed a relaxed smile: "Well done, well done, these two villains, it's like a dog biting a dog with a mouth full of fur!"
"Now that the team leader has been arrested, I can finally give an explanation to the company. Phew, I was scared to death."
Xia Yu said this and picked up her phone to call the company's HR.
After HR answered the phone, Xia Yu told him the whole story. I don't know what HR said, but Xia Yu's expression relaxed at first, and then he was stunned, and he stood there.
A kind-hearted lady stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Is your company still going to fire you? This is too inhumane!"
"No, my case is not a problem," Xia Yu said slowly, "HR said that although I violated company regulations, I was working overtime after all, and this incident did not cause a big disaster. Since I have been working diligently, they will not fire me, but only deduct two months' salary. As for the team leader, he will be fired and they will inform the whole company."
The old lady asked in confusion: "Isn't this a good thing? Your job is saved, why are you still so depressed?"
Xia Yu said in shock: "Lingling-Lingling is dead. She died suddenly in the middle of the night yesterday!"
"Lingling?"
Everyone present was stunned for a moment, and then someone remembered that Lingling was the colleague who had always sat on the left side of Xia Yu's workstation.
Xia Yu trembled and said, "Lingling died in the rental house. She was found dead half a day later. She died suddenly in the middle of the night while working overtime. However, the company did not give her any compensation. They only notified her family to take her body away."
The onlookers immediately stood up for her:
"Why? The girl died because of overwork. The company has to pay compensation no matter what!"
"Yes, such a young life is gone. Her parents must be heartbroken."
"You don't understand. I've heard from lawyers online that in a case like hers, the employer has reason not to pay compensation, because she died in a rental house, not at work, so it has nothing to do with the employer!"
"Tell me, if you make people go to bed at three and get up at five every day, how can their health not be affected? This kind of company is simply killing people!"
Xia Yu sat in a chair, listening to everyone's words. The more she listened, the sadder she felt, as if she had seen herself being the next person to die suddenly. In the past six months, she always felt pain in her heart from time to time, and the physical examination also found several breast nodules, but for the sake of money, she could only grit her teeth and persevere. Now, hearing the news of Lingling's death, she realized that there are things in life that are far more important than money, and that is health.
If you lose your life, what’s the point of making a lot of money?
The more Xia Yu thought about it, the sadder she became. She hugged Daju tightly in her arms and said, "No, baby, I will never let you become a child without a mother!"
The big orange cat felt hurt from being hugged, and grimaced in pain, but he did not struggle.
Bai Mian smiled gently: "Maybe this is an opportunity for you. You can change your life from now on."
Xia Yu nodded vigorously: "I quit. I will submit my resignation application when I get back. I want to fire this company! Anyway, I have saved some money in the past two years, enough to support me and Daju. I have made up my mind. I will not drift in Beijing anymore. I will go back to my hometown and find a small company to work for. Although the salary will be much less, the consumption in a small place is also low. The most important thing is that I don't have to work overtime day and night anymore!"
Xia Yu held up the big orange tree and cheered, "Baby, from now on mommy will have more time to spend with you!"
The big orange cat also let out a long series of cheerful calls, and Bai Mian translated for it:
"It said that it is willing to follow you no matter you are rich or poor. Even if your income decreases in the future, it can tighten its belt and eat less. It can still make ends meet!"
Xia Yu kissed Daju's nose excitedly: "It's a deal then. I'll lose weight when I go back. It's a deal!"
After paying Bai Mian the pulse diagnosis fee, Xia Yu thanked Bai Mian again and again before leaving. Her steps were much more relaxed when she left than when she came. It was obvious that she had let go of a huge weight in her heart. She must have been eager to resign for a long time.
After Xia Yu left, Bai Mian took a look at Weibo, and sure enough, a series of entries about Guo Xiangxiang were pushed to the hot search. Although the original footage of this incident was not leaked, everyone saw Guo Xiangxiang's character clearly, and her reputation would probably be worse in the future.
Before he had time to lament Xia Yu's experience, the second client had already sat down in front of Bai Mian with great expectation. She was wearing a gorgeous black dress, and her whole body revealed a temperament that was not short of money. As soon as she sat down, she took the initiative to introduce herself:
"Hello, Master. My name is Jiang Liyi. I'm a car salesman. I'm currently working in Beihai City. I've been doing this for five years. Because I have a wide network of contacts and I'm usually nice to talk to, my sales are always very high. Every month, many people come to me to buy cars, and I can get a lot of commissions. I wanted to keep doing this, but now I'm facing a problem."
Jiang Liyi rubbed her hands and said, "My family is from Qingshui Town. My father died early, so I took my mother's last name. My mother raised me by running a supermarket. The business of my supermarket was always tepid, and we could barely make ends meet. Now that I have grown up and can earn money independently, I originally wanted my mother to close the supermarket and live at home in peace, but she just wouldn't listen!"
"In the past three months, she has been sending me WeChat messages, saying that she wants me to quit my job in Beihai City and go home to inherit the supermarket. I think it's ridiculous. My current income is so high, why should I go back to my hometown to run a supermarket? Master, don't you think so?"
Jiang Liyi sighed: "Alas, no matter how I explain to my mother, she is stubborn and insists that I go home. If I don't go home, she will send me some long articles from morning to night, which makes me upset and can't concentrate on work!"
As she spoke, Jiang Liyi took out her cell phone and showed Bai Mian the chat history between herself and her mother. Bai Mian took a look and found that the situation was indeed as Jiang Liyi said.
Jiang Liyi spread her hands helplessly: "Master, you can see that this is the situation. I don't want to give up my sales job in Beihai City, but I don't want to quarrel with my mother. After all, she raised me with great difficulty. If I quarrel with her, it would be too unreasonable."
"Anyway, I want to ask you, is there any way to make my mother give up this idea without hurting our mother-daughter relationship?"
Bai Mian nodded after hearing this, and understood what Jiang Liyi meant. Then she took Jiang Liyi's hand, placed two fingers on her pulse, closed her eyes, and felt it quietly for a moment.
After a while, Bai Mian opened his eyes, and Jiang Liyi asked anxiously: "Master, how is it, is there any good solution?"
Bai Mian frowned and said worriedly: "Compared to this, I think you should worry about your mother's condition first."
"My mom?" Jiang Liyi was stunned. "Isn't my mom in the supermarket looking after the store? What could be wrong with her?"
Bai Mian picked up Jiang Liyi's phone, pointed at the chat history on it and said, "Since three months ago, the person you've been chatting with is no longer your mother."
Hearing this, everyone present shuddered. Jiang Liyi said in disbelief, "Master, what are you talking about? Look at the text in the chat history. The tone of voice and word choice are clearly my mother's!"
Bai Mian shook his head: "These are just words. The tone of a person's speech can be imitated. Think carefully, have you not received a call or video call from your mother for three months?"
"Yes, my mother is a very nagging person. She used to like to call me and tell me to put on more clothes. I don't know why she hasn't called me recently. I'm too busy at work and I don't have time to call her. To be precise, it seems like I haven't heard her voice or seen her face for a long time..."
At this moment, Jiang Liyi finally believed Bai Mian's words. Her pupils dilated instantly, and countless terrifying associations emerged in her mind -
"Could it be that this whole time, someone else has been pretending to be my mother?"
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