Chapter 118 Jinjiang First Launch

Bai Mian: "The surveillance camera in your room secretly captured everything about you, including the footage of the team leader copying the footage 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 when I think of him!"

Seeing his owner was sad, Daju jumped into Xia Yu's arms sensibly and stroked 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 things have 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 handle the matter 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 did 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 yourself. Just call the police now and everything will be solved."

Xia Yu asked hurriedly: "What's the reason for calling 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 has been solved, but the original film is still in the hands of the team leader, what should we do?"

Bai Mian smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, you don't have to think of other ways, just call the police and you can solve these two problems 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 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 ten minutes later, 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, but unexpectedly, there was another person in the landlord's room. That person had a large amount of cash and was about to trade with the landlord, but was caught by the police.

When the police said the man's name, Xia Yu exclaimed in surprise: "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, so they just told her to tell them in detail when she got to the police station.

Xia Yu hung up the phone, and Bai Mian answered her questions: "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 at first, but they got to know each other because of you. That day, the team leader entered your room to copy materials while you were away. 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."

"The landlord saw the team leader's sneaky look and thought 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 he certainly didn't agree to call the police. If he did, he would lose his job. His child was just one month old, and his family was still waiting for him to earn money to support them, 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 her head. "It hurts to think about it, but there's nothing I can do. After all, they have something on me. Besides, our jobs are high-paying jobs, and we all have savings. He should be able to pay the three hundred thousand. He really deserves it. Who told him to do this?"

Bai Mian: "Before the incident, your team leader had just used his savings to buy a new car. Now facing the landlord's blackmail, he had no choice but to sell the new car to barely make up 300,000 yuan. So during the time he disappeared, he was not resting at home, but taking annual leave to make money."

"After collecting enough money, the landlord invited the team leader to his home to make the deal. They were afraid of being discovered by you, so they chose today, the day you were away from home, to make the deal. 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 for copying the material."

Xia Yu finally revealed a relaxed smile: "Well done, well done, these two evil guys are just biting each other!"

"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 explained 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 came up 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 time it didn't cause a big disaster. Because 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 also inform the whole company."

The aunt asked in confusion: "Isn't this a good thing? Your job is saved, why are you still so depressed?"

Xia Yuzhen 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 of Xia Yu's workstation.

Xia Yu trembled and said, "Lingling died in the rental house. She was found half a day after she died. 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 crowd around her immediately stood up for her:

"Why? The girl died because of overwork. The company has to pay 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 situation like hers, the company has reason not to pay compensation because she died in her rental home, not at work, so it has nothing to do with the company!"

"Tell me, if you ask people to go to bed at 3am and get up at 5am 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 what everyone said. 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 had always felt pain in her heart from time to time, and a physical examination had found several breast nodules, but for the sake of money, she had to grit her teeth and persevere. Now that she heard 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 earning a lot of money?

Xia Yu became more and more sad as she thought about it. 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 did not struggle.

Bai Mian smiled gently: "Maybe this is an opportunity for you. You can start changing your life from now on."

Xia Yu nodded vigorously: "I quit. I will submit my resignation application when I get back. I want to quit 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 job in a small company. Although the salary will be much lower, 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 lifted Daju high and shouted happily, "Baby, from now on mommy will have more time to spend with you!"

The big orange cat also let out a long string of joyful calls, and Bai Mian translated for it:

"It said that no matter whether you are rich or poor, it is willing to follow you. 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 get back, it's a deal!"

After paying Bai Mian's medical fees, Xia Yu thanked Bai Mian again and again before leaving. Her steps were much lighter when she left than when she came. It was obvious that she had lifted a heavy weight from her heart. She must have been wanting 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 searches. Although the original video 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 sigh at Xia Yu's experience, the second fate master had already sat in front of Bai Mian with expectation. She was wearing a gorgeous black dress, and her whole person revealed a temperament of not lacking money. As soon as she sat down, she took the initiative to introduce herself:

"Hello, Master. My name is Jiang Liyi. I am a car salesman. I currently work in Beihai City. I have been doing this for five years. Because I have a wide network of contacts and I am usually likable, 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 originally wanted to keep doing this, but now I have encountered 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 surname. 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 make money independently, I originally wanted my mother to close the supermarket and retire 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 back 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 explained to my mother, she just insisted 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 confused, and I 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 brought me up with great difficulty. If I quarrel with her, it would be too outrageous."

"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 listening, 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 charge of the store in the supermarket? What could happen to her?"

Bai Mian picked up Jiang Liyi's phone, pointed at the chat history and said, "Since three months ago, the person you were 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 calling me to tell me to put on more clothes. I don't know why she stopped calling me recently. I'm too busy at work and don't have time to call her. To be honest, 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 horrifying associations emerged in her mind -

"Could it be that someone else has been pretending to be my mother all this time?"