Chapter 98 Water Ghost 21
Yu Jiao felt a tingling sensation all over her body after hearing what Zhou Qingyan said. It was the kind of numbness that sent chills down her spine and sent shivers down her spine. She felt that if she agreed, Zhou Qingyan would come up with even more outrageous excuses later...
She refused decisively, her words still retaining the anger of scolding Liu Jing, more like a little kitten stretching out its not very sharp claws, trying to scare off the enemy with false momentum - Zhou Qingyan had no choice but to agree sullenly.
The morning passed quickly, and during lunch break, Yu Jiao received a call from a classmate's parent: "...Thank you for your hard work. My son is naughty and has trouble concentrating. Please pay more attention to him in school. He's our family's only hope... I'm sending you a box of peanuts from our home garden. They're not worth much, but please accept them!"
Yu Jiao argued with the student's father about this matter for the whole afternoon. In the end, she told him directly that she had to be busy with work and hung up the phone.
But what surprised her was what happened next. The courier called her and said that there was a delivery and asked her to come downstairs to pick it up.
Yu Jiao had no choice but to tell Zhou Qingyan about this matter.
Zhou Qingyan had just returned home from the bank and casually asked, "What did you buy?"
Yu Jiao slumped over the table with a headache. "I didn't buy it. The student's parents insisted on giving it to me. I don't know how they found out my home address. It looks like a box of peanuts... Take it up first, and I'll transfer the money to the parents."
There was a long silence across from him. Yu Jiao sensed something was amiss. She raised her head from the table and cautiously called his name, "...Zhou Qingyan?"
Yu Jiao had just started working there, and her way of thinking and behavior still retained the simplicity and straightforwardness of her education. A lot of information seemed insignificant to her, like a box of peanuts sent by a student's parents. It wasn't worth much, but it was a token of their kindness, so she reluctantly accepted it and transferred the money to him... How complicated could it be?
But Zhou Qingyan's silence made her feel uneasy.
Yu Jiao asked again: "...What's wrong? Is there something disgusting like frogs or poisonous snakes in the box?"
Zhou Qingyan opened the box, and it was indeed filled with a whole box of peanuts, but in the middle of the peanuts was an exquisite small box wrapped in red silk cloth. When he opened it, he found a priceless pearl necklace inside.
He smelled a man's foul odor on the box, and his pale face suddenly underwent a startling change. His dark pupils were filled with thick blood, which gathered into puddles and dripped onto the delicate, round pearls. The plump pearls instantly turned black and smelly...
Thinking of the men who might appear beside Yu Jiao, his face began to spasm horribly. The pale blue meridians bulged, and the crimson silk-like veins crisscrossed on his pale face. This scene was extremely disgusting and terrifying. Zhou Qingyan raised his fingers, pressed down the protruding blue veins at the corners of his eyes, and picked up the box mixed with broken pearls.
A box of humble peanuts.
To Yu Jiao, who had just entered society, it was no big deal.
A pearl necklace.
There is a great possibility that her career will be ruined.
Zhou Qingyan smelled a strong and sticky malice around the box. The malice came inexplicably and for no reason, but it made him vaguely smell the disgusting smell he had smelled not long ago - it was the scent of Liu Jing.
The black air wrapped around the suitcase and dragged it behind him. He changed into a neat suit and casual pants, and crossed the busy road. The speeding car body reflected the man's stern face. His tall and straight figure was not inferior to the male model in the advertisement, but his face was a cold white that was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
He made his way through the dense crowd.
The girls who were walking together in beautiful dresses suddenly hugged their arms tightly, and felt an invisible cold wind blowing. In the blink of an eye, they saw a layer of snow-white frost on the ground. In the blink of an eye, the frost disappeared, and the black air that was imperceptible to the naked eye disappeared into the air.
The malicious frame-up caused by the peanut box took shape in my mind.
Liu Jing lost her job. When people feel resentful, they subconsciously transfer their hatred elsewhere. For example, a husband who works all day but dares not speak out when his boss insults him, his anger pent up inside him, and he can only vent it on his wife, who works hard and poses no threat to him. If he had married a wife who is even more aggressive, his anger would be transferred again, to his cowardly parents who dote on their son without any bottom line...
Cowardly, kind people are always bullied. Compared to Cheng He, her crush from school, and the insulting boss and colleague who fired her from the company, Yu Jiao was clearly a good target for her anger. Yu Jiao was kind and gentle. Liu Jing's purpose in sending the email was to see Yu Jiao sad and frustrated, and then give up on herself, but Yu Jiao didn't. Instead, she lost not only her job but also her face - how could she let Yu Jiao go?
Liu Jing wanted to pull Yu Jiao down.
Bribing students' parents with money, giving them expensive gifts, and then exposing the matter - what will be the fate of teachers who privately accept expensive gifts? If the pressure from public opinion is greater, they will be fired, and a stain will be left on their files forever.
Zhou Qingyan arrived at the school gate and suddenly stopped. The part of his head above the neck rotated strangely to the position behind his shoulders. The terrifying body structure that he had deliberately suppressed in front of Yu Jiao was now revealed without any cover. The bright sunlight was above his head, passing through his almost transparent body, and when it fell to the ground, the grass on the roadside trembled in fear.
That's a corner.
An inconspicuous corner.
The dense shadows of the trees blocked out the sunlight.
The ground was filled with the sizzling sound of meat frying in an iron pan, and a strong, foul smell wafted out from the ground.
Far away underground.
It was as if an indescribable monster let out a contented sigh.
Zhou Qingyan withdrew his gaze and a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth - it was all his own fault.
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Zhou Qingyan told Yu Jiao that nothing was wrong, but Yu Jiao was uneasy. She used her free time to search for various complaints on the Internet and was surprised to find that the working environment she had originally entered was relatively friendly, but how come there were so many twists and turns!
She was completely immersed in fear.
The student's father sent her another message: "Teacher Yu, did you receive the gift? It shows on my end that you have received it!"
Yu Jiao gritted her teeth and secretly thought of a countermeasure in her heart.
Something is obviously wrong.
Something is so wrong!
She thought about it over and over but could not come up with any solution. She started calculating the balance in her bank card. She had originally entered this industry because it was suitable for simple and innocent people, but she had not expected that there would be so many troubles in it. However, the money in her bank card was drastically reduced, and there might not even be 10,000 yuan. It would be very difficult if she lost her job - it was all Zhou Qingyan's fault.
To save money, Yu Jiao turned off the monthly income and expenditure information reminder, hoping that every small amount of money she saved would automatically turn into a huge sum in the future. She opened the bank app and entered her account password -
...Why is the banking system stuck?
Yu Jiao frantically clicked the refresh button.
The money screen displayed a sum that gave Yu Jiao a headache. Inwardly, she desperately screamed, "Could it be that even her small savings were swallowed up?" Having never seen such a large amount of money before, she subconsciously denied it, thinking there must be something wrong with the bank software. Then came a sense of crisis. If even the bank software had problems, then where would her funds be stored?
The numbness from her fingers constantly tapping the screen brought Yu Jiao back to her wandering thoughts. She squinted her eyes, staring at the amount displayed on the money interface, clicked on the details, and was shocked to find that a huge amount of money had been transferred in this morning!
She silently counted the change at the end and couldn't stop wailing in her heart - the bank was so mean, making her see with her own eyes this huge amount of money that didn't belong to her. Thinking that the money would disappear before her eyes, she quickly took a screenshot, waited for a few seconds, logged out and logged in again.
That money still exists!
Yu Jiao couldn't sit still. Seeing that her subject was not on the afternoon schedule, she decisively picked up her phone and called the bank, reporting a system problem and asking the customer service to handle the problem she encountered.
The customer service representative's voice was sweet, like a sudden downpour of poison wrapped in frosting, making Yu Jiao dizzy: "Dear customer, hello, your bank card balance is xxxxxxxxxx..."
Before she could recover from her pie-in-the-sky confusion, another call came in. She subconsciously assumed it was the owner of the huge sum of money asking for it back. She clicked to answer the call, and it was the father of the student she had spoken to that morning. He must have pressed the button in a hurry.
"Help... Come and save me!"
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