Chapter 17 The bondage of money

Meng Zhiyi had lunch at the Shen family and walked with Old Madam Shen in the garden to digest the food. During the walk, he did not carry out any other tasks.

On the contrary, because of Mrs. Shen's protection, Meng Zhiyi developed a liking for the old lady and was happy to talk to her.

After strolling around for a while, Shen Que contacted Meng Zhizhou to resolve the photo issue, and then came over to call Meng Zhiyi and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Old Madam Shen held Meng Zhiyi's hand and said lovingly, "If you are bullied in the future, come to me, grandma. Do you understand?"

Meng Zhiyi felt warm in her heart and nodded obediently.

"In the future, you can come to the Shen family whenever you want. You don't have to follow Xiao Que."

Meng Zhiyi: "Okay."

After bidding farewell to Mrs. Shen, Meng Zhiyi followed Shen Que to the Meng Corporation building.

After getting in the car, Meng Zhiyi opened the gift that Old Madam Shen asked Shen Que to pass on.

Inside the bag was an exquisite jewelry box. She opened it carefully and found a lavender jade butterfly pendant inside.

Meng Zhiyi's eyes lit up, and he couldn't let it go, so he held it in his hand and looked at it.

While waiting for the red light on the way, Shen Que glanced at her and saw the joy on her face, thinking that she liked the gift very much.

As a result, the next second, I heard Meng Zhiyi muttering in his heart.

[This jade pendant is really beautiful, it should be worth a lot of money. ]

[Hehe, I'll take it to the store tomorrow and ask. ]

Shen Que: “…”

He wondered if the Meng family didn't give Meng Zhiyi pocket money. Why did she sound like she was short of money?

After careful consideration, Shen Que asked tentatively, "Are you short of money?"

"Yes." Meng Zhiyi, whose mind was full of how much the jade pendant could be sold for, answered Shen Que without thinking much.

After hearing this, Shen Que slightly retracted his hand on the steering wheel, thinking of Meng's mother's attitude towards Meng Zhiyi today, and he could also see her situation in the Meng family.

Without waiting for Shen Que to say anything else, Meng Zhiyi put the jade pendant back into the box as if it was her treasure and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

Shen Que glanced at the jewelry box in Meng Zhiyi's hand. The latter noticed his gaze and subconsciously hid the box behind her.

"My grandma gave this to me, don't you dare take it!"

As they were talking, the green light came on. Shen Que withdrew his gaze from her and said while driving, "You also know that this is a gift from your grandma. Just don't sell it secretly."

Meng Zhiyi: “…”

[Damn, is it already so obvious that I want to sell the pendant?]

Shen Que followed her thoughts and continued, "Your thoughts are already printed on your face. If I see it at an auction someday, you know the consequences."

Meng Zhiyi narrowed his eyes and asked curiously, "What are the consequences?"

Shen Que pursed his lips, his thoughts racing.

According to the mission Meng Zhiyi had been talking about recently, he naturally could not tell her any consequences that would be beneficial to her.

I can only...

Then he said, "If you sell the pendant, you will never receive any more gifts from grandma again."

Use money to bind.

Sure enough, Shen Que's move directly hit Meng Zhiyi's weak spot.

For a money lover, this must be the worst consequence!

"Don't slander me! I have no intention of selling pendants!"

Meng Zhiyi immediately hugged the box tightly.

[Damn it, you actually threatened me with this, then you are kicking cotton! ]

[If you don’t want to sell it, then don’t sell it. If you can’t sell it now, you can’t do it after I finish the task. ]

Shen Que drove the car without changing his expression, the corners of his lips unconsciously raised, but he pretended to be indifferent and said: "It's best."

Meng Zhiyi snorted lightly, turned his head to look out the car window and said nothing more.

An hour later, the two arrived at Meng's house.

Because Meng Zhiyi is the daughter of the Meng family, the photo incident is more or less involved with the company. At this moment, Meng Zhizhou is in a meeting to discuss solutions to this matter.

After hearing the assistant say that Shen Que and Meng Zhi had understood, Meng Zhizhou signaled for the meeting to be suspended and stood up and left the meeting room.

At the office door, Meng Zhizhou saw two people standing side by side.

Shen Que was refined and noble, Meng Zhiyi was bright and dazzling. For the first time, Meng Zhizhou felt that his younger sister was quite pretty.

"Brother." Meng Zhiyi stood beside Shen Que and grinned at Meng Zhizhou.

Meng Zhizhou looked indifferent. Seeing that she was not affected by the photo incident at all, he laughed angrily: "How can you still laugh?"

"Of course I'm happy to see my dearest brother." Meng Zhiyi pouted, appearing obedient on the surface, but secretly feeling gloating in her heart.

[I have to laugh. If it weren’t for the restrictions, I would have wanted to set off fireworks to celebrate.]

[Someone helped me to attract hatred, and I can complete the mission just by lying down. What a happy thing. 】

[And this is just the beginning. You will cry later.]

Shen Que and Meng Zhizhou both listened calmly, and neither of them revealed to each other that they could hear Meng Zhiyi's thoughts.

However, from Meng Zhiyi's inner voice, both of them were certain that this incident was not directed or acted out by Meng Zhiyi himself, but someone was behind it.

Shen Que had a vague guess as to who it was, but had no direct evidence.

He turned sideways to look at Meng Zhizhou and said gently, "Boss Meng, I have the information of the blogger who first exposed the photo. Grandma wants to sue each of them for malicious rumor-mongering. I wonder what Boss Meng is going to do?"

Meng Zhizhou temporarily put aside the information he heard from Meng Zhiyi's inner voice and solved the current problem first.

He did not answer Shen Que immediately, but took the two of them into the office.

After asking the two to sit down, Meng Zhizhou took out a stack of documents and handed them to Shen Que.

"This is the information about the rumor mongers that they compiled. It's all here."

Meng Zhiyi looked at the information on the table that was almost as thick as the Xinhua Dictionary, and felt a frown on his face.

[Okay, okay, you're pretty quick. Are you trying to make an example of someone?]

[Song Wei probably never dreamed that she just wanted to mess with me, but ended up getting into trouble, right? ]

[I am a little curious, if Shen Que knew that this matter was related to Song Wei, how would he protect her? ]

Meng Zhizhou looked at Shen Que silently, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

The name Song Wei was not unfamiliar to him. In the past, every time Meng Zhiyi went crazy, it was because of this person.

As for certain rumors between Song Wei and Shen Que, Meng Zhizhou has always remained silent.

Because he knew very well that for people with family backgrounds like theirs, marriage was not a simple matter.

The entanglement of interests involved is even more difficult to explain, so there is not much pure love in wealthy families.

Therefore, Meng Zhizhou did not care that Shen Que had other women in his heart while he was engaged to Meng Zhiyi.

To put it more directly, Meng Zhizhou doesn't care about this sister.

But that was before.

Ever since he could hear Meng Zhiyi's thoughts, he began to pay attention to his sister consciously or unconsciously, and naturally began to care about her affairs.

Shen Que didn't know yet that Meng Zhizhou could hear Meng Zhiyi's thoughts just like him, so he didn't think much about it when he received his gaze.

He looked at the documents on the table and said thoughtfully, "Boss Meng, I have an unwelcome request."

Meng Zhizhou: “You say.”

Shen Que: "If we find out who is really behind this, can we hand him over to the Shen family for disposal?"