Chapter 29: Shocking Misfortune
Zhang Xiujie also agreed, "The sound effects at the nearby Jinhe KTV are really good. Let's go sing a song."
After saying that, he turned to look at Xia Lili and said, "Xiao Xia, come too! Let's treat it as a team-building activity!"
Xia Lili rolled her eyes in her heart:
"Mr. Zhang, I won't go. It's very late now, and it's not safe to take a taxi late at night."
Someone immediately said jokingly, "Xiao Xia, why don't you just ask Mr. Zhang to drive you home?"
"What's the point of a bunch of grown men singing together?"
"It's only natural for a boss to take care of his assistant."
Everyone's eyes were clearly on Xia Lili.
Xia Lili originally thought that she could still get this job. Although the work intensity was a bit high, the salary and benefits were also reasonable, and there was also overtime pay.
Now it seems that this assistant position has a heavy workload, and there are people who take advantage of me. I also have to work part-time as a singing and drinking companion. Who would want such a crappy job?
"Mr. Zhang, it's already four hours past the six o'clock closing time. This counts as overtime."
Xia Lili clenched her fists, on the verge of going crazy: "And this is beyond the scope of my job responsibilities."
Zhang Xiujie, who was dissatisfied with her attitude, immediately turned cold and scolded her: "Do you know what a flexible working system is?"
"The job market is so bad right now, don't you think about it? You get what you pay for. I'm not giving you such a high salary for nothing!"
Please, I have to work for 8,000 yuan, be a part-time hostess, and still be harassed!
To put it bluntly, the hourly wage of a hostess is equivalent to a day's salary for a social slave like her who just wants to do serious work.
What kind of beautiful things is this pighead thinking about?
Xia Lili stopped pretending and reached out to pick up the tea on the table and splashed it on Mr. Zhang's face: "Go to hell, you pighead!"
I have one million in my account, and I still have three hundred thousand to go. Why am I being bullied here?
Zhang Xiujie was drenched, shocked and furious: "If you offend us, you'll never work in the financial industry again!"
"Oh, a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water."
Xia Lili fired back: "Who do you think you are if you can make me lose my job in the financial industry with just one sentence?"
"I can't find you on Baidu, I'll try Sogou."
Zhang Xiujie's face turned the color of pig liver after being scolded by Xia Lili, and his chest heaved with anger: "Where can you find such a good job?"
"Haha, working in a logistics warehouse loading and unloading is better than what you have here!"
Xia Lili rolled her eyes: "It's all loading anyway. There are big goods (big cheap goods) and small goods (little cheap goods) in front of us!"
The bosses in the box couldn't beat Xia Lili, who surfed the Internet every day to recite jokes. They were all so angry that their faces turned red and they couldn't come up with a strong retort.
"No company would want someone like you. Just wait till you're done!"
——"Okay, I know you want to criticize me with words, but your cultural level is not high enough."
Xia Lili gave the middle finger to the inside of the box and strode out of the door.
After holding back her anger for the entire night, she felt completely refreshed after scolding someone!
Having money in your pocket really gives you confidence.
Xia Lili strode out of the box, still thinking about the angry and embarrassed expressions of those people in the box. She accidentally bumped into someone at the corner of the stairs.
When Xia Lili saw that the person she bumped into was an older man with some gray hair on his temples, her heart skipped a beat. This was truly a case of excessive joy leading to sorrow.
She quickly asked, "Are you okay?"
The uncle shook his head. He looked to be in his fifties, dressed in a suit and tie, with neatly trimmed sideburns that had a slight silver sheen. He wore a pair of silver-rimmed glasses and had a briefcase under his arm. Even the few wrinkles on his face showed his scholarly temperament.
The uncle's first reaction was to look down at the box in his hand. Seeing that the food inside was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked up with an apologetic smile on his face: "Little girl, I'm sorry."
"I was in a hurry to get home to see my wife, so I went downstairs too fast and bumped into someone without paying attention."
Xia Lili had just finished arguing with a group of fake people, and when she turned around and met such a polite person, her mood suddenly improved.
But when she looked into the uncle's apologetic eyes, her gaze lost focus in an instant.
Xia Lili's vision became blurred, as if covered by a layer of fog.
This time, the scene of the unfortunate encounter of the uncle in front of her emerged in her mind.
In the hallucination picture, the sky was dark and only a few street lights were on.
After getting out of the taxi, the uncle walked for a while carrying his packed food and briefcase.
The road was desolate and dark, and he seemed unable to find the way.
Just as the uncle walked into a dark alley, three young thugs holding folding knives suddenly jumped out of the alley and blocked his way!
The gangster tried to grab the briefcase from the uncle without saying a word.
The uncle guarded the briefcase tightly. When he saw that the robber was as young as a junior high school student, he couldn't help but persuade the young man earnestly not to take the wrong path.
The thugs were impatient and tried to grab his briefcase. In the chaos, one of them stabbed the uncle several times. One of the knives hit the uncle's aorta and blood gushed out.
The three thugs were frightened by this and ran away with the briefcase.
The uncle was left lying in a pool of blood, with the food he had brought for his wife spilled on the ground.
At the end of the video, the uncle's portrait appeared on the prime-time TV news.
The news anchor was reporting a piece of tragic news: "Professor Ren Wenxuan, a leading figure in my country's chip industry, was robbed on his way home three days ago and tragically died."
"Professor Ren's passing has dealt a heavy blow to my country's chip research progress, with estimated economic losses reaching hundreds of billions of yuan, which is irreversible..."
The gangster stabbed Professor Ren's aorta with a knife, and also stabbed the aorta of the chip industry.
"Professor Ren's wife suffered a heart attack upon hearing the tragic news. Despite life-saving efforts, she passed away at 2:51 a.m. today..."
The following part of the news revealed the identities of the three thugs, all of whom were under the age of eighteen, with the youngest being only fourteen.
After the three men looted the money in the briefcase, they threw it into the river, and the USB flash drive and documents inside disappeared into the river.
Professor Ren wanted to contribute to his hometown, but was killed by a gangster boy from his hometown.
Subsequent news reported that the economic development plan for Iron Crown Island was also cancelled.
The robbery shocked the whole country, and few people set foot on Ironcrown Island again.
Iron Crown Island has changed from a potential island under development to a backward and deserted island.
Xia Lili's hallucination disappeared here.
"Are you okay, little girl?"
"Why are you shaking? Are you feeling unwell?"
Xia Lili heard Ren Wenxuan's concerned voice.
Xia Lili looked at Professor Ren's concerned expression and shook her head blankly.
She had not yet recovered from the hallucination she had seen.
Chip research has always been a key node in the competition among major powers. It can be said that Professor Ren’s death will affect the country’s destiny.
Having foreseen such a disastrous event with such serious consequences, Xia Lili was completely panicked.
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