Chapter 116 (Updated 1161)
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However, this is only the beginning.
On the second and third day, other problems arose one after another in the company.
Mr. Qiu was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He could only rage while trying to negotiate with the managers of various departments.
Qiu Lu was just as furious as him.
The day after Qiu Lu was beaten, he had someone investigate Mu Shaoyan's current school, class, and classmates.
"Make sure he has any close friends," Qiu Lu instructed.
This investigation led them to Duan Yi.
After Mu Shaoyan was wrongly accused of cheating, Duan Yi always ate lunch with him, went back to school with him, and helped him with difficult questions during breaks.
Therefore, he undoubtedly earned the title of Mu Shaoyan's best friend in the investigation.
Qiu Lu looked at Duan Yi's photo, covering the lower half of his face, and scrutinized his figure. The more he looked, the more he felt that he resembled the person wearing a mask and hat who was with Mu Shaoyan that day.
He had his two friends who had been beaten identify themselves.
My friend immediately exclaimed, "It's him! It's definitely him!"
Qiu Lu immediately ordered an investigation into Duan Yi.
He was satisfied with the survey results; he was just an ordinary person.
He had no power or influence, his parents were divorced, and he was poor and destitute.
Qiu Lu laughed. He couldn't do anything about Mu Shaoyan, so how could he not be able to do anything about someone like him?
A senior high school student, ranked first in his grade, from such a poor family, practically had his hopes of changing his fate through the college entrance exam written all over his face. So, the simplest way to get revenge was to ruin his college entrance exam.
However, Duan Yi is the top student in his grade and a potential top scorer in the college entrance examination. Under such circumstances, even if he uses his power to bully others, the school may not necessarily expel him.
Therefore, the best way is for him to give up on his own.
Qiu Lu called Duan Yi at midnight.
“Your mother works at Quanta Computer, right? If you don’t want your mother to lose this job, and don’t want her to know why she lost it, then you’d better drop out of school tomorrow. Otherwise, your mother will lose her job. It’s your fault that you’ve dragged your mother down with you.”
Duan Yi's voice was cold as he said, "Idiot."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Enraged, Qiu Lu called again, "If you don't believe me, you can try. Do you think your mother can handle it? When you and Mu Shaoyan attacked together, did you think about your mother?! Did you think about the fact that Mu Shaoyan has the Mu family behind him, and what do you have behind you?! Duan Yi, crushing you is as easy as crushing an ant for me."
Duan Yi spoke again, "Idiot."
He hung up the phone again and blocked Qiu Lu's number.
Qiu Lu was so angry he almost slammed the phone down.
good!
Since that's the case, then don't blame him for taking it out on his mother!
He brought it on himself!
Qiu Lu contacted Quanta's general manager the next morning.
He spoke confidently for a while, and finally said, "However, before that, I hope you can fire Ms. Duan Ke from your company first."
Quanta's General Manager: ...
Well, he said that a few days ago, Mu Zheng's secretary suddenly contacted him, saying that no matter what, he must not fire Duan Ke, and for this, he even promised them a project.
He was puzzled at the time, wondering what relationship Duan Ke had with Mu Zheng, and why she would say such a thing to him. He hadn't been thinking of firing Duan Ke.
So that's what they were waiting for.
"I'm afraid that won't work, Mr. Qiu," the general manager said awkwardly. "Mr. Mu from the Mu Group gave me instructions that I absolutely cannot fire Duan Ke. I just accepted their meal, and I can't just kick out their cook right afterward, can I? That's not appropriate. How can our small company continue to operate?"
Qiu Lu was taken aback when he didn't expect Mu Zheng to step in and protect Duan Yi's mother.
The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is in turmoil, all for gain.
Having received benefits from Mu Zheng, Guangda naturally dared not disobey Mu Zheng's orders.
Qiu Lu angrily hung up the phone, his anger growing even more intense. He couldn't do anything to Mu Shaoyan, so why couldn't he do anything to these two ordinary people?!
If the soft approach doesn't work, let's try the hard approach.
Qiu Lu hired someone and instructed them, "Go easy on the woman. Tell her that her son was causing trouble outside, so she suffered this retribution. If her son doesn't come to apologize to me, this will be her usual routine from now on."
"As for the man," Qiu Lu recalled Duan Yi's cold "idiot" and said fiercely, "cripple his right hand."
He wanted to see how pathetic he would become then.
Do you dare to say those two words to him again?
Do you dare to fight him again?
At that time, I wonder if he regretted helping Mu Shaoyan that day?
Do I regret my attitude towards him last night?
Qiu Lu sat on the sofa, waiting for his good news.
However, instead of good news, they received an unexpected call from the police station.
After receiving a call from the general manager of Guangda saying that Qiu Lu had called and wanted them to fire Duan Ke, Mu Zheng immediately added two more bodyguards for Duan Ke and Duan Yi.
He even added a female bodyguard for Duan Ke.
The two pretended to be best friends and followed Duan Ke not far away.
Therefore, the two of them immediately noticed something was wrong, and before Duan Ke even realized what was happening, they had already started fighting with each other.
Duan Ke heard the commotion, glanced over in confusion, and saw two women beating up several thugs.
Slightly surprised, she exclaimed, "Wow, that's amazing!" and without giving it much thought, rode her electric scooter home.
The two female bodyguards quickly handed the person over to their colleagues, while they continued to follow Duan Ke to prevent Qiu Lu from having any further plans.
Duan Yi's situation was simpler. After getting off the bus after school, he was stopped by someone on his way home.
The winter sky was dark, there weren't many pedestrians on their road, and several streetlights were broken, making it a perfect spot to strike.
Duan Yi looked at the people in front of him. He thought Qiu Lu would find some reliable people, but he didn't expect them to be hooligans.
Duan Yi watched indifferently and silently started recording on his phone.
"Who are you?" he asked deliberately. "Qiu Lu sent you."
"Don't you know who you've offended?" the leader, a man with a buzz cut and a cigarette dangling from his lips, mocked.
"What does Qiu Lu want you to do? Beat me up, cripple me, or break my hands so I fail at the last minute before the college entrance exam?"
"You're actually quite clever, kid. No wonder I had to cripple your hand. You're a good student, aren't you?"
“That’s good,” Duan Yi said.
"That's a real shame." With that, the man with the buzz cut tossed away his cigarette and waved his hand, "Brothers, get them!"
In an instant, several people attacked Duan Yi, but Duan Yi calmly watched and retaliated without mercy.
Before he could retaliate, four people rushed to his side and subdued him in no time.
"I'm sorry, I startled you," said the man in black wearing a hat.
"It's nothing," Duan Yi said calmly.
The day after they ganged up on Qiu Lu, Mu Shaoyan told him that he had asked his brother to send people to protect him and his mother.
Considering that Qiu Lu could even lay a hand on five-year-old Ye Qingxi, Duan Yi did not refuse.
Now, he has met the person Mu Shaoyan mentioned.
“Take them to the police station. I’ll go with you.” Duan Yi took out his phone. “I recorded it. They admitted that Qiu Lu sent them. Qiu Lu can’t get away.”
"I didn't!" the man with the buzz cut, who was being held down, immediately shouted. "When did I admit to that?!"
“Right at the very beginning, I said that Qiu Lu sent you here, and you said I was smart.”
"You're talking nonsense! When did I say that?! I don't even know Qiu Lu!"
Duan Yi chuckled. "You don't need to get so worked up. Qiu Lu called me right after school and told me to be careful tonight, especially when walking alone at night. You've been working so hard to cover for him, and he's afraid I won't know. So what's the point of saying all this?"
The man with the buzz cut being held down: ...
"Damn it!" the crew-cut man spat angrily. "That idiot!"
Duan Yi pressed the stop recording button and looked at the person not far away whose face had turned green.
"I was lying to you." He said indifferently.
The man with the buzz cut, who had just finished swearing in Chinese: ? ? ?
"Idiot," Duan Yi said indifferently.
The man with the buzz cut who got scolded: ...
"You fucking bastard! You fucking lied to me!" After a while, Yuan Cun finally realized what was happening and struggled to rush to him.
"Yes. What I said just now, that I was lying to you, was indeed a lie." Duan Yi's tone was calm and composed.
Crew cut: ? ? ?
The man in black standing next to Duan Yi: ...
Wow, Mr. Mu's younger brother's friends are something else!
With that mindset, those methods, and that ability to mock, no wonder he's a friend of President Mu's brother!
Wow, that's amazing!
Duan Yi and the four bodyguards sent by Mu Zheng went to the police station together. He turned on the phone's recording function and played the information he had recorded for the police.
“Qiu Lu called me around midnight last night and threatened to make my mother lose her job if I didn’t drop out of school. I didn’t agree, and today he sent people to block me in the alley where my house is located, trying to cripple my hand so that I can’t take the college entrance examination.” Duan Yi’s voice was very calm. “As you know, the college entrance examination is very important to a student. He has shown his determination to ruin my college entrance examination twice in a row, so I am very worried and hope you can help me.”
"I am a student at No. 1 High School, and I have been ranked first in my grade for three consecutive years. My desired university for the college entrance examination is University A, so I don't want any mishaps before the exam. If you don't believe me, you can contact my teacher, and I will give you her contact information."
His words were simple yet impactful, so much so that even the police officers at the local station were stunned by them.
The college entrance examination is always a sensitive and serious matter, especially since he has been the top student in his grade for three consecutive years. In other words, he is a potential top scorer in next year's college entrance examination. If this matter is not handled properly, who knows what they might encounter next summer.
Duan Yi was good-looking, and his aloofness was accompanied by a calm and composed demeanor, so much so that the police officers at the station almost believed him before they even called to verify his story.
They took his statement and made a written record, then sent him home.
The bodyguards Mu Zheng assigned to him left a little later. After giving their statements, they were worried that the police station would find out Qiu Lu's identity, which would affect the outcome of the case. So they simply reported Mu Zheng's identity directly, saying that their boss, Mu, was also waiting for this result.
Duan Yi didn't wait for them. After saying goodbye to them at the police station, he went straight home.
He didn't hide it from Mu Shaoyan and Ye Qingxi. When Ye Qingxi came to the class with Mu Shaoyan, he told them about it.
Ye Qingxi was shocked: "Brother Duan Yi, are you alright?"
"No," Duan Yi said with a smile. "But the people who bullied you should be in trouble."
After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Mu Shaoyan and said, "The rest is up to you."
Mu Shaoyan blinked, a rare hint of admiration in his eyes.
"You really are... fearless in the face of danger."
They even thought of recording it!
If it were him, he would have started fighting immediately, and wouldn't have cared about any of this.
Duan Yi smiled. Unlike Mu Shaoyan, who had a powerful family behind him, he naturally had to find a way to protect himself.
"Brother Duan Yi, you're amazing!" Ye Qingxi exclaimed.
Duan Yi was an ordinary person with no connections, so he immediately brought up the mountain of the college entrance examination, releasing all the information that was in his favor, making his identity stand out through this special and grand exam.
Everyone knows how much attention top scorers in the college entrance examination receive in the summer after the exam.
No one dares to bet that he won't get the title next summer, so naturally no one dares to underestimate it.
Otherwise, the topic of a rich second-generation suppressing a poor but academically gifted student and repeatedly trying to ruin his college entrance exam would generate explosive traffic as soon as it came out.
If Duan Yi were to say at this point that he had reported the case but no one cared, it would undoubtedly spark a new round of heated discussion.
Ye Qingxi genuinely thought he was very smart.
that is……
Duan Yi has truly suffered an undeserved disaster this time.
He dragged Duan Yi down with him.
"I'm sorry, Brother Duan Yi, for dragging you into this."
Ye Qingxi said apologetically, "If I had known, you shouldn't have gone that day."
“Exactly.” Mu Shaoyan agreed. “I told you not to go, but you insisted on watching. Fine, you watch, but you ended up getting involved.”
Duan Yi looked at Ye Qingxi and patted his head. "Why don't you say to your uncle, 'I'm sorry, Uncle, for dragging you into this'?"
Ye Qingxi: Huh?
Mu Shaoyan said smugly, "That's because I'm his uncle, of course!"
Duan Yi sighed deliberately, "That's true. Compared to my uncle, I'm really nothing."
Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?
Ye Qingxi: ...
Wait, how did this suddenly start acting?
You're showing off your skills in front of Guan Yu, Duan Yi!
However, although Ye Qingxi thought this in her heart, she still shook her head and said in a cooperative manner, "No, Brother Duan Yi, Uncle is Uncle, and you are you. You are also a very important person to me."
"Then why are you telling me you're involved?" Duan Yi flicked his nose.
Ye Qingxi: ...
Ye Qingxi looked at him and couldn't help but smile.
Although he and Duan Yi are not related by blood, they do not live together like he does with his current family.
In fact, they only had a short two hours together each evening, and even then, it was mostly Mu Shaoyan asking questions while he listened to the answers.
However, Duan Yi seems to genuinely treat him like a younger brother.
I really do like him.
Ye Qingxi's heart was filled with intense joy.
He likes it when others like him.
I genuinely like him.
It's not the kind of liking that you just say all the time.
It's a fondness that's kept in the heart, a fondness with genuine feeling.
Ye Qingxi stared at the person in front of her, feeling a mix of happiness, sweetness, and embarrassment.
Why doesn't he hug him? Ye Qingxi thought, he could hug him now.
Anyway, he's only five years old, so he's easy to hold.
"Brother Duan Yi, do you want to hug me?" he asked Duan Yi in his heart.
However, he was too embarrassed to say it out loud, so he just smiled and turned his head away to look at his winter vacation homework.
However, the corners of his lips lingered on his lips.
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