When Meng Jiayou woke up, he felt that his whole body was falling apart.
When he opened his eyes and looked around, he realized that he was actually lying on the floor. Fortunately, there was central air conditioning in the room and there were soft carpets on the floor. Otherwise, he would have caught a severe cold if he was naked at this time of year.
However, even if he was not frozen, he felt pain all over his body at this time. First of all, it was a headache, the kind of headache after a hangover. But in fact, he had only drank a glass of red wine before, so his old lover Mary gave him
There must be something wrong with the wine you drank.
Secondly, his grain reincarnation area was in burning pain. After he moved his body a little, he grimaced in pain. This made him have a very bad suspicion, and his face became frighteningly ugly.
Unfortunately, he had no memory of what happened between the time he drank the problematic glass of red wine and when he regained consciousness.
He looked around for Mary and her ex-husband, but found none.
This was Mary's bedroom. He had been here many times before. He could only struggle to stand up, find his scattered clothes, put them on, and then walked out of the bedroom with an awkward walking posture.
"Mary!"
Meng Jiayou shouted downstairs, but there was no response.
He shouted a few more times, but still no one responded. He could only frown and walk along the corridor towards the stairs. The doors of several rooms he passed were closed, so there should be no one inside.
After coming down the stairs from the second floor, he saw that the living room on the first floor was in a mess. The vase was broken, the coffee table was overturned, and the things on it were scattered all over the floor, but still no one was seen.
It wasn't until he went downstairs that he faintly heard crying coming from the kitchen.
The kitchen in Mary's home is independent and has a door connecting to the backyard behind the villa.
When he walked to the kitchen door, Meng Jiayou saw Mary, wearing only a nightgown, squatting in the corner of the stove, lowering her head and sobbing softly.
Meng Jiayou couldn't help but be confused when he saw this situation.
After a while, he walked into the kitchen, stood in front of Mary, and asked, "What's going on with you?"
Mary then raised her face, which was covered with tears and bruises. Meng Jiayou couldn't help but be confused again, and subconsciously asked: "Who hit this?"
Mary stood up suddenly, threw herself into his arms, and said with a tearful voice: "I'm sorry, Bruce, I'm really sorry!"
Meng Jiayou asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Why did you say sorry to me?"
Mary let go of him slightly, raised her face to look at him, and said apologetically: "When I poured you wine before, I added hallucinogens to it for fun, but I didn't expect your reaction to be so big.
Suddenly he went crazy and injured both Claude and I. It was you who hit me in the face, but I don't blame you, I only blame myself for adding something to the wine. Claude was also very angry and scolded me.
He gave me a meal and slapped me in the face."
"I beat you all?" Meng Jiayou looked in disbelief.
Mary nodded affirmatively: "Yes, you beat us all, and you also... did something to Claude."
"What?!" Meng Jiayou was like a bolt from the blue, his whole body was feeling bad, and he immediately asked, "You mean, I... raped him? This is impossible, my sexual orientation has always been normal."
Mary said in a faint tone: "Maybe you didn't notice it before, but today under the stimulation of the drug, you completely released yourself, so..."
"fart!"
Meng Jiayou shouted angrily, pushed her away, and glared at her: "Don't treat me as a fool. There is no way I would do such a thing. You and your ex-husband must have plotted against me."
Mary said with an aggrieved look: "I planned against you at the beginning and wanted you to serve me with Claude, but I didn't expect that something like this would happen in the end. Don't you have any impression yourself? If you think about it carefully, it must be
Impressive.”
Meng Jiayou thought for a while, but he really had no memory of what happened before. He shook his head vigorously again, his head hurting even more.
"You really can't remember it at all?" Mary looked at him inquiringly.
Meng Jiayou stretched out his hand to cover his forehead, frowned and asked, "Where is your ex-husband? Is he gone?"
Mary nodded and said with a lonely look: "Yes, almost half an hour ago. He was very angry about this incident and almost called the police. I tried hard to persuade him not to call the police, but he slapped me hard.
It still hurts now.”
After saying that, Mary reached out and touched her left cheek. Her left cheek was indeed a little red and swollen.
After Meng Jiayou stared at her for a while, he suddenly asked: "Did your ex-husband also take revenge on me later?"
There is still a faint pain in his anus. After connecting with what she just said and a little reasoning, he can figure out that he should also be...retaliated by the other party. The best thing to use is a prop.
Mary did not answer his words immediately. Instead, she hesitated for a while, then sighed, nodded slightly and said, "He was very angry when you did something to him, and then he did something to you."
Meng Jiayou suddenly felt like the world was spinning, his body staggered and he almost fell.
Seeing this, Mary immediately stepped forward to support him and said apologetically: "Bruce, I'm really sorry. I have stopped him, but you also saw that he beat me until my nose was bruised and my face was swollen. I couldn't stop him at all."
"You...didn't you say that the injury on your face was caused by me?" Meng Jiayou looked suspicious.
"He also beat me. You two grown men beat me, so I hid here and cried."
"..."
Meng Jiayou was speechless immediately. He was so angry that he wanted to beat her up again, but he quickly thought of his work and could only endure it.
"Bruce, I know it's my fault this time. If you want to hit or scold me, I'll admit it. But I really like you, and I will definitely try my best to make it up to you. Don't worry about your work. I'll tell you later.
Just call your boss, he should take back his decision to fire you."
Mary has said so, and things have already happened, so he can only endure it for the time being. He will definitely find a way to get revenge in the future.
"Okay, you call the boss now, I want the results immediately."
Meng Jiayou endured the physical discomfort, psychological anger and humiliation, and secretly gritted his teeth and said.
"Okay, I'll call him right away."
Probably sensing the anger in Meng Jiayou's heart, Mary immediately agreed, pulled him to the living room, took the mobile phone from the TV cabinet, called the boss John in front of him, and turned on the speakerphone.
"Mary, what's wrong?" Boss John's voice sounded.
"Boss, I hope you can reconsider Bruce's matter." Mary went straight to the point.
"Sorry, Mary, Bruce needs to be fired."
"Why?"
"Let me tell you straight, it was because someone put pressure on me that I had to fire him. Of course, I am also very disgusted with Bruce abandoning his wife and daughter, so I don't feel very embarrassed about firing him."
"Who is putting pressure on you? Is it Lily? Or is it Lily's parents, your brother and sister-in-law?"
"Of course it's not them. This matter has nothing to do with them, and they can't put pressure on me. To be honest, Bruce is an excellent employee of our company, and he has been with our company for five or six years, and his work performance is very good. If it weren't for this
If someone puts pressure on me, even if he is morally corrupt, I don't really want to fire him."
"Then who is this person?"
"I can't say, in short, it's someone I can't offend. Maybe Bruce accidentally offended this person, or someone related to this person. I don't know the specific reason, but I have to act according to this person's request.
.Otherwise, our company may be in trouble, do you understand what I mean?"
"……ok, I get it."
"As long as you understand. I know that he is your capable subordinate and you have a good relationship. I also know that he has a good relationship with Lily. So, if it is not for this reason, I don't want to fire him."
"Well, let's just say this first."
"great, see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
…
After hanging up the phone, Mary looked at the pale-faced Meng Jiayou, shook her head helplessly and said, "You heard it, it's not that I don't want to help you, or that the boss wants to fire you. It's that there is someone who can't offend even the boss.
Pressure him to fire you. Think carefully, have you offended someone powerful?"
Meng Jiayou tried hard to recall in his mind who he had offended during this period. After thinking about it, it seemed that the only person he had offended was Tang Nini, his ex-wife. First, he dragged on the divorce lawsuit, and now he deliberately delayed the division of property.
But he and Tang Nini have known each other for many years, and have been husband and wife for several years. They know each other well. He is very clear about Tang Nini's family background and interpersonal relationships. In addition to having a few relatives in her hometown in China, she is also a relative here in America.
nothing.
Tang Nini definitely doesn't have the ability to put pressure on his boss, and it's impossible for Tang Nini to know any powerful people here in America.
Of course, he also thought about the cousin who called him and threatened him before, but he ignored it directly.
No matter how awesome the other party is, at most he only has energy in the Dragon Kingdom. Now this is America and New York. Where does his cousin come from?
What's more, not long after her cousin made him a threatening phone call, he received a dismissal call from the company. The interval between the two was too short, making it even more impossible.
If it was really her cousin who did this, why should she treat her with courtesy first and negotiate first, right?
Therefore, Meng Jiayou directly excluded Chen Feng as a suspect.
"I really don't know what powerful person I have offended." Meng Jiayou shook his head in pain.
It took a lot of effort for him to get to where he is today and earn such a high salary.
If you were to look for a job again and you were fired, it would be very difficult to find a similar job with such good pay.
Besides, he has been working in this company for nearly six years and has been promoted to the level of deputy manager. If he is suddenly fired, it is impossible to give him the same treatment if he goes to another company and everything will have to start from scratch.
"Dear, it's okay. If this job is gone, it will be gone. Just find another one. With your work ability, it will not be difficult to find another similar job." Mary could only comfort her like this.
Meng Jiayou resisted the urge to get angry at her, showed her a wry smile and said, "You were confident that you could help me convince the boss before. Now, how do you think we can solve this problem?"
Mary smiled awkwardly, and then said: "I can help you find a job together. I know many HR people from companies in the same industry. I can recommend you to them. Is this the head office?"
Meng Jiayou was waiting for her words. He nodded slightly with satisfaction, sighed and said, "This is the only way we can do it now."
"If you want to open some jobs, maybe the next job will be better."
"Do you think that's possible?"
Mary was immediately speechless.
After Meng Jiayou calmed down his emotions, he suddenly asked: "Did you put away the Browning I brought?"
This time he came out with a gun. He was originally going to meet Tang Nini and Chen Feng.
Mary said with some embarrassment: "Claude took it away because he was afraid that you would do something bad impulsively after you wake up."
Meng Jiayou stared at her with a gloomy face and said, "Call him right away and ask him to return the gun to me. My gun is registered. If he does anything with it, it will be blamed on me."
Up."
"No, don't worry. He is the father of two children, and he is timid and has never done anything illegal or criminal."
"Call him right away."
"All right."
Mary called him again in front of him. After getting through, she told Claude about the gun. Claude was easy to talk to and said that when he brought the child to her place tomorrow, he would return it.
"Can't you send it over now?"
"He is out of town now. He will be delivered to you tomorrow. Then I will get the company and give it to you, okay?"
Meng Jiayou had no choice but to wait until tomorrow.
After the matter was discussed, he didn't want to be here anymore, declined Mary's invitation to have dinner, and quickly left her house.
He got back into his car, and just when he started the car, the WeChat video call invitation sounded.
It was from his mother. After Meng Jiayou collected his emotions, he answered the call.
After the usual nagging, his mother suddenly said in a low mood: "Youyou, originally my mother didn't want to tell you, and your father didn't let me tell you, but you are so old now, so after thinking about it, I decided to
Let me tell you. Your dad was taken away by the disciplinary department early this morning. He said it was nothing and asked me not to tell you, but I was very nervous..."
Meng Jiayou's head couldn't help but feel like he was struck by lightning again. His father was the backbone of the family. Before he started working, his annual expenses in America were at least 200,000 US dollars provided by his father.
Her income is only 150,000 dragon national coins a year, and her mother's is only 100,000. The couple's combined income is only 250,000 a year, and this does not include their own expenses. Even though they had some
He has already spent most of his savings.
Therefore, he knew very well that his father, as a public official, had some financial problems.
I just didn't expect that his father had retired and was taken away by the disciplinary department for investigation.
How could this happen? His father was a good man during his time in office. He never offended anyone and had no enemies.
Someone must be maliciously retaliating.
When he thought about losing his current job, even if Meng Jiayou didn't think about it too much, he couldn't help but think about it now.
He thought about it, and although he found it incredible, the most likely possibility was that Tang Nini's cousin Chen Feng had clearly threatened him with his parents before.
damn it!
He hurriedly hung up the video with his mother, saying he wanted to inquire, and then called Tang Nini.
Tang Nini was quickly connected. Before she could speak, Meng Jiayou said, "Let your cousin answer the phone."
It was almost 7:30 in the evening. Chen Feng drank a lot of tea at Tang Nini's place and was hesitating whether to leave when Meng Jiayou called.
Chen Feng immediately took Tang Nini's cell phone and asked, "Are you still going to get through it? If not, I'll leave."
"Did you do it?" Meng Jiayou asked angrily.
Chen Feng was stunned for a moment, and then said jokingly: "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Son of a bitch! You can do it to me, but why do you do it to my dad?" Meng Jiayou shouted loudly.
Chen Feng followed his words and said in a cold voice: "I keep my word. It was you who caused your father's trouble. I give you a deadline to complete the property division with Nini within tomorrow, otherwise I can't guarantee what else will happen.