How much love has become a cloud of smoke

Chapter 12 The Secret Beyond the Story (1)
Vol.1
I reported Gao Tianming's illness to Mr. Gao, and he allowed me to stay at home for three days to take care of the young master.

However, these three days I have really had a harder time than in the company. The young master's ability to torture people is really increasing day by day, and every moment makes me wish I could immediately sell my leave and go back to the company to work hard.

Another reason why I am eager to return to the company is because of Chen Jiayan.When I woke up that day, except for Father Sun smiling at me from the window, there was only a note left on the coffee table.

"I have something urgent to do. I'll leave for a few days and wait for me. Chen Jiayan." After that, I never saw Chen Jiayan again.No phone calls, no text messages.

I often pass by his law firm accidentally, and the lights in his office are always dim.I could only look at the note, hoping to see that he was ugly, but in the end, I could only see that Chen Jiayan's handwriting was so beautiful, he must have practiced brush calligraphy.

I have watched many ancient scripts and modern TV dramas, and I know that "long waiting" usually does not bring any good results.But Chen Jiayan asked me to wait, but I felt that I had to wait.I looked at the note and thought over and over of what he said to me that night.

"Are you willing to be with me no matter what I have done, no matter what the future holds, whether I am a good man or a bad man, whether I am a gold medal lawyer or the son of a rapist?"

What do these words mean?On the first day of going to work on vacation, I jumped into the elevator happily. I have never felt that going to work is such a pleasing thing.I pulled away the chair and looked at the familiar desk. When I was about to turn on the computer, Lili called me from behind: "Mr. Gao is looking for you." Mr. Gao, and Mr. Gao.I don’t know if Mr. Xiao Gao sued his father about me, for example, I gave him expired canned food, and instant noodles without nutrition, or the thing that I hit him with a pillow yesterday?I walked to Mr. Gao's office in fear, and the secretary announced at the door, and Mr. Gao immediately said, "Please come in."

It seemed that he must have been waiting for me for a long time. I looked at the clock first to make sure I was not late, and then said, "Mr. Gao, are you looking for me?"

When the chair turned around, Mr. Gao was enveloped in a cloud of white smoke.Although he had only seen him for a few days, Mr. Gao seemed to have aged a few years in an instant, and the fingers holding the cigar were trembling slightly for some reason.Could it be the sequelae left by the high blood pressure attack that day?
Mr. Gao stretched out his hand and said to me: "Miss Meng, please sit down." I really didn't dare to sit down all of a sudden.

Since I joined D&K Bank, it is the first time that Mr. Gao has called me "Miss Meng" so politely. I, a low-level employee, He Dehe, can dare to sit in the chair of the general manager's office.Mr. Gao saw that I was not moving, smiled gently, and said, "I just want to ask you, did Tianming's boarding with you cause you any trouble?"

I breathed a sigh of relief, and politely said: "No, it's not inconvenient." He helped me solve a lot of canned food in the refrigerator that was about to expire, as well as instant noodles. "Miss Meng, you have really worked hard these days. If you think it is too hard, you can temporarily not come to work." No, Mr. Gao, are you going to fire me?I didn't do anything wrong, although I didn't do anything right either.I was so eager to defend myself that I couldn't even speak clearly: "Mr. Gao, I..." Before I could straighten out my words, Mr. Gao had already taken out a check from the drawer and pushed it in front of me.

"This is my little compensation, please accept it."

Severance pay?When I saw the number on the check, I suddenly had the idea that "it's not bad to be a kidnapper".But in fact, Mr. Gao, although your son is in my hands, no, my family, but I am really not a kidnapper.You don't have to give me so much money.

I silently pushed the check back and said: "Mr. Gao, you still don't want to give me a big vacation. I am very happy at work." Before he could say anything, I immediately said, "If there is nothing else, I will Going out to do something." Saying that, he immediately turned around and ran out, really, at a trot.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Gao stopped me.I never thought that the old man was so determined to dismiss me, what kind of rule did I commit?I turned to look at Mr. Gao. In the backlight, I couldn't see the expression on Mr. Gao's face. I just waited for him to continue. However, after waiting for a long time, I only heard Mr. Gao say: "Miss Meng, thank you .”

Of course I couldn’t ask him in turn, “Mr. Gao, what are you thanking me for?”, so I obediently went back to my seat and was looking through the documents full of doubts, when suddenly a group of eighth girls descended from the sky and surrounded me.

"Hey, what did Mr. Gao tell you? Did he give you a white envelope?" I looked at the group of little eight women in a daze and said, "What white envelope?"

"It's a letter of dismissal." Lily from the public relations department said, "Don't you know that the company is going to lay off employees recently?"

"Layoffs?" I almost choked on a sip of coffee. Could it be that the check just now was really a severance pay?
"Why don't you know anything, thanks to the fact that you are still Mr. Xiao Gao's close confidant." The close confidant is really a bit too big a hat for me to wear.I had no choice but to look at them and say sincerely, "Would you tell me in advance what's going on?"

"I heard that someone reported that the bank was involved in insider trading, and the bank's stock fell terribly all of a sudden. Then, someone took advantage of the sharp drop in the stock price and bought a large number of bank shares in the market." Lily looked around and lowered her voice. Said, "And I heard that Mr. Gao got into trouble and was kicked out by Mr. Gao. Is it true?" It was true, but it was better for me to pretend I didn't know.Seeing me shake my head, Lily continued: "Actually, it doesn't matter whether the second generation ancestor is here or not. Anyway, if the company is taken over by him, it's like no one takes over. Sooner or later, you will have to find a new job."

"But what does that have to do with layoffs?"

"You idiot." Lily yelled at me sharply, "The company must increase revenue and reduce expenditure if it wants to fight this battle, then we will give all of our fat..." Lily made a murderous gesture.I suddenly felt a chill hit me, and those words of Mr. Gao just now suddenly appeared in my mind inexplicably. The money he gave me was far more than the severance pay. That money of mine will support Gao Tianming for the rest of his life, right?

"Then, who wants to buy the company?" I grabbed Lily who wanted to leave me. "If you know it, you won't be so flustered." Lili said in a low voice, "I just know that the opponent's strength is also quite strong, and they are aggressive. Even if there is a price war, they will not hesitate to buy up the loose stocks in the market."

Li Li interjected: "The Gao family and his son have committed a lot of crimes, but they will not kill them all like this, and use us as cannon fodder."

Yes, I am really a cannon fodder. "Do you know something?" Seeing me in a daze, Lili and Lili suddenly pulled me and shook, "Say it quickly, you are so close to Mr. Gao, Mr. Da Gao just called you to the office again, You must know what it is?"

All I know is that I should have accepted the check just now, and it's impossible to run in and ask for it now.

At this moment, the HR manager suddenly appeared on our floor, scaring the two octopuses to run faster than anyone else.I stared blankly at the HR manager walking past me and placing a white envelope heavily on the desk of my colleague in the front row.Looking at the sad look on that colleague's face, I really want to say one thing: My condolences go with the flow.

The heavy and oppressive atmosphere gradually dissipated after the manager of the HR department left, and of course most of the colleagues also dispersed.

There were only a few people left in the empty office area, and it looked very bleak.I really want to figure out what's going on, but it's really difficult with my IQ.

So I thought of asking a smart person. The smartest person I know is none other than Chen Jiayan.

But this smart man should not have disappeared when the people needed him most.I tried to dial his office number, but the call was transferred to his secretary Xiaowei, who heard that it was me, and said politely: "Lawyer Chen didn't come to the law firm (law firm) today, is there something urgent? "I thought about it and felt that this was not an urgent matter, so I hung up the phone.

Although I can't find Chen Jiayan, I am not helpless.Because there is another person I can turn to for help.He is not only smart, but also powerful. I think he can do it if I ask him to buy D&K Bank. It's just a question of whether he wants to do it or not.

I stood in front of the EMK building for five or six minutes, and finally let out a long breath. The guard saw that I hadn't moved for a long time, and was about to come up to ask what happened, but someone took a photo of me before him. Shoulder.I was distracted, and the bag in my hand almost fell to the ground, but the man caught it and handed it back to me.

Seeing the people behind me, I knew that basically I couldn't do without going in. "Third brother." I shouted obediently.The unchanging black long windbreaker was worn on him as cold and handsome as ever, and the faint scar on his forehead did not diminish at all, but it was a bit more vicissitudes. "Why don't you go in when you come?" The third brother said to me, and then he looked up at the security guard, who was pushed back to his original position by the sharp gaze.I saw a faint smile on the third brother's eternal plaster face, and hurriedly explained: "I'm just passing by, just passing by, by the way... by the way, I have something, I want to ask him."

The third brother smiled and fiddled with my bangs and said, "Let's go, go up." In fact, the third brother is not my real brother, and he doesn't even have any blood relationship with me, but he can be said to be one of the few "relatives" I have in the world. "one.His real name was Su Xiaoquan, but because everyone called him Third Brother, gradually, almost no one remembered his name, and everyone just called him Third Brother.

Only my father and the "old people" would call him Su San.Yes, my name is Meng Qiqi.

My father is Meng Junshan.It's not really a secret, but it's a secret.

It's just because my father is different from ordinary fathers, he doesn't like to have children and grandchildren, so he doesn't like to have sons and daughters.How my other hapless brothers and sisters didn't come to Earth like me, I don't know.And how I can stand here alive, in fact, I don't know.

I just know that my weird and cold father is the only relative I have in this world.I say unique because I never knew who my mother was.

Although he is my father, I have never called him father seriously.Always use modal particles such as "um" and "ah".Another reason is that we seldom meet each other. If something happens, either the third brother will send the message, or I will ask the third brother to deliver the message.So I met the third brother here today, it is really a good time, place and people.

Otherwise, I would probably stand at the door until dark, and I couldn't decide whether to go in or not.As soon as he entered the building, he saw a group of people dragging a man to go out.The man was waving a bottle in his hand and yelling something. I couldn't hear it clearly, but I could only hear a few curses intermittently: "Meng Junshan, you will die...you will have retribution one day!"

This dialogue is really familiar, and I can hear it several times, just like a welcome broadcast.I was walking in with my third brother, but suddenly something hit me.I felt an "ouch" from the pain, and suddenly felt a chill in my shoulders, and something wet and slippery flowed down my sleeves in an instant.The third brother quickly kicked away the bottle that fell at my feet, took off his coat to cover me, and said to the group of people: "What are you all doing, why don't you drag him out quickly."

A group of boys nodded and bowed and apologized repeatedly, and dragged the man out.I glanced at the glass bottle that fell by my feet, and remembered that day in court... At that time, Chen Jiayan also protected me like this.It's just that it was water that time, but this time it was really kerosene. "Are you okay?" Seeing the man being dragged away, the third brother reassured me.

I shook my head, but accidentally saw the figure in the atrium on the third floor.He was like a bronze statue, wearing a dark gray suit meticulously, observing the dramatic direction of this scene indifferently, until he saw that everything was back to normal, he turned and left.The third brother pressed the elevator and sent me upstairs to the office.As soon as he entered the door, he was already sitting behind the long black walnut table, and the assistant beside him cut a cigar with a cigar and handed it to him.

He wasn't surprised at my presence, but the assistant beside him lowered his head and lit the cigar. "It didn't scare you just now, did it?" He looked up at me.Although I haven't seen him for a long time, he is still the same as usual, he hasn't aged, he hasn't been haggard, and he hasn't become kind. He still has wolf-like eyes with a chilling light.I once said that my father was really like a wolf, and the third brother laughed and said, "Then you are a wolf cub." But I am not like a wolf cub at all.

I'm like a useless rag doll, useless for anything but looking good.It’s not just me saying I’m good-looking. Ai’ai used to envy and hate me. In the company, there were gossips because I was Mr. Xiao Gao’s assistant. Some people even said that I became an airborne force because of my appearance.

But you get used to being good-looking when people talk about it.I took off my coat and returned it to third brother, then I opened the chair and sat down and said, "Who was that just now?"

"It's nothing." My father slowly lit a cigarette, raised his hand and stepped back, and then said to me, "It's just that I bought his company and made him bankrupt overnight. He came to me many times. A few days ago The other day his wife took the child and ran away with others, so he came to kill me when he hated me, and wanted to vent his anger or take revenge."

He said it so lightly, as if he was not the object of revenge.My father is indeed not an ordinary person.But it's a pity that I'm just an ordinary person. No matter how unkind, unkind, and unrighteous he is, because he is my father after all, I still worry about him to some extent. "Aren't you worried?"

"What are you worried about? Afraid that he will kill me? There are too many people who want to kill me, and it's still not his turn."

"But there are many such things. After all, it's not good for the company or you."

"You mean so-called 'reputation'?"

He really just sneered.He shouldn't show a trace of kindness, because then, he won't be the third master in their eyes, and the Meng Junshan I know. "I've always said that it doesn't matter what other people think of you, what matters is what you want to be. Many people live their entire lives without knowing who they are or why they live, but they like to judge others Those people who said I was a bastard, scum and murderer, what did they do to praise? Those people can’t even control their own mouths, let alone money and women.”

Although it was the first time I heard it, I felt that these words were very familiar.I think if it was Chen Jiayan, maybe he would say the same thing.Seeing that I was silent, he finally asked me: "You suddenly came to me, what's the matter?" I knew I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie to him, so I could only honestly say: "I have something, I want to ask you .”

"Um, about D&K Bank?"

In a word, I really found the right person.

(End of this chapter)