"Ah? That's not what I meant." Zhang Ziqing was caught off guard by Li Zhihan's straightforward question, and he immediately realized that there seemed to be something wrong with what he just said.
Li Zhihan shook his head, "It's okay, I can understand. Not just you, but even people in the company think that I am Chen Hao's secretary on the surface and Chen Hao's lover on the outside."
Zhang Ziqing didn't know what to say, so he just stopped talking.
Fortunately, Li Zhihan didn't mean to continue asking, but said to himself: "You are right, my income in Chen Hao's company is indeed not low, and Chen Hao also... takes special care of me. From then on In the more than a year since I joined the company, he has always made no secret of his thoughts about me.
But he only treated me with words and some favors. As for other things, I have never let him succeed, let alone doing anything with him! "
"I believe you." Zhang Ziqing nodded. He could tell at a glance whether Li Zhihan was telling the truth.
"I admit that I deliberately let Chen Hao take advantage of me, so that he could quickly notice me, give me a promotion, increase my salary, and give me a salary that does not match my age, so It's normal for everyone to look down on me, and I can understand it." Li Zhihan continued: "I also admit that I do need money, but my abilities and academic qualifications are very average, and my face and body are my only advantages, so I have to Don’t do it.”
Zhang Ziqing casually looked at the clothes and furniture in the room. They were all relatively cheap online shopping products. Some of the clothes might even cost dozens of yuan just by looking at their workmanship.
"It stands to reason that with your salary, even if you don't please Chen Hao, you can still live quite well. You can rent a better house and buy some high-end clothes, but you look like..."
"It seems like the poor can hardly afford to eat, right?"
Zhang Ziqing nodded.
Li Zhihan smiled, opened the drawer of the bedside table, took out a photo, looked at it for a while and handed it to Zhang Ziqing.
Zhang Ziqing took the photo, which showed a somewhat vicissitudes of life in a middle-aged woman cleaning a somewhat dilapidated house.
Although the environment in the room was very poor, the woman always had a faint smile on her face.
Next to the woman, a little girl of about four or five years old was sitting on the floor, holding an old, mended doll in her hand. She raised her head and said something to the woman.
It's easy to tell that the big one and the small one in the photo are a mother and daughter. In this environment, although there is no overly intimate behavior, it can still be seen that the mother is paying attention to playing even if she is cleaning. The loving eyes on her daughter vividly display the brilliance of motherhood.
"Is this you and your mother?" Zhang Ziqing asked, looking at the photo.
Li Zhihan nodded, his tone a little gentler, "Isn't it similar?"
Zhang Ziqing looked at the photo carefully. Although the woman in the photo looked a bit weathered, it could still be seen from between her eyebrows that the woman must have been a beautiful woman before her eyes, and she was very similar to Li Zhihan now.
"Actually, our family's conditions were pretty good before. My father ran a small business and my mother was a middle school teacher. In the 1990s, our family had a savings of more than 100,000 yuan, so we were already considered a very wealthy family.
When I was two years old, my father became obsessed with gambling. The owner of the casino took a fancy to our family's wealth, so he deliberately operated from behind the scenes, and my father soon owed huge foreign debts.
In just a few months, our family went from being one of the few wealthy families in the area to being in debt worth millions. Because my dad could not accept the shock that he had caused this situation himself, he jumped directly from the tenth floor and died on the spot.
Although the other person left, the casino did not accept the idea of canceling the account after death, so they sued my dad to the court. The court ruled that our family needed to pay all assets to the casino.
With the court's permission, those people took over my company openly and evicted my mother and I from the house we lived in. All the money in our bank account was also transferred by the casino people.
My mother and I were penniless and had no other options at the time, so my mother contacted relatives at home. However, gambling had a very bad reputation at the time, and my mother and I still owed money, so no relatives were willing. They took us in and didn't even dare to contact us.
We had no place to stay that night and no money to stay in a hotel, so my mother took me to stay in the cave of a bridge for one night.
It was almost winter at that time, and it was extremely cold at night. I had never experienced such an environment since I was born. Coupled with the strong wind from the river, I quickly developed a fever, and it was still a high fever of 39 degrees to almost 40 degrees.
My mother was so anxious that she had to take me to one hospital after another at night for injections and infusions. But at that time, almost all hospitals required payment before infusion. As soon as they heard that we had no money, they simply ignored us.
In the end, my mother had no choice but to hold me and sit in the corridor of the hospital all night, wrapping me up layer by layer with her own clothes. Fortunately, I sweated a lot that night, and the next morning I was at three o'clock. More than seventeen degrees.
Originally, my mother wanted to stay in the hospital for a few more days. After all, the hospital was still warmer than outside, but the group of doctors and nurses started chasing people away as soon as it was daytime and wouldn't let us stay in the corridor.
There was no other way, so my mother had no choice but to hold me in her arms and go to her former friends to borrow some money. I still remember that my mother, who used to be a teacher, was obviously so dignified and virtuous, but that day she went around begging for help in a low voice. In the end, it was one of her former colleagues who really couldn’t stand it. I went down and gave my mother a hundred yuan and asked her to take me to see a doctor.
At that time, there were a lot of things I could do with one hundred dollars. After my mother took me to a clinic to get a shot, I found a room in a small hotel with a not-so-good environment, which was considered a temporary place to live. place.
Because my family members were gambling, which had a bad influence, my mother was expelled from the school. After I was placed, my mother immediately went out to find a job. But the small city is so big, and my father is relatively well-known in the local area. Things in our family are almost Spread throughout the city.
No company is willing to accept my mother, only those small hotels of small scale can recruit front desks, cleaning companies, hotel waiters and other jobs.
My mother was originally a graduate of a prestigious university. She received a good education since she was a child. She was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She never thought that she could only find this kind of job.
But in the end, considering our future stay and daily expenses in the future, my mother finally worked as a front desk attendant in a hotel. "
"Have you not considered changing your life in a city?" Zhang Ziqing asked, "If you change to a city, no one will know about your family's affairs, and your mother can still find a decent job."
Li Zhihan was silent for a while and whispered: "When I grew up, I asked my mother the same question. My mother told me that my father would be very lonely if he stayed alone in Jiangning. Our family wants to be together for the rest of our lives, and no one can Who to leave?"
Zhang Ziqing nodded, "Then your mother should love your father very much."
"They did love each other very much." Li Zhihan said with a smile, "My mother took me with me and never remarried in my life. With my mother's beauty, even though she went through such a big thing, many men still came to pursue her, and some even The man also said he was willing to take over the rest of the debt for his mother.
But my mother didn't agree to any of them, and didn't even let them in. Even when I grew older and it cost more to go to school, my mother would rather work more jobs than let those men take advantage. "
"Then your mother is now..."
"I'm in the hospital now." Li Zhihan's eyes were a little dim. "My mother was not in good health. In order to support my studies, she had to work several jobs by herself. She worked from six in the morning to ten in the evening every day. There was nothing at all. break time, so by the time I was in college, she was so overworked that she couldn’t stand up anymore.”
"This is why I work so hard to make money. I endure the nausea of being taken advantage of by Chen Hao, but I still want to keep doing this job. I need money to pay for my mother's monthly hospital bills, medical expenses, and treatment expenses. It's all a big expense.
So as you can see now, even though my income is not low, I still live in such a small rental house, wear cheap clothes, and use low-quality cosmetics. "
After saying this, Li Zhihan's eyes couldn't help but turn slightly red.
Zhang Ziqing opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but after thinking about it for a while, he still didn't say anything.
In this situation, he had no good reason to persuade them to continue. If he persuaded others not to continue, he couldn't pay for their medical bills. There were too many miserable people in the world, and Zhang Ziqing couldn't help them all. Come help.
"Actually, the boss of the casino that caused my father to jump off a building and destroy our family was Chen Hao." Li Zhihan said something else that surprised Zhang Ziqing.
Li Zhihan smiled bitterly and said: "Isn't it ironic? In a sense, Chen Hao is actually the enemy of our family, but now I still have to work under the enemy, endure his harassment, and take the mail he sent me The salary is enough to support me and my mother.”
"Do you want to find out what's wrong with his company and then report him?" Zhang Ziqing suddenly reacted.
Li Zhihan smiled and blinked, "Do you think someone as smart as Chen Hao would give others the opportunity to find out where he broke the law? And after so many years of development, his power in Jiangning City can be considered deeply rooted. Can anyone bring him down?"
Zhang Ziqing did not answer. What Li Zhihan said was right. With Chen Hao's current power in Jiangning City, unless some people deliberately want to punish him, no one can touch him.
And in the past few years, he seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and began to slowly clean up all the properties. At least now, it seems that he is a legitimate businessman.
"However, I believe there will always be righteous people in this world. Where the sun shines, bad guys will one day be brought to justice." Under Zhang Ziqing's somewhat surprised gaze, Li Zhihan raised his head and smiled: "Wait a minute. After I found all the criminal evidence of Chen Hao, I will hand him over to the police and report him. If no one is in charge of him in Jiangning, then I will go to other places, all the way to the capital. I don’t believe that no one can cure him. Kill him!"
Seeing Li Zhihan's energetic look, Zhang Ziqing felt a little funny, but he still didn't laugh. He just nodded, "Well, I believe you can do it."
