In the evening, Lu Xingchen arrived at the agreed coffee shop ten minutes early. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Chen Xiaoyun standing up from the corner seat and waving to her. She must have been anxious to know the result, so she came here early to wait.

Lu Xingchen felt bad, especially when he looked at Chen Xiaoyun closely. It had only been a few days since the accident and she had lost a lot of weight visibly, and her eyes were red and swollen every time they met.

Although Chen Xiaoyun tried hard to hold back her tears during this meeting, she still started to cry as soon as she asked about the 10 million yuan debt that might burden them.

Lu Xingchen explained to her that the debt could not be blamed on them, but as there was no definite solution yet, she couldn't stop crying because she had too much to worry about.

For example: "Boss Wang and Boss Teng are powerful. Even if we call the police, they may not help us."

For example: "If you don't pay the medical bills, my mother will be forced to leave the hospital, and my brother's living expenses will also be cut off..."

In the past, Lu Xingchen didn’t know that power and money can make people as weak and lowly as grass, but now she can understand Chen Xiaoyun very well. She didn’t just give her empty words of consolation, but took out her mobile phone and transferred some money to her through WeChat.

Chen Xiaoyun looked at her in horror when she saw the notification of transferring 20,000 yuan. "Manager Lu, I don't mean to take money from you..."

"I know." Lu Xingchen reached out and held her arm, steadying the panic-stricken woman. "I know you're so anxious because of family matters. Take this money for emergencies first."

Seeing that she was not panicked at all, Chen Xiaoyun calmed down a little, but looking at the orange transfer notification on WeChat, she still said with red and swollen eyes: "But I still can't accept this money..."

"It's okay." Lu Xingchen took back his hand that was holding her arm, "I'm not in a hurry to use it. Just give it back to me after we've resolved the matter."

After saying that, I was slapped in the face by my inner self. Why are you not in a hurry? Don’t you know that you are in debt? Don’t you know where you borrowed the money from?

But who was she to blame for the trouble?

Lu Xingchen kept a generous smile on his face and looked at Chen Xiaoyun.

After all, it was too urgent. Chen Xiaoyun wavered and hesitated and said, "Even if my salary is paid, it won't be that much."

"Of course not. We sold so much alcohol in the private room of those two bastards Wang and Teng, how can our commission be less?"

Chen Xiaoyun didn't even dare to think about the commission. "Even if we are proven not to be scammers, we have already offended Director Wang. It's good enough that the company can pay us wages. How can we still get commissions?"

"We are working normally, and the company should pay us the right salary. Even if we offend Mr. Wang, there are still labor laws to follow."

It just takes a long time to get to the stage of labor law.

After hearing this, Chen Xiaoyun still had an expression of "Really?" on her face. What she actually wanted was more certain guarantees, but she didn't have that, so Lu Xingchen, the "deputy manager", was undoubtedly her only hope at the moment.

In addition, Lu Xingchen's calmness undoubtedly gave her a lot of sense of security. Chen Xiaoyun gratefully accepted the money and immediately transferred it to her family. After doing all this, she was obviously a lot more relaxed than before, and turned around to thank Lu Xingchen again and again.

Lu Xingchen didn't want to go back and forth in polite conversation, so he picked up his phone, checked the time and asked her, "Did Zhang Chuner send you a message?"

Chen Xiaoyun was surprised, "Yes, it's been almost half an hour, why hasn't she come yet?" She picked up her phone and checked, "She didn't send me a message, so I should give her a call."

"It's okay, there might be a traffic jam on the road." Lu Xingchen took a sip of coffee and turned to look outside the window at the city shrouded in night.

Chen Xiaoyun saw that her expression was particularly calm and couldn't guess what she was thinking, but she still couldn't help but talk to her: "Manager Lu, you are not a local either, right?"

Not a local? Lu Xingchen turned around and asked her, "Don't I look like a local?"

"You have an accent like someone from Beijing, and your Mandarin is very standard."

Lu Xingchen was stunned, then smiled. He didn't answer where he was from, but just said, "I thought you were praising me."

Chen Xiaoyun said shyly, "I'm not exaggerating. When I first saw you, I was shocked to find that a girl as beautiful and elegant as you would come to work in a place where there are so many people."

Lu Xingchen didn't like talking about herself with others, so she smiled and changed the subject, "Then why are you so beautiful, but you also work in such a mixed place?"

Chen Xiaoyun felt embarrassed by the compliment, "I'm not pretty, but...if I had a choice, I wouldn't want to work in a place like that."

I don’t know if it was because he had accumulated emotions that needed to be vented, or because he felt guilty about borrowing money from her, but Chen Xiaoyun told her story.

From her birth to her schooling, and then to her parents arranging blind dates and getting married as soon as she graduated.

She said: "The blind date was a generation older than me and said that he was in a hurry to get married and have children. But I had just finished college and didn't want to go back to get married and have children, so I ran away from home and boasted to my parents that I would earn money to build a house for my eldest brother. But it was too difficult for me, a graduate from a second-tier university, to find a high-paying white-collar job. And before I found a job, my mother suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized, so..."

Her eyes turned red because of what she said, but she didn't want to be occupied by such grievances, so she pretended to be relaxed and joked, "So if I really owe 10 million in debt, my parents will probably want to kill me."

Although it was a joke, what was mentioned was something more serious, and Chen Xiaoyun was overwhelmed with sadness once again.

Lu Xingchen suddenly panicked. If she cried again, she would have no way to comfort her.

Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Chuner appeared beside their seats and said apologetically, "Sorry, Manager Lu, I'm late."

Lu Xingchen greeted her with a look of relief, "It's okay, sit down and eat something first, then we'll discuss calling the police."

Zhang Chun'er paused for a moment before sitting down next to Chen Xiaoyun. She slowly put her bag on her lap and looked up at Lu Xingchen and said, "With Director Wang here, the company will definitely not stand on our side. In this case, calling the police may not be to our advantage, and I heard that the procedures are very troublesome."

Chen Xiaoyun was also worried about this, but she had just talked to Lu Xingchen, so she took the initiative to explain to Zhang Chuner: "But except calling the police, no one can help us."

Zhang Chun'er looked at her and said, "I found someone who should be able to help."

"Really?!" Chen Xiaoyun suddenly became excited. "Do you really know someone more powerful than Director Wang and his group?"

In contrast, Lu Xingchen was more alert, especially when Zhang Chun'er gave her an evasive look. She became more suspicious of where her connections came from. She asked Zhang Chun'er, "Who did you find?"

She was worried that Zhang Chun'er would make the decision to betray her in order to find someone, but Zhang Chun'er told her timidly, "I went to see Mr. Li who was also there that night. He seemed willing to help, but maybe... Manager Lu needs you to go find him."

Ah, ah?

Lu Xingchen's brain buzzed and froze.

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