GBP Chapter 113 Sin and Grace
Chapter 113 Sin and Grace
Luo Shi was somewhat surprised by Lu Xingchen's answer, but it was also expected.
He has always felt that Lu Xingchen was not simple, and he heard from the boss yesterday that Lu Xingchen was related to Lu Dingsheng. Although he didn't find out the reason, he was not wrong.
"Because I told you that night that you wouldn't have to leave if you took good care of my boss, so you're staying here?"
If he hadn't mentioned it, she would have forgotten about it. Lu Xingchen didn't bother to talk about anything else and answered directly: "I signed a formal contract when I joined the company. If Assistant Luo wants me to resign, please follow the formal process."
Luo Shihe sneered, "You refuse to leave, are you planning to take advantage of my boss?"
Lu Xingchen also didn't want to argue about this topic. It was too much. Especially since Li Zhen had been acting weird recently, she wanted to distance herself from these people.
"Your boss may be really good in your eyes, and I admit that Mr. Li is indeed excellent, but if I were to return to him because of his money, I think there are other men as rich as him. Assistant Luo wouldn't think that Mr. Chu is just the CEO of Huaxun Company, right?"
Luo Shi knew that Chu Zeyan was from the Chu family, but Lu Xingchen's words really made him angry. "You should understand that you are working under my boss now, and you are just an ordinary employee. If you really count, there are many more women who are prettier and better than you than there are CEO Chu."
"So why are you on guard against a small clerk like me?"
Who is on guard against her? Otherwise, he would not bother to argue with her if the boss was obsessed. Luo Shi was dissatisfied but couldn't say anything. "Forget it, forget it. I'm not here to force you to resign today."
Seeing her undisguised disbelief, Luo Shi unhappily grabbed the coffee on the table and took a sip, then said again:
"I heard that you have a great favor to Li Wen and Li Shu."
"Assistant Luo, since I don't want you to use your personal feelings to interfere with my work, I won't use personal matters to exaggerate my work ability either."
The words were nice, but he really couldn't criticize Lu Xingchen's work ability. "I don't want to talk to you about work or your kindness to the Li family. I want to talk to you about the kindness the Li family has shown me."
This was beyond Lu Xingchen's expectations. He did not respond and waited calmly for Luo Shi to continue.
Luo Shi lowered his eyes and remained silent for a long time. He picked up the coffee and took a sip before he made up his mind. He looked directly at Lu Xingchen and said, "My father was the driver who caused the car accident that killed Li Zhen's father."
Even someone as calm as Lu Xingchen couldn't help but shrink his pupils.
Seeing her reaction, Luo Shi added self-deprecatingly, "And my dad was driving under the influence, so he's fully responsible."
Li Zhen's father, Li Dachuan, was his parents' late-born son. With his parents' arrangement, he successfully got a leisurely and stable job within the system, which was also the most common living arrangement for the descendants of the natives in Beijing at that time.
But Li Dachuan has always had a dream of starting a business in his heart. He disdains the flattery and intrigue in officialdom, so he has not made any achievements after working in the system for 20 years.
After his two elder parents passed away one after another, Li Dachuan made up his mind to go south to start a business.
Although he lost a lot of money in the early stages of his business due to his personality, he never gave up and fought hard for the sake of his wife and three children. Two years later, his business started to pick up.
But disaster struck this family before good days could come. Luo Yongfu was driving under the influence, speeding, ran a red light, and hit Li Dachuan who was driving normally.
Li Dachuan stayed in the intensive care unit for more than half a month and eventually passed away.
Before he passed away, Luo Yongfu, the driver who was fully responsible for the accident, chose to commit suicide by jumping into the river because he had no money to pay for medical bills.
Wang Yaning not only had to support the whole family, but also had to save Li Dachuan's life. Some of the people who had business dealings with Li Dachuan were afraid that they would not get the money after his death, so they came to the hospital to collect debts. Wang Yaning did not have the energy to take care of these things, so she could only agree with her partners to put the company into liquidation procedures.
However, she could not get financial support from Li Dachuan's company. It just so happened that Wang Yaning's elder sister, Lin Huanxi, who was married in Yuecheng, also had a family problem and was almost unable to take care of herself.
The two families borrowed from all the relatives they could, and Li Dachuan's medical expenses were finally paid after he had stayed in the intensive care unit for more than ten days.
At this time, a thin and yellow-faced woman came to the hospital and gave Wang Yaning more than 60,000 yuan in cash. This woman was the wife of the driver who caused the accident, and Luo Shi’s mother Du Juan.
Wang Yaning hated the Luo family to the core, and the money Du Juan brought was far from enough for the compensation they should give. She resisted the urge to scold Du Juan and just told Du Juan coldly that the money was far from enough to pay for Li Dachuan's hospital fees and asked her to raise more.
A few days later, the thinner Du Juan came back with more than 50,000 yuan in cash wrapped in a black plastic bag.
But this time, after Du Juan left the hospital, thirteen-year-old Luo Shi suddenly rushed out and snatched the bag from Wang Yaning's hand.
But he failed to snatch the money away, because the 14-year-old Li Zhen, who was much taller than him, rushed over and knocked him to the ground. Luo Shi could not resist and cried and begged: "Please give me back the money, it's my mother's life-saving money. If she doesn't have surgery, she won't live for more than half a year!"
His mother's life is life, but are the lives of Li Zhen, Li Shu, and Li Wen's father not lives? And all this was caused by his father! His father irresponsibly abandoned them, so why should he come to find them!
Wang Yaning ignored the child and just took the black plastic bag containing more than 50,000 yuan in cash and took Li Zhen away.
Wang Yaning changed her mind on the day she was most devastated. Two days after receiving the 50,000 yuan, Li Dachuan left her and her three children behind. Wang Yaning, heartbroken, ran into the boy from Du Juan at the hospital's blood test window.
The skinny child first asked the staff at the blood collection window: "Auntie, how much can I get for one gram of blood?"
After being questioned and explained, the boy stubbornly asked: "Does your hospital accept kidneys? I have two. Can I sell one to you so that my mother can have surgery?"
At that moment, Wang Yaning, who was so sad that she couldn't cry, suddenly burst into tears.
Later, she returned to Du Juan the more than 70,000 yuan of hospital fees that Du Juan had given Li Dachuan but had not spent. The mother and her two children survived the most difficult times by relying on the meager profits from the liquidation of Li Dachuan's company.
Fortunately, Du Juan's operation was successful, but unfortunately her illness relapsed two years later and she died within a few months.
More than ten years later, when Luo Shi talked about this past event again, he didn't feel like he was talking about someone else's business. Instead, it was still as heavy and dark as if it could shroud his dreams at any time.
Seeing Lu Xingchen also revealing a gloomy look, he smiled and said:
“I know the Li family is in a miserable situation, but at that time I could only care about my own misery. My parents’ affair caused our entire family to be robbed, and they were unable to repay the debt until their death. I became an unlucky burden.
My elderly grandmother offered me a house in the village that was not worth much, and my uncle's family finally agreed to take me in. I finished junior high school with beatings and scoldings, and then my grandmother passed away, so I dropped out of school and came to the city.
Working in a factory could not satisfy my sixteen-year-old desire to make a lot of money to show off to others, so I made a lot of friends who knew how to make money, and also learned a craft from a master.
On the day of my apprenticeship, I was holding a razor blade for the first time on the subway, ready to cut the bag of the woman I had been following since the bank. Li Zhen suddenly grabbed my wrist. He didn't say anything and held it tightly until the woman got off the train. Then he looked at me coldly and asked, "The child who wanted to sell a kidney to treat his mother's illness, are you selling your conscience now?"