Chapter 6

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Chapter 6 Stars On The Sky(6)

When Secretary Zhen just went out, another secretary, Hao Xue, pushed the door and came into the office, “Boss, according to the schedule you need to go to the Technology Park now.”

Gao Yusheng nodded and put the mouse-shape towel into a drawer, then picked up the suit jacket on the hanger and put it on his arm. Secretary Hao sorted out the documents signed on the desk and put it on in a folder. There were already managers waiting outside.

After the boss and R&D personnel left, Hao Xue distributed the signed emergency documents to sections. Seeing Hao Xue walked there, Zhen Jing who was complaining with the HR manager asked Hao Xue, “You are the secretary as what I’m working as, but why have you never been deducted a bonus?”

Hao Xue handed a document to the HR manager and pushed the rimless glasses with one finger, “I asked Siri on the boss’s iPhone about this question, it said that the money was called a bonus when it was issued, and an IQ tax when it was deducted.”

“…” Zheng Jing opened his mouth speechlessly and turned to ask the personnel manager, “Isn’t the boss’s customized version of Siri played for others?”

The personnel manager patted his shoulder sympathetically, “Well, Secretary Hao has always been more euphemistic in speaking.”

“…”

Gao Yusheng and his party entered the elevator and met Xu Jiao, female staff in the marketing department, who was crying. Xu Jiao was small and exquisite, seeing them while sobbing and said, “General Manager, I’ll go to see Tingting and take a day off.”

Xu Jiao graduated from a university of Taiwan, so she spoke Mandarin with a mix of Beijing and Taiwanese accent. Everyone liked teasing her before, but now nobody has the same thought and keep silent.

The small and cute creature was sobbing. If this scene were to be seen by Zhai Chen, he would certainly be unable to pull out a tissue to comfort Xu Jiao. Gao Yusheng, who did not know how to show tender affection to girls at all, only gave her a slight nod, allowing her to absent from work.

Under the persuasion of other policemen in the police station, Zhai Chen failed to beat the man with malicious intent. But other police apparently did not pursue his intention to “attack the police”, and the policeman who took the record secretly gave him a thumbs up. The grassroots police were very busy every day, the ordinary police might be in this police station couldn’t get used to this “boss” for a long time.

After entangling for a while, Zhai Chen walked out of the police station and just met Xu Jiao who came to ask about the case of Li Ting.

“Are you the Mr. Bodyguard, right?”

Xu Jiao was a head shorter than him, which led to Zhai Chen’s eyes directly over her head. Xu Jiao almost was not seen. Zhai Chen bowed his head and said, “Ah, who are you?”

“I’m her colleague and girlfriend. My name is Xu Jiao. I met you before you picked her up from work,” On a hot day, Xu Jiao ran all the way, and her sweat and tears took her makeup away. When Xu Jiao learned that the deceased had been removed for identification, the house was temporarily sealed off, and there was no comment on the case. Xu Jiao cried again.

She couldn’t help crying so Zhai Chen took her to a tea shop on the street for a drink.

“Tingting definitely won’t commit suicide, it must be done by bastard Wang Jinghang,” Xu Jiao took a sip of iced milk tea.

Zhai Chen lifted off the lid of iced lemonade, held the glass with one hand and drank slowly, listening to the girl talking about Li Ting angrily with a funny accent.

Li Ting met Wang jinghang when she was renting a house, and Wang was the householder in Cai Zhuang New Town. Cai Zhuang used to be a very big village in the city. Every family built at least three floors of buildings, which were demolished one by one to make householders become rich. At that time, shortly after graduating from graduate school, she didn’t know anything and was tricked by Wang Jinghong’s sweet words and talked for some time. It turned out that Li Ting wanted to break up because of his poor knowledge and vision. However, Wang Jinghang did not do it. At first, he was trying to jump off a building or cut off his wrists to prevent breaking up. Later, he pestered and even followed by Li Ting.

“He said that if Tingting wasn’t with him, she would be ruined,” Xu Jiao bit her straw into a flat, and couldn’t help but start crying again.

Zhai Chen handed her the napkin to her, “That is to say, Wang Jinghang is from Cai Zhuang, so he and everyone in Cai Zhuang New Town get to know each other?”

“The householders must know each other, after all, it is a village. The tenant may not know it,” when the police went to the company to investigate, she had already said it, hoping to catch the scum.

They two kept phone numbers for each other. To be exact, Xu Jiao unilaterally asked Zhai Chen to give her a phone number.

“I know it has nothing to do with you… I am not at ease in my heart, you are the hero who was beating Wang Jinyang, leave a phone number will make me calm down.”

“It’s just my job. “

A hero?

He shook his head, threw his bag over his shoulder, and took a deep breath. The heatwave was covered in car exhaust, and the unique taste of the summer made him cough three times. As a young man, it was such a sultry summer, and Zhai Jianguo was pestering his teeth with gauze, “There are no heroes here, just the instincts of being born for human beings.”

In the evening kindergarten after school, Zhai Chen carried his nephew to the police station to ask about the progress of the case, three days in a row, with the young police comrades were familiar with. The police were very puzzled, this was only temporary employment of unlicensed black bodyguards, if Zhai Chen was not present to prove sufficient, the police must suspect that he was the murderer who was in vain to inquire about the information.

“I’m still in the employment period,” replied Chen, “the death of a client during the employment period is a disgrace to my career, and I protect the justice if I didn’t protect the client well.” It was heroic and impassioned, and it was a good match for the background of sad music.

After listening to Zhai Chen’s words, the policeman respected him, admired his professionalism, and quietly revealed something to Zhai Chen, “The forensic expert determined that there was an error between the landing point and the free fall, and it was judged that she was thrown away. But the killer had no clue and we reported it to the municipal bureau, who has sent someone to assist in the investigation.”

The city bureau sent someone, and that was Fang Chuyang and other police. Zhai Chen patted the policeman’s shoulder, “Thank you buddy, but you can’t disclose this news in the future. What if I am the murderer?”

The last sentence came to the policeman’s ear. The policeman’s eyes widened and frowned, like a cat stunned by a weasel, and all his hair exploded.

The police officer had just been on the job and was a policeman who routinely handled disputes among ordinary people, so Zhai Chen had the opportunity to take his word. If someone under Fang Chuyang leaks the information, he will soon be kicked out by Fang Chuyang with a truncheon.

Municipal Bureau of Interpol, Fang Chuyang was looking at the scene survey photos.

“Deputy captain, the branch office hasn’t finished the incident yet, isn’t it appropriate for us to bring it this early?” Interpol Chen Zhaohui, who was squatting on the ground and clearing up the documents, carefully poked at the table and asked Fang Chuyang. His skin was dark, and he suddenly popped out from under the table, quite scary.

“Don’t you think this is a bit like the case of southern town?” the other plice turned around and said.

“southern town’s case?” Chen Zhaohui sat upright and quickly took out the data of that case. A few days ago, a middle-aged man died in southern town. This man jumped off the overpass in the middle of the night and broke his neck. His wife said he had committed suicide because he owed a lot of debt and could not afford it, but his parents believed that he had been killed.

That overpass was still under construction, there was no official traffic, and there were no cameras around. But in the morning, many people who were at work saw it and sent it to the social network caused panic, so they were going to the city bureau to investigate.

It was also a high-altitude fall. There were no witnesses, no suicide notes, no signs, and he had an appointment the next day.

“Li Ting’s ex-boyfriend has proof of her absence. There was only her own fingerprint on the doorknob, and there were no signs of fighting in the corridor,” Captain Fan walked in, wiping his sweat as he walked, “what about the footprints?”

Captain Fan used to be Zhai’s father’s deputy, much older than Fang Chuyang. He was middle-aged, and his physical strength couldn’t keep up with young people.

“The property in that community is very poor and has not been cleaned all year round. From the front of Li Ting’s apartment to the elevator entrance, there are footprints of all kinds of men, women, and children,” Fang Chu Yang found the photo of the footprints and handed it to the captain. The walkways in that building were dirty and littered with debris. There were bottles and cans that the old lady had picked up, and there were also that the couple had thrown away the kid’s diapers.

“Did you check the upstairs and downstairs windows? Did the killer might fall from another floor?” Captain Fan took the photo and looked at it carefully, “where is Li Ting’s ex-boyfriend from? “

“Other floors have been checked, no signs of fighting. Her ex-boyfriend Wang jinghang, who is from Cai Zhuang, also has a house in Cai Zhuang’s new town. On the day of the crime, he was still lying in the hospital, and the nurse on duty and the patient in the same room could prove it,” Fang Chu Yang took out Wang Jinghang’s information and handed it to the captain.

“The hospital? Why is he in the hospital?”

“He…was beaten by a friend of Li Ting’s for following Li Ting and suffered a fracture of his tailbone,” Fang Chu Yang turned around with a toothache expression and silently ignored the name of the attacker, Mr. Zhai.

“ho,” Captain Fan was surprised.

“In that situation, the two cases are quite similar,” Chen Zhaohui, an honest policeman, listed all the conditions of the case and drew them on a piece of paper, “now it’s time for Li Ting’s family to declare that she committed suicide.”

“Captain!” A team member who was in charge of the investigation came in and said out of breath, “Li Ting … Li Ting’s parents said she committed suicide.”

“!!!”

“Dolls and bears dance, jump and jump, they dance in circles, dance and dance…” Soft music sounded, female teachers of the kindergarten are wearing pink sportswear and teaching children to do the inter-class exercise. The children with short arms and legs followed the teacher amusedly. They did not do the right posture at all. They looked like they were fighting.

Zhai Chen stood against the wall in a pink and blue apron, holding his arms to watch these little kids stagger.

“Oh, young people nowadays really don’t cherish their lives,” the middle-aged woman who was in charge of cleaning was sitting next to the class, holding her cell phone while surfing the internet and talking to another woman in the kitchen.

Zhai Chen leaned over curiously, “What’s the matter?”

“Look at today’s news, a female white-collar worker jumped off a building because she didn’t want to work overtime,” The middle-aged women in the kindergarten all like to talk to Zhai Chen. Seeing him coming, they handed him the mobile phone with its broken screen like a spider web.

The “spider web screen” mobile phone was very fuzzy, but the matching picture on the news that the coded Cai Zhuang new town could be recognized at a glance, Zhai Chen took out his own quick glance at the news. There was usually a lot of hot news on the internet, and this one was no exception. He just searched it out.

“An office lady jumped to death under heavy pressure, where is the road for workers in suits”

“An office lady committed suicide because she was dissatisfied with overtime work. Who will protect the rights of highly educated workers?”

“White-collar people’s physical and mental state is worried, and the number of overwork deaths and depression is increasing year by year.”

All reports, without exception, were about Li Ting’s suicide by jumping off a building. Although the name was omitted and only Miss Li and an Internet company were mentioned, the insider clearly knew what was going on. The long headlines hurt the sensitive nerves of urban workers word by word. White-collar overwork had always been an enduring topic, and it was brought up every year for people to discuss for a long time.

This news gave people who had procrastination and work overtime a chance to be touched by themselves, a reason to go home for those who were exhausted by the torture of big cities, and an excuse to ask the boss for a pay rise for those who were physically weak and forced to work overtime. The reason why it spread rapidly was that there were many such phenomena in society that could also be exploited.

Most of the Internet media was like this. The news began with a picture and the content was all compiled. What worried Zhai Chen most was a recording of an interview with Li Ting’s parents and several attached WeChat messages screenshots.

“My child had complained to me that she was very tired. She called me in the middle of the night and cried that she didn’t want to do it. She worked overtime until two or three o’clock in the middle of the night…” A middle-aged woman said with a dialect accent, mixed with a thick nasal sound, apparently just cried. This recording was a video file. When she spoke, she only showed a phone sign. After that, she showed several WeChat screenshots.

[Daughter: I’m exhausted. I worked overtime till 3 o’clock again.]

[Daughter: For such a big project, only our five-member team is doing it.]

[Daughter: I seem to have a little fever.]

[Daughter: I think I’m dying. I can’t deal with it. I’m going crazy! Maybe one day I will die!]

In the chat interface, all the messages returned by her mother were mosaic, only seeing all kinds of complaints from Li Ting. The last message was sent out last week, which was also the clearest one.

Zhai Chen could be sure that the last message was sent by Li Ting was not related work. The time was the day before she went to find a bodyguard in Seal Special Household. Obviously, she was talking about the psycho ex-boyfriend!

After watching the news, Zhai Chen was very angry. Xu Jiao suddenly sent a WeChat message to him.

[Jiao Jiao Jiao: Chen, what should I do? Tingting’s parents insisted that our company forced her to death. I was scolded by them when I persuaded them yesterday. They wanted the company to give them money. How can there be such parents in the world!]

“…” How can there be such parents in the world? Zhai Chen did not very understand, why Li Ting’s parents when their children suddenly died, their first reaction was not to find out the murderer, but try every means to ask for money!

Punctuation Map was clearly a high welfare company that everyone in the industry wanted to enter, but it had been vilified as such an unscrupulous company. Thinking of Gao Yusheng’s monk calm appearance, Zhai Chen also didn’t know if he would jump up with anger. Zhai Chen suddenly sounded GaoYu sheng that with a little gentle tone “you don’t be angry” in his ear side, his little banter immediately like soap bubbles “bo” to fracture.

Zhai Chen was thinking of Gao Yusheng when his cell phone suddenly rang and the caller id “heart breaker”.

“What happened is what you are thinking of,” after calling him last time, Zhai Chen thought the president was actually quite cute and changed the name of “heart breaker” playfully. He raised his hand to connect the call, “what can I do for you, Mr. Gao?”

“I can’t leave now, can you come to my company? Have something to tell you, it is related to Li Ting” Gao Yu sheng’s voice with the same tone, sounded not to be angry.

“Now?” Zhai Chen looked at Zhai Mengmeng, who was doing exercises twice as low as other children and seemed to be practicing Tai Chi.

“Now, it won’t hold you up too long,” Gao Yusheng’s implication meant that Zhai Chen may come back before the kindergarten was finished school.

Li Ting’s death was like a thorn that suddenly plunged into Zhai Chen’s heart. He fidgeted without knowing. Zhai Chen took a leave of absence with the director of the garden, picked up the bag and left hurriedly away.

The all-glass Fortune Building sparkles in the summer sun, like a gold brick of indomitable spirit, scraping off some skin is higher than the salary of poor kindergarten teachers for one year.

“Gao Yu Sheng, heart breaker!” heard the rhythmic bawl, Zhai Chen remembered it was Friday, the woman who was obviously older than Gao Yu sheng, scold more brutal than before, “Gao Yu sheng, you bastard! Abandon your wife and children, you will go to hell!”

Also, idioms were used.

Just when the sun was scorching, the security guard of the building stood in the glass door with an expression of missing nothing and hurried out to drive the woman away when he saw the guests coming.

“Ah, I said miss,” Zhai Chen poked the shoulder of the woman dragged by the security guard with a finger, “you said Gao Yusheng abandoned you, why did he abandon his wife and son?”

“I was pregnant and miscarried later because of him! That was already a child! He still won’t marry me!” The woman was holding a photo of Gao Yusheng wearing a suit cut out from a magazine and said certainly.

“Sir, you must ignore her, Mr. Gao is not such a person. This woman is paranoid, just like those who chase after celebrities and scold others for abandoning her,” the security guard hurriedly explained and pulled the woman with another guard aside together.

“All of you are his helpers! Dogs that do evil for rich people!” women continue to lambaste rhythmically, even scold Zhai Chen as well.

“Good literary grace, very rhyming,” Zhai Chen politely applauded.

After entering the elevator, Zhai Chen pressed the button on the 23rd floor in a familiar way. Previously, Li Ting also asked him how he knew the Punctuation Map was on the 23rd floor. Zhai Chen also pretended to mysteriously say it was a secret. In fact, it was just a professional habit of Zhai Chen. He took a guide map at the front desk when he entered the door, which company was on which floor and where the fire exits on each floor were located.

The elevator opened with a sound of “ding” on the 23rd floor, and the cries reaching noise decibels poured into the elevator like floods, giving Zhai Chen the illusion of entering the 18th floor of Cai Zhuang New Town.

On the starry floor tile outside the glass door of the Punctuation Map, incense paper money was placed, white cloth curtains were pulled on the wall, and the black handwritten characters “black heart company gave my niece’s life back”. A middle-aged man was holding the portrait of Li Ting. Two middle-aged women were sitting on the ground crying incessantly and playing suona funeral music with a poor-quality stereo the size of bricks.

They might have swiped the elevator with the employee card left by Li Ting, but they could not enter the company without fingerprint unlocking, so they sat outside and made a scene. Another unknown reporter took a mobile phone to record a video, “This is in front of the company where the Punctuation Map is located. Relatives of the deceased Miss Li asked the company to explain, but the company’s chief did not show up.”

“Since the death of my child, the leaders of their company have not come to visit it. They have not even sent a message of sympathy!”

“This company is not formal at all. It doesn’t even have a death pension. It says they have to wait for the insurance company to reimburse it!”

Zhai Chen listened to these unreasonable words and felt only a headache, “Hey, the police haven’t cleared the case yet. What are you doing in the company?”

“Are you from their company?” A man who claimed to be Li Ting’s uncle came up and gave Zhai Chen a shove.

Zhai Chen was pushed into a lurch and nearly hit the wall. He looked very weak. He bowed his head and took a deep breath. He looked up with a smile, “Eldest brother, you can say something but don’t fight.”

“What if I hit you? Tingting has been killed by your company, and I’m not allowed to show my anger!” Arrogant middle-aged man seeing Zhai Chen show weakness, his momentum immediately such as poured oil firewood, boom shot up three miles high.

“I am not good in health, and you should take the responsibility if I got hurt,” Zhai Chen quivering took out an oxygen cylinder and took a deep breath.

“You are blackmailing!” the man saw that Zhai Chen was not only weak but also sick. He raised his hand slowly and he was going to hit Zhai Chen’s face.

“Dong!” Thick dark wrist, was held by a white and slender hand firmly, the middle-aged man immediately like being fixed body surgery couldn’t move, even a millimeter. That man’s eyes gradually bulged out, and the middle-aged man looked at the thin young man with an unbelievable expression.

“I told you not to fight, I’m in a hurry,” Zhai Chen still maintained an innocent expression, talking slowly, just close his eyes narrowed slightly.

The glass door suddenly opened. Gao Yusheng, wearing only a shirt, stepped out quickly and quietly took Zhai Chen’s hand, which was ready to hit that middle-aged man, “Where is the security guard?”

Two uniformed security guards ran up from the fire safety ladder inside the glass door, clinging to the middle-aged man and dragging him back. Zhai Chen released his hand, leaving five green and white handprints on the dark wrist of the middle-aged man.

“The public security department has not concluded yet. If it is our company’s responsibility, I will compensate you even if I lose everything. If it is not our responsibility, I will not pay a cent!” Gao Yusheng said coldly in his tone. He told the secretary around him, “call the police!” Then he turned back to the company.

Zhai Chen, who was also pulled by Gao Yusheng, had walked two steps, “Well then, Mr. Gao, is it not good for us to go in like this?”

Two big men holding hands like children, Zhai Chen didn’t care about it, but Gao Yusheng’s image of high cold would be damaged.

Gao Yusheng didn’t react for an instant what Zhai Chen was saying until his palm was scratched by Zhai Chen’s fingertip.

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