The next day, Lin Shuyue went to the newspaper office. Li Weisheng had already returned. He drank a little too much last night and was still in a state of depression. Li Mingfang was in a similar state, and was now fast asleep at her workstation.
Lin Shuyue could tell at a glance that she had also been drinking a lot.
She went to the tea room, poured a cup of warm water, soaked two lemon slices and put them on Li Mingfang's table.
Li Mingfang heard the noise, looked up and saw it was her, and then raised her head: "Ah Yue, it's so uncomfortable to be drunk and unable to sleep well."
Lin Shuyue sat at the empty workstation next to her: "How about going back to sleep for a while?"
Li Mingfang's job is different from Lin Shuyue's job. When she says she is going home to sleep, she is asking for leave.
Li Mingfang glanced at Li Weisheng and said, "Wait a moment, I'm a little worried about him."
Li Weisheng has always been very confident since he joined the newspaper, even to the point where people thought he was arrogant. After they started dating, he respected her very much and took good care of her no matter what the time.
This was the first time he had been so vulnerable in front of her, and even though she was feeling uncomfortable, she still wanted to stay with him.
Lin Shuyue nodded and stopped persuading her, just letting her drink water.
Drinking a sip of lemon water in the morning when you have a hangover will make you feel better.
Lin Shuyue went to her workstation, turned on the computer and checked the forum. Li Mingfang also received Li Weisheng's message. A smile appeared on her face and she became relaxed and happy.
At noon, Li Weisheng invited Lin Shuyue to go see Liu Pei together. Lin Shuyue agreed. Li Mingfang couldn't stand it anymore and asked for half a day off. She also wanted to see Liu Pei, so she slept for a while in the back seat of the car. When she got off the car again, her mental state was much better.
The three of them went to the house that Liu Pei rented together.
This is a three-story rental building, with ten rooms on each floor. They are all single rooms with bathrooms, with little light, and the room is dark and you can't see anything.
Liu Pei was lying on the bed, with cigarette butts scattered all over the floor. It was obvious that he had not slept all night, and his eyes were red.
Seeing Li Weisheng and others coming, he sat up and opened the door of the house which was very close to him. There was still no light in the room. He opened the window of the room, and the room instantly became bright.
Lin Shuyue finally saw the furnishings in the room clearly: a bed, a small cabinet, a half-open suitcase, and nothing else in the room.
But you can see that he pays great attention to hygiene. Except for the cigarette butts on the floor beside the bed, the other floor tiles are very clean and polished to a shine.
Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang stood by the door, while Li Weisheng and Liu Pei sat by the bed.
Liu Pei told Li Weisheng: "Yesterday, the news that I had contracted the virus spread throughout the factory. The factory leaders were very concerned about me and organized a donation from the factory to me, totaling more than 20,000 yuan."
"I was transferred to an easier position. I was also given paid leave for the past few days." Before today, Liu Pei felt that the leaders of their factory had some major problems. There were too many rules and they would deduct money and working hours at any time.
But after yesterday, Liu Pei felt that their factory leaders were actually quite nice. There were less than 60 people in their factory, and most of the donations came from the boss and several vice presidents.
In order to save his face, they did not invite any reporters to the fundraiser, which undoubtedly saved Liu Pei's cheap and tiny self-esteem. Liu Pei was really touched.
It's just 20,000 yuan, which is a drop in the bucket for his illness. Moreover, his illness is a bottomless pit and there is no hope of cure. His treatment now is just throwing money into the water without even a sound.
Liu Pei didn't want to get treatment anymore. He wanted to save all his money for his children's education. They were still young. His little daughter was less than three years old, and his eldest son was not even in junior high school yet!
Lin Shuyue looked at Liu Pei's painful eyes and said, "Let's go find a lawyer and file a civil lawsuit against the owner of the bun shop and Wu Rong for compensation."
As soon as these words came out, Lin Shuyue instantly got the attention of the three people.
Li Mingfang clapped her hands and said, "I have a brother who is a lawyer. Can I help you get in touch with him?"
Liu Pei knew about the position of lawyer. There was a small shop at the entrance of their factory. When he was not working overtime, he would sit at the entrance of the shop with his co-workers and watch TV. Recently, the TV was broadcasting a TV series about lawyers, but it was from Hong Kong.
Liu Pei always felt that the legal profession was too far away from him. After all, the lawyers on TV were too glamorous and far away from ordinary people like him.
Li Weisheng, who had been depressed for a long time, finally felt a little relieved at this moment: "Sure, why not? You don't have to worry. We will sue them, and if we win the case, the other party will pay for the lawyer's fee."
Li Mingfang went directly to the corridor outside to make a phone call. Two minutes later, she came back and told Liu Pei and the others, "My brother said that he will provide you with free legal aid for this case."
Hearing the word "free of charge", Liu Pei couldn't hold back his tears, and he kept thanking Lin Shuyue and the others. Before going to find Li Mingfang's brother, he even washed his face in an attempt to make his complexion look better.
Lin Shuyue drove them to the law firm of Li Mingfang's brother Li Minglin.
In order to express his importance to this matter, Li Minglin's brother waited directly outside the gate. He was wearing formal clothes and chatting with another person next to him from time to time.
Seeing Li Mingfang getting out of the car, Li Minglin and the people next to him immediately walked up.
Liu Pei also came down. He was very thin and his face was very yellow. One could tell at a glance that he was very unhealthy.
After Li Minglin called out "Ah Fang", he extended his hand to Liu Pei: "Hello, Mr. Liu, I am Li Minglin from Mingqian Law Firm."
Liu Pei wiped his hands on both sides of his trouser legs, then extended his hand to him: "Hello, hello."
Li Minglin continued to introduce: "This is our law firm's partner, Hang Jiaheng."
Hearing Hang Jiaheng's name, Lin Shuyue looked up at him and found that he looked three points similar to Hang Jiabai.
Hang Jiaheng seemed to know Lin Shuyue. While greeting Liu Pei, he smiled at Lin Shuyue.
The group walked towards the law firm, and Li Minglin talked to Lin Shuyue and the others as they walked.
"After Mr. Liu's incident yesterday, many law firms have been trying to contact him, but the calls have not been connected." Li Jialin said: "Our law firm is the same."
The impact of this case is extremely significant. Not only is it ranked among the top cases in China, but its degree of perversion is also rare even abroad.
Liu Pei is the most serious victim in the human meat bun case known so far. Helping him to fight the lawsuit can, to a certain extent, bring fame to your law firm and add a bright and glorious touch to your career.
Putting this aside, as a person who studies law, when they see this kind of thing, they also want to use what they have learned to provide some help to these people in trouble.
Liu Pei was stunned: "My phone is out of battery and I haven't charged it yet."
Ever since the incident with the human meat buns, Liu Pei was completely dumbfounded. He simply could not accept this fact, so he spent his time in a daze. When he learned that eating human flesh would cause prions, he thought of his body which had been becoming increasingly abnormal recently, so he took half a day off to go to the hospital for a check-up, even though he had never been willing to take leave.
After the results came out, he chatted with Li Weisheng, who was interviewing him, for a while and went back to his rental apartment. His cell phone was casually thrown on the bed, and he never even checked it no matter how it rang.
Even the money that the factory raised for him was sent to him directly by their factory director.
He didn't remember when his phone stopped ringing, and he really didn't know that a lawyer was contacting him.
Li Minglin and the others expressed their understanding of this. If they put themselves in Liu Pei's shoes, they would definitely perform much worse than Liu Pei if such a big thing happened to them.
When they arrived at the law firm's office, Li Minglin and Hang Jiaheng did not leave. They questioned Liu Pei in all aspects. It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon that they allowed Li Minglin to send them downstairs.
On the way to send Liu Pei back, he took the initiative to speak: "Reporter Li, Reporter Lin, can you interview me again? I want to tell the world about the help given to me by the people in the factory and by Lawyer Li. There are not only bad people in this world, but also many good people."
"This is what I want to tell my children the most. I have this disease and I may not live to see them grow up."
Liu Pei's words made Lin Shuyue and the other two feel sad.
Lin Shuyue thought of reporter Shi who worked at the city TV station. She asked Li Weisheng: "Ah Sheng, do you mind cooperating with the city TV station?"
Li Weisheng had followed this news, and even if she followed Li Weisheng out today, she was just an assistant, just like when Li Weisheng and she were investigating the poisonous rice noodle case. This was a big deal, and Lin Shuyue knew that Li Weisheng's cooperation with the city's TV station could maximize Li Weisheng's interests, so she couldn't make a decision on her own.
Li Weisheng drove the car, looking at the traffic lights in front of the window and the waiting cars. If it was any other news, Li Weisheng would have jumped for joy if he could cooperate with the city TV station, but for this news, Li Weisheng couldn't be happy at all.
But he understood what Lin Shuyue meant. Compared to traditional paper media like them, the city station could do video interviews. And they were more capable of spreading the top ten more widely.
What's more, even if he didn't want to cooperate with the city TV station, the city TV station would still find ways to contact Liu Pei and interview him. Instead of that, it would be better to agree with Lin Shuyue's statement. At least it would be a favor to the city TV station. This would be very helpful for his career. In addition, the people in the city TV station were kind. For news like this kind of cooperation, they would usually stagger the time and send the news to the newspaper first, so that the newspaper could publish an "exclusive" several hours ahead of the city TV station.
Li Weisheng said: "I don't mind."
Seeing him nod, Lin Shuyue picked up her phone and called Wang Mingzheng. While Wang Mingzheng was contacting Zhang Xiongfeng, director of the city TV station's news department, she called reporter Shi.
Reporter Shi was worrying about how to get a piece of the pie from this news. When she received Lin Shuyue's call, she said thank you and immediately walked towards Zhang Xiongfeng's office.
She had to take over the task before Zhang Xiongfeng assigned a reporter. Sure enough, after hearing that it was Lin Shuyue who called her, Zhang Xiongfeng immediately agreed to her interview application and assigned Yang to be her cameraman.
The two received the order and set off quickly. They met Lin Shuyue who was waiting for them at the gate of the factory where Liu Pei's working.
This factory is a plastic factory that specializes in making molds and handles for mineral water bottles.
Liu Pei works piecework. He sorts the embryos of mineral water bottles by size. He gets 70 cents for a sack of larger ones and 50 cents for smaller ones. If his machine doesn't break down, he can earn about 2,000 yuan a month.
This was already a very high salary at this time.
When Liu Pei arrived at the factory, he went to find the factory leaders and told them that there were reporters and TV stations coming to interview them.
The factory director was very surprised! When they decided to raise funds for Liu Pei, they had never thought of reporting this matter.
They thought that as the leadership team of the factory, they should lend a helping hand to Liu Pei when something like this happened to him.
The factory manager was outside discussing business, but after hearing about this, he stopped talking about business and rushed directly to the nearest shopping mall, bought a very expensive set of clothes and changed into them on the spot, and came here in a hurry.
The leaders of the factory took this matter very seriously and even made a factory-wide announcement asking the employees to be more civilized and polite.
The team leaders even stopped working for a while and let the team members clean up, and no one complained.
Everyone cherishes this opportunity to be on TV.
Liu Pei was watching from the side, and his heavy heart suddenly felt relieved.
He was grateful for the help given to him by the people in the factory. He had no other skills, and this was the only way he could repay them.
At 4:30 p.m., after the factory manager confirmed that the factory was finally ready, the interview began.
Reporter Shi is a little nervous as she will be working under the camera the entire time as a reporter.
After taking several deep breaths, she made an OK gesture to cameraman Yang, who nodded and turned on the camera.
Reporter Shi made an opening statement and briefly introduced what had happened. Then cameraman Yang took a picture of the name of the Dawang Plastic Factory where Liu Pei worked. They then walked into the factory, took pictures of the factory environment, and went directly to the factory director's office.
The factory manager was a little nervous, but soon he spoke freely in front of the camera. When he mentioned that the factory cafeteria charged too much, he said: "Last night, the leadership team of our factory had discussed this matter. We decided that starting from this month, we will cancel the food expenses for employees without changing their wages."
"That is to say, starting from this month, our factory will provide food for you."
The factory director's words made Liu Pei's eyes red instantly. He thought, if only the factory provided meals before, he wouldn't have to be greedy and eat that shop's buns day after day.
In fact, the buns from that shop were very unpalatable, with an indescribable smell, but in order to save money, he still ate them.
The factory director felt very uncomfortable when he saw Liu Pei. Before yesterday, he didn't even know that Liu Pei existed. He felt sorry that as a factory director, he got to know him in this way.
He explained to Liu Pei: "Liu Pei, it's not that I didn't want to provide meals before, but you have worked in the factory for several years. You know that we don't have many orders. Sometimes during the off-season, you can take a vacation for ten days or half a month."
"You know that the piecework price I give you is the highest among all similar factories. If we include meals, we won't have much profit."
It was a rare moment of genuine emotion from the factory director. His factory was small, with few machines, and the orders he received were all small orders left over from other factories.
"Director, you don't have to explain. I know everything." Liu Pei had thought about working in other factories, but when he inquired, he found that the prices were lower than in Dawang.
In other factories, picking up a bag of large bottles costs 60 cents, while picking up small bottles costs only 45 cents. This seemingly small price difference should not be underestimated. Take large bottles for example. If one bag is 10 cents less, ten bags will cost one yuan less. They can pick up at least 100 bags a day, which is a difference of 10 yuan. In a month, it is 300 yuan. This does not include the difference in small bottles.
The food in their factory is not too expensive, one meal with two dishes, one meat dish per day, and one meat dish per week. It costs two hundred yuan a month.
"I felt that the food expenses in the factory were high and there was not even any meat, so I coveted the cheap food outside." When Liu Pei said this, he shed tears of regret.
The barbecued pork buns in the bun shop are big, as big as an adult woman's fist, and are full of meat. It was precisely because of this little bit of meat that he decided to eat it.
Now it seems that it's all his fault for being too greedy.
The factory manager felt that he was partly responsible. If he had reduced the piece-rate wages like other factories and used the reduced amount as food expenses for employees to eat for free, this problem would not have occurred.
After the factory manager finished thinking this, he suddenly remembered what a business friend had told him. His friend said that he was too kind, and that a boss who was too kind would not make much money.
The factory manager always felt that he was not wrong, but at this moment, he began to doubt his decision.
This interaction between the two of them was captured by the camera.
In the evening, reporter Shi invited Lin Shuyue and others to dinner. After dinner, Li Weisheng went back to his unit to write a report, and Lin Shuyue took Li Mingfang back to her apartment.
Lou Fengqin had come today, and the refrigerator was filled with the red dates and white fungus soup she had brought over in the afternoon. Lin Shuyue served a bowl to Li Mingfang, who drank it while looking across the table.
"Ah Yue, what do you think? I want to buy the house next door and become your neighbor?"
Li Mingfang lives at home. The house allocated to her by her family is bigger than the apartment, but she rents it out and pays rent. From the moment she graduated and stayed at home, she has been eating and living at home.
Li Weisheng's family conditions are better than hers. He lives in his own house, which is not far from the newspaper office and the living conditions are also good. They are already thinking about getting married. According to Li Weisheng, they can just live in his house after they get married.
Li Mingfang felt that there was no problem, but now she thought that living in Xijiang Apartment was also quite good. There was a supermarket at her feet, and the newspaper office was opposite the supermarket. She could go downstairs and cross the road to the company.
Lin Shuyue said: "I think it's okay."
Li Mingfang thought about this matter. She had worked for many years, and spent some of her money, but saved most of it. It was a bit unrealistic for her to buy an apartment with all the money, but it was no problem to pay a down payment and use the rent of another house she had before marriage to pay the mortgage for this house.
"Then I'll go to the sales office and ask later."
Lin Shuyue said: "Why ask the sales office? Last time we went to the resort, didn't you added her account? Can't you just ask her directly? We are all employees of Dingsheng Group, so we should have some internal prices, right?"
Li Mingfang was a little hesitant: "This is not good, we have only known each other for a few days. Is it not good to ask her to help with this?"
Li Mingfang said this, but picked up the phone and started making a call.
She and Xiang Bingbing are both loyal fans of gossip. In the past few days, she has been in contact with Xiang Bingbing. Clicking on the mobile phone penguin, the one floating on the top is Bingbing's chat box.
She sent a message and soon Bingbing called.
Ten minutes later, Lin Shuyue, Xiang Bingbing and Li Mingfang appeared in the room next door where Yan Juenian had lived before.
The layout of this room is similar to the one where Lin Shuyue lives, but the locations of the kitchen and bathroom have been swapped. Yan Juenian did not make any changes to the house when he moved in.
The decoration is exactly the same as Lin Shuyue's.
Li Mingfang had always liked the layout of Lin Shuyue's room, and now she was satisfied at first sight. She sincerely inquired the interior decoration of the room to Xiang Bingbing.
Li Mingfang listened with great interest. Two hours later, it was already nine o'clock. Lin Shuyue was sitting in the sales hall on the first floor, watching Li Mingfang, Xiang Bingbing and one of the sales clerks signing the contract.
Lin Shuyue really didn't realize that Li Mingfang was actually an invisible rich woman.
Tears of jealousy flowed from her mouth. Although she is now a homeowner, she still wants to be able to pay for a house when she wants to buy one in the future.
Holding the house purchase contract, Li Mingfang took Lin Shuyue's hand, waved goodbye to Xiang Bingbing and her colleagues, and walked upstairs.
Seeing the envy in Lin Shuyue's eyes, she smiled and said, "Our family used to be from Pinghu Village."
Lin Shuyue's eyes widened. Pinghu Village! Isn't that the most prosperous urban area in this city?
Li Mingfang said: "I had a lot of land at that time, but it was all expropriated by the government. My grandfather took the money and started a seafood business. Now he has opened a seafood market and built a building to collect rent."
"My family has many children and they are a bit biased towards boys. They give our son fixed assets, but they are not stingy with us, daughters. If the seafood market does well, my grandparents will give out big red envelopes during the Chinese New Year."
"He also prepared a dowry for us, and 10 percent of the dowry can be used before marriage."
Li Mingfang did not feel any resentment when she said this. Compared with other families in the village, their family was very good to girls.
Li Mingfang knew from a young age that the most important thing in life is to be content.
Lin Shuyue asked Li Mingfang sincerely: "Ah Fang, does your grandfather still need a granddaughter?"
Lin Shuyue had no other intention in asking this question, she just wanted to receive a big red envelope during the Chinese New Year.
Li Mingfang was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "My grandfather is in need of a beautiful and capable granddaughter."
Li Mingfang's words made Lin Shuyue stunned for a moment, and then she quickly explained: "I was joking."
Li Mingfang smiled and said, "I know, I know."
The two of them went upstairs chatting and laughing, and watched TV for a while at Lin Shuyue's house. Li Weisheng came to pick up Li Mingfang. Lin Shuyue sent her downstairs and watched her drive away with Li Weisheng.
Lin Shuyue returned upstairs and just entered the house when she received a call from Hang Jiabai.
On the phone, Lin Shuyue mentioned Hang Jiaheng's matter.
Hang Jiabai said: "Hang Jiaheng is my cousin, he is the child of my second uncle. He studied political science and law in college, and after graduation he opened a law firm with his classmates. Now he is doing well and thriving."
The Hang Jia Bai family does everything, their children and grandchildren are all very present, and the relationship between brothers and sisters is also very good. At the last family gathering, he kept messaging Lin Shuyue, which had already attracted the attention of his brothers.
The name Lin Shuyue has spread among his brothers and sisters.
Hang Jiabai was really nervous: "Did Hang Jiaheng say anything to you?" He and Lin Shuyue haven't even started dating yet.
Lin Shuyue said: "No, I just saw that you two look alike and have similar surnames, so I asked."
Hang Jiabai breathed a sigh of relief, and took this opportunity to briefly tell Lin Shuyue about his family's situation.
The two of them talked on the phone for more than ten minutes. After hanging up, Lin Shuyue looked at the forum.
The discussion on this matter on the forum was still very intense. Lin Shuyue took a quick look at the posts and then went to bed.
The next morning, the report published by Li Weisheng occupied the front page headlines. Everyone was still very concerned about Liu Pei's situation. When they saw the follow-up reports, everyone was very curious.
In this report, Li Weisheng gave a detailed introduction to Liu Pei's family situation, and said that a law firm had provided him with free assistance. Afterwards, he focused on the factory's fundraising for him and the rectification of his own factory.
As soon as this report was released, it sparked a huge discussion, and the fastest feedback came in the forum.
One poster specifically posted this report by Li Weisheng. The title alone was enough to warm everyone's heart: "There is true love and affection in the world: Liu Pei, the victim of the human flesh barbecued pork bun case."
The comments on the post were also very friendly. While everyone sympathized with Liu Pei, they also expressed the highest favorable impression towards Liu Pei's factory.
This good impression reached its maximum after the Focus Interview was broadcast in the evening.
In the interview, the clip of the factory manager apologizing to Liu Pei was not cut out. In the years when unscrupulous bosses are increasing, when something goes wrong, the factory manager will only distance himself from the employee and never reflect on his own shortcomings.
Director of Dawang Factory appeared in front of everyone like a breath of fresh air.
In the evening, someone threw an envelope into the security room of the Dawang Plastic Factory. The security guard opened it and saw that it contained ten yuan, which was written as a donation for Liu Pei's medical treatment. This was just the beginning, not the end. Soon, the envelopes filled the table in front of the window of the security room.
There were varying amounts of money in the envelopes, from just a few cents to hundreds of yuan.
The security guard told the factory manager about this incident. The manager was deeply moved and decided to give the night shift employees an extra midnight snack, even if it was just a bowl of white porridge with pickles.
The factory director called the company clerk to make a statistics of the money donated to Liu Pei. The clerk then wrote a piece of red paper and posted it next to the recruitment notice outside the company.
In the evening, the factory director received a call from a client, who said, "Director Huang, I read the report about your company. I was deeply moved that there are still bosses like you who care about their employees."
"I admire you very much, and our leaders also admire you, so we decided to increase your factory's orders by 10%. Can you handle it?"
The factory manager was dumbfounded. He really couldn't imagine that he would get such a reward just for doing this according to his conscience.
When the customer asked again, the factory manager said, "Yes, yes, Mr. He, don't worry, we will complete the order on time."
Mr. He hung up the phone. After a while, the landline in the factory director's office rang. He picked it up. It was still someone delivering an order to him.
Ten minutes later, the factory manager looked at the paper in front of him, which was filled with the amount of additional orders from customers. He decided to change the midnight snack from white porridge to fried noodles!
And change the big words "be open and honest" behind the desk to "be kind to others"!