Volume 2 High School - The Years of White Clothes Chapter 13

  "Bai Hao came looking for you at noon." Xǔ Qiàn, who was leading the way in front, stopped and said coldly. These past few days had been overwhelming for her, first with her sister suddenly disappearing, then Bai Hao suddenly breaking up with her. Although she had a premonition, after returning from the villa, Bai Hao's entire personality had changed, and he was also clearly perfunctory towards her. But when he actually proposed breaking up, she felt like she was on the verge of collapse.

  Ai Zi Qing looked at her silently.

  "You broke us up." Xu Qian's eyes turned red. "And he went to find you! Do you know why we broke up? It was all because of you, must be all because of you! Fox spirit!" As she spoke, she raised her palm and slapped Ai Ziying's pale face.

  The sound of a palm slapping against a face echoed through the empty corridors of the school campus during recess.

  Xu Qian covered her left cheek, her eyes wide with red circles staring at Ai Zi Qing who was rubbing her palms, and trembled "You hit me?"

  "Are you letting him hit me? Cheap person!" Ai Zi Qing smiled lightly, "He doesn't want you anymore, and you come to hit me? Alright, your logic is correct, so when you seduced Bai Hao, I should have slapped you then. Now consider it a belated gift from me." She said with a smile, shrugging her shoulders.

  "You!" Xǔ Qíng's face turned red with anger. "It's your own fault for not being able to hold on! Who can you blame? Do you think that just because of your family's conditions, you can be with Bái Hào? Are your whole family dreaming of flying up to the branch and becoming a phoenix? I'm telling you, your parents are just workers, our company has hundreds, if not thousands!"

  "Alright, no one is stopping you, what are you doing running to me and acting crazy? I'll give you back your original words, if you can't control yourself, who else can you blame?" Ai Zi Qing's thin lips still spoke in a light and airy tone, but her eyes narrowed.

  "Hmph, flirting with everyone everywhere, and still acting like a young master. Don't think I haven't seen it, if Bai Hao finds out, let's see if he'll still want you!" Xǔ Qiàn said angrily.

  "Go ahead and say it." Ai Zi Qing turned around to leave, didn't expect Xu Qian called her out just to talk about these things, not a clever woman.

  "You... are fine, this slap I won't take for nothing! I'm warning you Ai Zi Qing, your parents are just waiting to be laid off!" Xu Qian stomped her foot in anger from behind.

  "Guohua, what can be done about this!" Jiang Qin paced back and forth at home, while Ai Guohua sat on the sofa, furrowing his brow and smoking heavily.

  Ai Zi Qing walked into the house and saw this scene.

  "Mom and Dad, what's wrong?"

  "Alas! Go inside and study, don't bother with grown-up matters." Ai Guohua waved his hand in annoyance.

  "Mom?" Ai Zi Qing asked in confusion.

  "This... is a national matter, the child will find out sooner or later, tell her!" Jiang Qin was somewhat indecisive.

  Seeing her father about to retort, Zi Qing hastily said "Dad and mom, I'm not young anymore, don't always treat me like a child, I also want to participate in family matters, I am a member of this family!"

  "Alas! The leadership of our unit suddenly informed me and your mom to retire at the same time, just giving us some subsidies! Isn't this taking our lives? Others haven't laid off employees! How come it's so coincidental that it's me and your mom?" Ai Guohua was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "The child has really grown up!"

  "Guohua, have you offended someone?" Jiang Qin suddenly stopped in her tracks and asked Ai Guohua.

  "I've been honest and upright all my life, who could I have offended? Don't you know that?" Ai Guohua extinguished his cigarette.

  "Yes, I haven't offended anyone either. How come both of us were fired?" After hearing the news this afternoon, Jiang Qin's hair turned white with anxiety. She went to the leader's house to give gifts and invited him to dinner, just wanting to ask why, but he didn't even show his face, and swept them out of the unit like flies.

  If Ai Zi Qing is completely incapable, this news would undoubtedly be a huge blow to the Ai family, with no source of income for the whole family. Both parents have worked diligently in the factory for half their lives and were suddenly laid off, which is simply taking the life of the whole family.

  "Dad, Mom, don't worry, listen to me. I've never thought it was good for you to work like this in the unit, exhausting yourselves every month with only a few hundred yuan income. Since we've already resigned, let's do something else. A person can't be suffocated by things." Ai Zi Qing sat down beside her father and grasped his arm.

  "What do you know, kid? In this day and age, it's not easy to get a stable job in a company! Do you think jobs are that easy to find? Alas! You're still young, this kid! How dare you say such nonsense," Ai Guohua scolded in a low voice.

  Ai Zi Qing couldn't help it, but for a moment, she couldn't think of what to make her parents do. After all, she was human, not a god, and even if she were reborn, apart from limited foresight and experience, she had nothing else. Suddenly, an idea struck her, and she smiled, saying "Dad, I saw someone handing out flyers on the road, saying that the newly established Qian Tian Security Company in Yang City is recruiting a manager. Why don't you give it a try? The monthly salary seems to be around 3,000 or 4,000!"

  "Qingtian Security Company? I've also heard of it, Old Ai. Don't know if it's the first in the country, but at least it's the first in our province! We were chatting about it during dinner, and I heard they treat their employees pretty well, but apparently they have some connections with the underworld..." Jiang Qin quickly walked up and sat down beside Ai Guohua.

  "Mom, we're just ordinary people going for a job interview, what does the underworld have to do with us? You just want to get involved with the triads, but they might not even let you!" Ai Zi Qing rolled her eyes.

  "They're hiring a manager, several thousand yuan a month, with such a high salary, the requirements can't be low either. Can I, a laid-off employee, do it?" Ai Guohua's eyebrows furrowed deeply. With such a high salary, it's impossible to say that one is not tempted, but since he doesn't understand anything, would they even want him?

  "Dad, go try it out, how will you know if you don't try?! We have to be brave and give it a shot, that's what you taught me! If I really get the job, mom can stay home and rest, do laundry and cook!" Ai Zi Qing hurriedly persuaded.

  "Alright, I'll give it a try! You never know unless you try! I'll get ready and go tomorrow!" Ai Guohua made up his mind, nodding his head firmly as if to encourage himself.

  Back in her room, Ai Zi Qing's face turned gloomy. "Xu Qian!" This was going to push her family to their deaths, what kind of hatred did she need to take revenge on her parents for! It was just a childish grudge, yet her parents had spoiled and indulged her so much that they helped her do such a thing! Ai Zi Qing was truly angry for the first time since her rebirth. This kind of thing could not be tolerated, this time it was being forced to resign, what about next time? Would she stir up even more terrifying things?

  Lock the door, pick up the phone and walk to the bedside "Zhou Yuan, it's me! Help me check what kind of people are in Xu Qian's family from Class 1, Grade 1 of Yangshi No. 1 Middle School, and specifically what her parents do!"

  After Zhou Yuan hung up the phone, he secretly cursed. This was the first time he had heard Ai Zi Qing's gloomy tone. It seemed that being provoked by Xu Qian was not a trivial matter. Thinking of this, he quickly picked up his mobile phone and dialed one number after another.

  An hour later, the phone rang again, and Zhou Yuan's voice came from the receiver, getting straight to the point. "Xu Qian is 16 years old and is a first-year student in Class 1 of Yang City High School. Her sister is Xu Jie, and her father, Xu Wei, is the chairman of the Weihao Group. The group started as a small-scale company and has now become a diversified conglomerate with total assets exceeding 30 million yuan, including catering, entertainment, and department stores. Her mother, Lü Li, also serves as the general manager of the company."

  "Why bother being someone else's mistress with such a good family background?" Ai Ziying wondered, having known that Xu Qian's family was wealthy. If they were so well-off, why did she need to be Stone Lei's mistress? Although Stone Lei looked quite decent and very masculine.

  "Xu Jie's family background was not one that would have required her to become a mistress, but because Xu Jie was Xu Wei's illegitimate daughter born out of wedlock, who had only been exposed five years ago, his wife Lü Li was extremely hostile towards Xu Jie, and her relationship with her sister Xu Qian was also strained. With a low status in the family, she rarely returned home. After meeting Shi Kuai, she felt like she had found someone to rely on, and her status at home gradually improved. After all, no one wanted to offend the underworld."

  "Alright, let's start making arrangements. We'll harass Xu Wei's businesses nonstop until they're all shut down!" Ai Zi Qing said in a low voice.

  "Ah, I'll take care of it!" Zhou Yuan nodded in response.

  "Also, tomorrow my father Ai Guohua will go to Qiantian for an interview, you arrange it properly, just find a idle manager position, the monthly salary can be given casually." Ai Ziqing suddenly remembered this matter.

  Zhou Yuan was shocked, "The old man is coming over? I'd better make some arrangements! Don't worry, President, we can't let the old man look down on our company!" What employment or non-employment, Zhou Yuan had not forgotten that it was his own family's company, and he would have to give him a position as chairman.

  Ai Zi Qing helplessly said "My father doesn't even know about this, let's keep it a secret, he went for an interview, and the old man you're talking about is not even forty years old yet!"

  "Cough...Alright, don't worry, I'll arrange it as soon as possible." Zhou Yuan said awkwardly.