Mai Xiaoshu quickly brought the good news to the pet hospital and told the black bear that it could go back to see its children after it recovered from its illness, because An Chengye had already taken all its family members over, and the family could finally be reunited.
After hearing the good news, Black Bear's inner haze was swept away. He actively joined in the rehabilitation and his condition quickly improved.
Mai Xiaoshu also returned to the laboratory, but the people in the laboratory were all elites from all walks of life. At the very least, they were graduate students majoring in zoology at Harvard University. When Mai Xiaoshu first joined the project, he was very nervous.
Especially on the first day, when Qian Lulu, who was known as the "flower of scientific research", was secretly mocking her with her colleagues in the bathroom, saying, "I heard that Mai Xiaoshu from the animal communication group can't even read English documents," she accidentally heard it while sitting on the toilet and her mood fell to the bottom. Because what the other party said was true, she didn't dare to go out and refute the other party on the spot.
Everything turned around a few days later when An Chengye accidentally gave Mai Xiaoshu an opportunity - during a meeting, he asked her to show her ability to communicate with animals in front of everyone.
It was this opportunity that made everyone quickly realize Mai Xiaoshu’s unique abilities and his pivotal role in the project. In the words of Miyamaru Satoshi, “No one can be without Mai Xiaoshu!”
Even Qian Lulu, who always thinks highly of herself, took the initiative to get close to Mai Xiaoshu. After learning that she had hurt Mai Xiaoshu with words she had said unintentionally, she took the initiative to apologize.
With the help of a top-notch communication expert, Mai Xiaoshu quickly integrated into the team. After the animals' living environment improved, they did not want to return to the wild world and live a terrible life where they had to worry about being eaten by wild beasts at any time, so they volunteered to stay and join the project. Therefore, the project progressed smoothly, and it is expected that they will be able to complete the audio collection of various animals in half a year. This also eliminated Jiang Xingye's concerns about the possible delay of the project.
Time flies, and just when everything is on track, the arrival of an uninvited guest plunges the laboratory into chaos again. The source of the chaos is the middle-aged man who knelt in front of An Chengye and cried bitterly!
That day, Mai Xiaoshu, who was used to arriving early, came to the office happily with a piece of bread in her mouth as usual. There was still half an hour before the working time, but the office was already brightly lit, which meant that someone had arrived earlier than her.
While chewing on bread and wondering who could have arrived earlier than her, a faint crying male voice was heard from An Chengye's office.
"Please give me another chance..."
At first I thought it was An Chengye crying, and I wanted to peek at this once-in-a-century sight, but unexpectedly, the crying sound coming from inside didn’t sound like An Chengye at all, but it sounded indescribably familiar, I must have heard it somewhere!
The man continued to cry: "After the industry knew that I was fired by you, they all thought that I had made an unforgivable mistake. It became even more difficult to find a job... To make matters worse, my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia two months ago. The medical expenses for the past few months have almost used up all my savings... I really have no other choice but to ask Special Assistant Jian to bring me to see you. Please give me another chance..."
Mai Xiaoshu quickly recognized the owner of the voice. It was Zhao Qi, the man who was fired on the spot when she went to interview An Chengye last time! If what Zhao Qi just said was true, then he must have been very miserable during this period...
Although Mai Xiaoshu knew that eavesdropping on other people's conversations was inappropriate, she was very curious and really wanted to know whether An Chengye would help Zhao Qi, so she decided to hold her breath and continue eavesdropping at the door.
"Are you mistaken? This is not a charity center. If you need help, I can ask Jian Jun to provide you with the Red Cross phone number." An Chengye spoke, as cold and indifferent as ever...
After experiencing the last turmoil, Mai Xiaoshu's impression of An Chengye had changed, thinking that he was not as cold as he had imagined.
In particular, Miyamaru Tomo and Qian Lulu told her countless times during meals about the major and minor setbacks that World Cool Technology had experienced. She not only admired An Chengye's calmness in the face of difficulties, but she could even understand the difficulties behind him having to make drastic measures and take seemingly ruthless actions for the overall situation at certain moments.
But Zhao Qi's request was not excessive. He was fired because of his low work efficiency, not because of any principled mistakes. Moreover, for An Chengye, rehiring Zhao Qi and paying him a monthly salary would not be a burden...
"Are you really unwilling to give me another chance? I have followed you for so many years. Even if I have no merit, I have worked hard. When you poached me from Wanzhi Group, didn't you say you would make use of me?"
"Ask yourself, did I ever give you a chance?"
There was only a tiny gap in the office door, so Mai Xiaoshu couldn't see the specific situation inside, but Zhao Qi's voice coming from across the door became more and more miserable. Mai Xiaoshu couldn't help but complain in his heart: So there is such a relationship between them. An Chengye poached people, used them, and then kicked them away. It's a sin!
“That’s just too much!”
Oops! She listened too attentively just now, and accidentally got into the role and said what was in her heart!
"Who's outside?"
Her complaints alarmed the people in the office, and An Chengye's questioning voice was heard from inside the door.
Immediately afterwards, footsteps came towards her. Mai Xiaoshu had no time to hide and was grabbed by the collar and pulled into the office by Jian Jun who rushed out of the door.
"It's you?" Jian Jun widened his eyes.
"Hey, be gentle!"
"Why are you here again? How long have you been hiding outside? Do you know what the consequences of eavesdropping on company secrets are?" When An Chengye saw Mai Xiaoshu being pulled in front of Jian Jun, he no longer had the energy to be angry.
Mai Xiaoshu was speechless, but knowing that An Chengye would only respond to soft words, he rolled his eyes and came up with a bunch of high-sounding excuses to prevaricate: "I... I heard some noises in the corridor and I thought it was a thief. After observing for a while, Jian Jun came out... What were you talking about just now? I didn't hear anything!"
After listening to her nonsense, An Chengye waved and said coldly: "You have nothing to do here, get out!"
"Oh." Mai Xiaoshu was relieved that An Chengye didn't keep asking. Just as he turned around and was about to leave, he heard An Chengye's voice from behind - "Wait!"
Mai Xiaoshu turned his head with a worried look on his face, waiting for his fate.
"No matter what you just heard, if a fifth person knows what happened today, I won't let you off easily!"
Who are you trying to scare if you keep threatening people?
"Oh..." Mai Xiaoshu scolded An Chengyehai in his heart, but appeared to be defeated. When he turned to leave, he inadvertently glanced at Zhao Qi who was kneeling on the ground. He was thinner than the last time he saw him, with untidy beard. He must not have taken care of himself for a long time, especially his eyes, which were bloodshot due to the hard life, and tears were floating in them.
He looks like a middle-aged loser.
If it weren't for his beloved daughter, Zhao Qi wouldn't have to be so humble in front of An Chengye, who was much younger than him.
He reminded Mai Xiaoshu of her own father. When she was a child, her father stayed up for two days and three nights to take care of her when she was sick, and was eventually sent to the hospital due to overwork.
All parents love their children the same!
Thinking of this, Mai Xiaoshu paused. She slowly turned her head and looked at An Chengye with a stern face, and asked, "Can't you really help him?"
"Mai Xiaoshu! When can you change your nosy personality?" An Chengye couldn't help but complain.
"If you don't want to help him, then his salary will be deducted from my salary..." Mai Xiaoshu's voice was very soft, but it was involuntarily a little sad. "Unless they are desperate, no one will abandon their dignity and kneel in front of you to beg you. Are you really so heartless and without any humanity at all?"
The fate between people is really wonderful. If Zhao Qi's appearance had not reminded Mai Xiaoshu of her father, she would not have had the courage to contradict An Chengye. She knew that repeatedly asking the other party to do things according to her ideas was a bit too much, but she couldn't control her desire to help the father of a seriously ill girl. Even so, she didn't need to say such harsh words. At that time, she didn't realize the real reason for her anger-An Chengye had become a heartless person again.
There seemed to be a layer of frost on An Chengye's face.
Suddenly, he looked at Mai Xiaoshu and smiled. He walked closer to her, bent down and whispered in her ear: "Am I too tolerant of you, so that you mistakenly think you can do whatever you want in front of me?"
His voice was icy, and it chilled her.
"If you don't know your place, I'll teach you!" An Chengye paused, lowered his eyes and met hers, his gaze colder than the ice and snow in the Arctic, "From now on, just take care of your own business, and learn to shut up at other times! Don't you forget who is the boss? Or do you think that just because you saved my life, you can tell me what to do with all my decisions?"
"You!" Mai Xiaoshu clenched his fists in anger.
"What?" An Chengye continued, "Are you unhappy? If you want to stay and continue to work, then be obedient! Don't forget that what you eat, use, and wear now are all given by me. If you are not satisfied, you can leave, but remember to leave the deposit this time!"
An Chengye admitted that he was irritated, but facing her provocation, he couldn't control his emotions at all...
Jian Jun and Zhao Qi on the side were also stunned.
Mai Xiaoshu stood there in silence for a while. After a while, she took out a bank card from her pocket. In the card was the deposit that An Chengye asked Jian Jun to transfer to her. She was used to living frugally, and the money on the card was still intact.
Even the last time I bought a rice cooker, I used the money I saved from my part-time job.
"There's 100,000 in it, I'm returning it to you." Mai Xiaoshu didn't look up, her voice was very soft, she put the card on the table, "You don't have to pay your salary for this period, if you want, you can give it to Mr. Zhao to help pay for his daughter's medical expenses. If there's nothing else to tell me, I'll leave first."
At this moment, An Chengye suddenly felt an unprecedented annoyance. He looked at Mai Xiaoshu's leaving figure and wanted to say something to keep her. He wanted to call her back, even if it was to argue about the double penalty for breach of contract. However, his throat seemed to be strangled by something, and he could only watch her walk away...
Finally, when Jian Jun came up to him, he realized that it was really irreversible.