Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The police immediately found several calculators for the members of the legal team.
The electronic sounds of adding one, adding zero, multiplying by two, and multiplying by three immediately sounded in the mediation room.
But Zhuang Li closed his eyes and still reported the items on the bill one by one: “I have raised Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Jianrui for fourteen years. Fourteen years ago, I was a senior in high school and was preparing to take the college entrance examination. I am an orphan. I have no father or mother, so I had to work all by myself for tuition, fees and living expenses. Before I got together with Zhu Miaomiao, my monthly living expenses were 400 yuan, and I could fully cover my own expenses by being a tutor every weekend.”
“After getting together with Zhu Miaomiao, I reduced my living expenses to 200 yuan per month. However, in order to ensure the nutrition of Zhu Miaomiao and the fetus in her belly, I gave her 2,200 yuan per month for living expenses. Therefore, I quit my relatively easy job as a tutor and went to a late-night snack stall every night to serve people plates, wash vegetables, and make skewers. I earned a monthly salary of 2,400 yuan.”
“In my senior year of high school, I earned 28,800 yuan. From this income, I received 2,400 yuan, and Zhu Miaomiao received 26,400 yuan. She could use up my annual expenses in one month.”
“Afterwards, because I was busy working, my academic performance dropped severely. I lost my place in Q University and finally passed the level-three exam. For four years in college, I worked three jobs a day and earned 4,800 yuan a month. My expenses were 400 yuan, and the rest was all left to Zhu Miaomiao, because the child was just born and we needed to buy milk powder and diapers for him.”
“In the next four years, I earned 230,400 yuan. Excluding the annual tuition of 6,000 yuan and my living expenses of 19,200 yuan, Zhu Miaomiao received 187,200 yuan.”
“In the first year after graduating from college, I still worked three jobs a day and earned about 5,000 yuan a month. However, my own living expenses were reduced to 300 yuan a month because Zhu Jianrui had to go to kindergarten this year and I had to pay his tuition.”
“I made about 60,000 yuan that year, and Zhu Miaomiao took away 56,400 yuan.”
“After that, I took a job at MIK. During the first year of internship, the salary was not high, 7,000 yuan per month, and my living expenses were still 300 yuan. In other words, Zhu Miaomiao took 80,400 yuan from me.”
“For the next seven years, I had been working at MIK, and my salary had been adjusted to 12,000 per month, and my living expenses were 600 per month, and the rest was all given to Zhu Miaomiao. In other words, in seven years, she took 957,600 yuan from me.”
“After that, I took a loan of 20 million yuan and bought Zhu Miaomiao a house worth 2,389,600 yuan. I was responsible for repaying the loan every month, and she didn’t have to pay a penny.”
“These are all official incomes. In order to make Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Jianrui live a better life, during the eight years I worked at MIK, I had to take on a lot of private work almost every month. On average, I could earn an extra 40,000 yuan. Excluding the 10,000 yuan from the mortgage, I used the rest to help Zhu Miaomiao pay off various credit card debts. In other words, in eight years, she also spent 2,880,000 yuan.”
Zhuang Li opened his eyes and smiled playfully: “Now let’s calculate the general ledger. The total amount of cash and real estate Zhu Miaomiao took from me is 6,577,600 yuan.”
Gong Xuanlin’s face turned dark when he heard it, but after he came to the conclusion, he raised his thin lips and said contemptuously: “I’m sorry, I was indeed short a fraction when I said 5 million. Lawyer Feng, please add more than 1 million for him.”
The word “a fraction” clearly expressed his contempt and disdain.
However, being so high up, he did not notice the disapproving expressions of several lawyers, nor the increasingly disgusted looks of several police officers.
Although Zhuang Li did not tell how difficult his life had been over the years and how hard it was to raise a child. But from this bill, everyone could truly see the struggle of a little person. What did a monthly expense of two hundred yuan mean to a high school senior? It meant not having enough for eating and clothing, and not being able to study well.
What did a monthly expense of 600 yuan mean to a working adult? This meant that except for basic expenses such as eating, drinking, smoking, and transportation, he had no money left to participate in social and entertainment activities. He would thus have been ostracized by all his colleagues.
He had completely dedicated his life to Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Jianrui!
And how did these two people repay him? One of them betrayed their marriage, and the other invaded Zhuang Li’s company and wanted to ruin his job. Where did they get the nerve to do such a thing, and call it revenge! Where did their hatred come from? Was it because Zhuang Li was too good to them?
This led to the thought, were the mother and son still human beings? They were simply beasts!
Thinking of this, the expressions of several lawyers and police officers became subtle.
Zhuang Li tapped the table with his fingertips and said sarcastically: “Gong Xuanlin, haven’t you heard of the law of mental compensation? In addition to economic losses, how can you compensate me for my mental losses?”
He picked out a few pieces of information from the bottom of the bill: “This is my report card for my third year of high school. I got almost full marks in every aspect, and I had been admitted to Q University. This is after I worked every day to take care of Zhu Miaomiao. I barely passed three of my transcripts. If I had gotten into Q University, how much money do you think I could make every year?”
He closed his eyes and thought for a while, then gave a figure, “Based on an annual salary of 40 million, for Zhu Miaomiao, I have lost at least 320 million in the past eight years.” This figure was given after repeated cuts.
“Three hundred and twenty million? Why don’t you rob the bank?” Gong Xuanlin finally lost the arrogance of a superior and became extremely angry.
Just at this moment, Zhuang Li’s cell phone rang, and a message jumped out of the screen. He lowered his eyes and then handed the phone to Gong Xuanlin with his lips curled up.
Gong Xuanlin took a closer look, and his already livid face suddenly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
One of the most authoritative professors of information engineering at Q University had sent Zhuang a private message on Weibo, saying: [Mr. Zhuang, I am Wang Xuemin, Zhong Kai’s teacher. Zhong Kai sent me the video of you catching hackers. After watching it, I admired your skills and I would like to ask, are you interested in working in my laboratory? I can offer you an annual salary of 10 million. Also, my team is helping the government build new secure networks, and what’s missing is exactly the kind of multi-firewall technology you had been using in the video. I am willing to invest 80 million to purchase this technology. If you are interested in cooperating with me, please call me. My number is xxxxxxxxxxx. Looking forward to your reply.]
Gong Xuanlin, who had just scolded Zhuang Li for his wishful thinking: “…”
Lawyers and policemen secretly reading the private message: “…”
This piece of information alone was enough to prove how high Zhuang Li could have reached if he had not been dragged down by Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Jianrui, this mother and son. After working three jobs, he was exhausted every day, but he still had the current level of technology. If he had received a better education and stood on a higher platform, how far could he go?
An annual salary of 40 million was really not an exaggeration for a person with strong professional skills like him.
Several lawyers looked at each other and agreed with this mental claim.
Several police officers also showed admiration.
Gong Xuanlin breathed in and out repeatedly, and then calmed down the anger in his heart. If he insisted that Zhuang Li did not have the ability to earn an annual salary of 40 million, it would appear to be too unreasonable, as if he was reluctant to part with the 320 million.
But the matter was not over yet. Zhuang Li clicked on another document and said slowly: “This is my physical examination report over the years. I have marked the timeline. You can see that before my senior year in high school, I was always in good health. But in my second year of high school, I suffered from chronic gastritis due to long-term hunger. Later, due to years of fatigue, I suffered from insomnia, cervical spondylosis and heart disease. Health is a priceless treasure. On this basis, I only ask if a claim of two million against Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Jianrui should be considered reasonable, right?”
Two million to sell off a person’s health, the asking price was simply too low! Several lawyers nodded unconsciously.
What else could Gong Xuanlin say? He had openly stated before that more than one million was just a fraction, so now he would never bargain for even two million.
Zhuang Li sorted out the scattered bills and said with a smile: “I originally thought about including Zhu Miaomiao’s contribution to me and subtracting it from the claim. But after taking a closer look at the bill, I couldn’t find any contribution she made to this family.”
“I am very frugal in food and clothing, and I can’t bear to spend a penny. But they, mother and son, are covered in famous brands and spend extravagantly. Zhu Jianrui said that I was mean to him. Now I really want to ask, in the end, was I mean to him? Even a little?” In the end, Zhuang Li helped the original owner ask this embarrassing question.
T/N: ZM and ZJ are really assholes, I feel so sad for the original host…QAQ
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