Hearing Zhu Kui's question, I quickly adjusted myself and forced a smile.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Kui handed over two chips with a face value of [-]: "This is your share. I said I will not treat you badly."

I didn't take them all, but just one: "Thank you Brother Kui, ten thousand is enough. I'll buy you a few more cigarettes later."

"You are a very good boy." Zhu Kui showed a hint of admiration in his eyes, "You can live longer here if you are not greedy."

"Okay, you're probably tired of staying here these days. You should go where you should, lest Jiao Wu comes to trouble you if you can't make results this month."

"Then I'll go back first."

"Ah."

Back in the dormitory, I was still thinking about the scene just now.

I feel extremely humiliated!

I admit that I shouldn't have any self-respect in this place, but I still feel that my dignity has been trampled on to the last bit.

But also, a sense of powerlessness forced me to accept this reality.

I am just a team leader now. Let’s not talk about whether Jiao Wu is my superior. As for his relationship with the big boss, it is not something I can deal with.

Didn't you see that Zhu Kui and Sister Hua didn't dare to push him too hard?

In the next few days, I returned to the previous days, staying in the group every day. Except for handling some chores in the group, I basically spent the rest of my time reading and studying.

I focused solely on programming, and I planned to leave the marketing department and go to the technology department sooner or later.

I heard that there are not so many things to do in the technical department. As long as you complete the tasks assigned by the superiors on time, you not only don’t need to cheat, but you don’t have to worry about performance.

Four or five days passed in the blink of an eye. I took out [-] yuan from the [-] yuan Zhu Kui gave me and gave it to the people below to spend it first.

As for Jiao Wu, I think whether the performance bonus can be paid out this month is a question.

With the remaining money, I bought a few cigarettes myself and planned to send them to Zhu Kui when the time came.

Even though he was very generous that day, he just gave me [-] yuan.

But I knew very well that if I took [-] yuan, I might become a dispensable pawn in his heart.

I couldn't afford to lose a lot, so I only took [-] yuan and thought about buying him cigarettes.

Doing this will make him think that I am still a useful person.

I know very well that here, once people lose their use value, they will be ruthlessly abandoned, or even driven out to death.

The rules of this place are so simple and cruel: the weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive.

There is no sympathy, no pity, only cold reality!

Who knows, before I took the initiative to find Zhu Kui, he sent me a message and asked me to go see him.

After taking the cigarettes I bought for him, I arrived at his office and heard hearty laughter inside.

When he opened the door and went in, Zhu Kui was talking on the phone with someone.

"Hahaha... Okay, okay! No problem, don't worry, I'm not short of money now!"

When he saw me coming, he hung up the phone and glanced at the cigarette in my hand.

I smiled and handed the cigarette over: "Brother Kui, this is to honor you."

He took the cigarette away without politeness and asked, "Have you received your performance bonus?"

I smiled bitterly and said, "No."

"Do you still have money to use?"

"Another point."

Zhu Kui smiled, took out two chips from the drawer and threw them on the table: "This is for you, feel free to spend it."

"Brother Kui..."

Before I could say anything, he said, "Just take it if I tell you to."

When he said this, I was a little confused. Is this guy getting rich?

Taking the chips over, he said with a smile on his face, "Jiao Wu came to see me yesterday..."

"He came to Brother Kui to pay back the money?" I asked uncertainly.

Zhu Kui grinned: "With interest! Return all the money to me, a total of [-]."

I was stunned for a moment: "Did he win money in the casino?"

"Who knows him?" Zhu Kui said, "It doesn't matter where he got the money, as long as he pays me back, we can talk about anything."

I couldn't help but wonder. I had never heard from others that Jiao Wu lost a lot of money in the casino two days ago. How come he had the money to repay Zhu Kui yesterday?

"I have to go out these days." Zhu Kui said, "If something happens to you later, just tell Ah Dao."

"Where are you going, Brother Kui?"

"There are some schoolgirls coming over from the border. I have to pick them up myself."

As he said this, he smiled at me and said, "I'll save one for you later and send it to your group."

I originally wanted to say no, but seeing Zhu Kui's cheerful look, I didn't want to disappoint him: "Thank you, Brother Kui."

After returning to the group, I soon heard someone saying that performance bonuses were going to be given out.

As a result, in the afternoon, the performance bonus was actually paid out.

After deducting the money I lost playing mahjong before, Jiao Wupai gave me all the remaining points.

When he received the bonus, I saw a proud look on his face, as if he had won the lottery.

I divided the bonus according to the proportion, and everyone in the group was very happy.

"Brother Lei, are you free tonight?" Wang Meng asked me with a smile.

"What's wrong?"

"Zhou Jun said he wanted to treat you to dinner tonight. Let me ask if you are free."

"What kind of meal did he treat me to?"

Wang Meng handed me a cigarette and said with a smile: "It's not because of what happened last time. He also knows that he was wrong. So I want to treat you to dinner and apologize to you."

If Zhou Jun came to me and said it himself, I might refuse directly.

But Wang Meng said it was different. Now I leave all the matters in the group to him to take care of me.

During the few days I went to the Human Resources Department, if it hadn't been for him, things would have gone haywire.

"Okay, then I'll go have a few drinks with you tonight."

"okay!"

At around seven o'clock in the evening, the three of us went to the restaurant.

Zhou Jun was quite willing, ordering a table full of dishes and two bottles of liquor.

As soon as I sat down, he poured me a drink, and his attitude was completely different from before.

"Brother Lei, I was ignorant last time. Don't take it to heart. I'll toast you with this glass of wine. You can do whatever you want. I'll do it."

Seeing his attitude, I didn't know what to say, so I said something casual: "If you work in my group, I won't treat you badly. But you don't want to make it difficult for me."

Wang Meng then said: "You have to be grateful when you are doing things here like Brother Lei. Look at other groups, are they as cool as us?"

Zhou Jun smiled and nodded: "What Brother Wang said is that I will definitely be obedient and perform well in the future!"

After a few glasses of wine, I was not drunk at all. Wang Meng told me about the recent situation.

He said that he had developed another way of speaking, but I didn't listen very carefully.

I don’t know why, but a question always pops up in my mind from time to time, where did Jiao Wu get so much money all of a sudden?

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