Lin Shuyue was a very curious person, so she was not in a hurry to leave and turned back to her unit.
In the entire company, she has the best relationship with Li Mingfang, and Li Mingfang is a particularly sociable person. She has friends on the entire fifth floor and even on other floors who gossip with her.
Lin Shuyue logged into her Penguin account and sent a message to Li Mingfang who was working hard.
Li Mingfang took two minutes to reply to her.
After that, she looked at her place twice, and after meeting Lin Shuyue's eyes, she was the first to walk out.
Lin Shuyue already had a tacit understanding with her, so she followed her out.
The two were talking in the corner of the corridor next to the company. Xiao He leaned over to look at them and made an OK gesture to them. This meant that a leader was coming and would give them some tips.
"Director Zhao said he would take you to the party?" Li Mingfang asked as soon as they went out.
Lin Shuyue nodded: "He said he wanted to take me there, but I refused."
Li Mingfang breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "Not much is known about this matter. Director Zhao often attends such business gatherings, and they always bring some beautiful girls to the gatherings."
"Most of the girls Director Zhao brings are from outside, but there are also girls from our company," Li Mingfang said in a low voice.
"That happened three years ago. A very beautiful receptionist came to our company. She was from Sichuan Province. She had fair skin, big eyes, and a little dimple at the corner of her mouth when she smiled." Li Mingfang still has a very clear memory of that girl because she had a very nice name.
"Her name is Rong Lishui. Not long after she was taken to the party by Director Zhao, she resigned from the company. I met her once later, and she was completely different from before. She was wearing a tight skirt and her hair was curled into big waves, just like the Hong Kong stars in the 1980s and 1990s." It was because of the huge contrast that Li Mingfang still had a deep memory of her three years later.
"You know that I have a wide circle of friends. I heard from people in other companies that most of the girls that Director Zhao assigned were there to help the bosses. After he took those girls away, he would get some benefits more or less." Everyone has his own way of living, and Li Mingfang looked down on sycophants like Director Zhao.
But she was just a small employee in the art department, and her salary at the newspaper was much higher than her salary at an outside company. Under normal circumstances, Li Mingfang did not want to confront such a person.
What's more, she has been in the company for three years, and Rong Lishui is the only girl from the company that Director Zhao brought to the party.
But this time he is going to take Lin Shuyue with him, so Li Mingfang will have to talk to Lin Shuyue about all these things.
Lin Shuyue had heard about workplace pimps before, but this was the first time she encountered one in real life. She was not angry about the fact that Director Zhao had set his sights on her.
What Lin Shuyue cared more about was what Yuan Shuzhen had just said to her.
"Ah Fang, can you help me find out whether these girls are all willing?" Lin Shuyue firmly defends all rights of women. She opposes people who go against their will for any purpose or means.
Li Mingfang nodded: "Wait a minute, I'll ask for you."
The two of them then entered the office one after the other.
Li Mingfang has a Penguin group, which is filled with gossip-loving girls who work in Dingsheng Building. There are not many people in their group, but there are people from almost every company.
It was already past eleven o'clock. It was the perfect time to relax after a busy morning's work. As soon as Li Mingfang sent the message, she received many replies.
Soon, Li Mingfang sent the screenshots of these replies to Lin Shuyue's Penguin account.
In other companies, it was no secret that Director Zhao also worked as a pimp.
Even the bosses of some companies in Dingsheng Building have very close contacts with Director Zhao.
Lin Shuyue looked at the screenshots one by one, and the majority of them were girls who were unwilling.
Lin Shuyue glanced towards Director Zhao's office. Director Zhao was talking on the phone using his personal cell phone. He had a smile on his face and nodded from time to time.
Lin Shuyue's hands were on the keyboard, and a line of words appeared in the private chat box between her and Li Mingfang.
The Moon in the Distant Mountains: Do you know where these girls are found?
Fang Fang: Most of them are from art schools, and a small number are selected from all walks of life.
Lin Shuyue was about to speak when Li Mingfang sent another string of numbers. Li Mingfang said that it was Rong Lishui's Penguin ID. They had added each other as friends three years ago.
After Rong Lishui left, the Penguin account was never used again. But Li Mingfang said that she had seen Rong Lishui modify the log two or three times.
Lin Shuyue clicked to add an account, but the verification was not passed.
When it was lunch time, she went to the cafeteria with Li Mingfang to eat.
Director Zhao has left the company and did not return to work in the afternoon.
Before leaving get off work, the account number Lin Shuyue sent to Rong Lishui was approved. After careful consideration, Lin Shuyue sent a message.
The message was replied almost immediately: Let's meet and chat, I'm waiting for you at Bingling Coffee.
Bingling Coffee is located in this area. It is much more upscale than the coffee shop that Lin Shuyue went to with Hang Jiabai last time.
Lin Shuyue made an appointment with her at 5:30.
It's five o'clock now. If we walk from this place to Bingling Coffee, it will be exactly half past five.
Lin Shuyue wrote down the phone number sent by Rong Lishui and left the company. Li Mingfang had to work overtime tonight and could not leave work with Lin Shuyue.
Lin Shuyue pushed open the glass door of Bingling Coffee, and the aroma of coffee wafted into her nose.
A male waiter in a suit came up and asked politely, "How many people are there?"
Lin Shuyue looked around. The environment here was excellent. There were a lot of green plants in the house. Each seat was a little far away from each other and separated by bamboos, which ensured the privacy of conversation to the greatest extent. There was a round stage in the middle of the store. A girl in a white dress was playing the piano attentively, and the melodious music spread to every corner of the cafe.
"I'm looking for someone, her last name is Rong."
"Okay, come this way." The waiter made a gesture of invitation and took Lin Shuyue upstairs.
In a booth against the wall on the second floor, a pretty girl in a red dress was leaning there bored, with a white cigarette between her fingers painted with red nail polish. She put the cigarette between her red lips, took a sip, and then exhaled a puff of white smoke rings.
After the male waiter brought Lin Shuyue to the place, Lin Shuyue ordered the order and he turned and went downstairs.
Rong Lishui, who was sitting opposite her, didn't say anything, but just looked her up and down.
After the waiter left, she spoke up, "Since you look like this, does Zhao Bing want to take you to the party?"
The voice is soft.
In the verification message Lin Shuyue sent to Rong Lishui, she stated her name, unit and occupation.
"He wanted to take me there today. I refused." Lin Shuyue said.
Rong Lishui was stunned for a moment, staring at Lin Shuyue for a long while before she said with a half-smile, "You rejected him, that's good."
She started smoking again, and her slender fingers flicked the smoke rings into the ashtray on the table.
Normally, smoking is not allowed in coffee shops, but Rong Lishui is an exception.
"What do you want to ask me? Is it related to Zhao Bing?" Rong Lishui was impatient to play tricks on Lin Shuyue and went straight to the point.
"Yes. A friend of mine told me to be careful of him and stay away from him. Every time he brought a girl to a party, she would be taken away by someone else. Some girls were willing, and some were not."
Lin Shuyue continued: "I asked a colleague, and she said that you are the only girl in the company who was taken away by Zhao Bing, so I wanted to ask you."
After a pause, Lin Shuyue said: "Of course, it's okay if you don't want to say it."
Rong Lishui put out the cigarette butt: "There's nothing I don't want to say. It's not a big secret, but before I tell you, I have something to ask you."
"Reporter Lin, I've read the article you wrote, the one that was broadcast on the TV station's 'Talking about the World'. Do you really think that if a girl is violated by a man, it's not their problem?"
Rong Lishui sat up a little straighter and looked directly at Lin Shuyue, not missing any expression on her face.
At this moment, Lin Shuyue finally understood why Rong Lishui came to see her. She looked at Rong Lishui and said, "Yes, I really think so."
Rong Lishui smiled, revealing dimples at the corners of her mouth, but quickly disappeared again: "Mistress and second wife, you know what they mean, right?" Rong Lishui asked.
Lin Shuyue nodded.
Rong Lishui leaned back on the sofa as if she had no bones, looking at the dim lights on the ceiling.
The voice became even lighter: "I am this kind of mistress and second wife. We all are."
It had been three years, and this was the first time that Rong Lishui talked about her private affairs in front of a stranger.
"Three years ago, after finishing high school, I came to Pengcheng from my hometown to work. I was ambitious and didn't want to work in a factory. When I was looking for a job, I saw an advertisement for a receptionist position in Pengcheng Metropolitan Newspaper, so I went to apply."
"Zhang Min, who applied for my position in the administrative department, said that I was good-looking, had a good temperament, and had sufficient academic qualifications, so she accepted me."
"When I got the job, I saw all the glamorous and beautiful women coming and going in the building. You have no idea how happy I was."
"I work very hard. If I don't know something, I learn it. If anyone in the newspaper needs help, I help them. Although I am very busy and have no rest from the beginning to the end of the day, I am still very happy. I think I have found the value of life."
"Before getting off work that day, Zhao Bing found me and said that he was going to attend a party in the evening, but he was short of a female companion, and wanted me to go with him. It was not counted as part of the company's schedule." Rong Lishui's gaze gradually became far-reaching.
It was as if she was back to that day again.
She had only been working for two months and had just passed her probation period. This was the time when she was most enthusiastic about work and also the most innocent. Zhao Bing was the director of the News Department and was more or less a leader. The News Department was the core department of the newspaper, so Rong Lishui listened to what he said.
"He took me to a nearby shopping mall to buy an evening gown and had my hair done. At nine o'clock in the evening, I followed him to a villa in the suburbs." When Rong Lishui said this, she took out a box of cigarettes from the small diamond bag she carried with her, and lit it.
"All the people who came to the party were big bosses. Some of them were familiar faces and often appeared in financial newspapers. In addition to those big bosses, many were young girls like me."
"As soon as we came in, the big bosses looked over. Do you know how I felt at that moment? I felt like I was a piece of meat on the chopping block, a monkey in a circus."
"I was picked by the boss of Mingzhuang Daily Chemicals, and Zhao Bing sent me to his side. That night, I was forced to drink a lot of wine. When I woke up the next day, I was naked, and the boss of Mingzhuang Daily Chemicals was lying next to me."
Rong Lishui smoked a lot faster: "I was angry and scared at the time. When the boss of Mingzhuang saw me like this, he took out two thousand yuan from his bag and gave it to me. He said he was very satisfied with me and asked me if I was willing to follow him."
Rong Lishui's eyes wandered: "How could I agree? He is 48 years old, a few years older than my father. I rejected him, and the boss didn't say anything, just asked me to take a shower before leaving."
"How could I agree to do that? I didn't want the 2,000 yuan. I went to Zhao Bing to settle the account. Zhao Bing said that for a girl from the countryside like me, it was a blessing from my previous life to be able to marry the boss of a famous cosmetics company. He told me not to be ungrateful. He said that he had the video of me that night, and if I didn't behave, the video and photos would be sent to my home. Then my parents and brothers would see how shameless I was."
"My hometown is very traditional, and my parents are also traditional people. They also want to save face, so I was scared. Later, I became a card in his hand. I stayed by his side and was slept with one man after another."
"About half a month later, I met the boss of Mingzhuang Daily Chemicals again. He asked me if I was willing to be with him. This time I agreed. So I became his mistress."
Rong Lishui smiled gently: "There are two above me, and one below me."
Rong Lishui said: "I am going to change my boss soon. Because only a woman who has given birth to a child can follow him for a long time, and I don't want to give birth to a child for him."
Rong Lishui was smiling, but her eyes were full of sarcasm. She looked down at her fingers and said, "I'm only twenty-one. Why should I give birth to a child for a fifty-year-old man?"
Lin Shuyue felt extremely uncomfortable.
Rong Lishui looked at her fingers for a long time, then said, "Reporter Lin, there are many women like me. Only a few are willing."
"Reporter Lin, women like us will never be able to escape in this life if someone else has the handle on us. Hahaha." Rong Lishui covered her face with her hands, her tears flowed through her fingers and soon disappeared.
Lin Shuyue didn't know how to comfort Rong Lishui. For the first time, Lin Shuyue realized that her language ability was so poor.
After a long while, Lin Shuyue asked, "Have you ever thought about calling the police?"
Rong Lishui laughed again: "I have thought about it. Of course I haven't thought about it. But do you know what their fate is? They were thrown into a villa in the suburbs and lived a life worse than death."
Rong Lishui still remembers that year, a little girl was too stubborn and didn't believe in this. She went to the police station to report the case, but nothing happened. Her boss told her that the girl was sent to another villa in the suburbs, which was specially used to lock up such disobedient and unbelieving little girls.
Perhaps because he was in a good mood, or perhaps because he wanted to scare Rong Lishui, her boss took her to the suburbs.
The once bright and beautiful girls have completely changed. Their beauty is still there, but they have lost their souls. They are like living corpses.
She and her boss were in the next room, watching the girls being tortured by the men in another room, being whipped and thrown on the body, and crawling on the ground like dogs.
In order to torture them better, they have special people to manage them. They can neither escape nor die.
Rong Lishui closed her eyes and glanced at Lin Shuyue. Her Penguin account was always on her computer. She saw Lin Shuyue's friend request at two o'clock this afternoon.
She looked at the friend request for an entire afternoon and at five o'clock, she received a reply.
She came to see Lin Shuyue just to see what a journalist who speaks for women looks like. She didn't think about saying anything to Lin Shuyue.
But she was too uncomfortable, this kind of high-class lady's life was making her feel uncomfortable. When facing Lin Shuyue's gentle eyes, she couldn't help but tell her story.
She had been watching Lin Shuyue's expression. If Lin Shuyue showed any contempt during her narration, she would not continue to talk about the matter.
The distress and helplessness in Lin Shuyue's eyes made Rong Lishui laugh and cry.
She felt that Lin Shuyue was worthy of being a journalist who spoke up for women. It was great that she did not let her down. Her trip was really worthwhile.
"Reporter Lin, thank you for listening to what I have to say today. But now that you have heard these things, just forget them. Be careful of Zhao Bing, he is not a generous person." Zhao Bing is the person Rong Lishui hates the most since she was a child.
She once had great ambitions and wanted to teach Zhao Bing a lesson through the boss of Mingzhuang Daily Chemicals.
But she overestimated herself. In the eyes of the boss of a famous cosmetics company, a woman like her was just an unnecessary plaything. Even if she was gone, there would be thousands and thousands more.
Zhao Bing was the one who found new things and toys for them. How could they make things difficult for someone just because of a toy?
Three years had passed, and Rong Lishui's kindness had long since worn out. But she thought, there were enough playthings like her, and the fewer the better.
Rong Lishui's phone rang. She picked it up and said, "My boss called me. I have to go. If I go too late, my life will be difficult. Reporter Lin, see you later."
Rong Lishui went downstairs carrying her bag. Lin Shuyue followed her and watched her drive the white Jetta and disappear at the entrance of the coffee shop.
Lin Shuyue went to pay, but was told that the money had already been paid by Miss Rong.
It was not yet dark, and the setting sun in the sky dyed the clouds bright red.
Lin Shuyue took her cell phone and called Huang Qiang. Huang Qiang had already gone home, but after receiving Lin Shuyue's call, he hurried over. Lin Shuyue had been standing at the door of the cafe waiting for him.
When he came, Lin Shuyue asked, "Master, do you know what kind of person Zhao Bing is?"
Huang Qiang thought Lin Shuyue wanted to talk to him about something. After hearing this question, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Stingy, vindictive, and money-hungry. His favorite thing to do is to court the bosses of other companies."
Lin Shuyue looked at Huang Qiang: "Then why can Zhao Bing be the director of the news department?"
"Because he is the brother-in-law of the second largest shareholder of the company." Huang Qiang hadn't been to the company for nearly a week. When he heard Lin Shuyue ask this, he subconsciously asked, "Did he bully you? Did he block your news again?"
As soon as the words came out, Huang Qiang said, "That's not right. None of our manuscripts go through Zhao Bing. Let me tell you, Yue. You are no longer an intern. What Zhao Bing does has nothing to do with you. You don't need to go through him to publish news."
Lin Shuyue looked at him: "Today, Zhao Bing wanted to take me to a business party, but I refused. Then I heard that Zhao Bing often attends such parties, and he always takes a different girl with him. Some of these girls go voluntarily, and some don't."
"I found one of the girls, and she told me that she was deceived by Zhao Bing. She drank alcohol at the party, and woke up in a man's bed the next morning."
"Zhao Bing told her not to make a fuss because he had their nude photos and videos. He had these videos in his hands and controlled these girls, passing them around among the bosses."
"Master, do you know these things?"