Blackening starts from the golden years

Yuan Xudong smiled, took out a bank card from the inside pocket of his suit and handed it to Gu Moli in front of him and said with a smile:

"for you."

"what does this mean?"

"As for the painting fee, we agreed to split it 40% to 60% - 60% for the gallery and 40% for you. Did you forget?"

"I haven't forgotten."

Taking the bank card from Yuan Xudong, Gu Moli asked with a smile:

"How much money is there in here?"

"Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand."

"How many?"

"Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand."

Yuan Xudong repeated it again, looking at the surprised Gu Moli, he smiled and said:

"To be honest, as a new artist, the price is still a bit high, but it doesn't matter, you just focus on painting, I have already arranged the operation."

"No, is this okay?"

Looking at Yuan Xudong, Gu Moli frowned slightly and said:

“The prices are inflated. Can I still sell my paintings?”

"Of course you can. Believe me, as long as you manage well, you will be the beautiful painter of tomorrow, with beauty and talent, as well as kindness, gentleness and other good qualities. This is your personality, do you understand?"

Facing Gu Moli's gaze, Yuan Xudong smiled confidently:

"Nowadays, traffic is king. As long as you are famous, you are a popular painter. Otherwise, how can a painting be worth so much money just by itself, a piece of paper, and a little paint, right?"

"But……"

"No buts, just trust me."

Yuan Xudong interrupted Gu Moli, looked into her eyes and said:

"Without the support of capital, even if Van Gogh were to come back to life, as long as he is not called Van Gogh, his paintings would not be worth anything. Similarly, as long as you are famous, any circle you draw on paper can be a masterpiece that can be passed down from generation to generation. You have been an art dealer for so long, you can't be ignorant of this, right?"

"Of course I understand."

Looking at Yuan Xudong, Gu Moli smiled and said:
"Okay, I'll leave the operations to you, and I'll just be responsible for drawing."

"Very good, don't worry, you will definitely become a great painter."

"Well, I believe you, thank you."

……

On the other side, in Kingsoft, Zhu Jincao works at a software development outsourcing company.

Zhu Jincao originally worked at Jinying Live. During the business trip sent by the company to Kingsoft, he discovered the problems at Kingsoft. Some company executives secretly accepted bribes from anchors. If they paid, they would get traffic, and if they didn't, their traffic would be restricted. Some male executives of the company even became boyfriend and girlfriend with the young and beautiful female anchors in the company, which is the so-called internal unspoken rule.

These parasites took advantage of their positions to accept bribes, engage in unspoken rules, etc., which seriously damaged the interests of the company. Zhu Jincao personally sympathized with those female anchors. He hated the unspoken rules in some companies and was unwilling to go along with them and bully those vulnerable female anchors.

Therefore, Zhu Jincao collected evidence in private and revealed all these things that could not be put on the table at an internal company meeting. For a moment, the whole company was in an uproar, as if everyone was knowing about these chaos for the first time.

Naturally, someone exposed all the problems, so the company naturally had to investigate the matter. After some investigation and evidence collection, the female anchors changed their words and said that Zhu Jincao forced them, because Zhu Jincao was a big shot sent by the head office, and they dared not disobey him. Under his instructions, they collectively gave false testimony and wrongly accused the leaders of the branch company.

This is what happened. Zhu Jincao was sacrificed, the head office punished those people in the branch office, and those female anchors also received compensation from the company, and each of them got a lot of benefits. As for Zhu Jincao, the company's senior leader talked to him and asked him to sacrifice for the overall interests of the company. It was wrong to say that he should sacrifice himself. Although the leader also knew that Zhu Jincao was wronged, but, everything must be based on evidence, right?
Zhu Jincao asked why, and the reason given by his leader was that the company could not have such a big scandal, and it could only be resolved internally, and those people and those things could be dealt with slowly. After all, the company still wanted to go public to raise money. He was wrong again. It should be for the future development and growth of the company, so it needed to raise funds. There was absolutely no intention to sell the company.

Just like that, with full of resentment, Zhu Jincao was forced to leave the company where he had worked for ten years. He couldn't find a suitable job for a while, and he had to pay the mortgage on time every month. So, with the introduction of a friend, he joined an outsourcing company. He used to look down on outsourcing companies, but now it was the outsourcing company's turn to look down on him. With the strong recommendation of his friends, he finally succeeded in staying.

As a middle-aged unemployed divorced man with a huge mortgage, Zhu Jincao has been living a miserable life recently. Financial constraints are the most important reason why he gave up the custody of his daughter Zhu Keke.

To get back to the point, in the new company, Zhu Jincao is just a small clerk.

"Come on, Director Xie, please come this way. This is our office. Let's go directly to the conference room."

"it is good."

"Director Xie, since you are here early, please take a rest in the conference room and give us ten minutes to prepare. We will start in ten minutes."

"it is good."

"please."

After arranging the important customers into the conference room, the company's head immediately called the specific person in charge who was going to attend the project presentation meeting and asked them how they were preparing. Just when everyone was full of confidence, Zhu Jincao came over holding his laptop and said with a heavy face:
"Team leader, the plan we are about to report has a fatal flaw."

"What fatal flaw?"

"Please take a look."

Zhu Jincao held his laptop and demonstrated:
"The system currently only verifies the data submitted by the client through data annotations, and cannot confirm that it is the actual operation. Technical experts will definitely question that the legitimacy of our data source cannot be guaranteed, which will pose a great threat to the security of the entire system, especially since our clients are banks, and the security of the system is what they value most."

After listening to Zhu Jincao's words, the team leader's face turned green. He looked at the two responsible persons next to him and said angrily in a low voice:

"What's wrong with you two? Didn't I ask you two to do repeated tests? Director Xie is sitting in the conference room now, what do you think I should do?!"

Looking at the cannibalistic team leader, a person in charge explained aggrievedly:

"Team Leader, didn't you ask us to reduce the waiting time for users to log in?"

"Reducing the waiting time for login does not mean reducing security!"

"I'm not responsible for the security module. Skinny Monkey is. I'll go find him."

"Okay, it's already this time and you're still shirking responsibility?!"

Looking at his subordinates, the team leader said angrily:

"If this project fails, we will all be left with nothing!"

Looking at the angry team leader, Zhu Jincao interrupted:

"Team leader, please give me some time. I'll prepare and talk to the client right away. It should be fine."

"You, can you do it?"

"Okay, you trust me."

"Okay, hurry up, you only have ten minutes to prepare at most."

"Okay, no problem, Team Leader. I'll go get ready then."

"Okay, let's go."

After watching Zhu Jincao prepare, the team leader finally breathed a sigh of relief. He glared at the two people in charge under him and cursed:

"Are you two pigs? How could you make such a low-level mistake?"

With such a huge loophole, the two responsible persons could only accept the scolding. However, they were wondering in their hearts whether Zhu Jincao did it on purpose, discovering the loophole at this time and then turning the tide by himself. Was it such a coincidence?

……

Ten minutes later, in the conference room.

Zhu Jincao first explained the current security loopholes of the system to the bank staff, and then gave his own four-point solution. After listening to him, Director Xie said with satisfaction:
"I am basically satisfied with your report today. Payment security has always been the most important aspect of the banking system, because it is directly related to the safety of customers' assets. Our bank recently had a case of money laundering using artworks. It was because of a big loophole in payment security that criminals had an opportunity to take advantage of it. So this security issue is of great importance."

When Zhu Jincao heard Director Xie talk about using art to launder money, his heart moved. He couldn't help but start to suspect whether Yuan Xudong did the same thing, using Gu Moli to launder money and carry out his criminal activities.

……

After the meeting, Zhu Jincao found Director Xie alone to ask for advice:

"Hello, Director Xie, can I ask you a question?"

"You said."

Director Xie smiled politely. Looking at him, Zhu Jincao said:

"That is, if an ordinary person suddenly becomes a painter and her paintings are sold at high prices, is it possible that this is money laundering?"

"That's very possible."

“Then how can I know if they are laundering money?”

Looking at Zhu Jincao, Director Xie smiled and said:
"There are several methods. First, you need to look at the transaction of the artwork. Is the buyer a natural person account or a non-natural person account? You also need to see whether these people appear on the list of our country's anti-money laundering center, including the holders of this institution and their related family members, and whether there are any illegal business activities. Then you can do equity penetration..."

……

In the evening, at Gu Moli's house.

"Gu Moli."

"Hey."

"Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand!"

Mother Gu said excitedly while holding Gu Moli's bank card.

"What are you so excited about?"

Looking at her mother, Gu Moli smiled and said:

"I sold ten paintings in total. Yuan Xudong alone bought eight, and Liuliu also bought one. I only sold one painting. This money was just given to me by Yuan Xudong and Liuliu for free. Why should I be so excited?"

"I don't care. My daughter has become a great painter."

Mother Gu said happily:
"In our big wardrobe, chest of drawers, and under the bed, I will carefully collect all the paintings you painted in the past. They will be passed down from generation to generation in the future."

At this time, Zhu Keke ran out of the bedroom. She was wearing a cute princess dress. She ran to Gu Moli's side, looked up at the smiling mother Gu and asked:

"Grandma, what is a masterpiece?"

Looking at Zhu Keke, Mother Gu smiled and said:
"Your mother, her paintings are worth a lot of money now."

"Yeah~~"

"Hey, why are you happier than me?"

"My mother is a great painter. My mother is a great painter."

Looking at Zhu Keke who was jumping happily, Gu Moli looked at her mother and smiled:
"Mom, I'll leave this bank card with you. I finally have the confidence to return the money for buying a house to you."

"Who asked you to pay back the money?"

After rolling her eyes at Gu Moli, Mother Gu returned the bank card to her and said with a smile:

"Your father and I both have pensions, tens of thousands a month, so you don't have to pay it back."

"Okay, if I had known that the competition would be so fierce, I would have listened to you and taken the civil service exam."

Gu Moli joked.

"You have loved painting since you were a child. If I give you another chance, you will still choose painting."

Mother Gu smiled. Looking at her mother, Gu Moli smiled:

"Mom, you still understand me."

After saying that, Gu Moli said a little embarrassedly:
"Mom, I want to go to Liuliu's place tonight."

"Are you going to Xiao Yuan's place?"

Looking at Gu Moli, Mother Gu smiled and said:
"A woman cannot live without love, otherwise, she will age easily. Go ahead, mom supports you."

"thanks Mom."

Gu Moli smiled like a little girl who had not yet grown up. At this time, Zhu Keke held her hand and begged:

"Mom, mom, I want to go to my brother's house too."

"Okay, Mom will take you with me."

"thanks Mom."

"Mom, let's go."

"Well, go ahead. Be careful on the road and call me when you get there."

"Okay." "Goodbye, grandma."

"Hey, bye Coco."

……

Gu Moli took her daughter Zhu Keke away from home and drove to Yuan Xudong.

……

At night, Yuan Xudong’s home.

"Is Coco asleep?"

"Well, where are those paintings you bought?"

"In the studio."

"Take me to see it."

"it is good."

Yuan Xudong took Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu to the studio.

In the studio.

Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu looked at the paintings collected by Yuan Xudong. Looking at them, Yuan Xudong smiled and said:

"Moli, Liuli, let me draw a picture for the two of you."

"Okay."

"Okay."

Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu readily agreed. Looking at the two of them, Yuan Xudong smiled slightly and said:
"Okay, then both of you take off your clothes. I want to draw a picture of you both naked."

"Bah, shameless~~"

“Smelly gangster~~”

Next, after Yuan Xudong's repeated requests, Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu finally agreed. They slowly took off their clothes, and for a moment, Yuan Xudong's eyes were filled with milky white holy light.

He picked up the paintbrush and drew a beautiful picture of his best friend on the snow-white paper.

After finishing the painting, Yuan Xudong sat on the low table in the studio. Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu knelt on the ground facing him. He experienced the role of Liang Kun again, which was simply wonderful.

"Woo~~Woo~~"

……

The next morning, at Kingsoft, the software development outsourcing company where Zhu Jincao worked.

"Old Zhu, starting from next month, you will be the head of the company's security team, and your salary will be increased to 35,000."

"Team Leader, I need a leave."

"Ask for leave?"

Looking at Zhu Jincao, the person in charge of the company frowned slightly and said:
"How long will you be please?"

"I don't know how long I'll be gone."

Zhu Jincao suspected that Yuan Xudong was using Gu Moli's paintings to launder money. He wanted to collect evidence, defeat Yuan Xudong, and at the same time protect Gu Moli and win her back.

"No way, Lao Zhu?"

Looking at Zhu Jincao, the person in charge of the company said very dissatisfiedly:

"I just praised you yesterday at the client's place. Are you so arrogant? Thirty-five thousand a month, and you're still not satisfied? You know the company can't do without you right now, and you're just like that, right? Okay, name the conditions you want, and I'll see if I can satisfy you."

"I'm sorry, I have to take this day off."

"Then can I tell you that we don't have any vacation here? You can either wait until this project is over and we can all take a break together, or you can only resign."

"I'm sorry, I quit."

"Old Zhu, you..."

Zhu Jincao put down his work badge, packed up his personal belongings, and then looked at everyone in the office and said:
"I have had a great time with you all during this period. I hope it has not affected your work. See you later."

After saying that, Zhu Jincao turned around and left the company, embarking on the futile journey of collecting evidence of Yuan Xudong's money laundering.

……

A few months later.

"Old Gu, let's meet again next time."

"Okay, bye."

Mr. Gu attended a party with old colleagues and drank quite a bit of alcohol. After coming out of the hotel, he was helped into an online-hailing car by his friends.

"Sir, you..."

"Strong grass?"

Mr. Gu and Zhu Jincao looked at each other, both a little embarrassed, especially Zhu Jincao. He had wasted several months and had not collected any evidence of Yuan Xudong's money laundering, because Yuan Xudong was just a law-abiding citizen, so why would he launder money?

Looking at Zhu Jincao, who looked very unhappy, Father Gu sighed softly and said:

"Jingcao, do you want me to use my connections to help you find a better job? Of course, I don't look down on you driving an online ride-hailing car, but based on my understanding, the competition in the online ride-hailing car industry is very fierce, and it's not easy to make money. You should also know this, right?"

"Well, thank you Dad."

Zhu Jincao asked softly while driving:
"Jasmine and Coco, are they okay?"

"They are both fine, don't worry. Let's talk about work. My connections and contacts are all in Ningbo. Do you mind going back to your hometown to develop?"

"No problem, thanks Dad."

Zhu Jincao smiled slightly. He seemed to know what Father Gu was thinking. He wanted him to leave Shanghai and not appear in front of Jasmine and Coco again. Arranging a job for him was both a reason and a kind of compensation for him. Of course, it was also possible that Zhu Jincao was overthinking it. Father Gu simply wanted to help him. After all, they were once father-in-law and son-in-law.

"That's good, Jincao, don't worry, I will definitely help you find a good job."

"Okay, thank you Dad."

"You're welcome."

……

On the other side, Yuan Xudong’s house.

Mother Gu was taking care of the pregnant Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu. Looking at Shen Liuliu, she scolded:
"Oh my, our Liuliu is such a good girl, but that bastard man actually ran away. What kind of vision does he have?"

"Mom, have some fruit."

Yuan Xudong brought four servings of cut fruit platters. He handed one to Mother Gu first, then to Gu Moli, Shen Liuliu, and finally to the little one Zhu Keke.

"Thank you, brother."

Zhu Keke smiled happily. Reaching out and touching her head, Mother Gu smiled and said:
"Coco, you should call me daddy."

"No, I want to call you brother."

Zhu Keke pouted unhappily. Seeing her like this, Gu Moli ate the fruit platter while looking at her mother and smiled:
"Mom, don't bother with her. She can call herself whatever she wants."

"You."

Looking at Gu Moli, Mother Gu asked again:
"You're about to give birth, why don't you get a marriage certificate with Xiao Yuan?"

"No, why get a marriage certificate?"

Looking at her mother, Gu Moli smiled slightly and said:

"I've received the betrothal gift, 20% of the shares of Asuka Gallery, isn't this better than a marriage certificate?"

"Could this be the same thing?"

"Anyway, I don't want to get married. I want to be single for the rest of my life. For a woman, love is enough."

"Mom, I think what Jasmine said makes sense."

Yuan Xudong said weakly, causing Mother Gu to glare at him and said angrily:

"Don't think I'm really stupid. You think I don't know what you did, right?"

"Uh, Mom, you know everything?"

"What do you say?"

Mother Gu glared at Yuan Xudong and said angrily:

"If you dare to treat Jasmine and Liuliu badly in the future, you will see how I will deal with you."

"Thank you, Mom."

Yuan Xudong smiled happily and said:

"Don't worry, I will take good care of your two precious daughters."

"Shameless~~"

Gu Moli scolded him. At this time, Mother Gu looked at Shen Liuliu, whose pretty face was red and very shy, and smiled:

"Liuliu, are you willing to be my daughter?"

"Mom~~"

"Hey~~"

Shen Liuliu couldn't help but throw herself into Mother Gu's arms and started crying. Now, she also had a mother.

"Mom, I miss you, woooo~~"

"Good boy~~"

Seeing Shen Liuliu crying pitifully, Gu Moli couldn't help but hit Yuan Xudong and said angrily:
"It's all your fault, it's all your fault~~"

"Ok?"

Yuan Xudong was confused. Did he do something wrong?
"Mom, please stop hitting my brother."

Hearing Zhu Keke say this, Yuan Xudong felt relieved. The little girl who had not grown up still had a conscience.

At this time, Zhu Keke said again:
"Mom, if you let me hit you, I want to hit my brother."

"Ok?"

Yuan Xudong was petrified. This little cotton jacket was leaking air.

……

Mina.

Yuan Xudong hired two nannies to take care of Mina 24 hours a day. There was no other way, as Mina was pregnant with his child. As usual, like Gu Moli and Shen Liuliu, Mina also received 20% of the shares of Fei Niao Gallery.

Mina was very satisfied with this. She didn't mind that Yuan Xudong had another woman. She was living like a lady now and didn't care about those worldly rules. With hundreds of thousands of living expenses a month, this was the high-quality life she wanted.

……

Gao Xiaqing.

Gao Xiaqing was also pregnant, so Yuan Xudong hired two live-in nannies to take care of her and Guoguo's lives, with a monthly living allowance of 50,000 yuan. Yuan Xudong gave her much less because Gao Xiaqing loved her son Guoguo more than Yuan Xudong, which made Yuan Xudong feel uncomfortable, so he gave her much less.

Of course, in addition to the emotional aspect, Yuan Xudong is still very satisfied with Gao Xiaqing. She is light and soft and easy to push down. Yuan Xudong likes her charm of a young woman. Unlike Gu Moli, Yuan Xudong can be very unrestrained with Gao Xiaqing. Gao Xiaqing always shyly gives positive responses to any of his requests, allowing him to relax well.

Therefore, Yuan Xudong planned to give Gao Xiaqing a house. He knew that what Gao Xiaqing wanted most was a house. Maybe it was because she had been renting a house with Guoguo and was often evicted by the landlord for overdue rent, so she had a deep obsession with the house.

In fact, Yuan Xudong still admired Gao Xiaqing very much. As a beautiful anchor, she kept herself clean and never had that kind of thought no matter how difficult the situation was, until she met him, a kind-hearted man. With his great help, she lived a happy life from then on.

……

(The little life ends happily) (End of this chapter)