Matt Murdoch wanted to prepare some material about Danny Rand, and Luo Zhijian, who was proficient in English, stayed in the law firm to help him, and after Hogarth and the others left, Liu Zheng returned to the tea house on 46th Street.

Mrs. Gao was no longer there, the tea room upstairs was empty, and Liu Zheng asked the black buddy who greeted him last time, "Where did Mrs. Gao go?" ”

Brother Xiaohei's speech was very fast, and he chattered a lot, but he couldn't understand a word.

Liu Zheng grabbed him by the collar, lifted him off the ground, and shouted angrily in his mouth: "I know you can speak Chinese, say quickly, where is she!" ”

"The dignified Dragonborn, will they only attack the weak?"

Suddenly, there was a crisp voice in the hall.

Liu Zheng recognized this voice, and when he looked back, it was really Xiaocha, it seemed that her light skills were very good, I don't know when she came.

"Xiaocha, I have something very important to find Mrs. Gao, tell me quickly."

"Madame has something very important to attend to now, and no one is allowed to disturb her." Xiaocha categorically refused, still looking like she was not pretending.

"Little tea..."

"Don't call me by name!" Xiao Cha rudely interrupted Liu Zheng's words, and said in a cold voice, "Don't think that you are Madame's grandson, you are qualified to command the Hand Association, you are worthless in my eyes." ”

Liu Zheng stopped talking, he would never get angry with a little girl, since this road didn't work, then think of another way.

Seeing Liu Zheng leave without saying a word, Brother Xiao Hei said to Xiao Cha in embarrassment: "Miss, this..."

He really speaks Chinese.

Xiaocha waved her hand, her eyes still staring at the direction in which Liu Zheng left: "I'll deal with it, there's nothing for you here, go down." ”

"Yes..."

......

At the time when Liu Zheng and others were seeking countermeasures to save Danny from prison, on the other side of the RAND Group, the Meacham brothers and sisters were also experiencing a major crisis.

The board of directors voted to expel both of them.

There are no legal loopholes, it's just a simple vote, and the number of votes quickly reaches the requirements, and they have no foothold to refute it at all.

There was a soft "click", and the middle-aged black man in a suit pushed open the door of the conference room and walked in, and sat down at the table opposite the two.

He is Lawrence Wilkins, chairman of the board of directors of the RAND Group, and the initiator of the proposed dismissal.

"Do you want to have something before we get started? How about coffee, I just bought a new espresso machine. ”

Wilkins looked at the Meacham siblings with a smile in a victorious manner.

"Less acting, Wilkins. There's not much to say between us, let's get things done. Let's go clean up the office. Joy Meacham coldly rejected him.

But Wilkins didn't think it was wrong, he had been waiting for this day for a long time, so what did it matter if he let these two young people bounce for a while?

"Your things have been packed, of course, you can't take those that belong to the RAND Group." He took out two thick stacks of papers, placed them on the conference table, and reached out to nudge the Meacham siblings, "The box will be handed over to you, as long as you sign this termination contract." ”

Ward Meacham scoffed, "Hehe, are you trying to blackmail our gadgets?" ”

Joy added, "Not just our personal belongings, but all the pictures of my parents on the wall." ”

"I said no problem, as long as you sign the contract, you can get something." Wilkins was in a good mood and generously agreed, "In addition, you will find that this is a very generous severance package, 100 million per person, enough for you to squander for a lifetime." ”

Ward lazily reached for the contract, flipped through it casually, and said with a smile: "That's a good number, we paid Danny so much in the first place." ”

"Ironic, isn't it?"

Joey didn't touch the contract in front of him, but glared at Wilkins angrily: "Take advantage of it now, when I sit on the other side of the table, you won't be able to laugh." ”

"Miss Meacham, I am not to blame for this, but only yourselves. Bringing Danny Rand back to the company was a major decision mistake, and you two are to blame. Speaking of that Danny Rand, Wilkins was in a bad mood

"Thankfully, we didn't offer him a position, so we saved a severance pay." ”

Ward laughed nervously, "yes, that's a blessing in misfortune. ”

Joy argued: "Danny may have lost a little money to the company, but his style has improved the public image of the RAND Group, which is more than enough to make up for the financial losses in the early stage." ”

"Danny Rand is a rotten good guy who has been isolated from the world for more than ten years! He had no business acumen at all, whether it was the Kala-azar drug or the Staten Island class action lawsuit, he was reckless several times! He didn't even figure out where to sit on his ass, and he deserved to be the leader of the company? ”

"The drop in the stock price is only temporary, as long as our reputation is preserved, there will be a lot of opportunities in the future..."

Wilkins was a little annoyed, waved his hand to interrupt Joey's words, and said flatly, "No more talk." This agreement is non-negotiable, you both have to sign it, otherwise you won't get anything. ”

Joey was silent for a while, seemingly a little deflated, she picked up the contract on the table and said, "Can you give us some time, we have to discuss it again." ”

"Yes, but don't keep me waiting." Wilkins thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. He placed the pen in his hand in front of the siblings, stood up and left the conference room.

When Joey saw Wilkins go out, he got up from the couch and went to the window alone and sulked:

My brother is obviously an expert negotiator, but she didn't make any achievements in the negotiation just now, how can she talk about the old fox Lawrence Wilkins on her own!

Two large warm hands touched her shoulders, and Joey shook them off angrily.

"Okay, Joey, why are you angry?"

Joey turned to glared at her brother: "Why can you be so calm, you want to sign it?" How could you just give up your father's property like that! ”

There was no anger or unwillingness on Ward's face, only a faint relief, which made her unbelievable.

"I just want to give up, are you so hard to accept?"

"Of course! You are crazy? Not so long ago, you tried to prevent Danny from coming back to regain control of the company, and now you're telling me you don't want all of this? ”

Ward tilted his head, looked at his sister, who was about to go crazy, with a smile, and suddenly said, "You know, lately I've been thinking a lot about the last summer vacation we spent in the Hamptons with our dad. ”

Joey didn't speak, and turned to point the back of his head at him.

"Do you remember, you said you wanted to be what you wanted to do when you grew up?"

"What does that have to do with that!" Joey went crazy.

“... Raising horses. You keep talking. "I sometimes wonder if Dad hadn't tied our inheritance to the work of the RAND Corporation, maybe you would have been the owner of a horse farm by now. ”

Joey didn't understand the point of Waldty. She can't remember many things when she was a child, but this memory is still deeply engraved in her mind, and now looking back, she will smile because of her innocence and cuteness when she was a child, but that's all.

"I wouldn't, I was 9 years old and it was just a stupid daydream."

"Perhaps, but that's your daydream." Ward poked Joey in the shoulder with his finger, "Not Daddy's. ”

He glanced at the termination contract on the table, then looked back at Joey seriously: "This is our chance to stop living the life he has given us and write our own destiny." ”

A hint of inexplicability flashed in Joey's eyes, paused, and said slowly: "I admit that working in the RAND Group is indeed not my first choice. ”

"Yes! Of course, I don't want to. Ward thinks he has convinced his sister.

“... I had just left law school at the time, and no one here looked up to me, and of course I didn't understand business, and they had the right to think so. Joey lowered his head, Ward couldn't see her expression, only her shoulders shaking, "This job isn't as easy for me as it is for you... So I worked hard to understand the business, and often worked overtime until late at night for the case at hand. Later, I earned the respect of my colleagues. ”

"You're right, part of the reason I wanted to stay was because of the connection to my dad here, but the other part was for myself." She turned to face her brother and made a loud noise

said, "Because of my achievements and achievements, I have won the status I deserve, how can I be willing to give it to others!" ... I'm not going to just let it go, I'm not going to give up! ”

Ward was a little touched, and he found that he could no longer look at his sister with old eyes, Joey Meacham, who had grown up with his nose crying after him as a child, and who looked down on him in everything.

But so what, they still can't win...

......

Early the next morning.

New York's Locomotive Lawn Park, located at the end of 61st Street, by the Hudson River, used to display the first retired old train in New York State for people to take pictures of, but it was gradually decayed due to disrepair and was eventually removed, but fortunately the park was preserved intact.

The view is wide, the scenery is beautiful, and you can see New Jersey across the river as soon as you look up, and it attracts a large number of tourists every day.

Joey Meacham finished her morning run on the Hudson River Greenway, picked a bench with no one to sit down, and her pet golden retriever rested on her stomach. She leaned down to groom her dog, occasionally looking up at the surroundings, as if waiting for someone.

After about 20 minutes, a figure approached from a distance, his steps did not seem to be very fast, but his speed was not at all, and in a short time he was in front of him.

A black jacket, jeans, small leather boots, long black hair tied back haphazardly, coupled with heavy black eyeshadow and a depressed look that can never wake up, all kinds of characteristics come together, and there will be no one else except private investigator Jessica Jones.

"You're late again. But... Forget it, when I didn't say it. Joey sighed helplessly and moved to the side to make room for her.

Jessica sat down on the bench and, without saying a word, took a sandwich out of her pocket and ate it herself. Joey knew her way of doing things, and just waited patiently.

After she had eaten the sandwich in her hand, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, took out a large stack of printed photos from the satchel she was carrying, and handed them to Joey.

Joey flipped through them one by one, the smile on his lips getting colder and colder.

"It's all true?"

"I'm so lucky, yes."

"It's even more unsightly than I thought, more than half of the board is here. They are all sanctimonious during the day, but behind their backs, they are stealing the company's money, or sleeping with people who are not their spouses, and they don't know their hearts. ”

"Hey, it's not a common thing." Jessica scoffed, she had seen too many of these people as a senior private investigator.

Joey was very satisfied with the materials in his hand, took out a wad of money in an envelope from his bag, and handed it to Jessica.

"You've got the right person, Jessica Jones. As long as you don't drink, it's definitely worth the price, and you deserve it... By the way, it's rare that you don't smell of alcohol. ”

Jessica didn't count the money, weighed the weight, and stuffed it into her satchel. Now that the deal was done, she wasn't in the mood to talk to a lady like Joey, and got up to leave—now that she had the money, she couldn't wait to have a few drinks.

"Hey, wait!" Joy shouted behind him, "I have a job to give you." ”

For the sake of the reward, Jessica stopped.

"I want you to help me investigate two Huaxia people, you see." Joey walked up to Jessica, opened her phone and flipped out a few photos, "He... and him, one is called Liu Zheng and the other is Luo Zhijian. Especially this one named Luo Zhijian, I want to know more about him. ”

How could Jessica not know these two people, she looked at Joey suspiciously, and asked, "Who are they and what does it have to do with you?" ”

"Hmm... You don't need to know that, you just need to help me find out about them. Joey was a little embarrassed as she spoke.

Although Jessica is also very interested in Liu Zheng's origins, she will not do such a thing as investigating her friend, and the John Raymond case has always troubled her, not to mention that she also provoked the New York Police Department task force in the process of investigation, Misty Knight is not a simple person...

"You should go to the embassy about this, I can't help you."

Jessica left without looking back, leaving Joey alone with a stomp of her feet.

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