Chapter 579

The lawyer came very quickly, arriving in half an hour.

However, what made Li Ye and the others a bit surprised was that the other party was a white female lawyer.

Don't look at the Lighthouse shouting all day about how free and equal they are, but in fact, in some fields, true equality doesn't exist at all.

Just like in the lawyer industry, if a female lawyer can make a name for herself, she must have gone through countless harsh tests and slapped countless old white men in the face.

After the other party arrived, she didn't say a word of nonsense.

"May I ask if you are Mr. Li? I am Elena; may I ask what I need to do to prove my ability?"

Li Ye pointed to Seeing Zhen Rongrong: "This is a friend of mine who was just fired by the boss of this restaurant for discriminatory reasons, and he won't pay the salary; do you have any good opinions?"

"..."

Elena looked at Li Ye in surprise, and only after a few seconds did she ask suspiciously: "May I ask Mr. Li, do you hire me as your private lawyer just to handle this kind of thing?"

"Not entirely,"

Li Ye answered lightly and then asked back: "Ms. Elena, do you feel there is anything inappropriate?"

Elena shook her head slightly and said amusingly: "I have no problem, but I hope you understand that using my ability on this kind of trivial matter will only waste your money."

Li Ye looked at Elena and also smiled and said: "Cartier and Casio can both time accurately, but no Cartier is a waste."

"..."

Elena was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Li; I hope our cooperation will be very pleasant."

In the current Lighthouse, Japanese goods are rampant in their heyday, and Casio is one of them, but Elena is wearing a Cartier watch on her wrist, so Li Ye implied that she is a "luxury item" with taste and value.

Elena nodded to Li Ye and began to communicate with Seeing Zhen Rongrong.

"May I ask, madam, how long have you worked in this restaurant... you only have a student visa, right? That doesn't matter; as long as labor is paid, you must get paid..."

"What kind of person is the boss of this restaurant? Okay... do you still hope to continue working here? Or get enough compensation..."

"Ms. Zhen, you don't need to think that this matter will affect other international students who work part-time; after all, two dollars and fifty cents per hour is not a generous price."

"And if someone who works for two dollars per hour appears, they won't continue to hire you because of old feelings."

Elena carefully asked Seeing Zhen Rongrong many questions and didn't complain or discriminate because Seeing Zhen Rongrong only had a student visa.

Seeing Zhen Rongrong working part-time in a place like Chinatown is not protected by Lighthouse labor laws at all; this is also the reason why Cao Yuanmao dared to bully people.

So when Elena walked into the restaurant with her head held high and showed her lawyer status, he was directly dumbfounded.

【It's just a matter of less than two hundred dollars; which SB hired a white lawyer to collect debt? It's not even enough for the appearance fee, right?】

But what Elena wanted wasn't just an appearance fee; she wanted a job with an annual salary of over one hundred thousand dollars, and this was just the base salary.

"What did you say? You want to sue me for sexual harassment? Gender discrimination? Illegal employment..."

Cao Yuanmao felt his brain wasn't enough; he was just a small boss with a bit of lust, how did he suddenly become "heinous"?

So Cao Yuanmao hurriedly called an acquaintance of his; the other party had a face in Chinatown and had a good relationship with his late uncle.

But the other party only looked at it after entering the door and whispered to remind Cao Yuanmao: "Hurry up and admit defeat; you can't afford to offend this woman; I've seen her in the newspaper several times..."

"..."

In less than an hour, Elena handed a check for two thousand dollars to Seeing Zhen Rongrong.

Seeing Zhen Rongrong held the light check, feeling it was so unreal.

Cao Yuanmao wasn't the first time he had manipulated his employees; in the eyes of these international students, the other party was a big evil bully even more desperate than Huang Shiren.

But now Elena just came in and showed her sign, said a few words containing threats, and the big evil bully actually ceded land and begged for mercy.

Two thousand dollars! Even a dishwasher in a New York Chinese restaurant who works twelve hours a day for a month only gets eight hundred dollars.

【This really is a world where big fish eat small fish!】

Elena handed the check to Seeing Zhen Rongrong, raised her hand to look at her watch, and then said to Li Ye: "Mr. Li, it is now 9:25; can I go back?"

Li Ye said readily: "Of course, I think you are a very excellent lawyer; I am very happy that you are willing to cooperate with us."

Elena shook hands with Li Ye to say goodbye, and half-jokingly said: "Mr. Li, don't praise me so much; I will take it seriously."

Li Ye raised his eyebrows and also jokingly said: "After taking it seriously? Do you want a raise?"

"..."

Elena looked at Li Ye unexpectedly and smiled gratifiedly: "You are really an interesting boss."

Elena left, and Li Ye and the others were also preparing to leave, but suddenly an angry shout from Cao Yuanmao came from the Cao family restaurant.

"Tian Xizhen, you don't need to come after finishing today; you are all ungrateful white-eyed wolves, biting the master after eating your fill..."

"..."

Li Ye and the others stopped their steps, especially Seeing Zhen Rongrong, whose face was full of shame, because Sister Zhen was implicated by her.

But a second later, they heard Sister Zhen drink decisively: "The old lady won't serve you now, but if you dare to give me one cent less, I guarantee you will regret it until your teeth ache; do you believe it?"

"..."

Ten minutes later, Sister Zhen came out of the Cao family restaurant, cursing like a street shrew, not at all like an excellent international student.

But Li Ye felt it was very interesting; after all, Sister Zhen really got all the wages.

In this world where big fish eat small fish, no one lives easily; if you don't want to be eaten, you must have your own means.

Seeing Zhen Rongrong said guiltily to Sister Zhen: "I'm sorry, Sister Zhen, it was all because of me; I was really too angry just now; I didn't expect him to vent his anger on you..."

"You didn't implicate me," Sister Zhen shook her head and said: "I already inquired clearly in the back kitchen just now; we wouldn't have stayed even if we didn't leave today; we would have been driven away by the one surnamed Cao in a few days..."

Seeing Zhen Rongrong was stunned and hurriedly asked: "Why would you drive us away?"

Sister Zhen explained: "In the past month, several batches of black households who came by boat from the mainland have arrived in Chinatown; the one surnamed Cao has already looked at two men and is preparing to replace the three of us women..."

Seeing Zhen Rongrong suddenly realized and understood why Cao Yuanmao wanted to fire Ruan Shujun; although the waitress was quick-handed, men could be used as mules; replacing three women with two men could save hundreds of dollars in profit every month.

"The one surnamed Cao is really black-hearted; clearly he wants to replace us, but he still says it's our fault..."

Seeing Zhen Rongrong was speechless with anger; if you want to replace people, then replace them; why pin the responsibility on the waitress?

Sister Zhen said coldly: "It's not the one surnamed Cao who is black-hearted; it's his wife who is black-hearted; ever since that woman surnamed Chen took over this restaurant, several old-qualified waitresses have been driven away, leaving only us newcomers who are not qualified to receive tips..."

Watching Wen Leyu and Fu Yiruo both looked at Li Ye, because they knew Lin Qiuyan, but didn't know Lin Qiuyan's cousin Chen Juming; through Sister Zhen's description, they had already imagined Chen Juming as the image of a landlord's wife staring at a cigarette rod.

"Let's go! I'll send you back to Berkeley."

Li Ye changed his mind and sent Seeing Zhen Rongrong and Sister Zhen back to school; after getting in the car, he asked about Chen Juming's situation inadvertently.

"That Chen Juming is also an international student; after working in the mainland for a year, she came back with Cao Yuanmao from the mainland."

"After coming back, Cao Yuanmao lost his job at Pepsi, but Chen Juming opened a trading company and made money very quickly."

"Then she invested the money into the Cao family's business, making the Cao family's storefront go from three to five, and also making Cao Yuanmao very arrogant, and even had the idea of having three wives and four concubines..."

"But good times didn't last long."

Sister Zhen said gloatingly: "Ever since Cao Yuanmao's uncle died this summer, Chen Juming turned over and took control of the Cao family's power, managing Cao Yuanmao to death."

"It's just that Chen Juming has been pregnant these days and doesn't come much, so he had those filthy ideas again..."

Seeing Zhen Rongrong said in surprise: "Is that Chen Juming actually so powerful? She actually opened a trading company?"

"That Chen Juming claims to have a lot of background in the mainland, specializing in acquiring clothing from the mainland at extremely low prices and turning around to sell them in the Lighthouse, but this is not her greatest ability..."

Sister Zhen smiled gloomily: "When Cao Yuanmao brought Chen Juming back from the mainland, Cao Yuanmao's uncle was very angry."

"He determined that Chen Juming's motives were impure, and Cao Yuanmao acted on his own, registering and getting married in the mainland, without handling a prenuptial property agreement."

"Chen Juming wasn't angry at all, and even took the initiative to earn money to subsidize the family; she quickly turned Cao Yuanmao's uncle around, and then Old Cao suddenly died, and Cao Yuanmao really couldn't control Chen Juming, letting her seize the family's power..."

"..."

Sister Zhen's gossip directly made several girls who hadn't seen palace dramas listen intently, and they were greatly amazed by Chen Juming, the palace drama heroine.

But Seeing Zhen Rongrong said carefully: "Sister Zhen, you shouldn't talk nonsense about this kind of thing; be careful of people accusing you..."

"She accuses a ghost; do you think just anyone can afford a gold-medal lawyer?"

Sister Zhen glanced at Li Ye and then turned to say: "This matter has long spread in Chinatown; the Lighthouse doesn't have the tradition of drowning in a pig cage; many people even admire Chen Juming for her clever means!"

"Even Ruan Shujun saw Chen Juming's example and felt that she could do it too, so she was bent on hooking up with a rich man, then getting a green card and dividing the property."

"Unfortunately, she doesn't have that ability; she was deceived by a few sweet words; she really thought a green card was so easy to get and property was so easy to divide?"

Sister Zhen said in a mocking tone: "People like Cao Yuanmao are rare in the Lighthouse; after all, Lighthouse people know very well that the person who can divide your property isn't the child, but the wife."

"..."

Seeing Zhen Rongrong, Watching Wen Leyu, and the others were all silent; they hadn't walked out of the campus yet and didn't have a deep understanding of the baseness of human nature, so Sister Zhen's words were a great stimulus to them.

And Li Ye also nodded slowly; in his previous life, he had read a novel called "Green Card," which told the stories of several people trying every means to obtain a green card; the plot was really very oppressive.

"Pfft~"

Sister Zhen suddenly smiled and said something even more stimulating.

"Actually, many people in Chinatown say that the Cao family's affair is retribution, because when Old Cao first came to the Lighthouse, he was a poor ghost; he turned over by marrying a rich daughter, and that rich daughter always suppressed him, and finally lost her life inexplicably..."

"Old Cao always suppressed Chen Juming... hehehe, now Chen Juming is suppressing Cao Yuanmao; do you think there will be retribution in the future?"

"..."

Everyone was surprised and speechless, and Li Ye also remembered a sentence someone said in his previous life—"Marrying someone in the Lighthouse, not only is the property unsafe, but life is also unsafe~"

A billionaire woman isn't an ordinary person, right? As a result, she could drive into a pond; you taste it carefully, what kind of world is this?