I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 926: Good Performance Can Lead to a Raise

Chapter 926: Chapter 926: Good Performance Can Lead to a Raise

"Our institute’s professors are all dedicated to making contributions to scientific research, and although it’s now beyond working hours, everyone is still voluntarily working overtime," the Vice Dean was painstakingly choosing his words to deal with the unexpected inspection.

The mother, getting the hint from Yu Jingting to add more money, immediately gave her son a meaningful glance.

The child, kneeling on the ground hugging Professor Wang’s leg and crying, upon receiving his mother’s gaze, suddenly raised his voice and shouted:

"Daddy! You can’t abandon me and mom!!!"

The inspection team’s eyes all focused over at once.

Professor Wang had already discerned the situation by the sound and suspected that it was people from above, but by the time he realized, it was too late.

"What is going on here?" the leader who was at the forefront asked, looking towards the Vice Dean, whose sweat instantly began to pour.

Yu Jingting, with his back to the crowd, made another gesture with two fingers.

This meant to add two hundred more.

The woman, upon seeing this, felt as though divine help had arrived.

She suddenly kneeled on the ground, using her knees as legs, and shuffled forward a few steps; this kind of "artisan" from Jianghu always had some acting skills.

From her position, she judged who the main leader was and kowtowed repeatedly towards him.

"Oh, noble lord in heaven! Please, uphold justice for me!"

The main leader was so baffled by the spectacle that his instinct was to look at Fan Huang.

"Old Fan, this—"

In terms of rank, the highest here was still Fan Huang.

Fan Huang waved his hand, chuckling, "I just happened to be passing by; this is an internal matter of yours, and it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to intervene."

The leader then looked towards the Vice Dean, who by now felt like crying. He was just a quiet dean of technology; these shenanigans weren’t his responsibility.

He could only steel himself to ask Professor Wang.

"Professor Wang, does your family have any difficulties?"

"She’s a hooligan, she has nothing to do with me, I don’t know anything, and that’s not my son!" Professor Wang, seeing so many people, suddenly started accusing Yu Jingting as if he had lost his mind, "It was him!"

The crowd turned their gaze towards Yu Jingting, who spread his hands to show his innocence.

"He’s framing me! He hired this woman to impersonate my wife, and brought a child to slander me; it’s all something he and Su Zhe did together!"

"Oh? Him?" Fan Huang looked at his son-in-law with a smile in the corner of his mouth, "And why would he frame you?"

The middle leader, hearing his words, immediately guessed that this situation was not simple.

These people were all shrewd, capable of discerning clues from the slightest matters.

It was Fan Huang who had invited everyone out for tea today, and no one dared decline his invitation.

Passing by the Research Institute, Fan Huang suddenly said he wanted to drop by; initially, the leader didn’t understand why, but after witnessing this scene, he immediately had a guess and stayed silent, watching how things unfolded.

"He’s in cahoots with Su Zhe. Su Zhe is trying to set me up, intentionally dragging his thug friends over to harm me. Just look at their fighting and killing; you can tell they’re not decent people!"

Professor Wang, at this point, had no other way to extricate himself and could only attempt to shift the blame onto Yu Jingting, claiming that he was a thug brought in by Su Zhe.

"You say he’s a thug; do you have any evidence?" Suizi was quite intrigued.

"He has boy and girl twins, and every now and then they come looking for Su Zhe, the twins themselves said that their daddy is a scoundrel, and can a scoundrel ever be a good person?" Professor Wang did not know the origins of Suizi and her husband.

He only knew that this family was very close to Su Zhe, often sending their children to the Research Institute to find Su Zhe, and in an attempt to get in good graces, Professor Wang even inquired about what the twins’ parents did for a living.

The two children cocked their heads to think, their daddy was a scoundrel, and their mommy was a student.

Professor Wang, in a moment of quick thinking, thought to make an issue of the person’s identity.

The leaders around Fan Huang had already begun squinting their eyes, wasn’t that old Fan’s darling maiden and her husband?

They had met over meals and card games, this couple, both high-achieving students from Tsinghua University, were the apples of old Fan’s eye... since when did they become scoundrels?

"Oh, a scoundrel, not a good person," Suizi fanned the flames as she repeated the words, not missing the meaningful smile at the corner of her father’s mouth.

Inside, Suizi clicked her tongue twice, her father’s smile foretold uncertain fortunes of life and death.

"Right, what else can such vagrants be, if not scoundrels? He must live a hard life, that’s why he takes Su Zhe’s money to frame me!" Professor Wang seemed to have found his breakthrough and became more and more vigorous as he spoke.

In his mouth, Yu Jingting had become a villain of the worst sort, idle and up to no good, Su Zhe was in cahoots with him, birds of a feather.

Fan Huang let him talk, and Professor Wang rambled on for a full five minutes.

All the other personnel looked at him with pity; they all knew Yu Jingting’s identity and felt that Professor Wang was courting death.

Fan Huang waited until Professor Wang was tired of talking, then turned to the leader beside him with a smile, "This scoundrel deserves a beating, drag him out."

The leader felt like strangling Professor Wang, why did he have to talk about old Fan’s precious darlings?

No wonder old Fan had taken a detour to come here; wasn’t this just to support his maiden and son-in-law? If they didn’t give old Fan an explanation, wouldn’t the matter escalate?

"Enough!" the leader finally spoke up to stop him.

"Calling him a scoundrel is sheer nonsense; he’s a high-flying graduate of Tsinghua University, a very valuable talent to society. How could he possibly join Professor Su in slandering you? What would he want from you?"

If one were intelligent, they should have picked up on the undertones in the leader’s words by now; he clearly knew Yu Jingting, otherwise, how could he speak of Yu Jingting’s identity?

At this point, Professor Wang was seeing red, mostly because the children clinging to his leg kept calling him daddy, which made him panic; when panicked, his intelligence went offline.

"Su Zhe covets my talent and wants to steal my scientific achievements; this scoundrel is just the same, they’re all jealous of me!"

"Heh," Fan Huang’s smile deepened, and in the ears of the leader, it was downright mocking.

It was almost as if he was laughing about the kind of people under his command; the leader felt bitter inside.

These grassroots research personnel were far beneath him, and what birds didn’t flock to a large forest? The leader felt he was being undeservedly wronged.

"Anyone might be jealous of you, but he, of all people, could not!" unable to stand it any longer, the leader’s secretary stepped forward, lowered his voice, and whispered a few words into Professor Wang’s ear.

Professor Wang’s eyes widened as he looked in Fan Huang’s direction.

He wasn’t wearing glasses and could only see a blur; unable to make out the faces, he missed the chance for a close-up observation of Fan Huang. On ordinary days, his opportunity to see such a high-profile person was limited to the television screen.

Professor Wang’s legs gave out, and he collapsed to the ground. Thankfully, Yu Jingting was quick enough to pull away the child hugging his leg; otherwise, it could have been quite a blow.

It was all over, everything was over.

"Do you still think he’s a scoundrel jealous of your talent?" asked the leader’s secretary, speaking to such a person was sufficient for his level, and the higher-ups couldn’t be bothered to waste any more words on him.

Professor Wang was utterly perplexed, facing only two paths before him, both leading to his doom, yet he had no other choice.