I was on an IV drip until evening.
Since something had just happened, Meng Yifan and I didn't dare split up.
Neither of us was any use, and we didn't dare let Song Xiaotian leave these past two days either.
So the three of us booked a room that night, and Song Xiaotian had his men keep watch in other rooms.
All three of us slept soundly that night, and nothing strange happened.
Early the next morning.
Meng Yifan and I went back to the shop.
Song Xiaotian had things to take care of.
He told us that someone had stolen something belonging to Du Ruhai. For the next few days at least, Du Ruhai would be busy looking for it and probably wouldn't do anything to us.
We were still a little uneasy, but we couldn't keep clinging to him.
So Meng Yifan and I went back to my shop together and called everyone from the other shop over for a meeting.
We rarely held meetings. We were all young and didn't like formalities. If there was something to say, we said it, then went our separate ways. There weren't that many meetings we needed to hold.
But today, we really did need a full staff meeting.
Meng Yifan had already received a court summons. That Mr. Hu had sued us.
He hadn't just sued us. He had also sued the seller of that house, Mr. Ding.
Now the shop was facing a lawsuit. These days, getting sued wasn't really such a big deal, but we were being sued because, as real estate agents, we had allegedly broken the rules by selling a client a house where someone had died unnaturally.
Whether we had actually broken any rules didn't matter. What mattered was that we had been sued for