My Doomsday Bodyguard Wants a Raise novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Roof Tank
The water tank on the roof was black steel with a coil of pipe running through it, and by evening it held the sun.
Tao Rui found them there at dusk.
Bai Jin sat on the edge of the tank with his shoes off and the Hongqiao sheet on his knee.
Gong Ting stood behind him with his arm in its sling.
"I can read it to them," said Tao Rui. "At the vote. Every name, every term. If the Director comes."
"He'll come," said Bai Jin. "He wants his fifty-one men."
"Then I'll stand up."
"They might hurt you."
"They might." Tao Rui pushed his taped glasses up his nose.
"I wrote it down for four years. I'd like to read it out."
Bai Jin looked at him a long moment.
"Thank you," he said.
The clerk nodded, embarrassed, and went down the roof stairs.
"Luo's petition," said Gong Ting.
"Ninety-one names."
"Will they vote with him?"
"I don't know." Bai Jin folded the sheet.
"A third of them are frightened and a third are tired. I haven't given them a reason to be neither."
"I'll find one by noon."
"You will," said Gong Ting.
"You sound very sure."
"I have the box," said Gong Ting. "I'm always sure."
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