185. Rumors
"Oh well. Cheng Yunxiao suddenly smiled, changing the oppressive look just now, as if he had changed people.
In the current situation, the only one who dares to resist her order is probably Li Hao.
Li Hao didn't expect this matter to be settled, stayed where he was, watched Cheng Yunxiao walk to the dining table and sit down, and began to eat his breakfast.
"What are you doing in a daze, come over and eat together, don't you still have to go to the field for a while?" Cheng Yunxiao beckoned Li Hao to sit down together, since there were no outsiders around, she didn't need to use the same way as outsiders to get along with Li Hao.
"These are for you, I'll make them when you're done. ”
"Didn't they all eat together before, but now they have to be separated. ”
She sighed, Li Hao didn't dare to answer, just watched silently, and when she finished eating, she directly cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.
"You better leave it alone, I'll call my little maid to come back and collect it in a while, isn't there anything in the field that you need to deal with? Cheng Yunxiao arranged the matter, and planned to go back to the room to put on makeup so that it would be convenient to go to the company.
"Yun Xiao, you are just sick, let's rest for one more day. Li Hao is still worried about Cheng Yunxiao's physical condition, he is already tired, how can he rest for only one day.
"The things that I have to deal with a few days late are piled up, and I am afraid that I will get sick again. Cheng Yunxiao naturally refused, since he gave up so many things and chose to take over the company, he must try his best to do his best, what is this little illness.
"Then I'll send you to the company. ”
Cheng Yunxiao obviously hesitated for a moment about this proposal, but finally refused: "It's good to let the driver do these little things, the field is important, if I guess wrong, Chen Zirong is looking for you, right? ”
Li Hao didn't speak, and acquiesced to Cheng Yunxiao's guess.
"I guess he didn't tell you anything specifically, go and get back quickly, and report back to me when the time comes. After Cheng Yunxiao finished speaking, he waved his hand to signal that Li Hao could leave.
"Understood. Li Hao put on his coat and turned to walk towards the gate.
"Wait!"
Just before opening the door, Cheng Yunxiao still stopped him, chased him up in a few steps, looked at the person in front of him, frowned slightly, sighed long, stretched out his hands, removed his tie, carefully re-tied a standard Windsor knot, and arranged his clothes from top to bottom, and finally looked at his face, and said slowly: "See you later." ”
“…… See you in one minute. Li Hao could feel the change in Cheng Yunxiao's mood, but he didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only turn around silently.
Who would have thought that Cheng Yunxiao hugged him from behind and put it on his back, with a sobbing voice, and finally said: "When you go out, everything about us will be treated as if nothing happened." ”
"I understand. ”
As Li Hao's last word came out, Cheng Yunxiao slowly let go of his hand, and when he saw him leave, he didn't dare to turn back at all, so he could only keep moving forward and rush to Lanxi Bay.
There is not a single car in the parking lot outside the gate of Lanxi Bay, it will only be open at night, and the gate is locked during the day, and if Li Hao wants to enter, he also needs to go around to the staff passage at the back door.
"You're finally here. There are about twenty cigarette butts under Chen Zirong's feet, and it can be seen that he has been waiting here for a long time, and he even has one in his hand, which he threw on the ground and trampled on when he saw Li Hao coming.
"What the hell is going on?" Li Hao got straight to the point, he didn't want to delay any time.
"In the past few days, a rumor has suddenly appeared, and the entire underground forces are boiling and spreading. Chen Zirong said while taking Li Hao straight to the employee elevator, swiping his card in the elevator, and a number that was not on the button appeared on the screen - the third floor of the basement.
The underground of Lanxi Bay is divided into four floors in total.
The purpose of each layer is different, but the same thing is that all of these layers exist to hide the illegal activities of the Cheng family.
There are no important things on the basement floor, and most of the cultural objects stored are cultural objects obtained through illegal means, as long as the Cheng family who works in Lanxi Bay can reach it through the employee card.
The second basement floor is a huge arsenal, full of all kinds of guns, ammunition and controlled knives, Cheng's legal business is import and export trade, and through some small means, these legal things are mixed with some "small objects", it is extremely simple, so those guns that are hard to find on the black market are as many as there are in Cheng's family.
However, the authority of this layer is much higher, although more than sixty percent of the people who serve the Cheng family can touch the gun, but only less than one-fifth of the people can really enter this arsenal.
On the third basement floor, this is a very terrifying floor, those enemies of the Cheng family, or those who betrayed the Cheng family, may be brought here, and after experiencing inhuman torture, they will be directly sent to the incinerator located on the fourth basement floor and burned clean.
These two layers, generally only the senior cadres of the Cheng family can get involved, but the family still chooses a group of people, who only work in these two layers for life, and the salary is not expensive, but once the people here tell others what they know and see, they will inevitably get killed.
Li Hao thought that Chen Zirong could bring him here directly, presumably he had caught something terrible, and immediately paid attention to this matter.
"What are the rumors circulating about. He asked.
Some people say that there are more than two children in the Cheng family, even if Cheng Yunxiong gives up inheriting the family, Cheng Yunxiao is also not the only candidate. ”
"What?!" A sentence completely shocked Li Hao, this can touch his knowledge blind spot, Cheng Hongzhi's loyalty to the family is well known, even if his wife died, he never married anyone else, and the children should only have two sisters and brothers, Cheng Yunxiao and Cheng Yunxiong, how did this suddenly appear a third.
"It seems that you don't know about this either?" Chen Zirong guessed from Li Hao's reaction, he also had the same reaction when he knew this rumor, after all, the four of them grew up together, if it was true, how could they not notice it at all.
"Never heard of it. ”
There are a lot of similar rumors, saying that Cheng Hongzhi was already messing with flowers and grass outside, so there was an illegitimate child, and he also crossed the river and demolished the bridge and ordered to kill the child's mother. ”
"Nonsense, how can anyone believe this kind of rumor?" Li Hao asked rhetorically, feeling very incredible.
"I think so too, but now the problem is getting serious. ”
As the elevator went down, Chen Zirong's tone became more and more serious,
"These rumors spread in less than half a day, other families, no matter how big or small, are watching our jokes, and as for our family, the previous boss changed the blood of the leaders of each field, resulting in the new appointments are young people who don't know the family history, and they are provoked by the rumors and become panicked. ”
"Didn't you find the source of the rumors? Li Hao looked at the location where Chen Zirong took him, and probably guessed the result.
"I only found one, but after asking briefly, I think it's not that simple, he must be the only one who has the source, he is just unlucky, and we caught him. ”
I have to say that Chen Zirong's work efficiency is really fast, and rumors spread rapidly, but he can react in the fastest time and find an "insider", which even Li Hao sometimes feels ashamed of.
The elevator continues to go down, although it is said to be three floors underground, but if compared with similar buildings, it has reached a depth of seven floors underground, which is probably the reason why people who arrive here will never be able to escape.
With a "ding-" sound, the elevator finally arrived.
The decoration style of this floor is extremely simple, and the floor is smooth and hard stone bricks, which is both safe and easy to care for, and it is definitely not easy to leave blood stains.
The two sides of the passage are divided into small compartments, and the door is thick and strong, and the inside of the door is not visible from inside or outside.
The two of them walked quickly to the innermost room in silence, and the moment the door opened, a strong smell of blood mixed with the smell of inferior disinfection came to their nostrils.
On the chair in the middle of the room, there was a man covered in blood, his head hanging down weakly, if it weren't for the rope, I am afraid that he would have fallen from the chair.
He breathed weakly, only wore a pair of underwear, and none of the exposed skin on his body was intact, I don't know if he was beaten by something, and there were water stains on his body, but from experience, Li Hao knew that it could never be ordinary water, at least mixed with a lot of salt.
Take a closer look, the nails of his hands and feet have been pulled clean, but looking at the degree of scabbing of the bloodstains, it is definitely not done at one time, and even a few are still dripping blood, and the angle of the twist of his left wrist is a little strange, I am afraid that it has been broken.
In addition to the half-dead man, there were three other people in the room, two of the guards in charge, and a woman shivering in a disheveled corner.
The woman seemed to be very young, her hair was messy, her eyes were frightened, she seemed to have something wrong with her spirit, her whole person shrunk into a ball, trembling in the corner, and when she saw Li Hao and Chen Zirong coming in, she became even more nervous, and muttered "Don't come, don't come." Seeing Li Hao's movement as soon as he stepped forward, he couldn't stop screaming.
One of his men hurriedly went up, slapped the woman rudely, pulled her hair and slammed it against the wall, and the woman became honest at once, and crouched back in the corner, not daring to make any sound.
"Alright, there's nothing to do here, go out and wait outside the door. Chen Zirong waved his hand and ordered, and the two subordinates immediately said "Yes!" in unison, and walked out of the door quickly.
"What's going on?" Li Hao glanced at the woman with his eyes and asked Chen Zirong.
"That man was a rumor-monger, and he was caught and lynched, but unfortunately he was a hard bone, so he had to get his wife here, and he persisted for a while, heh, he recruited everything. As he spoke, Chen Zirong took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, turned his wrist, and handed it to Li Hao.
Li Hao didn't take the cigarette, but snorted coldly: "It's not good to worry about the family." ”
Seeing that Li Hao didn't answer, Chen Zirong directly put the cigarette in his mouth, lit it with his hand, and said lightly with a chuckle, "God knows, the information is in hand, who can use what means." ”
Li Hao didn't say anything about it, he directly stepped forward and grabbed the man's hair, wanting to look at his face, and found that the man's eyes had already lost their lustre, like a dead fish, but fortunately, there were no scars on his face.
Sure enough, Chen Zirong still understands the rules, and this kind of torture cannot hurt his face, so as not to appear impostor, or other troublesome things that are difficult to solve.
Li Hao looked at it carefully, and his face should not be the Cheng family's subordinates.
Looking at it this way, this rumor incident is probably a deliberate attempt by outsiders.