Chen Dali has aged a lot overnight, since returning to the place where Minsheng West Road stayed, Wang Guoquan and others took turns to follow him, and even went to the toilet, although he received Chen Dali's ID card and held an IOU in his hand, but he didn't get the money for a day, Wang Guoquan and several people have never been able to let go, everyone earns hard-earned money, not pies falling from the sky, such people often value money more than others.

Chen Dali sat on the stool, his face full of bitterness, drooping his head, not daring to raise his head to meet Wang Guoquan's gaze. He held a cigarette in his right hand, and the cigarette butt was burning so much that his fingers didn't even know it. Holding the mobile phone in his left hand trembling slightly, he has made dozens of calls to Liu Tao, and the other party's phone has been turned off.

When Luo Zhixuan was alive, he was over 60 years old, and he didn't want many construction sites, and it was he who kept him in the construction site; when Li Guozhang first arrived in the East China Sea, he was just a coolie handyman, and he taught him the craft; and Lu Shanmin, Lin Dahai said a word, and he brought Lu Shanmin into the construction site. Even Wang Guoquan and others found him when they were in a hurry to find a job, and he pulled a few of them to this project without saying a word.

Chen Dali has done a lot of such things, and he has never done a conscience in his life, and this honest man who still retains the simplicity of the peasants has always believed that good people will be rewarded. He never thought that there would be such an ending. He didn't complain about the ruthlessness of Wang Guoquan and others, he only hated himself for bringing everyone into the gutter, in his opinion, he brought the seven or eight workers to the construction site, and now he can't get the money, so he should be responsible. In the face of Wang Guoquan, he was more ashamed and embarrassed than angry and complained. has lived for decades and never owed a penny to others, and if you don't make it good, you can't pay off this debt.

Lu Shanmin knew that Chen Dali would be sad, but it was not clear how sad it was. Early in the morning, after a Tai Chi tour and twenty or thirty words, Lu Shanmin began to walk to the construction site.

Walking into the project department, Lu Shanmin squeezed out a smile, "Manager Zhao is good."

Zhao Kai couldn't cry or laugh, thinking to himself, can I be okay if you follow me like this.

"Whoever you want to sit on is going to find a seat."

Lu Shanmin nodded, and who found a vacant seat to sit down.

Zhao Kai is indeed very busy, and in the morning, he is either calling and answering the phone, studying drawings, or constantly typing on the keyboard on the computer, so busy that he doesn't even have time to drink saliva.

Lu Shanmin didn't know if it would be useful to guard Zhao Kai all the time, but if he didn't guard him, what could he do? The East China Sea is so big, except for the area of Minsheng West Road, other places are not familiar with it, so he rashly went to look for Liu Tao, maybe he didn't find him, but he got lost.

There was an abandoned civil construction drawing next to the table, Lu Shanmin had nothing to do, picked up the drawing and looked at it, as soon as the drawing came into his eyes, he couldn't help but have a big head, and the lines on the drawing were completely incomprehensible. But anyway, it was okay, Lu Shanmin began to think back to what he had seen and heard as a handyman in this building, and slowly corresponded the entity of the building to the lines of this drawing, and gradually figured out the meaning of some of the lines, and gradually saw which lines represented load-bearing walls and which lines represented beams and columns.

Just as he was fascinated, a black figure walked into the office. Lu Shanmin looked up, wearing exaggerated sunglasses, a black windbreaker, and the scar on his forehead had not completely faded, it was the woman who saved Xiaowei that day and said something inexplicable to herself.

The woman also found Lu Shanmin, but she only glanced at it.

Zhao Kai did not find out the person at the first time, when she saw the woman clearly, she hurried, squeezed out a bright smile on her face, but she was already uneasy in her heart, this woman is the chairman of the owner's side, unlike the chairman of other large group companies, she went to the construction site twice in a row without notifying the leadership of the construction company, and did not bring her entourage, so she quietly suddenly appeared in front of her.

Zhao Kai hurriedly bent down to greet him, "Hai Dong, welcome to the inspection work, you see that you don't mention the notice, I will arrange to receive you."

The woman's voice carried a cold breath, "I'm just passing by, take a look by the way, and leave right away."

Zhao Kai hurriedly moved a chair, "Hai Dong, sit down, I'll report to you on the progress of the work."

The woman said lightly: "No need, I just look at the results."

Zhao Kai nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, yes."

"In four months, the commercial floor of the podium will be opened, and in five months, the office building will be able to move in."

Zhao Kai's smile immediately turned into a crying face, until now the decoration company is still going through the bidding process, even if the HVAC equipment is ordered now, it will take one or two months before it can leave the factory, not to mention the installation and commissioning, there are still two or three months and the Spring Festival, it is difficult to hire workers. It's simply an impossible task. But Zhao Kai didn't dare to say a word, let alone himself, last time I saw the general manager of the company scolded by the woman in front of him and sweated.

The woman glanced at Lu Shanmin, and because she was wearing sunglasses, she couldn't see her eyes at all.

"Why is he here"?

From Zhao Kai's attitude and the conversation between the two just now, Lu Shanmin has already seen that this woman is a big man, so big that a big man like Zhao Kai can feel scared.

Without waiting for Zhao Kai to answer, Lu Shanmin said, "We finished our work and didn't get the money."

I couldn't see the woman's expression clearly, but a slight wrinkle appeared on her forehead, and it could be seen that she was a little dissatisfied.

Zhao Kai wiped his sweat and hurriedly said: "Our company's money has been paid to the contractor, but the contractor did not pay them."

"I don't care who of you owes whom, I have already paid your company according to the contract, and I will take care of the rest of the things, if there is something that affects the reputation of Haitian Group, everyone will not look good at that time."

Zhao Kai lowered his head again and again and said yes, and when he raised his head again, the woman had already turned around and walked out. Zhao Kai, who was left with a bitter face, secretly complained to himself.

Zhao Kai sat on the sofa and called the office director, "Gather all the personnel of each unit and go to the conference room for a meeting immediately."

The other end of the phone came, "Mr. Zhao, it's lunch time soon, do you want to wait until after lunch to have a meeting?"

Zhao Kai yelled into the phone, "It's still a fart, and the whole will roll to the conference room immediately."

Zhao Kai got up, picked up a stack of materials and notebooks and walked out, walked to the door, frowned, turned back to Lu Shanmin and said, "You come along."

Lu Shanmin was a little surprised, and the project department held a meeting to tell him what to do.

Zhao Kai's anger was very effective, and in less than ten minutes, all the personnel arrived at the conference room, and Lu Shanmin found a corner to sit down.

Zhao Kai threw the notebook on the table, "There are two topics today, the first topic, who of you is usually more familiar with the contractor named Liu Tao, everyone will talk about it and see if we can find him."

The people in the conference room looked at each other, and several of the construction workers in charge of civil engineering knew Liu Tao, and they had also called under the instruction of Zhao Kai in the past two days, but Liu Tao's phone had already been turned off. If you want to talk about private contact, you don't know Liu Tao too well, and there are many contractors like Liu Tao on the project, and he doesn't know everyone well.

One of the safety officers frowned and thought for a while and said: "Mr. Zhao, during a safety inspection, I happened to hear Liu Tao and the construction team owner who made blinds talking about playing mahjong, and it seemed that they often made appointments."

Zhao Kai nodded, "The shutters of the fire escape have not yet been completed and accepted, whoever has the phone number of the construction team owner, immediately call him to the conference room."

"I have," said a young construction worker in his twenties, who quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed it out.

A few minutes later, a middle-aged man in his forties wearing a hard hat walked into the conference room with a big belly. As soon as he entered the door, he hurriedly smiled and smoked Zhao Kai and the others.

Zhao Kai waved his hand impatiently, "Don't smoke, I have something to ask you."

"Hehe, Mr. Zhao, please advise."

"Do you know Liu Tao"?

"I know each other, it's okay to get off work, and sometimes I play two games of mahjong with him."

"Are you still playing cards together these two days"?

The man shook his head, "Mr. Zhao, you don't know, the project is urgent, how can I have time to play cards, I have been eating and living on the construction site for the past few days, I told my subordinates, within three days, we must complete the task assigned by Mr. Zhao."

"Where do you usually fight, and who do you fight with"?

The owner of the construction team who made the blinds didn't understand why Zhao Kai asked these questions.

"Mr. Zhao, there won't be any moths, right?"

Zhao Kai said impatiently: "You just have to tell me honestly, as long as you complete this project well, next time there is a new project, I will arrange for you to come over to make blinds."

The man's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said with a smile: "We usually work in the Huatian Tea House on Dongyu Road, sometimes a few contract foremen on the construction site, and sometimes a few friends of Liu Tao." Then he said: "Liu Tao is a gambler, and he loves this bite very much."

Zhao Kai nodded, and asked again, "How does he win or lose playing mahjong?"

The man smiled, "That guy is just a vegetable back, and how much he has in his pocket is someone else's food."

Hearing this, Lu Shanmin understood that Liu Tao's bastard must have taken the money to gamble. I used to hear the old god stick talk about gamblers, saying that he had seen a lot of gamblers when he walked the rivers and lakes, and gamblers had a mentality, always thinking that the next game could return to their roots, and they would never stop if they didn't lose to the bottom. Since Liu Tao is a gambler, he must have been hiding somewhere to gamble in the past two days.

Zhao Kai looked at Lu Shanmin lightly: "There is only so much I can help you."

Lu Shanmin stood up, said thank you, raised his feet and walked outside.