Chapter 22: The Hunt

In the morning of Qingdong, the sky has just dawned, there is still a little mist in the air, the birds are already chirping happily, the crisp sound calls for the sleepy crowd, the green trees and grass outline a beautiful picture, the city has not yet woken up from its slumber, only a few people walk on the street to start the busy day.

Sun Zhengtao, dressed in sportswear, left home early, and he got on the first bus and set off for his destination.

Yesterday, Lu Xiaoyu and the others were subdued again, and those people in Mingzhou did not move, it was time to reorganize the business, after all, such a big stall, so many brothers, they couldn't sit idly by.

Sun Zhengtao lowered the brim of his hat, trying not to recognize himself while looking at the passengers on the bus one by one, now there are not many people on the bus, two or three young people rushing to work with breakfast in hand, and a few elderly people who take the bus to buy groceries or go to the park to exercise are all the passengers of this bus. Sun Zhengtao confirmed that he was not being followed, so he put his mind at ease and concentrated on enjoying the scenery outside the window.

Sun Zhengtao has not enjoyed the refreshing beauty of the early morning for a long time, and the drunken dreams and deaths every night make him indulge in the beauty of the dark night of this city that never sleeps. But this refreshing and charming, birdsong and flower-scented daytime beauty has long disappeared on the road of his struggle.

Sun Zhengtao remembered that when he first arrived in Qingdong, he also got up early every day like a young man in the car, and rushed to the city by car from the suburbs, but unfortunately he had no time to enjoy the beautiful scenery at that time.

As time passed, there were more and more people in the car, and Sun Zhengtao also arrived at his destination, he got up and got out of the car, came to an office building, and got into the private car that had been placed here from the underground parking lot, starting his second journey.

Although there is no need to worry about Lu Xiaoyu and them, Sun Zhengtao knows in his heart that it is still necessary to be cautious, after all, he can't guarantee whether his brothers still have different intentions.

Money is really a good thing, you can enjoy the best view, the most beautiful people, and the best food. But it is also a bad thing, when he was poor and white, Sun Zhengtao had trustworthy brothers around him, the best vision for the future, and a sincere smile, but now he often feels lonely, and he always feels that he will be stabbed from behind if he is not careful.

Sun Zhengtao also had a doubt in his heart, that is, what did those people in Mingzhou come to do? They have been here for a long time, and as soon as they arrived in Qingdong, they sent people to keep an eye on them, but so far they have not seen any movement of these people, only Haifeng went to the Qingdong City Bureau. They don't just come here to travel at public expense and earn travel expenses, right?

Sun Zhengtao shook his head, he couldn't figure out these things, and he didn't want to waste brain cells to do things he wasn't good at, he felt that as long as he was cautious recently, there should be no problem, after all, what he did was fraud, Shenlong couldn't see the end of the business, as long as he was low-key, even if he was working under the noses of these policemen, they couldn't find out, and these policemen from afar would have nothing to do.

Sun Zhengtao drove around the city's ring road again and again, from sparsely populated to full traffic, it was past the rush hour of work, he got down from the ring road, and after confirming that he was not being followed, he turned around to an office building in the west of the city and parked the car in the parking lot.

Taking the elevator up to the 22nd floor, he stopped in a room with a "Jinchuang Software" sign and knocked on the door. A young man in a brown T-shirt opened the door from inside the room and ushered him in.

"Boss, why are you here so early? Have you eaten, or I'll let them buy you something to eat!" said the young man earnestly.

"Don't bother, I've eaten. Sun Zhengtao said.

Then, Sun Zhengtao said to the young man in front of him: "Xiao Huang, how is the company running recently?

"It's good, there's no problem, the progress of the project is completed on schedule, and the new software update is ready, just waiting for you to come and get it." Huang Liang replied.

"That's good!" Sun Zhengtao took out a black suitcase, handed it to Huang Liang, and said, "This is a reward for everyone, you can send one to everyone!"

Huang Liang took the suitcase from Sun Zhengtao's hand, called one of his subordinates, counted the money, took an envelope and sealed it, and sent it to the staff at the workstation one by one.

Huang Liang looked at Sun Zhengtao, who was sitting leisurely on the boss's chair, and said: "Boss, in fact, you don't have to bother so much, come over with cash every time, let's just give them a direct bank transfer, so that you don't have to run over with your suitcase every time." ”

Sun Zhengtao looked at Huang Liang, shook his head and said: "It's better to find gold for everyone, the silver of Baihuahua can stimulate everyone's combat effectiveness more than the numbers on the account, as long as everyone can do their work beautifully, I can still hold a suitcase." When our business is really big enough that a suitcase can't fit everyone's salary, it's not too late to make a bank transfer. ”

Huang Liang heard Sun Zhengtao say this, and he no longer bothered about the issue of salary payment. He said to Sun Zhengtao again: "Boss, do we need to find a few more people to run the market? are all technicians, just rely on your old customers after all can earn less, it is better to expand the business, open up the market, now our technical level is also good, in the increase of some business can also do it, our people are now rarely overtime, are not like a software company." ”

Sun Zhengtao smiled and said: "Isn't it good to make it easier for everyone? Do you have to make me a whole week, or are you an unscrupulous capitalist who desperately squeezes employees to make a profit? I understand your intentions, there is no need to make everyone work so hard, just work as usual." ”

After a pause, Sun Zhengtao continued: "I know that everyone wants to make more money, after all, the housing prices in Qingdong are getting higher and higher day by day, and the prices are getting more expensive day by day, and there is no way to gain a foothold here if you don't earn more, you can rest assured, you don't need to run business, that's not something you need to consider, I'm already thinking about raising wages, I'll give everyone a salary increase after a while, you stabilize the military spirit, let everyone work hard, I won't treat everyone badly." ”

Huang Liang didn't have anything else to say when he heard Sun Zhengtao say this, he asked his subordinates to bring in a mobile hard drive, and said to Sun Zhengtao: "Boss, this is the latest software update program, it's all debugged, you can just take it to the customer and let them install it." ”

Sun Zhengtao took the hard drive and nodded, got up and prepared to leave.

At this time, I only heard a loud "bang", and the huge sound of the glass door breaking came from outside.

Sun Zhengtao and Huang Liang hurriedly came out of the office, and what caught Sun Zhengtao's eyes was the broken glass door, and he saw a group of people dressed in black standing in the room, and standing in the middle of the crowd was Sun Zhengtao's old acquaintance Lu Xiaoyu.

A trace of panic flashed in Sun Zhengtao's eyes, he didn't understand how Lu Xiaoyu could appear here. Before he could speak, Huang Liang said, "Who are you, why did you smash our office door?" Xiao Zhao, hurry up and call the police!"

Lu Xiaoyu looked at Huang Liang, his eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said with a smile: "Okay, hurry up and call the police, Boss Sun, I brought all your account books, and the police can take them away together, the last time you handed me over, I came out unscathed, whether you can get in this time or not, we will wait and see!"

After Sun Zhengtao heard Lu Xiaoyu's words, he told Huang Liang that he didn't need to call the police, and then said to Lu Xiaoyu: "If you have anything to say, don't be embarrassed here." With that, Sun Zhengtao went into the inner room. Lu Xiaoyu also walked in with two brothers.

"Lu Xiaoyu, what do you mean by this? Bringing so many people over and smashing the door, what do you want to do?" Sun Zhengtao asked Lu Xiaoyu angrily.

"If I don't do this, will you talk to me today? Probably won't even let me in! After all, this is your own treasure, and you don't want to let us old fellows know about it at all!" Lu Xiaoyu said.

"How did you find here?" asked Sun Zhengtao.

"That's thanks to the help of your good brother! Bring people up!" Lu Xiaoyu said to his subordinates.

After a while, Lu Xiaoyu's subordinates appeared in front of Sun Zhengtao with a person from the outside.

The people who were brought in were covered with dust, their hair was messy, and their faces were blue and purple.

Sun Zhengtao fixed his eyes and saw that the person in front of him was Zhou Yu, and he couldn't help but be even more angry, and said to Lu Xiaoyu: "What do you mean, Lu Xiaoyu? It depends on the owner to beat the dog, do you take me too seriously? You dare to touch my person, beat him like this, you are a bully to me Sun Zhengtao, right?"

Lu Xiaoyu glanced at Zhou Yu, who collapsed to the ground, with contempt, and said to Sun Zhengtao: "You treat him as a brother, he can treat you as a fool, didn't you ask me how I found you?" The reason is very simple, because he has a locator in your shoes, no matter where you go, I can know!"

Sun Zhengtao looked at Lu Xiaoyu, then at Zhou Yu, took off his shoes and examined them carefully. When he removed the insole of his left sneaker, he saw a gap in the sole, and he broke it open and took out a locator from the gap.

Sun Zhengtao looked at Zhou Yu and asked, "Zhou Yu, what is this? Did you put it? When did you put it? I treat you well, how can you treat me like this?"

Zhou Yu smiled, lowered his head and said, "You treat me well, you have neither courage nor strategy, but you sit in the position of the boss all day long and dictate to me, why? Why should I, Zhou Yu, listen to your straw bag?"

"Yes, I put the locator, I know you are used to putting insoles in your shoes, so I put locators in each of your shoes, just to know the location of your technical team and expert group, and then replace you. It's a pity that God is jealous of talents, I still underestimated Lu Xiaoyu after all my calculations, and the original flawless plan became a wedding dress for others. ”

Lu Xiaoyu looked at Zhou Yu, who was sitting on the ground, he was full of disgust and contempt for this person, he knew that if it weren't for the existence of this person, he would not have turned against Sun Zhengtao, and several brothers with deep friendship would not hate each other.

Lu Xiaoyu asked his subordinates to put Zhou Yu out again, and then he said to Sun Zhengtao: "This is your good helper, this is your Sun Zhengtao's think tank, don't you know who are the people around you? You have made the brothers turn against each other, the company has fallen apart, can't you see it? Do you think that as long as you guard your technical group and expert group, you can sit back and relax? Have you ever thought about what the brothers think? Have you considered the feelings of the brothers? Do you really think that your position as the boss is still secure?"

Sun Zhengtao listened to Lu Xiaoyu's words, collapsed and sat down on the chair. Lu Xiaoyu, Lu Yue, and Zhou Qiang wanted to turn against themselves, Zhang Zhijun betrayed him, his younger brother Sun Shengcai fought against him, and his most trusted subordinate Zhou Yu installed a locator for himself. Now that the technical team has also been exposed, if Mr. Song knows, he will definitely not care about himself anymore, his last trump card is gone, and now he is really a traitor, and the once high king has now become a fish on someone else's chopping board, what qualifications does he have to sit in the position of the boss again?

Sun Zhengtao said to Lu Xiaoyu: "Okay, I admit it, I will give you the position of the boss, now I can go, right?"

Lu Xiaoyu said to Sun Zhengtao: "Don't worry, I won't embarrass you, after all, we are brothers who have suffered together." But you can't leave yet, there's something you need help with!"

Sun Zhengtao looked at Lu Xiaoyu and knew that it would be impossible for him to get out of this door if he was not satisfied today, he sighed and said to Lu Xiaoyu: "What do you want me to do?"

Lu Xiaoyu pointed outside and said, "The first thing is to tell the people outside that I will take over this place in the future!"

Sun Zhengtao nodded, called Huang Liang over, and told him that Lu Xiaoyu would be the boss here in the future, Huang Liang looked at Sun Zhengtao, and then at Lu Xiaoyu, he nodded helplessly and walked out of the door.

Then, Sun Zhengtao asked Lu Xiaoyu: "What else?"

Lu Xiaoyu said to Sun Zhengtao: "Call Zhang Zili and ask him to hand over people and things, and the company will be in charge of it in the future." ”

Sun Zhengtao sneered and said to Lu Xiaoyu: "I asked Zhang Zili to hand over the people, can I still go? Shengcai's people have already been taken away by you, and if you hand them over again, will you still let us go?"

Lu Xiaoyu replied: "I said, we are brothers who have suffered together, and I will not embarrass you, but the company can no longer let you do whatever you want." Besides, if I really want to kill you, do you think Zhang Zili can save you? Lu Yue and Zhou Qiang have already led people to find Zhang Zili, I just don't want everyone to kill each other again. ”

Sun Zhengtao listened to Lu Xiaoyu's words and knew that now that the general trend was gone, it was useless to struggle, so he had to call Zhang Zili.

Waiting for Sun Zhengtao to put down the phone, Lu Xiaoyu made a final request: "The last thing, you have to tell me where the expert group is." ”

Sun Zhengtao smiled and said to Lu Xiaoyu: "You really came prepared this time, but you still miscalculated." The expert group and the technical group are not the same, and it is impossible for me to tell you where they are. No, I don't know where they are, to be exact, they all contacted me. ”

Lu Xiaoyu listened to Sun Zhengtao's words and knew that it was impossible for him to lie at this moment, so he said to Sun Zhengtao: "Okay, I believe in you." Actually, I still treat you as a brother, and the company still has a share of you, I just don't want the company to be finished like this. I was offended just now, and I had no choice but to do it, I hope you don't hold a grudge. Okay now, shall we go?"

"Where to go?" asked Sun Zhengtao.

"Go to 'Juhongmen', I have already told Lu Yue that they will take Zhang Zili to 'Juhongmen', and I will inform Sun Shengcai and Zhang Zhijun later. Let's go there, let's sit down together and think about our plans for the future. Lu Xiaoyu said.

Sun Zhengtao smiled bitterly and said to Lu Xiaoyu: "Now that everything you want has been obtained, is it still necessary to go there?

Lu Xiaoyu looked at Sun Zhengtao, this big brother who once led himself to fight everywhere in the east of the Qing Dynasty for a living is now so decadent, and his previous high-spirited spirit is completely invisible. Lu Xiaoyu hopes that everyone can still be like at the beginning, a few brothers unite and work hard for their own tomorrow. But now a few people are fighting openly and secretly because of money, you rob me and grab it, how can there be any love back then?

Lu Xiaoyu said to Sun Zhengtao: "You are my brother, the big brother who took me to the rivers and lakes, and I will never forget this." I always remember how good you were to me. Maybe you think that I, Lu Xiaoyu, are seizing power today. But I actually hope that you can go back to the past, and still be the big brother who is righteous and righteous to others, and I hope you don't be suspicious of your brothers because of the existence of certain people. ”

Lu Xiaoyu paused and said to Sun Zhengtao: "Do you remember when we first came to Qingdong? The clothes of the four people are more torn than the other, and the pockets are cleaner than the other, looking at the eyes of the brothers in this bustling city, they are all thinking about when they will have a home here?"

"Everyone works together and struggles together, but there is still a meal without a meal, and the day is not safe. It was you, Sun Zhengtao, who took us to do this business and brought everyone to get rich. Although it is a criminal thing, I, Lu Xiaoyu, have never regretted it, at least now I don't have to go hungry or sleep in the open. I decided then that I would follow you in the future. But you actually alienated everyone because of one Zhang Yu, you don't know how sad I am!"

Sun Zhengtao listened to Lu Xiaoyu talk about the miserable days and the brotherhood at the beginning, and he couldn't help but feel ripples in his heart, yes, how united the few people were at the beginning, although they had no money, they never suffered because of it, and a few people tried their best to live a good life, what happened now?

Sun Zhengtao stood up, patted Lu Xiaoyu on the shoulder, and said, "Don't say it, I know it's wrong." Let's go, let's get together again as we did at the beginning. ”

Lu Xiaoyu nodded, and the two of them walked out the door.