As we all know, when you are hungry, you have to eat. But for some powerful people, hunger means need, and this becomes a disgraceful thing. Therefore, they deliberately treat food with all kinds of disdain and even contempt to show their inherent reserve and nobility.

That's how this dinner went.

The two ladies with elegant manners tried their best to maintain polite silence, used chopsticks as knives and forks, and ate hot pot with international standard etiquette. The rhythm is soothing and atmospheric, but the charcoal hot pot is not very powerful, and some soup often splashes out, making the ladies' clothes full of oil.

Watching them talk softly and slowly, smiling with their hands covering the corners of their mouths, chatting about anger, talking about stocks, talking about stars, like two elegant hinds, innocent, determined, humble and peaceful. Ren Kai understood, this is high society.

That's right, whether it is the Hou family or the Kong family, they have been rich for at least three generations, and they have begun to take shape as a wealthy family. Li Yanan and Kong Yanyan have been exposed to it since childhood, and some things have penetrated into the bone marrow, and it is not obvious to get along with ordinary people at ordinary times, but when they meet the same kind, they will naturally appear. It's ridiculous that I'm still worried about them fighting.

Li Cheng seemed to have expected this result, and didn't look at the two girls at all, but just beckoned him to eat and drink.

He ate absentmindedly, tasting like chewing wax. There is some imbalance in my heart, and I am not calm. This reminded him of a little story.

Two days after Watergate, two days before President Nixon was about to leave the White House in disgrace, Kathleen Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, sent the resigning president a courteous note, wishing him a safe journey and hoping that they would have the opportunity to spend time together at a cocktail party in the future. Yet it was this elegant and intellectual lady who tenaciously exposed the Watergate scandal and mercilessly spent two years investigating the matter, during which time she went through a lengthy, series of congressional investigations and relentlessly pushed for the impeachment of President Nixon.

The meal was boring and long, like watching a boring opera. What Ren Kai hates the most is opera, and he keeps getting up to go to the toilet to reduce the hypocritical communication between the two ladies.

When she finally sent them to the door, Kong Yanyan took advantage of the fact that the other two were not paying attention and kissed him lightly on the lower right side of his face. It really scared him.

When he finally said goodbye, Kong Meiren pulled Li Yanan to his side, and kept laughing, Li Yanan's smile that had lasted all night was finally gone, he looked at Ren Kai with a gloomy face, and said to Kong Meiren, "You want to rob me again?"

Kong Yanyan chuckled, turned to leave, and said as she walked, "I will look for the only confidant in my life in the vast sea of people. ”

Li Yanan listened and was silent. It wasn't until the BMW trotted far away that he turned around and hugged Ren Kai and kissed him viciously. Then he picked up his brother and ran away.

It was like a broken shelf, and the consumption of a day's farm work was not as great as a meal, which made him feel haggard, and he didn't think about it, so he went back and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, I was woken up by Lao Yutui.

Lao Yu smiled when he saw him, and he didn't ask, inexplicable. When I came to the bathroom, I looked in the mirror and understood. On the lower right side of the face, there are two bright red lip prints, one up and down, forming a butterfly, dancing.

Today is Saturday, closed.

Lao Yu told him that Xu Liang had been arrested a few days ago.

"Gambling again?" Ren Kai soaked Master Bao Kang's bowl of noodles and asked while eating. In his impression, Xu Liang is just a small gambler, and he has no courage to do anything else.

"When I got the news, I immediately called and asked. At the time, it was said to be theft. In the process of cracking a particularly large smuggling case, the city criminal investigation detachment piggybacked on him. "Lao Yu's face is a little ugly.

"What's the matter?" Ren Kai knew that he was older than this person, and there were few things that could move him.

Lao Yu frowned, raised his eyes to look at him, and said, "I called again last night, but the city bureau said that there was no such person, and he remembered it by mistake a few days ago." If you ask again, you can't say it clearly. ”

Ren Kai didn't speak, just lowered his head and ate noodles.

Lao Yu knows that this is the thinking habit of old friends. Every time he encounters a complicated problem, Ren Kai temporarily closes himself off. At the same time, I also understand that this matter is not trivial.

Ren Kai finished eating the noodles unhurriedly, got up and poured two glasses of water for himself and Lao Yu. only then called Hao Pingyuan's mobile phone. It worked, but no one answered.

He looked at Lao Yu and said slowly, "Where did the news of his arrest come from?"

Lao Yu thought about it, and still said, "The appraiser Xiao Tian from the Physical Evidence Section of the Development Branch in the past, Tian Yiren. Now I have been transferred to the Appraisal Section of the Municipal Bureau. When investigating Ma Jie's case, she knew my relationship with the Xu family and knew Xu Liang. The day before yesterday, on Thursday, I had just gone to the district to handle the handover, and I received a call from her. I also contacted her last night after I got the news, and the phone was turned off. I inquired about it, and said that I was going to Sichuan Province to carry out a mission. No external contact is allowed during the mission. ”

Ren Kai nodded and did not speak. The two of them were silent, drinking water while waiting for Hao Pingyuan's reply.

After a long time, the call came back. There was only one sentence, "I'll be there soon." ”

Hao Pingyuan came quickly, closed the door when he came in, and then sat opposite them, silent.

Ren Kai and Lao Yu looked at each other, didn't speak, just poured him a glass of water.

It's very cold outside today, and the sun that comes out early in the morning hides as if it's cold, and the north wind blows endlessly, as if it's going to snow. The house is underfloor heating and the temperature is moderate. The door closes, as if returning to spring.

Hao Pingyuan's hair was yellow, full of smoke, and his face was a little blue, and he looked like he had stayed up all night. Despite his calm appearance, both Ren Kai and Lao Yu could sense his nervousness, and even some fear, so much so that he had to keep drinking water to relieve his stress.

"This is a very serious matter. Before I get into that, I'm going to ask you if you really want to get involved. Once you know the inside story, you don't necessarily have to be implicated if something leaks out one day. This implication is going to be a head-scratcher. As soon as Hao Pingyuan opened his mouth, it was an earth-shattering shock.

Although the two of them had already realized that things were not simple, they were still shocked to hear him say this.

Ren Kai got up, stood at the door and looked out, Lao Niu and his wife were busy preparing lunch. shouted to Lao Niu and told him to lock the gate, don't call him, don't come here. Then I closed the curtains, turned on the TV again, and turned the volume up to the level that I could just hear at the door of the station, and didn't turn on the lights.

The three of them sat in the dark room, and the light on the TV shone on their faces, miserable and white, like ghosts.

"I know you're looking for Xu Liang. He's dead. He died in the detention cell. Hao Pingyuan's words scared Ren Kai and Yu Donglai out of a cold sweat.

In fact, even he himself was scared enough. After drinking another glass of water, he continued, "When the provincial department team was investigating a smuggling case, the city bureau cooperated with the periphery to arrest it. Xu Liang happened to be passing by and found some badly damaged laptops in the electric tricycle he was working on. I've seen Xu Liang before, and I know that his father is close to you. And let him go. At that time, I didn't know what kind of mentality I had, the ghost sent the gods, and I took advantage of the unpreparedness of others to put a USB stick in my pocket. With that, he took a USB drive out of his pocket and put it on the table.

Seeing that he was a little regretful, he couldn't stop rubbing his eyebrows with his right hand, and after a while, he continued, "Later, the people from the general team came to say that a batch of evidence was missing, and it might be on Xu Liang's little three wheels. So, they took him back again. When he brought it, he assisted in handling the case as a witness. The next time I saw him was at two o'clock in the morning yesterday, and he was already dead and undergoing an autopsy. His voice trembled a little.

Ren Kai knew that Hao Pingyuan had worked from a front-line criminal police officer to his current position, dealing with dead people every day, just like his own joke, he saw more dead people than living people, and he would definitely not be scared like this because of Xu Liang's corpse.

Lao Yu frowned, took a sip of water, and said slowly, "Director Mu?"

Hao Pingyuan almost jumped up when he heard this, choked on a mouthful of water in his throat, and then coughed frantically, as if he wanted to cough out his lungs.

Mu Tianyuan, deputy secretary of the Tiannan Provincial Political and Legal Committee, director of the Provincial Public Security Department. This person was transferred from Linxing Province three years ago, and he is from the capital, with extremely hard roots, decisive actions, and mixed reputations.

Hao Pingyuan finally calmed down, looked at the entertainment program on TV with a dull gaze, nodded, and said, "Yes." He personally gave a gag order. It is said that although the case-handling personnel did not grasp the scale, after all, it was to fight crime. Plus the suspect himself has congenital heart disease. So....... That's not what really scares me. It's ......"

As he spoke, he looked at the USB drive on the table.

"Accounts?" Ren Kai asked in a low voice with narrowed eyes.

Hao Pingyuan looked at Ren Kai as if he had seen a living ghost and said, "Ma Xiaoli." Ma Xiaoli of Lu Yao Group. ”

"Hiss......" Ren Kai and Lao Yu took a breath of cold air at the same time.

Ma Xiaoli, who is Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today, is already the chairman of Luyao Group in Tiannan Province, and controls tens of billions of assets. In terms of the influence of the group alone, it surpasses Jingrui. His other identity is the eldest son of Yuan Jiping, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Longcheng City Party Committee.

Yuan Jiping had a failed marriage in his early years, and his ex-wife was the daughter of Ma Mantang, a well-known plastic king in China, and Ma Meiling, the former chairman of Luyao Group. They conceived a son in marriage, Ma Xiaoli, who was originally surnamed Yuan, and took his mother's surname after the divorce.

Ma Xiaoli himself is very low-key and rarely appears in public. Ordinary Dragon City people have never even heard of this name. The main business of Luyao Group is steel smelting and import and export of mechanical parts. Never touch real estate and energy integration. Therefore, he is also a clear stream in the second generation of officials. Judging from the business trajectory, he has not had any intersection with his father Yuan Jiping. The father and son have won praise from officialdom for this.

Unexpectedly, the traitor seems to be loyal, and the fake seems to be true.

An upright man who is in charge of a 10 billion empire is actually a smuggling predator hiding at the bottom of the sea.

"Who else knows about this USB drive?" Ren Kai hurriedly asked after calming down.

"I guess no one saw it. Hao Pingyuan thought about it carefully again and said.

"Does Xu Liang know?" asked Lao Yu.

Hao Pingyuan shook his head and said, "At that time, I was wearing a windbreaker with long sleeves and a short time. ”

Ren Kai picked up the USB drive, stared at Hao Pingyuan and asked, "Have you backed up this thing?"

Hao Pingyuan hurriedly shook his head and said, "How dare you, I opened the laptop I was carrying with me, and I just saw Ma Xiaoli." So he hurriedly withdrew. And I'm afraid that the laptop will leave a trace. Last night, when I was passing by the Dragon City Bridge, I smashed my laptop and threw it into the river. ”

Ren Kai was about to speak, when he heard Lao Niu shouting loudly in the yard, "Boss, there is a police knock outside, do you want to open the door?"

When the three of them heard this, their souls were all rising. Ren Kai put the USB disk in his hand, looked left and right, unscrewed the tea barrel, stuffed it directly to the bottom, and covered it again.

As soon as I hid it, I heard a mess in the courtyard.