Shi Xia didn't dare to say that he knew Qiao Jinsheng 100%, but at least he could understand eight or nine times out of ten. If it weren't for something too tricky, he wouldn't have said to take her away.

On the other end of the phone, the man was silent for a moment.

Shi Xia asked, "Is it related to my father's business?"

With so much going on these days, she also had a faint intuition that not everything was coming for her.

Especially Jiang Min's death.

Many things have gone far beyond what will affect her.

Qiao Jin Sheng was silent for a moment and then spoke: "Don't think too much, I just feel that you have suffered a lot of grievances recently, and I want to take you out for a walk." ”

Of course Shi Xia didn't believe it.

In this situation, if she left with Qiao Jinsheng, she didn't know what would happen next, and after thinking about it, she said: "We are not in a hurry to go out at this time, when the matter is over, we will go again." ”

Qiao Jin Sheng didn't insist anymore: "Okay then." ”

Hung up the phone, just as Qiao pushed the door in, he saw Qiao Jin Sheng's face was heavy, and stepped forward to ask, "She won't go out with you, right?"

Qiao Jinsheng nodded.

In fact, this result was predicted, but now that the situation is unknown, he is worried about Shi Xia's safety, and he is afraid that the other party will find an opportunity to attack Shi Xia. He said, "Send a few more men." ”

Qiao Yi said, "I'll arrange it right away." ”

I took out my phone and went to the side to make a call.

Three minutes later, he returned to Qiao Jinsheng and said quietly: "Cheng Hao is here, I arranged two more cars to go over." ”

Qiao Jin Sheng responded.

Pick up a document on the table and flip through it.

Qiao Yi stood in front of him and hesitated for a long time before he hesitated: "Brother Sheng, do we really want to interfere in this matter?"

Huayu Shengjing's accident was obviously a warning given to them by the other party.

Things can be big or small.

An unfinished real estate can be entered by ordinary people casually, which is a big management omission for them. Moreover, people can fall down the elevator shaft and die, which shows that they are very negligent in safety precautions. If someone were going to make a fuss about it, it would be very difficult for them to get out of it.

Qiao Yi's meaning, how could Qiao Jin Sheng not understand?

raised his head, looked at Qiao Yi fixedly, his thin lips opened lightly, and he spit out a sentence that was not light: "We stop now, is it too late?"

Since it's too late, it's better to just do it.

Throw the Chinese piece in his hand far away to Qiao Yi, "These are the two people you checked last time, since the prison can't hold them, let's use our own methods to find them to ask a few words." ”

Qiao Yi took it: "Okay." ”

Shi Xia's birthday was November 22, and after her birthday, it was soon New Year's Day.

The city is decorated with shows.

In the news, on the Internet, holiday promotions are broadcast every day, which shopping mall is discounted again, which shopping mall has ten times the points-

Under the impact of e-commerce platforms, it is becoming more and more difficult for physical stores to survive.

Shi Xia thought that Qiao Jinsheng had sent surprises in the past, and she should have expressed it to Qiao Jinsheng in the new year, plus she was busy with her studies and work over the years, and her daily care for Xu Wenjing was not too much. However, she didn't have to go to the internship during this time, and she got along with her mother more and more.

She thought about buying a gift for her mother on New Year's Day.

asked Jiang Tiantian to go shopping.

As soon as they met, Jiang Tiantian looked reluctant, the corners of her eyes were obviously sleepy, and she yawned while driving: "Why did you call me out so early?"

Shi Xia pointed to his watch: "Sister, it's more than ten o'clock, okay?"

Jiang Tiantian: "Don't you know, I sleep late and wake up late, usually I don't get up until the afternoon, okay?"

Shi Xia was worried that she would be sleepy and distracted, so she nervously helped her keep an eye on the road: "You have only started to get up in the afternoon in the past few days, right? I remember that you used to get up quite early." Especially when Dalu was hospitalized, you got up early to catch up with me. ”

Jiang Tiantian was confused: "Is there one?"

Shi Xia was determined: "Yes!"

Jiang Tiantian yawned again, closed her eyes for two seconds before opening her eyes and continuing to look at the road: "I don't remember, I always feel that I haven't slept enough lately." ”

Shi Xia was startled at first and told her to drive well.

After taking a closer look, she felt that Jiang Tiantian's words were wrong, and stared at her vigilantly: "You won't have it, right?" She has been getting close to Shao Jingrui recently, Shao Jingrui is not as firm as Qiao Jinsheng, what if ......

Jiang Tiantian glanced at her with her eyes: "What are you talking nonsense." ”

Shi Xia lifted his eyes: "Could it be that I said something wrong?

Jiang Tiantian didn't speak, and acquiesced.

Shi Xia saw her acquiesce, and said with some seriousness: "Your own body, you should be careful, be careful to break down your body, and you will regret it in the future." ”

Jiang Tiantian looked at her with drooping eyelids.

Shi Xia turned her face back to the front: "Look at the road, look at what I'm doing." ”

Jiang Tiantian dragged a long tail and said: "I found that you are becoming more and more similar to my mother, you are not very old, why do you love to nag so much?"

Shi Xia: "...... Too lazy to talk about you. ”

The two mixed all the way into the underground parking lot of Guihe Shopping Mall.

They entered, followed by four cars, parked right around them.

Jiang Tiantian nervously looked left and right.

Shi Xia said, "It's okay, get out of the car." ”

After getting out of the car, Jiang Tiantian still looked uneasy, until she confirmed from Shi Xia's mouth that these people were the people who followed and protected them, and she asked, "There weren't so many people Qiao Jin Sheng arranged by your side before, right?"

Shi Xia said: "It seems to have become more recently. ”

But she didn't ask.

From the time Qiao Jin Sheng planned to take her abroad, she felt that something big might happen, and then the bodyguards around her increased several times.

Qiao Jin Sheng's performance in the past two days has been normal.

Took her to dinner, knowing that she had applied for a driver's license, and kindly took her to test drive and practice. Although his teaching didn't seem to be of much use, she didn't find anything unusual about him. On the contrary, she felt that the air pressure around her had changed, a bit like the calm before the storm, and the oppression made people irritated.

Entering the mall from the elevator, Jiang Tiantian's eyes suddenly lit up.

The tiredness and drowsiness just now were swept away.

Shi Xia couldn't help laughing at her: "I don't think you're sleepy at all, it's that you can't lift your spirits while driving." You see that when you see these clothes, you immediately feel refreshed. ”

The corners of Jiang Tiantian's lips hooked: "I can't come for nothing." ”

dragged Shi Xia towards the women's clothing area.

Shi Xia suddenly had the illusion that it was not her calling Jiang Tiantian to accompany her to buy gifts, but Jiang Tiantian took her to go shopping.

From the women's clothing area to the cosmetics area, Jiang Tiantian likes it.

Shi Xia wants to buy something for Qiao Jin Sheng, and these two places obviously won't pick a suitable one.

Jiang Tiantian bought a lot of big bags and small bags.

Probably due to the overwhelming advertising during the festival, the mall is much more lively than usual. The New Year's Day holiday is short, and some people who can't go far away bring their families to the mall.

It doesn't matter if you buy something or not, the main thing is that the family can be together.

In order to attract customers to stay longer, shopping malls have also tried their best to increase consumption opportunities. In addition to a dazzling array of discount promotions, an equestrian performance team was invited to encircle an empty field in the hall in the center of the mall to perform equestrian.

Attracted a lot of onlookers.

Jiang Tiantian was not interested in these.

Shi Xia also came with a goal, and of course he was not attracted by these.

The two walked around the crowd and towards the men's clothing section.

By this time, it was almost noon.

Passing by the door of a restaurant, Jiang Tiantian said, "Why don't we finish eating first and then go shopping." "In fact, she bought a bunch of stuff and couldn't walk around it.

Shi Xia helped her carry large and small bags, and she was also tired.

nodded.

The two of them entered a nearby restaurant.

Cantonese.

Jiang Tiantian is more good at eating, the waiter came to order, and Shi Xia directly handed over the decision-making power to Jiang Tiantian and asked her to order.

Jiang Tiantian was also happy, and picked a few specialty dishes to order.

Also ordered a drink recommended by the waiter.

The waiter probably hadn't seen such a happy customer before, so after thanking them, he asked them to wait for a while, and then left with the menu.

While waiting for the food, Shi Xia saw a person flash in at the door.

She wore a mask, which was tightly covered.

After entering the door, I quickly entered a room.

Shi Xia frowned.

This back, is it Jolina?

After the last incident, she followed Qiao Jinsheng back to the Qiao family's old mansion a few times, and also met Qiao Xiangnan and Qiao Jinsheng's uncles, but she never saw Qiao Lina.

I don't know if it's because of Cheng Jianing's matter, Qiao Jinsheng has found Qiao Lina.

What the hell is she doing here?

Jiang Tiantian was thirsty, and drank the water that the waiter had just sent, and seeing that Shi Xia was still looking in one direction, he couldn't help but look over. Except for a few doors, there were waiters who served food back and forth, and she asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

Shi Xia said: "I met an acquaintance. ”

Jiang Tiantian replied more simply: "If the relationship is good, call over and sit together." ”

Shi Xia looked at her unexpectedly: "So generous?"

Hearing her say this, Jiang Tiantian was not happy, raised her eyebrows and asked: "Sister I seem to have treated you badly before, you said it yourself, have I invited you to dinner all these years?"

Shi Xia followed her: "No less, please, Sister Sweet is so atmospheric." ”

Jiang Tiantian was satisfied: "That's." ”

The waiter came to deliver the juice, Shi Xia stopped her, pointed to the room where Qiao Lina entered, and asked, "How many people are sitting in that room?"

The waiter was blindfolded first.

After recalling, he replied, "Two." ”

Shi Xia frowned: "Are there only two?"

The waiter nodded very definitely: "I went in to deliver water just now, and I saw a man and a woman sitting inside, an old woman and a young man." I don't know what they're doing in the room, it's mysterious. I went to deliver water, and they murdered me because I didn't knock on the door before I went in. We're running a restaurant, not a hotel, so how can there be a knock on the door when we serve a dish?"

Shi Xia said, "Thank you." ”

The waiter replied: "You're welcome, Madam has nothing else to do, I'll go and get busy first, and the dishes will come up in a while." ”

Shi Xia nodded: "You are busy first." ”

The waiter is gone.

When she left, she rolled her eyes at the room where Jolina entered, obviously resentful of the two people who had disciplined her when she had just delivered water.

Jiang Tiantian asked Shi Xia: "Didn't you say that it was your friend inside?"

Shi Xia corrected: "I said yes to 'acquaintances', acquaintances do not mean friends." "It could also be the one who wants to trap you.

Jiang Tiantian suddenly realized.

looked miserably in the direction of the kitchen, and the whole person leaned on the table: "If you don't come here in the future, the dishes are so slow, I'm going to starve to death." ”

Shi Xia said: "Are you too anxious, do you have three minutes to finish ordering?"

Jiang Tiantian: "Then you should also give me a pre-dinner snack, let me pad it first." ”

Shi Xia: "How can people have time to serve you with such high requirements?" glanced sideways at the door again, and said to the side: "You wait here, I'll go to the bathroom." ”

Jiang Tiantian got up from the table and straightened up: "I'll go too." ”

They all got up, and when they saw the large and small handbags next to them, they sat back like frosted eggplants: "It's better for you to go first." ”

It's impossible to carry so many things to the bathroom.

But when it's all here, she's not very relieved. In case she encounters someone who should chop her hands, she will carry a bag and go, then her money will be spent in vain, and her strength to pick things will be in vain.

Sure enough, I decided to wait for Shixia to come back.

Shi Xia saw her thoughts, and didn't persuade her, so he walked in the direction of the bathroom.

When she came out of the bathroom, she noticed that Jolina's room next door was empty and slipped in.

Most of the small rooms in the hotel are separated by partitions, although they look similar to the wall, but in fact, the various functions are 108,000 miles away from the wall.

Take soundproofing as an example, thick walls, good soundproofing.

What is done on this side of the wall, the other side of the wall cannot be heard.

But the wall separated by this partition is unique and unique, as long as the other party is not talking close to the ear, you can hear it very clearly. For example, there is an old man in the room on the right who celebrates his birthday, and his grandson seems to be singing him a birthday song, and his immature voice is a little proud.

Shi Xia didn't pay much attention to that side, approached Jolina's side, and put her ear against the wall.

Qiao Lina's deliberately lowered voice faintly reached her ears: "How many times have I told you, the money and goods are clear, you dare to come to me again, be careful that I am not polite to you!"

The other party was a male voice, it should be the young guy in the waiter's mouth: "I've suffered a lot for you these days, and you want to send me away for just 300,000 yuan?"

The voice was very loud, and Shi Xia moved his ears away from the wall.

There was obviously more annoyance in Qiao Lina's voice: "300,000 is not too little? Do you know how much money I spent to settle the troubles you caused? It's almost a million!"

The man said, "The money hasn't come to me!"

Qiao Lina's voice gradually increased: "If it weren't for your stupidity, would that money be for nothing?"

When the man heard him say this, he also said cruelly: "You don't want to give money, do you? Then I'll go and tell your good nephew about these things." You also know that your nephew has always been ruthless, you must know that it is you ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Qiao Lina: "What the hell do you want to do?"

The man sneered: "Ask for money!"

There was silence in the room.

After about seven or eight seconds, a sentence came out of Jolina's teeth: "How much?"

Shi Xia didn't hear the man speak, but he heard Qiao Lina's angry voice: "500,000, are you poor and crazy, where did I get so much money for you?"

The man said, "You don't give, someone will." ”

Shi Xia heard the sound of footsteps and tables and chairs colliding next door, and she guessed that the two had broken down and the man was going to leave.

Sure enough, Jolina compromised: "This is the last time?"

The footsteps stopped, and the man spoke: "I will leave Jiangcheng immediately after getting the money, there is nothing I miss here, and I will not come back after I leave." ”

Shi Xia heard an extremely heavy breath, as if he was making up his mind.

Two seconds later, I heard Jolina say, "Okay, I'll believe you again, 500,000 is 500,000." But you have to promise me that you will leave Jiangcheng as soon as you get the money. Even if someone is caught in the future, don't confess it. ”

The man said, "Put your heart in your belly." ”

Jolina probably wanted to give him the card, but the man said, "I want cash, all 500,000 in cash." ”

Jolina said, "I don't have that much money on me. ”

The man said, "Go get it now." ”

After being silent, Jolina still chose to compromise: "You wait for me here, I'll go and get the money and come back." Footsteps walked towards the door.

The man asked, "How long?"

Qiao Lina's voice was extremely impatient: "I went to the bank to withdraw money, how do I know if there is a traffic jam on the road, and if the bank is not in line? ”

There was silence again.

Probably the man is also calculating in his heart that as soon as Jolina comes out, there may be variables in this. But in the end, the thirst for money overcame his fear of danger, and he said to Jolina: "I'll wait for you here for half an hour, and if you don't come back after half an hour, you know what will happen to the rest." ”

Jolina walked away in a rage.

Shi Xia heard the sound of the door closing, and the walls and partitions shook three times.

When Jolina left, she quietly came out of the room and returned to her seat.

Jiang Tiantian didn't want to mention how much she complained: "I haven't come back after going for so long, I thought you blocked someone's sewer, and I just wanted to call the police." ”

Shi Xia smiled: "It's too troublesome to call the police, just call the road over." ”

Jiang Tiantian rolled her eyes, got up and left.

Less than half an hour later, Shi Xia saw Qiao Yi walking in with two people. Probably noticing her, he walked straight to the room where the man was waiting for Jolina.

Shi Xia wondered.

At that time, the man threatened Qiao Lina, and the "nephew" he said in his mouth knew that it was Qiao Jinsheng without thinking about it. Qiao Lina agreed to the man's request for 500,000 yuan in cash.

After Qiao Lina left, why did Qiao Yi come?

Could it be that Qiao Lina went to Qiao Jinsheng for help?

But listening to the meaning of the man's words, it was obvious that Qiao Lina had done something sorry for Qiao Jinsheng, with Qiao Jinsheng's retributive temperament, Qiao Lina dared to pit him, and he would definitely not give up.

Now let Qiao Yi come, what does it mean?

Jiang Tiantian saw that she was worried, put down her chopsticks, wiped the vegetable juice on her mouth with a napkin, and asked strangely: "You have been restless since you sat here, and I won't let you invite, what are you afraid of?"

Shi Xia was not angry: "I have no job and no income now, I'm afraid that you will be poor for me." ”

Jiang Tiantian glanced at his mouth: "You don't have a job or income, but you have a man." You believe me, as long as you take the initiative to lie down on his bed, what do you promise?"

Shi Xia: "...... Can you be pure?"

Jiang Tiantian: "Can you be realistic? What years are you now, you are pushing back like this, be careful to push your brother Qiao to someone else's bed." ”

Shi Xia didn't bother to pay attention to her.

When he looked back, he saw the door open.

The two people who followed Qiao Yi into the door pushed a man out of the door, one left and one right. The man walking on the left with his suit on his wrist. On New Year's Day, Jiang Cheng was not too cold during the day, and it was almost close to zero, and wearing a suit was already the least warm match, and he even took off his suit, obviously to cover up.

What exactly is covered, judging by the degree of cooperation of the man, it may be a knife or a gun.

Thinking of this, Shi Xia looked at the man's face.

This didn't matter, and she was shocked.

Then I thought of the conversation between the man and Qiao Lina, and one of the sentences seemed to be interrupted before she finished speaking, and she thought about what Qiao Lina had done to be sorry for Qiao Jinsheng.

It turned out to be -

Scold~

I sneered in my heart.

She originally only thought that Qiao Lina was because she looked down on her family background after her family was down, so she wanted to provoke Qiao Jinsheng to leave her and choose someone with a better background who might help the Qiao family. But I didn't expect that in order to oppose her and Qiao Jinsheng, Qiao Lina could even do such a frenzied deed.

No wonder in order not to let Qiao Jinsheng know, he was willing to pay 500,000.

Now that Qiao Yi is here, it means that Qiao Jin Sheng already knows.

Lift a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, I'm afraid it's someone like Jolina, right?

I lost my wife and lost my soldiers, I really deserved it!

Jiang Tiantian knocked on the chopsticks hard: "Hey, hey, let's eat here, you are ruthless to a table of dishes, are you wronged by their death?"

Shi Xia replied: "Don't be wronged. ”

Qiao Lina did this, she wanted to touch Qiao Jin Sheng's scales, but in the end, it was her aunt and nephew whose blood was thicker than water, and she didn't know what Qiao Jin Sheng would do to Qiao Lina.

She suddenly became hungry, picked up her chopsticks and began to eat.

As he was eating, he suddenly felt a hot gaze behind him.

He turned his head around.

The man who had flashed in her mind just now was standing by the door a few meters away from her. It's like telepathy, no matter how many people there are, they can discover each other's existence at the first time.

Looking at each other, Qiao Jin Sheng strode over: "Why did you come here to eat?"

Shi Xia said: "I just happened to come over for something." ”

Jiang Tiantian interjected: "Some people want to take advantage of the holiday to prepare a surprise for their boyfriend, and then they pull me, an idler, to go shopping." ”

Shi Xia wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

She was planning to give Qiao Jinsheng a surprise, but when she said that, how could there be a surprise. Besides, she bought such a bunch of things, all of them were Jiang Tiantian's, not to mention gifts, she didn't even have time to enter the men's clothing area.

When Qiao Jin Sheng heard this, the corners of his mouth raised.

There was a bright color in his dark eyes, and he looked at Shi Xia: "Really?"

Intentionally or unintentionally, he glanced at the shopping bags full of shopping bags on the dining table and dining chairs, as if asking Shi Xia, which one was his.

Shi Xia coughed dryly: "Have you eaten?"

Qiao Jinsheng said: "No. Guessing what Shi Xia was going to say next, he took the initiative to say: "I made an appointment, so I won't accompany you, and I'll come back to you later." ”

said hello and entered the room where Qiao Yi was.

Shi Xia's face was solemn.

When Jolina, who didn't know it, came back, as soon as she opened the door, she saw her own nephew, sitting in the seat directly opposite.

With a "bang", the money fell to the ground.