Xu Nan didn't dare to speak again, paying attention to Zhou Wei's reaction.

The man sitting on the side of the conference table didn't seem to have much change in expression, but slowly put his hands together, clasped his fingers together, and put them under his lips.

One second, two seconds, three seconds......

Xu Nan was not as determined as him after all, and asked tentatively: "I have already called Chu Feng just now, but the phone is turned off over there, why don't I go out and call again?"

Zhou Wei's eyes calmed down, but his cheeks tightened, "No, since he wants to avoid me, he will definitely not answer the call from here again!"

"And ...... now?"

"Announce the cancellation of the contract, let Ye Li come over, and deal with it on the spot here!"

Zhou Wei got up, buckled his suit and walked out of the conference room.

As soon as the people left, several other executives and media in the conference room were dumbfounded, and they all looked at each other and asked, "What's going on?"

"Isn't it time to sign a contract?"

"yes, why did you leave all of a sudden?"

“……”

Xu Nan was left to clean up the mess, and soon Ye Li also came over to find a reason to appease the media first.

Zhou Wei returned to his office and sat on a chair to go through the process back and forth.

Since the establishment of Rongbang has been cooperating with Yunling Development Bank, so many years have successfully completed a number of projects, and it has been mutually beneficial and win-win, almost to the level of strategic partners, especially three years ago Chu Feng took office, the connection between the two is even closer, although it is not a brother to carry the handle, but the cooperation has been very smooth for so long, Zhou Wei never thought that Chu Feng came to the door.

More than half an hour later, Xu Nan entered the office, Zhou Wei was standing in front of the window with his trouser pockets in his pockets, with high-rise buildings in front of him, blue sky and white clouds, but the atmosphere in the office behind him was cold and stiff.

"Mr. Zhou..."

"What do you say over there?"

"I just asked a few friends in the credit department privately, and they all said that Chu Feng had not found anything abnormal in the past few days, and he also went to the bank for a short meeting yesterday afternoon, and left at about four o'clock in the afternoon, not to mention anything about terminating the agreement. ”

"So everything is fine on the surface?"

"Yes, the bank also found out that he went to Italy this morning, as for the flight information you just asked me to check, I found out, the plane in the early hours of last night, the booking time was three days ago. ”

"Ho ......" Zhou Wei sneered, the normal on the surface is all disguise, it can be seen from the booking time, at least three days ago Chu Feng was ready to go to Italy on the day of the signing, as for whether it was planned in advance or improvised, this Zhou Wei is still unknown, but these are no longer important.

At present, it can be seen that Chu Feng is obviously evading and avoiding signing a financing agreement with him, so the most important thing now is to find a way to figure out Chu Feng's purpose.

"You continue to pay attention to the situation at the Development Bank, and call Ye Li and Lao Deng in!"

Lao Deng is the financial director of Rongbang, and he is also the first group of veterans to follow Zhou Wei to fight the country.

Xu Nan led the order to go out, and soon Ye Li and Deng Shunlin came upstairs, and the four of them held an emergency meeting in Zhou Wei's office behind closed doors, which lasted more than two hours, and then each returned to his office to start processing.

Deng Shunlin re-looked for a bank that could be cooperated, and Ye Li was in charge of crisis public relations, after all, the financing news had been spread before, and the signing ceremony in the morning was originally attended by the media, but now it was suddenly shelved inexplicably, and it was inevitable that the outside world would not spread it, but although Ye Li had dealt with it at the first time, the negative news was still exposed.

In just two hours, from the time when the agreement was set aside until noon, news had already been released from major websites and forums in the industry.

"Rongbang's financing is blocked, and the Luyang Lake project is afraid of miscarriage"

"Rongbang Land may have serious financial problems within it, and the financing plan for the Luyang Lake project has been forced to stop"

“……”

“……”

All kinds of sensational news, and even some people have involved the "Shanglinyuan poison land incident" that has been calmed down some time ago, and the people who eat melons have spread messages, and in the end it has become "There are serious quality problems in the real estate developed by Rongbang, and the sales have suffered Waterloo, resulting in the bank's dishonesty and reluctance to continue to lend." ”

Public opinion in the Internet era is oriented, and everyone is in the clouds, so all kinds of negative news quickly spread out with the momentum of a prairie fire.

……

Chang An was painting in the living room when he heard a ghost cry from the guest bedroom.

"Ahhh

Chang An was still biting a pencil in his mouth, raised his head and glanced at her over the easel, ignoring it.

Chang Jiahui angrily began to take the bag and flip through the phone, but after a long time of searching for it and not finding it, Chang An finally took the pen out of his mouth, and said quietly: "Don't look for it, no one has contacted you except your mother in the morning." ”

Chang Jiahui: "......" She sat on the sofa with her bag in her arms again.

Chang An: "Woke up?"

Chang Jiahui: "Hmm. ”

Chang An: "Go to the kitchen and drink that glass of honey water, it's almost lunch, you're going to the company now it's late anyway, just have lunch together and leave." ”

Chang Jiahui thought about it, it made sense, threw the bag back on the sofa, rubbed her hair like a chicken nest and stood up, "Then I'll wash my face, do you have clothes for me to change? Didn't I take a shower last night?"

Chang An was amused by her and threw away the paintbrush, "Okay, you go brush your teeth and wash your face first, and I'll go upstairs to find clothes for you." ”

Chang Jiahui turned cloudy to sunny at this time, ran to the kitchen and drank the cup of honey water that Chang An had brewed before, and then leaned out and shouted towards the stairs: "Sister, I don't want a skirt, you find me a pair of pants to wear." ”

"Got it!" Chang An smiled and went upstairs.

After half an hour, the two packed up and went out, and found a restaurant near the Changhe River, specializing in casserole porridge.

Usually, Chang Jiahui must have rushed to order, but the hangover probably hadn't eased up that day, her face was wilted, and she didn't have much appetite, so Chang An ordered a light porridge and a few side dishes.

Chang An gave Chang Jiahui a bowl and handed it over.

Chang Jiahui glanced at it and hissed in her mouth, "Sister, did I drink a broken piece yesterday?" Did I get drunk at your house?"

"Yes, you almost demolished the house. ”

"Really?"

"It's still cooked!"

“…… Isn't!" Chang Jiahui scratched her head while stirring the porridge in the bowl, "I always feel like I said something I shouldn't have said last night, did I?"

"Yes!"

"What did you say?"

"Well, you said that I was your childhood nightmare, and how I bullied you when I was a child, how hypocritical and terrible I am, and..."

"Okay, okay, I know, I will definitely not have a good life in the future, let's eat, eat!" Chang Jiahui began to stuff porridge into her mouth, Chang An finally couldn't hold back her laughter.

Chang Jiahui looked up and smiled.

At that time, the noon sun was just right, shining on the faces of the two sisters, Chang Jiahui was still wearing Chang An's clothes, a white pullover sweater, and her neckline was still stained with her usual rose fragrance.

It is difficult to describe the feelings of the two sisters in words, forced to live under the same roof with each other's awkward identities, forced to live together, slowly approaching from the initial "estrangement" and "defense", perhaps because of the same age, or perhaps because of the accumulated time relationship, people who might have hated each other were able to snuggle together in the end.

Even Chang An can't understand his feelings for Chang Jiahui, if he really wants to find a reason, it is probably blood and family.

"Were you really scared of me when you were a kid?"

"Even when I was a child, I'm afraid now!"

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, my mother said that I was used to showing my teeth and claws, she couldn't control me, only you could cure me!"

Chang An couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when she said it, "It seems that it's really a childhood nightmare!"

"Who said it wasn't, hum!" Chang Jiahui snorted quite aggrievedly, and sent a mouthful of porridge to her mouth, looking up to see Chang An looking at herself with a smile, her eyes were full of waves, her cheeks were pink, and she didn't realize that her eyes were raised, "Sister, you look very moisturized recently!"

Chang An was stunned for a moment, and immediately sank his face, "What nonsense!"

"Cut, you see you like to pretend. ”

“……”

"If you don't want to be young next year, if you have to make yourself clean like a female Taoist, can't you be a happy young man like me in peace?"

“……”

Chang An was speechless by her nonsense, and couldn't help laughing again.

"Look at it, how good it is, so that when we sit together, others will think that we are the same age, otherwise it will always seem that you are calm and ladylike and I am like an idiot!"

"Okay, the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes!" Chang An added another spoonful of hot porridge to her bowl.

Chang Jiahui took a sip into her mouth, "Then, look, you can take care of people now, I used to help you serve vegetables and soup when you came out to eat, and I also said that it was not moisturizing, do you think I am stupid? I saw it last night, between you and your brother-in-law, um? Is it getting better and even to the point of vowing to make an alliance?"

Chang An was made to laugh twice by her, and then lowered his head and stirred the chopsticks, "Yes, between me and him..." Chang An paused again, in fact, it was not something unspeakable, not to mention that she didn't have any friends around, so Chang Jiahui should be her best confidant.

"Jiahui, Zhou and I may come to the real thing. ”

"I'll go, I really guessed it!" Chang Jiahui immediately put down her chopsticks, and her interest was even stronger, "Tell me, what's going on between you and him? When did it start? Obviously the two of them were still very angry before, why did they suddenly do this?"

A series of questions, anxious as if it were her own life's work.

Chang An was speechless and thought for a while, "Actually, I don't know when we started, and there doesn't seem to be a specific reason, if I have to find some reason to come out, maybe there will be more elements of fate, just like the right time and place, every time I need someone by my side, he just happens to appear." ”

From when she wanted to find an opportunity to return to China two years ago, to the time when she was alone in London some time ago to bear her grandmother's serious illness and death, it seems that this man appeared in time every time she thought about it.

Probably this is fate, otherwise she really can't find a better reason, and the word "fate" is a mysterious thing.

Chang Jiahui settled down and couldn't help sighing: "It's good, if you and your brother-in-law can achieve positive results, it will probably be the best ending." ”

Chang An nodded, she didn't know that the person she married was the person she loved, and she could be with her for a lifetime, which woman didn't have extravagant expectations.

"Then what do you think of him?" Chang Jiahui asked again.

Chang An lowered his head and pursed his lower lip, "I didn't hate it before, but then I felt that it wasn't very difficult to be with him, as for now..."

"You're kind of fond of him, aren't you?"

Chang An didn't look over, the corners of his mouth were even bigger, but he nodded lightly after a while, "Hmm!"

"That's... Women in love are really different, look at your face with a spring on your face, oh my God!" Chang Jiahui screamed, so angry that Chang An hurriedly went over and clapped her hands, "Okay, you be quiet, in public!"

"Yes, yes, I want to be calm, I want to be calm!" But when he said this, he covered his face and laughed again.

Chang An could only roll his eyes and look at the sky, but he couldn't help it, and finally laughed out loud, until he suddenly threw a sentence over the other side: "What about Brother Haodong?"

All pleasant emotions seemed to come to an abrupt end.

Chang An smiled, turned to look at the road with people coming and going outside the window, and didn't make a sound for a long time.

It took a while for her to speak: "My fate with him has been used up about five years ago, I have been obsessed with it for the past few years, and now I have finally woken up, and I will be a stranger with him in the future." ”

"Strangers?"

"Well, this is the fairest thing for me, for Zhou Wei, and for He Ling!"

"But you're so sure?"

"Sure what?"

"Are you sure anything won't happen between you and him in the future?"

Chang An smiled bitterly, "What can it be? It's been so many years, if you have it a long time ago, why wait until now, no, don't think about it." ”

At that time, she was very sure, but who knows what will happen in the future? What's more, in addition to "fate" in this world, there is also something called "fate".

Chang Jiahui is also measured, and she won't pull the root anymore when she says this, but just reached over and shook Chang An's finger.

"Sister, no matter who you choose in the end and who you stay with for life, I will support you unconditionally, but I hope you can follow your heart, you want to be happy, and you will always be the princess who no one cares about in my heart!"

Chang An suddenly felt sour in his eyes.

It is probably that the older you get, the more you can feel the subtle relationship between people, such as her and Chang Jiahui, and then she and her father.

"Thank you, I will!" she held Chang Jiahui's hand with her backhand, and the sisters gently overlapped their five fingers, and they had been together for decades, and it seemed that it was rare to have such a sensational moment.

"Oh, hey, don't talk about this, I didn't take pictures of my dinner today and send them to Moments!" After speaking, he let go of his mobile phone and took out his mobile phone and began to pose for angle and shape, almost changing his face in a second, and those things that happened before, such as how he had a miscarriage, his grandmother died, and Chang Wangde did not show up at the funeral, these Chang Jiahui were "smart" and did not mention a word.

Chang An smiled silently, who said that the Chang family is the only one who is the best at acting, and the one who hides the deepest and has the most natural acting skills is obviously the one in front of her.

After Chang An checked out, he went to the bathroom again, but when he came back, he saw Chang Jiahui still holding his mobile phone.

"Haven't you finished sending it yet? Didn't you just say that you were going to rush to work?" she patted the table in front of Chang Jiahui.

Chang Jiahui suddenly raised her hand, "Wait, isn't it... What is the financial problem of Rongbang, the collapse of bank financing, and the fear ......of changes in the Luyang Lake project?"

……

The so-called icing on the cake is easy, but it is really difficult to send charcoal in the snow.

Zhou and Deng Shunlin contacted no less than 10 banks in the afternoon, several of which had previously cooperated with Rongbang on projects, but the replies they received were almost the same.

"These turtle grandsons who see the wind and steer the rudder, when they are good, they take the initiative to come to the door one by one to lick and want to send us money, and now the slightest wind and grass is all shrunken into their shells, what the fuck!" Deng Shunlin has a rough temperament, and he still can't learn to restrain his temper when he is almost fifty.

Xu Nan listened to it next to him and couldn't help muttering.

Zhou Wei sat on the chair and tapped his fingers lightly on the table, "Actually, this situation is also normal, Luyang Lake financing is not a small amount, even if it is Chu Feng, I have already started to contact him more than half a year in advance, so how can I ask other banks to agree to cooperate in just half a day?"

"That being said, you didn't hear the tone of those people just now, one by one..."

"Okay old Deng, calm down!" Zhou Wei interrupted Deng Shunlin's complaint in time, and looked at his watch again, "It's not too early, why don't you get off work first?"

"What about you?"

"I'll stay a little longer. ”

"Then I'll contact a few more to see if it's okay..."

"No, let's get off work first, has my sister-in-law been in the hospital again in the past few days?

Deng Shunlin took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose, and called someone like a top for most of the day, he was indeed a little tired, "Then I'll leave first, and you should go back early!"

"Okay, be careful when driving on the road!"

Zhou Xian watched Deng Shunlin leave, and the little soft light in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

Xu Nan walked to the table, "Mr. Zhou, now..."

"You should get off work too. ”

"But ......"

"Let's get off work, I need to be quiet and clear my mind. ”

Xu Nan stood for a while, Zhou Wei had already turned the chair over, he sighed softly, and had to hang his head and leave.

Zhou Wei looked out the window, the night had not yet completely fallen, it was almost six o'clock, after the Spring Festival into March, although the weather was cold, but the day seemed to be slowly lengthened.

A lot of things were stirred up in his mind, and Chu Feng's sudden absence from the signing ceremony really caught him by surprise, so that he was a little blindsided all of a sudden, but now that half a day has passed, many things are gradually beginning to emerge.

Zhou Wei got up from the chair, touched a cigarette and walked to the window, the road downstairs was bustling, he opened the window a little, let the sound of people and wind outside pour in, and turned half sideways, and lit the cigarette with his hands......

About a few minutes passed, some thoughts slowly became clear, and the mobile phone rang on the table, and he glanced at Zhou Xin's phone.

At this time, I didn't have to think about it when I called, and I knew that it must be because the financing agreement failed, so Zhou Yan didn't answer, grabbed the phone and pressed it directly, and was about to throw it back on the table, when the phone began to ring again.

Zhou Xin thought it was still Zhou Xin, and his eyebrows furrowed, but when his eyes swept to the name displayed on the screen, his eyes suddenly became cold.

The phone rang three or four times, and the other party didn't seem to mean to hang up.

Zhou Xun picked it up.

"Hey, Mr. Li..."

……

Chang An usually never asks Zhou Wei about work, but at noon, Chang Jiahui said that it seemed to be a little serious, and when he returned home, he always felt faintly uneasy, so he checked on the Internet and soon understood the general situation.

The wall clock in the living room was already pointing to half past six, and there was no sound of cars in the yard.

Chang An hesitated for a moment, but decided to call Zhou Wei, but as soon as he took the phone, his >

"There is something going on at night, you may go back late, you go to bed early, you don't have to wait for me!"

There was no mention of anything in the news in the WeChat content, Chang An knew that Zhou Wei would not take the initiative to mention work to her, and she didn't ask more, only replied: "I know, drink less, come back early!"

Here Zhou Wei sat in the car, looking at the words sent by Chang An, his eyes stayed on the last four words for a long time.

"Come back early", she used "come back", and inexplicably felt strength and warmth.

Xu Nan, the co-pilot in front, paid attention to the person in the rearview mirror, and saw him looking down at his mobile phone and laughing, but he didn't dare to disturb for a while, until the car drove onto the provincial road, Xu Nan asked: "Mr. Zhou, do you know what Li Meiyu's purpose is for suddenly asking us?"

Zhou Wei put away his phone and tapped his fingers lightly on the screen. "I don't know what the purpose is. ”

"But this Li Meiyu is also strange, she should know that we are looking for Chu Feng, and she is Mrs. Chu Feng, what does it mean to ask us out at this juncture?"

Zhou Wei didn't squeak anymore, and turned his face to look out the window.

Li Meiyu made an appointment with Zhou Wei on the phone to meet at Red Leaf Villa, and drove from the city for at least an hour and a half, Xu Nan could still talk in the first half, and the second half was quiet.

There is a lot of traffic on the provincial road at this point, and the street lights are not very bright, Xiao Zhao drove intently, and it was obviously empty after getting off the provincial road, and the asphalt road in the town was installed on both sides of Qi Zanzan's two rows of street lights, and the bright lights continued to the entrance of the Red Leaf Villa.

The car was still parked in the parking lot halfway up the mountain, and the shuttle bus had already stopped there and waited.

Zhou Wei took Xu Nan to sit in the car, this is the first time Xu Nan went up the mountain, the greening along the road was very good, the scenery was also beautiful, it was cold enough, and it was hard to get to the door, and was led in, and finally saw the rumored "Red Leaf Villa" in the circle.

"The interior design here really lives up to its name. Xu Nan followed all the way and couldn't help but praise softly.

Zhou Wei did not say a word until the leader of the way led them to the door of a side room.

"Please wait a minute!"

When I entered the door, I thought it was a private room such as a banquet hall, but when I entered, I found that it was just a room similar to a small private room, with long rows of collapsed chairs, tables, televisions and small tables, and it was more like a closed conference room.