In the conference room on the twenty-eighth floor, the elders of the board of directors gathered, and even in the middle of summer, Cheng Hao felt the temperature below freezing.

The directors only said a few words, but the invisible pressure seemed to put him on a hydraulic press.

Everyone knows it, but no one has broken it, or it's not yet time to break it.

Everyone looked at the grim man sitting in the middle with a blank face, and he simply announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Back in the office, Cheng Hao let out a sigh of relief.

Yes, apart from the dismissal of the meeting, he hasn't figured out how to deal with the board's forced palace.

This scorching state is like stepping on a piece of ice that is like a thin crunch, and every step is full of difficulties, but this stalemate is only a matter of time.

He lit a cigarette, frowned slightly, his heart was not as calm as it seemed, and then walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and exhaled the smoke.

From the twenty-eight floors, everything below is so small. Everyone looked up at the height above the clouds, but they never thought that the person standing at this height would be crushed if he took a wrong step.

There was a person sitting on the fence, who looked like a bean ding, and she rubbed her arms and looked restless, a little like Xiang Xiaoyuan.

"Xiang Xiaoyuan!" Cheng Hao buzzed in his head, is that person really Xiaoyuan?

This distance is really unclear, Cheng Hao immediately dialed her mobile phone, and she also took out the phone at the same time.

"Hey, are you downstairs in my company?" Cheng Hao yelled.

"Hmm......" Xiao Yuan didn't know where Cheng Hao saw her, holding up his mobile phone and looking up.

"You're biedong! I'll go down right away. After speaking, Cheng Hao hurriedly walked out of the office, how could that girl come here?

Xiao Yuan wore a railway uniform and stood next to the barrier. She sweated a lot, and the strands of hair stuck to her red little face, which looked very messy, and she just wanted to speak, Cheng Hao asked first.

"When did you come?"

"It's been a while. Xiao Yuan wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and swallowed back the words he wanted to ask.

"Why don't you call me on my phone?" Cheng Hao frowned, this girl was sitting on the side of the road like a fool, wasn't she afraid of heat stroke?

"Hit, busy. Later, when I heard that you were in a meeting, I didn't dare to call. Xiao Yuan said tremblingly.

"Mr. Cheng......" She was about to ask, but was dragged by Cheng Hao.

"Come with me, this is not the place to talk. After Cheng Hao finished speaking, he couldn't help but take her away.

After all, at the door of the company, he muttered to a little girl, and when it was passed out, it was probably enough for Entertainment Weekly to write a page.

The two of them came to a small restaurant hidden in a hidden alley, which looked like an ordinary courtyard house from the outside, and there was no signboard at the door, and it was impossible to imagine such a restaurant if it were not for regular customers.

Cheng Hao is a frequent visitor, I feel that this place is quiet, the taste of the dishes is also good, the most important thing is that the reception is some regular customers, do not worry about many people.

They asked for a private room, closed the door and made a pot of tea first, Cheng Hao let out a long breath, and finally escaped from that anxious place temporarily.

Xiang Xiaoyuan lowered his head, peeked at Cheng Hao, who looked a little tired, and hesitated to speak.

Mr. Cheng...... I would like to ask you ......"

Cheng Hao picked up the menu: "Let's eat first, and then talk about what we have after eating." ”

His expression looked relaxed, flipping through the menu was just pretending, and quickly ordered several dishes, he was a regular customer here, and the waiter already understood his tastes.

Xiao Yuan still lowered his head, looking cramped and uneasy. Her heart was heavy and breathless, she didn't understand that Cheng Hao would have this kind of expression, shouldn't he be more anxious and anxious than herself?

Soon the dishes were on the table, all of which were classic Huaiyang dishes, such as grilled pork cabbage with shrimp, whitebait and lettuce soup, and lion's head with crab roe.

Could it be that Mr. Cheng thinks that he came all the way to find him to eat under the big sun?

Thinking of this, Xiao Yuan couldn't bear it, and asked straight to the point: "Is something wrong with Xue Cheng?"

Cheng Hao was only slightly stunned, the chopsticks in his hand didn't even shake, he put the shrimp ball in his mouth and chewed it gently, and then asked calmly as before: "Weishenme asked?"

Xiang Xiaoyuan was not as calm as him, but hurriedly took out the newspaper from his schoolbag and slapped it in front of him.

The words of the article are tactful, but the hints in it will naturally be understood by a discerning person, and the person who can write this report will naturally know the inside story, and there must be a master behind it.

Cheng Hao looked at the date on it, this was the old newspaper the day before yesterday, it seemed that it was impossible to close the news inside.

"Xue Cheng is missing. ”

Cheng Hao folded the newspaper and put it aside, and continued to eat slowly.

"What?" Xiao Yuan's heart seemed to blow hard: "When did it happen?"

"Last week. Cheng Hao was still expressionless.

Xiaoyuan put the chopsticks aside, how could he still be in the mood to eat.

"According to the news sent by the American police, a group of members of the amateur expedition team disappeared in the Colorado Canyon and received a distress message, but there has been no signal back, and it has been determined that Xue Cheng is among the missing people. ”

Cheng Hao told Xiao Yuan the situation word by word, since she already knew, there was no need to hide it from her anymore.

Xiang Xiaoyuan was completely stunned, didn't know what to say, and opened his mouth for a long time: "Didn't he bring a bodyguard?"

"He went to study, so I didn't assign a 24-hour bodyguard. ”

Xiao Yuan buried her head in her hands, she knew what the place was.

It has been a whole week since Xue Cheng disappeared, and Mr. Cheng has contacted all the channels that can be contacted, and used all the relationships that can be used, but Xue Cheng still has no news like a mud cow entering the sea.

If it wasn't because he was too worried about SARS at that time, if he hadn't asked Xue Cheng not to come back at that time, I'm afraid Xue Cheng would have returned to Beijing by now, jumping around every day, and would run over to help him on weekends.

Cheng Hao watched her clump herself into a ball, trembling like a chick, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Don't blame yourself, even if you don't say it, I won't let him come back. ”

Xiao Yuan raised his head in surprise, how could he know what was going on in his heart? He was like a worm growing in her heart, knowing everything about her heart.

Cheng Hao's comfort did not settle her heart.

Shouldn't Mr. Cheng be more anxious and anxious than himself? But it can't be seen from his face.

This kind of Cheng Hao made her feel scared and cold, he could understand his own thoughts, but he didn't know anything about him......

Compared with self-blame, Xue Cheng's situation made her nervous even more, that kind of worry was the concern she should have for her friend, but she couldn't see anything in Mr. Cheng's place.

It was as if Xue Cheng was a stranger, and he had not invested anything called emotion in Xue Cheng at all.