Chapter 20: Night Talk, Inspiration
Night, quietly shrouded in Songfeng Villa, located not far from the Erqi National Road, New Year's Day, staying in not much hotels prematurely quieted, at nine o'clock in the evening, Zou Xiaolu took a light step appeared six floors straight to the top floor under the roof, when looking up, did not see the shadow of Shuai Lang, stopped slightly, and climbed the stairs. γReading.comγ
Mr. Xu was so angry with this group of ruffians that he went to bed early, and the rest of the energetic people rented a room in the chess and card room of the villa, and played mahjong twice, Zou Xiaolu found the chess and card room to know that Shuai Lang was on the rooftop, maybe it was just idle and boring, or maybe it was a faint curiosity, which drove Zou Xiaolu to the rooftop of the building.
To be honest, in my heart, I am reluctant to contact any of these people alone, although I do not exclude the small citizens living at the bottom, but to be able to tolerate such a group of people who eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, Zou Xiaolu thinks that he still lacks so much of it, if it weren't for this, maybe the life of the petty bourgeoisie in the metropolis would never intersect with such a person.
Life is a journey, and you and I are both passers-by in a hurry...... Zou Xiaolu suddenly had such a sentence in her heart, when she saw this group of people who did not lack joy and happiness, she even sometimes felt that she was a little too persistent, and she lacked the open-mindedness of these people to life, yes, open-mindedness, Zou Xiaolu's mind keenly pointed to the source of her curiosity, it was handsome open-mindedness, that open-mindedness that seemed not to be thirsty for inheritance.
The exit of the rooftop is like a reinforced concrete fortification, as soon as you arrive here, the night is very quiet, so quiet that you can hear the wind whistling, the night sky is deep, the stars are bright and the moon is bright, and the bright river is in the sky, so that the mood at this time is also empty. After a few glances, I saw Shuai Lang leaning on the railing of the building alone, with mp5 next to him, needless to say, he was still looking at the scene that he had watched countless times.
Hearing the light and crisp sound of high heels, Shuai Lang didn't seem to be immersed, but he didn't show a bigger surprise, just turned around, Zou Xiaolu stepped forward lightly, handed the hot coffee paper cup in his hand to Shuai Lang casually, smiled, as if a deliberate concern, or just looking for a topic that could be spoken, this topic came out of the woman's mouth to be higher than the heat of coffee, so I heard her say: "Taste, this is what I brought from Zhongzhou, boiled with Yuntai Mountain mineral water here." β
"Hehe, I drink coffee and you smoke, and I can't enjoy it." Shuai Lang smiled, shhh
Zou Xiaolu smiled and said, "I didn't like it very much, but after getting used to it, it's a little addictive like you smoking...... I'm still looking at that video. β
Shuai Lang hummed lightly, looked at Zou Xiaolu with a windbreaker and fluttering scarf from the side, every time he peeked in, he was a little depressed by this woman who was more than half a head taller than himself, not only visually depressed, but also psychologically depressed, although the feeling was very light, but it never disappeared, even if the other party showed affection, Shuai Lang also knew very well that it was because of those things outside his body, not because of his own charm.
So...... Shuai Lang glanced at the position of the two of them, seventy centimeters apart, far away from a safe distance, and smiled secretly in his heart, thinking about all the tricks that Sheng Xiaoshan had taught him, they were all as ridiculous as jokes at this time.
"What are you laughing at?" Zou Xiaolu asked teasingly, inadvertently discovering Shuai Lang's smile, Shuai Lang smiled and said, "I didn't laugh at you, I remembered a friend." β
Of course, it was the Sheng Lao Teacher who taught pickle girls, but in the end he was soaked in the old teacher, and he wore the green hat to Mr. Liu, and whenever he thought about it, he made Shuai Lang feel happy.
"Shuailang, I think you're a little different from those friends of yours."
"Really? Except for Lao Pi, a few of us grew up with bare ass, and our temperaments are similar. β
"It's different, it feels like you're more mature than them."
"That's easy to understand, they are spoiled by their parents, and my parents divorced early, so they suffered a little more than them."
"Huh...... Is it? Well, but it can also be seen that you are the soul of this team, so you should naturally be more responsible. β
"It's not because I'm a soul, but because these bastards have earned money with me, and they don't dare not listen to me...... If there is a better business, they will immediately slap their ass and leave, and they dare not say hello. β
"Huh...... Is it? Can I understand that being friends is also based on money? β
"Isn't it? We live in an age of spiritual barrenness and lack of trust, and after the purpose and value of life can be quantified into economic indicators, only money remains............ How? Zou Meiyuan, do you have a higher spiritual realm to pursue? β
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Zou Xiaolu was choked up, but he didn't expect that even if he didn't say anything, he would have no time to say anything, so he smiled and covered up his embarrassment, this time he came to Zhongzhou, to put it bluntly, it was also for money, and it had nothing to do with a higher spiritual realm. A few casual sentences Zou Xiaolu's posture changed from leaning on the railing to turning around and leaning against the railing, Shuai Lang did not move, the finished picture has been frozen, Zou Xiaolu looked at it to confirm that Shuai Lang had no sarcastic sarcasm, and simply went straight to the topic and asked: "That's right, we always have something in common in this point...... You wouldn't mind if we exchanged our views on the matter? To be honest, I really don't know much about Duanmu, but I still know a little about these people who came to Duanmu's legacy. β
"You want to get to the bottom of me?" Shuai Lang turned around and asked with a smile, knowing that these two were about to sit still.
"Well, including showing you our foundation." Zou Xiaolu nodded.
"Then you should want to tell me about the grievances between these people and Duanmu...... Or the grievances between you, or to put it more simply, the grievances between you and the elite public division and Liu Yiming, of course, also include the contradictions between your families because of interests. Shuai Lang put it in a few places, Zou Xiaolu's eyes were all the time, and he was about to say it as a secret, but he ended his sentence and asked in surprise: "What do you know?" β
"I don't know, I don't think I need to know, there are too many things that can be seen at that meal." Shuai Lang said.
"Tell me, then, what do you see?" Zou Xiaolu asked strangely, it seemed that the meal was all aimed at Shuai Lang, but he didn't expect Shuai Lang to see something from it.
"It's nothing, I think Liu Yiming and your elites should have a bit of old grudges, and after that, Liu Yiming and China Railway persuaded the industry and made a fortune at the auction together, this matter, it should be Yuansheng also participated, maybe because of the uneven interests between each other...... Anyway, it's just a feeling, I feel like you're fighting at the table. Shuai Lang said.
"I can see it accurately, it's basically like this...... Zou Xiaolu changed her posture, leaned on the railing and looked at it like Shuai Lang, and said quietly: "I think you should see the key person in this, it's Liu Yiming...... Do you know anything about this person? β
"I don't know much about ......," Shuai Lang said, evading.
"Actually, Liu Yiming's former elite financial director ........."
Zou Xiaolu said in a tone of reminiscence, things have been traced back to a few years ago, to the fact that this Liu financial director went to Zhongzhou City to build a branch of the company, and it is also an attempt for the elite to expand the business of second-tier cities, this person is very calculating, and took the 10 million funds of the elite venture capital company to invest in the original Fengyixuan, this investment plan only highlighted a year later The rate of return is very low, less than four percent, and even the interest rate of the bank is not enough, the headquarters doubts this, who would think that this Liu Yiming will resign generally, As soon as he resigned and invested in trouble, Feng Yixuan owed a penny of the investment money due to poor management, and the general department sent someone to appeal to the local court, and the lawsuit lasted for more than a year before the principal was returned......
Shuai Lang understood the trick of this, which was equivalent to borrowing someone else's chicken to lay golden eggs for himself, and sure enough, when the lawsuit was over, he found that Liu Yiming had married a shareholder of Fengyizhi and started a family, and became the first shareholder of Fengyixuan. As for elite venture capital, he can only watch the legal operation of others and secretly suffer a dumb loss.
Zou Xiaolu said, took out a document, it is a preserved judgment, the judgment of the Zhongzhou Intermediate People's Court Civil Law, it can't be fake, there is the name of the respondent Sheng Xiaoshan, and the plaintiff is Zou Xiaolu. Shuai Lang smiled and looked at it and came back and said, "Hehe...... This is already good, you guys have to get the principal back, and now Laipi, you can't find anyone at all when you get the money. β
"Look at your Dao Dao De bottom line is not very high." Zou Xiaolu laughed and made a joke, took back the verdict, and continued: "If we think we are unlucky for such a thing...... But then on, this scoundrel became more and more shameless. β
Zou Xiaolu talked about the follow-up, and although he left the elite venture capital company, this person was very scheming, and actually contacted several branches of the company in Zhuhai, Nanning, and Haikou in private, and asked everyone to invest in a new drug development project, and naturally gave a high rebate to lure him, but the result was naturally that the investment was wasted, and the whereabouts of the 200 million yuan were unknown.
Hearing this, Shuai Lang was stunned, and asked in surprise: "Is it the bureau set up by Duanmu?" What happened in Nanning, right? That was the last time that the front end of the four-year round was set up. β
"That's right, that's it, who else has this ability, in order to be a fraud, he didn't hesitate to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy factories and equipment, and even the commissioner sent by our headquarters was deceived, as soon as the investment arrived, he threw down the mess and slipped away, in order to find this liar, we provided more than 1 million case funds to the local ** tip, and it took several years to find the ......" Zou Xiaolu said angrily.
"This is a common technique used by Duanmu." Shuai Lang listened and commented, this trickster is similar to the Ponzi trickster on Wall Street, in fact, the simpler and more permanent the master's method, it is nothing more than tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, or pulling the tiger skin to pull the flag, as soon as the money arrives, he slipped away, thought about it, and asked out loud: "With Duanmu's method, except for himself, the rest of the people will be kicked away, so what do you mean, Duanmu once joined forces with Liu Yiming?" Oh, see, that's why they have a feud...... It was precisely because he was kicked away by Duanmu that he didn't touch the money, so he escaped the sanctions, right? β
Shuai Lang analyzed, and with a flash of inspiration, he seemed to vaguely figure out the reason why Duanmu would become the target of the Zhongzhou people.
Zou Xiaolu stared at Shuai Lang in a little surprise, but he didn't expect this person's reaction to be so fast, and nodded: "He was just an errand runner at the time, he didn't touch any money, and he was stranded by the local ** for a few months, and then he spent money to get it out...... At that time, we suffered heavy losses, with three branches investing 200 million yuan and losing all their money, and a manager in Zhuhai jumped off the building to kill himself, and the headquarters had to withdraw several branches to compress the business ......"
"Oh...... This Liu Yiming is also a character, a gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, and then he must be lying on his salary and trying his courage, and he will put Duanmu to death. Shuai Lang thought about it later, human nature, for the sake of hatred and money, it is reasonable to do these things.
"Yes, this person is very scheming, a few months after he was released from prison, he returned to the elite headquarters, and gave our general manager Xue at the time, asking for 10 million to sell us Duanmu Jieping's information, saying that this person is from the Jiang Xiang faction, I heard that this is a Jiang Xiang Hu Pian liar sect, we feel that it was unbelievable at that time, and he is a liar himself, no one believes him...... Who knows that it didn't take long for him to switch to the aptx venture capital company outside the territory, and later, as far as we know, this venture capital company was actually deceived once in Xiangyuangang, Liu Yiming just knew who the behind-the-scenes manipulator was, and those materials became his promotion capital...... Later, I also vaguely knew that he seemed to have found the remnants of this Jianghu sect, and jointly set up a bureau to lure Duanmu Jieping back to Zhongzhou, and you should know better than me about what happened after that, right? Zou Xiaolu said, a little gloomy for no reason.
Connected, Shuai Lang finally all connected, Liu Yiming should have found Gu Qingzhi and Kou Zhong's cadres, the two sides jointly calculated Duanmu with the auction, and the smarter Liu Yiming should have secretly cooperated with the bald predator of China Railway Persuasion at the same time, and found an opponent like Shang Yinhe for Duanmu, so that the two tigers could fight each other, so as to profit from it, no matter who fell, it was profitable, not to mention that now both of them have fallen. China Railway persuaded the predator who made his fortune on real estate, and naturally took over all the business of Shang Yinhe in a grand manner.
"Oh......" Shuai Lang suddenly remembered a beautiful girl, that Yin Fangquan, and said to himself in a daze: "It seems that I have been prepared for a long time, I said that Shang Yinhe seems to have nothing to do with this matter, how can he be so badly trapped, they are ready to borrow Shang Yinhe's hand to clean up Duanmu, and then pass through the people placed by Shang Yinhe's side, as long as they take out the accounts, they can put Shang Yinhe to death at any time......... I'm actually an accident, in fact, as long as Duanmu Monk Yinhe catches the fire, maybe Jian Chen will make a move at a critical time, so what's going on with Yuansheng? β
"I can tell you this, do you know how much the auction in Zhongzhou will be in September?" Zou Xiaolu asked.
"It seems to be quite big, 1.1 billion, a record in history. However, most of it is bought and sold short, they change their left hand to their right hand, and then the thief calls for the thief. Shuai Lang said, I remember very clearly that Hua Chenyi, the boss of Huatai Auto Trade, took the lead, obviously cheated others, and pretended to be like a little daughter-in-law who had been wronged.
"That's just an appearance, of course, I have to admire you Zhongzhou people, who have deceived many people by this method...... However, I heard of several of the biggest deals but there were no problems, such as a piece of Han jade sold for more than 30 million, a Ming Dynasty purple clay pot sold for 20 million, and a screen, which set a high price of more than 60 million, and is said to have been purchased by a mysterious buyer outside the border...... If I tell you, this honest and trustworthy seller is far better than the company, do you think it makes sense? Zou Xiaolu said mysteriously.
It is no secret that some modern enterprises hoard antiques to increase their value and maintain their value, and vaguely remember that there seemed to be a business seller at that time, but they were turned upside down by the noise of fakes, and they didn't pay attention to these transactions reached at that time, but listening to Zou Xiaolu's tone, Shuai Lang's heart sank, and he blurted out: "Money laundering." β
"Clever, in fact, selling and buying, in addition to the thief shouting to catch the thief, there is also a layer of function that allows illegal funds to enter the legal circulation channel...... Liu Yiming is a master of capital manipulation, and he won't tell you that these people in our venture capital company are all masters of money laundering. Zou Xiaolu said with a smile.
"Oh...... Ming Xiu plank road, secret road Chen Cang, public opinion all point to the auction of fake goods scam, but no one pays attention to this normal transaction in the cat, they are two-pronged, killing two birds with one stone, money fraud and money laundering are carried out at the same time...... And because money laundering invisibly magnifies the volume of transactions, it can also attract unknown investors, and the two not only do not conflict, but complement each other...... Oh, this scam is done, I'm afraid Duanmu didn't understand it. It's great, not ordinarily powerful. β
Shuai Lang sighed, a little suspicious that his IQ couldn't keep up with the development of deception, and thought that he had already seen the bottom of it, but he didn't see the biggest problem. In addition to sighing, only an awe-inspiring "awesome" can express the state of mind at this time.
sighed a few words, and inadvertently looked at Zou Xiaolu, only to see that this woman seemed to be a little gloomy, and Shuai Lang asked casually: "Zou Meiyuan, your mood today is a little wrong?" Your company was cheated out of money, and it wasn't your own money that was lost, as for being so sad? β
"It's not sad, it's just a wish." Zou Xiaolu said gloomily. Shuai Lang asked in surprise: "What wish?" β
"Over the years, I have been involved in the contact between the public division and the police to find out the whereabouts of this scammer, but unfortunately when we get the news, he has killed himself, in fact, you may be a little misunderstood about me, my identity is at most a senior worker, and the salary is not high enough to be able to afford a house of 20,000 square meters in Bei Yuanjing. The founder of the elite venture capital foundation is Mr. Xu's father, strictly speaking, this family-style public company, even if the money is recovered, it has little to do with me. At most, you'll get an extra bonus. Zou Xiaolu said inexplicably, her words faintly revealed a sad emotion, and she looked at Shuai Lang a few times, but she didn't say that wish, but said around the bend: "Some people are not as glamorous and arrogant as they look on the outside, such as me." You're right, I used to have a wish to support me in doing this, but now that this wish is gone, I find that all I can do is a small amount of bonus money, do you think it's ridiculous? β
Shuai Lang's eyes were stagnant, as if he saw the helplessness and pity hidden under the beautiful and glamorous surface of this beautiful woman, the source of this emotion made her become so self-pitying, when the eyes met, Shuai Lang slowly asked: "The one who jumped off the building in Zhuhai, who are you?" β
Zou Xiaolu was stunned for a moment, then wiped her nose twitching, and pouted helplessly: "My father." β
After a few sobs, time has passed, and there is no longer that desire to cry, but said with a smile in tears: "My life is like a vulgar story, my father died and my mother married, and my ability is not big, I can only find a job with my face, I know that I have no ability to take revenge, but I have always wanted to find that liar and ask him, why did he destroy our happy family...... When I found out that he and my father had chosen to end themselves the same way, I burst into tears in the office......... Actually, what if I find it? It's not like I can't help myself, and I've traveled thousands of miles to find a legacy that I don't know if it exists or not......"
"It's better that it doesn't exist, if it's really born, maybe a tragedy like your father's one will happen......" Shuai Lang said, listening as if there was still a subtext unspoken, Zou Xiaolu sneered disappretently: "Actually, I can't get used to your coy attitude, as if I care about the whereabouts of your bequest, just like you are out of the matter...... There are really a billion in front of you, and I don't believe you are not tempted. β
"Tempting, how can you not be tempted...... But being tempted and reaching out are two different things. Shuai Lang shook his head, very objective.
"Then let me ask you, Shuai Lang, you have to tell me the truth, are you sure about this matter?" Zou Xiaolu asked very seriously, Shuai Lang glanced at him and said, "What do you mean?" Or remind me of the serious consequences. β
"No, no, it's not interesting, I just think that if you are not sure, there is no need to consume it so meaninglessly, Mr. Xu is about to lose patience." Zou Xiaolu said, and Shuai Lang immediately answered: "That's not right, Ming'er, you send us away, just the expenses of the past few days, we are conceited, we just break up." β
"What do you mean? Didn't you even want to find it? Zou Xiaolu asked.
"Yo, you finally get it." Shuai Lang said, so angry that Zou Xiaolu rolled his eyes and choked, but Shuai Lang asked with a smile: "Don't just tempt me, let me ask you, Zou Meinu, those billion find you and don't move, how much reward can they give you, can you buy a house in Beiqijing, or can they buy you a car?" β
"You're laughing at me?" Zou Xiaolu said unhappily.
"No, I'm protecting you. Not finding it was a good ending for both of us and we could get on with our lives now, but I can't imagine what would happen after we found out. Especially for outsiders like you, whether they can get out of it is a problem. Shuai Lang said.
"Then I have to thank you." Zou Xiaolu said without thanks.
"You're welcome, I don't know where it is anyway." Shuai Lang said, very heartlessly.
Faint understanding, warmth and sympathy, gradually faded in the conversation about the legacy, the night is getting thicker, the atmosphere is getting colder, men and women look at each other in the cold moonlight, lack of a proper atmosphere, Zou Xiaolu has a strange feeling when looking at each other, it seems that the more he looks at the mystery of this person, the more he says he doesn't know, but the more he feels like he wants to cover the cover, but maybe he is right, and it may be a good ending to find nothing, from his admiring eyes, Zou Xiaolu felt that he should be like meeting a man, and he was always not unsympathetic to a beautiful woman.
Between the stares, the telephone phone bell rang suddenly, and the two of them were shocked, and at the same time touched the mobile phone, but it was Zou Xiaolu's ringing, and the telephone was answered, as if there was an urgent matter, and he was about to leave, but he turned around and told Shuai Lang: "Mr. Xu's telephone may have been found, and it was found by the police, in the safe of CITIC Bank...... We're going to rush back to the city overnight, and he'll let you do your own thing, and you've got your wish. β
said that he left in a hurry, and when he came to the exit, he glanced back at Shuai Lang, and Shuai Lang did not move. The man disappeared at the entrance to the rooftop.
"Fake!"
Shuai Lang muttered two words to himself for a long time, if the police found it, it must be according to Xu Fengfei's confession path to reverse check and monitor to find the hiding place, but Shuai Lang can definitely feel that this is fake, if you want to find a bank to manage, you can do it outside the realm casually, with Duanmu's bitter and bitter life experience will definitely not be so cheap to the treasury, and this person runs away to find an old-fashioned small alley, how can he leave a monitoring record under such a big event?
Although he couldn't find more reasons, Shuai Lang felt that it should be fake, maybe it was a disguise, maybe it was some prop he was preparing for the next deception, and it wouldn't be real property anyway. The night was cold, Shuai Lang packed up the player, put it in his pocket, took the two coffee cups in his hand, looked at it, as if he could still see Zou Meiyuan girl holding the cup elegantly, threw it into the garbage bin near the left, and slowly went downstairs, and thought of his mind while walking, if it was fake, then where was it really located?
So Shuai Lang took out the player again, and looked at the scene of the last meeting with Duanmu again, in fact, what he said to these bigwigs before seemed reasonable, but it was nonsense, everything was not so complicated, if he was, it was in this conversation; If he is not there, Shuai Lang believes that no one will ever find him again.
Of course, there is a third possibility, this possibility: there is no such thing as no, Duanmu wants to use a big lie to end the old grudge and new hatred.
What is it?
Shuai Lang returned to the room, there was still the player on the pillow, carefully looking at every detail at the time, and once again from beginning to end, I could still feel the inexplicable grief and indignation in the words of this bizarre person, read the song song, Shuai Lang consciously slowed down, and listened to the word again from beginning to end, the whole conversation seemed abrupt about this sentence, many people are paying attention to this song, turning him into a place name, turning it into a password and any whimsy, but that kind of Shuai Lang feels far-fetched, With Duanmu's technique, it should be a hiding place that is placed in front of your eyes and you can't find it, and those self-proclaimed smart ideas don't make sense at all.
Still didn't find out, Shuai Lang threw the player stupidly, sighed, and felt that this old liar was dying. But at this moment, the thrown player was still playing, and it was the sentence after reading the words, which resounded softly in the empty room, making Shuai Lang stunned......
"It's a good poem, it's like it was written specifically for my parents, but it's a pity that I'm so infamous that I don't want to defile my parents' tombs anymore, and I don't want to use the name Duanmu Jieping anymore, and when I die, if there is a tablet, I hope it's a wordless tablet; If it's an urn, hopefully it's an urn without a name......"
"Wow...... Wouldn't it be at the cemetery you've been to a few times? β
Shuai Lang exclaimed, suddenly realized what he had found, got up with a bone, and planted himself on the ground with a cold and happy voice.