Chapter 182: Puzzled
Due to the traffic jam on the road, it took Xu Wenlong twice as long to return to the "Bashan Love Club". didn't bother to rest and gasp, hurriedly sent Li Jing and Yang Yingying upstairs to the room, and went directly to the conference room on the third floor with Chen Yan and another girl, Ah Ping, who were already waiting at the door.
After sitting down, Assistant Chen Yanchen couldn't wait to report to him: "I have given the employees a holiday according to your instructions, and at the same time repeatedly told the security guards not to disclose this matter to President Liang Jingxuan Liang." It's just that I don't understand, why don't you want President Liang to know about this? Wouldn't it be better for him to know? With a big face and a lot of relationships, just find a leader to say hello, isn't everything fine? If only he had the heart to care for us! β
"What do I mean by that?" Xu Wenlong replied with a difficult face, "I met him for the first time, I didn't have many contacts, and I didn't have a deep friendship, so I bothered him and troubled him, but how embarrassed was it!" Besides, if he is also afraid of offending people and is unwilling to intervene in this matter, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing? β
His reasons seem to be high-sounding and reasonable, but in fact, the real reason is that he is straight-natured, thin-skinned, and unwilling to be favored, which may be the naΓ―ve idea of all newcomers to society, or it may be the unique simplicity of children in the mountains.
"But no matter what the circumstances, as long as there is a trace of the way to drill the camp, they will take advantage of the gap and make the most of it!" Ah Ping said regretfully.
"Let's not talk about this for a while, let's take a closer look at the reasons and see where we offended which people." Xu Wenlong said indifferently, "I have not been in the 'club' for a long time, and I rarely deal with others, and it is impossible and impossible to offend others. What about you? Have you ever had an argument or an unpleasant argument with anyone in relation to hospitality or business dealings? For example, high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as the second generation of rich officials and the like. β
"Nope!" Chen Yan and Ah Ping both shook their heads and denied, "None of them, not once." β
"All the goods of the 'club' are purchased from formal channels, and the purchase and sale are fair, and there is no delay or arrears." Chen Yan added, "In terms of reception, I am more polite and unhurried, and try my best to satisfy customers, and there have never been quarrels and complaints." As for some gangsters who pick quarrels and provoke trouble, although they are sometimes forcibly persuaded by the security guards to leave the 'clubhouse', this will also arouse their dissatisfaction and hatred. But the quality of these people can also be seen at a glance that they are not the second generation of rich officials, and the number of times such things occur is very rare, except when Manager Cai is there. β
"Yes, since the incident of Manager Cai, the 'clubhouse' has always been calm and safe. Fights and brawls are rare, let alone large-scale armed conflicts. Xu Wenlong sat in the boss's chair and thought hard, "Who could this be?" How did you offend him? β
Chen Yan sat on the sofa with a sad face, and she couldn't think of where she had offended someone.
"Could it be the exclusion and suppression from peers?" Ah Ping, who was silent, suddenly tilted her head and said.
"You mean they buy off the leaders to engage in unfair competition?" Xu Wenlong paused, nodded thoughtfully and said, "This is also possible!" β
"But there are no new entertainment venues in this vicinity, and the original ones are a few grades worse than us, which is to completely collapse us, and they are not capable of receiving this class of consumer groups!" Chen Yan analyzed carefully.
"That...... The 'Champs-ΓlysΓ©es' entertainment house, isn't it...... Isn't it being renovated? Ah Ping said in a hurry, "I see...... Could it be...... Will it be ......?"
"Are you talking about the 'Edenland' entertainment house that President Liang took over and developed, and the leisure center that is now renamed the 'Champs-ΓlysΓ©es'?" Chen Yan shook her head and categorically denied, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Mr. Liang is by no means like this,! What's more, Manager Xu also had a relationship with him! β
"But...... But......" Ah Ping glanced at Xu Wenlong with flustered eyes, as if she had made up her mind, "But there is no father and son in the business field." In the face of financial interests, how many people will cherish friends and friendships? It's not all friendly and affectionate on the surface, stumbling and stabbing in the back! β
"No, Mr. Liang shouldn't be like this." Chen Yan argued in her mouth, looking at Xu Wenlong inquiringly, expecting him to give herself a strong proof. After all, people's hearts are sinister, reality is ruthless, and she doesn't dare to pack tickets!
Xu Wenlong thought for a while, and then said with certainty: "It is absolutely impossible to say that the 'Champs Elysees' excludes and suppresses us. Don't say that its boss is Liang Jingxuan, there is still a little friendship between us, even anyone who has never known each other can do this. Because judging from the decoration specifications and grades of the entertainment house, what they are recruiting is definitely a person who is not rich or expensive, and it is very likely that they are operating in the way of absorbing members, and the entry threshold will not be very low, which is not comparable to the customers who come to our 'club' to consume. β
"That's right," Ah Ping nodded in agreement, "Their leisure center is indeed luxuriously decorated, elegantly styled, and has a strong aristocratic atmosphere!" β
"Then which way of the gods is getting in the way, and you have to put us down?" Chen Yan frowned and muttered to herself.
"And this person should have a great background, and his hatred for us is also very deep!" Ah Ping added, "Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to transfer so many departments, and he wouldn't have been able to make us so miserable!" β
"The position is high, and the hatred is ......deep," Xu Wenlong kept playing with a pencil, and repeatedly muttered in his mouth.
Just as the three of you looked at me and looked at you, thinking hard about the culprit behind the suppression of the "club", Yang Yingying walked in lightly, and said to everyone with a worried face: "Is the matter very troublesome? Do you want to go to dinner first, and then discuss it together after eating? Cousin, you haven't eaten at noon, so don't be hungry. β
"No hassle!" Xu Wenlong raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was almost five o'clock, and he was indeed a little hungry, so he said to Chen Yan and Ah Ping, "Let's go, let's go to dinner together, it's not early anyway, let's treat it as dinner." β
Chen Yan and Ah Ping did not refuse, stood up and silently followed him to the sixth floor.
After eating, Xu Wenlong asked Chen Yan and Ah Ping to rest first, and he returned to the conference room, sitting alone at the desk and thinking quietly, trying to recall, trying to sort out a clue from the complicated memories.
"The position is high, the hatred is deep, who will this be?" He frowned and pondered silently, "Could it be that Zhao Zhihua's remnants are not accomplices?" He is rich and powerful, and it is not impossible to have one or two friends who have a big official position. But there's no reason for that! First of all, the collusion between officials and businessmen is to covet money, and now that everyone is dead, what else can they get from him? Even if the two of them are hardcore buddies, just to avenge him, it is unlikely, because no one knows that the fall of Zhao Zhihua's group was done by themselves......"
Xu Wenlong thought about it alone in the office for a long time, but he was still like a sea of smoke, clueless, and finally simply took out a bottle of liquor, poured himself a drink, and drank the stuffy wine by himself.
A life-and-death contest related to the "club", but he couldn't find an opponent, or even knew who the opponent was, which really made him a little depressed and annoyed!
A bottle of liquor has bottomed out, but Xu Wenlong's mind is still in a mess, and he can't figure out how ugly he is. He sighed and pulled another bottle out of the wine cabinet.
"How can you drink like that? What should I do if I drink badly? The door slammed, and a fragrant wind wafted in, and a white jade hand followed and stretched out, snatching the wine bottle from Xu Wenlong's hand.
"It's okay, it's just a bottle!" Xu Wenlong squinted at Chen Yan, who came in quietly, and said self-deprecatingly, "Don't you know that I have been tested by alcohol for a long time?" β
"You can't drink like that!" Chen Yan put the wine back in the wine cabinet and said with a strange face, "Didn't you say that borrowing wine to eliminate sorrow is even more sorrowful?" You're just drunk and drunk, so what? It's not going to help! β
"Anyway, it's boring to sit, and before you know it, you drink it." Xu Wenlong said with a wry smile, "By the way, why don't you go to rest yet?" Can I help you? β
"That's right," Chen Yan lifted the glasses on her nose and said with an annoyed expression, "The police station has come to check again, and there are fifteen or sixteen people." However, we withdrew when we closed our doors, but left two people on the side of the street to keep watch. It seems that they seem to ...... It seems to ......"
"What about them?" Xu Wenlong said helplessly, "They are also forced, they just carry out orders, and the most hateful thing is the mysterious person who is making trouble behind the scenes, but unfortunately I don't know who he is for the time being." β
Chen Yan sighed and said worriedly: "It's not a matter to hide like this all the time, if this continues, when will we be able to open?" β
"Don't worry, take your time, there will always be a time when things will be resolved." Xu Wenlong comforted her on the lips, but he was actually so anxious in his heart. Because the people behind the scenes are very deeply hidden, hiding in the shadows and commanding remotely, and it is not easy for him to deal with this kind of old slippery head who has been fighting in the officialdom for many years. After all, you can't just arrest him and scold him or beat him up!
"I think that's all there is to it." Chen Yan looked at Xu Wenlong, whose expression was uncertain, and said tentatively, "If all kinds of methods have been tried, and it still can't be solved, then should we still ask for ...... I also asked President Liang to come forward ......"
"Let's talk about it in a few days," Xu Wenlong habitually reached out to get the wine glass, but found that the wine glass was empty, so he had to grab a pencil casually, gently tapped the table and said, "Let me inquire first and see who the person behind it is?" Why did he do it? I don't believe that he really has such a bold man, so blatantly declares a personal vendetta, and it is an unwarranted personal vendetta! β
Chen Yan nodded and said, "Then you have to be careful, especially with a humble attitude, you must not be rash, some officials really can't afford to offend." To offend them is to offend Hades! β
Xu Wenlong shrugged his shoulders and smiled noncommittally.
The two chatted for a while, and Chen Yan got up and left. Xu Wenlong didn't stay, and continued to sit in the office in a daze, drinking and meditating, until he was slightly dizzy and his body was hot, and then he walked downstairs with light steps. He wanted to drive to blow the wind, distract himself, sort out his chaotic thoughts, and by the way, consider which department and which person to open the gap first, and find out the culprit behind the suppression of the "club" in one fell swoop.