"When it comes to this kind of thing, a person, whether he is a person in the matter, an insider, or an ordinary witness, should be tight-lipped about this kind of thing. If we can be sure that everyone will keep each other absolutely secret, then life will be full of many happy things. What holds people, especially women, at bay is the fear of their secrets being revealed. ”

It was Mr. de Grey who spoke, and they were talking about a recent scandal in Shanghai. The protagonists of the scandal were an old friend, Monsieur de Messier, and a newfound long-term meal ticket, the wife of a former director of the French Concession, Mr. Dudal, who was accidentally broken by a friend of Mr. Dudal during a tryst outside, causing a storm in the city.

"If they were not afraid of a short-lived little happiness, which would be paid in the future by irremediable shame and bitter tears, how many women would have spread their hands and do great things to satisfy their desires for a moment, the impulse that suddenly boiled in an hour, and the whimsical affair of an eye."

De Grey was commenting on the scandal with his French logic, and it was hard to believe that he, as a married man, could have such an attitude towards such a thing. Gao Yi wanted to say to him: "Dude, I almost brought you a green hat." I don't know if he can still be so determined when he hears this.

"Damn, it's not bad at all, if you can be sure that it won't leak out, then you can rest assured, dwarf, poor husbands!" Grechen first burst into a sneer, and then said suspiciously.

It was the first time the group had met since the hunt was over. Gao Yi acted like a nobody, and it was Madame de Gray who acted more like a nobody than he did. They parted that night before they reached shore, and Madame de Grey swam to the reef to fetch her clothes, while Gao Yi went straight ashore and returned to the tent. The next day, Madame de Grey acted as if nothing had happened, as if the one who had appeared the previous night was not her, but a mountain spirit that had borrowed her shell.

Before the first course of the main course was served, everyone broke off the crust from the bun shell and chewed it, while taking a sip of champagne from time to time, and the topic was basically inseparable from some of the so-called "big events" that happened in Shanghai recently.

"I heard that you went to the board of directors yesterday to testify? There's nothing wrong with your piece of land, is there? Keswick asked as the attendants brought the lamb steaks. He was the only one in the room who did not attend the hunt.

Gao Yi chewed a piece of lamb chops carefully, feeling the tender meat melt in his mouth like cream.

"There shouldn't be any problem, anyway, I've made it clear to them, I paid the money and got the deed, I paid the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other, it's as simple as that, and anything else happens, it has nothing to do with me. If there is anything else, then everyone will have to go to court. ”

He had been so busy for the past week that he hadn't even been to the Shanghai club, and this was the first time he had met Keswick in the past few days.

"So, that Mr. Brune just ran away?" Mrs. Grisson asked curiously.

Gao Yi has also recently become one of the parties to another scandal in Shanghai, but fortunately he is only the one who is the one and not the protagonist. The protagonist of this scandal is Mr. Bruin, the current director of the French Concession Board of Directors, who is responsible for the specific operation of a piece of land that was formerly part of the Board of Directors and later became the property of the French government. This land was purchased by the Board of Directors from the Chinese, and later leased to the French government as a military camp, but later due to the abolition of the barracks, the Board of Directors had a conflict with the French government because of this land. The final solution was for the French government to purchase the land from the Board of Directors at a price of 267,000 francs, for which the French government paid 200,000 francs in cash, and the other 67,000 francs were to be paid in advance by the real estate company in Bloune, and in return, the French government would entrust the real estate company in Brune to sell the land.

On 9 June, due to the change of the deed, the reporters of the French-language newspaper "Shanghai Daily" happened to pay attention to the transaction, and they wondered why they had not even heard of such a transaction before, and although the land sale of about 300,000 francs is not very conspicuous in Shanghai today, it is by no means so obscure. In the end, they found that 200,000 of the 267,000 francs belonged to the French government, which means that the new owners had purchased the land for only 67,000 francs. And this new owner is Mr. Gao Yi, who has been in the limelight in Shanghai recently.

So on June 10, Gao Yi's name made the front page of Shanghai Daily.

Gao Yi had been prepared for this, and since Ju Laida was completely unexpected, and informed him to prepare the money to complete the deal within a week after the meeting that day, he knew that this matter would definitely not be good, unless he gave up the deal. To this end, Gao Yi specially chose the conference room of HSBC on the day of the transaction, and invited Keswick, Bain and others to do notarization, and two lawyers from the Rida family reviewed the contract text one by one, and finally signed to complete the transaction.

Therefore, without waiting even the next day, the Shanghai Evening Post and the Shanghai Evening Post published in full the details of the text of the contract, as well as a photograph of the cheque paid for the purchase of the land, not 67,000 francs but 167,000 francs.

Then, after the perseverance of many parties to investigate the transaction, the inside story was exposed, and everyone found out that Bluen did not pay the 67,000 francs in advance at all, but made a time difference, first obtained the right to dispose of the land, and then resold it to Gao Yi, and then took out 67,000 francs from the money paid by Gao Yi to the public board of directors, and the remaining 100,000 francs fell into his pocket, and the French government did not get anything after paying 200,000 francs.

At this time, when people went to look for Mr. Bluen again, they found that no one had seen him since the news of the transaction was published in the Shanghai Daily on June 10, and his real estate company had long been in debt and could not make ends meet. What is even more shocking is that when people go to investigate the background of this Mr. Bloom, they find that there is another Mr. Edward Blossom who lives at his birth address, on the old rue de la Red Cross in Lyon, France, and has never left there. So it is not known who this Mr. Bluhn in Shanghai is.