"Where have you been lately, I heard that your company has been in a lot of trouble?" Du Zeming looked at Lian Nuo and asked.

Lian Nuo had already taken the scarf off his neck at this time, revealing a white face, and he said with a smile: "It's not that since I helped you and Wang Shuang last time, my family and I have encountered some troubles since then." ”

"Then what is the important thing that you took the initiative to find me this time?" Du Zeming handed Lian Nuo a glass of whiskey and said.

"You better tell me first, what is the purpose of Du Hongming's return this time." Lian Nuo did not directly answer Du Zeming's question, but mentioned Du Hongming to him.

Du Zeming didn't know why Lian Nuo asked Du Hongming about it, but he still said: "Why, you already know." What purpose can he have, it's just to go against our Du family. ”

Lian Nuo nodded, "It seems that he is very well prepared this time, and if he doesn't bring us down, I'm afraid he won't be reconciled." ”

"What news did you get?"

"We talked about Chao Yixing last time", Lian Nuo raised his glass and took a sip of whiskey, and then said: "At that time, we were still speculating about who the leader of Chao Yixing was, and what reason there was to have a conflict with your Du family. ”

"Now, at least the first question, I've found the answer."

Du Zeming's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he looked at Lian Nuo with a nervous expression, "Who is this person?" ”

Lian Nuo hurriedly added: "Don't expect too much, although I already know what this person looks like, but that's all." ”

As he spoke, Lian Nuo took out a photo from his handbag, on which was a woman who looked to be in her fifties, dignified, elegantly dressed, with long hair in a shawl, it could be seen that she should be glamorous and attractive when she was young.

Du Zeming took the photo and looked at the face in detail in the photo. He felt as if he had seen this face, and it had only recently appeared in front of him.

Lian Nuo ignored Du Zeming's reminiscing expression and continued: "This woman is the current leader of Chao Yixing, to be precise, the chairman. Chao Yixing has slowly transformed from an underground business in recent years, and now it has become a community organization that is a clothing import and export company in the open and still engaged in underworld activities in the dark. ”

"yes, that's right, it's her." Du Zeming suddenly realized, isn't the woman in this photo the woman he bumped into in the parking lot of the private club that day?

The woman who walked with Du Hongming, although the light was not good that night, and she couldn't really see her face clearly, her facial features were obviously very similar to the appearance in the photo.

"What? Do you know this woman? ”

Du Zeming shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I only saw this woman a few days ago." ”

"Where?"

"A private club at the entrance of Jin Mao Street."

"Oh, so this woman doesn't sit behind the scenes as rumored to be, and rarely shows up."

Du Zeming looked at Lian Nuo and asked, "How much do you know about this woman?" ”

Lian Nuo spread his hands and replied, "Like I said, I know what she looks like, but that's about it. I don't know who her surname is, I don't know her family background, social relationships, and I don't know how she got married to your Du family. ”

"You don't know anything, so you can be sure that this woman is the leader of Chaoyixing?" Du Zeming looked at Lian Nuo suspiciously.

"There is nothing wrong with this, although it is not easy to find a photo of this woman, but what did we do before we even got home, you don't need to doubt it, right?"

Du Zeming nodded in approval and said, "That's right." ”

"Did you notice anything when you saw this woman?" Lian Nuo asked.

"If I say, I saw this woman with Du Hongming, do you think it's okay?" Du Zeming said calmly.

"In other words, Du Hongming's relationship with this woman is not ordinary, combined with a series of previous events, plus the timing of Du Hongming's return to China, this should not be a coincidence."

"Now that I think about it, it is. I think Du Hongming has some kind of relationship with the Chao Yixing represented by this woman, or it can be said that they are a cooperative relationship with each other. ”

Lian Nuo drank the wine in his hand and said, "If that's the case, then we should all be careful." ”

"Why, you're being targeted too?"

"We are not even in the forefront of the wealthy businessmen in Gaoyang City, and the old man of my family has long had no ambition to compete for fame and fortune, he only wants to keep the current territory in peace, even if he is targeted by them, he may just mistakenly think that our Lianjia has close contacts with the Du family, so I am implicated, I don't think it matters."

"In that case, it's better to be careful. Chao Yi Xing has always tried to control all walks of life in the city, especially several leading enterprises, once the tentacles extend to the business territory of Chao Yi Xing, damaging their chain of interests, it will inevitably lead to their open guns and hidden arrows, many obstacles. ”

Lian Nuo agreed and said: "Since you are at the top of the interests, you don't have to think about living a peaceful life, money and fame are taken from other people's mouths, if you don't have it, you will fight for it, and when you have it, you will be coveted by others." Isn't that what you were born to live like this? ”

Lian Nuo filled the wine glass and reached over to touch a glass with Du Zeming. Between the two men, there is a sense of heart-to-heart at this time. Du Zeming doesn't know why, every time he gets along with Lian Nuo, he always has to drink, although he doesn't like to drink, and he doesn't have a good amount of alcohol, but he feels that he is still happy to drink like this.

The two drank heartily, and Lian Nuo got up and left Du's house when Du Zeming was already a little drunk. Du Zeming only heard Lian Nuo turn around and say, rest as soon as possible, Mr. Du.

Du Zeming sat slumped on the sofa chair in the study, his thoughts became confused, accompanied by bouts of headaches, and many fragmentary pictures flashed in his mind. There is always a figure in these pictures, with thin cheeks, simple clothes, always wearing a face without makeup through the house, bringing him some food, or thick soup or coffee, or a cup of ginseng tea.

In a trance, this figure appeared in front of the closet again, picking up the messy clothes on the bed one by one, placing them on the bed and carefully folding and tidying them up. After a while, she reappeared in the kitchen, where a fragrant warm soup was cooking.

Du Zeming felt that this woman was so gentle and considerate. At this time, the woman's figure had suddenly come to Du Zeming, and Du Zeming was a little at a loss. At this time, a pair of Qianqianyu hands had already stretched out and gently placed them on his two temples, and Du Zeming suddenly felt more comfortable. The woman's strength was just right, without the slightest misconduct or slackness, Du Zeming gradually immersed himself in such tenderness and fell asleep.

When Du Zeming woke up, the time had come to 2:47 in the morning, and he was woken up by several consecutive phone calls. In the haze, Du Zeming heard Li Shujun's eager and excited voice on the other end of the phone, and his father Du Liangde's old illness relapsed and was sent to the emergency room.

Du Zeming woke up suddenly, as if he had been splashed with a basin of cold water in front of him, and any drunkenness was dispersed. He didn't have time to pick up his coat, so he grabbed his car keys and walked out of the house.

On the phone, Li Shujun only said that Du Liangde stayed alone in the study after eating today, and suddenly fell to the ground without knowing what was going on. Breathing also became difficult.

Du Zeming knows very well that Du Liangde's physical condition has actually been poor, although he has undergone heart surgery for two years, he has been generally stable, and he has been recuperating at home all year round, so the family feels that Du Liangde's condition is generally controlled and stable, and the doctors who regularly come to the home to revisit Du Liangde have not detected any adverse trends.

Du Zeming didn't know why he had such a sudden illness this time, whether it was a recurrence of an old illness or another heart disease, all of which he could only understand when he rushed to the hospital.

When Du Zeming hurried to the door of the hospital's emergency room, he saw Li Shujun sitting on a bench on the edge of the corridor, and the indicator light of the operating room was still on.

"I was sitting there upright, but somehow I suddenly fell to the ground, and it was very difficult to breathe, and I couldn't stop wheezing. I immediately asked the driver to arrange a car and take him to the hospital for first aid. ”

"I don't usually see any recurrence of the condition, what the hell is going on." Du Zeming thought solemnly: "By the way, what's going on today, isn't it already early in the morning, and he's still sitting in the study?" ”

Li Shujun nodded, and said with a puzzled face: "I don't know what's going on, he hasn't been in a good mood recently, first the outside world has been overwhelmingly bad news about our Du family, then the bidding faux pas on Xiushan Beach, and then the company's stock price fell, these things made him very unhappy, but even so, he is also a person who came over with strong winds and waves, and it stands to reason that he should not be hit down just because of these things." ”

"What did he do in his study?" Du Zeming asked.

"It's nothing, it's just that I read a book for a while, and I don't listen to my advice and smoke a few cigarettes. After that, it was too late, and I urged him several times but couldn't tell him to go to his room to sleep, so I had to lie on the sofa in the living room and squint for a while, not daring to leave him too far. Li Shujun replied.

At this time, the driver of the family happened to come over after completing the formalities, and he saw that Du Zeming had also arrived, so he said to Li Shujun and Du Zeming: "Mrs., Mr. Du, the master went out of the door today, I don't know if he caught a cold outside, or ate something unclean, I think it may have something to do with this." ”

When Du Zeming heard this, he immediately asked, "Where did the master go today?" What did you do? ”