Xie Dezhao agreed with a smile, but warned her: "Your uncle said that the Special Operations Department is not an ordinary department. We have just returned from abroad. We must be careful not to cause trouble and make it difficult for your uncle."
In fact, his marriage relationship with Chairman Long's cousin is not enough to make their two families have a particularly close relationship.
Both of them are married and have no children, so the bond between husband and wife is not very strong.
Fortunately, Xie Dezhao does not need to rely on Speaker Long to gain any benefits, so for the time being, the two families get along happily, and their relationship is gradually getting along.
Xie Qingying hurriedly agreed, finished her meal in a hurry, and went back to her room to dress up.
Because she didn't want Huo Shaoheng to know that she was there, she went to the cafe in advance.
But what she didn't know was that given the nature of Huo Shaoheng's work, being able to interview her father Xie Dezhao in that cafe meant that he must have controlled everything inside and outside the cafe.
It is impossible to go ahead and wait there.
Huo Shaoheng was still on the road in the special car. The person monitoring the cafe had already sent a message to Zhao Liangze, saying that Xie Dezhao's daughter Xie Qingying had gone to the cafe in advance and was sitting on a cafe seat separated by a screen, drinking coffee and eating snacks. .
Zhao Liangze forwarded the news to Huo Shaoheng and called him: "Master Huo, Miss Xie is also here. Do you need to ask her out?"
Huo Shaoheng thought for a while and said calmly: "No, just keep an eye on her. We don't have anything particularly confidential to ask today. We just want to inquire about the situation. It may only take less than five minutes."
Zhao Liangze took the order and sent it to the people watching over the cafe, asking them to watch Xie Qingying carefully and not to cause trouble for Mr. Huo.
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Xie Dezhao walked into the Ou Shi Cafe near Chairman Long's home on time.
"Sir, do you have an appointment?" An elegantly dressed waitress walked up to him and bowed and asked.
Xie Dezhao took a look and saw that this cafe was very European in decoration. To him, who had returned from Europe, it was actually very authentic.
Most of the people who come here are foreigners, white and black, and of course there are also Chinese people who have returned from abroad.
It seems that the boss here may also have returned from Europe...
Xie Dezhao looked at the waitress with a smile and said in a deep and deep voice: "Thank you, I'm here to wait for someone..."
"Are you waiting for Mr. Huo?" The waitress bowed slightly, "Mr. Huo has made a reservation, please come with me."
Xie Dezhao was a little surprised. He thought he was just sitting and chatting in the lobby of the cafe. Unexpectedly, Huo Shaoheng actually made an appointment for a private room.
Xie Qingying couldn't help but feel very upset when she saw her father Xie Dezhao following the waitress in the cafe to the private room inside.
Then what is she doing here
I thought I could secretly listen in the corner...
Xie Qingying listlessly ordered another gram of Spanish seafood fried rice, and sat behind the screen to eat alone.
This European cafe also serves some simple food in the evening. For example, this Spanish seafood fried rice is very authentic and tastes almost exactly like the fried rice she had when she traveled to Spain.
While she was feasting, Huo Shaoheng had just walked into the cafe.
He was wearing a navy blue woolen general uniform, his shoulders were straight and broad, and his figure was unusually tall.
When he passed by several tall white men, he was not inferior at all, and his hidden and reserved aura added to the mystery, like a fascinating book, which made people want to leave. Come near Him and study carefully.
Xie Qingying looked up from behind the screen and saw Huo Shaoheng's silhouette striding past in front. His eyes were slightly focused, and for a moment he almost forgot to even breathe.
After Huo Shaoheng walked by, she realized that she was suffocating. She covered her neck with her hands and took a deep breath. Looking at the seafood fried rice in front of her, she felt that it was much inferior...
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Huo Shaoheng pushed open the door of the VIP room in the cafe and saw an elegant man sitting at the coffee table.
Judging from his age, this look is indeed well maintained.
From his eyebrows, you can see some characteristics of the men of the Xie family, such as the tall and thin nose, which is very sculptural, the eye sockets are slightly sunken, and the eyebrows are shaped like swords. They are elegant and somewhat sharp, but the outline is not as good as the Xie family. He is so handsome.
Huo Shaoheng walked in slowly, stood in front of Xie Dezhao, nodded slightly and asked, "Are you Mr. Xie Dezhao?"
"Yes, I am. Are you Major General Huo?" Xie Dezhao suddenly felt nervous when he saw Huo Shaoheng.
Huo Shaoheng's attitude was very kind, his eyes were calm and gentle, not aggressive at all, but Xie Dezhao felt like he was out of breath.
"Well, please sit down." Huo Shaoheng motioned to Xie Dezhao to sit down, and he sat down opposite him.
The waitress in the private room came in and asked them what they wanted.
Huo Shaoheng ordered a cup of Jamaican Nanshan black coffee without sugar or milk, and a gram of black forest cake.
Xie Dezhao ordered a cup of cappuccino with sugar and milk, and a gram of tiramisu.
The waitress quickly brought the coffee and cake, and Huo Shaoheng and Xie Dezhao began to chat over the coffee and cake.
"I didn't expect to get such an authentic cappuccino here. Do you see how evenly the milk is foamed?" Xie Dezhao first praised the coffee, and then praised the delicious tiramisu.
Huo Shaoheng only drank coffee and didn't touch the black forest cake at all, but he nodded and said, "This coffee tastes good."
The two chatted for a while, going around and around without getting to the point, as if they were competing for patience.
Xie Dezhao finally couldn't help it anymore, pushed away the coffee cup at hand, frowned and asked Huo Shaoheng: "Major General Huo, please ask me to make an appointment, isn't it just to talk about the coffee here?"
Huo Shaoheng smiled slightly and said noncommittally: "Since it's an appointment, we can talk about anything, including coffee."
"Okay, I'm done, coffee, cake, by the way, although this tiramisu is good, it's not as delicious as my daughter's. My daughter's tiramisu is one of a kind. If I have the opportunity in the future, I'll make it Invite Major General Huo to eat the tiramisu made by my daughter!" Xie Dezhao's eyes lit up as soon as he mentioned his daughter.
Finally it came to his daughter.
Huo Shaoheng's eyebrows were slightly condensed, his eyes were half lowered, and he said casually, "Your daughter? Is she Miss Xie Qingying? She gets along well with Mrs. Speaker Long, which is really rare."
"My wife is also a good woman, and she has a passion for film and television. Speaker Long and his wife are very fond of each other." Xie Dezhao praised his wife again without leaving any trace.
His remarried wife is seven or eight years younger than him, but she is still over forty, so she is not considered an old married woman.
Huo Shaoheng nodded, "Chancellor Long's cousin? I've met her once before, she's not bad."
"Yes, when I met her in Europe, she was sketching alone in the suburbs. It rained heavily and she didn't have time to go back, so she stayed at my house for one night." Xie Dezhao recalled the past when he met his remarried wife, and his face His expression has relaxed a lot, and he is no longer so nervous.
At this time, Huo Shaoheng slowly introduced the topic: "... Do you still plan to have children? As far as I know, you only have a daughter, Miss Xie Qingying, right?"
"Ah? Child..." Xie Dezhao's beautiful memories were suddenly interrupted by Huo Shaoheng's "child".
He frowned, turned away, looked at the abstract paintings on the wall of the single room, and said unhappily: "I'm already old, and I have a grandchild, so why do I need a child?"
"What if your wife wants it?" Huo Shaoheng put his hands together on the coffee table, gradually breaking down Xie Dezhao's defenses.
"She? No way?" Xie Dezhao frowned even more tightly, "We have never talked about this topic. Maybe there is no need to talk about it. After all, we are not young anymore. I am almost fifty, and she is in her early forties. Can she still give birth?"
"If both parties are in good health, there are also mothers who are forty years old." Huo Shaoheng said with a smile, lowered his head and took a sip of coffee.
The bitter coffee actually leaves a sweet aftertaste in your mouth. This is the beauty of coffee.
The first sip feels bitter, the second sip feels special, the third sip has a sweet aroma, and by the fourth sip, you can no longer live without it.
Xie Dezhao's fists suddenly clenched, and he was a little excited, "No! No! We don't want children! Giving birth to a child is extremely damaging to a woman's body! I don't want to see a woman giving birth to a child again in my life!"
Huo Shaoheng learned from Xie's cousin that Xie Dezhao's first wife Gu Tian's health collapsed due to giving birth to a child, and her immune function was completely lost. She caught a small cold during confinement and died of the illness.
This is the knot in Xie Dezhao's heart, otherwise he would not have remarried more than 20 years after his wife passed away.
Huo Shaoheng is not a psychiatrist, and his purpose is not to help Xie Dezhao untie this knot.
He just wanted to know where Gu Tian came from and who was in her natal family.
"Mr. Xie, you can't say that. It's normal for most women to give birth." Huo Shaoheng tapped his fingers on the coffee table.
Xie Dezhao fell into the memories of the past, as if he was hypnotized, and said in a dream: "... No, you don't know. Qingying's mother was just because of giving birth... She was not in good health, I knew it, and I told her that she didn't need to have a child. , there are so many people in the Xie family, so many children, one more of us is not more, one less of us is not more, but she doesn't listen and insists on giving birth... "
"Really? Miss Xie's mother is in poor health? Did you know that when you married her?" Huo Shaoheng pushed the topic forward step by step.
Xie Dezhao nodded painfully, "I know, but I loved her, so I married her anyway. She was so happy that she secretly conceived the child and planned to give me a surprise. She also told me not to worry, saying that her brother had already prepared it. , she will definitely be able to give birth to the baby smoothly."
"Her brother? Your late wife's brother? Who is he? What's his name?" Huo Shaoheng also became nervous. Although there was no movement on the outside, his heart was already boiling like magma before a volcano erupted.
"Her brother? Gu Xiangwen, you don't know such a famous person?" Xie Dezhao raised his head and looked at Huo Shaoheng, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "He is such a good brother who loves his sister, but he doesn't even try to save her!"
Huo Shaoheng's fists clenched tightly. He looked at Xie Dezhao quietly and said nothing for a long time.
Xie Dezhao was so angry at his look that he didn't dare to meet his eyes. He turned away and murmured: "... I'm sorry, I'm so angry. In fact, I shouldn't have said that to him... "
Huo Shaoheng came to his senses at this time, interrupted Xie Dezhao, and asked calmly: "You said Gu Xiangwen is famous? In what way is he famous? I seem to have never heard of this name."
Xie Dezhao looked at him for a while and saw that he didn't seem to be faking. He frowned and thought for a while, then he suddenly realized and said with a smile: "Oh, I was mistaken. Gu Xiangwen is famous abroad, even if you are domestic people Even if you know him, you don’t know the name Gu Xiangwen."
"What's that name?" Huo Shaoheng thought to himself. They had been checking for so long, no wonder they couldn't find any clues.
Xie Dezhao picked up a pen from the coffee table, wrote "Kevin-Ku" on the napkin, and said: "This is his English name. All the papers he published use this name. You can search it online. "
Huo Shaoheng took the napkin, looked at it calmly, put it aside casually, as if it was of no importance, and said, "Oh, he is a scholar? What kind of research does he do?"
"I don't know about this, I just know that he has many patents, which are widely used abroad. Although he is very low-key, his financial resources are not generally strong, and he can be regarded as one of the invisible rich." Xie Dezhao said disapprovingly.
Of course, the Xie family will not look at other people's money.
In fact, if Gu Tianruo hadn't doubled in value because of this rich brother, she wouldn't have had the chance to meet Xie Dezhao, fall in love with him, and get married.
"That's right. Do you still have contact with him now?" Huo Shaoheng asked casually, "Our country can also consider recruiting such a famous person."
"Haha..." Xie Dezhao suddenly changed his face, sneered a few times, and curled his lips disdainfully, "So what if he's famous? A person who goes back on his word and doesn't even care about his sister's life, no matter how capable he is, I don't want to deal with him! In fact, since my wife passed away, After that, I never contacted him again.”
Huo Shaoheng: "..."
"Twenty-six years ago, at my wife's funeral, I beat him up, then drove him away and told him never to enter my house!" Xie Dezhao slapped the coffee table hatefully, his anger uncontrollable. .
"...So, you haven't contacted him in twenty-six years?" Huo Shaoheng's heart sank, "Then he has never visited his niece?"
"It's useless for him to come. I never let him in. He came a few years before my wife passed away, but then I drove her away every time. He stopped coming. He just sent Qingying birthday gifts every year." Xie Dezhao After a pause, there was a hint of confusion in his voice: "However, he has never sent Qingying a birthday gift since six years ago."
It was six years ago again...
What happened six years ago
Huo Shaoheng was basically certain that Gu Xiangwen must be Gu Nianzhi's father, but he never expected that Xie Dezhao and Gu Xiangwen had such a big feud that the two had not seen each other for more than 20 years.
So Xie Dezhao doesn't know what Gu Xiangwen has done in the past twenty years, and he certainly doesn't know about Gu Nianzhi, his niece.
Because when the two families fell out, Gu Nianzhi was not even born yet.
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