The Shen family booked a high-end hotel in the city center, where Shen Yuhuai's birthday party was held. As the second son of the Shen family, Shen Yuhuai rarely appeared in the social circle of S City. This time, the news of the Shen family hosting a banquet came out, and people who were close to the Shen family attended the banquet one after another.
The parking lot of the high-end hotel is crowded with vehicles, and guests from all walks of life are guided into the venue by the waiter. Chen Qizhao was sitting by the window, and out of the corner of his eyes, he swept across the various trains of vehicles going to the door. After listening to the discussion between Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming in the car, he learned that the Lin family was also on the Shen family's invitation list. Countless pairs of eyes stared at S City, the Lin family was of a high status, and the Shen family was invited. Not only that, the Chen family had to maintain a surface peace with the Lin family at this banquet.
The vehicle moved forward slowly, and Chen Shiming's eyes glanced at Chen Qizhao by the window.
Soon, the waiter knocked on the driver's window. The Chen family arrived at the banquet scene at 6:30 in the evening, and the driver followed the waiter to park.
When the Chen family got off the bus, a waiter came to lead the way.
There were no other vehicles parked at the entrance of the hotel. There was a guide standing in front of the magnificent gate. When Chen Shiming and others signed the signature, Chen Qizhao suddenly caught a glimpse of a black car across the fountain, and his eyes stopped instantly. He took a few steps back and saw the model of the car more clearly, his eyes sank directly.
After Chen Shiming signed, he noticed that Chen Qizhao was still standing outside the gate of the hotel, and said, "Qizhao."
Chen Qizhao came back to his senses and went to the front to sign. After signing, he asked the waiter, "How many layers did you pack tonight?"
The waiter immediately replied: "Mr. Shen has already taken down the 6th to 8th floors of the hotel. The banquet hall is on the 6th floor, and the 7th and 8th floors are places to rest."
Chen Qizhao handed him the pen, "Thank you."
The banquet hall is on the 6th floor. After Chen Qizhao followed the Chen family to the 6th floor, he saw the layout of the entire banquet hall, including the people who came to the banquet. Many people came to Shen Yuhuai's birthday party. Chen Qizhao knew who were coming by scanning around. When he looked around, he saw Lin Shizhong and his son Lin Xuyan. The two were standing in the crowd holding champagne, their faces hanging on their faces. The fake face of socializing.
Chen Qizhao looked away and saw Shen Yuhuai in the distance talking to someone.
He didn't go directly, but lowered his hair and sent a message.
Shen Yuhuai finished toasting with people, said to Shen Xuelan beside him, and walked towards Chen Qizhao.
When Chen Qizhao looked up after sending the message, he saw Shen Yuhuai standing in front of him.
The man wore a black suit today, his hair was combed up, and he matched with those silver-framed glasses. He was a little more mature than usual.
Chen Qizhao's eyes stopped for a moment, looking at the person in front of him, he saw Shen Yuhuai's figure a few years later, and Shen Yuhuai later also wore such a match, but the current Shen Yuhuai's face was a little younger.
"Who are you messaging?" Shen Yuhuai looked at him.
"Xiao Zhou, there is something for him to do." Chen Qizhao recovered, "Happy birthday."
The two had just said a few words when a waiter came over and said something in Shen Yuhuai's ear. Shen Yuhuai paused slightly and asked, "What happened just now?"
"Yes." The waiter said.
Seeing this, Chen Qizhao said, "If you have something to do, just go there first."
Shen Yuhuai took a glass of orange juice from the waiter next to him and handed it to Chen Qizhao, "I'm a little busy today, so I might not be able to take care of you."
Chen Qizhao took the orange juice and paused slightly, his eyes fell on the champagne glass in Shen Yuhuai's hand, "It's okay."
As the protagonist of the birthday banquet, Shen Yuhuai was unavoidably busy. And with so many people coming, it was obvious that Uncle Shen was paving the way for Shen Yuhuai's development in City S. Chen Qizhao's eyes followed Shen Yuhuai, and saw that the other party followed the waiter and stopped at the back door of the banquet hall and did not go far. The waiter seemed to have something in his hand and gave it to Shen Yuhuai, which looked like a gift from a distance.
Chen Shiming just came over and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"No." Chen Qizhao asked, "Are the staff in this field prepared by the hotel?"
Chen Shiming looked at him, "No, there are some people arranged by the Shen family. Are you worried about security issues?"
Chen Qizhao said, "Just ask."
Chen Shiming explained: "Shen Xuelan told me that the people who deliver the wine in the banquet hall are the ones she arranged in advance, and it has nothing to do with the hotel."
Chen Qizhao was thoughtful.
On the other side, Shen Yuhuai followed the waiter to the door of the banquet hall, and the waiter handed him a gift box.
This waiter is the one who is responsible for registering the gifts of the guests.
Shen Yuhuai looked at the gift box in front of him, looked at the waiter, and asked, "What did the person who came here say? What does it look like?"
"Middle-aged man, wearing a hat, can't see his face clearly." The waiter continued: "I asked him to register his name, but the information he registered was very strange and repeated the information of one of our guests."
Shen Yuhuai's eyes sank slightly, the box in front of him was not big, and the thing he picked up was very light, it didn't look like he had put dangerous goods.
The gift box is beautifully packaged and very light in weight, as if nothing was in it.
Shen Yuhuai tore off the gift belt on the box, and after opening it, he found that there was only a puppet bear the size of an adult's palm.
He frowned slightly, but just when he picked up the puppet bear, the bear's head fell.
The head of the puppet is separate from the body.
Shen Yuhuai's hand didn't leave the range of the gift box, he put the puppet bear's body back again, and seeing the bewildered waiter next to him, he closed the lid of the gift box, "Go and tell the person in charge of the hotel and ask him to adjust the hotel. Surveillance video in the venue, be careful not to make any noise about this.”
On the 16th floor of the hotel, Gu Shen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the city. After a while, someone knocked on the door and came in. The middle-aged man took off his hat and mask, stood beside Gu Shen and said, "Sir, the gift has been delivered. You should be able to notice it when the Shen family takes stock later."
There was still a birthday banquet downstairs in the hotel. In the quiet room, Gu Shen's eyes swept to the information on the table. He asked people to check Shen Yuhuai's movements in City B. This person was in City B for a few days. 's activity trajectory is actually the case, and there are even cases where he does not go out in the 'hotel' for several days.
Shen Yuhuai's work in B University has long been done, and it is self-evident what he is doing at other times.
Gu Shen thought of the strength of the Shen family in the jade necklace, and the fact that Gu Zhengxun borrowed the so-called loopholes in the system to expose, and he was completely impatient with Shen Yuhuai.
The birthday party came so fast that he didn't have time to arrange it in advance, but if he wanted to surprise Shen Yuhuai and the Shen family, he could still do it. Since it was Shen Yuhuai's birthday banquet, it had to be held in such a way that the Shen family would lose all face.
"The person who arranged it has passed." The middle-aged man said.
"Let him be careful and don't get caught."
The middle-aged man asked again, "Do you want to tell President Lin about this?"
Gu Shen shook the red wine glass: "No need."
The waiter brought the birthday cake and champagne tower, and the banquet continued.
All attention fell on the handsome man in suit and leather shoes.
Chen Qizhao stayed in the banquet hall, and was relieved when he saw Shen Yuhuai re-entering the banquet hall. His attention stayed on the other people in the arena, the people who talked to the Shen family, the people who talked to the Chen family... and even the people who dealt with Lin Shizhong, he saw each and every one of them.
After a while, he saw the two Yan brothers coming in from the entrance of the banquet hall.
Yan Kailin walked directly to his side, "Brother Zhao!"
Chen Qizhao chatted with Yan Kailin and continued to observe the surroundings, "So late?"
"There's a traffic jam on the road, hey, it's suffocating me these days." Yan Kailin saw the champagne in Chen Qizhao's hand, and asked in doubt, "Brother, how do you drink this?"
Chen Qizhao paused, "Change the taste."
"Oh, is the orange juice here delicious?" Yan Kailin also took a glass from the waiter next to him, "Did you give it a gift?"
Chen Qizhao's gift hadn't been delivered yet. While talking to Yan Kailin, his attention had shifted to the waiters in the venue. All of them were staff arranged by the hotel. In fact, there were only a few people who could come and go in the banquet hall. .
During the observation time, Chen Qizhao saw the phone ringing. He handed the orange juice in his hand to Yan Kailin, "Help me watch Brother Huai. If he leaves here, give me a call."
Yan Kailin took the orange juice blankly, "Ah? Brother, where are you going?"
"bathroom."
When Chen Qizhao left the banquet hall, he answered the phone, "Is the car still there?"
"exist."
Xiao Zhou stood panting at the door of the hotel, looked at a black car at the door of the hotel from a distance, took the license plate according to the boss's instructions, and reported the license plate number again.
Chen Qizhao listened to the license plate number reported by Xiao Zhou, and his heart sank.
This license plate number he had seen before was the license plate number of the suspected black car in Lao Lin's photo, which meant that Gu Shen was in the hotel here. The Shen family only covered three floors of the hotel, and other rooms in the hotel were also populated by guests. The people in the banquet hall could check it out, and maybe the rest of the hotel could be.
Xiao Zhou didn't know what the boss was calling him to come here at night. He rushed over as soon as he received the call. When he got there, he had to do as instructed, "What do I do after the license plate is taken?"
"Have you brought your ID card?" Chen Qizhao asked.
"Bring it." Xiao Zhou suddenly became nervous, "What do you need me to do?"
Chen Qizhao said: "Go to the front desk to open a room."
Xiao Zhou:"?"
After explaining Xiao Zhou's affairs, Chen Qizhao returned to the banquet hall. Yan Kailin was still holding two glasses of orange juice and stood bewildered. When he saw him coming over, he was about to hand him the orange juice in his hand, but suddenly noticed that his brother was looking away. The place.
"Brother what's wrong?" Yan Kailin said, "Brother Huai is over there."
Chen Qizhao's eyes stopped at a strange waiter who entered the front door, "That person just came?"
"I didn't notice, maybe?" Yan Kailin looked over there, "What's wrong?"
Chen Shiming said that the waiters entering and leaving the banquet hall were all arranged by Shen Xuelan, in other words, the people in the banquet hall were actually fixed. After Chen Qizhao came in, he basically looked at all the people. He had never seen this person, which means that this person was not in the list of personnel originally arranged by Shen Xuelan.
The man only served a glass of wine.
Chen Qizhao put down the orange juice and took a glass of champagne from the waiter next to him, "Wait for me here."
The waiter who delivered the champagne stood in the banquet hall, his eyes fell on Shen Yuhuai in the distance, and his hand holding the tray tightened a little. He was about to pass the others and walked in the direction of Shen Yuhuai when he was suddenly touched by a force next to him. He was able to stabilize the champagne in the tray, and only spilled a little bit on the tray, but there was a sound next to him. grumble.
"What did you do?" The young boy had a dark face, the champagne in his hand had overflowed a little, and it happened to be poured on his shoes.
The waiter suddenly became nervous, "Sorry!"
Chen Qizhao looked at him with a casual tone: "Why are you standing still? No tissue?"
It was difficult to let go of the tray, so the waiter had to put things down and take out a tissue from his pocket.
Chen Qizhao took his tissue, "Why is it half a beat? Take care of the ground."
When he saw someone bent over and was about to wipe off the champagne stains on the floor, he put down the champagne in his hand, quickly replaced the champagne on the tray, and didn't forget to say a word or two: "You still have to deal with it, you restrooms. How to go?"
"Turn right after going out." The waiter quickly finished and stood up.
Chen Qizhao ignored him and walked out with the glass of champagne in his hand. He glanced at the waiter and saw that the other party picked up the tray and walked towards the Shen family.
At this time, he suddenly heard Lin Xuyan's voice coming from a few steps away, as if calling for the waiter to bring him wine.
Chen Qizhao raised his eyebrows slightly and shook the wine glass in his hand.
Yan Kailin waited for a long time, chatting with a few acquaintances passing by, and when Chen Qizhao came back, he said, "Brother, why did you go for so long?"
"I hit someone on the road and got my shoes wet."
Chen Qizhao said casually: "The quality of that person is also poor. I don't know how to train in."
"Juice doesn't mean anything, do you want to drink?" Yan Kailin held two glasses of champagne in his hand, "Oh, by the way, Brother Huai was just there before he passed by. I also saw that someone brought him wine, can't you see? Come out, brother Huai can drink so much?"
"Can't he drink?" Chen Qizhao asked.
"I heard what my brother said, saying that Brother Huai's alcohol intake is average. My brother also called him out for a drink before. It is said that he only had one drink and stopped drinking." Yan Kailin continued gossip: "I thought that He doesn't know how to drink, does it feel okay?"
In another corner of the banquet hall, Lin Xuyan took the wine from the waiter and continued talking to the guests at the banquet.
The Shen family's birthday banquet was actually a large social venue. Lin Xuyan did not refuse anyone who came to talk. He had the same gentle face as Lin Shizhong, but he put labels on these people behind his back. People deserve deep friendship, and some people don't.
After talking for a while, Lin Xuyan suddenly felt a little dizzy, and his hands and feet were faintly hot.
"Sorry." Lin Xuyan said something to the others, put down the glass of wine and walked out of the banquet hall.
Chen Qizhao stood and drank with Yan Kailin for a while, noticed the movement in the distance, and said, "Keep watching Brother Huai for me, I'll go to the bathroom."
Yan Kailin said stunned: "Brother, you are a little diligent in running the toilet tonight."
And why do you have to let him look at Brother Huai every time!
He was about to ask a few more questions, but Chen Qizhao had already left.
"It's going too fast..."
Yan Kailin took a sip of wine, and after a while, he saw where Shen Yuhuai was, and found that the person was no longer there, "Hey? Where's Brother Huai?"
Outside the banquet hall, Lin Xuyan inquired about the location of the bathroom.
Not long after he got to the bathroom, he suddenly fell into the cubicle in a dizzy state.
Chen Qizhao entered the bathroom a few steps behind, and saw Lin Xuyan who fell in the toilet cubicle.
There was no one else in the bathroom. Chen Qizhao went to the tool room inside and took out the sign when the staff was cleaning and placed it at the door of the bathroom. He looked at the unconscious Lin Xuyan, picked up the phone and was about to call someone, when he suddenly saw a message that Yan Kailin had sent him a minute ago.
Chen Qizhao paused for a moment, and the phone rang suddenly.
"Boss, you asked me to stay on the 5th floor to pay attention to the situation. I saw Mr. Shen." After Xiao Zhou was asked by Chen Qizhao to open a room on the 5th floor, he kept watching the situation from here.
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see anyone, but it didn't take long before I saw a well-dressed waiter helping Shen Yuhuai out of the elevator, turning around and entering the room next to the elevator.
Chen Qizhao walked out, "Where are the people?"
"The waiter came out soon after putting the person in the room."
Xiao Zhou said: "I just walked over to see it, but the door was not closed, leaving a gap."
"Is there anyone else inside?" Chen Qizhao asked.
Xiao Zhou felt that he was being a thief, so he lowered his voice and said, "I don't think so. I saw that person swiped the room card and sent Mr. Shen in and left, as if he didn't pull out the room card... Is there a problem?"
The excitement in the banquet hall continued, Shen Yuhuai noticed the departure of the waiter at the door and opened his eyes in the darkness.
Today's birthday banquet was arranged at home. The day before, he had already obtained the list of the staff in the venue, the strange birthday present that he opened in advance, and a strange waiter who suddenly appeared in front of him to deliver wine, so the other party brought the wine over. At the time, Shen Yuhuai didn't drink the wine.
Will bring wine over, and most of the wine is mixed with something.
Referring to the way the other party warned Yan Kaiqi before, most of them will use some extreme means to teach him a lesson. The birthday present is ahead, I am afraid that the glass of wine is the real birthday present, so when the time is almost, he pretends to be out of wine and leaves the venue , the waiter who brought him the wine came out of the corridor outside the banquet hall, asked him in a normal tone, and proposed to send him to the rest room.
Just the right time and arrangement, but the rest room is not the room arranged by the Shen family, but on the 5th floor below the banquet hall.
The other party left him in the room that had been opened in advance. Shen Yuhuai didn't know how the other party got in in the layers of security, but judging from the current behavior, the other party sent him, the owner of the birthday party, to this place. There are also a group of guests on the board. With such a coincidental time and arrangement, it is obvious that there are other tricks.
Shen Yuhuai was thinking about it when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside. He paid attention to the movement at the door of the room, but the other party didn't seem to be doing anything else. He stayed at the door for a while and left soon.
It's just that he lay there for about five minutes this time, when he heard the sound from the door, which seemed to be the whispering of two people.
Soon, Shen Yuhuai heard a familiar voice.
"I just watched it in the room, and it doesn't seem like there is any monitoring arranged. The person sent him over and left." Xiao Zhou brought his boss to the room, "Then what should we do now? Let Mr. Shen continue to lie here? "
"Where is the room you opened?" When Chen Qizhao entered the room, he saw Shen Yuhuai lying on the bed. After he walked over, he briefly looked at Shen Yuhuai's condition. He replaced the problematic glass of wine in advance. Lin Xuyan, who passed out directly in the bathroom, Shen Yuhuai's reaction was still shallow, and he could still be supported, so he should just be drunk.
Then he was sent to this room in a confused way.
Xiao Zhou came over to help, "Does the boss want to help?"
Chen Qizhao: "Give me the key card of your room, then go upstairs to find Chen Shiming, and explain it to him clearly."
Xiao Zhou hurriedly took out the room card and gave it to Chen Qizhao, and then hurried to the banquet hall to find Chen Shiming.
As soon as the people left, only Chen Qizhao and Shen Yuhuai were left in the room.
The room was not turned on, and Chen Qizhao could only see the outline of Shen Yuhuai in the dark. He thought of leaving the banquet hall, Yan Kailin said that Shen Yuhuai had drunk a lot tonight. Chen Qizhao rarely watched Shen Yuhuai's drinking, and the other party only sipped lightly, let alone too much.
Without hesitation, he glanced at it and went to help Shen Yuhuai.
As soon as he put the other's arm on his body, he heard a voice in his ear.
"Brother Huai?" Chen Qizhao stopped.
Shen Yuhuai responded, but there was no other action.
Investigating the Gu family is not a simple matter. The more Shen Yuhuai investigates, the greater the risk he will encounter. The incident of hurting Yan Kailin in the grilled fish shop half a month ago might also have something to do with Shen Yuhuai and the others. It was impossible for Shen Yuhuai and Yan Kaiqi to arrive at the scene so quickly.
And today, Gu Shen's scooter was parked outside, and a waiter and wine were arranged, obviously all directed at Shen Yuhuai.
Chen Qizhao paused for a few seconds, and lifted the person up from the bed with a little force. It's just that when he first got up, the pressure on his body was suddenly relieved a lot. Chen Qizhao's eyelids were half closed, and the strength of supporting Shen Yuhuai was a little less.
There was no one outside the corridor on the 5th floor, and Xiao Zhou's room was just two rooms behind this room.
Chen Qizhao helped someone to swipe the room card, and he closed the door.
The lights were not turned on in the room, so Chen Qizhao took Shen Yuhuai to the big bed in the room.
He put the person down, and just as he was about to walk away, Shen Yuhuai, who was lying on the bed, suddenly grabbed his wrist.
The opponent's hand didn't use much force, and the fingers on the wrist were held tightly. As long as Chen Qizhao took a few more steps, the precarious contact would be broken immediately. Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the man lying on the bed, and seemed to see the man's open eyes in the dim light coming in from the window.
The other's fingers were not cold, they were held warmly on his wrist, like a bondage that could not be broken.
The two were standing and lying down, Chen Qizhao's hand just moved, but the person lying on the bed suddenly exerted force and pulled him down directly by grabbing his wrist. Chen Qizhao fell on Shen Yuhuai's body, their eyes were very close, he couldn't see what was hidden in those eyes, only smelled the faint smell of alcohol lingering between them.
Suddenly, Chen Qizhao saw Shen Yuhuai's throat move.
The last time the two met was at a grilled fish shop, and after that, Shen Yuhuai went to City B, and they hadn't seen each other for nearly half a month.
When he saw Shen Yuhuai in the banquet hall today, he had an uncontrollable emotion. Now that he is being held by the other party, it seems that the feeling of being hooked on the top of his heart has come again.
The two of them didn't speak. I don't know how long it took before Chen Qizhao opened his mouth and said, "Brother, are you not drunk?"
Chen Qizhao helped too many people who were so drunk that they basically couldn't control their strength.
So when he helped Shen Yuhuai in the next room, he knew that the other party was not drunk and was pretending.
Shen Yuhuai looked at him, and the wrists they were holding turned into fingers interlocking.
He raised a hand, and the warm hand landed on the back of Chen Qizhao's neck, rubbing his fingertips against the other's skin.
Even as long as you go down and peel off the coat, it is the beautiful back of the other party.
Shen Yuhuai's movements were stagnant, his hand fell on the other's hair, and he faintly smelled the scent of the other's body.
"I was thinking about something after the phone call in the early morning." Shen Yuhuai's voice was a little hoarse, his fingers were light and gentle, and stroked the back of Chen Qizhao's hair, "Liu Sui said one sentence less, I'm really chasing people in S, but I just haven't told him."
"I think I've caught up."
Chen Qizhao's heart beat uncontrollably and he asked, "Are we already dating?"
Shen Yuhuai's fingers stopped, stopped at the back of his neck, and scratched slightly, "Isn't it?"
The atmosphere between the two seemed to be getting clearer and clearer, perhaps it was Chen Qizhao's illusion, he seemed to see his figure in those black eyes.
In the endless future of endless drowning people, for the first time, he wanted to push aside all scruples and drag the person in front of him into that pool of black water.
Chen Qizhao said: "I may not be that good."
"I may have to correct some of your perceptions."
Shen Yuhuai's voice was very soft, his hand was on Chen Qizhao's neck, "I'm not that good either."
The smell of alcohol mixed with the faint smell of mint, Shen Yuhuai took the person into his arms and kissed him.