At the Beiguan freight terminal, the whistle never stops.
Because the continent is long and narrow like a leaf, and there is only desert in the middle western region, the coastal transportation of the empire is still very developed, which is also one of the factors for the rapid development of the East China Sea.
There are six major port areas in the East China Sea, with Xinfa District being the largest, followed by West District. Beiguan Port is not on the same level as the other two and only serves as a supplement.
The annual throughput of Beiguan Port is around three to four million tons, while the entire East China Sea shipping throughput exceeded 50 million tons last year.
At this time, in an empty warehouse of Beiguan Wharf, Lu Ming was pacing slowly. Standing next to him was a tall Atlantic man wearing a black top hat and a tuxedo. He had a fierce face. His name was Li Bert, and he was the chairman of the Beiguan Wharf Workers' Union.
In fact, this huge organization of dock workers has been controlled by the Grant family in the West District of East China Sea for decades.
Old Grant is a gangster boss at the level of Godfather of the East China Sea, and also the chairman of the East China Sea Dockworkers Union.
In each port area, it is difficult for outsiders to interfere with the dock workers' union. The same is true in Beiguan. The Wen family and Li Bert have always kept their distance from each other.
According to the tradition of the people of Central China, Li Bert, the chairman of the North Gate Wharf Union, should be the leader under old Grant.
But Western mafia organizations do not have such a strict structure. The Libert brothers are more like franchisees who just pay a fixed franchise fee every year.
On the other side of Lu Ming stood Liu Teng, the director of Lu Ming's Prosecutor General's Office.
The "Flying Eagle Party" has been secretly investigated.
"Come in! Come in!" The big iron door of the warehouse was suddenly pushed open a crack, and the moonlight shone in, it was very cool.
A staggering figure was dragged in by several tall figures. The staggering figure made a whimpering sound and his mouth was covered with a cloth.
The warehouse door was slammed shut again, and a beautiful woman with blonde hair and blue eyes was brought in. However, her hair was disheveled, her face was terrified, her body was covered in dirt, and her mouth was tightly bound with a cloth.
Several strong men pushed her to Libert's feet.
Looking at her, Libert's eyes twitched and his heart was filled with humiliation.
"Why would Tom buy you a car?!" Libert asked grimly.
The beautiful Western woman's eyes were filled with horror, her face was terribly pale, and she curled up and shrank back, as if she had seen the most terrifying demon.
Lu Ming waved his hand, and Liu Teng took two steps forward. "Mr. Libert, thank you for your cooperation. We will take the person away!"
The identity of the murderer who assassinated Nicole the day before yesterday was quickly identified as Tom * Leebert, Leebert's younger brother.
An investigation into him revealed that he was a crazy super fan of the well-known imperial movie star Scarlett Johansson in the eyes of his relatives and friends.
Scarlett made her debut two years earlier than Nicole, and was originally considered by the public to be the successor to previous generation film queen Catherine.
But after Nicole debuted, she quickly surpassed him, and now the two are no longer on the same level.
In order to attract attention, some sarcastic media often compare Nicole and Scarlett and humiliate Scarlett.
Rumor has it that Scarlett once attempted suicide for this reason, but luckily she was found and survived.
It seems that Tom Libert, a crazy and perverted fan, planned the attack because he hated Nicole.
But when the Formosus investigation team was investigating Tom Libert's social network, they found that his brother, Marcy, the mistress of Libert, the chairman of the Beiguan dock workers, had a close relationship with Tom Libert. The day before Tom Libert attacked Nicole, he gave Marcy a latest model of Xuelong sports car.
The beautiful Western woman who was brought here was Marcy.
Looking at Li Bert's vicious face, Marcy was so scared that she peed her pants. When she heard Liu Teng coming up and saying that the prosecutor was going to take her away for a case, she felt like she had grabbed a life-saving straw. Although her hands were tied behind her back, she rolled and crawled to Liu Teng's feet with a pleading look on her face.
Seeing the miserable state of this beautiful western woman and the pleading in her eyes, Liu Teng felt inexplicably warm in his heart. Facing Li Bot, he straightened his chest and said, "So, Mr. Li Bot, you can't ask her any more questions!"
Li Bot didn't bother to pay attention to him. He looked at Lu Ming and let out a long breath, "Mr. Congressman, you can take her away!"
Li Bert did not want to challenge the order of the world on the ground, but in his own territory, these orders would also be ignored. However, someone from the old man's side had given a greeting, so the person had to be handed over to Congressman Lu to take away.
Lu Ming nodded and said, "My condolences!" He was talking about the death of his younger brother Tom Leebert, although it seemed that the two brothers had no feelings for each other.
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In the suite on the top floor of the New Era Shopping Mall, Lu Ming was flipping through the confession of Masi that he had obtained with great ease.
Those who took advantage of Tom Leebert probably didn't realize that he had a secret lover who knew a lot of things.
Although Marcy knew nothing about the assassination, Tom often confided his distress to her and mentioned several mentors who guided him spiritually.
Tom suffers from severe depression, so he joins a mutual aid group, which is similar to the anonymous drug addicts mutual aid group. Everyone meets regularly to talk about their inner thoughts and relieve their inner distress, but no one knows who each other is.
Words like purification, pagan, and heaven are what Tom often mentioned to Marcy after each mutual aid event.
Marcy also knew that it was a missionary from Beiguan Church who led Tom into this mutual aid group.
Currently, Fu Mo Si and the investigation team have begun to deploy surveillance.
I haven’t discovered anything yet, but there’s no rush. The longer the time, the more I’ll discover.
Beside me, there was a sudden rumbling sound as if someone's stomach was growing.
Lu Ming suddenly woke up and looked to the side. Bisi was sitting obediently on the sofa. The little girl had a bitter face and was touching her belly.
"Oh, come on, let's go and have dinner!" Lu Ming patted his forehead. Today was a day off and Bisi had no playmate. Everyone had their own plans. For example, Jin Miyeon was doing gymnastics every day. So he brought Bisi here, saying that he would play with her and wanted to go shopping in the mall to buy her some gifts. However, he didn't expect that the confession was delivered to him, and he was busy with things, so he almost forgot about her.
The little guy was the same. He knew that I was busy with something, so he just sat there and waited quietly without making any sound.
But the little guy was so hungry, he hadn't had any breakfast when he was brought here.
Walking over, "Come, uncle will hold you!" Lu Ming stretched out his hands and picked her up easily, kissed her on the little face, "You must be hungry! Ouch!" He felt so distressed.
But then Lu Ming was stunned. He felt that since he entered the wooden man stage, his strength has gradually increased. Now, the feeling is more obvious. It was very difficult for him to squat down and pick up Bisi before, but now, it is easy, as if he was holding a rag doll.
Well, this feels good.
Bisi giggled when Lu Ming kissed her. She hugged Lu Ming's neck affectionately, with her little face pressed against Lu Ming's face, her heart full of happiness.
Outside the suite, a middle-aged blond woman in a crimson suit was pacing back and forth. When she saw Lu Ming coming out, she bowed deeply and said, "Hello, Mr. Lu!"
She is Jessica, the new general manager of New Era Mall hired by Jennifer's team.
Former general manager James has been fired.
"Oh, sorry, kept us waiting. Take us to the dining area first and have something to eat!" Lu Ming said with a smile.
In fact, if you need anything, you can ask the waiter to send you to the suite, but if you are taking Bisi out for a walk, you still have to go downstairs for a walk, otherwise it will be meaningless.
I have to say, the shopping experience was really good with the mall general manager always by my side.
The waiters at each counter and sales area bowed deeply when they met customers and bowed deeply when they saw customers off, serving Bisi like a little princess.
Besides, Bis is so pretty and cute that every waiter wants to talk to her.
In addition, with the bonus of being one of the richest families in the East China Sea, in the eyes of the waiters, this little cutie in a white lace dress and white socks is a real little princess. Moreover, she is so well-educated and polite, just like a little angel living at the top of the cloud.
Bisi didn't want anything and kept sticking to Lu Ming. It was Lu Ming who bought her all kinds of things and asked the waiters to pack up anything she liked and send it to the suite upstairs later.
After Lu Ming and Bisi walked around and returned to the suite, they found the living room filled with various paper bags.
There were dozens of pairs of beautiful little shoes of all kinds, as well as clothes, shoes and socks.
Lu Ming smiled and thought that if the East China Sea were to choose a high-heeled shoe queen today, it would have to be Pamela. The former queen, the Countess, would have to abdicate. Pamela had a special preference for all kinds of high-heeled shoes. It seemed that there was a two-story building outside with more than 20 extremely spacious rooms that had been completely transformed into her shoe room.
I heard a rumor that they wanted her to move back home and renovate the annex to store her shoes, since there were a lot of empty rooms anyway.
But she was vague in her words, obviously worried that she would be considered a spendthrift and extravagant.
In fact, it is her freedom to spend the money she earns however she wants, and I won't give her any advice. To be honest, I am quite envious of her life, she lives a very free and easy life.
Although I have provided her with a platform, she is indeed very capable, has strong ability to learn and adapt, and is now a good helper to me. If I hire a professional manager with similar ability, the annual salary will probably be around this price. Moreover, she will not be of one mind with me, and will not willingly take the blame for me. For some companies, I am the nominal legal person, and if I were an outsider, I would definitely find out whether the operations of these companies are illegal and whether I would be implicated.
"From now on, your mom is the queen of high-heeled shoes in Donghai, and you are the little queen of children's shoes!" Lu Ming said to Bisi with a smile.
Bis shook her head and looked at the paper bags on the floor with some worry: "Uncle, can I keep two shoes, two skirts, two socks and two hats? I can't wear so many, it's a waste, I'm still growing!"
Lu Ming smiled. Bisi was still the little girl who used to worry about her mother and did odd jobs. She hadn't changed much.
Bis sighed again: "I don't want to be the little girl's mother. She ignores me now and only cares about giving me money to spend."
Lu Ming smiled, hugged Bisi and rubbed her little head: "You should blame uncle for that. I will talk to her someday and ask her to spend more time with you."
"Yeah." Bisi nodded her head, snuggled into Lu Ming's arms, and whispered, "Uncle, can you hold me to sleep today? Mom hasn't slept with me for a long time."
Lu Ming thought to himself that that's not good, you are not the little lady you are now when you sleep, you are still doing martial arts in the middle of the night, and you almost kicked me to death last time. Although I am a wooden man now and not afraid of your kicking, you'd better not come.
Besides, she will be turning 9 this year, so she will start growing soon, right? It is better to avoid suspicion.
But looking at Bisi's pitiful appearance, thinking that her little group of friends has disbanded and she rarely sees her mother.
Sighing inwardly, Lu Ming smiled and said, "How about this, let's ask your mother to come over today and hug you to sleep. We can sleep in the same bed."
Bis was immediately overjoyed. This was exactly the scene she had always dreamed of. She nodded her head vigorously: "Thank you, uncle!" She knew that if her uncle called, she would definitely ask her mommy to come home on time.