The detective agency on the tenth floor of the Jiniao Building, Lao Gui’s office.
Lao Gui looked at the list that Lu Ming handed to him and asked him to investigate. There were as many as eleven items, all related to the recent case of serial murders of young boys by Japanese people.
The old ghost couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Lawyer Lu, these should be paid for by yourself, right?"
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Don't worry, even though it's a business matter, the price remains the same."
Lao Gui shook his head. "Lawyer Lu, it's not that I don't want to help you. First, this involves the inside story of many big shots, and the media is hyping it up, so I won't touch it. Second, let me tell you the truth. If there is a specific direction, that is, to investigate a certain person, I, Lao Gui, dare to say that there is no law firm in the world that I can serve. But you have already turned it into an investigation, and there is no general direction. Although my people are all elites, there are not many people. I don't cast a wide net to investigate. If I take these two approaches, it will be equivalent to cheating you out of your money."
"If you want to find me, you might as well ask Fourth Elder Wen for help. His union has thousands of construction workers, plus their families, so there must be tens of thousands of people involved. Who knows, someone might have some clues to help you."
Lu Ming nodded. In fact, he had been mentally prepared before coming here, but he still came to try his luck.
Sure enough, the old ghost refused to answer.
"Here, Lawyer Lu, this is what you asked me to check. My people have been keeping an eye on him." Lao Gui took out a thick file bag from the drawer and handed it to Lu Ming.
There are text materials and a bunch of photos, all related to Li Mingxuan.
Li Mingxuan's daily movements, even the time he spent in the toilet, were recorded clearly.
Nowadays, Li Mingxuan found a job as an elevator attendant in an old building. The salary is not high, just barely enough.
He did not come to work for me, but stayed away from me as if he was avoiding some flood monster.
Firstly, he didn't know whether he had any ill will towards him; secondly, he was naturally worried that if his enemy found him, and if he was nearby, he would be in big trouble.
"Is this person going to continue?" asked the old ghost. When he did something, he never asked why. For the employer, all he had to do was to say whether to do it or not.
Lu Ming thought for a moment and said, "Well, let's stop using the others, but let's just keep using that old Dutou."
Anyway, there was not much money, so Lao Gui bribed Li Mingxuan's co-worker, the old man who took over the elevator watch shift with him. The old man could be said to be a bad guy who had grown old. He was a ruthless gangster when he was young, and even now, he liked to eat meat and women. Giving him 10 yuan a month was enough for him to find ten older prostitutes on the street. And he was responsible for recording Li Mingxuan's daily eating, drinking, and defecating.
As for Li Mingxuan finding out that someone was following him, it didn't matter. It could also remind him that it was very easy for him to disappear in the East China Sea.
But if I really hire someone to kill him, there will naturally be no future troubles and it is the best strategy.
But he really couldn't do it. After all, Li Mingxuan was a bit bad, but he had never done anything truly harmful to others. Because of his family's affairs, his family was even destroyed.
Then, for the sake of my own theoretical safety, I took his life
Based on the values formed in my previous life, I really can't do it.
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There was a black car parked at the foot of the steps of the Jiniao Building. When they saw Lu Ming coming out, Wang Xiaohu and Sha Dahai got out of the car.
Sha Dahai had seen Lu Ming in the case of Liu Laocai. He was the deputy team leader of the Criminal Division 2 of Beiguan Police Station. When he went to arrest Liu Laocai, he was sent away by Lu Ming in a few words. He also took the opportunity to back off. He was originally the kind of small follower who tried desperately to stick to the rich.
In the evidence-collecting operation, he voluntarily followed Lu Ming and Wang Xiaohu's team.
The parked black car is from the Snow Dragon series of Nix Auto. The Snow Dragon series is the high-end model of Nix Auto. This one is the newly launched Snow Dragon 950. Next year, it will be the Empire 950.
Although the price of Xuelong 950 is not as high as supercars like Xuelong Phantom, it is also expensive. It is positioned as a high-end business car. The black sedan is very atmospheric and the market price is around 3,000 yuan.
Xuelong 950 will also be one of the first models in the world to use three-point seat belts and will be officially launched in three days.
Nowadays, various newspapers and magazines are already warming up, and Nix Automotive has begun to hype up the new selling point of its three-point seat belts.
At the same time, Nix Motors also announced that it would give away twenty limited edition models in advance to the most important business partners in the empire.
This is of course another hype.
Huaxia Technology is prominently on the list of its most important business partners, and this is the gift car.
However, Wang Xiaohu and Sha Dahai naturally had no idea about the origin of this black car. They just felt that it was very comfortable to sit in it. The seats, decorations, etc. were obviously very high-end and luxurious. The space in the car was also very spacious, and it seemed to be larger than the cars they had sat in before.
Sha Dahai got out of the car and even diligently helped Lu Ming to open the door. The beautiful driver who had quickly gotten down from the driver's seat saw this and rolled her eyes at Sha Dahai. She was still in the probation period, but all the opportunities to show her abilities were snatched away by this lackey.
Although Lu Ming was not affected by the comments on the Internet that often mocked female drivers in his previous life, he had never intended to hire a female driver.
The driver was recruited by Pamela. When she first came to Beiguan, she rented a house in a slum for a short time. The female driver was the daughter of a tenant in the slum. Her mother was very kind to Pamela. However, when Pamela told her story, Lu Ming felt that the woman had a slave mentality towards Westerners. That was why she treated Pamela like a servant even though they were both tenants.
For example, Pamela said that when she went to the water supply station to get water from the faucet, the woman shouted to make way for Pamela, and asked those in front of her to make way so that Pamela could get water first.
Pamela soon moved to the first floor of the two-story building that Lu Ming bought later and opened a laundry shop. The woman directed her husband, brothers and others to help Pamela move.
A few days ago, the woman came to the small building in Jing'an Lane, bringing four kinds of snacks, and wanted to ask Pamela to find a good job for her daughter.
She saved money to send her daughter to the police academy, but her daughter was lazy and couldn't bear the hardship. She even had a conflict with the teacher and was expelled. She asked people for help everywhere, and since her daughter had learned driving skills in the police academy, she found a job as a bus driver for her daughter. However, as a temporary employee, not only is the salary low, but the daily work from 5 am to 9 pm is also exhausting. What's more, driving a bus nowadays is often a physically demanding job.
One day, my daughter came home crying and said she would not go anywhere else, but she had blisters on her feet.
The woman had no choice but to think of Pamela and go to her former Western neighbor for help. After all, Pamela was the most distinguished person she knew, and she usually didn't dare to come to her for help.
Pamela might have been thinking of her own mother, who sent a maid to take care of Pamela after she was kicked out of the house. She never told her mother until she went bankrupt for a long time and even secretly gave her money. How pitiful is the love of parents in this world.
That's why Pamela agreed to the mother's request.
Just as she needed a driver, Pamela suggested trying out this girl named Park Soo-na.
Lu Ming sat on the right side of the back seat, Sha Dahai sat on the front passenger seat, and Wang Xiaohu sat on the left side of the back seat.
"Sir, where are you going?" Park Soo-na turned around and asked sweetly.
Park Soo-na's family is from Jinzhou, but they came to Beiguan to make a living a few generations ago. She has the single eyelids unique to Jinzhou girls. Her eyes are slightly long and narrow, but they look very charming, a kind of slightly playful charm. She wears a female driver's uniform, a sapphire blue uniform skirt, black stockings and beautiful legs, a beautiful red silk scarf collar around her pink neck, a beret, and beautiful long hair dyed in rose gold and curled into small curls, which makes her look more charming and mature, even though she is only seventeen years old.
And her driver uniform looks a lot like the stewardess in her previous life.
Usually, servants, drivers, and gardeners in wealthy families all have very eye-catching uniforms. I don’t know where her style was customized.
"Let's go to Dashunfa!" Lu Ming said. Dashunfa is a big vegetable market, and behind it is a human traffickers' market. Although the empire has abolished slavery long ago, the slave trade is still prevalent. The same is true for the Zhongzhou people gathering area. Dashunfa in Dongguan actually has the underground slave market of the entire East China Sea. Of course, there is also the kind of domestic servant trade that requires signing a death contract, which is similar to the slave trade.
The actual license holder of Dashunfa is a Westerner.
Park Soo-na quickly started the car, turned the steering wheel with her small hands wearing snow-white lace gloves, and the car slowly drove out.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Sha Dahai could smell a faint fragrance wafting towards his nose, and he didn't dare to breathe.
He felt that he should be able to remember Lawyer Lu correctly. It was not long ago that Mr. Liu got into trouble with the law. At that time, he met Lawyer Lu in a small law firm. He was deeply impressed because Lawyer Lu was too young and the law firm was very small. But how could he be Mr. Liu's personal lawyer
But now it seems that Lawyer Lu’s style is so great that even Mr. Liu cannot compare to him. He is a real tycoon!
Luxury cars, beautiful drivers, this is a life I couldn’t even dream of.
Suddenly, the car braked suddenly with a squeak. Although it had just started slowly, the people in the car still leaned forward suddenly.
Fortunately, everyone fastened their seat belts after Lu Ming reminded them. Lu Ming inexplicably thought of an advertising slogan, "Three-point seat belts are good, protecting your safety! Day and night."
"Are you looking for death?!" Park Soo-na's face turned pale and she soon became furious. She suddenly pulled off her seat belt, pushed the car door and got out, pointing at the old man who was blocking the car's way and cursing. The delicate stewardess immediately turned into a little shrew.
Lu Ming frowned as he looked at the old man in a green robe who opened his arms to stop the car, then slowly pushed open the door and got out.
"Xiao Na, get out of the way, I know you!" Lu Ming walked over.
Sha Dahai, who had gotten off the car and was about to go up and catch people while cursing, stopped.
The old man who blocked the car was Zhao Xingwang from Xingwang Industrial.
He works in a factory and doesn't have much dealings with patrolmen. Unlike Liu Laocai who runs a shopping mall and needs to make many friends, he also has to deal with the patrolmen and local bosses on the ground. That's why Sha Dahai doesn't know him.
Lu Ming had received a call from Wen Liangyu yesterday. After Knicks Automotive Industry launched the selling point of the three-point seat belt, making it a hot topic of discussion throughout the empire, the children of the Zhao family started to make a fuss, all blaming their father for selling the patent for only 10,000 yuan.
Originally, Lu Ming had asked Wen Liangyu to calm Zhao Xingwang down, saying that he would have a good talk with him in the next one or two days when he had time.
But I didn't expect that he would come to stop the car today.
"Does it have to be so ugly?" Lu Ming walked to the front of the car and sighed softly.
"I know that if I go to court, I will definitely lose. I just want an explanation from you!" Zhao Xingwang's face turned pale.
"Come, let's talk over here!" Lu Ming pointed to the small fountain on the rockery next to him and walked over first.
Zhao Xingwang hesitated for a moment and followed.
The rockery is rugged and covered with moss, goldfish are swimming in the clear pool, and the fountain sprays in all directions to form a round water curtain. Some of the water is blown over by the wind, which is extremely cool.
"Mr. Zhao, as you know, we have made changes to the products that undergo impact tests and also to the patented products!" Lu Ming looked at Zhao Xingwang.
Indeed, the final product was modified according to my understanding of the three-point safety belt in my previous life. Of course, I was just the one who did the talking, and it was the engineers who made the changes.
"Yes, you also said that Huaxia Technology has also been developing three-point safety belts, and the final product is your model, but I want to see the relevant information developed by your Huaxia Technology." Zhao Xingwang stared at Lu Ming with a deep look.
Lu Ming frowned: "I also promised you that I would compensate Xingwang Industrial when I reach a certain scale in the future."
"So, you feel guilty, right? That's why there is the idea of compensation." Zhao Xingwang sneered.
Lu Ming looked at his ferocious face, which was no longer the kind old man, and nodded slightly. In the face of interests, even father and son could turn against each other, not to mention that he and he did not have any friendship at all.
"Mr. Zhao, do you know that I made a lot of preparations to fight a lawsuit with Lingwei Automobile and make this lawsuit the focus? I found many victims of two-point seat belts..."
"I know that without your idea and your promotion, this thing would not be what it is now." Zhao Xingwang looked up, "Maybe I have sold Xingwang Industrial and the patent has been shelved because no one went to the Patent Office to confirm and pay the patent management fee once a year, and I am afraid that it will expire soon."
Lu Ming nodded.
"I know all this, but now, I don't know how much you made from this product, about 200,000, right? You bought land and expanded the company. I heard that you are also going to invest in an aircraft company, right?"
"You've made so much money, you should show some appreciation!"
"Laws are laws, but as human beings, we must be reasonable!"
Zhao Xingwang sneered.
Lu Ming looked at him quietly for a while, "Mr. Zhao, tell me the truth, two hundred thousand is too little. So far, I have received more than five hundred thousand. In the future, there will be more five hundred thousand. However, this has nothing to do with you. Just like you said, if you are not convinced, you can sue me."
Lu Ming turned around and took two steps, then turned back, "Also, I plan to withdraw my investment in Xingwang. You raise 200,000 as soon as possible, and I will return the 30% of the shares to you!"
Zhao Xingwang was stunned and wanted to say something, but Lu Ming had already gone far away.