Zheng An knew that embezzling public funds was wrong, and he also knew that if the matter was exposed, he would be sentenced and his life would be ruined, but he had no choice. His parents died early in his family, and the two brothers depended on each other. It was not easy for them to survive today. He couldn't just watch his brother's company go bankrupt, so he originally thought of embezzling it first and then replenishing it after the company turned around, so no one would find out. But he didn't expect that the money would be wasted. He was prepared. The worst consequence would be to go to jail himself. But he didn't expect that someone would push this check into his hand today.
It’s not loan sharking, but it’s not charity either.
Zheng An held the check in his hand. It was a thin piece of paper, but it seemed too heavy to be picked up.
Having been in the officialdom for more than ten years, I have seen all kinds of people and sophistication, and I have become good at ingratiating myself. Today, for the first time, I feel my blood is hot.
"Director Xia..." Zheng An didn't know what to say, and Zheng Kui's eyes were red and he looked moved.
Xia Shao sat on the sofa and glanced at the two of them. In fact, the two brothers didn't need to thank her like this. She had some purpose, so she didn't want to acknowledge their thanks. She just said: "Sit down. I hope Mr. Zheng can answer the question I just asked. Your company If management is poor, which company will benefit?”
Zheng Kui is not a stupid person. When Xia Shao asked, he was obviously saying that someone had tricked him, and his rival company was the most suspicious.
Seeing that Xia Shao had something to ask, the two brothers, no matter how grateful they were, had to sit down quickly and answer Xia Shao's question, "Our company is a restaurant, and I usually have my brother's contacts, so there is always no shortage of people. A year ago, the passenger flow began to decrease inexplicably. Later, I renovated the restaurant and invited famous chefs to come in, but the customer base was still small. Several restaurants were opened near my restaurant, each with its own characteristics and customer base. There was definitely competition, but I have been open for several years. There are eight branches in the capital, so I won't be overwhelmed by them. If I have to talk about strange places, I would like to think of one. That restaurant was newly opened last year. The owner is a foreigner and his connections in the capital are not as good as mine. It's not as good as the ones around it. The location where he opened his store is also more remote than ours. At that time, I felt that he might not be able to continue doing it. At most, he would go bankrupt in a year. Unexpectedly, he was fine, but my hotel started to run poorly. He didn't mention it. He wants to acquire the restaurant under my control, but I think that if my restaurant closes down, it will be beneficial to all my colleagues. However, his situation makes me feel a little weirder. Director Xia, do you think it was him who harmed me?"
Zheng Kui didn't think it was suspicious at first, but the more he talked, the more he thought it was that person, and his expression became very angry. He is not a vegetarian either. If that is the person, he will definitely make him unable to eat and walk around!
"Is the boss a man?" Xia Shao asked without answering.
Zheng Kui was stunned and nodded, "It's a man. Is there any problem?"
Xia Shao lowered his eyes, of course there was a problem. Those who practice voodoo are usually women.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that it is doing things to help others. However, voodoo is different from using feng shui to help people gather wealth. Cat ghost voodoo should be the final transfer of money to the hands of the bewitcher.
If it is really this restaurant, then there is only one explanation, the boss behind it may be a woman.
"Your restaurant has had fewer customers this year. Have you observed where these customers have gone?" Xia Shao asked again.
"I can't say that they all went to that store, but it is true that his business is very prosperous, and many of my customers have gone there." Zheng Kui became more and more sure as he spoke, and became angry, "Okay! It is indeed him!"
"Mr. Zheng, let me ask a personal question. How much profit can your eight restaurants make in a year when the business is booming?" Xia Shao raised her eyes and asked.
Zheng Kui was stunned. If someone else asked him, he would definitely not reveal it. But the girl in front of him had just saved him from fire and water, and the friendship between him and him was different. Moreover, she had another identity.
The Huaxia Group's assets were beyond his reach, so naturally he didn't need to guard against her like he did against his peers.
"I'm not afraid of Mr. Xia's jokes. In good years, these eight restaurants of mine can make a profit of seven to eight million a year. The Evil Emperor is infested, please be careful! The latest chapter. Even in bad years, the profits are still this amount. Half." Zheng Kui said.
Hearing this, Xia Shao lowered her eyes and thought deeply.
She did not make a final conclusion. She only said after deep thought: "Okay, I know the general situation. Don't take this matter lightly yet. I will tell you when there is a result."
Xia Shao stood up and said, "You can leave, or you can sit here for a while. There are health-preserving Feng Shui bureaus in the club, which will have a conditioning effect on your body."
Brothers Zheng An and Zheng Kui don't have much money now, so they naturally can't afford the high membership fees of Huayuan Private Club. They are not members of the club now, but Xia Shao saw something wrong with Zheng An on the night of the dance, so she gave him a business card and asked him to come to the club for an appointment.
Hearing what Xia Shao said, Zheng An and Zheng Kui were very moved. They stood up to thank him, but Xia Shao waved her hands and left with Xu Tianyin first.
Gu magic is different from Feng Shui. If you use Feng Shui to make money, the yin and yang aura will change. Xia Shao only needs to go to the other party's restaurant to have a look. But if it's a voodoo technique, it's not easy to catch the person who cast the voodoo.
After Xia Shao got to the car, she said, "Senior brother, help me find the boss behind that restaurant."
"Okay." Xu Tianyin nodded.
Xia Shao was silent for a while and then said: "Let's go to Beijing University. Let's go to Professor Zhou's house first."
Xia Shao went to Professor Zhou's house to present the talisman she had just drawn. She drew three pictures in total, two for Zheng An and Zheng Kui brothers, and one for Mr. Pan's son.
The reason why Xia Shao didn't go to the hospital to deliver her in person was because she didn't get rid of the poison immediately, so she didn't want to be thanked. I had no choice but to trouble Professor Zhou to send it away. After the person who caused the poison was found out and the poison was completely eliminated, it would not be too late to go see Mr. Pan and his family.
Professor Zhou's home is free today, and the scholars of the Metaphysics Research Society have a rest today.
Xia Shao went upstairs alone and learned that Mr. Pan's son was getting better and had been discharged from the hospital to go home to recuperate.
Professor Zhou was very interested when he saw the talisman in Xia Shao's hand. Unfortunately, Xia Shao didn't have much time to talk about it today. She didn't elaborate on whether Mr. Pan's son was poisoned. She only asked the old professor to help deliver the talisman and asked Mr. Pan's son to carry it with him day and night.
I just asked before leaving: "Professor, do you know what company Mr. Pan's son runs in the United States?"
Professor Zhou was stunned, wondering why Xia Shao asked about this, but he still thought about it and replied: "I heard Mr. Pan mention this once, it seems to be about import and export trade. I didn't ask specifically, I just knew The company is quite big.”
Xia Shao lowered his eyes, import and export trade? Not a restaurant
"How much assets does the company have? Has Mr. Pan ever mentioned it?"
Professor Zhou was stunned again, "It's probably 20 to 30 million. I just heard that I'm not sure about the details. Xiao Shaozi, why are you asking this? Is it related to Pan's son's incident?"
"Professor, I'm investigating this matter, but I haven't found any results. I told you that you're still worried. Why don't I tell you when I get the results." After Xia Shao finished speaking, she stood up and left, with an idea in her mind.
This man used cat ghosts to harm people and seek money from them, but it was not a big financial group that he harmed. From the looks of it, he is quite thoughtful. It is not easy to swallow the money of large financial groups. It takes a long time to cast spells, and these people have connections, and they may also hire Feng Shui masters to see through the poison. It is better to gather a few to make a large number.
After leaving Professor Zhou's house, Xia Shao went directly to Beijing University.
It's vacation time now, and there are still many students in school. It was lunch time, and Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin were walking around the campus holding hands, catching countless glances along the way. The more people saw, the tighter Xu Tianyin held his hand. It wasn't until he reached the downstairs of the biology department's girls' dormitory that Xu Tianyin let go of Xia Shao.
Xia Shao went upstairs, but it was still difficult to find Yi Ni's future mother.
This time she was lucky, Yi Ni was in the dormitory.
The weather in Beijing in early October was still very hot at noon, and all the girls in the dormitory looked listless, except Yi Ni, whose eyes were clear, and looked at people like a knife stabbing them, making them wake up and completely sleepless.
"I heard that you came to see me?" Yi Ni asked when she arrived in the corridor. She looked at Xia Shao with a smile today, but she still looked carefully, "Didn't we agree that the water from the well will not interfere with the water from the river?"
"We made an agreement. But I found someone spreading poison to seek wealth and death. Do you think I should come to you?" Xia Shao leaned against the wall and smiled.
Yi Ni's originally smiling face immediately darkened. She poked and prodded with the knife and spoke like beans, crisply and neatly, "Who do you think seeks wealth and kills? Whose dirty money is worthy of me? His life!"
"I didn't say it was you." Xia Shao still smiled, "To be honest, I don't think your cultivation is enough to breed a cat ghost."
Although she had only met Yi Ni a few times, Xia Shao was still somewhat sure of the girl's temperament. If it was really her who had done it, she didn't seem to be afraid to admit it.
She didn't bother to lie.
But Xia Shao wasn't sure whether Yi Ni knew this person. After all, it was a coincidence that two people who knew the art of voodoo were both in the capital. Therefore, she still used words to test him.
Yi Ni's expression changed drastically!
"What did you say?!" Her face was not pale, but her eyes were suddenly cold and sharp. I always felt that she looked at people very harshly, but now I realized what harshness was.
"Have you seen the cat ghost? Where did you see it? Tell me quickly!" She took a step forward and reached out to grab Xia Shao's wrist.
Xia Shao reacted quickly and stepped back! At this time, two girls came up from the stairs in the corridor. They were obviously from the dormitory here. When they saw Xia Shao, they were stunned. Then they saw that there was something wrong with the atmosphere between Xia Shao and Yi Ni, so they stopped and said, I don’t know if I should move forward.
Seeing that this was not the place to talk, Xia Shao lowered his voice and said to Yi Ni: "Go down and talk."
The two of them went downstairs, still in the avenue where they met last night.
Xu Tianyin was sitting on a bench in the distance and did not come close. Yi Ni glanced at him, as if she could tell that his energy was from the Qi Sect, but she ignored him and asked Xia Shao directly: "Tell me about the cat ghost!"
Xia Shao felt that this girl's temperament was really strong and straightforward, and she didn't know how to write softness at all. But she didn't mind, just smiled slightly, "It seems you know this person. That's easy. Let's make a deal. I'll tell you about the cat ghost, and you tell me who this person is."
"Why should I tell you?" It wasn't a question, Yi Ni was determined not to tell Xia Shao.
"Then why should I tell you about the cat ghost?" Xia Shao raised her eyebrows.
"Because this is our sect's business. Tell me and I will do something for you. I won't owe you anything." Yi Ni said simply.
"But I just want to know who this person is." Xia Shao raised her eyebrows. Seeing Yi Ni frowning after hearing this, she laughed and said calmly, "If you change your mind, tonight , better meet you here, I have something good to show you."
The cat ghost is now in the Jinyu Exquisite Tower, but it is noon, and letting it out is equivalent to killing it. Xia Shao came here today just to try her luck to see if Yi Ni was there, but she didn't expect to actually run into her. But it is not appropriate to let the cat ghost out now, naturally it will be at night.
Xia Shao turned around and left. No matter how anxious Yi Ni was behind her, she just waved her hand and walked away slowly without looking back. "Of course, if you don't come, I have some clues and can check it myself."
Xia Shao could investigate by herself, but even if she found out, it would still take a lot of effort to investigate this person's sect. There are a lot of worries outside Xuanmen now. She hurt this cat ghost, which obviously offended the person who cast the spell, Zuishen Shinhwa. If she wanted to fight with this man, she had to figure out whether there was any force behind him and whether he might bring trouble to Xuanmen.
That's why she had to ask Yi Ni.
Now, it seems she has found the right one.
Maybe there will be an answer tonight.
Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin then left Beijing University. They now fell in love with the feeling of cooking at home, so they drove to buy vegetables on the way and returned to the villa to cook.
Xia Shao had nothing to do in the afternoon. She planned to go to the company after dinner. Now that the company is comprehensive, this battle in the capital is very important. As long as this battle is successful, the road will be much smoother in the future.
But Xia Shao didn't make it to the company today.
Before she left, she received a phone call from an unknown number.
Very few people know Xia Shao's private phone number. Those who can call her cell phone either dial the wrong number or...
Xia Shao finally picked up the phone, then raised her eyebrows and smiled with interest.
Xu Tianzhe.
Xia Shao was not surprised at all that Xu Tianzhe could find her personal phone number. Xu Tianzhe asked Xia Shao to meet at a high-end club in the city, and Xia Shao naturally had no reason to refuse. She put down the phone and told Xu Tianyin. Xu Tianyin frowned lightly and took Xia Shao's hand, "I'll accompany you."
"Of course you have to accompany me." Xia Shao chuckled, "But just accompany me outside the club. I'll go in and talk to him myself. Don't worry, I can handle it."
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The club where Xu Tianzhe asked Xia Shao to meet is completely different from the Huayuan private club, with a modern and noble demeanor, graceful and luxurious.
The manager of the club personally came to pick up Xia Shao. He was very enthusiastic, shaking hands and greetings, and personally took Xia Shao to where Xu Tianzhe was.
Xu Tianzhe was waiting for Xia Shao in his own reception room, with a pot of tea in front of him. When Xia Shao walked in, he smelled the familiar fragrance of Biluochun.
"I heard that Miss Xia likes to drink Biluochun. I hope I can treat her well." Xu Tianzhe said with a smile after Xia Shaoyi sat down.
He still smiled modestly and politely, but Xia Shao just smiled, "I hope Mayor Xu's reception today is more than just this cup of tea."
Xia Shao got straight to the point, but Xu Tianzhe just smiled and said nothing. He picked up the tea and took a sip. Then he lowered his eyes and said, "Yesterday, my mother was a little angry."
He didn't even mention the official who died in the car accident, but instead talked about Hua Fang. When Xia Shao heard this, she just smiled and raised her eyebrows, "Oh? Just a little?"
Xu Tianzhe's lowered eyes did not move, and his brows were slightly dark. After a while, he raised his eyes to look at Xia Shao.
Indeed, when he got home last night, his mother was very angry. His words were full of dissatisfaction with Xia Shao, and he criticized everything from his origin to his performance at the family banquet yesterday.
This was the first time in his life that he saw her get so angry.
And all of this is because of the deliberate actions of the girl in front of me during the banquet yesterday.
“Ms. I know. But what I see is that you are making enemies."
"Oh? What about Mayor Xu? Is he also my enemy?" Xu Tianzhe kept his composure and did not mention the official, but Xia Shao did not follow his twists and turns and got straight to the point.
Xu Tianzhe was slightly stunned. He thought she would at least explain the reasons for doing so, but she did not have a detour in her official career. This made him frown, "Ms. Xia, I know there is a saying that people with great skills are bold. I know that you have some unpredictable abilities. But this does not mean that you can do whatever you want. If you marry into the Xu family, we will We are a family. But you have offended my mother, Lan Lan, and there are people in the Xu family who don’t like you. Do you think your life will be comfortable if you marry in? "
Xia Shao chuckled at this and gave Xu Tianzhe a funny look, as if he was very naive, "Mayor Xu, I think you should know that in the face of absolute power, the so-called 'dislike' is just a child's emotion. ."
Xu Tianzhe naturally understood what Xia Shao meant. She didn't care whether Hua Fang and Liu Lan liked her or not. In her eyes, their dislike did not pose any threat to her, it was just a child's trick.
This made Xu Tianzhe frown even deeper. He stared at Xia Shao for a while, and finally took out a pile of information from his side and threw it in front of Xia Shao. The information was spread out in front of Xia Shao. Page after page were all the tragic photos of the death of the official who died in the car accident. "Miss Xia, I think you are wrong. The absolute power in this world is the law of the country, no matter you are No matter who commits a crime, you cannot escape the punishment of the law."
Xia Shao's eyes fell on those photos. After listening to Xu Tianzhe's words, the corners of his lips slowly raised, meaningfully, "Mayor Xu, I have never doubted the country's laws. It is precisely because I believe that I know that the law is about evidence. Yes. Dare I ask, do you have any evidence?"
Xu Tianzhe lowered his eyes slightly and smiled when he raised his eyes, "I have no evidence, but I know that this is Miss Xia's doing. Isn't that why you were at the ball to tell me this?"
"Then what does Mayor Xu want to tell me when he comes to see me today?" Xia Shao raised her eyebrows.
"It should be that Miss Xia wants to tell me something." Xu Tianzhe smiled and returned to his modest and polite attitude. "If Miss Xia did this, we have room to talk. If not, then why should we talk more?"
The two looked at each other in silence.
After a while, Xia Shao slowly laughed and admitted generously, "Yes, I did it. Now, can we talk?"
Xu Tianzhe looked at Xia Shao and smiled slowly for a moment, "Yes, we can talk."
But when he was talking, he threw something from his body and dropped it on the stack of car accident information, smiling.
Xia Shao lowered his eyes and saw that the thing seemed to be a portable recorder. She raised her eyes lightly and saw Xu Tianzhe's calm eyes and modest and polite smile, as if he was waiting for her reaction.
Xia Shao's reaction to him was silence. After the silence, he smiled, a bit mockingly, "Mayor Xu, I don't understand what you mean. What is this thing?"
"Miss Xia is a smart person, why are you pretending to be stupid now?" Xu Tianzhe melted into the sofa behind him, with a comfortable smile on his brows, "Why don't you click on it and listen?"
Xia Shao raised her eyebrows slightly, and her smile became more and more mocking. She didn't even look at the things on the table, but looked at Xu Tianzhe, who was more free than him, "Yeah. Why don't you click on it and listen?"
Xu Tianzhe looked at her like this and was slightly startled. Then he sat up straight, reached out to take the thing back, stared at Xia Shao, and pressed it open.
What came out of the recorder was not a conversation between the two, but a harsh sizzling sound...
Xu Tianzhe frowned and then lowered his eyes to look at the recorder in his hand. He closed it and tried to open it again, but he still heard disturbing noise.
There was nothing but a cacophony of noise.
Xia Shao melted into the sofa and smiled.
Xu Tianzhe raised his head and looked at her. The smile on his face was gone, and his eyes were only dark. He didn't know what was going on, whether it was Xia Shao's fault or she was just lucky. But now that his intention was revealed, he didn't intend to hide it any longer. Instead, he chuckled and said, "Miss Xia, don't be too happy. You forgot that there is surveillance in this building."
"Mayor Xu, I think you should check the surveillance first." Xia Shao's expression became cold.
Xu Tianzhe frowned. He looked at Xia Shao for a while, then stood up uncertainly and walked into the inner room to call Bad Love: "Little lover, I'm sure you'll get it!" Read the full text. But then, he suddenly turned his head, his eyes shot towards Xia Shao for an instant, which was as shocking as lightning, and his eyes were filled with deep emotions.
He just called the manager of this club to inquire about the monitoring situation. The manager told him that the surveillance camera was broken just now, and all the pictures seemed to be disturbed and could not be seen clearly. Not just his room, but the whole club.
Xu Tianzhe put down the phone, sat down with a cold face, and looked at Xia Shao.
Xia Shao sat silently, only smiled and mocked.
Although Xu Tianzhe had only met him twice, Xia Shao had already seen that this man was very deep in the city. Such a person is good at planning and controlling the overall situation. He will not like the feeling of being threatened. Therefore, he must fight back and regain the victory, even if it means holding a handle in his hand, and from now on, they will restrain each other.
It is better to restrain each other than to be threatened.
When Xia Shao was in Hong Kong, when she went to the Century Real Estate Building, Qu Tao also wanted to use the surveillance video to plot against her. After experiencing this once, Xia Shao was naturally more careful in this regard. When she entered the club, she clicked the dragon scale lightly and released the evil spirit into the entire building. People will not be affected in such an environment for a short period of time, but in places with heavy Yin Qi, the signal will be interfered. This is the same reason that when driving past a cemetery at night, the radio signal in the car is always not very good.
Xu Tianzhe was not a member of the Qi family. Apart from surveillance and recording, Xia Shao really couldn't think of any other means of coercion.
Sure enough, he used this trick.
Xia Shao smiled mockingly, but Xu Tianzhe looked at her with a cold face, "How did you do that?"
This sentence is no longer a trap to induce her to confess. Even if she says it, only he can hear it now, and there will no longer be a chance to use her as an excuse.
"How it was done, Mayor Xu doesn't need to know. You just need to know that in this world, besides power and interests, and the status of the Xu family in the eyes of the world, there are people outside of this." Xia Shao's eyes became cold and cold. Thin.
Xu Tianzhe stared at her seriously, "You want me to support you in marrying into the Xu family."
"No." Xia Shao looked at him indifferently, "I just want you to be obedient and be your mayor and your second son of the Xu family. Don't worry about things you shouldn't."
Xu Tianzhe frowned.
"I don't need your support." Xia Shao sneered, looking out the window into the warm afternoon sunshine, far away, "Xu family, Xu family. You think too highly of the Xu family, too important to me. In my eyes, the Xu family is only the Xu family if it has Xu Tianyin. If he is not in the Xu family, I will not be reluctant to enter a dirty family like you who only care about profit!"
Xu Tianzhe looked at Xia Shao, the girl's eyes were brightened by the warm sunshine on the windowsill. With so many years of experience in judging people in official circles, Xu Tianzhe knew that she was not lying.
"Someone in the Xu family doesn't like me. Will life be uncomfortable after I come here?" Xia Shao's smile was still sarcastic, "You guys take yourselves too seriously. I want to be comfortable, but you can't stop it. I want you to be uncomfortable, but you can stop it. What?"
For the first time, Xu Tianzhe's face became tense and his face looked very ugly.
Although it doesn't sound good, it seems to be true.
"But I want you to feel more comfortable. Because you are his family, he values love, and he still values you." Xia Shao withdrew her eyes and looked at Xu Tianzhe. For a moment, her eyes were painful, but they also became cold. Han, "He values you, and I only value him. If you make him live a good life, I will make you live a good life. If any of you make him uncomfortable, I will make your whole family uncomfortable."
Xia Shao stood up and looked at Xu Tianzhe before leaving, "If you were not his brother, you would be the same as the person in the information today."
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I'm missing the ending, I'll make it up later, two to three hundred words