Around 12 noon.
The Ming Court Building shrouded in thick fog.
In the chairman's office.
Aiming at Mingting's largest investment project to be launched next year, Lu Zheng has been discussing for a long time with his father and the person in charge of the consortium who decided to join the project. Just at this time someone knocked on the door and came in, Lu Zheng raised his eyes and saw that it was his secretary.
The secretary stood respectfully and nodded slightly: "Chairman, President Li, and President Lu."
After saying hello, he walked directly to Lu Zheng's side, and whispered to Lu Zheng: "Miss Yan just called and said she wanted to see you. I asked her to come here around 1:30."
Lu Zheng glanced at his watch and nodded his approval. As soon as he turned his attention back, he saw his father looking at him seriously. His father quickly looked away, and Lu Zheng didn't pay much attention to it. Before 1:20, the three-person meeting ended early, and Lu Zheng sent President Li downstairs for his father. Afterwards, she went back to her own president's office. Counting the time, she was almost there...
1:30...
1:35...
1:40...
Lu Zhenggan sat there, looking at his watch frequently. He had another schedule at two o'clock and was about to leave the company. Seeing the time passing by, Lu Zheng gritted his teeth, leaned over to pick up the phone, and was just about to dial the number , interrupted by a knock on the door.
The secretary came in later, with a hesitant expression on his face, hesitant to speak: "Mr. Lu..."
Lu Zheng frowned: "En?"
"Miss Yan... Maybe she won't come over."
Lu Zheng was helpless: "I have to ask you to say something? What's the matter, in the end?"
Then the secretary came in, and handed the handheld computer to Lu Zheng: "Just now, all major portal websites have published similar news..."
Lu Zheng took the handheld computer and looked at it at a glance, his face became more and more stiff.
Sliding his finger on the screen, almost every piece of news was talking about the same thing - "Regarding Xu's unreasonable trend in the stock market recently, an insider revealed that it was acquired by Libo Group and Xu As a result of anti-acquisition actions. As of the time of writing today, Xu’s stock price has fallen by the limit again. The person familiar with the matter said that it was because Xu Jinfu’s daughter, Yan Liang, suffered a disastrous defeat in the anti-acquisition war, and the capital chain was broken. The estimated loss is more than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to RMB …”
Lu Zheng didn't need to look any further, he immediately pulled off the suit jacket resting on the back of the chair, strode towards the door, and told the secretary, "Prepare the car for me."
The secretary came back to his senses, and hurriedly followed, taking down the coat hanging on the hanger for him by the way. But just after chasing halfway, the secretary saw Lu Zheng who was about to walk into the elevator not far ahead stopped suddenly.
It wasn't just Lu Mingting's chief secretary who was standing in the elevator that made Lu Zheng, who had always been calm, so stunned. And... Jiang Shijun standing next to the chief secretary.
There are only two offices on the top floor of Mingting Building, one is the office of the chairman of the father, and the other is the office of his president. Obviously, Mr. Jiang is not his guest of Lu Zheng...
At this moment when he was in a daze, the chief secretary asked Lu Zheng: "Are you going out?"
Lu Zheng quickly concealed his emotions: "Yes, there is something urgent."
Jiang Shijun and Lu Zheng, who met face to face, just bowed their heads slightly to greet each other, and did not talk to each other. Lu Zheng turned slightly to let them get out of the elevator first, and when Lu Zheng walked into the elevator and was about to press the door close button, the chief secretary But he said: "Mr. Lu, the chairman invites you to go there too."
Before Lu Zheng refused, the chief secretary couldn't help but tell Lu Zheng's secretary who was standing behind a few people who didn't dare to act rashly: "This is the chairman's intention. I will postpone the schedule for you, Mr. Lu."
Lu Zheng had no choice but to come to the chairman's office again, and the chief secretary closed the door outside the office.
And Jiang Shijun, who entered the door together with Lu Zheng, saw Lu Mingting standing up to greet him, and immediately greeted him warmly: "Old Lu, we meet again!"
Lu Zheng's face suddenly darkened, and he subconsciously stared at his father's reaction - only to see Lu Mingting smiled warmly: "The Chengde restaurant that you invited me and my wife to last time was really hard to book, when can I borrow yours? Light, go eat another meal?"
An extremely bad premonition invaded his heart immediately, Lu Zheng suppressed the unease, and listened to Jiang Shijun's reply calmly: "That private kitchen is notoriously difficult to order, and high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen still have to make reservations in advance. Another table was renewed a month ago, and you must be rewarded by then."
Lu Zheng listened silently, he could only sigh, Jiang Shijun is really an old fox...
Just as he was silently and coldly smiling wryly in his heart, as if turning around, Jiang Shijun's words seemed to be telling the truth: "I think it was that kid Yu Nan who told me that your wife is from Chengde, so I can tell you the truth." It just occurred to me that there was such a private restaurant."
Lu Mingting was full of praise for this young man, "Speaking of Mr. Jiang, I have to talk about chess again. When will I invite him out to play chess with an old man like me? Young people nowadays rarely have a chess match with him. It’s like playing chess so well…”
Jiang... Yu Nan...
Lu Zheng seems to have finally smelled the ins and outs of these few words, or maybe, some truth...
The two of them were gossiping like friends, Lu Zheng glanced at the clock not far away, his mind was no longer here, but at this moment, he was pulled back by Jiang Shijun's voice: "But I am here this time. I want to tell the truth."
"..."
"You must have heard the news about Xu's stock price limit."
Lu Zheng's heart fluttered suddenly, but he could only pretend to be interested. His eyes moved away from the clock and turned to Jiang Shijun. Jiang Shijun looked back at him thoughtfully before continuing. : "Our acquisition of Xu's is a foregone conclusion. At that time, the entire domestic cosmetics industry will undergo great changes. In the first half of the year, Xu's brands will be stationed in Mingting Plazas in major cities across the country. I hope Xu's brands will be withdrawn." Behind the cabinet, it can be replaced by my Libo product."
At this moment, Lu Zheng really couldn't sit still anymore, he got up and said directly: "I have something urgent, you two talk first, I won't accompany you for the time being."
Go straight after speaking.
Lu Mingting's eyes followed him, and he didn't stop him at first, until he saw that his footsteps gradually changed from the deliberately suppressed slowness to swiftness, and finally he almost opened the door with a "huh"—
And at this moment, Lu Mingting said in great disappointment: "Lu Zheng, you have always kept a clear line between public and private, why are you messing up your senses now because of a woman?"
Lu Zheng's footsteps stopped a second before he stepped out of the office.
And not far behind Lu Zheng, whose back was stiff, Jiang Shijun sat there with his legs folded, and added with a leisurely smile: "Still a married woman..."
The volume was not too loud, just enough for Lu and his son to hear clearly.
Lu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around, ignored Jiang Shijun's sinister smile, and said flatly, "Dad, just leave this matter alone."
His calm and certainty completely angered his father. Lu Mingting's volume suddenly increased, almost echoing over the huge office: "If you dare to take half a step here, I will take away your title of CEO. How can you help her?"
Overnight, the whole world knew that the Xu family was cornered. In the shopping mall, the weak are never used to sympathize, but to trample...
You can't go to the company, you can't go back to the apartment, and you can't go to Xu's house. Everywhere is guarded by reporters. It seems that as long as you can take a picture of her downcast appearance, it is already an infinite harvest.
The assistant also stayed in the cool hotel suite that night. It was already midnight, but the anger in the room was not small. After browsing all kinds of news, the assistant closed the page fiercely, as if to vent his anger, "What insider? It must be Jiang Shijun who disclosed the news to the media." The wall is down and everyone is pushing, now the whole world is avoiding the Xu family, the bank can't get a loan, and friends dare not help, Jiang Shijun can take the opportunity to wipe out the Xu family."
Hearing what she said, Yanliang actually laughed. Is everything Jiang Shijun's fault? Yanliang felt that she knew the answer in her heart: the real master hides in the dark, doing all kinds of bad things, but not causing any infamy.
Definitely a sleepless night.
The Xu family's financial advisor sent the results: As of early morning, the Xu family was in debt of 1.5 billion US dollars.
Almost the same as the numbers reported in the news.
He even counted how much she would lose...
Apart from sitting on the bed in a daze, Yan Liang still had the data sent by the financial advisor on the laptop at hand. She held the mobile phone in the other hand to send text messages, wrote and deleted, deleted and wrote, and managed to form a sentence: "Mom, if I Said, I want to sell the real estate under my name, and I want to use all the cash to deal with Li Bo, will you... "
But in the end, she still closed her eyes and suddenly deleted all the words.
She closed her eyes for half a second, then suddenly opened them again, and took the phone - Yan Liang's movements suddenly became very fast, as if she would regret it if she gave herself one more second.
Yanliang just dialed a string of cell phone numbers that she would never forget.
It was already 3 o'clock in the morning, the phone rang twice, and the other party answered. It seemed that he had expected to receive this call, and it seemed that the other party had been waiting for this call all night.
Yanliang looked at the sleeping assistant on the other bed, and said, "Jiang Yunan..."
"..."
Her desperate breath seemed to echo in the suite: "Let's meet."