The True Scandal

Chapter 18

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Xu Sheng arrived at Bingang at noon the next day and did not receive any news from Wan Heyu, just as Tang Zhi had guessed.

A few hours ago, while having breakfast, Tang Zhi told Xu Sheng with confidence that Allen would probably not tell Wan Heyu about the pen being switched, and listed one, two or three reasons, which were very clear.

Xu Sheng felt that Tang Zhi seemed to be too proficient in such sideline matters, but he did not interrupt him.

After arriving in Bingang, Xu Sheng did not go home and went directly to find his grandfather.

Standing outside the office door and putting the pen in the inner pocket of his suit, Xu Sheng did feel an unusual falling force.

Although he lives in a tightly guarded mansion in the mountains and has an endless number of children, Xu Hefu still loves to show his simple and civilian side.

He has stayed in the old building of Xu Group Building for twenty-five years. The office has been renovated several times, but the original decoration style has never been changed.

Dark red carpet, huanghuali desk, pen holder on the table, and landscape painting on the wall behind.

Every time Xu Sheng walked into his grandfather's office with his secretary, he would take a look at the paintings first, and this time was no exception.

The painting shows the Xu family manor. The lake next to Xu Sheng's house is hidden among the lush trees. If you look closely, you can see a glimmer of water, but when you look away, you suspect it is just an illusion.

After a dinner party, Xu Sheng went home with his mother. The mother was drunk and told Xu Sheng that she sometimes felt like the lake in the painting.

She is a part of the mountain, a daughter who obeys his words, and also a misfortune, so she hides under the tree and shows very few traces.

The secretary closed the door behind him. Xu Sheng withdrew his gaze, looked at Xu Hefu from a bird's eye view, and nodded slightly: "Grandpa."

Xu Hefu put down the book in his hand and said to him: "Here you go. Sit down."

Xu Sheng sat in the armchair opposite his grandfather and recounted what he had seen and heard in Tongjiang. He then skipped the process of obtaining the pen and placed the pen on the table.

Xu Hefu picked up the pen wrapped in paper with interest, weighed it, and asked Xu Sheng: "How did you get it?"

For many reasons, Xu Sheng did not want his grandfather to pay extra attention to Tang Zhi, so he lied to his grandfather: "I asked the assistant to bump him with water, and I took the opportunity to switch."

Xu Hefu looked at Xu Sheng with a smile in his eyes: "You are quite clever."

He called the internal line and called the secretary who was waiting outside the door. In front of Xu Sheng, he asked him to take the pen for inspection. Before Xu Sheng was about to turn around and leave, he sighed and asked Xu Sheng kindly and casually. Sheng: "Do you think your uncle was deceived again?"

Xu Sheng looked down at his grandfather, not sincerely, but pretended to be sincere and replied: "Dong Wan is good at communication."

Xu Hefu smiled again and stopped pressing him.

Xu Sheng walked into the elevator and looked at his watch. It was already half past one in the afternoon.

He stayed in his grandfather's office for more than an hour. Tang Zhi and the driver also waited in the garage downstairs for such a long time. None of the three of them had eaten yet.

Xu Sheng sent a message to Tang Zhi: "Come to the door."

Tang Zhi replied quickly, making Xu Sheng suspect that he was reading strange news again. Tang Zhi's life is very simple. He likes to watch things that Xu Sheng finds meaningless and cannot arouse Xu Sheng's interest at all, and he never tires of it.

After walking out of the revolving door of the building, the car happened to stop.

The doorman opened the door for him, and Xu Sheng sat in. He smelled a sweet smell that shouldn't be in the car, like a buttery baked pastry.

"What does it smell like?" Xu Sheng asked.

Xu Sheng saw Tang Zhi's shoulders stiffen slightly from the back of the chair, and then heard him ask in a slightly deliberate voice: "What does it smell like?"

Xu Sheng was too lazy to talk to him and asked him directly: "What did you eat?"

"..." Tang Zhi was silent, and after a few seconds, he said, "Let's have some egg tarts."

As the car drove onto the road, the driver asked Xu Sheng at the right time: "Mr. Xu, where are you going?"

"Port Company," Xu Sheng finished speaking, and then asked Tang Zhi, "You didn't eat so much depending on the occasion before?"

Tang Zhi seemed to be unable to help but turn around and said to Xu Sheng, "I'm hungry and I didn't have enough breakfast."

"I'm not fat." He insisted.

Tang Zhi is indeed not fat, he is even a little too thin.

But Xu Sheng himself didn’t quite understand the reason and didn’t want to agree with Tang Zhi, so he said, “Why are my clothes so tight if I’m not fat?”

"You eat less." Xu Sheng said again.

Tang Zhi turned his head away as if he was a little unhappy.

Xu Hefu has very high security requirements. Anyone who enters the Xu family manor must go through layers of inspections.

Therefore, Jiang Yan found the chef and maid, but he had to report the day after tomorrow. Xu Sheng and Tang Zhi ate lunch and dinner at the company that day.

The food at the port company was not very good, and neither of them ate much.

Xu Sheng didn't have any social activities in the evening and came home very early.

Before going to bed, he received an encrypted document from Xu Hefu's secretary, saying that he found it in a pen.

There is indeed a camera in the pen, but the card is very clean, with only the video of Xu Sheng entering DXN.

Xu Sheng read it again and sat on the sofa for a while. Maybe it was because he ate too little for dinner, or maybe because the pen was replaced by Tang Zhi. He thought he could consider letting Tang Zhi know what was in the pen, so he walked out He walked into the room, walked through the corridor, came to the door of the guest room, and knocked on the door.

No one answered the door at first. Xu Sheng looked at his watch and saw that it was ten o'clock. He felt that Tang Zhi must not have slept, so he knocked again.

Not long after waiting, the door opened. Tang Zhi was wearing pajamas, holding his mobile phone in his hand, his eyes were bright and he looked very happy.

"Mr. Xu," Tang Zhi asked him, his voice higher than usual, as if he was a little excited, "What's wrong?"

Xu Sheng looked at him, paused, and told him: "There is indeed something wrong with the pen, and there is a camera."

"Oh," Tang Zhi nodded, and after a few seconds, as if he couldn't hold himself back, he also shared with Xu Sheng, "Lawyer Zhong called me just now and said that my mother's retrial application was successful."

Tang Zhi looked really happy, and there was a lot of innocence in his eyebrows that was inconsistent with his knowledgeable appearance.

He said to Xu Sheng: "Thank you."

Xu Sheng answered him: "You're welcome."

"It's for use." Before Tang Zhi finished speaking, the phone suddenly slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground. He immediately bent down to pick it up. Xu Sheng saw the undulations of his bones and skin under his somewhat cheap nightgown.

The next second, Tang Zhi raised his face again and said again: "Thank you, Mr. Xu."

"No," Xu Sheng was a bit confused and felt a little hungry, so he asked Tang Zhi, "Go and make me a midnight snack."

Tang Zhi was stunned for a moment and asked Xu Sheng, "What does Mr. Xu want to eat?"

Xu Sheng thought for a while and said, "Lamb chops."

Tang Zhi was startled again and said hesitantly: "It seems that there are no lamb chops at home."

"I don't know if there is any place to sell it," he said. "I know there is a fresh food supermarket down the mountain that closes at 11:30."

It was late, but they decided to go to the supermarket.

Xu Sheng originally didn't want to drive, so he chose a car key and threw it to Tang Zhi. Unexpectedly, Tang Zhi said that he didn't have a driver's license and had never touched the steering wheel of a car. Xu Sheng was so hungry that he had no choice but to be the driver.

He rarely drives, and this is the first time he has driven a passenger since he got his driver's license as a teenager.

He thought the first person to sit in his passenger seat would be his future wife.

However, he has no hope of free love and marriage. It doesn't seem to make much difference whether the passenger is Tang Zhi or his future wife.

Xu Sheng followed the path pointed by Tang Zhi and arrived at the shopping mall not long after going down the mountain.

The lights in the shopping mall were still on. Xu Sheng didn't like crowded places, so he waited in the car for Tang Zhi to go buy something.

Twenty minutes later, Tang Zhi came back with a large bag of things. Xu Sheng pressed the button to open the trunk. Tang Zhi tacitly put the things in, closed the trunk door, and then sat back in the car he had been sitting in. Location.

After starting the car, Xu Sheng looked ahead and asked, "Did you buy it?"

"Well, the last two pieces," Tang Zhi said, "are on sale."

"I also bought wine," he added, "I wanted to drink some wine to celebrate."

Xu Sheng turned his head and glanced at him, telling him: "There is wine at home, what do you want to buy?"

Tang Zhi also looked at him with a slightly surprised expression, and after a while he said, "I don't dare to take that randomly."

"It's very expensive." Tang Zhi said.

Xu Sheng wanted to say it wasn't expensive, but Tang Zhi fell silent, which seemed to mean the topic was over, so he didn't say anything.