Yushanyuan is not the top Chinese restaurant in Haizhu area, but it is the most distinctive Chinese restaurant. It looks like a palace, and the decoration inside is also antique-style. Dining there really feels like an "imperial meal".
As soon as Xia Lei arrived, Hu Hou led Xia Lei into an elegant room.
There were several cold dishes on the dining table in the private room, as well as red and white wine. The hot dishes hadn't been served yet, but it could be seen from the quality of the cold dishes and drinks that the cost of this meal would not be low.
Xia Lei smiled and said, "Mayor Hu, what are you doing?" This sentence can be regarded as a greeting.
Hu Hou smiled bitterly and said, "Xia Lei, you know my identity. It's against the rules for me to invite you here to talk about things. Please be considerate, brother."
Xia Lei said: "Mayor Hu, you are too polite. If you have anything to say, just tell me. If you have any requests, just ask me. As long as I can do it, I will definitely do it for you."
"This is what you said. I asked you to take the person back. Can you do it?"
"Mayor Hu, let me pour you a drink." Xia Lei also had his moments of being naughty.
Hu Hou covered the wine glass with his hand and looked at Xia Lei with some displeasure, "Look at you, just now you said you can ask for anything, but it changed in the blink of an eye."
Xia Lei put down the Wuliangye bottle in his hand, "Mayor Hu, for you, it may be a matter of criticism, but for us, it is a matter of feeding hundreds of people. You closed my company. And one letter lasts for half a year. How can I pay wages to workers and buy insurance for them? This is a life-threatening matter. Workers are angry and just want to vent their anger. Isn’t this okay? I haven’t tried to persuade them. None of them listen to me, what can I do?"
Hu Hou said with a half-smile, "Aren't you afraid of being arrested?"
Xia Lei said with a smile: "Mayor Hu, if you arrest me, the problem will be solved. If you ask someone to arrest me now, I won't have any complaints."
Hu Hou shook his head and smiled bitterly. The workers of Thunder Horse Manufacturing Company were just walking on the street, holding sad slogans without even a single sensitive word. Why should he arrest Xia Lei? And once he arrests Xia Lei, not only will he not be able to solve the immediate problem, but he will also make the situation develop in a worse direction.
"Xia Lei, it's not that I won't uphold justice for you, but... politics is the most complicated and dirty thing in the world. You are an outsider and you can't understand my difficulties. I just want to help you, I don’t have the strength either. If I insist on standing by your side, not only will I not be able to safeguard your interests, I will also step down. So, you still have to understand my difficulties."
"Understood, that's why I came here." Xia Lei said.
Even Shi Boren couldn't help, let alone Hu Hou, a small mayor.
At this time, the waiter in the restaurant opened the door of the private room and started serving food.
There are not many dishes, but they are all exquisite and high-end.
When the waiter opened the wine with a bottle opener, Hu Hou's cell phone suddenly rang. He stood up and walked out, saying, "Sorry, I have to answer a call."
Xia Lei nodded and watched Hu Hou walk out of the private room. He was a little curious in his heart, who would call Hu Hou at this time? As soon as this thought came to his mind, his left eye twitched slightly, and the wooden wall of the private room suddenly disappeared from his left eye's field of vision.
Hu Hou was standing in the corridor outside the private room answering the phone, with a very respectful look on his face.
Xia Lei's left eye was fixed on Hu Hou's lips, and he used lip reading to interpret his language.
"Well... Mr. Gu, I have made an appointment. When will you come over? Well... I mean you two sit down and have a good talk. Now that things are like this, I can't stand down... Yes, everything happens. A solution is for you both to sit down and talk, I will be the intermediary, and we will resolve the conflict together. Do you like it? Yes, yes, I'll wait for you." Hu Hou hung up the phone.
Xia Lei also withdrew his gaze and said secretly in his heart: "It turned out that I wanted to be the peacemaker, but with Hu Hou's reputation, the most he can do is ask Gu Kewu to come, but it is impossible to make an appointment to Guding Mountain. Gu Kewu wants to come and negotiate with me. Wait... Hu Hou said, 'I've made an appointment with you, when will you come over?' In fact, it wasn't Hu Hou who took the initiative to ask me out, but someone asked him to ask me out... "
Hu Hou walked in, and the waiter in the private room poured the red wine into the decanter, then pushed the dining cart and left.
"Sorry." Hu Hou sat down and looked at Xia Lei. He wanted to say something, but he didn't feel comfortable saying it.
Xia Lei's eyes fell on the decanter placed by the waiter on the table, quietly awakening the microscopic ability of his left eye. In his left eye, the transparent decanter and the red wine inside were instantly magnified, like a red swimming pool. Everything was magnified and became extremely clear. He soon discovered that there was some white powdery stuff at the bottom of the decanter bottle, which was slowly dissolving.
Xia Lei's eyes moved to the hot dishes that the waiter had just brought. He found that there were similar white powders in these dishes. They dissolved slower and more obviously than the white powder in red wine.
This is a trap!
Xia Lei's heart was clear. If Gu Kewu made an appointment with him, even if he went to the appointment, he would definitely be wary. But when Hu Hou asked him out, he would not be wary. This is also true. If he hadn't used lip reading to interpret Hu Hou's language and discovered the flaw, he would never have realized that it was a trap!
Hu Hou picked up the decanter and said, "Let's drink something red first."
"Yes." Xia Lei responded, his sight penetrating the wooden wall on the left side of the room again.
There are no diners in the private room on the left.
Xia Lei's sight penetrated the wooden wall on the right. There were two people sitting in the private room on the right, Dong Wu and Qin Qi. There was no food or wine on the table in front of them, only a sword.
Dong Wu and Qin Qi's eyes were focused on the wooden wall between the elegant rooms. They didn't talk to each other, but they both listened quietly to what was going on here.
Xia Lei withdrew his gaze, looked at the glass of red wine that Hu Hou poured for him, and said with a smile: "Mayor Hu, let's have a drink first."
"Okay." Hu Hou picked up the goblet, clinked the glasses with Xia Lei, and then raised his head to drink.
Xia Lei took advantage of Hu Hou's head to raise his head and quickly poured the red wine in the glass from his shoulder into a basin of dripping Guanyin behind him. Qin Xiang's previous training worked, and his hands reached their peak speed. Before Hu Hou drank all the red wine in the glass, he had already completed all the actions. He put the empty wine glass between his lips and pretended to drink it in one gulp.
Hu Hou pursed his lips and put down the drained wine glass.
Xia Lei picked up the decanter and stood up to pour wine for Hu Hou, "Mayor Hu, I'll pour it for you."
Hu Hou said with a smile: "You want to get me drunk. Let me tell you, this kind of red wine is no different from a drink to me. I can drink two bottles at a time."
Xia Lei smiled and said, "Then let's have another drink."
Hu Hou drank the second glass of wine, and the dripping Guanyin also drank the second glass of wine.
"Why is this red wine so strong?" Hu Hou shook his head.
Xia Lei also said: "Yes, I also feel dizzy. Is it fake wine?"
"I'm going to ask..." Before he could finish his sentence, Hu Hou, who had just stood up, lost his feet and fell to the ground.
Xia Lei grabbed the decanter and poured some red wine on himself, then took out his mobile phone and opened the recording software. Then he also fell to the ground.
Just two minutes after Xia Lei also "fainted", Dong Wu and Qin Qi opened the door of the private room and walked in.
Dong Wu kicked Xia Lei on the butt and cursed: "Damn it, your kid is also here today?"
Xia Lei's butt was kicked very painfully, but he didn't even say a word.
Qin Qi sneered, "This kid finally fell into our hands, but I have to admit that this kid is too cunning and difficult to deal with. If Master Wu hadn't taken advantage of Hu Hou, I'm afraid we still wouldn't have been able to catch him. he."
"This kid is better at martial arts than us, and he's cunninger than a fox. Of course it will take some trouble to deal with him, but no matter how cunning he is, he won't become our prey? He's finished, haha." Dong Wu looked very happy, he He kicked Xia Lei again.
Xia Lei remained motionless.
"Let's take them away." Qin Qi said: "The security over there is guaranteed."
Dong Wu said: "I will take care of Hu Hou, you take care of this kid." After saying that, he picked up Hu Hou who was lying on the ground and carried him on his back.
Qin Qi also helped Xia Lei up and carried him on his back. The two of them left the private room and walked towards the back door from the corridor.
There was no one in the corridor and it was very quiet. This was not normal, but it was also normal.
There was a waiter guarding the back door. He was the one who served Hu Hou and Xia Lei drinks. He opened the back door. Behind the back door was an alley and a black business car parked at the door.
The attendant opened the door, then walked around to the cab and got in.
Xia Lei faced two choices, one was to immediately subdue Qin Qi and Dong Wu and save Hu Hou, or the other was to let these two people take him and Hu Hou somewhere. The first choice has the lowest risk, but it can't do anything to Gu Kewu, or even Qin Qi and Dong Wu. Based on the recording just now, Qin Qi and Dong Wu can have hundreds of explanations to get away with it. The second option will allow things to continue, which involves great risks, but it will give Gu Kewu a chance to swallow the bitter pill of being smart this time!
After thinking for a moment, Xia Lei chose the latter. If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't be able to catch the tiger's cubs, and his super ability also relied on him to make this choice!
Dong Wu and Qin Qi put Xia Lei and Hu Hou on the sofa in the back of the business car, and they also sat on the sofa in the second row. The waiter drove the car out of the alley, and then drove towards the seaside.
Xia Lei secretly thought in his heart: "Are you going to the Heroes Club? If you are going to the Heroes Club, then I have to take action halfway."
Dong Wu looked back at Xia Lei, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, "This is your last journey in the world, enjoy it, I will personally send you on your way later."
Qin Qi smiled and said: "He doesn't know anything, what's the use of telling him this?"
Dong Wu said: "I am happy."
Qin Qi said, "I don't have as much grievance as you. I'm thinking, after doing this job, we have to go abroad for a while. Where do you think we should go? The United States or France?"
Dong Wu said: "I want to go to Japan."
"Why?"
"I heard that Japanese women are very tasty, I want to try them."
"My God, I didn't expect you to be more lustful than me at such an old age. Well, let's go to Japan and I will compete with you to see who is better."
"Hahaha… "