The call was from Shentu Tianyin.
"Sorry, I'm taking a call." Xia Lei stood up and left the dining table, walking several meters before stopping to answer Shentu Tianyin's call.
"Lei, I..." Shentu Tianyin hesitated to speak.
"What's wrong with you?" Xia Lei was curious, "Why are you hesitant to speak?"
Shentu Tianyin was silent for a moment before saying, "I don't know how to speak. I..."
"Is there anything else you can't say between you and me? Are you in trouble?" Xia Lei had some guesses in his mind, but to no avail.
"I did something wrong last time, and I'm sorry for you." Shentu Tianyin's tone was filled with regret.
Xia Lei smiled bitterly, "That's it? How many times have I told you? Don't mention things that have passed. Each of us will make mistakes, but we can't live in the past. .”
"That matter..." Shentu Tianyin hesitated for a moment, but finally said it, "I don't know who restarted it. Tonight, several people came to my house, saying what kind of investigation team they were, and asked me some difficult questions. Question. I didn’t want to trouble you, but I was a little worried, so... "
"Those people are still in your house?"
"Yes." Shentu Tianyin looked a little nervous, "They also asked me some things about your dad, and they hinted that there was something wrong with your dad. Those people have a lot of background, what should I do?"
Xia Lei looked back at Yu Shanhe and Ling Hao who were sitting at the dining table. He saw the subtle smiles on the corners of Yu Shanhe and Ling Hao's mouths. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something.
This is not a social gathering, let alone a dinner party between friends, but a negotiation game involving the interests of many people. If you want to negotiate, you must have chips in hand. Yu Shanhe and Ling Hao are showing him the chips in their hands!
Xia Lei looked away and said calmly: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."
"But they presented some evidence, and I'm worried..."
"Trust me, nothing will be wrong."
"Can you come to my house? I want to talk to you." Shentu Tianyin said.
"I'm negotiating with someone and I can't come." Xia Lei thought for a moment and then said: "Let's do this, no matter what those people ask you, you just say you don't know. If they force you, you can put all the responsibilities on Come on my head. You just need to deal with it, you don't need to do anything else, and don't be afraid."
"Okay, I'll do as you say." Shentu Tianyin said.
Xia Lei hung up the phone and returned to the dining table. He smiled and said, "Women are really troublesome. They have to ask me about even the smallest things."
Ling Hao said with concern: "If it's an emergency, you don't have to accompany us, you can go and deal with it first. As for food, you can have it anytime."
"It's really not a big deal." Xia Lei said with a smile, "She's my ex-wife, Shen Tu Tianyin. You must know her."
Ling Hao smiled and said, "Who doesn't know the richest woman in China? Did something happen to her?"
Xia Lei said: "As for the incident that happened before, the matter has actually been settled, but somehow another expert group appeared to investigate the incident."
Yu Shanhe said calmly: "I know that. Tens of billions of state-owned assets are no small matter. Whenever such an account is revealed, it will be a big deal. Xia Lei, I think you should go there. Well. A husband and wife are good for a hundred days. You are a husband and wife. If she is in trouble now, you should help her. Besides, the people in the investigation team will definitely give you face. "
"That investigation team is obviously looking for trouble, will they give me face?" Xia Lei said.
Yu Shanhe said: "If they don't give you face, just mention me. I'm still a bit thin-faced."
"Why is this so embarrassing?" Xia Lei said.
Ling Hao said: "Brother, what's so embarrassing about this? We are friends now. Isn't it normal for friends to help friends?"
A smile appeared on Yu Shanhe's lips, "To be a friend, you must have the sincerity of a friend. Xia Lei, I have a plan in my heart and I have wanted to talk to you for a long time. Today is an opportunity, let's talk."
"I wonder what plan Mr. Yu is talking about?" Xia Lei asked.
"Xiao Ling, please call first and ask who sent the investigation team to help Xia Lei solve this problem. I will talk to him first." Yu Shanhe said.
"Well, I'll call and ask right away." Ling Hao then stood up and walked to the window, took out his mobile phone and made a call.
Xia Lei secretly thought: "What kind of show are you doing? This is a restaurant, not Hengdian."
Yu Shanhe continued: "My plan is to let you cooperate with China Industrial Group."
"Cooperate with China Industrial Group? Mr. Yu, what kind of cooperation are you referring to?" Xia Lei asked tentatively.
Yu Shanhe said: "The research and development of new weapons and new technologies have made many achievements in terms of production capacity."
"Mr. Yu, please elaborate."
"Aren't China Industrial Group and your Thunder Horse Group both developing new tanks? I think repeated research is a waste of national resources. If you two join forces to integrate their respective technologies and advantages, develop a new tank Main battle tanks, this is also beneficial to the country."
"That makes sense, so what kind of cooperation method is there in terms of technology research and development?"
"China Industrial Group has a huge scientific research team and technical strength, which is exactly what your Thunder Horse Group lacks. Don't you have a rare material project in your hands? Let the power of China Industrial Group get involved, and you two can join forces If you get up and work hard, you will definitely get good results." Yu Shanhe said.
"How about more production capacity and more flowers?"
Yu Shanhe said with a smile, "You have too many orders. You can give some of them to China Industrial Group. You only need to provide production technology and standards. China Industrial Group is a large state-owned military industry enterprise with many branches. It It can help you solve the problem of insufficient production capacity.”
Xia Lei sneered in his heart. What kind of cooperation is this? This is simply a shameless free ride. The tanks of China Industrial Group cannot compete with the tanks of Thunder Horse Group. The party with backward technology wants to cooperate with the party with advanced technology to study a project. Isn't this because they want to take credit for nothing? Once this project is completed and production begins, China Industrial Group will probably receive more orders than Thunder Horse Group!
As for the new materials project, he has already received support from the Academy of Sciences. Why does China Industrial Group need it? And the last so-called "more production capacity", to put it bluntly, is to let him take a piece of the cake!
"Xia Lei, what do you think?" Yu Shanhe looked at Xia Lei expectantly.
Xia Lei thought for a moment, "I have to think about such a big thing."
"You should think about it carefully." Yu Shanhe said, and he glanced at Ling Hao. After looking at each other, the latter put away his cell phone and walked over.
"How was your talk?" Ling Hao asked with a smile.
Yu Shanhe said: "Xia Lei said that we should consider it."
Ling Hao frowned slightly, "Brother, look, I almost got into a quarrel with someone just now about your ex-wife. Am I sincere enough? We are friends now. To be friends, we have to show our strength to be friends." You are sincere. You can't work alone all your life. How can you eat such a big piece of cake by yourself? If you eat it alone, others will not starve to death. If you give others a way to live, others will also give it to you. Return. Once we come and go, won’t we all become a family?”
Xia Lei smiled and said, "Are you two suggesting that I join your camp?"
Yu Shanhe said nothing.
Ling Hao said: "You can understand it this way. I think you don't want to stand on the opposite side of the vast majority of people alone? Hello, everyone, isn't that the real good thing? You are already worth hundreds of billions. You can't spend it all in ten lifetimes. You have made so many achievements, but you are not an official. You said you have offended so many people and put yourself in an isolated environment, so why bother?"
Yu Shanhe answered, "Yes, I take the liberty to call you Xiaoxia. Xiaoxia, life is only a few decades. Why do you want to earn so much and fight for so much? Sometimes, if you take a step back, the world will be brighter, and your life will be different because of you." This decision makes a difference.”
"Hehehe..." Xia Lei laughed out loud, "You two have really good intentions. First, you sent an investigation team to dig up my ex-wife's old debts, and then you lobbied me here to give you benefits. I said, you guys don't even know what to do. You don’t intend to be friends with me, but you just want to force me to submit, right?”
The expressions of Yu Shanhe and Ling Hao darkened at the same time.
Xia Lei continued: "I think you have overestimated your current abilities. Do you think that just because of my ex-wife's incident, you can bring me down? I have already shouldered the scapegoat. I won't be okay if I don't ?"
Ling Hao sneered, "Brother, it's meaningless if you say that."
"It's not that I'm not interested, it's just that you don't have enough chips in your hands." Xia Lei said.
"What about your father?" Ling Hao said coldly: "He is an agent of the hostile force."
"I have a pardon." Xia Lei didn't buy it at all.
The atmosphere suddenly became depressing and smelled a little more gunpowder.
From Yu Shanhe's point of view, with his status and face, plus Shentu Tianyin's old debt, and Xia Changhe's special status, even if Xia Lei didn't agree to all his conditions, he would still make some concessions. The normal result should be like this, because no entrepreneur is willing to be an enemy of someone of his status. Therefore, he himself was actually a bargaining chip in this negotiation, but he never expected that he had lowered his stance to such an extent, and Xia Lei still didn't buy it!
After a brief silence, Yu Shanhe spoke up and said: "Xia Lei, do you really think that because the higher ups are optimistic about you, I can't move you? Well, even if I can't move you now, can't I still be able to move the people around you? Or, in your eyes, I, Yu Shanhe, am not an important person?"
Xia Lei smiled and said, "Mr. Yu, I'm still used to you now. I'm really not used to you just now."
"Hmph!" Yu Shanhe said coldly: "Ling Hao, call the people in the investigation team and arrest Shentu Tianyin and take him away for investigation."
"Brother, why are you doing this? Wouldn't it be great if we all make money together and get promoted and get rich together?" Ling Hao took out his mobile phone and looked at Xia Lei, waiting for Xia Lei's response.
Xia Lei said calmly: "I have forgiven many people, because they deserve forgiveness. I am not alone, I have many friends, and they are even willing to die for me. But I will not forgive you two, because you two are not at all It is not worthy of forgiveness. I will not be friends with you, because there are actually no friends in the world of people like you. You are crocodiles. You will even eat your companions, so how can you have friends?"
Yu Shanhe said coldly: "Call me, don't talk nonsense with him, let someone take Shentu Tianyin away. In addition, send someone to check the little policewoman in Haizhu to see if there is any violation of regulations or disciplines." .”
Ling Hao started dialing.
"Wait a minute." Xia Lei said.
Ling Hao paused and said tentatively: "Changed your mind?"
Xia Lei turned his eyes to the woman who was sitting quietly and said, "Hey, miss, how about coming over for a drink?"
ps: Thanks to Miyue Fuxi for the reward!