On the way, Zhang Xinru kept calling the number that was texted to her, but every time the call was called, she was hung up, and finally got a busy signal.
This made her heart even more confused, as her mind was filled with the content of that text message.
"Mr. He is having a tryst with his old flame. Is Mrs. He interested in coming to the Nanchuan Club?"
When Zhang Xinru saw the words "old lover", Xu Zhiyu's face immediately appeared in her mind.
She knew He Yanxi's relationship history very well, and the only one who could bear the title of "old lover" was Xu Zhiyu.
And when He Yanxi called him in the afternoon to tell him that his son had been picked up, his tone was very calm, and it sounded like everything was going very smoothly.
But it was not that she had never come into contact with Xu Zhiyu. She regarded her son as a treasure and would not give up custody of her son no matter how much money she gave him. The fact that He Yanxi is progressing smoothly shows that the two must have reached some kind of agreement.
Xu Zhiyu didn't care about money, so she could willingly hand over her son to the He family. Apart from her status as Mrs. He, what else could she have.
Zhang Xinru knew very well the relationship between Xu Zhiyu and He Yanxi. When she learned that she was infertile and Xu Zhiyu had given birth to a son for He Yanxi, she had been worried that the two would rekindle their old relationship through the child.
So she had been urging He Yanxi to take the child back. After the child came back, she asked her parents' family to arrange for Xu Zhiyu to disappear.
But I didn't expect the two to hook up so quickly.
She had doubts about the authenticity of the text messages.
But Nanchuan Club is indeed He Yanxi's favorite high-end club on weekdays. If the other party didn't actually see it, it would be impossible to say it so accurately.
In the taxi, Zhang Xinru clutched her cell phone tightly, as if she was clutching her heart, trying to calm it down as much as possible.
No matter what, she still has the Zhang family behind her, as long as she catches the two cheating on the spot, then brings the matter to her parents-in-law, and then asks her parents-in-law to come forward to put pressure and seek justice. How did He Yanxi give up on Xu Zhiyu back then? Yes, now I still have to give up obediently again.
As for Xu Zhiyu, the two elders of the He family would not be able to tolerate her without her taking action.
Because her existence means that the only grandson of the He family is an illegitimate son, and his reputation is not justified; it means that He Yanxi was irresponsible when he played with women. How could the He family let this kind of thing that ruined the reputation of the company spread
Thinking of this, Zhang Xinru's anxious heart gradually calmed down, but her clenched fingers with white knuckles still exposed her inner nervousness.
*
Nanchuan Club is a very famous high-end club in the imperial capital. Li Xia chose the location here because He Yanxi is a frequent visitor to this club.
Why did she know that He Yanxi was a frequent visitor? She also wanted to thank the system for instilling all the details of the plot of the original world into her mind.
In the original world, the original owner was killed because Zhang Xinru was worried that the original owner would regain his old relationship with He Yanxi.
That's why she was so anxious that she found a way to lure Zhang Xinru out.
As for what she was going to do after luring Zhang Xinru out, Li Xia felt a little happy when she thought about her plan.
He Yanxi, if you steal my son, then I will steal your wife.
Shen Yuan pulled over the car and said, "Miss Xu, we're here."
"Okay, come in with me."
Ning Meng stood beside Li Xia, carrying Li Xia's bag.
The tall Shen Yuan and Jiang Che followed Li Xia to the left and right, looking at the surrounding geographical environment calmly, instinctively analyzing in their minds which places would be more beneficial to them in the event of an attack.
The group of people was so aggressive that the club's security guards immediately increased their vigilance. They kept their eyes on the four people and did not dare to relax in the slightest.
But Li Xia ignored these concerned glances and walked straight forward.
A woman wearing a small suit with the word "Manager" on her chest stepped forward gracefully and said with a gentle smile: "Miss, this is your first time at Nanchuan Club. Nanchuan Club is only open to VIP customers. If If you want to spend money in the club, you need to become our VIP first.”
"How to become a VIP?"
"Ordinary VIP customers need to pre-deposit a consumption amount of 880,000 when opening the card, and premium VIP customers need to pre-deposit a consumption amount of 3.88 million when opening the card."
Venues for rich people are really expensive!
Li Xia sighed inwardly, but without any hesitation, he took out his bank card and said, "Apply for high-level VIP."
The VIP procedure was very fast. Within five minutes of swiping the card to make the purchase, the manager handed her the ID card and bank card with a smile, and said at the same time: "Ms. Xu, thank you very much for choosing Nanchuan Club."
Then the manager asked someone to take them inside.
Li Xia chose the innermost box, looked up at the name of the box, and found it was very elegant, "Bamboo". He also noticed the names of other boxes next to it, which were called "Pine", "Plum", "Snow", etc.
Li Xia's eyes changed and he borrowed Jiang Che's mobile phone again.
This time she only pronounced one word "bamboo".
*
After receiving the text message, Zhang Xinru opened it and saw only one word - bamboo.
As He Yanxi's wife, she often goes out and in with He Yanxi in various conference halls. She also knows the Nanchuan Club, so it is self-evident what this "bamboo" represents.
Zhang Xinru clenched her fingers, becoming more sure of the authenticity of the previous text message. She got out of the car and hurried into the club.
The employees of Nanchuan Club all knew her, and seeing her anxiously came over to receive her, "Mrs. He, why are you so busy? Do you need our help with anything?"
Zhang Xinru was thinking about that matter and blurted out, "I'm looking for He Yanxi."
"Mr. He? He didn't come to the club today, and he didn't reserve a box in advance." The receptionist checked the club's system and did not see He Yanxi's name in the box reservation and in-use columns.
"Not coming? How is that possible?"
"It is true that Mr. He's information is not displayed in my system."
The lady at the front desk had a sincere expression, but Zhang Xinru didn't believe it. After a second thought, she reported Xu Zhiyu's name.
The club cannot disclose other customers' private information, and the front desk lady did not dare to lie to Zhang Xinru, so she had to reply: "Sorry, Mrs. He, it is not convenient for us to disclose other members' information."
If not, just say no. Doesn't the inconvenient disclosure mean to admit that there is
Zhang Xinru walked inside, her anger rising to the top of her head. Her rationality in the taxi had already been forgotten.
She should have thought of it. Xu Zhiyu only had a salary of 18,000 yuan a month and had to raise a child. If there was no He Yanxi behind this, where would she get the money to go to a high-end breakfast restaurant and show off her wealth and entertain everyone in the restaurant? She was blatantly unable to leave. tower.
Now she was going to catch him on the spot and ask He Yanxi to give her an explanation.
Zhang Xinru, who was familiar with the environment, successfully arrived at the door of the "Bamboo" box. She took a deep breath to calm herself down as much as possible, and then knocked on the door with all her strength. Unexpectedly, the door was not closed at all, but was just ajar. Her exertion directly brought her whole body inside.
But as soon as she pounced in, she was greeted with two loud slaps.
Li Xia used all his strength to attach all the hatred of the original owner's murder and the hatred of his son to these two slaps. After the slap, the entire palm was numb.
Zhang Xinru was stunned by these two slaps. She held her face in pain and looked at Li Xia and several completely unfamiliar faces in the box. She couldn't relax at all. What on earth is going on
After she regained her thoughts a little, her first thought was to escape from the box, but as soon as she turned around, the door was already blocked by a strong man.
Realizing that something was wrong, she stared at Li Xia and asked tremblingly: "Xu Zhiyu, what do you want to do?"
Li Xia sat on the sofa and smiled slightly, "Don't you know what I want to do? Stop talking nonsense and give my son back to me."
When Zhang Xinru heard this, she completely realized that she had been fooled and stepped back in horror.
"Short... text message was sent by you?"
"That's right. Is it just right? It hits the point you're most afraid of perfectly?"
"Xu Zhiyu, you... you... let me out quickly. Do you know that it is against the law? I want to call the police! I want to call the police!"
Zhang Xinru hurriedly took out her cell phone to make a call, but the next second the phone easily fell into Jiang Che's hands. Jiang Che clicked on the phone to restore factory mode and destroyed all the information about them in the phone.
"Is it illegal? Xu Nianhe is my son and has nothing to do with the He family. Doesn't it break the law if you take him without consent? Or is it that the He family only covers the sky with one hand and you have the final say on the law?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? When did our He family take away your son? You are slandering!"
Seeing that Zhang Xinru refused to admit it, Li Xia didn't intend to continue talking nonsense. Her heart was hanging when the little fat man was not by her side for a moment.
She glanced at Ning Meng, and in the blink of an eye, a field combat tool knife appeared in Ning Meng's hand that was seriously inconsistent with her soft girl image.
Ning Meng held up the knife and approached Zhang Xinru step by step. Zhang Xinru stepped back step by step with trembling legs and feet until her body was pressed against the wall and unable to retreat.
Ning Meng gently caressed Zhang Xinru's cheek with the back of her fingers, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and smiled so brightly that Zhang Xinru was so frightened that she lost the strength to stand. She slid down the wall and fell to the ground. She was terribly scared, but Still mustering up all his strength, he said, "How much did this woman give you? I'll pay double!"
The blade approaches.
"ten times!"
The blade still didn't stop.
"Twenty times! Five...fifty times!"
Zhang Xinru burst into tears when she saw that the tip of the knife was almost touching her cheek, and she was trembling with fear.
"I, I, I will give your son back to you."
Why are there so many incidents of violence, fights, and knife killings every year? Don’t you know that this is illegal
Of course not, but violence is sometimes the most direct and efficient method.
But when violence is committed, the perpetrator must be prepared to be punished by law.
Therefore, Li Xia had a good sense of proportion. Apart from the two slaps to teach Zhang Xinru a lesson, he did not really want to hurt Zhang Xinru.
Zhang Xinru called the nanny at home, and then Li Xia arranged for Ning Meng and Shen Yuan to go to Hezhai to pick them up, while she and Jiang Che stayed in the box, temporarily detaining Zhang Xinru.
For the little fat man, Ning Meng and Shen Yuan were both strangers, which made him very resistant and kept crying. Li Xia had no choice but to comfort him through video.
The reason why Li Xia did not choose to pick up the little fat man in person was because she had just heard that Zhang Xinru was going to pay fifty times the price for some bodyguards. She was worried that if she was not there, the bodyguards would be bribed.
It would be best to keep an eye on Zhang Xinru with your own eyes. If something happens, at least Zhang Xinru will still have some use.
However, Li Xia's worries are completely unnecessary. Every bodyguard in the International Bodyguard Company needs to sign an agreement of absolute loyalty to the employer after entering the company. If he is bribed and betrays his employer, the bodyguard company will hold the bodyguard responsible according to the agreement. When the time comes, I'm just afraid that I have my life to make money but not my life to spend it.
After Ning Meng and Shen Yuan brought the little fat boy back, Zhang Xinru immediately asked Li Xia to let her go, but no one expected that Li Xia's next step would be to call the police.
Li Xia was in the box coaxing the little fat man whose voice was hoarse from crying, while the other people were sitting quietly waiting for the arrival of the police.
No one expected that the sound insulation effect of the walls of such a high-end club was not very good.
In the nearby box named "Song", the two people who had been listening to the play for a long time looked at each other. One of them, a man with a slightly green face, asked in confusion: "Mr. Xiao, why did she call the police?"
The man known as Mr. Xiao smiled slightly and made a gesture to continue listening.
"No, it's already Friday today, why don't you just hold on for one more day?"
"How about mom take me to the amusement park to play bumper cars tomorrow?" Li Xia discovered that this little fat man was very good at negotiating terms, and he had already used "equivalent exchange" so skillfully at a young age.
Li Xia didn't know whether this was a good thing or not, but based on the memory of the original owner, it seemed that the original owner would not always spoil the child.
"It's OK to play bumper cars, but it depends on how An An performs today."
"An An will definitely perform well."
"Then what should we do now?"
Li Xia's eyes fell on the clothes and signaled the little guy to change out of his pajamas, but the little guy stood up from the bed, opened his little arms and said, "Give mommy a good morning kiss."
At this moment, Li Xia's heart melted, and she realized the joy of raising Baozi.
It’s really too cute.
After taking An An to have breakfast, Li Xia sent An An to the kindergarten first.
She was originally worried that An An would be unsafe in the kindergarten, so she wanted to ask An An for a leave and follow her closely.
But when she thought about it, she wanted to hire a bodyguard today and buy a big house so that the bodyguard could live at home and protect her and An An 24 hours a day.
An An is only over three years old, and she is always clamoring for a hug after walking a few steps. It is always inconvenient to take him to do errands, and before hiring a bodyguard, it may not be safer for An An to follow her than in kindergarten.
Therefore, Li Xia decided to send An An to the kindergarten first, and asked Teacher Liu, the kindergarten teacher in charge of An An's class, not to let any strangers except her touch An An.
Teacher Liu felt strange when he heard what Li Xia said at first, and asked why.
Li Xia then told how An An's father had abandoned them and now wanted to snatch the child because of fertility problems. Of course, she didn't say who An An's father was, but she just made the incident several times more tragic. He instantly won the sympathy of the kindergarten teacher.
Teacher Liu scolded An An and his father for having no conscience, while patting his chest to assure her of An An's personal safety.
After handing An An to the kindergarten teacher, Li Xia quickly started to do the things she had listed yesterday. She took the lead and went to an international bodyguard company that she had made an appointment online yesterday.
Li Xia read the introduction on the company's official website. Every bodyguard in this company is a retired special forces soldier from all major military regions. They are extremely powerful and are the safe first choice for many celebrities when traveling.
In the plot of the original world, the death of the original owner was the direct cause of Xu Nianhe becoming a villain. Therefore, in order to complete the mission, the first thing Li Xia had to save was her own life, so she was particularly rigorous in selecting bodyguards.
Here Li Xia faces a tough guy with a strong personality in the bodyguard company and carefully selects him.
On the other side, in the original owner's company, employees were discussing today's gossip topics.
The protagonist of this topic is none other than Xu Zhiyu, also known as Li Xia.
"Xiao Ke, it's such a pity that you asked for leave yesterday." A female employee dropped her work and started gossiping with the female colleague at the next desk.
The female colleague named Xiao Ke turned around and asked, "Qiqi, what's wrong? What happened?"
Seeing Xiao Ke's curiosity, Qiqi immediately couldn't suppress the gossip factor in her heart, and immediately told Xiao Ke in detail about the scene she saw yesterday.
"Xu Zhiyu was very proud when she walked in yesterday. I heard them say that her outfit was at least this amount..."
As she spoke, Qiqi stretched out five fingers and waved them in front of Xiao Ke.
"Fifty thousand?" Everyone was a working-class person whose salary had just exceeded ten thousand, and Xiao Ke didn't dare to guess too much.
"Add a zero at the end."
"No, it's not like everyone doesn't know about Xu Zhiyu's situation. She gave birth to a child out of wedlock, her parents seem to have passed away, and there is no one at home to take care of the child. Life is not easy."
"Hey, don't you understand this? There is a market for hot single moms now. It's not easy to get a rich man like Xu Zhiyu."
Qiqi's tone was filled with contempt, but there was a hint of envy in her expression.
She took out a small mirror and looked at her face. She felt that she was not bad looking, but why was she not as lucky as Xu Zhiyu.
Xiao Ke didn't quite believe it. Although she wasn't very familiar with Xu Zhiyu, she felt that Xu Zhiyu was not this kind of person. If she really wanted to do it, why would she have gone to work and earned such hard money
However, Xiao Ke did not refute Qiqi, but he did not want to continue talking, so he changed the subject and asked: "Why didn't she come to work today?"
Before Qiqi could speak, Xu Qiang, who was sitting at the workstation behind her, suddenly interrupted and said in surprise: "You don't know this yet, she resigned."
"Resigned? When did it happen?"
Xu Zhiyu has to raise children and cannot cut off her financial resources, so she cherishes this job very much. Why would she resign
"Just yesterday, the company was going to fire her. Unexpectedly, she took the initiative to resign. She didn't even ask for last month's salary. She probably found a good sponsor." When Xu Qiang said this, his words were very contemptuous.
"Xu Qiang, it's better not to talk nonsense about uncertain things. People have already resigned."
Xiao Ke said this simply because he felt that it was extremely unqualified to talk behind a woman's back about a woman he would never interact with again, but Xu Qiang didn't listen and kept talking more and more vigorously.
"What nonsense? Her previous scandal with the manager of the planning department has been spread throughout the company. Even if it is a rumor, Li Huan and I happened to work overtime with her last time. She wanted me to help her win a big client. , but there are many flirtations and verbal hints at me. Fortunately, I am a serious person, otherwise my reputation will be ruined here. "
Xu Zhiyu fell down the stairs. There were some rumors in the company that this incident had something to do with him. Xu Qiang was afraid of getting into trouble, so he was eager to clear himself up and poured all the dirty water on Xu Zhiyu.
"Oh my god, is it so exciting? Is it true or not? Is this woman so hungry?" Qiqi jumped up from her chair after hearing such explosive gossip.
Xiao Ke heard a sense of superiority from Xu Qiang's words, and felt that the man in front of him was greasy and disgusting, so he turned his chair away and stopped participating in these gossips.
Xu Qiang got excited, "If you don't believe me, ask Li Huan, he was there that day."
Just when Xu Qiang was about to ask Li Huan to testify for him, he heard several coughs that attracted attention. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was the department manager Zhou Xiangdong and the manager of the human resources department.
Zhou Xiangdong had a heavy expression on his face while the HR manager behind him showed no expression.
These two people appeared at the same time, and it seemed that they were here for the same thing.
As for what happened, it's not difficult to guess, and it must have something to do with Xu Zhiyu.
Li Huan, who was sitting at the farthest desk, turned around and exchanged a look with Xu Qiang. Both parties confirmed their suspicions and then smiled.
Xu Zhiyu fell down the stairs while working overtime and was hospitalized. Zhou Xiangdong actually checked the surveillance and knew that the responsibility lay with him and Li Huan.
However, both he and Li Huan performed very well in the department. Although Xu Zhiyu performed well, his reputation was not very good, and he had issues with Manager Cai of the planning department. So after weighing the pros and cons, Manager Zhou chose to keep him and Li Huan.