The meeting place of the five parties was the Richard Hotel. Compared with the Long'an Hotel, the Richard Hotel is older and only has five floors. However, it is the oldest hotel in Longbei with a history of hundreds of years. It is the oldest hotel in Longbei.
Many firsts happened in this hotel.
More than 80 years ago, the Richard Hotel and the Governor's Mansion were connected to gas. More than 70 years ago, the Richard Hotel and the Governor's Mansion were connected to electricity and light bulbs were installed. And, basically, these changes in the Governor's Mansion were all rational.
It was facilitated by Richard, the owner of Chad's Hotel.
The first movie show in Longbei more than 50 years ago was also screened in this hotel.
Nowadays, this hotel looks far less grand than the Long An Hotel from the outside, and the old Richard has long since died of illness, and his descendants have also returned to the south. It is just the golden sign of "Richard Hotel" that the new operator is still there.
Used.
The interior of the hotel still maintains a very elegant and comfortable style. There are not many hotel rooms, but billiard rooms, bars, dance halls, chess and card rooms, theaters, coffee rooms, etc. are all available. This also allows hotel guests to make full use of these entertainment facilities.
, you can comfortably spend a day in the hotel without leaving home, so most of the hotel rooms here are private rooms for dandies.
Compared with the Long An Hotel, the real traditional upper class still recognizes the Rich Hotel as the Rich Hotel.
But now, no matter how reluctant those young gentlemen were, they had to temporarily clear out the private rooms. The Richard Hotel was temporarily requisitioned as the meeting place for the five-party meeting, and it was also a temporary residence for representatives of all parties.
Wang Ding lived here.
After a big gamble yesterday, Lu Ming came to Richard Hotel early this morning.
In the conference room on the fifth floor, the seventh round of consultations of the five-party meeting was held.
In fact, it is said to be a conference room, but it has the same style as the super VIP rooms in some membership clubs. It is not like a venue. Several representatives sat on the large and soft sofas, smoking cigars, drinking tea and chatting.
Qi Zongxun deliberately sat next to Lu Ming, and the chips he lost in the last round yesterday were returned to him, so after the final settlement, he still won hundreds of thousands.
"Commissioner Zhang, I must treat you to dinner, and please give me this thin noodle!" Qi Zongxun whispered.
Lu Ming smiled: "Okay, let's take a look and coordinate the time."
In fact, Kim Hae-hyuk, the representative of Haiseo, was talking loudly about the urgency of reaching an agreement as soon as possible on the chaos in Ansan.
Six rounds of consultations have been held, but in fact nothing has been discussed at all, and the tone of the meetings has not been unified.
This is because Heishan and Longbei require that the issue of who represents the Ansan regime be resolved first.
If this fundamental issue is not resolved, it will be impossible to reach a consensus, let alone issue a joint declaration.
Lu Ming listened to Jin Haihe's speech. Although it was very empty and boring, but listening to what these people said, from some small details, he might be able to understand the real thoughts of Haixi's senior officials.
During the whole morning meeting, Lu Ming did not speak, he just listened to them and thought silently.
However, he could still occasionally notice Tojo Saburo's gloomy gaze, but Lu Ming just pretended not to notice it.
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The eighth round of meetings is scheduled for two days later.
Lu Ming returned to the study in the Snow Garden and didn't come out the whole afternoon. He kept writing something.
There was a gentle knock on the study door, and Bai Narcissus came in holding a plate of fruit.
"Sir, Zihan's parents are very nice, and they asked me to take a message to say thank you for your gift."
Lu Ming was stunned before he realized. In the morning, he allowed Bai Narcissus and Xue Zihan to go home to visit their relatives. He gave them one hundred thousand yuan each and asked them to use it to settle their relatives. Anyway, the money they just won didn't feel bad at all. Yesterday
Both the casino manager and the dealer gave a reward of 11,000 to 10,000 yuan.
"Oh, is she back too? Why didn't you stay at home for one night? Is the family settled?"
Bai Shuixian said: "Actually, there is no arrangement. Sister Zihan and I have discussed it. It would be better to give them some money every month in the future. Otherwise, all the money given by the master will be given to them all at once, and there may not be any trouble. How about everyone
Giving some money every month can really help them, and it won't cause a huge change in the family's living environment."
Lu Ming nodded: "You are right to consider it."
Bai Narcissus glanced at Lu Ming's expression and said, "I heard from sister Zihan's family that one of her best friends in college is what the master calls her best friend. She has her birthday tomorrow and went to Zihan's house specially.
, because Zihan dropped out of school suddenly, no one knows what happened to her. Her good friend has been to her home several times, and this time he went again to ask about Zihan." After a pause, "But Zihan and
Her family said not to tell her former classmates that she is back."
Lu Ming's attention had returned to the materials on the desk, and he said smoothly: "Doesn't she want to go? Why? Plastic sisters?"
When he didn't get a response, Lu Ming looked up and then understood, "Oh, just ask her to go. It's rare to go back to Long'an and meet all my classmates and friends. Keep in touch." He glanced at Bai Narcissus and said with a smile, "Also.
You, you, have been seeing all your relatives and friends these days, I have no objection to you having a social circle, you should know this."
"Well, Zihan and I both know what the master is like, but what he is doing here is a big deal. We don't want to affect the master's work, because we are afraid of being contacted by old friends and being noticed by interested people."
Lu Ming smiled and said: "It doesn't affect me. I am a secret police leader and have no reputation. I am not afraid of being said to be greedy for beautiful wives and concubines. And to be honest, if I don't have a big family around me now
When people follow me, I feel bad." This is half true and half false. It seems that I have gradually become accustomed to being accompanied by a group of warblers wherever I go, and I have settled in several houses, all over the world.
Maybe, the more you don’t belong to this world, the more afraid you are of being alone.
Hearing Lu Ming say "a big family", Bai Shuixian's beautiful eyes lit up, and she breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered: "Then I'll leave and go to inform Zihan."
Lu Ming nodded.
Just after Bai Narcissus left, Granny Camel Dragon knocked on the door and came in, handing over a secret message.
The secret message came from Wu'an County. The year before last, a new pawn shop was opened in Wu'an called "Da Ciye". In fact, it was the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Department. Moreover, it was personally selected by Lu Gaoyi, and it only had a single line of contact with Lu Gaoyi.
Of course, this intelligence point has always been in a silent state and does not spy on intelligence. It just operates a pawn shop normally.
He was not even asked to have any contact with Lu Zhongduo, even in business matters.
A few days ago, Lu Ming ordered Lu Gaoyi to transfer this information point to the leader of "Commissioner Zhang".
Lu Ming didn't really activate this intelligence team. He just asked them to investigate Boris's current situation. Moreover, it wasn't a secret investigation, just the news that could be known on the street.
This message is the latest situation of Boris.
Looking at it, Lu Ming shook his head. It seems that this old man has developed feelings after all these years in Wu'an. He is planning to stay in Wu'an forever. He even bought a piece of Feng Shui for the cemetery.