The next day Lu Ming went to Sheng Youde's company and met Sheng Youde in the office.
Sheng Youde is still the same, but his complexion is much better than before. He seems to have slowly struggled over the grief of losing his beloved daughter.
"Old man, there hasn't been much progress recently." When they met, Lu Ming confessed first.
Sheng Youde spent a lot of money to hire Lu Ming, but after running around for so many days, he got nothing, and he himself felt a little embarrassed.
"I didn't come to you to ask you about this matter. Just try your best to handle Mu Yi's matter. Don't force it. I didn't expect that there would be a result." Sheng Youde's tone was calm, as if he was comforting the other party.
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"Then you come to me..."
"I heard that He Jin was first poisoned and then assassinated? There must be someone behind this, and I'm a little worried about your safety." Sheng You said in German.
"Well, that's what happened."
Lu Ming knew that Sheng Youde wanted to know more about this matter, so he briefly told what happened, but did not mention that he and Yan Xiaohui were trapped.
After the incident happened, the director of the hospital would definitely tell Sheng Youde what happened. After all, the victim turned out to be Sheng Muyi's personal bodyguard.
"Have you had some contact with the Yan family recently?" Sheng Youde looked into his eyes and asked.
"Yes, you even know this place?" Lu Ming said in surprise.
"In Shanghai, whenever there is any disturbance, there will be news here, except of course about Mu Yi." Sheng Youde sighed.
Lu Ming did not dare to say more. He thought that Sheng Youde must also know the past events of the Yan family and the Lu family, but it was a matter of the previous generation, so he had better not mention it.
"Do you know what's the strangest thing about me?" Sheng Youde suddenly raised his voice.
"I don't know." Lu Ming shook his head.
"Shanghai is a big place, but actually it's also very small. It depends on the angle you look at it from." Sheng Youde realized that he was a little embarrassed and immediately lowered his voice.
"Based on the fact that I have been operating in Shanghai for so many years, it is said that for every major event that happens on this ground, as long as I want to know, I will get the most detailed information, but Mu Yi did not have any information before or after the accident.
Get any news. It's like there is another Shanghai besides the Shanghai I know. This is very ridiculous."
Lu Ming nodded, he could understand Sheng Youde's feelings.
Perhaps Sheng Youde believed that with his financial resources and influence, he was already able to control the information sources in Shanghai. It was only after Muyi's accident that he realized that he had no control at all. At least there were many things on the ground that he could not control.
This was indeed a big blow to Sheng Youde.
"I am talking about the Yan family's affairs to remind you to try not to get too close to the Yan family." Sheng Youde returned to the topic.
"Is there a problem with the Yan family?" Lu Ming asked curiously. This was Sheng Youde's repeated warning.
"Maybe there is a problem, maybe there is no problem, but Yan Hongdao is not as simple as he seems on the surface. He is very complicated. I won't tell you more about the details. Did you know? Back then, he and your father were brothers in life and death.
, but when you came to Shanghai, did he come to see you personally? Or did he send someone to treat you to dinner? "
Lu Ming was startled. He really hadn't thought about it so much. To be honest, he didn't know the relationship between his family and the Yan family before. He only knew about the relationship between his father and Sheng Youde. Sheng Youde actually said that Yan Hongdao and his father were
If they are close friends of life and death, they are like him and Zhang Ziyang.
But after he arrived in Shanghai, did Yan Hongdao really not know, or did he deliberately leave him alone?
So when I saw Yan Hongdao yesterday, why was he so enthusiastic?
He did not doubt Yan Xiaohui at all. He estimated that Yan Xiaohui, like him, knew nothing about the past events of the two families and was kept in the dark.
"The grudges of the elders should not affect the next generation, but many things happened back then, some of which are still unclear to this day. Why did your father take opium? Did he tell you it was rheumatic pain?"
Lu Ming nodded. This is what he knew. His father took opium because of rheumatic pain.
"He must have a reason for telling you this, so I can't say more. Just remember what I told you last time. Don't believe anyone in Shanghai except me. Remember, don't trust anyone."
To believe, you can only believe in yourself." Sheng Youde said solemnly.
"Yan Hongdao met me yesterday and said that he chased my mother back then. Is that true?" Having said this, Lu Ming had to ask.
"Indeed, this matter made it into the newspapers at the time. Your father finally had a public duel with Yan Hongdao. In the end, your father won, but the brotherhood between them was gone." Sheng Youde suddenly smiled, maybe
I think it reminds me of the farce back then.
"Have they ever had a duel?" Lu Ming couldn't believe it.
What if he and Zhang Ziyang really fall in love with a woman at the same time? Will they also have to resolve it through a duel?
Of course this wouldn't happen. Both of them were well-known people. He was just curious and imagined it in his mind.
"Your father was shot in the leg. Although the bullet was removed, the surgery was not done well, which left severe pain in his left leg, so he had to take opium later." Sheng Youde said.
"So that's it." Only then did Lu Ming know the reason why his father smoked heavily in his later years. His parents never told him or his brother a word about this matter.
"I'm not telling you this to say that Yan Hongdao is not good. Whether he is good or not is a matter between our generation. You don't have to worry about it. But this person... Anyway, you just keep a certain distance.
, but don’t make the relationship stalemate, I believe you will handle this matter well."
"You came to me specifically for this?" Lu Ming was a little confused.
"This is no small matter. I don't want you, father and son, to fall down in the same place. You must be careful." Sheng Youde said seriously.
Lu Ming could tell that Sheng Youde didn't say many things, so his words seemed not convincing enough. He might have concerns about not saying those things, or there might be other reasons, which he couldn't find out.
"In a few days, an important official from Japan, Honjo Shidai, will come to Shanghai. The Yan family has prepared a grand welcome banquet for him. Yan Hongdao has invited me, but I won't go. That's why I asked you to come today.
You are not allowed to go, either." Sheng Youde said.
"Ah, I'm really ready to go, and I have a reason to go." Lu Ming was anxious.
"What's the reason? Tell me."
Lu Ming told him about going to the venue to look for Japanese people. Of course, he didn't dare to mention An Gonggen even a word.
"That's it, then you go, but the purpose of your going must be kept secret, and Yan Hongdao must not know it." Sheng Youde nodded.
"I know how to deal with it, please don't worry, old man." Lu Ming said softly and stood up.
Coming out of Sheng Youde's office, he smiled bitterly in his heart. Yan Xiaohui told him to be careful with Sheng Youde, and now Sheng Youde warned him to be careful with Yan Hongdao. He didn't know who to listen to anymore.
From the bottom of his heart, of course he trusts Sheng Youde more. After all, he is not familiar with Yan Hongdao, but wouldn’t someone who is familiar with him lie to you? Of course not, sometimes the more familiar someone is to you, the more miserably they deceive you.
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Although Lu Ming has never been deceived by anyone, he has heard of this kind of thing a lot. He has never eaten pork and has never seen a pig run away?
Don't trust anyone, just trust yourself. He firmly remembered Sheng Youde's words.
Of course, he also has people he can trust completely, at least Yuan Mingzhu and Zhang Ziyang are completely trustworthy.
He was still wary of Yan Xiaohui, the girl who always wanted to get him, not because of Sheng Youde's warning, but because he felt that Yan Xiaohui was too complicated, unlike Yuan Mingzhu, who could almost see the whole story at a glance.
Of course, this is also to him. Perhaps in the eyes of others, Yuan Mingzhu is also a mystery.
As he was walking, he suddenly saw Sheng Di coming. He smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I met you here."
"What a coincidence. I work here every day. It's not like you don't know. It's just your first time here."
Sheng Di is wearing a handmade three-piece suit and Italian handmade leather shoes. He is worthy of being the number one son of Shanghai, and he is now the heir to the richest man in Shanghai.
The biggest beneficiary of Sheng Muyi's disappearance was Sheng Di, who was transformed from a senior manager of the company to the heir to the Sheng family's industry.
"Brother, you don't have a formal job. Why are you busy all day long? Why don't you see you every day?" Sheng Di took Lu Ming's hand and said very affectionately.
"I have a job, and I never have a day off." Lu Ming shouted unjustly.
"Your job is just to play tricks. Will anyone come to you to handle a case? Of course, this is an exception if your uncle comes to you." Sheng Di said with a smile.
In fact, Lu Ming had more interactions with Sheng Di than Zhang Ziyang when they were young, but the relationship between him and Sheng Di was not as deep as that of Zhang Ziyang, nor was it as good as that of Sheng Muyi. In short, they were not so compatible in terms of temperament.
"Come, come and sit in my office."
Sheng Di pulled Lu Ming into his office, sat on a sofa with him, and then rang the bell to ask a secretary to bring him two cups of coffee.
"Is your coffee without milk or sugar?" he asked.
"Yeah." Lu Ming nodded.
"Then two cups of black coffee."
"You don't know that I've been looking for you these days, but I can't find you no matter how hard I look," Sheng Di said with a smile.
"What do you want from me? Tell me, Mr. Sheng, why do you want to do this?"
"That's right, I just want to find out if you have any news about Ziyuan." Sheng Di asked.
"What, you don't have any news about Ziyuan?" Lu Ming was surprised.
Ziyuan is Sheng Di's fiancée, so it's impossible for the two to lose contact.
"I received a letter from her a few days ago, saying that she was visiting Lushan Mountain," Sheng Di said.
"Well, it seems that Mingzhu has also received the news. Is there anything wrong?" Lu Ming asked deliberately.
He had been thinking about this problem for a long time. It wasn't that there was something wrong with Ziyuan, but that something was too wrong.
Just from the fact that she had been hiding in her apartment for many days, she could conclude that something big had happened. And she was not the only one. Sheng Muyi frequently met her in her apartment in those days, as if she was studying something, which made it even more
Something is wrong.
But what are the two of them discussing?
Could it be that there is still some grievance between Sheng Youde and Sheng Youde in Shanghai that requires the two of them to hide and discuss it? This doesn't make sense.
"I can't say, it just feels weird. You know, after I read the letter, I had a feeling, as if the letter was pre-written and then asked to be sent." Sheng Di said with a bitter smile.
"Then is there a possibility that Ziyuan knew that she was going to a place where mailing was inconvenient, and she was afraid that her family would be worried, so she wrote a letter first and asked someone to send it on her behalf," Lu Ming analyzed.
"I don't think this is possible. If it is really the case, she will definitely write it in the letter." Sheng Di's face was full of worry.