Qiao Liang suddenly lost interest in eating here and looked at Lu Qian: "How about I invite you to boil the fat beef?"
"That's pretty much it." Lu Qian nodded with satisfaction.
Qiao Liang made an excuse and left the Malatang restaurant with Lu Qian, and found a nearby Fei Niu hot pot restaurant, where he and Lu Qian went in to cook some hotpot.
"Mr. Qiao, you invited me to eat spicy hotpot because you didn't want to be in the bar and wanted to go find the original boss?" Lu Qian said while eating.
Qiao Liang nodded absently, wondering what Wang Xiaobu was doing with Malatang, and whether he would return to his old business?
"Why are you looking for him?" Lu Qian asked.
"It turns out that the boss was traveling with my friend Lao San when I drove into Tibet. I thought I could get a discount on food at an acquaintance's place."
Lu Qian curled her lips: "You get a discount for eating spicy hotpot, you are really stingy."
Qiao Liang grinned.
"Is it because your salary goes to your wife and you have no pocket money? Money is tight?" Lu Qian said with a smile.
Qiao Liang shook his head: "Don't be smart, my salary is all in my own hands now."
"Now that it's in my own hands, does that mean I had a wife before? Why don't I have a wife now?" Lu Qian was thinking very carefully.
Qiao Liang rolled his eyelids: "Why should I tell you my private affairs?"
"Okay, I won't ask anymore, but I have two guesses."
"you say."
"If you don't pay your salary to your wife, either you two are at odds and there is a estrangement in the relationship, or your wife is not short of money and doesn't care about your salary."
Qiao Liang's heart skipped a beat, this girl is really shrewd and good at analysis.
"Is my guess right?" Lu Qian said proudly.
Qiao Liang hurriedly lowered his head to eat: "No comment."
Lu Qian looked at Qiao Liang, rolled her eyes, and laughed silently for a while.
After cooking the hot pot, Lu Qian drove Qiao Liang to the gate of the community. Qiao Liang got out of the car and said, "Goodbye."
"What? Don't you invite me to your house for a cup of tea?" Lu Qian glared.
"No." Qiao Liang shook his head.
"It's really embarrassing. I worked so hard to drive you back, and you treat me like this?" Lu Qian said dissatisfied.
"I didn't ask you to cook hot pot, why are you trying so hard?" Qiao Liang couldn't help but have a headache, this girl is really hard to get rid of.
"Stingy guy." Lu Qian snorted and drove away.
Qiao Liang returned home and opened the door. No one was in the living room. The bedroom door was closed, and there were faint voices inside.
Qiao Liang's heart moved and she crept over, putting her ear close to the crack of the door.
"I don't know where he has been for the past two days, and he hasn't come back yet..." Zhang Mei's voice sounded.
Qiao Liang seemed to have guessed who Zhang Mei was talking to on the phone. He blinked, walked back to the door, closed the door with force, then walked to the sofa in the living room and sat down.
The talking in the bedroom stopped immediately. After a while, Zhang Mei opened the door and stuck her head out, looked at Qiao Liang, then retracted and closed the door.
Qiao Liang sneered, then went to take a shower. After the shower, he lay on the bed in the guest room, stretched his limbs, and planned to have a good sleep.
At this time, the phone rang, and it turned out that it was Chu Heng calling.
"Brother Chu." Qiao Liang answered the phone.
"Xiao Qiao, I wanted to invite you and Mei Zi to my house for dinner today at noon, but Mei Zi said that you went out yesterday and never came back."
Qiao Liang's heart moved. Chu Heng asked him where he was going on the weekend.
Then Qiao Liang thought of Ning Hailong. He knew that he was with Lu Qian on the weekend and appeared at the Songbei Reservoir.
Since Ning Hailong knows, maybe Chu Heng also knows, and he is testing himself now.
Also, he and Fang Xiaoya met Kang Dewang in Huangyuan, and maybe Chu Heng would know about it soon.
Thinking of this, Qiao Liang said: "It's like this, Brother Chu, Lu Qian took me to Songbei Mountain to relax on the weekend and visit a friend. Then I met Fang Xiaoya again in Songbei, and we went to Huangyuan together.
, just came back now.”
"Oh, that's it. It's winter. What's fun in the mountains?"
"It's true that there's nothing interesting. It's just that Lu Qian has never been there before. She wanted to see it fresh and insisted on me accompanying her. But although I didn't see much scenery in the mountains, I encountered something that was quite scary."
"What's going on?"
"A fisherman drowned in the Songbei Reservoir. I heard from Lu Qian that this man was the boss of a construction company in Jiangzhou, named Jin Tao."
"Oh, there is such a thing?" Chu Heng's voice sounded a little surprised, "How did this person drown? Was it suicide or homicide?"
"None of that."
"That's..."
"From what Lu Qian said on the phone with the person handling the case on the road, it seems that this person was drunk and accidentally fell into the water and drowned."
"Oh, does the person handling the case think so, or does Lu Qian think so?"
"They all agreed."
"Oh, it seems you have to be careful when fishing near the reservoir in the future..." Chu Heng sighed, and then asked, "What did you do in Huangyuan?"
"Actually, there's not much fun in Huangyuan this season. Fang Xiaoya went to do business, Lu Qian went to see a best friend, and I just ate and drank with me when I had nothing to do. By the way, I happened to meet Minister Xu in the hotel where I was staying.
My old classmate Kangde is now prosperous."
"Oh, Secretary Jing hates this profiteer, so don't mention it."
Qiao Liang laughed.
Chu Heng then smiled and said: "You are so laid-back. You have a beautiful wife at home who doesn't accompany you, but you go out with other women on weekends."
Qiao Liang pretended to be nervous: "Brother Chu, don't tell Mei Zi about this."
"Okay, I can keep it a secret this time, but I won't do it next time." Chu Heng said in the tone of an eldest brother.
Qiao Liang hummed, cursing secretly in his heart, old bastard, I won't let you catch any flaws.
After calling Qiao Liang, Chu Heng lit a cigarette and nodded while smoking. Well, this guy still trusts him and didn't lie.
However, this guy didn't mention Xu Honggang. I wonder if he saw Xu Honggang in Huangyuan or if he knew that Xu Honggang was urgently recalled by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection for a talk.
Thinking of the conversation Xu Honggang was about to face, a smile appeared on Chu Heng's lips. Even if Qiao Liang didn't know about it, he would know about it tomorrow.
Tomorrow not only Qiao Liang will know, but the entire municipal party committee compound will know.
The more Chu Heng thought about it, the happier he became. After smoking a cigarette, he thought about it for a moment, then picked up his phone...
The next day, just as Qiao Liang entered the office, Ye Xinyi walked in.
"Director Qiao, I heard something happened to Director Xu." Ye Xinyi looked very uneasy.
Qiao Liang was suddenly surprised. Today the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection is going to talk to Xu Honggang. Maybe it hasn't started yet. How come Ye Xinyi knows about it?
Could it be that Xu Honggang not only told himself, but also told Ye Xinyi?
"How did you know? What happened to Minister Xu?" Qiao Liang said calmly.
Ye Xinyi composed herself: "I just heard what others said. Early this morning, the entire Municipal Party Committee Courtyard was going crazy, saying that Minister Xu was arrested by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and was brought back to Huangyuan from Beijing yesterday."
Qiao Liang was shocked. It was obviously the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection that wanted to talk to Xu Honggang. He had returned to Huangyuan from Beijing. Why did such rumors suddenly spread so quickly in Jiangzhou?
"Did you hear that Minister Xu was arrested for what?" Qiao Liang stared at Ye Xinyi closely.
