Downey looked at the sudden appearance of Kane, his face changed slightly, and he motioned to the female secretary to go out with the lawyer first.
The royal barrister finally got the "pardon" and hurriedly stood up and followed the female secretary out of the office.
After the two went out, Downey gave Kane a very warm hug: "Oh God, you misunderstood me! How could I say that to you? You are my right-hand man!"
"Really? Then why are you avoiding me?"
"Really? Why don't I know? Damn it, my female secretary must have made a mistake! Oh my god, this stupid woman always does the wrong thing!" Downey patted Kane on the back hard, making it look like he was doing something wrong.
Very excited.
"Well, Mr. Downey, since you think so, I'm relieved!" Kane said with a smile, "I've come to find you several times, but I haven't found you. To be honest, I feel so disappointed and desolate!"
Downey accompanied Kane to sit down on the sofa, and said earnestly: "I can understand your mood. My own brother is in prison, and you are encountering many difficulties. As your backer, I should do more things!
"
As he spoke, Downey stood up and walked to his desk, opened the drawer and took out the check. With a swipe, he picked up the signature pen and wrote a piece of paper. He walked over again, handed it to Kane and said, "Let's take a look.
, are you satisfied with the numbers? Can they comfort your wounded heart?"
Kane took the check and looked at it, one hundred thousand pounds! He flicked the check with his hand, raised his head and said to Downey with a smile: "Mr. Downey, you are so generous!"
Downey smiled, picked up the whiskey on the coffee table, and poured Kane a glass: "From your tone, it sounds like you are very dissatisfied. It doesn't matter. You can tell me how much you want!"
"You know, Mr. Downey, I'm not here to ask for money!"
"You don't need money, so what do you want?" Downey also poured himself a glass of wine, leaned on the sofa, drank slowly, and looked at Kane.
Kane picked up the whiskey and took a long sip, then breathed on the alcohol and said to Donnie: "I want your help to rescue my brother!"
"Save your brother?" Donnie was startled. "Isn't it nice for him to be in prison? He has food and drink, and is vacationing there like a king!"
"Mr. Downey, I hope you can respect my suggestion!"
Seeing Kane's anger, Downey's face darkened and he put the glass down with a snap: "What's your attitude? Where do you think this is?"
Kane took a deep breath: "I'm sorry, I just lost my temper - I beg you, Mr. Downey, please help me. Only you can save my brother from prison now!"
Downey crossed his legs and smiled: "You should know what crimes your brother committed, arson, assaulting the police - oh no, two police officers died because of him! The latest is very serious, it's not that I don't want to help you,
There’s really nothing I can do!”
"Mr. Downey, what you said is wrong. It's not like you don't know why my brother did that!"
"What, are you blaming me?" Donnie said coldly, "blame me for instructing you to do your work? I only asked you to set fires, not kill people, especially your brother who is crazy and shoots with a shotgun, which is very dangerous!
It’s fine now, if something happens, even God can’t save it!”
"You mean you can't save me?"
"It's not that we won't save it, it's that we can't save it! Don't you understand people's words?" Donnie said impatiently, "Also, if you tell me more carefully, I haven't settled the accounts with you yet! If I ask you to burn down the warehouse, you will burn it, okay?
What a brain? That warehouse is a property insured by the old devil Duke of Windsor with me. If you burn it like this, I will lose 700 million!"
Downey became more and more angry as he spoke. He stood up suddenly and pointed at Kane's nose: "Seven billion, do you know what it means? Even if you and your brother work for me for the rest of your life, you won't make that much!"
After listening to Downey's accusations against him, Kane reached out and drank the glass of whiskey in one gulp. He stood up and confronted Downey: "Mr. Downey, I came here to see you because I respect you! I want to make suggestions to you.
, and even more to give you face..."
"What do you mean? What if you don't give me face?" Danny sneered, "I want to know what else you can do?"
"What can be done?" Kane's eyes flashed with a sinister look, and he looked at Downey: "Don't forget, I have done so many things for you, especially those scandalous things like murder and arson, which bury your conscience, so why not
Will you save a hand?"
The corner of Donnie's eyes twitched: "Save something? Very good, very good, you want to play this with me too?" With a pop, he sat back on the sofa, looking furious.
"It was you who were unkind first and then I was unjust!" Kane pressed, "If I want, I can send you to prison now and let you accompany my brother!"
As soon as these words came out——
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense!
The temperature dropped to freezing point!
…
A moment——
Looking at Kane who wanted to kill him, Downey's expression changed, and he suddenly smiled and said: "Kane, oh, God! Dear Kane! I was joking with you just now!" He reached out and patted Kane on the shoulder, "
You don't take it seriously, do you? To be honest, you and I are brothers. You have helped me do things for so many years, and I am so grateful to you! To be precise, your brother is my brother. Now that he is in trouble, what can I do?
Will you sit back and ignore it?”
"But it's a pity. That prison is very strict. I've also found people to help me with it, but I still don't have a clue!"
Seeing that things were turning around, Kane hurriedly said: "Mr. Downey, you are the president of the Apostolic Society. You have great supernatural powers. You will definitely be able to save my brother, right?"
"That being said, there are obstacles!" Donnie said, pouring another glass of wine into Kane's empty glass, "Have you done what I asked you to do before?"
"You mean-"
"Get rid of that Chinese guy Shi Zhijian!"
"Sorry, no!"
"That's it!" Downey picked up his wine glass and crossed his legs, "You didn't help me with the things I told you, but you came here to negotiate terms with me?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Downey!" Kane apologized hastily, "I know what to do, as long as you save my brother--"
Downey interrupted him: "Wrong! You are absolutely wrong! You helped me get Shi Zhijian, and I helped you rescue your brother in the wrong order!"
"Well?"
Downey stared at Kane with a piercing look: "You still don't understand? The reason why I couldn't save your brother is because of Shi Zhijian's obstruction!"
Kane looked stunned.
Downey continued: "You should also have heard that Shi Zhijian used to be a viscount but now he has been promoted to an earl. Now he is powerful and his words are very serious - how can those in prison let them off so easily?
Your brother?"
Seeing that Kane didn't speak, Downey patted him on the back comfortingly: "So now you have only two options, either get rid of Shi Zhijian and I will help you get your brother out! Or you can just let your brother be in prison.
Sending him to jail - that's fine, since he is disabled anyway, he can eat and drink there and be the king of the prison, which is also very comfortable!"
"Don't worry, I will kill Shi Zhijian!" Kane gritted his teeth with a fierce look in his eyes.
Downey smiled, fearing to shoot Kane: "Very good! I knew you were a tiger and would eat people when cornered! But before that, should we figure out his movements first - what they say in China
How can I say that if you know yourself and your enemy, you will be victorious in every battle!"
As he spoke, Downey got up and walked to his desk, rang the phone, and summoned his female secretary to come in and report on the recent movements of his old rival Shi Zhijian.
Soon, a female secretary wearing a hip-hugging skirt entered the room with documents under her arm and high heels.
"Come on, dear, come and tell Mr. Kane what that damn Shi Zhijian has been doing recently?" Downey motioned to the female secretary.
The female secretary took down the document, opened it, and began to introduce Shi Zhijian's movements to Kane.
It has to be said that since the last big loss, Downey began to pay special attention to collecting intelligence on Shi Zhijian.
Among the information reported by the female secretary, except for some special ones that could not be collected, the rest was all under Downey's control.
Soon, the female secretary mentioned that Shi Zhijian was currently preparing for the premiere of "The Blair Witch Project" and that he had previously taken advantage of the Duke of Windsor's funeral to promote it and invited many celebrities to attend the ceremony.
"Damn Shi Zhijian, he's very naughty. He can use that kind of situation to advertise. It's so shameless!" Downey said fiercely.
Kane looked weird and pinched his chin: "Movie premiere?"
"What, what did you think of?"
"That Shi Zhijian...why does it seem that he doesn't make much money in something like movies compared to his other industries..."
"Huh?" When Downey heard this, he couldn't help but consider this issue for the first time, "This is his entertainment industry, making movies, applauding singers, normal operations!"
Kane shook his head and said: "But I always feel that it's not that simple!"
"Why isn't it simple?"
"intuition!"
"Intuition?" Donnie scoffed, "You'd better rely on your intuition to deal with him first!"
"Don't worry, I already have a plan!" Kane pinched his chin and smiled sinisterly.
…
Chinatown, seafood restaurant.
"Sneeze!" At the door of the private room, Shi Zhijian took out his handkerchief, wiped his nose gracefully, smiled and said to Wade, Thomas and Daniel who were invited: "I'd like to thank you three for coming over and sitting down.
Not enough!"
The three Wades, known as the "Three Heroes of London", looked at each other. Wade snorted coldly and said: "Earl, you are too polite. Please forgive me for offending you last time!"
"Yes, but I don't know why the count invites us here this time?" Fatty Daniel said with a smile.
Shi Zhijian pointed to the private room and said, "Why don't you go in and talk."
"That's fine!" Wade took the lead and walked towards the private room.
To be honest, the three of them were very surprised when Shi Zhijian invited them to dinner this time.
Originally, they had nothing to do with Shi Zhijian. To be precise, they had a quarrel at the last funeral of the Duke of Windsor. But such a relationship, Shi Zhijian personally called them and sent them an invitation, inviting them to come to this Chinatown restaurant today.
"Get together" at the restaurant.
After receiving the invitation, the three people met to figure it out. They didn't know what Shi Zhijian was up to, and their curiosity drove them to come over and have a look.
Entering the private room, the large room is antique, with Chinese landscape paintings posted on it, and a guqin placed beside it, emitting a faint fragrance.
What surprised the three of them was that there was already a white man sitting in the private room at this moment. They were stunned when they saw each other. They felt that they looked familiar, but they couldn't pronounce their names.
Shi Zhijian took the opportunity to step forward: "Come, let me introduce you to you," he said, pointing to the white man sitting upright: "Captain of the British Empire Navy - Mr. Gilbert!"
No wonder they looked familiar. Only then did Wade and the three of them remember each other's identities. They were the closest subordinates of a certain general in the British peak.
"Hello, I'm Wade!"
"Daniel!"
"Thomas!"
Although the three Wades held high positions and were in charge of London's taxation and water and electricity business respectively, the other party had a special status and was a subordinate of the famous general, so they immediately put down their arrogance and shook hands with the other party.
In fact, the Gilbert and Shi Zhijian in front of me can be regarded as "old friends."
When Shi Zhijian was trapped on the pirate island, Lei Luo was trained at Scotland Yard in England and rushed back to Hong Kong overnight to rescue him. At that time, it was Colonel Gilbert Bert who helped fight against pirates! To be precise, Gil was not a colonel at that time.
But the Major!
It was through this rescue operation that Shi Zhijian established a deep friendship with Gill. Later, Shi Zhijian ordered Badgar and Hu Juncai to go to South Korea to discuss the arms business. Major Gill was the British representative and made a fortune by smuggling arms.
labor.
After making enough money, Major Gill not only took up his post, but was also transferred back to the UK from Hong Kong. As a confidant of the top boss, he continued to participate in the arms smuggling business that Shi Zhijian had promoted, and made the business bigger and bigger.
At this moment, Shi Zhijian finished his introduction and invited everyone to sit down.
Here the maid of the restaurant knocked on the door and came in, wearing a cheongsam and Tingting, serving tea to everyone.
The fragrance of the tea made several ghost guys couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Shi Zhijian made a "please tea" gesture, blew on the tea foam, and took a sip. Then he put down the teacup and raised his head and said to everyone: "Everyone, actually I invite you here today to discuss a business."
After Shi Zhijian finished speaking, he looked at Jill, who smiled knowingly and said, "Originally we didn't want outsiders to get involved in this deal, but my dear Lord Earl said that if you have money, everyone will make it. In their Cantonese, it's called 'same pot, same profit'.
"
When Wade and the other three heard this, their faces showed a trace of solemnity.
We are all smart people, and there are only a few types of business we can do with soldiers in this world, either daily necessities or arms.
The three of them are not wholesalers, so there is only one possibility - arms!
"Ahem, I'm sorry, I'm in charge of taxation. If you two do business in a company, maybe I can help!" Wade shrugged, looking helpless.
"The same goes for us. We manage water and electricity, and we don't understand anything else. But I don't know if I can help you two?" Daniel and Thomas also looked at Shi Zhijian.
In terms of status, Count Shi Zhijian really outclassed them all.
Shi Zhijian smiled, picked up the tea cup and blew it gently, then raised his head and said, "But do you know what is called 'money laundering'?"