The investigation has made no progress in the past few days. The entire Zhigang Avenue is like an invisible hand covering the sky, blocking the sky and making it difficult for people to see the direction.
Hu Wu received news that the Shengshi Bar had an unusual contact between a certain security guard and a strange customer in the week of Xiao Wu's accident, but it never happened again. As for other aspects, his position is too low, so we can't find out about it yet.
Useful news.
Zhou Tong took several people to the vicinity of Tianye Bar for surveillance and observation. Apart from roughly knowing that two buildings were gambling dens, he did not find any suspicious behavior.
Everything seemed so normal, with more than a dozen bars operating like completely regular bars, which made people doubt that Chang Zan had done anything shady on Zhigang Avenue.
Lu Shanmin not only learned about Jiang Tao's travel patterns, but also Chai Zheng, a person who made him full of doubts. His behavior was very strange. When he discovered that he was following him, he was just giving him a secret warning. Later, he found that he also led him to the cafe.
Warning in the dark. From beginning to end, he never asked why he was following Jiang Tao.
Xiao Bing had heard that Fu Liang would arrange for people to make some small moves recently to make Lu Shanmin deal with it carefully, and also said that the idea was his. He didn't understand why Xiao Bing would instigate Fu Liang to carry out the so-called test. For Xiao Bing,
, Lu Shanmin believed that he would not betray him, but he did not dare to completely believe him. After all, his erratic ideals made Lu Shanmin feel unsure.
In the next two days, gangsters would occasionally deliberately stir up trouble in the four bars, which should be Fu Liang's so-called test. However, before the incident became serious enough to have a serious impact, they were thrown out by security guards who had prepared in advance.
Zhigang Avenue is surrounded by invisible copper and iron walls, and no valuable information can be obtained from the investigation.
Lu Shanmin didn't want to sit still and wait for death. Sooner or later, Fu Liang would test out that Chen Ran would not come forward to help him. This was a race against time.
When he came to the coffee shop opposite Phyllis again, he wanted to take another risk.
At Dynasty KTV, Chen Ran was smoking lightly.
"Mr. Luo, what brought you here?"
Luo Xing laughed and said, "Brother Ran, you are really embarrassing me. I remember when you were still messing around, I wasn't even a shit."
Chen Ran smiled half-heartedly and glanced at Luo Xing, "What about now?"
Luo Xing laughed again, "It's still nothing."
Chen Ran said calmly: "You want to ask about Lu Shanmin, right?"
Luo Xing nodded and rolled his eyes, "I'm here to apologize to Brother Ran."
"Uh? What's the crime?"
"I was blind before and didn't know that Lu Shanmin was Brother Ran's man. I ask Brother Ran for your forgiveness."
Chen Ran grinned and said, "Do you really think so?"
"Of course, otherwise why would I help him?"
Chen Ran spread his hands helplessly, "Did I help him? I just accidentally learned that Lu Shanmin was going to Zhigang Avenue, and then I mentioned it casually during a dinner when I was drunk."
"Haha, Brother Ran, that mouth of yours is a golden mouth. Once you open the golden mouth, you will shock the crowd."
Chen Ran waved his hand and sighed: "Hey, I really didn't expect that I, a KTV operator, would have so much energy. It seems that I have to be careful about what I say in the future, so as not to be overheard by someone who is interested, and I will have trouble sleeping and eating.
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Luo Xing squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "Brother Ran is a raptor. Although he took a nap, as long as you look at him, we native fish and shrimps will remain silent."
After a pause, he said: "I'm not the only one who has trouble sleeping and eating right now. I'm afraid that kid Chang Zan can't sleep even more."
Chen Ran pursed his lips and smiled, exhaled a puff of smoke, and looked at Luo Xing with squinted eyes.
"Then do you want Lu Shanmin to have a relationship with me, or do you not want Lu Shanmin to have a relationship with me?"
Luo Xing was stunned for a moment. It was certainly a good thing that Lu Shanmin had a relationship with Chen Ran. Then Lu Shanmin would be able to accomplish his intended goal more smoothly. But if there was really a relationship and he plotted against Lu Shanmin, Chen Ran would not let it go. Haidong Qing was out of this world.
A famous person hates evil as much as he hates it.
Luo Xing's face was uncertain, and he looked at Chen Ran with a smile.
Chen Ran always wore a vague smile, and no information could be seen from his expression.
"Ahem" Luo Xing smiled, "Lu Shanmin is a talent. If he is really Brother Ran's man, I, Luo Xing, will never have any ideas about him in the future."
Chen Ran laughed loudly, shaking his head while laughing.
"Luo Xing, Luo Xing, your head was caught in the door. Do you know how many top KTVs and clubs Sister Qing has in the entire East China Sea?"
Luo Xing didn't understand what Chen Ran meant. On the surface, there were fifty or sixty companies belonging to the Haitian Group, but secretly he didn't know how many entertainment clubs there were. He sneered and said, "How dare I make random guesses about Sister Qing's property?"
Chen Ran then asked: "Then do you know that these KTVs and clubs are just shelters arranged by Sister Qing for old brothers like me? The real industry of Haitian Group is real estate, transportation, and commerce."
Luo Xing smiled and nodded, "Of course, Sister Qing is a big entrepreneur, one of the top ten outstanding young people in the East China Sea, and Haitian Group is a listed company with tens of billions of assets."
Chen Ran looked sideways at Luo Xing with disdain, "Then do you think Sister Qing would like the business of the dozens of rubbish bars and KTV venues on Zhigang Avenue?"
Of course Luo Xing had thought about this question, more than once. It was precisely because he couldn't figure it out that he mustered up the courage to come to Chen Ran and ask for clarification.
Luo Xing asked tentatively: "Brother Ran, Lu Shanmin really has nothing to do with you and Sister Qing"?
Chen Ran snorted, "Does he have the right to have anything to do with me? Let alone Sister Qing, you've been kicked in the head by a donkey."
Luo Xing laughed loudly and touched his head, "I am relieved by what Brother Youran said. I have been unable to sleep every night for fear of accidentally offending you. I can have a good sleep tonight."
Chen Ran chuckled, "Luo Xing, you really know how to put money on yourself, do you have the qualifications and opportunity to offend me?"
Luo Xing, a man who always thought highly of himself, nodded in agreement, and he thought from the bottom of his heart that Chen Ran was right, just like a toddler who has no ability or opportunity to offend an adult.
Chen Ran took a deep breath of cigarette and said calmly: "What I am doing now is regular business. Sister Qing does not allow us to get involved in your business. Please don't bother me with your children's games of house."
Lu Shanmin continued to sit by the window and waited for several hours, but there was no movement. During this time, his mind was a little confused and his heart was a little confused.
Zuoqiu said that Hai Dongqing wanted to cultivate himself. He couldn't figure out why Hai Dongqing wanted to cultivate him. He grew up in Mazui Village and had only been in Donghai for only a year. She was a mountain villager. Why should she, Hai Dongqing, think so?
Hit yourself.
Lu Shanmin carefully recalled the three meetings with Hai Dongqing. The first time was when he rescued a little girl on the construction site, and the second time was when Hai Dongqing went to the construction site to rush for work. These two meetings were actually important to him.
She had a good impression. Being able to risk one's life to save an unrelated person is not something that everyone can do. When we met for the second time, if she hadn't spoken out, maybe the road to asking for salary would not have been so smooth.
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The third meeting was at her family's villa. Because of Ruan Yu's affairs, this time the good impression of the previous two times was completely wiped out. Ruan Yu was forced to leave Haidong, forcing Ruan Yu to drop out of school. She still doesn't know what happened.
The power and disregard for others she showed made him hate her for the first time.
During the three meetings, he only heard a few words from her. If it weren't for Zuoqiu's analysis, Lu Shanmin would never have thought that Hai Dongqing had been scheming against him since the first meeting.
The chairman of the Haitian Group and the head of the Hai family plotted against a mountain villager. This is like an adult competing for a lollipop with a child of two or three years old. It is unreasonable and unbelievable.
Everyone has a motive for doing things. He didn't believe that Hai Dongqing was just bored. If he said it was because he was interested in his own potential, that would be even more nonsense.
Zuoqiu said that he probably fell in love with Chen Ran when he went to Dynasty KTV for the first time, and then Chen Ran reported it to Hai Dongqing, who then went out to see what happened personally.
As a person of great influence in the East China Sea, what kind of talent has I never seen before? Hai Dongqing took action personally based on Chen Ran's words. This is nothing short of a fantasy.
Zuoqiu said that even the acquaintance with Haidong Lai was not accidental, and Lu Shanmin really couldn't figure out what was going on here.
Although Hai Dongqing values herself so much, she has never intervened in her affairs, even when she was almost killed by Wang Dahu last time.
On the one hand, we attach importance to it, but on the other hand, we don't care about our own life and death. It's just an unsolvable paradox.
Faintly, Lu Shanmin felt that Chen Ran was not helping him by releasing the smoke bomb this time, but was driving him further into despair.
Without Chen Ran's smoke bomb, with Chang Zan's strength, there are many ways to drive him off Zhigang Avenue, but it does not necessarily mean killing him.
Chang Zan is not a murderer, not to mention that killing involves taking great risks. He will not choose to kill unless it is a last resort.
If he had just been kicked out of Zhigang Avenue, then he would not have been in a dead end.
Thinking of this, Lu Shanmin couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. The purpose of Chen Ran's smoke bomb was to make him challenge Chang Zan's bottom line step by step, and to make him walk into a dead end step by step.
Why? She is the chairman of Haitian Group and has a net worth of tens of billions, but she is just a villager in the mountains. Does she have the right to plot against herself?
Why? With Hai Dongqing's strength, it is not easy to kill him, so why should he take such a big turn to force him to die?
After waiting all night, no one from Chai Zheng came to see him.
Lu Shanmin looked at the time. It was already twelve o'clock in the morning. It seemed that Chai Zheng would not come to see him.
Just as he was about to get up and leave, his cell phone rang. It was a call from Zhou Tong.
A few minutes later, Lu Shanmin hung up the phone, with a happy smile on his face. After a while, a trace of bitterness appeared on his face.