Forced to follow the love line by the villain boss

The dinner was scheduled for the night of August 8, and the venue was set in the old clock tower where the Upper Council was located.

The Great Clock Tower is located in the center of the city, and it looks out of place among the nearby high-rise buildings built in recent years.The mottled and cracked walls of the bell tower are full of traces of time, but they don't look dilapidated, but instead accumulate a hint of quaint and vicissitudes of life.

The big clock tower is used for the daily work of the upper council, not a banquet hall, nor does it provide dinner parties.It is obviously inappropriate to set the location of the dinner party here.

However, apart from Wen Rulan and Cheng Peng, those who came to the dinner were the five members of the upper council, and none of them came here for dinner. Everyone knew the real purpose of holding the dinner temporarily today.

At 7:30 in the evening, Wen Ru and Meng Xinglan arrived at the dinner venue first.

They came a little early, and the dinner officially started at eight o'clock, so no one else came yet.Wen Rulan went to the banquet hall first to sit under the leadership of the staff working in the upper council.

Said it was a banquet hall, according to Meng Xing, it was basically a meeting room.

A long office table is placed in the middle, with chairs for meeting personnel on both sides, and a projector in the middle for presentations and reports.

Although there are two fruit bowls pretending to be placed on the table in this conference room, this cannot conceal the fact that it is a conference room.

There is still half an hour before the start, and we have to wait a while.Meng Xing stood behind Wen Rulan, because there were only seven chairs beside the conference table, and there was obviously no room for his assistant.

After Meng Xing finished looking at the basic furnishings in the conference room, he turned his attention to the door. He was waiting for the second person to arrive.

It didn't take long. He and Wen Rulan arrived at the conference room within 5 minutes, when the door was pushed open.The person who came was a middle-aged man, about the same age as Jian Wenhong, but he didn't have Jian Wenhong's steady and majestic temperament. Although he was a member of the Upper Council, he was ordinary like a nine-to-five office worker.

This is Gu Hui, the head of the Gu family, just as Wen Rulan said, he is a very mediocre person.Meng Xing secretly evaluated the other party in his heart.

Gu Hui didn't notice that the little assistant was looking at him. Of the two people in the room, Wen Rulan obviously attracted his attention more.He greeted Wen Rulan politely, and found a seat to sit down.

The two didn't talk anymore, they were not familiar with each other.Wen Rulan's dealings with the upper council were mostly on official business, and most of them were attended by the speaker Jian Wenhong, so he didn't know the other four members very well, and he didn't have much friendship.

It's not right, I should still have friendship with Yan Desheng, although it is negative.

After saying hello, Wen Rulan glanced at Gu Hui's chest. The brooch in the shape of a palm leaf was one of the symbols of members of the Upper Council, and they would wear it when they attended formal events.

Gu Hui still has this one, which means that he is not the one who accidentally left the brooch in Cheng Peng's office.

Ferret and Meng Xing exchanged glances.Meng Xing was standing behind Wen Rulan, it was a bit strange for Wen Rulan to turn his head to look at him, it would inevitably attract Gu Hui's attention, so the one who made eye contact with Meng Xing was the ferret lying on Meng Xing's shoulder.

Although it is a mink, there is no racial barrier to making eye contact with Meng Xing. Once they look at each other, the two sides reached the same conclusion, excluding Gu Hui.

There are still four options left. When all the people are here, the person who hides in the dark and conspires with Cheng Peng will probably surface.

This is also the purpose of Wen Rulan agreeing to come to this dinner party. He didn't want to sell Jian Wenhong's face to accept the mediation of the citizens, but he wanted to take this opportunity to see who lost the brooch.

The palm leaf brooch is made of expensive materials, exquisite in workmanship, and difficult to forge. Moreover, the person who lost the brooch would not think that the brooch he accidentally lost was under Cheng Peng's desk and they found it, so he would not make a special trip to find it. to fake.

After another 5 minutes, the third and fourth people arrived together. They were the heads of the Jin family and the Xu family. He rarely manages, and only occasionally votes on major issues.

The heads of the Jin family and the Xu family were about the same age, and the two families had always been friends, so they happened to meet at the door, and they came in talking and laughing together.

After entering, he nodded to Gu Hui and Wen Rulan who had already arrived, and it was regarded as a greeting.Unlike Wen Rulan and Gu Hui who sat far apart, they sat very close to each other, and whispered a few words from time to time after they sat down.

The content of the conversation was the marriage of his juniors. Meng Xing was not concerned about these insignificant matters. His eyes lingered on the palm leaf brooches on the chests of the heads of the Jin family and the Gu family. These two people can also be ruled out.

There are only two options left, Jian Wenhong and Yan Desheng.

Judging from the motivation, it is obviously more likely that Yan Desheng is an accomplice, but Wen Rulan has never believed that Yan Desheng can have such water-tight prudence, and his investigation of Yan Desheng in the past few days has not found any secret connection between the other party and Cheng Peng .

Jian Wenhong, who seemed fair and strict, was actually his primary target of suspicion.Jian Wenhong has this carefulness to not show his feet, and also has the ability to help Cheng Peng arrange this attack plan.

Regarding Wen Rulan's conjecture, Meng Xing has never expressed his opinion. He thinks that both of them are possible. Who they are, we will find out later.

There were footsteps outside the door again, Meng Xing checked the time, it was 7:50.

A middle-aged man with a gloomy face came in. His eyes swept around the conference room. When he touched Wen Rulan, his eyes flashed with disgust and uncontrollable hatred. To prevent losing his composure, he didn't look much Pausing on Wen Rulan's body, he just found a diagonal farthest away from Wen Rulan and sat down without saying a word.

Meng Xing looked at the other party, this one was obviously Yan Desheng, he looked at the other party's empty chest, and exchanged glances with the ferret again.

That's him.Meng Xing thought so.

Wen Rulan didn't think so. He lightly tapped the sandalwood tabletop with his fingers, and smiled at Yan Desheng: "Mr. Yan, how is your son?"

With a sound of "Teng", Yan Desheng's suppressed anger was ignited by Wen Rulan's words. As soon as his butt was glued to the chair, he was so angry that he stood up directly.

His face was distorted by anger, and the answer came out of his mouth word by word: "Do you still have the face to ask?"

After finishing the last word, he stepped forward, looking as if he was going to come directly to beat Wen Rulan.

Meng Xing moved forward slightly, ready to stand in front of Wen Rulan before Yan Desheng came over, but he didn't take this step, because Yan Desheng was held back by Gu Hui in time.

Gu Hui played his peacemaker qualities, comforted Yan Desheng with a few words, and pulled Yan Desheng back to his original position.

Yan Desheng sat back on the chair, but his eyes were firmly stuck to Wen Rulan's body as if he could breathe fire.As long as this flame could be visualized, Wen Rulan would probably have turned into coke by now.

But it wasn't possible, so Wen Rulan sat comfortably, not even a little uncomfortable.

Yan Desheng thought that Wen Rulan's words were deliberately provoking him, but it wasn't. Wen Rulan was testing him, and Meng Xing had seen the result of the testing. Yan Desheng was still a straight tempered person, and he really didn't look like the one who conspired with Cheng Peng. people.

But he did not bring a brooch. Unless Jian Wenhong did not bring a brooch, Yan Desheng must be the owner of the brooch under Cheng Peng's table, and he must also be the person who secretly cooperated with Cheng Peng.

At 7:56, Cheng Peng arrived. He was not in a good condition, with a Band-Aid on his face and bandage marks on his arms.These are all injuries caused by the bomb that day, and it hasn't healed after two days.

Therefore, when he saw Wen Rulan at this moment, he showed the same expression as Yan Desheng before, and the golden eagles standing on his shoulders were the same, suppressing their disgust one by one, and sat down at the seat farthest from Wen Rulan.

The farthest position is the diagonal line, and the diagonal line has been occupied by Yan Desheng. Cheng Peng sat next to Yan Desheng. No one would believe them if they said they were not accomplices.

Although Jian Wenhong hasn't come yet, Meng Xing's inner balance has already tilted towards Yan Desheng.Temperament can be faked, and Yan Desheng's current performance can also be that Yan Desheng hides it too deeply, and others can't see the flaws.

But is it really a disguise?Wen Rulan squinted his eyes, and turned his gaze to the door, waiting for the last person to arrive.

At eight o'clock, Jian Wenhong stepped on the time and pushed open the door of the meeting room. When he saw that everyone had arrived, he smiled and apologized: "It seems that I am late."

While talking, he walked in.It was still a dark gray suit, with a palm leaf brooch pinned neatly on his chest.

Meng Xing looked down at the ferret, he felt that Wen Rulan should confirm this time.

The evidence was already in front of us. Among the five members of the upper council, only Yan Desheng didn't have a brooch, and he was the only one who had the motive to secretly stand in line at the risk of violating the iron law.

Ferret's expression was a little hesitant. Of course he saw the conclusive evidence, but he just felt in his heart... Yan Desheng is not such a person who can pretend.

However, subjective judgments are not reliable with objective evidence, so he can only temporarily accept the inference that Yan Desheng is Cheng Peng's accomplice.

Jian Wenhong, as the speaker of the upper house and the true leader of the current group of spiritual power users, took the lead without hesitation.

After sitting down, he cleared his throat, and was about to get straight to the point, but suddenly noticed Meng Xing who was standing against the wall, so his words took a turn: "Everyone knows the purpose of holding this dinner, for the sake of being open and honest. Talk about it, the content of this meeting is kept confidential, so we have to invite irrelevant personnel to go out first."

When he said the last sentence, he smiled apologetically at Meng Xing.

The meaning was already very obvious, Meng Xing was the unrelated person who needed to leave.

Meng Xing rubbed his nose and was about to leave sensibly, but Wen Rulan stopped him: "He doesn't need to leave, and he won't leak the secret." "This..." Jian Wenhong's face was a little embarrassed.

Yan Desheng, who had been displeased with Wen Rulan for a long time, opened fire when he heard it: "You don't have to leave if you say you don't have to leave, and you really don't if you don't leak secrets? Why do you?"

Cheng Peng also said in a strange way: "Yeah, I didn't even bring my assistant in, but Mr. Wen has a lot of face."

Wen Rulan ignored these two people, he didn't even give them a look, he just said to Jian Wenhong: "It's up to me."

This meant to be a guarantee for Meng Xing. Jian Wenhong thought about it seriously, but finally shook his head: "It's not very good after all, I'd better invite this..."

He looked at Meng Xing and hesitated for a moment. Although he had heard Meng Xing's name last time, he didn't even remember his surname now.

This is normal, after all, Meng Xing is just an ordinary person with no mental strength, Jian Wenhong may be polite to him because of Wen Rulan's face, but he doesn't take it to heart, so he doesn't remember his name.

Wen Rulan frowned, he still wanted to fight for it, but Meng Xing took the initiative to stand up and said: "I'm going out first."

With that said, he stepped towards the door.After taking two steps, he suddenly remembered something and turned back.He took the ferret off his shoulders and placed it in front of Wen Rulan's desk.

After the release, he turned and left without stopping.

The ferret stared at his back, but did not pursue him as usual.

Because Wen Rulan knew that Meng Xing kept the ferret because he was afraid of losing money, two of the seven people present were clearly hostile to Wen Rulan, and it was safer to keep the spirit beast by his side.

As soon as Meng Xing left, Jian Wenhong could finally get down to business. Everyone here is one of the most important figures, and time is precious. He didn't want to waste time. As soon as Meng Xing stepped out of the door, he had already said, "Go ahead!" A few days of attacks..."

Meng Xing only heard these words, and the rest was blocked by the closed conference room door behind him.The door of the meeting room is specially made, which has sound insulation effect. Although Meng Xing is only separated from the inside by a door, he can't hear anything.

Although Meng Xing came out on his own initiative, it didn't mean that Wen Rulan didn't want Wen Rulan to continue arguing on his behalf. It didn't mean he wasn't curious about the content of the council.

As soon as he went out at this moment, he put his ear on the door, trying to challenge the quality of the soundproof door with his own hearing.

Not to mention, just posting it and listening to it like this, you can hear some small sentences. Meng Xing vaguely heard the keywords "bionic robot" and "bomb|bomb". He was listening intently, but suddenly someone came from behind. Patted his shoulder.

Meng Xing was taken aback, so he managed not to cry out.Looking back, Wu Jin gave him a shy smile.

"Sorry to scare you." Wu Jin apologized sincerely.

He was already so sincere, and Meng Xing couldn't pursue it anymore, he just muttered about when his vigilance dropped so low, and he didn't notice when someone approached him, and replied: "It's okay."

"By the way, why are you here now?" Meng Xing asked.Wu Jin wasn't at the door just now, otherwise he wouldn't have clung to the door and listened to the corner without any image.

And Cheng Peng had been in for about ten minutes, and Wu Jin, the assistant, was late, which was obviously unreasonable.

"I'm going to stop the car for Mr. Cheng." Wu Jin raised the car key in his hand and explained.

"That's it." Meng Xing nodded, expressing his understanding.

"Mr. Meng is standing outside the door, why don't you go in?" Wu Jin asked.He was a little curious because he was about to go in.

"They didn't let the idlers wait in, saying that the meeting had to be kept secret, so don't bother, or you'll make your Boss Cheng angry." Meng Xing saw what Wu Jin meant and reminded him.

He still remembered how Cheng Peng got angry at Wu Jin at the dinner party before. Wu Jin broke in just like that. Although no one knew the crime, Cheng Peng would definitely get angry.

Wu Jin obviously thought of this, and quickly thanked Meng Xing: "Thank you, Mr. Meng, for reminding me, otherwise Mr. Cheng will definitely..."

He patted his chest for the rest of his life.

Meng Xing waved his hand: "Speaking of which, I would also like to thank you for tipping me off on the 3rd."

"Ah, it's nothing..." Probably because he was rarely thanked by others, Wu Jin was a little embarrassed: "It's just that Mr. Wen is fine."

"He's fine, but..." Meng Xing changed the subject and scrutinized Wu Jin: "Aren't you afraid that he will blame you for betraying your boss?"

His gaze was a bit threatening, because Meng Xing always felt that Wu Jin's behavior of tipping him off was a bit strange.Cheng Peng wanted to attack Wen Rulan, and Cheng Peng's assistant came to report to Meng Xing, what is this?Are you in Cao Ying and your heart is in Han?

Wu Jin clenched his fingers uneasily, but he still mustered up the courage to explain: "Sneak attack is wrong. I don't agree with Mr. Cheng's actions, even though he is my boss."

The righteous words he said raised his head, which had always been lowered, a little because of this sense of justice, but he quickly lowered his head again, and whispered: "And...Mr. Wen is a very good person , I hope he wins."

Although his voice was low, his tone was very sincere, as if the words came from his heart.

At least Meng Xing couldn't detect any flaws. He stared at Wu Jin for a while, and seeing that Wu Jin's expression was still the same, he put down his doubts about Wu Jin for the time being.

Meng Xing looked around, there was no one else around, but he was still worried, and waved to Wu Jin, signaling Wu Jin to come over.

Wu Jin poked his head obediently, Meng Xing felt that the distance was not close enough, so he stretched out his arms to wrap Wu Jin's shoulders, Wu Jin was stunned for a moment, but Meng Xing ignored him and said directly: " Recently, Mr. Cheng, have you secretly met Yan Desheng?"

"Yan Desheng?" Wu Jin said the name once, then shook his head: "No."

"What about Jian Wenhong? Or the other three upper council members."

Wu Jin still shook his head, he thought for a while, and added: "I didn't even when I was with Mr. Cheng."

"Then when are you not together? I'm talking about the time at the company." Meng Xing asked again.

"Well...Actually, there are many times...Cheng always dismisses me for a while, asking me to run errands to deliver materials or something." Wu Jin recalled with difficulty.

In other words, even if Cheng Peng met with someone in private, he avoided Wu Jin.Meng Xing sighed, and let go of Wu Jin's arm.

He didn't ask any more questions, but Wu Jin took the initiative to talk about something: "By the way, Mr. Meng, I recently...I think Mr. Cheng is weird."

"Strange? What kind of weird method?" Meng Xing's appetite was raised.

"That's... that's... He recently brought up all the liquid or cashable funds on our company's books, such as what equipment to buy, or what investment to make, but..." Wu Jin Hesitating.

Meng Xing's curiosity has been completely caught by Wu Jin, he hastily asked: "But what?"

"I'm not too sure..." Wu Jin's catchphrase came again.

"Just say what you say, it doesn't matter if you say something wrong." Meng Xing urged.

"But..." Wu Jin still hesitated.

At that time, Meng Xing was very anxious when he heard his tone on the phone, but now he expressed it in person, in addition to the voice and the picture, the anxious effect was doubled.Meng Xing just wished he could shake Wu Jin's shoulder and pour out all the words in his stomach.

Meng Xing used great endurance to restrain his impulse.Under his reassurance repeatedly, Wu Jin was finally willing to speak.

"But our company hasn't bought any equipment recently, or made any new investments. I found it strange, and secretly checked the whereabouts of the funds, and they were all transferred to an account called 'Qiongyu Technology Company'."

"Qiongyu Technology Company?" Meng Xing repeated, he had never heard of this name.

Wu Jin nodded and introduced: "A high-tech scientific research company, mainly researching the application of spiritual power."

Mental strength...Meng Xing was thinking about this explanation. Could it be that Cheng Peng wanted to buy some high-tech equipment to cheat in the August 8th game?

Wu Jin didn't know about this.He has already told Meng Xing everything he knows.

Meng Xing was meditating on the spot alone, and Wu Jin didn't bother him anymore.

He was thinking deeply, until a conversation broke into his ears and forced him to wake up from his contemplation.

It was two cleaners, they passed by Meng Xing, chatting while walking together.

"Why did you work so late today? Did you go lazy during the day?" One of them joked.

Another cleaner rolled her eyes directly: "Why are you being lazy? Speaker Jane told me to go look for things in the warehouse!"

"Looking for something?" The companion became curious.

"It's the palm leaf brooch. Chairman Jane seems to have lost it, and he was in a hurry to use it, so he went to the warehouse to find one and use it first." The cleaner replied.

"Palm leaf brooch? Isn't that one for every senator, only five? Why are there still in the warehouse?"

"You don't know that, do you? There are only five members in this session of the Upper Council, but there were more than five in the previous Upper Council. In fact, generally speaking, the Upper Council should have seven members, and there are seven palm leaf brooches. It's just that there are not enough people in this session, and the other two have no owners, so they are just thrown in the warehouse for storage!"

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