Reborn Petty Citizen

At first I thought it was just a minor illness, but Mr. Zhang's condition got worse and worse.

It seemed as if all the blows encountered in the past few decades could not wait until this moment to break out, completely bending the spine that had been straight for most of his life all at once.

The blood pressure suddenly fluctuated after several days of being stable, and it was impossible to guarantee a stable condition at home. Mr. Zhang could only be temporarily transferred to the hospital, where doctors and nurses would take care of him 24 hours a day.

All the children in the Zhang family became nervous, and for a while, the conflicts in private and on the surface seemed to be deliberately forgotten.Even Zhang Qiao, who is usually the most sharp-tongued, also restrained a lot. When she went to the hospital to visit the elderly every day, she didn't even dare to say much. She took the newspaper and read the good things in China to the old man.

On average, Du Xingzhi went to the hospital to visit once every three days. Zhang Su reported every day, but he didn't stay too long. Basically, after asking the doctor how the old man was doing, he would get up and leave after chatting with the old man for a few minutes.It's not that they don't have filial piety, it's that the Zhang family, especially the Zhang family's daughters, have a very delicate atmosphere.

Zhang Qiao and Zhang Zhen never said much, but after the old man fell ill, they tacitly stopped the intimacy of the same camp in the past, and put both sides on guard against outsiders.After all, Mr. Zhang is indeed old. This time he is so seriously ill, it is really unknown whether he can recover.Zhang Su didn't want them to deepen the misunderstanding. Although he didn't care about how the two younger sisters thought of him, if the increase in the number of visits made them anxious, it would not be impossible for them to make a fuss in the ward.If it is too ugly, the old man will be affected by it.

In addition, Du Xingzhi really didn't have any intimacy with Mr. Zhang. He only met this grandfather when he was in his 20s.He was worried about the old man's illness, but he was definitely not worried about his relatives.He is currently putting it first, and it is more about the company's affairs.

After meeting Zheng Junshan several times, the two tacitly began to keep in touch.Zheng Junshan didn't have any important things to do when he came to Beijing this time, and he left for his hometown in Province W a few days later.At the same time, Xingzhe Real Estate also began to follow his footsteps and slowly infiltrate into Province W. For the first time, it was forced to withdraw from this market, and the people in the company had been aggrieved for a long time.This time, everyone is gearing up to get their hands dirty and make a big achievement.

Du Xingzhi, a working group that participated in the bidding for several pieces of land in Beijing, had attracted people's attention early on. At the beginning, they didn't have a specific goal, so they could only clear up their suspicions one by one according to the screening model.However, the draft that Zheng Junshan gave him revealed some additional information, and not all members of the team were doing the same thing. In private, Du Xingzhi assigned each of them a slightly different job.Some of the information that Wu Wangpeng received matched those differences, and by following the vine, Du Xingzhi led out a middle-level leader who had been in Xingzhe Real Estate for a long time.This small middle class was not Wu Wangpeng's exclusive spy, he was just bought by Wu Wangpeng at a high price in order to earn extra money.Du Xingzhi didn't disturb him for the time being, but secretly made another plan with a few of his most trusted confidants.

Wu Wangpeng was obviously unaware of the news of Zheng Junshan's "rebellion", and he still looked at ease when facing Du Xingzhi.His embarrassing posture when he left Beijing before was still a topic of conversation among his peers. When he appeared at the venue this time, he was followed by a series of assistants in suits and leather shoes, and he seemed to want to get back to the venue.

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When he met Du Xingzhi, he paused and pushed his glasses: "Cousin."

Du Xingzhi nodded to him expressionlessly, and he smiled contentedly as if he had completed a ceremony of declaring war. His eyes flicked across the planning team following Du Xingzhi, and he paused for a moment on someone, and then Without saying anything, he passed Du Xingzhi and walked towards the seat of Pengfei Real Estate.

That look was a bit tacit.

Du Xingzhi shook his head in his heart, and took this person out of his mind.

Wu Wangpeng was sitting on the right rear seat, crossing his legs and holding the corner of his mouth leisurely. Occasionally, he met a few familiar bosses and greeted them with a smile.Being able to sit together in this venue, everyone is a competitor. Wu Wangpeng made many enemies in Beijing back then, and many hated him, but he had to tolerate him in every possible way because of the name of the Zhang family.When Pengfei Real Estate left Beijing in disgrace, many people were lamenting that God had good eyesight, and that this Wu Wangpeng, who was accustomed to using insidious means, had a big fall.Now that Wu Wangpeng has come back looking for faults, many people are still a little uncertain.

After all, with such a background, although Wu Wangpeng is not a red-capped businessman, no one has the guts to underestimate the big backer behind him.Many people in the industry have heard the news of Pengfei Real Estate's rise in Province W. That speed is definitely not at the level of normal company development. Obviously, someone in the court gave him great convenience to achieve it.

Because of this, although most people hate him, they have to stop to be polite to him after being called.

Wu Wangpeng narrowed his eyes slightly behind the mirror frame, and there was a mockery of these people buried deep in his eyes that could not be seen clearly.He likes to see these guys bite the bullet and pretend to have a good conversation with him, and dare not say it behind his back, who can poke his scar in front of him?All kinds of unintentional flattery gave him the comfort of being at the top of the pyramid and accepting worship from all directions. This feeling of comfort can make people addicted, and they can't extricate themselves from it.

His eyes fell on the front area of ​​the venue. Du Xingzhi still had that disgusting look, sitting in his seat as peacefully as Mount Tai, obviously not saying hello to anyone, but the colleagues coming and going were consciously saying hello to him.

His eyes became a bit dark, Wu Wangpeng smiled coldly, and looked away.

It hasn't started yet, sooner or later, he will also sit in the gold medal area, and let these guys who are face to face and behind the back greet each other respectfully and proactively like this.

"Are you sure there is no problem? Have you contacted?" He whispered to the assistant sitting on the right.

The assistant pushed the sunglasses and nodded to him affirmatively: "After the bidding plan is finalized, internal personnel are not allowed to contact the outside world. Before entering the venue, I took a chance to check with him. Everything is fine. That's what we know."

Wu Wangpeng chuckled and looked at the host platform above with absolute certainty.

His calmness made many people puzzled, but they also subconsciously became wary.The moderator at the top checked all the information and announced the bidding units one by one starting from No. 12 with the lowest verification price.

Wu Wangpeng dismissed these small places. Although mosquito legs are also meat, this kind of meat that may not be able to fill the gaps between the teeth is tasteless.If he wants to eat, he must be aiming at the fattest abdomen and lower thighs, just like his target No. [-] land today.

Land No. [-] was photographed by Xingzhe Real Estate, and Land No. [-] was also photographed by Xingzhe Real Estate. The short-term noise of mutual politeness echoed in the venue. Wu Wangpeng took a deep breath and finally waited for the result of the ownership of No. [-] Land.

The host held the manuscript paper and glanced across the venue, and a clear and clear voice came out from the speaker——

—— "Congratulations to Xingzhe Real Estate, picking three laurels today!"

Du Xingzhi's assistant stood up and nodded to the surroundings, with a confident smile on his face. Although his eyes did not pass over Wu Wangpeng's side, Wu Wangpeng still felt a loud slap on his face.

He was so angry that he almost couldn't catch his breath, the veins behind his ears kept bouncing, Erlang couldn't stand his legs, and sat up straight with a blue face.

At any rate, he turned his gaze away from Du Xingzhi's back, calmed down his emotions, turned his head and glanced at the trembling assistant with a smile on his face.

Du Xingzhi escaped from the fake courteous crowd after the show, and whispered a few words to his assistant. The assistant was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately reacted. Together with the two assistants that Du Xingzhi brought along today, he quietly pressed the button. A member of the team who was looking panicked at the moment.

At first the group members wanted to pretend to be innocent and explain, but after meeting Du Xingzhi's cold stare, even a fool would know to be bad, and behaved like a bastard, quietly being detained, not daring to say a word.

Du Xingzhi ignored this poor guy who was about to suffer in a while, and turned to leave, but was stopped by Wu Wangpeng's voice suddenly sounding behind him.

"Cousin!" Wu Wangpeng walked over at a steady pace with his usual expression, his eyes fixed on Du Xingzhi's face, "Congratulations, you're a big winner."

Du Xingzhi twitched the corners of his mouth, and gave him an insincere smile: "Thank you."

Wu Wangpeng's expression was almost distorted, but when he reached the critical point of collapse, he immediately realized his gaffe.He has already lost his inner face, he has to maintain his appearance no matter what, arguing with Du Xingzhi here will only make Pengfei Real Estate a laughingstock.His heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys trembled, but he had to grit his teeth to swallow the unwillingness in his mouth back into his stomach.

"I really underestimated you." He finally sneered, and left the venue with a group of people with a gloomy expression.

After missing this opportunity, he didn't know that he would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey to meet such a perfect choice as No. [-] again.He was sure that Du Xingzhi must have known about his spies, which made him feel a strange sense of shame in front of Du Xingzhi.

As soon as he left the venue, he smashed all the information about his injuries on the assistant's face, and kicked the trembling man who was walking with his body bowed far away, but the breath in his heart became more and more intense.

Hitting a wall in Beijing, Wu Wangpeng had no choice but to focus on the market in W province. Province W happened to be engaged in large-scale development, and several pieces of land with great potential were put on the dining table.Wu Wangpeng has dealt with the management department of Province W many times and is considered an acquaintance, so he picked a few sites he liked and asked the other party's current bidding price as always.

It was not difficult to get the reserve price before, but this time, the other party was silent for a long time, and answered him in a very embarrassing manner: "Sorry, Mr. Wu. The bidding will be managed by a special department. Not much is known about it.”

Wu Wangpeng stared at the hung up phone for a full 5 minutes and fell silent.

Then he threw the microphone with a distorted expression, sweeping everything on the table to the ground.

The crackling sound of the jingling bells eased the anger in his heart a little, and he consolidated his irritated emotions because of repeated troubles throughout the day, so Wu Wangpeng called Zheng Junshan.

Zheng Junshan's far less friendly attitude than before made him immediately notice something was wrong.He kept an eye out and didn't directly express his concerns on the phone. Instead, after comforting Zheng Junshan with kind words, he privately ordered the employees of the company in W province to investigate some recent changes in the market.

The news from Province W came back to Beijing a few days later.

In the bidding meeting that just ended two days ago in Province W, the two treasure lands that appeared as the finale were directly bid by a foreign company that turned out to be out of nowhere.

The name of this company is Xingzhe Real Estate.

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When Zhang Ze is free occasionally, he will accompany Zhang Su to visit the elderly.

Mr. Zhang's ward has always been tightly guarded, with three steps from the elevator and one sentry post. Zhang Ze couldn't turn a blind eye to this situation even after watching it many times.Stiffly all the way into the ward, Zhang Qiao's voice of reading the newspaper was interrupted, when he looked up and saw him, his expression was stiff for a moment.

Zhang Su came out from behind Zhang Ze, and put the thermos in his hand on the bedside table beside the hospital bed. The old man had already heard the movement, and opened his eyes to look at Zhang Su.

Zhang Su smiled and opened the thermos.Scooped out a bowl of special antihypertensive medicinal porridge from it, sat on the edge of the bed: "Dad, are you better?"

The old man frowned, nodded with a resolute expression, let Zhang Su take charge of him sitting up, waved to Zhang Ze, and said sullenly, "Xiao Ze, come here."

He asked Zhang Qiao to give Zhang Ze the sofa closest to the bed where he sat and read the newspaper, and he immediately grabbed Zhang Ze's hand with concern: "Stinky boy, you haven't come for a long time, last time you brought The fried buns that were given to me were not given to me in the hospital, so they confiscated me, are you angry?"

Zhang Ze patted the old man's arm with a smile. After confirming their relationship with Du Xingzhi, the two began to call each other's elders according to each other's standards.Mr. Zhang is now his second grandfather.He also has sincere respect for the other party. When he came to visit, he heard the old man complain that the food in the hospital was bland, so he specially brought fried buns for him to eat.

At first, he thought that the old man just had high blood pressure, but he didn't think about the matter of meat and meat. When he asked the old man, he swore that there would be absolutely no problem.Zhang Ze was worried, and after putting down the buns, he went to the medical staff to confirm, but after he left, the nurse stubbornly went into the ward and confiscated the box of untouched fried buns.

The old man complained to him several times on the phone angrily. He didn't know about Zhang Ze asking the doctors and nurses about taboos. Things must be placed in a hidden heat preservation box, otherwise the smell of fried buns will definitely be discovered by doctors and nurses with a keen sense of smell.Zhang Ze was afraid that he would be angry, so he never explained it. The old man still regards him as his own.

"Grandpa, stop making trouble. Isn't it easy to want to eat steamed stuffed buns? Take good care of your illness, take medicine and listen to the doctor's instructions. When your health is better, after you leave the hospital, I will take you to the store to eat your fill."

Mr. Zhang had a straight face, but he made him a little happy in his heart.The old and the young are not talking in vain. When people get older, their personality will be more or less different from when they were young. It is natural for Mr. Zhang to have that willful impulse inevitably.It's just that he is used to pretending, and he knows that it is shameful to be unreasonable like a child. In order to prevent people from seeing the change in his personality, the old man is even more fierce than before, scaring the children in the house. of.

However, the children and grandchildren are afraid that he is basically because he has been with him since he was a child. His majesty in the hearts of the children has been deeply ingrained. Even now that the children have grown up and have their own lives, his prestige as a father will always exist. .Even if everyone knows the truth about old children, no one in the family has the guts to deceive him as a child.Wu Wangpeng is the most courageous in the family, but he seems to be a bit out of the way in front of him, occasionally acting like a baby to let him feel the life of a normal old man with children and grandchildren around his knees.The appearance of Zhang Ze completely made up for the shortcomings in his life, this child is not afraid of him!

Why is Zhang Ze afraid of him?Zhang Ze has such a measure in his heart about the person he gets along with.He himself has a successful career, neither lack of money nor contacts, he has nothing to ask the old man, so he naturally treats the old man as an equal existence.How he coaxed Du Xingzhi at home is how he coaxes the old man now.He couldn't figure out whether the old man would eat it or not, but every time he coaxed the old man like this, the old man would be very talkative. After Zhang Ze tasted the sweetness a few times, his thinking naturally settled down. It can be said that he hit by mistake Mixed up experience.

Coax the old man to eat the bowl of porridge. The yam in the porridge tastes soggy and soft, and the salty and sweet spicy radish pickled by Zhang's mother is delicious and refreshing.The old man boasted while eating, Zhang Qiao stood by the window sill and stared at it for a while, then left the ward with the corner of his mouth twitching.

As soon as Wu Wangpeng arrived at the hospital, he saw his mother calling someone in the corridor with a dark face: "Whether my son loves to come or not, I bring a child who doesn't know who's family to flatter me. Pooh, she is really capable, and the old man will not like it anymore." Maybe let him enter the door of Zhang's house, who knows what is the plan..."

Wu Wangpeng rolled his eyes, of course he did it in his heart.His mother's short-sighted and narrow-mindedness may not be able to change in this life.My aunt just came to the hospital to visit my grandfather, but from what she said, she seemed to have malicious intentions. No wonder the popularity has been so bad.But he didn't dare to let his mother hear the slander in his heart. If Zhang Qiao heard it, at least crying, making trouble and hanging himself would be unavoidable. The person who suffered all the time became Wu Wangpeng.Wu Wangpeng used to do this kind of stupid thing often in order to show off his quick tongue and cause endless troubles, and he learned to behave after suffering too much.

But it doesn't matter, there are many people in the corridor, and Zhang Qiao's speech is so unobstructed, but he can't pretend that he can't see it.She went up and whispered in Zhang Qiao's ear, "The door of the ward is not soundproof."

Zhang Qiao didn't see him at first, but suddenly she was approached and said something, she was so frightened that she trembled all over, and the phone dropped to the ground.

"What are you doing?!" She stomped her feet angrily, "I'm on the phone with your dad!"

Wu Wangpeng picked up the phone and hung up the phone, raised his chin in the direction of the ward: "Auntie is here?"

Zhang Qiao rolled her eyes: "It's more than that, I also called in reinforcements and foreign aid. Hey, I don't understand. I read newspapers to your grandpa every day and peeled apples, but I didn't get him to say thank you. I don't know whose child it is." Come on, oh, everything is fine. If you drink a mouthful of porridge, you can say it tastes good, but we are cheap and worthless, right?"

As soon as Wu Wangpeng heard her words, he knew who was coming, and raised his brows, not as unhappy as Zhang Qiao thought, but unexpectedly a little happy.

"Xiao Ze is here?" He had a good feeling and impression of Zhang Ze, who was straightforward and docile, and got along with him completely without dissatisfaction with Du Xingzhi, "Is he in there? With auntie? Du Xingzhi didn't come?"

When Zhang Qiao saw his son's smile, he couldn't help frowning: "I'm curious, go in and see for yourself."

Wu Wangpeng really couldn't wait to enter the ward. When he saw Zhang Ze sitting in front of the bed and bowing his head and talking to the old man, his eyes softened a little.

"Xiao Ze, you are finally here." He said as he walked to Zhang Ze, pulled up a chair and sat down, "Grandpa, he talks about you to us every day, saying why you don't come to see him suddenly, I don't know what to do How to answer, a group of sons and granddaughters can't compare to you."

The wording of the words was a bit ironic, and after he finished speaking, he also felt that something was wrong, and he didn't know how to remedy it, so he quickly reached out and stroked Zhang Ze's hair to show the old man that he didn't mean anything malicious.

Zhang Ze was not used to being so intimate with Wu Wangpeng, and he hid after feeling the weight on his head. Wu Wangpeng also noticed his resistance, pulled the corners of his mouth, and withdrew his hand with a smirk.

Zhang Ze didn't know about the grievances between Wu Wangpeng and Du Xingzhi. Du Xingzhi usually never told him about troubles at work, and he was even unwilling to tell him about some troubles in life. Zhang Ze's impression of Wu Wangpeng basically stopped at When the Zhang family met for the first time, he knew that Wu Wangpeng's mother and father had conflicts with Zhang Su, and he also knew that this conflict could only be resolved in private, so he was usually polite to Wu Wangpeng.

Zhang Su immediately became a little allergic.

After Du Xingzhi came out with Zhang Ze, her eyes became sharper. In addition to the atmosphere between men and women, she could also detect the weirdness of the atmosphere between men and men or between women and women.Although Wu Wangpeng was smiling and polite to people all day long, he couldn't get rid of his bad temperament, especially after learning that the other party had done something wrong to Du Xingzhi, Wu Wangpeng's image in the eyes of Zhang Mu changed. With the hypocrite gone forever.But now she clearly felt that Wu Wangpeng's demeanor had softened a lot when facing Zhang Ze, which couldn't be faked by pretending, so she couldn't help frowning.When he saw the other party touch Zhang Ze's head, he finally couldn't sit still.

She hurried over and pulled Zhang Ze to stand up to say goodbye to the old man.Because he always sat like this for a while before leaving, the old man didn’t think there was anything wrong, but he was a bit reluctant to see Zhang Ze leaving again, so he took a can of foreign chocolates from the drawer of the bedside table with great effort for Zhang Ze to take back and eat.

Seeing that Zhang Su wanted to leave as if he had taken the wrong medicine, Wu Wangpeng felt a little unhappy.It's not easy for him to see Zhang Ze usually, and when he finally saw one, he was about to say goodbye without even saying a few words.Naturally, he stood up to stop Zhang Ze from persuading him to stay.

Zhang Su gave him a sneaky look, and his determination to leave became firmer, so he pulled Zhang Ze and ran out.

Wu Wangpeng was stunned for a moment, what does this mean?

He subconsciously chased it out, but only had time to catch up with the closed elevator door.Seeing Zhang Su staring at him like he was guarding against a thief, Wu Wangpeng felt more and more that something was wrong.

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But he didn't have a few more days to stay in Beijing. The matter of Xingzhe Real Estate's return to Province W was out of his plan. Some news that he didn't catch in time flashed by. If he didn't find the answer, he would sleep and eat all day long. Uneasy.

But this time, the situation is obviously not so good.

It was Zheng Junshan who clearly made an appointment to come out to meet, but it was Zhou Zu who went to the appointment in the end, and Zhou Zu was also a little ignorant of him.Wu Wangpeng had always disliked him, but because Zheng Junshan was the one who asked Zhou Zu to come forward, he had to be patient.

Zhou Zu, as Zheng Junshan's friend and attendant, is usually pretentious in various ways. He also dislikes Wu Wangpeng. In his words, Wu Wangpeng is too "sophisticated", calculating, and not happy.Because they don't like each other, the two usually don't talk much.But this time Wu Wangpeng had something to ask for, so he put on his own posture first, and when he got on the wine table, he was full of toasts to his brother. .

Wu Wangpeng asked him what Zheng Junshan was up to recently, he waved his hand and shouted: "Brother Zheng is doing business, he, this person is too ambitious! Too serious!"

Wu Wangpeng heard his subtext, and frowned slightly: "What business are you busy with? Real estate again? Is it related to Xingzhe Real Estate?"

Zhou Zu refused to say more, and shook his head again and again: "Don't ask! Don't ask."

Wu Wangpeng clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and changed the subject: "I'm just talking, hehe, speaking of it, Du Xingzhi, the boss of Xingzhe Real Estate, is still my cousin. Some time ago, in Beijing, near the Beijing Stadium The three lands were marked by him, and it is said that he plans to plan a tall building... He is also very ambitious, and Zheng Junshan will definitely be able to talk with him."

Zhou Zu was a little confused, so he led him in and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, they are indeed very similar, and they can chat very well."

So it is indeed Xingzhe Real Estate?

Wu Wangpeng was anxious and puzzled.His cooperation with Zheng Junshan is also considered satisfactory, why did he let Xingzhe Real Estate share a share? There are so many real estate companies around Province W, Wu Wangpeng has no objection to any of them, but Zheng Junshan has already told so much inside information that time, why did Zheng Junshan still choose Xingzhe Real Estate?

He simply didn't dare to think about the life he would have with Du Xingzhi in Province W. Du Xingzhi was the person he hated the most, especially after the recent bid in Beijing, it was so annoying to even look at it.At that time, it would be a heart-pounding torture to have to socialize with Du Xingzhi against his will every day, and to see Xingzhe's real estate growing stronger and stronger under his nose.What's more, he did so many actions in private for Xingzhe Real Estate's entry into Province W. What if Du Xingzhi is a vengeful person?No, he must be a vengeful man.

Wu Wangpeng stared at the wine bottle, the more he thought about it, the more he became angry. Can this kind of person not hold grudges?The country is vast, and he has set his sights on such an acre of land in W province. It must be to get revenge for driving him out before.Just as I am so obsessed with the Beijing market, because I failed here, I can't let go of it in my heart.

How many times?How many times has Du Xingzhi robbed him?

Wu Wangpeng's heartbeat echoed in his mind, and his fingertips were cold, both angry and frightened.Holding back the anger in his chest, he pulled Zhou Zu to persuade him to drink with a smile. Zhou Zu shook his head, but refused to drink any more, and stood up staggeringly: "Oh yes, Zheng... Brother Zheng asked me to drink You bring a message, he asked me to tell you, let me tell you..."

Wu Wangpeng held his wine glass and stared at him steadfastly.

Zhou Zu rubbed his face: "The Tuguan called him and said you, what are you doing, and went to find out, right? There will be a new term soon, Brother Zheng, he should pay attention to the impact. Forget it this time, don't do it next time Do it again."

Zhou Zu didn't know how powerful these words were, and after he finished speaking, he leaned against the wall and dozed off in a daze, but Wu Wangpeng felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his head was in a daze.

Notice the impact?Notice what effects?It was Zheng Junshan who taught him to ask for prices before bidding. What did he say at that time?Oh: "Brother, Brother W Province, I dare not say that I can cover the sky with one hand, so small things can still help you. In the future, you can just do it boldly if you think of it! If there is a mistake, brother, I will protect you even if I die. Who are you with?"

Who are we with whom?

After the show ended, Wu Wangpeng sat in the car and smoked a whole pack of cigarettes in the dark environment, but his trembling fingertips couldn't calm down no matter what.

Zheng Junshan actually gave him a breakup letter?Although he didn't say it clearly, this kind of exhortation was undoubtedly telling him that the cooperation between the two of them was suspended now, and whether they could continue would have to wait until later.

Pengfei Real Estate has just made some progress... Du Xingzhi already has so many, in so many coastal and central cities, he even just acquired several new lands, the valuation of Xingzhe Real Estate is dozens of times that of Pengfei Real Estate More than that, maybe it will be listed soon.

Why is he still so dissatisfied with taking away his own things!