The entertainment tycoon of the Republic of China

"Ayan, why are you here?"

Wen Heng, who had just finished negotiating business with the big class of the Danish foreign company, looked at the young man in front of him, a little surprised.

"Wen Heng?" Xie Yan came back to her senses, realizing that the person standing in front of her was really that person.

How should I put it, should I marvel at the wonder of fate?

Meeting again at the place where we met for the first time made Xie Yan feel a little weird. He shook his head to drive those strange emotions out of his mind, walked up to Wen Heng in a few steps, and got down to business.

"I found out something about the Li family, and I came to discuss it with you."

"En." Wen Heng looked at the hair of the boy in front of him, and agreed absently. Compared with the last time we met, his hair seemed to be a little longer.

"Wen Heng?" Xie Yan asked again before waiting for an answer.

Then he obviously heard the young man in a long coat sneer, "Who is Wen Heng?"

"..." Xie Yan was speechless for a while, but unexpectedly understood what Wen Heng said.

"It's just that we haven't seen each other for a few days. Is there any need to raise a question like this, Second Young Master Wen?"

"So it was a few days." Wen Heng nodded.

"..." Xie Yan rubbed his neck and began to recall, since the day he met Fang Xunxuan, he has never met Wen Heng again, one is because he is too busy, and the other is because there is no point of intersection, It is rare to even think of each other.

Judging from Wen Heng's concern and care for him before, it seems that he is really not enough friends.

"I heard that you have been seeing Miss An every day recently." Wen Heng pointed out calmly.

"Who did you hear that from?" Xie Yan was taken aback.

"Big brother."

"..." Xie Yan's mouth twitched, "Did you misunderstand anything?"

"for example?"

"For example, my relationship with Miss An." Xie Yan rubbed his forehead.

"That's not true." Wen Heng's eyes were dim, and he meant something, "I might have misunderstood."

"Since the young couple didn't misunderstand, what did you misunderstand as a brother?" However, Xie Yan didn't realize another point in Wen Heng's words, "Or do you just not believe me?"

"..." Wen Heng sighed through his teeth, wondering if Xie Yan, who was usually so shrewd, really didn't understand, or was just pretending to be stupid with him.

However, it's no wonder Xie Yan, as a mature man in his thirties, how could he imagine that Wen Heng's identity and personality would be interesting to him.

"Miss An and I really have nothing to do. It's just ordinary friends and business partners. We are busy with business these days." Xie Yan continued to explain without noticing, "You are a smart person, but don't overdo it." Think about it, don't talk nonsense, Miss An is a girl's family after all, I'm still waiting to drink her and Wen Rui's wedding wine in the future. "

"Of course I'm a smart person." Wen Heng said blankly, "Smarter than you."

"Ah?" Xie Yan, who was stunned for no reason, touched his nose, not understanding why Wen Heng's face changed so quickly.

"Tell me what you said just now, what's wrong with the Li family?" Wen Heng, who knew that he couldn't be too hasty, sighed secretly, and retracted the topic.

"Shall we find a place to talk about it?" Xie Yan looked around.

"Come with me." Wen Heng nodded, and led Xie Yan towards a cafe not far away. Li Quan, who had been looking at the two in a daze, hesitated for half a second, and followed.

The cafe Wen Heng chose is located among the dazzling array of shops on Furong Street. The name of the cafe "starfall".

Starfall Cafe.

"The owner of this store is very artistic." Xie Yan and Wen Heng made a casual evaluation as they faced each other.

"How to say?"

"Name, tablecloth, and teacup." Xie Yan's slender fingers lightly pointed at every detail on the small table, "And I'm sure that the owner of this cafe is a Chinese."

"Tell me your reason?" Wen Heng asked in a gentlemanly manner.

"Intuition." Xie Yan smiled and wiped his hands with the towel handed by the waiter. He has been to many countries in his previous life, and sat in different cafes in many different situations, thinking quietly, and gradually formed the feeling of being integrated into the bone marrow. Some things really can only be explained by intuition.

Wen Heng nodded, without further questioning, "The owner of this cafe is my friend when I was studying in the United States. He returned to China a year earlier than me. He is not here today. I will introduce you to him when I have a chance."

"Okay." Xie Yan knew that Wen Heng would never take him to an unsafe place to discuss matters, so he was not surprised to hear that.

"A cup of Irish coffee with less sugar." He skillfully told the waiter the order, then turned to ask Li Quan who was sitting beside him at a loss, "Li Quan, what do you want to drink?"

"Ah?" Li Quan, who has been trying to reduce his sense of existence, is a little dumbfounded. He doesn't know what there are in cafes, and he doesn't understand the nouns in Xie Yan's mouth. It's too weird to drink it up and waste it.

Fortunately, Xie Yan is always considerate and appropriate when he is willing, "I'll order you a latte, add more sugar and milk, it should be more suitable for your taste."

"Yeah." Li Quan nodded hurriedly, remembering what Xie Yan said and did by the way.

After Xie Yan and the waiter finished ordering, they thoughtfully stretched out their hands to Wen Heng's side, signaling that it was their turn to order.

But Wen Heng was not in a hurry, "Irish coffee?"

"Is there a problem?"

"It's just that I didn't expect you to choose this flavor." Wen Heng smiled playfully.

Irish coffee is a mixed drink of coffee and whiskey, which is made of black coffee, whiskey, cream and sugar. This is a unique creation of the Irish who are addicted to alcohol. The stimulating taste is like the rising sun in winter, warm and strong.

Xie Yan knew what Wen Heng was wondering about. In the previous life, when drinking coffee with unfamiliar people, they were often shocked by Xie Yan's hobbies that did not match their usual performance.

But how can a person be a uniform and boring individual everywhere?

Serious and rigorous lawyers like Xie also like such stimulating drinks that combine old-fashioned and uncertain.

"There may be more things you didn't expect." Xie Yan smiled, "Hurry up and order, there is something to talk about."

"Indeed." Wen Heng nodded in agreement, "But I may first tell you something you didn't expect."

"what?"

"It's the same, a cup of Irish coffee, with less sugar." Wen Heng looked at the waiter in the cafe, and spoke freely about his dishes.

He returned the same smile that Xie Yan and the other party had before, "I'm sorry, although it sounds very deliberate, but we do have the same hobbies and tastes."

"..." Xie Yan was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, "Well, I didn't expect that."

"..." Li Quan silently looked at Xie Yan beside him, and then at Wen Heng on the opposite side. He couldn't figure out what made the atmosphere go wrong. Said to order the same coffee as Ayan.

There were not many customers in the cafe at lunch time, Xie Yan and the three sat in the corner of the cafe, and the waiter quickly served their coffee and a plate of small cookies.

Xie Yan stirred the coffee with a small spoon, picked up the cup and took a sip, Li Quan glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and quickly put down the spoon that was going to drink the coffee directly, imitating the example.

The spicy, sour and bitter taste exploded on the tip of the tongue, and the aftertaste was indescribably long and mellow. Xie Yan squinted her eyes, feeling the long-lost enjoyment, looked at Wen Heng across the table and smiled.

"What's wrong?" Wen Heng also took a sip of coffee.

"I just feel that every time I meet you suddenly, I can improve my living standard." Whether it's the wonton before or the coffee this time.

"I'm very happy." Wen Heng said directly.

Xie Yan was just joking casually, but Wen Heng would answer so seriously, coughed lightly in embarrassment, and brought the topic to the point.

……

"It's probably like this. We suspect that there are foreigners behind the Li family. Have you found out any news these days?" Xie Yan finished his and Bai Luoqiu's speculations in one breath, and pushed the question to Wen Heng.

After listening to Xie Yan's words, Wen Heng didn't rush to say anything. He tapped the dark brown wooden tabletop rhythmically with his knuckle fingers, and after thinking for a while, he said, "We searched Li's family, starting with their business. .”

"The Li family's main business is the coal business, and they have large shipping orders with the Wen family every year, so we have some understanding of the Li family's situation." When Wen Heng talked about business, he was always in a hurry. "Through reconciliation and investigation, we found that the Li family's business has plummeted in the past one or two years, and the transaction volume has plummeted. However, for the sake of face, they still insist on buying and shipping a large number of goods to deceive others. If it weren't for this careful investigation, we would not have found out. .”

"The Li family has been in the coal business in Hankou for several generations, and they have acquaintances, how could it suddenly fail?" Xie Yan was puzzled.

"It's still a relationship with foreigners." Wen Heng shook his head, "The Li family's coal transport team has been attacked several times, the coal mine that we originally cooperated with was bought under the command of foreigners, and it was also stumbled several times by some false information. In the Li family generation, there is no one who has a strong opinion, and the business has failed in half a year."

"..." Xie Yan never expected that the Li family was also a victim of foreign businessmen's unscrupulous methods, but they chose to give in, chose to be a minion, turned around and killed Xie Ji Mixing's family in the same way.

Xie Yan took a breath, and suppressed her anger, "So it's a certainty that the Li family is involved with foreigners, Wen Heng, have you found anything?"

"We have been trying to find out who is behind the Li family these days, but the other party is too cunning, never shows up in public, and does not know how to contact and manipulate the Li family, so we can only stand still." Wen Heng shook his head, "This morning Li I also received news that my family went to Bai Luoqiu's mansion to make trouble, and if this action fails, they will definitely contact again soon, I have already sent someone to follow the Li family, maybe there will be clues."

"I see." Xie Yan nodded, although a little disappointed, but also expected.

How could such a cruel and ruthless existence disturbing the situation in Hankou be easily caught by them.

"Don't worry, Boss Bai has always been patrolling people sent to protect him, and people from the Wen family have also paid attention to it. Even if the Li family has any harmful thoughts, nothing will happen." Wen Heng thought that Xie Yan was worried about Bai. Luo Qiu's safety, he said in relief.

"I'm not worried about this... Of course it's not that I don't worry about Master." Xie Yan shook her head, not knowing what to say.

"Do you have any other ideas?"

"I just find it very strange." Xie Yan pursed her lips, "My master was invited by the inspector with great fanfare, and he was surrounded by people sent by the inspector to protect him secretly. Those foreigners must have imagined it. Is the Li family coming to make trouble? Is it possible that the rich and noble children of the Li family can beat the patrolling soldiers?"

"It's really not right." Wen Heng frowned upon hearing this.

"And my master's reaction is unreasonable." Xie Yan continued, "He must know that there are people around him who protect him, and he also knows that the Li family is not a good person. Normally speaking, even if he sits peacefully in the house drinking tea, There would be no problem at all, but he left directly through the back door, pretending that he was not there, and asked someone to open the door to invite the Li family to enter the house, as if he was afraid of getting in touch with the Li family, why is that?"

"Since you thought of this, didn't you ask Boss Bai?"

"At least call me master, how can you poke someone's sore spot." Xie Yan sighed and shook her head, then smiled, "The key point here must have something to do with the intersection between my master and the Li family, I have roughly guessed it, but Can't confirm yet."

"A person as smart as my master must know that I have thought of it, but I don't want to explain it myself." Xie Yan said this, and when he went out, he patted Li Quan's shoulder that Bai Luoqiu suddenly reminded himself to bring, "Li Quan, tell us about it."

"...me?" Li Quan was originally sitting quietly on the side, listening to Xie Yan and Wen Heng's analysis of a series of things about the Li family, Wen family and Bai Luoqiu, already dumbfounded, seeing Xie Yan bring the topic to himself Body, suddenly aphasia, "How could I know about the class leader?"

"No, you know." Xie Yan knocked on the desktop in front of Li Quan, "You grew up in the Dechun class, and your father is the class leader's confidant, even if you haven't deliberately understood it, you must have heard something. Think about it, are there any rumors in the troupe about Master's...more affection?"

"Children love each other?" Li Quan really thought about it, "That's too much."

"what?"

"Ayan, you came to the troupe late, and you don't go out very much, and you haven't seen it before. Who is the troupe leader, the No. 1 Dan in the capital, good-looking and has a status, and you want to be surrounded by men and women who want to be with him Going around the imperial city a few times, you have to arrange a few special people to be responsible for receiving gifts on weekdays, and the hall can be filled with people during festivals. .”

"..." Xie Yan was a little speechless, forgetting that Bai Luoqiu's popularity was due to his negligence.

Xie Yan thought for a while, and changed the way of asking, "Then think about it carefully, among these people, is there a time when Master has shown that he is different from others, no matter what mood he is in?"

"You really caught me off guard. The class leader treats everyone the same. No matter how expensive the gift is, he won't give it a second glance. No matter what status people get close to, he is always indifferent..." Li Quan wrinkled Frowning, thinking hard, quickly searching in his memory, since A Yan said that the class leader thinks he knows, then it must be something he can know, what exactly is it...?

"I remembered!" Li Quan slapped the table, his voice was very loud in the empty cafe, and the next second he scratched the back of his head embarrassingly.

"What?" Xie Yan's eyes lit up.

"I remembered, it was about when I was seven or eight years old. I can't remember the specific scene. Many of them were told by other guys in the team." Li Quan recalled.

"At that time, the class leader had only been famous for more than a year, but he was already one of the best famous actors in the capital, and every show was sold out. That day, the Dechun troupe opened as usual, singing the song "Red Mane Lie Mali" from Wujiapo to Dadeng In the hall, Xue Pinggui's character had already finished singing, and the troupe master pretended to be lucky and stood behind the general gate waiting to go on stage, but for some reason suddenly said that he would not sing, and went backstage directly."

"My father was taken aback, and hurried to catch up to ask. I don't know what they said. After my father came back, he went out and asked for the role of Xue Pinggui. He apologized to all the fans present, and everyone paid double the fare. I also promised to invite the audience to listen to another play for free next time I have time, and begged them to go back today."

"The fanciers came here to see the class leader. Hearing the words, they naturally refused. They all sat still and refused to leave. Some colleagues who made a fuss deliberately wanted to make things bigger, and booed. The Dechun class hadn't fully established itself at the time. My father was so anxious that sweat dripped down layer by layer from his head."

"And then?" Xie Yan heard this, and was anxious to hear the follow-up. In his perception, Bai Luoqiu was a person who had nothing to do with impulsiveness. Unhelpful decision?

"My father really couldn't help it later, so he invited the class leader back. I was young at that time and didn't understand anything. I heard these things from other people later." Li Quan swallowed, "It is said that the class leader was still there. Without removing makeup, wearing Wang Baochuan's outfit in the cold kiln, patched blue clothes with pleats and plain silver hair, standing on the stage for a glance, but it looks like a fairy descending from the sky, and all the troublemakers in the audience fell silent. stared at him blankly."

"Then the class leader glanced in one direction, said a word, didn't stop, turned around and stepped off the stage, and never came out again."

"What did he say?"

"He said: I'm a lowly person in this life, and I can only do what I say. I said that I will never sing a play for you again, and I won't open my mouth even if I die."