drowning tide

"The meeting..."

The picture on the screen stopped abruptly, and Yi Huai, who had cut off the remote connection, squeezed his sore shoulders and fell to the back of the chair behind him, finally able to relax his tense nerves.

Once his attention was distracted, he heard the sound of his empty stomach, and looked helplessly at the wall clock on the wall—it was past two o'clock in the afternoon, and the meeting took up most of his morning plus a whole noon. Now he doesn't even have time for lunch.

Are you going to the company cafeteria now?To be honest, he didn't really want to go to the cafeteria. He was about to order takeaway when he heard someone knock on the door. He came back to his senses and said, "Please come in."

It was his personal assistant who opened the door and came in with a lot of things in his hands. On the left was a takeaway thermal bag with the hotel LOGO printed on it, and on the right were documents and forms that he needed to review.

"Ordered for me?"

"Seeing that your meal is not available, I ordered it on my own." The assistant said while putting the things in his right hand on the desk, "These are sent by the financial department..."

Yi Huai glanced at the words on the cover and almost knew the words in his heart, "Just let it go, I'll come and see it after dinner."

In the lounge next to the office, the assistant took out the lunch box from the thermal bag and put it on the table. Yi Huai wanted to help, but he silently declined, "There are three dishes in total, two meat and one vegetable, I remember you have no special taboos, If it's not to your liking..."

Yi Huai is not the kind of person who would make trouble unreasonably because the food he ate was unsatisfactory, and he put his assistant at ease with just one sentence, "I'm so hungry, I'll think whatever you order is delicious."

"How was your meeting?"

"Generally, they are basically being scolded."

Yi Huai was separating his chopsticks to prepare to eat, when he heard him ask himself a question, his hands naturally stopped.

What was mainly discussed at the meeting was the acquisition of Tianshi by his subsidiary company last month: more than a month has passed since the acquisition, and the progress is still stuck in a delicate place.

Normally speaking, it would not take so much time to acquire a medium-sized company that has not been established for a long time. Now that there must be something wrong with one side, Yi Huai picked up the cup and took a sip of water to moisten his dry throat. "Those people on the board of directors are in a hurry, and their speech may be a bit straightforward."

He didn't know if ordinary people would be angry, but he was used to hearing Fei Chuan's eccentricity, and he was polite to people like the board of directors, who at most would knock his left ear in and out his right ear.

"How did you cope?"

"Me?" Yi Huai picked up the chopsticks again, and said casually, "Of course I'm trying to persuade them to wait a little longer, and it'll be easier when Second Young Master Wen figured out what's next."

More than a week ago, Wen Zhengting's will and handwriting identification results were released. It was indeed his own handwriting. In addition, there was a video at that time to prove his sanity. The situation of this long battle for inheritance became clear at once.

Wen Fan's character determines that he will not sit still. During the period of fighting for it by various means, it is not that he has tried to find new allies to resist foreign enemies and prevent Tianshi from being acquired, but Wen Zhicheng's position has become a general trend At this critical point in time, the only ally is too busy to take care of himself, and no one else is willing to set up two powerful enemies for themselves at the same time, incurring the danger of being acquired for their own property out of thin air, and the ending of the time being divided up is basically a certainty.

Anyone with a brain can see that what Wen Fan should do is to recognize the current situation of the lost dog, put away the arrogance of the proud son of heaven, and use the money Wen Zhengting left for him to leave Rongcheng and go to a place where Xu Qin can't find it Look for opportunities to make a comeback instead of continuing to fight them here.

"If you have other things to report, just take this time to say it." He doesn't have many advantages, and it's very rare that he won't be so offended by work matters that he can't eat.

"Then I'll tell you." The assistant did have something to tell him, so he made it clear while he was eating, "...that's all."

Yi Huai's face looked better when he was full. He sat on a chair to rest, and suddenly remembered something, and stopped the assistant who was about to go back to his office, "By the way, I will meet with the bankers later and leave. Please help me host the regular meeting."

The assistant didn't ask why, "Do you need to order flowers for you?"

Yi Huai rejected his kindness, "No, she doesn't like this set very much, you can call the hotel for me and ask their kitchen to help me prepare liquid food suitable for fracture patients, and I will take it to the hospital later .”

"I see."

After seeing off the assistant, Yi Huai closed the curtains, closed his eyes briefly, fell asleep for half an hour, and then went out to meet with the bank to discuss the loan issue.

Because he had to visit the hospital, he left work early today.Leaving early for two consecutive days was unimaginable to him before. However, the changes in his life are definitely not limited to these trivial matters. In the past, he was completely excluded from Luo Yi's kingdom. Now he However, it was able to slightly touch the undercurrent of the calm power structure of some companies' top management.

Since when did Luo Yi's strict and authoritarian control over him suddenly relax?He vaguely thought, it seems that it started from Wen Zhengting's birthday banquet.What happened at that time was like a dividing line, completely separating his monotonous and boring more than ten years from his current life.

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On the way to the hospital, he sent a message to Nie Xicheng saying that he couldn't see each other for the past few days. Looking at the good word Nie Xicheng replied in the dialog box, he couldn't help but feel a little lonely.

In the morning, he and Nie Xicheng stayed together until the end of the operation. As expected of the specially invited experts, the operation was very successful, and the rest just needs to follow up step by step and follow up on time.

When he went to the inpatient building, the door was not closed tightly, and he could hear the voice of someone talking from a distance, like the voice of a nurse.He knocked on the door, and the nurse arranged by the hospital came out first. The nurse took the things in his hand and put them on the cabinet, then picked up the bag and coat, "Then Mr. Yi, I'll leave first, and I'll come back to change your shift in the middle of the night. "

"sorry to bother you."

After sending the nurse away, he sat on the chair in front of the hospital bed and slowly peeled the apple with a knife.

An's mother was awake, but her back was turned to him, and she didn't want to talk to him.The apple peel he peeled was thin and long, and the whole root was not short. Then he cut the apple into small pieces, put them on a paper plate and put them in front of her, feeding her piece by piece.

"I know you want to see Luo Yi, but I can't get in touch with him..." He looked at An Ma chewing silently, "He must have his own news channel, it depends on when he can come back."

He fed her half an apple, and then replaced it with rib soup and noodles, "I'm sorry, I was not at home last night."

"It's not your fault." Her voice was a little hoarse, and she was still trembling after listening carefully, "What's wrong with you doing your own thing, how can you waste time on me, a half-dead old woman."

Everyone said it wasn't his fault, but he still couldn't help but blame himself.

"Forget it, do your hands hurt?" He wasn't very good at feeding soup, so he accidentally spilled some, and immediately picked up the napkin to wipe her mouth, "If it hurts, I'll ask the doctor later."

"It doesn't hurt." She shook her head lightly, mist appeared in her cloudy eyes, "Really, the doctor prescribed me medicine, and I don't feel any pain. Really, good boy, don't be sad."

Yi Huai put down the spoon and didn't speak.He hadn't seen his grandparents since he was a child, so he didn't know what to say at this time.

An's mother closed her eyes, tears dripped down the corners of her eyes one by one on the light green quilt, leaving a dark mark, "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have said those things to you that night , I was just momentarily confused..."

"Don't talk about it." Yi Huai felt a little sad being led by her, "So is this the reason why you have been out of your mind all this time?" You didn't notice the slippery floor until you got up in the middle of the night.

She nodded, "I'm really sorry, I'm sorry for you..."

Who does "you" refer to? Yi Huai can think of the answer without guessing.She couldn't control herself for a while and told him half the truth, but afterwards she felt so guilty towards Luo Yi that she couldn't help herself. This kind of contradiction tormented her like ice and fire, and finally led to the current tragedy.

"Don't be sad, it's not your fault." Yi Huai stroked her temples, and pinned her white hair behind her ears, "Just let this matter be over, I won't ask again, you don't want to Blamed myself."

She stared at him blankly, and when he was about to say something, he heard the phone rang, "Sorry, I'm going out to answer a call and I'll be right back."

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It was a call from an unfamiliar number, Yi Huai wanted to speak clearly before going back, but he stopped when he thought of the first sentence of the other party.

"Mr. Yi, I'm from Lihua Testing Center. Do you still remember that you sent two samples yesterday afternoon for us to do paternity testing?"

"I remember." He glanced at the corridor, and immediately walked towards the stair door of the safety exit, "The result came out?"

He set a deadline of two days, and now it's only been one day, so how can the result come out so quickly...

"Yes, the result is out." As if afraid that he would not believe it, the speaker hurriedly explained, "Seeing that you are in such a hurry, we have cut you off the queue for a while. According to the procedure, we will notify you of the result tomorrow..."

"What's the result?" Yi Huai interrupted his chatter, "I want to know the result."

There was a pause for a few seconds, and Yi Huai heard him say a few words to the people around him in a low voice, cleared his throat after speaking, and began to tell him the test results, "Let's talk about the Y chromosome test results first, two copies The Y chromosomes of the samples are highly consistent, with a similarity as high as 96.1%. This similarity can basically confirm that you have the same sperm source, and your X chromosomes are not similar at all, indicating that the women who conceived you are not the same. In terms of ethical relationship we call this relationship..."

"Half-brother, right." Yi Huai heard himself say calmly, "I see, thank you for letting me know in advance, I will still come to get the appraisal result in person tomorrow."

He hung up the phone without waiting for a reply.

He returned to the ward the same way, and realized something was wrong before he got close.

He remembered that he closed the door before he left, but now the door of the ward was opened again, concealed, as if something unbelievable happened inside.

The bodyguards are downstairs, is it too late to call them up now?He thought, it's too late, if the people inside are not good for Ma An, it's too late to wait for the bodyguards to come up, so he can only go in and adapt accordingly.

"Aren't you coming in? What I taught you is to be cautious, not to shrink back."

Hearing this familiar voice, his whole body was nailed in place.

The man who sat in front of the hospital bed and fed Anma's meals instead of him had short hair and good facial features. Because of his high position for a long time, his demeanor always looked a bit sinister.

This person has been hated by him for so long, and he has seen him as someone who doesn't want to get close to him for so long. He wanted to run away from him in his dreams, but it turned out like this... He wanted to greet this person as usual, but The words he just heard made him feel uncomfortable everywhere, making him unable to utter a word.

Seeing his appearance, Luo Yi frowned, "I haven't seen you for so long, can't you even talk?"