Do not lie to me

When Ji Shuping came out of the office, Shao Ling just arrived at his company.The two met at the door of the conference room, without even exchanging greetings, they went directly into the conference room and locked the door behind them, and no one came in to bring tea and water.

Shao Ling entered the door and sat down, straight to the point, "Yao Caier has been kidnapped."

Ji Shu was expressionless, "The matter is not yet settled, she may not be kidnapped." Slightly raised his eyelids, looked at Shao Ling, and the expression made the expressionless person even more ruthless, "The underwear on my hand is the endorsement , I have to withdraw it for her. No matter why this incident happened, my client can't wait, and the scheduled advertisement can't be changed. I can't do anything if she doesn't show up for a long time. This is my company employee The solution came out of the emergency meeting. Yao Caier’s performance at the press conference was not satisfactory. We don’t think she can bring the expected publicity effect to the brand in the later stage. Now we have found a model and entered the studio to shoot the advertisement .”

Shao Ling slumped on the back of the chair, still wanting to use the last bargaining chip, "Don't you want the shares of Shao in my hand?"

Ji Shuping remained indifferent, "Our company paid for the funding for the press conference, and it's all because of Yao Caier. You don't seem to be in a position to negotiate with me now, uncle."

"As expected of your mother, she really knows how to settle accounts." Shao Ling sneered, "I knew that the first moment Cai'er disappeared, the first reaction in my mind was revenge. Who would use kidnapping as revenge? Think about it Go, I just think it's your mother. Is she trying to vent your anger on you? To get revenge on me for instigating your father and outsiders to kidnap you and force your mother to withdraw from the board of directors of Ji's Real Estate. "

"If you think too much, she won't take revenge for this. It's not worth her energy to do something useless. "

"That's true." After saying this, Shao Ling felt that there was no need to stay any longer, and got up to leave.

Ji Shuping reached out his hand to stop him, "You came here to tell me this?"

"I came just to confirm with you." After speaking, he pushed Ji Shuping's hand away, and left.

Ji Shuping sat alone on the chairman seat at the top of the long table in the conference room, looking at the emptiness on both sides, "Is this seat so good?"

When he returned to the office, Shang Xuechen was gone, and the laptop was gone, probably taken away by him. Fortunately, there was nothing particularly important in the computer.

He sat back on the boss chair behind the desk, on which he was still hugging Shang Xuechen not long ago.I was in a good mood at the time, but now no matter how much I recall the episodes that were just in a good mood, I can't get rid of the shadow in my heart.

"Why didn't you wait for me? I feel a little cold when I'm alone."

The phone rang again, interrupting Ji Shuping's thoughts, "Hello?"

"Last time, the import channels of domestic Blue Mountain coffee have been identified."

"Help me investigate Shao Ling's calls and text messages in recent days." Ji Shuping always felt that Shao Ling came to him not just to confirm whether Yao Cai'er's disappearance was caused by the Ji family, "and..." His gaze shifted When I got to the glass jar by the table, I saw something was wrong, "Do you know any household registration police? Check my secretary's household registration and contacts."

"Okay, I see. Anything else?"

Ji Shuping reached out and took the glass jar on the table, squinting slightly at the colorful marbles inside, "Have you found out Xu Xueshi's background?"

"The identity information you gave me for his check-in last time can't find out anything, only that he came back from abroad."

It seems to be well hidden.

Ji Shuping said "Got it" to the phone and hung up.Light up the computer screen on the table, and find the surveillance video copied for him by the hotel waiter from the audio-visual files.In the video, Shang Xuechen lowered his head, carefully avoiding the camera, and did not capture his face. The hotel waiter recognized his uniform, while Ji Shuping, in addition to being familiar with his figure, also recognized his ears, especially when he zoomed in on the camera. , I can see the teeth marks on his ears bitten by myself.

Shang Xuechen was holding his computer and was about to take a taxi to find Brother Zhou. When he got in the car, he suddenly remembered that he had promised to buy cakes for Yuan Lian.I glanced at the surrounding office buildings, but I didn't see a cake shop. I remembered that I bought a few bags of coffee beans at the bookstore last time, as if the shop was not far away.So I reported the name of the store and asked the driver to navigate the past.

The driver put Shang Xuechen at the intersection. On both sides of this street are two-story single-family old-fashioned houses remodeled or cafes or western restaurants. Each house is hidden behind iron railings covered with green vines.The street was too narrow, and it was not convenient for taxis to get in and out. Shang Xuechen had to pay the money and walk into the old street by himself.

After walking two steps, I found the place, which is the second small red brick building at the intersection, the cafe called Ushuaia.Shang Xuechen pushed open the fence door and walked to the gate. Fortunately, there was an open sign on the door, otherwise Shang Xuechen would really think that he had walked into someone's house.

As soon as he entered the gate, the bell hanging on the top of the gate rang, and the baristas who were brewing coffee at the bar counter facing the gate looked up at Shang Xuechen who was coming in, and said with a smile, "Welcome."

A waitress came to lead the way, "Sir, how many?"

"I just want to pack a cake and leave without leaving anything to drink."

The waitress still greeted people with a smile on her face, "Sir, please follow me." Then she took Shang Xuechen to the cake display cabinet, "What kind of cake would you like, sir?"

He likes chocolate cake himself, so he asked, "Do you have any chocolate cake at home?"

"Yes. Our family has a signature chocolate cake with a special taste. You can try it first."

Shang Xuechen took the small fork handed over by the waitress, thinking that chocolate tasted almost the same, how special could it be?I took a fork out of the middle of the cake and put it in my mouth. The taste is really unique and the bitterness is very strong. If you can't bear the bitterness and swallow it directly, you may feel that this store is cheating people.If you can bear the bitterness, hold it for a while, until the bitterness dissipates on the taste buds, the last thing that melts on your tongue is a burst of sweetness. Because the front part is too bitter, the sweetness that appears in the back note is set off like rain in the desert .

He put down the fork with a smile, "Special is special enough, but unfortunately, the sales of this cake are not expected to be very good."

He said so bluntly that the sales of this cake are not optimistic, and the waitress was not annoyed. People who are sweet will think that this is unbearable bitterness, and those who have always been bitter will think that the last one is not sweet enough. People who have lived too much bitterness will always talk about the sweetness of bitterness. Look at this cake that comes from bitterness. If there is no If people buy it, it means that everyone is coaxing themselves, and no one really believes that life will be full of hardships.”

"I was wrong. The sales of this cake are not bad, and it is estimated to be selling well. As long as its name is called Ku Jin Gan Lai, it is estimated that many people will buy it. Chinese people like good signs in names. Your shopkeeper really knows how to use it. People do business."

The waitress held up the plate and looked at him, "Then, do you want a piece of hard work?"

Shang Xuechen shook his head, "Life is too bitter, why bother your taste buds, I only like sweets, pack me a cheesecake."

"Then please wait at the bar for a while."

Shang Xuechen sat on the bar counter with his head propped up and watched the coffee being brewed in the bar counter to pass the time.Thinking that the owner of this shop is really good at deceiving people, he just melted some sugar on the innermost piece of the cake and gave it a name that comes after all hardships and rewards. He deceived many sentimental customers and saved a lot of cost.Sure enough, in this world, the most distinguishable ones are businessmen, the most deeply trapped are fools, and those who are greedy for that little sweetness are unwilling and greedy fools.Businessmen like such fools the most. If you give you a little bait, you will be hooked if you bite.

He tilted one corner of his mouth, tired of watching the dripping coffee in the clepsydra, looked up at the wall behind the coffee machine, tilted his head, shifted his gaze, and looked at the things on the wall.Sure enough, how could the store called Ushuaia lack something intriguing? The wall is covered with all kinds of photos, which look exactly like the postcards given to me at that time. There are lighthouses, post offices, and prisons. Calling the end of the world.

All the photos were pinned to the world map, and when he looked up, he saw small wooden barrels on the wall decoration shelf.Shang Xuechen squinted his eyes to carefully read the words on the wooden barrel, but the distance was too far, even if his eyes were narrowed into a small slit, he couldn't see clearly, so he asked directly, "What is the wooden barrel for?"

The barista at the bar replied, "That used to hold coffee beans."

"What coffee beans?"

"It's the Blue Mountain coffee beans brought back from Jamaica."

He remembered that Ji Shuping seemed to like to drink blue mountain, "How do you sell this?"

"I can't be the owner of this. The owner doesn't sell it at will."

"Is a bucket of beans so mysterious?" Shang Xuechen really didn't understand the taste of rich people in this world.

The barista still smiled, "Rare things are more expensive."

After talking for a while, Shang Xuechen's cake was packaged and came out. After paying the money, he didn't have any nostalgia for this bourgeois-style cafe, so he walked out with the cake.Walking out of the gate, he was about to push open the fence gate, and looked back at this small red brick western-style building. The word Ushuaia on the gate always made him feel bad. The saying of becoming a Buddha right away does not stipulate whether the land is sandy land or muddy land.The place where I started all over again is set so far away, and I still don't let myself go.

But there are not many people in this world who can become a Buddha immediately, and Tang Seng has gone through ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties.

Shang Xuechen sighed, pushed open the small fence gate and walked out of the street.Walking down the street with the cake in hand, he took out his mobile phone and called Brother Zhou, "Brother Zhou, are you staying in the lair today, or are you staying outside?"

Brother Zhou's voice on the other end of the phone sounded lazy, "I'm in my old den."

"Which nest?" The cunning rabbit is still in the three caves, let alone a private house with two faces.

"Big nest."

Hearing what he said, Shang Xuechen understood that Brother Zhou had three nests in total, one in the east of the city and one in the south of the city, both of which were commercial houses bought with money earned over the years, and the big nest was in a village in the city. It was left after Brother Zhou's parents passed away.After hanging up the phone, with a wave of his hand, the sharp-eyed taxi driver who was looking for a job on the road immediately turned around.

Shang Xuechen sat in the car with the cake in one hand and the computer in the other, agreed on the address, put down his things, and then remembered that he had promised to return Yuan Li'an's student ID card, and began to dig his pocket up and down again. The driver couldn't see Go down, and kindly remind him, "Young man, you need to get treatment for skin diseases. You are scratching everywhere, and you are dropping skin flakes on my seat."

He was just about to explain that he was healthy and free of disease, when he looked down and saw that the neckline of his loose T-shirt was almost down to his chest, with a few small red marks on his chest faintly showing, he quickly pulled his neckline up The neck looked like a chaste girl, and she had to explain perfunctorily, "Master, I don't have a skin disease, I was bitten by a mosquito while sleeping shirtless."

The master didn't answer him. After all, the master felt that although he was old, he was not stupid. He couldn't tell if he was bitten by a mosquito?The master is not stupid, but he just doesn't know the tricks that young people like to play now.Shang Xuechen sat quietly at the back, only feeling uncomfortable in his chest, whether it was the redness and swelling on the epidermal tissue on the skin, or the embarrassment of the beating heart under the skin, he felt embarrassed.The human body's self-abuse system starts to activate. When you feel embarrassed, the brain is always afraid that you are not enough, and releases more unspeakable pictures, which doubles your embarrassment and makes you restless.

Shang Xuechen clutched his left chest, reviewing the fragrant dream again, why did I rub and pinch myself when I fell asleep?I kept denying myself in my heart, and then wavering, is this really a dream?Or do you want it to be more than just a dream?

Heart fluttering non-stop, the driver master did not give him time to discover himself in his own car, and urged him to pay the money and get off the car.Shang Xuechen blushed and took out the change, and before getting out of the car, he had to say something more, "I am not a skin disease." The driver master raised his eyebrows and looked at him with an expression of disbelief on his face. Chen felt that he was stupid enough to argue with a stranger about this, so he had no choice but to get out of the car honestly with his things.

After getting out of the car, I walked around the narrow streets and alleys to find Brother Zhou's old lair, and without knocking on the door, I found the key in the big potted iron tree at the door, and opened it with the key. lock, entered the main room and saw Brother Zhou lying on the sofa.

Shang Xuechen hung the cake he was carrying on the tip of Brother Zhou's nose, "Here, cake."

Brother Zhou raised his hand to take it, and put the cake on his chest. He was still lying down and didn’t intend to get up, “I haven’t seen you bring something to see me once in 800 years. The laptop in here looks quite expensive.”

"If you want to be beautiful, you can do it. This computer is not mine." Shang Xuechen threw the laptop on Brother Zhou's stomach, and Brother Zhou jumped up from the sofa. Fortunately, he protected the cake. He ignored Brother Zhou. Cursing and swearing, she folded her arms and looked around the room, "Where's Xiao Yuan? Tell Xiao Yuan to come out and eat cake together."

"I just finished a big job two days ago, and a sum of money came into my account. I want to rest for two days, and Xiao Yuan is still a student, so I have to let him go to class for two days, otherwise I won't be able to graduate in the future. "

Hearing what Brother Zhou said, Shang Xuechen remembered meeting Yuan Li'an at the hotel before, "How long has your work been over?"

"It's been three days since the end." Brother Zhou had already opened the cake box, dug a piece of cake with his fingers and put it in his mouth, "Oh, the taste of this cake is unusual, Shang, it's stylish Hey, the cakes are all in high-end stores buy here."

Shang Xuechen heard his sly words and raised his foot to kick his calf, "It's not that you like cheesecake. What kind of job did you take before?"

Brother Zhou rubbed his calf with one hand, and continued digging on the cake with the other, "Do you understand the principle of confidentiality?"

"Then don't eat the cake I bought." As he said that, he was about to take away the cake in front of him.

Brother Zhou had quick eyes and quick hands, and took away the cake first, "There are two underground families robbing the casino, my family collected the money to let the wind go, and the other collected the money to touch the thread."

"If these two families sit down and talk peacefully, they will probably take you out to have bloodletting to respect Guan Gong."

Hearing what he said, Brother Zhou was not worried at all, "I can't talk about it. How many times can we sit down and talk about things on the road calmly, and those who make an appointment to sit down for dinner know that it is a Hongmen banquet, and the knives, sticks and pistols are kept away The buttocks are on the back of the waist."

Shang Xuechen sat down next to Brother Zhou, who squinted at him, "Come on, why are you here? It's impossible to really buy a cake and come over for a tea party."

"Brother Zhou is quick-sighted, and I can't even flatter you." Shang Xuechen pretended to be false, turned on his laptop with a slippery hand, and showed him the video of the parking lot, "Brother Zhou, the deck car Can you help me find it?"

Brother Zhou didn't even say any polite words, but just shook his head, "I can't find it, there are several places where the car leaves, why don't you ask each place with the license plate? It's easy for him to change the license plate halfway, You can't find any more."

He saw that Shang Xuechen seemed to be wilting after hearing his words, he finished eating the cake in his mouth with a smile, and tapped the computer screen, "I can't find the car, I can help you see the driver, you have done this before One line, recognize the face, go find it yourself." After speaking, he got up holding the laptop, walked to the darkroom behind the main room, turned on the computer in the darkroom, and transferred the video file to his computer.

Shang Xuechen narrowed his eyes, leaned down/closed to the side, "What are you doing?"

"This is a similar recognition program that I imitated the background algorithm of the electronic police camera." Brother Zhou's computer program framed the face in the driving position of the black nanny car in the video, and Shang Xuechen leaned over to see, "You It's too vague."

"Wait, I'll adjust the pixel value." After working for a long time, I could barely see a blurred face. Brother Zhou felt like he was exaggerating, "The hotel camera is not very good."

Shang Xuechen got up and patted Brother Zhou on the shoulder, "Okay, Brother Zhou, that's it." After speaking, he turned and left the room with his laptop.

Brother Zhou turned off the computer and got up, "Don't eat all the cake for me!!!"

When he came out, he saw that Shang Xuechen on the sofa hadn't touched his cake, so he sat down and continued to eat in peace.Shang Xuechen looked at him with his computer in his arms, and punched him with his elbow, "Don't eat up all of it, call Xiao Yuan to come over and eat together." He kept urging him to call Xiao Yuan to come and eat cake.

Brother Zhou was so annoyed by him that he took out his mobile phone and called Yuan Li'an.Shang Xuechen sat in the corner of the sofa with his computer in his arms and had no interest in the cake at all. He didn't laugh at Brother Zhou for exaggerating the cowhide because he saw that the fuzzy face was Yao Caier's black-clothed assistant that day. That person should belong to Xu Xueshi.

Yao Caier was taken away by Xu Xueshi's people that day, and he and Ji Shuping were also followed when they arrived at the parking lot.Shang Xuechen felt that Xu Xueshi's commotion was too loud.

His thoughts were disturbed by Brother Zhou, who held his mobile phone and said to him, "No one answered Xiao Yuan's call."