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Chapter 4: Parasol(1/2)

‘Heaven and Earth’ is not open during the day. A circle of colorful spotlights on the dance floor on the first floor was lit. Several scattered glass plank roads were set up in the dance floor. The glass plank road was filled with young and beautiful women. They were rehearsing the dance to perform at night in high heels. A passage stretched out between the dance floor on the first floor and the booth on the second floor. DJ with white hair stood in the passage to play music for them.

A man wearing a holiday-style shirt walked past the stage. A woman on the stage saw him and hurriedly shouted to him: "Mr. Pan, Mr. Pan!"

Pan Shaojie heard the woman's voice and walked towards her. The glass plank road was very high. The woman had to kneel down and bend her waist down, almost lying on the ground to put herself in a lower position than Pan Shaojie. She was very beautiful, and her face was covered with thick powder, which could also show her beautiful bones, but compared to the 17 or 18-year-old girl, she was older. Her eyes that were no longer shimmering when she smiled, and the fine lines squeezed out of the corners of her eyes made her beautiful face look vicissitudes and hollow. This was not the vicissitudes and hollowness brought to her by aging, but the destination she could not break free from in the wind and dust.

The woman smiled and said, "Mr. Pan, you promise me what I begged you two days ago."

When she was not working, she was wearing a very ordinary dress, a white T-shirt and a pair of jean shorts. The small round neck of the T-shirt fell down as she crawled down her waist, and a silver chain fell out of her neck and shook gently under the light. Pan Shaojie stretched out his index finger with his left hand and pressed her short-sleeved collar down, revealing a thumb-sized butterfly tattooed on her left breast and her pink bra. He reached in and stroked the butterfly's wings and picked up the corner of his lips, "Minmin, do you know that I'm most annoying to others to borrow money from me. What's the difference between borrowing money and fraud? I'm so nice to you, do you want to lie to me?"

Cai Minmin Feifan didn't hide, but even stepped forward and smiled and said, "Mr. Pan, why did I lie to you? I know you are kind to me. I will pay you back immediately after I get my salary in two days."

Pan Shaojie: "I have read your salary slip. You have taken leave every day in the past two months and have not even completed the basic task. What are you going to pay me back?"

Cai Minmin twisted her shoulder and acted coquettishly: "Mr. Pan, please help me, I know you are the best."

Pan Shaojie held the glass plank road with his hand and put it in her ear: "It's okay to ask me to lend you money, provided that you promise me something."

Cai Minmin: "What's the matter?"

Pan Shaojie: "Bring your little sister here and have a drink with me."

Cai Minmin's face froze and she forced a smile: "What are you talking about? You know the best of my family. I only have one brother who is waiting to die and wait for me to pay his gambling debts every day. How can I have a sister?"

Pan Shaojie suddenly hugged her neck and pulled her down, and Cai Minmin was almost pulled down by her. Pan Shaojie said: "Last week, I saw you shopping with a little girl in a green skirt. She called you sister and you bought her milk tea. Why didn't you admit it, but also lied to me?"

Cai Minmin's neck was clamped into the bend of an elbow, as if it was wrapped in a rope, making her breathing difficult, but she still smiled: "That's the little girl from my neighbor's house, not my sister."

Pan Shaojie: "She looks very similar to you. OK, that's all I said, you should think about it yourself."

He let go of Cai Minmin and strode towards a black sofa beside the dance floor. On the sofa was a man in a suit. Seeing that he was coming, the man stood up with a smile. Pan Shaojie opened his arms and walked towards him, enthusiastically giving him a hug, "Mr. Shao! Guest, Guest."

Shao Yang smiled and said, "You are welcome to be polite, Mr. Pan."

Pan Shaojie: "Sit and sit."

The two sat down and Pan Shaojie asked, "Mr. Shao, has the things I asked you to do, have you done?"

Shao Yang said: "I have contacted three shareholders, and only independent investors named Liu are interested in selling land."

Pan Shaojie raised his hand, the waiter standing beside poured two glasses of wine, he picked up a glass and took a sip, "Liu Song? He only has two percent of his shares, it's a useless person."

Shao Yang: "So I still recommend fighting for Liao Yuntao. If you and his shares are combined, you can sign a land sale agreement with our company."

Pan Shaojie turned his head slightly, glanced at Cai Minmin, who was dancing on the stage, and said, "I am trying to figure out a way, but I don't know if it can be done. Before I get rid of Liao Yuntao, I have to trouble Mr. Shao to help me mobilize other shareholders." He suddenly pressed Shao Yang's back of his hand and looked cunning, "Remember, don't expose me. If our old man knows that I want to sell the Sanding Building, then our business will not be completed."

Shao Yang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Pan. The land in Sanding Building is in the old city. It has been depressed for many years. Our company does have plans to buy the land and redevelop it. I went to contact other shareholders and I was calling our company's name."

Pan Shaojie smiled and said, "I am really the elite introduced to me by my brother. I am doing everything in everything. Where are my brothers?"

Shao Yang: "You are talking about Mr. Zhou? He just heard that you bought a new painting and went to see the painting."

Pan Shaojie: "I'll call him back and let's have two drinks together."

The newly bought oil painting was hung on the whiteboard wall on the east side of the dance floor. The oil painting was very large, with a height of nearly two meters wide. There were more than a dozen foreign naked women, with different postures and plump figures.

A man and a woman stood there, all of whom looked up at the naked woman on the painting. The woman shook her head and sighed: "I really can't understand. Who painted this painting? What do you want to express?"

The man looked focused, and there was no intimacy in his quiet eyes. The woman who was not dressed in the wall seemed to turn into flowers in his eyes, without the man's gaze on the woman's body, only the appreciation of art.

The man said: "The name of this painting is 'Fairy', and the author is William Adolph Bouguere, a 19th-century French academic painter. The original work is currently collected in the Stockton Hackin Museum. The painting we see should be a high-quality copy of a German. As for what this painting wants to express-" he curled his lips and smiled faintly, "Maybe it just 'beauty'."

"Zhou Song!" Pan Shaojie walked over and hugged his shoulder, "Who is hiding here to catch me? Or is it a woman peeking at her bare butt?"

Zhou Song pushed his arm away and said, "You are so vulgar, you are so fond of angels, but you can only see your buttocks." He stretched out his hand to the woman who had just watched the painting with him and smiled, "Hello, I haven't had time to introduce myself yet, my name is Zhou Song."

The woman held his hand and was flattered: "Hello, hello, my name is Li Ran, and I am Mr. Pan's secretary. I'm very happy to know you."

Li Ran, like Pan Shaojie's previous secretary, is also a beauty. The difference is that she is not dressed in a charming way, and the white silk shirt and beige high-waisted pants make her fresh and capable. She reported to Pan Shaojie and left after she left. Before leaving, she glanced at Zhou Song. Pan Shaojie looked at her tingting and gloomy back and said, "Do you know why I hired her?"

Shao Yang, who was sitting on the sofa not far away, waved to this side. Zhou Song raised his hand to respond, and took a step and walked towards him slowly, "I don't want to know at all."

His voice was soft, but his tone was cold, as if he was unattainable and floating in the sky. Every word he said seemed reluctant to be.

Pan Shaojie said: "Because she is so fucking beautiful."

Zhou Song: "This is your ancestral recruitment condition, it is no longer new."

Pan Shaojie: "She is not only beautiful, but she is also aloof. Every time I hinted to her, she was indifferent. She hasn't looked at me in the face until now. But she was just glaring at you!"

Zhou Song: "This is normal. I have never looked at you directly. You have a special talent. You can make everyone's eyes go around you like crossing obstacles."

Pan Shaojie gritted his teeth and smiled, "Fuck! You don't have any dirty words when you scold me!"

Zhou Song frowned: "The concentration of your swear mouth is too high. Friendly reminds you that your mouth is for eating, not for spraying dirty things."

Pan Shaojie laughed rather than annoyed. He scolded him so hard that his whole body was relaxed. He smiled and said, "Okay! This sentence is good, I want to use it on others."

The two sat down next to Shao Yang, Zhou Song and they were sitting near the aisle. Pan Shaojie and Shao Yang talked about selling land again, and Zhou Song looked at the phone quietly. Pan Shaojie hit his leg with his knee, "My brother, you said a few words. I set up this bureau mainly to thank you."

Zhou Song raised his legs, crossed his legs gracefully, staring at the phone without moving them away: "Shao Yang is my old classmate. Of course, I will introduce it to you because I believe in his ability. If you sell land, he buys land. The business belongs to you. What does it have to do with me? You don't need to thank me. If you really want to thank me, I don't bother me with this little bit of trouble."

His cell phone rang, he answered the phone and put it in his ear, and laughed before he could say something: "You are here? OK, I'll ask someone to pick you up."

Pan Shaojie: "You called someone? Which beautiful sister is it? Have I seen it?"

Zhou Song said: "A very beautiful sister, right at the door, you go and pick someone up."

The nightclub is closed during the day and the door is closed. Unless someone leads it, you can't get in. Pan Shaojie thought a beautiful woman had come, but he didn't expect to bring back a man. He and Han Feilu came back one after another, sat next to Zhou Song and said, "You fooled me again, sooner or later, I will be fooled by you one day."

Han Feilu looked at the three men sitting on the sofa. For some reason, she recognized at first glance that the man who was talking to him just now had a man with medium-length curly hair sitting on the edge. He looked at Zhou Song and asked, "Is it you?"

Zhou Song nodded and smiled: "It's me." He glanced at Pan Shaojie, and the intention of clearing the scene was obvious.

Pan Shaojie was very eyebrowed. He waved to Shao Yang and the two left. Pan Shaojie walked away a few steps and deliberately smiled and shouted: "Young Master Zhou is fishing for Kaizi!"

Zhou Song pointed to the seat beside him and said, "Please sit down."

Han Feilu sat down and was more than a meter away from him. He looked at Zhou Song and was surprised that he would meet such a handsome and elegant man during this trip. "Let's say a long story short, do you know why I came to you."

Zhou Song took out the cigarette case and lighter from his pants pocket, slowly pulled out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth, fired, lowered his head to reach the cluster of flames, and the long hair accumulated to the neck fell forward, covering his face. He tied his hair behind his ears, and the flame flashed in his eyes for a moment, and then quickly went out. He lit the cigarette and looked up at Han Feilu. There seemed to be two golden light patterns in his black pupils, making his peach blossom eyes even more wavy and rippled.

Zhou Song: "For Jin Tao? Or Yu Jiao? Or Qiao Yu and Hong Yibai?"

Han Feilu: "From you, who are you?"

Zhou Song: "My surname is Zhou."

Han Feilu: "Mr. Zhou, why do you know that Jin Tao kidnapped Yu Jiao?"

Zhou Song: "I saw it."

Han Feilu: "See?"

Zhou Song handed him the cigarette box and asked with a smile: "Do you want it?" Seeing Han Feilu waved his hand, he put the cigarette box down again and continued, "About a week ago, I saw Yu Jiao in a cafe. She was sitting there alone, probably waiting for someone. Soon, I saw Jin Tao coming in, and they had an appointment." At this point, he suddenly stopped, and wanted to speak but stopped.

Han Feilu stared at his face: "Switch on."

Zhou Song: "Then Yu Jiao got on the white Toyota with license plate number 67x2 and left with Jin Tao."

Han Feilu: "You have concealed part of it, I can see it."

Zhou Song: "That part doesn't matter."

Han Feilu: "So you are sure that Jin Tao kidnapped Yu Jiao?"

Zhou Song: "I just doubt it, now it seems that I doubt it is right."

Han Feilu: "What's going on with Qiao Yu and Hong Yibai?"

Zhou Song asked back: "How much time does your police have?"

Han Feilu looked at her watch: "It's two o'clock now, and the kidnappers asked Yu Jiao's husband to take a blue diamond to Sanding Building to redeem people at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. We have less than 20 hours to rescue Yu Jiao."

Zhou Song suddenly smiled, and Han Feilu was uncomfortable with him: "Why are you laughing at?"

Zhou Song said: "Sorry, I just think you are looking for the wrong focus."

Han Feilu: "Is it not the point of rescuing the hostages?"

Zhou Song: "Of course it's the point, but it's limited to general kidnapping cases. Don't you think Yu Jiao's case is weird?"

From the time of the Yu Jiao case to the present, Han Feilu certainly felt many strange things. Unexpectedly, the man who pointed out this secret in front of him was the man he had met for the first time. Han Feilu was suddenly very interested in listening to him continue saying: "What's weird?"

Zhou Song's eyebrows slightly slung: "Are you testing me?"

Han Feilu smiled and said, "It's about asking for advice."

Zhou Song: "Okay, let's believe you."

Han Feilu: "You haven't said anything weird yet."

Zhou Song thought for a while and said, "On April 3, 11-year-old Qiao Yu drowned in Shuanglongqiao Park. A month later, 10-year-old Hong Yibai disappeared in Shuanglongqiao Park. Isn't it strange? Hong Yibai disappeared for only three days, and Yu Jiao was kidnapped. Isn't it strange that the person who kidnapped her still had an old lover who had never fallen in love with her? "

Han Feilu: "How do you know that Yu Jiao and Jin Tao are still in love?"

Zhou Song: "I said it, I saw it."

Han Feilu nodded without comment: "So do you think these three seemingly unrelated cases are actually related? Or even a serial case?"

Zhou Song did not answer and asked another new question: "Why did Hong Yibai go to Shuanglong Bridge by himself?"

Han Feilu said: "Shuanglongqiao Park is a water diversion dam, where artificial waterfalls are also the source of the city's moat. In summer, many citizens will go there to escape the summer heat. Yu Jiao took Hong Yibai many times. Three days ago, Hong Yibai lied that he went to his classmates' homework, deceived Yu Jiao and the driver, and went to Shuanglongqiao privately."

Zhou Song: "The question is, why did Hong Yibai go to Shuanglong Bridge without telling it?"
To be continued...
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