KEIGHTY: Another extra chapter upon Beverly‘s request! We reached another ko-fi goal! Yey! 🎉
Qiao Mudong was in a meeting at this time. It was Lingyun’s monthly meeting. The senior management was required to attend, and each department summarized the work of the month. It was not an important meeting, but because of Ling Qiang’s attendance, the atmosphere was a bit serious.
Ling Qiang has always been strict about details. During the meeting, you can speak loudly if you have any questions, but you are not allowed to talk while someone else is talking. You can answer the phone if you have one, but the phone must only be on vibrate. You must consciously go out to the conference room to answer the call, and you cannot interrupt others.
Qiao Mudong came in a hurry and left his cell phone in the office without even taking it with him. At this time, he was listening absentmindedly and staring at the pen on the table.
Ling Qiang noticed that Qiao Mudong was distracted. He was feeling a little helpless. He couldn’t really say that Qiao Mudong knew nothing about Lingyun’s business, but at least seven out of the ten were foreign to him. He wanted to let Qiao Mudong go to school for a few years to learn, but Qiao Mudong bluntly said that he was almost thirty years old, so his control would surely loosen up, circling aimlessly along the way. He would just dawdle in school and couldn’t learn anything at all. So this has become Ling Qiang’s biggest contradiction now.
He really wants to hand over Lingyun to Qiao Mudong, but he is afraid that he is seeking his own death. If he gives up on Qiao Mudong, he will only have one daughter left—Ling Zhilu, who only knows how to buy clothes and jewelry. Giving Lingyun to her is equivalent to giving it to Fu Chenshan. When he gets old, Lingyun will no longer have the surname Ling.
Huang Haisheng walked to the door of the conference room and looked inside. He hesitated for a while in his office before he finally decided to convey He Yu’s words to Qiao Mudong. After all, the chance of making Qiao Mudong unhappy and firing him was much greater than the chance of offending Ling Qiang.
He knew Ling Qiang’s habit, so he didn’t knock on the door. He pushed the door open as quietly as possible, walked quietly behind Qiao Mudong, and whispered in his ear, “Mr. He Yu said he wanted to see you for something. He is waiting in the lobby right now.”
Qiao Mudong suddenly turned his head to look at him.
Huang Haisheng nodded.
Qiao Mudong stood up and waved his head to motion for Huang Haisheng to follow him outside. When the two came to the corridor, Qiao Mudong asked, “What did he say?”
Huang Haisheng said, “He just asked you for help, but he didn’t say anything specific.”
“Looking for my help?” Qiao Mudong muttered thoughtfully, then smiled. “I’ll go down now.”
“Huh? Mr. Qiao!” Huang Haisheng didn’t even have enough time to stop him as Qiao Mudong ran towards the elevator.
The waiting process always seemed extremely long. He Yu looked up in the direction of the elevator from time to time while also picking up his mobile phone to look at it. Suddenly, a “ding” sounded from the elevator. The elevator door opened as Qiao Mudong walked out of it.
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He Yu stood up from the sofa and watched Qiao Mudong walk up to him. Qiao Mudong stopped and asked, “What’s the matter?”
He Yu inquired, “Are you free now?”
Qiao Mudong showed a little bit of impatience. “If you have anything to say, just tell me.”
He Yu sighed quietly and then said, “Something happened to my friend, Li Tang, the boss of Shiyouwei. I don’t know if he offended someone. When I came here early this morning, I saw that the restaurant was smashed and there were many people. I don’t know where he went; it seemed like he was taken away.”
“Li Tang?” Qiao Mudong’s voice rose slightly, as if he was a little confused.
He Yu suddenly remembered that Li Tang once said that he had heard Qiao Mudong’s name. Maybe Qiao Mudong also knew Li Tang? Then he kept up his efforts and said to Qiao Mudong, “Uncle Fang introduced me to work at Brother Li’s place. Fang Wentai, do you remember him?”
Qiao Mudong frowned and tried his best to think, “Fang Wentai knows this person? Is it that Li Tang?”
“Which Li Tang?” He Yu asked quickly. He felt that he might have found the right person.
“Wait a minute.” Qiao Mudong began to fumble for his cell phone. After rummaging through his pockets, he remembered that he had forgotten his cell phone. He couldn’t help but curse: “Fuck!”
He Yu took out his cell phone and gave it to him. “You can use mine.”
“Go away.” Qiao Mudong waved him away impatiently. “You don’t have the number anyway. Shit!”
He Yu was able to endure Qiao Mudong’s irritability and could only curse him secretly.
Qiao Mudong walked to the front desk and asked the receptionist to dial Huang Haisheng’s number for him. After the call was connected, Qiao Mudong directly said: “Take my mobile phone, wallet, and car keys. Wait for me at the parking lot.”
Huang Haisheng said hurriedly, “Mr. Ling is looking for you, you—”
Qiao Mudong hung up the phone without waiting for him to finish. He then turned around and pulled He Yu’s arm, heading towards the elevator.
The two of them went to the underground parking lot faster than Huang Haisheng. They waited next to Qiao Mudong’s car for two minutes before they saw Huang Haisheng running over to them while breathing heavily.
He handed over what Qiao Mudong ordered, controlled his breathing with both hands for a while, and said, “Mr. Ling asked you to come to his office before noon.”
Qiao Mudong had already opened the door and gotten into the car. Pressing down the car window, he shouted to He Yu, “Get in the car!”
He Yu then had no choice but to open the passenger door and get in.
Qiao Mudong finally took the time to say to Huang Haisheng, “Tell him I’m not free, and we’ll talk tomorrow.”
Huang Haisheng said in embarrassment, “How can this be done? Mr. Qiao…”
Qiao Mudong had already started the car. He honked the horn to signal Huang Haisheng to get out of the way.
Huang Haisheng looked helpless as he moved to make way for Qiao Mudong. Seeing that Qiao Mudong’s car was already moving, he couldn’t help but persuade him once again: “Mr. Qiao, you’d better come back early to see Mr. Ling.”
Qiao Mudong glanced at him and replied, “I understand.”
Then the car left the parking space. He suddenly accelerated and drove towards the exit.
He Yu sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt silently.
Qiao Mudong was holding the steering wheel with one hand and making a call on his mobile phone with the other. He Yu didn’t know who he was calling, but he only heard him mention the words “Li Tang”, “Hong Xiangfeng”, “Hong Minhang”, “jiri“…
When Qiao Mudong hung up the phone, He Yu asked uneasily, “Did Brother Li cause trouble?”
Qiao Mudong snorted coldly. “Li Tang is a big trouble! Is Fang Wentai determined to punish you?”
He Yu looked a little shameful and said, “Uncle Fang definitely didn’t mean this.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Mudong’s phone rang again. He took the call, listened for a moment, and said, “Xiangzhu Street, right? I know.” Then he hung up the phone and opened his phone contact book to search.
He Yu suddenly pressed his hand and reminded him, “There are police officers ahead.”
Three or four hundred meters away is the intersection, with a policeman standing straight in the middle.
Qiao Mudong threw the phone to He Yu. “Please help me find a phone number named Hong Minhang.”
He Yu picked up Qiao Mudong’s cell phone, scrolled down the phone’s contact notebook, and quickly found the number Qiao Mudong wanted. The car was right at the entrance, and Qiao Mudong said, “Please dial it for me.”
He Yu dialed the phone and heard two beeps. The call was answered. It was a man’s voice laced with a friendly smile, saying, “Master Qiao is looking for me? Really? This is rare!”
He Yu handed the phone to Qiao Mudong. Qiao Mudong took it, pressed the speakerphone, and held it in his hand, saying, “Hong Xiaomao, long time no see. How are you doing lately?”
He Yu heard a hearty laugh from the other end of the phone: “Very good, how are you? I heard that you broke someone’s leg and locked him up. How did you come out so quickly? Getting connections, ah? Is there someone out there willing to bend the law to help you?”
Qiao Mudong sneered, “Stop talking such nonsense to me.”
There was still a smile in Hong Minhang’s tone. “You asked me first how I was doing; why don’t I chat with you a few more words? If you have such a bad temper, then just tell me what’s wrong…”
Qiao Mudong said, “You have people to come and take away Li Tang, yes?”
Hong Minhang was silent for a moment. “I don’t remember that you and Li Tang were having sex?”
Qiao Mudong glanced at He Yu and said, “My friend asked me to help him ask.”
Hong Minhang said, “I didn’t ask anyone to trouble Li Tang. It was probably the people below who did it behind my back. Since you are so capable, you must know more than me.”
Qiao Mudong said, “Some people said they saw him being taken to Xiangzhu Street. I will go there now.”
“Xiangzhu Street?” Hong Minhang said, “Okay, you go there and wait for me. I’ll come sooner.”
When Hong Minhang hung up the phone, He Yu seemed to hear a very soft sigh. He didn’t know if he had heard it wrong.
After the call ended, Qiao Mudong put the phone back in his pocket. He Yu asked, “Where is Xiangzhu Street?”
Qiao Mudong said, “In the north of the city, over there at the old electrical machine factory.”
There used to be a large-scale electrical machinery factory in the northern suburbs of Chongfeng City. The state-owned factory closed down in the early 1990s. At that time, many employees were forced to lay off and lose their jobs, probably those of He Yu’s mother’s generation. Most of today’s young people don’t mention the motor factory anymore, and they often talk about it with the elderly in Chongfeng City.
He Yu was a little curious and asked, “Are you familiar with that area?”
Qiao Mudong said while turning the steering wheel, “I grew up near there.”
The north of the city has always been the worst place in Chongfeng City. There are train stations and large passenger stations there, and the flow of people is very dense. In addition, after the closure of the electric motor factory, the newly built auto parts city and small commodity market were also located in that area, resulting in a complex population structure and an extremely high incidence of criminal cases.
Naturally, members of the Ling family should not have grown up in that area in the north of the city, but as the illegitimate son of the Ling family, Qiao Mudong, it was entirely possible. Speaking of which, until now, He Yu didn’t know what kind of person Qiao Mudong’s mother was. To be Ling Qiang’s lover, she must be a very beautiful and outstanding woman.
But He Yu didn’t ask. The relationship between him and Qiao Mudong was simple and clear, and he didn’t want to know too much. Once people get to know each other too deeply, their relationship will easily deteriorate.
Thanks for the chapter!! <33
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Will your relationship deteriorate, or will it grow stronger xiao yu?