Chapter 40 Can You Smile?

On the way back, Tang Shuo looked at Xiao Ran, who seemed to be hesitant to speak, and said with a smile, "Just ask whatever you want to ask."

Xiao Ran could no longer hold back his questions and immediately asked, "How do you know how to play the guqin?"

In her impression, people who learn classical musical instruments are already very rare, and the guqin is an obscure instrument, which makes it even rarer.

Moreover, Tang Shuo's guqin playing was surprisingly good, and even Wu Le, who was knowledgeable in their field, praised him highly.

Judging from Wu Le's expression, it seems that he is planning to recruit Tang Shuo into his band.

What else can't this guy do?

"I learned it for a while when I was a child, but I haven't touched it for many years." Tang Shuo replied.

Xiao Ran knew that Tang Shuo had been an orphan since childhood, so he gossiped, "Who did you learn this from?"

"A weird guy." Tang Shuo said, "Even if I told you, you wouldn't recognize him."

"Forget it if you don't want to talk about it." Xiao Ran curled his lips and suddenly said, "I'm going to have a concert next month. You can be my guest then."

"Guest?" Tang Shuo frowned and declined, "I'm too tired. I won't go."

There was nothing wrong with asking him to play the piano, but he knew that Xiao Ran's concert was a nationwide tour, and he would be exhausted from running from city to city!

As if he could see what Tang Shuo was thinking, Xiao Ran smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you run away with me. You just need to help me at my last concert at the Yanjing Workers' Stadium."

"That's okay." Tang Shuo replied.

When he got home, Tang Shuo went into the room with a stack of documents he had brought back from Jiang's house during the day.

Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

These people can be said to be enemies of the Jiang family. The more you know about the enemy, the greater your chances of winning in future encounters.

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Abandoned factory in Yanjiao.

A man in black tights pushed open the wooden door and walked into the only lighted warehouse in the factory.

If Tang Shuo was present, he would definitely be able to recognize this man as the murderer who fired the gun during the day.

The warehouse was dimly lit and filled with smoke. Several men were shouting and yelling around a table. In addition to playing cards and some cash, there was also a set of ice skates specially used for taking drugs on the table.

Seeing the man in black come in, a man in his thirties who was playing cards turned around and said, "Old Four, why are you going backwards? The boss asked me to bring someone back twice, and it hasn't happened yet."

A man with a scar on his face laughed and sarcastically said, "If it doesn't work, change someone soon."

The fourth man in black had a sullen expression on his face. He walked to a worn-out sofa in the corner of the warehouse and sat down, saying, "This kid is evil. Even Zhang Dong got into trouble today."

"I've always said dwarfs are unreliable." The thirty-something man who spoke first laughed and said, "How about I take someone else to do this? Although I haven't done this kind of thing in years since the boss retired, I still have the foundation. Shouldn't this be a piece of cake?"

"He's just a veteran." The scarred man said, "I see you've been focusing all your energy on women these past two years."

"Give me another chance." The fourth brother said to the only middle-aged man in the warehouse, "This guy has some tricks up his sleeve and is quite skilled. The boss ordered that we can't kill him, so we need to make some plans."

"The boss's time limit is limited." The middle-aged man threw down his cards and said, "I'll give you one more chance. If you can't succeed, let Ulan Baji take the others."

"Is that Inner Mongolian guy any good? He only knows how to kill and set fires, but kidnapping is a technical job." said a man in his thirties.

The scarred man suddenly turned his head in confusion and said to the middle-aged man beside him, "Brother, didn't you say that Master Ba had retired from the underworld so many years ago? Why did he suddenly want us to do this again?"

"You don't need to know the details." The middle-aged man said, "Anyway, Master Ba started looking for this person many years ago."

"oh."

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Apart from looking at the information he got from the Jiang family, Tang Shuo spent the rest of his time at home bickering with Xiao Ran.

At first, he only had a vague definition of the five major families in Yanjing and the four major families in Suzhou and Hangzhou, but after reading the information, he found that the size of the other party was completely beyond his previous imagination.

Take the Chiang family for example.

The Jiang family is centered around import and export trade, with operations spanning dozens of sectors. Its total assets are conservatively estimated at around 500 billion yuan, and its book cash flow has reached an astonishing 300 billion yuan.

Most people would only have one reaction when seeing this data... The Forbes rankings are complete bullshit.

It is worth mentioning that since the day he was attacked by the dwarf man, Tang Shuo has received a strange text message every day.

The content of the text message was always the same, just four words without punctuation: 'You're dead'.

In the first two days, Tang Shuo would reply to a text message and curse the other party, but now he has become indifferent to it.

I thought the other party would give up, but I didn't expect that after nearly ten days, the other party still sent me a message every day without fail, but the time was a little uncertain.

There is no problem of mis-sending the message. Although Tang Shuo can vaguely guess who the other party is, he cannot break this layer of window paper, otherwise it will cause endless trouble.

In the morning, Xiao Ran had to go out of town to rehearse for a concert. Tang Shuo sent him to the airport and was about to go home when the phone suddenly rang.

Tang Shuo just answered the phone.

Jiang Tiantong's voice, always calm and composed, came over. "Do you have time?"

"Yes." Tang Shuo replied, "What's the matter?"

"How many people did you find out about the people you asked me to check?" Jiang Tiantong said, "Come and take a look."

Then Jiang Tiantong hung up the phone.

Tang Shuo held the phone in his hand, feeling like crying but unable to cry. No one told him where it was, so where should he go to look?

Just as he was about to call back, an address message came.

Tang Shuo shook his head and smiled, completely helpless about Jiang Tiantong's thriftiness with words, and then drove to the address in the message.

Arriving downstairs of the Nanhong International Trade Group as indicated by Jiang Tiantong's information, Tang Shuo looked at the elite white-collar workers in suits and ties around him, then glanced at his own short-sleeved shirt and shorts. In the end, he gave up the idea of rushing in directly and called Jiang Tiantong.

"I'm here." Tang Shuo said.

"I'll ask someone to pick you up." Jiang Tiantong replied and hung up the phone.

Soon, Jia Ting, wearing black clothes, black glasses and black stockings, appeared in the hall.

After Tang Shuo got out of the car and walked in, Jia Ting didn't exchange pleasantries with him and directly said, "Follow me."

Tang Shuo could only follow the other person and walk towards the elevator.

Anyone who saw Tang Shuo would stop and talk, whispering to each other.

Tang Shuo had anticipated that his outfit might attract attention, but he didn't expect it to cause such a big stir.

What he didn't know was that the reason why it caused such a big shock was mainly because of Jia Ting who was in front of him.

Everyone was wondering who could have gotten the president's secretary to personally greet them at the door.

Taking the company's special elevator upstairs, Jia Ting brought Tang Shuo to the door of an office, knocked on the door and pushed it open.

"Miss, Tang Shuo has brought it."

Jiang Tiantong, who was sitting in the large boss chair, nodded and said, "Let him in."

Jia Ting turned sideways and nodded to Tang Shuo. Then, Tang Shuo walked into Jiang Tiantong's office.

The spacious office is not luxurious at all, but gives people a simple and elegant feeling.

There are only a few simple documents on the solid wood desk, and two pots of lush green ivy are placed in front of the floor-to-ceiling window next to it, which makes people feel very comfortable.

Unlike some entrepreneurs who would like to decorate the floor with gold edges just to look good.

Tang Shuo sat down across from Jiang Tiantong without any hesitation and asked, "Where are the information on these people?"

Finding his senior sister was Tang Shuo's most urgent matter at the moment, but even he knew very limited information about her, so he hadn't taken any action during this period.

Fortunately, it was Fang Shirou, a relatively uncommon name. If it was a more popular name, it would be no different from looking for her directly on the street.

Jiang Tiantong pushed the information on the table over and said, "So far, I've only found five women named Fang Shirou who meet your requirements, two of whom are in Yanjing."

Tang Shuo immediately took the information and started looking through it. When Jia Ting brought the tea, Tang Shuo had just read through the information of the five people.

The information of the five people was very detailed. Four of them were eliminated by Tang Shuo based on their appearance, and the last one was also a documented native of Yanjing.

"No." Tang Shuo shook his head regretfully.

"Maybe she changed her name?" Jiang Tiantong guessed.

"It's possible, but I can't think of what name she would change to."

Tang Shuo glanced at the tea in front of him, smiled at Jia Ting and said, "I don't like tea. Can you pour me a glass of water?"

Jia Ting glanced at Jiang Tiantong and saw Jiang Tiantong nodded, so she picked up the tea in front of Tang Shuo and replaced it with water.

When she was at the Jiang family, she poured water for Tang Shuo and knew that this guy had no likes or dislikes at all. He was just joking with her.

"Never mind, let's not bother. I'll just have some tea."

Tang Shuo originally wanted to see what Jia Ting looked like when she was angry, but he didn't expect that she had no reaction at all, and he immediately lost interest.

Jia Ting stopped and resisted the urge to splash the water on Tang Shuo's face. She turned around and put the tea back, then turned around and walked out of the office.

Tang Shuo also knew when to stop and stopped teasing her further. If this woman held a grudge and made things difficult for him in the future, it would be bad.

"I'm sorry to bother you with this." Tang Shuo said to Jiang Tiantong. "If everything is fine, I'll go back first."

"Yeah." Jiang Tiantong nodded.

"Oh right." Tang Shuo stood up and suddenly said, "There's one more thing."

"What?"

"Can you smile a little?"

Jiang Tiantong then raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at Tang Shuo with anger on her face.

Tang Shuo immediately stood up and rushed to the office door. "If you don't want to laugh, then laugh. Why are you glaring at me?"

Looking at Tang Shuo's embarrassed figure, Jiang Tiantong unconsciously raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a charming smile.

In an instant, all the flowers lost their color.