After dinner, Chen Qizhao received a call from Xiao Zhou. He would ask Zhang Yazhi for further confirmation about the aromatherapy situation later, and also got some clues from Chen Shiming.

Although Zhang Yazhi was not told about the aromatherapy incident at the beginning, Chen Shiming had already considered some of the circumstances and investigated the details related to the aromatherapy shop... It's just that the possibility of getting information from Zhang Yazhi is slim.

"Mr. Chen also said that this store has long-term activities to give back to customers and keep in touch with customers." Xiao Zhou continued: "But it has been too long, and it is unlikely that we can get the information from Madam."

"I see." Chen Qizhao also had a psychological expectation. Even if he asked Zhang Yazhi for other details, it would only narrow the scope, but it could not completely eliminate the suspicion. What if the other party was using Zhang Yazhi's best friend and actually had no contact with Zhang Yazhi? "Give me the list."

Xiao Zhou said he would send it immediately and quickly sent the list to Chen Qizhao's mobile phone.

Shen Yuhuai asked, "Are you done fighting?"

"Yeah." Chen Qizhao paused for a moment, "Regarding the aromatherapy shop, my brother has a list. I asked Xiao Zhou to send it to me."

Shen Yuhuai slightly raised his eyes and looked at the scattered pedestrians on the school road, "We just finished eating, how about taking a walk to digest the food?"

"Okay." Chen Qizhao put the phone in his pocket.

The campus of S University is very large. Although Chen Qizhao has been at the school for such a long time, he has not actually walked through the entire school.

We took walks after meals very few times, and most of the time I followed Chen Yuhuai. The two walked side by side, and could see some people or couples walking together on the school road. Chen Qizhao's eyes slightly turned, lingered for a second on a couple passing by, and saw their holding hands.

Shen Yuhuai: “Don’t you usually go out with Yan Kailin?”

"No." Chen Qizhao: "He usually has something to do at night."

Shen Yuhuai: “I noticed that you haven’t been talking much lately.”

"Will it?" Chen Qizhao.

"It's just intuition." Shen Yuhuai tilted his head slightly to look at him, "You can tell me if you have any questions."

The other person's eyes were very dark, as if they were filled with ink at night, exactly the same as in the video.

Chen Qizhao and Shen Yuhuai met each other's eyes, and Chen Qizhao pretended to be calm and avoided looking at them. "Intuition is sometimes inaccurate."

As we walked near the playground, the originally quiet road became lively.

A student on a bicycle passed quickly between the two of them, creating a small gust of wind.

Chen Qizhao's eyes shifted slightly, as if he noticed something.

At this moment, he was suddenly pulled to the side and accidentally bumped into Shen Yuhuai.

Shen Yuhuai grabbed Chen Qizhao’s arm and led him to the side, feeling the touch of his clothes under his palm.

As if he was touching the bone of his elbow, he frowned unconsciously, then quickly relaxed his brows and explained, "Stay close to the edge. There are many cyclists here."

The force on his arm was removed and Shen Yuhuai let him go.

Chen Qizhao glanced slightly and took a step closer to Shen Yuhuai, "Oh."

The playground was bustling with activity, with boys playing basketball running around the court.

Chen Qizhao raised his eyes slightly and noticed a road reflector standing beside the school road. Under the reflection of the street lamp in the distance, he could vaguely see a person following not far behind them.

The man was dressed in black and was not easy to see at night, but his behavior did not seem like that of a student.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yuhuai asked.

"I'll tie my shoelaces." Chen Qizhao squatted down and paid attention to his surroundings while tying his shoelaces. The person who had been following them was nowhere to be seen and did not pass by them. He stood up, "Okay."

Shen Yuhuai looked at him without saying anything, nor did he expose the other party's subtle action of untying and retying his shoelaces.

Soon, Chen Qizhao got up.

As soon as the two of them reached the stone benches for rest at the edge of the playground, Shen Yuhuai's phone rang. Seeing the call displayed on the phone screen, he paused for a moment: "I'll take a call."

Chen Qizhao nodded and pointed to the vending machine at the far end of the playground. "Then I'll go buy some water."

Shen Yuhuai nodded, glanced at the location of the vending machine, and then said to the person on the other end of the phone: “Well, I’m here, not busy, just tell me.”

There were many people near the playground, and the noisy voices covered up some small noises.

The man in black was standing next to a roadside sculpture, his eyes stopped at Shen Yuhuai and Chen Qizhao, and when he saw Chen Qizhao walking away from Shen Yuhuai, he was about to take a picture of Shen Yuhuai, when he suddenly saw the man who answered the phone glance in his direction.

The man in black was startled and quickly shrank behind the sculpture.

He had no choice but to give up taking pictures and turned around to follow Chen Qizhao.

This person was not his target, the task he received was to take a picture of another person.

He pretended to be a student and blended in with the pedestrians, moving closer to the vending machine step by step. But when he got near the vending machine, he did not see Chen Qizhao.

"Where is he?" The man in black panicked. He looked around but didn't see Chen Qizhao.

He walked around the vending machine and looked at the crowd in the playground. "That's impossible. They were here just now..."

Before the man in black could say anything, a huge force suddenly attacked him from behind.

Someone quickly clamped his wrist, pressed his arm back and slammed him against a tree in the shade. The sudden pain made him groan, and the camera in his hand fell and hung on the side of his neck.

The man in black was completely stunned.

He realized something and was about to struggle hard when he suddenly heard a cold voice behind him, "Still want to move?"

The pain hit the man, who didn't dare to shout for help. He begged for mercy, "Stop moving, stop moving, it hurts, please let go."

Then his wrist was dislocated.

The huge force behind him was released, and the man squatted on the ground holding his dislocated wrist, his eyes going black due to the pain.

And a cold hand pulled the camera away from his neck, and also squatted in front of him, pressing the button of the camera to check the photos inside.

"Following me? A peeping Tom?" Chen Qizhao laughed, his eyes falling on his other hand, "You took a lot of photos of this?"

The man hid his hands in his arms and said, "No."

Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly and scanned the photos inside, all of which were photos of him and Shen Yuhuai.

"Nice photo." His eyes paused, and instead of deleting the photo, he asked, "Where is the memory card?"

The man didn't say anything.

The boy in front of him seemed to be talking to him normally, but there was an indescribable sense of oppression.

Chen Qizhao's gaze rested on him.

The man hurriedly said, "Press the hole on the left and it will pop out."

Chen Qizhao listened to him, took out the memory card of the camera, and then threw the camera back into the man's arms, "I have a bad temper."

"What?" the man was confused.

"But I'm in a good mood today." Chen Qizhao patted his face, his eyes resting on his arm, "Next time we meet, it won't be this simple."

The man shrank back, his employer told him that he was following a student, but he had no idea that it was this kind of student who would remove people at the slightest provocation! ? Fortunately, the other party just thought he was a voyeur. It was okay to lose a memory card. He still had other cards and could explain to his employer.

He looked at the boy in front of him, took out his memory card, and walked leisurely to the vending machine. He seemed to be hesitating about what drink to buy, and finally made two clang sounds.

The man was about to move, but when he saw the boy's eyes looking at him, he sat back down, not daring to move.

The boy took two cans of Coke from the vending machine, looked away, and walked into the playground as if nothing had happened.

Chen Qizhao held two cans of Coke in one hand and the memory card he had just taken from the man in the other.

Hire someone to follow us, and judging from their behavior, they probably have bad intentions. Sending someone to follow him at this time doesn't seem like an irrelevant person. It is very likely that Lin Shizhong suspected him, so he sent someone to find out his background. He had noticed people trying to probe him before, but those previous attempts only lasted for two days to confirm something and then they left soon.

But the man he was following today, and the strangeness he had often noticed during this period, had been following him for no less than five days.

Chen Qizhao didn't mind continuing to play the role of a dandy young man in front of Lin Shizhong, but if he overacted, it would arouse the other party's vigilance. This kind of clumsy tracking could be tracking or testing. He could try to hit him but couldn't overdo it, otherwise he would be doing what Lin Shizhong wanted.

But this incident also confirmed one thing, Lin Shizhong had set his sights on him...

Just targeting him?

Chen Qizhao smiled silently. Judging from the old fox's situation, there might be more than that.

He put the memory card into his pocket, and another plan came into his mind.

When he got to the playground, Chen Qizhao saw from a distance that Shen Yuhuai was still on the phone.

The man sat on a stone bench by the roadside, his long legs slightly bent, as if watching other people playing basketball off the court. He lowered his eyes to look at the Coke in his hand, feeling the cool touch coming from his palm, and walked to sit next to Shen Yuhuai, "Brother Huai, give me a Coke."

Shen Yuhuai was still listening to the phone, and when he heard the words, he reached to the side and covered Chen Qizhao's fingers holding the Coke with his large palm.

Chen Qizhao paused, feeling the warmth on his fingers, which was completely different from the coldness under his fingers.

His eyes paused, staring at the beautiful hand and the increasingly hot feeling at contact.

Chen Qizhao noticed that his heartbeat was speeding up.

I don’t know how much time had passed.

Maybe two seconds, maybe more than ten seconds.

"Okay, I got it." Shen Yuhuai's hand left Chen Qizhao's fingers, then reached down to hold the can of Coke, and took the Coke out of Chen Qizhao's hand, "Okay, let's talk later."

It was as if the other person's hand covering his fingers just now was just an ordinary and unexpected action.

"It took so long?" Shen Yuhuai asked.

Chen Qizhao replied, "There's something wrong with the vending machine over there. I'll go to the farther one to buy one."

He added: "I didn't pay attention when I bought it. I don't know if Brother Huai likes Coke."

Shen Yuhuai opened the Coke can smoothly, and the can hissed and gas came out. He said, "It's okay, Coke is not bad either."

Chen Qizhao also opened the can, tilted his head back and took a few sips, then suddenly realized something.

He tilted his head and noticed Shen Yuhuai was looking at him.

"What's wrong?" Chen Qizhao asked.

Shen Yuhuai's gaze lingered on Chen Qizhao's slightly messy hair for a moment, then he looked down and said, "It dripped on my clothes, Coke."

Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes, but he was wearing dark clothes, and there was no trace of him in the night. "I didn't notice."

The two sat by the playground for about ten minutes, until it was a little late, Shen Yuhuai proposed to leave.

After Chen Qizhao and Shen Yuhuai parted ways and returned to the dormitory, he noticed that the power bank and charging cable that Shen Yuhuai lent him were still in his backpack. He took a photo and sent it to Shen Yuhuai.

[I forgot to take something.] 】

In the security room of S University, Shen Yuhuai's eyes stopped at the pale man in black who was covering his hands in front of him. The security guard on the other side checked the memory card on the man and said, "Student, thanks to your phone call, we just found several memory cards from this man. They all contain photos of a student. This situation is really terrible."

"It's okay." Shen Yuhuai said: "The person he secretly photographed was my friend. I noticed something was wrong with him just now on the playground. He followed us for a long time."

The security guard asked, "Are you going to call the police for this?"

He handed the memory card to Shen Yuhuai, “This is your friend, right? I don’t know what kind of quirks this person has, and he secretly took pictures of other boys. I’ll deal with the photos for you. Tell your friends to be careful when they go out in the future.”

Shen Yuhuai took the memory card, his eyes lingering on the man for a moment, “I’ll let him pay attention.”

He saw the message pop up on his phone and replied with a flick of his finger.

[It’s okay, next time.] 】

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In the dormitory, Chen Qizhao was holding a power bank in his hand, his eyes fixed on his fingertips, a certain feeling seemed to linger. He wrapped the charging cable around the power bank and then put the power bank in the drawer.

He read the data from the memory card he had brought with him and exported all the dozens of photos in it.

There were him and Shen Yuhuai in the library, in the cafeteria, and walking on the road. But the shooting angles are rather biased, which shows that this person did not dare to get too close when taking the photo, especially the photo taken in the library, where only a figure can be seen from a distance.

Chen Qizhao frowned as he picked and chose from a pile of photos, and finally selected a few relatively high-definition photos to export.

He looked at Shen Yuhuai in the photo for a while, and the other photos were casually thrown into the pen holder on the desk along with the memory card.

To distract himself, he opened his email.

Tonight's mailbox is much richer. In addition to the aromatherapy shop customer list sent by Xiao Zhou... the other thing is that the matter he has been investigating finally has results. In his previous life, he brought down Lin Shizhong mainly because of Lin Shizhong's unclean accounts and some illegal transactions he was involved in. After being reborn in this life, he has been collecting information related to Lin Shizhong from these perspectives. It has been more than half a year since he started his investigation. A while ago, he received some suspicious points in the accounts of Lin Shizhong's two companies.

These suspected points all involve some illegal transactions in the medical field. Although releasing them can deal a heavy blow to the Lin Group, it may not necessarily catch Lin Shizhong in one fell swoop. So Chen Qizhao kept investigating, and during this investigation, he found something even deeper.

He discovered that some of Lin's companies had overlapping businesses with theirs.

Some of these overlapping parts are under the responsibility of Jiang Yuze, while others are under the responsibility of others. Logically speaking, as Lin's group has always been mainly engaged in medical care, there should be relatively little overlap between it and Chen's group. However, when he carefully investigated along this line, he unexpectedly discovered that these overlapping parts had existed for a very long time... perhaps even extending back 30 years.

The Chen family and the Lin family are old friends, and this has been going on since their fathers’ generation.

Among this generation, Chen Jianhong and Lin Shizhong have been friends since their youth.

Thirty years ago, the Chen family was not as strong as it is now, and neither was the Lin family.

But 30 years ago, the person in charge of the Chen family was still his grandfather, not his father Chen Jianhong.

"30 years ago..." Chen Qizhao was slightly puzzled and continued to read the document. Suddenly, he found that Lin's company had participated in the competition for a piece of land in the South District in the early years, but currently Lin's main business has never involved the South District.

Lin’s business apparently avoided the South District, but the part shown in the information was in the South District.

However, part of the Chen family's main business is in the South District.

After reading the document, there are undoubtedly two points.

First, the Chen family and the Lin family had overlapping businesses many years ago, which was something that had not been discovered in the previous life. This means that the dispute between the Chen family and the Lin family lasted longer than Chen Qizhao had originally expected.

Secondly, Lin Shizhong is very likely to make long-term profits for himself through this overlapping part. Simply put, he will use the Chen family's business as a springboard to expand profits, markets, and channels in the long term.

Chen Qizhao had never investigated the reasons why Lin Shizhong targeted their family, but judging from the outcome of his previous life, Lin Shizhong was undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of the Chen family's bankruptcy, and many people benefited from him, including Jiang Yuze, who had been working for him. His background was even broader than what can be seen now.

Lin Shizhong had been planning for many years and had arranged so many people in the Chen family, not only to bankrupt the Chen family, but also to make these people become chess pieces that he could use at any time as a way to expand his business empire.

It's like killing two birds with one stone.

Chen Qizhao sat up straighter, sorted out the information again, and started to sort out the whole process from the timeline.

In his previous life, he killed Lin Shizhong ten years later. At that time, there were not so many clues for him to dig out. Most of the clues were destroyed by Lin Shizhong. All he could do was to learn from Chen's own attention to Lin Shizhong, and then defeat him based on Lin Shizhong's illegal accounts.

So he has always had a question: if Lin Shizhong wanted to bankrupt their family, why did he stay for so many years?

As an old fox who has been active in the business world for many years, and the subsequent scale of the Lin Group, it is undoubtedly revealed that Lin Shizhong is an opportunist.

Based on the timeline, the overlapping areas were quickly sorted out.

Chen Qizhao looked at the text that became increasingly sparse, and noticed that this kind of business dealings had gradually decreased in recent years.

However, Chen's group has run into problems in recent years. With the decline of the real estate industry, Chen's group has been eager to expand its business and undergo transformation.

Regardless of Lin Shizhong's original motive for bringing down the Chen family, as far as the timing is concerned, there is only one possibility... The reason why Lin Shizhong did not bring down the Chen family immediately is most likely because the Chen family is still profitable.

When it is profitable, keep them to raise the Gu, and use Chen as a springboard to expand the territory.

When it was no longer profitable, Chen was just a discarded tool, and Lin Shizhong waved his hand and this once high-rise building collapsed in an instant.

Chen Qizhao looked at the files in the computer, saved the reorganized information, and sent it directly to Chen Shiming.

Not long after the file was sent, Chen Shiming called.

It was late at night, and Chen Shiming's voice was a little tired. He asked, "Where did you get this information?"

"I checked." Chen Qizhao said, "You can check the Chen's database at will. It's easier for you to check what happened 30 years ago. It's best to check whether Lin Shizhong had any disputes with our family in the past."

In the study, Chen Shiming stared at the document that had just been opened on the screen. The densely packed text was shocking.

He listened to Chen Qizhao's relaxed statement on the other end of the phone, his eyes darkened slightly: "The thing you asked Xiao Zhou to ask me, Mom asked after she came back today. Just as we expected, Mom didn't remember who recommended her to this store. She just said that several friends recommended it at the time, the service in the store was good, and she learned from the driver that Dad liked the aromatherapy in this store, so she bought it there for a long time."

"Then we can only start from the customers. Have you shown the list to mom?" Chen Qizhao asked.

Chen Shiming said: "I have read it and picked out some key people. Check out WeChat and I will send it to you."

Chen Qizhao opened the file he had just received and saw a more detailed list than the one Xiao Zhou had sent him earlier. He actually didn't know Zhang Yazhi's friends very well, but Chen Shiming's document marked these people's simple information, making it easier for him to judge their identities.

Quickly scanning the names inside, Chen Qizhao stopped when he saw a name called Sun Runing.

He glanced at the information at the back and said hesitantly, "Sun Rouning, Chen Jianting's wife? Is mom close to her?"

Chen Jianting, also known as Chen Qizhao's third uncle.

Sun Rouning is his third aunt.

It’s just that their family didn’t have much contact with Uncle Chen’s family. They were just superficial relatives who visited each other for a visit. He had never heard Zhang Yazhi mention Aunt Chen.

"It's just normal. We occasionally meet at parties." Chen Shiming explained, "She is also a long-term customer of the aromatherapy shop. Mom said she occasionally ran into her in the store, so I didn't cross her off the list. Do you suspect her?"

"I doubt everyone." Chen Qizhao's eyes paused on Sun Rouning's information for a moment, and then continued to read the following information. "If Mom buys fragrances from that aromatherapy store for a long time because of Dad, then what about the others? I doubt those people on this list who buy fragrances from the aromatherapy store for a long time."

Chen Shiming didn't say anything.

"Do you think they are really here to buy things, or are they just watching what Mom buys... or observing what Mom does in the aromatherapy shop?" Chen Qizhao said and closed the file.

"I'll let Xiao Xu investigate this matter." Chen Shiming hesitated for a moment, scanning the contents of the document. "What are your plans for sending this document to me?"

"It's a literal plan." Chen Qizhao clicked the mouse with his finger, and another document appeared in front of him. It was a collection of his two lifetimes, and it was part of the vicious competition tactics used by Lin's company during its business expansion over the years. "I like to fight back."

Since Lin Shizhong likes to plan step by step.

Then he let Lin Shizhong experience the feeling of lingchi step by step.

Chen Shiming disagreed: "This matter involves too many things. It's too dangerous for you to investigate it alone..."

"Chen Shiming, let me ask you a question." Chen Qizhao suddenly interrupted Chen Shiming, "If you want to check someone, how would you check?"

Chen Shiming frowned, but still said: "Check this person's past experience, interpersonal relationships, daily performance, etc. It's easy to check a person, but it's also difficult. If this person has a wide range of interpersonal relationships, the investigation will involve multiple levels."

He then keenly noticed the problem: "What do you mean by asking this? Who do you want to check? ... Or is someone checking you?"

"Is there something you're interested in?" Chen Qizhao looked sideways at the computer screen with a hint of meaning in his eyes, "Let's play a ghost catching game and catch some uncontrollable ghosts..."

For example, in the company.

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Player Xiao Chen received [Group Photo] x5

Player Xiao Shen received [Single Photo Memory Card] x1

Since player Xiao Chen is in a good mood, he is ready to catch the traitor to liven up the fun!