He looked terrible, and he had no appetite at all at lunchtime.
With the situation now a foregone conclusion, he had no choice but to back down in order to protect his family.
Dan Shengshuo breathed a sigh of relief when he thought about the backup plan he had prepared in advance.
Before leaving...
He will definitely kill the Jiang family who ruined his plans first!
Guo Zhen tugged at his collar as he listened to what his secretary was saying in his ear.
His expression wasn't good either; he had his eyes downcast and his brows furrowed.
Just as Shan Shengshuo thought, he also felt that it was inevitable for the other party to be reinstated, and it would be very difficult to stop him.
Is retreat the only option left for them?
Guo Zhen suddenly remembered what Jiang Ci had said.
Let Xiaolian study abroad.
The thought flashed through Guo Zhen's mind, and he sneered. If it weren't for Jiang Ci's meddling, why would they have left Beijing?
Why should he listen to Jiang Ci's advice?
Guo Zhen walked over to Shan Shengshuo and whispered in his ear.
The two talked for a while, ate their meal, and then continued their meeting.
Zhou Mingli also got off work late today. Most of the leaders were in meetings. He, Chef Mo, and the other chefs who were summoned would come to the Great Hall of the People to cook lunch.
With no work scheduled for the afternoon, Zhou Mingli said goodbye to Chef Mo and prepared to go home.
He hadn't gone far when someone called out to him.
"Comrade Zhou Mingli!"
Zhou Mingli braked, looked up, and recognized one of the people secretly protecting him near his home. He frowned, "What happened?"
The person who had been waiting, sweating profusely, said, "Huang Zheyue has been taken away."
Zhou Mingli's heart sank slightly. "When? Who took them away? What happened today?"
The man didn't hide anything and said, "This morning a woman came to the courtyard. She said she was Huang Zheyue's aunt. She talked with Huang Zheyue outside for a while and then left. Huang Zheyue doesn't know what happened, but she just ran out and now we can't find her!"
"Our platoon leader suspects that Huang Zheyue's aunt said something to him that provoked him, which is why Huang Zheyue ran away."
"Have you found Huang Zheyue's aunt?" Zhou Mingli hopped on his bicycle. "Get on, let's go back together."
The man quickly got into the car. "I came to let you know, I haven't gone back yet."
"Um."
Zhou Mingli was about to walk when he suddenly stopped again.
He turned to look at the person who had come in and asked, "How are my daughter and son?"
The man nodded. "We have stepped up our care for them."
"Okay, they probably haven't had lunch yet. Could you please keep an eye on them and make sure they have lunch? Here's the money and tickets."
Zhou Mingli handed the money to the man and said, “Take my bicycle home. If you find Huang Zheyue’s aunt, ask her carefully what she said to Huang Zheyue and who made her do it. If she doesn’t talk, drag her into the fence and make her child an orphan.”
The man was stunned.
"And what about you?"
"I'll report this to my supervisor."
Huang Zhiyuan only has this one son, Huang Zheyue. They have been together for almost a year and have developed feelings for each other. They can't let anything happen to him.
Zhou Mingli immediately started running. The man hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and could only do as Zhou Mingli said, to go back and see if Huang Zheyue's aunt had been found.
Zhou Mingli returned to the Great Hall of the People, looked around, and found the secretary of the top leader.
He didn't stop and walked straight over.
"Hello?"
"Hello, I have something I'd like to tell you," Zhou Mingli said calmly.
There were quite a few people waiting outside, and upon hearing Zhou Mingli's conversation with the other person, they couldn't help but take another look at the man.
The secretary paused, glanced at the time, and said, "Okay, let's talk somewhere else."
The two arrived at a secluded corner, where Zhou Mingli finally got straight to the point: "Huang Zheyue has been arrested. I now suspect that the people who arrested him are in cahoots with the people who failed to arrest him last time. I need someone to rescue him."
Zhou Mingli spoke without any hesitation or ambiguity.
Upon hearing this, the secretary's expression also turned serious. "Are you sure?"
"It was said personally by someone arranged by the former leader on our side."
The secretary nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "Come with me."
Zhou Mingli followed behind his secretary and found a major with two bars and one star on his shoulder.
Upon hearing this, the major took it seriously.
The three then went to another place for a secret talk. It was clear that the major knew about these things. He said, "If you want to know where they can take Huang Zheyue, you'll have to ask the two people we arrested earlier."
“Zhou…Zhou Mingli, right? Come with me.”
Zhou Mingli agreed.
The secretary said, "I need to wait for the leader here, so I can't go with you. I will do my best to make things convenient for you. Please be careful."
"Thank you very much!"
The major led Zhou Mingli into a jeep.
On the way, the major asked for more details, and Zhou Mingli did not hide anything and explained it to the major in detail again.
"This Guo Zhen seems to be going against your family. What exactly did you do to him?"
Those two have confessed that Guo Zhen was the mastermind behind their arrest.
Guo Zhen wasn't arrested immediately; the plan is to wait until the leaders are reinstated before taking action against them one by one.
Unexpectedly, instead of looking for a way out, Guo Zhen is still causing trouble for the Zhou family.
I really don't know how much he hates Zhou Mingli's family.
Zhou Mingli paused for a moment, then said, "That's a question for Guo Zhen himself."
The major shook his head, but didn't say anything more.
The jeep arrived at its destination quickly.
Zhou Mingli didn't look around carelessly and followed the major into the house.
The people tied up inside were not only the two who had failed to capture Huang Zheyue, but also others.
They were locked in separate cells, and their faces showed little resistance, suggesting that they had all been subdued.
The major brought the two men in and asked them, "Where are you taking the people Guo Zhen ordered you to arrest?"
The two who had already abandoned their business didn't hide anything. After thinking for a moment, they said, "Sometimes we'll just have someone take them away from Beijing, sometimes we'll send them to a commune in the countryside, or lock them up in other places in the city... We don't know the exact location of some, we only know the general area."
Zhou Mingli listened as the two of them revealed their locations.
The major chuckled and said in a low voice, "This Guo Zhen is quite the cunning one; he has plenty of places to hide people."
He not only questioned Guo Zhen's subordinates, but also the subordinates of other people connected to Shan Shengshuo.
Having determined the location, the major gathered his men and prepared to go find Huang Zheyue.
But then a phone call came in.
It was someone from the courtyard house who called.
"Huang Zheyue's aunt has been caught. She confessed that someone gave her two hundred yuan to tell Huang Zheyue that his father was murdered. She said she didn't know who gave her the money and had never seen that person."
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