Chapter 284: Lu Yibai Comes to Seek Help
"Make a condition?" Pei Xingzhi pretended to be dumb, "What is Mr. Lu talking about? What condition do I need to make?"
Lu Yibai's breathing was heavy, and he could hear it clearly through the phone: "Pei Xingzhi, you know what I'm talking about. We are all businessmen, so there is no need to pretend to be confused."
"Just state your conditions, and I will definitely meet them if I can!"
"Humph," Pei Xingzhi smiled with a hint of sarcasm in his lips, "Boss Lu, what on earth are you talking about? Why can't I understand a single word you say?"
"Pfft..." Lin Jiahe was amused by his pretentious look.
Xie Mingyi also wanted to laugh, but he felt it was a bit inappropriate, so he forced himself to hold it back. He raised his hand and patted Lin Jiahe's shoulder, then pursed his lips and gave a thumbs up to the pretentious Pei Xingzhi.
Pei Xingzhi raised his eyebrows, his gentle eyes filled with dark pride.
"Pei Xingzhi!" Lu Yibai was a little anxious because of him, "You know what I'm talking about, you understand what I mean!"
"I don't understand." Pei Xingzhi said in a bland tone, "Mr. Lu's words are incoherent. How can I, a lowly person who can only make a living by running a studio, understand them?"
“…”
The sarcasm that Lu Yibai had uttered himself was now returned to Pei Xingzhi in its original form. It would be a lie to say that I wasn't angry, but now that I needed help from others, I had to endure it no matter how angry I was.
He gritted his teeth on the other end of the phone, forcing himself to swallow the humiliation. Because he was too anxious, he didn't even notice that there was anything wrong with Pei Xingzhi's words.
"...Fang Bo." He said the name with difficulty, exposing his purpose completely to the sky.
"You rescued Fang Bo, right?"
"Fang Bo..." Pei Xingzhi frowned and thought carefully. After a moment, he smiled and said, "Fang Bo is indeed here with me. He and I were classmates and have worked together in Pei Group for so many years. I haven't seen him for a long time, so of course I want to catch up with him."
The fig leaf had been completely torn off, and Lu Yibai no longer beat around the bush with Pei Xingzhi. He ignored Pei Xingzhi's sarcasm and asked directly.
"Did Fang Bo give you everything he had? How much leverage do you have over me?"
"Hmm..." Pei Xingzhi counted carefully, "You have a lot of handles. It's too troublesome to list them one by one. I will just give you two examples."
"Hiring someone to kill, bribing officials, embezzling public funds, making false accounts, spreading rumors and slander, illegal competition, tax evasion, and malicious donation fraud."
"Oh, didn't you say you would only give two examples? How come I accidentally brought up so many?"
Pei Xingzhi deliberately pretended to be very apologetic, as if he had really accidentally exposed so much negative information about Lu Yibai.
"Heh..." Lu Yibai let out a deep breath, swallowing all of Pei Xingzhi's teasing and sarcasm into his stomach.
"Pei Xingzhi, since you know everything, why don't you just make an offer?"
"What should I do in order for you to hand these things over to me?"
"What? Mr. Lu wants to spend money to buy some black material?" Pei Xingzhi asked knowingly.
Lu Yibai: "It doesn't necessarily mean spending money, it depends on what you want. Money, resources, connections, or an apology, as long as you ask, I will do whatever I can."
“……” Pei Xingzhi curled his lips and said nothing.
"Cough..." Xie Mingyi coughed twice deliberately and shook his head at Pei Xingzhi.
Pei Xingzhi blinked to indicate that he understood.
"He knows what's going on." Lin Jiahe moved closer to Xie Mingyi and whispered in his ear.
Xie Mingyi nodded, and then he felt a little relieved. Pei Xingzhi's studio is currently short of resources, and he is a little worried that Pei Xingzhi will use the things given by Fang Bo to exchange for resources that he cannot get.
Lin Jiahe saw through his worries and said to him helplessly: "Pei Xingzhi is a man of great integrity. If he wanted to take a shortcut, he should have joined Xie Technology when Xie Zhaoyuan returned to the Xie family. Why would he go out and look for resources himself?"
"...That's true." Xie Mingyi thought about it and found that he still judged people too superficially.
Lin Jiahe: "Leave it to Pei Xingzhi, he knows what to do."
"Okay." Xie Mingyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Yibai: "Pei Xingzhi, we are all businessmen. If something can be solved with benefits, there is no need to make it so ugly, right?"
"Yes." Pei Xingzhi agreed with him.
Lu Yibai: "So what do you want? As long as you ask, I will give it to you if I can."
"What do you want..." Pei Xingzhi raised his glasses and really started to think about it, but he didn't come up with a result immediately.
"Mr. Lu, you suddenly asked me what I wanted, and I couldn't think of it right away."
"It's okay." Lu Yibai said quickly: "I won't force you to give an answer right away. You can think about it carefully for a few days."
"...Okay." Pei Xingzhi agreed reluctantly, "Since Mr. Lu is willing to wait for me, I will think about it carefully for a few days."
"Okay!" Lu Yibai's tone suddenly became much lighter. "Pei Xingzhi, think about it carefully. Call me when you have made up your mind. I'll be waiting for you anytime."
Pei Xingzhi: “Yeah.”
"..." Lu Yibai didn't say anything else.
Pei Xingzhi: "Mr. Lu, do you have anything else to say?"
Lu Yibai: "No, no more."
Pei Xing hung up the phone within a second.
"Pei Xingzhi, what do you mean?"
Lin Jiahe, who had just been very confident in Pei Xingzhi, was a little uneasy at the moment: "Why did you agree to Lu Yibai? Did you go to so much trouble to find Fang Bo just to exchange some resources from Lu Yibai?"
"Of course not." Pei Xingzhi shook his hand lightly and threw the phone directly onto the bed.
"No?" Lin Jiahe frowned and looked at him with a confused look in his eyes, "Then what do you want?"
"He wanted to play a trick on Lu Yibai." Xie Mingyi explained for Pei Xingzhi, "For a scumbag like Lu Yibai, it would be too easy for him to be sentenced to death directly. If I'm not mistaken, Xingzhi agreed to his request because he wanted to play a trick on him by the nose."
"Is it right?"
"Yes." Pei Xingzhi admitted frankly, "But it's not entirely true."
"Killing Lu Yibai is the dream shared by Ayuan and me. Now that we have finally caught Lu Yibai, I will of course wait for Ayuan to come back before we take action together."
"But now Ayuan is still in Qin Wushuang's hands. I don't want to take revenge on Lu Yibai alone, so I can only lure him for the time being and let him feel what it means to be anxious and exhausted, and to feel that life is worse than death!"
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