Qin Miaoru is still wearing that non-mainstream Shamatte outfit. Her younger brothers also have bald heads, tattoos and gold chains. The momentum of rushing into the police station was more like surrendering than reporting.
However, the police officers of H Town Police Station still remember that Qin Miaoru and her gang assisted the police in cracking the pyramid scheme and trafficking case. They know that these people just have non-mainstream fashion sense and are all good people.
Qin Miaoru grabbed her younger brother's arm and rushed to Tao Mu and Officer Yao. She did not directly explain the clues, but looked at Tao Mu in confusion: "Why is your phone turned off?"
"Ah?" Tao Mu's cell phone was not out of battery.
From the time he received the call from Daluo, to contacting Dean Yun, asking for leave from the school, flying to H Town, visiting the patient in the hospital, and then going to the police station to inquire about the situation, more than ten hours had passed. Smartphones have a lower battery life than other phones. Fortunately, Tao Mu brought a charger with him.
"Let me charge it for you." Officer Yao took the phone and helped Tao Mu find a power source. As soon as I turned on the phone, I heard several missed calls. Among them, the most calls were from Qin Miaoru, followed by those from Damao, Xiaopang, Meng Qige, and the last call was from Li Xiaoheng.
Tao Mu thought of the agreement between him and Li Xiaoheng, and quickly dialed the phone.
It is four o'clock in the afternoon now, which is four o'clock in the morning in Country M time. As soon as Tao Mu dialed the phone, he realized that the time difference was wrong. He was afraid that Li Xiaoheng was still sleeping. Before I could hang up the phone, Li Xiaoheng's voice was heard from the other end of the receiver.
"Xiaogure?"
"...You haven't slept yet?" Tao Mu was shaken by Li Xiaoheng's action of answering the phone in seconds, and immediately apologized: "Sorry, I didn't notice the time difference. Did I disturb your sleep?"
"I haven't slept yet." Li Xiaoheng's voice on the other end of the receiver was indeed very sober. With a hint of smile, he asked, "Where are you? Is your phone out of battery?"
Tao Mu said "hmm" and explained very briefly: "My friend is in trouble. I'm in H Town now."
"I knew it. If there were no unexpected situations, you would never ignore my call." Li Xiaoheng said with great confidence.
Tao Mu didn't notice Li Xiaoheng's substitution of concepts. Anyway, in his way of thinking, "turning off the cell phone" and "not answering Li Xiaoheng's call" mean the same thing.
"Do you need my help?" Li Xiaoheng asked enthusiastically on the phone.
Tao Mu knew Li Xiaoheng's abilities, and also knew that the Li family had a high status in China. If his friends really need help, Tao Mu will still speak up even if asking Li Xiaoheng will affect his weight in the eyes of his partners. After all, sometimes, appropriate requests for help can deepen the relationship between two people.
But Tao Mu believed that he could solve Gou Rixin's matter. I don't want to waste Li Xiaoheng's network of connections. So Tao Mu thanked Li Xiaoheng very sincerely for his kindness. He also gave a brief account of Gou Rixin's situation. Of course, he didn’t say anything final at the end: “After H Town confirms that Brother Gou can be transferred to another hospital, and the surgery in Yanjing is finalized, if the money is not enough, I will ask you.”
Most of Tao Mu's money is invested in the international crude oil market. Li Xiaoheng knows this better than anyone else. Considering the cooperation scale between the two people involving tens of billions of M funds, borrowing a few hundred thousand yuan is not considered a loan at all.
On the other end of the phone, Li Xiaoheng could of course understand Tao Mu's social implications behind his words of gratitude. He was a little disappointed, but he cheered up and said, "When I was studying at Stanford, I also knew some medical students and professors. If you need anything, I can help you introduce international experts to perform surgery on your friend."
Tao Mu expressed his gratitude again, and then asked Li Xiaoheng what he had just called about: "Is there any problem with international oil futures?"
"No." Li Xiaoheng explained with a smile: "Because the cooperation has just started, I just made a routine call to communicate."
Tao Mu recalled that Li Xiaoheng called him at around ten o'clock in the evening, which was a little after ten o'clock in the morning in M country time. At this point, Li Xiaoheng probably just got off the plane, so nothing should happen to him.
In fact, Li Xiaoheng was really fine. He had just gotten off the plane and habitually called Tao Mu to report that he was safe. As a result, Tao Mu's phone automatically shut down because it ran out of power. Li Xiaoheng was a little worried. He didn't know what happened to Tao Mu. Fortunately, it was 2008 when smartphones were just launched. If it was ten years later, with Li Xiaoheng's rich imagination, he would have called the police as soon as he couldn't get through to Tao Mu.
Tao Mu smiled and said, "Nothing happened. Call me anytime if you have anything. I will buy a new phone when I return to Yanjing. I will make sure my phone is accessible 24 hours a day, and today's situation will never happen again."
Although Li Xiaoheng has actively stated that he has no important matters to discuss with Tao Mu. But as a competent partner, Tao Mu must review the mistakes he made in this matter. He should be thankful that Li Xiaoheng did not have any important matter to contact him about this time. If there was really something important that he had to contact him about, his phone would have been turned off and he would not have been able to find him at the critical moment. Then he is a complete failure as a partner.
This is a low-level mistake that will never be tolerated in the workplace.
Tao Mu did not hide anything and readily reviewed his negligence to his partner. And promise that it will never happen again. His attitude was very sincere and his gesture was very humble, but Li Xiaoheng felt very depressed when he heard it.
From the perspective of impartiality, Li Xiaoheng certainly admired Tao Mu's work attitude. In fact, Li Xiaoheng is a very strict person in work. If this happened to any employee of Xiaoheng Capital, Li Xiaoheng would not only fire the person, but would at least ask him or her to make a public self-criticism at the morning meeting and fine him or her one month's salary as a warning to others.
But when it came to Tao Mu, Li Xiaoheng felt that Tao Mu's performance was a bit too unfamiliar. Although the two of them are partners, partners are not superiors and subordinates after all. There is no need for Tao Mu to apologize to him solemnly for such a small matter. Besides being partners, they are also friends.
How could friends seriously review each other over such a small matter?
"I won't dare to call you casually anymore." Li Xiaoheng said with a smile on the other end of the phone, "I feel really guilty. You didn't mean it. It's because a friend of mine got into trouble and we need to catch a flight. And you're not allowed to turn on your phone on an airplane."
"Hit as you like, hit as you like."
Tao Mu didn't realize that his relationship with Li Xiaoheng had risen from "routine work reporting relationship" to "casual phone call friend" in just a few words. Still immersed in the atmosphere created by Li Xiaoheng, she tried her best to comfort him, "It's my fault in the first place. I should have told you in advance before I boarded the plane. That way you wouldn't be unable to find me when you called."
"I was also on the plane at that time. I couldn't answer your call." Li Xiaoheng took the blame back on himself with confidence and reason. That speed and efficiency left Tao Mu speechless.
The decoration style of H Town Police Station is similar to that of Yanjing Police Station. Officer Yao put Tao Mu's phone into the socket next to his desk to charge it.
Tao Mu squatted under Officer Yao's desk and chatted with Li Xiaoheng for twenty minutes. When the phone was finally hung up, everyone, including Qin Miaoru and Officer Yao, felt inexplicably full.
Taking advantage of this time, a man with a shaved head, a green dragon tattoo on his back and a big gold chain around his neck among the younger brothers who came with Qin Miaoru also recounted the clues he knew in detail several times.
"You mean, you accidentally found Yu Mei appearing near Daxiong's rental house. Who is this Daxiong?"
"I don't know what this Big Bear's real name is. Everyone calls him that. He is also the leader of the group at H Town Film and Television City. He is similar to Gou Rixin, both are in the martial arts business. And I heard that this Big Bear and Gou Rixin have always had conflicts. It seems that the two groups often compete for the spotlight."
When Blue Dragon Tattoo said this, he suddenly remembered something: "Oh, I heard from those people that after Gou Rixin got into trouble, the role of the second male lead that he auditioned for was taken by this big bear."
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