After Tao Mu got the recording secretly recorded by Zhang Dafu, he did not rush to deal with Tao Haiguo and his wife who were still jumping around in front of the TV station and various media. In his opinion, whether in the previous life or this life, the Tao Haiguo couple who were jumping around everywhere were just a gun in the hands of others and a puppet in the hands of the Yao family. He did whatever the Yao family asked him to do and said whatever the Yao family asked him to say, so he made such an obvious mistake.
Now that he had obtained strong evidence, he naturally had to consider how to snipe the hunter first. To catch a thief, catch his leader; to strike the snake at its most vulnerable part. If we cannot find a way to deal with the hunter, but instead rush to attack the gun, it would not matter if we are laughed at for putting the cart before the horse. What would be regrettable is that we lose a move to counterattack the Yao family.
So the first thing Tao Mu did when he got the recording was to consult with his father Yao and Xiao Qi's father - how to find the evidence of Tao Haiguo's statement in the recording that "Sheng'an Group gave him one million to discredit Tao Mu".
Liu Yao handed the matter over to Dahui, who had just been discharged from the hospital. Dahui listened to the recording several times and sneered, "One million is not a small amount. In order to avoid being caught by others, Yao Shengan would definitely not choose bank transfer, that is, to pay in cash. No one would carry such a large amount of cash with them, so Yao Shengan would definitely withdraw money from the bank. Such a large amount, even if he wants to withdraw money, he can't just withdraw it. He must first inform the bank. And Yao Shengan would definitely not do such a thing by himself. Then the assistants and secretaries he brought to Beijing this time are very suspicious. I will divide my forces into several groups. On the one hand, I will ask the bank, and on the other hand, I will find someone to keep an eye on the assistants he brought to Beijing. But the bank is a bit troublesome, and we don't know many people."
As Dahui spoke, he glanced at Tao Mu secretly, and his implication was clear.
Tao Mu knew what Brother Dahui wanted to say - ordinary people like them were not very powerful in the banking sector, and they had no channels to inquire about the privacy of big customers. But the Li family is different. As one of the top-notch families in the capital, the Li family has deep roots and connections in the capital, and their influence is unquestionable. The financial capital created by Li Xiaoheng is the object of all banks' vying for favor. If Li Xiaoheng could come forward and help them get information, it would definitely be twice as effective with half the effort.
Moreover, this kind of easy task does not cost any money or require any favors. Li Xiaoheng only needs to make a phone call and say a few words to do Tao Mu a favor. I believe Li Xiaoheng will not refuse this cost-effective way of winning over others.
Tao Mu considered it from a business perspective and felt that if he were Li Xiaoheng, he would definitely not refuse this kind of solicitation. I immediately called the newly appointed legal partner. Sure enough, after hearing Tao Mu's request, Li Xiaoheng on the other end of the phone agreed without saying a word.
With Li Xiaoheng's face, things went particularly smoothly at the bank. Li Xiaoheng asked a certain elder of the Li family who was the president of a certain bank headquarters. In less than half an hour, Tao Mu got the evidence that Yao Shengan had withdrawn one million from his private account five days ago. From the bank's surveillance video, it can be clearly seen that the person who came to withdraw money was Yao Shengan's most trusted assistant Bi An.
However, the bank also tactfully requested that Li Xiaoheng and Tao Mu not use bank records and videos as evidence. After all, banks have an obligation to maintain customer confidentiality. The Saint-Ann Group is also a major and important client, although its headquarters is far away in Shanghai and it has little influence in Beijing. However, if a bank casually discloses the privacy of its major clients to outsiders, other major clients may question the bank's confidentiality and neutrality.
Tao Mu understood this very well. He immediately guaranteed that even if he wanted to deal with Yao Shengan, he would never make trouble with the bank.
And through this video, Tao Mu and his father Yao can also confirm that the person who handled this matter for Yao Shengan was Bi An. The following things will be easy. Dahui took a few people to follow Bi An. After several days, we finally got solid evidence of Bi An and Tao Haiguo and his wife having private contact. In addition, the investigation also found evidence that Tao Haiguo and his wife deposited one million yuan into the account.
On the other hand, Tao Mu was busy helping Guo Yaning shoot MVs every day, and keeping a close eye on the food-themed online documentary "Life in the Market: Food is the People's Heaven".
Considering that Song Daozhen had no experience in filming before, Tao Mu thought about it again and again, and finally rejected the suggestion of the Beijing Film Academy teacher that students should play guest roles. He plans to make this film into a documentary about the little people in the city. Therefore, the shooting format must ensure authenticity and credibility, and avoid any artistic processing as much as possible. This is to prevent people from thinking about the feud between the Song and Yao families when watching the documentary in the future and feeling that the emotions are not properly expressed and subconsciously thinking that the crew is exaggerating.
Tao Mu had prepared so much, and every move was aimed at the Saint Ann Group. No matter how stupid Mr. Song was, he could see why Tao Mu did this. He had not allowed Tao Mu to inquire about the Song family's past because he was worried that Tao Mu was young and hot-tempered and would lose his temper. Not only would he fail to avenge the Song family, but he would also anger the Yao family and affect his own future.
But now, even without this old man, Tao Mu is facing off against the Yao family. The most important thing is that Song Daozhen really saw the hope of revenge for the Song family from Tao Mu's little actions. So he cooperated very well.
——I never thought that I would be the leading actor in a play in this life, nor was I used to being followed by a cameraman with a camera every day. The first thing I did when I opened my eyes every day was to wake the cameraman up and accompany him to the morning market to buy vegetables. Before going to bed at night, I would use a brush to write down the steps of the dish I would make the next day, how to introduce the history of the dish to the audience in front of the camera, and what interesting or sad stories this dish has.
Mr. Song was born in the Republic of China and grew up in the most turbulent era in China. In fact, he has a lot of memories about the joys and sorrows of China over the past century. Some of these stories were legendary secrets he heard from his elders when he was a child. At that time, the Song family had not yet declined. Although the direct line of the family had died out, it was still a large family with the side branches and fellow apprentices. Every evening, when the family was free, Song Daozhen's father would hold little Song Daozhen and sit under the old locust tree. The moonlight was cool, and the locust flowers emitted a faint fragrance. A group of elders gathered under the old locust tree, sitting on the railings outside the porch, smoking pipes and telling stories.
Some of these stories were personally experienced by the elders of the Song family, and some were anecdotes about famous people of the time. Most of these are what Song Daozhen had witnessed with his own eyes during his years of wandering and lonely life in the city.
The Song family was considered a family of chefs in the past. When Mr. Song was young, he also attended a private school for several years. He studied under a scholar from the late Qing Dynasty. So Song Daozhen's calligraphy is very good. He could even write small calligraphy with hairpin flowers.
In the slightly intoxicating sunlight, Mr. Song, wearing a simple cloth jacket, bent over the desk with a pen in hand, wrote out cooking techniques on gold-embossed rice paper. The scene was so beautiful, as if the fragrance of books and ink was wafting out from the camera lens. The warm winter sun shone through the window, climbing up the various furniture in the study with eight-treasure lattice. Grandpa Song was writing the recipe while telling the story, as if the years were peaceful and good, but also as if he was losing interest.
It is like a pool of cold water that has experienced stormy waves, flowing through spring, summer, autumn and winter, flowing through rivers, lakes and seas, flowing through dark underground rivers with magnificent stalactites, and finally flowing into a secluded well covered with moss. The ancient well is calm.
Tao Mu couldn't stand it after filming several shows. He knew that once this program was scheduled, it would be like tearing open the scar that Mr. Song had hidden for decades, and exposing the softest part that was bleeding to everyone.
He didn't know whether what he was doing was right or not. Even if his original intention was to take revenge on the Yao family and expose the dirty things the Yao family had done in the past to the world, so that everyone would know how ungrateful Yao Shengan was and how he repaid kindness with enmity. But if this revenge is based on Mr. Song’s pain, is it really meaningful for him to do so?
In the end, it was Mr. Song who dragged Tao Mu to have a frank talk.
Song Daozhen prepared eight dishes by himself and heated two pots of wine. The father and son were in the main room. When they glanced out the window, they could see the old locust tree outside that was still lush and leafy.
Old Master Song said that he had never forgotten the past in his life. He couldn't sleep every night, and he would dream about the Song family of the past in his dreams. His father and mother, the son he never had the chance to see, and all the senior teachers and disciples gathered together in this grand occasion.
He said that even if there was no Tao Mu's show. He still couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart. So he was very grateful to Tao Mu for coming up with such a program, which at least gave him a chance to talk. It's like the magma that is suppressed and keeps rolling in a volcano. Finally there is a chance to burst out.
After that night, Tao Mu once again visited Mr. Bai An, who was responsible for dubbing the documentary, and Mr. Pu Lincang, who wrote the copy for the documentary.
He invited the two of them to Song's Restaurant, where Old Master Song personally prepared a table of delicious dishes and served two pots of warm white wine. Amidst the cups, plates and chopsticks, they discussed what to do in the later stages of the show.
Bai An and Pu Lincang said with emotion that the meal they had had a special flavor of life after a cup of wine. Pu Lincang said that he already had a draft in mind before he came. But after having this meal, especially chatting with Mr. Song, I had a different feeling.
As the saying goes, "Listening to one word from you is worth more than reading for ten years." Bai An echoed these words with an inexplicable sigh. They say that cities are developing faster and faster, and the economy is becoming more developed as they get older. Young people have adapted to the fast pace and are particular about efficiency in everything they do, but they have lost the slow and leisurely humanistic feelings of the past. Today at Song Ji, in this seemingly old but simple and clean little restaurant, I finally felt the atmosphere of the past again.
This meal made the two teachers and Mr. Song hit it off immediately. In the end, Tao Mu had almost nothing to do. The three of them were happily tasting wine and talking about tea, and Tao Mu was excluded.
Bai An even suggested that the documentary should not ask him, a retired host of the national TV station, to read the narration, but should use the old man's own voice. It is so vicissitudes of life, mellow, with the simple emphasis of the old Yanjing erhua sound, telling the joys and sorrows of the past ups and downs or the displacements. Just now I have the feeling of recording my life.
Pu Lincang knocked the cup with his chopsticks and happily seconded the proposal. The older generation of artists really talk about feelings, rather than using feelings to make money. Their ideas may not conform to the general value of businessmen who value profit, but in terms of emotional rendering, they are definitely more qualified than Tao Mu.
The two old artists even offered to help Tao Mu check the script, excluding all the deliberately sensational and suggestive parts, and let the old man tell the story in the simplest and most straightforward way. The bystanders felt even more touched after hearing this.
There is an old saying that goes, those who are involved in the matter are confused, while those who are not involved can see things clearly. Sometimes, people in the situation are so busy trying to survive that they don't have any extra emotions to lament about life. Only bystanders can appreciate more meaning from these heart-shaking stories.
Pu Lincang told Tao Mu: The so-called blank space can sometimes enhance the theme. Silence is better than sound at this time, only if you keep thinking about it will there be an echo.
If you throw everything out all at once, it will lose its meaning.
"What is the biggest regret in life?" Pu Lincang said with particular emotion: "It's not that you can't get what you want, but that you can't let it go."
What you cannot obtain is something you will never get in your entire life. Like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, mirages, they can be viewed from a distance but not played with; it is hard to accept, but the things that should belong to you do not belong to you in the end.
Tao Mu suddenly realized. Just like in his previous life, when he first met Shen Yu, he learned that Shen Yu came from a noble family and was loved by his parents and family. Although he was envious, he felt calm because he could not get it. Later, when she learned that everything Shen Yu owned should have belonged to her, but she had suffered for him for eighteen years due to a series of twists and turns, and was blamed, not accepted, and not understood, she felt very upset. It's like a heart being fried in a frying pan, unable to be picked up and unable to be put down.
Thinking about it this way, the feeling of being frustrated is indeed more heart-wrenching than not getting what you want.
Tao Mu was filled with inspiration thanks to the advice of the two veteran artists. The program crew was caught and worked hard to revise the script, striving to make this food documentary more natural and less artificial.
On the other side, after Zhang Dafu returned home, he couldn't wait for Tao Mu to take any action. I was worried every day, afraid that Tao Mu would break his promise and get rich, and also afraid that this matter would end up in nothing. Thinking back on all the effort and effort I put into recording this recording - as well as the two bottles of liquor, six bottles of beer and a table full of fried dishes, it was like my heart falling into a hot oil pan, and I fell into a state of deep regret.
After several days of repeated torment, Zhang Dafu finally couldn't bear it anymore. He took the initiative to find the media to expose the fact that Tao Haiguo and his wife accepted one million yuan from others to discredit Tao Mu. He also said that he had recorded a message and gave it to Tao Mu - because Tao Mu had saved their niece, Zhang Dafu was grateful and wanted to repay Tao Mu. In the end, Tao Mu did nothing after receiving the recording. However, Tao Haiguo and his wife continued to discredit Tao Mu on TV and in media interviews.
Zhang Dafu said that he couldn't stand the fact that Tao Haiguo and his wife were making dirty money against their conscience and hurting such a good person like Tao Mu. He also said that he understood Tao Mu's concern for his adoptive parents' image, and he didn't want his adoptive parents to be criticized and cursed by netizens.
But he couldn't help it. He didn't want to see kind-hearted people bleed and cry (yes, when Tao Mu instructed reporters to comment on the Zhang family, Zhang Dafu used it directly), nor did he want to see innocent netizens being used as guns by Tao Haiguo and his wife, so he had to stand up and expose the information.
He also told the reporter that if they didn't believe it, they could go find Tao Mu, who really had the recording. If he lies he is not a human being.
Zhang Dafu's words are full of emotion and passion. Even Tao Mu, who knew him well, was fooled for a moment. Not to mention the netizens and reporters who are uninformed.
In Zhang Dafu's words, Tao Mu seemed to be a saintly white lotus who was clearly injured but couldn't bear to let the evil deeds of her adoptive parents be exposed, so she refused to disclose the evidence that could prove her innocence.
A group of netizens and reporters were immediately moved. The keyboard saintly heart that sympathizes with the poor and the weak had nowhere to go, and the anger and shame of being used as a scapegoat had nowhere to vent, and it suddenly poured onto Tao Haiguo and his wife like the backflow of the sea. Amidst the storm of curses and accusations, they completely forgot that they had cursed Tao Mu, the person involved, in the first place.
On the other side, reporters with interview privileges swarmed downstairs of Guo Yaning's studio. When Tao Mu came out from work, they swarmed up to ask him why he refused to disclose the evidence that Tao Haiguo and his wife were instructed to discredit him? Are you really considering the image of your adoptive parents and don’t want them to be exposed and cursed by netizens?
Tao Mu, who didn't know when he became the spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, looked at the reporter in confusion: Meow meow meow meow, what are you talking about?
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