"I don't know Lu Chao or the middleman, and the talk of Zhang Keqi's former subordinates is nonsense. I've never even met Zhang Keqi, not once. How can I win over his former subordinates?"
After Li Ze made the accusation, he fell into a strange silence. Then he took out a stack of documents from under the table, tore open the bag roughly, took out a photo from the pile of photos inside, and placed it on the table.
The photo shows the moment when Pei Ziming and the middleman exchanged money and goods.
"......" Pei Ziming fell into deathly silence.
He couldn't understand why such a set of photos so clear that one could almost see the pores, movements, and eyes appeared here. The place where they traded was chosen by the middleman and Pei Ziming. It was very hidden and only the buyer and seller knew about it. It was impossible for a third party to know about it or to have ambushed it in advance.
"Do you have anything to explain?" Wang Kai said calmly.
Pei Ziming was dumbfounded, his Adam's apple moving constantly, but he couldn't utter a single word. This was so unbearable that Ai Chunxiao beside him couldn't help but sigh softly. She smiled and said, "Of course there is. Otherwise, why would he come to this dinner? Actually, we have a gift for you, Old Wang."
Wang Kai said, "Oh? A gift, tell me about it."
Ai Chunxiao also took out a document and gently pushed it to Wang Kai.
He picked up the somewhat old document and casually flipped through it. The main page of the document was printed out digitally, and it was filled with name after name. Wang Kai looked at the very end and saw the signature of Lai Hongyi. He sighed, "It's been so many years. I thought he had torn up the document long ago. Where did you find it?"
"For so many years, it has been hidden in the warehouse of the Puzhen Post Office. No one remembered it, and no one sorted it out." Ai Chunxiao pursed her lips and said, "But as far as I know, a group of police officers have been investigating the situation in Puzhen recently. I don't know where they got the news, but the whole town is looking for this document. Fortunately, we acted faster and retrieved it in advance.
"Look, Lao Wang, if the police knew about these names, it would be a disaster, right? We might get into trouble."
Li Ze took the document handed over by his boss, glanced at it, frowned and said, "Is this the original?"
"Originals, and absolutely no backups."
"Words are not enough." Li Ze sneered, "This document is new. Someone deliberately made it look old. I can tell at a glance."
"Believe it or not, these are the documents he retrieved from the warehouse shelf of the Puzhen Post Office that day." Ai Chunxiao answered fluently, and it was obvious that this was a prepared statement: "The middleman surnamed Xia had seen this document at the time, of course only the cover, so he can help identify it.
Moreover, he also knew why Pei Ziming wanted this document. It was just because he wanted to relieve Lao Wang of his worries. If there was any interest involved, it was because Pei Ziming paid Lu Chao a sum of money when he bought the information through an intermediary. That was all. Collusion? Nonsense.
Although this reason is not perfect, and can even be said to be a bit far-fetched, Ai Chunxiao believes that with the weight of the chips in her hand, as long as she does not openly oppose Wang Kai or directly oppose him, Wang Kai will not make things too difficult for her.
Unexpectedly, Li Ze refused to give in. He sneered twice and said, "Then call the middleman over and we'll confront him face to face."
It's really annoying... Ai Chunxiao frowned and said, "It's dinner time now. How offensive! If you insist on embarrassing everyone at this time, then make the call yourself. I don't believe you haven't checked it."
"Even if you don't want to call him, you can't call him, right?" Li Ze said.
An ominous premonition rushed into Ai Chunxiao's chest. She calmed herself down and asked, "What do you mean?"
Li Ze said coldly, "There are so many middlemen in Quan Wanghai. We know exactly who is doing this. However, we have never heard of any middleman named Xia. When we investigated, he had taken a large sum of money from unknown sources and fled abroad with a visa."
Ai Chunxiao and Pei Ziming looked at each other, and saw the shock in each other's eyes.
The two finally understood why this series of events were so coincidental and happened so quickly, because they had unknowingly stepped into a trap carefully set by others.
Who is it? Is it Wang Kai? Is it Li Ze?
It must be Li Ze. While they were trying every possible way to dig up dirt on Li Ze, Li Ze must have also been trying every possible way to deal with them. Apart from him, no one else could have such motives and such scheming methods.
Every drop of dirty water he threw was related to things that Ai Chunxiao and Pei Ziming had participated in, but each one was exaggerated. Li Zexin was so cruel that he even sold out his own brothers and dared to touch Wang Kai's hidden men in the bureau just to give them this!
Ai Chunxiao's intention to deal with Li Ze and seize power is a secret known to everyone in the Wang family, and it is also a situation that Wang Kai is happy to see. When Wang Kai wanted to deal with Zhang Keqi, on the one hand, it was out of consideration to go ashore and cleanse himself, and on the other hand, wasn't it because the brothers under his command were too numerous and too powerful, and were about to be out of control?
They restrained each other and oppressed each other, and he, as the boss, had absolute weight.
But if Ai Chunxiao is so bold as to cross the line and move his power to Wang Kai...it would be unimaginable.
But Ai Chunxiao can't explain it now because these things are not completely fictitious.
At the dinner table, everyone was speechless for a moment, until Wang Kai suddenly knocked on the table and said, "Okay, we said it's just a casual meal, why are you doing all this?"
No one can really figure out Wang Kai's thoughts. No one knows why Wang Kai chooses to keep silent in the face of so much hard evidence and doubts. Does this mean that he wants to spare Ai Chunxiao? After all, he is the unquestionable head of this family. Since he decided not to mention it, the people below have no choice but to do the same.
That's how it should be.
But today, Li Ze seemed to be very aggressive and didn't intend to give the other party a way out. He said, "Brother Wang, this involves many of my brothers. I have to ask for an explanation from them. There is something I must say now."
For the first time, Wang Kai showed dissatisfaction on his face and said in a blaming tone, "You are going to ruin my meal!"
Li Ze knew that he had offended Wang Kai, but he gritted his teeth, took out his phone, and continued, "An hour and a half ago, I received a call. The voice on the other end was neither male nor female, neither masculine nor feminine. He told me that he had a surprise for me. Half an hour later, our business was in jeopardy, and it was all the business I was in charge of.
If I don’t get an explanation today, none of us will be able to swallow this anger!”
As he spoke, Li Ze slammed his phone on the table and angrily shouted at Ai Chunxiao and Pei Ziming: "Do you know this number?"
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