After picking up the physical training, Shi Jin could no longer stick with Lian Jun all day long. He had to take a few hours every day to go to Gua Yi and Gua Er to receive the "beating".
Maybe the exercise affected his mood. After resuming training for a few days, Shi Jin's mood, which had not been very high, slowly returned to normal. Although he would still worry about the progress bar and the plot, he would not be affected too much by the plot.
Seeing him like this, Lian Jun's hanging heart finally settled down a little.
In a blink of an eye, the day of the dinner party arrived. Shi Jin said goodbye to Lian Jun at 5 pm, and went out with Gua Yi and Gua Er, driving towards the destination of the dinner party.
"The dining area has been cleared, so there's no need to worry about safety." Gua Yi put down his phone to report the situation, and seeing that Shi Jin was distracted, he called him again.
Shi Jin came back to his senses and responded to show that he understood.
"What's wrong with you?" Gua Er looked at him in the rearview mirror and asked with concern. He personally overheard the conversation between Shi Jin and Xu Chuan, and knew how uncomfortable today's meal would be for Shi Jin, so he was a little worried.
"It's okay, I'm just worried that Young Master Jun won't eat well tonight." Shi Jin answered honestly, very distressed, "Uncle Long adjusted Young Master Jun's diet again, and Young Master Jun was not happy to eat, and his picky eating problem came back again."
Gua Er: "..."
An hour later, the car stopped at the door of an elegantly decorated hotel.
Lian Jun helped Shi Jin book this hotel. Since it was his own business, the place had been cleared in advance to ensure safety. After Shi Jin and others got off the car and entered the hotel, the person in charge who had been waiting at the door stepped forward and said to Shi Jin, "Mr. Shi, a guest has arrived. It's Mr. Shi Weichong, the president of Ruixing. He just arrived five minutes ago."
Shi Jin was startled by the person in charge's address. He nodded a little uncomfortably, thanked him, motioned him to continue to greet guests here, and then took Gua Yi and Gua Er inside.
After turning the corner and making sure that the person in charge couldn't see the three of them, Shi Jin turned his head and asked Gua Er, "Why does he call me like that? Isn't my code name in the organization Gua Si?" And even if they didn't call him by his code name, the people below would generally call him Mr. Shi, not Mr. Shi.
It always feels a bit weird to call him Mr. Shi.
Gua Er raised his eyebrows, looked at him with amusement, and said, "Of course, it's because everyone now knows and confirms your relationship with Mr. Jun, so out of respect for you, I have appropriately changed the way I address you. It's nothing, just get used to it."
Shi Jin was confused: "Everyone knows? How did you know?" His relationship with Lian Jun had never been announced to the outside world or within the organization. Only the few Guas and Uncle Long who followed Lian Jun closely knew about it. It was a small secret.
"Have you forgotten the date you and Young Master Jun had a while ago? The movie theater and the amusement park, both of which are our own industries. You and Young Master Jun acted so obviously, and we are not fools. If we pay a little attention, we will know everything, right?" Gua Er said, with an expression of "Are you stupid?" on his face.
Shi Jin didn't expect the truth to be like this. Thinking of the high profile of his date with Lian Jun, he coughed awkwardly, silently retracted his gaze, and pretended that this conversation had never happened.
The dining room was at the end of the corridor. When Shi Jin entered, Shi Weichong was sitting in the lounge area outside drinking tea. He was wearing a very sophisticated suit, as if he had just rushed from some very important occasion.
"Why are you here so early?" Shi Jin greeted casually and sat opposite Shi Weichong.
Shi Weichong saw him coming in, and hurriedly put down his teacup and replied, "I finished work earlier than expected, so I came a little earlier. Xiaojin, why did you think of having a dinner together? Did something good happen?"
He was gentle and took the initiative to change the topic. His intention to ease the relationship was very obvious.
Shi Jin saw his expression and thought of what Xu Jie had done. His mood was really complicated, but he didn't want to do something angry, so he replied, "I did encounter a good thing. My notice came down, and I have to go to the beginning of next month to complete the admission procedures. Last time, I was too rude on my third brother's birthday, so I wanted to take advantage of the holiday to invite everyone out for a gathering."
"So that's the case. It seems that our family will soon have a little policeman. That's good." Shi Weichong's eyebrows were relaxed, and he was really happy for Shi Jin. Compared to being a gangster, it is obviously more reassuring to go to a regular police academy and become a public police officer in the future. Shi Jin felt
a little uncomfortable when he saw him like this. His current behavior can be said to be using Shi Weichong to stimulate Xu Jie. The more sincerely Shi Weichong treats him, the more uneasy he feels.
Xiao Si called him worriedly: "Jinjin..."
"I'm fine." Shi Jin came back to his senses, replied to Xiao Si in his heart, then took the initiative to lean over to pour a cup of tea for Shi Weichong, and talked about other topics.
Shi Wei Chong originally thought that after the last unpleasant parting, he would hardly have the chance to sit down and chat with Shi Jin so calmly again. Seeing Shi Jin taking the initiative to talk, he couldn't suppress the joy and relaxation on his face, and cooperated very well to continue the conversation along the topic of Shi Jin.
Not long after chatting, Xiang Aoting arrived. He obviously came in a hurry, still wearing a training suit. After coming, he was afraid that his body was too dirty and would affect the appetite of Shi Jin and others, so he took his spare clothes to the bathroom to wash, and changed into dry clothes.
When he came out, it was almost time for dinner. Shi Jin led the two to the inner room, ordered dishes, and called Li Jiuzheng who had not arrived yet, asking him where he was. Li Jiuzheng had just parked his car at the entrance of the hotel. He replied, "Right away," and hung up the phone.
Five minutes later, Li Jiuzheng also entered the private room. Shi Jin saw that everyone was there, and was about to press the button to let the kitchen start serving the dishes, when the door of the private room suddenly opened again.
"What kind of hotel did you book? It's so far from the airport and the traffic is so bad." Rong Zhouzhong walked in with a hat and a mask on his face, and sat down next to Shi Jin, pushing him, "Give me a glass of water, I'm thirsty."
Shi Jin was surprised and asked, "Why are you here?"
"I just happen to be free, can't I come?" Rong Zhouzhong had a ferocious expression and a haggard face. The dark circles under his eyes were obviously like smoky makeup. It was unknown how long he hadn't slept. His clothes were also wrinkled. The style looked very trendy, but it smelled of a strong men's perfume.
Shi Jin wrinkled his nose in disgust.
Rong Zhouzhong's eyebrows jumped when he saw this, and he was so angry that he stretched out his hand to pinch his shoulder and shook him hard: "Don't show such an expression! This smell is left over from the commercial. I don't usually spray myself like a mobile poison dispenser. Does it smell bad? Does it smell bad?"
Rong Zhouzhong, who was sleep-deprived, was obviously in a worse temper and more childish.
Shi Jin was dazzled by the shaking, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold his arm, and replied: "It doesn't smell bad, it's better to have a stronger smell, it will stimulate the appetite."
Rong Zhouzhong heard it, but he became even angrier, stretched out his hand to pull his face, and said viciously: "Sensitize? You actually said that this brand of perfume stimulates the appetite? What appetite do you want to stimulate? This is a perfume from the passion series, what appetite do you want to stimulate?"
Shi Jin couldn't bear it any longer, so he grabbed the dessert on the table and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
The world was quiet. Rong Zhouzhong bit the soft dessert and stared at Shi Jin. His beautiful peach blossom eyes squeezed out a ferocious arc and stretched out his claws towards Shi Jin again.
"Fourth brother!" Shi Jin ducked and called for help.
Xiang Aoting quickly reached out and pressed Rong Zhouzhong's shoulder to pull him back, saying helplessly: "Third brother, you scared Xiaojin."
Rong Zhouzhong's expression twisted and turned, and finally he reluctantly calmed down, shook off Xiang Aoting's hand, ate the dessert in two or three bites, straightened his collar and said: "This little bastard has thicker skin than a pangolin, how could he be scared... Eat, I'm hungry!" Shi Jin
took the opportunity to sit up straight, looked at Shi Weichong and Li Jiuzheng, who were barely in a safe area, and stood up decisively, sat down next to Li Jiuzheng, and pressed the call bell for the waiter to serve the food.
The brothers glanced at his changed seat, Shi Weichong lowered his head and turned the cup, Rong Zhouzhong snorted coldly, Xiang Aoting acted as a peacemaker, and Li Jiuzheng helped Shi Jin move the tableware over.
…
The dishes were served one after another, and everyone started to eat and chat. The atmosphere was surprisingly good.
Shi Jin talked to everyone about a random topic, silently observing Shi Weichong. Sure enough, when the dinner was about halfway through, Shi Weichong began to look down at his phone frequently.
"Is there a job for you?" He looked at Shi Weichong and asked knowingly.
Shi Weichong hung up the phone when he saw him asking, and shook his head and replied: "No, a friend came to see me. Now I have nothing to do. Where were we just talking about?"
"Speaking of whether I should take the civil service exam in City B after graduating from the police academy and stay in City B to be a policeman." Shi Jin answered. He calculated that the time was about right, so he changed the topic as planned and said, "Let's not talk about staying in City B for now. The police academy lasts for four years, and it won't be too late to consider this matter in two years. In fact, I asked you out today because I have something else to talk to you about." Rong
Zhouzhong, who was yawning because he was bored listening to the student talk, and Li Jiuzheng, who was concentrating on eating, both paused when they heard this, raised their heads and looked at Shi Jin, with understanding in their eyes - they knew that Shi Jin would not call everyone out for dinner for such a trivial matter as "the notice has arrived", and the main point was finally here.
Shi Weichong and Xiang Aoting were stunned for a moment, and then they all remembered the unhappy ending of the last dinner. They frowned, thinking that Shi Jin wanted to bring up the past. They looked at Shi Jin, hesitant to speak.
"I don't want to talk about the last dinner." Shi Jin spoke first to interrupt the random thoughts on Shi Weichong and Xiang Aoting's faces. He leaned over and took out a tablet from his backpack. While making a video call to Fei Yujing, he said, "I want to talk about other things, things that are related to us."
Everyone saw his actions and became confused - what is the thing that is related to everyone? Could it be Ruixing?
Fei Yujing took a long time to answer the video call. He obviously just finished a day's work and looked a little tired. After he connected the video, he saw several people sitting around a table on the other side of the video, frowned and said, "You guys just eat, but you have to eat in front of me?"
"You can watch us eat, but before you watch, I have a few words to say. You can listen." Shi Jin answered while setting up the tablet, glanced at everyone, and after everyone's eyes were all focused on him, he said word by word, "At the end of June, I went to M Province and met Xu Chuan."
Hearing Xu Chuan's name, Shi Weichong and Fei Yujing's expressions immediately became serious. Xiang Aoting also frowned and asked, "Xiao Jin, why did you go to see him?"
"Let's not talk about the reason why I went to see him now. Let me play a recording for you first." Shi Jin answered, took out his mobile phone and played the audio he had intercepted in advance.
[But Shi Xingrui was actually more rational than I thought. He did not rashly look for that woman, but began to investigate the woman's situation. He did not meet her by chance until he was fully prepared, and then he made a deal with her. He wanted that woman to have a child, and it had to be a son.]
Xu Chuan's voice spread in the box. The word "deal" was extremely harsh. Everyone's expression changed, and Xiang Aoting could not help but stand up.
The woman mentioned in Xu Chuan's recording was obviously the mother of several people present, but whose mother would this "she" be, and who... was the product of the deal? Shi Jin
paused the recording, turned his head to look at Li Jiuzheng who had a blank expression, and said, "I checked, your mother and father didn't have a deal, she was simply deceived by your father."
"I, I said..." Li Jiuzheng's frozen body slowly relaxed, he pulled the corners of his mouth, and suddenly lowered his head to hold his face, not wanting others to see his expression.
When everyone heard Shi Jin's sideways confirmation of the "deal" guess, their expressions became even uglier.
Fei Yujing's voice came from the other side of the video, asking the key point: "Who is the woman Xu Chuan mentioned?"
Shi Jin looked at the screen and replied, "It's your mother, but there are more people who have made deals with your father."
His words were almost telling everyone directly that except for Li Jiuzheng, everyone was a child "bought" by Shi Xingrui. This fact directly negates the biggest basis that everyone used to hate Shi Jin. If Shi Xingrui did not owe their mother any emotional debt or deception, and never treated them as his sons, then what grounds do they have to resent and anger innocent people because of this so-called "abandonment".
To put it more cruelly, it seems that it is the buyer's freedom to treat the purchased "commodity", and the "commodity" has no right to express an opinion.
The air was dead silent, and in the end, it was Rong Zhouzhong who digested the information first and said, "Shi Jin, so what if it is a transaction, the old thing is dead, and we can finally sit together in harmony. We can settle accounts and apologize, but why bother digging up those past things, which will only add to the trouble." Shi
Jin did not say anything and directly played the next recording.
[I want to know who was the mastermind behind you buying the werewolf. Don’t tell me it was Xu Tianhua. I don’t believe it.]
[It wasn’t Xu Tianhua.]
The recording was very short and finished in a few seconds, but everyone fell silent again.
“That’s why I went to talk to Xu Chuan. I suspect that the person who wanted to harm me was not Xu Tianhua.” Shi Jin put down his phone, glanced at everyone, and said, “This is the answer Xu Chuan gave me. The person who wanted to harm me was indeed not Xu Tianhua. So it’s not me who wants to dig up these past events, but in order to save my life, I have to dig up these past events clearly and find out who wants to harm me.”
Xiang Aoting’s attention was immediately drawn back, and he frowned and said, “If it wasn’t Xu Tianhua who wanted to harm you, then who would it be? Other shareholders of Ruixing? Or my father’s former enemies?”
Rong Zhouzhong's expression changed, and he suddenly snorted coldly and said, "Old Four, have you become stupid from doing the mission? The little bastard asked us out for dinner today and told us all this. Isn't it clear who he is suspicious of? Shi Jin, I'll say it again, my mother and I are indeed not good people. I believe my mother can do such a thing as giving birth to a child in exchange for resources, but we are not so bored that after having everything, we still destroy our lives and take your life. You can settle accounts with me, but you can't suspect that I want to kill you. If you dare to wrongly accuse me, I will post all your ugly photos on Weibo and unilaterally announce that you have debuted, and annoy you and that Lian Jun!" As expected
of Rong Zhouzhong, this threat is so fierce.
Shi Jin's serious face almost couldn't be stiffed, and he looked at him without saying anything.
“It’s not me either.” Li Jiuzheng also answered, and looked sideways at Shi Jin. Perhaps because he hadn’t adjusted his emotions yet, his eyes were strangely gentle, and he said, “My mother is dead, she won’t hurt you, and I won’t do stupid things again, but you are very much like my mother, and I like you…”
The hairs on Shi Jin’s back stood up, and he silently grabbed the chair and moved to the side, smiled dryly, and replied: “Well, let’s not talk, we are brothers…”
“…eyes.” Li Jiuzheng finished his words with a heavy breath, and then he smiled like a saint. Shi
Jin: “…”
Although your smile is very beautiful, the way you talk is very scary, okay.
"...Actually, your eyes are prettier." Shi Jin quickly turned his head to avoid Li Jiuzheng's sight. He felt that choosing to sit next to him was a big mistake. He glanced at the other people at the table and said directly, "Actually, Xu Chuan has already told me who really wants to harm me, but considering that Xu Chuan lied once before, in order to avoid being provoked by him, I specially called you out."
Xiang Aoting frowned and glanced at Shi Weichong who lowered his head with an unclear expression, and asked, "Xiao Jin, what do you want to do?"
"I want to give you a chance to know all the truth." Shi Jin glanced at everyone and tapped his phone. "The recording I just played for you is just some excerpts. I have the full version in my hand. If you want to listen to it, I can send it all to you. In addition, in addition to the recording, I have a lot of investigation data about the Shi family and my father. If you want to see it, I can give it to you, but you'd better be mentally prepared. These things will definitely not make you feel happy. Also, I am taking risks in telling you all this. After reading the information, I hope you will tell me what position you have chosen. If you don't take the initiative to come over and explain, then I will tacitly agree that our brotherhood is over. See you on the gaming field in the future."
He said this without leaving any room for maneuver, and everyone's expression became solemn. Everyone present was smart. If they didn't understand what Shi Jin had said, they would be fools. Shi Jin was forcing everyone to take sides, and also giving the person who was really related to the mastermind a chance to choose his side.
"Of course, you can also choose not to record the audio and provide the data. As the saying goes, ignorance is innocence. When I catch the mastermind, I will definitely not hold people responsible for the crime. But at the same time, I will no longer recognize the people around the murderer as my brothers. We should just keep out of each other's way and be strangers." Shi Jin expressed his attitude, then raised three fingers and said, "Three days. I'll give you three days to consider whether you want to know the truth or not. You can choose for yourself. After the data is sent out, there are still three days. After three days, I want to know what position you choose after reading the data so that I can decide my next move."
Three choices: take the data and choose to stand with Shi Jin; take the data and choose to oppose Shi Jin; don't take the data, you don't have to choose a position, but you can only be strangers to Shi Jin in the future.
Shi Jin laid out everything and put the initiative to decide how their relationship would be in the hands of them. He was extremely frank and cruel.
For those who believed in themselves and their mothers, this choice was not difficult. After all, they did not need to confront Shi Jin and could just watch the show. However, for those who were related to the mastermind, this choice was very difficult.
- Take the information and get into a dilemma, or don't take the information, be a fool, and wait for a result that may be a lose-lose situation for both parties.
Fei Yujing was the first to break the silence and said, "Shi Jin, send me a copy of all the information you have."
"Send me a copy too." Rong Zhouzhong followed up with a frown, a little irritated, "You are really in trouble."
"Me too." Li Jiuzheng spoke up to state his position.
Xiang Aoting hesitated for a moment, looked at Shi Weichong, hesitated for a moment, and still did not immediately follow up, deciding to contact Shi Jin privately later.
Shi Weichong did not express his opinion either. He lowered his head, put his hands in his pockets, and didn't know what he was thinking. Shi
Jin agreed to the words of the others, and then said: "I will send the information to you one by one after returning to the club. Let's eat first, the food is cold."
Who has an appetite now?
Everyone's voice was surprisingly consistent. In fact, they all guessed who Shi Jin really wanted to force to express his position today. During the last dinner, his attitude was already obvious enough.
...
A meal started hot and noisy, and ended quietly.
Rong Zhouzhong had work, so he was the first to leave after the meal. Li Jiuzheng was the second one to leave. Before leaving, he packed a box of snacks that Shi Jin had given to Rong Zhouzhong. Xiang Aoting and Shi Weichong stayed until the end. The three of them left the hotel together.
"Aoting, go first. Be careful when you go on a mission. Don't get hurt." Shi Weichong forced himself to be alert and told Xiang Aoting.
Xiang Aoting looked back and forth at him and Shi Jin, hesitated for a moment, and said, "We are brothers after all." After that, he tactfully left space for the two of them, turned around and got in the car and left.
Shi Wei Chong and Shi Jin were the only two people left at the door. Shi Wei Chong held the phone in his pocket, turned his head and looked at Shi Jin, and said the first sentence since Shi Jin played Xu Chuan's recording, with a hesitant tone: "Xu Chuan said that the person who wanted to harm you was not Xu Tianhua, so could it be, is it..."
"Brother." Shi Jin interrupted him, looked at him seriously, and said, "I believe that during the time when you 'used' me in the past, you also treated me as your brother sincerely... Think about it carefully, I'll wait for your call." After that, he took the initiative to hug him, stepped back, got into his car, and resisted turning back.
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