Gao Hongfei wanted to listen more, but Gao Yang had already hung up the phone.
Gao Hongfei panicked and instinctively wanted to call back. His finger hovered over the screen for a moment, but he ultimately moved it away.
He chuckled self-deprecatingly: "At my age, what are you still dreaming about, Gao Hongfei?"
After saying that, he put his phone aside and stopped thinking about it.
In the coffee shop.
"No, it was my dad on the phone," Gao Yang explained to Xing Zhaozhao.
"Oh." Xing Zhaozhao said with some regret.
She said it wouldn't be that fast.
However, she didn't have to wait long. Less than half an hour later, her assistant sent the information they had found to Gao Yang's phone.
Gao Yang opened the document, quickly glanced at it, and then handed the phone directly to Xing Zhaozhao so she could look at it herself.
Xing Zhaozhao took a look and thought, "Good heavens, it turns out that Zhang Wenming is not only an ingrate, but also a gigolo who lives off women."
The reason he was sent to the countryside was because he had an affair with Xie Tingting, the daughter of the leader of their machinery factory. Xie Tingting's husband found out and got him removed from his post.
He wasn't supposed to go to the countryside; he had already discussed it with his family and was going to take over his mother's job.
The reason he was able to find the opportunity to return to the city when everyone else had to go to the countryside was also because of Xie Tingting.
Xie Tingting's marriage to her husband, the son of another leader in the machinery factory, was an arranged marriage.
Because the man wasn't very good-looking, Xie Tingting was never happy about the marriage. She was forced into it by her father, and naturally, their married life wasn't very harmonious.
Then she met Zhang Wenming, who was good-looking, had a sweet tongue, and knew how to get things done, and they started dating.
Xie Tingting's husband, knowing he had been cuckolded, was naturally unhappy and found an opportunity to send Zhang Wenming to the countryside.
Xie Tingting was getting along well with Zhang Wenming when she was provoked to rebel. She put all her effort into secretly collecting evidence and bringing down her husband's entire family. Not only did she get a divorce and regain her freedom, but she also allowed her father to take advantage of the situation and become the sole ruler of the machinery factory.
Therefore, Xie Tingting later managed to bring Zhang Wenming back to the city, and they even got married. Her father didn't say anything and let her be.
For some reason, the couple never had children after their marriage.
After discovering that Xie Tingting was unable to conceive, Zhang Wenming kept thinking about his son who was left in the countryside. However, the movement had just ended, and Xie Tingting was adept at maneuvering and was gaining momentum. He relied on her and dared not offend her, so he did not take any action.
It wasn't until later, after he had completely devoured Xie Tingting's connections and influence, that he revealed his true colors, no longer hiding his true intentions, and went back to the countryside to bring the child out.
Xie Tingting had no idea that he had already gotten married and had children in the countryside. When she realized she had raised an ungrateful child, it was too late for regrets.
Xing Zhaozhao couldn't help but sneer, "I've never seen anyone so shameless."
However, the information ends when Zhang Wenming sends Xie Tingting to a mental hospital.
"And then what? How is Zhang Wenming doing now? Is he still doing well? That would be too easy for him," Xing Zhaozhao asked.
“How could that be?” Gao Yang said.
If the Gao family hadn't risen to prominence, that would have been one thing, but with the Gao family still around, they wouldn't have let Aunt Xiuning suffer so many years of injustice for nothing.
"He's been imprisoned for embezzlement and bribery, and he probably won't get out until he dies," Gao Yang said.
If Zhang Wenming were alright, Zhang Peng probably wouldn't have bothered to come looking for Aunt Xiuning.
Xing Zhaozhao was satisfied: "That's truly a blessing from heaven."
Unfortunately, it was too late; the damage had already been done.
What she needs to do now is nip this menace in the bud.
"Do you have Xie Tingting's address?" Xing Zhaozhao asked Gao Yang.
"Why do you need her address?" Gao Yang asked.
"Just asking," Xing Zhaozhao said.
Gao Yang: "..."
Gao Yang then asked his assistant to find Xie Tingting's address.
Xing Zhaozhao immediately realized something was wrong: "I don't want the current ones, I want the ones from when I worked at the machinery factory."
Gao Yang: "..."
Gao Yang didn't ask why again, probably just wanted to ask, and went directly to his assistant again.
Upon obtaining Xie Tingting's former address at the machinery factory, Xing Zhaozhao was overjoyed. She quickly asked a waiter for a piece of paper, wrote it down, and carefully put it in her pocket.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Gao, you've been a great help to me," Xing Zhaozhao said to Gao Yang.
"Of course," Gao Yang said, then, remembering something, asked Xing Zhaozhao, "By the way, Sister Xing, do you still have any dried wild vegetables and dried mushrooms? I bought some from you yesterday, and the elders in my family really liked them. I'd like to buy some more from you."
Xing Zhaozhao thought for a moment and said, "My family doesn't have any left. I can ask around in the village when I get back to see if we can spare some more. But even if we do, there probably won't be many. If you want more, you'll probably have to wait until spring tomorrow."
“It’s okay, I’ll take as many as I have left, and the price will remain the same,” Gao Yang said.
"Deal," Xing Zhaozhao readily agreed.
Gao Yang remembered that he had withdrawn cash from the bank yesterday to pay Xing Zhaozhao and still had some left over. He took it all out of his wallet and handed it to Xing Zhaozhao: "This is the deposit. If you have any other wild goods, bring some with you. If there are too many, just add whatever you want. If there are too few, I'll make up the difference."
Xing Zhaozhao didn't stand on ceremony this time and accepted it directly: "Okay."
The waiters saw it from afar and couldn't help but clench their hands in excitement.
Sure enough, there was a shady deal.
Just then, the door of the coffee shop opened with a "ding," and two elegant and graceful old ladies, around fifty or sixty years old, entered.
The waiters immediately composed themselves.
Soon someone came forward to greet them: "Welcome! How many of you are there?"
"The two of you."
"Okay, this way please, both of you."
The waiter was about to lead the two elderly ladies to their seats.
One of the elderly women saw Gao Yang sitting not far away, nudged the arm of another elderly woman next to her with her elbow, and said in surprise, "Isn't that your Gao Yang?"
The old lady turned her head and glanced at him, somewhat surprised: "It really is. He should be at the company at this time, why is he here? If his father finds out, he'll get a scolding again."
As she was speaking, the old lady was about to go over when her gaze shifted and quickly landed on Xing Zhaozhao, who was sitting with Gao Yang. Her pupils contracted, and she stopped abruptly, her face darkening.
This face...
Those unpleasant memories that she had buried deep in her heart and didn't want to recall resurfaced in her mind.
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