Chapter 078 The Seventy-Eighth Melon
Although the program team did not release all the information about the serial killer, the ratings of this episode reached 50% just based on the few words mentioned in the previous episode.
The production team was planning to celebrate their success. At this moment, Director Lin looked at Huang Linxiang who was coming over, picked his ears, and wondered if he had heard wrongly.
"What did you say?"
"Director, I don't want to do this show anymore."
Huang Linxiang's face turned pale and his lips turned blue.
Since the last recording of the show, he has had nightmares for several days and has had diarrhea since returning home.
"You don't want to do it, Master Huang, are you stupid? The show is very popular now. If you leave now, all your fame will be gone?" Director Lin didn't think it was a pity. Anyway, the program team is not short of guests. "Let me make it clear in advance that I will not return a single cent of the money you gave me before."
"You can take it. I finally understand that there are really experts in this field. As for that Gu Xicao, I advise you not to offend her. She is really capable."
Huang Linxiang sighed, left this sentence and left.
Director Lin's expression changed.
He knew Huang Linxiang, a petty person who loved to retaliate against his peers. This show was a big hit, and even a fool would know that if he continued to stay on the show, he would make a fortune sooner or later. But Huang Linxiang ran away. How evil must this Gu Xicao be?
"The show is postponed?" Gu Xicao held the phone, "Huang Linxiang is not going to do it anymore?"
"Yes," Xu Yiyang was furious. "This idiot couldn't leave at any other time, but had to say no the day before the program was recorded. It's really infuriating. The production team decided to take a break today and not record. We'll talk about it after the discussion and meeting."
This is certainly better for Gu Xicao.
She can finally have a day off.
She heard familiar footsteps outside, so she quickly hung up the phone, walked to the door and opened it, just in time to meet Lin Jianyi who was about to go out.
"Brother Yiqi, go to work."
Gu Xicao teased, "You've been working overtime for a few days and you look a lot more haggard. You should be more careful and take more rest."
"There's nothing we can do. The Hong Kong government won't hire more people." Lin Jianyi's mood is obviously better now, not as gloomy as it was a few days ago.
Gu Xicao asked: "Have you had breakfast?"
"Not yet, I plan to eat on the way." Lin Jianyi said.
As soon as Gu Xicao heard this, she knew that he was planning to buy some buns and steamed buns again. She went back to the house, took out a bag of bread and stuffed it into his hands, "Eat more. Xiaoyuan bought too much last night. This is for you, and this note is also for you."
Lin Jianyi took the thing and subconsciously wanted to open the note to read it.
Gu Xicao said, "Let's wait and see."
"Oh, so mysterious?" Lin Jianyi said with a smile and put the note into his pocket.
"You'll know soon." Gu Xicao smiled at him and closed the door.
Lin Jianyi smiled and shook his head, taking the bread with him and eating it as he walked up the stairs. When he reached the first floor, he took out the note, opened it, and the expression on his face gradually changed, from smiling to frozen and then to heavy.
"Brother Yiqi——"
Gu Xicao lay down beside the railing and waved to Lin Jianyi below, "Keep working hard, don't worry about me."
The winter sun was cold but also warm. The girl was lying on the railing. Her furry sweater made her face crystal clear and her eyes were as bright as flames in a campfire.
At this moment, Lin Jianyi's heart seemed to be surrounded by a huge warm current.
He waved at Gu Xicao and said nothing.
"Xiao Gu, don't you have to go to record the show today?"
Mrs. Lin came out of the room sleepily, wearing slippers.
Gu Xicao turned around and said with a smile: "It's a holiday today."
“Knock knock knock—”
"Come in." Chen Shazhan was processing official documents without raising his head. He waited and waited, but the other party didn't speak. When he was getting impatient, Chen Shazhan raised his head and saw the person coming. He was startled, "It's you."
"Mr. Chen, I now have the whereabouts of the drugs, but I hope you can guarantee that no one knows where this address came from."
Lin Jianyi was silent for a moment, took a breath, and said.
Chen Shazhan was overjoyed. After hearing Lin Jianyi's request, he hesitated for a moment and nodded: "I can tell others that this was the information given by the informant."
Lin Jianyi finally felt relieved.
He gave the address he had rewritten to Chen Shazhan.
Late at night, around three in the morning.
Wan Chai Pier is quiet, with countless warehouses scattered on the pier. There is a low moon tonight, and the tide is slowly lapping against the embankment.
Just at this moment, a truck drove into the dock silently.
The driver didn't use his high beams, his eyes were squinted, and he was looking around for a warehouse.
The person in the passenger seat said impatiently: "Fei Dao Lin, have you found it?"
"Why are you in such a hurry? It's so dark and I can't turn on the lights. I have to look for it slowly." Fei Dao Lin couldn't help but retort.
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, the man holding an AK-47 in the back became impatient and yelled, "Why are you quarreling? The boss of this batch of goods is getting impatient. If you keep quarreling and alert the security guards, I'll see how you end up."
That person was obviously the most important among so many people.
Therefore, once he opened his mouth, others had to shut up even though they were angry.
"We're here, K-19!" Fei Dao Lin finally found the place and stopped the car. Everyone quietly jumped out of the car and opened the warehouse.
The warehouse was pitch black, with shelves on both sides and wooden boxes on the shelves.
When they got here, Fei Dao Lin and the others relaxed a lot. They turned on their flashlights and found the boxes they were looking for.
Fei Dao Lin used a knife to pry open the box and inspect it, then turned around and gave everyone an OK signal: "□□, very pure!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a face flashing in the corner.
Fei Dao Lin's expression changed immediately.
AK and the others saw his expression and began to feel nervous. The co-pilot asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"
"Yes..." Before Fei Daolin could finish his words, crackling gunshots rang out.
The lights in the warehouse were brightly lit.
The anti-drug team, who had been lying in ambush here for a whole night, and Lin Jianyi and others surrounded the group.
Fei Dao Lin and others reacted quickly and immediately opened fire to fight back.
The crackling sound of gunfire was like firecrackers.
"Ah! They want to escape!" Sun Zhaogan exclaimed, and the opposite side immediately fired a few shots back.
If Lin Jianyi hadn’t felt that something was wrong, he would have helped him.
I was afraid that Sun Zhaogan’s arm was about to be hit.
"You stay here, I'll go after you!"
When Lin Jianyi saw the group of people running towards the door, he chased after them with a gun in hand without saying a word.
But the gang's cruelty and ruthlessness obviously caught these anti-drug police by surprise.
Seeing the fierce firepower of the police, this group of people actually used their own people as shields and dragged their accomplices into the car along the way.
"Drive!" AK-47 was shot in the chest and his face turned pale. He rushed to the passenger seat and shouted at Fei Daolin.
Fei Dao Lin came back to his senses from his trance and started the car in a hurry.
The high beam was turned on, shining on Lin Jianyi and others who were chasing after them.
"Damn it, you damn cop, you actually dared to chase me out!"
AK-47 cursed and leaned over to get the gun clip from behind to replace it.
Lin Jianyi had already seen the man with the machine gun.
At a distance of more than ten meters, he took a deep breath, held the gun with both hands, and the surroundings were silent for a moment. The bullets were fired, and the first shot hit the front window of the car, and the glass fell down with a crash.
The second shot, following closely, hit the AK-47 who turned his head with a ferocious look on his face.
The brain matter, yellow, white and red, exploded in the carriage.
A full minute passed before Feidao Lin was pulled out of the car by Lin Jianyi who had caught up with him. He knelt on the ground with his head against his chest before he realized what had just happened.
"We caught two drug dealers and shot six. Good, good. Tonight was a great success!"
The Mong Kok Police Station was brightly lit tonight. Although it was already past four o'clock, the superintendents, inspectors and others in the conference room all had radiant faces.
"The credit for this achievement goes to the anti-drug team and Chen Shazhan." Mai Gao said with a smile while looking at Chen Shazhan and the others, "Don't worry, I will definitely ask for credit for you and strive for everyone to be promoted to a higher level."
The crowd cheered.
All my hard work tonight finally paid off.
Chen Shazhan was also all smiles. When the meeting was over, he called out to Lin Jianyi, who was about to go back, and said, "Jianyi, come with me."
Lin Jianyi followed him to the office.
Chen Shazhan took out a document from the drawer and handed it to him.
Lin Jianyi looked down and was stunned. "Is this the dispatch document for the stormtroopers?"
"That's right." Chen Shazhan held the cigarette in his mouth, lit it and took a puff. "I wanted to give you this document before, but it's better to give it to you now. That foreigner Mai Gao is trustworthy. You will be promoted to Shazhan soon. With your qualifications, you can better display your abilities in the assault team."
The SA is a paramilitary force. Not only are all its members talented, but they also receive promotions and salary increases much faster than other places.
"Sir, I..."
Lin Jianyi was somewhat touched, yet also somewhat embarrassed for his previous offense against Chen Sir.
"I, what do you mean I, a real man, stop dragging your feet, are you going?"
Chen Shazhan asked directly.
"Go!" Lin Jianyi nodded without thinking.
"Good!" Chen Shazhan smiled. "Good, you finally didn't let me down. You need to receive training when you go to the stormtroopers. Brother Yiqi, there are many powerful people in this training. Don't embarrass me."
"Yes, sir!" Lin Jianyi saluted.
Early in the morning.
Gu Xicao smelled a fragrance.
She twitched her nose and felt that the fragrance came from outside the door. She stood up, opened the door and took a look.
Lin Jianyi, Sun Zhaogan and Lin Yuan were holding the morning tea they had brought back and fanning the room.
No wonder she smelled the fragrance so early in the morning.
Feelings are done by these people who have nothing to do.
Gu Xicao was speechless, with her hands on her hips: "What are you doing?"
"Sister, are you awake?" Lin Yuan grabbed Gu Xicao's hand and jumped up and down, "Brother Lin said he would treat us to morning tea, so he specially packed it up from the teahouse."
"Yes, chicken feet, steamed buns, shrimp dumplings, and rice rolls. I even asked them for pueraria. I thought you wouldn't want to go out in such a cold day, so I packed them up and brought them back."
Lin Jianyi said with a smile and put the lunch box back on the dining table.
Not yet said.
After listening to him report the menu, Gu Xicao was really hungry.
She went to brush her teeth and came out to eat with them.
"You don't know how exciting the gunfight was last night." Sun Zhaogan talked about what happened last night while eating. "The bullet was just a little bit away from hitting my arm. Fortunately, Brother Yiqi was loyal and saved me."
"This is so exciting, brother Yiqi is really good."
While eating the barbecued pork buns, Lin Yuan looked at Lin Jianyi with admiration.
Lin Jianyi smiled when he heard this, "I'm nothing, those in the anti-drug team are the real deal."
"Speaking of the Narcotics Squad, our brother Yiqi is going to the Stormtroopers."
Sun Zhaogan somehow turned the topic to this point. "Once he is trained, he will definitely be better than the anti-drug team."
"You got promoted?"
Gu Xicao ate shrimp dumplings and looked at Lin Jianyi teasingly.
Lin Jianyi smiled sheepishly and said, "It's all thanks to luck. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to be promoted so quickly."
He was talking about drugs, but Sun Zhaogan thought it was just one of those daily cases. He immediately patted his chest and said, "We have to toast Miss Gu with tea instead of wine. Miss Gu, thank you for your promotion these days. If you need our help in the future, just let me know."
"Then I'll remember it. When I open a branch store, I'll let you guys come and cut the ribbon."
Gu Xicao said with a smile.
Sun Zhaogan and Lin Jianyi agreed without thinking twice.
The recording of the program was postponed to today.
I heard that the program team invited a master who specializes in fortune-telling, palmistry and physiognomy, but the format has changed now. For the time being, each master is responsible for a section, unless there is a segment like a haunted house, which requires cooperation of multiple people.
Xu Yiyang said to Gu Xicao: "This time I asked for something. With your ability, you don't need anyone to bother you."
Gu Xicao smiled and said, "Thank you for posting, but I don't want to record for too long."
"I understand. The current method is to draw lots on the spot and pick two groups. Do you think this is okay?"
Xu Yiyang's attitude towards Gu Xicao was more respectful than before.
The assistant watched it all, but wasn't surprised at all.
The popularity of the program team now is all due to Gu Xicao alone. For such a big man, no matter how much respect he has, it is not excessive.
"Jia Li, I can't understand why you came to this kind of show?"
Sai Shaofeng squeezed past a few uncles and housewives and walked to her seat. She took out a tissue from her bag and wiped the seat with disdain, still complaining: "Shouldn't this kind of show be of interest to the elderly?"
Wu Jiali smiled and hugged her boyfriend's arm. "That's true, but I found that Master Gu of this program is very good at calculations. Anyway, we have nothing to do, so why not come here to join in the fun. Don't be disgusted, the tickets here are hard to get. If my father hadn't had some connections with Uncle Wang from the TV station, it would have been difficult to get three tickets."
When Sai Shaofeng heard Wu Jiali talking about her father, the corners of his mouth curled up.
She glanced at Wu Jiali's boyfriend, Chen Kexin, and said, "Wow, I see you really are inseparable from your boyfriend. Are you so close?"
Wu Jiali felt a little embarrassed, her face flushed, and she looked at Chen Kexin shyly.
Chen Kexin held Wu Jiali's hand affectionately and said, "We are dating. Of course this is what dating is like."
"That's right. Besides, I hope we will be chosen this time, so that I can ask the master when is the right time for Ke Xin and I to get married." Wu Jiali said shyly.
Sai Shaofeng seemed to want to say something, but the TV recording had already begun.
The staff came over to arrange for everyone to draw lots.
She had no choice but to shut her mouth.
"Okay, so many audience friends, we are one day late to meet you. Did you miss us? This time we invited a new teacher, Mr. Hua Qing. Mr. Hua Qing is proficient in fortune telling, face reading, and palm reading, and is also a very famous master in the industry."
Xu Yiyang quickly went through the introductions and asked everyone to separate.
"Wow, I won it!" Wu Jiali was very surprised. She handed the red paper she won to the staff.
Sai Shaofeng was stunned for a moment, his lips twitched with some sarcasm, and he thought to himself, I'm afraid this is also the credit of Wu Jiali's father.
"Shaofeng, let's go and let the master do the calculation together." Wu Jiali turned and said to Sai Shaofeng.
Sai Shaofeng smiled and nodded without hesitation and said okay.
Gu Xicao’s first group of guests is this trio - Wu Jiali and her boyfriend Chen Kexin, and their good friend Sai Shaofeng.
When seeing these three people, Gu Xicao thought of a movie in his mind - Burning Winter.
Wu Jiali suppressed her excitement and introduced herself to Chen Kexin and Sai Shaofeng, and complimented them: "Master, we came here especially for you. I heard that you are very good at fortune-telling."
"It's OK. Please take a seat."
Gu Xicao asked them to sit down. She looked at Wu Jiali and said, "It is Miss Wu who wants to have her fortune told. I think the other two are not very interested."
"Yes, I wanted to calculate it. Master, you are so accurate."
Wu Jiali was obviously a simple-minded and innocent person, and she looked at Gu Xicao with sparkling eyes.
Gu Xicao said, "I'll just say it directly. Miss Wu, you come from a wealthy family. Although your mother died early in life, your father dotes on you and treats you as the apple of his eye. For your sake, he even decided not to marry again. You have had no worries about food and clothing in the first half of your life. It can be said that apart from your mother's early death, you have not had any other setbacks."
There was a hint of doubt in Sai Shaofeng's eyes.
She doesn't care about the news, and she doesn't watch metaphysics programs. If Wu Jiali hadn't stopped her from coming, Sai Shaofeng would never have come to such a place.
She now suspected that Gu Xicao might have been arranged by Wu Jiali's father.
"Master, you calculated so accurately, didn't you know the inside story in advance?"
Sai Shaofeng smiled and raised the question in a relaxed tone.
Gu Xicao said: "Many people have suspected this, but in the end it was confirmed that they were overthinking."
"So if you really can tell fortunes, why don't you tell me something that most people don't know?"
Sai Shaofeng challenged, "If you can tell me that, I will believe that you are really a fortune teller."
"Shaofeng?!" Wu Jiali pulled Sai Shaofeng's hand and whispered, "Why are you doing this?"
There was a trace of disgust in Sai Shaofeng's eyes, but she said calmly: "I just can't stand people lying to each other. Jiali, you are protected too well by Uncle Wu. It's easy to be deceived. I have to protect you."
"Protect her? I'm afraid you are the ones who scheme against her the most, right?"
Gu Xicao leaned back, crossed her arms, and stared at Sai Shaofeng and Chen Kexin.
"What did you say? Don't accuse a good person. You are talking nonsense!" Sai Shaofeng pointed at Gu Xicao and said angrily.
Chen Kexin's eyelids jumped, and when he met Gu Xicao's eyes that seemed to be full of fire, he had an ominous premonition, and hurriedly held down Sai Shaofeng, saying, "Shaofeng, don't lose your temper in public, you'll embarrass us."
Sai Shaofeng was full of grievances, and Chen Kexin gave her a look.
Only then did Sai Shaofeng endure it.
Chen Kexin turned around again and said to Wu Jiali, who looked confused and seemed to be out of the situation, "Jiali, I think we should forget about it today. Shaofeng is in a bad mood and will quarrel with others sooner or later. Let's go home."
"Ah, but..."
Wu Jiali felt a little aggrieved, as this was an opportunity she had finally won.
"Listen to me." Chen Kexin said decisively, pulling Wu Jiali down.
Gu Xicao said, "Sir, you are in such a hurry to leave, are you feeling guilty? Are you afraid that your affair with Miss Sai will be exposed in broad daylight and it will be shameful for others to see it?"
Chen Kexin paused and his whole body stiffened.
The situation that I least wanted to see happened.
Wu Jiali held him back and turned to look at Gu Xicao: "Master Gu, what do you mean by this? What happened to Ke Xin and Shao Feng?"
"Of course you don't know that before we started dating, your boyfriend was the boyfriend of your good friend Miss Sai." Gu Xicao said.
There was a sudden buzz of discussion in the audience.
Uncle, aunt and others were all stunned.
"What's going on? Are the good kids nowadays playing so wildly?"
"Oh, how can your best friend's boyfriend be your boyfriend? This girl surnamed Wu is so confused."
"No, from the master's tone, it seems that the little girl surnamed Wu doesn't know about this."
The discussions in the audience reached the ears of Wu Jiali and others.
Wu Jiali's lips trembled as she looked at Chen Kexin and Sai Shaofeng, "Kexin, Shaofeng, what's going on? Didn't you tell me that you were just friends before?"
A look of panic flashed across Sai Shaofeng's face.
She bit her lip and stamped her feet in grievance: "Jia Li, why do you believe what others say? How could I have talked to Ke Xin? If I had talked to him, I would not have introduced him to you."
"That's right, Jiali, you should trust me more. You are my first love. Shaofeng and I are just related because we grew up in an orphanage."
Chen Kexin said quickly.
Wu Jiali is indeed very confused in normal times, and she believes many things just because others tell her to.
But this time, she really believed Gu Xicao.
Because her father had a friend named Xu Shaowen, and Uncle Xu told her that it was Master Gu who helped him figure out that the haunting was caused by his son.
Wu Jiali just thought it was fun when she heard it, but she never expected that one day, such a "ghost" thing would happen to her.
"You, you are really not lying to me?"
Wu Jiali looked at Chen Kexin and Sai Shaofeng with suspicion, "Swear to God!"
Sai Shaofeng thought it was funny, "Of course there is no problem with that."
"Swear to God, if you lie, the person you like will never be with you!" said Wu Jiali.
Sai Shaofeng repeated it without thinking.
After she finished speaking, she saw that Chen Kexin actually showed hesitation on his face, and he seemed to be hesitant to raise his hand.
Sai Shaofeng couldn't help but be moved.
She was also worried that Ke Xin would change his mind after being with Jiali, but she didn't expect that Ke Xin still loved her so much.
As long as they can get through this difficult time today, once Ke Xin marries Jia Li and they get the Wu family's property, their lives will be better in the future.
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