The two hugged each other for a while, then Qiu Xing stood up and sat next to Jie Yang, and "conveniently" took the rose in his hand. He said sternly, "No matter where you go or what you do in the future, remember to bring Wu Shui with you."
Xie Yang looked at Qiu Xing secretly pinching the hand of the bunny doll on the rose and nodded: "Yeah."
"Are you scared?"
Xie Yang didn't react for a moment, and looked up at Qiu Xing: "Huh?"
Qiu Xing felt the blank expression on Jie Yang's face, and paused strangely. He suddenly raised his hand to rub Jie Yang's face, and then held Jie Yang in his arms: "What's with that stupid expression...are you sleepy?"
Xie Yang was a little dazed by the kneading, and then he laughed.
He was indeed a little sleepy before. He had been using his supernatural powers while drinking, which was actually very exhausting. But after seeing Qiu Xing, that bit of sleepiness was gone.
He hugged Qiu Xing's waist with one hand, leaned into Qiu Xing's arms, and shook his head: "I'm not sleepy."
"Why are you still showing off at a time like this?" Qiu Xing touched Jie Yang's head again, his tone filled with dissatisfaction, "Why are you sitting here alone? Where's He Jun? Have you finished taking notes?"
"The record is complete, He Jun is——"
He Jun just happened to come out of the police office inside.
Xie Yang stopped talking and sat up from Qiu Xing's arms: "He Jun is here."
Qiu Xing felt his arms empty, so he put down his arms and followed Jie Yang's gaze towards He Jun.
He Jun saw Qiu Xing was stunned, then hurried forward and admitted his mistake immediately: "Sorry, boss, if I wasn't drunk, you wouldn't have let Wu Shui enter the store alone."
Qiu Xing's fake stern face turned into a real stern one, and he asked, "Why did you follow Xie Yang when he was busy with Yang Xing's work, and why did you get drunk? When did you become so unprofessional?"
He Jun was stunned by the question, and then he remembered that Xie Yang had not told Qiu Xing that they were going to attend the meeting today, so he looked at Xie Yang.
Xie Yang also remembered this, and moved the hand held by Qiu Xing, attracting Qiu Xing's attention and explaining: "Actually, I didn't go to Yangxing's work today, but represented Rongding to attend a meeting at the North Business Association. He Jun got drunk because he blocked the wine for me. Thanks to him, I was lucky enough not to get drunk today."
He Jun was stunned by Jie Yang's nonsense, and then quickly restrained his expression.
Qiu Xing looked at Jie Yang, his expression becoming more and more unsightly, and asked, "Northern Business Alliance?"
Xie Yang nodded.
Qiu Xing looked at He Jun again, his voice sinking: "Why is Jie Yang attending this kind of meeting? Is there no one else in the company?"
He Jun hurriedly explained to Qiu Xing again what he had explained to Jie Yang at the beginning.
Qiu Xing laughed angrily.
"Business trip, illness, being stuck on a project, all good, all legitimate reasons. If that's the case, then they should just--"
"Ah Xing."
Qiu Xing stopped talking, shut up and looked at Jie Yang, obviously holding his breath.
Xie Yang comforted him, "I'm fine. I just attended a meeting. Prestige needs to be built up slowly. This is a necessary process. And I helped you negotiate the No. 2 Energy project at this meeting. I'm very happy."
Qiu Xing's tone was still heavy: "I found an assistant for you because I don't want you to attend this kind of social event."
"I'm actually very happy to be able to attend this kind of social event. If there is a change of hands in the middle, who knows who will end up with the No. 2 energy project." Xie Yang shook Qiu Xing's hand, "I helped you negotiate the project you wanted, aren't you happy?"
How could Qiu Xing be happy? He knew best what kind of people the Beijing Business Association was like. Drinking was inevitable if they were to discuss a project, and Jie Yang was a stranger... He suddenly moved closer to Jie Yang and sniffed.
There was a very distinct smell of alcohol.
Qiu Xing's face turned dark in an instant, he was angry and distressed.
There was such a strong smell of alcohol, and he hadn't noticed it before! No wonder Xie Yang looked so tired, no wonder Xie Yang looked so aggrieved and listless, it turned out that he was bullied by being forced to drink!
He straightened up and asked, "How much did you drink?"
When Qiu Xingwen came over, Xie Yang knew that things were not going well, and lied calmly, "Less than one cup, the rest was blocked by He Jun."
He Jun lowered his head silently.
Qiu Xing glared at Jie Yang: "How could it be possible that he only drank less than one glass of alcohol with such a strong smell? Tell the truth."
"I'm telling the truth. The strong smell of alcohol is because I spilled some on my clothes to pretend to be drunk."
Qiu Xing looked at He Jun: "Is what he said true?"
"……Um."
Qiu Xing took out his cell phone and made a call, asking, "Who did you send to the North Business Association today... Is he with you... Ask him to answer the phone, even if he's drunk!"
Xie Yang felt that things were going to get bad.
Qiu Xing grabbed both of Xie Yang's hands and held them tightly to prevent him from moving. He put the phone on speaker and asked, "How much did Xie Yang drink today?"
"At least one bottle!" The voice of the vice-director of the Tao family came out, still a little drunk, "Director Qiu, Director Jie is really amazing! He drinks liquor like water, one cup after another. No one has ever drunk more than him! All those people from the Shanglian were drunk by Director Jie. In the end, they even started to call Director Jie brother. Really, I have never seen someone who can drink so much and speaks so nicely. I like to be with Director Jie——"
Xie Yang quickly pulled his hand away and hung up the phone.
Everything is quiet and a storm is about to come.
Xie Yang said, "Actually, I can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk."
Qiu Xing held on to the hand that Jie Yang had not yet broken free, and squeezed harder and harder.
"I want to negotiate the project to make you happy."
Qiu Xing said expressionlessly: "Do you think I'm happy?"
"...There won't be a next time." Xie Yang held Qiu Xing's hand, his face full of genuine shame, "I will never lie to you again. It's all my fault. I'm sorry."
Qiu Xing's expression was suppressed for a moment, and suddenly he turned his head to look at He Jun: "This month's bonus will be deducted."
He Jun: “…Yes.”
After discussing the drinking issue, everyone got back to the main topic.
Xie Yang explained to Qiu Xing what happened during the attack, and then asked Qiu Xing where he saw the news.
"It's on a news app's push notification. It's also on Weibo, and even on the browser search box. It's everywhere. Why can't your phone call go through?"
This was news that broke almost simultaneously across the entire Internet.
Xie Yang explained: "My phone was muted during the meeting. I was taking notes before and didn't notice the call. Can you show me the news you saw first?"
Qiu Xing took out his cell phone and handed it over.
The phone screen was stuck on the news page. It was a short news item that said something like "Xie Yang was injured in an attack by black fans". Below the news was a photo of a police car parked outside a flower shop.
Xie Yang looked at the time of the report and found that about ten minutes after the police car arrived at the flower shop, the news was released and pushed to the entire network, and was successfully seen by Qiu Xing.
Something is wrong.
Xie Yang calculated the distance from the hospital to this place and the time it took him to take his statement at the police station, and found that unless Qiu Xing flew, there was no way he could get from the hospital to the police station so quickly. He turned his head to look at Qiu Xing and asked, "You were not in the hospital when you saw the news?"
Qiu Xing said with a sullen face: "I was going to pick you up and give you a surprise, but you gave me a 'surprise' first."
Xie Yang: “…”
He decisively changed the subject and asked He Jun: "How is the questioning of Wang Weiguoge by the police going?"
He Jun replied: "The police asked, Wang Weiguo didn't know any of Edie's more famous works, and couldn't even spell out Edie's literary name. The police thought he was too suspicious and took him to the interrogation room for further questioning."
It is true.
Qiu Xing frowned when he heard this: "What's going on?"
Xie Yang shared his guess.
Qiu Xing's expression immediately changed: "Isn't he your anti-fan?"
"Absolutely not."
Qiu Xing's aura became obviously anxious and suppressed: "You mean someone hired Wang Weiguo to deliberately hurt you?"
"Well, I have another guess."
"What?"
"Maybe tonight's events are not over yet." Xie Yang looked at Qiu Xing, "Would you like to do an experiment with me and lure out the snake?"
…
During the interrogation, Wang Weiguo suffered a drug addiction attack and lost the ability to communicate, so the interrogation had to be interrupted. It was already too late, so the police asked Xie Yang to go home and rest first, saying they would notify him further if there was any follow-up development.
Xie Yang nodded, and first took Qiu Xing to thank the girl in the flower shop, helped her call a car to go home, and then got in his own car and left the police station.
Ten minutes after Wu Shui and Zhou Miao drove away, a black car stopped silently outside the side door of the police station. Xie Yang, who should have left, walked out of a small alley on the side of the police station with Qiu Xing and got into the car in a low-key manner.
After getting in the car, Qiu Xing asked, "Will someone really chase the car?"
Xie Yang nodded: "That's my guess. Although news should be fast, it shouldn't be so fast and shouldn't spread so quickly. So I reasonably guess that someone deliberately wanted to tell you about this in order to lure you out of the hospital. Fortunately, although you were indeed led out, you didn't come out of the hospital. If my guess is true, then the other party will most likely not give up and will continue to follow us. Of course, maybe everything is really just a coincidence, and I am overthinking it, but it's always right to be careful."
Qiu Xing's face was as gloomy as water. He held Jie Yang's hand and rubbed it. After a while, he said, "Whether you think too much or not, you will know in a while."
The car was very quiet. Qiu Xing kept looking straight ahead with an expressionless face, as if he was waiting for a verdict.
One of Xie Yang's hands was held by Qiu Xing, and with the other hand he was holding his mobile phone and checking Weibo.
Just as Qiu Xing said, the entire internet is now filled with news of him being attacked. A related topic has been posted on the hot search list, and under the topic, other people have successively posted photos of police cars parked in front of the flower shop, and some people have taken photos of him walking out of the flower shop with the police.
And because of the initial release of that news, everyone on the Internet has now determined that the attack was caused by black fans, and all discussions revolve around black fans.
A phone call suddenly came in and Qiu Xing immediately sat up straight. Xie Yang replied soothingly: "It's Qin Cheng." Then he answered the phone.
Qin Cheng must have been woken up by someone after sleeping. His voice was a little hoarse. He started by asking if Jie Yang was okay and what happened to him. Xie Yang gave a brief explanation, and then asked Qin Cheng to post a Weibo message on his behalf to let his fans know that he was safe, so as not to worry.
As Qiu Xing listened to Jie Yang talking on the phone, his tense body relaxed a little and he leaned back in his chair.
The cell phone rang again.
Qiu Xing paused and looked at his phone.
Wu Shui's call.
Xie Yang had just finished a call with Qin Cheng and turned his head to look over.
Qiu Xing slowly sat up, clicked the answer button, pressed the hands-free key, and said in a slightly tense voice, "What's going on?"
"There's a car following me and Zhou Miao."
Guessed it right.
Qiu Xing clenched his phone tightly.
Seeing this, Xie Yang gave instructions on behalf of Qiu Xing: "Find an opportunity to stop and let the people following the car see that it is He Jun sitting in Zhou Miao's car. Then let Zhou Miao take He Jun away first, and you can drive after they leave."
"Yes, boss."
Xie Yang continued to instruct, "If the car behind you tries to hit your car, don't just dodge it. Find a chance to let it hit you, then drive directly back to the hospital. Qiu Xing and I will be waiting for you at the hospital. You and the other two bodyguards in the car should be careful not to get hurt."
"good."
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