Just as Jin Zhi finished shouting, he heard a splash of water. A stream of water came roaring like a wave, washing away all the filth in the pit along with the passbook.

"It's over, the passbook has been washed away, Brother Jin, what should we do?" Ling Chuan pretended to be anxious.

"Brother Ling, look at you, you are such a grown-up, but why are you so unreliable? You can even drop such an important item as a passbook into the shit pit."

Jin Zhigang pointed at Ling Chuan, looking so angry that it seemed like he was the one who lost the passbook.

Ling Chuan was very upset. "I was afraid that the passbook would be lost, so I always carried it with me. I was in a hurry to take off my pants just now and didn't think about it. As a result, I accidentally..."

Without the passbook, I naturally cannot withdraw the money.

Jin Zhigang walked away with a gloomy face.

Watching Jin Zhigang riding his tricycle and quickly disappearing at the intersection, Ling Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

It was indeed the passbook he threw away, but it was not the one with 300,000 yuan in it, but the one where he usually saved his pocket money.

There are only a little over 200 yuan on it. You can just get a new one when you return to Jiang City.

Fearing that Jin Zhigang would come again, Ling Chuan did not go back to the Motorola Building. Instead, he took the tram to the commercial street, intending to bring back some local specialties for his wife and father-in-law.

It was already 9 o'clock in the evening when Lingchuan finished shopping and returned to the hotel.

He had just packed up his shopping and was about to take a shower when there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, I saw three police officers in uniform.

"Lingchuan, right? Please come with us."

The police officer looked serious and asked him to go to the police station straight away, which really scared Ling Chuan.

"What do you want from me?"

"You'll know when you get there, let's go."

The public security personnel had a very tough attitude, so Ling Chuan had no choice but to follow them.

Fortunately, the person in charge of the hotel had received Liang Kuan's reminder in advance and knew Ling Chuan's identity. He informed Liang Kuan as soon as Ling Chuan was taken away.

Upon learning that Ling Chuan was taken away by the police, Liang Kuan did not dare to delay and immediately reported it to Shao Lin.

With Shao Lin's connections, it was a piece of cake for him to find out why his son-in-law was taken to the police station.

"Mr. Ling, don't be nervous. We just want to find you to understand some situations. Just tell us what you know and everything will be fine."

At the police station, after learning that Ling Chuan was the son-in-law of the Shao family, the interrogators' attitude immediately became much more friendly.

"Excuse me, do you know Jin Zhigang? What is your relationship?"

"I know him, but I just met him a few days ago. We are not very familiar with each other."

"But someone saw you getting close to him and you even had dinner together. How do you explain that?"

"He took the initiative to talk to me and even introduced me to a specialty store to buy a pager. I treated him to a meal to thank him. Usually, he would take the initiative to find me and we would just chat about some family matters and nothing else..."

Two hours later, the police confirmed that Ling Chuan was not Jin Zhigang's accomplice and let him go.

Walking out of the police station, Ling Chuan felt cold sweat on his back.

His hunch was correct. Jin Zhigang was indeed a liar and one of the leaders of a major fraud gang.

This time, they used fake pagers to defraud nearly thirty victims, with a total amount of more than 1.5 million yuan.

As soon as Ling Chuan returned to the hotel, Shao Lin called him.

"Xiao Ling, the matter has been clarified. It has nothing to do with you. It's okay."

"Dad, I'm causing you trouble."

"If you call me dad, I will definitely take care of you. You don't have to think too much. Go to bed early, ah."

"Okay, Dad, you should go to bed early too."

After tossing and turning all night, Ling Chuan was exhausted both physically and mentally, but he couldn't fall asleep for a long time lying in bed.

Frustration, relief, longing, all these emotions intertwined together, like a flame burning in his chest.

After thinking about it all night, Ling Chuan decided to change his strategy.

After daybreak, he took a cold shower, changed into clean clothes and went out.

——Don’t ask him why he takes a cold shower. The reason he does is that he is used to it.

"Brother Wan, I want to ask you for a favor."

Wan Yuanbai was a little surprised when he received Ling Chuan's call. When he learned that Ling Chuan was in Shanghai, he was quite shocked.

"You went to Shanghai? When did it happen? Did you encounter any problems?"

Although Wanyuanbai was in Jiang City, he had extensive channels of information and he had received news about Jin Zhigang's fraud gang early on.

Hearing that Wan Yuanbai really cared about him, Ling Chuan felt a little warm in his heart.

"Brother Wan, I'm fine. I want you to introduce me to someone..."

With Wanyuanbai's help, Lingchuan met Motorola's marketing manager Ma Xuebin as he wished, in the luxurious private room he had booked.

The two of them ordered a table full of delicacies from land and sea, as well as a bottle of imported wine worth more than two hundred yuan.

Unlike domestic bosses, entrepreneurs and public servants who like to drink Moutai Wuliliang, Ma Xuebin is an elite returnee who has learned the ways of foreigners. He only likes to drink red wine and foreign liquor, and the more expensive the better.

Ma Xuebin was obviously very satisfied with Ling Chuan's arrangement, and almost the whole bottle of red wine went into his stomach.

After eating and drinking, Ma Xuebin directly put forward his conditions.

"200,000, no bargaining. If you can accept that, I'll arrange it for you before the end of the month."

Ling Chuan's breath was choked, "Manager Ma, I need to think about it."

"Sure. It's not a small amount after all. If I don't see the money after three days, I'll consider you to have given up, and I'll give the spot to someone else."

Ma Xuebin said with a fake smile, "You may think 200,000 is a lot, but there are many people out there who are willing to come to me with 200,000 or even more. I can't help it, who made me owe Lao Wan a favor? When I went abroad to study, I didn't have money to buy a plane ticket, and I asked for money everywhere, but only Lao Wan lent me money. I have always remembered this favor, and I must give him face when he asks."

The troops have strict discipline and communication tools such as pagers are not allowed to be used.

It was two days later that Shao Mo found out that Ling Chuan had almost been defrauded.

After hearing the whole story from Ling Chuan, Shao Mo was still frightened. Being cheated of money was a small matter. She was afraid that someone had deliberately set up a trap for Ling Chuan, targeting Shao Lin or even the entire Shao Group.

Although Shao Mo knew that Ling Chuan would not be easily deceived given his intelligence and experience, she still gave him some serious advice.

"Ling Chuan, you must always remember that we are no longer ordinary people. I am the eldest daughter of the Shao family, and you are the son-in-law of the Shao family. If we make the slightest mistake, it may have an immeasurable impact on Dad and the Shao Group. Therefore, do not take chances at any time and under any circumstances, and do not do anything that violates laws and regulations."

"Well, I understand, wife, there is one more thing..."

When Shao Mo heard Ma Xuebin asking for 200,000 yuan in exchange for a dealer position, she agreed without much thought.

"Promise him that you will take out 200,000 yuan from the passbook I gave you and give it to him. But you must make sure his identity is real and reliable before you give him the money."

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