Chapter 196
Chapter 196
At twelve o'clock late in the night, the residential streets in the old city of Yundu City are still brightly lit, and people coming and going are workers who have just got off work and come for a midnight snack.
By the window on the second floor of a barbecue restaurant located at a crossroads, there sits a beautiful woman with a dignified appearance and gentle temperament. Her low-key solid sweater and black wide-leg pants cannot hide her voluptuous and perfect figure. A light touch of makeup embellishes her bright and beautiful face. She is very eye-catching just by sitting there.
Feng Yusu is from Yongzhou. He came to Yundu last year to accompany his daughter who came to Yunlu Academy to attend university. The family of three went to Gubei Town in Qinzhou to relax a few months ago this year.
She looked down at the watch on her wrist. It was almost one o'clock in the morning and Ning Zhe still hadn't come. She felt anxious and expectant.
Young girls like to be late on purpose when dating boys, under the pretext of testing the other party's patience. When Ning Zhe sent a WeChat message to ask her out in the middle of the night, Feng Yusu knew clearly that this was not a date, but she was more nervous than when she got married.
Speaking of getting married...
Feng Yusu's eyes were slightly out of focus, and a hint of doubt appeared on her face. Perhaps because it was too long ago, her memory of her wedding had become blurred. Looking back, she could only remember a vague mist.
That's right, my daughter is already at college age, and it's inevitable that the distant past will become blurred in her memory as time goes by...
Thinking of this, Feng Yusu bit her lower lip lightly, and suddenly an unspeakable sadness surged in her heart.
"What are you thinking about?"
The clear and familiar voice brought her back to reality from her memories. Feng Yuxu suddenly came to her senses and saw a beautiful young man in formal clothes sitting opposite her without her noticing.
"Hey? Ning Zhe?" After seeing clearly who was sitting in front of him, Feng Yusu couldn't help but be stunned.
In the past, Ning Zhe didn't care much about his dressing and adhered to the pragmatic idea that what was needed was enough for external conditions such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. In Feng Yusu's impression, Ning Zhe has always been a simple but clean image, and he would never wear luxury goods.
But today, Ning Zhe wore a custom-made suit, which was unusual. There was no recognizable brand logo on the tailored fabric. It was as simple as an unlabeled imitation from any tailor shop on the streets of Yundu. However, the high level of workmanship and clever use of materials reflected the extraordinary status of the man underneath the clothes, which was precisely the expression of true luxury.
Feng Yusu glanced at the cuff of Ning Zhe's left hand and recognized the chrome metal cufflinks he pinned on his sleeve.
Her husband Bai Fugui also has two pairs of stainless steel cufflinks from the same brand. The price of each cufflink is 1 million US dollars, and the premium of the chrome metal version is even higher.
That is to say, the two cufflinks on Ning Zhe's hands alone would cost at least 2-3 million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 5 billion in cash in his hands when converted into local currency.
However, this pair of cufflinks is actually the cheapest item on Ning Zhe's body.
"Ningzhe? What's wrong with you today..." Feng Yuxu opened his mouth, but stopped talking.
In Feng Yusu's impression, Ning Zhe was not a person who liked extravagance, but today he went against his usual practice and used high-premium luxury goods that completely deviated from the concept of pragmatism to decorate his image. The shock this brought to Feng Yusu was no less than seeing Bai Zhi suddenly say to her, "Mom, I love you the most."
The little girl would spend several hours putting on makeup and dressing up before meeting the person she likes. Ning Zhe, who never dressed up, suddenly started to pay attention to his clothes. Does it mean that he also has someone he cares about?
Looking at the boy across the table with his shirt collar tied up by a tie, Feng Yusu couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.
Ning Zhe, who never dresses up, chose to wear formal clothes today and even asked me out alone late at night. Does this mean he is...
"Don't be in a daze. Have you found any results for the thing I asked you to investigate?"
Ning Zhe waved his hand in front of Feng Yusu's eyes to call her back to reality, and asked, "I have something to do later, don't waste my time."
So, it's not for me... Feng Yushu's eyebrows drooped visibly, and he looked as disappointed as a hungry golden retriever whose dog food had been taken away. He shook his head to get rid of all the messy thoughts in his mind, and Feng Yushu said seriously: "The things you asked me to check before have been found."
Ning Zhe nodded: "Very good, so what did your husband do during the time in Gubei Town?"
“He didn’t do anything.”
Feng Yushu took a deep breath and said, "The driver, the secretary who accompanied him, the doctor in the hospital... I have investigated all the people who had contact with him in Gubei Town during this period, and the answer I got is - he did nothing in Gubei Town."
"Is that so..." Ning Zhe said with a sigh: "That's interesting."
Ning Zhe asked Feng Yusu to investigate her husband Bai Fugui not on impulse, but because she had a premonition.
At that time, there were two large real estate companies bidding in Gubei Town, one was the Zhang Yangxu Group with a local background in Qinzhou, and the other was the Bai Fugui Group from Yongzhou.
Zhang Yangxu is the son-in-law of the Xia family, a family that has some contact with the strange world, but is not yet at the level of an aristocratic family.
The practice of the Xia family is to select only one person from each generation of the family to be responsible for contacting the strange world, while the other children live a normal mortal life, manage the family property, develop industries and maintain personal connections in accordance with the rules.
It is known that Gubei Town is a strange place where the snake god lurks.
We also know that the person in this generation of the Xia family who is responsible for contacting the strange world is Xia Chan.
Moreover, Zhang Yangxu's participation in the bidding for the Gubei Town development project was largely due to the encouragement of his wife Xia Chan.
After understanding these things, looking back at the bidding for the project in Gubei Town by the two real estate companies, the logic behind the development of the events is very intriguing.
Gubei Town is not a tourist destination. Although the local scenery is nice, the transportation is very blocked, and there are no historical sites like Guichen Temple and Yellow Crane Tower to attract tourists. Investing in the development of tourist attractions in such a place is like throwing money into the water. Whether you can see the splashes depends entirely on luck.
Ning Zhe could understand that Zhang Yangxu, as the son-in-law of the Xia family, invested money in this place.
Perhaps Xia Chan learned through the channels of the upgraders and granters that there was some strange existence in Gubei Town, and the strangeness in Gubei Town was relatively mild, not like the murderous ghosts like Terang and Dianhuo, which meant it was profitable.
Mild rules can be utilized. If one can master some strange things like the Five Powers and the Four-Faced Buddha, then it is not impossible to artificially cultivate a person with the qualifications.
As a local power in Qinzhou, it is natural for the Xia family to have the idea that they are close to the Snake God in Gubei Town and get the upper hand.
To sum up, Zhang Yangxu had sufficient reasons and reasonable motives to invest money in Gubei Town.
But what about Bai Fugui?
Bai Fugui, a native of Yongzhou, traveled thousands of miles south to Qinzhou with his wife, daughter and company executives to compete with local companies for the development rights of a small rural area. Did he really have nothing better to do?
Ning Zhe didn't believe that Bai Fugui, who would do such a thing, would be an ignorant mortal, so he tried to ask Feng Yusu to investigate her husband's actions while in Gubei Town.
The answer he got was: "He did nothing in Gubei Town."
(End of this chapter)