Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0618: Langyuan Fairy Flower
Nan Yi already had an idea about what was happening on Lou Xiaoyuan's side, so he wasn't in a hurry.
His people have already dug out Lou Xiaoyuan's daughter Lou Zhizhen, and also dug out Jia Xiuran and his father Jia Yizheng.
Every crime has a motive. Once the intelligence team got to know the details of Lou Zhizhen and Jia Xiuran, their motive became clear.
That year, in early November 1948 , on the eve of the liberation of Tiangang, Jia Yizheng asked the twelve-year-old Jia Xiuran to come to Beijing to join Lou Xiaoyuan, but then, in January of the following year, the battle to liberate Beijing began.
Lou Xiaoyuan thought that his background was not clean, so he had to let his daughter and Jia Xiuran run south first, and then find a way to get out depending on the situation.
Jia Xiuran and Lou Zhizhen went all the way south and finally arrived at Qiongdao Island to seek refuge with Fu Guangsheng, an acquaintance of Jia Yizhen. They stayed in Qiongdao Island until April 1950, when they followed Fu Guangsheng's family on a fishing boat bound for Xiangkeng.
By some strange coincidence, the fishing boat did not reach Xiangkeng but ended up in Aomen.
The Fu family had some assets on Qiong Island and were also shareholders of the largest rubber plantation on Qiong Island, "Qiong'an Rubber Plantation". Although they did not have time to sell their property during the escape, the Fu family had considerable savings. In addition, Jia Xiuran and Lou Zhizhen also had valuables with them. After arriving in Aomen, the group did not suffer any hardship and quickly settled down.
Fu Guangsheng had a son named Fu Zhiyuan. Just like his name, he had lofty ambitions. After settling down in Macau, he combined the financial resources of the Fu, Lou and Jia families to establish Zhixiu Trading Company.
During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhixiu Trading Company transported large amounts of supplies to the mainland and made a fortune. By the early 1960s, Zhixiu Trading Company reached its peak.
But Fu Zhiyuan was not satisfied. He also wanted to lead Zhixiu Trading Company to a higher level.
The most profitable industry in Macau is undoubtedly gambling.
In 1960, Fu Laorong passed away. His eldest son Fu Yinzhao inherited his business and was preparing to build on his father's foundation. But at this moment, Ye Han, who had learned that his old rival was dead, jumped out and laughed three times, "Little Fu, don't say that I am bullying the weak. I, Old Ye, will have a good fight with you over this gambling card."
Ye Han found a number of people to form a consortium with him to compete for the gambling license, including Bo Chupu.
Fu Zhiyuan, who had lofty ambitions, naturally saw the value of the gambling license. He joined in the fun and gathered a group of people to concentrate their efforts on competing for the gambling license.
But there is an old saying that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Fu Zhiyuan is an outsider and has no way to compete with Fu Ye and his gang. There is also an old saying that when the eldest and the second in command fight, the third in command should be killed first.
Unexpected things happen in life and misfortunes may come to you at any time. Fu Zhiyuan had just announced that he would participate in the gambling competition, but within three days, he drowned in the washbasin.
Regardless of whether others believe this conclusion or not, the Macau Police, who represent Macau’s laws, believe it.
After Fu Zhiyuan's death, the Fu family immediately fell into chaos, and Jia Xiuran, who had no business talent, had to step up to take charge of the situation. Although Jia Xiuran lacked talent, he was a steady person. Although the business of Zhixiu Company failed to expand, it was barely maintained.
Moreover, this situation lasted for more than twenty years.
No one knows what happened, but in the 1980s, Jia Xiuran, who had been married to Lou Zhizhen for a long time and was in loving relationship with her, actually kept a mistress outside. When Lou Zhizhen found out about this, she felt so empty, lonely and cold that she unknowingly walked into the casino and became addicted to it.
Originally, this matter was nothing. Lou Zhizhen didn't play big. He only won or lost a few thousand yuan each time. Although it was a lot of money, Zhixiu Company could still afford it. Jia Xiuran himself had a dirty trick and didn't have the face to say anything more. The two of them could continue to live in harmony.
But when time entered 1981, things suddenly took a turn .
Both Jia Xiuran and Lou Zhizhen became big gamblers and treated the casino as their home. The two of them gambled heavily together, and in less than half a year, all the assets of Zhixiu Trading Company were gone, and they also owed a huge debt.
The lives of two families and three surnames became miserable.
The intelligence team did not find out why the two had such a big change, but it was certain that it was not a voluntary change on their part, but rather a force pushing them to change.
Although the intelligence team did not find out which force it was, they mentioned a suspect in their investigation report - the Bo family.
To be precise, it should be Bo Qiong, the woman from the Bo family who is as brave as any man.
Although Boqiong is a girl, she is ambitious to inherit the Bo family business. As a rookie, she urgently needs to demonstrate her ability, so she sets her sights on the remnants of those who competed with her family for the gambling license.
This was just Nan Yi's guess and there was no evidence to support it. However, in the 1980s, the biggest variable in Macau was Bo Qiong, so it was not without reason that Nan Yi placed her as the first suspect.
In the second half of 1981, Jia Xiuran and Lou Zhizhen returned to the capital. Nan Yi estimated that at that time, Lou Xiaoyuan knew the situation of his daughter and son-in-law, and was dragged into the evil path.
There is nothing you can do about your children’s debts; parents who feel indebted must repay them.
Ring ring ring!
"Mr. Nan, I'm waiting for you at the Yuetan Park Shenku." This is what the person on the other end said when Nan Yi answered the phone.
"Comrade Luo, let's go and prepare to go around in circles."
Nan Yi hung up the phone, said something to Luo Qianqian, and then put the kettle and military bag on his back.
Just as Nan Yi expected, he and Luo Qianqian really became dogs, being led by a leash, first to Yuetan Park, then Beihai Park, Jingshan Park, Taoran Lake Park, Tuanjie Lake Park...
From 8:30 in the morning to 7:30 in the evening, they refueled once in the middle of the journey. Their final destination was the Beijing Hotel and the coffee shop, the table where Nan Yi and Luo Qianqian sat last time, but Nan Yi's seat was occupied by a Japanese.
After being fooled for a whole day, the magma in Nan Yi's stomach was already bubbling. A warm and sincere smile was on his face. Nan Yi looked at the Japanese soldiers opposite him, hoping in his heart that they would not be caught and must escape from the country.
"Mr. Li, let's talk business. We are tired after running all day."
"Mr. Nan, I'm sorry. The situation is very tense recently, so you'd better be cautious in what you do." Li Tangming said with a smile.
"It's okay. We should be cautious."
"Mr. Nan, I'm glad you understand. I've been sitting here for a long time today and drank several cups of coffee. I suddenly want to go to the bathroom. Mr. Nan, let's go together. I'll have company."
Nan Yi raised his left hand, looked at the "electronic watch" on his hand, and ran his right hand across a spring.
"Crispy burger, sturgeon burger, toilet on the first floor."
"Got."
"Chicken burger, beef burger, the bathroom is not a suitable place for conversation, you two keep an eye on position A, and everyone else stand by."
Position A, there is a semi-enclosed space next to the toilet, which is relatively hidden and private, and it is a good place to whisper.
"yes."
The most dangerous place is the safest, this seems to be the consensus of many people. When the school beauty speculated on the possible meeting place, she had already included the Beijing Hotel.
Yesterday, the school beauty had already booked a room here and split the troops into two groups. Tiger cub led Wu Kun and four others to follow Nan Yi, while the school beauty led the Hamburger Team, which had just been transferred from Xiangkeng and had never been used, to guard the hotel.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the school belle saw the devil in the lobby of the hotel. Tiger Cub and his group didn't need to follow Nan Yi and came directly to the hotel to meet up with the school belle.
At this time, there were already 12 people from Nan Yi in the Capital Hotel.
On the other hand, early this morning, Liu Zhen took the people who stayed in the old villa on a one-day trip to Tiananmen Square.
Nan Yi pretended to think for more than ten seconds, and estimated that the personnel should have arrived. Then he said to the devil: "Okay, I happen to be going too, so let's go together. Mr. Li, do you want to hold hands?"
"Mr. Nan, you're joking." The devil smiled and stood up.
Nan Yi was about to stand up, but before he could stand up, he felt a hand reaching into his trouser pocket, leaving something the size of a matchbox.
"Damn, the bug was placed there temporarily. Why didn't they give it to me earlier?" Nan Yi muttered inwardly and followed the Japanese to .
It turned out that the devil's excuse of going to the toilet was just an excuse. When he reached the toilet door, he did not push it open. Instead, he greeted Nan Yi and led Nan Yi to position A.
"Mr. Nan, which volume do you want and how many copies do you want?" The devil looked around cautiously and waited for a while before speaking to Nan Yi.
"'Divination', how much you want depends on the price."
"3 million Hong Kong dollars per copy, no bargaining," said the devil.
Nan Yi stroked his chin and pretended to think for a while, "11 million, I want all 4 volumes of Divination."
The devil nodded, "Okay, prepare the money and wait for my call, we will do the transaction in Xiangkeng."
"Okay, don't take too long, I'm busy."
"soon."
The devil nodded again and turned away.
It was quiet, nothing bad happened, and Nan Yi's arrangements once again seemed redundant.
But he never gets tired of it and will make the same careful arrangements next time.
…
An hour later.
Great Wall Hotel, Luo Qianqian's room.
"Mr. Nan, don't be disgusted. The food in the cafeteria is already cold. That's how it is when handling cases. There's no fixed time for eating." Zhou Yongjun put a lunch box in front of Nan Yi and said apologetically.
"I don't dare to be disgusted. It's my honor to eat lunch with you golden shields." Nan Yi took the lunch box, opened it, put the lid on the bottom of the lunch box, picked up a pair of chopsticks from the side and started to eat.
Seeing that Nan Yi didn't show any disgust, Zhou Yongjun showed a hint of satisfaction in his eyes and picked up his chopsticks to eat.
After finishing half of the lunch, Nan Yi saw that Zhou Yongjun hadn't spoken yet, so he took the initiative to say, "Team Leader Zhou, you should have heard what the devil said just now. He wants to trade in Xiangkeng. Do I need to follow him?"
Zhou Yongjun put down his lunch box, lit a cigarette, frowned, and took a few deep puffs. "Boss Nan, if I continue to follow you, is it convenient for you?"
"I'm fine, but is it convenient for your task force to go to Xiangkeng?"
"It's not convenient for us to go there, but we can contact the police in Xiangquan and ask them to send someone to help."
Nan Yi also put down his lunch box, took his military bag from the side, pulled out his checkbook, opened the cover, and showed it to Zhou Yongjun, "30,000 yuan in total, this is a small gift from me, the rest has been filled in, the official seal has been stamped, only the recipient unit is missing, Team Leader Zhou, what should I fill in?"
"Thirty thousand, for us?"
Zhou Yongjun's hand holding the cigarette shook and the cigarette almost fell to the ground.
Luo Qianqian, who was standing next to him, looked at Nan Yi in surprise, and the others also looked at him with similar surprise.
"Yes, I was originally going to fill in the 521 Task Force directly, but I thought your task force should not have its own independent account, so I left it blank." Nan Yi said calmly.
Zhou Yongjun took a few deep puffs of his cigarette, as if he was considering which unit's name to tell Nan Yi.
Needless to say, the task force that handles cross-regional cases must have personnel drawn from various local units. In theory, they should just tell the Nan Yi task force the account of the unit where the money is located. However, the money has been deposited into the unit account, so it is hard to say how much the task force can get.
After a long while, Zhou Yongjun said, "Haidian District Public Security Bureau."
"Sure?"
"Yes."
"good."
Nan Yi nodded and filled in "Haidian District Public Security Bureau" in the blank space of the payee. After he finished writing, he took out another checkbook from his backpack and quickly wrote another check.
Tear, tear.
Nan Yi tore off two checks and handed them to Zhou Yongjun. "There are two checks in total. One is from the account , and the other is from the account of Yaqing Company. The amount of each check is 30,000. The first one is a personal gift from me to the task force, and the second one is from me on behalf of Yaqing Company to express my condolences to all the police officers of Haidian District Public Security Bureau."
Nan Yi paused, showing an embarrassed expression, "Team Leader Zhou, please hand in this second one later. I will go back to the company tomorrow and say hello to the two chairmen. Thirty thousand yuan is not a small amount. According to the company's financial system, such a large expenditure must be approved by the two chairmen."
"Sure, of course. I'll keep both of them for now and wait for your notice." Zhou Yongjun couldn't hide his joy, his upper and lower gums were all showing. He took out a stack of large and small bills from his trouser pocket with his right hand, "Xiao Luo, go buy some delicious food. Mr. Nan is the God of Wealth, how can he let others eat boxed lunches?"
As he spoke, Zhou Yongjun did not forget to explain to Nan Yi, "It's my own money."
Nan Yi smiled faintly, and couldn't help thinking in his heart: "What a lovely and respectable golden shield uncle."
…
The next day.
Before going to work, Nan Yi first went to the telegraph building and made a phone call to the HSBC Bank in Hong Kong, asking HSBC to transfer 160,000 Hong Kong dollars to Genzhengmiaohong's account at National Bank. Then he went to the company to pick up He Ping, and the two went to the branch of National Bank where Yaqing Company opened an account, and transferred 30,000 yuan from Genzhengmiaohong's account to Yaqing Company's account.
As soon as he returned to the company, Nan Yi went to Lin Deqing's office and explained the check he had issued yesterday and the additional payment of 30,000 yuan today.
"Xiao Nan, it's a good thing to express condolences to our brother companies. Besides, you are also representing Yaqing Company. How can the money come from a legitimate company?" After hearing what Nan Yi said, Lin Deqing immediately said in a blaming tone.
"Director Lin, according to the company's financial system, such a large expenditure must be decided after collective discussion among several of us. I did not report it, and there was no meeting within the company to discuss and decide. This violated the company's system. The money should be made up by me personally. I will also make up the money for Genzhengmiaohong."
The system is the system. If there is a special matter today, a bunch of "special matters" will pop up tomorrow. If Nan Yi does not make up the 30,000 yuan today, what will be waiting for him is a thousand or ten thousand 30,000 yuan.
"Xiao Nan, you are really rigid." Lin Deqing shook his head and said.
"Director Lin, I'm a rather dull person, and I'm also the executor of the company's decisions. I don't have the ability to innovate, but at the execution level, I will definitely strictly follow the decisions made by the company's top management."
"Oh, all right."
"Director Lin, I'll go back to the office first. If you need anything, have someone call me."
"good."
When Nan Yi walked out of Lin Deqing's office, Lin Deqing's face darkened, "You little bastard, you are so tight-lipped!"
"Old man, I wonder how long you can hold it in."
Before returning to the office, Nan Yi went to the purchasing department and called Zhang Jialiang out to give him some encouragement.
Zhang Jialiang is the head of the External Relations Department. He is the only one in the department. His main job is to play table tennis. He plays table tennis everywhere, participates in competitions, and holds social gatherings, etc.
After returning to the office, Nan Yi picked up the phone to make a call, but there was a busy tone.
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yi walked towards the front desk on the first floor.
"Meili, did you turn on the program-controlled switch?"
"Mr. Nan, I didn't, but I just saw sparks coming out of it." Han Meili said innocently.
"Yeah?"
Nan Yi walked to the switch, took a few looks, smelled the smell, and then unplugged the power supply of the switch.
"Go to the Transportation Department and get tool box number 3."
When Han Meili heard this, she immediately ran to the transportation department and came back with a toolbox in a short while.
Nan Yi found a screwdriver from the toolbox and removed the switch casing. Then he removed the integrated circuit board. When he lifted it up and took a look, his face immediately turned dark.
Damn, several of the soldering points looked like they were done with an electric soldering iron.
"Go and call Qiu Heping over." Nan Yi said coldly to Han Meili.
“Yes… yes.”
After a while, Qiu Heping arrived at the edge of Nan Yi.
"Boss Nan."
"Meili, go to the store at the door and buy me a bottle of soda."
"good."
The company has its own refrigerator, which is stocked with all kinds of drinks available on the market. Han Meili wouldn't be so stupid as to not understand Nan Yi's intention to get rid of her.
“Ever played with circuit boards?”
After Han Meili left, Nan Yi asked Qiu Heping.
“Yes.”
"Then take a look for yourself." Nan Yi said, pointing to several abnormal welding points he had just discovered.
Qiu Heping took a look and his face darkened. "It's hand-welded."
"Hongnian Company's small HAX program-controlled exchange, wholesale price in Hong Kong is 3,200 Hong Kong dollars, Shenzhen sells for 6,700 RMB, and Yaqing buys for 9,000 RMB. Heping, it would be best if you and I were fools together."
Nan Yi patted Qiu Heping on the shoulder and said, "You can handle this matter. I want to see the company's call go through before noon tomorrow."
After Nan Yi left, Qiu Heping's face turned livid and he gritted his teeth, "Grandson, how dare you cheat your grandfather!"
