Section 7 Zhang Hong’s decision

Zhang Sheng and I drank until midnight. We were not very drunk at all, so we were naturally drunk and fell asleep staggeringly on the bed. At the middle of the night, I didn’t know what time it was, I vaguely heard my phone ringing, but my head was really a headache at this time, so I kicked Zhang Sheng who was sleeping at my feet, "Hey, has my phone ringed?"

"It seems." After Zhang Sheng said that, I felt him reaching out to touch my bag.

After a while, I heard Zhang Sheng say, "It's a text message, saying that you won the prize, 25 million yuan, and you can get the money as long as you send a 300 yuan handling fee."

"Damn, what kind of bird text message, delete it." I muttered.

Apart from this episode, the whole night was quiet. We lie on the bed happily until the sun shines on both of us, and then we finally got up. Not long after we get up, my cell phone rang again. When I saw that it was Peng Yao's phone number.

"Zhang Hong wants to see you." Peng Yao said straight to the point after the phone call.

To put it bluntly, the reason why I wanted to create this joint case was to deal with the pressure that Qian Buyi might have on me. Since Qian Buyi had already made peace with me yesterday, I am no longer so urgent about operating this plan. In addition, I saw the tragic situation of Fang Tianhai and his son in the department store that day, which made me instinctively resist dealing with these people in the world.

I know that if I go to see Zhang Hong now, I will almost immediately start to completely intervene in their business. As for the moment, I am not willing to do this. I would rather enjoy the idle college life first, so I said, "Let's talk about it, I'm not available now."

After hearing what I said, Peng Yao smiled in disbelief and said, "Hey, little brother, have you heard clearly what I said? It's Zhang Hong who wants to see you, not I want to see you."

I raised my eyebrows and said, "I don't care who he is. I'm not a escort."

"Are you dumped by Ma Zi? Why did you suddenly speak like this?" Peng Yao asked with a smile.

I said angrily: "You were dumped."

"Okay, I don't care whether you were dumped by Ma Zi. Anyway, now is the critical moment. You can't be willful. I have booked the air ticket for you. It's eight o'clock tonight, and I'll pick you up at Bohai. If you don't go, I'll tie you up." Peng Yao said, and hung up the phone.

"Damn, bandit." I cursed and threw my phone on the table beside the bed.

At this time, Zhang Sheng rubbed his eyes and sat up, "Whose phone number?"

"Who else can you be so sarcastic? Of course it was your Uncle Peng's phone number, just like a death-seeking ghost."

"Uncle Peng Yao?" Zhang Sheng frowned, "What did he call you?"

"He said Zhang Hong wanted to see me and asked me to fly to Bohai tonight."

Hearing this, Zhang Sheng opened his eyes with admiration, "Oh, this is a huge awesome person. My uncles respected him very much when they mentioned his name in front of me. It is a matter of great respect to you to have the opportunity to meet him, so why are you still frowning?"

"But, I don't really want to go. You know, I'm afraid I'll have countless things to carry on my back in the future, and there will never be such a relaxing life now."

"Ha, no? Don't you want to go?" Zhang Sheng looked at me in disbelief for a while, and then said, "Aqi, I know this is a lot of pressure on you. But this matter is involved in a wide range. Even my father and Uncle Peng are completely involved. You can't be a little bitch."

Hearing Zhang Sheng say this, I turned my face and looked at him, then nodded helplessly, "Don't worry, I'll just talk about it. I know how important this matter is, and I will not miss it."

"That's good." Zhang Sheng nodded with a smile, then said, "Hey, I said, when you see Zhang Hong, can you ask for a signature for me?"

I smiled and kicked Zhang Sheng away, "Damn it, do you think he is a movie star and he still has autographs. Damn, why don't you just sign and take a photo?"

After kicking Zhang Sheng away, I got up from the bed, brushed my teeth and washed my face, and went to class as usual in the afternoon.

For some reason, I have always hated class, but now I like to sit in the classroom more and more. Whenever I sit in the classroom and listen to the teacher’s lecture, I can’t help but feel a sense of happiness in my heart.

After class, Peng Yao came to pick me up to the airport.

On the way to the airport, Peng Yao teased me, "Feng Ying has already sent us news and has no objection to your plan. This time, if you agree with the old man again, I will not dare to call you brother again in the future, so I have to change my words and call you President Chu."

"If you envy this president so much, I'd just give it to you." I looked at the billboard flying past the window and said to Peng Yao.

Peng Yao heard this and said with a smile: "Damn, do you think I don't want to be the president? I dreamed of wearing a suit and lace, standing on the podium to express my views on the world economy. The podium was full of politicians and economic leaders from all over the world. However, I have self-knowledge that human life is destined. If I don't have that fate, I am destined to be a thug for the rest of my life."

"This is a skill. When I become the president in the future, you can be the security chief for me." I turned my face and teased Peng Yao. Who knew that Peng Yao actually nodded seriously and said, "It's totally OK, we'll just say that."

"Come on, if I really become the president, how dare I ask you to be the security chief?" I smiled and shook my head.

Peng Yao raised his head, "What, in your eyes, can't I even do a security chief?"

"That's not. I'm afraid that if I really hire you, the security department needs to be the chief of you the most."

When Peng Yao heard this, he was a little stunned, then he raised his head and laughed.

After a while, I turned around and asked Peng Yao, "Uncle, have you ever killed someone?"

When Peng Yao heard me ask this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with a serious expression: "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

I shook my head and said, "No, I'm just curious for a moment. If you don't want to answer, forget it."

Peng Yao blinked his eyes and looked at me for a while, and replied, "Of course I have killed me. If I haven't, how could I sit in my current seat?"

"Are there anyone you have killed who will not die?" I asked again.

After looking at me for a while, Peng Yao smiled and shook his head with a desolate smile, "Your question is so stupid. We are not judges, we are hooligans. When we kill people, who will check his criminal history?"

I lowered my eyes and thought for a while, and then asked, "Did you regret it because you had killed someone?"

Peng Yao's expression condensed. After staying for a while, he let out a deep breath, turned his eyes forward, and asked strangely: "What's wrong with you today? How can you ask all the strange questions?"

"Because I was wondering if I was involved in this plan, do I need to kill someone like you guys to achieve a certain purpose?" I said, turning my head out the window.

Peng Yao smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry, you are different from us. You don't rely on your knife to make a living, but on your brain. As soon as you debut, you are the president of the joint gambling industry. You are not the turn of a rough job like killing people."

"Why are you ordering to kill someone?" I turned my head and asked Peng Yao.

"Basically, the biggest thing we need you to do is to help us manage our business. Therefore, we will not let you get involved in these grievances in the world. Once this is involved, we will naturally deal with it ourselves and you don't need to intervene. But..." Speaking of this, Peng Yao was silent for a while, turned his head, looked at me, and said, "If you want to kill someone yourself, that's another matter."

I looked at Peng Yao and asked again, "Do you think I want to kill someone?"

Peng Yao looked at me for a while and then said, "No one in the world is born to want to kill people, and no one is born to want to kill people. Everything depends on God's decision. When God pushes you to a certain situation, even if you don't want to, you will kill. Kill or not. The distance between the two is actually very close. What they are separated is just a reason enough to convince you. Therefore, as long as there is enough reason, anyone can kill. Even you are no exception."

I nodded and said nothing.

Not long after, the car drove to the airport. After getting the boarding pass, Peng Yao and I ate something in the airport restaurant, and then boarded the plane to the Bohai Sea. The time when the plane arrived in the Bohai Sea was ten o'clock.

Compared with Feng Ying, Zhang Hong's way of picking me up seemed much simpler. He just sent a closest housekeeper beside him to pick me up. This housekeeper was the one I saw in Zhang Hong's room when I was in Tonghai. He was very tall and even when he smiled, his expression seemed very gloomy. His attitude towards me could be described as respect and flattery. Being respected and flattered by a person who looked so gloomy is not a good experience.

Fortunately, he is not very talkative, so I don’t have to deal with him along the way. After driving for about an hour on the road, when the time came to 10 o’clock, the car drove into a villa in the suburbs of Bohai City.

When I got out of the car, I asked Zhang Hong’s housekeeper, “What? Mr. Zhang isn’t asleep yet?”

"The master originally went to bed on time at 10 o'clock every night, but today he wanted to see Mr. Chu, so he is still staying in the study." The butler bent down and said.

After taking a few steps, I asked again, "Where is Ruirui? Is she there?"

"Miss went to the Netherlands to perform, not at home." The housekeeper replied respectfully again.

"Oh." I nodded and didn't ask anything more.

Soon, the butler took me to an outside of a room on the second floor, then pointed to the door, and said to me: "Master is waiting for you inside."

After saying that, he hugged his waist and left. After watching him walk away, I reached out and knocked on the door, "Mr. Zhang."

"The door is not locked." Zhang Hong's voice came from the room.

When I pushed the door open and saw Zhang Hong sitting at the desk reading a book, wearing a pair of thick-framed reading glasses. He didn't look like a legendary super boss, but he looked more like an old professor who was engaged in learning.

"I'll finish this passage first, please call yourself." When I felt that I entered the door, Zhang Hong, wearing reading glasses, raised his head, looked at me, and then said.

I said oh, and then sat on the sofa not far from Zhang Hong's desk.

After waiting for about two or three minutes, Zhang Hong pointed to the refrigerator, "There is something to drink inside, you can pour it yourself."

"I'm not thirsty." I shook my hand and said.

Zhang Hong didn't say anything, and continued to read the book. After waiting for about seven or eight minutes, Zhang Hong was bent his waist and finally straightened up. He put a bookmark into the book, then covered the book, took off the reading glasses, placed them on the book, rubbed his eyes, stood up, walked to the refrigerator, opened the refrigerator, and asked me, "Beverage, juice or water?"

"If there is coke, give me a cup of coke." I said.

Zhang Hong shook his head and said, "Drinking less drinks is not good for the body. Clean water is the best. It's better to give you a can of clean water."

"Since you are planning to give me clean water, then you still ask me what I want? Fake democracy." I muttered in my heart. Zhang Hong had turned around, sat opposite me, and put a can of clean water in front of me, "This is a real mountain spring, which is good for the body."

After we each took a sip of water, Zhang Hong asked as if we were chatting: "Did you write the joint case you submitted by yourself?"

"Yes, but Zhang Sheng's father gave me some help in collecting information."

"Well, I believe you." Zhang Hong nodded, and then stopped talking for a long time.

Finally, I couldn't hold it in my arms and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Zhang, what do you think about this plan?"

On the plane I came, I had already imagined almost all Zhang Hong's reaction, but I never expected that Zhang Hong's reaction would be, "I have no objection."

I almost subconsciously opened my mouth wide, "Ha?"

Zhang Hong put down the water jug ​​in his hand and said, "Everything will be done according to what Feng Ying proposed. You will first take the lead in establishing a gambling company. You account for 2% of the management shares and other shares will be shared according to the original plan in the plan. On the Sino-Vietnam border, there is a place called Hualan Market. This is one of the most competitive areas on the Sino-Vietnam border. Feng Ying and I have a total of six casinos in this area, but the turnover has not increased and the market share is very low, only about six%. We will classify all these six casinos into newly established gambling companies. You can ask for financial and manpower support according to your needs, and we will all agree. We will give you a total of 100 days. Within 100 days, if the market share expands to more than 15%, it will be considered successful."

Seeing that I was opening my mouth and couldn't say a word, Zhang Hong asked, "What, do you have any doubts?"

I asked back with a daze: "Mr. Zhang, do you have no doubts about me?"

"Suspicious?" Zhang Hong looked at me and smiled, "Why do I have doubts about you?"

"I am just a college student under 20 years old. In the previous decade, I had no highlights. Now I suddenly claimed that I could implement such a huge plan. Shouldn't you have some doubts?"

Zhang Hong smiled and shook his head, "No, I have no doubts, nothing at all."

"Then... can you tell me why?" I asked.

"I know the benefits of joining Feng Ying with me better than anyone else. What we lack is just a person we trust. Now, Feng Ying believes in you, and I believe in you. What else do I have to doubt?"

I was stunned for a while and asked again, "But... why do you believe me so simply?"

"It doesn't take too many reasons to believe that a person is. I am in my sixties this year. For the past sixty years, I have been doing things according to my intuition. My illusion has indeed made me make mistakes, but most of the time, it is right. Therefore, I still have a lot of trust in my intuition. Anyone who truly knows me knows that on the day of Tonghai, you can walk out of my room alive, which proves that I already believe in you."

When Zhang Hong said this, he looked a little light, but a thin layer of sweat appeared on my back, "What does Mr. Zhang mean?"
To be continued...