Chapter 2825

Zhao Liangping had an expression of refusing oil and salt: "If you don't give me an explanation today, I absolutely won't go in."

Zhou Andong smiled and said: "You really won't come in?"

Seeing Zhou Andong's smiling face, Zhao Liangping's eye twitched, and he stepped into the room with genuine feeling: "Considering we are partners, I forgive you for today's matter."

Zhou Andong snorted: "You're just stubbornly refusing to leave, like a stubborn donkey backing up."

"Cut the nonsense!" Zhao Liangping plopped onto the sofa, crossed his legs, and leaned back: "Speak, what do you want from me?"

Zhou Andong sat opposite, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, then threw the cigarette pack onto Zhao Liangping: "Tell me about the Bai Jian Pharmaceutical situation."

Zhao Liangping laughed: "As expected, you came to me for this."

Zhao Liangping picked up the cigarette, then took out a lighter, and continued: "Regarding the causes and consequences of Bai Jian Pharmaceutical being swallowed, you should know better than me, so I won't say that; I'll just say who's behind it."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "Looks like you've investigated this too, kid."

"Isn't that nonsense?" Zhao Liangping gave Zhou Andong a white-eye: "If it weren't for you insisting on interfering, I wouldn't have the leisure to waste energy owing favors by investigating."

"Good!" Zhou Andong said: "I owe you a favor."

"Your words are just being distant." Zhao Liangping waved his hand generously: "I investigated because we are brothers and partners, not to earn your favor, Zhou Andong."

Zhou Andong nodded, speaking solemnly: "Indeed, helping between brothers is natural; saying you owe a favor hurts feelings, so I'll take back this favor."

Zhao Liangping stared at Zhou Andong, shaking the lighter in his hand continuously, not knowing if it was from anger or being moved by Zhou Andong's sincerity.

"You you you... I thought I understood you, but in the end I discovered I was still naive."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "Being able to eat full meals, sleep well, and be naive without worries—so being naive is good, eating foolishly and sleeping soundly, not wanting anything more."

"..."

"Sister-in-law!" Zhao Liangping, having eaten a loss and suffered serious emotional trauma, seeing Qiu Qiu come out, hurriedly greeted to change the topic: "You haven't eaten yet this morning, right? Perfect, I haven't either—I'll treat you and Zhou Dong to a meal."

Qiu Qiu smiled and greeted: "You chat first, I'll go wash up."

"Okay!" Zhao Liangping responded, then looked at Zhou Andong and said: "Sister-in-law is here, I won't lower myself to your level, otherwise I'd really have to argue with you."

Zhou Andong pouted and said: "Hurry up and talk business."

Zhao Liangping also stopped joking, finally lighting the cigarette clamped in his mouth: "The mastermind behind the Bai Jian Pharmaceutical incident is Wu Hui, while Zhuo Ning, the brother of Deputy Minister Zhuo Hua of the Public Security Department, is merely a pawn pushed forward.

Besides Zhuo Ning, there's also Shen Qi Society, son of Shen Huihuang, head of the Provincial Health Department; Bai Shanyu, son of Bai Wenming, head of the Municipal Health Bureau; Qian Zheng, son of Qian Kangshi, Deputy Director of the Municipal Committee Office; Zhang Yifei, son of Zhang Yuntong, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Political and Legal Committee; Zheng Zhengming, son of Jiang Qunshan, President of the Municipal Intermediate Court; Zhang Hai, son of Zhang Dingzhou, Political Commissar of the Municipal Public Security Bureau; Zheng Cunhao, son of Zheng Hong, Director of the Yun'an District Public Security Bureau; Gao Jiang, son of Gao Zhengming, Vice President of the Provincial High Court; plus Wu Hui himself, making exactly ten people.

Rumor says Wu Hui personally obtained fifty-four percent of the pharmaceutical company's shares, but that's not true—Wu Hui only holds twenty-five percent, and the remaining twenty-nine percent is held by the other nine people.

Of course, Wu Hui has a big appetite; that guy schemed meticulously, united so many people to swallow Bai Jian Pharmaceutical, and certainly won't be satisfied with just his twenty-five percent stake. So, the forty-six percent of shares held by the Bai Jian Pharmaceutical boss has already been regarded by him as meat in his bowl.

"Ten people—this really is a big net." Zhou Andong pondered and said: "Do these ten people have other businesses?"

"Of course." Zhao Liangping laughed: "Investing in Hainan real estate isn't just me—Wu Hui's gang has stockpiled a lot of land, all sunk in, they painstakingly swallowed Bai Jian Pharmaceutical just to recoup losses."

Zhou Andong gave a hey laugh: "They must have bank loans, right?"

"Nonsense!" Zhao Liangping said: "Stockpiling land in Hainan without loans—just poking the ground with your fingers, and people would just give you the land?"

Zhou Andong asked: "Do you have loans?"

"Yes." Zhao Liangping said: "But not much—only twenty million, but I sold that land to 【someone】, and all the funds went into our current cooperation, with no repayment pressure at all."

Zhou Andong silently puffed on his cigarette, his mind racing. Qin Zhi had already come to Guangdong Province, and I don't know how things are going.

Zhou Andong spread his hands, picked up the phone on the sofa cabinet, and called Qin Zhi.

He had just hung up for less than two minutes when Qin Zhi called back.

Zhou Andong picked up the phone: "Qin Zhi!"

"Elder Brother Dong, it's me." Qin Zhi said excitedly: "You finally came, I've been anxious."

Zhou Andong asked: "How has the situation changed?"

Qin Zhi said: "It's inconvenient to talk on the phone—where are you? I'll come find you."

Zhou Andong said: "I'm in Room 6020 of the Garden Hotel; if I'm not in the room, you can find me at the eighth-floor restaurant of the hotel."

"Wait for me!" Without waiting for Zhou Andong's reply, Qin Zhi hung up the phone.

At this moment, Qiu Qiu finished washing up and came out: "Finished talking? After we're done, let's go eat."

Zhou Andong stood up and said: "Let's go!"

The three people left the room, and Wang Wentian and four others were already standing at the door; Zhou Andong greeted them: "Let's go, let's go eat."

At the same time Zhou Andong went to eat, far away in Jingcheng, the Yin family atmosphere was very oppressive.

Yin Quanrong's face was gloomy as he swept his gaze over his son, daughter-in-law, and daughter and son-in-law, finally settling on his eldest daughter-in-law, Ruan Huiqin.

"Yin Xuan really isn't at home?"

Ruan Huiqin's face also looked bad; her eldest son, Yin Mo, was arrested in Jiangzhou, and she had always wanted to go see him personally, but Yin Mingsheng wouldn't let her go, fearing she'd cause trouble and make things irreparable.

Now her younger son, Yin Xuan, has also encountered trouble and even gone missing—truly a case of not seeing the person alive, nor the corpse dead.

"Not at home!" Ruan Huiqin said in a stiff tone: "He hasn't come back for over half a month; whether it's the injury incident or not, it was what the second son told me last night."

Yin Mingxing said with an uncertain expression: "I had people investigate at the hospital—Yin Xuan didn't complete discharge procedures, and no one saw when he left."

Yin Meilan suddenly said: "Could this kid have fled to avoid punishment?"