Chapter 475

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

"I'll handle it." Cao Yuan faced Cui Jianshu, smiling as he said, "Have your people wait one more hour, I'll send someone to take over."

Cui Jianshu, displeased, lowered his voice and said, "That's... gold we're talking about."

"In the star-rated hotel, give the security a heads-up, it's fine." Cao Yuan wasn't as calm as he appeared on the surface; on the contrary, he was actually a bit at a complete loss.

Hu Bin's armed police and the Jinquan County police were people he had arranged before coming to Jiangning; finding people temporarily would be inconvenient, and just as Cui Jianshu said, with tons of gold, entrusting it to others was truly unsettling.

"How do you plan to handle it?" Cui Jianshu was in the insurance business, born to deal with risk; placing over 2 tons of gold in a hotel was equivalent to spreading out over 500 million RMB. He wasn't just worried about robbery; he even worried about someone absconding with the money, or something even worse, so he had to warn the other party.

"I'm thinking." Cao Yuan impatiently looked Cui Jianshu up and down.

This was a very impolite action, suitable for his fox-and-dog friends, but not suitable for a state-owned enterprise leader.

Cui Jianshu immediately got angry and said, "It's almost 5 o'clock, I need to put the stuff in a bank. Otherwise..."

Cao Yuan interrupted him, saying, "Which bank will let you deposit it."

This pot-calling-the-kettle-black remark infuriated Cui Jianshu to the point of choking; he thought: You haven't managed to secure a single Jiangning bank, is that my fault?

But he was older after all, and said as amiably as possible: "Everything piled up today, bad luck, we have to worry about solving it ourselves. Like this, you keep looking for people; best if we can transport to Jinquan County. As for me, I'll ask old friends, see if tonight it's convenient to store temporarily."

"Can only do it this way, everything going wrong, ptooey, ptooey, tomorrow it'll go smooth." Cao Yuan was out of ideas, his anger quickly fading, turning to superstition.

Cui Jianshu, however, was startled. The promised armed police contact couldn't be reached, the promised police were actually blocked outside Jiangning City; connecting this to the Chen Family's status, he felt a wave of regret.

Muddy water — this is exactly what they mean.

Looking at Cao Yuan again, this man's character was stubborn and self-willed; if you helped him make money, he wouldn't be grateful, but if you caused him a loss, he would definitely resent you.

As for his own mistakes, he would probably only heap the regret onto others.

"Go back." Cui Jianshu didn't know what to say, proactively calling the waiter to settle the bill.

Cao Yuan paid him no mind, starting to make phone calls non-stop.

But until the hotel, Cao Yuan had only found a few private security companies and a few empty promises from the government; even he himself knew they were of little use.

The sky grew dark.

Cui Jianshu, forced by circumstances, persuaded again: "It's 200 kilometers to Jinquan County; if we don't decide now, it'll be too late."

Cao Yuan shook his phone, finally saying helplessly, "Put it in the auction house's vault then."

"I'll go talk to them, only for one night, still have to move it out early tomorrow morning. Also need extra guards." Cui Jianshu stated this in advance, so as not to lose face in front of his old friend.

"One day is one day then." Cao Yuan walked away sighing. His connections in Jiangning all came from his family; the arm reaching from Xijing to Jiangning was this long, but its strength was only three or five parts out of ten.

"It's all those short-sighted banks' fault." He started blaming the Four Major Banks' heads; if the Liu Family had negotiated it, all current problems would have been easily solved.

Cui Jianshu shook his head secretly, thinking: The boss doesn't know what madness took him, colluding with Xijing rich kids to oppose the Chen Family locally in Jiangning. The top moves their lips, the bottom runs their legs off!

Yet he forgot, when he was at the Jiangning company, wasn't he also just moving his lips like that.

The next day, the Jinquan County police finally appeared in front of the hotel.

Cao Yuan received a call, tossed aside the sweaty stripper, and ran downstairs excitedly, shouting: "Finally they're here."

After checking the phone directory yesterday, he truly deeply understood the preciousness of Jinquan County high officials; without this connection, he'd have to find people from the Southeast Provincial Party Committee. In China, private companies are still relatively unreliable; institutions like private security companies, who knows how many wall-inside gentlemen and wall-outside villains there are.

"Young Master Cao, sorry about that." The once imposing Deputy Bureau Chief's face was covered in greasy sweat, looking about the same as the stripper's black forest.

Cao Yuan felt a wave of disgust, reluctantly shook hands, and said: "Don't talk about that, since people are all here let's depart, Manager Cui is waiting impatiently. This time we use a cash transport vehicle, you send two people to ride along."

The armed police old classmate couldn't be reached no matter what; now he could only rely on these people.

The Deputy Bureau Chief was both invigorated and embarrassed; as they were leaving the hotel door he said: "Young Master Cao, there's a small problem."

"What?"

"It's the Jiangning police being too excessive." The Deputy Bureau Chief glanced at Cao Yuan, saying quietly: "They won't let us carry guns, police cars aren't allowed to sound sirens, motorcycles weren't allowed to clear the way."

Cao Yuan was stunned, saying bluntly: "Can't sound sirens, can't carry guns, what use are police then."

However you listened, those words grated; the Deputy Bureau Chief hmphed a couple times and said: "No choice..."

"Fine. Then let's just transport it." Cao Yuan really couldn't be bothered anymore.

Yesterday's two police cars and four motorcycles became three police cars, sandwiching one cash transport vehicle in the middle. Four fully armed guards carrying shotguns sat on both sides, looking quite imposing.

It took two hours to load and transport the gold; Cao Yuan's nerves began to be highly tense.

Others still thought they were transporting silver, so they weren't extremely worried. Modern people have no concept of the weight of gold and silver, but the price gap of over 50 times between the two is clear.

"When we get to the highway entrance in a bit, the police cars have to scatter, go out one by one." The Deputy Bureau Chief wiped sweat, looking at the loaded cash transport vehicle, then explained: "Jiangning police are extremely unreasonable, they simply won't let our convoy drive; this is already after we agreed to drive in separately."

Cui Jianshu's blood pressure immediately spiked, and he angrily said: "Isn't this nonsense! Scatter them, how do we protect it?"

"Just a moment, just a moment. Really no choice; if we insist, they'll just block us again, won't they." Jinquan County's Public Security Bureau was high-spec; a Deputy Bureau Chief there was merely a Zheng-ke level, but Jiangning was a Vice-Provincial city; a random highway traffic police captain there was also Zheng-ke level; if they weren't afraid of the Cao Family or something, he had absolutely no way to deal with them.

"Sigh." Cui Jianshu glanced at Cao Yuan, decisively returned to the hotel lobby to call his superior.

In his view, the life insurance company running on Jiangning Bank's bonds was fundamentally a knee-jerk idea; trouble was normal, no trouble would be abnormal.

Cao Yuan paid no attention to Cui Jianshu, got in the lead car and rushed toward Jinquan County.

A few days ago when threatening Chen Yi, he felt 200 tons of gold was nothing; as long as 50 billion RMB was put out, it could be bought up immediately. And gold isn't like industrial products; not only can it not be produced more, it's even more real than banknotes, equivalent to not spending a single cent and strangling Jiangning Bank to death.

However, things are often done into existence, not thought into existence.

Merely 5 tons of gold — 2.5 tons in Jinquan County, 2.5 tons on the police cars — just made him tense to the point of breaking; if lost, that would be losing 1.3 billion RMB... When getting off the elevated bridge, seeing private cars appearing one after another beside the cash transport vehicle carrying the gold, while the other two police cars stopped on the roadside, the tension in Cao Yuan's heart was simply comparable to impotence under the bed, premature ejaculation on the bed.

When about to arrive at Jinquan County, Cao Yuan didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief; the congestion at the toll station made him sweat again, especially when a minibus followed closely behind, Cao Yuan couldn't help but demand: "Turn on the warning lights, make them all get out of the way."

The Deputy Bureau Chief then went into another round of frantic persuasion.

Finally, the vehicle arrived at the Jinquan County Credit Union, and he finally relaxed a little, calling to his subordinates: "Help move it, finish early and rest early."

The police officers worked hard moving it out; Cao Yi and four remaining aides counted in the Credit Union's vault.

Clicking and clicking, he clicked out a problem.

"Missing 20 kilograms."

"Missing 20 kilograms!"

He clicked until 3 PM, when Cao Yuan finally roared hysterically.

In an era when 1 gram of gold cost 250 yuan, 1000 grams was also 250,000, and 20 kilograms was 5 million. That matched Cao Yuan's annual pocket money.

"No one is allowed to leave." Cao Yuan blocked the exhausted police officers and security company members.

"Young Master Cao, what's wrong?" Deputy Bureau Chief was so tired his tongue was nearly dragging on the ground. They had set out at noon yesterday without rest, 24 hours had passed, and they were back in Jinquan County; not being able to go home was truly incomprehensible.

Cao Yuan gritted his teeth and said: "Missing 20 kilograms."

"How is that possible? These silver bars never left anyone's sight, and the number of chests is correct, and the seals on the chests are all intact..."

Cao Yuan thought so too, immediately took out his mobile phone and called Cui Jianshu: "Gold is missing 20 kilograms, you check it quickly."

The police officers beside him immediately stirred into a commotion.

"Gold?"

"Not silver?"

"Jiangning Bank's gold?"

Everyone's words left Cao Yuan stunned.

"All stay, no one is allowed to leave, no one is allowed to leave." Cao Yuan was like a mother beast protecting her young; in one arrow-step he came before the door, half his body blocking the path sideways.

Chen Yi laughed helplessly on the roof, thinking: Did I make a fuss over nothing?

If it were someone clear-headed, the most suitable plan now would be silence.

Silence is the best method against internal enemies.

When silent, one can observe; when silent, one can resist; silence is waiting for the enemy to make a mistake...

Someone like Cao Yuan making a huge scene—if a good result could come of it, it would have to be sheer luck. Even if it were true that Chen Yi took the gold, or that it was really stolen, he would almost certainly not find it. So, his most correct choice should be silence and observation...

Liu Xinyu, sitting beside him, saw through his thoughts and smiled: "Isn't a simple enemy good?"

"Give him a chance. If he doesn't come to his senses, next time he'll lose even more." Chen Yi seemed to be speaking casually, yet also like making a vow.

Liu Xinyu knew Chen Yi valued vows greatly. She couldn't help but turn her head, but saw only his profile under the illusory light.

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