I tossed a cup from side to side and asked absently, “I’m actually curious, there are so many beautiful women under the sky, and with your weird fetish that Xiao Xiao obviously can’t satisfy, why are you still chasing her?”
Li Ge’s eyes drifted elsewhere and he said, “She’s my first love, men have a first love complex, I …… ahhhhh, what are you doing!”
I grabbed the cup and smashed it at him, it crashed into the wall less than five centimeters next to his face and shattered.
I said in a cold voice, “Tell the truth.”
“I… I’m telling the truth. ……”
I took the fruit knife out of the fruit tray on the table and tossed it from left to right.
“Don’t you, you have something to say, don’t don’t.”
Li Ge covered his face with both hands and I took the opportunity to rip the covers off him and glanced at his lifeblood between his legs, Li Ge’s cries changed in fear.
“I’ll say, I’ll say. I’m an account manager at Hongtong Securities, and I, for one, want Chu Huaien to buy our company’s products. Of course, I was originally very fond of Chu Xiaoxiao too.”
“Bullsh*t, everyone knows Chu Huaien doesn’t have any money.” I said deliberately.
“He, he ……,” Li Ge said, swallowing hard, “that’s his cover. He is running a financing company using Chu Xiaoxiao’s identity and is now in the process of getting a license from industry and commerce. But his reputation is not good, industry and commerce will not give him to do, for this matter he begged everywhere, also begged to my father’s head.”
“What exactly is the matter, tell me clearly, what kind of financing company does he want to get?”
“It’s not that complicated, it’s a secret to outsiders. It’s just that I’m a finance student and I know a lot about it, so when I checked it out, I found out that he had money problems. People thought he was broke and wouldn’t suspect what he was really up to. He had got a sum of money from somewhere, but, probably, he was going to make a small loan.”
I didn’t know anything about finance, and Li Ge had explained it, but I couldn’t understand it.
But I couldn’t let him know that I didn’t understand, otherwise this grandson would surely find a way to fool me.
I said, “Don’t squeeze toothpaste out of me, give me the whole story at once.”
“It’s similar to loan sharking, but it’s just legal. This is called a chopping loan, seven or fourteen days a cycle, and the interest rate is very high, higher than a loan shark.”
“And it’s legal?”
“There’s a loophole in the law. The hard thing about this is that the licence is hard to grant, as long as the licence is granted, before the regulation finds out, you can make a big amount, even if the regulation finds out, you won’t lose money without losing money, big deal, don’t want the interest, want the principal.”
I still didn’t feel right and said, “He’s depleting his goodwill just to do loan sharking?”
“Don’t you underestimate the amount of money that can be made in this. Unlike traditional loan sharks, this is sitting around counting your money.”
I didn’t know much about finance, but according to logic, it couldn’t be as simple as Li Ge made it out to be, Chu Huaien had taken the trouble to get so much money, risking possible jail time, just to be a loan shark?
“I’ve told you everything I know, I’m really not lying to you. I want to chase after Chu Xiaoxiao because I know Chu Huaien is using Chu Xiaoxiao as a businessman to register a company, and as long as I marry Chu Xiaoxiao, I will have a way to slowly get this company into my hands.”
I sneered, “You’re quite shrewd.”
“I beg you, I won’t chase after Chu Xiaoxia in the future, please let me go.”
Since he had already said this, he should have no more reservations, and there was nothing more to ask.
“Get up.” I grabbed him by the chain and pulled him up from the bed.
Li Ge cried and asked, “What the hell are you going to do to me? I really won’t do anything more to Chu Xiaoxiao.”
“I’ll believe you when you say so? If you were true to your word, you wouldn’t have been pestering Xiaoxiao for so many days.”
“Zhang Chao, I really mean what I say. Let me go, and hurry up and slip away yourself, if others find out later, you won’t get away with it.”
I laughed, “You are quite considerate of me. Li Ge, why don’t you give me all the information about your investigation into Chu Huaien, since you’re doing a good deed to the end?”
Li Ge was shocked, “No! Chu Huaien will find someone to get me killed.”
“You’re the young master of the mayor’s family, and you’re still afraid of a businessman like him?”
Li Ge’s eyes were red as he said, “Zhang Chao, I can see that you are here today specifically for me, right? I’ve told you everything you need to know, but I absolutely can’t give you the information you want. I’ll give you back Chu Xiaoxiao, and I promise not to move her. Don’t underestimate Chu Huai En, he is more than a businessman, his position in the jianghu is no less than Chen Ruhai’s.”
I didn’t expect this kid to know about the jianghu, and said with a smile, “Chu Huaien is scary, and I’m not easy to mess with either. It depends on who you choose to offend.”
“Zhang Chao, I’ve told you everything I can tell you, don’t push me anymore. You should leave quickly, if someone finds you here you won’t be able to leave.”
I looked outside and the sound of footsteps outside suddenly became urgent, I panicked, what was going on?
Outside Zhang Mei’s voice rang out, “Nephew, come out.”
I jerked back to look at Li Ge.
“The man you called?!”
“Wrongfully, how am I supposed to call someone when you’re looking at me all the time?!”
Indeed, Li Ge had been tied up by me and couldn’t run away if he wanted to, and Xiao Ke wasn’t awake, so how could Zhang Mei find him?
Zhang Mei was already looking for me, I couldn’t hide even if I wanted to, but I really didn’t want to come face to face with her.
“Don’t hide, you can’t run away. We haven’t seen each other for five years, so it’s good to come out and catch up.”
I took a deep breath, it was useless to be afraid of her, what was coming would always come.
Strangely enough, I wasn’t even afraid of bullets, but I was terrified of her, and I couldn’t help but clench my fists at the thought of her face. Perhaps the disgust and fear of her was seared into my bones and blood.
I grabbed Li Ge: “Be honest and come out with me!”
Li Ge cried, “Don’t do that, we don’t have such a big grudge against each other.”
I took a handcuff from the pile of props on the table and cuffed him, then found something to gag him with.
Li Ge struggled desperately and almost fell to his knees for me.
I said, “Come on, don’t cry. The service you paid for was fake, and now I’m giving you something real and you’re not used to it? You’re being a good dragon. Get up!”
