Chapter 52
Chapter 52
"Chairman, you are looking for me."
Jiang Zheng closed the door and approached the desk.Huo Shixiao's study room was built by a well-known designer from country B who is famous for his art. Whether it is structure, placement, decoration, or furniture, they are all carefully selected. The entire study room is also the most expensive space in the house. The price of Huanghuali's desk is as high as tens of millions, not to mention the collections in the bookcases and showcases. The astronomical figures are astronomical. Except for Huo Shixiao himself, probably even the top experts can't remember each one with a long string A price number of zero.
Just standing in it, Jiang Zheng can feel the "luxury" of inspiration from the soles of his feet to the sky.Fortunately, he has been trained since he was a child and has long been used to it. He may have listened to Huo Dong's teachings at this table more times than the young master himself, so that he will not be fainted by the smell of money.
Today's Huo Dong didn't sample tea and read a book or close his eyes to rest his mind as usual. He held a photo frame in his hand, frowned and looked dignified.
Jiang Zheng seldom sees him full of pressure - most of the time, he is the one who puts pressure on others.As for what Huo Shixiao was looking at, he also had a rough idea, but when the former put down the photo and he glanced at it, he still couldn't help but thump in his heart.
It was a group photo of the chairman's family of four.
The main line of the Huo family, which has always been shown to the outside world as a family of three, actually has No.4 little-known members.The second young master Huo Jiang's presence in the Huo family was not even as strong as Jiang Zheng's; Huo Shixiao's cultivation of Jiang Zheng was obvious to all, and everyone knew that Jiang Zheng would be Huo Xixuan's most powerful right-hand man in the future, but what about Huo Jiang?Not many people even Qingyue's senior management know him, let alone ordinary employees.
In the public perception, this Second Young Master Huo probably started with the "The Huo family adopted a child" press conference 20 years ago and ended there.
As Huo's all-round hot talent, Jiang Zheng also participated in some turning points in Huo Jiang's growth, even though he was only a few years older than him.Looking back now, Huo Shixiao's greatest importance to this biological son is to use a little relationship to let the designer's teacher at home accept Huo Jiang as his apprentice, so that he can chase his dreams to his heart's content.
No one expected that the time limit for chasing dreams was only six years.
According to Jiang Zheng's understanding of Dong Huo, even though Huo Shixiao hardly showed grief in front of outsiders, how could an illegitimate son who could persuade Mrs. Huo and take him back to Huo's family justifiably, not pour his heart and soul into it.Now that five years have passed, he still looks at the few photos they have together.
Maybe there was regret, maybe there was heartache, if I gave that child some more love, everything would be different.
Huo Dong, who has a great reputation abroad, has two sons who have spent so much energy to cultivate, one is divorced and the other is dead. He seems to be a little sad when he is middle-aged.
But Huo Dong called him here today, of course not to remember his second son in front of him.
Huo Shixiao put the photo album in the drawer, cleared his throat: "Is everything you have prepared ready?"
"Yes." Hearing this, Jiang Zheng stood up straight and pulled his thoughts back, "All arrangements have been made, and the information on the website has also been updated."
"Where's the pass?"
He took it out of his pocket.
Huo Shixiao nodded in satisfaction: "Go, follow the plan."
However, seeing Jiang Zheng standing still, Huo Shixiao asked, "Is there anything else you don't understand?"
Jiang Zheng hesitated for a moment, but said boldly: "Are you really... going to do this?"
"You don't think it's right?" Huo Shixiao looked at him with calm eyes.
Of course not.But even if he had more courage, he didn't dare to speak out.Jiang Zheng considered his words: "Maybe there is a more moderate solution... maybe there is room for maneuver."
"If there is, it won't be delayed until today." Huo Shixiao pondered for a while, "How many years have you been with me?"
"Fifty-eight years."
"You are one year younger than Xiao Jiang when you came to Huo's house." He asked, "You have been studying with me for more than 20 years, do I look like a person who does not know how to do things?"
Jiang Zheng choked, not knowing whether it was Huo Jiang's name that surprised him, or the rhetorical question in the second half of the sentence.
He didn't answer, and Huo Shixiao didn't need him to answer, he just waved his hand wearily.
That was a clear signal to drive away.
Jiang Zheng is there again
Thousands of questions and doubts must also be left.
Through the slowly narrowing door, he saw Huo Shixiao turn his chair half a circle and close his eyes.
Without the help of hair dye, Jiang Zheng thought, the chairman's temples would have been completely white by now.
Hosy's eyes were dazzled by the pile of documents and papers. After finally finishing all of them, he stretched himself and asked the secretary outside the door to make a cup of coffee.
In the end, it was Jiang Zheng who came in.This person disappeared all morning, and Huo Xixuan couldn't say anything about him. After all, if he really counted, in the past two weeks or even months, he skipped work and disappeared more frequently.
He sipped his coffee and almost spit it all out.It is well known that Special Assistant Jiang can do everything except make coffee.In normal times, Huo Xixuan would have taken the opportunity to complain a few words to make the other party feel guilty and let go of his skipping work, but Jiang Zheng didn't seem to be in a good mood, so Huo Xixuan got back to business: "I asked you to check for me. Have you found anything?"
If he can hear other people's voices now, then Special Assistant Jiang is cursing loudly that you Huo family father and son are exactly the same and can call people; Some who have been to..., including his teacher, but you were busy receiving relatives and friends from Madam's side, so you didn't pay much attention."
After five years, the memory is a little blotchy.Huo Xixuan thought about it carefully, there were indeed several strange visitors who were about the same age as Huo Jiang at the funeral, and there were also foreign faces.
"What about his girlfriend? There must be such a person."
"Yes. At that time, the chairman wanted to send us to find her, but we found nothing. None of Er Shao's friends had her contact information. They even checked with the Immigration Bureau. That girl had left that country before Er Shao returned. , since then there has been no trace to follow."
Huo Xixuan frowned.
"I also received some clues later, but there is no definite evidence. Do you want to hear it?"
"You say it."
"Someone may have seen her in Country Q." Jiang Zheng observed his expression, and added the second half of the sentence, "And, it's City C."
In City C of country Q, the place name engraved into the bone marrow surprised Huo Xixuan.
"When is it?"
"Before you come back."
"Isn't that..."
"You guessed it right."
Huo Xixuan felt sad for a while: it turned out that his sister-in-law, whom he had never met, lived in the same city as him.
During his quarrel with Zhong Yin and the last period of his marriage, when he slammed the door and walked down the street sullenly, any girl who looked like a compatriot he met might be the one who couldn't wait any longer. The lover's lonely watcher.
All this is just hearsay, and there is no real evidence. Jiang Zheng knows that he is not feeling well, and he can't comfort him any more.After all, I have my own difficulties. Huo Xixuan, who was forced to divorce back then, was also having a hard time. Now...
Jiang Zheng's expression was complicated, but he couldn't reveal more.At the end, he thought of another detail that he didn't know if it would be helpful: "Do you know what the second young master's condition was when he agreed to go home?"
Huo Xixuan looked up at him.Huo Shixiao hardly mentioned his brother's matter to himself, which is why he asked Jiang Zheng to investigate.
"Second Young Master requested that he be able to marry that ordinary woman without any background."
——As expected of brothers with half of the same blood, even the way of privately "determining a lifetime" is exactly the same.
Now that the relationship has been determined to such a point, it is possible that the second young master is already married.Although no records were found, Jiang Zheng said, but before finding nothing, the chairman actually went to check whether he had any children.
"...So, that's it." Huo Xixuan stirred the coffee in front of him, and asked the person opposite, "Do you want to continue the investigation?"
On New Year's Eve, all the companies under Tianqingyue only work for half a day, and give the half-day holiday as a New Year gift to employees.The boss himself is even more leisurely, leaving everything to the assistant and slipping away to fall in love.
Zhong Yin's company does not have holidays, but he is currently dispatching between the head offices of Mingcheng and Huangdu, which is considered a non-staff personnel to some extent.They are drinking afternoon tea in a coffee shop two streets away from Xiaozhongyan Kindergarten, waiting
The children's party is over, pick him up to have dinner at the revolving restaurant on the top floor of the tallest building in Ming City, and watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.
However, the mood of both of them is not easy. After all, they are talking about a deceased person who has a close relationship with them, as well as his widow who has not yet been found, and even an orphan.
Zhong Yin was very sympathetic to Huo Jiang's experience. After all, it was because of his relationship with Huo Xixuan that this young man was moved and suffered misfortune.He asked Huo Xixuan to look for more information. If Huo Jiang really had a wife and children back then, of course he had to find out.
The more Zhong Yin heard it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Huo Jiang's girlfriend actually went to City C during the time when they were divorcing. From the perspective of comprehensive conditions, City C is not considered a target city for people going abroad. Except for the international students in University C, there are not many Chinese immigrants and workers.
He happened to know a girl whose gender, age, nationality, and time all matched.
But is there really such a coincidence in the world?
When he realized the idea had come to his mind, he shuddered at the intensity of its chance and inevitability.
He needs to confirm: "Do you have a photo of your brother in your phone? It's best... not when you were a child."
Huo Xixuan didn't know why, but he still had one. After looking through the photo album for a long time, he found a photo of himself when he saw Huo Jiang for the last time, and handed it to Zhong Yin.
Zhong Yinzai looked at the photos carefully and recalled them carefully.
He remembered.The first time I saw Huo Jiang's appearance at Huo Xixuan's house, I felt familiar, not because he resembled my brother.If those conjectures lead the right way, it will be an earthquake.
He muttered, his heart full of apprehension: "I have a guess, maybe, I just said maybe, your brother—"
Before the world fissioned, the sudden ringtone of the mobile phone interrupted him.
If it was someone, Zhong Yin would not let it interrupt the statement of the important event at the moment, but it was a call from Yanyan's kindergarten teacher, and he never missed it.
"Hi teacher, I'm Zhong Yan's father - the head of the school?"
"No, I haven't picked him up yet."
"Didn't you say it would be open until four o'clock? I'll wait until that time to pick him up for dinner."
"No, there is no other activity."
"What's wrong?"
Sitting across from Huo Xixuan, Zhong Yin's expression changed suddenly when he saw the usually indifferent Zhong Yin.
After he hung up the phone, he quickly asked, "What's wrong with Yanyan?"
"He was picked up by someone he didn't know." Zhong Yin's eyes were full of panic.
Huo Xixuan was startled, and before he could speak, another phone call came.This time anonymously.
Zhong Yin stared at the vibrating mobile phone, as if seeing a scourge.In the end, it was Huo Xixuan who pressed the answer button for him.
"Mr. Zhong?" The voice of the voice changer was flowing in the current, full of disturbing noises, "How does the coffee taste? Your precious son doesn't seem to like bitter taste very much."
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