Forced to take the love route by a scumbag villain

The dinner was scheduled for the night of August 8, and the venue was set at the old clock tower where the Upper House was located.

The Big Bell Tower is located in the center of the city and looks out of place among the high-rise buildings built nearby in recent years. The mottled and cracked walls of the bell tower are covered with traces of time, but they do not appear shabby. Instead, they have accumulated a trace of simplicity and mature charm.

The big clock tower is used for the daily work of the upper council, not a banquet hall, nor does it provide dinner parties.It is obviously inappropriate to set the location of the dinner party here.

However, apart from Wen Rulan and Cheng Peng, those who came to the dinner were the five members of the upper council, and none of them came here for dinner. Everyone knew the real purpose of holding the dinner temporarily today.

At 7:30 in the evening, Wen Ru and Meng Xinglan arrived at the dinner venue first.

They came a little early, and the dinner officially started at eight o'clock, so no one else came yet.Wen Rulan went to the banquet hall first to sit under the leadership of the staff working in the upper council.

Said it was a banquet hall, according to Meng Xing, it was basically a meeting room.

A long office table is placed in the middle, with chairs for meeting personnel on both sides, and a projector in the middle for presentations and reports.

Although there are two fruit bowls pretending to be placed on the table in this conference room, this cannot conceal the fact that it is a conference room.

There is still half an hour before the start, and we have to wait a while.Meng Xing stood behind Wen Rulan, because there were only seven chairs beside the conference table, and there was obviously no room for his assistant.

After Meng Xing looked at the basic furnishings in the conference room, he turned his attention to the door, waiting for the second person to arrive.

He didn't wait too long. Only five minutes after he and Wen Rulan arrived at the conference room, the door was pushed open. The person who came was a middle-aged man, about the same age as Jian Wenhong, but he did not have Jian Wenhong's steady and dignified temperament. Although he was a member of the parliament, he looked like an ordinary office worker working a nine-to-five job.

This is Gu Hui, the head of the Gu family, just as Wen Rulan said, he is a very mediocre person.Meng Xing secretly evaluated the other party in his heart.

Gu Hui didn't notice the assistant looking at him. Of the two people in the room, Wen Rulan obviously attracted his attention more. He greeted Wen Rulan politely and found a seat to sit down.

The two didn't talk anymore, they were not familiar with each other.Wen Rulan's dealings with the upper council were mostly on official business, and most of them were attended by the speaker Jian Wenhong, so he didn't know the other four members very well, and he didn't have much friendship.

It's not right, I should still have friendship with Yan Desheng, although it is negative.

After saying hello, Wen Rulan glanced at Gu Hui's chest. The brooch in the shape of a palm leaf was one of the symbols of members of the Upper Council, and they would wear it when they attended formal events.

Gu Hui still has this one, which means that he is not the one who accidentally left the brooch in Cheng Peng's office.

Ferret and Meng Xing exchanged glances.Meng Xing was standing behind Wen Rulan, it was a bit strange for Wen Rulan to turn his head to look at him, it would inevitably attract Gu Hui's attention, so the one who made eye contact with Meng Xing was the ferret lying on Meng Xing's shoulder.

Although it is a mink, there is no racial barrier to making eye contact with Meng Xing. Once they look at each other, the two sides reached the same conclusion, excluding Gu Hui.

There are four options left. When everyone arrives, the person hiding in the dark and conspiring with Cheng Peng will probably surface.

This was also the reason why Wen Rulan agreed to come to this dinner. He was not selling Jian Wenhong's face to accept the mediation of the citizens, but wanted to take this opportunity to see who lost the brooch.

The palm leaf brooch is made of expensive materials, exquisite in workmanship, and difficult to forge. Moreover, the person who lost the brooch would not think that the brooch he accidentally lost was under Cheng Peng's desk and they found it, so he would not make a special trip to find it. to fake.

After another five minutes, the third and fourth people arrived together. They were the heads of the Jin family and the Xu family. Both of them were over Liujia. Although they were still in good health, their energy was not as good as when they were young, so they also He rarely takes care of things and only occasionally votes on major issues.

The heads of the Jin family and the Xu family are similar in age, and the two families have always been on good terms. They happened to meet each other at the door, and they came in chatting and laughing together.

After entering, he nodded to Gu Hui and Wen Rulan who had already arrived, and it was regarded as a greeting.Unlike Wen Rulan and Gu Hui who sat far apart, they sat very close to each other, and whispered a few words from time to time after they sat down.

The content of the conversation was about the marriage of his juniors. Meng Xing was not concerned about these irrelevant contents. His eyes lingered on the palm leaf brooches on the chests of the heads of the Jin family and the Gu family. These two people could be excluded.

There are only two options left, Jian Wenhong and Yan Desheng.

Judging from the motivation, it is obviously more likely that Yan Desheng is an accomplice, but Wen Rulan has never believed that Yan Desheng can have such water-tight prudence, and his investigation of Yan Desheng in the past few days has not found any secret connection between the other party and Cheng Peng .

Jian Wenhong, who seemed fair and strict, was actually his primary target of suspicion.Jian Wenhong has this carefulness to not show his feet, and also has the ability to help Cheng Peng arrange this attack plan.

Regarding Wen Rulan's conjecture, Meng Xing has never expressed his opinion. He thinks that both of them are possible. Who they are, we will find out later.

There were footsteps outside the door again, Meng Xing checked the time, it was 7:50.

A middle-aged man with a gloomy face came in. His eyes swept around the conference room. When he touched Wen Rulan, his eyes flashed with disgust and uncontrollable hatred. To prevent losing his composure, he didn't look much Pausing on Wen Rulan's body, he just found a diagonal farthest away from Wen Rulan and sat down without saying a word.

Meng Xing looked at the other person. This was obviously Yan Desheng. He looked at the other person's empty chest and exchanged glances with the ferret again.

That's him.Meng Xing thought so.

Wen Rulan didn't think so. He lightly tapped the sandalwood tabletop with his fingers, and smiled at Yan Desheng: "Mr. Yan, how is your son?"

With a sound of "Teng", Yan Desheng's suppressed anger was ignited by Wen Rulan's words. As soon as his butt was glued to the chair, he was so angry that he stood up directly.

His face was twisted with anger, and the answer came out word by word: "You still have the nerve to ask?"

After saying the last word, he moved his legs, as if he was going to come over and beat Wen Rulan directly.

Meng Xing moved forward slightly, ready to stand in front of Wen Rulan before Yan Desheng came over, but he didn't take this step, because Yan Desheng was held back by Gu Hui in time.

Gu Hui used his peacemaker qualities and comforted Yan Desheng for a few words, then pulled and pulled Yan Desheng back to his original position.

Yan Desheng sat back on the chair, but his eyes were firmly stuck to Wen Rulan's body as if he could breathe fire.As long as this flame could be visualized, Wen Rulan would probably have turned into coke by now.

But it wasn't possible, so Wen Rulan sat comfortably, not even a little uncomfortable.

Yan Desheng thought that Wen Rulan's words were deliberately provoking him, but it wasn't. Wen Rulan was testing him, and Meng Xing had seen the result of the testing. Yan Desheng was still a straight tempered person, and he really didn't look like the one who conspired with Cheng Peng. people.

But he did not bring a brooch. Unless Jian Wenhong didn't bring a brooch either, Yan Desheng must be the owner of the brooch under Cheng Peng's desk, and he must be the one secretly collaborating with Cheng Peng.

At 7:56, Cheng Peng came. He was not in good condition. He had a band-aid on his face and there were bandage marks on his arms. These were all injuries caused by the bomb that day, and he didn't recover well after two days.

Therefore, when he saw Wen Rulan at this moment, he showed the same expression as Yan Desheng before, and the golden eagles standing on his shoulders were the same, suppressing their disgust one by one, and sat down at the seat farthest from Wen Rulan.

The farthest position was the diagonal line, which was already occupied by Yan Desheng. Cheng Peng sat next to Yan Desheng. The two of them sat on the left and right, their expressions were in sync, and they both had great feelings for Wen Rulan. He said that they were not accomplices, but almost no one believed them.

Although Jian Wenhong hasn't come yet, Meng Xing's inner balance has already tilted towards Yan Desheng.Temperament can be faked, and Yan Desheng's current performance can also be that Yan Desheng hides it too deeply, and others can't see the flaws.

But is it really a disguise?Wen Rulan squinted his eyes, and turned his gaze to the door, waiting for the last person to arrive.

At eight o'clock sharp, Jian Wenhong pushed open the door of the conference room without delay. When he saw that everyone had arrived, he smiled and apologized: "It seems I'm late."

While talking, he walked in.It was still a dark gray suit, with a palm leaf brooch pinned neatly on his chest.

Meng Xing looked down at the ferret, he felt that Wen Rulan should confirm this time.

The evidence was already in front of us. Among the five members of the upper council, only Yan Desheng didn't have a brooch, and he was the only one who had the motive to secretly stand in line at the risk of violating the iron law.

Ferret's expression was a little hesitant. Of course he saw the conclusive evidence, but he just felt in his heart... Yan Desheng is not such a person who can pretend.

However, subjective judgments were always less reliable than objective evidence, so he had to temporarily accept the inference that Yan Desheng was Cheng Peng's accomplice.

Jian Wenhong, as the speaker of the upper house and the true leader of the current group of spiritual power users, took the lead without hesitation.

After sitting down, he cleared his throat and was about to get straight to the topic when he suddenly noticed Meng Xing standing against the wall, so the words in his mouth took a turn: "Everyone knows the purpose of holding this dinner, in order to be open and honest. The content of this meeting will be kept confidential, so we have to ask unrelated people to go out first."

When he said the last sentence, he smiled apologetically at Meng Xing.

The meaning was already very obvious, Meng Xing was the irrelevant person who needed to leave.

Meng Xing touched his nose and was about to leave in a sensible way, but Wen Rulan stopped him: "He doesn't have to leave, and he won't leak the secret."

"This..." Jian Wenhong looked a little embarrassed.

Yan Desheng, who had been displeased with Wen Rulan for a long time, opened fire when he heard it: "You don't have to leave if you say you don't have to leave, and you really don't if you don't leak secrets? Why do you?"

Cheng Peng also said in a strange way: "Yeah, I didn't even bring my assistant in, but Mr. Wen has a lot of face."

Wen Rulan ignored these two people, he didn't even give them a look, he just said to Jian Wenhong: "It's up to me."

This meant to be a guarantee for Meng Xing. Jian Wenhong thought about it seriously, but finally shook his head: "It's not very good after all, I'd better invite this..."

He looked at Meng Xing and hesitated for a moment. Although he had heard Meng Xing's name last time, he didn't even remember his surname now.

This is normal. After all, Meng Xing is just an ordinary person without mental strength. Jian Wenhong may have been polite to him because of Wen Rulan's reputation, but he didn't take it to heart anyway, so he didn't remember his name.

Wen Rulan frowned, he still wanted to fight for it, but Meng Xing took the initiative to stand up and said: "I'm going out first."

With that said, he stepped towards the door.After taking two steps, he suddenly remembered something and turned back.He took the ferret off his shoulders and placed it in front of Wen Rulan's desk.

After the release, he turned and left without stopping.

The ferret stared at his back, but did not pursue him as usual.

Because Wen Rulan knew that Meng Xing kept the ferret because he was afraid that he would suffer a loss. Two of the seven people here were clearly hostile to Wen Rulan, so it was always safer to keep the spirit beast by his side.

As soon as Meng Xing left, Jian Wenhong could finally get down to business. Everyone here is one of the most important figures, and time is precious. He didn't want to waste time. As soon as Meng Xing stepped out of the door, he had already said, "Go ahead!" A few days of attacks..."

Meng Xing only heard these words, and the rest was blocked by the closed conference room door behind him.The door of the meeting room is specially made, which has sound insulation effect. Although Meng Xing is only separated from the inside by a door, he can't hear anything.

Although Meng Xing came out on his own initiative, it didn't mean that Wen Rulan didn't want Wen Rulan to continue arguing on his behalf. It didn't mean he wasn't curious about the content of the council.

As soon as he went out at this moment, he put his ear on the door, trying to challenge the quality of the soundproof door with his own hearing.

Not to mention, just listening to it like this, you can still hear some small sentences. Meng Xing vaguely heard the key words "bionic robot" and "bomb". He was listening in rapt attention, but suddenly someone shot him from behind. down his shoulders.

Meng Xing was taken aback, so he managed not to cry out.Looking back, Wu Jin gave him a shy smile.

"Sorry, I scared you." Wu Jin apologized sincerely.

He was already so sincere, and Meng Xing couldn't pursue it anymore, he just muttered about when his vigilance dropped so low, and he didn't notice when someone approached him, and replied: "It's okay."

"By the way, why are you here now?" Meng Xing asked.Wu Jin wasn't at the door just now, otherwise he wouldn't have clung to the door and listened to the corner without any image.

And Cheng Peng had been in for about ten minutes, and Wu Jin, the assistant, arrived late, which was obviously unreasonable.

"I'm going to stop the car for Mr. Cheng." Wu Jin raised the car key in his hand and explained.

"That's right." Meng Xing nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Mr. Meng is standing outside the door, why don't you go in?" Wu Jin asked.He was a little curious because he was about to go in.

"They didn't let the idlers wait in, saying that the meeting had to be kept secret, so don't bother, or you'll make your Boss Cheng angry." Meng Xing saw what Wu Jin meant and reminded him.

He still remembered how Cheng Peng got angry at Wu Jin at the dinner party before. Wu Jin just barged in. Although those who didn't know were not guilty, Cheng Peng would definitely get angry again.

Wu Jin obviously thought of this, and quickly thanked Meng Xing: "Thank you, Mr. Meng, for reminding me, otherwise Mr. Cheng would definitely..."

He patted his chest for the rest of his life.

Meng Xing waved his hand: "Speaking of which, I would also like to thank you for tipping me off on the 3rd."

"Ah, it's nothing..." Probably because he was rarely thanked by others, Wu Jin was a little embarrassed: "It's just that Mr. Wen is fine."

"He's fine, but..." Meng Xing changed the subject and looked at Wu Jin carefully: "Aren't you afraid of being blamed for betraying your boss?"

His gaze was a bit threatening, because Meng Xing always felt that Wu Jin's behavior of tipping him off was a bit strange.Cheng Peng wanted to attack Wen Rulan, and Cheng Peng's assistant came to report to Meng Xing, what is this?Are you in Cao Ying and your heart is in Han?

Wu Jin clenched his fingers uneasily, but he still mustered up the courage to explain: "It's wrong to attack in secret. I don't agree with Mr. Cheng's actions, even if he is my boss."

He spoke with righteous words, and his head, which had always been lowered, was raised a little because of these words with a strong sense of justice, but he quickly lowered his head again and murmured in a low voice: "And...Mr. Wen is a very good person. , I hope he can win."

Although his voice was low, his tone was very sincere, as if the words came from his heart.

At least Meng Xing couldn't detect any flaws. He stared at Wu Jin for a while, and seeing that Wu Jin's expression was still the same, he put down his doubts about Wu Jin for the time being.

Meng Xing looked around, there was no one else around, but he was still worried, and waved to Wu Jin, signaling Wu Jin to come over.

Wu Jin poked his head obediently, Meng Xing felt that the distance was not close enough, so he stretched out his arms to wrap Wu Jin's shoulders, Wu Jin was stunned for a moment, but Meng Xing ignored him and said directly: " Recently, Mr. Cheng, have you secretly met Yan Desheng?"

"Yan Desheng?" Wu Jin said the name once, then shook his head: "No."

"What about Jian Wenhong? Or the other three members of the Senate."

Wu Jin still shook his head, he thought for a while, and added: "I didn't even when I was with Mr. Cheng."

"Then when are you not together? I'm talking about the time in the company." Meng Xing asked again.

"Well...Actually, there are many times...Cheng always dismisses me for a while, asking me to run errands to deliver materials or something." Wu Jin recalled with difficulty.

In other words, even if Cheng Peng met with someone in private, he avoided Wu Jin.Meng Xing sighed, and let go of Wu Jin's arm.

He stopped asking questions, but Wu Jin took the initiative to talk about one thing: "By the way, Mr. Meng, I recently... felt that Mr. Cheng was weird."

"Strange? What kind of weird method?" Meng Xing's appetite was raised.

"That's... that's... He recently brought up all the liquid or cashable funds on our company's books, such as what equipment to buy, or what investment to make, but..." Wu Jin Hesitating.

Meng Xing's curiosity had been completely aroused by Wu Jin, and he quickly asked: "But what?"

"I'm not too sure..." Wu Jin's catchphrase came again.

"Just say what you say, it doesn't matter if you say something wrong." Meng Xing urged.

"But..." Wu Jin still hesitated.

At that time, Meng Xing was very anxious when he heard his tone on the phone, but now he expressed it in person, in addition to the voice and the picture, the anxious effect was doubled.Meng Xing just wished he could shake Wu Jin's shoulder and pour out all the words in his stomach.

Meng Xing used great endurance to restrain his impulse.Under his reassurance repeatedly, Wu Jin was finally willing to speak.

"But our company has not purchased any equipment or made any new investments recently. I found it strange, so I secretly checked the whereabouts of the funds and found that they were all transferred into an account called Qiongyu Technology Company."

"Qiongyu Technology Company?" Meng Xing repeated, he had never heard of this name.

Wu Jin nodded and introduced: "A scientific research company that studies high-tech, mainly researching the application of spiritual power."

Mental power... Meng Xing pondered this explanation. Could it be that Cheng Peng wanted to buy some high-tech equipment to cheat in the competition on August 8?

Wu Jin didn't know about this.He has already told Meng Xing everything he knows.

Meng Xing was meditating on the spot alone, and Wu Jin didn't bother him anymore.

He was thinking deeply, until a conversation broke into his ears and forced him to wake up from his contemplation.

It was two cleaners, they passed by Meng Xing, chatting while walking together.

"Why did you work so late today? Did you go lazy during the day?" One of them joked.

Another cleaning lady simply rolled her eyes: "Why are you lazy? Chairman Jian asked me to go to the warehouse to look for something!"

"What are you looking for?" My companion became curious.

"It's the palm leaf brooch. Chairman Jane seems to have lost it, and he was in a hurry to use it, so he went to the warehouse to find one and use it first." The cleaner replied.

"Palm leaf brooch? Isn't that one for every senator, only five? Why are there still in the warehouse?"

"You don't know that, do you? There are only five members in this session of the Upper Council, but there were more than five in the previous Upper Council. In fact, generally speaking, the Upper Council should have seven members, and there are seven palm leaf brooches. It's just that there are not enough people in this session, and the other two have no owners, so they are just thrown in the warehouse for storage!"

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