Chapter 427 Conditional mention
Take a speedboat from the wharf to sea. Not far away, a small cruise ship will pick it up, go east around the Kowloon Peninsula, and then change to a seaplane waiting there. It will fly for more than an hour and land on an unknown island.
Fang Lin really fainted this time. Long Qi didn't know what medicine he had stuffed in his mouth. This person was directly unconscious. Throwing him in the cabin, Long Qi took Li Weidong to the dock. Two people who looked like bodyguards came forward and shook the detection stick in his hand to ask for a search. Both of them are blue-eyed foreigners. They are tall and big. One of their hair is black and the other is dark brown. It's hard to say which race they are.
He swept Li Weidong's body from top to bottom, but didn't find anything. He accidentally shrugged his shoulders. Long Qi smiled and said, "Mr. Li, I heard that you are the heir of the thief family, and you are really good at it. However, since I have arrived here, I can definitely ensure your safety. The guests the general wants to meet have never had a precedent of bringing a gun. Do you think..."
Li Weidong said lightly, "I'm sorry, I've never had a precedent for handing over a gun."
"This..." Long Qi looked embarrassed and said, "Mr. Li, at least you should show your sincerity, right?"
Li Weidong smiled and said, "I can come here with you, which already shows my sincerity. Brother Long, even if you have just helped me, I will remember your feelings at most. Make it clear that your boss wants to see me, not that I want to see him."
Long Qi just wanted to speak when a bodyguard's caller rang. The bodyguard listened and handed it to Long Qi. Although it was an earplug caller, he still heard a man's voice clearly with Li Weidong's super ears: "Bring him in, he won't threaten me."
Because the sound from the earplugs is a little different, I can't hear the person's age, but I can still tell that the pronunciation of Chinese is not very standard, and it seems to be a foreigner. Long Qi didn't say much more, threw the caller back to the bodyguard, made a gesture of invitation to Li Weidong, and then turned around to lead the way.
I just took a look from the plane. The island is very small, and it seems to be only as big as seven or eight football fields. I don't even know if it will be submerged at high tide. In addition to an abandoned lighthouse, there is only a small three-story villa on the island, which is full of trees and lush green. At the back of the villa, there is a small golf course. The lawn is trimmed neatly, and a foreigner is dedicated to playing basketball. He was the only one in the whole court, and there were no caddies. There were only about a dozen bodyguards walking around on the edge of the court.
Long Qi took Li Weidong to the court, reached out and motioned to the foreigner, and then stopped. Li Weidong walked to the foreigner alone. As soon as he walked behind him, the foreigner was ready to hit the ball and said without looking back, "Mr. Li, are you interested in competing?"
This foreigner's Chinese language can only be regarded as ordinary, especially the word "competition", which sounds like "fork". Li Weidong refused: "I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry."
"Oh?"
He neither said he could say no or that he was not interested. This answer obviously surprised the foreigner and stopped the club in his hand and turned around. This man is not tall, a little shorter than Li Weidong. Among foreigners, this height should be a small man, with a square face, a wide mouth, and a short beard. Dressed up casually, with a golf cap, T-shirt jeans, and a cotton shirt casually on the shoulder. The dark blue eyes looked at Li Weidong from top to bottom and said, "You are different from what I imagined. I heard that you once exterminated people in Japan. I thought you were a bloodthirsty butcher, but I didn't expect you to look quite slod.
Li Weidong said, "That was an accident. In fact, I have always been a law-abiding citizen."
The general was stunned, then laughed, nodded and said, "I know what you mean. You're reminding me not to let you do anything against the law, right? You can rest assured about this. I do not interfere with each other with Chinese ZF, so no matter what happens, it does not involve Chinese law. After a pause, he said, "You just said you were in a hurry. Are you telling me that you already know who is going to kill you?"
Li Weidong shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I guess you will tell me soon."
"Are you so sure?"
"Of course. Otherwise, if you invite me all the way here, it won't be sightseeing.
The general looked at Li Weidong for a while, gradually restrained the smile on his face and said, "You are really different from others. No wonder Lu Bohan will choose you as his heir. Well, since you don't like chatting, let's get back to the story. You are invited this time. You can think that I want to take advantage of you, but for me, this is a deal.
Li Weidong smiled and said, "Is there any difference between using and trading?"
The general nodded and said, "Yes, and it's two completely different things. In many cases, it represents the bullying or disguised exploitation of the strong to the weak, and the word trading means fairness to me. Young man, I know that the Chinese language is very complicated. Although I don't speak well, the meaning of my experience is not bad. Oh, I forgot to tell you that I have a quarter of Chinese descent, and my grandmother is Chinese.
Li Weidong really didn't see this. At least there are basically no Chinese characteristics left in this guy's appearance. The general pondered for a moment and said, "Before starting our transaction, there is something I want to ask you first. Do you know that for so long, Lu Bohan knows that he has not much time left, but he is not in a hurry to let you officially take over the Lu family?"
Li Weidong was a little surprised by this question and said, "Does this have anything to do with today's matter?"
The general said slowly, "Of course there is. Basically, every thing and every decision made by people related to this interest group may affect the overall situation. The reason why Lu Bohan did not let you take over the Lu family immediately, but let Xia Jiling's daughter make a transition. The most fundamental purpose is to let the Lu family take this opportunity to get rid of the relationship with the organization. But in fact, this decision is stupid. If not, I'm afraid he won't die so soon.
Li Weidong frowned and said, "Oh?"
The general took Li Weidong to the sidelines and sat down in the lounge chair. The bodyguard handed over two cigars. The general handed one to Li Weidong and said, "I know that for so many years, Lu Bohan and Fang Zhennan, including the dead Xia Jiling, have always been worried about me. They think I'm using them. The idea of controlling them is actually ridiculous. I just mentioned a word called interest groups rather than organizations. I always think that this is a kind of mutual transaction. The benchmark for this kind of transaction is fairness. In your Chinese words, it is called taking what you need.
"When these big families had not developed to the power of today's scale, they couldn't wait to find a powerful backer for themselves, and one day they thought they had accumulated enough power, and they wanted to kick everyone away. Xia Jiling is like this, and so is Lu Bohan. But unfortunately, this practice can only make them die faster.
After smoking a cigar, the general continued: "I don't know if you care about politics. Recently, the current situation in Country A has been very chaotic. To find out the root cause, we have to mention Xia Jiling at the beginning. You should have heard that Xia Jiling betrayed the organization and swallowed a large amount of funds, which is the lifeblood of our survival. This is a very realistic world. For the people, what supports them is faith, and for a regime, what they need most is money!"
"At the beginning, Xia Jiling was shot, and the murderer has not been found so far. As for that fund, Fang Zhennan has always been responsible for the investigation, but this person, like Xia Jiling and Fang Zhennan, are all businessmen for the organization. The pursuit of interests is always their first goal, and it can be said that anyone who can walk to the same boat with the organization is basically unscrupulous people! I recently got the news that Fang Zhennan seems to have secretly mastered this fund. Man-made money is dead, and the interests of 1.72 billion US dollars are in front of him. With Fang Zhennan as a person, I don't think there is anyone or anything that can be sold, including the organization!"
"The marriage between Fang and Lu at this time must also be related to the fund. Then it seemed strange that Lu Bohan suddenly died at this time. Mr. Li, I would like to tell you one more thing, that is, Zou Changlong from Beijing. As far as I know, this person and Xia Jiling used to be sworn brothers. Xia Jiling swallowed the organization's funds. I don't know if there is any involvement with him, but it is interesting that his parents and Lu Bohan were also friends. Do you know ? "
"Ah?" Li Weidong was stunned. Not to mention knowing this, he didn't even think about it at all. Lu Bohan mentioned Zou Changlong to him that night, but he said lightly that the Lu family withdrew from the mainland because of the relationship between the Zou family. The entanglement between the two families actually had a deeper relationship!
"But now I have found out at least one thing. Maybe you can almost guess that the killers who chased you today are indeed Zou Changlong." The general's face suddenly became gloomy. In fact, the first impression of this man was still full of kindness, but once his face was hard, he somehow seemed to give people an invisible pressure at any time. He said slowly, "I don't know what's going on between these big families. I only care about my money. This money can't be wasted! It's been almost a year since Xia Jiling was killed. I'm afraid I don't have the patience to wait any longer! Therefore, I want you to take over the Lu family now and help me find out the whereabouts of this fund!"
He took a deep breath and said, "If there are any conditions, just mention it. I will never bargain!"