General Manager Huang brought the two people into his office. After sitting down on both sides of the large desk, he did not rush to speak. Instead, he opened the drawer, took out a pack of cigarettes, shook out a cigarette, and then took out a lighter to light the cigarette. Then he smoked the cigarette without saying a word, staring at the crystal ashtray on the table, as if he wanted to see something from the ashtray.
Gu Xiaofan kept looking at General Manager Huang. Seeing that he just smoked and didn't say anything, he was anxious and wanted to speak. Seeing that Zhong Han was just watching calmly, he had to suppress the desire to ask for the time being.
When General Manager Huang finished smoking a cigarette at a fast speed and took out the second one from the cigarette box and lit it, Zhong Han asked: "General Manager Huang, it's hard to say, right?""What's so hard to say? I just considered Lao Ren's face. After all, he was a well-known person when he was alive..." General Manager Huang looked embarrassed and defended himself unhappily.Zhong Han just smiled at his words. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that his smile only contained one meaning, which was disbelief.General Manager Huang obviously didn't want to really get serious about this issue. He cleared his throat and looked at Gu Xiaofan: "Is it convenient to talk about this topic in front of this young lady?""When performing official duties, General Manager Huang can ignore her gender." Zhong Han also looked at Gu Xiaofan and said to General Manager Huang with a smile.Gu Xiaofan nodded at the side, fearing that General Manager Huang would continue to use her gender as an excuse for not wanting to cooperate with the work properly. Even though she had been engaged in "semi-office" work before, she had worked for a few years. There was a truth that Gu Xiaofan was still very clear. In some professions, such as doctors and policemen, in many cases, gender awareness must be regarded as a cloud. Shyness, although it is human instinct, is also an incompetent performance in some times and occasions, so you must learn to "be both meat and vegetables".When General Manager Huang saw that both of them had the same reaction, he could no longer shirk the responsibility and nodded. Before he began to tell the story, he asked Zhong Han to test the waters: "Dai Mei is related to Lao Ren's death?"This sentence was equivalent to admitting that he knew Dai Mei. Zhong Han neither admitted nor denied it, but only said: "This is also the question we want to know the most right now."General Manager Huang put out his cigarette in the ashtray, brushed off the fine ash on his pants, and said in a light tone: "I do know Dai Mei, but I am not very familiar with her. She is the woman next to Lao Ren and often goes out with him. Attending some social events, she is very pretty, but I am a very principled person. I don't talk about whether I am tempted by beauty or not. Anyway, I can see that Dai Mei and Lao Ren have a complicated relationship. Even if she is a fairy from heaven, I can't have anything to do with her. "Gu Xiaofan thinks that she is not a person with a twisted stomach, and her mind is usually quite simple. But even so, after listening to General Manager Huang's words, she immediately felt that this man in his fifties had a bit of a cover-up, or in other words, he was simply trying to clear himself by taking the initiative.Zhong Han could also hear General Manager Huang's intention to remove himself from the matter, and nodded: "According to what you said, is there someone else involved with Dai Mei? Do you mean that Dai Mei has private dealings with his business partner behind Ren Xuefeng's back?""I didn't say that," General Manager Huang immediately shook his head and denied it after hearing Zhong Han's words, "Don't use your own thoughts to speculate on my words. What I said is the literal meaning. Please don't dig out any hidden meanings in it. If anything is involved, I can't afford the responsibility.""Well, I thought too much. So, tell us specifically what this 'literal meaning' means?" Zhong Han was very patient and didn't expose General Manager Huang's guilty rhetoric.General Manager Huang touched his nose and said, "Dai Mei does often attend our dinners and cocktail parties with Lao Ren. I have never asked Lao Ren what his relationship with her is. Lao Ren always introduces Dai Mei as a friend of his. However, anyone with eyes can see that ordinary friends are definitely not like that. Every time the two of them come, one is holding the other's arm, or the other is hugging the other's waist. Ordinary friends are like that?""Why does Ren Xuefeng often bring Dai Mei to participate in activities? Does Dai Mei have business dealings with him or has a share in his company or factory?" Gu Xiaofan asked curiously.General Manager Huang looked at her and smiled. That smile did not seem to be mocking, but more like a smile with a little emotion after hearing an overly simple idea."I don't know whether I have a share or not. If you want to know, go ask others. Anyway, I don't dare to take advantage of my partner so openly. Take us for example. If any female colleague in our store management attends a dinner party or other activities, other men don't dare to make dirty jokes to them so unscrupulously. Let's put it this way," he said to Gu Xiaofan, "I have lived half of my life. I don't have any other abilities. At least when I meet a woman, I can tell at first glance whether the other party is the type to touch. Who can be provoked, who should be respected.""You mean, Dai Mei is a 'female public relations' who specializes in helping Ren Xuefeng entertain clients?" Zhong Han asked.General Manager Huang just smiled worldly and said nothing."In your opinion, Dai Mei is not just someone Ren Xuefeng uses for 'PR', but also has a close relationship with Ren Xuefeng himself, right? Are they lovers?" Gu Xiaofan had heard from General Manager Huang that the relationship between Dai Mei and Ren Xuefeng was not simple. Adding to the information about the flow of funds obtained from the bank, he became more and more certain that Dai Mei and Ren Xuefeng had a relationship of sponsorship."Lover? I dare not say that. It's not that I am a person of heart. Nowadays, especially for wealthy bosses who have started their own business, it is not impossible to say that there are no lovers outside, but there are definitely not as many who keep lovers. Although those who keep lovers may not necessarily have any feelings for each other, men sometimes have a possessive desire that is hard to understand. Even if it is just a mistress that you have no intention of marrying, at least during the period of maintaining a lover relationship with her, you will not allow her to be entangled with other men," General Manager Huang said meaningfully, "Dai Mei has really worked hard to help Lao Ren attract business and entertain customers. It is not an exaggeration to say that she has tried her best. I dare not say that half of Lao Ren's business is due to her, but at least with her, sweet... The head must be bigger than without her. If they were lovers, Lao Ren would not be so willing to give up, and Dai Mei would not be so willing to give up. People die for money, birds die for food. Without the motivation of interests, where would the motivation come from? To put it bluntly, a woman's beauty is also capital and means, isn't it? So I think that the two of them can be regarded as taking what they need. As for the transaction, as long as both parties feel that it is fair and reasonable, it is enough, and there is no question of possessiveness and loyalty. "General Manager Huang's words were not direct, but they were not very obscure. Zhong Han immediately sorted out the relationship between Ren Xuefeng and Dai Mei from his expression. Gu Xiaofan seemed to be a little confused, but he sorted out the clues after a while."When was the last time you saw Ren Xuefeng?" She asked General Manager Huang.General Manager Huang thought for a moment and said, "About two months ago, I played mahjong with Lao Ren. Later, he was busy for a while. When I wanted to find him again, I couldn't get in touch with him. I called his wife and she said Lao Ren was missing. She also called the police. I originally thought that he ran away to hide because his wife was annoying him. I was thinking that now that his wife called the police, he would come back after hiding enough. This matter would not end well. Unexpectedly, he really got into trouble.""Does his wife know about Dai Mei?""How is that possible? There is no such open-minded woman in the world!" General Manager Huang thought Gu Xiaofan's question was really funny."Then you just said that during the time when Ren Xuefeng was missing, do you think he ran away to seek quiet because he was annoyed by his wife, and did they often quarrel?" Gu Xiaofan instinctively thought that Xu Ruobei quarreled with Ren Xuefeng because he had an ambiguous relationship with other women outside. After all, women's intuition is sometimes very effective, especially when it comes to their men. When Xu Ruobei called the police, she also mentioned that she suspected that Ren Xuefeng had eloped with a secret lover, which also showed that she had doubts about her husband's private life."That's not the case. I'm an outsider, so I don't know what they quarreled about specifically. I'm not interested in hearing about this kind of thing. But Lao Ren did complain to us a few times at the card table and the wine table. He said that his wife is young, and he has to be both the husband and the father at home. He has to compromise and take care of everything. His wife would be unhappy if she disobeyed him a little and would immediately turn hostile. If she was simply willful, it would be fine, but his wife especially likes to interfere in his business affairs. She always thinks that his way of dealing with problems is not right and always wants to reform him. Think about it, Lao Ren started from scratch, and it is already quite successful to have achieved what he has today. Moreover, he has lived half his life, and at the age of fifty, he has to be told what to do by his young wife, who is like teaching a child. Can he bear it? As for quarreling, he can't stand women crying, and he has to spend a lot of time to coax them when they cry. So later he simply avoided them whenever he could and tried not to let his wife interfere in business matters."