204: Chapter 204: Do You Like the Gift?
204: Chapter 204: Do You Like the Gift?
“President Jiang really keeps his cards close to his chest.”
Si Jinchuan calmly said, “I wonder what kind of account President Jiang would like to settle with me?
I am all ears.”
The fact that Jiang Yan could collaborate with Helian Lu to stage this drama sufficiently demonstrates the profound relationship between them.
Si Jinchuan, rising from a disregarded illegitimate child of the Si Family to become the helmsman and establish his own power, sufficiently proves his capabilities.
Naturally, Jiang Yan wouldn’t underestimate him.
The man’s thin lips slightly curved up, his voice neither cold nor warm, “The explosion in Country Y, I assume President Si hasn’t forgotten it yet?”
Si Jinchuan didn’t evade the question and answered very openly, “Is President Jiang suspecting that it was my doing?”
Jiang Yan’s face, handsome as a banished immortal, was tinged with frost, his deep black eyes like an unfathomably deep ancient well.
He spoke, “By saying this, is President Si trying to clear himself?”
The two deeply strategic men, their covert confrontation, made Helian Lu somewhat excited; this drama wasn’t something one could witness just by paying.
Si Jinchuan pondered for half a second, then smiled, “I have always been transparent and upright in my dealings; the things I’ve done, I naturally admit, and those I haven’t, I naturally deny.”
“The only reason President Jiang suspects me is because Xuanqing is under my management.
However, I usually don’t inquire about my subordinates’ actions.
Yet, this indeed was my oversight, leading to the current situation.
If President Jiang insists on an explanation, I can hand over the person who did this to President Jiang for any punishment he sees fit!”
Si Jinchuan’s mind is just as unfathomable; his speech was indeed eloquent.
A hint of a sarcastic smile lingered on the corners of Jiang Yan’s lips, “President Si really is ready to make huge sacrifices for justice.”
He paused slightly, then changed the subject, “But what I want is not just those few people.”
Si Jinchuan, without betraying any emotions, slightly furrowed his brows, “Then what does President Jiang want?
I will certainly do my best to fulfill it.”
Jiang Yan said, “No need to bother, what I want, I’ll take myself.”
A bad premonition crossed Si Jinchuan’s mind.
Just then, his phone rang.
Si Jinchuan did not answer immediately.
However, Jiang Yan smiled and reminded him, “President Si, your phone is ringing.
Aren’t you going to answer?”
Si Jinchuan hesitated for a moment, but eventually picked up the call.
The next second, it was unknown what the other person told him, but his face immediately darkened.
His deep eyes fixed on Jiang Yan like they were soaked in venom.
He nearly gritted his teeth as he replied to the person on the other end, “I understand.”
Those four words seemed like they took all his strength to utter.
After he hung up, Jiang Yan smiled wickedly, “President Si, do you like this gift?”
Si Jinchuan hadn’t expected his ruthlessness, and that he had kept a card up his sleeve, leaving him utterly unguarded.
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, suppressing the fury in his heart, his gaze ominously fixated on him, “President Jiang revealing your trump card so soon, aren’t you afraid you won’t walk out of here today?”
The man arrogantly replied, “Do I look like someone who would be afraid?”
Si Jinchuan looked at him, then suddenly laughed, a laugh that seemed like a release, yet also like it was masking something.
Or perhaps it was fury turning into laughter.
Conversely, Helian Lu felt somewhat creeped out.
Yet, someone seemed completely unconcerned, with an indifferent expression.
The call Si Jinchuan had just received was from X Corporation, for no reason other than today X Corporation was supposed to sign a contract with a tech company in M country, and was just at the final step, but Jiang Family’s people stepped in and snatched the contract first.
This contract was of great significance for X Corporation, as the raw materials provided by this tech company were exactly what their project needed.
So many project contracts, yet Jiang Yan specifically interfered with this one, showing he also knew its importance.
This is what they call striking the enemy’s vital point!
…
At this moment, outside in the open-air hall, Su He clearly sensed something amiss in the atmosphere.
Ye Jiuqing also noticed it and they exchanged glances, but said nothing.
Then, Su He looked at Fei Xu and asked, “Fei Xu, do you need to go to the restroom?”
Fei Xu was slightly startled by the words, but still nodded, “Okay, Young Madam.”
After Su He and Fei Xu left, Ye Jiuqing also departed.
Only Situ Yuan remained there alone; however, none dared to approach her.
Both Su He and Ye Jiuqing could feel the subtle changes here; naturally, Situ Yuan noticed them too, otherwise, she wouldn’t have lasted over the years!
Originally, this church was not ordinary.
Si Jinchuan had gathered so many people here; there must be a reason for it.
Although Su He and Fei Xu were heading in the direction of the restroom, the two turned into a gap in a nearby rockery when passing the backyard, a spot just enough to hide two people.
“Young Madam, where are we going?”
Backs against the rockery, Fei Xu looked at Su He and said, “Master instructed us not to leave the hall; what if…”
Of course, Su He was aware of this.
After all, Jiang Yan had warned her twice already.
Frowning, Su He raised her index finger to her lips and silently motioned, “Shush, no talking.”
Fei Xu immediately closed her mouth.
At that moment, several footsteps and coarse male voices were heard.
“Where are they?
I clearly saw them walking this way just now, how did they vanish?”
“The master instructed not to let her leave this place, we must find her.”
“Yes!”
The two hid in the rockery for a while longer until they didn’t hear any footsteps anymore, then Su He spoke, “If we hadn’t left just now, we would have been invited for a ‘tea’ by now.”
She felt something was off because there were people secretly watching them.
And these people were not sent by Jiang Yan, otherwise Fei Xu would have known.
“Young Madam, what should we do now?” Fei Xu asked.
Swiveling her eyes, Su He inquired, “What task did he give you?”
Fei Xu answered, “Master just instructed me to follow you closely at all times.”
“Is that all?”
“That’s all.”
“…”
Su He looked up at the blue sky; it was already five in the afternoon, and the sunlight was still glaring.
She sighed, “Don’t know what kind of medicine your Master is selling in his sugarcoated haws; seems like I can’t be much help.
The weather today is quite nice; let’s find a place to rest.”
Fei Xu: “Ah?”
“Young Madam, where should we rest?”
Su He said, “People say the most dangerous place is the safest place, of course, we go to the most dangerous place.”
Fei Xu blinked and asked, “Then are we going back to the hall?”
“No,” said Su He, “That’s not the most dangerous place.”
Fei Xu was confused, “Then where?”
…
Ten minutes later.
Fei Xu stood on the rooftop, gazing down and was momentarily stunned.
She could never have imagined that the most dangerous place the Young Madam mentioned was the rooftop of the church.
But indeed, the rooftop was quite dangerous, seemingly no trouble with that assumption.
Those people could never guess that they would be on the rooftop.
Fei Xu asked, “Young Madam, are we just going to stay here?”
Su He found a spot and sat down right there, shrugging her shoulders, “Otherwise?
It’s quite nice here with light, wind, and scenery to enjoy.
Isn’t it good?”
“Alright, stop overthinking, sit down, rest for a while.”
Su He pointed to a spot beside her for her to sit down.
Then, she pulled out her phone, snapped a photo of the rooftop scenery, and sent it to someone.
Just so they wouldn’t think she was captured.
She also typed out a line of text and sent it off.
At this moment, Jiang Yan, who was facing off with Si Jinchuan, felt his phone vibrate in his pocket a few times.
It was the notification tone of WeChat, typically no one else would message him on WeChat, except for a certain lady.
And he had muted everyone else’s WeChat except for Su He’s.
So, the only person messaging him could only be her.
Then, he pulled out his phone and started checking the message right in front of everyone, despite the serious, somber atmosphere, he didn’t seem to care at all.
Upon opening WeChat, the top contact had two unread messages.
He tapped to open them.
Wife: “Hurry up with what you’re doing and come meet me on the rooftop, the scenery here is pretty nice.”
There was also a photo of a blue sky.
He smirked and replied with one word: “Okay.”
Right after, he sent an “I love you” emoji.
Helian Lu, sitting beside him, noticed that he looked a bit odd.
Just as he leaned over to have a look at what Jiang Yan was reading, the man tucked away his phone.
Helian Lu: “…”
He internally ridiculed: Stingy!
On the rooftop, Su He, after receiving his reply, briefly smiled and then put away her phone.
At that moment, Fei Xu gave her a curious glance and asked, “Young Madam, how did you manage to control the surveillance just now?
What if they notice something off with the surveillance footage and realize we are on the rooftop?”
Leaning against the wall nearby, with one knee bent and one hand resting on her knee, Su He lightly looked up at the sky and chuckled, “Don’t worry, it won’t happen.”
“As to how I controlled it, you’ll have to ask Bai Yang, he did it remotely.
After all, I can’t control it just by thinking,” she half-joked.
“If you’re interested, you can ask him to teach you a bit, his computer skills are pretty good.”
She had merely sent Bai Yang a message in advance.
Because, no matter how capable she was, controlling surveillance equipment with bare hands was impossible.
Hearing this, Fei Xu nodded and then gave Su He another look.
She noticed that her Young Madam could be both graceful and carefree, how could a typical wealthy young lady achieve such a posture?
And yet, there was no sense of incongruity at all, she handled it well.
On one side, the atmosphere was harmonious and relaxed, but on the other side, it was quite the opposite, eerie and oppressive.
Putting away his phone, any trace of softness disappeared from the depths of Jiang Yan’s eyes, as if it had never existed.
Those dark eyes of his seemed like an abyss, daunting to look into.
At this moment, Si Jinchuan also received a text message about Su He’s disappearance.
He casually looked up at Jiang Yan, but trying to discern anything from this man was definitely impossible.
In the following less than half an hour,
Si Jinchuan received three phone calls, all about collaboration deals being intercepted.
Jiang Yan curled his lips, his smile ambiguous, “President Si really knows how to stay put.
It seems the Si family is quite well off to simply hand things over generously without a substantial reserve, it indeed couldn’t be done.”
Though he couldn’t hear the content of the calls, he knew what they pertained to, after all, it was all his own doing.
Each word Jiang Yan spoke was like a thorn piercing into him.
But oddly, he still had to endure it, now was not the time to break ties.
Obviously, Jiang Yan came prepared, and if he chose to confront him now, he definitely wouldn’t gain any advantage!
His expression unchanged, he responded to Jiang Yan, “If President Jiang seeks justice, I naturally won’t stop him.
If it makes President Jiang feel better, this amount of money is nothing.”
Honestly, even Helian Lu admires him.
He really knows how to keep his cool.
If it were Jiuqing in this situation, I bet he would have already exploded in anger.
No wonder he’s capable of handling big matters, indeed, anyone who can establish an organization like Xuanqing is certainly no ordinary person.
Jiang Yan slightly curved his thin lips, a meaningful smile lingering in his deep eyes: “Since President Si has already said this, then I, Jiang Yan, won’t hold back.”
The way the man took it further almost made Si Jinchuan lose his composure.
The reason he could endure till now was entirely due to the self-control he had developed from enduring many years within the Si Family.
After Jiang Yan finished speaking, he made a phone call, and then said to the person on the other end: “Did you hear that?
President Si said he won’t interfere, go ahead.”
He said this while looking at Si Jinchuan.
Si Jinchuan, seeing the smile that remained on his face, slightly furrowed his brows, not understanding what he meant by “go ahead.”
But, a few seconds later, someone gave him the answer.
“Bang!”
A loud explosion came from outside!
And the tables and chairs inside even shook a bit.
Before he could regain his composure, another sound… and a another shake…
It happened three times in total…
Si Jinchuan’s face had turned so dark that no words could describe it!
He glared at the smiling Jiang Yan, feeling like he was about to grind his own back teeth to dust!
Helian Lu actually didn’t know Jiang Yan’s plan; he only knew that he was asked to pretend to be him, but Jiang Yan never mentioned anything about blowing this place up…
He was stunned!
Truly, there’s no one else you should provoke less than this couple!
Both are vengeful and their methods torment the soul deeply; it would be better if they would cut the Gordian knot swiftly.
This psychological warfare is simply unbearable.
Yet, the man even dared to ask with a smile: “President Si, do you like this gift?
Since President Si is wealthy, finding someone to repair this should be no problem, right?”
At that moment, someone ran in anxiously and shouted: “Master, it’s bad!
That batch of goods has been blown up.”
Si Jinchuan’s face stiffened, and he sharply turned his gaze towards Jiang Yan, a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
How could he possibly…
Jiang Yan’s eyebrows slightly raised, but he remained silent.
The next second, Si Jinchuan stood up.
“Can’t sit still now, President Si?” said Jiang Yan.
Si Jinchuan gritted his teeth and said: “Jiang Yan, don’t go too far, this isn’t your territory after all!”
“Oh, is that so?
But a capable person is talented everywhere,” Jiang Yan replied unconcernedly.
Helian Lu was speechless, feeling that Jiang Yan’s provocative tone and words were really too much.
If he were Si Jinchuan, he would want to punch him.
How had he never noticed how provocative this man was before?
Si Jinchuan: “…”
“Keep an eye on them, don’t let them take a single step out of here!”
Si Jinchuan left quickly after dropping that statement.
At this moment, the open-air hall was in complete chaos, nobody had expected the explosion to happen outside.
And Su He and Fei Xu, who were resting on the rooftop, were also startled by the blasts.
The two leaned over the railing and glanced down.
“Was this done by your Master?” asked Su He.
Fei Xu, unsure of this arrangement and not entirely certain, guessed: “Probably, maybe.”
Otherwise, Si Jinchuan wouldn’t have blown up his own place, right?