In the hospital, Lu Tao was feeding porridge to Guan Lei when he woke up, and the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
He looked at the unfamiliar number calling, handed the bowl to the nurse, walked outside the door and pressed answer: "Hello, who is this?"
"Mr. Lu, I am Zhao Fengnian!"
A deep male voice came from the receiver: "I want to talk to you about the conditions you proposed before."
"OK."
Although Lu Tao was a little surprised to receive Zhao Fengnian's call so quickly, he responded quickly: "I'm at the Fourth Hospital of the Medical University. Come over."
"My matter is very urgent. In the past, I might not have been able to find you in time."
Zhao Fengnian was hesitant when he spoke, and at the same time he was also very entangled in his heart.
The battlefield at home is Zhao Fengnian's only hope for a comeback. At his age, he knows better than anyone how difficult it is for a man to seize such an opportunity in his life.
No matter how cowardly he is, Zhao Fengnian is not willing to give away his hard work to others.
He couldn't trust Li Jifeng, and he couldn't trust Lu Tao either.
In his opinion, these mixed society people have no good cake.
He was scared.
He was afraid that if he told Lu Tao about Zhao Tai's kidnapping, the other party would make things worse.
Although Lu Tao didn't know why Zhao Fengnian was like this, he had a guess: "Old Zhao, did something happen to you? Since you want to cooperate, you must first show sincerity. I have to know what happened to you before I can understand. How can I help you!"
"call!"
Zhao Fengnian thought about it again and again and felt that he had no choice. He took a deep breath: "Tonight, after I escaped from the plate factory, Li Jifeng arrested my son. He asked me to meet at Qipanshan Reservoir and asked me to take him to the battlefield. formalities, and I was only given two hours!”
Lu Tao understood instantly: "Do you want me to save your son?"
"Yes! My son called the police, but I don't want to involve the police."
Zhao Fengnian responded with great tangle: "The reason why I work so hard is just to give my son a good future! He is my only bloodline. I can't just watch him get hurt, but I am even more afraid of losing the battlefield and letting him Live the life I had when I was young!”
"I said, as long as you agree to my conditions, your business will be my business!"
Lu Tao agreed: "Take what Li Jifeng wants, go to the reservoir to meet him, and leave the rest to me!"
Zhao Fengnian was shocked: "You want me to meet him alone? Aren't you going to accompany me?"
"I have a grudge against Li Jifeng. If we both appear in front of him at the same time, you won't be able to negotiate this matter! Listen to me, feel free to go, I just won't show up, but I will protect you secretly!"
Lu Tao's words were half true and half false. He was unwilling to face Li Jifeng. In addition to the grudge between the two sides, the main reason was that the strength gap was too large. In a head-on confrontation, he might not be his opponent.
After the two ended the call, Lu Tao turned back to the ward and said to Guan Lei: "You have to find a few people for me. They must be strangers and have good psychological quality."
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After Zhao Fengnian ended the call with Lu Tao, he stopped a passing taxi, opened the door and asked: "Master, please take me to Tangling District. I will give you double the fare when you get there. OK?"
The driver looked at Zhao Fengnian, who was wearing pajamas and looked very slovenly, and asked cautiously: "Are you going to crash the car?"
The so-called car crashing is the act of asking the driver to wait downstairs or at the intersection after taking a taxi, with the excuse that the fare will never be returned.
Young men who are fooling around outside these days are used to this kind of trick, so taxi drivers are very cautious about this kind of thing.
"Fuck, how old am I, and I can still crash your car!"
Zhao Fengnian took off his watch and patted it on the operating table: "My watch is not expensive. I bought it for eight hundred yuan. It must be worth more than your fare. I'll bet it on you. That's all right." ?”
"No! At your age, you don't look like a liar!"
The driver started the car and complained to Zhao Fengnian: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's mainly because I was beaten by two little guys in the afternoon. They took my car and ran from the Soviet Area to Dadong to pick up a little girl. They drove back and forth. It took more than two hours. After arriving at the place, the three of them pushed open the door and ran away. They were so fucking uneducated! That little girl was also an idiot. Those two boys couldn't even pay for a taxi, and they were fooling around with other people. Woolen cloth!"
Zhao Fengnian was worried about his son's safety and didn't answer the driver's words. He just looked at the street lights outside the window worriedly.
Half an hour later, the taxi stopped at the entrance of a community on Dongling Road that had just opened last year. Zhao Fengnian put his watch in the car and then hurriedly walked into the community and headed towards a residential building.
After going upstairs, Zhao Fengnian found the key under a brick at the door, opened the door and walked in.
This house has not been renovated yet, and there are decoration materials and scaffolding everywhere.
This is the new house that Zhao Fengnian prepared for Zhao Tai. In order to save labor, he did most of the decoration work alone.
Zhao Feng was very familiar with finding a set of dirty work clothes in the house, rummaged in the cabinet again, took out the two thousand yuan in cash reserved for decoration, went downstairs and returned to the taxi, and took out five hundred yuan. He handed it over: "Master, please find a mobile phone store nearby that is still open, and then take me to the Qipanshan Reservoir. These five hundred are considered hard work. When I finish the work, I will give you another five hundred!"
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The Qipanshan Reservoir, built in 1974, is an artificial lake built to intercept the water of the Pu River. It has a winding coastline and unique scenery.
As night falls, the area around the reservoir is silent, covered in ice and vast wilderness.
Because of the blizzard during the Lantern Festival, the surrounding mountains were covered with snow, making it impossible for cars to go up the mountain.
The taxi stopped at the intersection leading to the reservoir. Zhao Fengnian stood under the car and dialed Zhao Tai's phone number: "I have arrived near the reservoir, where are you?"
Li Jifeng's voice came out: "Go to Huishan Village and walk north along the village road!"
"Then what?"
"Don't ask, just do it!"
"Can Zhao Tai have a word with me?"
"Du...du..."
Li Jifeng hung up the phone directly.
Zhao Fengnian heard the busy signal and asked the driver to do as he was told. At the same time, he dialed Lu Tao's phone number: "Li Jifeng called me. He asked me to go north in Huishan Village, but he didn't say where I was going."
"Li Jifeng can make the casino so big. The official has his own connections. He probably knows about your family's report. He wants to hide in the dark and see if there is a tail behind you."
Lu Tao asked: "Are there any ruts on the road you are walking on now?"
Zhao Fengnian glanced outside the car and shook his head: "The road conditions here are very bad. The dirt road is frozen, and you can't see anything."
"I'm going to Huishan Village now. Stay calm and follow Li Jifeng's request. We can contact him at any time!"
On the other side of the phone, Lu Tao was sitting in a Fukang sedan that he had just bought, which was more than ten years old and had no formalities. He said to the young man next to him: "People are walking north in Huishan Village. Let's go and take a look."
"If you want to stop people, you can't just go to Huishan, you also have to have a car and drive from Lotus!"
The young man responded: "My hometown is here. There is only one village north of Huishan. There is so much snow, and there is probably only one road that can drive."
"Okay!"
Lu Tao took out 10,000 yuan from his pocket and handed it over: "As agreed before, each of the three of you will receive 10,000 yuan. This is the deposit!"
