mutual benefit [gl]

Sending Ji Xu back to the gate of Chen's mansion, Chen Yuanzhen lowered his hat and hid in the bushes in the distance, watching him enter Chen's house, she turned and left in peace.

After walking about 500 meters, she saw a black car parked not far away.

The lights of the car flashed a few times, and then drove slowly, before and after Chen Yuanzhen approached, the window glass was rolled down, revealing Zhou Ming's face.

Chen Yuanzhen opened the back door and got in the car. After she sat down, the speed of the car immediately changed from the slow speed just now, and started to gallop.

"She called you over today?"

Chen Yuanzhen opened his mouth to post.

Zhou Ming didn't look back, and said, "Yes."

"Did you see her when you went to pick up the child?" Chen Yuanzhen asked again.

"Well, she was standing downstairs with the child at that time."

"Then Ji Xu came to the Chen family empty-handed?"

"That's right, I was surprised when I went. I thought she would bring some change of clothes for the child. I also asked her, but do you know how Miss Ji answered me?"

Chen Yuanzhen smiled slightly when he heard the words, and asked, "What did she say?"

"She said that the Chen family owed her so much, so she would pay back the child's clothes first. She also told Ji Xu that he could buy whatever he wanted when he got there, so don't be petty."

Chen Yuanzhen chuckled first, then pursed his lips and said with a smile:

"That's really something she can say."

"Miss Ji briefly explained the situation to me on the phone. I was terrified, but she was still very calm."

Zhou Ming laughed as he spoke. He turned the steering wheel and turned a corner before continuing:

"Speaking of Miss Ji. Assistant Liao called just now and said Gao Xiu was looking for you, but she couldn't get in touch with you."

"Gao Xiu?" Chen Yuanzhen remembered that there was another participant in the case in his hands.

She immediately took out her phone, only to see that Liao Tezhu had sent her dozens of messages.

After a few cursory glances, she dialed directly to Assistant Liao Te.

"What does Gao Xiu want to do?"

Just as the call was connected, Chen Yuanzhen asked directly.

"Lawyer Gao said that he has something to discuss with you. He asked you to meet tomorrow in a restaurant outside the First Affiliated Hospital of S University. I have already sent you the specific address."

Chen Yuanzhen was a little strange when he heard the words.

What on earth did Gao Xiu want to talk to her about? As for crossing a city.

Since it was chosen to be near the hospital, Chen Yuanzhen understood that what Gao Xiu said must be related to the hospital.

"I see." Chen Yuanzhen replied.After finishing speaking, she closed her eyes, rubbed the center of her brows, relaxed her tone, and asked:

"It's so late, I didn't disturb you and your family to rest."

"No, I didn't sleep, and it happened that my family was still on duty."

"Well... well, that's it, you should go to bed early."

Chen Yuanzhen hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Holding the phone, her brows were furrowed, and her brain was running fast.

Until now, she has not figured out the details of Gao Xiu, if he is not from Chen Yuanshuo or from Chen Yuanyang's faction...

Before that, Gao Xiu told her that he wanted to cooperate with her.

Could this person also be eyeing the Chen family?

The scale of the Chen Group is huge, and Chen Zhishan's style of handling things is ruthless. Chen Yuanzhen will not be surprised how many enemies such a domineering group in the shopping mall has made.

It's just that Gao Xiu's age is clear, and his details are unclear, and he doesn't look like a down-and-out son of a group that was defeated by the Chen family?

What's more, with Chen Zhishan's suspicion, how could he allow the people around him to do such a thing?

no, no...

Chen Yuanzhen shook his head, unable to figure it out no matter what.

Everything can only wait until tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Chen Yuanzhen drove to S City alone.

It was already noon when the car parked in the parking lot of that restaurant. Chen Yuanzhen got out of the car and adjusted the collar of his suit jacket, then left the parking lot briskly and rushed to his destination.

Walking into the restaurant, Chen Yuanzhen asked the waiter if there was a Mr. Gao waiting for someone.

"Are you Miss Chen?" The waiter smiled, "Please follow me."

The waiter led Chen Yuanzhen to the private room, knocked lightly on the door, and said, "Hello, sir, the lady you were waiting for has arrived."

Hearing the people inside shouting please come in, the waiter immediately smiled politely at Chen Yuanzhen and turned to leave.

Chen Yuanzhen opened the door, Gao Xiu was sitting in front of the round table, and there was only one teapot and two teacups on the table in front of him.

Sure enough, there is something to talk about.

Chen Yuanzhen secretly tensed up, she walked into the private room and closed the door behind her back.

"Is there anything Lawyer Gao needs to talk across cities?"

Gao Xiu smiled when he heard the words, he lifted the teapot and poured a cup of tea into the teacup opposite, and made a gesture of invitation with his hands.

"Director Chen, sit first."

Chen Yuanzhen was also polite, she walked quickly to the opposite of Gao Xiu, and after sitting down, she raised her eyebrows and asked:

"Now can Lawyer Gao speak?"

"Is Director Chen really such a quick-tempered person?" Gao Xiu smiled all over his eyes, "Why don't you have a cup of tea first?"

Chen Yuanzhen sneered.

"Lawyer Gao has leisure and elegance, but I don't have the time to sit with you hundreds of kilometers away just to drink a cup of tea."

After she finished speaking, she looked around, and then said:

"The environment here is good. If Lawyer Gao has nothing else to say to me, then I won't delay drinking tea here."

After Chen Yuanzhen finished speaking, he got up and wanted to leave, but just a few steps away, he heard Gao Xiu's lazy voice behind him.

"Director Chen, I have something here, I think you should take a look."

Chen Yuanzhen stopped when he heard the words, but did not turn around.

"I think,"

Gao Xiu stood up, he was copying the pocket of his trousers with one hand, and a brown paper bag in the other.

"If you read this thing, you can understand why I asked you to come here."

Having said that, Gao Xiu had already walked behind Chen Yuanzhen, he stretched out his hand and handed out the paper bag.

Only then did Chen Yuanzhen turn around, only to see a playful smile on Gao Xiu's face, and then she looked down at the kraft paper bag.

After a pause, Chen Yuanzhen grabbed the paper bag.

A confident smile appeared on Gao Xiu's face, he turned around and walked back to his seat to sit down.

He picked up the teacup in front of him, blew on the hot air surrounding the rim, and tasted the tea.

Chen Yuanzhen stood where she was. She opened the paper bag, narrowed her eyes slightly, and saw that there were a few photos and a few pieces of paper inside.

There are five photos in total, all of which look like candid shots from a photography point of view.

In the first photo, a tall man in a white coat was standing and shuttling through the corridors of the hospital. Since he was still walking when he was photographed, his face was not very clear.

"A doctor?"

"It's a doctor from the First Affiliated Hospital of S University." Gao Xiu said calmly.

Chen Yuanzhen raised his eyes and looked at him suspiciously, Gao Xiu shrugged his shoulders and motioned her to continue watching.

Chen Yuanzhen didn't understand what he meant, so he had to calm down and look at the second photo.

But when she took the first photo away and saw the second photo below, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she opened her eyes wide to make sure that what she saw in front of her was not a hallucination, subconsciously He raised his head and looked at Gao Xiu in astonishment.

Gao Xiu stared at the ups and downs of the tea leaves in the teacup with calm eyes like stagnant water, and he smiled. .

"It seems Director Chen doesn't know yet,"

As Gao Xiu said, he put down the teacup in his hand, turned around, and met Chen Yuanzhen's frightened eyes, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared in an instant and became expressionless.

"I didn't expect that either."

"It turns out that Director Chen, you don't even know that the husband of your subordinate who is so close to you is the deputy director in that unpredictable hospital."

After all, Gao Xiu sneered.

"I said, it's not your assistant Liao Te who... deliberately kept this matter from you, right? Huh?"

Chen Yuanzhen looked at Gao Xiu with cold eyes, and the wedding photo of Liao Tezhu and that man in her hand was gradually distorted by her.

Gao Xiu guessed right,

Special assistant Liao did not tell Chen Yuanzhen that her husband used to work in that hospital.

In fact, who her husband is is a private matter, and Chen Yuanzhen doesn't ask.It's just that she and Chen Yuanzhen rushed to the hospital where her husband worked that day, but she still didn't tell Chen Yuanzhen.

But even though Chen Yuanzhen's mood was somewhat complicated, she still had to maintain her superficial composure. She hurriedly skipped the next few photos, then walked slowly to Gao Xiu's side, and dropped the photos on the table with a "slap".

"Attorney Gao seems to have misunderstood how I handle the relationship between superiors and subordinates."

Gao Xiu looked at her and just smiled, without speaking.

"Assistant Liao is my subordinate at work, and someone who has nothing to do with me after get off work. I am her boss and not her husband's boss, so I have no interest in her private life at all."

Chen Yuanzhen sneered as he spoke.

"It's Lawyer Gao, it's really boring to investigate my subordinate's private life."

"Does Director Chen really think so?" Facing Chen Yuanzhen's counterattack, Gao Xiu didn't care at all. He glanced at the crumpled photo of Chen Yuanzhen, and knew in his heart that Chen Yuanzhen was not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

"You should know what the position of Li Canghua's daughter is. As for Liao's assistant, her husband..."

Gao Xiu hesitated to speak, he lowered his eyes and smiled.

"I think you'd better go to the hospital to see for yourself first. See if you can really be as clear as you said."

After Gao Xiu finished speaking, he stood up, and when he walked to Chen Yuanzhen's side, he took a deep look at her, and then passed her by, and left the private room.

After Gao Xiu left, the astonishment in Chen Yuanzhen's eyes disappeared in an instant. She glanced at the photos on the table expressionlessly, stretched out her hand and put them back into the kraft paper bag.

She left the restaurant to buy a lighter from a nearby small store and drove to a nearby park.

In the park, she sat on a bench with her legs crossed, and lit the brown paper bag with a leisurely expression.

Watching the gray paper dust blow away with the wind, Chen Yuanzhen took out his phone.

"Zhou Ming, we guessed wrong before."

Zhou Ming who received the call was a little puzzled. He didn't understand where Chen Yuanzhen came from such a thoughtless sentence, so he asked:

"What do you mean?"

"Gao Xiu."

Pausing for a moment, Chen Yuanzhen smiled lightly and said:

"He's not from the old man."