Shen Yue looked at his old face and gray hair and was suddenly stunned, as if she suddenly realized that her father was old, "What are you going to do? Won't you come with me?"
"Dad can't walk at this age, so I'll wait here." After saying this, Shen Peng raised his hand and patted the back of Shen Yue's hand, then stood up and walked upstairs, his vicissitudes of life stained by loneliness.
It is difficult for a joint-stock group like them to start from a young age. Once it is established, it will grow very quickly, but if it is to be said that it collapses, it will happen overnight.
Like this time, they not only lost Lu’s sky-high contract, but also lost the principal invested previously, which resulted in many previous projects not being able to operate normally. The investment could not be recovered, resulting in insufficient stamina for the projects to proceed and had to be shelved.
As the saying goes, when a wall falls, people push it down.
Since ancient times in this world, there have been not many people who help when times are critical, but there are many who add insult to injury!
Now they are facing not only the Chen family, who has been eyeing them for a long time, but also the major aristocratic families who want to take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. It is almost impossible for the Shen family to try to turn over the cards.
And if companies in all walks of life do not operate behind the scenes, they are all deceiving laymen. At least few can guarantee 100% tax evasion, and Shen is no exception.
What's more, Shen Peng was able to reach his current status from a wage earner back then, and he also had blood on his hands and lost his life.
“Whether it was caused indirectly or directly, he, as the person in charge, had something to do with it. When all the wrong things were added together, there was only one path waiting for him in the end, a dead end.
Until she watched helplessly as Shen Peng's figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs, Shen Yue seemed to suddenly have an idea and rushed upstairs with the bank card and the few tickets on the coffee table.
After returning to the room, Shen Yue first opened a corner of the curtain to take a look at the situation downstairs, then dragged out a suitcase and put her valuable jewelry and documents in it.
After rummaging through the cabinets for a while, Shen Yue took out some of the jewelry that her mother had left for her when she passed away and packed them into the suitcase, and then randomly packed a few changes of clothes, shoes and bags. Go in.
After making sure that nothing valuable was left behind, Shen Yue pulled the box and walked out of the room quickly. When passing by the door of Shen Peng's room, she stopped and stood at the door. Thinking of her back just now, she thought about knocking on the door and saying something to him before leaving.
"dad?"
There was no sound in the room. When she raised her hand to knock on the door again, she heard a siren coming from outside. From far to near, it was obvious that she was rushing here.
Thinking of being caught, her expression immediately changed, "Well, dad, I'm leaving first, you take care of yourself."
As soon as she lifted her feet, she stopped again. After a slight hesitation, she shouted to the door and shouted to the people inside, "We will not contact you for the time being during this special period. Don't worry, I will take care of myself. I'm leaving!" "
After hurriedly speaking, she pulled the box downstairs, and then walked out through an inconspicuous little corner door where servants usually threw away garbage.
And just as she was going down the stairs, Shen Peng opened the door and walked out. Looking at the figure who left in a hurry without any care, his eyes were as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
It turned out that at this moment, his good daughter was not thinking about taking him with her or caring about what would happen to him next.
Rather, she was afraid that she would contact her. How ironic!
Shaking his head, Shen Peng turned around and looked at the woman who came out of the bedroom with a look of reluctance on her face, then sighed and took her hand.
"Now, if you think about it, it has been fifteen years since you followed me abroad in the blink of an eye. I didn't expect that it would end up like this. It was me who harmed you."
Holding a lit antique red lantern in her hand, Zhou Wei raised her head and smiled reassuringly at him, "Do you remember that you brought this lantern back from the auction on my 40th birthday?"
"You have given me many gifts and various jewelry over the years, but this one is my favorite. Why not let it send us on our last journey today."
Holding his hand and walking to the railing, the two looked at the magnificent and spotless living room downstairs with smiles.
“I don’t regret it, I just hope we can meet sooner in the next life.”
After saying that, Zhou Wei threw the lantern in her hand down from the upstairs.
The lantern lit with an open flame fell quickly and started to burn immediately after landing. Then it also ignited the Persian carpet on the floor. The fire spread quickly, then to the leather sofa and curtains. Finally, the fire burned bigger and bigger until the entire villa was engulfed. In a sea of ??fire.
?Compared with the crowd waiting outside the villa to witness the inextinguishable fire, Shen Yue, who hurriedly ran out of the house, had already walked out of the back door of the villa and caught a taxi.
"Where are you going, miss?" the taxi driver asked, looking through the rearview mirror at Shen Yue, who was sitting in the back seat wearing a hat, mask and glasses.
Although she felt that she was very well covered, Shen Yue deliberately pinched her throat and gave him an address just in case.
With the address, the taxi began to speed up and quickly left the villa area. Naturally, Shen Yue did not encounter the fire trucks and ambulances speeding towards her, nor did she receive the news immediately.
At the same time in China, as soon as Lu Zhixing came out of the conference room, his cell phone in his pocket rang. The caller was Chu Yang, who was sent abroad to handle the handover with Chen Lufan.
"What's wrong?"
Chu Yang scratched his head when he heard Lu Zhixing's voice, then turned to look at the live fire scene on the large-screen TV opposite and hesitated what to say.
After making sure that the phone was still in call mode, Lu Zhixing pushed open the office door while asking, "If you have something to say, I'll hang up if nothing else."
"Something's wrong!"
Hearing that he was about to hang up, Chu Yang had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "President, I just received news that there was a fire at Shen Peng's house."
There was a fire?
Lu Zhixing, who knew Chu Yang well, reminded him impatiently, "Tell me the important point!"
"It is said that no one who lived inside came out last night. There was so much fire that even the fire brigade could not save it when they arrived at the scene."
“After all, the level of fire protection here is not at the same level as that in China, so they can only confirm it after the fire burns out.”
With a slight frown, Lu Zhixing sat on the chair and turned the chair around with his feet to face the floor-to-ceiling windows. Outside the windows were blue sky and white clouds and tall buildings of different heights.
"Make sure if Shen Yue is inside. If not, you must find her. That woman is not an economical person."
After all, he had already suffered a loss at her hands because he underestimated his enemy. Now that the Shen family was in this situation again, Lu Zhixing was afraid that she would jump over the wall.
Thinking that Meng Yao might be hurt again, he said that he would never let this happen again! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com