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The next day Lu Ming went to Sheng Youde's company and met Sheng Youde in the office.

Sheng Youde was still the same, but his complexion was much better than before, as if he had slowly recovered from the grief of losing his beloved daughter.

"Old man, there hasn't been much progress recently." As soon as they met, Lu Ming first confessed.

Sheng Youde paid a lot of money to hire Lu Ming, but after traveling for so many days, he didn't gain anything, and he himself felt a little embarrassed.

"I didn't come to you to ask you about this matter. You just do your best to handle Mu Yi's affairs. Don't force it. I didn't think there would be a result." Sheng Youde was calm, as if he was comforting the other party .

"Then you find me..."

"I heard that He Jin was poisoned first, and then assassinated? There must be someone behind this. I'm a little worried about your safety." Sheng Youde said earnestly.

"Well, there is such a thing."

Lu Ming knew that Sheng Youde wanted to know more about this matter, so he briefly explained what happened, but he didn't mention that he and Yan Xiaohui were trapped.

After the incident happened, the director of the hospital would definitely tell Sheng Youde what happened. After all, the victim turned out to be Sheng Muyi's personal bodyguard.

"Have you had some contacts with the Yan family recently?" Sheng Youde asked looking into his eyes.

"Yeah, you even know this place?" Lu Ming asked in surprise.

"In Shanghai, if there is any disturbance, I will get news here, except for Mu Yi's matter." Sheng Youde sighed.

Lu Ming didn't dare to say more, he thought that Sheng Youde must also know about the past of the Yan family and the Lu family, but it was a matter of the previous generation, so it's better for him not to mention it.

"Do you know what's the strangest thing about me?" Sheng Youde suddenly raised his voice.

"I don't know." Lu Ming shook his head.

"Shanghai is a big place, but it's actually very small. It depends on what angle you look at it from." Sheng Youde realized that he had lost his composure, and immediately lowered his voice.

"Based on my experience in Shanghai for so many years, it is said that every major event that happened on this ground, as long as I want to know, I will get the most detailed information, but I have no information about Mu Yi before or after the accident. Get any news. It’s like there’s another Shanghai besides the one I know, which is ridiculous.”

Lu Ming nodded, he could understand Sheng Youde's feelings.

Perhaps Sheng Youde thought that with his own financial resources and influence, he was already able to control the sources of information in Shanghai. It was only after Mu Yi's accident that he realized that he could not control it at all. At least there were many things on the ground that he could not control.

This was indeed a big blow to Sheng Youde.

"I said about the Yan family to remind you, try not to get too close to the Yan family." Sheng Youde returned to the topic.

"Is there a problem with the Yan family?" Lu Ming asked curiously, this was Sheng Youde's repeated warning.

"Maybe there is a problem, maybe there is no problem, but Yan Hongdao is not as simple as he appears on the surface, he is very complicated, and I won't tell you the details. Do you know? Back then, he and your father were life and death brothers , but when you came to Shanghai, did he look for you in person? Or did he send someone to treat you to dinner?"

Lu Ming was taken aback, he really didn't think about it so much, to be honest, he didn't know the relationship between his family and the Yan family before, he only knew the relationship between his father and Sheng Youde, and Sheng Youde actually said that Yan Hongdao had a relationship with his father back then. If they were friends of life and death, they would be like him and Zhang Ziyang.

But after he arrived in Shanghai, did Yan Hongdao really not know, or did he deliberately put him aside?

Then when I saw Yan Hongdao yesterday, why was he so enthusiastic?

He didn't doubt Yan Xiaohui at all. He guessed that Yan Xiaohui, like him, knew nothing about the past of the two families and was kept in the dark.

"The grievances and grievances of the elders should not affect the next generation, but many things happened back then, and some things can't be explained until now. Why did your father eat opium? Did he tell you it was rheumatic pain?"

Lu Ming nodded.That was all he knew, his father smoking opium for rheumatic pains.

"He must have his reasons for telling you like this, so it is inconvenient for me to say more, just remember one thing, that is what I told you last time, don't believe anyone in Shanghai except me, remember, don't want anyone Believe, you can only believe in yourself." Sheng Youde said solemnly.

"Yan Hongdao met me yesterday and said that he chased my mother back then, is that true?" Lu Ming had to ask when it came to this point.

"Indeed, this matter was even reported in the newspapers at the time. Your father finally had a public duel with Yan Hongdao, and your father won in the end, but the brotherhood between them was gone." Sheng Youde laughed suddenly, maybe It reminds me of that farce back then.

"They have fought a duel?" Lu Ming couldn't believe it.

What if he and Zhang Ziyang really fell in love with a woman at the same time?Should it be resolved through a duel?

Of course this will not happen, the two of them are both famous and well-known people, he is just curious and imagines it in his heart.

"Your father was shot in the leg. Although the bullet was taken out, the operation was not done well, leaving the root cause of severe pain in the left leg, so he had to take opium afterwards." Sheng Youde said.

"So that's how it is." Only then did Lu Ming know the reason why his father smoked opium in his later years, and his parents never confide a word about it to him and his younger brother.

"I'm not telling you that Yan Hong is not good. Whether he is good or not is a matter between our generation. You don't have to worry about it, but this person... you can keep a certain distance anyway. , but don't make the relationship deadlocked, I believe you will handle it well."

"You came here specially for this matter?" Lu Ming was a little confused.

"This is not a trivial matter. I don't want you father and son to fall in the same place. You must be careful." Sheng Youde said seriously.

Lu Ming could tell that Sheng Youde didn't say a lot of things, so it seemed that his words were not convincing enough. He might have concerns about not saying those things, or it might be for other reasons, and he couldn't get to the bottom of it.

"In a few days, an important Japanese official Honjo Fanta will come to Shanghai. The Yan family has prepared a grand welcome banquet for him. Yan Hongdao has already invited me, but I won't go. I called you here today for this purpose." You are not allowed to go." Sheng Youde said.

"Ah, I'm really planning to go, and I have a reason to go." Lu Ming was anxious.

"What's the reason, let's hear it."

Lu Ming told about going to the venue to search for the Japanese, of course, he didn't dare to mention An Gonggen.

"That's it, then you can go, but the purpose of your visit must be kept secret, and Yan Hongdao must not know." Sheng Youde nodded.

"I know what to do, old man, don't worry." Lu Ming said softly, and stood up.

Coming out of Sheng Youde's office, he smiled wryly in his heart, Yan Xiaohui told him to be careful of Sheng Youde, and now Sheng Youde warned him to be careful of Yan Hongdao, he didn't know who to listen to.

From the bottom of his heart, of course he trusts Sheng Youde more, after all he is not familiar with Yan Hongdao, but wouldn't someone who is familiar with him lie to you?Of course not, sometimes the more familiar you are, the worse you will be deceived.

Although Lu Ming has never been cheated by anyone, he has heard this kind of thing a lot. He has never eaten pork, or seen a pig run away?

Don't trust anyone, only trust yourself, he firmly remembered Sheng Youde's words.

Of course, he also has people he can trust completely, at least Yuan Mingzhu and Zhang Ziyang are completely trustworthy.

He was still wary of Yan Xiaohui, the girl who always wanted him, not because of Sheng Youde's warning, but because he felt that Yan Xiaohui was too complicated, unlike Yuan Mingzhu, who could almost see the bottom line at a glance.

Of course, this is also for him, maybe in the eyes of others, Yuan Mingzhu is also a mystery.

He was walking, when he suddenly saw Sheng Di coming, he smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I met you here."

"What a coincidence, I work here every day, it's not like you don't know, it's just your first time here."

Sheng Di is wearing a custom-made three-piece suit and Italian handmade leather shoes on his feet. He is indeed the number one son in Shanghai, and now he has become the heir to the richest man in Shanghai.

The biggest beneficiary of Sheng Muyi's disappearance is Sheng Di, who turned from a senior manager of the company to the heir of the Sheng family's property.

"I said brother, you don't have a formal job, what are you busy with all day long, why can't you see your figure every day?" Sheng Di held Lu Ming's hand and said very affectionately.

"I have a job, and I'm never idle." Lu Ming exclaimed injustice.

"Your job is to play tickets. Is anyone looking for you to handle the case? Of course, it's an exception for uncle looking for you." Sheng Di laughed.

In fact, Lu Ming and Sheng Di had more contacts when they were young than Zhang Ziyang, but the relationship between him and Sheng Di was not as deep as that of Zhang Ziyang, and it was not as deep as that of Sheng Muyi.In short, not so congenial in temperament.

"Come and sit in my office."

Sheng Di pulled Lu Ming to his office, sat on a sofa with him, then rang the bell to ask a secretary to bring two cups of coffee.

"Is your coffee still without milk and sugar?" he asked.

"En." Lu Ming nodded.

"Two cups of black coffee, then."

"You don't know that I've been looking for you these days, but I can't find you no matter how hard I look." Sheng Di laughed.

"Are you looking for something to do with me? Tell me, what can you do, Mr. Sheng?"

"That's right, I just want to know if you have any news about Ziyuan." Sheng Di asked.

"What, you have no news about Ziyuan?" Lu Ming was surprised.

Zi Yuan is Sheng Di's fiancée, it is impossible for the two of them to break contact.

"I just received a letter from her a few days ago, saying that she was visiting Lushan Mountain." Sheng Di said.

"Well, it seems that Mingzhu also received the news. Is there something wrong?" Lu Ming asked intentionally.

He had been thinking about this problem for a long time. It wasn't that there was something wrong with Zi Yuan, but something was too wrong.

Just based on the fact that she hid in her apartment for many days, it can be concluded that something serious must have happened.And it's not just her alone, Sheng Muyi frequently met her in her apartment in those days, as if they were researching something, which was even more wrong.

But what are the two of them discussing?

Could it be that Sheng Youde still had some grievances in Shanghai that required the two of them to hide and discuss?That doesn't make sense either.

"I can't say it, it just feels weird. You know, after I read the letter, I got the feeling that it was pre-written and sent by someone." Sheng Di said with a wry smile.

"Then is there a possibility that Ziyuan knows that she is going to a place where mailing is inconvenient, and she is afraid that her family will worry, so she writes the letter first and asks someone to mail it for her." Lu Ming analyzed.

"I don't think there is such a possibility. If it is really the case, she will definitely write it in the letter." Sheng Di's face was full of worry.