novelraw Chapter 712 : Big Trouble
Chapter 712 : Big Trouble
Chapter 712: Big Trouble
Tong Haoran was still angry on his end.
The secretary had already walked in from outside with the phone.
"The call went through."
Tong Haoran suddenly looked up, and the secretary quickly explained: "The people from Qifan Construction said Chen Fan had left instructions before he left. Qifan Construction will send a representative to attend at that time."
"Oh, and boss, the people from Qifan Construction just said that Chen's phone was connected today, saying that the plane he's on is about to arrive at the station."
Hearing this, Tong Haoran quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
This kid, although young, was at least reliable.
With the worry in his heart slightly eased, he walked back to sit across from the desk, picked up the teapot to pour a cup of tea, and casually asked.
"Where did this kid disappear to for these few days?"
"Give him a call. Tell him to come over after he gets back, I have a few words I want to say to him about the upcoming meeting."
The secretary nodded and walked out again.
However, after less than 3 minutes, he walked back in with a strange expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" Tong Haoran asked, puzzled.
The secretary hesitated, seeming unsure how to speak.
"Mr. Chen... refused."
"Hm?"
Tong Haoran's tea-pouring motion paused, and he looked up with furrowed brows.
The secretary awkwardly explained: "Mr. Chen said he had something to deal with and couldn't come over today."
"He said... he said he'd find time to come over again."
Tong Haoran frowned, looking displeased.
This brat, just when he thought he was still reliable, he turns around and refuses his invitation.
"What could be more important than this?"
The secretary said awkwardly: "Mr. Chen didn't say, just asked me to apologize to you on his behalf. He said he'll definitely find time to come over later."
Tong Haoran thought for a moment, and finally sighed.
"Fine. Let him be."
"Notify everyone that we'll have another department meeting this afternoon."
"Understood."
...
At the airport.
Chen Fan and Feng Pojun came out of the exit and immediately saw Luo Wenjie and Guo Shuai waiting outside.
Both parties met and embraced each other.
Luo Wenjie joked with a smile: "You've been playing the absentee boss, disappearing for half a month at once, aren't you afraid something might go wrong with the company?"
Chen Fan smiled, "I trust the people under me quite a bit."
"Trust my ass, when everyone couldn't contact you at first, they all panicked, those bosses at your company were about to call the police."
"If I didn't know some inside information and tell them you went to see your girlfriend, I guess those guys would have really called the police to look for you."
"I was a bit willful this time."
Chen Fan smiled: "Mainly, I didn't expect to be away for so many days."
Chen Fan then looked at Guo Shuai.
"How come I feel like you've gotten more handsome?"
Guo Shuai grinned: "Can't you say something I don't already know?"
"How are things with your girlfriend?"
Mentioning this, Guo Shuai seemed a bit dejected.
"It's all your fault, insisting on letting her join your studio. Now look what's happened, she's crazy about rehearsing with the band every day, spending more time with the band than with me."
"I think you're just being ungrateful for your good fortune, aren't you?"
Guo Shuai immediately grinned, "It's true. She's now striving hard for the position of lead vocalist in the band. I heard there are two other very strong contenders competing with her."
"Miaomiao is also an extremely competitive girl. I guess this time, she's determined to fight to the end."
Luo Wenjie beside them joked: "What's so difficult about this? Don't you see the big boss Chen here?"
"You just need to contribute your ass to the big boss Chen, and your girlfriend can directly become the band's lead vocalist."
Guo Shuai shook his head.
"Forget it. I don't want to use any backdoor connections. Besides, Miaomiao wants to compete with her own strength. She wants to prove herself."
Chen Fan asked with a smile: "Do you want me to go back and ask about it?"
Guo Shuai hurriedly waved his hands: "Really, there's no need. I was just casually complaining to you."
Both Guo Shuai and Luo Wenjie had driven here this time.
Luo Wenjie took the initiative to take the bamboo basket from Chen Fan's hand.
"It can't go in the trunk, I have to hold onto this myself."
Luo Wenjie was speechless: "Brother, I've been wanting to ask. What is it that you're treasuring so much?"
"You don't know shit."
Chen Fan lifted the blue cloth covering the top of the bamboo basket.
"Tch. It's just a few eggs and some boiled corn. I thought it was some treasure."
"That's why I said you don't know shit!"
Chen Fan glanced at Feng Pojun, "Old Feng will ride with me."
Sitting in the back seat, Chen Fan carefully placed the basket on his lap.
Luo Wenjie started the car and turned his head to look back.
"Should I take you home to rest first?"
Chen Fan shook his head: "Let's go to the hospital first."
Luo Wenjie nodded, not saying anything, and directly drove out.
Looking out the window, Chen Fan finally spoke: "You didn't explain clearly when you called me at the airport in Shudu."
"Tell me the details of the situation again."
Luo Wenjie sighed.
"I only know the general situation too. It seems Uncle Ma's fleet was negotiating a project out of town, but they offended some local underworld figures."
"They said Uncle Ma's business was encroaching on their territory, so they sent people to beat up several of Uncle Ma's fleet members and put them in the hospital."
"Uncle Ma couldn't stand for it, so he personally led people to negotiate, but the two sides ended up in a conflict and started a brawl right on the construction site."
"In the chaos, at least a dozen people from both sides were sent to the hospital, with 3 dying on the spot. Uncle Ma was hit in the back of the head with a steel pipe and is now in the hospital under emergency treatment."
Chen Fan frowned: "What about Xiaoshuai?"
"About 3 days ago, I received a call from Song Linlin saying Ma Xiaoshuai had disappeared."
"I called him, but it showed his phone was turned off."
Luo Wenjie turned his head to look back: "At the time, I thought this kid might have gotten hot-headed and gone to seek revenge. So I sent people to investigate out of town."
"But the brothers who went there came back and told me that those thugs who had attacked them had already run away, with their doors all locked."
"I realized the situation might be serious, so on one hand I had Song Linlin report to the police, and on the other hand I used various connections to search for him."
"I tried calling you at the time, but your phone couldn't be reached at all."
Three days ago, Chen Fan was still in the mountains with no cell phone signal, so naturally the call couldn't get through.
Chen Fan took out his phone and dialed Ma Xiaoshuai's number.
Sure enough, the other end showed that the phone was turned off.
Chen Fan held the phone, frowning as he pondered this matter.
Ma Xiaoshuai's father was in the sand and soil transportation industry, which was already a gray industry. Those who could operate in this industry generally knew some people in both legal and illegal circles.
Moreover, these fleets usually had their own territories divided among them.
Uncle Ma going to someone else's territory to take jobs naturally made them think he was stealing their business and livelihood.
For those in the underworld, it was all about face. They taught you a lesson, but instead of calling the police, you actually brought people to seek revenge out of town, which resulted in even bigger consequences.
Chen Fan felt somewhat helpless.
"Doesn't Uncle Ma have many businesses in Yunhai? Isn't the sand and soil business for our company's construction sites handled by his fleet?"
In the past two years, Chen Fan had various businesses starting up everywhere, requiring quite a few business partners. At the time, Chen Fan had specifically instructed that the sand and soil business be supplied by two companies.
One of them was Shi Qian from Tianshi Real Estate. Chen Fan had become acquainted with this woman when she sold him the land where Medal Club is now located, and they had formed a friendship.
The other partner was Ma Xiaoshuai's father.
Not to mention anything else, just supplying for Chen Fan's company alone should have allowed Uncle Ma to earn quite a bit of money.
How did he end up going out of town to make money?