Li Qiutao rose to greet him.
Seeing this, Yu Mengzhi did the same, and she found Xu Hanchen somewhat familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before.
Li Qiutao lowered his voice and said, "This is General Xu Hanchen. You must have seen him on television. The elder is a powerful figure among the top three in the military. You'll need to choose your words carefully when you speak with him later."
Yu Mengzhi was shaken, "Thank you for the reminder, President Li."
"You don't have to call me President Li anymore. You can call me Uncle, just like Jinzhao," Li Qiutao was very optimistic about Yu Mengzhi.
The two walked behind Xu Hanchen.
Xu Hanchen stood at the operating room door for ten minutes, and apart from speaking once at the beginning, he did not speak again.
When he turned around, he realized that the two were standing behind him. Li Qiutao quickly said, "Old Xu, you've come all the way from the capital in the middle of the night. We've truly troubled you."
Xu Hanchen waved his hand, "It's only right to look after my soldiers."
Moreover.
He almost regarded Chen Jinzhao as his own junior.
When Xu Hanchen learned that Chen Jinzhao was in trouble, he did not close his eyes for a moment. He first ordered the Jiangning Provincial Hospital to be placed under lockdown, and then rushed from the capital to Jiangning.
"What did the doctor say?" he asked.
Li Qiutao's expression was not good, and he said in a low voice, "The doctor said..."
"Chen Jinzhao's injuries are too severe, and they can't guarantee whether he can be saved. They only promised to do their best to save him. In the end, it all depends on whether Chen Jinzhao is tough enough."
Xu Hanchen was speechless.
At this moment, he seemed to have aged ten years again.
Chen Jinzhao was his most promising disciple, and now he had suffered such a serious blow. It was hard not to suspect that someone was targeting Chen Jinzhao.
"Tell me immediately if there is any news. I'm going to the Jiangnan Provincial Government now. If I don't get a satisfactory explanation, I'm not done with these people!" Xu Hanchen wanted to seek justice for Chen Jinzhao.
Li Qiutao was deeply shocked. Had this old gentleman finally lost his temper?
The old general's wrath needed to be quenched with blood!
Xu Hanchen was not in a hurry to leave. He turned to look at Yu Mengzhi, who was standing beside Li Qiutao, looking a bit reserved, "You're that girl from the Yu family, Chen Jinzhao's girlfriend?"
Yu Mengzhi hummed, "Old Xu, it's me."
Xu Hanchen nodded with satisfaction, "I've seen your file. You don't have that wicked aura of Yu Lingxiao. But I'll say this upfront, I hope you can focus on being Chen Jinzhao's capable assistant in the future. I don't ask for your merits, only that you make no mistakes. When you have your wedding, I can be your officiant."
Li Qiutao showed a pleased expression, but quickly suppressed it, unnoticed by Xu Hanchen.
Yu Mengzhi agreed again, "Thank you for your guidance, Old Xu. I will keep it in mind."
Xu Hanchen nodded. After leaving the operating room entrance, he met the dean of the provincial hospital, who had come to visit, at the other end of the corridor. Xu Hanchen learned about Chen Jinzhao's condition from him and left with a grim face.
Li Qiutao watched Xu Hanchen's retreating figure disappear into the elevator and then sighed as he looked back, "Tonight is destined to be a bloody night. I hope we can find the mastermind behind this."
Yu Mengzhi also felt relieved at this moment.
When Xu Hanchen stood before her just now, although he did not specifically target her, he made her feel immense pressure, almost suffocating her.
This was the dignity accumulated by Xu Hanchen from years of campaigning!
"President Li..." Yu Mengzhi began.
Li Qiutao came back to his senses and smiled, "Didn't I tell you not to call me President Li anymore? We're family, it's too formal."
Yu Mengzhi changed her address, "Uncle, I have something to ask."
"Go ahead."
With Li Qiutao's permission, Yu Mengzhi asked, "What exactly is Jinzhao's identity? Why has it alarmed a big figure like Old Xu? He never told me before."
She vaguely remembered that when they first met, Chen Jinzhao was just a security guard.
She really thought Chen Jinzhao was just a security guard.
Now it seemed, most likely not.
Li Qiutao glanced around outside the operating room, not seeing Shangguan Yu'an. This girl had probably gone to the provincial government with Xu Hanchen. "Didn't the Shangguan family girl tell you?"
Yu Mengzhi shook her head.
"In that case, it must be that Jinzhao intentionally hid it from you, for fear of you worrying," Li Qiutao sighed.
"But now the situation is urgent. Even if I don't say it, you should be able to tell that Jinzhao's identity is not simple. He is currently the chief instructor of a certain ace special forces team in the country, with a rank of one star. Of course, this military rank is something he earned through blood and hardship in five years of military service. The position of chief instructor is merely the icing on the cake. He has another identity – he has already been designated as the successor by General Xu."
Yu Mengzhi was profoundly shaken!
Before, she had not been without speculation about Chen Jinzhao's identity, and she had tried to guess highly.
Looking back now, she had even been too conservative.
Chen Jinzhao's identity and status were far higher than she had imagined, so high that she had to look up to him! But she couldn't understand, if Chen Jinzhao was so capable, why did he condescend to be a security guard at Gouchen Group?
It didn't make sense.
Li Qiutao knew that Yu Mengzhi had doubts and sighed again, "It's because during a certain mission, Chen Jinzhao watched all his brothers sacrifice before his eyes, making him feel responsible for their deaths and extinguishing his fighting spirit. This is also why you and he met in the security room of Gouchen Group."
Yu Mengzhi was in a daze. So Chen Jinzhao had such a past.
People from two different levels, who had almost no chance of intersecting, eventually ended up together.
Fate, indeed, was a marvelous thing.
"Why don't you go and rest? I'll keep watch," Li Qiutao said.
Yu Mengzhi shook her head, "I won't be able to sleep until there's a result, and everyone else is waiting too."
Li Qiutao said no more.
After chatting with Yu Mengzhi, Li Qiutao went to the window and made a call to Xiao Wu, "Xiao Wu, do you know what happened tonight?"
Xiao Wu said on the phone, "Master, I know everything. How is Young Master Chen? Are there any new developments?"
Li Qiutao shook his head and said in a low voice, "There are no new developments for now. The surgery is still ongoing. I'm calling you because I need your help with something."
"Master, just give the order," Xiao Wu was ready to serve.
Li Qiutao extinguished the flame of the cigarette butt and said chillingly, "Go to Qingfeng Town with Xiao Hu and arrest Zhang Zhengbiao for questioning. See if you can find anything out."
Even through the phone, Xiao Wu could feel the chill in Li Qiutao's voice. Xiao Wu's tone and expression also became serious, "Master, should we act openly or..."
"Don't be discovered," Li Qiutao uttered these words.
Xiao Wu understood instantly.
"And if you find out something, what should you do?"
Li Qiutao said without hesitation, "After you get what you need, send Zhang Zhengbiao and his accomplices on their way, and then clean up the mess."
If they couldn't deal with the gods behind these people, couldn't they deal with these pawns?
Chen Jinzhao was Li Qiutao's inverse scale!
To touch it was to die!