"Are you looking for Green Ox?"
Li Chonglou's expression was strange. He hadn't expected Fan Jian to be the one to say this, but he quickly realized that only a few of them knew about Green Ox's death. His informants in Shangjing were likely still waiting for him.
Thinking of this, Li Chonglou's thoughts went a little astray.
Green Ox had stayed in Shangjing for so long. He probably had quite a few informants left behind. If he could recruit them all...
However, this thought was quickly cast aside by Li Chonglou. The man was dead now. With Green Ox's caution, the other informants were likely contacted independently. This idea was stillborn and impossible to realize.
While Li Chonglou was lost in thought, Fan Jian also sensed something was wrong, his brow furrowed tightly.
"What's wrong? Did something happen to Brother Green Ox?"
Li Chonglou exchanged a look with Chen Pao, then took out Green Ox's last possession, the voice recorder.
"This is his last request. He's gone."
Li Chonglou handed the voice recorder to Fan Jian and got straight to the point: "We came to see you to inquire about the blue doll you mentioned receiving from him."
Fan Jian was stunned, unable to snap out of it for a long time.
After a while, he mumbled dazedly, "Brother Green Ox is gone? Just like that?"
Looking at his reaction, Li Chonglou suddenly remembered A Niu. Both were Green Ox's subordinates. Although A Niu had other reasons, their reactions were very similar. It seemed that Green Ox was quite skilled at cultivating subordinates.
Li Chonglou, who was marveling inwardly, hadn't had time to speak when he suddenly heard a loud bang.
It was Fan Jian who, as if going mad, punched the wooden table. Although it was glued, the sound still startled the guests at the nearby tables, who all cast hesitant glances.
Fan Jian's reaction didn't stop there.
"Damn it! How could he just die like that! What about my business then?"
A faint sense of foreboding arose in Li Chonglou. Chen Pao, standing beside him, asked directly, "Manager Fan, what's wrong? What did Green Ox promise you?"
"My miracle weight-loss drug! He promised me he'd get it for me this year! Otherwise, who would want to stay here forever?"
Fan Jian's emotions became extremely agitated, but his words left both of them bewildered, suddenly unsure of the relationship between them. Li Chonglou, in particular, had been praising Green Ox just moments before!
Who would have thought the tables would turn so quickly!
At this moment, Fan Jian had become a bit irritable. Given his physique, people like him didn't usually get angry easily, so many eyes turned to them. Seeing this, Chen Pao could only try to calm his emotions first: "Manager Fan, don't get agitated. We can solve whatever it is together. There are many people here."
That last reminder finally brought some reason back to Fan Jian, although his expression remained somewhat impatient as he said, "Solve it together? What can you do to help me? Can you help me lose weight?"
Seeing that Fan Jian could still be reasoned with, Chen Pao finally showed a hint of a smile and said, "Isn't what's what matters? But Manager Fan, you need to explain things more clearly. What exactly happened?"
Both of them tacitly avoided mentioning the blue doll again, and in terms of eloquence, this was Chen Pao's specialty. Li Chonglou simply handed the matter over to him and sat quietly.
Under Chen Pao's calm expression, Fan Jian's emotions were also affected, and he gradually suppressed his anger, explaining the entire story from beginning to end.
Only then did Li Chonglou realize that although the relationship between the two seemed to be one of gratitude, it was actually Green Ox's coercion.
This Xiao Hong was not someone Fan Jian truly liked. The title of "mistress" was just Green Ox's teasing. Xiao Hong's true identity was the niece of the second aunt of the boss of Aneng Company.
In Fan Jian's words, this person was the complete opposite of her appearance! Generally, fat people were kind-hearted and gentle in personality, but Xiao Hong's personality had nothing to do with these two words.
"Bossy, overbearing, sharp-tongued! She ruined two potential blind dates for me! If Green Ox hadn't used the miracle weight-loss drug as a reward to make me stay here, I would have left long ago!"
Fan Jian's face was full of indignation. When he mentioned Green Ox again, he even dropped the "brother" title.
It was only then that Li Chonglou finally understood what Green Ox was up to. This guy had actually played him in the end.
As the contact person, he couldn't possibly not know Fan Jian's needs, yet he still had Li Chonglou come to find someone under his name. If Li Chonglou hadn't come under his name, he could have struck a deal with Fan Jian for money!
But now, it was difficult.
According to him, the reason he stayed here was to get the miracle weight-loss drug. Green Ox had lied to him, saying that an international organization had been developing it, and that it would be released this year.
Now that this matter had been brought up, if they still wanted information about the blue doll, they would naturally have to help him solve this problem.
Chen Pao also reacted, looking at Li Chonglou and whispering helplessly, "What do we do now?"
The implied meaning was clear: should they continue to inquire and help him solve the problem, or leave first and come back when he calmed down.
Li Chonglou shook his head and said, "Manager Fan, you don't necessarily need any miracle drugs for weight loss. China has so many folk remedies for thousands of years."
"If you trust me, I have a folk remedy here that might help you."
Chen Pao and Fan Jian were both stunned, but their reactions in the next second were completely different.
Chen Pao looked at him with confusion, while Fan Jian was so excited that he shot up from his seat.
To describe Fan Jian's physique, it was like a barrel with four prosthetic limbs, a lid on top, and a large watermelon placed on it. And his height was over 1.8 meters. The moment he stood up, he attracted the attention of all the customers in the coffee shop.
As a freelancer, Chen Pao felt extremely uncomfortable and insecure under the gaze of so many people, so he suggested, "Why don't we find another place to talk?"
His words actually had another consideration: if the deal was confirmed this time, it would not be suitable to discuss the information about the doll here.
Li Chonglou nodded, and then discussed with Fan Jian. The latter's mind was now filled only with the folk remedy Li Chonglou had just mentioned, so he would not refuse.
However, just as the three of them were getting up, a waiter walked over with three cups of coffee.
"Uh, we've already paid, so don't waste it. Let's drink as we walk."
The three of them, each holding a cup of coffee, walked out the door, only to be blocked by a colossal figure.