Chapter 254: Meeting Zhang 3
Chapter 254: Meeting Zhang 3
Gu Ranle arranged for breakfast to be sent to Gu Zhixuan who was in the hospital, but she did not go to the hospital herself.
However, she had already contacted Jiang Hanyu and entrusted him to negotiate compensation with the Shen family on her behalf.
After hearing this, Jiang Hanyu said that he would arrange capable personnel to handle this matter, as he had other urgent matters to deal with.
After hearing this, Gu Zhixuan did not feel too much. After all, in her opinion, it did not matter which lawyer was responsible for the execution, as long as the job was done beautifully and the result she wanted was achieved.
She only cares about the results and doesn't care much about the process.
Moreover, it is indeed a waste of Jiang Hanyu's talent to let him take direct action on such a small matter.
In order to avoid scaring others with her eyes, Gu Ranle finally decided to wear sunglasses.
In this way, you can not only hide your tired look, but also add a bit of coolness.
After breakfast, she went upstairs to see Mr. Jiang who was resting.
The old man was sleeping peacefully, his breathing was even and steady. With Jiang Bo taking good care of him, Gu Ranle felt much more at ease.
In a blink of an eye, the clock pointed to ten o'clock in the morning, and Gu Ranle drove away from home.
Late last night, A-Lu had already checked all the information about the man named "Zhang San" and sent it to her.
She read through the information carefully, word by word.
After some careful research, she found that the only connection between this Zhang San and the clinic was that he had come to the clinic for treatment three months ago.
That time he was seeing a doctor for a male disease, and the doctor who saw him was not Song Yu.
Since his condition was not serious, the doctor prescribed him a course of medicine and told him to come back for a check-up after taking it, but he did not show up afterwards.
Apart from this medical experience, Zhang San had no other contact with the clinic.
However, he knew everything about the clinic, which made Gu Ranle feel puzzled.
She concluded that she must have overlooked some key information.
In order to find out the truth, she asked Song Yu to quickly send her a copy of the personal information of all the employees in the clinic.
After this careful comparison, Gu Ranle actually found out an extremely suspicious person.
In the clinic, there was a nurse whose registered residence was from the same county as the man named Zhang San, so it was not an exaggeration to say that they were fellow villagers.
This nurse has been working in the clinic for five years. It is no exaggeration to say that she is a veteran employee of the clinic. Naturally, she knows all kinds of information about the clinic.
However, all of this is just her speculation and needs further confirmation.
With doubts in her heart, Gu Ranle dialed the phone number on the business card given by Zhang San.
The phone rang for a long time before it was finally picked up.
"Hello, is this Zhang Chuan?" Gu Ranle asked tentatively.
The name on the business card is not "Zhang San" but Zhang Chuan.
Sanhechuan, these two words are very similar if you don't pronounce them correctly. The characters are also very interesting, one is horizontal and the other is vertical.
Three vertical lines make a river, and a horizontal river makes three.
The other party was obviously a little hesitant, and asked after a moment: "Hello, who are you?"
Gu Ranle smiled and said, "We met yesterday. I went to the company to find 'Zhang San', and then you gave me a business card. Now, I would like to ask you to help me make a plan. I wonder if it is convenient?"
Zhang Chuan immediately responded, "Of course no problem. When are you free? Let's arrange a time and place to meet and discuss in detail, shall we?"
The fish has taken the bait.
It seems that the "one million" bait yesterday was very attractive.
Gu Ranle deliberately paused for a moment: "I happen to have time now, but only two hours."
"That should be enough."
"Okay, I'm on Maple Forest Road now. There seems to be a famous restaurant nearby. How about I wait for you there?"
In fact, she had already sat down in the restaurant and ordered a few signature dishes.
When Zhang Chuan heard about that restaurant, he immediately said, "Oh, I know that restaurant. It's not far from where I live. It just so happens that I'm off today and not at work. I'll pack up and go out. I'll be there in about fifteen minutes."
Gu Ranle raised a barely perceptible smile and said, "Don't worry, take your time. I'll wait for you."
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
The environment of this restaurant is really good. Outside the window is a bustling street, while inside the store is quiet and warm.
While enjoying this rare quiet time, Gu Ranle was thinking about her next plan in her mind.
"Miss Gu?"
Suddenly, a deep and attractive male voice came from behind. Gu Ranle turned around and his eyes were instantly fixed on the person who came.
It was none other than Xiao Qianchuan, the person Cheng Yiai repeatedly mentioned when they had dinner together last night.
Xiao Qianchuan was accompanied by a beautiful young girl, who held his arm like a little bird, and the two looked extremely intimate.
However, when Gu Ranle's gaze fell over, Xiao Qianchuan quickly pulled his arm out of the girl's hand, with a flash of panic on his face.
Gu Ranle's lips curled slightly and he sneered in his heart.
Just as Cheng Yiai said, they were about to end.
To be exact, it's over.
Men are really strange creatures. Yesterday he swore to you that he would marry no one but you, but today he would allow another woman to hold his arm.
"I thought I recognized the wrong person, but it turned out to be you." There was a hint of surprise and joy in Xiao Qianchuan's voice.
Gu Ranle gently pulled his sunglasses down, glanced at Xiao Qianchuan from the top edge of the sunglasses, and a playful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Oh, it's Young Master Xiao. I was wondering who it was."
After saying that, she pushed her sunglasses back into place, her posture elegant and calm.
"It's me." Xiao Qianchuan sat down opposite her, his eyes filled with anxiety, "Miss Gu, have you seen Shen Zhi recently? I sent him a message but he didn't reply. I called him but his phone was turned off. I went to Villa No. 5 to look for him, but the housekeeper said he was on a business trip. But where on a business trip would he be able to keep his phone turned off? Did something happen to him?"
Gu Ranle shook her head gently, with an innocent expression on her face, "I don't know."
"You don't know?" Xiao Qianchuan obviously didn't believe it, and frowned slightly, "Aren't you his fiancée? How come you don't know his whereabouts!"
Gu Ranle replied seriously: "We broke up a long time ago. Doesn't Mr. Xiao know about it?"
"Break up?" Xiao Qianchuan opened his mouth slightly, with an expression of disbelief on his face, "He didn't tell me about this!"
"That's a matter between you two." Gu Ranle curled her lips and a meaningful smile appeared on her face.
She suddenly remembered something, leaned over and moved closer to Xiao Qianchuan, and asked, "How is Xiao Nan doing recently? I haven't seen her for a long time, and I miss her a lot."
When Xiao Qianchuan heard this, a complicated look flashed across his face.
He didn't expect Gu Ranle to suddenly mention Xiao Nan. After all, in his opinion, there was a deep hatred between these two women.
But he still answered truthfully: "She... is fine. She seems to be very busy recently. She has a boyfriend."
Xiao Nan has a boyfriend?
Any man other than the male lead?
Xiao Nan is the heroine of this book's world.
If the heroine is looking for a boyfriend, shouldn’t it be the hero?
But she met Li Hongxuan yesterday, and he was not Xiao Nan's boyfriend.
Yes, the current plot development is no longer the plot that Gu Xiaohei had described before.
The plot has now deviated as far as it can go.
Because of this, she was a little curious about what Xiao Nan, the heroine, was doing now.
Even if she can't shine like the heroines with halos in regular novels, she shouldn't be too bad.
"What about your mother?"
When Gu Ranle asked this question, Xiao Qianchuan's face visibly darkened, and his tone became a little stiffer, "My mother passed away a long time ago."
"Sorry, I should ask, where is Bai Yanlan?"
"I don't know! I have something else to do, so I won't bother Miss Gu."
Xiao Qianchuan stood up and left with a cold face.
Gu Ranle quietly looked at his gradually receding back, with a slight curve at the corner of her mouth.
Sometimes, being able to chat until there is nothing more to say is really a difficult skill.
If Xiao Qianchuan continues to procrastinate, Zhang Chuan will be here soon. It will be no fun if the vest falls off by then.
Although she didn't know what Xiao Nan was busy with at the moment, she knew Bai Yanlan's current situation very well.
Bai Yanlan is currently in prison, serving her sentence.
Of course, she is not alone, there is someone with her.
When she hired so many people to cause trouble in the Gu family, she was so arrogant and domineering, and now she has ended up with such a miserable end.
This is what she deserves.
In fact, there was no deep hatred between them.
Xiao Nan extorted money from her, so she gave him a lesson and asked for the money back, and the matter was over.
But Bai Yanlan was a person who refused to give in and insisted on making a big deal out of it.
This led to a series of twists and turns afterwards.
Gu Ranle can afford it, but Bai Yanlan obviously can't.
The consequence of not being able to afford the game is that you get yourself involved.
Sometimes, Gu Ranle couldn't help but wonder, if the plot had not gone off track, as the mother of Xiao Nan, who has the aura of a protagonist, would Bai Yanlan's final outcome have been completely different?
But unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world.
Not long after Xiao Qianchuan left, Zhang Chuan arrived, exhausted.
Gu Ranle glanced at the time. It was only ten minutes before she hung up the phone.
This guy is really fast!
"Hi pretty girl!"
Zhang Chuan walked over with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, smiling, "I passed by a flower shop and bought you a bouquet of flowers. I don't have any special intentions, I just think that flowers go perfectly with beautiful women."
Gu Ranle raised her eyebrows slightly. The bouquet of red roses in front of her, nine in total, symbolized longevity.
However, since the other person said he had no other intentions, she would just believe it.
She politely took the bouquet and placed it on a chair beside her with a faint smile on her lips.
"Then I would like to thank Mr. Zhang. As a return gift, I will treat you to dinner today."
"How can I let a lady pay the bill? Please..."
Before Zhang Chuan could finish his words, the waiter came over with the restaurant's signature dish.
One dish after another, soon the entire table was filled.
The per capita consumption here is not low, nearly one thousand yuan.
A client invited him to dinner before, and he had the opportunity to eat here once. The taste was just so-so, but the price was really expensive.
He originally thought that it was just the two of them having dinner, and after gritting his teeth, two thousand yuan would be enough.
Who would have thought that this woman would directly order a large table of dishes.
It looks like this table of food would cost at least several thousand dollars.
After the waiter brought all the dishes to the table, Gu Ranle asked, "What did Mr. Zhang say just now?"
Zhang Chuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Besides me, is there anyone else?"
Gu Ranle shook her head, "No, just the two of us."
"Then...ordering so many dishes..." Zhang Chuan was dumbfounded. He obviously didn't expect Gu Ranle to be so generous.
"Oh, this is my first time here, and I don't know what dishes are good, so I asked them to serve their signature dishes. I didn't expect there are so many signature dishes."
As Gu Ranle spoke, she had an innocent expression on her face, as if she was also a victim.
"They are obviously bullying us! How can two people eat so much? I'm going to find their manager." Zhang Chuan said indignantly, and was about to get up to argue with the manager.
Gu Ranle quickly called him: "It's already here, so leave it at that. If you can't finish it, pack it up and take it home, don't waste it."
Zhang Chuan hesitated for a few seconds, but still didn't sit down, looking a little uneasy. "How about... I'll give you AA later."
Gu Ranle waved his hand and said proudly: "No need! I still have this little money! Wait for you to plan a big project for me and let me earn millions or tens of millions. Then I will invite you to eat here!"
When Zhang Chuan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he saw a bright future.
He quickly nodded in agreement, "Then it's a deal!"
Zhang Chuan then sat down, looked at Gu Ranle, hesitated for a moment and asked: "Beauty, I don't know how to call you yet."
"Oh, my surname is Gu."
"Gu?" Zhang Chuan didn't know what he remembered, and a look of vigilance suddenly appeared on his face. "Is there any relationship between the beauty and Gu Cheng's Gu family?"
"Gu family? Are you talking about the Gu family that was once the richest family?"
Zhang Chuan nodded.
Gu Ranle did not answer but asked: "What do you think?"
Zhang Chuan became more alert, "Are you the eldest daughter of the Gu family?"
Gu Ranle chuckled, "If I were the eldest daughter of the Gu family, do you think I would be sitting here and inviting you to dinner and then asking you to help me plan a money-making project? If my family had some connection with the wealthy Gu family, I wouldn't be in such a hurry."
"You're really not?" Zhang Chuan was skeptical.
Gu Ranle frowned, a little angry, "If you don't believe it, forget it. After today's meal, when we leave this restaurant, we will pretend that we have never met each other."
Zhang Chuan immediately said, "Ms. Gu, don't be angry. I don't disbelieve you. I just think you are so beautiful and have such a good temperament, so I wonder if you have any relationship with the wealthy Gu family. If you say you don't have any, then you don't have any. I believe you."
Gu Ranle snorted coldly.
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