The driver, Xiao Zhao, galloped all the way to the bottom of the Dongyan Building. Li Sui was taken aback. It seemed that there was no order in the past. Instead, there were a group of old men and women who came from nowhere, holding banners and holding posters. They read “Unscrupulous merchants, pay me for my hard-earned money”, “Liars will be punished by heaven”, “Dongyan liars will die to the whole family”… Inexplicable slogans have everything, and there are a circle of reporters holding cameras around them.

Li Sui had never seen this kind of battle before, so he was a little dumbfounded for a moment. When their car entered, many old ladies surrounded them, beat and smashed them, and some people lay on the ground and occupied the road to prevent the car from entering, until they were surrounded by several people. A security guard forcibly pulled away, and then barely gave way.

Li Sui wanted to get out of the car when there was a traffic jam, but was stopped by Xiao Zhao, saying that Lu Shang had specifically told him that he was absolutely not allowed to get out of the car, and that he must be sent safely to the special parking lot on the second floor.Li Sui was warm and anxious in his heart, what was warm was that Lu Shang still cared about his safety despite his busy schedule, what was anxious was that the group of people outside were difficult to deal with at first sight but he could do nothing to help.

During the period, Xiao Zhao told him the ins and outs. It turned out that there was a problem with a subsidiary of Dongyan specializing in P2P finance. The investors got the news from nowhere and came to make trouble today.In fact, most people in the industry know what is going on when they hear about P2P. Li Sui didn’t understand this, and Xiao Zhao didn’t know how to explain it for a while, so he could only tell him in a simple and rude way.

Simply speaking, P2P finance is like an intermediary platform. Those who lack money can set up projects and bid on it, and those who have spare money can choose projects to invest on it.Due to the high return on interest and the quick return of money, it is favored by retired elderly people. Many of them have limited ability to distinguish. When they hear that someone around them has invested money and received high interest rates, they rush to save a few dollars. Ten years of hard-earned money was thrown into it, completely ignoring the iron rule of high returns and high risks.

When I first invested, I really tasted the sweetness. Even people who had a wait-and-see attitude before were tempted and jumped into the pit one after another. However, the good times didn’t last long. It didn’t take long for someone to find out that this month’s interest was not returned on time. , The platform gave various arguments to appease, but it couldn’t stop the situation from deteriorating. In the end, not to mention the interest, even the principal would not be returned.

Dongyan’s subsidiary is called Dongxin, which was first established by Liu Xingtian. Lu Shang was not optimistic about this industry, so he did not participate in it from the beginning to the end.Subsidiary companies are different from branch companies. They implement independent accounting and do not generate joint and several debts. It is reasonable to say that they have little relationship with Lushang. In the ears of those old men and old ladies, they only felt that this was shirking responsibility.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the year, there were rumors that this year’s economic downturn caused many P2P companies to run away. It is rising, but it is still able to maintain it, and it has not reached the point of collapse.After this period of time, once the financial winter is over and the liquidity of funds improves, everything will be on the right track.

But just last night, whoever released the rumor that Dongxin had actually collapsed and the leader was about to run away, this news seemed to have wings and spread throughout the circle of middle-aged and elderly friends overnight.

At five o’clock this morning, the man watching the gate was the first to notice that a window of a car in the parking lot had been smashed. Then, within an hour, many elderly men and women came one after another, begging for money aggressively.

Xu Weilan reacted quickly, and immediately greeted the major newspapers and news media, ensuring that the reporters standing outside would not be able to publish even if they captured something.When Lu Shang came, the people outside had been making a fuss for a while. After all, they were old people with limited energy and the weather was bad. Seeing that it was about to rain, the air pressure was very low. They all sat on the ground and went if they didn’t give money. The meaning of jumping off a building.

“Not to mention the state of Dongxin, even if it really collapsed, this matter has nothing to do with Mr. Lu, what’s going on at the gate of Dongyan.” Xiao Zhao said angrily while driving, “And Ah, let me tell you, these old men and old ladies gathered here suddenly today, and they even prepared banners and big-character posters, even small benches, it looks like it was premeditated.”

Li Sui couldn’t figure out Liu Xingtian’s premeditated plan, but Lu Shang knew it in his heart.It’s just that he didn’t expect that Liu Xingtian would help an outsider in order to target him.

“Mr. Liu hasn’t arrived yet?” Lu Shang’s face darkened, and no one in the meeting room dared to speak.

When it comes to this field, it is self-evident who is in the way of the whole thing.

“Mr. Liu is afraid that he won’t come. At the beginning of the year, he entrusted Li Jinyao to transport a batch of goods, and it is said that they are also in that shipwreck.” A new employee in the office showed his face.

Xu Weilan was about to explode: “In my opinion, it is clear that Liu Xingtian withheld the money, deliberately making us look bad!”

Only Xu Weilan dared to say this, although everyone knew it well.

“How did they know about the relationship between Dongyan and Dongxin? They found it early in the morning. It’s obvious that someone is obstructing it.”

“Liu Xingtian knew that Dongyan was in a transitional period and his reputation was very important, so he deliberately made trouble at this juncture. Originally, the sinking of the ship was easy to solve, but now it’s like making things worse…”

“I said Liu Xingtian won’t really take away the investor’s money because of lack of money…”

When Li Sui walked into the meeting room, the quarrel was raging inside. He brought sandwiches and yogurt, but seeing that the atmosphere was really not suitable to take them out, he kept them hidden in his hand.

There was thunder outside the window, a heavy rain was coming, the crowds were crowded downstairs, and the crowd started a new round of turmoil. It was really not an option to procrastinate like this. Lu Shang frowned, and discussed with a few people to appease him first.The following are all elderly people. If something happens, it will be hard to argue.

Li Sui sat quietly on the stool at the door of the meeting room, without saying a word, he couldn’t help, but he always felt much more at ease staying here.I have come here many times, and many people know him, and some of the staff who come and go say hello to him.

He turned his head to the side, Lu Shang who was in the door was talking to someone, frowning, looking very serious, after a while, several people probably reached an agreement, and walked out one after another, Li Sui hurriedly got up and followed go up.

Lu Shang arranged for four people, a senior close to him was responsible for maintaining the internal order of the company, Xu Weilan and an administrative director were in charge of negotiating, and they just took the lead to accuse Liu Xingtian’s lawyer of being responsible for communicating with the police, just in case, He also called Zuo Chao’s people to hide in the crowd in case of emergency.

People from the police department came early in the morning, but they were all old ladies who had no choice but to stand and watch after a few words of persuasion. They can’t be blamed, they can’t be really rough, after all, whoever has an accident I can’t take the responsibility either.

Lu Shang walked out of the conference room, only then did he see Li Sui, the two of them were neither close nor far away, maintaining a distance of half an arm’s length.When the elevator opened, Lu Shang waited for a while until everyone had left first, then turned to look at Li Sui, the serious look on his face disappeared, and there was even a hint of a smile: “Are you scared?”

Li Sui shook his head, took out yogurt and sandwiches from his pocket and gave them to him: “Eat something.”

Lu Shang’s eyes moved to his hand, and he raised his hand to take it. He didn’t know how long Li Sui had been waiting, and the yogurt was already warmed up.After a busy morning, Lu Shang should feel hungry, but for some reason, when he saw what he was eating, he just felt dizzy and nauseated. Seeing Li Sui looking at him eagerly, he reluctantly lowered his head and took a sip of yogurt.

“I’m not hungry, you can eat.” He had nothing to do with the sandwich, so he had to push it to Li Sui.

Seeing that he really couldn’t eat it, Li Sui didn’t force it, and just tore off the package and took two bites to settle the matter.

When he got off the elevator, Li Sui stood behind him, with his hands vacantly in his pockets, and his arms and body pulled apart to protect him inside.Lu Shang naturally noticed that this act was inexplicably protective, but he didn’t pay much attention to the matter.

“Interfering with normal operations, do you know that this is illegal?”

As soon as he walked out of the door, he heard Xu Weilan’s loud voice. He had done a lot of work as a defender, and his mouth was very powerful. It is quite effective to know the reason.

The old lady who took the lead was already tired of shouting, and after being persuaded by this, she gradually calmed down and exchanged eye contact with the rest of her companions. After all, they just wanted money, not really looking for trouble.

However, at this moment, a bald old man next to him jumped up and shouted: “Don’t be frightening to scare people, you can just fool them with these words, I checked on the industry and commerce website, and the boss of Dongxin platform is your boss.” Shareholders, hurry up and tell your leaders to come out, if you don’t see any cash today, I’ll fucking sleep here!”

“Yes, who is afraid of whom!”

“Even cheating the old woman of my money, can you have a good conscience?”

“…”

Xu Weilan’s head was about to explode from their quarrel, and was about to explode when Lu Shang saw something and stopped him with his hand: “I’m coming.”

Li Sui’s complexion changed, and he hurried forward to follow closely, but Lu Shang was much calmer, and walked down the steps step by step, his voice was very low, very magnetic, and it was even more deep when he heard it from a distance: “Everyone, listen to me Say a few words.”

The old man who just jumped out squinted his eyes and met Lu Shang’s gaze, his eyes a little dodged.

“When you invested in the first place, you all signed the agreement. When it expires, when the interest will be repaid, and when the principal will be repaid, you haven’t forgotten, right?”

When Lu Shang spoke, the people around him unconsciously quieted down, and the old ladies also felt that this person was an unusual person, like a leader, so they all stopped making noise and listened quietly.

“What about the money, what about our interest?” cried the bald man, and this time there were few echoes.

“Eastcom is a formal company, even if it goes bankrupt and liquidated, it will pay off your debts first, not to mention that it is still in operation,” Lu Shang replied unhurriedly, “Everyone who came here today just wants to get back their pension money , I understand everyone’s difficulties, it’s all hard-earned money for a lifetime, and it’s hard to put this kind of thing on anyone.”

These two simple sentences caused an old lady to start wiping tears, not knowing what she was poked at.

“Well, it’s useless to say more, it’s better to have something practical,” Lu Shangdao, “Everyone, come and register. Today I am the master. First, I will help you pay the interest owed for the past few months.”

As soon as the words came out, everyone around was stunned, and even Xu Weilan didn’t realize what it was. Lu Shang wanted to pay for Liu Xingtian’s aftermath out of his own pocket?They didn’t discuss this at the meeting just now.

I don’t know if it was because it was too sudden, but after Lu Shang finished speaking, no one moved first.

A flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the sky, and thunder rumbled, indicating that it was going to rain heavily.Everyone looked at each other, but Lu Shang made a gesture calmly, and there was a surge in the crowd. Li Sui was tall and could see clearly, so it was easy to find that the bald man just disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The female administrator stepped forward and struck while the iron was hot: “Ma’am, don’t worry, even if you want to withdraw the principal in advance, you must follow the rules. You can’t make trouble just by making trouble. Now that our boss Lu has spoken, you are indispensable. I see it like this, it’s going to rain today, everyone don’t leave, since you’re here, you might as well go in and sit down, bring your respective contracts to me to register, see how much it is, we will negotiate with Mr. Liu of Dongxin , follow the normal judicial procedure, how about it?”

When the people below heard that the contract would have to go through judicial procedures, they couldn’t help being dumbfounded. They looked around and couldn’t see the leader, and their hearts were suddenly lost, and their faces showed signs of retreat.

After watching this battle, Li Sui finally understood what was going on—these people didn’t even have a contract at all, and they weren’t even investors of Eastcom.

He faintly felt a burning displeasure, hovering violently in his chest.At this time, Lu Shang went upstairs and said something to the secretary. The latter nodded and turned to go out.

After a while, several police cars drove up from a distance, first they forcibly sent away the reporters from all walks of life, and then politely invited these troublemakers into the cars.

After all the onlookers had dispersed, a black Maybach drove over from a distance and parked downstairs in the company.The timing was so precise that it could catch up with the rocket launch.

Liu Xingtian climbed upstairs with an anxious expression on his face, and said anxiously: “I heard that something happened to Dongyan, what’s the matter?”

It’s true that life is like a play and it all depends on acting skills. If Li Sui had fangs, they should be exposed at this moment. Unfortunately, he can only hide all his anger in his eyes and stare at him fiercely.

Feeling that his eyes were not friendly, Liu Xingtian looked at him, but Lu Shang said at this moment: “Mr. Liu, there are two ways.”

“One, Dongxin sold it to me, and I invested in Chanzhuang; second, invested in Chanzhuang in the name of Dongxin.”

Liu Xingtian’s face finally changed, the hypocritical anxiety faded away, replaced by gloomy, he made wishful thinking, but he didn’t want Lu Shangmao to be superior, he wanted to use Dongxin to threaten Lu Shang, but he didn’t expect But he was threatened by Lu Shang.

He wanted money, and he also wanted Dong Yan’s control, but neither of these things were easy to get, and this fight with Li Yan was nothing more than trying to get money out of Lu Shang’s hands.Dongxin has hundreds of millions of investment funds in his hand, and selling it to Lu Shang is equivalent to cutting off his flesh. He will never agree to it, but he knows better than anyone what is going on with Chanzhuang, and he is also unacceptable.

“What if I don’t agree to both?” He said in a deep voice.

Lu Shang made a regretful expression: “The salvage of the sunken ship may be published in the newspaper.”

Liu Xingtian was not annoyed either, and looked at Lu Shang with a half-smile, his face uncertain: “Nephew Lu, you have really made a lot of progress in these years, and you even dare to meddle in my affairs.”

Lu Shang stared at him expressionlessly, without any emotion in his eyes.

“Yes, much better than your father.”

Lu Shang’s eyes were heavy, but he still didn’t answer.

“Hmph.” Liu Xingtian glanced at him, smiled coldly, turned around and left.

At this time, the sky finally began to rain, not as heavy as imagined, but with heavy thunder and little rain.When the rain started to fall, all the people who had been watching here before scattered like birds and beasts. Only a few ridiculous big-character posters were left in the muddy water at the gate that was bustling half an hour ago.

“Li Sui.” Lu Shang suddenly called out to him.

Li Sui raised his head suddenly, and Lu Shang stood in front of the steps, hunched over slightly, without moving.He hurried forward, but Lu Shang turned around at this moment and quickly leaned his head on his shoulder.

Li Sui was instantly frozen, straightened his back, and did not dare to move, he was a little taller than Lu Shang, just leaning against him, the position was just right.

“You were willing to say anything yesterday, is it true?” Lu Shang asked in a low voice.

Li Sui’s eyes widened, but he felt the strength on his shoulders getting heavier and heavier. He couldn’t help taking a small step back, and immediately stood firm. Lu Shang seemed to be unable to stand, and pressed all his body weight over.

Li Sui reached out to touch his hand, his mind buzzed, Lu Shang’s hand was shaking, and when he listened carefully, the breathing in his ears became even more disordered.He quickly calmed down, held those cold hands firmly, and said, “Yes.”

“Have they all left?” Lu Shang’s voice was obviously unsteady.

Li Sui looked left and right, there were indeed a few people looking around, his female secretary still wanted to come over, he raised his head to meet their eyes, those people all pretended not to see them, and disappeared under umbrellas in the rain.

“all gone.”

Lu Shang almost leaned on him, with a hint of a smile in his voice: “I can’t go down, please help me.”

“You…what’s the matter with you?” Li Sui hurriedly supported him.

Lu Shang closed his eyes, his pale face lost all color, and he only said three words: “… My heart hurts.”