Who wants to be a male model after being reborn? I want to be a male god.

Chapter 333 The Hand That Cannot Be Retracted
Although Xu Wen was not clear about Li Qingyun's thoughts.

But he still said "OK" decisively and agreed on the time and place.

After hanging up the phone, Gu Xingruo quickly came over and asked, "Who is it?"

Xu Wen did not hide it either, and said directly: "Do you still remember the middle-aged man who smiled at me in your father's office just now?"

"Li Qingyun? I remember you talked to me about it some time ago." Gu Xingruo made a puzzled sound.

"You guessed it?" Xu Wen was a little surprised.

Gu Xingruo was full of pride: "Of course, you call him Uncle Li, and he knows you. Plus your previous description, of course I guessed it."

After saying this, she blinked and looked up at Xu Wen, and Xu Wen instantly understood what she meant.

Isn't it just asking for praise?
"You're so smart. You figured it out." Xu Wen praised decisively.

Gu Xingruo was satisfied now.

After knowing the other party's identity, the rest was easy to explain. Xu Wen said that Li Qingyun wanted to invite him to dinner, and the two had just agreed on the time and place on the phone.

After hearing this, Gu Xingruo had a sly smile on her face. She touched Xu Wen's shoulder and whispered, "Could it be that he wants to rekindle his past relationship with Auntie?"

She still remembers the gossip she heard some time ago.

When Li Qingyun was young, he liked Xu Wen's mother, but unfortunately they parted ways due to historical reasons.

But he still had her in his heart and even took the initiative to find her child.

Xu Wen's mother is single now. If Li Qingyun were also single, he might have some thoughts in this regard.

It’s a pity that one person always remembers it, but the other person doesn’t even remember that such a person exists.

After hearing Gu Xingruo's guess, Xu Wen shook his head: "Who knows."

His intuition told him that Li Qingyun would not be looking for him just for such a simple matter.

He remembered the strange expression on Gu Hong's face in his office just now. Perhaps he had something more important to say to him.

"You'll know when you get there," Gu Xingruo's face was full of anticipation. She couldn't wait to know the next story.

Is there any gossip more stimulating than gossip about your elders?

"What about you? Will you go with me?" Xu Wen asked.

For a moment, he was not sure whether he should take the eldest lady with him. After all, his sixth sense told him that what Li Qingyun wanted to say was probably related to Gu Hong.

Before he could make a decision, Gu Xingruo took the lead in helping him make the decision.

"Me? It's not a good idea for me to go. It won't be too late to meet him again when he really becomes my future father-in-law." She waved her hands quickly.

Gu Xingruo just wanted to listen to gossip, she didn't want to go to the center of gossip.

What's more, she felt that getting involved in such things would likely cause disgust from Xu Wen's mother, so it would be better for her not to get involved.

"Then I'll call you after dinner." Xu Wen made a phone gesture.

"No problem, I'll find a game hall or somewhere else to wait for you. If I'm really bored, I'll go back to the company to watch a show." Gu Xingruo arranged her own itinerary.

After leaving the cell phone store, the two returned to the parking lot.

After Gu Xingruo drove him to the entrance of the hotel, she drove away alone.

The shop in front of me is not an ordinary restaurant, but a luxuriously decorated restaurant. I can tell at a glance that it is not for ordinary working-class consumers.

Just at the door there were two beautiful women in cheongsams welcoming guests. Their clothes were slit all the way to their thighs.

In this age where eating and drinking are popular, such restaurants can be found everywhere.

People who come here to eat just need to eat, and someone will naturally pay the bill after they are done.

After Xu Wen stepped into the restaurant, the waiter came to ask him if he had a reservation. He said he was looking for his Uncle Li.

The other party understood what she meant. She didn't say anything else, but bent down, made a "please" gesture, and then led the way.

Finally, the two stopped in front of a box.

The interior decoration of the restaurant was even more luxurious. Xu Wen discovered that Li Qingyun, who looked gentle and elegant on the surface, seemed more complicated than he had imagined.

After pushing open the door, the other party had been waiting inside for a long time.

Although it was called a meal, there was actually only a set of tea sets and a few plates of snacks on the table.

"Please sit down. I ordered some random dishes. I don't know if they will suit your taste." Li Qingyun greeted.

Xu Wen shook his head: "Thank you Uncle Li for the hospitality."

"I'll treat you to a good meal again when I have the chance, and bring your mother and your sister along." Li Qingyun was very enthusiastic.

Xu Wen was too embarrassed to say that his mother actually didn't remember who he was.

Now Li Qingyun's attitude began to make him doubt. Could it be that, as Gu Xingruo said, he wanted to renew his relationship with his mother today?

But his next words dispelled his doubts.

"You are Guizhen's child. I felt very close to you when I saw you. Although I have only met you twice, I also treat you as my own, so there are some things I must remind you." Li Qingyun's tone suddenly became serious.

Although Xu Wen looks only twenty years old now, he is not a hot-blooded young man who easily trusts others.

Working in his line of work, he comes into contact with all kinds of people.

He has also learned how to act according to the situation, and he can deal with so many guests, where they can smile and call each other brothers one second and stab you in the back the next.

Although Li Qingyun spoke sincerely, his heart was still full of doubts.

Sandalwood rose from the carved copper stove, and Xu Wen watched the mottled shadows cast by the smoke on Li Qingyun's lenses.

The antique palace lanterns in the private box elongated the two people's shadows and cast them on the screen, just like the characters in a shadow play about to fight.

Xu Wen didn't say anything, but waited quietly for the other party to speak first.

"I want to know how you got involved with Gu Hong and his daughter. You two seem to be very familiar with each other? Is she your girlfriend?" Li Qingyun asked.

There is nothing to hide about these things; you can easily find them out if you want to.

Xu Wen also answered all the questions truthfully: "The Flash City that I took you to see last time was invested by Mr. Gu, and his daughter is also an investor in the company."

In order to make the topic less serious, he asked with a smile: "If Mr. Gu's daughter and I were not boyfriend and girlfriend, wouldn't he have beaten me to death if I was so close to his daughter?"

Xu Wen's sense of humor really made Li Qingyun laugh. He teased, "You are prettier than your mother when she was young, and you are also talented. If I had a daughter, I would want you to be my son-in-law. Why did he hit you?"

After the joke, his expression became serious again, with a hint of melancholy in his eyes.

"Has Gu Hong told you or his daughter about his past?" Li Qingyun asked.

Although Xu Wen still had a smile on his face, the smile in his eyes had disappeared.

He had a feeling that Li Qingyun seemed to be about to tell him some very important information.

He had heard about Gu Hong's past in general, last time at Chengyi Hotel.

This man was a gigolo when he was young, and he finally achieved his current success by stepping on the corpses of his father-in-law's family.

However, Xu Wen only knew the general idea and did not know the specific details.

"I didn't say that. It's not easy for us to ask about the elders' affairs." He chose to tell a little lie. Li Qingyun nodded silently. He didn't speak in a hurry, but picked up the tea pet with tweezers and poured it on.

The purple sand golden toad gradually changes color in boiling water.

"The current Gu Hong is really boring. Gu Hong when he was a stevedore was much more interesting than he is now." Li Qingyun said slowly.

Xu Wen drank the tea in his cup and listened silently.

He had never expected that Li Qingyun had known Gu Hong so long ago. It seemed that the two had known each other for at least a dozen years.

"In 1994, when Linjiang Port was expanded, he worked as a human sandbag for the Lin family to block the bricks thrown by the evicted households. He had seven stitches on his forehead in exchange for being Lin Wei's driver." Although he looked calm on the surface, his tone was full of sarcasm.

Xu Wen's hand, which was stroking the rim of the teacup, tightened slightly. He got a lot of information from the words just now.

Gu Hong was originally a port stevedore. In 1994, when Gu Xingruo was two years old, he came to Linjiang to work shortly after his daughter was born.

But who is Lin Wei that Li Qingyun just mentioned?
Xu Wen immediately had a guess.

He remembered that last year at Chengyi Hotel, Zhang Zhiyuan had said something desperately about "young lady" and "old man". (Chapter 191)
Lin Wei should be the eldest lady.

Li Qingyun seemed to see Xu Wen's confusion.

He smiled sarcastically: "He didn't even tell you who Lin Wei is?"

Xu Wen shook his head.

"Back then, too many people became rich overnight because of the policy. Lin Yong was one of them. It's no exaggeration to say that when he stomped his feet, half the province would shake. Lin Wei was his only daughter, and she later married Gu Hong," Li Qingyun explained.

At this point, the names of "Young Miss" and "Old Man" matched.

"It's normal that you don't know. Few people in Linjiang remember them now. They were so glorious back then, but in the end, they were nothing but dust."

Speaking of this, Li Qingyun's tone was inexplicably melancholy.

He didn't wait for Xu Wen to respond, and continued: "Do you know why Lin Wei chose him?"

Li Qingyun's Adam's apple rolled as the tea went down his throat. "That year, the kidnappers poured gasoline on the dock warehouse. He rushed over and used his body to save Lin Wei. If you take off his clothes now, you can still see the burn scar on his back."

Xu Wen listened patiently.

He knew that Li Qingyun didn't ask him to come today just to talk about these love stories between the elders.

There must be something more important to tell him.

"After Gu Hong married into the Lin family, he suddenly became a senior executive of the company. He was very capable at work and quickly gained Lin Yong's trust. Lin Yong was also stupid and didn't even know he was cheated in the end." Li Qingyun tilted his head, as if he was lost in memories.

The box fell into silence for a moment.

After a while, Li Qingyun continued, "I'm telling you this because I want you to understand one thing. After so many years, there is no Lin Yong or Lin Wei. The only thing left is a company called 'Hongjing Industrial'."

"During the 1997 financial crisis, the Lin family was shorted." He suddenly clenched his teacup: "Gu Hong took the opportunity to swallow up his father-in-law's core assets, and Mr. Lin had a heart attack and died in the stock exchange."

"Lin Wei had a car accident on the way to the funeral. She was three months pregnant at the time. Two children were killed. The truth was finally found out that the driver was driving while fatigued, but do you think it is possible?" Li Qingyun's tone became increasingly excited.

In order to calm down, he drank the tea in his hand.

Although Xu Wen had long guessed that Gu Hong's story was not simple, he was still a little shocked when he heard the details.

In addition to the shock, he had new doubts in his mind.

He was not doubting Gu Hong, but Li Qingyun who was sitting in front of him.

He knows so much about the past and is even angry about it, so what role does he play in the story of the past?

"Why are you telling me this?" Xu Wen finally spoke.

Li Qingyun took off his glasses and wiped them: "More than a decade ago, I witnessed a tragedy that happened to my relatives. Now I don't want the tragedy to happen to a younger generation again. Whether you believe it or not, I treat you as my own child. I will definitely not harm you."

His tone was particularly sincere.

Xu Wen was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Li Qingyun was related to Lin Yong and Lin Wei in the story. This world is really small.

But if that was the case, why did he appear in Gu Hong's office today?

And the two seemed to be having a good conversation.

If this is really the kind of relationship, it would be good enough if they don't stab each other in the back. How can they possibly cooperate?

Li Qingyun put on his glasses and smiled helplessly: "I know what you are thinking. Are you wondering why I would cooperate with Gu Hong after going through all these things?"

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Wen finally nodded.

Li Qingyun did not answer directly. He stretched out his hand and said, "Hold my hand."

After hearing this, Xu Wen did as he was told and held his hand.

"Pull your hand back now." Li Qingyun continued.

Xu Wen didn't really use any force, he just tried to pull his hand back.

But he didn't twitch at all. Li Qingyun's strength was very strong and he held his hand tightly. The veins on Li Qingyun's arms were bulging from the force.

Xu Wen tried harder again, but still couldn't pull his hand back.

He was afraid that if he used more force he would pull Li Qingyun right off the chair, so he had to give up.

At this moment, he felt the force on his hand lighten a little, and the two of them returned to a simple handshake.

Li Qingyun withdrew his hand.

He took a deep breath, his expression gloomy: "This is the reason."

Xu Wen also instantly understood what Li Qingyun wanted to express.

Once you extend your hand, it is no longer up to you whether you want to take it back.

"It's still not too late to get out of here." Li Qingyun stood up from the chair and walked to Xu Wen.

He patted his shoulder gently: "Whether it's me or Gu Hong, there's no turning back, but you can still go back now."

After hearing this, Xu Wen did not express his opinion.

He simply said four words: "I know."

"You are a smart child and you definitely know what to do. I have said everything I need to say. If you have something to do, you can leave first. Remember to say hello to your mother for me." Li Qingyun smiled very softly.

Xu Wen stood up from his chair and bowed to him solemnly.

Li Qingyun smiled and waved at him.

Xu Wen didn't know how true what he said was, but he still had to thank him.

Today's conversation taught him a lot.

He only has one question now.

Did Gu Hong expect that he and Li Qingyun would meet today and that the other party would tell him these things?

Or rather
A terrible idea suddenly popped into Xu Wen's head.

Gu Hong deliberately arranged for him to meet Li Qingyun.

(End of this chapter)