Chapter 367 Lunch
Ye Lan was still a little worried and asked, "Are Duanmu and Guiyi reliable?"

Cui Jian replied: "It's reliable, but Gui Yi may have to pay in US dollars."

"If money can solve a problem, it's not a problem." Ye Wen said, "Just swipe Xiaolan's secondary card."

After Ye Wen said this, Ye Lan showed a strange expression, Cui Jian was puzzled, Ye Lan forced a sweet smile, Cui Jian became even more puzzled.

Ye Wen looked at Ye Lan in disbelief: "You lied to me?"

Ye Lan smiled and explained to Cui Jian: "I said that you have used my secondary card for three months and have not used it for a single payment, which proves that you are not after my money."

Cui Jian nodded: "I'm not short of money."

Ye Wen was speechless. These words were too sincere for him to complain.

Ye Lan had been struggling for a long time over whether to give Cui Jian a secondary card. Now that she was exposed, she was already embarrassed. Looking at Cui Jian's frank attitude, she instantly felt ashamed.

Ye Wen asked: "Cui Jian, how much money do you have in your account now?"

Cui Jian took out his phone, but Ye Wen stopped him and asked, "How much is it?"

Cui Jian thought for a long time: "One or two million dollars?" Rich people are willful and never check their balance. When asked by Ye Wen, Cui Jian really didn't know how much money he had.

Ye Wen gestured, and Cui Jian checked and calculated for a while before saying, "Two million and four hundred thousand dollars."

Seeing Cui Jian's surprised eyes and his foolish look, Ye Lan was speechless. She took out the secondary card from her bag and handed it to him, saying, "You keep it."

Cui Jian didn't take it and said honestly: "It's not convenient to carry and not practical. I now transfer money via mobile phone." Cui Jian doesn't have a wallet. He always puts a dozen rolled-up banknotes in his pocket as a backup and basically pays by mobile phone.

Cui Jian had no idea where to put the card. If he put it in his back pocket, it would break if he sat down accidentally. If he put it in his suit pocket, it might fall out when he took something out.

Cui Jian glanced at the secondary card and added, "Besides, only poor people use credit cards. I have money."

Ye Lan smiled brightly: "Yes, I am poor. Uncle housekeeper, please arrange a single room for me." There were some household chores to take care of.

Of course Cui Jian was happy to be alone with Ye Lan, and watched the housekeeper leave happily.

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Unlike the peaceful Ye family, the Lin family, which lost its leader Lin Hai, was immersed in sadness and confusion. Lin Hai's two children were not yet adults, and Lin Hai's wife controlled most of Lin Hai's inheritance. Theoretically, she should be the largest shareholder of the Lin Group. Lin's wife was not very interested in the Lin Group. She wanted to cash out her assets and leave Korea with her two children.

According to the company law, if Lin's wife wants to sell her shares, she must give priority to the majority shareholder at the same price. 21% of Lin Hai's 15% Lin Group shares were transferred to Lin Hai by Mr. Lin at the market price. Lin Hai did not have to pay for this money. Mr. Lin injected capital into Lin Hai's subsidiary, which was equivalent to letting Lin Hai get 15% of the shares for free. Therefore, the Lin family believes that Lin's wife should return the 15% shares to Mr. Lin.

Lin's wife doesn't care about all this. She has already contacted people who are interested in acquiring shares. One mysterious buyer is from Seoul and another mysterious buyer is from the board of directors.

Lin Hai's body is still in the police station's morgue, and the Lin family has already started making a fuss about Lin Hai's inheritance.

The Li family was not quiet either. Li Jie was a big family member of the Li family and had investments in many fields of the Li family. Before the Plum Island Tragedy 2.0, everyone believed that Li Jie had disappeared on his own initiative. After the Plum Island Tragedy 2.0, the Li family began to doubt whether Li Jie was still alive. Then they received a message that Li Jie and Zhao Ai had taken a wedding vow in a church in Las Vegas, USA on Christmas Day. On the morning of the 26th, Zhao Ai processed the legal documents to confirm the husband-wife relationship between Li Jie and Zhao Ai.

On the afternoon of the 26th, Zhao Ai hired lawyers and professional managers, armed with Li Jie's full power of attorney, to start liquidating Li Jie's assets. This series of actions made the Li family unsure of how to respond, and they could only spend a lot of money to hire someone to investigate Li Jie's life and death.

Another major event was related to Nemo. Nemo disappeared without a sound. The staff who maintained the operation of the Nemo platform did not even receive the last month's salary. People with concerns were more concerned about the movements of the special forces and the execution team.

Plum Blossom Island 2.0 also caught Duanmu off guard. Among his various response preparations, there was no option for Nemo to suddenly disband.

On the afternoon of the 27th, the news finally came out that the captain of the special service team integrated the special service team and some of the executive team members to form a gang called the Special Service Knights. This gang still does the work of the special service, but the difference is that they will work for the rich in the form of employment.

Duanmu introduced the Special Service Knights to Cui Jian during afternoon tea: "First, there is the threshold, the annual membership fee is 100 million US dollars. Secondly, the work, the work accepted by the Knights cannot violate basic human ethics."

Cui Jian asked, "What do you mean?"

Sure enough, with Cui Jian by his side, he could speak more methodically. Duanmu gave an example: "The mistress threatened the employer: If you don't give me your identity, I will expose you. If the employer comes to us, we will make the mistress speechless. The original wife threatened the employer: If you dare to divorce me and marry a mistress, I will expose you. If the employer comes to us, we cannot take this job. We uphold the principles of monogamy and priority for natural children."

The special service is to handle some household chores and daily life matters for the employer. The scope of the business is very wide. For example, if the employer is assassinated, the special service knights can be hired to investigate the mastermind. The special service knights can send their own personnel to investigate, or contact the investigating organization to entrust the investigation, or find a famous detective to conduct the investigation.

Duanmu said: "Leina is our Knight Commander. The headquarters is in New York, and the first branch will be established in Hancheng."

Cui Jian asked curiously, "Are you doing business?"

Duanmu replied: "Yes, the Li family has entrusted us to find Li Jie. Someone from the Lin family has contacted our salesperson and asked what we can do about Lin Hai's wife."

Duanmu said: "I invited you to lunch today, not for you to ask questions, do you remember our agreement?"

Cui Jian shook his head and said honestly, "I don't remember."

Duanmu reminded: "Around New Year's Day, our team will go to Osaka. Project content: protect a big boss to meet another big boss."

Cui Jian said: "I promised my girlfriend to attend Lin Hai's funeral on the 31st."

Duanmu looked down on him and said, "There are so many women in the world. How can a grown man like you be so sentimental?"

Cui Jian countered with disdain: "How can two old guys scheming against each other compare to my girlfriend's small hands?" Calf, thigh, damn, not even a hair can compare, okay?
Duanmu sighed. This was a man without great ambitions. He said helplessly, "I'll adjust my schedule. By the way, where did you go during Christmas?"

Cui Jian replied: "Vladivostok."

Duanmu asked: "Is it clean? Do you need me to help you clean up?"

Cui Jian said: "I'm just going to have a meal."

Duanmu smiled and said, "Du went to Vladivostok to eat."

Cui Jian: "Let's eat seafood." The butler walked to the garden tea table and said, "Sir, Miss Gui Yi is here."

Duanmu said: "Please ask her to come over and have someone tidy up, and have lunch here." It's so comfortable in the sun.

Cui Jian was suspicious: "Are you really that nervous? You're not planning to start arranging work today, are you?"

Duanmu said: "There are some uncontrollable factors, we will talk about it later."

After that, Duanmu answered the phone and told Gui Yi to do whatever he wanted. Cui Jian quietly listened to a few words. It turned out that Duanmu's lawyer was communicating with Duanmu about the statement that the gangster called him an accomplice during the Christmas party. Because of the word "accomplice", Duanmu stayed in the police station for 48 hours. The interrogating police officers took turns to ask only one question: What is your relationship with the gangster?
Duanmu’s answer: Nemo Teqin had come into contact with the Seven Kills. Because he was about to be executed, he lied to the Seven Kills. In fact, he did not know any of the Seven Kills members.

The policeman was obviously not satisfied with this and kept asking the same question over and over again, almost making Duanmu depressed.

After Duanmu finished the call, the dishes were served on the table. It was a combination of Eastern and Western food, with Chinese dishes, Korean kimchi, Japanese tempura, steak, salad, etc. It was very rich.

Duanmu sat down and chatted with Guiyi. He used the serving chopsticks and fork to put a few servings of food on his plate, and then turned to the main topic: "The person we want to protect is my nominal butler, his name is Duolan. He will go to Osaka to meet with Luke."

Cui Jian was about to speak, but Duanmu knew how big his brain was and explained first: "Duolan is the housekeeper in my villa. In fact, he can be regarded as my captain's teacher. Duolan also serves as a trainer, training talented young people for my captain. He is the captain's confidant. Not only can he make decisions on behalf of the captain, he is also one of the founders of the team. He is also the only person who can confirm the captain's identity."

Duanmu said: "Luke's situation is more complicated. Having lost Washington's trust, he intends to hand over his property to a student. His lifelong goal is to control East Asia, check and balance Japan and South Korea, and make them always follow the leadership of the Americans. For a period of time, the relationship between Japan and its neighboring countries entered a honeymoon period, and it planned to step by step break away from the protection or control of the United States. Under Luke's manipulation, ethnic antagonism emerged between Japan and its neighboring countries, including South Korea. The same situation occurred in South Korea."

Gui Yi said: "It means not allowing Japan and South Korea to get too close to other countries in East Asia, including Japan and South Korea."

Duanmu nodded: "Luke's core ideas of East Asian strategy have a great influence on the top leaders of the United States. Because of the transformation of people, Luke lost Washington's trust. Luke plans to hand over his property and let his students inherit his ambitions. This is also what Washington meant."

Duanmu said: "There are five people who can be considered as Luke's students. Feidi was originally the top student that Luke valued the most. Unfortunately, like some people, he lost his rational judgment for a woman and delayed his bright future. Theoretically speaking, Feidi is out."

Cui Jian felt that Duanmu was talking about him, but he had no evidence.

Duanmu: "Luke's assets are huge, including money, connections, businesses, resources, safe houses, armed personnel, etc., so the transfer of power will be a relatively long process."

Duanmu waited and looked at the two of them. Gui Yi and Cui Jian made eye contact and looked at Duanmu in confusion: Are you done?

Duanmu was helpless and continued, "Feidi was trained as a prince. He had been in contact with Luke's property for a long time. Even if Luke died suddenly, he could ensure that Luke's inheritance would be safely landed. Luke gave up Feidi and chose another student. If you were Feidi, what would you do?"

Cui Jian said: "Find a girlfriend, buy a house next to Xue Bing, sow discord between them, and live happily forever."

Duanmu threw an apple over. Cui Jian stabbed the apple with the knife in his left hand like lightning and put the apple aside with disgust.

Gui Yi was stunned for a few seconds, then came back to his senses and said, "If I were Feidi, I would use the emperor to control the princes, or kill the emperor to seize the world."

Duanmu replied: "That's right. When we communicated with Luke, Luke told us that he had contacted Fidi many times. Fidi's confidant told Luke that Fidi was seriously ill and was receiving treatment. He refused to go to Japan to meet Luke. There is reason to suspect that Fidi is ready to give it a try. Fidi's minimum goal is to get rid of the successor. Once the successor dies, Luke wants to train another successor, which cannot be accomplished without one or two years."

Duanmu: "Feidi's second goal is to get rid of the successor and Luke. Although it is not legitimate, he has the initiative and resources, and he can always get most of the inheritance by spending some time. Feidi's third goal is to get rid of all the successors, so Luke can only pass the throne to him."

Duanmu said: "What I just said is the situation that Luke is facing. No one knows how the situation will develop, and whether Feidi will take advantage of the opportunity of Dolan's meeting with Luke to take action."

Duanmu said: "You don't have the right to bear arms in Japan, but I can get a gun, and I have arranged for someone to take the blame for you. Of course, this behavior itself violates the law. If you don't want to do it, I won't force you."

Cui Jian: "I don't do anything illegal."

Gui Yi followed suit: "Me too."

Duanmu knew this expression and said, "For the second plan, you don't need to carry guns. I have arranged a group of gunmen around you. If necessary, they will be responsible for blocking or attacking hostile targets, and your task is to take VIP Dolan and Luke and evacuate quickly."

Cui Jian: "Dolan is a VIP, what is Luke?"

Duanmu said: "Five hundred thousand dollars, one week."

Gui Yi responded quickly: "Then Luke is the VVIP."

Cui Jian looked at Gui Yi and said, "Can you have some backbone?"

Gui Yi replied weakly: "You can't buy a school district house if you have the guts."

Cui Jian really couldn’t understand why school district housing was so important.

Cui Jian didn't know about the streaming system. If the child failed the high school entrance exam, he would be forced to go to a vocational school. Not to mention the future prospects, there is a world of difference between high school and vocational school in terms of academic style. There are only so many resources, and if others go up, you have to go down. On the contrary, the college entrance exam is not very important. Even if your grades are poor, you can still get into a junior college.

Duanmu opened the Osaka map. He arranged a private plane in Osaka. If a conflict occurred, Fidi would definitely attack with all his strength. They could not trust the local police in Japan, because Fidi also had good connections in Japan. Duanmu's team must take Dolan and Luke to a safe area. The safe area includes a safe house and a private plane.

Cui Jian looked at the three safe houses and the location of the private plane marked on the map and asked, "Where is the meeting place?"

Duanmu replied: "I don't know. The meeting time is decided by us, and the meeting place is decided by Luke. Don't forget that Dolan and Luke met to end the conflict between the two sides. They are not allies."

Gui Yi asked: "Do you think Osaka is a trap?"

Duanmu told the truth: "This possibility cannot be ruled out." After all, he was not the worm in Luke's stomach.

Gui Yi sighed: "It is indeed difficult to earn US dollars." Either you go to the sky or the bullets fly.

Duanmu said: "If you do a good job, there will be a bonus of 50 US dollars. You two can share it. I don't want a penny."

Gui Yi said: "I agree to go on the trip." It doesn't matter whether there is money or not, I just want to go on a business trip.

In addition to the money, Cui Jian also received the fifth-level special duty authority. He was also interested in the two bosses and had already promised Duanmu earlier. Seeing that Gui Yi had almost gotten all the benefits, he also said, "I agree to go on duty."

The main reason is that Duanmu's team will go to Germany to perform the task of protecting the housekeeper. If I act arrogant now, I will be slapped in the face by Duanmu later.

(End of this chapter)