Government Agent

  "I once asked you repeatedly, when will you follow me, but you always laughed at me, having nothing" Cui Jian's song with a strong masculine tone blared out from Xu Fan's phone. Xu Fan immediately picked up the phone and saw that it was his wife Li Li's call: "Hello, what's up?"

  It's been a long time since I received a call from my wife. Even if she comes back late at night, she can't be bothered to ask me anything.

  Lili anxiously said: "Niu Niu is sick and has a fever, you quickly go back to mom's side to take a look".

  Xu Fan immediately hung up the phone and prepared to take a leave of absence, but all the leaders were not back yet, so he could only make it up later. He told Hao Xiaofang to wait for the leader's return to help with the leave application, then hastily took a taxi downstairs and rushed to his mother-in-law's house. On the way, he called his mother-in-law to ask her to take the child's temperature first.

  Soon, 10 minutes later, I arrived and saw my mother-in-law's anxious face as soon as I entered the door. I quickly asked, "Mom, how is Niu Niu?"

  Her mother-in-law hastily said, "Go into the room and take a look. She didn't eat much this morning, I thought she wasn't hungry, but by noon she started to have a fever, and now she's still crying nonstop, alas."

  Xu Fan didn't say much more, hearing his daughter's crying voice Xu Fan's heart was also aching, he quickly ran into the bedroom and hugged the wailing Niu Niu in his arms to comfort her. At the same time, he took the thermometer from the child's body and saw that it had reached 38.5 degrees! He hastily undressed the child and said to his mother-in-law: "Mom, quickly fill the child's bathtub with half a basin of warm water."

  Then she started massaging Niu Niu's back, chest and hands on the acupoints. After a while, she also pinched Niu Niu's soles. It was strange that Niu Niu stopped crying at this time. Her big, innocent and lovely eyes slowly closed as if she had fallen asleep.

  Before long, the child's body began to turn red, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. Slowly, his whole body was sweating. Xu Fan stopped then, wiped the sweat off with a towel, felt the child's forehead with her hand, then bathed the child clean, dried him off, put clothes on him, and laid him in bed covering him with a quilt. Throughout this process, the child didn't wake up, sleeping very peacefully.

  After finishing all this, Xu Fan finally straightened up and took a deep breath before saying to his mother-in-law: "Alright"

  "That's it? No injections or medication?" His mother-in-law didn't understand how he could be done after just a short massage and still sweating, and she wasn't reassured.

  Xu Fan smiled and said: "No problem, the child has caught a chill. I'll just give her a massage to make her sweat it out. Children are so young, taking medicine is not good for their bodies."

  "Uh-huh, but you two are also too careless. You're both grown-ups and can't even take care of a child properly. You don't even know when the kid is catching a cold, I don't know how you'll be as a father."

  Xu Fan's face was speechless, knowing that his mother-in-law looked down on him the most. Every time they met, she didn't give him a good face, so he endured it and didn't argue with her. He said he still had to go to work and left.

  After leaving the residential area, Xu Fan walked while looking for an empty taxi to sit in. Today is the new director's first day on the job, and he must hurry back to the unit quickly. If he is caught sneaking out privately, it will leave a bad impression on the new director, which would be terrible.

  Things are helpless under the sky, the more anxious you are, the less likely they will come. As a result, Xu Fan walked onto the road and couldn't even hail an empty taxi. Every time he saw one, he would wave his hand, but none of them stopped.

  Damn! Won't be so unlucky, right? He cursed in his heart as he walked, thinking that waiting on the road was no better than going to a crowded place. Hmm, the Howard Johnson Hotel is just up ahead, there must be taxis there. He glanced at his watch, 2:05 PM already, the bureau leader's welcome banquet should have ended by now. Xu Fan made up his mind and immediately quickened his pace towards the hotel.

  Huateng Hotel, 5-star, is a landmark building in the city, with 36 floors high, and the investor is Yanjing Huateng Group.

  Yuan Jiahao, CEO of Haoqing Group. 55 years old, 1.75 meters tall, with a moderate build, wearing an Armani dark blue suit, exuding a mature man's temperament that is stable, astute and efficient. At this moment, he was sitting in the company's conference room on the 23rd floor of the Haoda Hotel, listening to the hotel general manager He Zhiyuan's report on the hotel's operation. Behind Yuan Jiahao stood a young man, about 24 years old, with a handsome appearance and some resemblance to Yuan Jiahao; with a short haircut, wearing casual clothes, full of energy, occasionally flashing sharp glances. This young man was named Yuan Tao, Yuan Jiahao's youngest son and the next generation heir of the Yuan family.

  At this time, the conference room door sounded a knock on the door, followed by a man in his 60s wearing a gray Tang suit walking quickly and steadily into the room, holding a mobile phone.

  He walked up to Yuan Jiahao's side, bowed his head and whispered: "Master, Mr. Gong from Hong Kong Weida Group is almost here."

  Yuan Jiahao's face lit up with joy, "Oh? You're quite punctual!"

  Then he turned his head to He Zhiyuan and said, "The report will be here first. This time, the acquisition of Weida Group with Mr. Gong has reached a critical moment. We can't afford any mistakes. Let's go down and greet Mr. Gong first."

  He Zhiyuan said okay and immediately stood up, walked over to pull open the door, waited for Yuan Jiahao and Yuan Tao to walk out before following behind them towards the elevator.

  At the same time, in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, a young couple sat intimately together on a sofa in one corner of the lobby, whispering to each other; while at the front desk, a short and stout middle-aged man was consulting with the service staff about something, and next to him, a middle-aged couple leaned against the counter as if waiting for someone. Outside the hotel entrance, a young bald-headed man was making a phone call, looking relaxed, with a small black snake tattooed on his left wrist.

  "Ding" As the elevator doors opened, Yuan Jiahao and a few others quickly walked out. Just as they reached the entrance of the lobby, a black Mercedes-Benz 600 slowly slid to a stop in front of the hotel lobby. The timing was quite precise. The car door opened, and two burly men wearing black suits and sunglasses got out from the passenger seat and right rear seat, looking like bodyguards.

  A bodyguard quickly opened the left car door, and an old man with a head of silver hair, wearing a black suit, got out of the car. The old man was very thin, but his waist was straight, and he looked spirited, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, with a calm demeanor.

  Yuan Jiahao immediately went up to greet the old man, "Hehe, Mr. Gong has come from afar, I'm sorry for not welcoming you earlier, please forgive me." After saying that, he shook hands tightly with Mr. Gong, "Mr. Yuan is being polite, hehe".

  This old man is none other than Gong Xiaotian, the chairman of Hong Kong's Wida Group. The Wida Group specializes in international ocean shipping and is one of Asia's top two international deep-sea shipping giants, with assets exceeding HK$5 billion.

  Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, the global economy has been sluggish, and the Baltic Index, which represents the prosperity of ocean transportation, has plummeted to its lowest point. Wida Group, based in Hong Kong, was naturally among the first to be affected and could not escape unscathed. What's worse is that in recent years, the three links across the Taiwan Strait have been opened, resulting in a significant reduction in cargo that originally needed to be transshipped through Hong Kong, making Wida Group's situation even more precarious, bringing it to the brink of life and death.

  However, the inland economy on this side of the landscape is strong and has not been greatly affected by imports and exports! The Yanjing Haohao Group had also entered this industry early on, with its subsidiary, Haoyun Far East Transportation Company, being no smaller than the Weida Group; and the general manager of Haoyun Far East Transportation Company was none other than Yuan Jiahao's son, Yuan Tao.

  Recently, Yuan Jiahao learned about Weida's predicament and extended an olive branch to the Weida Group.

  To avoid letting the hard-won Weida be destroyed in an instant, Gong Xiantian intentionally sold 51% of the shares to Haofeng Group's subsidiary, Haoyun Far East Transportation Company. With Haofeng Group holding a stake with official background, relying on Haofeng's strong financial resources and solid official background as well as the mainland's robust economy, Weida was pulled out of the quagmire.

  They had already met three times before, and most of the terms for the equity acquisition had been settled, with only a few minor details left to be finalized before signing the contract. And today was that moment.