Started from Hong Kong Island

Chapter 273 271 [The situation is very unfavorable]

The Hang Seng Index has risen, but the rate of increase is very slow. Investors' confidence in the stock market has not recovered much. It is just that some big investors are buying at the bottom, and there is an increase in speculators in the real estate market.

Super large enterprises like Hutchison Group have not seen much growth, with the share price only rising to 3.7 yuan. Now it is mid-August, and more than half of the 8 years have passed. It is estimated that the share price of Hutchison Group will hardly rise to 75 yuan by the end of the year, because Hutchison Group's devaluation is almost completed, and the next step is a critical time to continue to reorganize the company's internal affairs.

Other companies may have avoided the stock market crash, but the funds on hand are still limited, and they are unable to make big strides, and it is difficult for them to do much to increase their stock prices.

After more than half a year, the share price of Changxin Real Estate Company has only increased by 1.4 yuan, which is half of that of Hutchison Group, not to mention other companies that suffered from the disaster. It is already very good that it has not gone bankrupt.

At the same time, Li Wendi received news that Zhang Yan was asked to return by the Independent Commission Against Corruption to assist in the investigation because the legislator he had bribed got into trouble and confessed that Zhang Yan had bribed him.

If the matter is verified, Zhang Yan will face 1-3 years in prison and will no longer be the chairman of Luckin Coffee, because Hong Kong's company law stipulates that people with criminal records cannot become chairman of the board of directors of a listed company.

Li Wendi was a little overwhelmed at the moment. The worst situation had occurred. Zhang Yan was once a member of He Liansheng and knew a lot of inside information about He Liansheng, including collusion with police officers. Once the ICAC used this to threaten Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan might not be able to withstand it.

Of course, Li Wendi was not very afraid, because he never left evidence for some things, even if the target was a trustworthy person like Zhang Yan. However, it was different for others. If the ICAC used tricks to create the illusion that some evidence was provided by Zhang Yan, Li Wendi could not guarantee whether those uncles from the society would directly send people to assassinate Zhang Yan.

At present, it will not happen in a short period of time, but if time is too long, there will always be accidents.

Therefore, Li Wendi immediately contacted the law firm hired by Luckin Coffee and asked them to find a way to bail out Zhang Yan and not let Zhang Yan stay in the ICAC for too long.

The lawyers readily agreed, but when they arrived at the ICAC, the situation had changed. Zhang Yan became a criminal suspect and could not be released on bail. Although the lawyers were eloquent, the ICAC remained unmoved and said that it was impossible for Zhang Yan to be released on bail.

When Li Wendi returned home, he met Zhang Yan's father, an honest man who was begging Guo Cuiting to let Li Wendi save Zhang Yan.

Li Wendi couldn't pretend not to see it, so he had to bite the bullet and go forward to comfort him. Only after his repeated assurances did Zhang Yan's father agree to leave.

Li Wendi was worried that there might be an accident on the road, so he asked his bodyguard to drive Zhang Yan's father back to Sai Wan.

In fact, after Zhang Yan became rich, he bought an apartment in Mei Foo Sun Chuen in the urban area of ​​Kowloon and invited his father to live there. Unfortunately, the old man was not used to it and stubbornly moved back to the old house in Sai Wan. Zhang Yan was helpless about this.

"Will Ayan really be sentenced?" Guo Cuiting saw Li Wendi's gloomy face and seemed to guess something.

Li Wendi shook his head, helped Guo Cuiting sit down, and explained, "It's not clear yet, but the ICAC will not allow bail."

"You and A Yansi grew up together. Please help as much as you can. You can earn money again if you spend it." Guo Cuiting said earnestly.

"Well, don't worry. I'm already looking for connections, and there will be news in the next few days." Li Wendi didn't want to explain too much. The old lady didn't understand anything, and the more he said, the more he needed to explain.

After Guo Cuiting returned to the room, Li Xiaonan came up again, "Brother Yan, you won't really bribe that congressman, right? Will it involve you?"

Li Wendi touched Li Xiaonan's head, forced a smile, and said, "Read your book well, I will take care of the rest."

Seeing that Li Wendi fell into deep thought, Li Xiaonan tactfully left the living room.

The most important thing now is to find out whether the ICAC has any evidence against Zhang Yan. If not, things will be much easier. Otherwise, there is little chance of overturning the evidence.

Before Zhang Yan's case was resolved, another shocking incident happened in the martial arts world - Deng Jialuo was murdered. Li Wendi was silent for a long time after hearing the news, because Deng Jialuo's fate was deserved. This guy had done a lot of evil things, but Deng Jialuo's death would lead to some people being buried with him.

Although Deng Songlian was in poor health, he still controlled the powerful weapon of Helianshe. Naturally, he could not bear the pain of killing his son, so Heliansheng's gang of young and dangerous people went everywhere to search for the truth about the cause of Deng Jialuo's death, and the underworld began to become turbulent.

The leader of the police force sent his confidant to discuss the matter with Deng Songlian, but Deng Songlian was so furious that he wouldn't listen and insisted on killing the murderer with his own hands.

The police had no choice but to barely stop He Liansheng's actions. After all, the police had to maintain public order and could not focus all their attention on He Liansheng.

Deng Songlian now feels that anyone could be the murderer of his son, even Deng Jiaren is no exception.

So Deng Songlian summoned Li Wendi.

"Is Jialuo's death related to you?" Deng Songlian got to the point in his first sentence.

Li Wendi knew that this would be a Hongmen Banquet, but if he didn't attend, Deng Songlian would really treat him as a murderer. Rather than facing endless pursuit, it would be better to come directly to accept the invitation.

"Jia Luo and I do have a grudge, but if I want to kill him, I won't wait until today." Li Wendi said bluntly, "In fact, I told Brother Jia Ren that I want to drive Jia Luo out of Hong Kong. I just don't want to see him in Hong Kong again."

"You really don't have it? Who can prove it?" Deng Songlian's eyes were red and he stared at Li Wendi.

"Brother Jiaren can prove that if I wanted to kill Jialuo, I would only hire a killer and would not choose this method, which is too easy to leave traces." Li Wendi's heart was about to jump out, but his face was still calm.

At this moment, Deng Songlian was like a wounded beast, and he had lost much of his rationality.

"Dad, what Wendi said is true." Deng Jiaren said quickly. He was really afraid that Deng Songlian would do something stupid. If something happened to Li Wendi in the villa, the Deng family would not be well off. "I also suggested to you that Jialuo leave Hong Kong at the beginning. It was too dangerous at that time."

"Shut up!" Deng Songlian glanced at Deng Jiaren, then turned to look at Li Wendi, gritting his teeth and said, "You take care of Zhang Yan's affairs. If anything happens, no one can protect him, and you will be implicated."

"Thank you, Uncle Deng, for your reminder! I will take care of this matter." Li Wendi responded with his head down.

After leaving the study, Deng Jiaren hurried out and apologized to Li Wendi, saying, "Jia Luo is dead. My dad... Don't mind it. He even suspected me."

"I know!" Li Wendi patted Deng Jiaren on the shoulder, said his condolences, and left the villa with his bodyguards.

Li Wendi did not pay much attention to the murder of Deng Jialuo. His main focus now was on Zhang Yan's case. He had already contacted many lawyers and asked them to release Zhang Yan on bail. Finally, with the joint guarantee of several business tycoons and legislators, Zhang Yan was released from the ICAC. At this time, two full days had passed since Zhang Yan entered.

"What evidence does the ICAC have? Why don't they allow you to be released on bail?" Li Wendi asked Zhang Yan from the back seat of the car.

Zhang Yan sighed and said, "It's all that congressman's fault. He actually hid all the banknotes at home. When I went to the bank to get money, it was all newly printed bills with consecutive numbers. So the ICAC used this to accuse me, along with the congressman's confession."

"I might actually be going to jail, Wendy."

"This is indeed very tricky. The key is that the project has fallen into your hands." Li Wendi had a headache. There were witnesses and evidence, but Zhang Yan had no evidence to prove his guilt.

(End of this chapter)