CHAPTER 823: CHAPTER 823: LET’S MEET (8)

The door of the room opened a crack.

Tang Sili stood in the doorway, preventing them from entering to visit the patient, and instructed: "My student is supposed to pick up the medication at the hospital today. You call him for me and have someone quickly bring him back."

"Is there a medication shortage?" Zhang Sanfeng asked.

"Yes."

Doesn’t this mean the condition of the patient inside is somewhat tense?

On one hand, he sent the steward to rush to the hospital for medication; on the other, Zhang Sanfeng turned to Tang Sili, suddenly becoming extremely harsh in his words, saying, "You must understand if anything happens to her—"

The remaining half sentence implied, your life would be in similar peril—

In an instant, the air here seemed to stretch to its limit.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from the room: "Where is everyone?"

Tang Sili didn’t respond, closed the door, and turned to walk inside.

The group in the corridor had varied expressions.

Tang Sili walked to the bedside and said to the awakened Gu Nuan, "Mrs. Xiao, you need rest, you can’t work for the time being."

Gu Nuan turned her head, recognizing his features, as if only now recalling what had happened.

Hearing his words, she seemed to blink slightly, as if agreeing, yet also as if not quite agreeing.

Then, Tang Sili heard her say, "Professor Tang, you should know, you and I are in the same boat now. If my husband and I capsize, you won’t fare any better."

Tang Sili’s face seemed to tense.

Clearly, her words were far more direct and challenging to him than Zhang Sanfeng’s earlier veiled threats.

Gu Nuan squinted slightly at his face: "Get on with it, help me recover quickly. Time waits for no one."

"I understand, Mrs. Xiao."

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Xiao Jianming didn’t immediately have Uncle Tang drive back to the company; while Uncle Tang drove along a certain route slowly, Xiao Jianming used the car phone to contact Chairman Zhang of Furun Group.

Not surprisingly, Chairman Zhang seemed to know he would eventually receive such a call, and did not avoid it, getting straight to the point, saying, "Old Xiao, honestly, this time you’ve really misjudged."

"There are some details I still don’t quite understand," Xiao Jianming said, "I hope Chairman Zhang can guide me."

The other party was a seasoned old crocodile, and hearing Xiao Jianming’s words, seemed to understand, and thus spoke some truths: "I know what you’re thinking, and surely you’re confused. What era is this now? Having ability, without connections, is like being closed off. It’s basically the situation now. Look how many top graduates universities produce each year, yet very few manage to find the job they dreamed of. Today’s era is completely different from ours."

"Yes, Chairman Zhang said exactly what I was thinking," Xiao Jianming admitted, "and so I’m forced to wonder if she has some connections, people on my side that I can’t investigate."

To his surprise, the other party shook his head in denial: "No."

"No?!" Xiao Jianming definitely didn’t believe it, couldn’t believe it, insisting, "Chairman Zhang, you musn’t cooperate with her to fool me. Of course, I don’t believe you need to cooperate with her on these things."

"How could I possibly cooperate with her to fool you?"

"That’s right then."

"Old Xiao, we’ve known each other for so many years, and I’m telling you the truth now, speaking like a good friend. What you can’t understand is how someone from a background without any backing could persuade those like us, isn’t it? Then I’ll tell you, she can persuade, far beyond just me. You know at Furun, in fact, there are bigger bosses beyond just me, don’t you—"