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On the phone, Zhao, who was also a little confused by Xu Lang's question, asked curiously, "Why contact Zhang Meng?"

“Didn’t Zhang Meng buy a watch from me? It turned out to be stolen, and the police are currently pursuing it. There are some things I’d like to discuss with Zhang Meng.”

Xu Lang quickly explained the situation.

Mr. Zhao on the other end of the phone said "Oh," and slowly said, "So, Zhang Meng has become your potential customer and bought a stolen watch, and now the police want to recover it?"

"Yes." Hearing what President Zhao said, Xu Lang nodded silently and said without further ado:

"The situation is complicated. The police originally wanted to communicate with Zhang Meng, but it seems they can't get in touch with him. I wonder if you, Mr. Zhao, could help us make contact?"

"Is that so?" Upon hearing Xu Lang's explanation, General Manager Zhao responded, "That's fine. I'll contact Zhang Meng's side now and see what the situation is."

"Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Zhao, you're really a loyal friend."

"Sure, sure. I'll hang up first and make a call to check. I'll let you know if there's any news."

"Okay, okay, you go ahead and do your work." Hearing Mr. Zhao say this, Xu Lang was very respectful and asked Mr. Zhao to hang up the phone first.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Lang turned to look at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei beside him and quickly explained:

"We can't reach Zhang Meng by phone, right? I'm wondering if he might have another phone number? If so, we can ask General Manager Zhao to help us get in touch with him."

"After all, he is friends with Mr. Zhao, so he must have other ways to contact him. If not, then there's nothing I can do."

"Let's give it a try," Lu Weiwei said.

Shortly after, Xu Lang's phone rang again. Xu Lang quickly took out his phone and swiped to answer: "Hello, President Zhao."

"Oh dear, Xu Lang, I can't get through to Zhang Meng on the phone."

"What? I can't get through?" Hearing this, Xu Lang was also a little disappointed and couldn't help but sigh, "Can't get through? How come you can't get through? Don't you have any other ways to contact him?"

"No." Xu Lang had barely finished speaking when the reply from the other end of the phone was equally crisp:
"I only have his phone number, so I can't help you."

"Oh dear, this is troublesome. If the police can't find him, they'll come looking for me, since I'm the one selling these luxury goods." Xu Lang also looked worried.

While making the call, he also glanced at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei.

Lu Weiwei suggested that Mr. Zhao explain how he met Zhang Meng, so that the police could find out more about the situation beforehand.

With Lu Weiwei's lip reading prompting him, Xu Lang understood and quickly spoke into the phone again:
"By the way, Mr. Zhao, how did you meet Zhang Meng?"

"Me and Zhang Meng?" Upon hearing Xu Lang's question, General Manager Zhao sighed and slowly said:

"I met him in an antique shop."

"Antique shop? You mean, you met Zhang Meng at an antique shop?" Xu Lang was also completely confused when he heard this.

Mr. Zhao on the other end of the phone quickly explained, "I only introduced him to you at the dinner party a month after we met."

"Before this, I had absolutely no contact with him."

"Oh my, your friend is quite interesting." Xu Lang said with a smile after hearing what Mr. Zhao said.

Mr. Zhao on the other end of the phone quickly replied, "Actually, I'm not very familiar with him. It's just that this friend helped me see through a scam at the antique shop that day."

"If it weren't for him, I might have been tricked by those people in the antique shop."

"Hehe, no, this... this sounds a bit strange." Xu Lang seemed to sense that Zhang Meng had some background after hearing what President Zhao said.

On the other end of the phone, Mr. Zhao slowly said, "Don't you believe me? I was fooled by a group of people, some of whom were store staff and some were pretending to be customers."

"Anyway, that whole scheme was a bunch of people trying to fool me, and I almost ended up losing money."

"But it was at this moment that Zhang Meng appeared, saw through their tricks, and reminded me to be careful, which allowed me to recover my losses."

"Later, Zhang Meng used his knowledge to expose their scam, which is why I want to thank him for his help."

"It was around that time that I felt this person was quite knowledgeable, and I also heard him say that he had previously worked in a chemical plant and was quite proficient in chemistry."

"Thinking that I also need a friend like that, I exchanged contact information with him."

"After that, I met with him privately a few more times. Since he had retired, he had more free time. Later, I took him to a dinner party where you were present, and that's how you two exchanged contact information."

"Oh, is that so?" Hearing what President Zhao said, Xu Lang suddenly realized and smiled, saying:
"No wonder I couldn't quite remember how I got Zhang Meng's contact information. Oh, I see."

"Yes, is there anything else? That's all I know, and I can't get in touch with Zhang Meng either; his phone seems to be off."

"Oh, is that so?" Xu Lang quickly explained after glancing in Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's direction.
"That's right. The police officers in charge of recovering the stolen goods might come back to you later to find out about Zhang Meng."

"When the time comes, just have a brief conversation with them and explain what you know."

"The police want to see me?" Upon hearing this, Mr. Zhao was also taken aback.

Xu Lang smiled and said, "It's nothing, just getting a simple understanding of the situation."

"Understood, okay then, we'll talk about it later."

"It's not about when; they might go there now."

"Alright, I'm at the company. Have them come over." Mr. Zhao was quite generous on the phone.

After a brief exchange, the two hung up the phone.

Xu Lang looked at Gu Chen and said slowly, "Officer Gu, you can go find this General Manager Zhao now. He is in the medical device business, and his company is not too far from here."

“I’ve already communicated with him beforehand, you could say I made an appointment. You can go see him now. He’s quite familiar with Zhang Meng, so he should know more about Zhang Meng.”

"Thank you, Mr. Xu." Upon hearing Xu Lang's words, Gu Chen also stood up to express his gratitude.

Xu Lang quickly stood up, shook hands with Gu Chen, and exchanged pleasantries: "It's nothing. Cooperating with the police in handling cases is our duty."

"I just didn't expect that Zhang Meng would suddenly run into trouble. It would be great if we could find Zhang Meng."

"What kind of person do you think Zhang Meng is? After all, you two have done business together," Lu Weiwei said.

Xu Lang hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not very familiar with Zhang Meng, so we can only communicate by phone."

"He took a liking to one of my watches that day and asked about its origin." "I told him that everything I had was acquired through purchases, and he then decided to buy the watch."

“I told him directly that the watch was worth 32 yuan, no bargaining.”

"What did he say?" Lu Weiwei asked.

“He’s very generous,” Xu Lang explained, spreading his hands.
"My impression of him was that he was very capable. I quoted 32, and he immediately said yes."

"I had a feeling that he must be a rich guy, but now that I hear what you're saying, I realize that Zhang Meng is just an ordinary retired chemical plant worker."

With a soft sigh, Xu Lang said without further ado, "So I'm not quite sure why Zhang Meng would spend this much money to buy this expensive watch?"

“I didn’t know before that this watch would be so important to him.”

"But now that I think about it, even back then, when I told him the price, he was quite calm, as if he would buy it no matter what price I quoted."

After a pause, Xu Lang added, "However, I, Xu Lang, have always been honest in business. Whatever I say is what I mean. I don't earn much; I'm just a middleman."

Leaning back in his boss's chair, Xu Lang smiled and said, "Sometimes, things in our line of work are just that incredible."

"You never know what your customers are thinking, but I give them what they need."

"All I can do is provide products and satisfy customers."

"You're very good at business," Gu Chen said without hesitation after hearing Xu Lang's explanation.
"However, you need to be careful about the source of goods. After all, not everything can be bought and sold. You need to check before purchasing."

"Of course I know that." Seeing Gu Chen say this, Xu Lang explained:
"So after this experience, I will recruit one or two people to help me with the investigation. It's unbelievable that I would spend so much energy on selling goods when everything was going so well."

"In the end, you police officers said these were stolen goods, so all my previous efforts were in vain."

Shaking his head, Xu Lang smiled and said, "So, this lesson is very profound."

"Just be careful," Gu Chen said, glancing at his watch.
"Then tell me Mr. Zhao's address, and we'll go over and ask him about it."

"Okay, okay, no problem." Upon hearing this, Xu Lang quickly took out his notebook and began searching through it.

Before long, Xu Lang found information about General Manager Zhao.

This is a rather old, thick paper pen with customer information on it, including their personal details, contact information, and address.

There are also some introductions about them. This Mr. Zhao is named Zhao Wen, and he is in the medical device business.

The text on it was all handwritten, written by Xu Lang himself. He looked at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei and smiled as he said:
"This is General Manager Zhao. His contact information and address are on the document. You can take a picture and go there yourselves."

As soon as Xu Lang finished speaking, Lu Weiwei took out her phone, took pictures of them, thanked him, and left the office with Gu Chen.

After seeing Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei leave, Xu Lang breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed his face with both hands to relax his tense nerves.

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……

Meanwhile, based on the address provided by Xu Lang, Gu Chen quickly drove to Zhao Wen's company address.

This is an old building; compared to Xu Lang's new building, the company signs here are all quite outdated.

However, the flow of people here is very large.

"This should be it." Lu Weiwei glanced at the address and reminded Gu Chen.

Gu Chen nodded silently and said without further ado, "I don't think Zhao Wen is as simple as he seems."

"I find it very puzzling that he could meet Zhang Meng at the antique shop. Does Zhang Meng have anything to do with antiques?"

"Not at all." Lu Weiwei shook her head.

"I don't think so," Gu Chen said slowly after a brief moment of thought in the car.

"No matter what, we need to find Zhang Meng now. Senior Brother He can't do anything about it either, since there's no surveillance footage and he doesn't know where Zhang Meng is."

"And this Zhang Meng met Xu Lang through Zhao Wen, who was in the medical device business."

"And he precisely spent a large sum of money to buy back the watch that originally belonged to him from Xu Lang."

"That's a bit strange to me. Why does everything seem to happen by coincidence?"

“Yes.” No sooner had Gu Chen finished speaking than Lu Weiwei echoed in agreement.

“I also find it a bit strange. After all, it’s very strange that Zhang Meng was able to buy that watch that originally belonged to him through several layers of connections.”

"What a coincidence! It's suspicious enough, but now Zhang Meng has disappeared without a trace, as if he just vanished."

"Moreover, his dog was also killed, so this matter is definitely not that simple."

“Yeah, especially that dog,” Gu Chen said.

Lu Weiwei quickly added, "I have a feeling that Zhang Meng may have encountered some mishap at home, but the house must have been cleaned by someone."

"As for whether it was Zhang Meng? That's hard to say, but the dog that died in his yard is indeed a bit hard to explain."

"After all, that was Zhang Meng's dog, which he had raised for a long time. How could it have been touched on the neck with a sharp object for no reason?"

"It's obvious that someone targeted that dog, but was Zhang Meng their target? I think so."

"Okay." Listening to Lu Weiwei's analysis, Gu Chen interrupted:

"Let's go and meet with Zhao Wen first, and see what he has to say. After all, I felt something was off about his phone call with Xu Lang just now."

"Junior Brother Gu, you felt it too?" Hearing Gu Chen say this, Lu Weiwei quickly chimed in:

"I felt something was off at the time. Their conversation made me feel inexplicably awkward."

"Don't be fooled by Xu Lang's nonchalant manner; he seems like a very shrewd person, and from the very beginning, he seems to be trying to hide something."

"That phone call was more like a show put on for us."

...(End of chapter)