Chapter 331 – Helping Xiong Ruogang III
"Sis Jiang, Director Fang is looking at you!" Xiong Ruogang said in a low voice as she was being pulled by Jiang Ruolan towards the hotel entrance.
The more Jiang Ruolan thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She had just met the female secretary at the Construction Bureau this afternoon, and Ling Fei'er then went to the Construction Bureau, only by chance making the call. When she saw Xiong Ruogang, she naturally recognized her but the strange thing was she never glance at Jiang Ruolan at all. Ling Fei'er will never miss a chance to attack her whenever they met.
Xian Zihao had only been away for a week, and Ling Family and Director Fang had used this opportunity to gather a crowd to hold a banquet.
Jiang Ruolan's heart became cold. Impossible! She must hurry!
No matter what they want to do, they will not do it in front of so many people. So she kept moving steadily until she left the hotel and quickly walked to the parking lot.
Xiong Ruogang first ran to the car and put the recording equipment in it. Jiang Ruolan suddenly saw a black sedan coming straight towards her from a place not too far away.
Jiang Ruolan glanced at the car door in alarm. Her heart was in turmoil.
She suddenly took a few steps back with the intention to retreat, but it was already too late. The car drove towards her at an incredible speed.
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The black sedan suddenly came to her side, the door slightly open. Jiang Ruolan could feel a pair of hands grabbing her.
"Sis Jiang!" Xiong Ruogang, who had just put everything in the car, suddenly realized her condition. The black sedan was moving too fast and too close to Jiang Ruolan. Xiong Ruogang immediately screamed in shock.
In that split-second, another black car came from the other side. The car drove over at an angle that allowed them to hit the black sedan. The car looked like it was about to hit the black sedan, but then, the car suddenly turned around, cleverly separating the black sedan from Jiang Ruolan.
Jiang Ruolan then took the opportunity to take a few steps back. When she turned around to look, the black sedan was already speeding. She glanced at the vehicle license plate number and hesitated.
She could clearly feel that the person in the black sedan wanted to open the car door and grabbed her in. Luckily, this car appeared just in time.
She looked at the car suspiciously but didn't rashly approach it.
That car slowly stopped in front of her as if the driver had no intention of scaring her. However, the car window was gradually lowered, revealing the face of an unknown man yet full of heroic spirit.
"Miss Jiang, H City lately is in a state of turmoil and not safe. You must be careful." The man said indifferently and made a simple gesture towards Jiang Ruolan in the distance.
Jiang Ruolan quickly understood that he was one of the men hired by Xian Zihao to protect her in the shadow.
She then let out a sigh of relief and nodded gratefully to the man in the car. The man also gave her a polite and respectful smile before driving around the parking lot as if nothing had happened.
"Sis Jiang, are you alright?" Xiong Ruogang ran with a nervous expression.
"I'm fine." Jiang Ruolan glanced around and then pulled Xiong Ruogang to her car. She drove out of the 25 Hazel parking lot as quickly as possible and entered the traffic. Only then did she analyze the situation of the night rationally.
Although Jiang Ruolan knew that the Construction Bureau and Ling Group had some kind of cooperation, she never thought that the Ling Family and their own force would be involved in this sort of work.
Business reporting was simple and yet complicated. And since Jiang Ruolan had chosen this job from the very beginning, she knew how to observe the situation and prepare in advance.
If it had not been for the bartender's strange expression, she would not have been able to detect in advance that something was wrong at the birthday banquet. However, by the time she had roughly guessed the current situation, it was already too late, and she had almost accidentally caused a disaster.
If it weren't for Xian Zihao's arrangements, she probably wouldn't have been able to escape safely today.
"Sis Jiang, your face is very bad. What are you thinking?" After Xiong Ruogang got into the car, she observed Jiang Ruolan's face. Even though she did not understand what was happening, she could still feel something was wrong. "Sis Jiang?"
Jiang Ruolan slowed down the car and turned to look at her. She smiled calmly, "I'm fine, Ruogang. Editor Huang is someone brought by President Qin. He hasn't been in the company for a few days, right?"
"Yes."
"Then, did you notice Editor Huang doing something strange? Or contacting someone suspicious?"
Originally, it was just an interview, so she didn't think much of it. If it were not for this soul-stirring incident, Jiang Ruolan might still not be able to associate Chief Editor Huang with this matter. This interview was so hard to get that he asked for her help?
It was clear that Huang Zemin was aware of the good relationship between Xiong Ruogang and Jiang Ruolan and knows that Xiong Ruogang will definitely ask for her help. If something bad happened, all the blame would put on Jiang Ruolan's shoulder while Xiong Ruogang was still kept in the dark. She didn't even know that she was being used.
Jiang Ruolan didn't want to tell her about this matter, in case she was scared, so she comforted Xiong Ruogang a little bit more.
Then, Jiang Ruolan drove her back to the dorm and told her that she didn't need to go to the Construction Bureau tomorrow, as she would make arrangements with Editor Huang.
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The next day, Jiang Ruolan did not go to the Construction Bureau but instead went to Fengyu Media. She went to search for Editor Huang and temporarily suppressed the news of the new project for the Construction Bureau using some relatively official reasons. After all, the Construction Bureau and the Ling Group had been suppressed a while ago.
However, as Jiang Ruolan walked out of the company, a silver-gray Mercedes stopped in front of her. As the car window rolled down, Director Fang's smiling face appeared in front of her.
"Miss Jiang, because of my daughter's birthday banquet last night, I couldn't have an interview. Since I said last night that I would do it today, then I will naturally do as I said and specifically drive here, to wait for you, Miss Jiang." Director Fang smiled politely.
Jiang Ruolan smiled, her eyes clear. "Director Fang is too polite. In fact, I have resigned from this company, and I only helped a friend I brought last night. Since you came in person, I would ask the chief editor to conduct this interview in person."
"That's a pity. I usually don't contact the media, but this time I agree because I want to give you a face. Since I am already here, why don't you do the interview, Miss Jiang? I will go across the road to handle something. Where are you going, Miss Jiang? I will drive you there and we can talk in the car."
A trace of a smile appeared in Jiang Ruolan's eyes. It was eerily emotionless, and of course, she didn't let him see it. Was it because Xian Zihao was on a business trip, so he wanted to take this opportunity to strike?
With her current identity, even though she was not in the business world, she was still the legal wife of Xian Zihao. Not to mention Director Fang, even if it was the Ling Family, they still have to give her a face.
Everything was arranged so smoothly that if it weren't for the reminder from the person Xian Zihao had secretly hired last night, perhaps she wouldn't have noticed these flaws at all.
"What is it? I gave you a face, and Miss Jiang is not even willing to give me a face now?" Seeing that Jiang Ruolan didn't say anything, Director Fang smiled again.
"That's not true, but … Director Fang, you are a father now, so you should know, people like me, who are being mothers for the first time, are always careful. Every few days, I will go to the hospital for a check-up, so what a coincidence, since today is the day too."
"Miss Jiang, aren't you curious about the real reason why Han Xuegang is looking for trouble for Director Ling?" He suddenly said.
Jiang Ruolan paused and looked at him, as if something had crossed her mind. Her gaze fell on Director Fang's hand, which was still holding onto the steering wheel, and then she slowly raised her eyes again, smiling, "When I interviewed you for the first time, I did owe him a favor. At that time, I was still his old classmate from the university, so we had a bit of an old friendship. But things changed too quickly, and those old things didn't really have much to do with me now. Director Fang, you're an experienced person too, so don't make things difficult for me."
With that, she smiled and nodded to him before turning around to leave.