Solving Middle Age Crisis by Intelligence System-Chapter 488 - 303: Meeting with De Gaulle

France isn’t far from the Vatican, judging by straight-line distance, it’s not as far as Bird City to Kashi. It’s unknown if the clues hidden here have been discovered by De Gaulle...

So far, all six locations on the map have been identified: Loulan Ancient City, Genghis Khan’s Tomb, Khufu’s Pyramid, Mayan Ruins, Mount Kilimanjaro, and finally, St. Peter’s Basilica.

There seems to be... some subtle similarities...

[Today’s Intelligence 3 (Green): Room 601, Building 8, Qingyuan Community, Dongfeng Road, houses a large amount of gold antiques and other items, valued over twenty-six million; the homeowner was imprisoned three years ago, and Secretary Ji used this property as a place to stash stolen goods]

Twenty-six million worth of golden antiques!

Secretary Ji has already cooled down by now, I guess no one knows about these things anymore...

Twenty-six million, plus the 120 million laundered to his mistress a few days ago, that’s close to 150 million. Quite a big appetite.

However, Qi Yun believes this certainly isn’t all.

"Forget it, seeing as you’ve cooled down and contributed so much money to me, let’s call it even between us..."

After a sigh, Qi Yun picked up his phone and sent a message to Old Ghost, instructing him to quietly retrieve the items with Old Black.

Such treasures are a pity to just gather dust indoors; it’s better to hand them over to do charity on behalf of Secretary Ji...

After receiving today’s intelligence message, Qi Yun went to the kitchen and prepared breakfast. Once the family finished eating, he personally drove his daughter and Zhao Qing to kindergarten.

Not yet at the kindergarten gate, Nuannuan’s head was already held high, almost skyward, with two little hands on her hips, looking at everyone with her nostrils.

"Tang Zixin, did you see? My dad! You’ve seen him on TV, right?"

"Liu Mingyu, my dad is here!"

"..."

Qi Yun couldn’t help but laugh, watching his daughter like a proud little peacock, strutting around the crowd with her chest out.

Zhao Qing tugged at his arm: "Look at how you’ve spoiled her, now the whole kindergarten knows Nuannuan’s dad appeared on the news broadcast."

"It’s just fame, only fame." Qi Yun modestly said, though his eyes held a smile.

The director at the entrance, welcoming students, recognized Qi Yun and jogged over, his face brimming with enthusiasm: "This must be President Qi, welcome, welcome."

Qi Yun glanced at him curiously, then turned to look at Zhao Qing.

Before Zhao Qing could speak, the director smoothed his shiny hair and extended both hands proactively: "Hello, President Qi, let me introduce myself, my name is Wang Baichuan, and I’m the director here at the kindergarten. Welcome, President Qi, to inspect our work."

From these few words, Qi Yun roughly understood what kind of person this guy was...

His official status externally is only that of a zx member, so calling it an inspection is a bit too much.

But as the saying goes, don’t hit a smiling face, with such enthusiasm, Qi Yun didn’t put on airs and shook hands with the director.

"Haha, Director Wang, you’re too generous. I’m just here to drop off Zhao Qing and the child."

"President Qi is too modest." Wang Baichuan shook Qi Yun’s hand up and down, his eyes nearly twitching, "President Qi, you’ve made great contributions to the country. Your visit to our kindergarten is our honor."

Qi Yun managed a smile, slightly pulled his hand back: "Director Wang, you’re too kind. Did you have something to discuss with me?"

Generally, upon hearing such words, insightful people would leave on their own, but Wang Baichuan seemed oblivious, showing no sign of embarrassment on his face: "Oh, the principal mentioned yesterday about inviting you to our kindergarten to give a speech to our students and parents, encouraging everyone to learn from you, President Qi."

"You happened to be here today, so I came to ask if you have time, maybe we could go to the office for some tea?"

Qi Yun checked his watch, then smiled apologetically: "Sorry, Director Wang, I have something to do today, how about next time I invite you for tea."

"As for the speech, it’s unnecessary, please thank the principal for the kind offer. I’m not great with words, can’t say much profound."

After speaking, he patted Zhao Qing’s back, "Zhao Qing, I’m heading to the company first."

Zhao Qing blinked: "Okay, you go ahead."

Qi Yun softly replied "hm", nodded to Director Wang, and turned towards the parking lot.

He barely took two steps when Wang Baichuan caught up again, handing over a business card: "Haha, President Qi, here’s my card. Feel free to contact me anytime, I enjoy making friends."

"Sure, no problem." Qi Yun politely took the card, answered, then quickly left.

After returning to the car, he let out a long breath, casually tossing the card aside.

This Wang Baichuan, he had met before when dropping off Nuannuan, but back then Qi Yun wasn’t worthy of attention, and he didn’t know who Qi Yun was.

Even though this is just a neighborhood kindergarten, it’s quite large, with many local families sending their kids here, so among the parents are quite a few department heads, directors, and deans, and Wang Baichuan remembers them incognizantly.

But this sudden enthusiasm indeed left Qi Yun a bit unaccustomed, though he understood that such situations are inevitable moving forward.

After all, in today’s society, currying favor is a basic skill of adulthood.

Some people naturally love this approach, while others are forced by responsibilities to engage accordingly.

Qi Yun couldn’t determine if Wang Baichuan was the former or the latter, but regardless, he wouldn’t befriend such individuals.

After leaving the kindergarten, Qi Yun visited the hotpot restaurant, jewelry company, and his two businesses, meeting a group of old acquaintances.

Firstly, to thank everyone for their congratulations, and secondly, to check the status of various businesses, fortunately all proceeded smoothly.

The hotpot restaurant and Wei Yong’s two fruit supermarkets had dividends of over 1.4 million last month, the spark plug factory had orders with over 500,000 profit, and the trade company was the biggest, amounting to nearly 7 million. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Summing it up, his dividends last month were roughly 9 million, over ten times more than before his bankruptcy, and this doesn’t even include the jewelry company’s dividends, which presumably will be in the billions this year.

After this round of visits, the time reached the afternoon, Qi Yun was about to head to National Security to check on Niu Da’s investigation, but a phone call interrupted his plans.

"Hello, Mr. Qi."

"Haha, Mr. De Gaulle has some business with me?"

Indeed, the call was from De Gaulle, regarding whom Qi Yun neither harbored strong antipathy nor favorable sentiments.

Logically speaking, although De Gaulle previously sent people to investigate Qi Yun, as soon as those agents landed on Hong Kong Island, Qi Yun seized them.

Later, Qi Yun sent people to France, where Ah Jiao and others were captured by De Gaulle, but the latter released them casually and even proposed cooperation.

From the outcomes, there wasn’t deep conflict between the two, but during their dealings, Qi Yun felt De Gaulle was unpredictable, thus maintained deep caution against him.

Firstly, because during their conversations, De Gaulle continuously tried to conceal key information, if Qi Yun hadn’t already identified several specific locations and with Ignacio discovering clues in historical documents, he would have certainly been deceived by him.

Secondly, De Gaulle has a formidable background, not only does his family wield great power, but he’s also an affiliate of the Louis Family, quite an intimidating background...

De Gaulle didn’t waste words, directly asking: "Mr. Qi, do you have time tonight? I’d like to meet you."

Qi Yun was slightly taken aback: "You’re already in Huaxia?"

"Haha, yes." De Gaulle chuckled, "I arrived in Bird City not long ago, if you have time, please give me a location, after attending a talk with the trade department later, I’ll head over to meet you."

Qi Yun thought briefly and replied: "Sure, then let’s meet at ten tonight, I’ll send you the address shortly."

"Alright, see you tonight."

After setting down the phone, Qi Yun’s lips subtly curved, thinking this guy certainly isn’t fearless, deliberately mentioning the trade department meeting to remind him not to act rashly...

That afternoon, Chen Wei and the other nine successfully passed National Security’s internal review, thus they all became external investigators for National Security, granted with specially approved licenses allowing legal firearm possession.

This eased many of Qi Yun’s concerns, ensuring that Duan Pingyu, Gao Min, and the others no longer had to sneak around with weapons.

All owing to their absolute trust in him as their boss, otherwise, no bodyguard would dare act this way.