Chapter 2918 — The Company Is in Trouble
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"What if I work through my political connections on this side and see whether I can get word passed to them?" Liu Tianli hesitated. He truly did not want to expend the Liu family's political connections over this matter, but the situation was urgent and he had no choice. If he did not use them, the Liu family would essentially be finished this time!
Yes, the smuggling was a disgrace to the Liu family, but after all, hadn't the goods failed to get through yet? All the Liu family had to do was to work the story a little: the goods were meant to be imported through proper channels, and had merely been seized while in transit through the small country. That way, the matter could be set in motion.
"President Liu, are you certain you can use those connections? The goods we were smuggling this time... they're contraband..." Little Innocence reminded him.
"It's only tobacco, isn't it? Yes, we were smuggling, but I can work the story—say we were about to import it properly..." Shocked as he was, Liu Tianli was no fool. He quickly thought of a countermeasure.
"President Liu, it's not as simple as tobacco. This is narcotics!" Little Innocence said.
"What?! Nar... narcotics?" Liu Tianli was startled; he could scarcely believe it and nearly flung the phone from his hand. How had cigarettes turned into narcotics? He caught his breath and only then came back to himself. "Wasn't it cigarettes? How did it become narcotics? President Lang, you... you're not joking, are you? Haha... this joke isn't funny at all!"
"President Liu, do I look like I'm joking with you?" Little Innocence said mildly. "If there weren't a little something special in those cigarettes, would they smoke so well?"
"This..." Liu Tianli was jolted. At President Lang's reminder, he realized—yes, why did these cigarettes smoke so well, and why were they so addictive? Could there really be narcotics in them?
But why had he never thought of it before? Of course, what Liu Tianli did not know was that it wasn't that he couldn't think of it—he had been hypnotized. The very idea had simply never been allowed to point in that direction; the hypnotist had suppressed the thought.
"President Lang, you set me up?!" Liu Tianli demanded furiously.
"President Liu, I assumed you knew perfectly well," Little Innocence said, unhurried.
"Knew what perfectly well? I don't take drugs—how would I know?" Liu Tianli raged.
"Of all the bosses I know, everyone snorts powder. How was I to know President Liu doesn't? It's only that the raw material for these cigarettes is very special, with unusually high purity—not commonly found on the market!" Little Innocence said. "When you raised no questions beforehand, I assumed we understood each other without saying it. The cigarettes are so pure that anyone who has never used powder before would find them hard to take. I saw that President Liu smoked them quite smoothly, so I didn't think any more of it."
"You..." Liu Tianli did not know whether Little Innocence was telling the truth or a lie, but he could no longer concern himself with that. He could only swallow his fury and ask, "So what are we supposed to do now?" (To be continued)