Zhou Qianru's request was sudden and unexpected, leaving Chen Feng somewhat unable to understand.

Logically speaking, Zhou Qianru should be very cautious about contacting and interacting with him again, let alone appearing together in front of her husband.

"Do you think it's appropriate for me to go with you to meet your husband?"

After a good while, Chen Feng finally asked the question in his heart.

"There's nothing inappropriate. I want you to be the middleman to talk to him properly about that piece of land, make him give it up, and then trouble you to talk to Tao Yaoyang, just to say my husband voluntarily gave up that land.

Besides, the lawyer said my husband is now under criminal detention, generally, only lawyers can see him, and family members are not allowed to see him. So, I want you to find a way to let me and you meet with him together."

So that's where it's coming from, wanting him to be the middleman again, and also expecting him to pull some strings to arrange a meeting with Ma Wenjiang.

"What can I do?" Chen Feng flatly refused, "Since this doesn't align with the procedures, I have no way to help."

Zhou Qianru complained, "I heard from Yanhong that you have deep connections, this should be a trivial matter for you. I hope you can help me."

Chen Feng denied, "I really don't have any deep connections, these are just rumors. Therefore, I can't help you meet your husband. You can ask someone else for help, with your husband's background, it's unreasonable that you can't find any connections."

"In essence, you don't want to help me with this favor." Zhou Qianru was somewhat angry.

Recalling their past relationship, Chen Feng still patiently explained, "It's not that I don't want to help, but I don't have the ability to help. At most, I can be a middleman, pass a message to your husband. Besides, there's no need for you and me to go and meet your husband now, a lawyer can completely communicate with him and bring the message out."

"You really can't do anything? Would Yanhong lie to me?" Clearly, Zhou Qianru still didn't quite trust Chen Feng's words.

"Believe it or not." Chen Feng was getting a bit impatient, spoiling her like this.

Zhou Qianru saw Chen Feng's attitude soften immediately, lowered her voice, and said, "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't believe you, I'm just too worried about my husband and I also want to ask him about the incident from back then in person."

"He's being detained now, even if you meet him, do you think he would tell you the truth about that incident? It would be better to have a lawyer ask him or try to have the lawyer arrange for his release."

"The lawyer said this case is quite serious, so securing bail might be quite challenging, unless we find someone influential to act as a guarantor." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"Then find someone influential, or raise the bail amount."

"Could you possibly be the guarantor?"

Zhou Qianru was really not holding back.

"I don't count as influential. Your husband is so wealthy, has been in business for so many years, I'm sure he knows many influential people, some of whom should be willing to be his guarantor."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Qianru said, "Okay, then I'll find a guarantor first and try to get him bailed out. Wait for my news, I'll still need you to be a middleman and help communicate with Tao Yaoyang."

"Alright, I'll wait for your news."

...

After hanging up the phone, Chen Feng was speechless for a while.

This time Zhou Qianru really didn't treat him as an outsider, wanting to take him to meet her husband, and also wanting him to be the guarantor to bail her husband out. Not treating him as an outsider at all.

On the other side, after hanging up the phone, Zhou Qianru looked at Sun Yanhong sitting beside her and said:

"You heard it too, he doesn't really give me any face."

Sun Yanhong shook her head and said, "He's already giving you a lot of face."

"I asked for his help, he only agreed to be a middleman and pass messages, nothing else, and you call that giving me face?"

Zhou Qianru was clearly a bit angry, hitting the sofa she was sitting on forcefully.

"It's already quite good that he's willing to be a middleman, you don't know how much effort we put in back then to have him agree to be a middleman."

Zhou Qianru shook her head and said, "Ultimately, he still doesn't care about me; otherwise, he wouldn't be making excuses."

Sun Yanhong said amusingly, "You seem to have a lot of grievances. You've been separated for so long, yet he's still willing to help as a peacemaker, it shows he's still mindful of old feelings."

"But I'm still not satisfied."

In her heart, Zhou Qianru was indeed not very satisfied with Chen Feng's response this time; in her view, it wasn't even as good as a normal friend, not caring about her feelings at all, nor comforting her much.

Sun Yanhong, however, said with envy, "I never expected that you and he had such a wonderful chance encounter, and thank you for trusting me by telling me about it."

Last time when they met Chen Feng and then parted ways with him, Zhou Qianru had proactively asked for Chen Feng's phone number, which surprised Sun Yanhong but she didn't think much of it at the time.

But after Ma Wenjiang was arrested, Sun Yanhong talked about the possible retaliation from Tao Yaoyang, and then they discussed Chen Feng, saying he had close ties with Tao Yaoyang and they could ask him to mediate.

Afterwards, they each made several calls to Chen Feng, but unfortunately, none were answered, making Zhou Qianru very angry and she cursed Chen Feng severely.

Knowing her for many years, Sun Yanhong found her reaction very surprising, so she couldn't help but ask whether Zhou Qianru had contacted Chen Feng, or even met him privately after asking for his number.

After minor hesitation, Zhou Qianru confessed about the short-lived romance between her and Chen Feng a few years ago to Sun Yanhong.

She decided to reveal this primarily because she trusted and valued her friendship with Sun Yanhong deeply.

Even after sharing this, she believed that Sun Yanhong would definitely keep it a secret for her.

Secondly, she felt a sense of relief after confiding this buried matter with Sun Yanhong.

Naturally, Sun Yanhong was very shocked and envious.

When speaking with her now, there was an evident tone of envy.

"That was a misfortune, I thought I'd never see him again in this life, but because of you, I met him again." After expressing this wistful sentiment, she quickly added, "Alright, let's not talk about him. The most urgent matter is to find someone of status to be the guarantor and get Wenjiang bailed out quickly. Who do you think we should ask?"

After some thought, Sun Yanhong said, "Let's ask the president of the Xiu Zhou Chamber of Commerce. I and Ma are vice presidents; he should still give us this favor."

"Alright, I'll trouble you to contact him, while I get in touch with the lawyer to expedite the bail process."

...

In the evening, Chen Feng received a call from Qin Zhen, informing him that tomorrow he and Pei Lei would return to Lin Nan's hometown to start preparing for the engagement party, scheduled for five days later.

Only then did Chen Feng realize that tomorrow is National Day, immediately sending his congratulations.

On the call, Qin Zhen once again invited him to be the best man, but Chen Feng still declined, citing his previous marriage as unsuitable for being a best man, considering it unlucky.