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Chapter 133

Chapter 133

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"Secretary, I have no connections overseas," Li Xia said, refusing to take the call at this critical moment. "It must be a wrong number." In the late eighties, besides the craze for going abroad, there was also a craze for investment. Factories all along the coast were doing their best to attract foreign capital, clutching at straws like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse—just in case they got lucky. The Secretary covered the receiver and said sternly, "Comrade Li Xia, this is a very grave mission. You must remember." Of course, she had no overseas connections in her birth family; if she did, her brother wouldn't have been eyeing her husband’s meager salary. Could these be connections from the Chen family?

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