Chapter 110 How can you be so bad? Why can’t you be nicer to me?
At 2:30 in the morning, Chen Jianghe was sleeping soundly.
Suddenly, his cell phone rang, waking him up. He picked up the phone in a daze, saw the caller ID showed "Secretary", and pressed the answer button.
"Hello."
Chen Jianghe yawned and said hello.
"I have insomnia tonight and can't sleep."
Lin Siqi has a heavy nasal tone.
"Hmm?" Chen Jianghe raised his eyebrows and perked up. Then he remembered that he seemed to have forgotten something very important.
"I've put on my clothes, stockings, and ponytails, and waited for you most of the night, but you ignored me the whole time. I'm angry now, I'm going to quit tomorrow, and I'm never going to be nice to you again..."
As Lin Siqi spoke, she began to cry softly.
"So I don't have to pay back the 180,000 yuan I owe you, right?"
Chen Jianghe grasped the key point immediately.
"..." Lin Siqi stopped crying immediately and choked up, "How can you be so mean? Can't you be nicer to me?"
"Yes." Chen Jianghe got up from the bed and walked to the balcony. Shivering in the cold wind, he said, "I am standing in the cold wind to answer your call. Every time I tremble, it's for you."
" Really ?" Lin Siqi bit her lip and asked, "I want to hear you say a few nice words to coax me, is that okay?"
"I had some improper thoughts about you for a few minutes last night. Is that considered a good thing to say?" Chen Jianghe asked back.
"Just barely enough, okay." Lin Siqi sniffed and said, "I'm not that angry now. Go back to bed and hide, don't catch a cold."
"Next time you are angry, don't threaten me with resignation, okay?" Chen Jianghe was not in a hurry to go back home, but instead set some rules for her first.
"You are the only one allowed to not want me, but I am not allowed to resign?" Lin Siqi asked.
"Yes, that's right." Chen Jianghe affirmed. His confidence came from the 180,000 yuan debt. These days, those who owe money are all big shots...
"Okay, I understand." Lin Siqi agreed quietly and said, "Good night, boss."
"Good night."
On January 1, 2007, the A-share market was closed, college students had holidays, and 9527 companies held their annual meetings.
Chen Jianghe gathered downstairs of the Guangdong East Branch with his business unit managers and key business personnel early in the morning, boarded a tourist bus, and set off for the Shenzhen headquarters of 9527 Company.
On the way, Chen Jianghe received a text message from Qin Shaohai.
Qin Shaohai: "Jiang He, I heard that you bought a plane ticket and are going to Beijing to see the snow with Jiang Yishu?"
Chen Jianghe: "You are well-informed."
Qin Shaohai: "Qiu Ya told me that as soon as she heard about this, she immediately bought a ticket and wanted to go to Beijing with you."
Chen Jianghe: “???”
Qin Shaohai: "Don't panic, I'll go too, to protect your love with Jiang Yishu, it's my duty as a brother."
Chen Jianghe: "Jiang Yishu and I are going to see the snow, why are you guys joining in the fun?"
Qin Shaohai: "We haven't seen snow either..."
Chen Jianghe: "Okay, when I get down to business, help me get Han Qiuya out of the way."
Qin Shaohai: "No problem, leave it to me."
Chen Jianghe: "Step back."
Qin Shaohai: ...
After replying to the text message, Chen Jianghe leaned back in his seat and took a nap. When he opened his eyes, the bus had arrived at its destination, an ordinary hotel in Nanshan District.
When a startup company holds an annual meeting, there isn't usually much pomp and circumstance. Basically, after everyone arrives, the company's top executives speak one by one, you say a few words, I say a few words, and then the food is served and the meal begins.
A more generous boss will organize a bonus or raffle, while a stingy boss will only talk about performance and New Year goals and never mention bonuses. Everyone will disperse after dinner and go home to their own homes.
Company 9527 belongs to the latter category. The senior management gave speeches until lunchtime and then started eating directly.
During the banquet, general managers, deputy general managers, and supervisor-level executives from major cities sat at the main table with senior executives from the headquarters.
The regional manager, business unit manager and their salesmen sat at other tables.
Hundreds of people gathered together, and the scale was quite impressive.
During the dinner, Ye Xiaorong, manager of the Haizhu District Division, whispered in Chen Jianghe's ear, "Mr. Chen, I feel that President Deng's temperament is far inferior to yours. You gave 300 yuan holiday allowance to all employees in the base a few days ago, but the company headquarters held an annual meeting but nothing happened. It was really a lonely event."
"It's okay. We can organize an annual meeting ourselves later and have fun however we want." Chen Jianghe said with a smile.
The company's annual meeting actually reflects the current financial situation to a certain extent. Although 9527 Company has just received financing from Penguin Group not long ago, it has recently been engaged in a war of attrition with Nuomi Group Buying, burning money to subsidize merchants, and the tens of millions of funds raised cannot withstand the tossing.
The industry prospect of group buying takeout is indeed a blue ocean with an infinitely bright future, but it is also a money-making hole. In the end, it is the big capital that is playing the game.
"It's more interesting to follow you. Not only can I learn things, but I can also make money easily." Ye Xiaorong said with emotion.
"It's all hard-earned money, how can it be easy?" Chen Jianghe asked with a smile.
"Anyway... following you is much easier than when I was leading a team on my own and doing business like a blind man groping in the dark." Ye Xiaorong said.
As he was talking, the company president Deng Yongqing came over, patted Chen Jianghe on the shoulder, and said, "Jianghe, why are you sitting at this table? Come on, let's go to the main table and have a few drinks."
"OK."
Chen Jianghe was not polite. He stood up and followed Deng Yongqing to the main table.
At the main table, there was an empty seat next to Sun Haolin and Zhao Xiangning, so Chen Jianghe sat down.
As soon as he sat down, the company's vice president Hu Haijun personally poured Chen Jianghe a glass of white wine and said with a smile: "Manager Chen, you ran away early from the celebration party last time, but this time you were caught by CEO Deng and you can't run away. You have to drink a penalty drink."
Chen Jianghe was not at all nervous. He picked up the glass of white wine and said with a smile: "Cheers to all the bosses."
Then he tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp.
The empty cup fell down without changing his expression.
"Good alcohol tolerance."
Hu Haijun smiled, but filled his glass again: "After you finish one glass, there are still three glasses left."
Chen Jianghe narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Hu, it won't be too late to let me eat a few peanuts before drinking."
"This is a punishment for you. You must drink it now."
Hu Haijun still had a smile on his face, but his attitude was very strong.
Chen Jianghe raised his glass, looked directly at Hu Haijun, and said with a smile, "In that case, I will toast to Mr. Hu alone with this glass of wine."
Hu Haijun leaned back and looked at Chen Jianghe calmly, his meaning was very clear: You drink yours, I won't accept it.
"Mr. Hu, let me do it..." Sun Haolin picked up the wine glass, wanting to help Chen Jianghe out of the predicament. Before he could finish his words, Hu Haijun waved his hand with an unhappy look on his face, motioning him to sit down.
“Pah.”
Chen Jianghe put down his wine glass, too lazy to pay attention to Hu Haijun, and leisurely picked up a few peanuts with chopsticks and put them in his mouth.
He thought that by sitting at the main table, he would be able to hear some nutritious things from the top management, but this is what happened?
Hu Haijun looked a little unhappy when he saw this, but he didn't want to lose his temper on the spot. He turned to look at President Deng, and seeing that he didn't react, he had to swallow his anger and let it go.
"Manager Chen, let's have a drink together, fellow countrymen."
Zhao Xiangning raised her glass with a smile to warm up the atmosphere.
"We must give Director Zhao face."
Chen Jianghe raised his glass and clinked it with hers. They both just took a sip casually and stopped there.
Now, Hu Haijun's face looked even uglier, and several bosses around him also had gloomy faces.
"Jiang He, you are the hero of the company's financing and the performance benchmark of the entire company. I offer you a glass of wine."
At this time, President Deng personally toasted Chen Jianghe.
"Mr. Deng is too polite. I should be the one toasting you. I'll drink this glass of wine. Please feel free to do as you please."
Chen Jianghe was very polite and happy. He raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp. His attitude was the same as he had just judged the two people.
In fact, judging from the different ways of Hu Haijun and Deng Yongqing in persuading people to drink, Chen Jianghe roughly guessed that the top management of the company headquarters might have different attitudes towards him.
Hu Haijun's action of making Chen Jianghe drink as punishment was obviously intended to intimidate him.
Deng Yongqing took the initiative to toast and specifically mentioned the two words "financing hero" and "performance benchmark", which was obviously a compliment to Chen Jianghe's personal ability.
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The taste of white wine is worse than cigarettes. Not only is it spicy and hard to swallow, but it is also easy to make a fool of yourself if you drink too much. However, it plays a big role in social occasions. After a few drinks, people talk more and the scene naturally becomes lively.
The people at the main table talked a lot and discussed some forward-looking topics, such as the layout of the Yangtze River Delta, the entry into the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and other strategies, with the ambition to take over the national market in one go.
At the same time, Chen Jianghe also heard a bombshell news that, through the matchmaking of Penguin Group, the company had begun negotiating a new round of financing with several strong venture capital firms, and the progress was rapid.
While Chen Jianghe was listening to the big guys bragging, he was chatting with Zhao Xiangning next to him about some weird and interesting stories from the university, occasionally telling a few jokes, which made the beautiful young woman giggle and look seductive.
The meal lasted until around three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was no sign of it ending. Chen Jianghe went to the bathroom to pee, washed his face, left the hotel, and took a taxi to Zhongda University to pick up Jiang Yishu.
On the way, Chen Jianghe called Jiang Yishu in advance and asked her to take her luggage and wait for him at the main gate of the school.
I thought the trip would go smoothly, but when the taxi stopped in front of the gate of CUHK, just as Chen Jianghe was about to get off, he suddenly spotted a familiar figure standing less than ten meters away from Jiang Yishu, looking around, as if he was also waiting for someone.
"Damn it, we just met at Yuejin last night, and today we met again at the main gate of Zhongda University. The university circle is really small. Fortunately, I haven't gotten off the car yet, otherwise I would be in big trouble."
Chen Jianghe slammed the car door and sat back in his seat. The person not far away was Tao Xinran whom he had met last night.
"Master, please step on the gas and drive to the west gate." Chen Jianghe said.
"It's OK to drive to the west gate, but you have to pay extra."
As soon as the driver finished speaking, Tao Xinran strode over.
