Chapter 23: Do you have spicy hot pot? The kind that costs six yuan
Chen Jianghe walked out of the general manager's office and found Li Tianhai standing outside the door, seemingly waiting for him.
"Want a cigarette?"
Chen Jianghe took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him.
"I don't smoke."
Li Tianhai waved his hand to refuse: "Let's go out and talk for a while."
Chen Jianghe didn't say anything. He lowered his head, picked up the cigarette, took out his lighter, lit the cigarette at an angle, and exhaled white smoke leisurely.
"The way you light a cigarette looks a bit like Leslie Cheung."
Li Tianhai said with a smile, then walked towards the corridor.
Chen Jianghe exhaled white mist from his mouth and followed casually. In fact, he had already guessed what Li Tianhai wanted to say, but he still decided to patiently listen to his words.
At the end of the corridor, Li Tianhai raised his hand to fan away the smoke, his eyes fixed on Chen Jianghe .
"If you have anything to say, just say it." Chen Jianghe flicked the ash from his cigarette.
"A frank man doesn't speak in minced words." Li Tianhai smiled and got straight to the point: "You can outshine me in business, but you may not even be able to see my taillights in management."
"How about changing your mindset and working under me in the future?"
Hearing this, Chen Jianghe glanced at Li Tianhai with a little surprise, smiled and said nothing.
"Don't be surprised, I'm doing this for your own good."
"You may be nothing if you leave this company. I am different from you. I will be valued in any company."
Li Tianhai acted very confidently, with a hint of superiority in his words: "If you are willing to follow me, whether in this company or change jobs with me in the future, I can protect you."
"Also, I will not pursue the matter of you stealing six of my clients." Li Tianhai added.
"Ha ha."
Chen Jianghe couldn't help laughing out loud.
This kid Li Tianhai is obviously as petty as a chicken, but he insists on pretending to be generous.
However, Chen Jianghe was too lazy to expose him. Instead, he raised his hand and put it on Li Tianhai's shoulder: "I hope you can always maintain this confidence. Come on."
"What do you mean?"
Li Tianhai frowned slightly and patiently continued to persuade him: "I have made my words very clear just now. There is no need for you to pretend to be confused. Face the reality as soon as possible. The gap between people will only get bigger and bigger."
Hearing this, Chen Jianghe's smile grew even brighter: "The gap between people will indeed grow wider and wider, just like doing business. If I exert a little effort, you can't even see the taillights of my car."
"As for management, don't rush to expand. Time will give you the answer."
After Chen Jianghe finished speaking, he patted Li Tianhai on the shoulder and turned to leave with a calm face.
"Don't leave in such a hurry."
Li Tianhai called him.
"Boss Sun told me a few days ago that he plans to let me take over Panyu and you go to Tianhe."
"You are so confident, do you dare to bet with me?"
Li Tianhai asked Chen Jianghe.
"What are you betting on?" Chen Jianghe asked.
“One month’s performance.”
Li Tianhai raised his index finger and said confidently: "If you can beat me, I will give Panyu to you and resign voluntarily. If you lose, you can just follow me honestly, how about that?"
"Not very good."
Chen Jianghe shrugged and said disapprovingly: "I am not interested in this kind of unchallenging gambling game."
"You..." Li Tianhai choked.
"Your target is the company's management, but I am different from you. We have different ideals and cannot work together." Chen Jianghe said calmly.
In fact, Chen Jianghe only said half of what he said. The other half was: When I make enough money and acquire 9527, I hope you can still maintain your current confidence and innocence.
Chen Jianghe didn't say much and left with a cigarette in his mouth.
Li Tianhai stared at his back and pinched his fingers, making a crackling sound.
"Damn it, you are so shameless! You think you are great just because you have good performance, but you don't even look at which university the founders of this company graduated from!"
Chen Jianghe left the company and came to the back door of Zhongda University. As usual, he went to the Dakoujiu milk tea shop where Jiang Yishu worked part-time and ordered a cup of grass jelly.
"Are you going home for the National Day holiday?"
Jiang Yishu asked softly when she handed the freshly made milk tea to Chen Jianghe.
"Yes."
Chen Jianghe nodded and asked casually, "Are you going back too?"
"Um."
Jiang Yishu nodded with a smile.
"Do you want to go back with me?" Chen Jianghe asked again.
"Sure." Jiang Yishu agreed, but felt a little embarrassed: "I have a lot of stuff..."
"It doesn't matter if there are a lot of things. We can just call Qin Shaohai and Zhang Mingjie later." Chen Jianghe grinned.
It would be nice to go home with Jiang Yishu, but it would be better to leave the job of providing free labor to others.
"Oh." Jiang Yishu said "Oh" and hesitated to speak.
"Is there anything else?" Chen Jianghe saw her hesitation.
"I got my salary today." Jiang Yishu said.
"You have to tell me about your salary too?" Chen Jianghe was delighted and asked shamelessly, "Do you want to treat me to a meal?"
"Yeah." Jiang Yishu glanced at him and said, "I kind of miss you."
"If I want to, I want to. If I don't want to, I don't want to. What do you mean by a little bit of wanting?"
Chen Jianghe pretended to be angry and glared at her, as if he was a little dissatisfied with this answer.
"I..." Jiang Yishu bit her lip and added affirmatively: "I want to treat you to a meal."
"That's more like it."
Chen Jianghe thought that after the holiday, the business units would probably be divided, and there would be fewer opportunities to come to Zhongda in the future. It would be nice to have a meal with her before leaving.
So he took the initiative to ask, "Do you have spicy hot pot in the Zhongda cafeteria? It's six yuan a portion, and it's the kind that can make you explode after eating it."
"Yes." Jiang Yishu blinked. There was indeed spicy hot pot in the cafeteria for six yuan a portion, but what did it mean that one could explode after eating it?
"Then I have to go and try it." Chen Jianghe said with a smile: "It's still early, I'll go for a walk in front and come to see you around 11:30."
"Oh, I'll wait for you."
Jiang Yishu agreed with a smile.
Seeing how well behaved she was, Chen Jianghe couldn't help but want to tease her again: "Call me brother."
"elder brother."
Jiang Yishu blushed and satisfied him.
"Why."
Chen Jianghe smiled brightly. His heart melted when he was called "brother". He turned around and walked away with a smug look on his face.
At half past eleven, Chen Jianghe arrived as promised, and Jiang Yishu was waiting for him.
"I'm hungry. Lead the way."
Chen Jianghe came up to her without saying a word.
Jiang Yishu took out her meal card in advance, held it in her hand, and took him into the gate of Sun Yat-sen University and walked towards the cafeteria.
Not only does CUHK have a historic campus, but its cafeteria is also very grand. It is large in scale and crowded, yet well-organized. It is much better than the Nanyuan Cafeteria at Guangdong University of Finance and Economics.
Jiang Yishu went to queue up and bought two servings of spicy hot pot. Fearing that Chen Jianghe would not be full, she considerately added noodles and luncheon meat to his bowl, and also brought a bottle of Vitasoy.
The two of them sat down by the window. Chen Jianghe looked around and found many pairs of eyes looking at him.
"You didn't expect that your school beauty would take the initiative to treat me to spicy hot pot?"
Chen Jianghe did not feel any pressure. Instead, he felt like laughing. He picked up a small piece of pickled radish, put it in his mouth and chewed it. The sour taste was good and quite appetizing.
While they were eating, a group of boys suddenly came from behind. Chen Jianghe turned his head and took a look. The one leading them looked familiar. It seemed that he was Li Hongwen, the vice president of the student union of a certain department, who had presented two packs of Huazi to him before.
"Is this seat occupied?"
Li Hongwen carried the food tray to the window seat where Chen Jianghe and Jiang Yishu were sitting, pointed to the seat next to them, and asked in a gentle manner.
