Chapter 8 The Deceased Boy 3
Summer vacation is here, which means Tang Ai has to go home. Two years ago, she and Xi Chen met in Tianwu Mountain. One year ago, Xi Chen passed away and Xi Feng met her. Now, she is the only one left.
Tang Ai dragged the suitcase onto the high-speed train with great effort. When she was struggling to put the suitcase on the luggage rack, the suitcase was suddenly held by a pair of strong hands. Tang Ai let go of her hands, looked at the man, and exclaimed, "Teacher Shao?"
Shao Yu smiled at her gently: "Surprised?"
"Are you going somewhere?" Tang Ai rubbed his hands, acting a little reserved.
"Let's go to Tianwu Mountain and hang another wish." Shao Yu said as he sat down on the seat, then looked up and asked, "Where are you sitting?"
Tang Ai looked at the ticket and the seat number, then sat down in the seat across the aisle from Shao Yu.
"Please help make a phone call and ask your sister Hua to reserve a room for me." Shao Yu turned his head and said to Tang Ai.
Tang Ai nodded quickly, and then called Sister Hua to tell her about it. On the phone, Sister Hua asked, "Is only Teacher Shao coming? Xi Chen and that brat Shen Ruoyun are not coming?"
Tang Ai pursed her lips and said, "Just keep one room for now. Just one room will be fine."
"Okay then." Sister Hua said on the phone, tapped a few times on the keyboard, and then said, "Okay."
"Thank you, Sister Hua." Tang Ai hung up the phone, turned to Shao Yu and said with a smile, "It's already been booked."
"Thank you." Shao Yu smiled back.
After meeting Shao Yu, Tang Ai suddenly felt more at ease.
It doesn’t matter. Although there are no other friends around, Teacher Shao is there. Teacher Shao is not only her teacher, but also her good friend. She is not alone and is finally not afraid of being chased by Sister Hua and asked questions when she gets home.
However, although Tang Ai and Shao Yu's journey back to the inn was smooth, Xi Feng's time at the Xi family was not so smooth.
The July sunshine fell on the balcony, making the jasmine branches and leaves sparkle.
Xi Feng carefully placed the jasmine flowers in the spot that received the best sunlight, and flicked off the tiny dust particles on the leaves with a warm touch.
"Brother, come down, there are guests coming." Xi Shanshan's voice sounded outside. Xi Feng walked slowly from the balcony into the bedroom, then changed into a T-shirt and went downstairs.
The person who came was a stranger who looked very much like a Korean pretty boy.
"Xi Feng, call me cousin." Xi Zhengfeng sat on the sofa and pointed at the man next to him. Xi Feng looked at the man, who looked to be only about 26 or 27 years old, with a malicious and shrewd look in his eyes.
"Whose cousin?" Xi Feng didn't know that he had a relative called cousin.
"Hey, brother." Xi Shanshan took Xi Feng's arm and introduced him, "This is Xie's cousin, my aunt's son. My aunt married a man from Korea. My cousin is of Chinese and Korean descent!"
Xi Feng withdrew his hand, walked over steadily and sat on the sofa. The seat he sat in was right in front of his cousin.
Xi Feng smiled, crossed his legs, and said, "Xie's cousin has no blood relationship with Xi's son. Logically, I don't have to call you cousin, right?"
When he said this, he was extremely arrogant and rude. However, the Chinese-Korean cousin did not get angry. Instead, he stood up, walked towards Xi Feng, and said in broken Chinese: "It's okay, I can call you cousin. Hello, cousin, I'm Kim Ji-eun." After that, he extended his hand to him to show his friendliness.
Xi Feng raised his head slightly, smiled and patted Jin Zhien's palm, but did not shake hands. Instead, he looked at Xi Zhengfeng and said, "Don't beat around the bush. A cousin suddenly came back and asked me to meet him. You must have other plans, right?"
Xi Feng was smart. Seeing that Xi Feng had guessed something, Xi Zhengfeng simply did not hide it and said, "Your cousin wants to return to China to develop, so I arranged for him to work in your company and make him a manager. You see..."
"If my cousin has strong business capabilities, I would be happy for him to come to my company as general manager." Xi Feng looked at Jin Zhien with a dagger hidden in his smile.
"Ji-eun has strong business capabilities. When she was in Korea's GGA, she was the president." Xie Wanqiu said slowly beside her.
Jin Zhien smiled modestly: "Aunt, thank you for the compliment. I have always been the role model in Zhien's heart."
"I'm telling the truth. Auntie is old, but you're still young, Ji-eun." Xie Wanqiu and Jin Ji-eun were flattering each other. Xi Feng had a smile on his face, but he felt extremely disgusted in his heart.
Jin Zhien's visit to China must have been arranged by Xie Wanqiu. Since he was the president of GGA in Korea, why was he willing to be the general manager of a small HE when he came to China? It was obvious that Xie Wanqiu deliberately planted an eyeliner in HE to find an opportunity to drag him down.
This Xie Wanqiu is really full of bad intentions.
"Xiaofeng, from now on, you must cooperate well with Zhien." Xi Zhengfeng said to Xi Feng earnestly.
Xi Feng smiled perfunctorily, but he was thinking in his heart. He was still the intern chairman of HE. If Jin Zhien did something strange at this time, his position as chairman would definitely be lost. In the past, this position of chairman had always belonged to his brother, and now he could not give this position to others.
"I will." Xi Feng stood up from the sofa and said, "In that case, cousin, please come to the company tomorrow and I will take you to familiarize yourself with the company's business."
"No need. My aunt has sent me the information about your company. I have reviewed it all. Are you negotiating the contract with the Million Group now? I can discuss the project with you tomorrow." Kim Ji-eun said confidently.
Xi Feng always had a faint smile on his face. Even if the threat from the enemy was very strong, he still had to smile.
This Kim Ji-eun gave him a warning before she even joined HE. It seems that Xie Wanqiu has a spy among the top management of HE. Otherwise, how could she still get so much information in the company when she has left HE now?
Since there are spies everywhere, he might as well take them all down at once.
"Then let's meet tomorrow." Xi Feng said this lightly, and went upstairs alone. After going upstairs, he quickly called Shen Ruoyun and said, "Shen Ruoyun, I need your help."
That night, Xi Feng and Shen Ruoyun brought another person quietly to HE.
In the chairman's office, a computer lit up, and the eerie light illuminated three strange faces. Xi Feng and Shen Ruoyun were standing, and another young man wearing glasses was sitting, his fingers clacking on the keyboard.
"Don't worry, Xi Feng. Xiao Ma is a top hacker." Shen Ruoyun patted Xiao Ma's shoulder and said to Xi Feng confidently.
But after a while, Xiao Ma adjusted his glasses and said, "There is no sign of any abnormal behavior, not even among the senior executives."
"Then how did Xie Wanqiu get the things from your company?" Shen Ruoyun was curious.
"Maybe Kim Ji-eun just wanted to show me a warning. It is very likely that he only has a project worth one million. We have just shown the project worth one million to him. If he is not an insider, then he must be someone worth one million." Xi Feng held his chin, thinking.
Shen Ruoyun looked at him and asked, "According to what you said, Xie Wanqiu has something to do with Baiwan?"
"I don't know, it's just a bold guess." Xi Feng turned his back, leaned on the computer desk, and said with his arms around his chest, "If there is any relationship between them, the next scene must be played out like this..."
The next day was a working day, and Kim Ji-eun came to HE in a high-profile manner. As the intern chairman, Xi Feng naturally led the team to warmly welcome him.
After a brief tour of the company, Kim Ji-eun held her first meeting since arriving at HE, and the content of the meeting was the million-dollar project.
The million-dollar project was planned by Xi Feng's trusted team. However, Jin Zhien bluntly pointed out in the meeting that there were inappropriate aspects in the plan and the proposed contract terms also contained disadvantages such as conditions that were unfavorable to HE.
"Xi Feng is all ears." Xi Feng leaned back in the main chair and made a gesture of invitation to Jin Zhien.
Kim Ji-eun said to all the major shareholders and senior management, "We pay millions to produce products for us, why should we sell 20% of the finished products to them at less than half the market price?"
"Baiwan has channels that we don't have, and the number of finished products sold to them is almost equal to our HE inventory backlog. Instead of letting those products stay in the warehouse with no one interested in them, it is better to sell them to Baiwan. Everyone will make profits and benefit, and it can also boost the popularity of the HE brand." Xi Feng said.
"Why are there so many inventory backlogs? Have you ever thought about this question? Since Baiwan has channels that we don't have, why can't we take their channels into our own hands?" Jin Zhien turned to Xi Chen and questioned him.
“HE currently has the ability to snatch channels from others only if it accumulates strength.”
"You are not strong enough. We have a brand and the Xi Group to support us. You don't use such good resources. You are here to tell me that HE needs to accumulate strength before it can snatch other people's things?" Jin Zhien's ambition was slowly exposed, but Xi Feng smiled calmly and said, "It is not a good habit to force things to grow. Although we have the Xi Group to support us, HE must not only guarantee its own interests, but also remit profits to the Xi Group. I can't agree with you wanting to seek unconditional support from others when you have nothing. In addition, any partner does not look at how powerful the force behind you is, but how much benefit you can bring to him. If my cousin thinks that the Xi Group can support us, then if there is a problem in the cooperation, should the blame be thrown to the Xi Group or to HE?"
"You..." Before Jin Zhien could say anything, Xi Feng stood up and said slowly, "But if my cousin has a better idea for the project, I will not discourage his enthusiasm. From now on, the million-dollar project will be handed over to my cousin. As the general manager, please report the work progress to me as the chairman anytime and anywhere. If you negotiate this contract, I will give you a Chinese teacher to teach you to speak Chinese so that you can quickly integrate into the lives of our people."
After saying that, Xi Feng picked up his suit jacket and left the meeting room. Kim Ji-eun sat in the meeting room, facing several unfamiliar faces who were looking him up and down, and secretly clenched his fists.
This Xi Feng is more difficult to deal with than he thought, he can't take it lightly.
However, Jin Zhien did not expect that Xi Feng was even more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.
When Kim Ji-eun was talking with a millionaire boss in a cafe, at the table next to them sat Xiao Ma, typing quickly on the keyboard.
The camera of the laptop was facing the conversation between Jin Zhien and the millionaire boss, and Xiao Ma transmitted the video online through Bluetooth to Xi Chen's mobile phone who was sitting in Shen Ruoyun's car outside the cafe.
"This Kim Ji-eun, you really can't tell that he is the president of GGA in Korea." Shen Ruoyun listened to the conversation and shook his head with amusement.
"If it's a paper tiger, it would be funny." Xi Feng laughed.
Suddenly, the picture on the phone became several times larger. Xiao Ma adjusted the picture to a close-up of Kim Ji-eun's ear, and Xi Feng saw a Bluetooth headset hanging on it.
"The Bluetooth headset is in linked state, and someone is talking to Kim Ji-eun in the headset." Xiao Ma sent a WeChat message to Shen Ruoyun, and Shen Ruoyun showed the WeChat content to Xi Feng.
The first name that popped up in Xi Feng's mind was "Xie Wanqiu ", there was no one else but her.
Last time Xiao Ma investigated, he found out that Xie Wanqiu was good friends with the billionaire boss. Now she arranged for Jin Zhien to go to HE and snatch such a big order from Xi Feng. She must want Jin Zhien to secure her position in HE and slowly transfer the power to Jin Zhien and then to her.
Although Xi Feng and Xie Wanqiu don't like each other, Xie Wanqiu is Xi Zhengfeng's wife after all. He didn't expect that she would plot against him like this!
"Let Xiao Ma come back." Xi Feng looked at their conversation and knew that things were not going anywhere, so he spoke.
Shen Ruoyun immediately sent a WeChat message to Xiao Ma. Xiao Ma put away his computer, walked out of the cafe, and got into their car.
"What should we do next?" Shen Ruoyun asked.
Xi Feng leaned on the passenger seat and said, "Robbery."
"You want to rob the millionaire boss?" Shen Ruoyun asked in surprise.
Xi Feng sneered, confident of victory: "They are grabbing orders openly, and I am grabbing people secretly. Let's see who can beat who."
Shen Ruoyun smiled as he drove the car away from the parking lot of the coffee shop and said, "In this regard, your brother is really not as good as you. He has always done things in an upright manner."
"Are you saying that I'm using despicable means?" Xi Feng raised his eyebrows in displeasure.
Shen Ruoyun smiled and said, "Sometimes, when dealing with despicable people, you should use extraordinary means. Where are we going next?"
"Let's just take a walk and relax." Xi Feng leaned one hand on the car window, enjoying the strong breeze on the summer driveway, and with the other hand held the phone, opening the circle of friends.
There was a message from Tang Ai in the circle of friends.
The message was very common: Sister Hua has invented a new pastry!
The accompanying picture is a selfie of her and Shao Yu holding pastries.
She looked particularly happy, and Xi Feng should be happy for her, but when he thought that she could live so happily without him, Xi Feng felt an unknown feeling in his heart...
I hope you are well, but I also hope you are not well.
I hope you are well, and I hope you are better when I am by your side...
