At the first horse race after the New Year in 1990, Zhong Liming was in the stands, looking at the track through a telescope from time to time.
Qi Lian An stood beside him, his posture straight. He had been immersed in various etiquette and rules since he was a child, and his every move was more noble than many rich young men.
Zhong Limin put down the telescope and said to him: "You follow me and support me, and I will support you accordingly and repay you. You persuade Luo Shen to let me be the chairman of Song Rongji, and I will push you to be the general manager. From now on, you will no longer be a servant of the Luo family, but the managing director of Song Rongji..."
Qi Lian'an placed his hands on the railing and looked into the distance. At this moment, he could not think about the racehorses on the track at all.
Zhong Limin continued: "Xiao Qi, how old are you this year?"
Qi Lianan: "After the Chinese New Year, I'm 37."
Zhong Limin asked again: "How old is the child?"
Qi Lianan: “9 years old.”
Zhong Limin: "This will not only change your personal destiny, but also the destiny of your family and the next generation. You don't want your children to continue to work as slaves for the Luo family, do you?"
Zhong Limin handed the telescope to Qi Lian'an, "It's not enough to rely on your naked eyes. You have to find help for yourself. If you can't see clearly, then borrow a telescope. You came from a poor family, and your mother gave you a good job, but you can't rely on this job for the rest of your life, right? You have to learn to find help. Now is a great opportunity. Stepping onto the step of general manager of Song Rongji is the best springboard. A springboard to break through the circle of identity and class!"
What Zhong Liming said was extremely tempting, and it would be impossible for any ordinary person not to be tempted.
Qi Lian An is not an ordinary person, but he was also tempted.
Taking the telescope, Qi Lian'an focused on the racetrack. He was not in the mood for horse racing today, but he had to pretend that his mind was on it.
Zhong Limin asked: "Have you read Dream of the Red Chamber?"
"Seen."
Zhong Limin continued to persuade him: "No matter how well Lai Da in Dream of the Red Chamber did or how respectable he was, as long as he still ate under the eaves of the Jia Mansion, his family would always be slaves of the Jia Mansion. Only by spreading your wings and daring to take a step forward can you become a superior person."
Qi Lianan handed the telescope back to Zhong Limin and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhong, I'm sorry, I may not be able to help you..."
Zhong Limin still smiled and said, "You can try."
Qi Lianan said tactfully, "In fact, I don't need to convince him. Mr. Zhong is the most suitable chairman. The two shareholders of Qiaozhi are still in school. In order to facilitate Song Rongji's listing in the future, they can't be the chairman. You are the uncle of the eldest master, and you are one of us. You are definitely more suitable than Chen Yuncheng."
Zhong Limin listened to Qi Lian'an's nice words. He knew that the other party was persuaded by him. He patted Qi Lian'an on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You will be my partner, I will be the chairman, and you will be the general manager. It's settled."
Qi Lianan said: "I am not familiar with Song Rongji. It is not a good idea to rashly become the general manager. I can start as the deputy general manager."
Zhong Liming instantly looked at Qi Lian'an in a different light. He thought that Qi Lian'an was a man who could bend and stretch himself and would not achieve things overnight. It was a good thing to have such a person as a partner, but it also came with risks. He could not be easily bought off by some small benefits.
"Aan, I'm rooting for you!"
"Thank you, Mr. Zhong, for your support!"
Ye Zhao did not let Brother Xiang book a hotel when she came to Hong Kong this time. She booked an ordinary suite in a four-star hotel near Song Rongji by herself.
Zeng Xiang came directly after school. He had no way to change Ye Zhao's style of relying on himself for everything and not relying on others. Since he couldn't change it, he could only obey.
When he came, he packed a large portion of beef offal and a bowl of fish ball cart noodles. The two of them sat cross-legged around a small low table in the hotel, eating and chatting.
Zeng Xiang ate the fish balls and said, "My grandmother and aunt have been persuading me to go to the United States to study at a university recently."
"If you want to go to America, you should go in Form 6."
"You want me to go?"
Ye Zhao is actually a person who can endure loneliness very well. There is nothing wrong with Brother Xiang going to study in the United States. She stared at Brother Xiang and felt that if she said she wanted him to go, this Bking might think that her charm has been greatly reduced and might be disappointed.
She blinked her eyes and lied, "I don't want you to go, I want you to stay with me."
After she finished saying this, her ears felt numb. She couldn't imagine that such corny words came from her mouth.
Her brother Xiang smiled smugly, "I know you can't leave me. I don't want to leave you either."
"What will you do if your grandmother and aunt insist on letting you go?" Ye Zhao threw the difficult question back to him.
Zeng Xiang said: "I have asked someone to find out that HKU now has a 2 1 and 1 2 model, that is, study at HKU for 2 years and at an American university for 1 year, or study at HKU for 1 year and at the US for 2 years. This model is quite suitable for me."
Ye Zhao rolled up the cart noodles and put them into his mouth, nodding and saying, "Well, this one is good, this one is OK."
After saying that, she felt that she had agreed too easily, so she acted a little hypocritically and said coquettishly, "But I can't bear to be apart for a year or two."
Zeng Xiang stroked her hair and coaxed her, "I'll come back when I have a vacation."
Ye Zhao asked him: "Will you still be a policeman in the future?"
Zeng Xiang said without hesitation: "Of course."
Ye Zhao: "It's okay if you don't want to be a police officer. I think you have a talent for business. It would be a waste of talent to be a police officer."
Zeng Xiang smiled and said, "I really want to be a policeman, I'm not kidding you. How is being a policeman a waste of talent?"
Ye Zhao raised his head and said with admiration: "Punish the evil and promote the good, right?"
Zeng Xiang scratched his neck a little embarrassedly and said, "Just do your best. I just want to be a policeman, I don't think too much about it."
He handed her a piece of offal and asked, "What about you? What's your dream?"
Ye Zhao smiled innocently and said, "Become a landlady! I told you so."
"Like my mom and Aunt Ying?" Zeng Xiang always felt that her ambition should be more than that. With her intelligence and talent, being a landlady was a waste of her talent.
Ye Zhao's ambition was indeed limited to this. She said, "At first I wanted to build a building to rent out. By chance I bought the land in Zizhulin, and then I couldn't control myself and bought more and more. Now I have to make a lot of money before I can build a house."
“Want to start a real estate company?”
Ye Zhao shook his head: "I don't want to be a developer. I build a building and only rent it out, not sell it. I can just sit back and relax and be a landlady."
As he was speaking, the doorbell rang. Zeng Xiang went to open the door. It was Qi Lianan.
Qi Lian An came to discuss strategy for tomorrow's meeting with them.
At present, Qiaozhi has replaced the Song family and obtained three of the seven seats on the board of directors, one seat for Zhong Liming, one seat for Chen Yuncheng, and the other two seats are occupied by the management. For a family business like Song Rongji, the management will listen to the major shareholders.
Therefore, the original system of Song Rongji's board of directors is basically that the major shareholder has the final say, which is what Zhong Liming is most distressed about at the moment.
This situation cannot be changed before the listing.
The three seats obtained by Qiaozhi are respectively held by Luo Shen, Ye Zhao and Qi Lianan as directors.
Qi Lian'an saw that they were still eating and asked hurriedly, "Do you want me to come back later?"
Ye Zhao said: "It's okay, we can talk while we eat. Have you eaten yet?"
Qi Lian An smiled and said, "I always eat regular meals."
Zeng Xiang asked Qi Lian'an: "Will the meeting tomorrow be in the morning or afternoon?"
"Tomorrow afternoon. The agenda of this meeting is mainly to elect the chairman and appoint the general manager and deputy general manager of the company."
Ye Zhao took a tissue and wiped his mouth, then asked, "Uncle Qi, who do you think is the right person to be the chairman?"
Qi Lian An said: "This mainly depends on your opinions."
Zeng Xiang: "Just tell me when I ask you. You are the only one we can discuss this with."
Qi Lian'an then said, "Of course it would be best if we were the chairman, but we are going to go public next, and the three of us are too inexperienced, which is not conducive to the listing operation and the stability of the shareholders' hearts."
Zeng Xiang nodded: "Yes, Ye Zhao and I are too young and don't have enough capital experience. This time we are mainly here to watch and learn."
Qi Lianan: "Besides us, there are only Zhong Limin and Chen Yuncheng left. Chen Yuncheng is a relative of the Song family, so he is an outsider to us. He has no experience in going public, and his connections are not as good as the Zhong family's. Zhong Limin is one of us, and he is the most suitable in terms of experience, connections, and energy. If anything happens, the Luo family can come forward to check and balance him."
Zeng Xiang and Ye Zhao looked at each other. They also wanted to push Zhong Liming to be the chairman. Only by putting Zhong Liming in this position would he have the capital to go crazy.
If you want to destroy a person, you must first make him crazy.
Ye Zhao gave Qi Lian'an a lot of face, "We will listen to you."
Qi Lian'an smiled and said, "I don't have any experience either, but it seems that there is no better choice besides Zhong Limin."
Ye Zhao said: "Then let's push Zhong Limin to be the chairman, but we'd better meet with him before the meeting and communicate clearly. We can elect him as the chairman, or we can suppress him."
Qi Lianan said hurriedly: "I'll arrange it and ask him to meet tomorrow morning."
Zeng Xiang: "The chairman recommends Zhong Limin, so what about the general manager and deputy general manager?"
Qi Lianan: "I can be the vice president. We can't leave no one in Qiaozhi. As for the position of general manager, because we need to unite people, it's better to choose from the original management of Song Rongji. Mr. Liao is a director of the management. He is pretty good and easy to communicate with."
Ye Zhao had not dealt with Mr. Liao much. He could run Song Rong Ji in such a mess, so Mr. Liao could only be considered a mediocre person at best. Ye Zhao shook his head: "I don't think Mr. Liao is a good person to be the general manager, but it seems that apart from him, Song Rong Ji has no other talents."
Zeng Xiang: "We can let him be the acting general manager first, and then find a way to hire someone else later. Or we can wait until Uncle Qi is familiar with the job, and then Uncle Qi can take over."
Qi Lian'an nodded: "I will try my best. In addition, young master, the old lady asked Feng Ma's son Li Tong to take over some of my work. From now on, Li Tong will be your personal assistant."
Zeng Xiang and Li Tong are very familiar with each other. He knew about this yesterday. He nodded and said, "Please hand over some of my personal matters to him."
The next day at noon, in the office building of Irene Toy Factory.
Ye Dingguo and Gao Yueyue came back from having lunch outside. Gao Yueyue went to the bathroom while Ye Dingguo walked towards the office humming a song with a smug look on his face.
Secretary Liu followed and whispered, "Boss, the fashion magazines you asked for, we found a few Hong Kong magazines that promote new international women's shoes and put them on your desk."
Ye Dingguo responded and asked, "Is President Su here? Ask him to come find me."
"Mr. Su is not feeling well and is resting at home today."
Ye Dingguo didn't say anything else. He pushed open the office door and saw Bai Yunlian sitting on the sofa, flipping through a magazine.
Ye Dingguo was a little confused: "Why are you here? Don't you have to go to work?"
Bai Yunlian is now working in a branch factory. She put the magazine on the table and said, "I've been waiting for you at home for a few days, but you didn't come back."
After saying that, he suddenly remembered that he had promised to accompany Gao Yueyue tonight, and quickly changed his words: "Su Yingmin and I have something to do tonight, so we'll be back tomorrow, okay?"
Bai Yunlian knew he was making excuses, and said unhappily, "Can you still live in Su Yingmin's house?"
I still have to go back to Gao Yueyue's house to spend the night.
Ye Dingguo changed the subject and asked, "What do you want me to do?"
Bai Yunlian took out an envelope from her handbag and handed it to him: "Look for yourself."
Ye Dingguo took the envelope and asked in confusion: "What's in it?"
"Someone else sent it to me. I don't know who sent it, and there's no signature." Bai Yunlian suspected that it might be Ye Zhao, but she thought she knew Ye Zhao's temper well enough. Ye Zhao was such a pretentious person that if he sent a letter to her, he would have written the signature bigger than a coin, as if he was afraid that she wouldn't be able to see it.
But the envelope didn't have the sender's name written on it, and the handwriting didn't look like Ye Zhao's. Gao Yueyue didn't know who she had offended. She even suspected that Ye Dingguo had another woman outside.
Ye Dingguo opened the envelope and took a look. There were several photos inside. He remembered that last time Ye Zhao sent Bai Yunlian photos of him and Gao Yueyue, he wondered what photos they were this time
He hesitated for a moment, and finally pulled out the photo. When he looked at it, his expression froze instantly, and the veins on his forehead throbbed.
Bai Yunlian sat aside without saying anything. At this moment, he didn't need her to add fuel to the fire, he would burn on his own.
Ye Dingguo asked: "When? Where was it taken?"
Bai Yunlian responded in a low voice: "I don't know either. But judging by the clothes, they must have been taken recently, just one or two months."
"She spends your money while catching rich men outside." Bai Yunlian swallowed the words and didn't say them out loud.
There was a shadow at the door. Gao Yueyue came back from the bathroom. She would come here for a nap every day at noon. Unexpectedly, Bai Yunlian was also there. She walked over fearlessly and put down her handbag on another sofa as if to declare her sovereignty, as if to hint to Ye Dingguo to drive Bai Yunlian away quickly.
Gao Yueyue then picked up her thermos cup from the high cabinet and planned to go out for a walk before coming back, but was stopped by Ye Dingguo.
He called her, "Come here."
"What are you doing?" Gao Yueyue responded in a coquettish manner.
Ye Dingguo threw the photo on the table as rationally as possible and said, "Look for yourself!"
Gao Yueyue glanced at Ye Dingguo's changeable face, unable to figure out what was wrong with him for a moment. Bai Yunlian beside him looked calm and didn't even look at her.
It must be Bai Yunlian causing trouble again!
But she felt guilty, and the surroundings were very quiet, the kind of quiet before a storm.
Gao Yueyue picked up the photo. In the photo, a man and a woman were hugging each other tightly, looking very intimate. It was her and Gao Fei!
Who took this photo? Bai Yunlian hired someone to follow her?! She didn't even notice it!
Gao Yueyue quickly calmed her pounding heart and explained with a smile: "This is a singing friend of mine, Dingguo. I told you about this before. We were rehearsing in the theater. There were many people there. How come they only filmed the two of us? This was intentional... I told you, we only rehearsed for a few days, but in the end we were not selected..."
Gao Yueyue's voice sounded calm, but her words were a bit incoherent, indicating that she was in a state of confusion.
Bai Yunlian couldn't help but retort: "What's the point of rehearsing? Do you need to cuddle like this?"
"It's a foreign opera, the script is like this, and we can only rehearse it like this! This is my business, what does it have to do with you? Mr. Bai, stop trying to sow discord among me!" Gao Yueyue promptly directed the flames towards Bai Yunlian.
Bai Yunlian snorted coldly: "I am trying to sow discord? I was kindly reminding Dingguo that he didn't even know he was being cuckolded."
Green hat? Ye Dingguo's head was smoking when he heard this word.
Gao Yueyue protected the back of the sofa with one hand and put the thermos cup on the table: "I am cheating on Ye Dingguo? Are you here to cause trouble because you see that I am pregnant and you can't get pregnant yourself?"
"Are you pregnant?" Bai Yunlian was a little surprised. She didn't know about this before coming here. That was the best. Today, she could kill two birds with one stone. She said, "I don't need to have a baby. Ye Dingguo and I have been together for so many years. Our relationship doesn't need to rely on children to maintain it."
Gao Yueyue said sarcastically: "If you two really had a good relationship, I wouldn't be standing here today."
Bai Yunlian was so angry that she gritted her teeth and said angrily, "You are so shameless that you steal other people's men. You still think you are right?! I want to see how you end today."
Gao Yueyue rolled her eyes at her and said nothing.
Ye Dingguo stared at Gao Yueyue and asked, "Did you just hug each other like that? Did you not do anything else excessive?"
Gao Yueyue thought about it. This happened a month ago, when she hadn't found out she was pregnant yet and she and Gao Fei were having a hot affair. She lied, "Nothing excessive. I just hugged him briefly."
Ye Dingguo pulled out another photo from the envelope and threw it in her face: "Look for yourself! Is this just a simple hug?!"
The photo scratched Gao Yueyue's face and fell beside the sofa. Gao Yueyue hurriedly bent down to pick it up. It was a photo of her and Gao Fei kissing passionately at the bottom of the stairs.
"How do you explain it?! Is this also a rehearsal? Or did you burn yourself to death after the rehearsal?!" Ye Dingguo stared at her and said harshly, "Shameless bitch! If you are a bitch, don't pretend to be a saint in front of me!"
Gao Yueyue wanted to explain: "This was a scene that the director added temporarily. We rehearsed it once, but I disagreed and it was cancelled later."
Bai Yunlian said, "What kind of theater can perform a kissing scene live? Do you think it's a TV show? Tell me, which shameless director is this? We will call him over right now and confront him face to face."
Gao Yueyue was stunned. The rehearsal was real, but the hugging and kissing were not in the script. They were their private behavior. How could they ask the director to come without informing him in advance
Ye Dingguo stared at her coldly: "What's this man's name?"
Gao Yueyue didn't dare to say: "I don't know his name either."
"You don't know his name? Do you think I'm a fool?! You just said it was your singing friend, and you don't even know your friend's name?"
Gao Yueyue was still pretending. She wanted to cry but had no tears: "I really don't know his name. I only know that he is a singer. We rehearsed a play together. It was supposed to be performed in the New Year, but he didn't get selected."
Ye Dingguo: "You are so open-minded! You kissed someone without even knowing their name! Look at this photo, your lips are crooked from kissing! Is this a rehearsal? Tell me where you can rehearse like this, or I will report it now!"
Gao Yueyue held Ye Dingguo's hand and said, "I won't participate in this kind of activities anymore. Okay?"
Bai Yunlian: "You said you were pregnant, but I don't know whose child you are carrying!"
Gao Yueyue suddenly yelled, "Bai Yunlian! What do you mean? You are slandering me! You are slandering me for having an affair!"
The noise was so loud that people in the neighboring office probably heard it. Secretary Liu ran over and quietly closed the door from the outside.
Bai Yunlian smiled and said, "It's not the loudness of your voice that's a good sign. The louder you speak, the more guilty you seem!"
Gao Yueyue said word by word: "I am pregnant with Ye Dingguo's child! Ye Dingguo, if you don't believe me, I will have an abortion tomorrow."
Ye Dingguo was almost bald from anger. It was obvious that Gao Yueyue had an affair with that man, but as for whose child it was, who knew
He said, "Go ahead! Get out of my house after you have an abortion!"
Gao Yueyue felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on her. She hugged Ye Dingguo's arm and cried, "Ye Dingguo, this is your child! Your own flesh and blood! Just based on a photo, you completely deny me! Is this reasonable?"
Ye Dingguo: "You are the one who wanted to threaten me with abortion. I didn't force you to have an abortion!"
Gao Yueyue gritted her teeth and said, "Alright! You can deny it! This is my child. I will give birth to him and raise him alone."
"It's okay to give birth to the baby. After the baby is born, we can go to Hong Kong for a DNA paternity test. If it's not mine, I will strangle him to death!" Ye Dingguo said as he shook off Gao Yueyue's shoulders, picked up a few fashion magazines on the table, and walked back to his office.
"Get out of here!"
Gao Yueyue stood there for a while, waiting for Bai Yunlian to leave before she tried to soften him.
But since Bai Yunlian didn't leave, she didn't leave either.
In the end, Gao Yueyue had no choice but to pick up her handbag and go out angrily, and think of a solution later.
After Gao Yueyue left, Bai Yunlian stood up and said, "I'm going back. Come back tonight and have some soup."
Ye Dingguo didn't respond. He had no choice. If he didn't go to Gao Yueyue's house, he could only go back to Bai Yunlian.
After the two women left, he rubbed his chest and exhaled deeply. Being cuckolded at an old age made him angry. She ate his flowers and wanted to have a child to inherit his property. His wish was fulfilled.
He picked up the thermos and took a sip of hot water! This thermos he and Gao Yueyue used was a couple's model that Gao Yueyue bought last time. He was so angry that he threw the thermos into the trash can!
Sitting in a chair and looking at the photos on the wall, he thought fortunately he still had a daughter who brought him honor. He could not count on other women, but he definitely could count on his daughter.
But why did Ye Zhao fall for this young boy in the village? This made him very unhappy.
After a pause, Ye Dingguo opened a fashion magazine and flipped through a few pages. He wanted to start his own brand of women's shoes, but he couldn't just rely on designers to fool people. He also had to improve his knowledge so as not to fall behind the pace of young people.
He flipped through a few pages and his attention was suddenly drawn to the interview notes in an article.
This is an interview about the Hong Kong Art Exhibition. The interviewees are a girl named Song Xinyi and a woman named Aileen Kwok.
Song Xinyi appeared in the photo, but Aileen Kwok did not. There was only a silhouette. He stared at the familiar silhouette in a trance…
Is this Guo Xuyan
Aileen is Guo Xuyan’s English name, and it’s true. The name Aileen in Aileen Toy Factory comes from Guo Xuyan’s English name Aileen.
His heart was pounding. Ye Dingguo picked up the phone and called Secretary Liu, "Ask the translator to come to my office."
The translator of the Ailin Toy Factory was from Gangcheng. The young man came quickly. Ye Dingguo wrote "Kwok" on a piece of paper and asked him, "This is in Gangcheng. What's your surname?"
The young man took a look and replied, "Guo!"
It is true!
Ye Dingguo swallowed, picked up the phone and called Su Yingmin. The line rang several times before it was connected.
Ye Dingguo asked Su Yingmin: "Do you know that Guo Xuyan is still alive?"
In the Song Rongji meeting room, the shareholders' re-election meeting of the board of directors was held smoothly and the process was very pleasant. Immediately afterwards, the board of directors was convened to elect the chairman and appoint the general manager and deputy general manager.
Afterwards, everyone prepared to go out for dinner to celebrate. Zeng Xiang and Ye Zhao had just come down from upstairs and got in the car. Halfway through the journey, Li Tong, who was in the car, received a call.
He turned around and handed the mobile phone to Ye Zhao, "Miss Ye, this is for you."
How come the call to her ended up at Li Tong
Ye Zhao took the mobile phone and called out, "Hello."
Aunt Qiao's voice came from the other end of the line, "Ye Zhao, your father is in trouble and is in the hospital for emergency treatment. Your Aunt He called just now. I didn't quite understand what she said, but I just understood that she asked you to come back quickly."
(End of this chapter)