The Heart of a Smith

Chapter 4

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He didn't catch up the next day. Lu Shangtian left before dawn and didn't call him. Li Sui woke up and asked Sister Lu to know that there was an important ribbon-cutting ceremony in the suburbs today.

"Eat breakfast first. Fresh milk was just brought on the table. Boss Lu said that you have leg cramps at night, so you should drink more."

"My leg cramps?" Li Sui didn't know.

Sister Lu smiled vaguely: "Aren't boys prone to cramps when they're running around? It'll be too late if you don't make up for it now."

Only then did Li Sui recall the daze last night, as if he was a little uncomfortable. He is a person who is not very sensitive to pain. This level does not affect his sleep. It probably woke Lu Shang, who was sleeping lightly.

"Thank you, Sister Lu." Li Sui couldn't help feeling a little guilty. Originally, Lu Shang was not in good health. He was still noisy when sleeping. If he changed his temperament, he kicked him out of bed a long time ago. He prepares milk to drink.

"You should still call me Aunt Lu. At my age, I can barely stand it if Boss Lu calls me sister. At your age, it's almost as good as being my son."

"Have you known Boss Lu for a long time?"

"It's been almost ten years."

Li Sui thought for a while and asked, "Are you taking care of those before Boss Lu?"

"Before?" Aunt Lu was stunned for a moment, then reacted and laughed, "What was before, who are you as Boss Lu?"

This time it was Li Sui's turn to be stunned, and tentatively said, "I'm not the only one, or he doesn't live here, somewhere else?" As he spoke, he thought of Li Yan, Li Yan is a standard The playboy boy, surrounded by beautiful women, the little three and the four are like the sixth courtyard of the deep palace, every day I can't wait to flip the brand to decide where to sleep at night. At the time when Lu Shang mentioned parenting, he took it for granted that he was probably one of these little threes and fours. After winning the big boss's smile, he abandoned them like a dick, but now Aunt Lu's reaction doesn't seem to be pretending, instead he feels nervous. .

Aunt Lu was amused by him and said, "What are you thinking about every day, you little head melon seed, Boss Lu is a serious man, different from those men who spend their time outside, I have been in the Lu family for so many years, and I have never seen him with anyone. I've approached, let alone brought someone back to live with."

After she finished speaking, she saw Li Sui still didn't believe it, and added, "Don't say it, I have nothing wrong with me, just a pimple in my heart, my ex-husband was a prostitute, and the dialect is a careless person. I mean, I just brought my son and divorced him and moved here, if Boss Lu was also such a person, I would never have served him for so many years."

Li Sui was stunned for a while. He only knew that Lu Shang was different from those he knew before. Lu Shang didn't like to be lively, and he didn't bother to hang around with rouge fans. Most of his time was spent on work, but he really didn't know that his private life was actually so clean.

"You, just live in peace," Aunt Lu gave him two pieces of carrot cake and comforted him, "As for him, he is not in good health, and he really lacks someone to take care of him. I persuaded him to find a girl before. He said that he and the girl are not born with fate, until the last time I saw him bring you back... Hey, this is not the New Year's Day last year, Lao Yuan said a few more words to me, I didn't expect it to be true, but ah, the girl's family Yes, you may not take good care of him, I think you are fine."

Aunt Lu's words were a little vague, but Li Sui understood, Lu Shang didn't want to play something new on a whim, he was born gay. During Li Sui's long and complicated growth process, he had always been confused about sexuality. He didn't think it was a big deal for a man to like a man. He had seen a lot in the bar in the past few years. In his initial perception, the object is male or female, and there is not much difference for him at all. Li Sui has never liked anyone, and he has never been liked by anyone. Lu Shang was the first person who had an intersection with him. Fortunately, it also made him extremely uneasy.

"Don't be stunned, eat more quickly, Boss Lu will come to pick you up later." Aunt Lu urged.

Businessman Lu didn't come, and asked the driver to drive a car to pick him up. As soon as he entered the gate, he looked up and saw a blue sign on the building with the words "Dongyan Group" below it. The high-rise office was on the top floor, and Uncle Yuan only took him to the elevator. He walked through the partition alone, and as soon as he got to the middle, he met the flow of people coming out of the conference room, and Lu Shang was surrounded by the person walking in the middle.

This was the first time Li Sui saw Lu Shang at work. He wore a dark suit and stood in the crowd looking calm and serious. Occasionally he turned his head to listen, or interrupted, exuding an unquestionable aura in his gestures.

Those stern eyes caught him from a distance, and with a little restraint, he greeted a female secretary beside him: "Xiao Yang, take him to my office and give him some fruit."

The female secretary responded immediately, and the people around Lu Shang stopped because of the sudden interruption, and cast their eyes at him.

"I still have some things to do. You go to my office and wait for me, eh?" Lu Shang reached out and patted him on the shoulder when he was wrong.

Li Sui's heart tightened, and he hurriedly lowered his head and said "um".

The female secretary brought him a large plate of strawberries and poured coffee. Li Sui didn't taste the aroma, but felt extremely bitter.

"It looks like you're not used to drinking it." After she finished speaking, she went out to change a cup of milk tea. When she came in, she found that Li Sui had a few plush toys in her hands. It was a bunch of green-shelled turtles, there were five or six of them, the same shape but different sizes, like family portraits.

This is the toy of the seven-year-old daughter of another high-level executive. It fell down before leaving. Li Sui stared at the little turtles scattered everywhere for a long time, and inexplicably suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder. They are stacked neatly. As a secretary, it was her dereliction of duty to bother the guests to clean up her toys. She was about to put it away in a dreary manner, but was stopped by Lu Shang.

"Give it to him."

The female secretary was frightened and had no idea when Lu Shang appeared at the door, but the latter didn't look at her, her eyes went straight behind her with a deep and focused expression. The gossip rumors flashed through her mind, and she suddenly felt a thunderclap, and immediately pushed the door out with a pale face.

"What happened to her?" Li Sui raised her head and asked.

Lu Shang closed the office door indifferently: "This year's newly recruited interns are a bit frustrating, don't mind."

"I don't seem to have asked you, Li Sui, do you mind if I make our relationship public?" He sat down opposite Li Sui.

When Li Sui heard Lu Shang call his name for the first time, he stammered unconsciously: "Boss Lu... don't you mind?"

"I don't mind." Lu Shang said bluntly.

"Then I don't mind either."

"Why, aren't you afraid that others will look down on you?"

"My life was saved by you, not someone else."

There was a hint of surprise on Lu Shang's face. He didn't expect that Li Sui could distinguish it so clearly. He just picked him up and Li Sui separated him from the others and listed him as the most special one. Such a simple and almost silly remark made Lu Shang suddenly unable to speak what he wanted to say.

"Are you still worried that I will send you back to Li Yan?" Lu Shang tried to ask.

Li Sui's hand holding the toy tightened unconsciously.

Seeing this, Lu Shang sighed lightly, lowered his head and poked a strawberry with a bamboo stick and handed it to him, lightly said: "Your life is in your own hands, it's up to you to leave or stay, so don't worry too much. When you figure it out and want to leave, just tell me, and I will take you to a safe place."

After speaking, he smiled slightly, "This sentence is valid for a long time."

Li Sui stuffed a mouthful of strawberries, and upon hearing this, a burst of sourness came out of his throat. Lu Shang was sharper than he imagined. His careful thoughts with temptation and ingratiation were actually exposed in front of him early in the morning, but he didn't see it through, or even told him that it didn't matter, everything was okay. be accepted. Li Sui suddenly felt that he was like the tortoise whose shell had been removed in his hand, and the anxiety and longing huddled under the protective shell had nothing to hide.

Then someone knocked on the door and interrupted their conversation.

"Mr. Lu, Yan Ke called back, he agreed to use 6% of the equity..." Halfway through, he stopped suddenly.

Lu Shang waved his hand: "He is not an outsider, you continue."

A short man with glasses walked in, with a ruddy complexion and a shrewd energy all over his body. He had never seen Li Sui before, so he hesitated for a while, but he leaned into Lu Shang's ear and lowered his voice.

Li Sui couldn't hear what they said, and was not interested. He only saw that Lu Shang had a look of joy on his face after he finished speaking.

"Agree to his request."

The man with glasses looked worried: "In this way, our shares will account for 40%, will it be too conspicuous?"

Lu Shang thought for a while: "Let's make a private agreement with him first, and the specific changes will be postponed to next year."

The man with glasses nodded: "Then I'll draft a contract."

When he went out, Lu Shang said: "Wei Lan, by the way, tell Yan Ke that his daughter's toy is borrowed from me."

Xu Weilan was stunned: "What?"

Lu Shang shook the little turtle, and Xu Weilan laughed and scolded.

The heavy snow showed no sign of stopping. The two of them went out from the gate at noon. Li Sui saw many cars loading and unloading champagne and red wine at the gate. Only then did he know that today was the last working day of the year before, and there was a staff group annual banquet in the evening.

It's New Year's Eve, he realized.

Lu Shang took him to a martial arts gym, on the mountainside, surrounded by a bamboo forest, with a quiet environment. Li Sui walked in and found that it was full of people. Most of them were men, dressed casually, and some were shirtless. There was a strong smell of tobacco and alcohol in the room. Unlike the gentle white-collar workers in the company, the men here were obviously not perennial. sitting in the office.

"Everyone has been waiting for a long time." As soon as Lu Shang arrived, the people inside stood up to say hello, led by a burly man named Zuo Chao.

"Azuo, let them have a seat," Lu Shang ordered, "Let's talk while eating."

At the big round table of 30 people, Lu Shang was sitting at the top of the table, Li Sui was next to him. Zuo Chao was originally in this position. When he saw Lu Shang brought someone, he gave way symbolically, but he did not expect that Lu Shang did not. be opposed to. This move basically acquiesced to some things, and people with a little wink couldn't help but look at each other, tacitly understanding each other.

Throughout the ages, the key point between banquets is nothing more than a toast, but this is a special place. The guests came over one cup after another, but Lu Shang just smiled back with a teacup, but no one cared, and everyone was happy. look in it. It can be seen that Lu Shang has a good relationship with these people, at least to the point where false courtesy can be avoided.

"Come on, little brother, Boss Lu can't drink, big brother toasts you." Zuo Chao was a familiar one. Seeing that Li Sui only lowered his head to eat, he couldn't help opening a bottle of white wine to tease him.

Li Sui subconsciously looked at Lu Shang, but the latter smiled at him without giving any instructions.

"I don't know how to drink..." Li Sui whispered.

"Don't know how to drink? It's alright. Big brother will teach you. Drinking is something that can be cooked twice!" As he said that, he was about to pour it.

Li Sui saw that the wine was almost overflowing from the glass, and hurriedly reached out to stop it: "Enough is enough, I can't drink so much."

"Come on," Zuo Chao touched his wine glass, "Big brother, let's do it first." After saying that, he raised his head, drank it clean after a few sips, and turned the glass upside down to show the crowd, winning applause.

There are three or two of this glass of wine. Li Sui was shocked by his drinking capacity, but he was a little bit unable to get off the stage, but the people next to him were still encouraging him: "Drink it quickly, if you don't drink it, you won't give Zuo Ge face."

"Yeah, drink up..."

"The people brought by Boss Lu can't be ashamed of Boss Lu..."

Li Sui was at a loss. He turned his head and saw that Lu Shang was maintaining a faint smile. He didn't mean to relieve him. He was not sure whether to let him drink or not, so he had to hold up the cup and bite the bullet. Take a sip. The white wine is spicy, and the irritation made his nose and eyebrows wrinkle together as soon as he entered it, and his face flushed from choking.

The people below all clapped the table and laughed wildly, even Lu Shang shook his head with a smile.

"Little brother, that's not how you drink wine, big gulps, big gulps." Zuo Chao was anxious.

"It's almost done." Lu Shang warmly stopped.

After the initial irritation passed, Li Sui tasted a little aftertaste and felt that it was very mellow.

"Boss Lu, why are you so nervous? A little alcohol won't kill him." Someone teased below.

"That's right, for the New Year's Eve, when you get drunk, you'll be drinking for Boss Lu."

As soon as the yellow accent was opened, the atmosphere below suddenly changed. Men and men gathered together, nothing more than a few topics. The only person with family members here was Lu Shang, so Li Sui suddenly became the focus of everyone's molestation. .

On the other hand, the person involved seemed to stay out of the way and was more interested in the glass of wine in his hand. Li Sui was unhappy with drinking, but he seemed to be addicted to the first sip. While the people below were talking, a few taels of yellow soup in his hand were all emptied. belly.

"Ouch, yes." Zuo Chao immediately applauded him.

Lu Shang smiled and patted his back: "Don't force it."

Li Sui felt quite good. He didn't feel dizzy or uncomfortable. Although he had been in a bar for so many years, he had strangely never drank alcohol. For a while, he was more curious than timid.

The wine was so cowardly, he poured another glass and went to pay tribute to Zuo Chao: "Brother Zuo, toast to you."

"Little brat, yes, courageous." Zuo Chao laughed, touched him with a full glass, and drank it.

As soon as the precedent was set, someone rushed to toast, and Li Sui realized that it wasn't that they didn't like to change the cup, but no one gave them a drink.

Lu Shang only reminded him a few words at the beginning, and then he let it go, lowered his head and discussed business affairs with Zuo Chao.

At the end of the year, I can only relax in these two days. Naturally, no one cares about identity issues. The guests and hosts enjoyed the meal. Not only was the wine on the table drank, but even a few bottles of Zhuyuan’s treasures were stolen. After Zuo Chao and Lu Shang finished talking, he clutched his stomach and said he wanted to withdraw first: "Where did you dug this treasure, it's so drinkable, even I have to bow down, no, I have to put some water, you take good care of people Come on, don't let him get all my brothers down."

Hearing this, Lu Shang turned his head, and as far as he could see, a large area fell, leaving Li Sui alone, tall and thin.

"Li Sui." He said.

The person who was called turned his head and stared at him blankly, with water vapor in his eyes. Lu Shang knew that the child was actually drunk, but the wine was good and he didn't have any seizures.

"Come here." He waved.

Li Sui moved over like a wandering soul, and when there were two steps left, he suddenly knelt down and hugged Lu Shang's knee: "All down."

This action was like a golden retriever begging for compliments. Lu Shang caught him and comforted him softly: "Well, is it uncomfortable?"

Li Sui shook his head and said, "No one's going to feed you."

After hearing this, Lu Shang was silent for a while, then reached out to check his pupils, and said, "No one here will feed me."

"You sleep with me." Li Sui suddenly grabbed his hand.

Lu Shang was a little surprised and asked, "Why should I sleep with you?"

There was a bit of grievance in Li Sui's eyes: "Don't send me away..."

This is talking about the conversation in the morning. Most of the child has misunderstood, thinking that Lu Shang's words are to distance himself from him. Lu Shang thought about it for a while, pulled him up, patted his dirty knees, and thought it was funny: "You won't send you away when you sleep?"

Li Sui squinted his eyes and looked like he couldn't turn his head around. Lu Shang didn't intend to continue to struggle with him about whether to sleep or not. He raised his hand and asked the waiter to bring a wet tissue over. Prepare a room upstairs for him to rest.

"little turtle… "

"The little turtle is in the car." The drunk man couldn't reason and could only follow. Seeing that he was staring at the door and refused to go, Lu Shang had to call the driver to bring him the little turtle toy.

Zuo Chao, who came back from the water, leaned on the door to watch the whole process, and said with a smile: "I said you picked up a son and came back?"

Lu Shang squeezed his brows and sighed, "Let's get down to business."

Zuo Chao restrained his smile and said, "Director Wu from the Western District contacted me yesterday and said that a gun trafficking case had been caught recently, and most of the items were confiscated, but according to the perpetrator's confession, a small number of guns still flowed into the black market. , I found a familiar face among the traders, it's from Liu Xingtian."

Lu Shang's face sank: "Are you sure?"

"You can't be wrong, that man's brother-in-law robbed a brother's woman of mine, and he fought over this matter back then. Isn't Liu Xingtian a shareholder of your Dongyan? What did he buy a gun for? Anyway, the more I thought about it, the less I felt that something was wrong. You should pay more attention to his movements recently."

Lu Shang thought for a while in silence, and said, "Arrange a few people around the Lu family, and keep an eye on it when I'm not there." After speaking, he raised his head and gestured to the room where Li Sui was, and said, "If he goes out, you can send two people. Follow."

"Yes," Zuo Chao nodded, "then what do you do?"

"He can't make waves now. I plan to buy Yan Ke's shares in the next year. If nothing else, he will definitely force me to take over the mess in Haikou next year on the grounds of expanding into new markets."

"You need the approval of the shareholders' meeting to transfer shares in your company. Can he see that your family is dominant?"

"No, so I broke the capital chain of a few old guys. They won't have a hard time with the money. Liu Xingtian only has 20% of the shares, so it's useless to object."

"I don't understand your company's affairs. It's good to have a bigger share, but it's easy to get involved. You have to be careful."

After speaking, they left. There is also a large banquet in the evening of Dongyan Group. As the person in charge of the company, Lu Shang must attend.

As in previous years, the most lively part of the annual meeting is always the lottery. This year's prizes are directly prepared by the logistics department. Lu Shang usually doesn't bother about these trivial matters.

So he drew a box of Okamoto 001.