After a night of cold rain, the temperature in Beicheng dropped sharply. The yellow leaves of the pagoda tree beside the road fell all over the ground, leaving only bare branches trembling in the wind in the steep. The thin sunlight fell on the top of the tree, not only did not add warmth, but also made the desolation even more desolate.
As if to adapt to the change of seasons, at 8:00 this morning, Lanchen Department Store issued an official letter to Fantui Jewelry, deciding to terminate the cooperation with Fantui Jewelry, and asked it to withdraw all stores in Lanchen within one month. counter.
Retiring the brand will not happen easily in Lanchen. After all, Lanchen Department Store's positioning is "high luxury", and most of the brands that are eligible to enter are at the top of the industry. Doing so is tantamount to embarrassing.
What's more, Lanchen is making every effort to enter the cultural market, and even plans to hold an internal seminar on the Dream Island project this afternoon. A few hours before the meeting, without any warning, it was barely enough to squeeze the head of a family two years ago. At the top of the tower, it is really unbelievable to barely get into Lanchen's jewelry brand.
It's like picking up a guy and deliberately squashing an ant to death before hitting the boss-except for offering sacrifices to the sky, there seems to be no second explanation.
At noon, Lanchen's headquarters went straight under Yuntian's office building, and Zeppelin stopped in the middle of the porch.
The man who had been waiting nearby for a whole morning rushed up at the speed of a 100-meter race. In the early winter, his back was dripping with sweat: "Mr. Cheng, Mr. Cheng! I am Mr. Zhao's secretary, can I delay you for a few minutes?" …”
The voice stopped abruptly. The four security guards all stepped forward, Xu Xu stretched out his hand to block him, and stopped him five meters away from the Roman pillar.
Cheng Lang got down from the back seat, turned around and paused.
Hope suddenly rose in the man's eyes, but the next moment he just straightened the front of his suit, and then walked into the revolving door without squinting.
The four security guards retreated to their posts.
The man stood alone on the spot, lowering his head in despair. After a while, he saw a pair of shiny leather shoes appearing in front of him.
He looked up in surprise, recognized Gao Rui, didn't dare to go around, and went straight to the point: "Gao Tezhu, Mr. Zhao is on his way back from other provinces, can you accommodate him and arrange for him to meet Mr. Cheng?"
"Xiao Cheng has a full schedule today," Gao Rui smiled, "If you have anything to say, it's the same as telling me now."
"That's right. About this morning's official letter, Mr. Zhao said that if Xiao Cheng is always dissatisfied with Ms. Zhao's inappropriate words and deeds a few days ago..."
"Secretary Wang, Mr. Cheng has never had such a narrow idea, and the decision to terminate the cooperation has nothing to do with it."
"That's why all of a sudden..."
"Mr. Zhao should be very clear about the reason. After all, such a serious breach of contract as false reporting of performance will not go without Mr. Zhao's approval."
Secretary Wang froze, his eyes flickered, and he shook his head first: "No..."
"Lanchen will not issue an official letter if it does not have definite evidence. According to the terms of the contract, Fantui breached the contract first, and even within the contract period, Lanchen has the right to unilaterally terminate the cooperation, not to mention that the contract between the two parties will originally expire next month. Mr. Cheng’s statement of stopping the renewal of the contract is to save Mr. Zhao the last bit of slack. Mr. Cheng has always pursued good gatherings and separations in the mall, and I hope Mr. Zhao will agree with this cooperation concept.”
After Gao Rui finished speaking, he nodded to him as farewell. After entering the building, he pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly and let out a mouthful of resentment.
Going back to the 62nd floor, seeing Cheng Lang standing energetically in front of the precious cloisonné enamel carved cage by the window, teasing his new favorite canary, the resentment in Gao Rui's heart was buffed again.
After talking about Xu Qiao's story yesterday, seeing that Cheng Lang didn't care about his heart, but on the surface, Gao Rui whispered to him and said—Miss Xu was wrongly blamed by you again recently, and she was hurt because of you How about some compensation? Even if you don't have that kind of interest in her anymore, you have to take responsibility, otherwise it will damage the image you have established outside and make you look like a scumbag
As a result, the word "scum" may have been used a little too heavily, and the wind accidentally blew too much—Cheng Lang said it's ok, and remove the Fancui counter.
Gao Rui heard that this is not impossible.
When Cheng Lang had just returned to China for inspection and research, he had judged that the operating conditions of the group's department store industry were showing a hollow trend. Later, Li Nianda quietly presented a secret financial account, which really showed that Lanchen Department Store's performance in the past two years was suspected of being fraudulent.
Two years ago, the group just started planning the Dream Island project. This is undoubtedly someone whitewashing the peace for the smooth progress of new projects and smoothing out the group's serious losses in the department store industry.
Except for Cheng Lang's cousin, Cheng Jun, no one had the ability to cover the sky with one hand.
In other words, it was Lanchen's high-level executives who acquiesced in the behavior of certain counters to falsely report their performance.
That being the case, Cheng Lang originally didn't intend to pursue the brand too much. After all, if the root is rotten at the top, the bottom will not be blamed.
But on the other hand, if we really want to be held accountable, these well-known brands on the list will certainly not be able to escape responsibility.
It's just that there is no need to be so anxious about this matter, but Cheng Lang has always killed two birds with one stone and never killed one bird. It's not cost-effective to fight with the Zhao family just for a woman, so let's make an example to the monkeys and make an appetizing bowl of chicken soup before the meal for this afternoon's Dream Island project seminar, in order to refute this 400 billion scale. The project and the follow-up rectification group add a code.
So it was a good time to tell stories, clean up the mess in the crematorium, and Gao Rui hurriedly fought all night, and he still hasn't recovered.
He walked up behind Cheng Lang and said, "Mr. Cheng, the Fan Cui people have been dismissed."
Cheng Lang looked away from the canary who was facing the glass curtain wall and said, "It's easy to send outsiders away."
Gao Rui was taken aback.
Cheng Lang raised his chin and let him look at the phone on the desk.
Gao Rui took a closer look. Good guy, twenty-seven missed calls from Cheng Ye, and countless text messages talking to himself.
"Second brother, are you overdoing it? Zhao Baoxing is my ex-girlfriend, and I told them that next year I will expand the size of Fancui's counter, so you can't slap me in the face!"
"Well, Xu Qiao is also my ex-girlfriend. If you are venting your anger on her, then I can't stop you..."
"But one "day" of husband and wife, a hundred days of grace, it's not the same as the one that didn't sleep, and it's still different. I always want to show more affection to the person next to me, right?"
"Second brother, take care of me."
"Oh, of course, if I have to choose one or the other, Xu Qiao's looks are more in line with my liking, or else, if you don't get along well with Xu Qiao and let her agree to get back together with me, I won't care about the Zhao family. ,How about it?"
"..." Gao Rui finished reading these text messages silently with the expression of a subway man looking at his phone, and deeply understood why Cheng Lang chose to ignore them.
"What are you going to do?" Gao Rui asked impatiently.
"People still can't be too idle." Cheng Lang said calmly.
"Um?"
"Grandpa's cruise ship has been vacant recently. Send this kid to the Antarctic for a circle, eat, drink and have fun, and let him stop appearing in Beicheng before next year."
"I'll get someone to do it right away." Gao Rui gave this wise decision a thumbs up, "I think it's easy for you to send your own people away". It's time to fight."
Cheng Lang smiled, raised his hand and gently plucked the feathers of the canary in the cage, and said gently: "I won't let you see the scene that is too bloody, obediently wait for me here."
As he spoke, he turned around, picked up the suit that was draped over the back of the chair, put it on, buttoned up the two front buttons meticulously, and walked out.
Outside the office, six male assistants from the president's office were separated in the aisle holding black folders. When Cheng Lang appeared, they rushed up and followed him towards the end of the aisle.
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Until four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Qiao finally got enough sleep and went back to the cage to get up and wash up. When he was applying the liquid medicine to his scalp, he was suddenly enlightened. He recalled the phone call from Zhu Li at noon, and realized that he seemed to have slept. What big news.
She quickly took out her mobile phone, opened WeChat, ignored the top few messages from Shi Wei concerned about her health, and directly clicked on Zhu Li's dialog box.
"Brilliant! Do you listen to the first-hand gossip in the business world?"
"Let me tell you, Lanchen sent an official letter to Fan Cui to withdraw the counters this morning, and your Mr. Cheng personally issued instructions! Not the special counters of the Guangbei City main store, but all the special counters!"
"!"
"Do you know what this means? This is equivalent to retiring! Hey, forget it, you don't understand these things, let me tell you, many giants around me are shocked, only the one with the jaw that can't be closed and the eyeballs protruding It’s such a shock, everyone is guessing that the Zhao family killed their parents even in the way of wealth!”
"Honestly, does this matter have something to do with your beauty?"
"?"
Xu Qiao read them one by one, with exclamation marks and question marks above her head. She was stunned for a long time, and her heart exploded like a popping candy.
Cheng Lang was furious for her
No way. In the National Exhibition Center before, I didn't see him hate Zhao Baoxing so much, and he said softly, "I have a good temper, and I don't feel too embarrassing for someone who knows his mistakes and corrects them."
But if it wasn't because of her, why did he just happen to slap the Zhao family at this juncture
It doesn't make sense!
Could it be that "not too embarrassing" is not "not embarrassing". The word "too" is the foreshadowing of the fate of the Zhao family
Xu Qiao was contemplating when she suddenly heard the phone ring.
The incoming call showed an unfamiliar landline number, which looked like a sales call of "Are you interested in finding out about the real estate in the west of the city?"
At the moment, she was full of excited thoughts of "Zhao Baoxing is finished", she just wanted to run around the room alive and kicking, she didn't have time to respond to this kind of business greeting, so she hung up.
As soon as he hung up, the call came in again.
Just keep hanging up, ringing, hanging up, ringing, the other party seems to know that she is extremely good at blocking, so she didn't even give her time to operate.
Xu Qiao laughed angrily, answered the phone irritably, and spit out: "I'm a country bumpkin. I have no money. I'm so poor that I can't even afford to eat. I can only work hard at the toll booth every day. I have no interest in your real estate, shops and office buildings!"
There was a dead silence on the other end of the phone.
At first glance, he was stunned.
Xu Qiao was about to hang up gracefully when she suddenly heard a heavy male voice coming from the receiver: "Then do you need me to order food for you?"
She was so startled that she almost hiccupped, looked at the caller ID again, thought it was wrong, and asked, "Who are you?"
There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, and then a forbearance came: "It seems that Ms. Xu really doesn't know me very well."
"..."
Now it's confirmed that it's Cheng Lang's voice, with that standard "You're great" tone that is standard when a superior is angry.
Xu Qiao originally wanted to go back, but she just learned about Cheng Lang's good deeds today, and she was in a good mood at the moment, so her tone softened a little: "Who told you to call me with such a strange number..."
Through the beautification of electromagnetic waves, this soft female voice seemed to be a bit coquettish.
It's a pity that the audience on the other end of the phone didn't like it at the moment, and said indifferently: "No strange number can't get through to Ms. Xu's noble mobile phone."
Xu Qiao remembered that she blocked Cheng Lang yesterday.
She cleared her throat: "oh, then why are you calling me?"
"I'll pass by Audreyden in an hour. If you're in the hotel, let's talk about Li Nianda."