that moonlight and you

The dinner between Xu Lingchuan and Yang Yi was not as short as a meeting between businessmen.

There was heavy traffic on Friday, and before Lu Jianghan's car returned to Yueguang Road, Yang Yi had already called, saying that Xu Lingchuan must have noticed something and had been asking about Gu Yang the whole time.

"Which aspect?" Lu Jianghan asked, "Nightingale?"

"Not only Nightingale, but also character." Yang Yi replied.

Xu Lingchuan didn't beat around the bush, he spoke directly, wanting to know the relationship between Gu Yang and Nightingale.

"Are you kidding? Mr. Xu didn't even know about what happened during Gu Yang's internship at Lingyun, so how could I know the truth?" Yang Yi laughed, "However, his performance in Huandong is really good. In the second half of the year, he should There will be another promotion."

"Have you never mentioned Nightingale?" Xu Lingchuan asked again.

"No, but compared to other brands, he does care more about Nightingale, and will go to the store to help out when there is a big sale." Yang Yi said, "Photos taken by online customers are flying all over the sky, Mr. Xu can do it himself Do a search."

Xu Lingchuan frowned slightly.

"It's been almost two years. Why did Mr. Xu think of pursuing it now?" Yang Yi asked, "Or did something happen to Yi Ming recently?"

"The group intends to increase its resource allocation to Nightingale, and many people are watching. I don't want any troubles with this brand." Xu Lingchuan said, "Mr. Yang should know what it means to Lingyun."

"Then I really can't help you." Yang Yi said, "But there is one thing I have to make clear in advance. In two months, the preparations for the opening of Huandong's new store will officially begin. Gu Yang is my right-hand man. , at this moment, I don't want him to have any trouble."

……

"Why didn't Xu Lingchuan ask me out in person?" Gu Yang also asked.

"Because he doesn't have any trust in you right now." Lu Jianghan hung up the phone, "So he wants to know Yang Yi's opinion on the whole matter more than your own explanation."

"It's because Nightingale's development momentum is so good recently. From the perspective of investors, he wants to know the truth." Gu Yang said, "Otherwise, when the incident first broke out, it would be considered the evidence in Yi Ming's hands. ’ No matter how full it is, he won’t trust the other party without checking at all.”

After a while, Gu Yang said again: "But without him, I wouldn't come to Huandong, and I wouldn't meet you."

"No." Lu Jianghan looked at the traffic lights in front of him, "If there is no such thing, you stay in Lingyun as a designer, we will meet sooner or later, whether it is the annual meeting, the press conference, or Huandong has treated Nightingale badly, so you come here to settle the score with me."

It sounds a bit fateful, it is the ending written in the fairy tale long ago, it has nothing to do with which castle the little prince stays in.

Gu Yang thought for a while, then put his hands in his pockets: "That's right."

Love is your own, why should you thank that stupid bastard Xu Lingchuan? In the words of Mr. Yang, if you don't blow up the opponent's head, you are already considered to be of good quality.

Mr. Xu shivered in the car, maybe it was the lack of heating, or maybe the little artist's resentment was too high.

The painting on the phone has been kept all the time. The reason why he wanted to take it at the beginning was because he felt that the picture was a little familiar, and it looked like a new product that Nightingale would launch next year.Although Gu Yang has deliberately simplified the lines, he has not changed the color scheme. The hotel owner’s daughter has a luxurious 120-color lead, and there is a whole row of low-saturation colors with gray tones, such as dry rose, sea fog blue, and sun-dried grit, and faded wooden floors.

If this is a coincidence, it is too coincidental.But if it wasn't a coincidence, Xu Lingchuan really couldn't think of a reason to explain why Gu Yang knew the latest design of Nightingale in advance, and then went to G City thousands of miles away to draw it for a little girl who was doing her winter homework.

He has some regrets. If he had known that Nightingale's development momentum would be so good, he would have definitely figured out the truth of the matter, instead of leaving a cash cow full of mines on the company's main road, no matter whether he continued to fertilize Still dug it, it may be detonated at any time.

So at the company meeting on Monday, Xu Lingchuan proposed to suspend Nightingale's overseas market development plan on the grounds that the share points requested by the other party were too high.

"The popularity of this website has always been very strong, so the entry conditions are not friendly to the brand, and they are not only aimed at us." The subordinate wondered, "And this is already the result of the other party's concession. No matter how low it is, we may not be able to negotiate. come down."

"I don't care about other brands." Xu Lingchuan knocked on the table, "But our profit must be guaranteed, so we will try again. If we really can't negotiate, we will talk about the next step."

"Okay." The subordinate nodded, "Then Mr. Xu, let's try again."

Yi Ming didn't have any objection to this either, maybe in the depths of his heart that is not easy to detect, he would still feel a little rejoicing.After all, apart from the scenery at the beginning, Nightingale in the later period has always been his heart disease. Whether it is because of Gu Yang or Shen Wei, contradictions always exist.Especially after Twilight gradually got on the right track, he didn't want Nightingale to continue to grow uncontrollably.

After the meeting ended, Xu Lingchuan sat back at his desk alone.

He felt that he needed to sort out the whole thing and re-plan the direction of Nightingale's development.

When the incident first broke out, he didn't bother to think about it at all. Between the intern and the high-paid design director, everyone would naturally favor the latter, not to mention that Yi Ming still had sufficient evidence in his hand. When Gu Yang resigned, he thought the whole matter would end here, but he didn't expect that there would be a follow-up.

Strictly speaking, the painting of the small restaurant in G City can only be regarded as a fuse, and its function is to ignite the long-standing doubts in his heart-most of the doubts come from Yi Ming's unreasonable actions, such as Nightingale and Twilight. For example, when he cooperated with Xinya 99 last time, everything went smoothly, but he insisted on putting Nightingale’s main promotion on Huandong with an almost fabricated reason. .

From the perspective of the vice president of Lingyun Group, he doesn't really care who the real designer behind Nightingale is, even if it's really Gu Yang, as long as Yi Ming can handle the whole thing, that's fine.But the problem now is that Yi Ming doesn't seem to be able to do this. Instead, it looks like he is being led by the nose by Gu Yang.

And this incident is very likely to trigger a series of follow-ups. For example, when the group spent huge sums of money to promote Nightingale, Gu Yang suddenly jumped out to take back the brand. Then Lingyun Group will undoubtedly suffer a double blow from funds and reputation. I can't afford and don't want to take on such inexplicable responsibilities.

After thinking twice, Xu Lingchuan turned on the computer and sent a report email to the president Wu Mei who was far away in Europe.

……

In S City in May, the weather has gradually become hotter.

Gu Yang put the thick winter clothes back into the compression bag, and directed Lu Jianghan to put them on the top shelf of the closet.Of course, these things can be left to the aunt to do, but since the two of them have nothing to do, they can tidy up the room, firstly, to exercise their muscles, and secondly, it can be regarded as a kind of fun on the weekend.

"Okay." Gu Yang patted the ashes on his body, "Go take a shower and change clothes, I'm going to be late."

Lu Jianghan was very satisfied with the current situation. His mother-in-law stewed sour radish and old duck soup, and specially called the two to go home for dinner. It is said that there is a loofah from Mrs. Li's garden next door.

The car was speeding along the road, and the wind was blowing outside the window.The road out of the city was not blocked on Saturday, and the two arrived at Guanlan Mountain Villa at five o'clock. The smell of hot food wafted from the living room. Professor Gu picked up a kitten in the university in the morning, and was squatting on the ground to feed it with great interest. goat milk.

"My mother agrees to you keeping pets?" Gu Yang threw down the key.

"Why don't you agree?" Professor Gu said, "Your mother doesn't agree with you raising it. I'm different. I can raise anything."

Gu Yang: "..."

Gu Yang said: "It makes sense."

Lu Jianghan washed his hands and took the initiative to help in the kitchen.

"You said Yangyang, you didn't know how to say hello when you came home, so you went to mess with the cat again?" Gu's mother cleaned the shells of the shrimp and crab, "You also go to the living room and sit down, don't come to this smoky place .”

"Let me help you." Lu Jianghan fastened his apron, "Do you want to cut into pieces?"

"Cut into cubes." Mother Gu said.

"Yangyang won't eat carrots, let's cut them into pieces." Lu Jianghan said, "It's easy to pick them out then."

"You can't spoil him like this." Gu's mother criticized, and patted the stove again, "Gu Yang!"

Lu Jianghan: "..."

"What are you doing?" The little artist gnawed on an apple and appeared at the kitchen door.

"Come here and help." Gu's mother said, "Let Boss Lu cook here, and you are fooling around outside, what do you look like?"

Gu Yang said sincerely, but I really don't know how to cook.

"Come and wash the prawns." Gu's mother gave up her seat by the pool, stripped the CEO's apron, and hung it on her son forcibly.

Gu Yang had no choice but to put on his sleeves obediently, and started the splashing washing activity.Lu Jianghan watched it amusedly, taking advantage of the time when his mother-in-law was out, he whispered, "Shall I help you?"

Gu Yang pouted.

Lu Jianghan kissed him quickly on the cheek.

Professor Gu asked suspiciously: "Hey, why did you walk around the kitchen door and come out again?"

Mother Gu scolded with the cooking wine: "Feed your cat well!"

Professor Gu said, "Oh."

The cat said, "Meow."

The washed fresh shrimp is springy and transparent, and the spring onion must be delicious.

Lu Jianghan asked: "The preparations for the opening of the new store are about to start a year's countdown. At that time, in addition to taking up weekends, you may have to work overtime every day until twelve o'clock. Before that, are you sure you don't want to go out for a vacation?"

"Where are you going?" Gu Yang asked.

"If you don't have a favorite place, how about going to a private island?" Lu Jianghan suggested, "You can lie on the beach all day without doing anything."

It sounded very good, Gu Yang washed his hands clean: "Alright, then let's go to the private island."

The dinner table was still warm and lively, except that the TV news in the living room was a bit disturbing, it was local lace entertainment, it said that Deng Linxiu had just finished her operation and had not fully recovered, Director Li had already appeared in a hotel near the hospital with a mysterious woman, It sounds plausible—whether the audience wants to believe it or not, it really is.

"Do you think these tabloid reporters have any professional ethics?" Gu's mother turned off the TV angrily, "making up nonsense all day long."

"No way, the price of being famous." Gu Yang bit open the crab shell, and did not continue this topic.

On the contrary, Lu Jianghan was aware of his temper, and later asked someone to ask about it, but no one could tell the specific identity of the "mysterious woman". All he knew was that Director Li stayed with his wife in the hospital every day, and the two had a very close relationship. Okay, so it's probably another reporter's idle rumor spreading.

……

A few days later, Yang Yi heard the news that Wu Mei, the president of Lingyun Fashion, had flown back to City S, and went to Xu Lingchuan's office as soon as he arrived at the company.

"It's not about Nightingale, is it?" he asked.

"It's possible." Lu Jianghan said, "I guess Xu Lingchuan also feels that he has no idea, and wants to throw this hot potato out as soon as possible."

"That would be fun." Yang Yi handed him a cup of coffee, "How do you think Wu Mei will take the next step?"

"It depends on Gu Yang's commercial value." Lu Jianghan said, "If he can only choose one of the two, he will use Nightingale to fight against all the brands under Yi Ming. Even Wu Mei will probably have a headache. a few days."

Huayue Road, Lingyun Fashion.

"Mr. Wu." Xu Lingchuan said, "Why don't we show our cards to Yi Ming directly?"

"And then?" Wu Mei asked.Wearing a neat suit, she is a typical image of a professional woman. In recent years, because of her enthusiasm for charity and photography, she has devoted 50.00% of her life to traveling around the world.

"I don't want to give up on Nightingale." Xu Lingchuan said, "If he can't handle this matter, then we will handle it, the sooner the better."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Wu Mei closed the folder in her hand, "Is it because the overseas e-commerce company you are talking about agreed to reduce the share?"

Xu Lingchuan was also speechless about this. Originally, he just wanted to delay the time, so he casually proposed to reduce the other party's profit share. He thought that he would be rejected, but he did not expect that the always strong partner would agree to this request. The whole matter was put on the air, neither up nor down, and if it was spread out, it would be treated as a joke by the industry.

"Give me all the information on Nightingale first, and accompany me to look at the store tomorrow." Wu Mei said, "And that... Gu Yang, how is your character?"

"I haven't had any in-depth contact with him, but Lu Jianghan and Yang Yi in Huandong value him very much." Xu Lingchuan said, "He is currently Yang Yi's first assistant, and it is said that he will be promoted in the second half of the year."

"A college student who has just graduated for less than two years, this speed must be a rocket?" Wu Mei shook her head, "Okay, give me two days to talk. By the way, where is Yi Ming, why haven't I seen him?"

"I asked for leave today, and I have something to do at home." Xu Lingchuan explained again, "He didn't know that you would go to work today."

But Yi Ming's so-called "family affairs" actually have nothing to do with family.

In the morning, he wanted to go to work, but there was a man squatting in front of the garage door, with a bald head and arms, and a big waist. He almost got the word "outlaw" tattooed on his face.

"Shen Wei asked me to come." He stood up.

Yi Ming frowned violently.

Shen Wei is still in the drug rehabilitation center, so of course he has no contact with people outside, so this flower-armed brother is a "friend" he met inside, and he was just released three days ago after his term expired.

"He said he asked you to think of a way to fish him out." The flower-armed man said, "Within a week."

"Are you kidding, one week?" Yi Ming said, "He thought he was staying in a five-star hotel?"

"Let's go for half a month. Anyway, that's what he said. I'm only responsible for the paid conversation." The flower-armed man said, "As for half a month later, if he hasn't come out, I don't know what the consequences will be." , but you must be clear."

"You..." Yi Ming clenched his fists, and just about to say something, he remembered that the person in front of him was nothing more than a microphone, so he swallowed the words back.

"Five thousand." The flower-armed man waved his hand in front of him, "Shen Wei said that as long as I bring the message, it will be the travel expenses. If you don't have enough cash, you can transfer money."

The veins on Yi Ming's temples were throbbing, as if someone had inserted a sharp knife, smashing the veins and flesh there.

The flower-armed man stuffed the money into his jeans pocket, whistled and left in satisfaction.Yi Ming stood at the door of the garage for a long time before he went out to hail a taxi and drove all the way to the city.

The owner of the 1999 bar is named Li Dajin, a nocturnal animal, and ten o'clock in the morning is a deep sleep time, so when he is woken up by the ding-ding-dong-dong doorbell, he is likely to swear manic.

The person standing at the door was Yi Ming.

"...Brother, can you be three hours later next time?" Li Dajin automatically muted the swear words, and invited him into the room sideways, "I just fell asleep with difficulty, and I have a nervous breakdown recently."

Yi Ming opened the refrigerator and found a bottle of beer.

"What's wrong?" Li Dajin sat on the sofa and stretched his stiff neck, "I don't seem to be in a good mood."

"Shen Wei sent someone to look for me just now." Yi Ming said, "He wants to come out quickly."

"No, he should cooperate with the people's government in drug rehabilitation. The police have come to the store every day to promote. I am not low in ideological consciousness now. We have to be good citizens who abide by the law." Li Dajin said, "Besides, it is a pile of shit. If you lose it, you lose it, and your parents don't care, so why should you pick him up."

"He has something against me." Yi Ming put the beer bottle back on the table.

"What's the reason?" Li Dajin approached him and asked in a low voice, "Did you kill someone?"

Yi Ming frowned.

"Just kidding." Li Dajin sat back with a smile, "look at you with a sad face, as I said, as long as you don't sell drugs and kill people in front of the police, it's not a big deal. Let me talk about it first, what is the reason?"