Prohibition of losing contact

At 07:30 in the evening, Fuyuanlou Restaurant.

Zhou Qingbai finally let go, Liu Xinhuo seemed to want to seize this last chance, the table was well prepared, such as lobster, abalone, king crab, at first glance it looked like a nouveau riche was going to hold a wedding banquet.

When Pei You and Zhou Qingbai arrived at the hotel, a wild large yellow croaker was being processed in the public disposal area in the lobby. Zhou Qingbai took a look and saw the reserved box number under the fish.

"Tsk, you're really good at it." Zhou Qingbai wandered back to Pei You from the crowd, and said with emotion: "Those who don't know think it's a Hongmen banquet."

Following his gaze, Pei You glanced at the crowd, and said clearly, "What did Liu Xin order?"

Zhou Qingbai nodded, made gestures, and said with a smile, "It's a lot of money. I wouldn't even dare to do that in Beijing."

"Maybe it's really a Hongmen banquet." Pei You said with a smile.

"That 5000 yuan of fish is not enough to buy me." Zhou Qingbai blinked and joked, "At least [-] yuan."

The two of them walked across the crowd talking and laughing, and when they looked up, they bumped into Liu Xin's secretary, who seemed to be coming out to pick him up.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Pei." The young secretary was dressed in a business-like and elegant manner, and stepped on a pair of six- to seven-centimeter high-heeled shoes. He greeted them with a standard and business-like smile, and shook hands with them one by one.

"Let's go this way." The secretary made a gesture of invitation and said, "Boss Liu is already waiting for you two."

"Well, there's a traffic jam on the road." Zhou Qingbai smiled and said casually, "I'm sorry for being late."

"Where is it, the time is just right." The secretary smiled and walked to the front to lead the two of them: "Mr. Liu also came to check the seats in advance, for fear that there is something wrong with the reception."

Liu Xin booked a platinum box in the Fuyuan Building. The corridor at the entrance was covered with a cashmere knitted blanket, and the listings for waiting seats seemed to be a bit more expensive than outside.

The secretary led them to the door of the box, knocked on the door with his fingers, and heard a response from inside, then pushed the door open and made a gesture of please.

Pei You staggered a step slightly, Zhou Qingbai brushed his shoulder knowingly, and entered the room first.

Except for the two of them, all the people in the room had already arrived. Zhou Qingbai looked around and found that Liu Xin had two other people sitting on the table besides the company's deputy general managers. At first glance, the young girl who was born was no more than 25 years old, and she was juicy, with light and delicate makeup, which looked just right.

Liu Xin said that the two of them were the department heads of the company who had just returned from a business trip, but with Zhou Qingbai's sharp eyesight, he knew at a glance that he was talking nonsense.

"Come, come, Mr. Zhou." Liu Xin smiled as soon as he saw him, gave up the seat facing the gate with a smile, and invited him to the two little girls: "Sir, sir."

"Round table, don't care about this." Zhou Qingbai was still a little bit afraid of this unwritten "reception method", he smiled and laughed, and casually dragged Pei You to sit on the nearest empty seat.

He moved too fast, and didn't give Liu Xin a chance to refute. The other party's outstretched hand was empty, and he was stunned for a few seconds before smiling a little again, and calling outside for food.

This kind of wine table culture is roughly the same as plastic entertainment. First, you will come and go to compliment each other, and then you will test each other tacitly.

Zhou Qingbai was originally afraid that Pei You would hate this kind of useless social occasion, but when he actually came, he realized that his acceptance of this kind of occasion was higher than he imagined. Besides, Pei You adapted well to those beating around the bush.

"I thought you would be uncomfortable here." Zhou Qingbai politely declined the repeated toasts from the two young girls, and then used the cover of the wine table to send a WeChat message to Pei You: "I'm worrying too much."

Pei You's phone on the table flickered on and off. He glanced at the screen, picked up the phone generously, and returned a message to Zhou Qingbai.

"It's okay." Pei You said, "When I first entered the industry, I had all kinds of clients."

Pei You said this sentence more than once, but Zhou Qingbai raised his eyebrows, it was still a bit hard to imagine what Pei You was like when he first entered the industry.

After drinking for three rounds, the topic of whimsical and unrestrained parents gradually narrowed down, and the vice presidents brought by Liu Xin fell silent and subconsciously glanced at Liu Xin.

Liu Xin didn't look good when he drank, and the more he drank, the whiter his face became. With his skeleton-like appearance, he looked a bit like an old zombie.

He had a smile on his face, but his eyes were dark, and he couldn't see any emotion. He stood up holding the wine glass, patted the shoulder of the person around him, and changed his position to Pei You's side.

"Mr. Pei has worked hard these days." Liu Xin said: "If there is anything that goes wrong at work, please tell me, and I will do my best to cooperate."

"Everything is fine." Pei You said lightly, "Everything is going well."

"Ah...that's good." Liu Xin touched Pei You's yogurt cup with a wine glass, and said casually: "A few days ago, our accountant said that the leaders from Beijing are professional, and everything can be cleared up at once. Much more efficient than them."

Liu Xin paused, smiled again, and said, "If it's convenient, you can teach them two tricks after work is over in two days."

"It depends on the situation." Pei You said, "It depends on the progress of the work."

After a few maneuvers, Zhou Qingbai suddenly discovered that Pei You had his own way of dealing with this kind of temptation.

If Liu Xin asks him about the content and progress of the work in a roundabout way, then Pei You will pretend not to understand and only answer the obvious questions; but once the other party asks straightforwardly, Pei You will throw him a few questions in a formal manner. There are routines such as "I don't know for the time being", "I will issue a report later", "There will be a notice on Qingshan's decentralization".

He doesn't eat oil and salt, doesn't eat soft and hard things, and responds to all changes with the same, which can be regarded as an effective way of dealing with things.

Zhou Qingbai saw that he could handle it by himself, so he didn't rashly intervene in the communication between them. He took a sip of his wine and looked at Pei You with interest.

He suddenly discovered that when facing Pei You, he had an inexplicable stamp-collecting mentality.

He likes to see all kinds of different, vivid, and three-dimensional Pei You. Whenever Pei You shows a new side in front of him, Zhou Qingbai can always observe it excitedly and freshly for a long time as if he found some treasure. .

Zhou Qingbai didn't know where his curiosity came from, but he did inquire about Pei You silently during the process of "stamp collection".

Liu Xin chatted with Pei You for a long time, and seemed to find that there was really nothing to talk about from him, so he frowned indistinctly, and began to shift his attention to Zhou Qingbai.

"By the way, Mr. Zhou." Liu Xin said with a smile: "I even booked a box in the club next door. After dinner, let's go over to play, sing and relax."

"That's a good relationship." Zhou Qingbai originally planned to go all out tonight to see what tricks he could arrange. Hearing this, he put down his chopsticks, smiled, and said meaningfully: "But singing is still a good idea." All right, nothing else."

"Of course." Liu Xin quickly received his meaning, and said with a smile, "We are all legal citizens, and we will not engage in crooked ways."

Zhou Qingbai didn't know if he was suspicious of someone stealing the axe, but he always felt inexplicably that when Liu Xin said this, there was something unclear in his tone.

Liu Xinding's clubhouse is next to Fuyuan Building, and it's a 3-minute walk there, which seems to be a good place to step on before.

Before the transition, Pei You happened to have some temporary work, so he stayed downstairs to answer the phone, and only let Zhou Qingbai and the others go up first.

Zhou Qingbai drank two bottles of beer on the wine table, and now he deliberately pretended to be crazy with the help of alcohol. When he entered the door, his steps were fluttering, and his reaction was slow.

The private room had already been opened in advance, and everything was ready inside. Seeing this, Liu Xin ordered another two bottles of X0 to be opened, and started chatting with Zhou Qingbai intentionally or unintentionally.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen Mr. Zhou for several years." Liu Xin poured him a glass of wine and said with a smile, "It's been a few years, and you haven't changed at all."

"Whatever you don't, just call your name." Zhou Qingbai looked at the clear glass of wine in front of him, seemed to want to take it, but seemed a little hesitant, frowned irritably, and pushed the glass away.

"Forget it." Zhou Qingbai said: "My elder brother said, don't let me drink too much outside."

The irritability and dissatisfaction in his tone were too obvious, Liu Xin's eyes darkened, and he asked tentatively, "President Zhou still cares about this?"

"He doesn't care about anything?" Zhou Qingbai complained half-truthfully: "When it comes to work and life, how can he not ask? Even if I swipe a little more credit card the day before, he will ask me to go to the next day. Say it."

Zhou Qingbai tugged on the tie with his knuckles as he spoke, and said with emotion: "Living at home is just so unfree."

"In that case, why don't you come out and do it alone." Liu Xin followed his words and said, "It's nothing better than starting a business by yourself."

"It's easy for you to say." Zhou Qingbai sneered and said, "Doing business, starting from scratch? How easy is it?"

"It's enough to find a partner." Liu Xin said pointedly: "The business field, isn't it like this, with someone around you to support, the road is easy to walk."

So this was the idea, Zhou Qingbai thought.

He didn't know anything about auditing and accounts. He pretended to be a dude to fool Liu Xin's questions. He thought that the other party should ignore him, but he turned his mind very quickly and learned to save the country with curves.

"It just so happens that I know two friends here who are good at investing." Liu Xin gestured at Zhou Qingbai and said, "The annual income is about the same amount. If Xiao Zhou is interested, I will recommend it to you."

"Oh..." Zhou Qingbai seemed a little drunk. With his eyes downcast, he still couldn't help reaching out to take the glass of wine, turning it with his fingertips habitually, and said slowly: "Such a good thing , Mr. Liu didn't hide it, but took it out for me to share?"

"You can't say that. In business, there are always back and forth." Liu Xin lowered his voice a little bit, and said in a low voice: "I actually have difficulties here. If Xiao Zhou can always help, it's not Is it good for both of you?"

"What's the difficulty?" Zhou Qingbai asked knowingly.

"It's nothing more than the matter under my hand." Liu Xin saw that he was moved, and his tone softened a little, and he couldn't help but said: "Dongjiang is not a big place, but it supports a lot of people. The family inside and outside has a big business, Zuo Songsong Loosen a little from right to right, there is indeed something that I did not manage properly."

Liu Xin paused as he spoke, and said in a low voice: "I know that big companies in the capital have formal management, one is one, two is two, but our small place is different, don't the big guys have to eat?"

Zhou Qingbai understood, co-authoring Liu Xin wanted to coerce and lure him to go together, so that he could say a few nice words in front of Zhou Cangshan after he returned to Beijing, so that he could erase his point.

If he didn't know that there was a public welfare construction cost swallowing up the funds, Zhou Qingbai really didn't care about the three melons and two dates of Dongjiang's high-priced material purchase fee, and then ordered Liu Xin to make up for it.

However, such matters as the cost of materials, devouring Qingshan's appropriation, and falsifying public welfare expenditures have already touched Zhou Qingbai's bottom line.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qingbai lowered his head, smiled inexplicably, and said, "Can my words work?"

"That's what I said." Liu Xin was very cautious, so he turned back the conversation: "Didn't Xiao Zhou see what Dongjiang looks like with his own eyes? Seeing is believing, of course the facts speak."

Zhou Qingbai said "Oh" slowly, as if he was half a beat behind the times, before realizing something, he suddenly realized: "Oh... so that 'investment' is the reward for helping?"

"It's not like that." Liu Xin didn't slip his hands, and didn't give an accurate answer, just smiled and said: "Business is good business, and friends are good friends. If you pull each other, everyone will have a better life. "

Zhou Qingbai narrowed his eyes and turned his head to look at Liu Xin.

Liu Xin is a very smart person, and he is cautious enough. He and Zhou Qingbai are like fish and hooks, they are going back and forth to test each other.

He let out the temptation, but never let go of saying that it was a "business", as if he was leaving a hole card for himself.

In the private room, the two young girls had already ordered songs to stir up the atmosphere under Liu Xin's signal. The love songs were bouncing on the stereo, and the high-pitched voices of the two senior executives' howling ghosts and wolves overwhelmed the original singer. The smell of smoke, the liquid in the glass swayed slightly, leaving a few meandering marks on the wall of the glass.

Zhou Qingbai seemed to be thinking about it, and seemed to be weighing it. He kept spinning the wine glass, and after a long while, he opened his mouth meaningfully.

"Is it really that profitable?" Zhou Qingbai asked.

"Really." Liu Xin said with a half-smile.

He was smiling, but the emotion in his eyes was serious, full of ambition and temptation.

Zhou Qingbai looked at him fixedly for a few seconds, until an indescribably stagnant atmosphere spread in the air, then he suddenly hooked the corners of his lips and smiled to himself.

"Forget it." Zhou Qingbai suddenly leaned back on the back of the chair, bent his eyes and smiled: "It's too tiring to start a business. I thought about it, and it's more comfortable to rely on my laurels."

The pulled string suddenly broke without a sound, and Liu Xin raised it with a stroke, only to see a bitten fracture.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, with a slightly annoyed look on his face.

Zhou Qingbai pretended not to see his expression, picked up his glass lazily, and took a sip.

"But having said that, I suddenly remembered something." Zhou Qingbai said pointedly: "Before I came this time, my father told me that if it was convenient, I could donate to Uncle Liu when I was free. Let the school take a look and donate money to poor students."

Liu Xin's complexion changed for a brief moment, whether it was the lighting problem or the alcohol problem, Zhou Qingbai always felt that his face was paler than before.

However, this change is only for a short moment, and when you look at the past, it has already returned to its original state.

"It's easy to say, I'll just make arrangements." Liu Xin took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and gestured with a smile: "By the way, I almost forgot. There is something I have not arranged, so I will go out and make a call."

Liu Xin said, without waiting for Zhou Qingbai to reply, he got up and walked out the door. When he reached the door, he happened to follow Pei You who was walking in the door.

He slightly staggered to make way, and when he passed by, he couldn't help but look back at Pei You.

The author says:

In the past two days, I have had some gastrointestinal problems. I have vomiting and diarrhea, and I feel sick when I eat orz. Summer is here, everyone should pay attention to your body [Thanks to Qian Xingmian, Yugui dog is not a rabbit yy, egg yolk cake without egg yolk QAQ, humble Xiao Ting and Wen Jia are stupid kids, they fed fish food with cabbage flower fish head, thank you very much~