mutual benefit [gl]

A month passed in the blink of an eye, and it was finally time for the annual meeting.

In fact, the annual meeting of the Chen Group will be held twice in total. One is an annual meeting open to the whole society, including Chen Zhishan's speeches, which can be traced on the Internet.

The other meeting is not so much an annual meeting, but an internal liquidation meeting for all senior executives of the Chen Group.

That is to say, whether the company has done well this year and whether the top leaders are satisfied will all be announced at this internal annual meeting.

The internal annual meeting is scheduled for NO.20 of this month, although it is nominally said that all executives must participate.But in fact it doesn't matter whether Chen Yuanzhen attends this meeting or not.

It is precisely because of this that the number of times Chen Yuanzhen has participated in the internal annual meeting can be counted with one hand.

But today she uncharacteristically got up very early in the morning, and had already begun to choose the clothes to wear today before six o'clock.

She asked Zhou Ming and Liao Tezhu to go shopping for clothes separately, and it took them almost half a month.So far, basically all the green clothes of major brands have been reunited in Chen Yuanzhen's cloakroom.

Chen Yuanzhen finally chose a dark green long coat, and a grass green shirt, and then casually matched it with a pair of light blue jeans.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Chen Yuanzhen pouted.

"Spring is coming soon." She murmured with a smile.

After that, she walked out of the house with her bag in her hand. Liao Tezhu's car was already waiting downstairs.

Although he was mentally prepared, Special Assistant Liao was still taken aback when he saw Chen Yuanzhen in such an eye-catching green.

"Director, do you really want to..."

When Chen Yuanzhen got into the car, Assistant Liao said with a troubled face.

"What's the matter? Isn't it good to be full of spring?" Chen Yuanzhen said calmly.

"No... I'm worried that the chairman will reprimand you again today."

Before she could finish speaking, Chen Yuanzhen waved his hands and said with a smile, "Don't worry, it's not my turn to watch today."

"You mean..." Assistant Liao was puzzled.

"Just drive, Assistant Liao."

Assistant Liao didn't say any more when he heard the words, and could only drive with a complicated mood.

It's just that the car just started, Chen Yuanzhen said again: "Today you take a long detour, I don't want to arrive on time."

"Eh?!"

Chen Yuanzhen shrugged his shoulders and said relaxedly: "The old man is used to it anyway, you can just drive your car. Speaking of it..."

"what did you say?"

"Speaking of which, I haven't watched Ji Xu for a long time."

"You?!" Assistant Liao turned around in fright and stared at Chen Yuanzhen dumbfounded.

Chen Yuanzhen blinked, and with a half-coquettish tone, he stretched out a finger and said, "Just 10 minutes, I brought him a cake, just send the cake over."

Only then did Special Assistant Liao see a beautifully packaged box beside Chen Yuanzhen.

This pastry shop is very famous, with a constant stream of customers, and the daily products will be sold out by noon. Chen Yuanzhen obviously put a lot of thought into it.

She couldn't laugh or cry: "Director, when did you become so diligent? You were the one who even asked me to buy vegetables before sending them over..."

"No matter how hard it is, the child can't be miserable, don't you think so?" Chen Yuanzhen lied without blushing at all.

"Can……"

Liao Tezhu wanted to say something more, but when she saw Chen Yuanzhen's delicate face collapsed, she reached out and grabbed the sleeve corner of Liao Tezhu's windbreaker this time.

"Just 10 minutes, I promise to get back to the car before Ji Xu goes to school!"

After all, Special Assistant Liao was almost ten years older than Chen Yuanzhen, and sometimes she actually treated Chen Yuanzhen as her younger sister. She really couldn't bear Chen Yuanzhen's almost coquettish entanglement, so she shook her head and started the car helplessly.

In fact, the house that Chen Yuanzhen chose for Ji Cixi was only a 15-minute drive away from the Chen Group, but because of the planning and restructuring of the middle road, many intersections were blocked due to road construction.So going from Chen Yuanzhen's residence to Ji Cixi's residence is much longer than going directly to the group.

When Chen Yuanzhen arrived at Ji Cixi's downstairs, he bumped into Ji Xu who was going to school and Ji Cixi who was going out to take out the trash together.

Because she was just going downstairs to take out the garbage, Ji Cixi just put on a gray long sweater casually, and her lower body was still wearing the black thermal pants she wore at home. The most ridiculous thing was the pair of slippers on her feet. Chen Yuanzhen saw the pair at a glance. Styling... Weird(?) slippers.

She hadn't thought that Ji Cixi had such a unique aesthetic habit.

And when Chen Yuanzhen looked her up and down, Ji Cixi's eyes were not idle, scanning her up and down.

When Ji Xu saw Chen Yuanzhen shouted "beautiful sister" in surprise, Chen Yuanzhen walked over with a smile, bent down and touched his head.

"But beautiful sister... why are you so green?" Ji Xu raised his head and asked in doubt when he saw Chen Yuanzhen's attire clearly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Cixi burst out laughing uncontrollably.

Chen Yuanzhen raised his eyes to look at her, Ji Cixi coughed lightly, and turned his face away to hide the lingering smile on his face.

"Is it strange?" Chen Yuanzhen remained calm, but looked down at Ji Xu again, she lowered her eyes to look at herself, and said with a smile:

"Is it strange to have your aunt's poop slippers?"

Ji Cixi recovered after hearing the words, and quickly lowered her head to look at her feet, then she raised her head in embarrassment.

"That's... it's... a big sale, and that's all that's left..."

The voice of her justification became smaller and smaller, and at this moment Chen Yuanzhen raised his head and made a grimace at her.

Ji Cixi suddenly felt angry, and walked to Ji Xu's side angrily, and said expressionlessly: "If you don't leave, you will be late for school."

Ji Xu, who hadn't realized that the two adults around him were fighting in flames, just came back to his senses. He let out a sigh, patted his forehead lightly, and said to Chen Yuanzhen with a smile:

"Then I'll go to school first, goodbye, pretty sister!" After he finished speaking, he turned around and waved to Ji Cixi, said goodbye to auntie loudly, and then skipped to school.

Seeing Ji Xu walking away, Chen Yuanzhen stood up straight, and she looked at Ji Cixi with a smile on her face.And Ji Cixi felt suffocated because she made fun of her slippers just now, so she turned around to take out the trash and ignored her.

Seeing this, Chen Yuanzhen hurriedly followed.

She followed closely behind Ji Cixi, Ji Cixi turned around after throwing away the trash, and almost bumped into Chen Yuanzhen's body.

So Ji Cixi took a step back subconsciously, looked up at Chen Yuanzhen inexplicably.

After a while, she raised her eyebrows and asked, "Are you... free today?"

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and shook his head.

"I'm going to a meeting later." After she said that, she looked down at her watch, raised her arms and said with a smile, "However, it seems that the meeting has already started."

"Then what are you still doing here?" Ji Cixi asked.

"Look at you." Chen Yuanzhen smiled.

Here it is again, Chen Yuanzhen's inexplicable coquettish remarks.

Ji Cixi looked at her, shook her head silently, and planned to pass her and go home.

But at the moment she passed by Chen Yuanzhen, Chen Yuanzhen suddenly reached out and grabbed her slender wrist.

Ji Cixi looked back at her in surprise, but accidentally forgot to shake off her hand.

"Here. It's for Ji Xu." Chen Yuanzhen personally put the kraft paper bag in Ji Cixi's hand, and then let go of her wrist.

"I'm leaving." She smiled at Ji Cixi, turned around and left quickly.

Ji Cixi was holding the paper bag, looking at Chen Yuanzhen's slender back from a distance, she slowly raised the arm that was held by Chen Yuanzhen just now, it seemed that the warmth of Chen Yuanzhen's palm still remained on the white wrist.

This kind of touch made Ji Cixi feel very familiar.

She suddenly recalled the first time she met Chen Yuanzhen, when she directly grabbed her wrist like this.

It's not so much that she knew Chen Yuanzhen from her appearance, but from her temperature.

At the same time, in the large meeting room on the top floor of the Chen Group.

Chen Zhishan sat on the seats in the middle, and the ring-shaped seats were filled with executives from all aspects of the Chen Group.

On the corner of the inner ring seat, there is a very obvious vacancy.

It was Chen Yuanshuo who was speaking at this time, but Chen Zhishan's eyes fell on the empty seat.

"Next, I want to show you a very disappointing document." Chen Yuanshuo said, and pressed the button of the remote control in his hand, and an excerpt of an article appeared on the big screen instantly.

This article is exactly the public relations article of Chen's Real Estate not long ago.

"The collapse accident a month ago is really distressing, and what is even more distressing is the crisis public relations of Chen's real estate for this incident." Chen Yuanshuo said with a righteous expression.

"When encountering such a vicious incident, what does good crisis public relations look like? Huh?" Chen Yuanyang looked around the audience solemnly.

"I think everyone here should understand. It should be to admit mistakes, examine oneself, and express apology to the casualties and their families. But, what has our PR department of Chen's Real Estate done?"

Chen Yuanshuo gradually raised his pitch and speaking speed, making the atmosphere tense in an instant.

"The crisis public relations made by the public relations department of our Chen's real estate is to push a full-text bragging article all over the Internet. This is not counted, even!"

Chen Yuanshuo raised his voice again, holding the nerves of everyone present.

"Even pulling the official media Z City Daily into the water."

As soon as this remark came out, the audience did not even dare to show their air. Everyone present gave Chen Zhishan sitting in the main seat unanimously all kinds of emotions in their eyes.

But Chen Zhishan remained silent with his eyes downcast, and there was no expression on his face.

Chen Yuanyang looked at his father nervously, he hoped that his father would give him a look.

Even if it is full of blame and anger, then he can still judge his mood at this time.

But Chen Zhishan didn't say a word as if he didn't hear what Chen Yuanshuo said just now.

Seeing Chen Zhishan's appearance, not only Chen Yuanyang, but also Chen Yuanshuo, who was aggressive just now, panicked.

He stabilized his mind, cleared his throat, and continued:

"Personally, I still understand General Manager Chen Yuanyang's eager desire to make achievements. After all, General Manager Chen submitted a very good answer to the group last year. But,"

Several photos of the construction site appeared on the big screen.

"What kind of business are we doing? It's a house. It's a house for people to live in. In these houses, I don't know how many families will live, and how many families will look forward to the future."

Chen Yuanshuo paused for a moment. Timely pauses and changing the volume and speed of speech are speech skills, and he is well versed in this.

"In other words, the industry we are in is not real estate. It is an industry that condenses the fruits of other people's lives. But blindly pursuing speed and the market will end up displacing people and becoming a murderer who destroys other people's lives."

Every word of Chen Yuanshuo was resounding, he was relentless about the casualties of the collapse accident, and he was full of morals, directly setting Chen Yuanyang on the commanding heights of morality and roasting him with fire.

This made Chen Yuanyang want to refute, but he had nothing to say.

Obviously, in this confrontation between the two brothers, Chen Yuanshuo defeated Chen Yuanyang with a crushing attitude.

But at this moment, Chen Zhishan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"Have the family members of the deceased been settled properly?"

This question was obviously directed at Chen Yuanyang.

Chen Yuanyang hurriedly replied: "All have been resettled. In addition to the due compensation, we paid five times more compensation."

Chen Yuanyang's tone was very eager, for fear that Chen Zhishan would not know.

Chen Zhishan raised his eyebrows and said:

"Isn't that what you should do?"

Chen Yuanyang quickly lowered his head and agreed repeatedly.

After Chen Zhishan spoke slowly, he turned to look at Chen Yuanshuo again.

"There are rumors from the outside world that the internal meeting of our Chen Group is not a summary meeting, but a year-end liquidation meeting. That is...revenge for those who have grievances, and revenge for those who have vengeance."

When Chen Yuanshuo heard it, his body trembled instantly, only to hear Chen Zhishan lazily say again:

"I always thought it was an outsider's idea, but you, a deputy general manager who stays in the group all day, why do you take it seriously?" He looked at Chen Yuanshuo and smiled.

"Although the real estate is spun off and listed, it is still a piece of meat of the Chen Group. Although a small part of the piece of meat is rotten, it hasn't rotted to the heart, so just cut off that part. But I hear what you mean, why does it seem like you want to cut off the whole piece of meat?"

After Chen Zhishan finished speaking, he jokingly asked Chen Yuanshuo:

"Is that what you mean?"

Chen Yuanshuo heard the undertones in Chen Zhishan's words, and his face turned pale with fright. He forced a smile and said, "Why, how come... I too..."

However, before he finished speaking, Chen Zhishan waved his hand.

"Let everyone gather here today, not to settle accounts. It is to reflect and think forward."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the meeting room was suddenly pushed open, the warm air outside the door poured into the meeting room, and the documents on the desktop rattled instantly.

Immediately afterwards, a clear and pleasant female voice sounded in the conference room.

"Sorry, am I late?"

Hearing the sound of high-heeled shoes, Chen Yuanzhen walked slowly into the conference room.

Her appearance attracted the attention of everyone present, especially the outfit she wore today.

When Chen Yuanyang saw her green body, he was so angry that he almost squatted on the ground on the spot.

During the month of the collapse, the stock price of Chen's Real Estate plummeted by 20.00%, and now he feels dizzy when he sees green.

The executives looked at each other. On the one hand, they were surprised that Chen Yuanzhen would come to the meeting, and on the other hand, they were surprised by Chen Yuanzhen's consistent courage.

Almost everyone knew that Chen Zhishan hated Chen Yuanzhen's gaudy attire the most.

Just because of this problem, Chen Zhishan reprimanded Chen Yuanzhen not once or twice in front of everyone.

But when everyone was waiting to watch the show, Chen Zhishan just raised his finger and pointed to the empty seat.

"If you don't come in the future, you don't have to ask the company to give you a seat." He said in a deep voice.

Chen Yuanzhen showed shame on his face, but he went to sit down calmly.As soon as she sat down, she raised her eyes to meet the gaze of her second elder brother Chen Yuanshuo, and smiled playfully at him.

And Chen Zhishan had just opened his mouth, which seemed to have extinguished Chen Yuanshuo's war against Chen Yuanyang. Chen Yuanshuo felt so bored for a moment, and only weakly licked the corner of his mouth at Chen Yuanzhen, and retreated from the podium.

And the next step is to report on the breakdown of all industries under the group.

If the war just now was just a warm-up, then what follows is the real big part of this meeting.

It's just that today's Chen Zhishan seems to be extraordinarily gentle, and many departments just nodded and said nothing after reporting.

Until the department store department.

After Sun Yao reported his performance, he thought that Chen Zhishan would let it go as easily as Fang Cai's several departments, but he didn't expect that at this moment, Chen Zhishan suddenly poked his finger lightly on the table.

Sun Yao's legs softened when he was about to sit down, and he stood up straight again.

"Before, the department store postponed the construction of the Zhiying Plaza in several cities...so I adjusted the plan for this year, right?"

Sun Yao nodded and replied, "Yes."

"Oh... Minister Sun." Chen Zhishan looked at him with a smile.

"You have only been in office for a month... so I don't think I should blame you for the substandard performance this year."

Sun Yao's heart sank when he heard the words, but he still kept a cautious and serious face.

"This year's department store plan has only been completed...how much?" He looked around with a smile, and everyone dared not speak out. After about half a minute, an executive beside Chen Zhishan said cautiously:

"It's... 90.00% one."

"Really?" Chen Zhishan smiled at the executive, and then looked at everyone.

"Why didn't you tell me just now, didn't Minister Sun listen carefully when he reported the situation?"

Although Chen Zhishan's face was very gentle, the aura emanating from his body terrified everyone. Chen Yuanzhen even saw a senior executive trembling slightly.

"90.00% one... um..." Chen Zhishan muttered to himself while knocking on the table rhythmically with his hands, "Net profit loss... seven percent, right?"

The sound of knocking on the table stopped abruptly, and Chen Zhishan looked directly at Sun Yao this time.

Sun Yao had no choice but to bite the bullet and answer yes.

"Minister Sun has just taken this position, but for the first time in the history of Zhiyu Department Store, the quota has not been fulfilled. It shows how lazy the original minister is."

Chen Zhishan pursed his lips and smiled.

"So, now I plan to look forward to you, Minister Sun."

Sun Yao raised his head quickly, facing Chen Zhishan's smiling face and his sharp eyes.

"I will definitely work hard," he said forcefully.

Chen Yuanzhen watched all this with cold eyes. When she heard Chen Zhishan say the word "expectation" to Sun Yao, she cried out in her heart.

Chen Zhishan's expectations were not literal expectations, but forced Sun Yao to issue a military order.

There are more than 100 Zhiying Plazas across the country, and what Sun Yao took over was not just a small stall.Chen Zhishan beat him now, obviously setting a one-year time limit for him.

The phrase “expectation” actually means——

After one year, if you make money, you will stay. If you don’t make money, you will transfer my bedding and leave.

But when Chen Zhishan lured Sun Yao over at a high price, he didn't look like this.

It's really a cunning rabbit and a running dog cooking.

Chen Yuanzhen looked up at Sun Yao again, only to see that his face was dark and unclear.She understood that Sun Yao was a smart person, and although Chen Zhishan didn't speak clearly, he should be able to understand what Chen Zhishan meant.

Although it was not the first time for Chen Yuanzhen to experience Chen Zhishan's methods, no matter how many times this kind of "mast and scull vanished while talking and laughing" happened in front of Chen Yuanzhen's eyes, she would feel a chill in her heart.

Whether Chen Yuanyang or Chen Yuanshuo, compared to Chen Zhishan, they are just small mounds of dirt.

And more, Chen Yuanzhen began to worry about Ji Cixi.

She didn't know whether it was right or wrong for her to send Ji Cixi here, but now she has no turning back.

The meeting was still going on, and everything that followed became extremely fast, and the meeting ended less than half an hour later.

Chen Yuanzhen knew in his heart that the main purpose of this meeting was to go to Sun Yao. As for the two brothers, the old man just regarded it as watching a cockfight today.

As soon as she walked out of the conference room, Assistant Liao greeted her and asked in a low voice if she was okay.

Chen Yuanzhen smiled at Liao Tezhu, but did not speak.

She looked at Sun Yao who was walking in front of her, and saw that he walked fast and heavy, and soon disappeared from her sight.

Chen Yuanzhen sighed for a long time, and then she said to Liao Tezhu:

"It's better to have this kind of meeting once a year. If it were once a week, it is estimated that those present here will lose an average of 20 years of life."

Liao Te's assistant quickly poked Chen Yuanzhen gently to signal her not to talk nonsense. Chen Yuanzhen covered her mouth, but a smile flowed from her fingers.