Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Your reaction speed is very fast,” Yan Mu’s eyes moved from Lu Chengyu to the folder in front of Cao Jingshen, which was the folder that Lu Chengyu had used to smash the teacup, “Nowadays, there are not many college students as agile as you.”
“I exercise a lot, and it’s a habit developed from playing basketball. It’s a conditioned reflex.” Lu Chengyu saved the document, closed the laptop, and smiled at Yan Mu.
“Thank you for just now,” Yan Mu’s lips moved, then finally just said this dryly, gave Cao Jingshen a look, and left the office.
Cao Jingshen followed him, and the large conference room was suddenly left with only Lu Chengyu. He glanced around the empty room, picked up the laptop with one hand, and walked out slowly.
When the elevator arrived, Lu Chengyu walked in and found that there were several people who had just attended the meeting standing in the elevator. These people looked very good, and they nodded to him when they saw him come in. He immediately understood that these people should be following the boss.
So whether you are in the business world or the political world, it is important to stand in the right position. If you stand in the wrong position, your life will be a tragedy.
Back in his cubicle, Lu Chengyu printed out the previous meeting minutes and continued to familiarize himself with the internal situation of Huading. No matter what would happen to Huading in the future, what he needed to do now was to do his job well.
The time to get off work soon came, and Lu Chengyu found that his colleagues in the office area were suddenly quite enthusiastic about him as a newcomer. When he left, many people said that they would hold a welcome party for him and said with a smile that if there was anything he didn’t understand, he could just ask them.
At noon in the employee cafeteria, these people were still alienated from him, but now they had become enthusiastic. Wasn’t it because the fence-sitters were gone, and he, the secretary’s assistant of the big boss, had become a figure of the boss’s faction.
After leaving the company, Lu Chengyu squeezed into the bus that was stuffier than a can and began to consider buying a car for transportation. After working for a few years in his previous life, although he was miserable, he had still bought a second-hand Chery for transportation. In this life, he couldn’t live a worse life than in the previous life. As for whether others would gossip about him as an intern driving to work, it was actually not important.
In this society, it didn’t matter if someone gossiped about you or not. The most important thing was whether you had the ability to stop the gossip. No matter how well and perfectly a person did, there would always be people who would slander him behind his back. Even RMB was not liked by everyone, not to mention that he was a person, missing the two words “people” and “currency”.
He ordered a bowl of beef noodles at a noodle shop outside the community, and added two dishes, one meat and one vegetable. Lu Chengyu loved to eat noodles at this shop the most. The soup was thick and the noodles were chewy. Although the shop was inconspicuous, he really only liked the taste of this shop for so many years.
The owner of the noodle shop was a fat man in his forties. Every time he saw Lu Chengyu, he put two more slices of beef in the noodles. The young man had a good appetite and was a regular customer. Some girls in the shop came to eat noodles just for him. As the boss, he thus put more beef in his noodles in return.
He had also heard about the young man’s family affairs and couldn’t help but sigh. This young man in his early twenties had no parents. Fortunately, he had a house and was a student from a prestigious university. If he were an ordinary person, it would be difficult to find a wife. But no matter what, it was not easy for such a young child to live alone without parents.
As usual, he did not collect the change. The fat boss watched Lu Chengyu leave with a smile, and could not help but sigh again, this guy was really good-looking. If his daughter was a few years older, he would really want to consider him as his son-in-law.
Lu Chengyu returned home with a bunch of junk food bought from the supermarket at the entrance of the community. He then put the drinks and beer in the refrigerator and turned on the TV. It so happened to be playing entertainment reports. He glanced casually and saw a female star saying something with a humble face.
Seeing this scene, Lu Chengyu smiled. When he went to the crew to work as a handyman, this female star was a special guest actor in that play. She was very arrogant, and she didn’t show any humility like now. Thinking of the days when he was embarrassed by others in the crew, he sneered and picked up the remote control to change the channel. There was still a long way to go. He was a narrow-minded person. Repaying kindness with kindness and grievance with grievances was his style.
Cao Jingshen looked at the minutes in his hand and couldn’t help but push up his glasses. This record was clear and even summarized. This was not the most surprising thing for him. The most surprising thing was that this meeting record was in the most objective tone, but it made people feel that the boss’s words were right, and Second Uncle Yan had a bit of shallow meaning.
The meeting minutes were not reports, so every sentence must be true at the meeting, and you couldn’t add your own meaning. You must clearly record the meeting process, but it was just such a simple meeting record that made people feel this way.
After reading the entire record one by one, he took a deep breath excitedly. This was a rare talent. Not to mention that he was just a student who had not officially graduated. Even if he was a veteran in the business world, not many people could do this. For such a person, they must find a way to keep him.
Thinking of this, Cao Jingshen hurried to the president’s office, knocked on the door twice, and walked in: “Boss, take a look at this meeting record!”
Yan Mu took the meeting record, read a few lines, put it down and said, “Very good.”
Cao Jingshen knew that if he could get a “very good” it would mean that the other party agreed with his thoughts. So, he said, “When Lu Chengyu reported this morning, I thought his appearance was better than his brain. Now I have to admit that I was wrong.”
Yan Mu looked at the time. It was already eight o’clock in the evening. He stood up from his chair, picked up his suit jacket, and said lightly: “It is also true that he looks good.”
Cao Jingshen suddenly felt like he didn’t know what to say. After a moment of hesitation, he continued: “I mean, we must keep this potential talent.”
“He came to interview Huading at this time, which means he is determined to stay in Huading,” Yan Mu straightened his tie, “Just follow the normal procedures. Such smart people know what they want.”
After thinking about it, Cao Jingshen nodded and thought that the boss was right: “I understand.”
“It’s late, so you go back and rest early,” Yan Mu put on his coat, “I should get off work too.”
When Cao Jingshen looked back, Yan Mu had already left the office. He thought about it, folded the minutes of the meeting and put them in his pocket. When he went out and saw the shredder outside, he hesitated and put them into the shredder.
Some things were safest only when others couldn’t see them. There were still a few commercial spies inside Huading who had not been caught. Potential talents could not be snatched away by opponents.
Lu Chengyu worked smoothly the next few days. He didn’t know if it was because the skill he showed in the conference room shocked Cao Jingshen too much. But Cao Jingshen was much gentler to him than the first day, and the two of them had more exchanges at work. However, even so, he didn’t have much time to contact the big boss. What he did more every day was to coordinate work in various departments, or to organize various documents.
After working for three weeks, the car he bought was finally registered. Although it was only a Pentium worth about 100,000 yuan, he was in a very good mood. After all, he was considered a car owner now.
Huading had an internal parking lot, so Lu Chengyu applied for an underground parking lot access card and lived the life of driving to work.
More than a month later, Lu Chengyu returned to school for his thesis defense, and only then did he get to know that Chen Jin had applied for a video thesis defense because he had obtained a quota for Liang’s overseas conference exchange. Perhaps Liang Deyou helped in this, and so Chen Jin’s application was easily approved.
In fact, Lu Chengyu was relieved that he didn’t have to face Chen Jin. Although there was no grudge between him and Chen Jin, there was not much brotherhood left either.
The defense passed easily. Lu Chengyu had a hotpot meal with Liang Hong and Zhu Guanglin, and then they went to a KTV to sing.
After they finished singing and came out, his brain was blown by the night wind and he woke up. He raised his hand to check the time under the street light. It was already after 12 o’clock in the morning. He said with some grief: “F**k, I have to go to work tomorrow.”
“You only took one day off?” Zhang Hong patted his shoulder, “My condolences.”
“Get lost,” Lu Chengyu slapped him on the shoulder, “How could I know that I would howl with you two until late at night.”
“You talk as if you didn’t sing,” Zhang Hong picked his ears, “Except for us two brothers, who can stand your broken voice? You have such a good speaking voice, but your singing is so bad. You really waste your face.”
“The fact that you can say that means your logic is dead,” Lu Chengyu stretched, “Okay, I won’t waste time talking to you, let’s go home.”
Zhu Guanglin, who had been silent, hesitated for a moment and said, “Third brother, weren’t you going to join Liang’s company before? Why did you go to Huading later? Is it because of Chen Jin…”
Zhang Hong frowned and glared at him, “Old Zhu, what nonsense are you talking about.”
“It’s nothing,” Lu Chengyu put his hands in his trouser pockets and smiled, “I just think Huading has a lot of room for development. What’s more, going to Liang’s company, is it not just sending myself to Liang Deyou to let him make trouble. You may not know that the party responsible for my parents’ accident was the Liang’s company.”
Zhu Guanglin and Zhang Hong looked at each other. Then Zhu Guanglin said apologetically, “I’m sorry, third brother, I didn’t know about this. I was drunk just now and talked nonsense. Don’t take it to heart.”
“It’s not a big deal,” Lu Chengyu smiled nonchalantly, “Even I only found out recently. The incident happened more than a year ago. What does it have to do with you? There is nothing we can’t say to our brothers.”
Zhu Guanglin opened his mouth and saw Lu Chengyu’s calm face. In the end, he just grinned and stepped forward to pat Lu Chengyu on the shoulder.
Yan Mu sat in the car, watching Lu Chengyu and the two young people say goodbye to each other, and then take a taxi to leave. He pulled off the tie at his collar and threw it aside. The young people nowadays had such good experience. They had to go to work tomorrow, but they still dared to play like this.
No wonder people said that there was a generation gap every three years. He was only six or seven years older than these people, but he felt that he lived in two different worlds with these young people.
However, even when he was studying abroad, he didn’t seem to be as leisurely as them. It seemed that this had nothing to do with age, but with personality.
Realizing that he was thinking about some useless things, Yan Mu stepped on the accelerator, and the car worth nearly 10 million yuan rushed out at a high speed.
In the taxi, Lu Chengyu saw a black Maybach passing them from behind and couldn’t help but take a few more glances.
“Oh, that’s a Maybach worth nearly 10 million yuan. I have seen pictures of this kind of car on the Internet. Even second-hand ones sell for more than 8 million!” The taxi driver carefully kept his car away from the Maybach. “If you see this kind of car, stay away. If it hits, we ordinary people can’t even afford to pay for damages.”
Hearing this, Lu Chengyu felt sad, and suddenly felt that he shouldn’t be so excited about winning 19 million.
F**k the rich people!
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