Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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In the evening, the three of them discussed how to deal with the bidding the next day without offending the local government, and then went back to sleep.
When Lu Chengyu came out of Yan Mu’s room, Chen Jin and Liang Deyou were no longer in the corridor. However, these two people may not want to see him so much as well. Both sides disliked each other, so it was better to meet less.
The next morning, Lu Chengyu and his group went to the restaurant downstairs for breakfast. At the buffet pick-up area, he found Liang Deyou standing next to him. So he smiled and whispered, “Mr. Liang, are you here to participate in the bidding this time?”
Liang Deyou sneered, without even looking at Lu Chengyu: “Why, you don’t dare to compete with our Liang Group?”
“Mr. Liang, don’t you know that my current employer is the well-known Huading International in the industry?” He took two soup dumplings on the plate and sighed slowly, “Although Liang Group has developed rapidly in recent years, it is still far behind our Huading. With our Huading here, Mr. Liang, you are destined to have made a wasted trip.”
“What is Huading?” Liang Deyou sneered, “A company whose stock price fell to the lowest in the stock market some time ago, you still have the nerve to compete with our Liang Group?”
“Huading is a big family company that has been passed down for many years. As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse,” Lu Chengyu put down the clip and glanced at Liang Deyou with a smile, “Mr. Liang probably doesn’t have much contact with the upper class circles in Beijing. So you don’t know what the circles value. The Yan family is not comparable to some companies that have become rich in a short period of time.”
These words were simply digging into Liang Deyou’s heart. Although the Liang family had made a lot of money in recent years, it had not yet officially entered the upper class circles in Beijing. In terms of reputation and background, it was indeed not as good as the Yan family of Huading. It was better not to say this kind of thing. Once it was said, it simply made Liang Deyou lose face.
He gritted his teeth and sneered, “I want you to see whether a dying camel is more powerful or a galloping horse is more powerful.”
“Oh, we’ll wait and see, but Mr. Liang should not be too confident.” Lu Chengyu smiled at Liang Deyou and walked elegantly to get the milk on the other side. As for Liang Deyou’s face, did it have anything to do with him?
Cao Jingshen, who was not far away, pushed his glasses up and looked sympathetically at Liang Deyou who angrily walked out of the breakfast restaurant. He then came to Lu Chengyu and said, “Hey, what did you say to that prince to make him so angry?”
“I told him a story about a camel and a horse. He doesn’t like camels, so he left in anger. Who knew he had such a small mind.” Lu Chengyu put a glass of milk on Cao Jingshen’s tray and smiled brightly at him, “Drink a glass of milk in the morning, it’s good for your health.”
Looking at the milk on the tray, Cao Jingshen raised his eyebrows. The more he got along with Lu Chengyu, the more he realized that this person had nothing to do with elegance. He was mean-mouthed and had a bad heart. He was simply an expert at cheating people.
Yan Mu had already picked breakfast and was sitting at the table waiting for the two of them. After they sat down, he asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s just digging a pit for people to jump into,” Lu Chengyu looked around and said in a low voice, “The prince of Liang has such a weird personality that I feel that if I don’t trick him, I will be sorry to my conscience.”
Cao Jingshen looked at him suspiciously. Was conscience something that Lu Chengyu could have?
Yan Mu nodded and did not comment on Lu Chengyu’s behavior, but after a while, he suddenly said, “Liang is our rival in the industry. If the successor of Liang continues like this, sooner or later he will ruin all the efforts of his father’s generation.”
Lu Chengyu, who was holding the milk, did not speak. He did not know much about Liang’s in his previous life, but vaguely remembered that Liang Deyou took over Liang’s in full power a few years later. At that time, Liang Deyou was much calmer than he was now. Although his emotional intelligence was not high, his IQ was obviously higher than it was now.
So Liang Deyou may have gone through some things in the next few years to temper his temper. Otherwise, with Liang Deyou’s current style of doing things, he could kill himself before Huading even made a move.
Cao Jingshen suddenly whispered: “Although the economy here is not very developed, this hotel is of high quality.”
“Ordinary people can’t afford it, but there are always people who are willing to spend money that is not their own,” Yan Mu said in a complicated tone, “Sometimes the direction is determined well, but if someone doesn’t go in this direction, then the result can only be failure.”
Lu Chengyu and Cao Jingshen both knew what Yan Mu said. Thinking of the background of Yan Mu’s mother’s family, they exchanged glances and directed the topic elsewhere. Some things were not what they should listen to, nor were they what they should manage.
Yan Mu didn’t seem to want to continue this topic. He took a sip of milk and continued to eat the food on the plate. Halfway through, seeing that Lu Chengyu liked to eat monk fruit, he gave him the monk fruit in his fruit plate, and then continued to eat in silence.
Cao Jingshen noticed his movements, glanced at Lu Chengyu who was sitting next to him, and saw him thanking Yan Mu naturally, then he calmly withdrew his gaze.
The bidding venue in City M was about a 20-minute drive from the hotel. Because there were not as many vehicles on the road as in Beijing, there was no traffic jam. So when Lu Chengyu and others arrived, they were a little earlier than expected.
The reception staff saw the company nameplates hanging on their chests and knew that this was a big company in Beijing, so they enthusiastically arranged them to sit in the front row.
Lu Chengyu looked at the luxurious and spacious venue and sat down with Cao Jingshen on the left and right sides of Yan Mu, put their laptops on the table, plugged in the wireless network card, and waited for the bidding to begin.
Soon, the bosses of companies big and small started arriving, and it seemed that the market benefits of M City had attracted many people. Listening to the noisy voices around, he approached Yan Mu and whispered: “Boss, the boss of Shengrong Company in S City is here too.”
Yan Mu looked up and saw Shengrong’s boss Sheng Shaoyuan walking over with a smile. He stood up and shook hands with the other party, said a few polite words, and then sat down politely, without any signs of competition.
Sheng Shaoyuan was not a simple person. Lu Chengyu had even heard that in the polite conversation just now, Sheng Shaoyuan seemed to have been implying that he was just going through the motions for this investment in M City. Was this to show his position, or had this person already noticed the hidden risks behind the bidding in M City?
He turned to look at Yan Mu and found that the other party seemed to be not surprised by Sheng Shaoyuan’s behavior, so he even had a feeling in his heart that Yan Mu knew why Sheng Shaoyuan said such a thing.
In this bidding, M City would sell a lot of land. The places in the front were just some inconspicuous places with little development value. Yan Mu and Shengrong’s CEO each bid for a small piece of land that was not worth much, and then stopped bidding actively, as if they were waiting to get the final big prize, the two plots of land in the north district.
After more than an hour of bidding, it was finally time for the highlight of the day. The A plot in the north district was up for first bid. The three largest real estate companies present and the other two companies that joined together became the main bidding members.
Shengrong Company gave up first, and then the two cooperating companies also gave up.
Only Yan Mu seemed to have ignored Liang Deyou from beginning to end. Every time Liang Deyou bid, he would add 100,000 on top of it.
Liang Deyou was so angry at Yan Mu’s behavior that his face turned red. He gritted his teeth and continued to raise the price. Then he looked at Yan Mu. He wanted to see how the president of Huading would bid again.
Chen Jin looked at Liang Deyou in embarrassment. This price had already exceeded the reserve price set by the company. The soil of Land A in the North District was soft, and it required a lot of investment to develop it. It was also deserted and sparsely populated.
Although this place would be developed in the future, this price was enough to buy the same area of land in a third-tier city, not to mention the later demolition and construction costs. The budget was a huge sum of money. How could a remote and sparsely populated city like M City be worth this price?
Yan Mu seemed to notice Liang Deyou’s gaze, and he hooked his lips imperceptibly and stopped bidding.
Plot A finally went to Liang’s family. Sheng Shaoyuan clapped his hands slowly and said to the secretary beside him: “The Huading boss is really vicious. The Liang’s prince is still too young. He will be killed by President Yan sooner or later.”
The secretary wondered: “Doesn’t President Yan really want to buy this land?”
“Don’t be fooled by this man’s serious look,” Sheng Shaoyuan scratched his chin with his clean and slender index finger, “that’s a wolfhound that doesn’t bark but bites hard.”
The secretary was silent for a while: “I think President Yan may not like your metaphor.”
“It’s okay that he would like it. He can’t hear it anyway,” Sheng Shaoyuan glanced at the secretary, “I believe you won’t say it, right.”
The secretary frowned: “Boss, what did you say just now?”
Then, the two looked at each other and smiled, and applauded Liang’s successful bid for Plot A. This was really a big event worth celebrating.
Liang Deyou, who had successfully won the bid for plot A, looked in the direction of Lu Chengyu and found that Lu Chengyu was clapping at him with a smile on his face, without any sign of anger. He suddenly felt as if a fly had entered his throat and felt a little nauseous. Even his sense of accomplishment began to plummet. The remaining plot B was jointly won by two other real estate companies. In the midst of the excitement, the bidding meeting ended successfully.
The organizer had prepared a sumptuous buffet lunch for the investors at the hotel. Lu Chengyu looked at the expensive fruits and luxurious meals, recited a few lines of a poem by the great poet Du Fu that mocked the rich, and then began to take the things he liked with great interest.
“We found out about Liang’s reserve price before, and it doesn’t seem to be that high,” Cao Jingshen put two lobster balls on the plate and said to Lu Chengyu beside him, “Did something go wrong in the middle?”
“Didn’t you say that he was a severe patient in the second stage of chuunibyou?” Lu Chengyu put some scallops on the plate, “It’s not the reserve price that’s the problem, but the prince’s brain problem.”
Cao Jingshen looked at Lu Chengyu suspiciously. If there was no one to stimulate the second stage of chuunibyou, it wouldn’t have occurred so severely. Who made the prince lose his mind?
As if he didn’t notice Cao Jingshen’s gaze, Lu Chengyu tasted the scallops and felt that the taste was not very good. He frowned, “If you want to eat seafood, it’s better to go to the coastal area.”
Cao Jingshen: “Haha.”
Lu Chengyu turned his head to look at him, raised his chin, and motioned him to look to the left: “The boss is coming.”
Cao Jingshen knew that he was not going to say it for the time being, so he said: “I saw it, do you need me to thank you for reminding you?”
“You’re welcome,” Lu Chengyu said with a smile, “I have always been such an enthusiastic young man.”
Cao Jingshen: “…”
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