Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After Yan Mu came over, he didn’t say anything, just took a few slices of beef and lettuce, and sat down at the nearby table. Obviously, he was used to the friendly way of getting along between his secretary and assistant. As a boss, he didn’t bother to ask what they were talking about.
The relationship between many company secretaries and assistants was very delicate. Obviously, his two right-hand men handled it very well, and he didn’t need to worry about these problems. However, it would be better if the two were a little farther away.
Lu Chengyu and Cao Jingshen sat down with the boss. Lu Chengyu took a sip of red wine to suppress the taste of scallops. “Boss, what kind of mooncakes is our company going to give out for the Mid-Autumn Festival?”
Yan Mu looked at Cao Jingshen. Obviously, he didn’t care about this kind of thing that was handled by the logistics department.
Cao Jingshen shook his head: “I don’t know, maybe we should follow the previous rules. Is there any problem?”
“The boss is new this year, why not initiate a vote on the company’s LAN forum and let everyone choose for themselves,” Lu Chengyu smiled, “Although it’s just a small matter, at least it can make everyone understand that the new boss is different from the previous one.”
As the president, Yan Mu really didn’t pay attention to these small things. This kind of thing may seem small, but it was a silent thing. As an assistant, Lu Chengyu could bring up these things, which showed that he was very careful and good at learning from experience at work. He nodded softly: “Okay.”
“Then I’ll initiate a vote when I get back.” Seeing that Yan Mu agreed, he made a note of it.
“It’s so lively here among the three of you. Do you mind adding two more people?” Sheng Shaoyuan sat down with his food tray without waiting for anyone to answer. “This morning’s bidding was very interesting. President Yan is indeed an elite in the business world.”
“President Sheng, thank you for the compliment. The real winner today is the Liang family,” Yan Mu raised the red wine to Sheng Shaoyuan. “We are just here to accompany the prince to study this time.”
“Yeah,” Sheng Shaoyuan sighed, “it’s a wasted trip.”
Lu Chengyu kept smiling as he listened to Sheng Shaoyuan, but he could still see something strange in Cao Jingshen’s attitude. President Sheng’s heart was probably much more complicated than he showed.
“Is this young man Mr. Yan’s assistant?” Sheng Shaoyuan suddenly looked at Lu Chengyu and said with a smile, “He looks really young. Young people nowadays are getting more and more powerful.”
Lu Chengyu said with a smile, “Mr. Sheng is also young and promising. I just learned a little bit from Secretary Cao.”
Sheng Shaoyuan smiled when he heard it, cut a piece of steak on the plate, turned to Yan Mu and said, “This steak is a little old. Some things are better when they are tender.”
Yan Mu nodded, “That’s true. Even old cows like to eat tender grass.”
Sheng Shaoyuan’s secretary thought silently, isn’t old cows eating tender grass an insult?
“Haha,” Sheng Shaoyuan’s face changed slightly, and then he stood up with a smile, “I have disturbed Mr. Yan for so long, I should go back to my seat.” After that, he picked up his plate and avoided this table.
The secretary followed him and whispered, “Boss, are you interested in that assistant?”
“That little assistant is not a simple person,” Sheng Shaoyuan frowned, then shook his head and said, “And Yan Mu obviously wants to protect him. I like them to be willing, so I’d better not provoke such a serious person.”
The secretary was silent. It turned out that the boss knew that what he did was not so serious.
After lunch, everyone took a car with the organizer to visit the places with the characteristics of M City. After dinner, it was already past eleven o’clock in the evening when they returned to the hotel. As soon as Lu Chengyu returned to the room, he took a shower and went to bed. As for other things, he temporarily put them at the back of his mind.
After returning to Beijing, Lu Chengyu made a voting applet and put it on the forum. Judging from the number of votes in the next few days, egg yolk mooncakes and lotus seed mooncakes were quite popular, and the most disliked ones were probably five-nut mooncakes.
There were even colleagues who left messages below, saying that five-nut mooncakes should get out of the mooncake world, which showed how deeply they hated this kind of mooncake.
While everyone was still fighting over the flavor of mooncakes on the forum, Flying Bird had passed the review. Now all they had to do was contact the theaters and try to get it released during the National Day. You know, every year, there were so many movies that never got to see the audience because they couldn’t contact the theaters.
Because this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day coincided, many upcoming movies had set their sights on this market, and many big theaters had begun to introduce movies with famous directors and actors. For a movie like Flying Bird, let alone a good show schedule, it was hard to say whether it could even make it into this circle.
So, on Friday afternoon after work, Lu Chengyu shamelessly went to find Yan Mu. He had prepared a lot of words, but Yan Mu asked just as he opened his mouth, “Is it the movie you shot with your friend?”
Perhaps the other party’s attitude was too ordinary, Lu Chengyu felt a little embarrassed. He nodded and said, “I have some money, so I invested in a low-budget movie.”
Yan Mu frowned, obviously thinking of the movie box office war, “How about Yuhe Cinema?”
“Yuhe?” Lu Chengyu was stunned. This was a famous domestic cinema chain, and it had many cinemas built by itself. Of course, this kind of cinema chain was also very picky when choosing movies. “Boss, do you know the boss of Yuhe Cinema?”
“He is my friend,” Yan Mu thought for a while, “I will take you to him tomorrow. Bring the film with you. He has the final say on whether it can be released or not.”
“Thank you, boss.” Lu Chengyu knew Yan Mu’s character. He was willing to take him directly to see Yuhe’s boss, which was already the biggest backdoor. Could it be that he asked him to arrange a show for him without even watching the movie?
What kind of business rules were there, they should at least follow the rules of the industry, ignoring rules too much was not a long-term solution. He would have to mix in this field in the future. If he was disliked by others the first time they met, what should he do in the future?
Outside a teahouse next to a certain avenue in Beijing, Zhuang Yu got out of the car, glanced at his friend sitting by the window and the young man next to him, with a puzzled look on his face, and then strode in.
“Brother Mu,” he sat down opposite Yan Mu, then his eyes fell on Lu Chengyu, and he took off his sunglasses with a smile, “This is…”
“This is my assistant Lu Chengyu,” Yan Mu turned to look at Lu Chengyu, and began to introduce Zhuang Yu, “This is my friend of many years, and now he is the boss of Yuhe Cinema.”
Zhuang Yu intuitively felt that something seemed wrong but seeing that Lu Chengyu’s appearance and behavior did not seem to be like some artists in the circle who clung to thighs and sought unspoken rules, he smiled without saying a word: “So you are the assistant Lu that Brother Mu often mentioned recently, hello.”
“Hello, Mr. Zhuang,” Lu Chengyu smiled as he watched the other party extend his hand towards him and bowed slightly to shake hands with the other party politely, “I’ve heard of you for a long time.”
Zhuang Yu smiled and waved his hand: “Mr. Lu, you’re polite.” As he said that, he glanced at Yan Mu, “Brother Mu, you said on the phone last night that you had something to discuss with me. What was it?”
After Yan Mu explained the matter, Zhuang Yu’s eyes swept over Lu Chengyu inconspicuously, and he said with a smile: “Since it is Mr. Lu’s movie, there will be no problem with the scheduling during the National Day.”
“I know Mr. Zhuang has a good relationship with the boss, but you are a businessman. During this short holiday, the box office war among major theaters is very fierce. I can’t let the theaters suffer because of my own selfish interests,” Lu Chengyu took out a film from his bag and placed it in front of Zhuang Yu. “Letting the boss introduce me to you is already the biggest back door, so the process of selecting a film must follow the rules.”
“This…” Zhuang Yu’s eyes began to change when he looked at Lu Chengyu, but he said, “What can be wrong with the person recommended by Brother Mu?”
“The boss is not a moviegoer. He is an expert in investment, but his vision for selecting movies is probably not as good as the auntie in the vegetable market,” Lu Chengyu pushed the film towards Zhuang Yu again. “So I would like to ask Mr. Zhuang to take the time to watch this movie. If you think the movie can be released, please arrange the screenings in your theaters as appropriate.”
For low-budget movies like theirs, there were no grand movie premieres, let alone a press conference, because even if there was one, there may not be many reporters coming to report.
“Okay,” Zhuang Yu took the film and said with a smile, “Xiao Lu, you are a straightforward person. I admire young people who are capable and straightforward the most. It will be fun to play together when we have time in the future.”
“As long as you are playing a card game involving tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, just call me, Mr. Zhuang,” Lu Chengyu heard that the other party had changed his address, and his tone also became more relaxed. “Of course, if you want to play with cars or airplanes, don’t call me. I can’t probably touch them.”
Zhuang Yu was amused by him and ordered a cup of tea casually. “I don’t like to play these things. I usually play tennis and go to farmhouses to pass the time. Among my buddies, I am a fishing expert.”
After hearing these words, Lu Chengyu’s impression of Zhuang Yu improved a lot, and he immediately became energetic: “Have you been to the Heike restaurant in the east? The fruits and vegetables in this restaurant are all natural, large and juicy. The fish cooked by their chef is also very delicious, which is unmatched by other restaurants.”
“How could I not have gone…” Zhuang Yu was also happy, and discussed with Lu Chengyu which farmhouse had a good environment, how to fish and pick lotus pods, and even how to loosen the soil so that vegetables grow well.
Yan Mu had rarely been to these places and didn’t even know where these names were. Watching his friend and Lu Chengyu chatting about farmhouses in various parts of Beijing and what dishes to eat in which season, he drank tea silently. By the end, the two of them had become good brothers and even called each other brothers directly. Before parting, Yan Mu heard that they had already discussed where to go and what to do during the National Day.
After saying goodbye to Zhuang Yu, Lu Chengyu said to Yan Mu: “Boss, your friend is a really good person.”
“Well, birds of a feather flock together,” Yan Mu opened the car door, “Zhuang Yu is a good person, but he is a little fickle.”
Lu Chengyu smiled and got into the car with him: “Are you praising yourself?”
Yan Mu: “…”
In fact, his focus was on the last sentence.
At about midnight that night, Yan Mu was awakened by a call from Zhuang Yu. As soon as he pressed the answer button, he heard Zhuang Yu’s excited voice coming from the phone.
“F**k, Brother Mu, your friend is a genius. Ask him to come and sign a film import contract with me tomorrow and ask him to make a beautiful promotional poster. I will hang it outside for promotion.”
Yan Mu: “You…”
“Forget it, tell me his phone number, I’ll contact him now, f**k, I talked to him for so long today, I actually forgot to ask for his phone number, f**k, f**k.”
Yan Mu was stunned by the few fu**s, but when he heard the other party still chattering, and took a breath, “Zhuang Yu, it’s early morning now.”
“It’s already early morning?” Zhuang Yu was obviously a little surprised, paused, and maybe looked at the time, “Really, I forgot the time when watching a movie, Brother Mu, you tell Brother Lu to come to our company early tomorrow morning for exclusive distribution!”
Listening to the beeping sound in the phone, Yan Mu turned off the phone and put it aside.
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