Chapter 129 Undercurrent
After leaving the conference room, I did not go back to Director Feng’s office, but to my own office. I didn’t know why I suddenly wanted to go there, but I felt this way in my heart.
As soon as I opened the office door, Yu Yao and Linji suddenly shuddered and threw the phone in their hands aside, with a little panic expression. They only breathed a sigh of relief when they found out that I was the one who came in.
"Oh, I'll go! Cheng Ting, why don't you tell us again and come in again? I was shocked and thought I was an administrative colleague."
"Why do you want to say hello when I come back to the base of our group?" I walked towards their workstation, "What are you doing? I'm so nervous."
It turned out that Lin Ji was playing a mobile game, and Yu Yao was chatting on her mobile phone. Since she and Xu Deming left each other on WeChat last time, they have been chatting nonstop. They are not lovers, but better than lovers.
"Hey, Cheng Ting, this game is quite fun, and the equipment can be sold for sale, which is worth a lot of money! Do you want to play with me?" Lin Ji lowered his head and poked the screen of his phone frantically, his eyes glowing.
"Not interested." I looked at Fang Kai's workstation. Not only was the person not there, but the computer was not turned on. "Where is the boss?"
"Ask for leave." Yu Yao replied to me.
"Ask for leave? This is not in line with the boss's style of doing things. He usually insists on coming to the company's workaholic even if he has a cold or a fever. Why did he ask for leave today?"
"You are not in the office for a while, so you don't know what happened?" She put down her phone and sighed. "The eldest brother accompanied her girlfriend home today, saying that she was meeting the parents. Oh, it's all because her girlfriend kept urging her. The eldest brother actually didn't want to get married so early, because his family is not a wealthy family, and this almost forced him to death."
"But there is nothing unreasonable about men getting married when they are married when they are old. The boss's girlfriend is one year older than him. It is reasonable to have such a mentality, so she can't blame her." Lin Ji turned her head and looked at Yu Yao and took the words over.
Yu Yao grimaced her teeth and made a "ferious" face, and said dissatisfiedly: "You are standing and talking without a pain in your back. The person involved is not you. How do you know what the boss is thinking? Humph!"
I stood in the aisle between the two, looked left, and then looked at the two of them again, "Okay, okay, stop arguing, I'll go to the director's office, I'll have something to do later." I took a few steps and felt uneasy, so I turned around and said, "Also, stop playing, this is a company, not my own home, work hard!"
Speaking of the "work hard" later, I deliberately emphasized my tone because although I couldn't tell them the internal news that Director Feng and I told them, I could still remind them.
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I have been busy connecting with Lanxuan Siji's customers in the past two days, and at the same time modifying the plan. The director has other projects to deal with, so I temporarily left this project to me. He just checked it through the review.
After work at night, I was listening to music on the subway with my headphones while browsing business information on my phone. I didn’t read it for a few days. This time I opened it, I was surprised!
There are nearly ten pieces of information in the preceding business information news that were published by Dinghui Advertising Group. It is either an acquisition case or a big move to sign contracts and cooperate with some famous large groups. Any of these can be shocked. I recognized the names of some of the companies. I remember that they were customers who had cooperated with Star International before.
I browsed those articles one by one, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, remembering what Director Feng said to me in the conference room. Could it be... what he said, "The prelude of a war is about to be brought up" refers to the competition with Dinghui Group? The two behemoths in the advertising industry are constantly reselling and developing for their own territory. When it comes to group companies of their size, they are no longer a single business system. They use means such as mergers and acquisitions, investments and other means to expand their businesses in other fields, so that they can continue to develop like snowballs.
The photos in the article are almost like Han Yue, as the top leader of Dinghui, shaking hands with the client, and not seeing her father. I remembered another thing. Since I left the hospital last time, Han Yue and I have never met. Could it be that her father has abdicated and allowed Han Yue to completely take over Dinghui Group?
When my mind was floating in my brain, I received a call from my phone. Fang Kai, who didn't go to work in the company today, but why did he suddenly call me at this time? With doubts, I picked up the phone, "Hey, what's wrong with the boss?"
Fang Kai's voice was a little low: "Cheng Ting, have you gotten off work?" He heard the noise from the other side of the phone, and it seemed that he was outside.
"It's getting off, what's going on the subway?" The "buzzing" sound in the subway made me feel unsightly. I put the phone tightly into my ears.
"Let's talk to you, let's have dinner together in the evening. I'll be there at the two subway stations in front of your rental house. You'll get off early later."
I hesitated, "Oh, okay, then wait for me." I looked at the subway map in the carriage, showing that there were still three stations before I arrived.
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In the hotel, Fang Kai was wearing a casual sportswear and a black baseball cap. Before I came over, he had already ordered the dishes. The people in our group often ate together, so they basically knew what they like to eat. Most of the dishes on this table were dishes I liked to eat. The doubts made me feel a little "vigilant". Maybe he had encountered some difficulties.
"Boss, why didn't you come to the company today?" I was not in a hurry to pick up the chopsticks to have dinner, but started chatting. Although I had already learned from Yaoyao and Lin Jina that the reason he took leave today, I still asked this on purpose.
"Oh, I'm going home to handle something." He didn't tell me the truth, but found a reason to make excuses. After a while, he poured a glass of wine on my cup and me, pondered for a while before continuing: "Cheng Ting, how are you doing the Lanxuan Four Seasons project with Director Feng now? Is it going well?"
"It's quite smooth, mainly because the customer didn't urge us too tightly, and the middle is separated for the National Day holiday, so we have enough time to prepare."
He nodded, "I heard... your relationship with President Qi of the Qi Group is not ordinary, is it true?"
"Uh... it's okay, we are classmates from college or from the same dormitory."
"Cheng Ting, I won't go around the corner with you. Let's tell you the truth! I'm about to get married, you are also a man. I know how much financial pressure is when getting married. I have to pay back the car loan and mortgage every month, and now I have to prepare some money for brides and weddings. But judging from the performance of my own company, it's difficult to meet my expectations." He struggled, swallowed his saliva, and continued with a little difficulty: "I want to say, see if you can have some relationship with your big customers and push me the next order you receive."
I looked at him directly. Actually, when he asked about the situation of this project, I had already vaguely guessed what he wanted to say to me. Seeing that I didn't say anything, Fang Kai quickly added: "Don't worry! Even if you push the big orders that originally belonged to you and finish them for me, how much money the project earned at that time, I will definitely return the money to you later, just think that I borrowed it from you! Cheng Ting, really, you are the only person in the company who can help me now! Because you have two big projects in your hands, and you know the boss of the project party. I owe you a favor, okay!"
This is the first time since we met Fang Kai for so long. For his wedding, he even pleaded with his voice. In this society, no matter how strong he was in the past, he would feel compassion for him when he was crushed by "materials": "I try my best, because these projects are a matter of cooperation between two companies, and cannot be determined by a relationship of one or two people. Moreover, I am just a small ordinary employee in the company and do not have that much say."
Fang Kai sighed, his expression became a little lonely, "Can I continue to stay in Xingchen International next? It depends on you. Even said, it is our entire group. In the last two months of the year, a new round of performance assessment is coming soon. I heard that this assessment is the strictest since the establishment of Xingchen International..." He raised his wine glass, "Let's stop talking, drink and eat, the food is almost cold."
It seems that Fang Kai already knows some news about the company's internal rectification, but maybe not all of it. I can imagine that the company's next undercurrent will soon be surging, and many people will show their magical powers to stay, but in the end, there will be a group of people who have to be eliminated in the big waves.
Chapter completed!