I am not confident in this chapter as there are so manyyyyyyy sentences that have idiom, slang and not idiom but flowery(?) sentences that are relatable in Chinese culture, which is something I'm not familiar with (I used Baike=chinese wiki). There might be some weird sentences structure, please don't kill me. To tell the truth, I'm not quite satisfied with this chapter but I believe it is readable and can be understood. (I had been correcting this chapter for days, hahaha, and my brain just went offline on me). I'm sorry for my incompetence. ( ˃̣̣̥ω˂̣̣̥ )
Just remember, Yan Lao San = Yan Old Third = San Shu = third uncle, the guy who throws teacup before, oh yes, he has appeared~
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Chapter 14: Wrist
In the evening, the whole department went to dinner together, but since they had to go to work the next day, they didn't stay up late. After the dinner, all of them went to separate ways. But before they separated, everyone told Lu Chengyu that they would call him if there were any gathering in the future.
Lu Chengyu smiles and agreed. He drove back and reach home before 10 p.m. After taking bath, he couldn't sleep so he lay on the sofa with his laptop. Chengyu surf the Cape Forum and he takes part in a thread. This thread's OP, who is a five-cent sockpuppet[2], loves to say that the foreign's moon is rounder [1]. Chengyu drives the OP to the corner for a while, and when the other party has already burned with a frenzy of rage, Chengyu calmly closes the forum.
[1] 马甲 mǎ jiǎ: sockpuppet (Internet slang); When a real person registers more than 1 IDs in the same forum and uses them at the same time, the commonly used or well-known ID is generally called the primary ID, and the other ID is called the sockpuppet ID.
[2] There is such an allusion that when a person returns from a foreign country, he feels that foreign countries are better than his hometown.
It's his usual style to throw his hand and walks away when other parties stomp in anger. Although this style makes some people in the Cape Forum mad at him, he is firm and unrepentant.
As usual, he goes to search online on the latest information about Liang Deyou. Then he saw a news story about Mr Liang stepping aside to the second line and gave his only son to take over Liang Company.
Liang Deyou's father, Liang Guoming is an example of an individual who starts from scratch before he becomes rich. In his early years, he was the workshop director of the state-owned enterprises. Later, he went into business in Shanghai. Fortunately, it was a good time to find gold. He earned a lot of money. Later, he began to invest in the real estate industry. He also encountered with the great opportunity of soaring houses' price. Now, he is a well-known big boss in the industry. He only has one son, Liang Deyou and for many years, there are no beautiful women from outside are able to enter his family.
“Liang family…” said Lu Chengyu while picking up the pickled chicken feet [3] on the table and slowly chew it. He points the mouse over the photo of father and son. From the top to bottom of Liang Guoming's body, he can be seen as nouveau riche. No matter how expensive his clothes are, one can see his origin from a glance. On the other hand, Liang Deyou looks like a rich family. After chewing the pickled chicken feet, Lu Chengyu looks painfully at the chicken's bone on his hand and then look at the trash can that's a few meters away from him. Then he gets an idea. He took two paper towels and placed them on the coffee table. Next, he tossed the bones on the towels and decided to throw them into the trash can after he had eaten the pickled chicken feet. His sitting posture on the sofa now is comfortable and he too lazy to move.
[3]
Since there is no other news on Liang, Lu Chengyu hacked Huangchuan's computer through the network to find out what he plans to do. He discovers that Huangchuan is planning to invest money into a film in the near future but he still lacks some funds.
Although there are a lot have changed in his life now, there are several things which are the same as his past life. For example, Liang Deyou begins to learn how to manage Liang Company and Huangchuan still planning to invest in films, but the most profitable film, 《Soaring Birds》 is in his hand.
After clearing all his tracks on Huangchuan's computer, Lu Chengyu opens a new pack of pickled chicken feet and continue to chew. Then he starts to watch a live men's football match online. When he saw the team has lost the game, he shook his head with a sigh. Maybe, no matter in this life or past life, the only thing that's guaranteed to remain unchanged is the □□ men's football.
After he closes webpage of the live football game, Lu Chengyu looked at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock. He chews the pickled chicken feet on his hand, put the bones on the paper towels, roll them and threw it into the trash can. As for not to eat after you brush your teeth before going to bed, he had forgotten all about it.
Waking up early every day is a painful ordeal for Lu Chengyu. He changed his clothes and looked blankly at several dirty clothes in the room. Then, he walks calmly to the bathroom to wash his face. As usual, Chengyu drives to breakfast shop before he went to the company, he arrives at Huading exactly 15 minutes early before his work time.
When he arrived at the Secretarial Department to pack up his things, he saw that Cao Jingshen had arrived. After he greets Jingshen, Chengyu went to the elevator while holding a box. When he pressed the elevator b.u.t.ton to go to the 28th floor, he suddenly remembered that before this, Yan Mu seemed to have an a.s.sistant beside him, but this a.s.sistant disappeared shortly after he arrived at the company.
It seems that there may be some problems with the former a.s.sistant's status. I wonder if it's a business spy or someone else from Yan's family.
On the 28th floor, he found a room with an a.s.sistant room's sign above it, just right beside the president's office. When he opened the door, he can see that this room was clean. There was a pot of Narcissus [4] on his desk, two pots of magnificent flowers on his balcony and some company information' files on the bookshelf near the wall.
[4]
This flower is poisoning to people, as for why it places in his room is a mystery.
After settling his things in the room, he sat down on his chair. The chair's backrest and headrest were very comfortable and it was good to lean on when he was tired.
He looks at the new set of computers on the computer desk and the internal telephone, it seems that the office is carefully arranged. He doesn't know if it was Yan Mu's deliberate instructions or it was the Logistics Department's staff who give him face, or perhaps it was both?
The door of the office was knocked several times. He looked up and saw Yan Mu standing at the door.
“Boss?” He got up from his chair and said, “How can I help you? Is there any works?”
“Are you satisfied with the office?” Yan Mu handed him a folder and looked around the office surroundings. “This is the personnel details of the company's various departments. You should know more about it. Later, when I'm busy, I'll leave it to you to coordinate the work of all departments.”
Lu Chengyu nodded his head and took over the folder. From certain points of view, the president's a.s.sistant is more important than the president's secretary. If people in this position don't have the ability and flexible enough, they really can't do it.
Yan Mu's decision to let Lu Chengyu be an a.s.sistant has also been carefully considered. He has observed Lu Chengyu's style of conduct, as well as his manner of etiquette, and he is very satisfied with him. Perhaps there's nothing wrong with Chengyu except that he's younger. Most importantly, this person knows what to say on any occasion and how to deal with people, which is a more important aspect than anything for an a.s.sistant.
In this industry, there's are such thing as an a.s.sistant losing his business because he does look offensive. Sometimes, it's more prudent to choose an a.s.sistant than a secretary.
“The office is very good,” Lu Chengyu put the folder on his desk. “I will learn the works as soon as possible.”
Yan Mu nodded and he saw that there was nothing out of normality in Chengyu's office, he turned around and left the office. For him, the employee's working att.i.tude is very important, and Lu Chengyu's att.i.tude is very good.
During noon break, Yan Mu went out of the office and prepared to go downstairs to eat. When pa.s.sing by the a.s.sistant room, he found that Lu Chengyu had gone down. He did not stop at his feet and went downstairs immediately.
When he arrived at the dining hall, he saw Lu Chengyu was sitting at a table with several people, whispering something to each other while eating. These people are managers from several departments.
Judging from the way these people talked so happily, he really can't see that Lu Chengyu was not familiar with these people before.
“Boss,” Cao Jingshen walked up to him and glanced his eyes towards Lu Chengyu. Then he calmly said, “I've already helped you to get you your meal.”
“Thank you,” Yan Mu nodded to Cao Jingshen and follow him to sit down in the corner with him. Yan Mu's meal usually consists of two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, one soup and one fruit. He ate his meal slowly and calmly. Occasionally, when Cao Jingshen made interesting suggestions, he nodded slightly but only said a few words. The habit of speaking as limited as possible during meals has already been engraved in his bones.
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Lu Chengyu came down as soon as he got off work to meet one or two department managers. These department managers know that he is the newly promoted president's a.s.sistant and that both sides want to get along well with each other. So, in less than a few minutes, they begin to call each other ‘elder brother' and ‘younger brother'. If it's in swordsman fiction, they have already become sworn brothers.
After a meal, several people had begun to discuss when they would go fishing together at the farmhouse. They have already exchanged their phone numbers and save it in their phone book. When they parted, everyone was very happy.
But actually, they plan to pit Chengyu and make his life a living h.e.l.l in Huading, no one
Tang Xuan saw Lu Chengyu separated from several department managers before she began waving to him. When he approached, she looked around, and with a mysterious smile, she said, ” Just now, I just heard news in the Logistics Department. Do you want to hear it?”
“What news?” Lu Chengyu sat down beside her and speak with a curious tone. “Did the boss have a girlfriend, or which beautiful woman in this company is getting married?”
“Look at you,” Tang Xuan glance at him, “It's about you.”
“Me?” Lu Chengyu raised his eyebrows, “Who in the company doesn't know about me being an a.s.sistant president?”
“Chief Cao Jingshen called the Logistic Department yesterday and asked them to set up a good office layout for your office,” Tang Xuan raised her chin, “Everyone knows what kind of person Chief Cao is. He'll call the Logistics Department and say it was the boss' wish. Now you know how much the boss thinks of you.”
When Lu Chengyu heard the words, he immediately laughed and joked with Tang Xuan. However, after hearing this news from Tang Xuan, Chengyu was filled with respect and grat.i.tude towards Tang Xuan, his co-worker.
In the far corner, Cao Jingshen suddenly thought that if Lu Chengyu was a rich second generation and had the skill acting like this, he would've no idea how many women will be harmed.
When he snapped out of it, he saw Yan Mu already finished eating. He looked at the cold meal in front of him and suddenly lost his appet.i.te.
“In this afternoon, Mr Yan Lao San want to come to the company. He said he would bring a man to you,” said Cao Jingshen, “Do you wish to meet him?” Yan Lao San hasn't appeared in the company since the unpleasant meeting three months ago. Don't know what he thinks today, all of the sudden he decided to come to the company.
“He dares to come, naturally I dare to meet him,” said Yan Mu lightly. However, when Jingshen talks about Yan Lao San, it can be seen that there is no trace of kindness towards relative in Yan Mu's eyes.
Yan Mu really likes Yan Lao San since he has the urge to smack people using legs now.
At 4:00 p.m., Lu Chengyu received a call from the front desk saying that Yan Lao San had arrived and his appointment was at 4:20 p.m. Chengyu looks at the schedule that was arranged by Cao Jingshen and saw that Jingshen really did arrange time for Yan Lao San's appointment, so he said, “Let him come up.”
After he put down the phone, Chengyu went to the elevator and stood there. Within less than two minutes, he saw Yan Lao San, with a cigar in his mouth, come out from the elevator with a short, fat man and two bodyguards.
Lu Chengyu's eyes swept over the peoples behind Yan Lao San and smile politely as he walks towards them and says, “Mr Yan Lao San, the president has been waiting for you in the office, please come with me.”
Yan Lao San recognized him at a glance. He frowned at the moment and then he laughed, “You are a talented young man with a remarkable face. You have been already transferred to work on this floor.”
Anyone who hears what's Yan Lao San said just now, they are able to detect the strange tone in his voice as if he was implying that Chengyu climbs up and earn his position now with his face. This bearing can really be regarded as quite rude.
“Mr Yan Lao San is flattering me,” Lu Chengyu extended his hand and made an inviting gesture, “I am young and ignorant, don't deserve your praise. You didn't mention anything else but only praising me, Mr San is forthright magnanimous, I feel inferior to you,” For this kind of brainless things, Chengyu doesn't want to spend effort on him. (T/N: Chengyu doesn't want to rebuke/refute what Yan Lao San said about ‘climbing up using face' so he takes the high road by not saying anything)
The corner of Yan Lao San's mouth hooked up and he sneered and impatiently said, “Okay, don't talk nonsense to Lao Tzu, take me to that young boy, Yan's office.”
Lu Chengyu was still smiling when he heard this tone. He maintained a polite and respectful att.i.tude and did not lose his dignity from beginning to end.
The slightly fat men behind Yan Lao San has taken advantages to scrutinize Lu Chengyu several times while he was talking to Yan Lao San. When he saw Lu Chengyu's graceful gesture leading them forward, his eyes drool with desire.
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